Neither do neighbors who chose to buy and rent in a residential district and partake in the benefits thereof, including a reasonably slow-changing population of neighbors.
Then they can live in a community with an HOA that prohibits transient rentals. Otherwise, they have no right to be telling me what I can do with my property.
Sure there is. Some countries are far more corrupt than others. But the difference is not in the people. People in Venezuela are no different from people in Denmark. The difference is in the laws and institutions. In corrupt countries, these are designed to facilitate corruption. In clean countries, they are designed to inhibit it.
In America, when I apply for a business license, the law says that the clerk "will issue" when I pay the standard fee, which is posted on a public website. In corrupt countries, the clerk "may issue" and has much more discretion to delay and obstruct. In America, the clerk sits at a public window, and my transaction is in full view of the other people waiting in line. When I applied for a business license in China, I was escorted by the clerk to a private office, where "expediting fees" were discussed out of sight and hearing of the next applicant. The system there is designed to be corrupt.
Actually, the NRA is a very poor example. It is a grassroots organization funded entirely by individual contributions from millions of members. The NRA has explicit legislative and regulatory goals, and they make their campaign contributions openly and transparently. Many politicians care more about their endorsement than their money.
"We got told not to use the Google bikes as they are for employees only, which was a bit of a shame,"
Really? Who the fuck complains about a company not letting some random outsiders touch their property?
I have visited the GooglePlex several times, and I used the free bikes to get around. I was never told not to ride the bikes. Also, the visitors center has a restroom, as do the on-campus restaurants.
During the interview, he said that he was opposed to competition because "it's very, very hard to make money" when there's competition!
You are taking what he said out of context. He said that as an investor, he prefers companies that are not exposed to direct competition (because of IP, market dominance, or whatever). He did not mean that he supported government action to inhibit competition.
At a storage symposium a couple of years ago I met my equivalent in the DNA research sphere, his data requirements blew me away. And all encoded in my cells.
If he is storing human DNA data, he is doing something wrong. A human has about 4 billion base pairs, which are roughly 2 bits each, so that is 500 MB. You could fit that on a CDROM with room to spare. But humans share 99% of their DNA, so you would really only need to store the diffs. 1% is 5 MB. But even that is overkill, since humans don't differ from each other randomly, but in common sequences where you have either one sequence or another across wide segments of the population. So a human's DNA can probably be stored in less than a megabyte per person, and with good compression maybe far less.
you'll get 20 false positive for every true positive, and another word for that is "useless.")
Not necessarily true. If someone is murdered, and a biometric test identifies 20 suspects, and 19 of them live in other states, but one is the next door neighbor on whom the victim had a restraining order, then that is useful information.
they run for office and are elected by the voters.
Indeed. Go talk to some typical voters in Georgia's 6th congressional district, and you will no longer wonder why Newt was two bullets away from the presidency.
Newt was on Donald's short list for VP. Donald just announced today that Mike Pence was selected, but it looks like Newt made these remarks when he still thought he was in the running. Supposedly Donald's political advisors (i.e. his family) have been debating whether to choose a serious person as VP, or "another pirate". Unfortunately for Newt, they went with the former. Mike Pence has many flaws, but he is not a circus clown like Newt.
I have also tasted whale meat at a restaurant in Japan. It was not very good. Kobe beef is way better. I don't understand why Japan makes such a big deal out of whale harvesting, since even their own people have little interest in eating them.
Disclaimer: I did not order the whale meat. Someone else at the table did, and they offered me a bite. I am a vegetarian now, although I was not at the time.
You have to give Ataturk credit. There aren't a lot of secular rulers who have cast as long a shadow as he has.
He had some lucky breaks. When he was a young colonel, his passion for reform made some enemies... so he was exiled to a remote outpost of no significance called "Gallipoli". In the Spring of 1915, when the Allied forces went ashore there, commanded by some of the most incompetent generals in history, they were facing a Turkish commander at the top of the cliffs, who was one of the best.
In a British poll, he was rated as one of the greatest foes of the British Empire, along with George Washington, Napoleon, and Rommel.
Isn't nominal democracy a condition for NATO membership?
