Would it still be "Great" Britain if it was just England and Wales?
That would require some massive civil engineering.
Let me break it down for you:
1. Great Britain is an island. There are three countrylets (nobody has a better word for them) on the island: England, Wales, and Scotland.
2. It's part of a group of islands known as the "British Isles" that also includes Ireland, the Isle of Man, Great Britain, and some other smaller islands.
3. The island of Ireland has two countries on it: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
4. The United Kingdom consists of the three countrylets on Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
If you're "British", you're from that area. Nobody knows. If you're Welsh, you're from Wales. They're really particular about that. They're not "English" - those folks are from England. The Scottish are from Scotland, the Irish are from Ireland. And note that many of the Irish are "Scots-Irish" having moved there from Scotland.
If you digested all of that, look up "City of London" sometime. Yes, it's different than "London". Well, it's *part* of London.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Yeah, nice saying, but the reality is that it often takes an elephant to stop another elephant. Acushnet has been suing smaller competitors to put them out of business, perhaps Costco can put a stop to it.
On a side note, am I the only one who can't type a comment without the text box losing focus repeatedly?
Yeah, except that Acushnet quite well "can". The issue here is more of "those who can make enough money to file lawsuits and prevent others who can from doing". That's problematic.
Obamacare isn't imploding though, for the most part it's working much better than anything that can't before it.
Damn, tell me more about this alternate reality where you live. Sounds like a great place!
Meanwhile, back here in actual reality, Obamacare is imploding badly. Arizona is seeing a 125% increase in exchange premiums this year (that's more than doubling in a single year for those of you who are bad with math, which would include anybody who thinks Obamacare is doing well). Here in TN, we have Humana pulling out of the exchange at the end of the year, leaving one single insurer. That's what's causing the death-spiral rate increases everywhere.
Goodenough & Helena Braga surely know they were going to be painted bright orange as frauds without additional proof.
They surely know they had to follow up with a public display of a cell under charge, then discharge cycles with component weights and measurements to confirm the claims.
Anything else would be a lifelong purgatory in an engineering gulag of con artists.
When you're in your mid-90s a "lifelong purgatory" probably isn't that big a deal.
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: (1) Agricultural produce; (2) Meat and fish products; and (3) Perishable foods.
If "packing for shipment or distribution" was one item, then there would be another "or" before "packing":
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, or packing for shipment or distribution of: (1) Agricultural produce; (2) Meat and fish products; and (3) Perishable foods.
Because that "or" isn't there, the "or" before "distribution" makes "distribution" the final item in the list:
1. canning 2. preserving 3. freezing 4. drying 5. marketing 6. storing 7. packing for shipment 8. distribution
The meaning is plain and the court really needs to go back to elementary English class if they ruled otherwise.
So, we're criticizing Trump because he hasn't gotten around to this in his first 50 days. At least he acknowledged that there's a problem and has proposed a very good solution.
I have to wonder what all the Trump bashers would be saying now had Hillary won, because her handlers had her dancing to the tune of "we're going to expand the H-1B program". I don't know if the IEEE leans left, but was this ever an issue for them before Trump became President?
I probably need to see the specs, but I really can't imagine what they would be doing that would cost $100M for processing unemployment claims for a state. It's just not that complicated of a problem.
So what exactly did the US Government do in that first month to create all those jobs? After all, if you can implement policy on day one and see that translate into an economic boost within a month, that is some good policy that governments would want to imitate all over the world.
It's actually quite simple - you have a leader who says he wants to put his country first and that makes investors and business people feel good enough to expand existing businesses and start new ones. That's why the stock market rallied after Trump's election - it's not based on an actual policy but a feeling.
Obama's "you didn't build that" bullshit cost more people more jobs that you can imagine.
This is how money is transferred from the lower classes to the upper classes. Buy an expensive car, get a check from the state. That's not going to help poor people, but it'll help people who already have money.
I had something similar although less exciting happen to me in early 2004. On claiming to be an electrical engineer, the immigration agent or whatever the US calls him scrawled a physics equation on a piece of paper and asked me what it meant to me. He was satisfied with whatever explanation I gave and let me through. I don't know if they've always done this, or if it's a post-9/11 thing, but it's been happening for more than a decade.
Of course it's been happening for a long time. Obama sent more illegals back home than all previous Presidents combined.
None of that mattered.
When Trump became President, suddenly this is a big deal.
I heard the news today talking about the SEAL operation in Yemen where one of our sailors died. They're picking it apart trying to figure out if the operation was a "success", "worth it", etc. What a welcome change after 8 years of nobody talking about *anything* that happened in the Middle East because we had to pretend that the Nobel Peace Prize winner wasn't actually bombing the shit out of something like 5 different countries with drones, killing kids and anyone else who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm guessing that's going to suddenly be a big fucking deal again.
