It's about degree of evil. A president with marital problems isn't that evil. Lots of people have marital problems, lots of people cheat, and I think in the eyes of the American people it wasn't that bad.
Lying to congress about making black ops moves like you see in movies real (I always thought things like Division and Treadstone were just for good drama, but now I'm a bit more suspicious)
Most visa programs have similar requirements, globally. For the most part, if you are not a refugee or special circumstance, and a country lets you come work, they want you to be contributing to the economy (not moving in and then immediately onto the dole).
Most likely the terms of the visa are that you can go back home, but you can't stay in the US if you choose to leave Detroit (unlike the indentured servant program)
When I lived in the Netherlands I bought a Ford Focus. Far from being a "cheap" car, it cost 30,000 EUR, and was BEAUTIFUL (and definitely comparable in driving ability to a BMW 3 series or other similar).
My friends from the US were floored when they took a ride in it...
give the existing population work (instead of just importing more people), and give them the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.
So I like the idea but it's kind of a chicken vs egg thing.
High tech companies need HIGHLY skilled workers. Most of the unemployed autoworkers in Detroit are not highly skilled.
So unless you are including in your proposal a big training budget (and that's assuming people have the desire and or aptitude to become highly skilled) it won't work.
However, there are a number of support roles (like garbage collection and construction) that are NOT highly skilled but that will go up as people get imported. Think about it, import 50,000 people and they'll all want to eat at restaurants, have people fix their mcmansions (and maybe hire gardeners) etc., etc.
So actually in this case maybe the government does have a good idea.
You should reread Ayn Rand. In Atlas Shrugged, where she creates her "perfect society" people pay each other for everything. When Dagny stays over at John Galt's house and needed to use the stove, she gave him $0.05.
So Ayn would, I think, be happier to see bounties than Facebook saying, hey, give me this info for free.
And while they probably do have a security team, by crowdsourcing something like this you allow many, many, many more people to look at Facebook and fix it.
NYC is the best place in the world for the rich. I'd love a chance to live there, and be rich.
The BIG problem with living in NYC is the amount of money you need. If you have $100 million in the bank or a job that pays $250k a year, your life style here is sweet (and completely unmatched anywhere else in the world).
If, on the other hand, you do a "normal" job, life is much harder.
Of course, some people like the trade off. If you don't mind living in a closet you may prefer the night life here to small town America, even if the rent on your Manhattan studio would cover the costs of a McMansion in small town, USA.
American pizza is a completely different dish then Italian pizza. In fact, I would posit that pizza actually is an ambiguous term referring to many dishes with a few common factors (flat bread with some sort of toppings).
NY Pizza is different then Chicago pizza, and that's a different type then found in my home town.
This is true in Italy as well. Pizza in Rome is very different then pizza in Napoli.
And there are many places with Pizza. Pide, a Turkish pizza is perhaps one of my favorites and looks nothing like what you would probably consider Pizza (you make the dough into a "boat" and fill with the toppings. This allows you to do things like put raw egg inside and cook)
If I asked you what the word THREEP sounded like, would you have an answer?
See, it's phoenetic.
Now each letter does not correspond to a phoneme. That's why sometimes we combine letters to make sounds, like in "TH". And there are some words that are not pronounced the way they're spelled for historical reasons (but they used to be!)
But for romance languages (remember they thought the manuscript was spanish or italian) it is quite straightforward, and pronunciations and spellings match (with the exception of a few loan words from the anglais)
That's not even remotely plausible. The first and only thing surviving the invention of a writing system certainly wouldn't be a large codex.
Funny because the fact that such a large codex survives, would seem to indicate that indeed it's possible for it to have happened.
Writing systems based on an alphabet are, by definition, phoenetic. If you were to learn chinese, you'd probably use the roman alphabet to write down notes on how to spell it phoenetically.
Given that there probably are not a whole lot of speakers of Ancient Aztec it stands to reason maybe a phonetic representation of Aztec wasn't something easily figured out. (Remember the Navajo code talkers were unbreakable during world war II).
And, this is consistent with what is known about the manuscript if you check the wikipedia article. Specifically:
The language is quite unlike most European languages. Between 20-30 glyphs could explain the entire text The language resembles a natural language.
