... I believe that there are courts tasked with assessing such cases. And the use of such courts is what really differentiates "us" from "them".
This is true. And this is also why cases in which people are caught *literally* red-handed drag on for years and justice is never quite seen to be done. I think now and then there comes a situation which is clear enough for public and harsh punishment, "encourager les autres" if nothing else. While the current leader may not be the biggest villain in the production, he was certainly in charge when they were recently used.
I would not call it lynch mob thinking. "Lynch" carries a connotation of someone being targeted for no particular reason other than being what he/she is. In this case, there is plenty of legitimate blame and bad karma to assign, and clear chain of command responsibility to assign it on.
My word. It does seem I oversimplified a bit. However, while your points are well taken, I think I will stand by my dislike for the idea of moving large amounts of poison into waters that feed many countries (and connect to the open oceans), partly because "moving it to relative safety" is so dangerous in itself. I would like to see those most responsible taking the risks, but you're right, I didn't consider that it also gave them access.
I think it was H. Beam Piper in "Little Fuzzy" who had a character suggest that another be put to death "not so much for what he had done, as for being the sort of person who would do it." The stockpile of poisons, and the use thereof, and a lot of the "vicious and mobile war zone" issue, seems to be traceable to a small core of people around the current president. It would be nice if those responsible could be removed from power, in whatever fashion, quickly, *without* massive collateral damage to the human shield surrounding them in the capital; but I know that only happens in fantasy and techno-thrillers. Oh well. I'm sure the movies afterwards will have the "right" and "wrong" sides much more clarified . . . assuming enough people survive the poison or biological mess.
... has been inferring a potential customer/candidate's value. Forever. How can one particular "inventor" possibly claim that it's novel and unobvious?
Remember that even *with* New York City density, service can be very poor, because the city awarded regional monopolies in the interest of avoiding many conflicting work areas and tons of new copper wire back in the early days of cable. Those same companies kept getting by on cable technology rather than upgrading to fiber as long as anyone would stand it. Even more important, it is often physically impossible to install new interior wire in the walls in NYC buildings, especially older ones, so the cable (or new fiber) is in visible channel along the hallways, or in the top or bottom edge of the walls.
That was one of the silver-lining issues around Hurricane Sandy - the repairs done to submerged cable conduits have sometimes leapfrogged 2 or 3 technology generations, at a much faster speed than would have happened with "normal maintenance and upgrade".
So does mine. But I couldn't ride it to work without getting all sweated up. And my wife, with the repaired ankle (kevlar != tendon), can't ride like she used to.
Multiple people already mentioned as an aside, but since I work to NFPA specs I'll put it right in the title. You do *not* want to spend a lot of money and then have your insurance guy or the fire marshal wander through for inspection and tell you to rip it all down.
++this. Sorry, I don't have mod points at the moment. In my experience, open plan is plain stupid for an office. Home, maybe (except maybe there's a *reason* the kitchen should be hidden, so you can leave it messy while dinner is served:-) ) Even high cube walls don't keep out the noise where I am; our little area has 8' walls in a 12' space, but there's a customer-contact group on one side that doesn't seem to know that one can use a phone without the speaker, and clerical staff on the other that chatter away all day. I have to wear earplugs much of the time.
Off-off-topic back to main, why so much hate on this page, rather than appreciation, for a place that attempts to care for the staff's comfort (even if I think their style is misguided)?
They made the mess; clean it up in their territory. That already exposes lots of innocent people and other countries. Why make it *more* mobile and *more* public - and *more* vulnerable? And by the way, Assad should be Employee #1.
Or the other direction: Perhaps the previous statistics were unusually high. The generation who lived through the depression and WW2 had to be tougher, and many people were killed during the war. That cohort was stronger, and lived longer healthy through years of progress in food and medicine, and now they've been dying off so the statistics aren't being skewed *up* as much.
++this. We could be finally seeing the results of people approaching older ages who have been eating something (high fructose corn syrup? poison of your choice?) for years, or ingesting more BPA from plastic containers, or any of *zillions* of reasons - just like various statistics in the US. It doesn't mean that everyone was poisoned in 2003; it may mean that as a generation hits their 60s and their joints start aching, they are aching *worse*.
It could also be a comparative issue rather than absolute. We have all gotten used to the idea that 50 is the new 40, 60 is the new 50, so people having the same problems as their parents did at the same ages were expecting better.
Marriage is very clearly defined. It's between one man and however many women he can afford to support. And maybe their maids. Of course, there are little details, like one of the patriarchs marrying two sisters - which becomes specifically forbidden by the end of the book (I guess home life was a little strained).
