You don't understand the new libertarian ethos in Congress. Rules and regs stifle creativity. Oversight can be safely left in industry hands. Rand Paul and his fellow travelers are honored to be associated with lax oversight.
No, Scientology should not have tax exempt status because they produce no charity benefits to balance what some of their followers produce. The same cannot be said for the other religions. If it were up to me, you only get tax exemption based on the level of your charitable work, quantifiable charitable work that is. Getting tax exemption just because you have a religion is plain silly.
Because to physicists who spend their time working this problem seem to agree that 1 is most likely. 3 is being attacked all the time with new theories but it is sort of an unlimited well of human imagination.
In my opinion, it is like the WTC "theories". They get started because some yokel cannot understand the official explanations when others seem as likely. However, if you pick up Popular Mechanics book "Debunking 9/11 Myths" (especially the newer addition), they pretty much destroy the reigning alternative alleged theories. Why should I accept the book's version? Because they worked with scientists, engineers, and demolition experts who concur on the official explanation. Why do I not accept the alternative theories? Because they have little scientific analysis backing them. So I bow to the physicists who work the dark matter issue as being the experts and in a much better position to judge because, as intelligent and wonderful as I believe myself to be, I don't have their expertise.
If poking at bush babies with a broken stick to hurt them enough to come out to be eaten constitutes a tool, then Fongoli chimpanzees of Senegal (NYT article) use tools. At least the females do, the males do he-male things like chase down their prey. It is thought the females do this because they are not big and brawny like the males. Actually, the males just feel like they are losing their testosterone if they stoop to using tools...or asking the females which direction their prey went.
Women thrive on social skills, it is impossible to encourage them to to have rubbish social skills. It is precisely because science and engineering do not foster social interaction that women find them, frankly, boring. So they eschew these careers.
Academic is a special case. They will accommodate oddballs more readily than business. You can be terrible socially in the business world, but that doesn't make you an oddball. It doesn't surprise me that academics misread the lack of women in science and engineering, they are quick to blame everything of social constructs because that is how they view the world. Thus academics see themselves as fixing the problems "created" by the business world, and tend to hire oddballs and women.
Why stop there? We must consider the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, Genghis Khan, etc. Let's regurgitate all the past sins from 1000s of years ago and bring them front and center so we can have new culture wars over them. Let's consider the murders Mohammed committed because the twit heard voices and presumed they were Gabriel.
Please step away from the 50's and 60's, the "military-industrial" complex is way to small to effect the economy. DoD spend about $600 billion a year (of which about $300 Billion is spent on salaries, benefits, etc.) and that pales in comparison to the rest of the nearly $4 Trillion federal budget and won't budget the $17 Trillion U.S. economy. In fact, even large companies are doing all they can to get away from reliance on DoD because of uncertain funding and small ball funding.
So, following your logic, the Eisenhower should never have started the interstate highway system since it wasn't part of the bare basics. Come to it, we should halt all federally funded cancer research since that's not a basic either. And Grandma can come and live with you, affording her is not a government bare basic. Neither is the EPA and all those emission controls, a round of mercury for everyone. Airline safety can be left to the airlines, auto safety to the car companies, drug safety to the drug companies. I can see the light!!!
I believe the county that San Diego is in (is it San Diego county?) has a poo processing plant. At first the residents were a bit squeamish but now seem to accept it.
Unless you pump the excise brine directly back into the ocean and kill all the life around the pump outlet. Similar thing happens with CO2. I've head the specious argument we don't have to worry because we're just recycling CO2 by burning coal, oil, and gas. Yes, that's true. However, it is important to note that all the sequestered CO2 put into the atmosphere isn't mere recycling.
As in everything, it is important to have a sense of proportion. Math is your friend.
I see. So a Muslim cleric is now a trained psychiatrist who can spot an Islamic nutjob from a regular Muslim...by what, precisely? Wanting to do something the cleric wouldn't entertain himself?
So China is somehow incapable of buying the chips through a 3rd party? Maybe we could sell the Department of Commerce to China...nice regulatory agency, cheap, bit of wear around the edges and maybe a bit dated but it would fit well within China's Stupidity Index for Chinese What are Involved in Security against...errr...for the People.
Strangely enough, global warming is related to a decrease in the number of neurons of politicians denying the Earth is a system with interlocking parts. It is also subtlety related to the Amen Corner of American Politics where some Supreme Deity will do something only when conditions get bad enough to kill off most life rather than before when it might actually do some good.
