I'm sure using the words "s**t list" would not go over well if you call them back. Just ask for a reason why he voted opposite of what you were told. Don't be surprised if you get a denial or some other answer you don't like.
Who is this Congressman whose staff isn't kept aware of his decisions?
Apparently you flunked math. 105 Democrats and 188 Republicans voted "Yea." In what world is 105 greater than 188? Also, that's less than 50% of D and 99% of R.
You want to know what's scarier? The Republicans' votes were party-line. If there were a few scores of defectors on the R side, then I'd say there was some careful consideration there. But with only 1 defector, you can't tell me they all actually represented the will of the people in their districts.
Although I may not like it, I believe that only a Senator is allowed to go against her constituents' wishes. A representative not representing his district should be fired -- D, R, or whatever affiliation.
Same here, although I wrote a message through my representative's website this time.
There should be a law against offering the same thing over and over and over again within a set amount of time. Limiting it to once every two years would be a good start. But who would enact such a law? *sigh*...
Since I can't read people's minds, and neither can you, I'd say it's a win when they stop spouting ridiculous absolutist statements like "I have nothing to hide." Now, they'll need to take a more nuanced approach. It got them thinking. And if it means a more rational discussion will follow, it's better for all of us.
Sometimes one needs to counter an absurd statement with an equally absurd statement.
I'm not so sure. Every time someone has said to me "I've got nothing to hide" and I give my reply, that person immediately backs down. You're only arguing "in theory" where I've actually tried it.
Your argument that people might be happy with the gov't putting a cam in a bathroom and not me is just pure conjecture on your part. Or you deal with the kind of people who have other, bigger societal issues.
That's what I don't get. How are all these homes going for that amount?! People keep moving to CA. Go away! CA is crap! It's just full of fires and earthquakes and mudslides and commie libtards who want to take away all your rights. . . . . . . (move to Oregon)
The point got across. The person does have something to hide and now sees there is nothing wrong with excluding people from seeing it -- whether that person calls it "privacy" or something else.
Once you demolish the silly argument of "I've got nothing to hide," you immediately win the battle. Now that person has to acknowledge privacy as necessary. At this point, we're only talking about the degree -- which has nothing to do with this particular thread.
Of course, you might get someone who wants to see if you're bluffing. That's when you set up an Internet website and follow through. If they balk and ask for money, then you still win, because now they see that their privacy is worth *something*.
When the other companies in the Valley are hiring again, and Apple continues to have lower salaries, yes they will need to raise them.
$89K/year won't get you a house even with today's market. Maybe an OK condo, assuming a bank will give you a loan. But if you don't mind driving 100+ miles each way, then you could get a decent structure, though the neighborhood might be in the middle of nowhere. Rents are going back up, but if you don't mind living in small apartments to be able to have some play money, then sure, $89K is enough.
For those who just see the numbers and have no idea about cost of living, $700 for an apartment is awesome in the midwest, but $1400-1600 in the Valley will at least keep you out of the bad neighborhoods. After gas, food, and utilities, you'd be lucky to have anything left over to go out and socialize. In the midwest, you'd live like royalty.
Hehe, you mean all the nasty things humanity has done to each other hasn't made you lose respect? and
When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). What difference does it make if an intelligence is made of mostly "natural" carbon entities vs. mostly "unnatural" silicon entities? Humans are tempered by their huge vulnerabilities. It does not take much at all to turn us "off". I don't have much faith in a human created intelligent, sentient robot with very few vulnerabilities. You can still stop and kill a human criminal.
I don't expect much, but my hope is that most of these new robots will want to work with us (and protect us) rather than enslave or exterminate us. Humans throughout history have ruled through the ultimate threat of violence. Why would robots be different?
Think about it. If there were few or no repercussions for your bad actions, would you stop doing them?
The 9th circuit also has a huge caseload compared to many other circuits. Is the number of overturned rulings (overturned by the US Supreme Court) per case submitted higher than anywhere else? Or is this just a statistic taken out of context?
