But many of us feel that a free society should welcome people that want to come and make a better life for themselves.
I think the majority of us feel that way. Which is why we created a system by which people can immigrate to the United States. My wife did it, my grandfather did it, about a million people per year do it. So, why should we reward people who do it illegally by giving them a free pass, while punishing those who do it legally by making them do all the paperwork and pay fees?
Wow, the article actually correctly used the technique of "begging the question" by starting with the assumption that everything is the Republicans fault, even though neither side could reach an agreement. And of course, Slashdot, is more than happy to take the bait and run, of course.
Every plane trip you go on will offer you a life jacket. In the past 60 years, I'm confident that a life jacket hasn't saved a life, but it's cost a fortune in fuel over that time...
Airlines should also force every passenger to go to the bathroom for a bowel movement before boarding as well, as that probably weighs as much an inflatable life jacket, and would also save on fuel.
And how many times are oxygen systems really deployed anyway? Do we really need the little bags that drop from the ceiling?
As long as the oxygen systems up front work well, and the dudes in the cockpit do their job right, then no you probably don't need those bags in the ceiling.
In fact, a lot of this inflight complaining would probably go away if they left the cabin pressure at about 25,000 feet. Most people wouldn't die, and the ones that don't die will probably be a lot quieter.
I don't see why the airlines should collect extra from people who may cause discomfort for those around them, but then not use that money to compensate the person around them.
Perhaps they should offer those seats at a discount. 50% off this seat because there is a whale in the next seat. If you've got your kid with you, maybe you could have them sit next to the whale with no real issues, and save 50% on the purchase price.
Speaking of which, do you remember back in the days when there was a difference between an adult airline ticket and a child's airline ticket? Why do we charge more for fat people, but not less for tiny people? As a point of fact, these days the airlines charge MORE for children, at least ones traveling alone. With the notable exception of Southwest, of course. Isn't it odd, how Southwest is the one notable exception to all the BS that airlines do, and that Southwest is also the one notable exception to the fact that the airlines are losing money. Hmm, must be a coincidence, nothing more to see here, move along. When will those cordwood stackers be installed in our new jets?
Interesting view given that flights seem to get cheaper every year.
How do you reconcile that with the fact that flights get more expensive every year? I just ran a flight from where I live to Chicago, which 20 years ago was $100. Today is is $300. That is not cheaper, even if you factor in inflation. Oh, and $100 was all inclusive back then. Now, $300 doesn't include luggage or a meal, or legroom.
I'm 6'2 and I never recline the seat. Reclining the seat would do nothing more for neck and head support. It just makes the angle that your head dangles off the end more severe. Instead of reclining, I just try to jam my legs in under the seat in front of me and try to slide lower down in the chair. It is very painful on the legs and bad on the circulation. I actually have had the pins and needles sensation (in America, we say the body part has fallen asleep) in my crotch, which is the last place you would expect to have circulation issues.
Basically, I think the airlines hate it when people fly on them and they are doing everything possible to discourage people from flying.
That is typically how I fly anyway. I usually stay up late the night before a flight so I can sleep on the plane and wake up at my destination. Flying these days is not an experience that I want to be awake for.
Which is better, $100 a year for 50 years or $500 right now and $0 for the the next 50 years? I guess if you are most of corporate America, it is the second one.
Personally I like the little space heater I keep under my desk. Makes it nice and cozy in winter. Much nicer than wrapping up with more layers.
Yes, I would like to have one of those, too, but our office manager forbids it. Which is a shame because my office is on an outside wall and it is regularly 62 degrees Fahrenheit on mornings that are chilly outside, then by the afternoon, it is usually about 85 degrees.
StarTribune has an interesting article that demonstrates that if we taxed the superwealthy at 100% on ALL of their money that they have made in their ENTIRE LIFETIME, then we would be able to run the government for about 6 months. And that was superwealthy in terms of having $1 million in net worth, which is not even what I would consider "super" wealthy. I mean, it's a heck of a lot more than my net worth, but there are literally millions of households that have $1 million or more in net worth in the United States.
