The headline makes sense if you replace the word 'line' (which has many meanings) with the word "queue' (a group of people lined up waiting to buy something, or get into an event)
But, in New Jersey, nobody knows what the word queue means (even though the reporter used it in the article), but everybody knows what standing in line means. Nobody in the United States has every stood in a queue.
Zimmerman followed Trayvon because he profiled him, partly based on race.
How could he tell he was black? My understanding is that he was wearing a hoodie. He could have been a gangsta wanna-be of any race.
27 year old black guy that is a neighborhood watch patrolman and had called in a suspicious character, and a dead 17 year old white kid dressed like a thug? Yeah, I don't think they would have had a problem with that.
This case had nothing to do with race and everything to do with defending oneself against an aggressor. Anyone who brought race into it was a racist. The only reason this even went to court is because racists are trying to make it where you can't defend yourself if your aggressor is black.
You realize that even if you do everything that the guy with the gun says, he might shoot you anyway, right? You want to live in a world where only criminals have guns.
That is absolutely true. Here in Oklahoma, less than a mile from my house a black guy pulled a gun on a white guy and his girlfriend that were in their car. The thief made the girlfriend strip and stand in the middle of the road, and ordered the guy to give him his wallet. The guy in the car complied with everything the thief asked, and then the black guy shot and killed him.
Several days later, the same black guy killed a woman who was selling him a stereo.
He's now serving about a 20 year sentence, but he'll probably be out in 5 years or so.
Meanwhile, also in Oklahoma, a white guy who killed a black guy who attempted to rob him at gunpoint is serving life in prison.
One of his most famous sayings was that he had a dream that his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Unfortunately for his children, that dream is coming true.
"Half a million Wisconsinites will soon have to open up their pocket books for health care coverage," says a local anchor. "And new estimates show, it may be costly.... The state's office of the commissioner of insurance released estimates of how premium rates for individuals will be changing under the Affordable Care Act."
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls. But Wisconsin? Wisconsin is already well kn own for having an extremely strong Doctor's lobby and an extremely strong Insurance lobby, which means that we poor little suckups have to pay huge insurance premiums. Luckily I was able to move away from there.
But, in general we can expect Health Care Premiums to o up with this new legislation. After all, it requires you to have insurance. Therefore, the insurance companies can charge you whatever they want and you just have to pay it. They call it "Affordable Healthcare Act" but what it in fact does, is syphons money from your pocket into the pocket of the rich insurance industry. The quality of healthcare will go down because people can't afford to pay insurance AND go to the doctor.
I might take a break from my PS4 just to laugh at the MS FanBoyz. I hope they enjoy spending their Microsoft Fun Bucks, I mean cash on avatar "clothes".
I have a 360 -- the last Xbox I'll own until MS pulls their head out of their sphincters.
I won't be buying either one for awhile. I can't see any reason to buy an Xbox at all, and the PS4 doesn't have any launch titles that interest me. I'll buy Grant Theft Auto 5 for PS3 and that will keep me busy for probably 6 months. By then, maybe there will be some interesting titles for PS4 and the price will have come down.
I was surprised to see that you can get guitar cases with TSA approved locks, but the facts are that most people don't buy brand new equipment and then pay extra for locks. I've got some nice instruments and not a one of them is under 10 years old. None of them have new cases, and none of them have TSA approved locks. They do probably have locks that can be jimmied with a screwdriver, like pretty much any guitar case lock in the world.
Basically, the TSA doesn't need to be going through people's baggage. We have all this fancy electronic equipment. It's the 21st century. Surely, technology has progressed beyond the 1970s x-ray scanner, which was already more than adequate at the time.
BA did not respond to this paid & highly public tweet until 4 hours later. If they are that bad at dealing with publicity,
In an interview, one of the BA reps in charge of monitoring twitter had this to say: "They've got four more reps working on the case. They got us working in shifts!"
i've had to load 747's full of bags. we threw them on the plane
same here, unless he locked the case to make sure it won't open accidentally it probably opened when they threw it into one of those boxes they use to hold luggage inside the plane
Um, if you lock your bag then you have something to hide according to the TSA and they will break your lock or your case to get in and look.
