As long as you are pointing out that a car more commonly carries one, you might also point out that your 50 passenger bus more commonly carries less than a dozen. From CTA statistics, I can see that an average of 50 people per HOUR is a high estimate and most of those people don't ride for anywhere near an hour. I'd bet the average number of riders on a bus is probably more like 10.
I agree with you. Religion sucks. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Jesus Christ himself spoke against the very religion whose prophecies he fulfilled.
Yet suddenly and very recently we've arbitrarily decided (those of us in the affluent Western nations, at least) that adulthood now begins at 18 - at least legally - although many now contend that it actually starts considerably later than this.
And in unrelated news, human longevity also steeply increased.
I think experimenting with drugs is a sign of maturity.
Well, by that mark, I am not mature yet, though I am 36. I have yet to experiment with drugs, and I have no desire to. I agree you should not believe the "propoganda", but I believe, with maturity, you find how to gather large numbers of data from sources on either or neither side of any debate, and come to your own conclusions without resorting to expirementing with something that may end up killing you. Frankly, I think disbelieving the propoganda is really just an excuse because you WANT to do drugs.
What terminal allows *any* unticketed passengers past security?
Trick question along the lines of "where do you bury the survivors?". Passengers of course, all have tickets. However, people picking up/dropping off minors just have a pass issued at the ticket counter. People in security, maintenance, and employed in the restaurants and retail establishments all have no ticket.
letting a situation like Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah blow up into this mess.
Why does the United States get blamed for this? Why not blame the other hundred and some odd countries? Why does the United States get blamed (1) for not stepping in and doing something about bad situations AND (2) for not staying out of other people's business.
Amazingly, sometimes both (1) and (2) apply. The U.S. gets blamed both for being in Iraq when they shouldn't be and also for doing enough in Iraq.
I am sure that a generation or two ago the idea of putting fuel in your car ALL BY YOURSELF was quite a shocking idea. This would seem like a very close analog to self-service checkouts, or cash machines, or
Yes, but of course, when we went from full service to self service, the savings was clear to see. The stations had both full and self serve pumps for decades, and the price was
significantly cheaper for self serve. If the supermarkets did that with their self-checkout, I am sure that we would sing a different tune.
Similarly, with ATMS, when they were introduced, my bank started instituing a $4 fee for using the teller for a service that could be performed at an ATM. Then later,
they started imposing fees for using the ATM as well. Of course, I left that bank in favor of one where I can go to an ATM OR a teller for free.
A career is not getting paid more to push the buttons. A career is when you have hope in the future of pushing the same buttons for more money, or fancier buttons for more money, and possibly in your own office, and possibly supervising other button pushers. A career is when you are offered the chance to become more successful personally if your button pushing leads to more profitability for the company.
Personally, I am pretty well paid. Not as well as I would like to be. But I have no career. None whatsoever. It's a job.
A majority of grocery stores still have regular checkouts, self-express checkouts is optional. Even most libraries will give you the option between the two.
But the regular lines are understaffed, so they are taking the choice away from you. There are quite a lot of clerks/cashiers at high-volume places that end up hurting themselves over time. I know at one library that at one point 50% of the staff have surgery on their wrists due to work related injuries.
So instead, I should allow myself to be hurt? I guess we know that those self-checkouts will be disappearing as soon as customers start complaining that the things mmake their wrists hurt, and that they want to talk to their lawyer.
I know you are being a smart alek, but yes, that once was part of the deal, and we let that one go too. There was probably a fuss, but we didn't have slashdot, so it is hard to tell.
The sheer number of bulky items like lumber lawnmowers, appliances, non-tagged items like some lumbers, screws, bolts, nuts, magnetically alarmed items which exist in stores like Home Depot and Lowes make self-checkout a loss-leader. I rarely use self-checkouts even in a grocery store, and never if I have to weigh something, remember to grab an item code sticker or any of the other nonsense.
Also, it never fails that I have to sit and hold up traffic while I wait from someone to come and override the price because an item was advertised as on sale for 0.75X and shows up in the sysetm at X.
Also, I don't know the proper authorization code to get my 10% contracter discount at Lowes.
