Whilst there are variations, the primary "Thou Shalts", and "Thou Shalt Not" mandate celibacy.
Of course, those precepts do not apply the masses, becuase they are unwilling to do the work required for spiritual progress, preferring the insecurity of their delusions.
> Mitchell and Cooper were both nuts. In which case how did they qualify as astronauts in the first place?
At least one report issued by Project Blue Book stated that there were cases that they could not explain. The majority of these cases appeared to have been close encounters of the third kind. Both Mitchell and Cooper were interested in those encounters.
To get more information about those encounters, they had to be willing to talk with anybody, about any alleged event. Furthermore, in those discussions, they could have done "damage control", by suggesting avenues of exploration, that were far removed from the cause of the event, but whose research would have been of interest to the military.
> someone isn't going to make more than $18k because that work just isn't that valuable
In some places, the minimum wage is US$15.00 per hour. For a full time job, that means an annual income of US$30,000.
>Perhaps part of every welfare program should include some money and financial management counseling.
If your gross monthly income is US$1,500: * Tax: US$180; * FICA: US$180; For a take home check of US$1,140: * Prudence dictates that one spend no more than 25% of one's gross income on shelter, including utilities. Most landlords insist on a take home check that is at least three times the monthly rent. * Using the prudent formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$375 / month; * Using the landlord formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$380 / month;
It doesn't matter how good your skills at keeping a budget are, if there is no shelter at a price that either prudence, or landlords will accept is affordable for you, the renter.
As a home owner, the options are slightly better, but even there, property tax can prevent financial prudence.
The only reason your company doesn't have your medical information, is becuase they don't want it. HIPPA is best described as "your medical data is legally available to all and sundery, upon request."
HIPPA does zero for actual patient privacy, but a lot for security theatre, and medical theatre. It also provides an easy way for some people to make a lot of money, doing absolutely nothing.
The issue is that Apple claims that each app is vetted for potential security issues. By most definitions of the term, "fraud" falls under the category "security issue". Consequently, the discovery of even one fraud app means that Apple is not vetting apps in a manner consistent with what they claim.
I quit submitting bug reports, when I realized that even when I provided precise instructions on how to reproduce the bug, the gatekeepers claimed to not know how to reproduce the bug.
Aopparently you failed remedial investing 099: * Appreciation of the asset; * Income by leasing the asset out; * A virtually indestructable asset; * An asset whose costs are 100% tax deductable; * Low risk;
The only reason Uber and similar firms are a threat to taxis, is becuase they (Uber) currently offer a very rare quality --- good customer service.
The first rule of security is: _Do not do anything on a computer that has network capability_.
I've been told that Windows2000 was the last version of Windows that did not require calling home at least once a year, in order to function correctly.
I know that Windows7 point blank refuses to run if it hasn't called home in the last 180 days.
If China pulls a Ukraine in Asia, it is because the Red Army walked there. This is the only contemporary army that is built on the principle of walking to the battlefield, even if it is on the other side of the world.
If China had a good blue water navy, they would be more likely to pull a Ukraine in Africa, or South America, than Asia.
The business case is that the drone will fly across campus, and manually restart a server that can't be RSSd into.
Nobody sees a Roomba crossing a road, and hence they get destroyed when run over. Drones aren't seen, but since they are above ground level, don't get hit quite so often.
If the United States calculated the unemployment rate today, the same way they did in 1960, the unemployment rate would be over 25%.
If the United States stays on its current track, by 2050, 70% of the population will be permanently unemployed. A further 21% of the population will spend more than half of their life unemployed.
The CIA has operated a communication intercept station in Mongolia since the early sixties. Whilst its focus is on Russian and Chinese communications, it does pickup, and analyze Mongolian signals.
How can you ensure that those ponies don't pass through the CIA communications intercept station?
But with a written custody agreement in CA, he should have called the FBI in CA and reported a parental kidnapping.
You obviously aren't aware of the divorces, where one set of states have awarded custody of the child to one parent, and a different collection of states have awarded custody to the other parent, and a third group of states have awarded custody to one of the grandparents.
Then, just to make things complicated, the custody battle gets extended through the legal system of two or three different countries, preferably on different continents.
The father can be, and usually is denied all legal rights to the child, but is not denied the responsibilities to the child;
The adoptive parent, or parents:
Need not be residents of the state of Utah;
Need not be citizens of the State of Utah;
Have to meet a minimal means test, to legally adopt the child;
For the father, imagine the following sequence of events
Being told that the child was stillborn;
The child is adopted within the state of Utah, without your knowledge, consent, or authorization;
Five years later your wages are garnished for failure to pay child support on the adopted child;
That scenario is fairly close to standard operating procedure, for adoptions in the State of Utah. Especially the point that none of the parties --- adoptee parents, biological father, biological mother --- have any nexus within the state of Utah, or to the state of Utah. Not even members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or any of its splinter groups.
