Total US population in 2000 Census: 281421906. Total US-origin casualty count for 9-11: 2604. 1 death in 108072.93. Total US population estimate 2013: 313914000 Total motor vehicle fatalities: 33561. 1 death in 9353.5354.
So you have 10 times the likelihood of dying in a car wreck every year than the worst year ever for terrorism. That's worth giving up all our rights for.
I don't think even-handed coverage is possible, when journalism as a whole is essentially paid trolling for one agenda or another. People just want to read stuff that reinforces their preconceived notions, and I am no exception.
Find me a story with no slant, and i'll show you a story (virtually) no one read.
I not only recognize that, I use them. That said, they are for niche applications. The NC was sold as a wholesale replacement for desktop computer systems.
Redefining the marketing goal is a surefire way to call something a success, but it's intellectually bankrupt.
It's not a replacement for an actual computer, that's for damned sure, which was how the NC was marketed. It's also not entirely a dumb terminal, as the NC was slated to be.
It's been 15 years and the idiot mods are still idiot mods, modding as offtopic something that is definitely ON topic and true, but is something the idiot mod didn't agree with or want to hear.
Nothing but a quantifiable outcome difference could justify sexism. For instance, I can easily justify sexism in hiring at my gym - hiring women at the front desk makes for more signups. Ditto for bartending, waiting tables and the front desk at just about any business. I can also justify it at the fire department and in front line soldiering, for different reasons. It's really hard to sustain for coding software to run some christmas lights, though.
The cure for knee-jerk sexism is to *NOT BE SEXIST*, rather than to put in set-asides to right old wrongs.
I think both factors play into the decision to put a governor on the company-owned tractors. A big accident is costly and bad in terms of PR. Look at Tracy Morgan and that Walmart truck that permanently maimed him for a good example of this. While not all losses are avoidable, if the vehicle is moving slower there will be fewer of them. The numbers are pretty clear on that.
In comparison, fuel costs are worked into the price of the carriage. To be fair, insurance is too, but most large trucking companies are self-insured and a big loss takes a chunk of profit away.
You forgot phalanxes and the favored method of combat for Rome's legions - a line abreast.
Keeping everyone's body perfect until they collapse and die of old age is a recent concept. Life expectancy has been increasing by leaps and bounds due to antibiotics, vaccination, effective surgical interventions, and declines in the relative scale of warfare - while there are many more wars, the body counts have decreased significantly. So now average life expectancies in the US hover around 80, depending on gender.
The two changes I note between my great-grandparents (who were born at a time when life expectancy was about 40) and people today (who may live to be 85 or 90 on average) are intense risk aversion and a firm belief of long lifespan being some kind of human right. My dad died in 2000 at 54 from a heart attack, and that was considered an early death. Just a generation back from him, there were deaths in childhood from tuberculosis in my family, and they were accepted as a matter of course.
The current line of thinking about football may be considered an extension of this general change. It's foolish. I would personally rather live a day as a lion than 90 years as a lamb, and you can overestimate the value of your meat sack. I also find this obsession with long lifespan a very feminine line of thought and incompatible with my idea of masculine virtue. That said, it's not likely to be modified in the near future.
Women were not well represented in tech even then. I love the revisionism now. When I was a kid walking through my father's office, the only women there were in the typing pool. When I visited the county offices with the big computers in the glass rooms, all neckbeards. When I visited the local nuclear plant in 1976, all men. When I went to the local community college - all men again. Every CS teacher through the 80s - all men.
Schneider National is worse - throttled to 55-60, somewhere in there.
I used to do claims for JB Hunt and other large firms. The safety policy of JB Hunt in 1990-1993 was to fire drivers for a single violation - accident, ticket, whatever. Who knows what it is now, but being a trucker and not driving safely is bad business.
JB Hunt once paid a couple hundred for me to go to the NYC traffic court and get a driver off a ticket, so it's not all badness.
I think the difference between me and the opposing commenters is that I have actually lived in the ugly communities, and they haven't.
I used to act as a local law and insurance adviser and do taxes for people who didn't know how to do this kind of thing for themselves. Please don't call me a community organizer heh. Anyway, the racism and hatred you find in such places must be experienced to be believed. These people need to work - if only to force exposure to other people and to understand that we are all human and must live within some kind of rules to avoid bloodshed. Otherwise, the scenario I painted above is reality - and will become more prevalent when work is optional.
I live in a nicer place now, but I still have friends from those communities and I still remember how things were. They tell me nothing that makes me believe things have changed.
You only describe less than 10% of the population.
Meanwhile back here in the real world, people would drink and smoke pot and sleep all day and beat their wives/girlfriends. Then they'd have sex with the neighbors. People would get shot or get their throats cut based on that, depending on the firearms availability. They'd quickly band together in groups and despise outsiders. A quick devolution to anarchy would result.
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Is Soylent News any better? The SJW crowd certainly grates the nerves. I'd like to say "after a while" but the real answer is instantly.
That would give me two reasons to switch.
If he's referring to Cato the Younger, he's referring to integrity and Assange's lack of same.
Julian Assange has to be the funniest guy in the world. The narcissism he displays is worth its weight in gold. Does it have any limit?
That said, he probably needs counseling more than being laughed at. I wonder if a shrink would do a house call at the Ecuadorian embassy?
No they weren't.
Total US population in 2000 Census: 281421906. Total US-origin casualty count for 9-11: 2604. 1 death in 108072.93.
Total US population estimate 2013: 313914000 Total motor vehicle fatalities: 33561. 1 death in 9353.5354.