Part of the problem with better funding public education is that parents understandably care more about their own kids than about the rest of the kids in the country. An extra $300 a month means a much better education for your own kid if you send them to a private school. On the other hand, if they contributed an extra $300 a month to a public school, all of the kids would benefit equally. That helps society, but it doesn't help your own kid stand out, which is what most parents want.
It is also my opinion that $300 invested in a private education would result in more improvement than $300 in the public schools, because I believe the goverment to be a poor steward of educational (or any) funds, and incredibly inefficient in applying the funds.
My state just approved teacher's raises for the first time in a long time. That is excellent news. Oh wait, they only approved the raises, they didn't actually fund them.
The problem is, currently, schools tell you how to act and think rather than explaining and giving reason to why you need to behave a certain way in public.
Currently as in 1950?
In my state, which is fairly conservative, kids are taught that no matter how they act and think, there is nothing wrong with it, that if you are bad in class, that they can and will do nothing to correct it (because parents will sue them), and that no matter what you do wrong, it is somebody else's fault. So in fact, I would have to say that my biggest problem with public schools is EXACTLY the opposite of what your biggest problem with them is.
The schools in my area also openly accept advertising, send kids to presentations by commercial interests which then send home flyers with the kids for signing up for various commercial programs. One time, they even let some newspaper subscription subcontracter conman come in and sign up kids to sell papers for him which benefited them at several cents per hour.
Hindsight is 20/20, isn't it? Well, people have been saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket" for centuries, but people still do it. Of course, not nearly so many people do now as did before the Enron scandal. That is when it truly came to light that it was not a good idea to invest in your place of business. So I for one, don't blame the victims. I blame the ones who victimized them.
As an aside, the company I most recently worked for only recently (after I left) gave employees a choice as to what their 401k match went into. When I was there, your only choice was company stock.
I know people who lost hundreds of thousands due to other people's lies and mismanagement. My father worked for Lucent and lost a huge amount of money. He was diversified, so didn't lose everything, but hundreds of thousand remain hundreds of thousands even if you don't lose everything. I lost hundreds of thousands due to Dennis Kozlowski's lies. I'm still bitter even though I was somewhat diversified.
I notice that a lot of people are experts on the Schiavo case. They are absolutely certain that she was in a permanent vegetative state and had no hopes of recovery. In the weeks after Schiavo was starved to death, I read two stories of people who had just woken up after being out even longer than Schiavo. I've read that some doctors diagnosed Wallis as being in a permanent vegetative state. Apparently they were wrong. But somehow, people (who are not doctors) are sure that Schiavo could not have recovered, despite some DOCTORS not being certain. But if people were to admit they were wrong, they would have to live with the guilt. I guess that is why they are so adamnant about it.
People in America say church attendance is going up. I don't see it despite the rise of mega-churches.
That is because the mega-churches are all on the other side of big oceans. The biggest churches in the U.S. only hold a paltry 25,000 or so. True mega-churches in Asia and Africa seat 100,000
f they don't pay taxes for the revenue they bring in, and their members can write off the contributions to the church, doesn't that in effect mean the rest of us are paying money that people paying the church don't?
Yes, but it also means that you still have money that people who paid the Church DON'T have. So if I take a vacation with my family I don't get to write it off. But if I donate the same amount of money to my church, who then sponsors an trip to Europe that we participate in, that money is deducted from my gross income. And I directly benefit from money I "donate" to my church.
If you recieve a benefit for your donation, then it is no longer a charitable donation, and is no longer tax deductible. Not that many people go diggin into this. One might consider the life lessons learned at Church to be a benefit, but apparently they let that slide. If you move a few signs around the equation, isn't that the same as taxing people who don't go to church? Double-time? Because if I donate to Oxfam they don't take me on a field trip to another country. They use the money to help someone else.
Nope. A charitable donation means you no longer have the money and you got no benefit from it. Therefore, not getting taxed for it seems pretty reasonable. On the other hand, giving charitably to non-charitable organizations REALLY sucks, because then you still get taxed on the money that you no longer have and got no benefit for (other than feeling good about yourself.
I don't consider giving to charities to be TRULY tax free anyway. After all, you already paid your Social Security and Medicare and they darn sure aren't giving that back to you. That is over 7% of your income right there. By contrast, with all of the deductions for real estate taxes, mortgage interest, kids and yes , charities, the actual percentage of income paid as income tax is often less than the percentage that you are paying for FICA, so you really are only making charitable donations at maybe 50% tax free.