You have a promising future career as a school administrator. Finally someone who understands that the rights of the bully need to be upheld while the people who are bullied need to be punished and ridiculed.
You know, it would also probably be best if we lock up all the law abiding people and have the criminals roam free.
Well from what I understand the way to deal with bullies is to actually fight them.
No, that is not the way to deal with them. If you do that, the school system will punish you and not the bully. The school system has centuries of tradition to uphold and you fighting back against a bully violates that tradition.
When I was in junior high, I got fed up with getting bullied all year by one guy. Then one day, he hit me in the eye with a pencil, and that was the last straw. I struck back and, of course, him being much bigger and a wrestler, he knocked me down to the ground and started hitting me. I hit him back as well. Well, the teacher came into the room and broke it up, and we were both sent to the principal's office. My mother was called and she told them "its about time, He has been getting picked on all year by that guy." The school said they were going to give me corporal punishment and she said "no, you aren't". Well, they did anyway. And the bully got nothing. But I learned an important lesson. That is that you should always just lie down and take it, because the system is on the side of the bully. Same thing happened to my best friend, with a different bully. My friend got suspended for the rest of the year and the bully got nothing.
Not so! It is still quite appropriate. Facebook is the old fashioned dairy conglomerate which imagines that milking the cow when and how it wants to is good for business. Social Fixer extension is the modern milking machine which was given for free to all of the dairy conglomerates' farmers. And that whistling sound is the potential profit being whisked away as the conglomerate bans these devices from their farms.
Facebook's TOS and developer EULA states (in layman's terms) that you can't make any changes to how the site is presented to the user.
But this is a browser extension, it wouldn't affect how somebody else views your page, just you. Or am I missing something?
So I guess Microsoft, Google, Firefox et. al. would be in violation of the TOS right off the bat, because without a browser it doesn't render at all, but with one of those, it renders differently than nothing at all, and, I am guessing, all slightly different from each other.
I can provide another data point, having had playstations all the way back to the original. I have never once used a headset. I had one game that whenever I started it would say that no sound input device was detected, but it played just fine without whatever it wanted to be plugged in.
It is really hard to tell who is a terrorist now a days.
No, it is quite easy. Someone from another country is a "terrorist". Someone from our country who displays the qualities of being what would have been called a "patriot" 50 years ago, is a "domestic terrorist". Someone who says "baaaaa" and is covered in wool is not a terrorist (unless they are from another country).
This guy knew straight-up he was funding terrorist activities,
The FBI found that the evidence did NOT link him to terrorist activities. Then they went ahead and prosecuted him without the evidence that exonerated him.
If the evidence was collected illegally, then it absolutely must be thrown out. If they were tapping a citizen's phone line without a proper judicial order, then it was collected illegally.
What I don't understand is why this has come to whether or not someone who has been the victim of an illegal wiretap is allowed to defend themselves, as opposed to why is the person who authorized the illegal wiretap not in jail?
The building is circular, so they couldn't get the cubes to fit. So they had to put the engineers in another building.
The architect had planned some nice decorative rounded corners, but Apple sued him into oblivion.
Inefficient is correct. Trying to utilize space that is organized in any sort of non-rectangular building is a nightmare and ends up with lots of wasted space, irregularly shaped rooms and offices, and lots of hurt feelings.
My office moved from two floors of a square building into one large corner of a triangular building. All of the offices were smaller, some of the offices were triangle shaped. Some of them had weird little unusable alcoves in them. Despite the actual rented space being larger, and the individual offices being smaller and going from two kitchens down to one, and going from two server rooms down to one, we were immediately out of room to grow upon moving in.
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But many of us feel that a free society should welcome people that want to come and make a better life for themselves.
I think the majority of us feel that way. Which is why we created a system by which people can immigrate to the United States. My wife did it, my grandfather did it, about a million people per year do it. So, why should we reward people who do it illegally by giving them a free pass, while punishing those who do it legally by making them do all the paperwork and pay fees?