The only sane option is mutual disarmament and it is chimera, it will never be realized because you'd have to get India and Pakistan to agree. And even if you did, Putin would keep several back and threaten the West with them. He's recently made such threats. Also, every two-bit Islamic My-Dick's-Too-Small Head-O-State would realize that with a secret program, they can break out and threaten the West with Convert or Die. Allah is a cruel, unfeeling god.
Just kidding about Allah, he's so Other that he never communicates directly with Man. I suspect he's so Other he doesn't really exist. Any angel messengers he used are really ETs that like to screw with earthlings. The Greek Guy with the electric hair has warned us about them.
Secular democracy? Present day Turkey? You must have missed the memos from Erdogan. The king of Jordan said it best, (I paraphrase): Erdogan thinks of democracy as a bus, when he reaches his destination, he's going to get off."
And currently Turkey is turning a blind eye to Daesh if not actively supporting them.
Erdogan is whore. He and his band of religious nutjobs will turn Turkey into an Islamic theocracy in 10 years with no democracy left.
It might run on winders, but the bugs are not OS related. They are, however, related to the stupidity of Hospira and their software guys.
One person above raised an interesting issue, which we have all known about. If you clamp down on security, users find the system unusable. Normally, this isn't such a big deal but in medical systems it is a very big dead due to the possibility of people dying as a result...either too much or too little. Solving this problem is critical for medical systems, i.e., how do you make the security tight but flexible enough to be properly managed. People do stupid things, like lose passwords, let viruses go inside security perimeters, etc.
1. All that will happen is that CCIN will disappear and magically pop up again with a new name, different premises, different phone numbers, but with the same slimeballs in charge. The companies will whine, if they find out about it, to the Chinese government. The Chinese government will open an alleged investigation and that will be last anyone will hear the investigation. Meanwhile, the companies will again become frustrated, do to the new entity what they did to CCIN. Go to 1.
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You don't understand the new libertarian ethos in Congress. Rules and regs stifle creativity. Oversight can be safely left in industry hands. Rand Paul and his fellow travelers are honored to be associated with lax oversight.
No, Scientology should not have tax exempt status because they produce no charity benefits to balance what some of their followers produce. The same cannot be said for the other religions. If it were up to me, you only get tax exemption based on the level of your charitable work, quantifiable charitable work that is. Getting tax exemption just because you have a religion is plain silly.
Because to physicists who spend their time working this problem seem to agree that 1 is most likely. 3 is being attacked all the time with new theories but it is sort of an unlimited well of human imagination.
In my opinion, it is like the WTC "theories". They get started because some yokel cannot understand the official explanations when others seem as likely. However, if you pick up Popular Mechanics book "Debunking 9/11 Myths" (especially the newer addition), they pretty much destroy the reigning alternative alleged theories. Why should I accept the book's version? Because they worked with scientists, engineers, and demolition experts who concur on the official explanation. Why do I not accept the alternative theories? Because they have little scientific analysis backing them. So I bow to the physicists who work the dark matter issue as being the experts and in a much better position to judge because, as intelligent and wonderful as I believe myself to be, I don't have their expertise.
TSA agents are mirroring society. Does your workplace only hire saints:
Hiring Supervisor: We like your credentials, are you certified as being a saint?
Prospective Employee: Yep, see these affidavits, I'm considered quite holy.
HS: So you wouldn't do anything untoward toward customers?
PS: Of course not, I'd jeopardize my saint status, I like being holy.
HS: Okay, you are hired, but be good!!
I agree. It sounds like the moral of the story is not to get in bed with Microsoft. It is well known mission creep kills budgets.
If poking at bush babies with a broken stick to hurt them enough to come out to be eaten constitutes a tool, then Fongoli chimpanzees of Senegal (NYT article) use tools. At least the females do, the males do he-male things like chase down their prey. It is thought the females do this because they are not big and brawny like the males. Actually, the males just feel like they are losing their testosterone if they stoop to using tools...or asking the females which direction their prey went.
Women thrive on social skills, it is impossible to encourage them to to have rubbish social skills. It is precisely because science and engineering do not foster social interaction that women find them, frankly, boring. So they eschew these careers.
Academic is a special case. They will accommodate oddballs more readily than business. You can be terrible socially in the business world, but that doesn't make you an oddball. It doesn't surprise me that academics misread the lack of women in science and engineering, they are quick to blame everything of social constructs because that is how they view the world. Thus academics see themselves as fixing the problems "created" by the business world, and tend to hire oddballs and women.
Why stop there? We must consider the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians, Genghis Khan, etc. Let's regurgitate all the past sins from 1000s of years ago and bring them front and center so we can have new culture wars over them. Let's consider the murders Mohammed committed because the twit heard voices and presumed they were Gabriel.
