Actually, the way it's being robbed, it doesn't show a deficit because of that, but it's very insidious: it should never have been allowed to have a surplus.
Here's the scam:
They collect 14% of your pay, using the major portion of that to pay for the current benefits (this is the part that everyone calls a "ponzi" scheme: it uses current receitpts to pay current liabilities, with no genuine planning for future liabliities..)
The rest is what goes into the "lock box" but it doesn't stay there. It's "invested" in "safe" investments. And what's safer than Treasury notes? Of course, that leaves out the little detail of who's backing the treasury notes: taxpayers.
In other words. They've used money that they collected from you to incur a debt that you are obligated to pay back. And they get to spend the money....
Gah.. should've thought about tenses a little further. "owned" would've been a better choice of words than "is driving". Stupid easy to hit submit button not far enough away from the preview button..
Ugh, that was one of the worst offenders, both in terms of sticking crap "in your face" and in terms of.. not really much plot to go on. I'm not sure it was worth getting the glasses right...
There can't be such a thing as ufology, since you can't actually study ufos: As soon as you have even so little as just enough information to group what you saw into any kind of categories, you've identified the objects, so they're no longer UFOs!
Wait... when did a spy agency charged with foreign operations and run by the notoriously corrupt State Department become the trusted source of geopolitical data?
Only a terrible, terrible movie maker would think that making something pop-out 87% of the distance from the screen to your face would be a good idea. It's not 3D's fault that movies are made by wealthy, but risk averse people with checklists and the opinion that if something is possible, it must be a good idea to stick it in the movie.
The point of 3D is not to allow the director to stick pointy thing in his audiences' faces. It's just a shame that many directors, for whatever reason, have decided to do just that. Perhaps they're trying to bolster the curmudgeon's argument that 3D is a gimick, by making it a gimmick: You'd think color was a gimmick, too, if every movie did it like The Wizard of Oz....
Did you put the glasses on backwards? Tilt your head too much to the side?
If a 3D movie is so much work for you, but 3D real life is no problem, there might be something that you could do to make it work better.
For some reason the glasses at IMAX are the weak link. They reuse them, but they're also cheap as shit, and the lens films tend to be warped, presumably due to age. I wonder if they use the same polarization scheme used by "regular theater" 3D films... perhaps I'll try a pair of "you pay extra for these, but we still want them back even though we're just going to throw them away" glasses next time I visit.
Although.. that would be a nice setting to be able to toggle: throttle back to avoid turning the fan on. If I'm moving a large number of files in the background, ofte I care less about how long it takes and more about what else I can do while they're moving around.
If the password doesn't get mangled into an encryption key somehow, it's not protecting anything. "Password Protection" on a laptop is like putting up a forty-foot high steel (.. colored.. plastic..) door next to a patio and hoping thieves are too distracted by the door to notice it's not actually enclosing anything.
It looks like the edsel was, in fact, actually mostly hype. According to the wikipedia article, it seems to have been designed primarily to be built using existing product lines....
Seems to me it's a prime example of the the risk averse, "hollywood blockbuster" strategy of building a huge advertising campaign out of a product that is only mildly differentiated from the other products on the market...
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Sometimes I think he's determined to be the last black president....
Actually, the way it's being robbed, it doesn't show a deficit because of that, but it's very insidious: it should never have been allowed to have a surplus.
Here's the scam:
They collect 14% of your pay, using the major portion of that to pay for the current benefits (this is the part that everyone calls a "ponzi" scheme: it uses current receitpts to pay current liabilities, with no genuine planning for future liabliities..)
The rest is what goes into the "lock box" but it doesn't stay there. It's "invested" in "safe" investments. And what's safer than Treasury notes? Of course, that leaves out the little detail of who's backing the treasury notes: taxpayers.
In other words. They've used money that they collected from you to incur a debt that you are obligated to pay back. And they get to spend the money....
Or you, y'know, swap out the batteries. I seem to recall something about that being a planned feature of the Tesla, have they abandoned that idea?
So.. they've invented.. password salting?
They also reveal which one is handsomer...
Regulators won't be so keen on the fact that they won't be able to collect as many fines though...
Gah.. should've thought about tenses a little further. "owned" would've been a better choice of words than "is driving". Stupid easy to hit submit button not far enough away from the preview button..
My guess is they'll make you go out to the parking lot and burn a Mazda
But only if Nichelle Nichols is driving it...
in this case, it wasn't even that secure...
He chose a cipher that millions of people crack every day on their way to work, before moving on the the more difficult crossword puzzle....
Ugh, that was one of the worst offenders, both in terms of sticking crap "in your face" and in terms of .. not really much plot to go on. I'm not sure it was worth getting the glasses right...
But don't bother with those wack-job UFO-ologers...
There can't be such a thing as ufology, since you can't actually study ufos: As soon as you have even so little as just enough information to group what you saw into any kind of categories, you've identified the objects, so they're no longer UFOs!
UFOs were a lot bigger until about ten years ago.
Of course they were. It was a combination of poorly thought-out cosmic legislation and cheap space-gas...
Wait... when did a spy agency charged with foreign operations and run by the notoriously corrupt State Department become the trusted source of geopolitical data?
Only a terrible, terrible movie maker would think that making something pop-out 87% of the distance from the screen to your face would be a good idea. It's not 3D's fault that movies are made by wealthy, but risk averse people with checklists and the opinion that if something is possible, it must be a good idea to stick it in the movie.
The point of 3D is not to allow the director to stick pointy thing in his audiences' faces. It's just a shame that many directors, for whatever reason, have decided to do just that. Perhaps they're trying to bolster the curmudgeon's argument that 3D is a gimick, by making it a gimmick: You'd think color was a gimmick, too, if every movie did it like The Wizard of Oz....
Did you put the glasses on backwards? Tilt your head too much to the side?
If a 3D movie is so much work for you, but 3D real life is no problem, there might be something that you could do to make it work better.
For some reason the glasses at IMAX are the weak link. They reuse them, but they're also cheap as shit, and the lens films tend to be warped, presumably due to age. I wonder if they use the same polarization scheme used by "regular theater" 3D films... perhaps I'll try a pair of "you pay extra for these, but we still want them back even though we're just going to throw them away" glasses next time I visit.
It doesn't matter how many watches you have. You never really know the time without a sextant, a spirit level, an almanac, and a clear sky.
Although.. that would be a nice setting to be able to toggle: throttle back to avoid turning the fan on. If I'm moving a large number of files in the background, ofte I care less about how long it takes and more about what else I can do while they're moving around.
But the level it is on at depends upon the brightest pixel on the screen. The whole "contrast" vs. "dynamic contrast" thing, after all.
I like the ampersand, because you're showing someone how to make one with HTML entities, you have to spell it, &
That would've been a mistake before the spill, too...
"password protected?"
If the password doesn't get mangled into an encryption key somehow, it's not protecting anything. "Password Protection" on a laptop is like putting up a forty-foot high steel (.. colored.. plastic..) door next to a patio and hoping thieves are too distracted by the door to notice it's not actually enclosing anything.
They're going to be paying them reparations, or at least some fraction of them... So, yes, there are almost certainly going to be tax implications.
Precisely.
If your product can't do something better, or cheaper, then what the hell are you doing, then?
It looks like the edsel was, in fact, actually mostly hype. According to the wikipedia article, it seems to have been designed primarily to be built using existing product lines....
Seems to me it's a prime example of the the risk averse, "hollywood blockbuster" strategy of building a huge advertising campaign out of a product that is only mildly differentiated from the other products on the market...