Every person in the country be asked if this is a good idea. Anyone that thinks this is a good idea be immediately placed under psychiatric observation for 30 days.
Wow. That was totally unrelated to my comment. None of what you said applied in any way.
By that I don't mean you are wrong (nor do I mean you are right).
It is just that I was not talking about morals or why the US entered World War II. I talked about the isolationism - which you admitted the US did when you said the that the Axis declared war on us. I also talked about how bad an idea it was. Which the tone of your argument seems to agree with me.
But again, your strange rant was not a contradiction of anything I said, nor did I say anything that denied what you wrote.
Russia is one of the top military forces of the world. It is very close to Alaska. The belief that their imperialism is not a problem for us is foolish.
Also, we want a military base in that reason and are losing one.
The world is not black/white. It comes comes is shades of gray and glorious colors.
In the real world, the difference between evil and good is not a bright line, but instead small details.
A prime example is that the difference between murder and self defense is just the state of mind of the shooter.
Setting up a new military base in the Ukraine is a measured, careful response to potential problems. It sends a clear message, does not cost any immediate lives, and makes it harder for Russia to continue on it's imperialistic course.
We tried that in the late 1930's and early 1940's.
We called it isolationism
It works fine as long as we are talking about tiny countries. But when major world powers start taking over countries just because, we found out what a moronic idea it was.
This article idea is founded on multiple bad theories. Specifically:
1) Our tests are accurate enough to detect the very best.
2) The very best are there almost solely because of innate talent, not a bit of talent, a bit of luck, and a lot of hard work.
Neither is accurate. Most of them time out test are only good enough to find the guy that is in the top 20% or so, not the top 1%. After that luck is mostly in control. Was the athlete born the right month? If not, then when he is a child he will compete with kids 8 months older who surprise surprise routinely beat him at sports. No one ever realizes he has the skill and is never given the training.
Finally, the real difference between most 'prodigies' and everyone else is that the prodigy spend every last minute they can working on their skill.
I was a 'gifted' child - in large part because my father was originally told I was bad at reading and took huge steps to get me to fall in love with reading. He encouraged me to read comic books, then fantasy novels etc. He made me a huge nerd - and I love him for it.
I assure you if a camera was supposed to be 'on', and it wasn't, any reasonable prosecutor will throw out the case if the defense refuses to plead guilty.
Don't be surprised if jurys are told that the footage should have existed but doesn't.
While it is true that theoretically scientifically, we have clean coal technologies available, Coal is still the dirtiest and worst of the power technologies.
This is because of two reasons. 1) Truly clean coal technologies are expensive - more expensive than solar powered or wind power. So practically nobody uses it. and
2) Coal companies - more than any other power industry - have found ways to avoid complying with regulations. Specifically, they campaigned hard to allow existing plants to go unregulated until after they 'modernized' in the normal course of time. Then they refused to modernize - for the past 60 years.
Tuna fish is one of the healthiest cheap foods you can eat - or rather would be EXCEPT for the mercury in it which comes from coal. Coal burning plants are more radioactive than nuclear power plants because small bits of thorium are in coal and when you burn it, it gets wafted up into the air and settles around the coal plant. Not to mention the acid rain and the green house gas issues.
Actually, most of it is dead people subsidizing the old.
The break even point is currently around age 72. That is, if you die at 72 or younger, you pay more into Social Security than you get out.
Now there is some youth subsidizing age, but 30% men of die before they get more out of Social Security and 20% of women.
Which also means men subsidize women.
Social Security is at heart an insurance program that made a huge profit in the early years of it's existence, but currently is running a deficit.
You are not actually correct. There are multiple ways to tax the rich to pay for it without taxing the middle class.
Most methods of doing so involves killing the various loopholes the rich use to hide their wealth and pretend that it is not 'income' because they have not 'realized capital gains'.
The simplest way I know is to simply put in an annual federal 1% tax on all current equity worth more than 2 million. Equity to include real estate, private trusts, stocks, gold, etc anything of real value.
This rule would increase federal tax revenue by about 10%, all of which coming directly from the wealthy.
1) A bunch of sites that insist on using a password when they don't really need one. Prime example: Amazon. They don't really need a password as long as they don't keep your credit card on file - which they certainly should NOT do. My neighborhood grocer does not ask to keep my credit card # on file no matter how 'convenient' (for whom???). If you want to discuss past trades use the last 4 digits of the credit card you used for those trades as an ID.
2) A bunch of sites that have legitimate needs for passwords but do NOT need 'secure' passwords. Slashdot is a great example - we need to confirm who you are but if someone steals your Slashdot password it is not a big deal. So they use your identity to Praise Senator Cruz, and destroy your reputation, no big deal. Let people use 4 character passwords - just like for your ATM card.