Yes, maximizing shareholder value is certainly something that should have a timeframe attached to it. I mean maximizing shareholder value NOW is almost certainly going to be disastrous to shareholder value in 10 years. Maximizing shareholder value can easily be done by firing all the people that wrote your product, selling all your manufacturing facilities and selling all your existing product on the shelf. However, with not developers or manufacturing facilities, your hopes of even being in business in a year are zero. If I am going to invest in a company, I want one that is constantly investing in research and developing new products. This means that instead of a steady 1.5% growth per quarter, they may be flat or lose stock value for years, and then have a huge jump in value. Of course, a properly run company that is ALWAYS doing research also should be relatively consistently having some of their research pay off. It just can't be determined whether the payoff will come this quarter or next, or the next.
Today's clever MBAs seem to think that a bird in the hand is worth a hundred in the bush. They won't take any risks, they won't do any research, they won't hire any developers. And as such, we fall further behind countries where companies do that.
When I get hired, I enter into an agreement to do a specific set of tasks in order to receive a specific amount of money. If the work gets done correctly, in a timely fashion, I get paid. Otherwise, I don't and am fired. I have embraced nothing.
Well, that is fine, if you just want to be a good little wage earner, do your job and go home. But if you want to have any hopes of advancement, then you should consider that the company will be looking for people who are able to represent the company's interests either to their customers or to people that they want you to lead.
The hell do folks' personal gaming interest have to do with their professional life?
One of my developer co-workers doesn't like anybody working for him to be a gamer. I think that he likes for people to be researching new tools and whatnot in their offtime and not playing games. Of course, everybody in his group plays games pretty avidly, but that is because you pretty much can't find anybody that doesn't play games these days. Everybody that we interview is really wanting to get a job at a big gaming software shop. Luckily for them they got hired on with us, because I'd love for them to be able to maintain the illusion that a gaming shop is a good place to work.
Under the current system, pretty much all drivers ignore the speed limit and the police mostly just ding the ones who are driving REALLY unsafely.
Not where I live. They pretty much leave the people who drive unsafely alone because the real money is in speeding tickets. For example, last week the entire left lane of traffic went from 65 down to zero in few hundred feet because somebody in the left lane wanted to get off the highway and so they stopped, waited for the right lane to be clear and then exited at about a 60 degree angle since they were pretty much right on top of the exit at that point. Nobody gave them a ticket, even though he very nearly killed people behind him, and with the back propagation of the wave of traffic, there could certainly have been accidents ultimate caused by this idiot.
I remember about 15 years ago that there was a time when multiple people worked on a project. Now, it seems that one person works on multiple projects. I, for one, have at least 10 different projects that I am supposed to be working on simultaneously and am supposed to be able to give detailed information on at any given point in time.
If we stay out, then all the other nations will be pissed at us because the U.S. is expected to be the police force of the world and we are expected to spend our money, troops and resources to fix everybody else's problems.
If we go in, then all the other nations will be pissed at us because the U.S. doesn't keep it's nose out of everybody's business.
Of the two, I prefer first one, because even though everyone will hate the U.S. no matter what, at least in the first case, we didn't spend any more money that we can't afford to be spending right now.
Wait, I have a common sense suggestion that would be extremely easy to implement and enforce. If the DRIVER of the car drives while distracted for any reason, hold the DRIVER responsible for the results of his/her actions. That way we don't have to have everybody else on the planet try to guess whether that person is driving or not.
What about all these other apps that answer questions about car models? Do they get dismissed because they are not about electric vehicles?
Also, why would an app that answers questions replace a salesman? Does the app sell you the car?
new cars are great but i dont know anyone stupid enough to buy one. what we need is an open system to easily and securely buy and sell used cars between people. Craigslist is OK until you have to deal with a car owner that freaks out over selling his Kentucky car to a person with a California drivers license because hes watched too much real housewives. ebay isnt terrible until you factor in the cut taken by PayPal. dealerships however take the cake with notoriously high pressure sales, outright lies about the used vehicles they sell, and markup that borders on the surreal.