Just what application are you running for that kind of time precision? Some people need it, most don't.
If you absolutely need it, survey exactly where your receiver's location is, and use that to figure out the time offset. Of course, the more satellites, the better, but degradation won't be as much an issue. But if you're putting your receiver in a place with very limited sky, you may need to reassess your options.
My handheld will track at least 12 satellites and also coordinate that with a ground signal for an extremely accurate civilian-signal based location -- usually under 2 or 3 meters possible error in many places, but the unit will pinpoint within 30cm/1 foot or less. I don't see it jump around much at all except when the sampling rate gets lowered.
I'm not sure this problem is as big as it's made out to be.
I'm not sure you could say it's sinking. Maybe it just lost one of its two engines. It blows a head gasket in the middle of the season, you pull into port and spend a day fixing it. A piston explodes, you pull into port and clean it up. Sure, when it starts overheating out in open waters you'll second-guess yourself, but at least you can use it as an emergency backup to relieve stress on a failing anchor cable. Sometimes the necessary total overhaul has to wait until the season is over, rather than lose the rest of the season.
Funny. I thought the Vallejo city council declared bankruptcy because the Fire and Police unions refused to take pay cuts and/or cut staff to bring their allocation from the city fund significantly below 50%. Most solvent cities don't have this figure above 33%.
The steep revenue drop occurred because property values declined steeply and were thus temporarily reassessed sharply lower.
I'm not sure where "legislating economic nonsense" comes into play here. Are you blaming Vallejo's city council for the zoning that allowed developers to build out tracts that added to the total property tax income which is generally a very stable revenue source? Maybe the City shouldn't have allowed the more expensive contracts, but hindsight is 20/20. Many other cities around the Bay Area and the rest of CA are feeling the same pinch and are scrambling to cover deficits. No one expected property values to decline *that* much.
The economy sucks because people who were lending money got burned on bad loans and stopped lending. Regardless of who screwed whom, the banks are lending very little money now. Even Congress changing jumbo loans to ~$700K from ~400K (thus insuring them), and the Federal Reserve who lowered interest rates and shoved money at banks to lend, isn't enough to make the banks lend the money! No lending = no investments = no money. Watch It's a Wonderful Life sometime.
I'm not saying that banks should start making bad loans again. I'm just saying that banks need to start making good loans again which is better than no loans. Even the prime loans are hard to come by today!
I agree with your comment, but it got me thinking.
Water has a toxicity level too and can cause death by brain swelling. I'm also assuming it would be very uncomfortable to get to the point where one's ingested too much water as with fluoride.
And I believe that if one died from fluoride toxicity before dying of water toxicity, there's something else wrong.
Your comment about hydrofluoric acid in the stomach was interesting, so I looked it up. Since the stomach naturally uses hydrochloric acid in digestion, I looked up what swallowing it would do. Apparently, the same thing as hydrofluoric acid.
Large doses of things tend to harm us. Smaller doses may actually help us, directly or indirectly. Yet the alarmists aren't trying to ban water or food or electricity. Could it be that they're even willing to admit that some things have nuanced applications?
While you support your argument about lead poisoning, you offer nothing about the other two elements.
I'm guessing you're one of those that didn't vaccinate your children and avoid fluorinated water, even though all the peer reviewed research shows you're just putting your children at greater risk of disease and tooth decay, rather than decreasing any risk of autism. But while it's a guess, I'm basing it on your trying to link lead research to mercury and fluoride without proof.
I also suspect that you'll next say "but mercury is toxic!" and show a bunch of links about mercury toxicity as a red herring. Fine. But you can't come up with one reputable peer-reviewed link against fluoride in drinking water. And don't you dare try to say MMR vaccinations caused autism, because the long-term results are in. ADHA on Fluoride ADA on Fluoride
But Comcast always seemed fine with my purchasing only their HSI package. I even once scheduled DirecTV and Comcast to show up at the same time. Amusing for all.:)
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I'm sure using the words "s**t list" would not go over well if you call them back. Just ask for a reason why he voted opposite of what you were told. Don't be surprised if you get a denial or some other answer you don't like.