3) Websites with a real need for secure passwords - 'primary' email accounts, credit card accounts, etc. They could easily use stream ciphers - little electronic devices that constantly update the password. You have 1 minute to enter the password before it changes. Or if you prefer anonymity for your email account a downloaded program that resides on the PC you use to establish the email account and to log in, you must use that PC (with a 'move my account' program that must be initiated from that PC). Of course that limits your functionality, but at least it gives you anonymity.
I routinely come across websites that I can see, but for some reason my Verizon account refuses to stream the video for. I wait a day, and boom, they can stream again.
Companies develop issues all the time. Sometime it is on the website end, sometimes on the ISP end.
It's not "Victim Blaming" unless someone attempts to punish the victim. Yelling at an idiot to stop throwing his mone the ground while closing his eyes is not victim blaming.
Computers on the other hand can already be argued to be smarter than a human - if you consider the entire internet as a single computer.
The difference between a robot and a computer is that the computer is self-mobile at the very minimum. If it can't get up and move away, (no matter how awkwardly), it's not a robot.
Mobility is hard, not easy. Worse, the larger a computer is, the harder mobility becomes.
There are lots of reasons to build a computer smarter than a human being, but practically none to add in the huge expense to take that human level intelligence and make it mobile. We already have real humans for those jobs that require mobile intelligence and they cheaper and easier to care for.
More importantly, there is little to no reason for us to build a computer that, being as smart as us, would want to be us. Star Trek's Data is poor planning. Why make it want to be something it isn't? Don't we have enough body issues of our own without giving them tour computers?
Until I was 30 I disliked most forms of music. Frankly I was shocked that so many people thought sound designed to influence their mental state was a good idea. Especially when you most often have no choice about what is playing.
Then I found dance and I fell in love with tango.
If I had not found it I might still dislike music.
It does not surprise me that 1-3% of the population has not found music they like - yet.
Use web-enabled wireless power switches (http://www.homedepot.com/p/Belkin-WeMo-Switch-F7C027fc/203536127?N=5yc1vZc7cj)
for things that do not require constant power.
or RDIF badges for things that do require constant power.
You charge them based on how long they are within range of the badge detector.
Wow. I did not think anyone in the world that would quit their job because the coffee machine was bad.
Have you considered asking to be allowed to bring you own machine into the office?
I am sorry your honor, the reason I did not inform you of my Caymen Island bank account is that when I signed up for it I had to sign a non-disclousure agreement preventing me from telling anyone, even the IRS that I had such an account.
Most people don't look at the GPS, they listen to it. Big difference.
Personally, I think they should put them so that the driver can't see them, just the passenger in the shotgun seat.
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Every person in the country be asked if this is a good idea. Anyone that thinks this is a good idea be immediately placed under psychiatric observation for 30 days.
We had the huge recession, and the media was more interested in Obama's victory.
More importantly, the coal industry spent a lot of money and legal effort to prevent the media from getting photos.
I heard about it from the main stream media and remember being offended by how the industry was restricting coverage.
If you didn't, then perhaps you should accept responsibility for watching crappy media instead of blaming the media for being crappy.
That is, not all media is as incompetent as the ones you watch.
By that I don't mean you are wrong (nor do I mean you are right).
It is just that I was not talking about morals or why the US entered World War II. I talked about the isolationism - which you admitted the US did when you said the that the Axis declared war on us. I also talked about how bad an idea it was. Which the tone of your argument seems to agree with me.
But again, your strange rant was not a contradiction of anything I said, nor did I say anything that denied what you wrote.
Also, we want a military base in that reason and are losing one.
In the real world, the difference between evil and good is not a bright line, but instead small details.
A prime example is that the difference between murder and self defense is just the state of mind of the shooter.
Setting up a new military base in the Ukraine is a measured, careful response to potential problems. It sends a clear message, does not cost any immediate lives, and makes it harder for Russia to continue on it's imperialistic course.
It works fine as long as we are talking about tiny countries. But when major world powers start taking over countries just because, we found out what a moronic idea it was.
We already have an air base in Kyrgyzstan, but it is set to close next year.
This would be the perfect replacement.
1) Our tests are accurate enough to detect the very best.
2) The very best are there almost solely because of innate talent, not a bit of talent, a bit of luck, and a lot of hard work.
Neither is accurate. Most of them time out test are only good enough to find the guy that is in the top 20% or so, not the top 1%. After that luck is mostly in control. Was the athlete born the right month? If not, then when he is a child he will compete with kids 8 months older who surprise surprise routinely beat him at sports. No one ever realizes he has the skill and is never given the training.