Clearly they don't just manufacture used cars, so somebody is buying them. Rental car companies, people who mistakenly think that a car is a good business writeoff, etc.
Then, there are also some good reasons to buy a new car. For instance, nobody has driven it hard and put it away wet. You only have the factory issues to deal with and not how badly somebody has treated it. On some cars, you can get zero percent financing. If you were planning on financing your used car purchase, it would probably be 5 or 6%. Even though the used car is cheaper, with the financing it may come out to nearly the same total cost of ownership. Add in the questionability of condition and it could become a reasonable decision to buy the new car.
I've mostly bought used cars, but I have bought a few new cars. I tend to keep cars a long time and take excellent care of them. One of the new cars I bought was at an excellent interest rate and I kept the car about 12 years. The other new car I have bought was also at an excellent interest rate and i still have the car.
That being said I don't think I will be buying any new cars any time soon, as the cost of the average new car has increased by a factor of 2 in about the last 10 years while salaries have not doubled, but pretty much remained the same.
Yes. The Internet already does 90% of what a realtor does.
Which makes me wonder what I need them for and why I am legally required to only sell my real-estate through a realtor. They only use I can see for a realtor like person is to act as a trusted intermediary who checks buyers/sellers criminal records and verifies everything is in order before a sale is finalised (ya'know basic stuff like does he actually own or have authority to sell the house?) but unfortunately, as the system currently works in my country, they are not required by law to do either because I regularly read news of people being cheated.
A realtor doesn't even do that. That is what a Title Company is for. And you get to pay them extra to do that on top of what you pay the realtor.
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Most of the people on this site would agree that 100,000 years is shorter than one million. You shot your own foot.
Yeah, what a goofball. Links to a site that says radio carbon is accurate to one million years, when even Discovery says it is only good to 50,000.
The headline makes sense if you replace the word 'line' (which has many meanings) with the word "queue' (a group of people lined up waiting to buy something, or get into an event)
But, in New Jersey, nobody knows what the word queue means (even though the reporter used it in the article), but everybody knows what standing in line means. Nobody in the United States has every stood in a queue.
Zimmerman followed Trayvon because he profiled him, partly based on race.
How could he tell he was black? My understanding is that he was wearing a hoodie. He could have been a gangsta wanna-be of any race.
27 year old black guy that is a neighborhood watch patrolman and had called in a suspicious character, and a dead 17 year old white kid dressed like a thug? Yeah, I don't think they would have had a problem with that.
This case had nothing to do with race and everything to do with defending oneself against an aggressor. Anyone who brought race into it was a racist. The only reason this even went to court is because racists are trying to make it where you can't defend yourself if your aggressor is black.
You realize that even if you do everything that the guy with the gun says, he might shoot you anyway, right? You want to live in a world where only criminals have guns.
That is absolutely true. Here in Oklahoma, less than a mile from my house a black guy pulled a gun on a white guy and his girlfriend that were in their car. The thief made the girlfriend strip and stand in the middle of the road, and ordered the guy to give him his wallet. The guy in the car complied with everything the thief asked, and then the black guy shot and killed him.
Several days later, the same black guy killed a woman who was selling him a stereo.
He's now serving about a 20 year sentence, but he'll probably be out in 5 years or so.
Meanwhile, also in Oklahoma, a white guy who killed a black guy who attempted to rob him at gunpoint is serving life in prison.
Anybody probably has a few skeletons to hide.
FTFY.
One of his most famous sayings was that he had a dream that his four children would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Unfortunately for his children, that dream is coming true.
"Half a million Wisconsinites will soon have to open up their pocket books for health care coverage," says a local anchor. "And new estimates show, it may be costly. ... The state's office of the commissioner of insurance released estimates of how premium rates for individuals will be changing under the Affordable Care Act."
