On the other hand, the NFL star leads by example...
Leads with no purpose, you mean.
...unites us in support for our team...
Pointless support, for a team that accomplishes nothing of value.
...and might very well have a much larger beneficial effect on society
What, by enticing stupid people to waste their money on team-branded shit they don't need?
Fuck, professional sports even fails at being worthwhile recreation! Just ask the typical football lover what he's going to be doing on a Sunday afternoon. Is he going to be playing football? Hell no, he's going to sit his fat ass down on the couch and eat goddamn pork rinds all day while watching overpaid assholes run around on TV!
I never asked for permission or for people to give me opportunities... My programming teacher in high school talked to a local business owner and recommended me... None of that came from what the school gave me, but what I did on my own.
So what you're really saying is that you got lucky enough to be given permission and opportunities without even having to ask, and that you naturally wanted to channel your boredom into activities that turned out to be useful.
Those of us who read fiction (instead of how-to books) out of boredom, and who didn't get pointed in a more useful direction by teachers (or worse, got in trouble for not paying attention to the "new" material that we'd figured out 3 years earlier), didn't have the same outcome.
I was actively held back from higher level reading classes when I was in the 5th grade, presumably because no one wanted to take the time to teach the one kid who read Tolkien and science text books for fun.
In the 90s, I used to read sci-fi novels in class due to boredom and got in trouble for it. I tried to hid them inside my textbooks, but it only worked sometimes.
I can tell if you're the sort of person who enjoys programming. I'd take a high school dropout over someone with a Master's, if the high school dropout had a substantial portfolio of open source code he could show me.
So well-rounded candidates who enjoy programming but have other hobbies are screwed?
What you seem not to realize is that these communities are for hipsters, not hippies. Serenbe, for instance, is full of half-million-dollar 1500 ft^2 homes way out in the middle of fucking nowhere, in a metro area where even other hipster neighborhoods in-town have similar houses at half the price. They're not going to do (most of) the farming themselves; they're going to hire some schmuck to do it for them. And there's no way hippies could afford to live there.
Besides, there are far more effective ways for the president to "Lead" us into a greener future. (Maybe cutting back on those vacations that are half a planet worth of jet fuel away for one.)
More like "vacations that are a full plane load worth of secret service agents and other assorted aides away" -- if the Prez flew commercial it wouldn't be such a big deal.
Remotely wiping a stolen mobile phone ought to still be controlled by the main phone OS. All the modem should be responsible for is receiving the wipe request and passing it to the main OS's monitoring process.
With some (all?) Chromebooks -- and I would expect a Chromebox to be the same -- you can just enable "developer mode" and chroot. See this article for more details.
Yea, and in many cases it's approximately 1.5 bitches to remove... Except, oddly, the crash event recorder - it's right under the driver's seat, and can be disabled without so much as moving the seat forward.
Maybe so that it can be easily removed (by the police or insurer) in the event of a crash?
You're mistaken. Arkansas cops recently opened up on a guy who was driving away from them...yet none of them has been charged with a crime
First, in general, I am not mistaken. If the district attorney is complicit and refuses to prosecute, that only means it is a miscarriage of justice, not that it is any less inherently criminal.
Second, in this particular case the guy was in fact actively attempting to kill people (according to the news article, at least): "Mounted cameras from three police vehicles, led by Officer Vance Plumhoff, show Rickard weaving in and out of traffic, then ramming a police car head-on. The Honda is later surrounded and as the suspect tries to back up, he sideswipes another cop car, and almost strikes one of the officers." Before he rammed the police car, shooting was not justified. After, it was (as long as the guy continued to drive recklessly... if he slowed down the chase, e.g. OJ-style, shooting would stop being justified).
If you told this data to most New Yorkers (or other high CoL areas) they'd say "but then I'd have to live in X."
So what you're saying is that most New Yorkers are ignorant bigots? I'd say that sounds reasonable, but I won't because I'm from the South where people are polite...
I live in Atlanta and was looking at the possibility of moving to Portland (my wife has family there), but the pay is apparently a lot lower then in Atlanta (I think Indeed or something said "software engineer" average pay was something like $85k in Portland vs. $103k in Atlanta.) Houses in the sort of neighborhood I live in are probably not that different in price, except that Atlanta dropped a lot more in the recession and I got my current one really cheap. Economically speaking, I'm much better off staying here in Atlanta.
Indeed: it's completely stupid that the Republicans and Democrats disagree on domestic oil production. Democrats think we should keep our oil in the ground for ecological reasons; Republicans should think we should keep our oil in the ground for national security & long-term economic reasons.
Only short-sighted idiots think we should "drill, baby, drill" for short-term economic gain.
And they never have the ability to shoot anyone who isn't actively killing people?
Police never have the AUTHORITY to shoot anyone who isn't actively attempting to kill people. That's the important issue here: authority, not "ability." Without authority, the use of force is criminal.
The second is simply false, because the authorities can shoot lots of people who aren't currently actively attacking anyone. You'll note that Federal troops...
Are you really too stupid to know the difference between police and the military?
Now we've got many fewer enemies, and the process for finding them is much more complicated because they don't all wear the same shirt, but that just means that there's a lot of internal process the Executive branch has to go through before OKing the target.
The government also has to abide by the Geneva Conventions. Either the target is an enemy soldier and the Geneva Conventions apply, or he is not a soldier and US criminal law (including the 5th Amendment) applies. There is no other category. Obama (and GW Bush before him) might have claimed there was, but both of them are war criminals.
The only question is -- are you the offshore worker, or is the team in Scotland the offshore workers?
The team in Scotland is the offshore part. 90% of the company's employees, including upper management, are in the US, and the company's product is medical billing software that only makes sense in the context of the US health insurance system.