According to TFA, plant names in Nahuatl (the language of the aztecs) have been identified.
If indeed people who wrote it were writing in Nahuatl, and perhaps in a dialect, they may have needed to make their own script (since there was none around).
The reason this sort of model works with, say, cellphones is because instead of having to fork out the cost of a new phone, you get it at a substantially reduced price.
If automakers do this and they don't actually lower the price of the cars, it won't take off.
But what if instead of paying $20k for a car, you only pay $5k and you "lease" only the features you use?
Some people (like with phones) will prefer to buy the cars out right. But some people (like with phones) will enjoy the lower monthly payments.
There are lots of other examples out there. Flights for instance -- pay for cheap seats but pay double the cost of your ticket for bags. And consumers reward this paradigm because ultimately, if you are not using all the bells and whistles, you may prefer to pay for what you just use. Alternatively, you may just not want a lower bill and be willing to accept it.
Investment analysts have noticed for quite some time that Apple's iphone has a "halo effect." Specifically, people who buy iphones are more likely to buy Macs (and ipads) in the future. And apple is quite good at this sort of turnover.
So the news here is not that so many iphones are sold. The news is that this may indicate the status of Mac vs. PC in the future.
If researchers discover a cool new technology, I see no issues with them licensing it out, and using the profits to do more research. In this case, you have a clear benefit to society, and it's not patent trolling.
Not that the education system doesn't have issues, but I don't see the issue in this case.
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If you read TFS he says specifically "CNC-machined aluminum"
And if your girlfriend asks how she looks in her dress do you ever respond "Like a fat cow?" because it's the truth and you want to be righteous?
Most people understand that, when it comes to lying, there are grey areas (i.e. "white lies").
It's about degree of evil. A president with marital problems isn't that evil. Lots of people have marital problems, lots of people cheat, and I think in the eyes of the American people it wasn't that bad.
Lying to congress about making black ops moves like you see in movies real (I always thought things like Division and Treadstone were just for good drama, but now I'm a bit more suspicious)
Most visa programs have similar requirements, globally. For the most part, if you are not a refugee or special circumstance, and a country lets you come work, they want you to be contributing to the economy (not moving in and then immediately onto the dole).
Most likely the terms of the visa are that you can go back home, but you can't stay in the US if you choose to leave Detroit (unlike the indentured servant program)
Mod parent up!
When I lived in the Netherlands I bought a Ford Focus. Far from being a "cheap" car, it cost 30,000 EUR, and was BEAUTIFUL (and definitely comparable in driving ability to a BMW 3 series or other similar).
My friends from the US were floored when they took a ride in it...
give the existing population work (instead of just importing more people), and give them the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.
So I like the idea but it's kind of a chicken vs egg thing.
High tech companies need HIGHLY skilled workers. Most of the unemployed autoworkers in Detroit are not highly skilled.
So unless you are including in your proposal a big training budget (and that's assuming people have the desire and or aptitude to become highly skilled) it won't work.
However, there are a number of support roles (like garbage collection and construction) that are NOT highly skilled but that will go up as people get imported. Think about it, import 50,000 people and they'll all want to eat at restaurants, have people fix their mcmansions (and maybe hire gardeners) etc., etc.
So actually in this case maybe the government does have a good idea.
You've never played against me... I bet I'd lose more.. ;)
You should reread Ayn Rand. In Atlas Shrugged, where she creates her "perfect society" people pay each other for everything. When Dagny stays over at John Galt's house and needed to use the stove, she gave him $0.05.
So Ayn would, I think, be happier to see bounties than Facebook saying, hey, give me this info for free.
And while they probably do have a security team, by crowdsourcing something like this you allow many, many, many more people to look at Facebook and fix it.
Hmm...I think I'll opt for the $100 million in the bank.
You and me both buddy
It's called marketing for a reason. Nobody comes up with a new diet that you pay $$$$ for the food and says it makes them feel like crap.
NYC is the best place in the world for the rich. I'd love a chance to live there, and be rich.
The BIG problem with living in NYC is the amount of money you need. If you have $100 million in the bank or a job that pays $250k a year, your life style here is sweet (and completely unmatched anywhere else in the world).