Finally, the real difference between most 'prodigies' and everyone else is that the prodigy spend every last minute they can working on their skill.
I was a 'gifted' child - in large part because my father was originally told I was bad at reading and took huge steps to get me to fall in love with reading. He encouraged me to read comic books, then fantasy novels etc. He made me a huge nerd - and I love him for it.
I assure you if a camera was supposed to be 'on', and it wasn't, any reasonable prosecutor will throw out the case if the defense refuses to plead guilty. Don't be surprised if jurys are told that the footage should have existed but doesn't.
This is because of two reasons. 1) Truly clean coal technologies are expensive - more expensive than solar powered or wind power. So practically nobody uses it. and
2) Coal companies - more than any other power industry - have found ways to avoid complying with regulations. Specifically, they campaigned hard to allow existing plants to go unregulated until after they 'modernized' in the normal course of time. Then they refused to modernize - for the past 60 years.
Tuna fish is one of the healthiest cheap foods you can eat - or rather would be EXCEPT for the mercury in it which comes from coal. Coal burning plants are more radioactive than nuclear power plants because small bits of thorium are in coal and when you burn it, it gets wafted up into the air and settles around the coal plant. Not to mention the acid rain and the green house gas issues.
Now there is some youth subsidizing age, but 30% men of die before they get more out of Social Security and 20% of women.
Which also means men subsidize women.
Social Security is at heart an insurance program that made a huge profit in the early years of it's existence, but currently is running a deficit.
Most methods of doing so involves killing the various loopholes the rich use to hide their wealth and pretend that it is not 'income' because they have not 'realized capital gains'.
The simplest way I know is to simply put in an annual federal 1% tax on all current equity worth more than 2 million. Equity to include real estate, private trusts, stocks, gold, etc anything of real value.
This rule would increase federal tax revenue by about 10%, all of which coming directly from the wealthy.
They DO pay into the system and do not get any benefits.
In fact, more illegals pay into the system and get no benefits then the other way around.
Idiots need to double check their assumptions.
2) A bunch of sites that have legitimate needs for passwords but do NOT need 'secure' passwords. Slashdot is a great example - we need to confirm who you are but if someone steals your Slashdot password it is not a big deal. So they use your identity to Praise Senator Cruz, and destroy your reputation, no big deal. Let people use 4 character passwords - just like for your ATM card.
3) Websites with a real need for secure passwords - 'primary' email accounts, credit card accounts, etc. They could easily use stream ciphers - little electronic devices that constantly update the password. You have 1 minute to enter the password before it changes. Or if you prefer anonymity for your email account a downloaded program that resides on the PC you use to establish the email account and to log in, you must use that PC (with a 'move my account' program that must be initiated from that PC). Of course that limits your functionality, but at least it gives you anonymity.
Companies develop issues all the time. Sometime it is on the website end, sometimes on the ISP end.
Not much you can do about it.
See Adrienne Brown, who really was victim blamed.
Or the poor woman in the Steubenville Rape case.
The difference between a robot and a computer is that the computer is self-mobile at the very minimum. If it can't get up and move away, (no matter how awkwardly), it's not a robot.
Mobility is hard, not easy. Worse, the larger a computer is, the harder mobility becomes.
There are lots of reasons to build a computer smarter than a human being, but practically none to add in the huge expense to take that human level intelligence and make it mobile. We already have real humans for those jobs that require mobile intelligence and they cheaper and easier to care for.
More importantly, there is little to no reason for us to build a computer that, being as smart as us, would want to be us. Star Trek's Data is poor planning. Why make it want to be something it isn't? Don't we have enough body issues of our own without giving them tour computers?
Then I found dance and I fell in love with tango.
If I had not found it I might still dislike music.
It does not surprise me that 1-3% of the population has not found music they like - yet.
The government can't afford to spy on us, but the corporations make money doing it. So they can afford to do it more.
You should say:
Once it's 'in' the workplace it is very very hard to assert your rights.
You retain your rights.
or RDIF badges for things that do require constant power.
You charge them based on how long they are within range of the badge detector.
Wow. I did not think anyone in the world that would quit their job because the coffee machine was bad. Have you considered asking to be allowed to bring you own machine into the office?
I am sorry your honor, the reason I did not inform you of my Caymen Island bank account is that when I signed up for it I had to sign a non-disclousure agreement preventing me from telling anyone, even the IRS that I had such an account.
Most people don't look at the GPS, they listen to it. Big difference. Personally, I think they should put them so that the driver can't see them, just the passenger in the shotgun seat.