This is completely anecdotal; I'm a mathematician and I know a lot of people who work for the NSA. Almost every single one of them right now is quietly or not so quietly looking for other work. At least one of them has an undated resignation letter in their desk ready to go if they are asked to do anything that they find morally questionable (and this is someone who has generally defended NSA's actions in the past).
So, he was fine with Obama doing anything illegal, he's just worried about Trump.
As someone else said, your "friend" is a liar and a hypocrite if he stayed on past Snowden's revelations.
Radio died January 3, 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunication Act of 1996. It basically allowed big corporations to buy up all of the smaller independent stations in a region and homogenize the content to the same bland mush that advertisers like and which generates the fewest angry letters to the station. Luckily we have the internet now so broadcast radio can go quietly into the night.
Hey, except for JackFM - they're a local station that just plays whatever they want!
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat... "Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious super-foods."
Don't forget your veggies though!!! And there are many plant sources of protein and fat...
Most plant sources of fats and proteins are also full of carbohydrates, putting them in the same position.
Another good book is "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" by Gary Taubes:
In it, he shows that the research has *always* showed that carbs make you fat, and dietary fat isn't the culprit. Not only research, but a body of circumstantial evidence so huge that it can't be ignored. The linked article here is the sort of circumstantial evidence that I mean: indigenous populations do just fine until western food shows up - first comes obesity and 10 or 20 years later their teeth are falling out and they're all getting diabetes.
It's whatever the installer sets it to. The installers around here typically set it to your street address - the added bonus is a dumb robber might try that to disarm your alarm and it'll appear to work until the cops show up.
Huh? If you're using an alarm system with codes that aren't end-user defined, then you're doing it WAY fucking wrong.
During installation, the installer can set the master code. What the guys around here do is call me over, type in the setup and then have me type my code in twice while they walk to the other side of the room and look away. Same thing with the duress code. They suggest the street address. I guess I should have been more specific about the exact steps taken. And, yes, I can change my master code at any time (of course, I have the installer code as well so I can change *anything*).
My home security system has the same feature, and it's easy to remember the "panic" code. It's just one number less than your "real" code.
It's whatever the installer sets it to. The installers around here typically set it to your street address - the added bonus is a dumb robber might try that to disarm your alarm and it'll appear to work until the cops show up.
So, America might have a lower life expectancy but we make it up by weighing three times as much. If you use "pound-years" as a metric, America on average is probably more than triple Koreans.
Sorry, tracking until age 18 isn't long enough. Schizophrenia will show up a bit later if it does. Also, *having* a cat in the house is one thing - how many kids are cleaning the litterbox? Because that's the danger zone.
For those who are unaware, Toxoplasma gondii has a life cycle that relies on cats and their prey - typically rats or mice. In cats, it reproduces in the digestive system and gets crapped out. In rodents who come into contact with the cat crap, it infects their brain and makes them less afraid of cats, which benefits the parasite because it wants to end up in a cat's digestive system again.
In humans, it definitely causes miscarriages. There have been studies suggesting a link to schizophrenia, but I don't believe that's the current consensus. Something like 50% of all humans have been exposed to it, so it would be scary if so. But it might also depend on other factors.
It's conceivable that a parasite that has evolved to control host behavior could have adverse psychological effects on human hosts, thus the research into it.
Out of 1 billion votes cast there were 44 cases of fraud, a rate of 0.0000044%.
There is also widespread evidence that such laws are designed to target democratic voters and that they tend to target the poor and minorities.
And that "44" number is as much utter bullshit as the "13" number that the left was barfing up every time this conversation came up two years ago.
We had one case in Memphis where one member of the Ford family - I don't recall which one - received something like 50 more votes in a certain precinct than there were registered voters. In other words, if there were 100 registered voters he received 150 votes. You know, when doing fraud smart people at least pay attention to *where* to do it. Anyway, that single incident involved more fraud than you claim exists in all of history.
I wonder if you people (leftist lunatics) know this and don't care, or really are stupid enough to believe there have only been 44 cases of voter fraud. I know you're not terribly bright, but, geeze.
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Would it still be "Great" Britain if it was just England and Wales?
That would require some massive civil engineering.
Let me break it down for you:
1. Great Britain is an island. There are three countrylets (nobody has a better word for them) on the island: England, Wales, and Scotland.
2. It's part of a group of islands known as the "British Isles" that also includes Ireland, the Isle of Man, Great Britain, and some other smaller islands.
3. The island of Ireland has two countries on it: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
4. The United Kingdom consists of the three countrylets on Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
See here:
http://www.infoplease.com/uk/l...
