For a god laugh, and to see how bad LA used to be, take a look at this episode of Battlestar Galactica (1980 remake). Specifically, the 7:50 mark when these lines are spoken:
What's that odd-looking brown haze hanging over the city?
Except that parable is false. A frog will jump out of the water once it reaches a certain temperature.
A much better example would be the words of James Madison:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
uMatrix is good because it is very granular in what you can block. However, that granularity comes at a price because it requires more effort from the user to determine what is and what is not needed.
Just remember, once you have things set the way you want you have to lock in your changes at the top of the screen or else you'll have to do it all over again the next time you go to a site.
Rather than wait for your packages to be delivered then stolen, start early. Say around October. Put your own package on the front step when you leave for the day.
Inside you can fill it with dog shit or dirty diapers.
The first time a thief takes it they'll probably think better of stopping by a second time.
Which leads to the next step. Since that thief probably won't try again you can either rinse and repeat for the next thief or go to the next level and rig a fake package to shoot out pepper spray when opened.
If you wanted to be really clever, have a package which uses compressed air to shoot out dog shit when opened. Or any comparable liquid.
Stating a fact is not a strawman argument. Trump did petition to have a sea wall installed and in his petition it is specifically stated it is because of the possibility of rising sea levels due to climate change. The exact words:
"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland."
Further, he sent out flyers to the local populace in regards to this proposal in which it states:
"Predicted sea level rise and more frequent storm events will increase the rate of erosion throughout the 21st century."
So Trump being Trump, he says one thing but does another. Like his golf course in Connecticut which he has repeatedly bragged is worth $50 million but wanted to claim on his taxes was only worth $1.5 million.
Then again, the con artist has done the same thing around the country with his golf courses, bragging about being worth X millions but claiming for tax purposes significantly lower values.
The difference between your story and this one is the pilot handed over the plane because he was defecting. In this case the Chinese went out and took the underwater drone.
People also forget in Bush's first term, soon after entering office, one of our surveillance planes was hit by a Chinese jet and had to land on Chinese soil. The crew wasn't able to destroy all the equipment or files before leaving the plane so guess what the Chinese did.
the worst foreign policy strategy every implemented by the US.
Because lying about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, destroying the one bulwark which might have existed to stop the spread of ISIS, had nothing to do with any of this, right? That was a fantastic foreign policy issue, right?
So the guy that's still funding cutthroats in Syria
You're confused. It's the Syrian army and the Russians who are funding and supplying the cutthroats in Syria. Just this week the Syrian army turned over numerous tanks, APCs, trucks and other vehicles to ISIS.
Meanwhile, the Russians were nice enough to give ISIS and entire barracks complex, complete with tents, bunk beds, air conditioning, food, reading and even credit cards so ISIS could go shopping.
5 minutes. Yesterday I added 9.253 gallons (I check my mileage) to my tank. From the time it took to hand over my money (I pay cash), fill the tank, get my change and drive away was about 5 minutes. 6 at the outmost and that was because the guy in front of me, who I thought was going to drive away, continued to sit in his car with the engine running until I drove around him.
I you're taking 10 - 15 minutes to fill your tank and pay for it, you're doing something wrong.
China may have the manpower but if you can't get that manpower to points beyond your own shore, what's the point? Whatever ships China may have would be sunk within days if they were launched with the intent of attacking us.
Their air force has no relevant combat experience since the Korean War and their training, while decent, doesn't come close to most Western air forces.
That takes care of the military side since in a toe-to-toe fight we wouldn't have to invade them. We could take out what we wanted with long range missiles or aircraft which could evade or be invisible to their air defenses.
On the economic side while we are large trading partners with China, they wouldn't want to jeopardize that trade because despite our companies using their labor, without that employment there isn't enough slack in the rest of the world to pick up that lost trade. That would mean millions of people out of work, their version of industrialists would have their wealth shrink which would in turn put pressure on whoever is heading the country to do something because they've gotten used to living a nice life.
They're the ones any country is always worried about, the people with money and influence, because they're the ones who have the connections to make life difficult for leaders. If they leave a country and take their wealth with them, the country will rapidly fall into decline as a result. Then would come the common man who is out of work who exacts his frustrations on the government and then you're off to the races.