Wow, the article actually correctly used the technique of "begging the question" by starting with the assumption that everything is the Republicans fault, even though neither side could reach an agreement. And of course, Slashdot, is more than happy to take the bait and run, of course.
It takes two to tango.
Every plane trip you go on will offer you a life jacket. In the past 60 years, I'm confident that a life jacket hasn't saved a life, but it's cost a fortune in fuel over that time...
Airlines should also force every passenger to go to the bathroom for a bowel movement before boarding as well, as that probably weighs as much an inflatable life jacket, and would also save on fuel.
And how many times are oxygen systems really deployed anyway? Do we really need the little bags that drop from the ceiling?
As long as the oxygen systems up front work well, and the dudes in the cockpit do their job right, then no you probably don't need those bags in the ceiling.
In fact, a lot of this inflight complaining would probably go away if they left the cabin pressure at about 25,000 feet. Most people wouldn't die, and the ones that don't die will probably be a lot quieter.
I don't see why the airlines should collect extra from people who may cause discomfort for those around them, but then not use that money to compensate the person around them.
Perhaps they should offer those seats at a discount. 50% off this seat because there is a whale in the next seat. If you've got your kid with you, maybe you could have them sit next to the whale with no real issues, and save 50% on the purchase price.
Speaking of which, do you remember back in the days when there was a difference between an adult airline ticket and a child's airline ticket? Why do we charge more for fat people, but not less for tiny people? As a point of fact, these days the airlines charge MORE for children, at least ones traveling alone. With the notable exception of Southwest, of course. Isn't it odd, how Southwest is the one notable exception to all the BS that airlines do, and that Southwest is also the one notable exception to the fact that the airlines are losing money. Hmm, must be a coincidence, nothing more to see here, move along. When will those cordwood stackers be installed in our new jets?
I don't recall that anyone on flight 1549 was ever actually in the water., at least not enough to get the life jacket wet.
Interesting view given that flights seem to get cheaper every year.
How do you reconcile that with the fact that flights get more expensive every year? I just ran a flight from where I live to Chicago, which 20 years ago was $100. Today is is $300. That is not cheaper, even if you factor in inflation. Oh, and $100 was all inclusive back then. Now, $300 doesn't include luggage or a meal, or legroom.
I'm 6'2 and I never recline the seat. Reclining the seat would do nothing more for neck and head support. It just makes the angle that your head dangles off the end more severe. Instead of reclining, I just try to jam my legs in under the seat in front of me and try to slide lower down in the chair. It is very painful on the legs and bad on the circulation. I actually have had the pins and needles sensation (in America, we say the body part has fallen asleep) in my crotch, which is the last place you would expect to have circulation issues.
Basically, I think the airlines hate it when people fly on them and they are doing everything possible to discourage people from flying.
Always spend the money to upgrade to a seat with extra leg-room. It makes flights so much better for a tall person.
My company won't spring for a higher class seat. And I can't afford to pay for the upgrade due to the ridiculously high cost of airline travel.
That is typically how I fly anyway. I usually stay up late the night before a flight so I can sleep on the plane and wake up at my destination. Flying these days is not an experience that I want to be awake for.
Which is better, $100 a year for 50 years or $500 right now and $0 for the the next 50 years? I guess if you are most of corporate America, it is the second one.
Personally I like the little space heater I keep under my desk. Makes it nice and cozy in winter. Much nicer than wrapping up with more layers.
Yes, I would like to have one of those, too, but our office manager forbids it. Which is a shame because my office is on an outside wall and it is regularly 62 degrees Fahrenheit on mornings that are chilly outside, then by the afternoon, it is usually about 85 degrees.
Maybe the yeti was wearing a polar bear pelt.
