I think people go there but they don’t spend time browsing. They know they just need printer ink and a ream of paper, and they need them today. There's not much in the way of entertainment or impulse items to distract shoppers and extend their visit time.
(Personally I enjoy browsing office supplies -- something about the orderly arrangement of useful objects is pleasing to me -- but that's probably not entirely normal.)
How is an unimplemented suggestion confirmation of anything? If anything, the fact that the idea was not pursued would confirm that they aren’t out to get us, at least not to the degree that paranoid gun nuts fear.
If you're out to randomly murder cops, do you dick around with some driving directions app, or do you just look for the nearest distinctively liveried car with red and blue lights on the roof and the word POLICE all over it?
I think you'd be surprised at how many successful bank robberies there are. Of course they try not to publicize the stats because it makes them look bad, and of course COPS isn't going to show criminals escaping because the whole point of COPS is to instill [fear of | confidence in] law enforcement.
It helps that most robberies aren't committed by well-funded organized crews with clown masks and automatic weapons emptying the safe full of bearer bonds and gold bullion. It's usually one guy in a fake beard taking $4000 from a teller with a threatening note.
stealing a car with the intention of running it out of gas on a joyride is not "theft" by the legal definition of the word
I don't know what kind of bizarro legal system you live under, but it's not one I've ever heard of. Whether something is considered theft/larceny/stealing doesn't hinge on whether the property is eventually recovered. But this is veering offtopic, and I've already been modded down for that once in this thread, so good night.
"Steal," huh? Everyone gets all adamant about drawing a distinction between theft and copyright violation when we're talking about the MAFIAAs; can we please apply a consistent standard to cases when it's ordinary users being "stolen" from?
They're legally required to follow up on all reports, no matter how spurious. That's why they're stretched so thin and kids who actually need help, kids living in crackhouses, kids being abused, get insufficient attention. Because CPS had to waste resources dealing with this obviously innocuous situation.
That said, it sounds like these cops and the CPS worker behaved pretty abysmally.
MD law requires a minimum age of 13 for a caretaker in a dwelling or a car, but there's nothing about outdoors.
Splitting hairs maybe, but leaving kids alone at home could mean for several hours, while walking home a few blocks from school would not. The parents being at home two blocks away is not that much different than the parents being inside while the kids play in the yard.
Juries aren't supposed to bring in outside information? Yet many of them are empaneled already having a firm grasp of arithmetic and the English language and how a gun works and how Tor works etc etc.
Juries aren't supposed to have outside information about the specific case at hand. Information about the world in general is expected, including aspects of the world relevant to the case. Otherwise all trials would start with a jury of newborns.
And obviously if your choice is between imagining false dichotomies and acknowledging that adequately funded mental health care is not "padded rooms," you go with the former.
Ford got a lot of shit for pardoning Nixon and the dismal economy (which wasn’t his fault) but at least he was a naval combat veteran who served on an aircraft carrier in WW2. Naming a carrier after him makes a lot more sense than naming one after Ronald fucking Reagan.
Convenient that your link is subscriber-only. Neither New Oxford American nor Merriam-Webster list any verb usage of “action;” which indicates that it is not in common usage, so even by your screwy definition of correct usage it is incorrect.
I've seen it on occasion, even beyond "to-do list" meaning "these are the emails I still need to respond to." Some people will send themselves emails containing notes and action items just so all their shit is in one place, because handling an inbox that's separate from a to-do list that's separate from a calendar is just too complicated for them, the poor dears. There's a significant overlap between this group and the group that prints out every incoming email for reading.
Just because they have the old sleeves and cards doesn’t mean they were still being used. You don’t know how often they were checked out via barcode after the old handstamp system was retired.
(Paul Josephson was one of my professors! For a seminar class on Appropriate Technology. Good teacher.)
What type of motorcycle racing? Can you elaborate? (I don’t know much about it but I’ve been getting curious. Is it like the increasingly arcane F1 restrictions expressly designed to keep speeds down on tracks designed for slower cars?)
