Murdoch is nothing like our Tea Party. The TP has no economic sense whatsoever and are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face. Murdoch is a businessman. Possibly crooked, but at least you can figure out his motives by watching the money.
There will always be a few a-holes who insist on working and prevent the achievement of that goal.
We call that a hobby. For example, I make furniture instead of buying the store bought stuff. For all we know, there is some starship captain out there who enjoys cleaning toilets on his days off.
Some time ago, there was a satirical story about a homeless guy* falling asleep in the Apple store entry and a line forming behind him to buy whatever it was that he was waiting for. Now there are stories about homeless people actually waiting in Apple store lines.
I worked in my field (EE) part time all the way through school*. How many people could 'intern' in their field, drop out or just drag the last few credits needed to graduate out to infinity and just ease into their profession?
*In my case, a degree and professional license are mandatory, so this scheme wouldn't work.
Its a poor use of the word "popular" which can mean "of the people as a whole". Resistance by affected neighborhoods' residents doesn't imply that it is common or shared by the German population in general.
Because the people who suffer from phobias over imaginary radiation-caused diseases are considered to be suffering from deleterious effects to their health just as if they had an actual physiological symptom.
And the source of that spark was the possibility of someone dropping a cell phone and the battery shorting out. Particularly back in the old days, phones (DynaTac 'bricks' for example), had quite sizable batteries. And the area up to 18 inches above the ground around a gas pump is considered to be an explosion hazard area due to accumulated vapor. So dropping something like a cell phone was determined, by analysis, to be a possible hazard.
A ten year old public school boy was finding fifth grade math to be the challenge of his life. His mom and dad did everything and anything to help their son...private tutors, peer assistance, CD-ROMs, Textbooks, even HYPNOSIS! Nothing worked.
Finally, giving up they enrolled him into a small Catholic school to await another destiny.
At the end of the first day of school the boy walked in with a stern expression on his face, and walked right past the parents and went straight to his room -and quietly closed the door. For nearly two hours he toiled away in his room -with math books strewn about his desk and the surrounding floor. He only emerged long enough to eat, and after quickly cleaning his plate, he went straight back to his room, closed the door, and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime.
The parents were not sure if they should comment on the boys extra efforts for fear of him losing this new found fervor, so they seemingly ignored it. This pattern continued ceaselessly.
One day the first quarter report card came out. Unopened, he dropped the envelope on the family dinner table and went straight to his room.
His parents were petrified. What lay inside the envelope? Cautiously the mother opened the letter, and to her amazement she saw a bright red "A" under the subject, MATH.
Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room, thrilled at the remarkable progress of their young son!
"Was it the nuns that did it?", the father asked. The boy only shook his head and said, "No." "Was it the one-on-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?", asked the mother. Again, the boy shrugged, "No." "The textbooks? The teacher? The curriculum?", asked the father. "Nope," said the son. "It was all very clear to me from the very first day of Catholic school."
"How so?", asked his mom.
"When I walked into the lobby, and I saw that guy they'd nailed to the plus sign, I knew those people took their math seriously!"
What the theocrats in this country have failed to understand: When you raise a generation lacking critical thinking skills to further your own agenda, they will become susceptible to any and all ideologies. On the other hand, perhaps that's the idea. Its not so much about a belief in a god, its about raising an army that is easily led.
A theory must make useful predictions. And an affirmative answer to the above question tells me quite a bit about how my evening will progress. So astrology is a valid theory. QED.
But Cleatus and Maud represent almost half of the US population. And if they need Cleatus and Maud's support on this one issue, then they'll have to cave on other stuff as well. The USA needs STEM graduates, or all our high tech businesses will be run by foreigners eventually. Americans will have the jobs flipping burgers for.... no, sorry. The people that can still afford to eat out don't eat beef.
