Actually, it appears they weren't offering incentives for LGBTqaBBQWTF candidates. Seems to still be a stigma attached to giving one's sexual orientation on an employment application.
I agree. Imagine if this were the American DEA, and together with the Columbian police they brought down a drug lord, but continued producing, shipping, and selling cocaine in his stead. Would that be OK?
I gave a family of four (two parents, two kids) a single payment of $2,700. They had SNAP and WIC available, so food was not an issue. That $2,700 was for a security deposit and the first month's rent. Parent A had a full time job, parent B worked at least 10-20 hours a week initially.
They paid their rent for the second month, then never paid again and were homeless again in four months. Might have had something to do with Parent A cheating on parent B, parent B cheating on parent A, and parent B buying stuff at the sporting goods store and getting fired from his job for insubordination. The lives and well being of their young children were held in the balance, and yet they couldn't be motivated to not bang other people, hold down a job or live frugally for a while.
Throwing money at ignorant people usually results in failure.
There's a lot more to this story, but this part is most on-topic.
Survivor bias. Cheap houses were made back in the day, too, but they've long fallen (or burned) down.
Do people take shortcuts now? Yes, but today's standards, whether set by the industry or governments, are far superior to those of the past. We don't run cotton-insulated wires across ceilings to bare bulbs with exposed brass terminals and no ground wires. We use advanced foam materials and fibreglass for insulation, instead of newspaper (or nothing). We don't use exposed wooden beams. We use double and triple-paned windows made of materials that don't rot. We use copper and PVC plumbing, not lead that poisons, clay that breaks and iron that rusts. We ventilate our roofs.
This is all coming from a guy who owns a 216 year old house. There are other stone houses that are only piles of rubble now because their beams rotted, the masonry work was poor, or they burned because of unsafe lighting. Wood houses? If they exist from over 200 years ago, it's because they were diligently maintained.
Actually, we have a big problem in this country with police officers obfuscating their patrol cars. You used to be able to readily identify a patrolman if you needed one. Now, in the interest of sneaking up on people, the standard patrol car has a light bar that is invisible from the outside (yet so bright it causes night blindness) and no "POLICE" identification on the front or rear. The latest trick is to even obscure the writing on the side by having a black police car with dark grey "shadow" lettering. Essentially, every car is a "plain brown wrapper" and the police are officially oppressors instead of protectors. They do all this because they just don't have enough unmarked cruisers out there writing traffic tickets instead of being used for undercover investigations already.
If I were governor of my state, I would outlaw the use of unmarked cruisers for regular patrols, and ban the use of "shadow" writing. I would also require that the word "POLICE" be visible on all sides of the car in letters at least 3" high and 2" wide. Might be nice to limit the lumens on those lights, too. Visibility for safety becomes moot when you blind drivers. They need to stop being little kids with fancy toys.
They'll be the first in line to use this kind of software-- forget the scammers. I can definitely picture places like Venezuela claiming they need to control your HVAC for the common good, when the problem is that there is an artificial scarcity due to their own incompetence. The Western Europeans will be next, and the USA not far behind.
I was going to say HK would be the first, but I honestly don't know if they have the technical knowledge to do this, and their people all live in government-owned housing already anyway.
I imagine that also has the effect of locking entire nations out of the competition, which is the reason Eddie picked up ski jumping in the first place.
My friend, you don't need a "fancy new set": a "new set" will suffice. Seriously, you can get a 32" 720p TV for $120, which would be a good replacement for any 26" 4:3 tube. Stop being so curmudgeonly.
I agree. High sodium diets can cause high blood pressure, but if your blood pressure is high for reasons other than sodium, why would you reduce sodium below an already healthy level when you could do things to improve in other areas? These tyrants in government who want to force people to eat less salt are frightening. They will actually cause health problems.
I didn't know Re[a]gan was in office the last 40 years. Who's this Et Al guy? Sounds like a terrorist.
It's ironic that you talk about a straw man, then attack "Regan [sic] et al" and claim "billions were spent" to fix things. How many billions need to be spent to fix an economy? How does Obama keep getting a pass after 8 years, but somehow George W. Bush is responsible for everything that happened under his watch? It's not possible that some things Clinton did in his term screwed up things, like pressure Fannie Mae to get poor people to buy houses?
There's no need for slow change. Pennsylvanians are not some child race, that needs to be held by their hands into the amazing future of post-Prohibition liquor laws.