Even for a country like China which has no problem using its military to literally crush dissent (see Tiananmen Square), there is only so far they go with that force because at some point there will be dissension in the military which devolves to unit against unit.
We know there were units sent to Tiananmen Square who refused to fire on civilians so it's not out of the question for other units to do the same if they perceive their role to be killing civilians solely to quell dissent against the leaders.
Trump has a long track record of running hundreds of business ventures.
Many of which have failed, declared bankruptcy or are barely keeping their head above water. His repeated lies about how much his businesses are worth are undermined by his own attorneys who keep arguing the properties are worth substantially less for tax purposes.
and a long track record of raking in millions in cash for her family while being Secretary of State.
False. Completely false. Hillary Clinton, or her family, never profited from any contributions or otherwise while she was Secretary of State. Nor from their foundation.
"Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me," Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. "The money I took out of there was incredible."
Further, Trump's "foundation" has been illegally paying his legal bills, his personal bills and buying him things. That is why the New York Attorney General has barred him from soliciting for donations in the entire state of New York.
You just like the fact that she was completely beholden to her financiers on Wall Street, as opposed to Trump, who paid his own way through to his nomination as a candidate
False again. Trump received tens of millions from hedge fund managers and Wall Street firms, not to mention his pick to head the Treasury is/was a hedge fund manager AND worked for Goldman Sachs.
he main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
With Windows 10 that is no longer true. Microsoft has gone above and beyond hiding things from the user as well as relocating things which had been in the same place for successive operating systems.
Even worse, trying to get anything useful accomplished is almost an act of futility as you can't get to there from here. One has to take the longest most convoluted route possible to end up two feet from where you started.
DOS was easier to maintain and maneuver through than Windows 10.
It is not a lawful request since like the illegal act Bush performed, the act is designed to fire people who were doing their job and upholding the Constitution. Not rubber stamping an edict.
Also, Trump is not their new employer. They are employed by the taxpayers. Trump is only their manager and from what is being shown already, and as he has shown throughout his life, a very poor manager. One who refuses facts but quick to blame others for his incompetence.
It is quite obvious why the question was asked. If, when Trump gets in, he does start firing people I can only hope the lawsuits start flying, just like the folks at Disney are suing.
"They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."
We asked them to protect us, not treat everyone as a criminal by scanning every phone call, tracking our movements and creating a database of every person in this country to run queries against.
Also, they're not heroes. Not even for broad definition of heroes. They're doing a job a) they want to do and b) they're paid to do. If they're considered heroes then so are myself and my team whose job it is to keep our state Health department up and running 24/7 so they can respond to the next flu outbreak, flu which kills more people every year than all terrorist attacks on this country combined (roughly 23K die every year from the flu).
If you stop making excuses for why you're spying on people who have done nothing wrong, whose data you keep for years just because, and stop lying about you not spying on people who have done no wrong, maybe your agency wouldn't be considered in the light it is.
For the sake of argument let's say these folks are being paid the Living Wage. 8.25 X 60 = 495. If you get paid every other week that is 990 gross pay.
Let's assume these people are working full-time so 26 paychecks X 990 = 25,740. Based on this tax rate guide that means they pay a 20% tax on their wages. However, they get the first 10,600 as a personal allowance. So, 20% of 15,140 (25,740-10,600) = 3,028. Subtracting everything out leaves 12,112. Add in the 10,600 and you get 22,712 to live on (assuming my math is correct).
All of the above is assuming Amazon uses the highest possible minimum wage rate. If they use the lower value of 7.20 then the take home pay gets even smaller. Which now brings us to conclusion: either the prices for a flat in Scotland are exceptionally low, as is everything else, or trying to live on a minimum wage in Scotland is nowhere near a comfortable living. At 500/month, rent will consume 26.4% of your earnings.
Once you start adding in food, clothes, any form of entertainment (alcohol most likely), not to mention electricity, heating (if separate from electricity), your monthly phone bill, transportation costs and so on, you're not really left with much to be considered comfortable.
