1 All other forms of welfare and social programs are shut down the moment this program goes live. This includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and public school programs.
2 All gov't employees are immediate fired from all the now closed programs.
3 Anyone that has been in prison 3 or more times is automatically banned from the program.
4 1st generation immigrants will never qualify for this program.
5. No one is exempt from paying into this program and the tax rate is a flat rate that applies to all forms of "income" as in any money that come from another person or entity to you. Get a paycheck you pay, sell your house, you pay, make money on stock you pay. You get the idea
6. All gov't employee health and pay perks benefits are canceled.
The only reason ATT is the only choice or one of a limited choice is because jackasses at the Fed, and in particularly at the State and Local level mandate it to be. STOP giving communication companies monopolies and holy shit you might have some more choice.
Yes I agree men are most certainly affected by biological clocks. There is the constant nagging, the weight gain, demands for a baby, the impending crash into "the wall" in terms of her looks, and god help them the hair style that she just "loves" that makes her look just like her mom. Not to mention the hoards of friendly and attractive younger women that seem to come out of the wood work once a guy gets to that point in his life.
So I assume now that the office Science and Technology Policy is no longer staffed that we are starting to see a new boom in Science and Technology? Because nothing says "pick the winners" like a fully staffed office in the Federal Government.
Seriously wtf can't we just set the government to a -1% net budget every year and then in 99 years the last one out can shut off the lights.
Just like everything else, nuclear included, solar panels are recyclable. Also unless you smash them they produce power longer than most of us will live. Sure they will eventually fall apart (the frame, glass, seals, etc), but again all trivial to recycle.
In the immortal words of Van Jones....."This story is a nothing burger"
I'm holding out for a few more battery swaps. ($10 a pop every 6-10 months). I'm waiting for something actually noticeably better than my S5. The S6/7 aren't that much better and the S8 is just silly over priced atm. Maybe the S9 or S10 will get me to part with some money.
This is rapidly becoming a non-issue for the maker/repairer types. Most things are repairable, what they are not are easily repairable. The only relief we need from the government is to roll back excessive copyright and patent protections so the public can develop their own methods for repairing things without corporations coming in and shutting it down. After that its just a matter of NEVER buying a smart phone again that can't be opened and parts replaced, if that is what you want.
I would pay for a smart device that was 100% non-repairable, but it better be under a $100, fairly indestructible, and water proof down to 200ft so I can take it with me scuba diving.
My inner engineer has always hated this kind of bullshit. Stupid naming conventions, odd units, and arbitrary dimensions due to some thing that some guy did 200 years ago that we are still lugging around the baggage from because that's just the way we do it. Every time I come across this I want to scream.
My outer engineer is just forced to deal with.
So my solution is just make all my own lumber with a portable mill. Fuck you lumber industry all my 2x4's are actually 2x4's
Damn it forgot I hate English units too. Have to put all my lumber into metric. All my lumber is 5.08cm x 10.16cm................sigh.............fuck me.
Seriously though it is annoying but then all the engineering tables that have been in use for the last 100 years will have to be completely redone and all engineers that have been at it for more than a few years retrained. The only way to unfucker this situation is to burn down civilization and start over from scratch or wait another 200 years for the system to slowly and painfully change.
The amount of CO2 is calculable, but so far the results of said CO2 is not.
A little tank in a lab with elevated CO2 levels with 3-4 variables is a far cry from a global environment that literally has hundreds of thousands of variables.
It is just as easy to extrapolated that too many people are trying to grow coffee in the country and are damaging the local environment due to overpopulation and sub-standard farming practices that are straining the local water supplies and leading to large areas of deforestation.
Of course that is much less sympathetic to the 1st world who won't send cash if they don't feel guilty about it.
I don't think the word means what you think it does. By definition extrapolation meaning making a prediction out past your data. Also by definition extrapolation only is somewhat useful in predicting the outcome of very well understood phenomena under very strict conditions. Say for example heating water at a set temperature and pressure with a set amount of heat. The predictions still get wonky over time even with something as set in stone as boiling water because no model works in all situations.