Who is this Congressman whose staff isn't kept aware of his decisions?
Apparently you flunked math. 105 Democrats and 188 Republicans voted "Yea." In what world is 105 greater than 188? Also, that's less than 50% of D and 99% of R.
You want to know what's scarier? The Republicans' votes were party-line. If there were a few scores of defectors on the R side, then I'd say there was some careful consideration there. But with only 1 defector, you can't tell me they all actually represented the will of the people in their districts.
Although I may not like it, I believe that only a Senator is allowed to go against her constituents' wishes. A representative not representing his district should be fired -- D, R, or whatever affiliation.
Same here, although I wrote a message through my representative's website this time.
There should be a law against offering the same thing over and over and over again within a set amount of time. Limiting it to once every two years would be a good start. But who would enact such a law? *sigh*...
It's not linked in the article, and it doesn't appear on Cyber-Ark's website, at least not in the PR or white paper sections.
Since I can't read people's minds, and neither can you, I'd say it's a win when they stop spouting ridiculous absolutist statements like "I have nothing to hide." Now, they'll need to take a more nuanced approach. It got them thinking. And if it means a more rational discussion will follow, it's better for all of us.
Sometimes one needs to counter an absurd statement with an equally absurd statement.
I'm not so sure. Every time someone has said to me "I've got nothing to hide" and I give my reply, that person immediately backs down. You're only arguing "in theory" where I've actually tried it.
Your argument that people might be happy with the gov't putting a cam in a bathroom and not me is just pure conjecture on your part. Or you deal with the kind of people who have other, bigger societal issues.
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The point got across. The person does have something to hide and now sees there is nothing wrong with excluding people from seeing it -- whether that person calls it "privacy" or something else.
Once you demolish the silly argument of "I've got nothing to hide," you immediately win the battle. Now that person has to acknowledge privacy as necessary. At this point, we're only talking about the degree -- which has nothing to do with this particular thread.
Of course, you might get someone who wants to see if you're bluffing. That's when you set up an Internet website and follow through. If they balk and ask for money, then you still win, because now they see that their privacy is worth *something*.
"And... will tomorrow be OK? ... Oh, you're not fine with that? What do you have to hide?"
The point was that the apartment you could get for $700 would be awesome. Perhaps I could have phrased it slightly better.
That's very courageous, coming from Anonymous Coward.
When the other companies in the Valley are hiring again, and Apple continues to have lower salaries, yes they will need to raise them.
$89K/year won't get you a house even with today's market. Maybe an OK condo, assuming a bank will give you a loan. But if you don't mind driving 100+ miles each way, then you could get a decent structure, though the neighborhood might be in the middle of nowhere. Rents are going back up, but if you don't mind living in small apartments to be able to have some play money, then sure, $89K is enough.
For those who just see the numbers and have no idea about cost of living, $700 for an apartment is awesome in the midwest, but $1400-1600 in the Valley will at least keep you out of the bad neighborhoods. After gas, food, and utilities, you'd be lucky to have anything left over to go out and socialize. In the midwest, you'd live like royalty.
Reality is merely applied substitution.
I don't expect much, but my hope is that most of these new robots will want to work with us (and protect us) rather than enslave or exterminate us. Humans throughout history have ruled through the ultimate threat of violence. Why would robots be different?
Think about it. If there were few or no repercussions for your bad actions, would you stop doing them?
The 9th circuit also has a huge caseload compared to many other circuits. Is the number of overturned rulings (overturned by the US Supreme Court) per case submitted higher than anywhere else? Or is this just a statistic taken out of context?
Just what application are you running for that kind of time precision? Some people need it, most don't.
If you absolutely need it, survey exactly where your receiver's location is, and use that to figure out the time offset. Of course, the more satellites, the better, but degradation won't be as much an issue. But if you're putting your receiver in a place with very limited sky, you may need to reassess your options.