Once churches relize that they are a service then they will start to change for the better.
This is not possible with people the way they are today. Back in the new testament Church, people took travelling missionaries into their homes, fed them, clothed them, gave them shelter, and local churches sent missionaries out with money to give to other Churches. Since that doesn't fly anymore, they have gone back to the more efficient way, take a little from anyone (who is willing to give) and distribute it in keeping with the bylaws of the Church.
hack community will have a fix before the sun goes down.
And how will you download it?
Joking aside, I am sure you would do it they same way I have to install my perfectly legitimate copies of Windows of various versions that I have gotten over the years on different PCs. I can remember having to install Windows 3.1 off of floppy, then install separate device drivers for my CD-ROM because the 3.1 floppies didn't have the drivers, then install windows 95 update from CD, then install windows 98 Update which wouldn't build on top of 3.1, blah, blah. Not to mention there was usually a twiddle or two to some software that I had to do between each of these steps.
(This is from memory, some of the versions may not be exact)
Happened to me, too. I tried to install Windows Defender, and after 10 minutes of downloading and installing, it said it couldn't validate my license and backed everything out, then it said to go to a web site to validate and the web site wanted me to subscribe to Passport or some crap. Eventually, I found a web site that would allow me to validate. It asked me 1) where I bought the computer (Dell) and what model it was (XPS). That was apparently good enough for MS. Remind me to tell it that next time if I have an illegal copy.
That's a great illustration, but the fact about frogs is, when it gets uncomfortable, they will jump out either way. Frogs allowing themselves to be boiled is an Urban Legend. But the illustration works somewhat. Surely someone who has already started down the MS road would not turn tail and run as fast as someone who has not yet made an operating system choice.
The GPS tells you how fast you are going in a straight line tangential to the surface of the earth. If you are going uphill or downhill, your GPS will register lower than the actual speed relative to the roadway. Of course, most cops will not know that, so maybe you'll get lucky.
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As long as you are pointing out that a car more commonly carries one, you might also point out that your 50 passenger bus more commonly carries less than a dozen. From CTA statistics, I can see that an average of 50 people per HOUR is a high estimate and most of those people don't ride for anywhere near an hour. I'd bet the average number of riders on a bus is probably more like 10.
I agree with you. Religion sucks. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Jesus Christ himself spoke against the very religion whose prophecies he fulfilled.
Yet suddenly and very recently we've arbitrarily decided (those of us in the affluent Western nations, at least) that adulthood now begins at 18 - at least legally - although many now contend that it actually starts considerably later than this.
And in unrelated news, human longevity also steeply increased.
I think experimenting with drugs is a sign of maturity.
Well, by that mark, I am not mature yet, though I am 36. I have yet to experiment with drugs, and I have no desire to. I agree you should not believe the "propoganda", but I believe, with maturity, you find how to gather large numbers of data from sources on either or neither side of any debate, and come to your own conclusions without resorting to expirementing with something that may end up killing you. Frankly, I think disbelieving the propoganda is really just an excuse because you WANT to do drugs.
so who here knows the lyrics to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall"?
Which Part?
My stepson asked me the other day if I knew that "We don't need no education" song by AC/DC. I've lost all hope.
no one without a boarding pass or escort can go past the checkpoint.
So, I guess no more burgers or magazines during layovers. Oh, well.
What terminal allows *any* unticketed passengers past security?
Trick question along the lines of "where do you bury the survivors?". Passengers of course, all have tickets. However, people picking up/dropping off minors just have a pass issued at the ticket counter. People in security, maintenance, and employed in the restaurants and retail establishments all have no ticket.
letting a situation like Israel/Hamas/Hezbollah blow up into this mess.
Why does the United States get blamed for this? Why not blame the other hundred and some odd countries? Why does the United States get blamed (1) for not stepping in and doing something about bad situations AND (2) for not staying out of other people's business.
Amazingly, sometimes both (1) and (2) apply. The U.S. gets blamed both for being in Iraq when they shouldn't be and also for doing enough in Iraq.
I am sure that a generation or two ago the idea of putting fuel in your car ALL BY YOURSELF was quite a shocking idea. This would seem like a very close analog to self-service checkouts, or cash machines, or
Yes, but of course, when we went from full service to self service, the savings was clear to see. The stations had both full and self serve pumps for decades, and the price was significantly cheaper for self serve. If the supermarkets did that with their self-checkout, I am sure that we would sing a different tune.