This is why the weatherman never offers more than a week's worth of predictions about the weather. Anything past 2-3 days is just a WAG (wild ass guess) which only occasionally comes true.
The climate scientists are just simply taking that WAG and raising 4-5 orders of magnitude, which is why to this date they have failed to predict a single correct out come on global cooling, global warming, and now climate change.
Horseshit. I've been living in Florida since 2009 There have been 2-3 winters, one of which was noticeably worse, that has been killing off everything temperature sensitive.
After three attempt to get various palms and fruit trees to grow on my property I've given up and gone back to cold tolerant varieties.
I too am growing pineapples, but only because they grow fast and can be done so in a pot, which I cart into a heated garage during the winter.
Billions for a military satellite? Sounds like a new market for MuskX to get into. They could basically just launch the guts of one of the Tesla cars into orbit. It would probably be more advanced and effective than anything the military has designed.
Ignored in practice. Hardly. In day to day operation stupid shit like that is ignored, but then what happens is an audit comes through and then personal rush around and generate the required paperwork, back date it, and file it. So in the end it still ends up being done.
At our level (200 personnel) we had 2 people dedicated to keeping track of such things as one of their primary duties and another 15 as a part time duty. Can't tell you how much time I wasted on this kind of paperwork over a twenty years but it was substantial.
We got that garbage a few years ago in the military. You would get all kinds of crazy notices that had nothing to do with anything at all hours of the day or night. After the first week of that, most of us changed our contact numbers to various people we disliked. The commander's secretary's phone would ring off the hook every time there was a warning.
Same goes for University of South Florida that auto signed you up when took classes. Thankfully it only took a few minutes to find the "fuck off and die" setting on the website to remove my number from that jackassery.
The latest are the amber alerts that pop up on the phone as part of the 911 system. I pretty much have every kind of audible notification on my phone disabled now. My girlfriend was upset with me at first, until what ever computer system figured out she lived down here to a month later and started blowing up her phone with weather warnings and amber alerts.
Can you imagine how stupid this would get once phones are nothing more than medical implants? Pretty sure I'd have to dig it back out, after a week of gov't and marketing "important" information, with a dull knife.
Why because I have a job and a extra few grand laying around, that's why.
Literally every time there has been any kind of advancement people have just moaned about how useless or unneeded the new tech was.
People were bitching about games being monochrome saying that 16 color monitors were pointless back in the day.
16 core CPUs just means anything less will eventually become the bargain basement processors. Once the average machine is an 8 core CPU, software companies will figure out how to take advantage of them, but they are most certainly not going to bother until market share large enough.
I'm looking forward to the next upgrade. This machine is getting very long in the tooth. I'm glad to see the hardware companies have not been resting on their ass so that I have goodies to pick out when it comes time to do so.
24 foot of rise! EXCELLENT!!! My house will be beachfront property and all those rich bastards hogging all the current beach front property can suck it.
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1 All other forms of welfare and social programs are shut down the moment this program goes live. This includes Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and public school programs.
2 All gov't employees are immediate fired from all the now closed programs.
3 Anyone that has been in prison 3 or more times is automatically banned from the program.
4 1st generation immigrants will never qualify for this program.
5. No one is exempt from paying into this program and the tax rate is a flat rate that applies to all forms of "income" as in any money that come from another person or entity to you. Get a paycheck you pay, sell your house, you pay, make money on stock you pay. You get the idea
6. All gov't employee health and pay perks benefits are canceled.
The only reason ATT is the only choice or one of a limited choice is because jackasses at the Fed, and in particularly at the State and Local level mandate it to be. STOP giving communication companies monopolies and holy shit you might have some more choice.
Something must be done.
Seriously wtf can't we just set the government to a -1% net budget every year and then in 99 years the last one out can shut off the lights.