If you're "British", you're from that area. Nobody knows. If you're Welsh, you're from Wales. They're really particular about that. They're not "English" - those folks are from England. The Scottish are from Scotland, the Irish are from Ireland. And note that many of the Irish are "Scots-Irish" having moved there from Scotland.
If you digested all of that, look up "City of London" sometime. Yes, it's different than "London". Well, it's *part* of London.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
Yeah, nice saying, but the reality is that it often takes an elephant to stop another elephant. Acushnet has been suing smaller competitors to put them out of business, perhaps Costco can put a stop to it.
On a side note, am I the only one who can't type a comment without the text box losing focus repeatedly?
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, sue.
It's not like this is anything new.
Yeah, except that Acushnet quite well "can". The issue here is more of "those who can make enough money to file lawsuits and prevent others who can from doing". That's problematic.
This is covered in the book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking":
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-P...
Specifically, pages 87-92. Very similar conclusion there.
If you think the insurance companies skimming their cut is bad, you'll find that's nothing compared to DMV-style "management".
Isn't anyone who develops using Drupal or PHP into BSDM?
From what I can tell, the problem is that he's only a masochist when he's programming.
Obamacare isn't imploding though, for the most part it's working much better than anything that can't before it.
Damn, tell me more about this alternate reality where you live. Sounds like a great place!
Meanwhile, back here in actual reality, Obamacare is imploding badly. Arizona is seeing a 125% increase in exchange premiums this year (that's more than doubling in a single year for those of you who are bad with math, which would include anybody who thinks Obamacare is doing well). Here in TN, we have Humana pulling out of the exchange at the end of the year, leaving one single insurer. That's what's causing the death-spiral rate increases everywhere.
Why on earth would The Who be liable? Oh, wait, it's a question, not a statement.
Goodenough & Helena Braga surely know they were going to be painted bright orange as frauds without additional proof.
They surely know they had to follow up with a public display of a cell under charge, then discharge cycles with component weights and measurements to confirm the claims.
Anything else would be a lifelong purgatory in an engineering gulag of con artists.
When you're in your mid-90s a "lifelong purgatory" probably isn't that big a deal.
"Sore loser" Trump? In what alternate reality are you living?
The dairy is correct.
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: (1) Agricultural produce; (2) Meat and fish products; and (3) Perishable foods.
If "packing for shipment or distribution" was one item, then there would be another "or" before "packing":
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, or packing for shipment or distribution of: (1) Agricultural produce; (2) Meat and fish products; and (3) Perishable foods.
Because that "or" isn't there, the "or" before "distribution" makes "distribution" the final item in the list:
1. canning
2. preserving
3. freezing
4. drying
5. marketing
6. storing
7. packing for shipment
8. distribution
The meaning is plain and the court really needs to go back to elementary English class if they ruled otherwise.
So, we're criticizing Trump because he hasn't gotten around to this in his first 50 days. At least he acknowledged that there's a problem and has proposed a very good solution.
I have to wonder what all the Trump bashers would be saying now had Hillary won, because her handlers had her dancing to the tune of "we're going to expand the H-1B program". I don't know if the IEEE leans left, but was this ever an issue for them before Trump became President?
I probably need to see the specs, but I really can't imagine what they would be doing that would cost $100M for processing unemployment claims for a state. It's just not that complicated of a problem.
So what exactly did the US Government do in that first month to create all those jobs? After all, if you can implement policy on day one and see that translate into an economic boost within a month, that is some good policy that governments would want to imitate all over the world.
It's actually quite simple - you have a leader who says he wants to put his country first and that makes investors and business people feel good enough to expand existing businesses and start new ones. That's why the stock market rallied after Trump's election - it's not based on an actual policy but a feeling.
Obama's "you didn't build that" bullshit cost more people more jobs that you can imagine.
This is how money is transferred from the lower classes to the upper classes. Buy an expensive car, get a check from the state. That's not going to help poor people, but it'll help people who already have money.
And then the officer who fired the tazer went to prison for 30 months. Nice of you to leave that out.
He didn't go to jail for 30 months for the death or firing the taser.
He went to jail for 30 months for perjury and colluding with his fellow officers before testifying:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nice of you to leave that out.
Not only that, there were four perps and only one even faced criminal charges. This is, sadly, normal in the US and Canada.
I had something similar although less exciting happen to me in early 2004. On claiming to be an electrical engineer, the immigration agent or whatever the US calls him scrawled a physics equation on a piece of paper and asked me what it meant to me. He was satisfied with whatever explanation I gave and let me through. I don't know if they've always done this, or if it's a post-9/11 thing, but it's been happening for more than a decade.