What business is it of the Uber cab company if their customers are asking the other person such questions? Their employee is getting paid to pick people up and take them to whatever destination they want even when the driver wasn't going in the same direction.
If two (or more) people hit if off, so what? It's none of the cab company's business to pry into people's personal lives.
In assessing the 2004 tax holiday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reports that most of the largest beneficiaries of the holiday actually cut jobs in 2005-06 - despite overall economy-wide job growth in those years - and many used the repatriated funds simply to repurchase stock or pay dividends.
About 92 percent of it went to shareholders, mostly in the form of increased share buybacks and the rest through increased dividends.
In other words, no help to the economy.
2) whoever does it will be crucified for being easy on big business income taxes
Which Bush was but then again, this was the same guy who handed over $700 billion of taxpayer money to banks and Wall Street firms so they could pay out their bonuses. Obviously he didn't care about being crucified or what the people thought. It wasn't his money.
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For a god laugh, and to see how bad LA used to be, take a look at this episode of Battlestar Galactica (1980 remake). Specifically, the 7:50 mark when these lines are spoken:
What's that odd-looking brown haze hanging over the city?
Must be some sort of defense shield.
Except that parable is false. A frog will jump out of the water once it reaches a certain temperature.
A much better example would be the words of James Madison:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
uMatrix is good because it is very granular in what you can block. However, that granularity comes at a price because it requires more effort from the user to determine what is and what is not needed.
Just remember, once you have things set the way you want you have to lock in your changes at the top of the screen or else you'll have to do it all over again the next time you go to a site.
Same here. XP (fully patched) with Firefox 37 (I think). Throw on uMatrix and it speeds along without a single issue.
I have install discs so am thinking of getting a slightly newer used system which should last me another decade or so.
I do have a W7 machine but that is reserved for photo processing. Still need to get it patched to October of this year but it too has Firefox on it.
Rather than wait for your packages to be delivered then stolen, start early. Say around October. Put your own package on the front step when you leave for the day.
Inside you can fill it with dog shit or dirty diapers.
The first time a thief takes it they'll probably think better of stopping by a second time.
Which leads to the next step. Since that thief probably won't try again you can either rinse and repeat for the next thief or go to the next level and rig a fake package to shoot out pepper spray when opened.
If you wanted to be really clever, have a package which uses compressed air to shoot out dog shit when opened. Or any comparable liquid.
Stating a fact is not a strawman argument. Trump did petition to have a sea wall installed and in his petition it is specifically stated it is because of the possibility of rising sea levels due to climate change. The exact words:
"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland."
Further, he sent out flyers to the local populace in regards to this proposal in which it states:
"Predicted sea level rise and more frequent storm events will increase the rate of erosion throughout the 21st century."
So Trump being Trump, he says one thing but does another. Like his golf course in Connecticut which he has repeatedly bragged is worth $50 million but wanted to claim on his taxes was only worth $1.5 million.
Then again, the con artist has done the same thing around the country with his golf courses, bragging about being worth X millions but claiming for tax purposes significantly lower values.
The difference between your story and this one is the pilot handed over the plane because he was defecting. In this case the Chinese went out and took the underwater drone.
People also forget in Bush's first term, soon after entering office, one of our surveillance planes was hit by a Chinese jet and had to land on Chinese soil. The crew wasn't able to destroy all the equipment or files before leaving the plane so guess what the Chinese did.
the worst foreign policy strategy every implemented by the US.
Because lying about the need to invade and occupy Iraq, destroying the one bulwark which might have existed to stop the spread of ISIS, had nothing to do with any of this, right? That was a fantastic foreign policy issue, right?
So the guy that's still funding cutthroats in Syria
You're confused. It's the Syrian army and the Russians who are funding and supplying the cutthroats in Syria. Just this week the Syrian army turned over numerous tanks, APCs, trucks and other vehicles to ISIS.
Meanwhile, the Russians were nice enough to give ISIS and entire barracks complex, complete with tents, bunk beds, air conditioning, food, reading and even credit cards so ISIS could go shopping.