StarTribune has an interesting article that demonstrates that if we taxed the superwealthy at 100% on ALL of their money that they have made in their ENTIRE LIFETIME, then we would be able to run the government for about 6 months. And that was superwealthy in terms of having $1 million in net worth, which is not even what I would consider "super" wealthy. I mean, it's a heck of a lot more than my net worth, but there are literally millions of households that have $1 million or more in net worth in the United States.
You have empathy for a girl who caused another girl's suicide and then gloated about it online? What a sick bastard you are.
You have a promising future career as a school administrator. Finally someone who understands that the rights of the bully need to be upheld while the people who are bullied need to be punished and ridiculed.
You know, it would also probably be best if we lock up all the law abiding people and have the criminals roam free.
Well from what I understand the way to deal with bullies is to actually fight them.
No, that is not the way to deal with them. If you do that, the school system will punish you and not the bully. The school system has centuries of tradition to uphold and you fighting back against a bully violates that tradition.
When I was in junior high, I got fed up with getting bullied all year by one guy. Then one day, he hit me in the eye with a pencil, and that was the last straw. I struck back and, of course, him being much bigger and a wrestler, he knocked me down to the ground and started hitting me. I hit him back as well. Well, the teacher came into the room and broke it up, and we were both sent to the principal's office. My mother was called and she told them "its about time, He has been getting picked on all year by that guy." The school said they were going to give me corporal punishment and she said "no, you aren't". Well, they did anyway. And the bully got nothing. But I learned an important lesson. That is that you should always just lie down and take it, because the system is on the side of the bully. Same thing happened to my best friend, with a different bully. My friend got suspended for the rest of the year and the bully got nothing.
Fascinating... okay, my metaphor sucks!
Not so! It is still quite appropriate. Facebook is the old fashioned dairy conglomerate which imagines that milking the cow when and how it wants to is good for business. Social Fixer extension is the modern milking machine which was given for free to all of the dairy conglomerates' farmers. And that whistling sound is the potential profit being whisked away as the conglomerate bans these devices from their farms.
Facebook's TOS and developer EULA states (in layman's terms) that you can't make any changes to how the site is presented to the user.
But this is a browser extension, it wouldn't affect how somebody else views your page, just you. Or am I missing something?
So I guess Microsoft, Google, Firefox et. al. would be in violation of the TOS right off the bat, because without a browser it doesn't render at all, but with one of those, it renders differently than nothing at all, and, I am guessing, all slightly different from each other.
I can provide another data point, having had playstations all the way back to the original. I have never once used a headset. I had one game that whenever I started it would say that no sound input device was detected, but it played just fine without whatever it wanted to be plugged in.
It is really hard to tell who is a terrorist now a days.
No, it is quite easy. Someone from another country is a "terrorist". Someone from our country who displays the qualities of being what would have been called a "patriot" 50 years ago, is a "domestic terrorist". Someone who says "baaaaa" and is covered in wool is not a terrorist (unless they are from another country).
This guy knew straight-up he was funding terrorist activities,
The FBI found that the evidence did NOT link him to terrorist activities. Then they went ahead and prosecuted him without the evidence that exonerated him.
If the evidence was collected illegally, then it absolutely must be thrown out. If they were tapping a citizen's phone line without a proper judicial order, then it was collected illegally.
What I don't understand is why this has come to whether or not someone who has been the victim of an illegal wiretap is allowed to defend themselves, as opposed to why is the person who authorized the illegal wiretap not in jail?
The building is circular, so they couldn't get the cubes to fit. So they had to put the engineers in another building.
The architect had planned some nice decorative rounded corners, but Apple sued him into oblivion.
Inefficient is correct. Trying to utilize space that is organized in any sort of non-rectangular building is a nightmare and ends up with lots of wasted space, irregularly shaped rooms and offices, and lots of hurt feelings.
My office moved from two floors of a square building into one large corner of a triangular building. All of the offices were smaller, some of the offices were triangle shaped. Some of them had weird little unusable alcoves in them. Despite the actual rented space being larger, and the individual offices being smaller and going from two kitchens down to one, and going from two server rooms down to one, we were immediately out of room to grow upon moving in.