Exactly. The problem with looking for alien life is that the probability is that we missed the window of opportunity. They already drove themselves to extinction.
Posting AC just because I am going to mention a very unpopular angle:
The one thing the CIA and FBI directors are missing is how foreign propaganda can quickly become US memes. I have seen pictures and memes from Syria wind up as daily fodder on Occupy and other FB based groups. Same with Daesh memes like "Straight outta Kabul". They may lose militarily, but they can easily get their propaganda videos onto YouTube or FB for consumption.
Back in the '80s, a company distributing Russian or East German propaganda videos would be shut down and everyone involved arrested for providing aid and comfort to the enemy, to even treason by showing enemy propaganda. Now, showing an ISIS video is "hip" or a snide thing to do, especially today.
Hearts and minds... stop the influx of propaganda, and you will win back the US populace. Let the propaganda continue constantly on how the US is the evilest entity to ever take part on history's stage, and you only will get more government distrust and hatred, when in reality, those are the people keeping US residents' schools unexploded and your eyes unpopped.
That is what they don't understand... stop the influx of propaganda, and you will get your citizens back. Let the memes flow, and every single military engagement will end just like Viet Nam, no matter how good the generals are.
So, be more like North Korea and stop incoming messages you don't like? Great strategy!
Any modulation that can be used on OTA transmissions can be used in an isolated medium, whether it's fiber, or coaxial cable, or waveguide, or what have you.
Oh yeah? How about smoke signals? Or semaphore? ASL?
I work for a major defense contractor. They have a similar "wellness" program in place. It has been that way several years. Get health screenings (blood work), physical, etc or you pay a penalty in premiums. Your spouse, too.
OK, which company do you manage?..if their department engineers are sitting in on an interview, who's cost is that?
IANAM, but in the world of government contracts, managers just fail to give you a charge number for the interview and allow you to mischarge to whatever contract you're currently working on.
It doesn't surprise me that the company is willing to waste MY time, after all they aren't paying me yet. But it never ceases to amaze me that they will bring me in to talk to four or 5 of their guys, collectively costing the company probably $3,000, and refuse to reveal a salary range which could have saved them the $3,000.
This is where the "different buckets of money" comes in. A manager is worried that your high salary will come out of his department's budget. But that $3K they wasted came out of HR or BizDev or even mischarged to an existing contract.
That is not a false dichotomy. He did not say that selective breeding and genetic engineering were the only options, only that they are different options and should not be equated.
Internet access is nearly as important as electricity in our modern age.
Perhaps. But why not just give the poor a basic income supplement, and let them decide for themselves what to spend it on? Some of them may use it for Internet, but others may use it to buy food or medicine. Why should the government presume to know their priorities better than they do.
Golly, I wonder if any politicians supporting this program received campaign contributions from Comcast and TWC.
Because then conservatives would complain that the poor spend their government subsidy on non-essentials. Just look at Republican efforts to prevent food stamps from being used for food they consider "luxury" items, like sushi.
Well, the app could require it or not function. It would be nice if the OS had an option to always feed false location information to an app. It could always report that you were in Antarctica, or a maximum security prison, or the white house, or any of your favorite places.
Just use someone else's. They all take a phone number as "alternate ID." You can even try a few before one works. "Um, I can't remember which phone number I signed up under." Or just use Jenny's 867-5309. Apparently, it's taken in most area codes.
Cal residential rates average about 15cents/kwh, a 2.5KWH panel would need about 17.8 cents per kwh to save them $818 in the first year.
I don't know where you get your data, but I'm assuming that's the state average. In urban areas it is higher, much higher, especially if you go over "baseline." When I lived in Orange County we were never within baseline, because we actually turned on lights, cooked food, watched TV, and dared to run the AC when it was 100 degrees.
I don't think that's the point. The EU should be free to ban particular pesticides if they see it as not worth the risk without the heavy-handedness of the US changing their minds.
It is to clench your anus while the machine is being calibrated, prior to the questions.
An obvious solution would be to have a sensor in the seat cushion to detect the clenching. In the past, people cheated by putting a thumbtack in their shoe. Now, polygraphs are usually administered with shoes removed.
That is already standard practice for some polygraphs.
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... or pull a rotted tooth from a homeless person's mouth before it kills them.
Great idea! Then we can pay the homeless with all the cash from the tooth fairy!
Exactly. The problem with looking for alien life is that the probability is that we missed the window of opportunity. They already drove themselves to extinction.
Posting AC just because I am going to mention a very unpopular angle:
The one thing the CIA and FBI directors are missing is how foreign propaganda can quickly become US memes. I have seen pictures and memes from Syria wind up as daily fodder on Occupy and other FB based groups. Same with Daesh memes like "Straight outta Kabul". They may lose militarily, but they can easily get their propaganda videos onto YouTube or FB for consumption.
Back in the '80s, a company distributing Russian or East German propaganda videos would be shut down and everyone involved arrested for providing aid and comfort to the enemy, to even treason by showing enemy propaganda. Now, showing an ISIS video is "hip" or a snide thing to do, especially today.