No. Turkey and Greece were both members of NATO while they were military dictatorships. NATO has never been much concerned about the internal politics of its members.
In this case, the PM didn't like the way the vote went and instead of doing what the people wanted, he stepped down.
That is how parliamentary systems work. Dave was elected by his party, not by the people.
Could happen in the US
It DID happen in the US, last year. John Boehner resigned, and was replaced by Paul Ryan. David Cameron is the head of the lower house of parliament, just like John Boehner was. The equivalent of Barrack Obama, as head of state, is Queen Elizabeth. She is not resigning.
You could rent that for $3000/mo in SV. So the difference is $2200/mo or about $28k/yr.
My salary would probably have to quintuple before I'd even consider going to SV for work.
If your salary would have to quintuple to get an extra $28k/yr, then you aren't even making minimum wage.
Other than housing, costs are not particularly high in SV. Gasoline is slightly more than average. Groceries are the same. Utilities tend to be lower since the weather is nearly perfect, so you don't need to heat or cool much. The schools are among the best in America.
Why would I pay $3000/month to share a ROOM with four other people
You don't. Even in the heart of SV, you can rent your own room for about $1000/month. You can find $700-$800 rooms in south San Jose, or Fremont. Or $500 in Gilroy, but the commute will eat up the savings. Go to Craigslist, click on "sby", then "rooms for rent".
"(I won't: I've already chosen third party)".. Then you have chosen to support Crooked Hillary. Plain and simple. This is only a 2 person race.
Unless he lives in a swing state (most people don't) then a vote for either Hillary or Donald is "wasted". In the short run, it is a race between 2 people. In the long run, it is about ideas, and a vote for a third party is more likely to bring new ideas into the Overton Window.
In 2008, Nate correctly predicted the outcome in 49 of 50 states. In 2012, he correctly predicted the outcome in 50 of 50.
Keep in mind that the main stream media has been providing slanted poll results in abundance because those poll results meet their agenda.
Slanted polls are still useful. As long as they slant consistently in the same direction, you just need to apply a deskewing factor. You can get good results by aggregating a lot of individually bad polls.
Try asking 333 (or 3333, etc.) of each and see what the results are.
1. The electorate is not 1/3 Democrat, 1/3 Republican, and 1/3 Independent, so your poll would not be representative. 2. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are not equally likely to agree to participate in your poll. R's and I's are more likely to refuse. 3. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are not equally likely to actually vote, so your poll would need to account for that. 4. Not all Democrats (or Republicans or Independents) vote the same. For instance, younger people, regardless of party registration, vote differently than older voters. Black Democrats vote more consistently partisan than white Democrats, but have lower turnout, etc. So it is not sufficient to have the right fraction of Democrats, but it also matters who they are.
Sod the Zika virus why are PROFESSIONAL sportsmen going to the Olympics?
Because the Olympics is no longer restricted to "amateurs". The restriction was not initially designed to prevent "professional sportsmen" from competing, but to keep out anyone who had ever worked for wages. It was designed to keep the working class from mixing with their social superiors. The orginal definition of "amateur" was "who is or ever has been by trade of employment for wages a mechanic, artisan or laborer or engaged in any menial duty."
So not the antidote since there is virtually zero supply. Got it
Then increase the supply. Start your own theater production company, and offer alternative entertainment. For instance, you could tell the same story from Aaron Burr's viewpoint. I would pay to see that.
Yet there are plenty that put their work in for majors within STEM/Business and see a null return
National unemployment rate: 5.1% Unemployment rate for engineers: 3.2% If you are an engineer and you can't find a job in today's economy, you are doing something wrong.
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Neither do neighbors who chose to buy and rent in a residential district and partake in the benefits thereof, including a reasonably slow-changing population of neighbors.
Then they can live in a community with an HOA that prohibits transient rentals. Otherwise, they have no right to be telling me what I can do with my property.
*shrug* then there's no solution.
Sure there is. Some countries are far more corrupt than others. But the difference is not in the people. People in Venezuela are no different from people in Denmark. The difference is in the laws and institutions. In corrupt countries, these are designed to facilitate corruption. In clean countries, they are designed to inhibit it.
