Perhaps, but the difference between a hobby and a profession is NOT 'it takes years'.
I believe the topic was whether or not there was a viable profession in photography.
Hell, I'm pretty sure both buggies and whips are still sold, and I know that handling a team of horses is still a skill some people learned, and at least one person makes a living off of it today.
That's actually a mark for the 'con' column in a capitalist society. Without modifying the other myriad components of life that expect you to make your own living, this seems like a step in the wrong direction.
That said, this scheme sounds no different than a student loan tied to the ability to repay. If anything, it obscures actual costs which usually causes problems.
This.
How is 'go to school now, pay it back later' any different than 'go to school now, pay it back later'?
Aside from the individual's control over the cost of their education, that is. Under the debt system a person could elect to go to a cheaper school to minimize their repayment cost, and/or select a career rather than a hobby.
Under the new system, there's no incentive to control costs at all.
My wife and I use FolderSync (purchased via the Amazon store so we can share the one copy) to sync files with a Linux box via SSH.
As a bonus, we then use Unison to sync that to the Windows PCs and another Linux box that's hosting a website in an offsite datacenter.
Pros: Dirt cheap and easy. Supports files, as opposed to something like Google+ that's only going to sync stuff it knows - photos, etc. For example, it syncs my ebook collection which is a mishmash of formats.
Cons: Slow to sync and poorly managed settings can easily overrun your data cap.
Fortunately, you can set FolderSync to only use WiFi. Next would be adding an app that enables WiFi whenever you're home - then you can schedule the sync to run overnight.
Not to mention further revelations exposes the lies of excuses from each previous round of revelation.
This, here, is the real trick.
There has been a lot of this:
1) Assert 'A' 2) Government denies 'A' 3) Prove 'A'. Assert 'B'. 4) Government admits to needing to do 'A', but says it would never do 'B'. 5) Prove 'B'. Assert 'C'....and so on...
The fact that the government FELL FOR IT for so very long this summer and fall says a lot about their arrogance. Well that and how little they know about what he actually took.
You can't have it both ways. Either a person's life should be interrupted via isolation for the good of society, or society should anticipate contagious people. If everyone can pick and choose what is or isn't 'that bad' then you're selecting the latter through neglect.
Oh no! That roommate has been exposed to the same degree those at the grocery store would have been. He should be quarantined along with you and your sickness. That Peapod guy is going to spread your sickness to dozens of others. Better invite him inside for the week as well. Same with the Chinese delivery guy. Hope you have a pull out sofa or something.
If your temp goes over 101 and you don't know EXACTLY why and are 100% sure you will be ok, go to the hospital immediately.
I hate to break it to you, but that emergency room nurse is not going to know 'EXACTLY why' either. And the doctor is going to pick the nearest-to-hand pharmaceutical that matches your symptoms and avoids your allergies.
If you genuinely believe doctors ever know 'EXACTLY why' then I'd like to discuss some real estate opportunities you may also be interested in...
I realize this seems like sound advice, but it genuinely isn't, unless you're prepared for it in advance.
For example, do you have a week's worth of food on hand? Few do. And yes, full, non-contagious recovery from flu is at least four days. One for ramp up of symptoms, two of suffering, then one for a waiting period, typically. It's worse for H1N1, by about double.
Instead we need to look at infection control assuming there are contagious people in the population.
I've got friends in the military, and I'm reasonably confident that someone in the chain of command would seriously question or stop an order to deploy nuclear devices before it got to the silos - *most* of them, anyway.
It is my understanding that such people are actively being ferreted out. And that command is doing things like firing blanks at civilians to desensitize the troops.
"One of the most delicate tasks for the practitioner representing a witness or subject in a white-collar investigation is the tactical decision of whether to invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination during the grand jury phase. This question can be even more complex in the case of grand jury subpoenas for documents. Two recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, Ohio v. Reiner , 532 U.S. 17, 121 S.Ct. 1252 (2001), and United States v. Hubbell , 530 U.S. 27 (2000), indicate that its current members share, for the most part, an expansive view of the Self-Incrimination Clause. These decisions should be used aggressively during the grand jury stage whenever counsel needs to shield the client from having to testify or produce potentially incriminating documents."
It seems you do, in fact, get to plead the fifth in front of a grand jury.
These cases are post-Clinton, but it isn't that the Fifth was changed between then and these decisions. Clinton COULD have done so as well.
"Looking beyond" is really only useful to the apologists. As has been discussed right here many times over, nobody forced him to say those words. He could have easily refused to answer.
Again, I'd be happy to make it law of the land that no politician is ever allowed to lie in public. As it stands, though, they're only forbidden to lie when under oath.
If we no longer care about that prohibition, why swear the oath at all?
You're reading that bass-ackwards. The grand jury clause of the Fifth means a grand jury has to hear your case first. It does not mean that self incrimination can be forced during a grand jury. Note the semi-colons.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
That's a complete phrase, independent of those before or after.
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Perhaps, but the difference between a hobby and a profession is NOT 'it takes years'.
I believe the topic was whether or not there was a viable profession in photography.
Hell, I'm pretty sure both buggies and whips are still sold, and I know that handling a team of horses is still a skill some people learned, and at least one person makes a living off of it today.
Any type of electrical interference that would hamper a camera will also likely impact cell phone use while in the limo.
That's actually a mark for the 'con' column in a capitalist society. Without modifying the other myriad components of life that expect you to make your own living, this seems like a step in the wrong direction.
That said, this scheme sounds no different than a student loan tied to the ability to repay. If anything, it obscures actual costs which usually causes problems.
This.
How is 'go to school now, pay it back later' any different than 'go to school now, pay it back later'?