My handheld will track at least 12 satellites and also coordinate that with a ground signal for an extremely accurate civilian-signal based location -- usually under 2 or 3 meters possible error in many places, but the unit will pinpoint within 30cm/1 foot or less. I don't see it jump around much at all except when the sampling rate gets lowered.
I'm not sure this problem is as big as it's made out to be.
I'm not sure you could say it's sinking. Maybe it just lost one of its two engines. It blows a head gasket in the middle of the season, you pull into port and spend a day fixing it. A piston explodes, you pull into port and clean it up. Sure, when it starts overheating out in open waters you'll second-guess yourself, but at least you can use it as an emergency backup to relieve stress on a failing anchor cable. Sometimes the necessary total overhaul has to wait until the season is over, rather than lose the rest of the season.
The wikipedia article on impeachment goes into more depth than I could here.
Funny. I thought the Vallejo city council declared bankruptcy because the Fire and Police unions refused to take pay cuts and/or cut staff to bring their allocation from the city fund significantly below 50%. Most solvent cities don't have this figure above 33%.
The steep revenue drop occurred because property values declined steeply and were thus temporarily reassessed sharply lower.
I'm not sure where "legislating economic nonsense" comes into play here. Are you blaming Vallejo's city council for the zoning that allowed developers to build out tracts that added to the total property tax income which is generally a very stable revenue source? Maybe the City shouldn't have allowed the more expensive contracts, but hindsight is 20/20. Many other cities around the Bay Area and the rest of CA are feeling the same pinch and are scrambling to cover deficits. No one expected property values to decline *that* much.
The economy sucks because people who were lending money got burned on bad loans and stopped lending. Regardless of who screwed whom, the banks are lending very little money now. Even Congress changing jumbo loans to ~$700K from ~400K (thus insuring them), and the Federal Reserve who lowered interest rates and shoved money at banks to lend, isn't enough to make the banks lend the money! No lending = no investments = no money. Watch It's a Wonderful Life sometime.
I'm not saying that banks should start making bad loans again. I'm just saying that banks need to start making good loans again which is better than no loans. Even the prime loans are hard to come by today!
I agree with your comment, but it got me thinking.
Water has a toxicity level too and can cause death by brain swelling. I'm also assuming it would be very uncomfortable to get to the point where one's ingested too much water as with fluoride.
And I believe that if one died from fluoride toxicity before dying of water toxicity, there's something else wrong.
Your comment about hydrofluoric acid in the stomach was interesting, so I looked it up. Since the stomach naturally uses hydrochloric acid in digestion, I looked up what swallowing it would do. Apparently, the same thing as hydrofluoric acid.
Large doses of things tend to harm us. Smaller doses may actually help us, directly or indirectly. Yet the alarmists aren't trying to ban water or food or electricity. Could it be that they're even willing to admit that some things have nuanced applications?
While you support your argument about lead poisoning, you offer nothing about the other two elements.
I'm guessing you're one of those that didn't vaccinate your children and avoid fluorinated water, even though all the peer reviewed research shows you're just putting your children at greater risk of disease and tooth decay, rather than decreasing any risk of autism. But while it's a guess, I'm basing it on your trying to link lead research to mercury and fluoride without proof.
I also suspect that you'll next say "but mercury is toxic!" and show a bunch of links about mercury toxicity as a red herring. Fine. But you can't come up with one reputable peer-reviewed link against fluoride in drinking water. And don't you dare try to say MMR vaccinations caused autism, because the long-term results are in.
ADHA on Fluoride
ADA on Fluoride
23 studies refuting MMR and autism link
CDC's website on MMR and autism
If I've gotten you all wrong (which I doubt, based on your anti-fluoride stance), then you have my apologies. Next time, support your argument.
Do you mean Video on Demand? Otherwise, you're also railing against how TV works.
But Comcast always seemed fine with my purchasing only their HSI package. I even once scheduled DirecTV and Comcast to show up at the same time. Amusing for all. :)