This is the reason why mothers-to-be that want to be especially nasty to the father of their child, have the child adopted in Utah.
Short of the US being invaded, I can't imagine a draft being put in place. Even then, there could likely be enough volunteers that a draft would not be necessary.
In the United States, the draft was installed during WW2, precisely because there were too many volunteers.
If you can read Japanese, I strongly recommend reading the history of the invasion of the West Coast of the United States, by the Japanese Army. Then ponder on why their chosen strategy would not fail today.
I'm not sure accepting that creating needy children who have no ability to be patient is a good thing; It will, and is, creating a slave generation.
There is a difference between creating slaves, and creating people who are patient.
I know this is an incredibly unpopular thing to say right now, but consider that the first thing we do to a new child born into this world is to slap them in the face. Why would we do that?
FWIW, in traditional cultures --- the one's where the woman is working, and takes an hour off to give birth to the child, and then goes back to working --- the newborn infant is not slapped.
And when I told them that in spite of these achievements, we mostly use these capabilities to entertain instead of educate, and have so ingrained them into daily life that we have created children incapable of functioning without continuous access to these devices, they would likely be equally shocked.
Jerry Mander Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television New York, NY: Harper Collins: 1978 ISBN-13 978-0-688-08274-1.
Our technology has created an unparalleled degree of dysfunction in the everyday person.
In the history of religion, technological advances have always been treated as creating a dystopian future. The standard prediction is that at the end of the world: Dystopia fights Utopia.
There is *NO* reason a four year old "needs" a cell phone. None, zip, zero.
If a cell phone is a safety device for an adult, then it is a safety device for a child.
Cell phone ownership amongst the homeless population is close to 100%, because it is viewed by that population as a safety device. As such, homeless parents try to get cell phones, with limited minute plans, for all of their children. They also teach their children how to use the phone. The cost of the minutes is not the only issue to be to be concerned about.
Whilst that does not appear to be the situation here, it is a legitimate reason for a four year old to have a cell phone.
The simple solution is to terminate all existing brick and mortar employees.
Install touchscreen kiosks, that are nothing but a wiki of the products that the store offers for sale. Let users browse that wiki. If they have specific questions, let them touch something that connects to a call center in, say, Walvis Bay. (A call center there costs roughly half the price of a call center in India.)
Hire one person, whose function is to ensure that the self-checkout registers are working correctly. Make that five employees, so the store can be open 7/24. Add five more employees, whose sole function is to clean the store every shift. (One person per shift to control the cleaning bots.)
If the local Walmart did that, their customer service would go up several orders of magnitude. That store would also be several orders of magnitude cleaner.
If Pennys did that, customer service would go up by several thousand orders of magnitude.
If Radio Shack did that, customer service would go up several million orders of magnitude.
Wait five to ten years, and most of the things Family Dollar currently sells for under ten bucks, will only be available as 3D Patterns, for ten bucks, with unlimited printings.
If management of Sears Holdings Corporation were smart, they would:
* Make K-Mart an offline brand. No online/non-traditional retailing allowed;
* Rebrand all Sears Full Line stores to Big K-Mart;
* Use the Sears name only for Catalog, Internet, TV Shopping, and Telemarketing;
* Land's End would be a pattern company. Clothes, Home Decorating, and other patterns;
* KMart Stores would downsize in area, and only offer 2D and 3D patterns. The only physical objects would be the media that the pattern is in/on;
* KMart SuperCenter and Sears Grande would be merged into one chain, competing as a HyperMart, and include preprinted objects of the 3D and 2D patterns sold at K-Mart;
I've seen 3D printers in the back room of tourist traps. Usually to print out one day only junk, to inflict upon their victims, persuading them that the junk will be very rare one day.
I've no doubt that those printers can be used on a moment's notice to include the mark's name.
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>And I'm pretty sure Buddhists are okay with gay
Whilst there are variations, the primary "Thou Shalts", and "Thou Shalt Not" mandate celibacy.
Of course, those precepts do not apply the masses, becuase they are unwilling to do the work required for spiritual progress, preferring the insecurity of their delusions.
> Mitchell and Cooper were both nuts. In which case how did they qualify as astronauts in the first place?
At least one report issued by Project Blue Book stated that there were cases that they could not explain. The majority of these cases appeared to have been close encounters of the third kind. Both Mitchell and Cooper were interested in those encounters.
To get more information about those encounters, they had to be willing to talk with anybody, about any alleged event. Furthermore, in those discussions, they could have done "damage control", by suggesting avenues of exploration, that were far removed from the cause of the event, but whose research would have been of interest to the military.