Meanwhile, I can legally put in a path 10' wide and infinitely long, and pave it with wood.
That almost sounds halfway reasonable: a wood-paved path would avoid ground compaction by distributing the weight (while not being an impervious surface, unlike a concrete path).
What's unreasonable is that the county particularly cares how compacted your backyard is in the first place (unless it's so excessive that you're causing runoff issues for your neighbors).
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It also fails miserably by the fact that smart people aren't necessarily (and shouldn't be forced to be) entrepreneurial!
Leads with no purpose, you mean.
Pointless support, for a team that accomplishes nothing of value.
What, by enticing stupid people to waste their money on team-branded shit they don't need?
Fuck, professional sports even fails at being worthwhile recreation! Just ask the typical football lover what he's going to be doing on a Sunday afternoon. Is he going to be playing football? Hell no, he's going to sit his fat ass down on the couch and eat goddamn pork rinds all day while watching overpaid assholes run around on TV!
So what you're really saying is that you got lucky enough to be given permission and opportunities without even having to ask, and that you naturally wanted to channel your boredom into activities that turned out to be useful.
Those of us who read fiction (instead of how-to books) out of boredom, and who didn't get pointed in a more useful direction by teachers (or worse, got in trouble for not paying attention to the "new" material that we'd figured out 3 years earlier), didn't have the same outcome.
In the 90s, I used to read sci-fi novels in class due to boredom and got in trouble for it. I tried to hid them inside my textbooks, but it only worked sometimes.
So well-rounded candidates who enjoy programming but have other hobbies are screwed?
We already knew why people/dogs do that: saliva contains blood clotting agents.
The Cadillac ATS V6 AWD fits that description (but your Suburu or Mitsubishi is almost certainly still better and/or cheaper, of course).
That's the point: at least Zenni is allowed to exist, unlike Tesla direct sales!
The kernel isn't named after a penguin; the kernel is named after a guy. It's only the mascot that is a penguin.
Gentoo is a kind of (species of) penguin, just as Gentoo Linux is a kind of (distribution of) Linux.
What you seem not to realize is that these communities are for hipsters, not hippies. Serenbe, for instance, is full of half-million-dollar 1500 ft^2 homes way out in the middle of fucking nowhere, in a metro area where even other hipster neighborhoods in-town have similar houses at half the price. They're not going to do (most of) the farming themselves; they're going to hire some schmuck to do it for them. And there's no way hippies could afford to live there.
Why bother? Just run the diesel engine you already have on biodiesel.
More like "vacations that are a full plane load worth of secret service agents and other assorted aides away" -- if the Prez flew commercial it wouldn't be such a big deal.
Remotely wiping a stolen mobile phone ought to still be controlled by the main phone OS. All the modem should be responsible for is receiving the wipe request and passing it to the main OS's monitoring process.
Or an LG Nexus, if he wants a phone instead of a tablet.
The important question, which I am keenly interested in as the owner of a Nexus 5, is whether LG phones have a similar backdoor.
With some (all?) Chromebooks -- and I would expect a Chromebox to be the same -- you can just enable "developer mode" and chroot. See this article for more details.
Maybe so that it can be easily removed (by the police or insurer) in the event of a crash?
First, in general, I am not mistaken. If the district attorney is complicit and refuses to prosecute, that only means it is a miscarriage of justice, not that it is any less inherently criminal.
Second, in this particular case the guy was in fact actively attempting to kill people (according to the news article, at least): "Mounted cameras from three police vehicles, led by Officer Vance Plumhoff, show Rickard weaving in and out of traffic, then ramming a police car head-on. The Honda is later surrounded and as the suspect tries to back up, he sideswipes another cop car, and almost strikes one of the officers." Before he rammed the police car, shooting was not justified. After, it was (as long as the guy continued to drive recklessly... if he slowed down the chase, e.g. OJ-style, shooting would stop being justified).
all cities have hipsters
So what you're saying is that most New Yorkers are ignorant bigots? I'd say that sounds reasonable, but I won't because I'm from the South where people are polite...
I live in Atlanta and was looking at the possibility of moving to Portland (my wife has family there), but the pay is apparently a lot lower then in Atlanta (I think Indeed or something said "software engineer" average pay was something like $85k in Portland vs. $103k in Atlanta.) Houses in the sort of neighborhood I live in are probably not that different in price, except that Atlanta dropped a lot more in the recession and I got my current one really cheap. Economically speaking, I'm much better off staying here in Atlanta.
Indeed: it's completely stupid that the Republicans and Democrats disagree on domestic oil production. Democrats think we should keep our oil in the ground for ecological reasons; Republicans should think we should keep our oil in the ground for national security & long-term economic reasons.
Only short-sighted idiots think we should "drill, baby, drill" for short-term economic gain.
Police never have the AUTHORITY to shoot anyone who isn't actively attempting to kill people. That's the important issue here: authority, not "ability." Without authority, the use of force is criminal.
Are you really too stupid to know the difference between police and the military?
The government also has to abide by the Geneva Conventions. Either the target is an enemy soldier and the Geneva Conventions apply, or he is not a soldier and US criminal law (including the 5th Amendment) applies. There is no other category. Obama (and GW Bush before him) might have claimed there was, but both of them are war criminals.
The team in Scotland is the offshore part. 90% of the company's employees, including upper management, are in the US, and the company's product is medical billing software that only makes sense in the context of the US health insurance system.
That almost sounds halfway reasonable: a wood-paved path would avoid ground compaction by distributing the weight (while not being an impervious surface, unlike a concrete path).
What's unreasonable is that the county particularly cares how compacted your backyard is in the first place (unless it's so excessive that you're causing runoff issues for your neighbors).