This was on top of the rifles, machine guns, mortars and ammunition to go with it all, as well as several anti-aircraft missile batteries.
Time it.
5 minutes. Yesterday I added 9.253 gallons (I check my mileage) to my tank. From the time it took to hand over my money (I pay cash), fill the tank, get my change and drive away was about 5 minutes. 6 at the outmost and that was because the guy in front of me, who I thought was going to drive away, continued to sit in his car with the engine running until I drove around him.
I you're taking 10 - 15 minutes to fill your tank and pay for it, you're doing something wrong.
China may have the manpower but if you can't get that manpower to points beyond your own shore, what's the point? Whatever ships China may have would be sunk within days if they were launched with the intent of attacking us.
Their air force has no relevant combat experience since the Korean War and their training, while decent, doesn't come close to most Western air forces.
That takes care of the military side since in a toe-to-toe fight we wouldn't have to invade them. We could take out what we wanted with long range missiles or aircraft which could evade or be invisible to their air defenses.
On the economic side while we are large trading partners with China, they wouldn't want to jeopardize that trade because despite our companies using their labor, without that employment there isn't enough slack in the rest of the world to pick up that lost trade. That would mean millions of people out of work, their version of industrialists would have their wealth shrink which would in turn put pressure on whoever is heading the country to do something because they've gotten used to living a nice life.
They're the ones any country is always worried about, the people with money and influence, because they're the ones who have the connections to make life difficult for leaders. If they leave a country and take their wealth with them, the country will rapidly fall into decline as a result. Then would come the common man who is out of work who exacts his frustrations on the government and then you're off to the races.
Even for a country like China which has no problem using its military to literally crush dissent (see Tiananmen Square), there is only so far they go with that force because at some point there will be dissension in the military which devolves to unit against unit.
We know there were units sent to Tiananmen Square who refused to fire on civilians so it's not out of the question for other units to do the same if they perceive their role to be killing civilians solely to quell dissent against the leaders.
Trump has a long track record of running hundreds of business ventures.
Many of which have failed, declared bankruptcy or are barely keeping their head above water. His repeated lies about how much his businesses are worth are undermined by his own attorneys who keep arguing the properties are worth substantially less for tax purposes.
and a long track record of raking in millions in cash for her family while being Secretary of State.
False. Completely false. Hillary Clinton, or her family, never profited from any contributions or otherwise while she was Secretary of State. Nor from their foundation.
Contrast that with Trump who bragged about siphoning millions from his casinos while they were plunging into bankruptcy:
"Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me," Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. "The money I took out of there was incredible."
Further, Trump's "foundation" has been illegally paying his legal bills, his personal bills and buying him things. That is why the New York Attorney General has barred him from soliciting for donations in the entire state of New York.
You just like the fact that she was completely beholden to her financiers on Wall Street, as opposed to Trump, who paid his own way through to his nomination as a candidate
False again. Trump received tens of millions from hedge fund managers and Wall Street firms, not to mention his pick to head the Treasury is/was a hedge fund manager AND worked for Goldman Sachs.
Nor did Trump pay his way through the campaign. He started to do so but then had donations come in from regular people, including illegal foreign donations.
This is the exact same question I asked when years ago Microsoft put out a patch for XP which completely killed the network stack.
Microsoft's response was to go out to their site and get the patch to fix the issue.
*blink* *blink*
And to think these are the people who are getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to put out such shitty software.
he main difference I have always seen between Mac and Windows is that Mac tends to hide more stuff from you.
With Windows 10 that is no longer true. Microsoft has gone above and beyond hiding things from the user as well as relocating things which had been in the same place for successive operating systems.
Even worse, trying to get anything useful accomplished is almost an act of futility as you can't get to there from here. One has to take the longest most convoluted route possible to end up two feet from where you started.
DOS was easier to maintain and maneuver through than Windows 10.
What if we use the almighty trebuchet which can launch 95kg stone projectiles over 300 meters using a counterweight?
Refuse a lawful request from your new employer.
It is not a lawful request since like the illegal act Bush performed, the act is designed to fire people who were doing their job and upholding the Constitution. Not rubber stamping an edict.