Of course it's been happening for a long time. Obama sent more illegals back home than all previous Presidents combined.
None of that mattered.
When Trump became President, suddenly this is a big deal.
I heard the news today talking about the SEAL operation in Yemen where one of our sailors died. They're picking it apart trying to figure out if the operation was a "success", "worth it", etc. What a welcome change after 8 years of nobody talking about *anything* that happened in the Middle East because we had to pretend that the Nobel Peace Prize winner wasn't actually bombing the shit out of something like 5 different countries with drones, killing kids and anyone else who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm guessing that's going to suddenly be a big fucking deal again.
This is completely anecdotal; I'm a mathematician and I know a lot of people who work for the NSA. Almost every single one of them right now is quietly or not so quietly looking for other work. At least one of them has an undated resignation letter in their desk ready to go if they are asked to do anything that they find morally questionable (and this is someone who has generally defended NSA's actions in the past).
So, he was fine with Obama doing anything illegal, he's just worried about Trump.
As someone else said, your "friend" is a liar and a hypocrite if he stayed on past Snowden's revelations.
Radio died January 3, 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunication Act of 1996. It basically allowed big corporations to buy up all of the smaller independent stations in a region and homogenize the content to the same bland mush that advertisers like and which generates the fewest angry letters to the station. Luckily we have the internet now so broadcast radio can go quietly into the night.
Hey, except for JackFM - they're a local station that just plays whatever they want!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Fat...
"Many of us have long been told that fat makes us fat, contributes to heart disease, and generally erodes our health. Now a growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the immense health and weight-loss benefits of a high-fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, oils, avocados, and other delicious super-foods."
Don't forget your veggies though!!! And there are many plant sources of protein and fat...
Most plant sources of fats and proteins are also full of carbohydrates, putting them in the same position.
Another good book is "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" by Gary Taubes:
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Ca...
In it, he shows that the research has *always* showed that carbs make you fat, and dietary fat isn't the culprit. Not only research, but a body of circumstantial evidence so huge that it can't be ignored. The linked article here is the sort of circumstantial evidence that I mean: indigenous populations do just fine until western food shows up - first comes obesity and 10 or 20 years later their teeth are falling out and they're all getting diabetes.
Huh? If you're using an alarm system with codes that aren't end-user defined, then you're doing it WAY fucking wrong.
During installation, the installer can set the master code. What the guys around here do is call me over, type in the setup and then have me type my code in twice while they walk to the other side of the room and look away. Same thing with the duress code. They suggest the street address. I guess I should have been more specific about the exact steps taken. And, yes, I can change my master code at any time (of course, I have the installer code as well so I can change *anything*).
My home security system has the same feature, and it's easy to remember the "panic" code. It's just one number less than your "real" code.
It's whatever the installer sets it to. The installers around here typically set it to your street address - the added bonus is a dumb robber might try that to disarm your alarm and it'll appear to work until the cops show up.
So, America might have a lower life expectancy but we make it up by weighing three times as much. If you use "pound-years" as a metric, America on average is probably more than triple Koreans.
Sorry, tracking until age 18 isn't long enough. Schizophrenia will show up a bit later if it does. Also, *having* a cat in the house is one thing - how many kids are cleaning the litterbox? Because that's the danger zone.
For those who are unaware, Toxoplasma gondii has a life cycle that relies on cats and their prey - typically rats or mice. In cats, it reproduces in the digestive system and gets crapped out. In rodents who come into contact with the cat crap, it infects their brain and makes them less afraid of cats, which benefits the parasite because it wants to end up in a cat's digestive system again.
In humans, it definitely causes miscarriages. There have been studies suggesting a link to schizophrenia, but I don't believe that's the current consensus. Something like 50% of all humans have been exposed to it, so it would be scary if so. But it might also depend on other factors.
It's conceivable that a parasite that has evolved to control host behavior could have adverse psychological effects on human hosts, thus the research into it.
Out of 1 billion votes cast there were 44 cases of fraud, a rate of 0.0000044%.
There is also widespread evidence that such laws are designed to target democratic voters and that they tend to target the poor and minorities.
And that "44" number is as much utter bullshit as the "13" number that the left was barfing up every time this conversation came up two years ago.
We had one case in Memphis where one member of the Ford family - I don't recall which one - received something like 50 more votes in a certain precinct than there were registered voters. In other words, if there were 100 registered voters he received 150 votes. You know, when doing fraud smart people at least pay attention to *where* to do it. Anyway, that single incident involved more fraud than you claim exists in all of history.
I wonder if you people (leftist lunatics) know this and don't care, or really are stupid enough to believe there have only been 44 cases of voter fraud. I know you're not terribly bright, but, geeze.