In America, when I apply for a business license, the law says that the clerk "will issue" when I pay the standard fee, which is posted on a public website. In corrupt countries, the clerk "may issue" and has much more discretion to delay and obstruct. In America, the clerk sits at a public window, and my transaction is in full view of the other people waiting in line. When I applied for a business license in China, I was escorted by the clerk to a private office, where "expediting fees" were discussed out of sight and hearing of the next applicant. The system there is designed to be corrupt.
The obvious example of your point is the NRA
Actually, the NRA is a very poor example. It is a grassroots organization funded entirely by individual contributions from millions of members. The NRA has explicit legislative and regulatory goals, and they make their campaign contributions openly and transparently. Many politicians care more about their endorsement than their money.
Really? Who the fuck complains about a company not letting some random outsiders touch their property?
I have visited the GooglePlex several times, and I used the free bikes to get around. I was never told not to ride the bikes. Also, the visitors center has a restroom, as do the on-campus restaurants.
The solution is for the people to wake up and pay attention to what their government is doing.
Any "solution" that is premised on changing human nature is not a solution at all.
During the interview, he said that he was opposed to competition because "it's very, very hard to make money" when there's competition!
You are taking what he said out of context. He said that as an investor, he prefers companies that are not exposed to direct competition (because of IP, market dominance, or whatever). He did not mean that he supported government action to inhibit competition.
At a storage symposium a couple of years ago I met my equivalent in the DNA research sphere, his data requirements blew me away. And all encoded in my cells.
If he is storing human DNA data, he is doing something wrong. A human has about 4 billion base pairs, which are roughly 2 bits each, so that is 500 MB. You could fit that on a CDROM with room to spare. But humans share 99% of their DNA, so you would really only need to store the diffs. 1% is 5 MB. But even that is overkill, since humans don't differ from each other randomly, but in common sequences where you have either one sequence or another across wide segments of the population. So a human's DNA can probably be stored in less than a megabyte per person, and with good compression maybe far less.
You'd need robust error detection and correction because of mutation and damage.
We already have that. There are a few billion years of prior art.
But copying seems trivial.
The hard part is writing the device driver to interface the ribosome to /dev/dna.
you'll get 20 false positive for every true positive, and another word for that is "useless.")
Not necessarily true. If someone is murdered, and a biometric test identifies 20 suspects, and 19 of them live in other states, but one is the next door neighbor on whom the victim had a restraining order, then that is useful information.
they run for office and are elected by the voters.
Indeed. Go talk to some typical voters in Georgia's 6th congressional district, and you will no longer wonder why Newt was two bullets away from the presidency.
... is he mimicking Trump's approach?!"
Newt was on Donald's short list for VP. Donald just announced today that Mike Pence was selected, but it looks like Newt made these remarks when he still thought he was in the running. Supposedly Donald's political advisors (i.e. his family) have been debating whether to choose a serious person as VP, or "another pirate". Unfortunately for Newt, they went with the former. Mike Pence has many flaws, but he is not a circus clown like Newt.
So instead having cheap animal feed, you had expensive gasoline that had less energy content than before and your food prices went up.
An obvious solution would be to vote for someone who wants to fix the problem. Not Hillary. Not Donald. So you have a choice of Gary Johnson or Jill Stein.
I have also tasted whale meat at a restaurant in Japan. It was not very good. Kobe beef is way better. I don't understand why Japan makes such a big deal out of whale harvesting, since even their own people have little interest in eating them.
Disclaimer: I did not order the whale meat. Someone else at the table did, and they offered me a bite. I am a vegetarian now, although I was not at the time.
You have to give Ataturk credit. There aren't a lot of secular rulers who have cast as long a shadow as he has.
He had some lucky breaks. When he was a young colonel, his passion for reform made some enemies ... so he was exiled to a remote outpost of no significance called "Gallipoli". In the Spring of 1915, when the Allied forces went ashore there, commanded by some of the most incompetent generals in history, they were facing a Turkish commander at the top of the cliffs, who was one of the best.
In a British poll, he was rated as one of the greatest foes of the British Empire, along with George Washington, Napoleon, and Rommel.