Also, Trump is not their new employer. They are employed by the taxpayers. Trump is only their manager and from what is being shown already, and as he has shown throughout his life, a very poor manager. One who refuses facts but quick to blame others for his incompetence.
It is quite obvious why the question was asked. If, when Trump gets in, he does start firing people I can only hope the lawsuits start flying, just like the folks at Disney are suing.
When the money is taken from you, you're paying the bill as a patient whether you want to be one or not.
And he's not going to put Hillary in jail either, so add that to the growing list of flip-flops he's done.
"They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."
We asked them to protect us, not treat everyone as a criminal by scanning every phone call, tracking our movements and creating a database of every person in this country to run queries against.
Also, they're not heroes. Not even for broad definition of heroes. They're doing a job a) they want to do and b) they're paid to do. If they're considered heroes then so are myself and my team whose job it is to keep our state Health department up and running 24/7 so they can respond to the next flu outbreak, flu which kills more people every year than all terrorist attacks on this country combined (roughly 23K die every year from the flu).
If you stop making excuses for why you're spying on people who have done nothing wrong, whose data you keep for years just because, and stop lying about you not spying on people who have done no wrong, maybe your agency wouldn't be considered in the light it is.
Thank you. I wasn't sure about the insurance part. I thought the employer was the one who paid that, and I completely missed the pension portion.
Adding those in makes it even worse.
Who said a minimum wage workers life had to be comfortable?
Either you (you Anonymous Cowards all look the same) or the guy above me who said, and I quote:
Yep, 60 hours at minimum wage in Scotland can get you a very comfortable living, it's a blshit story
The highest minimum wage in Scotland is 7.20/hour is you are 25 or over, whereas the Living Wage is 8.25/hour.
For the sake of argument let's say these folks are being paid the Living Wage. 8.25 X 60 = 495. If you get paid every other week that is 990 gross pay.
Let's assume these people are working full-time so 26 paychecks X 990 = 25,740. Based on this tax rate guide that means they pay a 20% tax on their wages. However, they get the first 10,600 as a personal allowance. So, 20% of 15,140 (25,740-10,600) = 3,028. Subtracting everything out leaves 12,112. Add in the 10,600 and you get 22,712 to live on (assuming my math is correct).
All of the above is assuming Amazon uses the highest possible minimum wage rate. If they use the lower value of 7.20 then the take home pay gets even smaller. Which now brings us to conclusion: either the prices for a flat in Scotland are exceptionally low, as is everything else, or trying to live on a minimum wage in Scotland is nowhere near a comfortable living. At 500/month, rent will consume 26.4% of your earnings.
Once you start adding in food, clothes, any form of entertainment (alcohol most likely), not to mention electricity, heating (if separate from electricity), your monthly phone bill, transportation costs and so on, you're not really left with much to be considered comfortable.
What business is it of the Uber cab company if their customers are asking the other person such questions? Their employee is getting paid to pick people up and take them to whatever destination they want even when the driver wasn't going in the same direction.
If two (or more) people hit if off, so what? It's none of the cab company's business to pry into people's personal lives.
Autonomous Shuttle Brakes for Skateboarders and Texting Students
Why are we thwarting nature? Why are trying to keep the stupid ones around in the herd? Let Evolution do its thing.
1) money will come back into the US and help our economy
False. Many of those who brought money back into the U.S. cut jobs. From the U.S. Treasury itself:
In assessing the 2004 tax holiday, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reports that most of the largest beneficiaries of the holiday actually cut jobs in 2005-06 - despite overall economy-wide job growth in those years - and many used the repatriated funds simply to repurchase stock or pay dividends.
Also, as the New York Times pointed out, using the government's own reports:
About 92 percent of it went to shareholders, mostly in the form of increased share buybacks and the rest through increased dividends.
In other words, no help to the economy.
2) whoever does it will be crucified for being easy on big business income taxes
Which Bush was but then again, this was the same guy who handed over $700 billion of taxpayer money to banks and Wall Street firms so they could pay out their bonuses. Obviously he didn't care about being crucified or what the people thought. It wasn't his money.