Similarly, with ATMS, when they were introduced, my bank started instituing a $4 fee for using the teller for a service that could be performed at an ATM. Then later, they started imposing fees for using the ATM as well. Of course, I left that bank in favor of one where I can go to an ATM OR a teller for free.
A career is not getting paid more to push the buttons. A career is when you have hope in the future of pushing the same buttons for more money, or fancier buttons for more money, and possibly in your own office, and possibly supervising other button pushers. A career is when you are offered the chance to become more successful personally if your button pushing leads to more profitability for the company.
Personally, I am pretty well paid. Not as well as I would like to be. But I have no career. None whatsoever. It's a job.
A majority of grocery stores still have regular checkouts, self-express checkouts is optional. Even most libraries will give you the option between the two.
But the regular lines are understaffed, so they are taking the choice away from you.
There are quite a lot of clerks/cashiers at high-volume places that end up hurting themselves over time. I know at one library that at one point 50% of the staff have surgery on their wrists due to work related injuries.
So instead, I should allow myself to be hurt? I guess we know that those self-checkouts will be disappearing as soon as customers start complaining that the things mmake their wrists hurt, and that they want to talk to their lawyer.
I know you are being a smart alek, but yes, that once was part of the deal, and we let that one go too. There was probably a fuss, but we didn't have slashdot, so it is hard to tell.
The sheer number of bulky items like lumber lawnmowers, appliances, non-tagged items like some lumbers, screws, bolts, nuts, magnetically alarmed items which exist in stores like Home Depot and Lowes make self-checkout a loss-leader. I rarely use self-checkouts even in a grocery store, and never if I have to weigh something, remember to grab an item code sticker or any of the other nonsense. Also, it never fails that I have to sit and hold up traffic while I wait from someone to come and override the price because an item was advertised as on sale for 0.75X and shows up in the sysetm at X. Also, I don't know the proper authorization code to get my 10% contracter discount at Lowes.
Part of the problem with better funding public education is that parents understandably care more about their own kids than about the rest of the kids in the country. An extra $300 a month means a much better education for your own kid if you send them to a private school. On the other hand, if they contributed an extra $300 a month to a public school, all of the kids would benefit equally. That helps society, but it doesn't help your own kid stand out, which is what most parents want.
It is also my opinion that $300 invested in a private education would result in more improvement than $300 in the public schools, because I believe the goverment to be a poor steward of educational (or any) funds, and incredibly inefficient in applying the funds.
My state just approved teacher's raises for the first time in a long time. That is excellent news. Oh wait, they only approved the raises, they didn't actually fund them.
The problem is, currently, schools tell you how to act and think rather than explaining and giving reason to why you need to behave a certain way in public.
Currently as in 1950?
In my state, which is fairly conservative, kids are taught that no matter how they act and think, there is nothing wrong with it, that if you are bad in class, that they can and will do nothing to correct it (because parents will sue them), and that no matter what you do wrong, it is somebody else's fault. So in fact, I would have to say that my biggest problem with public schools is EXACTLY the opposite of what your biggest problem with them is.
The schools in my area also openly accept advertising, send kids to presentations by commercial interests which then send home flyers with the kids for signing up for various commercial programs. One time, they even let some newspaper subscription subcontracter conman come in and sign up kids to sell papers for him which benefited them at several cents per hour.
Hindsight is 20/20, isn't it? Well, people have been saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket" for centuries, but people still do it. Of course, not nearly so many people do now as did before the Enron scandal. That is when it truly came to light that it was not a good idea to invest in your place of business. So I for one, don't blame the victims. I blame the ones who victimized them.
As an aside, the company I most recently worked for only recently (after I left) gave employees a choice as to what their 401k match went into. When I was there, your only choice was company stock.
I know people who lost hundreds of thousands due to other people's lies and mismanagement. My father worked for Lucent and lost a huge amount of money. He was diversified, so didn't lose everything, but hundreds of thousand remain hundreds of thousands even if you don't lose everything. I lost hundreds of thousands due to Dennis Kozlowski's lies. I'm still bitter even though I was somewhat diversified.
