Better yet, hire some of the Iraq/Afghanistan vets who have come back and can't find work, put them in military fatigues, arm them with paintball guns if you're too cheap/frightened to give them real guns, and have them stand at the carpool queues.
That's why so many police forces have the heavy emphasis on drug crimes, they can confiscate whatever they want and sell it. They generally sell it so fast that by the time the original owner attempts to get it back it has already been disposed of. NORML found a few years ago that in half of the cases no one even got charged with a crime.
Right, one $20/hr security guard hired though an agency will cost $60,000 - $80,000/year. If you want that guard to be armed it will cost more, in some markets a lot more. Salary+benefits+uniform+costs will mean that the agency is spending $50,000 year at least just having him around. If he's patrolling the car is going to cost as well.
1 unarmed security guard @ $20/hr = ~$40,000/year + benefits that can cost another $15,000 + whatever the company charges for markup. That's one guy, 40 hours a week, evenings and weekends cost extra.
In my neighborhood we have great police coverage, especially at night. One officer keeps making repeated rounds past his ex-wife's house all night long.
Good grief. Three crowd-funded sites, each raising $25,000, would be able to hire a whopping total of **ONE** security guard, and a poorly-paid one at that. If they could go hire someone directly they could get two or three poorly-paid security guards, but by going through an agency they're guaranteeing that they won't.
Besides which, when the UN inspectors were escorted onto the site by Syrian military they had to withdraw because of excessive sniper fire. It wasn't the Syrians who wanted to prevent them from a timely inspection.
Notice the "declared in 1997", as well. No way in hell that the Pentagram declared all of their stocks, and it's almost impossible to believe that they haven't made/acquired more since. Remember what they did when President Clinton told them to stop all work on biological weapons? They changed the program's name and moved the budget to another column. Didn't even bother to move it to a new facility. That was a direct order from their supposed Commander In Chief, not an international body.
This seems to be deliberate a move to replace secular governments with religious fanatics, although I really don't understand the point. Iraq, Libya, Egypt (yes, the military has taken over, but they haven't removed any of the religious rules put in place), and now Syria. I'd be very nervous if I lived in Turkey or Jordan now, they're the only non-theocracies left in the region (although Jordan is probably safe, since they bow and kiss the ground every time Israel looks their general direction.)
To be truthful, I'd be happier if they concentrated on the 'phone' feature, as I find the other 99% of the thing's features mostly annoying. It's a bloody phone, if I wanted to answer email or browse the web I'd user my laptop. I'd like to have my old 'brick' phone with the amazing reception and three day's battery charge back, but my work gives me a smart phone. All the other features do is suck down the battery life and (if I forget to turn them off) spy on my location, as well as opening possible attack vectors to my employer's systems.
1997. There's no statute of limitations on murder and terrorism anyway.
So since you personally disapprove of their type of government they have no international rights. How very special.
When was a communist government overthrown by popular revolt? In Nicaragua they were voted out of office and stepped down peacefully (unlike either their predecessors or their successors.) The USSR had an economic collapse, and withdrew from eastern Europe. Those communist parties lost elections and stepped down peacefully. China and Vietnam are still communist. Communist Vietnam invaded Cambodia in order to removed Pol Pot's government, then withdrew and let the country go its own way. Yugoslavia fragmented due to ethnic conflict, and capitalism was subsequently imposed by NATO. Afghanistan's communists were removed by the combination of foreign religious fanatics, mercenaries and warlords annoyed at the suppression of their opium trade. Any others come to mind?
Is there an on-going conflict between them and the Cuban government?
Yes, a number of them are wanted for spreading bio-weapons across the island (the first terrorist use of bio-weapons, predating the Rajneeshies by a decade), shelling a hotel full of European tourists, blowing up an airliner full of civilians, and dozens of (mostly failed) attempted assassinations. There's not really any doubt about their guilt, they boast about it publicly in their fundraising materials. Who are the Cubans refusing to hand over? They deported the last of the airline hijackers back during the Carter administration, when the US promised not to give them the death penalty. (They were reportedly happy to go to the relative comfort of US prisons after spending years in the Cuban jails.)
since Cuba has yet to be liberated
Ah. Not run by corporations, so it's not a real country? It's government isn't corrupt enough to be considered a viable state? What's your point?
So if the Cuban government invades Miami, kidnaps the gusano terrorists there, takes them back to Havana, and holds them there indefinitely without a trial you're fine with that?
My understanding is that both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have soundproofed offices because they're known for browbeating poorly performing executives at the top of their lungs. It seems to be a common thread among the egotists the run large corporations.
Amusing. First 'Troll' mod that I've had in a while. IIRC my last Troll mod and my last Flamebait was also pointing out the differences between MS/Gates and Apple/Jobs.
This is yet another example of the differences between Gates and Jobs. Gates went on stage and demo'ed their operating system. Jobs went out with his immaculately rehearsed script of things to do in the only order that they had managed to make work. Win95 blue screened when it hit a bad driver, while IOS (arguably a much more immature product when demonstrated) gave the illusion of being ready for consumers.
99 percent of us are utterly incapable of creating drivers or working on kernel and GUI enhancements, so you're right, we "far outstrip" the people who can do the work. Sorry, we're just going to benefit from other people's labor.
That's their name. 'Democrat party' was never in use until Rush Limbaugh started spouting it about a decade ago and the rest of the talk radio 'personalities' followed his lead.
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Better yet, hire some of the Iraq/Afghanistan vets who have come back and can't find work, put them in military fatigues, arm them with paintball guns if you're too cheap/frightened to give them real guns, and have them stand at the carpool queues.