Funny thing is, *divorce* is also clearly defined, along with support payments and responsibilities. None of this "death do us part" stuff.
No Jew knowledgeable about his/her religion accepts it as fact, certainly not literally. The scholarship done in the original language is much more scholarly - i.e. analytical - than the "bible study" done on translations. I would compare it to the Illiad and the Odyssey - history in the old sense of "oral history become legend", rather than what we expect today as detailed historical study with the benefit of written records, letters, ephemera of the time, and so on. Of course there are staunch traditionalists who would insist it was originally the direct word of . . . someone . . . but even they will admit that it was transcribed and copied for generations by fallible humans.
What does handling a website project have to do with term limits? Or even Congress? Someone hired a CEO, who hired managers, who hired contracting firms, who hired staff, and it's turtles all the way down.
By the way, what do YOU do for a living? Should YOU have term limits? Or do YOU see - and sell - your experience and expertise as a positive? If I'm going in for surgery, I want a doctor who's done this plenty of times, not a new guy who got his spot because the experienced guy's term was up.
I think that's the point. This when we drag out cliches like "TEAM == Together Everyone Achieves More". In the 1960s we had an external competitor so we banded together and achieved; now the so-called team leaders spend their time cutting each other down, while the mass of people sit and do nothing.
Umm . . . no, changing the Doctor's own past has NOT been part of the show. In fact, the Doctor's own personal timeline has sometimes been the only consistent thing in the universe. That's why some of us are irritated at the idea that EVERY incarnation of the Doctor could have been involved in one scene and NONE of them remember it. The Doctor has been portrayed as remembering all sorts of things from all sorts of eras and his many different regenerations; how would all have been summoned to one instant of spacetime and none of them remember it?
I don't have a problem with fantasy; I have a problem with internal inconsistency.
Maybe greed is good, if it's greed on behalf of the family / tribe and not just individual selfishness. "I want more food and sex for me" can be sublimated into "We need to protect our turf with the good fruit trees, and we need to capture more good lookin' {gender-name} for the tribe".
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Get all that encryption math and computer power together, and . . . what gets summoned?
... I believe that there are courts tasked with assessing such cases. And the use of such courts is what really differentiates "us" from "them".
This is true. And this is also why cases in which people are caught *literally* red-handed drag on for years and justice is never quite seen to be done. I think now and then there comes a situation which is clear enough for public and harsh punishment, "encourager les autres" if nothing else. While the current leader may not be the biggest villain in the production, he was certainly in charge when they were recently used.
I would not call it lynch mob thinking. "Lynch" carries a connotation of someone being targeted for no particular reason other than being what he/she is. In this case, there is plenty of legitimate blame and bad karma to assign, and clear chain of command responsibility to assign it on.
My word. It does seem I oversimplified a bit. However, while your points are well taken, I think I will stand by my dislike for the idea of moving large amounts of poison into waters that feed many countries (and connect to the open oceans), partly because "moving it to relative safety" is so dangerous in itself. I would like to see those most responsible taking the risks, but you're right, I didn't consider that it also gave them access.
I think it was H. Beam Piper in "Little Fuzzy" who had a character suggest that another be put to death "not so much for what he had done, as for being the sort of person who would do it." The stockpile of poisons, and the use thereof, and a lot of the "vicious and mobile war zone" issue, seems to be traceable to a small core of people around the current president. It would be nice if those responsible could be removed from power, in whatever fashion, quickly, *without* massive collateral damage to the human shield surrounding them in the capital; but I know that only happens in fantasy and techno-thrillers. Oh well. I'm sure the movies afterwards will have the "right" and "wrong" sides much more clarified . . . assuming enough people survive the poison or biological mess.
... has been inferring a potential customer/candidate's value. Forever. How can one particular "inventor" possibly claim that it's novel and unobvious?
Remember that even *with* New York City density, service can be very poor, because the city awarded regional monopolies in the interest of avoiding many conflicting work areas and tons of new copper wire back in the early days of cable. Those same companies kept getting by on cable technology rather than upgrading to fiber as long as anyone would stand it. Even more important, it is often physically impossible to install new interior wire in the walls in NYC buildings, especially older ones, so the cable (or new fiber) is in visible channel along the hallways, or in the top or bottom edge of the walls.
That was one of the silver-lining issues around Hurricane Sandy - the repairs done to submerged cable conduits have sometimes leapfrogged 2 or 3 technology generations, at a much faster speed than would have happened with "normal maintenance and upgrade".
... "target" being defined as "everything downrange" . . .
So does mine. But I couldn't ride it to work without getting all sweated up. And my wife, with the repaired ankle (kevlar != tendon), can't ride like she used to.