> someone isn't going to make more than $18k because that work just isn't that valuable
In some places, the minimum wage is US$15.00 per hour.
For a full time job, that means an annual income of US$30,000.
>Perhaps part of every welfare program should include some money and financial management counseling.
If your gross monthly income is US$1,500:
* Tax: US$180;
* FICA: US$180;
For a take home check of US$1,140:
* Prudence dictates that one spend no more than 25% of one's gross income on shelter, including utilities.
Most landlords insist on a take home check that is at least three times the monthly rent.
* Using the prudent formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$375 / month;
* Using the landlord formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$380 / month;
It doesn't matter how good your skills at keeping a budget are, if there is no shelter at a price that either prudence, or landlords will accept is affordable for you, the renter.
As a home owner, the options are slightly better, but even there, property tax can prevent financial prudence.
>How the guys running the fraud bots get anything out of the deal is a bit mysterious
No mystery.
The fraud-click is part of generating a cover story for the individual bots.
The big revenue generation comes after each bot has a credible cover story, and presence on the various social networking sites.
If, as a result of generating a cover story, a competitor of a friend's business no longer advertizers on the Internet, so what?
Bots can handle Captchas more easilly than individuals with accessibility issues.
The only reason your company doesn't have your medical information, is becuase they don't want it.
HIPPA is best described as "your medical data is legally available to all and sundery, upon request."
HIPPA does zero for actual patient privacy, but a lot for security theatre, and medical theatre. It also provides an easy way for some people to make a lot of money, doing absolutely nothing.
The issue is that Apple claims that each app is vetted for potential security issues. By most definitions of the term, "fraud" falls under the category "security issue". Consequently, the discovery of even one fraud app means that Apple is not vetting apps in a manner consistent with what they claim.
I quit submitting bug reports, when I realized that even when I provided precise instructions on how to reproduce the bug, the gatekeepers claimed to not know how to reproduce the bug.
Due Dilligence was never a part of the Creative Commons License.
>No cab company charges $30 for a 1-2 mile trip.
Get Uber at the wrong time, and you can pay far more than that.
In cities with mandatory minimum zone charges, crossing the wrong zones can result in a twenty dollar charge, even though one is only going one mile.
Scratch that. In some places, the effective rate is fifteen dollars per mile, or part thereof.
Aopparently you failed remedial investing 099:
* Appreciation of the asset;
* Income by leasing the asset out;
* A virtually indestructable asset;
* An asset whose costs are 100% tax deductable;
* Low risk;
The only reason Uber and similar firms are a threat to taxis, is becuase they (Uber) currently offer a very rare quality --- good customer service.
>Diamonds are expensive because diamond mining is expensive,
One of the best times of my life was the week at the bay, where the stones were diamonds. Skipping diamonds into the ocean waves is fun.
The first rule of security is:
_Do not do anything on a computer that has network capability_.
I've been told that Windows2000 was the last version of Windows that did not require calling home at least once a year, in order to function correctly.
I know that Windows7 point blank refuses to run if it hasn't called home in the last 180 days.
If China pulls a Ukraine in Asia, it is because the Red Army walked there. This is the only contemporary army that is built on the principle of walking to the battlefield, even if it is on the other side of the world.
If China had a good blue water navy, they would be more likely to pull a Ukraine in Africa, or South America, than Asia.
The business case is that the drone will fly across campus, and manually restart a server that can't be RSSd into.
Nobody sees a Roomba crossing a road, and hence they get destroyed when run over. Drones aren't seen, but since they are above ground level, don't get hit quite so often.
If the United States calculated the unemployment rate today, the same way they did in 1960, the unemployment rate would be over 25%.
If the United States stays on its current track, by 2050, 70% of the population will be permanently unemployed. A further 21% of the population will spend more than half of their life unemployed.
The CIA has operated a communication intercept station in Mongolia since the early sixties. Whilst its focus is on Russian and Chinese communications, it does pickup, and analyze Mongolian signals.
How can you ensure that those ponies don't pass through the CIA communications intercept station?
Amber
But with a written custody agreement in CA, he should have called the FBI in CA and reported a parental kidnapping.
You obviously aren't aware of the divorces, where one set of states have awarded custody of the child to one parent, and a different collection of states have awarded custody to the other parent, and a third group of states have awarded custody to one of the grandparents.
Then, just to make things complicated, the custody battle gets extended through the legal system of two or three different countries, preferably on different continents.
Amber
Take a look at Utah State Law on adoptions.