That's why so many police forces have the heavy emphasis on drug crimes, they can confiscate whatever they want and sell it. They generally sell it so fast that by the time the original owner attempts to get it back it has already been disposed of. NORML found a few years ago that in half of the cases no one even got charged with a crime.
Right, one $20/hr security guard hired though an agency will cost $60,000 - $80,000/year. If you want that guard to be armed it will cost more, in some markets a lot more. Salary+benefits+uniform+costs will mean that the agency is spending $50,000 year at least just having him around. If he's patrolling the car is going to cost as well.
1 unarmed security guard @ $20/hr = ~$40,000/year + benefits that can cost another $15,000 + whatever the company charges for markup. That's one guy, 40 hours a week, evenings and weekends cost extra.
An armed guard will cost considerably more.
Maybe they could hire Mongo, just send him a candygram once in a while and he'd be happy.
Because some moron running for office promised to lower taxes, so now there's no money for adequate policing.
In my neighborhood we have great police coverage, especially at night. One officer keeps making repeated rounds past his ex-wife's house all night long.
Good grief. Three crowd-funded sites, each raising $25,000, would be able to hire a whopping total of **ONE** security guard, and a poorly-paid one at that. If they could go hire someone directly they could get two or three poorly-paid security guards, but by going through an agency they're guaranteeing that they won't.
Besides which, when the UN inspectors were escorted onto the site by Syrian military they had to withdraw because of excessive sniper fire. It wasn't the Syrians who wanted to prevent them from a timely inspection.
Notice the "declared in 1997", as well. No way in hell that the Pentagram declared all of their stocks, and it's almost impossible to believe that they haven't made/acquired more since. Remember what they did when President Clinton told them to stop all work on biological weapons? They changed the program's name and moved the budget to another column. Didn't even bother to move it to a new facility. That was a direct order from their supposed Commander In Chief, not an international body.
This seems to be deliberate a move to replace secular governments with religious fanatics, although I really don't understand the point. Iraq, Libya, Egypt (yes, the military has taken over, but they haven't removed any of the religious rules put in place), and now Syria. I'd be very nervous if I lived in Turkey or Jordan now, they're the only non-theocracies left in the region (although Jordan is probably safe, since they bow and kiss the ground every time Israel looks their general direction.)
To be truthful, I'd be happier if they concentrated on the 'phone' feature, as I find the other 99% of the thing's features mostly annoying. It's a bloody phone, if I wanted to answer email or browse the web I'd user my laptop. I'd like to have my old 'brick' phone with the amazing reception and three day's battery charge back, but my work gives me a smart phone. All the other features do is suck down the battery life and (if I forget to turn them off) spy on my location, as well as opening possible attack vectors to my employer's systems.
The 'curved display' that initially comes to my mind is VR headsets.
1997. There's no statute of limitations on murder and terrorism anyway.
So since you personally disapprove of their type of government they have no international rights. How very special.
When was a communist government overthrown by popular revolt? In Nicaragua they were voted out of office and stepped down peacefully (unlike either their predecessors or their successors.) The USSR had an economic collapse, and withdrew from eastern Europe. Those communist parties lost elections and stepped down peacefully. China and Vietnam are still communist. Communist Vietnam invaded Cambodia in order to removed Pol Pot's government, then withdrew and let the country go its own way. Yugoslavia fragmented due to ethnic conflict, and capitalism was subsequently imposed by NATO. Afghanistan's communists were removed by the combination of foreign religious fanatics, mercenaries and warlords annoyed at the suppression of their opium trade. Any others come to mind?
Is there an on-going conflict between them and the Cuban government?
Yes, a number of them are wanted for spreading bio-weapons across the island (the first terrorist use of bio-weapons, predating the Rajneeshies by a decade), shelling a hotel full of European tourists, blowing up an airliner full of civilians, and dozens of (mostly failed) attempted assassinations. There's not really any doubt about their guilt, they boast about it publicly in their fundraising materials. Who are the Cubans refusing to hand over? They deported the last of the airline hijackers back during the Carter administration, when the US promised not to give them the death penalty. (They were reportedly happy to go to the relative comfort of US prisons after spending years in the Cuban jails.)
since Cuba has yet to be liberated
Ah. Not run by corporations, so it's not a real country? It's government isn't corrupt enough to be considered a viable state? What's your point?
So if the Cuban government invades Miami, kidnaps the gusano terrorists there, takes them back to Havana, and holds them there indefinitely without a trial you're fine with that?
My understanding is that both Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have soundproofed offices because they're known for browbeating poorly performing executives at the top of their lungs. It seems to be a common thread among the egotists the run large corporations.
Amusing. First 'Troll' mod that I've had in a while. IIRC my last Troll mod and my last Flamebait was also pointing out the differences between MS/Gates and Apple/Jobs.
Gates wanted to make things useful, Jobs wanted to make them pretty. They both knew their audience, I suppose.
No, the original iphone was made by the Brazilian telephone company. Apple just ripped off the name without doing any research.
This is yet another example of the differences between Gates and Jobs. Gates went on stage and demo'ed their operating system. Jobs went out with his immaculately rehearsed script of things to do in the only order that they had managed to make work. Win95 blue screened when it hit a bad driver, while IOS (arguably a much more immature product when demonstrated) gave the illusion of being ready for consumers.
Something some corporation can make money on while shafting their customers and suing anyone who tries to do anything even vaguely similar.
99 percent of us are utterly incapable of creating drivers or working on kernel and GUI enhancements, so you're right, we "far outstrip" the people who can do the work. Sorry, we're just going to benefit from other people's labor.
Makes it easy to identify wingnuts, didn't know you wanted to be associated with them. Never mind then.
That's their name. 'Democrat party' was never in use until Rush Limbaugh started spouting it about a decade ago and the rest of the talk radio 'personalities' followed his lead.