And turning a blind eye to Daesh is not helping the world view Turkey in a favorable light. Erdogan has no problems with Daesh killing all non-Sunnis.
Don't give Marsha Blackburn any new ideas. She has none of her own and is just about the most vapid puff of pastry ever elected to the House.
Yes, but if they flip 1 million watches, Apple has still sold 1 million watches.
Please step away from the 50's and 60's, the "military-industrial" complex is way to small to effect the economy. DoD spend about $600 billion a year (of which about $300 Billion is spent on salaries, benefits, etc.) and that pales in comparison to the rest of the nearly $4 Trillion federal budget and won't budget the $17 Trillion U.S. economy. In fact, even large companies are doing all they can to get away from reliance on DoD because of uncertain funding and small ball funding.
So, following your logic, the Eisenhower should never have started the interstate highway system since it wasn't part of the bare basics. Come to it, we should halt all federally funded cancer research since that's not a basic either. And Grandma can come and live with you, affording her is not a government bare basic. Neither is the EPA and all those emission controls, a round of mercury for everyone. Airline safety can be left to the airlines, auto safety to the car companies, drug safety to the drug companies. I can see the light!!!
I believe the county that San Diego is in (is it San Diego county?) has a poo processing plant. At first the residents were a bit squeamish but now seem to accept it.
Unless you pump the excise brine directly back into the ocean and kill all the life around the pump outlet. Similar thing happens with CO2. I've head the specious argument we don't have to worry because we're just recycling CO2 by burning coal, oil, and gas. Yes, that's true. However, it is important to note that all the sequestered CO2 put into the atmosphere isn't mere recycling.
As in everything, it is important to have a sense of proportion. Math is your friend.
Hmm...okay, let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?
I see. So a Muslim cleric is now a trained psychiatrist who can spot an Islamic nutjob from a regular Muslim...by what, precisely? Wanting to do something the cleric wouldn't entertain himself?
So China is somehow incapable of buying the chips through a 3rd party? Maybe we could sell the Department of Commerce to China...nice regulatory agency, cheap, bit of wear around the edges and maybe a bit dated but it would fit well within China's Stupidity Index for Chinese What are Involved in Security against...errr...for the People.
Because humans also generated religious nutjobs who rather wish death becomes us.
Strangely enough, global warming is related to a decrease in the number of neurons of politicians denying the Earth is a system with interlocking parts. It is also subtlety related to the Amen Corner of American Politics where some Supreme Deity will do something only when conditions get bad enough to kill off most life rather than before when it might actually do some good.
The only sane option is mutual disarmament and it is chimera, it will never be realized because you'd have to get India and Pakistan to agree. And even if you did, Putin would keep several back and threaten the West with them. He's recently made such threats. Also, every two-bit Islamic My-Dick's-Too-Small Head-O-State would realize that with a secret program, they can break out and threaten the West with Convert or Die. Allah is a cruel, unfeeling god.
Just kidding about Allah, he's so Other that he never communicates directly with Man. I suspect he's so Other he doesn't really exist. Any angel messengers he used are really ETs that like to screw with earthlings. The Greek Guy with the electric hair has warned us about them.
Secular democracy? Present day Turkey? You must have missed the memos from Erdogan. The king of Jordan said it best, (I paraphrase): Erdogan thinks of democracy as a bus, when he reaches his destination, he's going to get off."
And currently Turkey is turning a blind eye to Daesh if not actively supporting them.
Erdogan is whore. He and his band of religious nutjobs will turn Turkey into an Islamic theocracy in 10 years with no democracy left.
To use C#, I'd have to trust MS. Never.
It might run on winders, but the bugs are not OS related. They are, however, related to the stupidity of Hospira and their software guys.
One person above raised an interesting issue, which we have all known about. If you clamp down on security, users find the system unusable. Normally, this isn't such a big deal but in medical systems it is a very big dead due to the possibility of people dying as a result...either too much or too little. Solving this problem is critical for medical systems, i.e., how do you make the security tight but flexible enough to be properly managed. People do stupid things, like lose passwords, let viruses go inside security perimeters, etc.
1. All that will happen is that CCIN will disappear and magically pop up again with a new name, different premises, different phone numbers, but with the same slimeballs in charge. The companies will whine, if they find out about it, to the Chinese government. The Chinese government will open an alleged investigation and that will be last anyone will hear the investigation. Meanwhile, the companies will again become frustrated, do to the new entity what they did to CCIN. Go to 1.