Be afraid: Someday you, too, may age.
Multiple people already mentioned as an aside, but since I work to NFPA specs I'll put it right in the title. You do *not* want to spend a lot of money and then have your insurance guy or the fire marshal wander through for inspection and tell you to rip it all down.
++this. Sorry, I don't have mod points at the moment. In my experience, open plan is plain stupid for an office. Home, maybe (except maybe there's a *reason* the kitchen should be hidden, so you can leave it messy while dinner is served :-) ) Even high cube walls don't keep out the noise where I am; our little area has 8' walls in a 12' space, but there's a customer-contact group on one side that doesn't seem to know that one can use a phone without the speaker, and clerical staff on the other that chatter away all day. I have to wear earplugs much of the time.
Off-off-topic back to main, why so much hate on this page, rather than appreciation, for a place that attempts to care for the staff's comfort (even if I think their style is misguided)?
They made the mess; clean it up in their territory. That already exposes lots of innocent people and other countries. Why make it *more* mobile and *more* public - and *more* vulnerable? And by the way, Assad should be Employee #1.
Or the other direction: Perhaps the previous statistics were unusually high. The generation who lived through the depression and WW2 had to be tougher, and many people were killed during the war. That cohort was stronger, and lived longer healthy through years of progress in food and medicine, and now they've been dying off so the statistics aren't being skewed *up* as much.
++this. We could be finally seeing the results of people approaching older ages who have been eating something (high fructose corn syrup? poison of your choice?) for years, or ingesting more BPA from plastic containers, or any of *zillions* of reasons - just like various statistics in the US. It doesn't mean that everyone was poisoned in 2003; it may mean that as a generation hits their 60s and their joints start aching, they are aching *worse*.
It could also be a comparative issue rather than absolute. We have all gotten used to the idea that 50 is the new 40, 60 is the new 50, so people having the same problems as their parents did at the same ages were expecting better.
Marriage is very clearly defined. It's between one man and however many women he can afford to support. And maybe their maids. Of course, there are little details, like one of the patriarchs marrying two sisters - which becomes specifically forbidden by the end of the book (I guess home life was a little strained).
Funny thing is, *divorce* is also clearly defined, along with support payments and responsibilities. None of this "death do us part" stuff.
No Jew knowledgeable about his/her religion accepts it as fact, certainly not literally. The scholarship done in the original language is much more scholarly - i.e. analytical - than the "bible study" done on translations. I would compare it to the Illiad and the Odyssey - history in the old sense of "oral history become legend", rather than what we expect today as detailed historical study with the benefit of written records, letters, ephemera of the time, and so on. Of course there are staunch traditionalists who would insist it was originally the direct word of . . . someone . . . but even they will admit that it was transcribed and copied for generations by fallible humans.
No, I believe the quote was that one is supposed to kill an *Admiral* to encourage the others.
What does handling a website project have to do with term limits? Or even Congress? Someone hired a CEO, who hired managers, who hired contracting firms, who hired staff, and it's turtles all the way down.
By the way, what do YOU do for a living? Should YOU have term limits? Or do YOU see - and sell - your experience and expertise as a positive? If I'm going in for surgery, I want a doctor who's done this plenty of times, not a new guy who got his spot because the experienced guy's term was up.
Which political party has been backing *that* one? . . . Oh, wait, both, because the parts are made in all 50 states.
I think that's the point. This when we drag out cliches like "TEAM == Together Everyone Achieves More". In the 1960s we had an external competitor so we banded together and achieved; now the so-called team leaders spend their time cutting each other down, while the mass of people sit and do nothing.
++this. Wasn't this all covered in "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"?
Not Hitler, Khan Noonian Singh.
Perhaps even Steven Moffat realized that too many of the viewers would pass out.
Umm . . . no, changing the Doctor's own past has NOT been part of the show. In fact, the Doctor's own personal timeline has sometimes been the only consistent thing in the universe. That's why some of us are irritated at the idea that EVERY incarnation of the Doctor could have been involved in one scene and NONE of them remember it. The Doctor has been portrayed as remembering all sorts of things from all sorts of eras and his many different regenerations; how would all have been summoned to one instant of spacetime and none of them remember it?
I don't have a problem with fantasy; I have a problem with internal inconsistency.
++this. How far does it go before he steps out of a shower and tells his companion the last 49 seasons were all a dream?
Consistency? What show were you watching, and might it be available somewhere?
Maybe greed is good, if it's greed on behalf of the family / tribe and not just individual selfishness. "I want more food and sex for me" can be sublimated into "We need to protect our turf with the good fruit trees, and we need to capture more good lookin' {gender-name} for the tribe".