Actually, I can read a 300-page paperback novel in three hours. My current reading takes three days as I normally read a half-hour during the afternoon commute on public transit and a half-hour before going to bed.
The 535 members of Congress who voted for or against the 12 appropriation bills that make up the budget before sending it to the president for his signatures. AFAIK, the House Republicans haven't written a single appropriation bill that was due at the end of the fiscal year two days ago. This is why the Congress voted on a Continuing Resolution to maintain government funding at existing levels and the president signed to keep the government open until mid-December. If blaming Obama makes you feel good, by all means blame Obama.
Depending on length, I can easily consume a paperback novel or ebook in three days. During my dead-tree days, I used to buy 10 paperbacks every month. With the ebook reader, I try to limit myself to one per week and switch over to a non-fiction ebook if I get done sooner.
If you want more space on an iPhone, pay for the privilege. I keep a minimal amount of data on my 16GB iPhone and have 10GB free, as I use it for reading emails, ebooks and the Wall Street Journal while taking public transit. My roommate has a 128GB iPhone to watch movies while at work. Different strokes for different folks.
Never mind that the legislation for the EPA was created by "congresscritters making the laws and rules" and signed by America's greatest environmentalist, President Richard Nixon.
It wouldn't be the first time that Congress told an agency to do something, provide no money and then complain that the agency wasn't doing the job. A fine example of that is U.S. soldiers using scrap metal to reinforce military vehicles against road bombs in the Iraq War. Took Congress awhile to pony up for that one.
Depends on how the planets are aligned. The shortest distance between Earth and Mars happens every two years. Subsequently, the launch window for a direct flight to Mars is every two years. A flyby of Venus provides enough gravity assist to approach Mars from a different trajectory. The Russian Vega probes flew past Venus on their way to the Halley's Comet in 1986.
Otherwise known as the signal-to-noise ratio in recruiting. Of course, not every resume submitted for a position will match the requirements. If the economy cratered like it did after the Great Recession with seven applicant for every position (a "normal" economy has two applicants for every job opening), a recruiter will get a flood of unsuitable resumes. Not all of it is fraud. Most are from people who are desperate to get a job and apply for everything in sight.
When I worked as a video game tester and lead tester for six years, we were paid $16/hr and nearby Sony paid $20/hr. Management always told us if we didn't like our pay rate, we could go down the street and work at Taco Bell to clean toilets after the lunch hour rush. One of the testers looked into it, quit his job and started working at Taco Bell. He made more money, had better hours and more benefits. Management stopped talking about Taco Bell after that. The company eventually filed for bankruptcy protection after the dot com bust.
I don't understand why people keep taking this crap seriously.
The same reason people buy lottery tickets. I find it easier to pick up discarded lottery tickets in the parking lot and enter the numbers for the second chance drawings on the lotto website. Been doing that for eight years, entering 600+ tickets and not winning a damn thing. But it only cost me a few minutes of my time. I may win someday.
A recruiter called me for an I.T. support position that paid $25/hr (my usual rate). I go in for the interview, but the hiring manager is out and the position only pays $15/hr. I told the recruiter I was no longer interested in the position. The recruiter accidentally sends me the salary spreadsheet. Lo and behold, all the I.T. support positions paid $10/hr. If I have returned for another interview, it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to badger me to take the job at $10/hr.
We don't have a dot com bubble because your grandmother and her cats aren't investing in the latest hot tech stock tip. The market is propped up by institutional investors, high-frequency traders and Fortune 500 companies buying back their own stock.
We need more plumbers, mechanics and other skilled tradesmen. Alas, most high schools no longer have a vocational track and everyone goes to college. The construction trades are hurting today as most of the foreign workers gone home after the Great Recession.
It's the.com era all over again... "zomg, we have teh social" or whatever the daily buzzword is.