The only way out is to ensure that Cleatus and Maud Jr. get a real education and although they still love their parents, they are drooling morons. Its for the good of the country. Do your patriotic duty and let your kids get educated.
were put there by God, so as to test the faith of hapless followers.
As were Hookers 'n Blow. So who are we to question God's divine plan? Personally, I welcome such a test. To prove my worthiness in His eyes, of course.
What sorts of information are you afraid they'll share? Printing anatomically correct "recreational appliances" and then having your printer publish the small dimensions?
As my cousin found out one night in Calgary, AB. When a couple of women got him drunk, took him outside where their boyfriends beat him down and forced his PIN number out of him...
Whose fault was that? The banks? The merchants? Nope. Your cousin needs to stop consorting with skanks from Calgary.
but if this were a Muslim gang you'd probably get the option of losing a tooth for the first wrong number, a finger for the second, and your head for the third.
Same for a debit/ATM card. And they'll probably kill you anyway, since you can have the card deactivated once you are released and can report it stolen.
One must keep a good eye on everything the financial institutions are doing,as every change is in their self-interest.
This is always the case. The banks/merchants are on the hook for the Target fiasco. Chip and Pin is one method to mitigate future losses. Losses that the customer always ends up paying for one way or another. Either through a 3% markup (sometimes as high as 10% for certain businesses), or a higher risk of you being left with the loss.
It's my understanding that the reader into which you enter the PIN just passes it to the card (plugged it) as a part of a challenge-response scheme running on the card itself. The card then informs the POS terminal that the transaction is approved and only then hands over account information.
Which I did with my own alarm, security camera and home automation systems. Without paying anyone $10/month extra for the privilege of hooking that stuff up to my broadband connection and having worldwide access to it.
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So you folks down under don't have anything akin to our First Amendment? You could borrow our Constitution. We're not using it.
Murdoch is nothing like our Tea Party. The TP has no economic sense whatsoever and are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face. Murdoch is a businessman. Possibly crooked, but at least you can figure out his motives by watching the money.
Next thing you know, Lockheed will blame it on the US Marines for insisting on including V/STOL capabilities.
Robots.
There will always be a few a-holes who insist on working and prevent the achievement of that goal.
We call that a hobby. For example, I make furniture instead of buying the store bought stuff. For all we know, there is some starship captain out there who enjoys cleaning toilets on his days off.
Some time ago, there was a satirical story about a homeless guy* falling asleep in the Apple store entry and a line forming behind him to buy whatever it was that he was waiting for. Now there are stories about homeless people actually waiting in Apple store lines.
*Indistinguishable from hipsters.
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I worked in my field (EE) part time all the way through school*. How many people could 'intern' in their field, drop out or just drag the last few credits needed to graduate out to infinity and just ease into their profession?
*In my case, a degree and professional license are mandatory, so this scheme wouldn't work.
No. Its the Dilbert Principle.
This.
Its a poor use of the word "popular" which can mean "of the people as a whole". Resistance by affected neighborhoods' residents doesn't imply that it is common or shared by the German population in general.
"A m00se once bit my sister...."
Because the people who suffer from phobias over imaginary radiation-caused diseases are considered to be suffering from deleterious effects to their health just as if they had an actual physiological symptom.
And the source of that spark was the possibility of someone dropping a cell phone and the battery shorting out. Particularly back in the old days, phones (DynaTac 'bricks' for example), had quite sizable batteries. And the area up to 18 inches above the ground around a gas pump is considered to be an explosion hazard area due to accumulated vapor. So dropping something like a cell phone was determined, by analysis, to be a possible hazard.
A ten year old public school boy was finding fifth grade math to be the challenge of his life. His mom and dad did everything and anything to help their son...private tutors, peer assistance, CD-ROMs, Textbooks, even HYPNOSIS! Nothing worked.
Finally, giving up they enrolled him into a small Catholic school to await another destiny.