I notice that a lot of people are experts on the Schiavo case. They are absolutely certain that she was in a permanent vegetative state and had no hopes of recovery. In the weeks after Schiavo was starved to death, I read two stories of people who had just woken up after being out even longer than Schiavo. I've read that some doctors diagnosed Wallis as being in a permanent vegetative state. Apparently they were wrong. But somehow, people (who are not doctors) are sure that Schiavo could not have recovered, despite some DOCTORS not being certain. But if people were to admit they were wrong, they would have to live with the guilt. I guess that is why they are so adamnant about it.
I've heard him in an interview on the radio. He sounded like Frye.
People in America say church attendance is going up. I don't see it despite the rise of mega-churches.
That is because the mega-churches are all on the other side of big oceans. The biggest churches in the U.S. only hold a paltry 25,000 or so. True mega-churches in Asia and Africa seat 100,000
f they don't pay taxes for the revenue they bring in, and their members can write off the contributions to the church, doesn't that in effect mean the rest of us are paying money that people paying the church don't?
Yes, but it also means that you still have money that people who paid the Church DON'T have.
So if I take a vacation with my family I don't get to write it off. But if I donate the same amount of money to my church, who then sponsors an trip to Europe that we participate in, that money is deducted from my gross income. And I directly benefit from money I "donate" to my church.
If you recieve a benefit for your donation, then it is no longer a charitable donation, and is no longer tax deductible. Not that many people go diggin into this. One might consider the life lessons learned at Church to be a benefit, but apparently they let that slide.
If you move a few signs around the equation, isn't that the same as taxing people who don't go to church? Double-time? Because if I donate to Oxfam they don't take me on a field trip to another country. They use the money to help someone else.
Nope. A charitable donation means you no longer have the money and you got no benefit from it. Therefore, not getting taxed for it seems pretty reasonable. On the other hand, giving charitably to non-charitable organizations REALLY sucks, because then you still get taxed on the money that you no longer have and got no benefit for (other than feeling good about yourself.
I don't consider giving to charities to be TRULY tax free anyway. After all, you already paid your Social Security and Medicare and they darn sure aren't giving that back to you. That is over 7% of your income right there. By contrast, with all of the deductions for real estate taxes, mortgage interest, kids and yes , charities, the actual percentage of income paid as income tax is often less than the percentage that you are paying for FICA, so you really are only making charitable donations at maybe 50% tax free.
Once churches relize that they are a service then they will start to change for the better.
This is not possible with people the way they are today. Back in the new testament Church, people took travelling missionaries into their homes, fed them, clothed them, gave them shelter, and local churches sent missionaries out with money to give to other Churches. Since that doesn't fly anymore, they have gone back to the more efficient way, take a little from anyone (who is willing to give) and distribute it in keeping with the bylaws of the Church.
hack community will have a fix before the sun goes down.
And how will you download it?
Joking aside, I am sure you would do it they same way I have to install my perfectly legitimate copies of Windows of various versions that I have gotten over the years on different PCs. I can remember having to install Windows 3.1 off of floppy, then install separate device drivers for my CD-ROM because the 3.1 floppies didn't have the drivers, then install windows 95 update from CD, then install windows 98 Update which wouldn't build on top of 3.1, blah, blah. Not to mention there was usually a twiddle or two to some software that I had to do between each of these steps.
(This is from memory, some of the versions may not be exact)
Happened to me, too. I tried to install Windows Defender, and after 10 minutes of downloading and installing, it said it couldn't validate my license and backed everything out, then it said to go to a web site to validate and the web site wanted me to subscribe to Passport or some crap. Eventually, I found a web site that would allow me to validate. It asked me 1) where I bought the computer (Dell) and what model it was (XPS). That was apparently good enough for MS. Remind me to tell it that next time if I have an illegal copy.
That's a great illustration, but the fact about frogs is, when it gets uncomfortable, they will jump out either way. Frogs allowing themselves to be boiled is an Urban Legend. But the illustration works somewhat. Surely someone who has already started down the MS road would not turn tail and run as fast as someone who has not yet made an operating system choice.
The GPS tells you how fast you are going in a straight line tangential to the surface of the earth. If you are going uphill or downhill, your GPS will register lower than the actual speed relative to the roadway. Of course, most cops will not know that, so maybe you'll get lucky.