The mother need not:
Be present at the hearing;
Be a citizen of the State of Utah;
Be a resident of the state of Utah;
The father need not:
Be notified of the hearing;
Be a citizen of the State of Utah;
Be a resident of the state of Utah;
Be present at the hearing;
Be told the results of the hearing;
Be represented by legal counsel;
The father can be, and usually is denied all legal rights to the child, but is not denied the responsibilities to the child;
The adoptive parent, or parents:
Need not be residents of the state of Utah;
Need not be citizens of the State of Utah;
Have to meet a minimal means test, to legally adopt the child;
For the father, imagine the following sequence of events
Being told that the child was stillborn;
The child is adopted within the state of Utah, without your knowledge, consent, or authorization;
Five years later your wages are garnished for failure to pay child support on the adopted child;
That scenario is fairly close to standard operating procedure, for adoptions in the State of Utah. Especially the point that none of the parties --- adoptee parents, biological father, biological mother --- have any nexus within the state of Utah, or to the state of Utah. Not even members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or any of its splinter groups.
This is the reason why mothers-to-be that want to be especially nasty to the father of their child, have the child adopted in Utah.
Amber
Short of the US being invaded, I can't imagine a draft being put in place. Even then, there could likely be enough volunteers that a draft would not be necessary.
In the United States, the draft was installed during WW2, precisely because there were too many volunteers.
If you can read Japanese, I strongly recommend reading the history of the invasion of the West Coast of the United States, by the Japanese Army. Then ponder on why their chosen strategy would not fail today.
Amber
I'm not sure accepting that creating needy children who have no ability to be patient is a good thing; It will, and is, creating a slave generation.
There is a difference between creating slaves, and creating people who are patient.
I know this is an incredibly unpopular thing to say right now, but consider that the first thing we do to a new child born into this world is to slap them in the face. Why would we do that?
FWIW, in traditional cultures --- the one's where the woman is working, and takes an hour off to give birth to the child, and then goes back to working --- the newborn infant is not slapped.
And when I told them that in spite of these achievements, we mostly use these capabilities to entertain instead of educate, and have so ingrained them into daily life that we have created children incapable of functioning without continuous access to these devices, they would likely be equally shocked.
Jerry Mander
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
New York, NY: Harper Collins: 1978
ISBN-13 978-0-688-08274-1.
Our technology has created an unparalleled degree of dysfunction in the everyday person.
In the history of religion, technological advances have always been treated as creating a dystopian future. The standard prediction is that at the end of the world: Dystopia fights Utopia.
Amber
If a cell phone is a safety device for an adult, then it is a safety device for a child.
Cell phone ownership amongst the homeless population is close to 100%, because it is viewed by that population as a safety device. As such, homeless parents try to get cell phones, with limited minute plans, for all of their children. They also teach their children how to use the phone. The cost of the minutes is not the only issue to be to be concerned about.
Whilst that does not appear to be the situation here, it is a legitimate reason for a four year old to have a cell phone.
Amber
The simple solution is to terminate all existing brick and mortar employees.
Install touchscreen kiosks, that are nothing but a wiki of the products that the store offers for sale. Let users browse that wiki. If they have specific questions, let them touch something that connects to a call center in, say, Walvis Bay. (A call center there costs roughly half the price of a call center in India.)
Hire one person, whose function is to ensure that the self-checkout registers are working correctly. Make that five employees, so the store can be open 7/24. Add five more employees, whose sole function is to clean the store every shift. (One person per shift to control the cleaning bots.)
If the local Walmart did that, their customer service would go up several orders of magnitude. That store would also be several orders of magnitude cleaner.
If Pennys did that, customer service would go up by several thousand orders of magnitude.
If Radio Shack did that, customer service would go up several million orders of magnitude.
Amber
Wait five to ten years, and most of the things Family Dollar currently sells for under ten bucks, will only be available as 3D Patterns, for ten bucks, with unlimited printings.
If management of Sears Holdings Corporation were smart, they would:
* Make K-Mart an offline brand. No online/non-traditional retailing allowed;
* Rebrand all Sears Full Line stores to Big K-Mart;
* Use the Sears name only for Catalog, Internet, TV Shopping, and Telemarketing;
* Land's End would be a pattern company. Clothes, Home Decorating, and other patterns;
* KMart Stores would downsize in area, and only offer 2D and 3D patterns. The only physical objects would be the media that the pattern is in/on;
* KMart SuperCenter and Sears Grande would be merged into one chain, competing as a HyperMart, and include preprinted objects of the 3D and 2D patterns sold at K-Mart;
I've seen 3D printers in the back room of tourist traps.
Usually to print out one day only junk, to inflict upon their victims, persuading them that the junk will be very rare one day.
I've no doubt that those printers can be used on a moment's notice to include the mark's name.