At the end of the first day of school the boy walked in with a stern expression on his face, and walked right past the parents and went straight to his room -and quietly closed the door. For nearly two hours he toiled away in his room -with math books strewn about his desk and the surrounding floor. He only emerged long enough to eat, and after quickly cleaning his plate, he went straight back to his room, closed the door, and worked feverishly at his studies until bedtime.
The parents were not sure if they should comment on the boys extra efforts for fear of him losing this new found fervor, so they seemingly ignored it. This pattern continued ceaselessly.
One day the first quarter report card came out. Unopened, he dropped the envelope on the family dinner table and went straight to his room.
His parents were petrified. What lay inside the envelope? Cautiously the mother opened the letter, and to her amazement she saw a bright red "A" under the subject, MATH.
Overjoyed, she and her husband rushed into their son's room, thrilled at the remarkable progress of their young son!
"Was it the nuns that did it?", the father asked. The boy only shook his head and said, "No." "Was it the one-on-one tutoring? The peer-mentoring?", asked the mother. Again, the boy shrugged, "No." "The textbooks? The teacher? The curriculum?", asked the father. "Nope," said the son. "It was all very clear to me from the very first day of Catholic school."
"How so?", asked his mom.
"When I walked into the lobby, and I saw that guy they'd nailed to the plus sign, I knew those people took their math seriously!"
That could be an unintended benefit.
Pilot: "Gee. What's that BMW doing up here in the clouds?"
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FTFY.
What the theocrats in this country have failed to understand: When you raise a generation lacking critical thinking skills to further your own agenda, they will become susceptible to any and all ideologies. On the other hand, perhaps that's the idea. Its not so much about a belief in a god, its about raising an army that is easily led.
What's your sign?
A theory must make useful predictions. And an affirmative answer to the above question tells me quite a bit about how my evening will progress. So astrology is a valid theory. QED.
But Cleatus and Maud represent almost half of the US population. And if they need Cleatus and Maud's support on this one issue, then they'll have to cave on other stuff as well. The USA needs STEM graduates, or all our high tech businesses will be run by foreigners eventually. Americans will have the jobs flipping burgers for .... no, sorry. The people that can still afford to eat out don't eat beef.
The only way out is to ensure that Cleatus and Maud Jr. get a real education and although they still love their parents, they are drooling morons. Its for the good of the country. Do your patriotic duty and let your kids get educated.
were put there by God, so as to test the faith of hapless followers.
As were Hookers 'n Blow. So who are we to question God's divine plan? Personally, I welcome such a test. To prove my worthiness in His eyes, of course.
What sorts of information are you afraid they'll share? Printing anatomically correct "recreational appliances" and then having your printer publish the small dimensions?
As my cousin found out one night in Calgary, AB. When a couple of women got him drunk, took him outside where their boyfriends beat him down and forced his PIN number out of him...
Whose fault was that? The banks? The merchants? Nope. Your cousin needs to stop consorting with skanks from Calgary.
but if this were a Muslim gang you'd probably get the option of losing a tooth for the first wrong number, a finger for the second, and your head for the third.
Same for a debit/ATM card. And they'll probably kill you anyway, since you can have the card deactivated once you are released and can report it stolen.
One must keep a good eye on everything the financial institutions are doing,as every change is in their self-interest.
This is always the case. The banks/merchants are on the hook for the Target fiasco. Chip and Pin is one method to mitigate future losses. Losses that the customer always ends up paying for one way or another. Either through a 3% markup (sometimes as high as 10% for certain businesses), or a higher risk of you being left with the loss.
It's my understanding that the reader into which you enter the PIN just passes it to the card (plugged it) as a part of a challenge-response scheme running on the card itself. The card then informs the POS terminal that the transaction is approved and only then hands over account information.
For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home,
You install it yourself and monitor it yourself.
Which I did with my own alarm, security camera and home automation systems. Without paying anyone $10/month extra for the privilege of hooking that stuff up to my broadband connection and having worldwide access to it.