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls. But Wisconsin? Wisconsin is already well kn own for having an extremely strong Doctor's lobby and an extremely strong Insurance lobby, which means that we poor little suckups have to pay huge insurance premiums. Luckily I was able to move away from there.
But, in general we can expect Health Care Premiums to o up with this new legislation. After all, it requires you to have insurance. Therefore, the insurance companies can charge you whatever they want and you just have to pay it. They call it "Affordable Healthcare Act" but what it in fact does, is syphons money from your pocket into the pocket of the rich insurance industry. The quality of healthcare will go down because people can't afford to pay insurance AND go to the doctor.
I might take a break from my PS4 just to laugh at the MS FanBoyz. I hope they enjoy spending their Microsoft Fun Bucks, I mean cash on avatar "clothes".
I have a 360 -- the last Xbox I'll own until MS pulls their head out of their sphincters.
I won't be buying either one for awhile. I can't see any reason to buy an Xbox at all, and the PS4 doesn't have any launch titles that interest me. I'll buy Grant Theft Auto 5 for PS3 and that will keep me busy for probably 6 months. By then, maybe there will be some interesting titles for PS4 and the price will have come down.
I was surprised to see that you can get guitar cases with TSA approved locks, but the facts are that most people don't buy brand new equipment and then pay extra for locks. I've got some nice instruments and not a one of them is under 10 years old. None of them have new cases, and none of them have TSA approved locks. They do probably have locks that can be jimmied with a screwdriver, like pretty much any guitar case lock in the world.
Basically, the TSA doesn't need to be going through people's baggage. We have all this fancy electronic equipment. It's the 21st century. Surely, technology has progressed beyond the 1970s x-ray scanner, which was already more than adequate at the time.
BA did not respond to this paid & highly public tweet until 4 hours later. If they are that bad at dealing with publicity, In an interview, one of the BA reps in charge of monitoring twitter had this to say: "They've got four more reps working on the case. They got us working in shifts!"
i've had to load 747's full of bags. we threw them on the plane
same here, unless he locked the case to make sure it won't open accidentally it probably opened when they threw it into one of those boxes they use to hold luggage inside the plane
Um, if you lock your bag then you have something to hide according to the TSA and they will break your lock or your case to get in and look.
Yes, maximizing shareholder value is certainly something that should have a timeframe attached to it. I mean maximizing shareholder value NOW is almost certainly going to be disastrous to shareholder value in 10 years. Maximizing shareholder value can easily be done by firing all the people that wrote your product, selling all your manufacturing facilities and selling all your existing product on the shelf. However, with not developers or manufacturing facilities, your hopes of even being in business in a year are zero. If I am going to invest in a company, I want one that is constantly investing in research and developing new products. This means that instead of a steady 1.5% growth per quarter, they may be flat or lose stock value for years, and then have a huge jump in value. Of course, a properly run company that is ALWAYS doing research also should be relatively consistently having some of their research pay off. It just can't be determined whether the payoff will come this quarter or next, or the next.
Today's clever MBAs seem to think that a bird in the hand is worth a hundred in the bush. They won't take any risks, they won't do any research, they won't hire any developers. And as such, we fall further behind countries where companies do that.
When I get hired, I enter into an agreement to do a specific set of tasks in order to receive a specific amount of money. If the work gets done correctly, in a timely fashion, I get paid. Otherwise, I don't and am fired. I have embraced nothing.
Well, that is fine, if you just want to be a good little wage earner, do your job and go home. But if you want to have any hopes of advancement, then you should consider that the company will be looking for people who are able to represent the company's interests either to their customers or to people that they want you to lead.
The hell do folks' personal gaming interest have to do with their professional life?
One of my developer co-workers doesn't like anybody working for him to be a gamer. I think that he likes for people to be researching new tools and whatnot in their offtime and not playing games. Of course, everybody in his group plays games pretty avidly, but that is because you pretty much can't find anybody that doesn't play games these days. Everybody that we interview is really wanting to get a job at a big gaming software shop. Luckily for them they got hired on with us, because I'd love for them to be able to maintain the illusion that a gaming shop is a good place to work.
