If I wasn't running into fragmentation problems with my iPhone, I might agree with you. At this point, half the apps I try to download won't work on my iPhone. Luckily, I have an Android phone for day to day use so that apps actually work.
So, which is the lesser of two evils. Taking part in a corrupt system and using the fruits of it's corruption to lessen the amount of corruption by buying laws that disrupts corruption in that system, OR just letting the corrupt system continue to remain corrupted.
So, given a corrupt system, is it ethical to dismantle the corruption by working within the system?
If it is a house that I have owned, it would be Pez dispensers. Whenever we do remodeling, we make a point to slip a pez despenser into the walls. My wife and I figure that some day a long time in the future, someone will have a mildly amusing story.
I think that the human body is more complicated than you are trying to make it out to be. Your body does not take in a specific amount of material, and then ingest no other materials until the first has completely passed through your system. If you have consume a pound of food over the course of the day, and you eat a food that kicks your body into storage mode, it isn't just that last bit that gets stored. You do realize that you can remove weight from your body without increasing your temperature, or burning the calories away at all, right?
Your definition of high sodium foods is also BS. Pasta and bread are not foods that would be categorized as "high sodium". Bacon on the other hand, that is a high sodium food. Yet, bacon doesn't cause the weight gain you attribute to sodium.
Are you saying that buses are comfortable, fast, cheap, go everywhere you need to be, can accommodate the things you need to carry (like a couple of 8 foot 2x5, a sheet of plywood, a new piece of furniture, etc.) run all night, are always on time/never miss stops and have a backup system when the drivers go on strike? If so, what city is it you are referring to?
That is playing to the same kind of fantasy as those that think you will own the company by bringing a lawyer into it. That isn't how things work. This would be a fluff piece for a television station, and there is more fluff in a day for the stations to pick though than they could use in a year.
Your confusing maintaining weight through diet with having a metabolism that keeps you at a particular weight. I have no confusion between fat and water retention. I have gone so far as to do my weight via hydrostatic weighing. YOU are the one who jumped to the "It's salt" argument.
Since advocates for mass transportation refuse to even acknowledge many of it's deal breaking flaws, I don't expect that those flaws will get fixed, and thus mass transit will never be the preferred method of transportation.
Mass transit has been a world wide failure. The success stories that people trot out are the few cases where mass transit has cherry picked locations. Even then it generally fails compared to a well designed and maintained road for private transportation.
Because buses are uncomfortable, slow, expensive, don't go where I need to be, can't carry the things I need to carry, don't run when I need them to run, are unreliable, and create single points of failure for the routes they take.
Each one of those individually is a deal breaker. Buses are fine as long as you keep in mind that they are a niche form of transportation.
I thought that too. I would suspect that it is thin enough that it doesn't prevent the flow of electrons between the copper contacts, but pushes the water away enough to prevent the electrons from flowing across them. Amazing yes, but it doesn't seem impossible.
No. It wasn't the Supreme Court. Three different lawyers told us that they she could sue, but she didn't make enough to get more than the cost of litigation. Thus, while they said they could easily win, they would not take the case. People have this fantasy that they will hit the jackpot if something like this happens. That is exactly what it is. Fantasy.
Even saying "Supreme Court" shows a complete lack of grounding in reality. Do you have any idea what it costs to run a litigation to the level of the Supreme Court?
Yes, and three different lawyers told her she would win. What they also told her is that based on her salary, she could expect a judgement of about 25% of the legal costs involved in suing.
Three different lawyers told us that they she could sue, but she didn't make enough to get more than the cost of litigation. People have this fantasy that they will hit the jackpot if something like this happens. That is exactly what it is. Fantasy.
So, technically the was something she could do. She could spend a large amount of time spending money. Then when the lawsuit was over she could spend another year or two paying the rest of the lawyer fees since even a win wouldn't cover the legal costs.
What a lot of people miss is that businesses often have a cognitive disassociation concerning vacation. They don't like it when you take it, but they also don't like it when you don't.
Yep. My wife got fired because she was pregnant, and even when the company put in writing that they were going to "encourage her to leave on her own" over it, there was nothing she could do about it.
The capable boss is the key factor. Because we don't see middle management as a real job, most middle managers are not skilled in the trade. One of the big problems I have seen is middle managers that cannot tell the difference between productivity and attendance. Thus, if you take time off, and the place doesn't fall apart, they think that your job is unnecessary.
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If I wasn't running into fragmentation problems with my iPhone, I might agree with you. At this point, half the apps I try to download won't work on my iPhone. Luckily, I have an Android phone for day to day use so that apps actually work.