So you have 10 times the likelihood of dying in a car wreck every year than the worst year ever for terrorism. That's worth giving up all our rights for.
I don't think even-handed coverage is possible, when journalism as a whole is essentially paid trolling for one agenda or another. People just want to read stuff that reinforces their preconceived notions, and I am no exception.
Find me a story with no slant, and i'll show you a story (virtually) no one read.
I not only recognize that, I use them. That said, they are for niche applications. The NC was sold as a wholesale replacement for desktop computer systems.
Redefining the marketing goal is a surefire way to call something a success, but it's intellectually bankrupt.
Sounds like you are predicting a Jobs for Microsoft. I would be very surprised.
And of course, market cap is the best way to evaluate future prospects for a corporation. By that measure, IBM is in great shape, too.
Microsoft's markets are stagnant and shrinking. They are doomed to irrelevance.
And Microsoft is doing really well right now?
It's just the Visual Basic equivalent, now. Initially it was something else entirely - literally everything was branded .NET for a while.
That's the usual method of solving these problems. Wonder why no one is trying to do that if the fundraising is so controversial?
It's not a replacement for an actual computer, that's for damned sure, which was how the NC was marketed. It's also not entirely a dumb terminal, as the NC was slated to be.
And good riddance to it. It can go on the ash heap next to the network computer, Windows RT and .NET everywhere.
It's been 15 years and the idiot mods are still idiot mods, modding as offtopic something that is definitely ON topic and true, but is something the idiot mod didn't agree with or want to hear.
What an asshole.
Nothing but a quantifiable outcome difference could justify sexism. For instance, I can easily justify sexism in hiring at my gym - hiring women at the front desk makes for more signups. Ditto for bartending, waiting tables and the front desk at just about any business. I can also justify it at the fire department and in front line soldiering, for different reasons. It's really hard to sustain for coding software to run some christmas lights, though.
The cure for knee-jerk sexism is to *NOT BE SEXIST*, rather than to put in set-asides to right old wrongs.
Ok well then more than half the women I know eat a lot of bon bons.
I think both factors play into the decision to put a governor on the company-owned tractors. A big accident is costly and bad in terms of PR. Look at Tracy Morgan and that Walmart truck that permanently maimed him for a good example of this. While not all losses are avoidable, if the vehicle is moving slower there will be fewer of them. The numbers are pretty clear on that.
In comparison, fuel costs are worked into the price of the carriage. To be fair, insurance is too, but most large trucking companies are self-insured and a big loss takes a chunk of profit away.
When I say neckbeard, you know exactly the type of guy I am talking about - a geek obsessed with his work without consideration for his appearance.
If I call a woman a cellulite queen, that tells you nothing about her personality. It is not a useful descriptor.
You forgot phalanxes and the favored method of combat for Rome's legions - a line abreast.
Keeping everyone's body perfect until they collapse and die of old age is a recent concept. Life expectancy has been increasing by leaps and bounds due to antibiotics, vaccination, effective surgical interventions, and declines in the relative scale of warfare - while there are many more wars, the body counts have decreased significantly. So now average life expectancies in the US hover around 80, depending on gender.
The two changes I note between my great-grandparents (who were born at a time when life expectancy was about 40) and people today (who may live to be 85 or 90 on average) are intense risk aversion and a firm belief of long lifespan being some kind of human right. My dad died in 2000 at 54 from a heart attack, and that was considered an early death. Just a generation back from him, there were deaths in childhood from tuberculosis in my family, and they were accepted as a matter of course.
The current line of thinking about football may be considered an extension of this general change. It's foolish. I would personally rather live a day as a lion than 90 years as a lamb, and you can overestimate the value of your meat sack. I also find this obsession with long lifespan a very feminine line of thought and incompatible with my idea of masculine virtue. That said, it's not likely to be modified in the near future.
Women were not well represented in tech even then. I love the revisionism now. When I was a kid walking through my father's office, the only women there were in the typing pool. When I visited the county offices with the big computers in the glass rooms, all neckbeards. When I visited the local nuclear plant in 1976, all men. When I went to the local community college - all men again. Every CS teacher through the 80s - all men.
Schneider National is worse - throttled to 55-60, somewhere in there.
I used to do claims for JB Hunt and other large firms. The safety policy of JB Hunt in 1990-1993 was to fire drivers for a single violation - accident, ticket, whatever. Who knows what it is now, but being a trucker and not driving safely is bad business.
JB Hunt once paid a couple hundred for me to go to the NYC traffic court and get a driver off a ticket, so it's not all badness.
Serious question: where is Stallman and the FSF on this? Seems like they'd be concerned, based on your post.
thank you for the Pale Moon tip. Enjoying it now!
I think the difference between me and the opposing commenters is that I have actually lived in the ugly communities, and they haven't.
I used to act as a local law and insurance adviser and do taxes for people who didn't know how to do this kind of thing for themselves. Please don't call me a community organizer heh. Anyway, the racism and hatred you find in such places must be experienced to be believed. These people need to work - if only to force exposure to other people and to understand that we are all human and must live within some kind of rules to avoid bloodshed. Otherwise, the scenario I painted above is reality - and will become more prevalent when work is optional.
I live in a nicer place now, but I still have friends from those communities and I still remember how things were. They tell me nothing that makes me believe things have changed.
You only describe less than 10% of the population.
Meanwhile back here in the real world, people would drink and smoke pot and sleep all day and beat their wives/girlfriends. Then they'd have sex with the neighbors. People would get shot or get their throats cut based on that, depending on the firearms availability. They'd quickly band together in groups and despise outsiders. A quick devolution to anarchy would result.
Much better to keep everyone *busy*.