Under the current system, pretty much all drivers ignore the speed limit and the police mostly just ding the ones who are driving REALLY unsafely.
Not where I live. They pretty much leave the people who drive unsafely alone because the real money is in speeding tickets. For example, last week the entire left lane of traffic went from 65 down to zero in few hundred feet because somebody in the left lane wanted to get off the highway and so they stopped, waited for the right lane to be clear and then exited at about a 60 degree angle since they were pretty much right on top of the exit at that point. Nobody gave them a ticket, even though he very nearly killed people behind him, and with the back propagation of the wave of traffic, there could certainly have been accidents ultimate caused by this idiot.
I agree with you. I am a STEM and didn't realize it until I wikied it.
I remember about 15 years ago that there was a time when multiple people worked on a project. Now, it seems that one person works on multiple projects. I, for one, have at least 10 different projects that I am supposed to be working on simultaneously and am supposed to be able to give detailed information on at any given point in time.
If we stay out, then all the other nations will be pissed at us because the U.S. is expected to be the police force of the world and we are expected to spend our money, troops and resources to fix everybody else's problems.
If we go in, then all the other nations will be pissed at us because the U.S. doesn't keep it's nose out of everybody's business.
Of the two, I prefer first one, because even though everyone will hate the U.S. no matter what, at least in the first case, we didn't spend any more money that we can't afford to be spending right now.
Wait, I have a common sense suggestion that would be extremely easy to implement and enforce. If the DRIVER of the car drives while distracted for any reason, hold the DRIVER responsible for the results of his/her actions. That way we don't have to have everybody else on the planet try to guess whether that person is driving or not.
What about all these other apps that answer questions about car models? Do they get dismissed because they are not about electric vehicles?
Also, why would an app that answers questions replace a salesman? Does the app sell you the car?
new cars are great but i dont know anyone stupid enough to buy one. what we need is an open system to easily and securely buy and sell used cars between people. Craigslist is OK until you have to deal with a car owner that freaks out over selling his Kentucky car to a person with a California drivers license because hes watched too much real housewives. ebay isnt terrible until you factor in the cut taken by PayPal. dealerships however take the cake with notoriously high pressure sales, outright lies about the used vehicles they sell, and markup that borders on the surreal.
Clearly they don't just manufacture used cars, so somebody is buying them. Rental car companies, people who mistakenly think that a car is a good business writeoff, etc.
Then, there are also some good reasons to buy a new car. For instance, nobody has driven it hard and put it away wet. You only have the factory issues to deal with and not how badly somebody has treated it. On some cars, you can get zero percent financing. If you were planning on financing your used car purchase, it would probably be 5 or 6%. Even though the used car is cheaper, with the financing it may come out to nearly the same total cost of ownership. Add in the questionability of condition and it could become a reasonable decision to buy the new car.
I've mostly bought used cars, but I have bought a few new cars. I tend to keep cars a long time and take excellent care of them. One of the new cars I bought was at an excellent interest rate and I kept the car about 12 years. The other new car I have bought was also at an excellent interest rate and i still have the car.
That being said I don't think I will be buying any new cars any time soon, as the cost of the average new car has increased by a factor of 2 in about the last 10 years while salaries have not doubled, but pretty much remained the same.
But it's the other 10% - ensuring all the legal paperwork and details are handled that makes it worth paying them.
Nope, the title company does that.
Yes. The Internet already does 90% of what a realtor does.
Which makes me wonder what I need them for and why I am legally required to only sell my real-estate through a realtor. They only use I can see for a realtor like person is to act as a trusted intermediary who checks buyers/sellers criminal records and verifies everything is in order before a sale is finalised (ya'know basic stuff like does he actually own or have authority to sell the house?) but unfortunately, as the system currently works in my country, they are not required by law to do either because I regularly read news of people being cheated.
A realtor doesn't even do that. That is what a Title Company is for. And you get to pay them extra to do that on top of what you pay the realtor.