Isn't nominal democracy a condition for NATO membership?
No. Turkey and Greece were both members of NATO while they were military dictatorships. NATO has never been much concerned about the internal politics of its members.
It can both compress *and* decompress.
That is actually very important. I know from first hand experience that compression can be much faster if later decompression is not a requirement.
In this case, the PM didn't like the way the vote went and instead of doing what the people wanted, he stepped down.
That is how parliamentary systems work. Dave was elected by his party, not by the people.
Could happen in the US
It DID happen in the US, last year. John Boehner resigned, and was replaced by Paul Ryan. David Cameron is the head of the lower house of parliament, just like John Boehner was. The equivalent of Barrack Obama, as head of state, is Queen Elizabeth. She is not resigning.
I have a 1500 sq. ft. house that is $800/mo
You could rent that for $3000/mo in SV. So the difference is $2200/mo or about $28k/yr.
My salary would probably have to quintuple before I'd even consider going to SV for work.
If your salary would have to quintuple to get an extra $28k/yr, then you aren't even making minimum wage.
Other than housing, costs are not particularly high in SV. Gasoline is slightly more than average. Groceries are the same. Utilities tend to be lower since the weather is nearly perfect, so you don't need to heat or cool much. The schools are among the best in America.
Why would I pay $3000/month to share a ROOM with four other people
You don't. Even in the heart of SV, you can rent your own room for about $1000/month. You can find $700-$800 rooms in south San Jose, or Fremont. Or $500 in Gilroy, but the commute will eat up the savings. Go to Craigslist, click on "sby", then "rooms for rent".
"(I won't: I've already chosen third party)" .. Then you have chosen to support Crooked Hillary. Plain and simple. This is only a 2 person race.
Unless he lives in a swing state (most people don't) then a vote for either Hillary or Donald is "wasted". In the short run, it is a race between 2 people. In the long run, it is about ideas, and a vote for a third party is more likely to bring new ideas into the Overton Window.
Define: "The most accurate polling analysis..."
In 2008, Nate correctly predicted the outcome in 49 of 50 states. In 2012, he correctly predicted the outcome in 50 of 50.
Keep in mind that the main stream media has been providing slanted poll results in abundance because those poll results meet their agenda.
Slanted polls are still useful. As long as they slant consistently in the same direction, you just need to apply a deskewing factor. You can get good results by aggregating a lot of individually bad polls.
Try asking 333 (or 3333, etc.) of each and see what the results are.
1. The electorate is not 1/3 Democrat, 1/3 Republican, and 1/3 Independent, so your poll would not be representative.
2. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are not equally likely to agree to participate in your poll. R's and I's are more likely to refuse.
3. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are not equally likely to actually vote, so your poll would need to account for that.
4. Not all Democrats (or Republicans or Independents) vote the same. For instance, younger people, regardless of party registration, vote differently than older voters. Black Democrats vote more consistently partisan than white Democrats, but have lower turnout, etc. So it is not sufficient to have the right fraction of Democrats, but it also matters who they are.
Sod the Zika virus why are PROFESSIONAL sportsmen going to the Olympics?
Because the Olympics is no longer restricted to "amateurs". The restriction was not initially designed to prevent "professional sportsmen" from competing, but to keep out anyone who had ever worked for wages. It was designed to keep the working class from mixing with their social superiors. The orginal definition of "amateur" was "who is or ever has been by trade of employment for wages a mechanic, artisan or laborer or engaged in any menial duty."
TSLA has yet to ever pay a dividend
A dividend means a company has run out of ideas, and can think of nothing better to do with capital than return it to investors.
that's not actually money you've made just equity.
I can sell the stock, take the money to the store and use it to buy groceries. That is real enough for me.
So not the antidote since there is virtually zero supply. Got it
Then increase the supply. Start your own theater production company, and offer alternative entertainment. For instance, you could tell the same story from Aaron Burr's viewpoint. I would pay to see that.
Yet there are plenty that put their work in for majors within STEM/Business and see a null return
National unemployment rate: 5.1%
Unemployment rate for engineers: 3.2%
If you are an engineer and you can't find a job in today's economy, you are doing something wrong.