Not exactly. The dot com era was your grandmother and her cats investing in the latest tech stock tip that inflated the bubble. These days its too much money chasing too few investment opportunities that offer a higher rate of return in this low interest rate environment. If the Fortune 500 companies stopped buying back their own stock, the overall market would be much lower than it is today.
My roommate majored in computer engineering at the state university and works for the FBI as a computer forensic expert. I skipped high school to graduate with a general education A.A. degree in 1994, and graduated with a computer programming A.S. degree and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in 2007. Not everyone needs to go to a top whatever school to earn a decent living.
Adult children are allowed to stay on their parents' health insurance policy until they're 27-years-old, which is often cheaper than an individual insurance policy. Without that provision in Obamacare, most young adults wouldn't have insurance coverage while attending college or working a minimum wage job. Nothing prevents a young adult from buying their own insurance. This has nothing to do with owning a gun.
My point was, "if someone is not emotionally stable enough to own a gun, why do we let them drive?"
Learning how to drive requires passing a driver's test and having someone to teach you how to drive. AFAIK, never having bought a gun (yet), you just need to pass the test and buy the gun with ammo. Any idiot can shoot a gun but that's not the same as owning a gun responsibly.
Lord that has nothing to do with your first amendment rights...
Sometimes the gun nuts — typically the folks who go parading around Target with an assault rifle and scaring the bejesus out of people — will scream that their Second Amendment rights outweighs everyone else's First Amendment rights. The scary thing is that they're in a position to use force against someone who only has words.
What part of NOT ALL don't you understand? Oh, wait. In your eagerness defend your Second Amendment rights, you decided to trample my First Amendment rights by misreading what I wrote. You're the fourth poster to do that today.
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Actually, I haven't watched TV in the last 25+ years. There are a handful of current TV shows that I do watch on Hulu.
Actually, I can read a 300-page paperback novel in three hours. My current reading takes three days as I normally read a half-hour during the afternoon commute on public transit and a half-hour before going to bed.
And libertarians don't like any of your policies.
What policies do you think I represent?
Who signs off on the budget?
The 535 members of Congress who voted for or against the 12 appropriation bills that make up the budget before sending it to the president for his signatures. AFAIK, the House Republicans haven't written a single appropriation bill that was due at the end of the fiscal year two days ago. This is why the Congress voted on a Continuing Resolution to maintain government funding at existing levels and the president signed to keep the government open until mid-December. If blaming Obama makes you feel good, by all means blame Obama.
Depending on length, I can easily consume a paperback novel or ebook in three days. During my dead-tree days, I used to buy 10 paperbacks every month. With the ebook reader, I try to limit myself to one per week and switch over to a non-fiction ebook if I get done sooner.
If you want more space on an iPhone, pay for the privilege. I keep a minimal amount of data on my 16GB iPhone and have 10GB free, as I use it for reading emails, ebooks and the Wall Street Journal while taking public transit. My roommate has a 128GB iPhone to watch movies while at work. Different strokes for different folks.
When in middle of a blaze, one fire team looks like any other fire team.
Never mind that the legislation for the EPA was created by "congresscritters making the laws and rules" and signed by America's greatest environmentalist, President Richard Nixon.
It wouldn't be the first time that Congress told an agency to do something, provide no money and then complain that the agency wasn't doing the job. A fine example of that is U.S. soldiers using scrap metal to reinforce military vehicles against road bombs in the Iraq War. Took Congress awhile to pony up for that one.
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Silicon Valley prior to the dot com bust in 2001. Even today restaurant wages are 42% higher than the national average.
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Restaurant-l-Silicon-Valley,-CA.html
Depends on how the planets are aligned. The shortest distance between Earth and Mars happens every two years. Subsequently, the launch window for a direct flight to Mars is every two years. A flyby of Venus provides enough gravity assist to approach Mars from a different trajectory. The Russian Vega probes flew past Venus on their way to the Halley's Comet in 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program
Otherwise known as the signal-to-noise ratio in recruiting. Of course, not every resume submitted for a position will match the requirements. If the economy cratered like it did after the Great Recession with seven applicant for every position (a "normal" economy has two applicants for every job opening), a recruiter will get a flood of unsuitable resumes. Not all of it is fraud. Most are from people who are desperate to get a job and apply for everything in sight.