So, which is the lesser of two evils. Taking part in a corrupt system and using the fruits of it's corruption to lessen the amount of corruption by buying laws that disrupts corruption in that system, OR just letting the corrupt system continue to remain corrupted.
So, given a corrupt system, is it ethical to dismantle the corruption by working within the system?
For that extra 900 billion dollars you could buy an awful lot of laws and lawmakers.
I did say that it would give them a "mildly" amusing story.
If it is a house that I have owned, it would be Pez dispensers. Whenever we do remodeling, we make a point to slip a pez despenser into the walls. My wife and I figure that some day a long time in the future, someone will have a mildly amusing story.
I think that the human body is more complicated than you are trying to make it out to be. Your body does not take in a specific amount of material, and then ingest no other materials until the first has completely passed through your system. If you have consume a pound of food over the course of the day, and you eat a food that kicks your body into storage mode, it isn't just that last bit that gets stored. You do realize that you can remove weight from your body without increasing your temperature, or burning the calories away at all, right?
Your definition of high sodium foods is also BS. Pasta and bread are not foods that would be categorized as "high sodium". Bacon on the other hand, that is a high sodium food. Yet, bacon doesn't cause the weight gain you attribute to sodium.
Are you saying that buses are comfortable, fast, cheap, go everywhere you need to be, can accommodate the things you need to carry (like a couple of 8 foot 2x5, a sheet of plywood, a new piece of furniture, etc.) run all night, are always on time/never miss stops and have a backup system when the drivers go on strike? If so, what city is it you are referring to?
Thanks for reinforcing my point.
That is playing to the same kind of fantasy as those that think you will own the company by bringing a lawyer into it. That isn't how things work. This would be a fluff piece for a television station, and there is more fluff in a day for the stations to pick though than they could use in a year.
Your confusing maintaining weight through diet with having a metabolism that keeps you at a particular weight. I have no confusion between fat and water retention. I have gone so far as to do my weight via hydrostatic weighing. YOU are the one who jumped to the "It's salt" argument.
Read the posts a couple up. That is pretty much what you said.
Darn. You beat me to it.
Since advocates for mass transportation refuse to even acknowledge many of it's deal breaking flaws, I don't expect that those flaws will get fixed, and thus mass transit will never be the preferred method of transportation. Mass transit has been a world wide failure. The success stories that people trot out are the few cases where mass transit has cherry picked locations. Even then it generally fails compared to a well designed and maintained road for private transportation.
Because buses are uncomfortable, slow, expensive, don't go where I need to be, can't carry the things I need to carry, don't run when I need them to run, are unreliable, and create single points of failure for the routes they take.
Each one of those individually is a deal breaker. Buses are fine as long as you keep in mind that they are a niche form of transportation.
That would probably be why MS is warning people ahead of time.
It has been shown that the humidity detectors can indicate the device got wet just from being used in normal operating environments.
I thought that too. I would suspect that it is thin enough that it doesn't prevent the flow of electrons between the copper contacts, but pushes the water away enough to prevent the electrons from flowing across them. Amazing yes, but it doesn't seem impossible.
Yes, in the "There Was Blood EVERYWHERE!!!" kind of way.
No. It wasn't the Supreme Court. Three different lawyers told us that they she could sue, but she didn't make enough to get more than the cost of litigation. Thus, while they said they could easily win, they would not take the case. People have this fantasy that they will hit the jackpot if something like this happens. That is exactly what it is. Fantasy.
Even saying "Supreme Court" shows a complete lack of grounding in reality. Do you have any idea what it costs to run a litigation to the level of the Supreme Court?
Yes, and three different lawyers told her she would win. What they also told her is that based on her salary, she could expect a judgement of about 25% of the legal costs involved in suing.
Three different lawyers told us that they she could sue, but she didn't make enough to get more than the cost of litigation. People have this fantasy that they will hit the jackpot if something like this happens. That is exactly what it is. Fantasy.
So, technically the was something she could do. She could spend a large amount of time spending money. Then when the lawsuit was over she could spend another year or two paying the rest of the lawyer fees since even a win wouldn't cover the legal costs.
What a lot of people miss is that businesses often have a cognitive disassociation concerning vacation. They don't like it when you take it, but they also don't like it when you don't.
Even funnier is that the office you are referring to was considered highly abusive.
Yep. My wife got fired because she was pregnant, and even when the company put in writing that they were going to "encourage her to leave on her own" over it, there was nothing she could do about it.
The capable boss is the key factor. Because we don't see middle management as a real job, most middle managers are not skilled in the trade. One of the big problems I have seen is middle managers that cannot tell the difference between productivity and attendance. Thus, if you take time off, and the place doesn't fall apart, they think that your job is unnecessary.