The Democrats had complete control of PA in the 2000s... they left the system in place.
The Republicans had complete control of PA in the early 2010s... they left the system in place.
Now there's Governor Jeep in Harrisburg, and the LCB throws us a frickin' bone by letting big supermarkets and convenience stores sell beer just as long as they waste a lot of floor space to a separate section and register. And they let us buy 12 packs at the stupid beer distributors. I guess we're supposed to lick their hands.
It doesn't matter who is in charge. PA is run by reactionary, tyrannical overseers who treat us like children... children with fat wallets. We're too dumb to trust with alcohol, eCigs, or even frickin' transferring a title when we sell our cars. But that's because they want to make sure they steal from our baby wallets.
Um... well, gee, the rich are paying billions in taxes. That's quite a few more jobs, isn't it? And poor people don't run small businesses. They're the ones who HAVE these low-end jobs, by definition. So your claim makes no sense.
It's a good question as to why MS sets the policy to 42 days by default. I can't seem to find an answer, so I'll guess either a Hitchhiker's Guide fan was involved, or they settled on 42 days as a compromise between 30 and 60 days (because it's 6 weeks).
B&E assumes the store was closed and locked. You could also do it while the door is open, and have an accomplice distract the employee while you sneak behind the counter.
Public schools violate this principle all the time. Kid breaks a "zero tolerance" policy by drawing a picture of a gun? Expulsion. Unfortunately, nothing changes because it's mostly parents who can't afford bringing a lawsuit who have to send their kids to public school.
I have it on a rather old laptop with 2 GB RAM. It uses all of it. No, it never stops paging. And it likes to grind whatever IO is available by updating Defender every time I boot up. And the audio only works if I disable the driver, then re-enable it.
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OK, you put a Linux 2.0 kernel-based system on the internet. It still does what it used to do.
Actually, it appears they weren't offering incentives for LGBTqaBBQWTF candidates. Seems to still be a stigma attached to giving one's sexual orientation on an employment application.
I agree. Imagine if this were the American DEA, and together with the Columbian police they brought down a drug lord, but continued producing, shipping, and selling cocaine in his stead. Would that be OK?
I gave a family of four (two parents, two kids) a single payment of $2,700. They had SNAP and WIC available, so food was not an issue. That $2,700 was for a security deposit and the first month's rent. Parent A had a full time job, parent B worked at least 10-20 hours a week initially.
They paid their rent for the second month, then never paid again and were homeless again in four months. Might have had something to do with Parent A cheating on parent B, parent B cheating on parent A, and parent B buying stuff at the sporting goods store and getting fired from his job for insubordination. The lives and well being of their young children were held in the balance, and yet they couldn't be motivated to not bang other people, hold down a job or live frugally for a while.
Throwing money at ignorant people usually results in failure.
There's a lot more to this story, but this part is most on-topic.
Get the justice department to bring racketeering charges against Rightscorp.
Threatening an entire industry should bring consequences.
Survivor bias. Cheap houses were made back in the day, too, but they've long fallen (or burned) down.
Do people take shortcuts now? Yes, but today's standards, whether set by the industry or governments, are far superior to those of the past. We don't run cotton-insulated wires across ceilings to bare bulbs with exposed brass terminals and no ground wires. We use advanced foam materials and fibreglass for insulation, instead of newspaper (or nothing). We don't use exposed wooden beams. We use double and triple-paned windows made of materials that don't rot. We use copper and PVC plumbing, not lead that poisons, clay that breaks and iron that rusts. We ventilate our roofs.
This is all coming from a guy who owns a 216 year old house. There are other stone houses that are only piles of rubble now because their beams rotted, the masonry work was poor, or they burned because of unsafe lighting. Wood houses? If they exist from over 200 years ago, it's because they were diligently maintained.
Actually, we have a big problem in this country with police officers obfuscating their patrol cars. You used to be able to readily identify a patrolman if you needed one. Now, in the interest of sneaking up on people, the standard patrol car has a light bar that is invisible from the outside (yet so bright it causes night blindness) and no "POLICE" identification on the front or rear. The latest trick is to even obscure the writing on the side by having a black police car with dark grey "shadow" lettering. Essentially, every car is a "plain brown wrapper" and the police are officially oppressors instead of protectors. They do all this because they just don't have enough unmarked cruisers out there writing traffic tickets instead of being used for undercover investigations already.