In the immortal words of Van Jones....."This story is a nothing burger"
I'm holding out for a few more battery swaps. ($10 a pop every 6-10 months). I'm waiting for something actually noticeably better than my S5. The S6/7 aren't that much better and the S8 is just silly over priced atm. Maybe the S9 or S10 will get me to part with some money.
I don't want my hands to be on fire....
I would pay for a smart device that was 100% non-repairable, but it better be under a $100, fairly indestructible, and water proof down to 200ft so I can take it with me scuba diving.
My outer engineer is just forced to deal with.
So my solution is just make all my own lumber with a portable mill. Fuck you lumber industry all my 2x4's are actually 2x4's
Damn it forgot I hate English units too. Have to put all my lumber into metric. All my lumber is 5.08cm x 10.16cm................sigh.............fuck me.
Seriously though it is annoying but then all the engineering tables that have been in use for the last 100 years will have to be completely redone and all engineers that have been at it for more than a few years retrained. The only way to unfucker this situation is to burn down civilization and start over from scratch or wait another 200 years for the system to slowly and painfully change.
A little tank in a lab with elevated CO2 levels with 3-4 variables is a far cry from a global environment that literally has hundreds of thousands of variables.
So you are saying that algae doesn't consume CO2? Interesting. I wonder what it lives on then.
A couple years is fast growing by most things. Try planting a lime tree you only need to wait 10 years or so for them to produce fruit.
Of course that is much less sympathetic to the 1st world who won't send cash if they don't feel guilty about it.
Not if algae has anything to say about it.
This is why the weatherman never offers more than a week's worth of predictions about the weather. Anything past 2-3 days is just a WAG (wild ass guess) which only occasionally comes true.
The climate scientists are just simply taking that WAG and raising 4-5 orders of magnitude, which is why to this date they have failed to predict a single correct out come on global cooling, global warming, and now climate change.
After three attempt to get various palms and fruit trees to grow on my property I've given up and gone back to cold tolerant varieties.
I too am growing pineapples, but only because they grow fast and can be done so in a pot, which I cart into a heated garage during the winter.
Billions for a military satellite? Sounds like a new market for MuskX to get into. They could basically just launch the guts of one of the Tesla cars into orbit. It would probably be more advanced and effective than anything the military has designed.
Are you talking about the Democratic nomination Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton?
At our level (200 personnel) we had 2 people dedicated to keeping track of such things as one of their primary duties and another 15 as a part time duty. Can't tell you how much time I wasted on this kind of paperwork over a twenty years but it was substantial.
So what you are saying is it is a shit idea and no one is stupid enough, except for gov't, to pay for it.
Same goes for University of South Florida that auto signed you up when took classes. Thankfully it only took a few minutes to find the "fuck off and die" setting on the website to remove my number from that jackassery.
The latest are the amber alerts that pop up on the phone as part of the 911 system. I pretty much have every kind of audible notification on my phone disabled now. My girlfriend was upset with me at first, until what ever computer system figured out she lived down here to a month later and started blowing up her phone with weather warnings and amber alerts.
Can you imagine how stupid this would get once phones are nothing more than medical implants? Pretty sure I'd have to dig it back out, after a week of gov't and marketing "important" information, with a dull knife.
You want to talk to me or leave me a message that is what texting is for. For telemarketers that what is the blocking/ignore function is for.
Literally every time there has been any kind of advancement people have just moaned about how useless or unneeded the new tech was.
People were bitching about games being monochrome saying that 16 color monitors were pointless back in the day.
16 core CPUs just means anything less will eventually become the bargain basement processors. Once the average machine is an 8 core CPU, software companies will figure out how to take advantage of them, but they are most certainly not going to bother until market share large enough.
I'm looking forward to the next upgrade. This machine is getting very long in the tooth. I'm glad to see the hardware companies have not been resting on their ass so that I have goodies to pick out when it comes time to do so.
They discovered the ground and they say they found it just lying there under a bunch of other ground that was covering it up? That is pretty special.
24 foot of rise! EXCELLENT!!! My house will be beachfront property and all those rich bastards hogging all the current beach front property can suck it.