If, on the other hand, you do a "normal" job, life is much harder.
Of course, some people like the trade off. If you don't mind living in a closet you may prefer the night life here to small town America, even if the rent on your Manhattan studio would cover the costs of a McMansion in small town, USA.
American pizza is a completely different dish then Italian pizza. In fact, I would posit that pizza actually is an ambiguous term referring to many dishes with a few common factors (flat bread with some sort of toppings).
NY Pizza is different then Chicago pizza, and that's a different type then found in my home town.
This is true in Italy as well. Pizza in Rome is very different then pizza in Napoli.
And there are many places with Pizza. Pide, a Turkish pizza is perhaps one of my favorites and looks nothing like what you would probably consider Pizza (you make the dough into a "boat" and fill with the toppings. This allows you to do things like put raw egg inside and cook)
Also, a citation for the definition of alphabet (and yes they're phoenetic, unless you're using alphabet in the sense of DNA alphabet):
http://www.oxforddictionaries....
If I asked you what the word THREEP sounded like, would you have an answer?
See, it's phoenetic.
Now each letter does not correspond to a phoneme. That's why sometimes we combine letters to make sounds, like in "TH". And there are some words that are not pronounced the way they're spelled for historical reasons (but they used to be!)
But for romance languages (remember they thought the manuscript was spanish or italian) it is quite straightforward, and pronunciations and spellings match (with the exception of a few loan words from the anglais)
That's not even remotely plausible. The first and only thing surviving the invention of a writing system certainly wouldn't be a large codex.
Funny because the fact that such a large codex survives, would seem to indicate that indeed it's possible for it to have happened.
Writing systems based on an alphabet are, by definition, phoenetic. If you were to learn chinese, you'd probably use the roman alphabet to write down notes on how to spell it phoenetically.
Given that there probably are not a whole lot of speakers of Ancient Aztec it stands to reason maybe a phonetic representation of Aztec wasn't something easily figured out. (Remember the Navajo code talkers were unbreakable during world war II).
And, this is consistent with what is known about the manuscript if you check the wikipedia article. Specifically:
The language is quite unlike most European languages.
Between 20-30 glyphs could explain the entire text
The language resembles a natural language.
According to TFA, plant names in Nahuatl (the language of the aztecs) have been identified.
If indeed people who wrote it were writing in Nahuatl, and perhaps in a dialect, they may have needed to make their own script (since there was none around).
So given time, perhaps it can be deciphered...
Well maybe not.
The reason this sort of model works with, say, cellphones is because instead of having to fork out the cost of a new phone, you get it at a substantially reduced price.
If automakers do this and they don't actually lower the price of the cars, it won't take off.
But what if instead of paying $20k for a car, you only pay $5k and you "lease" only the features you use?
Some people (like with phones) will prefer to buy the cars out right. But some people (like with phones) will enjoy the lower monthly payments.
There are lots of other examples out there. Flights for instance -- pay for cheap seats but pay double the cost of your ticket for bags. And consumers reward this paradigm because ultimately, if you are not using all the bells and whistles, you may prefer to pay for what you just use. Alternatively, you may just not want a lower bill and be willing to accept it.
Not as if badly designed software which is just "secret sauce" couldn't ever result in a massive, multi-million dollar trading error
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group
Mod parent up!
In use, and legal, are two completely separate things. Just look at the war on drugs.
Because they lock you into the ecosystem. Once you're Mac OSX + iPad + iPhone, you're not going anywhere.
PC sales are decreasing quarter over quarter to as more people go to tablets.
Investment analysts have noticed for quite some time that Apple's iphone has a "halo effect." Specifically, people who buy iphones are more likely to buy Macs (and ipads) in the future. And apple is quite good at this sort of turnover.
So the news here is not that so many iphones are sold. The news is that this may indicate the status of Mac vs. PC in the future.
If researchers discover a cool new technology, I see no issues with them licensing it out, and using the profits to do more research. In this case, you have a clear benefit to society, and it's not patent trolling.
Not that the education system doesn't have issues, but I don't see the issue in this case.
Stick it in some fish embryos and see what grows.
(Ok maybe it's not possible NOW but give technology a couple decades.)