Not so much. Equity owners lost their shirts on the GM bankruptcy. Bondholders had to be arm-twisted into taking a deal. What got bailed out was the pension fund. The alternative being the government having to pick up the tab for retirement and healthcare payments.
But what if it's just a local villager walking home at night? Better to intercept and question them. And let the innocent go on about their way. We need humans in the loop.
I say we organize some safaris for mercenaries. Come on over and you can kill as many verified poachers as you want. Some people would actually pay.
It's the conversion of unused rail rights-of-way to cycling and walking paths. Promoted by legislation giving "rails-to-trails" organization first dibs on available surplus rail property. It is heavily promoted by automotive lobbying groups to stall the growth of new mass transit on these sites.
... to push for a secure phone architecture. Isolate the baseband h/w from the memory and CPU in a phone. I don't trust Chinese, American or Swedish networks. Treat your cellular provider like the suspect WiFi in a coffee shop.
You don't need a containment facility for the low level stuff. You do for the high level stuff, but then only for a few hundred years. And it will be much smaller.
Because the waste will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years, that's why.
Not really. Anything that 'remains radioactive' for tens of thousands of years is emitting so slowly that it's a non-issue. The dangerous stuff has short half-lives, which is why it emits a lot of radiation. But not for long.
Fuel reprocessing separates the slow, long life emitters from the hot and nasty stuff. So they can each be stored appropriately. And some of the waste can be re-used.
because pedestrians can't avoid a 60mph car, but a 60mph car can avoid a pedestrian
You've got that backwards. A pedestrian can stop in one step, about 2 feet. A 60 MPH car stops in about 120 feet. If that doesn't make sense, compare the stopping distance of a car and a train. Probably a similar disparity. Who gets the right of way?
Roads are for cars only, to drive at or near the speed limit,
We get it. You don't like to live by rules. Neither do I. Particularly the one against running over drunks wandering in the middle of the street. But hey, we all have to compromise to sustain social order.
Always wondered about that. Back in the 'old days', porn shoots looked like they were done in Motel 6. After the 2008 recession, lots of porn looked like it was being made in high end, well furnished properties*. I guess it was one way for the formerly rich people to make the mortgage.
*Sometimes, I'd be watching a scene and hoping that the actors would get their fat asses out of the way so I could get a better look at the architecture.
It's not really Lampertâ(TM)s fault. He was brought in when Sears was effectively a corpse.
How Sears got there is the real question. Having both brick and mortar stores as well as a viable catalog sales division (easily shifted to on-line sales) should have been a no-brainer. They had stores, warehouses and a fleet of trucks delivering orders. The coexistence of mail/online orders and storefront cultures was a solved issue.
Having untold quantities of prime retail space land and buildings on your books should be a good thing.
Not when the state tax man starts rubbing his hands together. You are better off structuring your business to lease everything. So it becomes a deductible expense. And having the land, building and other taxable assets held by a private entity that can structure them as a loss. Now, the loss isn't on your books, so your income statement looks good. The private entity can transfer the paper losses to highly profitable firms and wealthy individuals so they can use them to reduce income taxes. Basically, playing state and local tax policy against federal.
It's the language of capitalism. Likewise, humanism has it's own language. Making a priori value judgements about either is pointless. Unless Leary's goal is to publish the next Newspeak dictionary.
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We had to protect the billionaire class
Not so much. Equity owners lost their shirts on the GM bankruptcy. Bondholders had to be arm-twisted into taking a deal. What got bailed out was the pension fund. The alternative being the government having to pick up the tab for retirement and healthcare payments.
They couldn't stop the robots from sneaking nuggets out in their lunch boxes.
Note to self: Always sell a company with the buggy version of the software. Keep the good stuff for the new venture.
You eliminate demand by poisoning confiscated rhino horn and then introducing it back into the black market. You kill the customers.
But what if it's just a local villager walking home at night? Better to intercept and question them. And let the innocent go on about their way. We need humans in the loop.
I say we organize some safaris for mercenaries. Come on over and you can kill as many verified poachers as you want. Some people would actually pay.
under the color of protecting the public
Yeah, right. Now hold still while I remove your appendix with this spoon.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
It's the conversion of unused rail rights-of-way to cycling and walking paths. Promoted by legislation giving "rails-to-trails" organization first dibs on available surplus rail property. It is heavily promoted by automotive lobbying groups to stall the growth of new mass transit on these sites.
Get out now. If you are considering development of commercial applications in the AI field*, move offshore. Or you will lose access to global markets.
*Whatever the hell that is.
Pick up a case of Baofengs while they last.
Until your containment facility develops a crack
You don't need a containment facility for the low level stuff. You do for the high level stuff, but then only for a few hundred years. And it will be much smaller.
Because the waste will remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years, that's why.
Not really. Anything that 'remains radioactive' for tens of thousands of years is emitting so slowly that it's a non-issue. The dangerous stuff has short half-lives, which is why it emits a lot of radiation. But not for long.
Fuel reprocessing separates the slow, long life emitters from the hot and nasty stuff. So they can each be stored appropriately. And some of the waste can be re-used.
expansion of the NSFNet
Read that as NSFWNet. Which actually is more fitting.
because pedestrians can't avoid a 60mph car, but a 60mph car can avoid a pedestrian
You've got that backwards. A pedestrian can stop in one step, about 2 feet. A 60 MPH car stops in about 120 feet. If that doesn't make sense, compare the stopping distance of a car and a train. Probably a similar disparity. Who gets the right of way?
Roads are for cars only, to drive at or near the speed limit,
We get it. You don't like to live by rules. Neither do I. Particularly the one against running over drunks wandering in the middle of the street. But hey, we all have to compromise to sustain social order.
It turned out to be a big party and porno shoot.
Always wondered about that. Back in the 'old days', porn shoots looked like they were done in Motel 6. After the 2008 recession, lots of porn looked like it was being made in high end, well furnished properties*. I guess it was one way for the formerly rich people to make the mortgage.
*Sometimes, I'd be watching a scene and hoping that the actors would get their fat asses out of the way so I could get a better look at the architecture.
BS maneuver to sleaze your of paying the taxes that you should owe
Or a reasonable response to tax laws that make your business no longer viable.
Less shityy for everybody involved, when you handle it yourself.
Less shitty for me maybe. But if I have to come down there to shut you up, you are going to be begging for the cops.
It's not really Lampertâ(TM)s fault. He was brought in when Sears was effectively a corpse.
How Sears got there is the real question. Having both brick and mortar stores as well as a viable catalog sales division (easily shifted to on-line sales) should have been a no-brainer. They had stores, warehouses and a fleet of trucks delivering orders. The coexistence of mail/online orders and storefront cultures was a solved issue.
They should have ended up looking like Amazon.
Having untold quantities of prime retail space land and buildings on your books should be a good thing.
Not when the state tax man starts rubbing his hands together. You are better off structuring your business to lease everything. So it becomes a deductible expense. And having the land, building and other taxable assets held by a private entity that can structure them as a loss. Now, the loss isn't on your books, so your income statement looks good. The private entity can transfer the paper losses to highly profitable firms and wealthy individuals so they can use them to reduce income taxes. Basically, playing state and local tax policy against federal.
Walking into my local Sears is like walking back into 1985 or 1990.
At least you can walk into one. The one in my town is gone.
It's the language of capitalism. Likewise, humanism has it's own language. Making a priori value judgements about either is pointless. Unless Leary's goal is to publish the next Newspeak dictionary.
by integration of the Kurds into their society
Kurds don't want to be integrated into Turkey.
Arrange some safaris for mercenarys. No penalties, take as many poachers as you wish.