When I worked as a video game tester and lead tester for six years, we were paid $16/hr and nearby Sony paid $20/hr. Management always told us if we didn't like our pay rate, we could go down the street and work at Taco Bell to clean toilets after the lunch hour rush. One of the testers looked into it, quit his job and started working at Taco Bell. He made more money, had better hours and more benefits. Management stopped talking about Taco Bell after that. The company eventually filed for bankruptcy protection after the dot com bust.
I don't understand why people keep taking this crap seriously.
The same reason people buy lottery tickets. I find it easier to pick up discarded lottery tickets in the parking lot and enter the numbers for the second chance drawings on the lotto website. Been doing that for eight years, entering 600+ tickets and not winning a damn thing. But it only cost me a few minutes of my time. I may win someday.
A recruiter called me for an I.T. support position that paid $25/hr (my usual rate). I go in for the interview, but the hiring manager is out and the position only pays $15/hr. I told the recruiter I was no longer interested in the position. The recruiter accidentally sends me the salary spreadsheet. Lo and behold, all the I.T. support positions paid $10/hr. If I have returned for another interview, it wouldn't surprise me if they tried to badger me to take the job at $10/hr.
A manned mission to Venus was on the drawing boards in the early 1970's, including a Russian flyby of Venus on the way to Mars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby
We don't have a dot com bubble because your grandmother and her cats aren't investing in the latest hot tech stock tip. The market is propped up by institutional investors, high-frequency traders and Fortune 500 companies buying back their own stock.
We need more plumbers, mechanics and other skilled tradesmen. Alas, most high schools no longer have a vocational track and everyone goes to college. The construction trades are hurting today as most of the foreign workers gone home after the Great Recession.
It's the .com era all over again ... "zomg, we have teh social" or whatever the daily buzzword is.
Not exactly. The dot com era was your grandmother and her cats investing in the latest tech stock tip that inflated the bubble. These days its too much money chasing too few investment opportunities that offer a higher rate of return in this low interest rate environment. If the Fortune 500 companies stopped buying back their own stock, the overall market would be much lower than it is today.
My roommate majored in computer engineering at the state university and works for the FBI as a computer forensic expert. I skipped high school to graduate with a general education A.A. degree in 1994, and graduated with a computer programming A.S. degree and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in 2007. Not everyone needs to go to a top whatever school to earn a decent living.
The graphics looks like a Nintendo Wii game. Hence, Nintendo bastardization.
Adult children are allowed to stay on their parents' health insurance policy until they're 27-years-old, which is often cheaper than an individual insurance policy. Without that provision in Obamacare, most young adults wouldn't have insurance coverage while attending college or working a minimum wage job. Nothing prevents a young adult from buying their own insurance. This has nothing to do with owning a gun.
My point was, "if someone is not emotionally stable enough to own a gun, why do we let them drive?"
Learning how to drive requires passing a driver's test and having someone to teach you how to drive. AFAIK, never having bought a gun (yet), you just need to pass the test and buy the gun with ammo. Any idiot can shoot a gun but that's not the same as owning a gun responsibly.
Lord that has nothing to do with your first amendment rights...
Sometimes the gun nuts — typically the folks who go parading around Target with an assault rifle and scaring the bejesus out of people — will scream that their Second Amendment rights outweighs everyone else's First Amendment rights. The scary thing is that they're in a position to use force against someone who only has words.
What part of NOT ALL don't you understand? Oh, wait. In your eagerness defend your Second Amendment rights, you decided to trample my First Amendment rights by misreading what I wrote. You're the fourth poster to do that today.