Aside from the individual's control over the cost of their education, that is. Under the debt system a person could elect to go to a cheaper school to minimize their repayment cost, and/or select a career rather than a hobby.
Under the new system, there's no incentive to control costs at all.
My wife and I use FolderSync (purchased via the Amazon store so we can share the one copy) to sync files with a Linux box via SSH.
As a bonus, we then use Unison to sync that to the Windows PCs and another Linux box that's hosting a website in an offsite datacenter.
Pros: Dirt cheap and easy. Supports files, as opposed to something like Google+ that's only going to sync stuff it knows - photos, etc. For example, it syncs my ebook collection which is a mishmash of formats.
Cons: Slow to sync and poorly managed settings can easily overrun your data cap.
Fortunately, you can set FolderSync to only use WiFi. Next would be adding an app that enables WiFi whenever you're home - then you can schedule the sync to run overnight.
I still think he may have fashioned/cut his hair and or beard in some way, rather that just letting it go wild.
Even if this were true, and I rather doubt it is, I didn't ask why he wasn't bald.
We're assuming he was primitive and savage. Do we have science behind that or no?
http://news.sciencemag.org/sit...
Who says he let his hair and beard grow long? What evidence from the skeleton would have led to this conclusion?
Not to mention further revelations exposes the lies of excuses from each previous round of revelation.
This, here, is the real trick.
There has been a lot of this:
1) Assert 'A' ...and so on...
2) Government denies 'A'
3) Prove 'A'. Assert 'B'.
4) Government admits to needing to do 'A', but says it would never do 'B'.
5) Prove 'B'. Assert 'C'.
The fact that the government FELL FOR IT for so very long this summer and fall says a lot about their arrogance. Well that and how little they know about what he actually took.
May your chains sit lightly upon you, friend.
Your own chains clearly do. For now, at least.
What if Facebook is more like stomach bacteria where we evolve to utterly depend on it?
You can't have it both ways. Either a person's life should be interrupted via isolation for the good of society, or society should anticipate contagious people. If everyone can pick and choose what is or isn't 'that bad' then you're selecting the latter through neglect.
I didn't read the original advice as 'if you normally use almond/rice/soy milk, stay home when you are sick'.
:)
Again, that's all well and good knowing that in advance and planning for it.
Who does? Who actually prepares to go into isolation for seven days without notice?
THAT's the point.
Oh no! That roommate has been exposed to the same degree those at the grocery store would have been. He should be quarantined along with you and your sickness. That Peapod guy is going to spread your sickness to dozens of others. Better invite him inside for the week as well. Same with the Chinese delivery guy. Hope you have a pull out sofa or something.
If you're in to eating dry cereal. Otherwise, you'll need to go out at least weekly for fresh milk.
Do you buy fresh milk each week in case you happen to get sick?
The seven hundred deaths, annually, you mean?
It that's an unacceptable number of deaths by your standards, then I suggest you quit your job immediately:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Work-Related Deaths Kill 150 Americans Per Day"
That's 54750 a year. Having a job is roughly 78 times more fatal than being around someone who took aspirin with the flu.
ACT NOW!
If your temp goes over 101 and you don't know EXACTLY why and are 100% sure you will be ok, go to the hospital immediately.
I hate to break it to you, but that emergency room nurse is not going to know 'EXACTLY why' either. And the doctor is going to pick the nearest-to-hand pharmaceutical that matches your symptoms and avoids your allergies.
If you genuinely believe doctors ever know 'EXACTLY why' then I'd like to discuss some real estate opportunities you may also be interested in...
I realize this seems like sound advice, but it genuinely isn't, unless you're prepared for it in advance.
For example, do you have a week's worth of food on hand? Few do. And yes, full, non-contagious recovery from flu is at least four days. One for ramp up of symptoms, two of suffering, then one for a waiting period, typically. It's worse for H1N1, by about double.
Instead we need to look at infection control assuming there are contagious people in the population.
I've got friends in the military, and I'm reasonably confident that someone in the chain of command would seriously question or stop an order to deploy nuclear devices before it got to the silos - *most* of them, anyway.
It is my understanding that such people are actively being ferreted out. And that command is doing things like firing blanks at civilians to desensitize the troops.
I saw that in TFS. Is it true? IS my data on the site even though I am not a customer?
Found an actual source for you...
http://www.wisenberglaw.com/Ar...
"One of the most delicate tasks for the practitioner representing a witness or subject in a white-collar investigation is the tactical decision of whether to invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination during the grand jury phase. This question can be even more complex in the case of grand jury subpoenas for documents. Two recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court, Ohio v. Reiner , 532 U.S. 17, 121 S.Ct. 1252 (2001), and United States v. Hubbell , 530 U.S. 27 (2000), indicate that its current members share, for the most part, an expansive view of the Self-Incrimination Clause. These decisions should be used aggressively during the grand jury stage whenever counsel needs to shield the client from having to testify or produce potentially incriminating documents."
It seems you do, in fact, get to plead the fifth in front of a grand jury.
These cases are post-Clinton, but it isn't that the Fifth was changed between then and these decisions. Clinton COULD have done so as well.
"Looking beyond" is really only useful to the apologists. As has been discussed right here many times over, nobody forced him to say those words. He could have easily refused to answer.
Again, I'd be happy to make it law of the land that no politician is ever allowed to lie in public. As it stands, though, they're only forbidden to lie when under oath.
If we no longer care about that prohibition, why swear the oath at all?
You're reading that bass-ackwards. The grand jury clause of the Fifth means a grand jury has to hear your case first. It does not mean that self incrimination can be forced during a grand jury. Note the semi-colons.
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
That's a complete phrase, independent of those before or after.