If I were governor of my state, I would outlaw the use of unmarked cruisers for regular patrols, and ban the use of "shadow" writing. I would also require that the word "POLICE" be visible on all sides of the car in letters at least 3" high and 2" wide. Might be nice to limit the lumens on those lights, too. Visibility for safety becomes moot when you blind drivers. They need to stop being little kids with fancy toys.
They'll be the first in line to use this kind of software-- forget the scammers. I can definitely picture places like Venezuela claiming they need to control your HVAC for the common good, when the problem is that there is an artificial scarcity due to their own incompetence. The Western Europeans will be next, and the USA not far behind.
I was going to say HK would be the first, but I honestly don't know if they have the technical knowledge to do this, and their people all live in government-owned housing already anyway.
I imagine that also has the effect of locking entire nations out of the competition, which is the reason Eddie picked up ski jumping in the first place.
My friend, you don't need a "fancy new set": a "new set" will suffice. Seriously, you can get a 32" 720p TV for $120, which would be a good replacement for any 26" 4:3 tube. Stop being so curmudgeonly.
I agree. High sodium diets can cause high blood pressure, but if your blood pressure is high for reasons other than sodium, why would you reduce sodium below an already healthy level when you could do things to improve in other areas? These tyrants in government who want to force people to eat less salt are frightening. They will actually cause health problems.
The federal government already taxes us for not buying something under the ACA.
That's far sillier than taxing air. At least air is something
I didn't know Re[a]gan was in office the last 40 years. Who's this Et Al guy? Sounds like a terrorist.
It's ironic that you talk about a straw man, then attack "Regan [sic] et al" and claim "billions were spent" to fix things. How many billions need to be spent to fix an economy? How does Obama keep getting a pass after 8 years, but somehow George W. Bush is responsible for everything that happened under his watch? It's not possible that some things Clinton did in his term screwed up things, like pressure Fannie Mae to get poor people to buy houses?
There's no need for slow change. Pennsylvanians are not some child race, that needs to be held by their hands into the amazing future of post-Prohibition liquor laws.
The Democrats had complete control of PA in the 2000s... they left the system in place.
The Republicans had complete control of PA in the early 2010s... they left the system in place.
Now there's Governor Jeep in Harrisburg, and the LCB throws us a frickin' bone by letting big supermarkets and convenience stores sell beer just as long as they waste a lot of floor space to a separate section and register. And they let us buy 12 packs at the stupid beer distributors. I guess we're supposed to lick their hands.
It doesn't matter who is in charge. PA is run by reactionary, tyrannical overseers who treat us like children... children with fat wallets. We're too dumb to trust with alcohol, eCigs, or even frickin' transferring a title when we sell our cars. But that's because they want to make sure they steal from our baby wallets.
"These kinds" of taxes aren't regressive, unless you're somehow claiming that poor people need to buy lots of streaming services and tons of eBooks.
If you're talking about sales tax, that's why PA doesn't tax food or clothing. But you'd realize that if you checked your facts before posting.
Um... well, gee, the rich are paying billions in taxes. That's quite a few more jobs, isn't it? And poor people don't run small businesses. They're the ones who HAVE these low-end jobs, by definition. So your claim makes no sense.
Stop posting moronic statements that have nothing to do with the topic.
It's a good question as to why MS sets the policy to 42 days by default. I can't seem to find an answer, so I'll guess either a Hitchhiker's Guide fan was involved, or they settled on 42 days as a compromise between 30 and 60 days (because it's 6 weeks).
B&E assumes the store was closed and locked. You could also do it while the door is open, and have an accomplice distract the employee while you sneak behind the counter.
Public schools violate this principle all the time. Kid breaks a "zero tolerance" policy by drawing a picture of a gun? Expulsion. Unfortunately, nothing changes because it's mostly parents who can't afford bringing a lawsuit who have to send their kids to public school.
Just like patent trolls taking prior art and appending "on a computer", the justice system now takes old laws and appends "on a computer".
The Boston Marathon bombers used a pressure cooker as a bomb.
Because the progressives don't make a big fuss over microaggressions, safe spaces, and trigger warnings.
The fact that you have to install a third-party hack to disable it is a pretty good reason to hate Microsoft.
I have it on a rather old laptop with 2 GB RAM. It uses all of it. No, it never stops paging. And it likes to grind whatever IO is available by updating Defender every time I boot up. And the audio only works if I disable the driver, then re-enable it.