Hearts and minds... stop the influx of propaganda, and you will win back the US populace. Let the propaganda continue constantly on how the US is the evilest entity to ever take part on history's stage, and you only will get more government distrust and hatred, when in reality, those are the people keeping US residents' schools unexploded and your eyes unpopped.
That is what they don't understand... stop the influx of propaganda, and you will get your citizens back. Let the memes flow, and every single military engagement will end just like Viet Nam, no matter how good the generals are.
So, be more like North Korea and stop incoming messages you don't like? Great strategy!
Any modulation that can be used on OTA transmissions can be used in an isolated medium, whether it's fiber, or coaxial cable, or waveguide, or what have you.
Oh yeah? How about smoke signals? Or semaphore? ASL?
I work for a major defense contractor. They have a similar "wellness" program in place. It has been that way several years. Get health screenings (blood work), physical, etc or you pay a penalty in premiums. Your spouse, too.
WTF is the reference to Mitt Romney doing in the summary?
OK, which company do you manage? ..if their department engineers are sitting in on an interview, who's cost is that?
IANAM, but in the world of government contracts, managers just fail to give you a charge number for the interview and allow you to mischarge to whatever contract you're currently working on.
It doesn't surprise me that the company is willing to waste MY time, after all they aren't paying me yet. But it never ceases to amaze me that they will bring me in to talk to four or 5 of their guys, collectively costing the company probably $3,000, and refuse to reveal a salary range which could have saved them the $3,000.
This is where the "different buckets of money" comes in. A manager is worried that your high salary will come out of his department's budget. But that $3K they wasted came out of HR or BizDev or even mischarged to an existing contract.
That is not a false dichotomy. He did not say that selective breeding and genetic engineering were the only options, only that they are different options and should not be equated.
Oh sure, look at how great letting parents make so called "informed decisions" about their children's vaccinations, worked out.
False equivalence to the 10th power. Avoiding GMOs would not harm anyone.
Asking what is X divided by zero is no different than asking what is Y plus red, or what is Z times pineapple.
I say focus on a proper mathematical answer for multiplying by blue first, and then apply it to the equally nonsensical divide by zero question.
Everybody knows that Z times pineapple is the square root of unicorn - by definition.
Internet access is nearly as important as electricity in our modern age.
Perhaps. But why not just give the poor a basic income supplement, and let them decide for themselves what to spend it on? Some of them may use it for Internet, but others may use it to buy food or medicine. Why should the government presume to know their priorities better than they do.
Golly, I wonder if any politicians supporting this program received campaign contributions from Comcast and TWC.
Because then conservatives would complain that the poor spend their government subsidy on non-essentials. Just look at Republican efforts to prevent food stamps from being used for food they consider "luxury" items, like sushi.
Well, the app could require it or not function. It would be nice if the OS had an option to always feed false location information to an app. It could always report that you were in Antarctica, or a maximum security prison, or the white house, or any of your favorite places.
You must have missed the IMF / Rootkit issue.. Or ignored it.
Was that the Impossible Mission Force or the International Monetary Fund?
It's a real pity we can't drop a couple of bombs on Congress. Fucking traitors that they are.
Your IP address has been forwarded to the dudes in black SUVs. They will be at your door shortly.
Also, don't use a loyalty program.
Just use someone else's. They all take a phone number as "alternate ID." You can even try a few before one works. "Um, I can't remember which phone number I signed up under." Or just use Jenny's 867-5309. Apparently, it's taken in most area codes.
Nope. The pilots are adamantly against it. They REALLY don't want people to see what happens in the cockpit.
But it could be a source of mile-high porn!
On the Genesis site it blames CO2 levels on God farting too much.
Not surprising given we are all created in his image.
No, we created God in our image. That's why he's white.
Cal residential rates average about 15cents/kwh, a 2.5KWH panel would need about 17.8 cents per kwh to save them $818 in the first year.
I don't know where you get your data, but I'm assuming that's the state average. In urban areas it is higher, much higher, especially if you go over "baseline." When I lived in Orange County we were never within baseline, because we actually turned on lights, cooked food, watched TV, and dared to run the AC when it was 100 degrees.
Can a goat grant consent?
I think it's obvious why you're asking.
I don't think that's the point. The EU should be free to ban particular pesticides if they see it as not worth the risk without the heavy-handedness of the US changing their minds.
Didn't RTFA. I assume they got the bats to quit cocaine by putting them in rehab.
what a bigoted, able-ist post. why do you assume everyone has 2 legs, shitlord?
So now metaphors have to be politically correct?
On the plus side, it's better than the ADD MORE DIGITS mentality some developers have for hit points shown in games.
That started with pinball machines. Now get off my lawn.
It is to clench your anus while the machine is being calibrated, prior to the questions.
An obvious solution would be to have a sensor in the seat cushion to detect the clenching. In the past, people cheated by putting a thumbtack in their shoe. Now, polygraphs are usually administered with shoes removed.
That is already standard practice for some polygraphs.