Coastal towns which tend to be more liberal start conserving (except San Francisco, since they legally yet immorally own a water shed a hundred miles away)
Where are you getting that calumny from? I mean the part about not conserving, not owning Hetch Hetchy. San Francisco has reduced its water usage around 10% in the current drought (although the goal is 20%.)
The Los Angeles area has actually increased its usage by 8%. Go talk to them about morals.
External staff is an umbrella term for individuals performing services for Microsoft on a non-permanent basis. Examples include consultants, temporary contract workers, vendor workers, freelancers, independent professionals and contractors, staff augmentation, and business guests.
Nothing in that language excludes cafeteria workers, janitors, HVAC repairmen, etc. Does MS really mean to restrict blue-collar workers to 18-month stints too? Their employers won’t necessarily have another gig available for them, and they’re far less likely than coders and managers to have a financial cushion.
+1 Informative if I had any mod points, but it's your last paragraph that's really the most salient.
Music listening is not measured only by fidelity to the original recording, there's a whole gestalt that makes taking an LP out of its sleeve, placing it on the turntable, putting the needle down, looking at the glowing bottles of outer space and the sleeve art, and actively paying attention a much different experience than having iTunes on shuffle while you code or do laundry or drive to work, even if your digital setup is instrument-measurably better-sounding.
Car analogy (SORRY): It's the difference between driving a beautiful but cranky old car that needs ignition points replaced every few months, and a brand-new, in-warranty, utterly reliable, utterly forgettable midrange sedan. If you just need to get to work and the grocery store you want the latter, but an overall interactive aesthetic experience is enhanced by the more intimate involvement with the former.
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"I have never been on Twitter yet somehow I expect my opinion as to its lack of value to hold any weight whatsoever."
Well, you did get modded up to +5, so technically you're not wrong.
I think people go there but they don’t spend time browsing. They know they just need printer ink and a ream of paper, and they need them today. There's not much in the way of entertainment or impulse items to distract shoppers and extend their visit time.
(Personally I enjoy browsing office supplies -- something about the orderly arrangement of useful objects is pleasing to me -- but that's probably not entirely normal.)
How is an unimplemented suggestion confirmation of anything? If anything, the fact that the idea was not pursued would confirm that they aren’t out to get us, at least not to the degree that paranoid gun nuts fear.
If you're out to randomly murder cops, do you dick around with some driving directions app, or do you just look for the nearest distinctively liveried car with red and blue lights on the roof and the word POLICE all over it?
I think you'd be surprised at how many successful bank robberies there are. Of course they try not to publicize the stats because it makes them look bad, and of course COPS isn't going to show criminals escaping because the whole point of COPS is to instill [fear of | confidence in] law enforcement.
It helps that most robberies aren't committed by well-funded organized crews with clown masks and automatic weapons emptying the safe full of bearer bonds and gold bullion. It's usually one guy in a fake beard taking $4000 from a teller with a threatening note.
replying to undo bad mod
stealing a car with the intention of running it out of gas on a joyride is not "theft" by the legal definition of the word
I don't know what kind of bizarro legal system you live under, but it's not one I've ever heard of. Whether something is considered theft/larceny/stealing doesn't hinge on whether the property is eventually recovered. But this is veering offtopic, and I've already been modded down for that once in this thread, so good night.
So whether it's stealing depends on if the victim notices? Pickpockets of the world rejoice.
"Steal," huh? Everyone gets all adamant about drawing a distinction between theft and copyright violation when we're talking about the MAFIAAs; can we please apply a consistent standard to cases when it's ordinary users being "stolen" from?
They're legally required to follow up on all reports, no matter how spurious. That's why they're stretched so thin and kids who actually need help, kids living in crackhouses, kids being abused, get insufficient attention. Because CPS had to waste resources dealing with this obviously innocuous situation.
That said, it sounds like these cops and the CPS worker behaved pretty abysmally.
MD law requires a minimum age of 13 for a caretaker in a dwelling or a car, but there's nothing about outdoors.
Splitting hairs maybe, but leaving kids alone at home could mean for several hours, while walking home a few blocks from school would not. The parents being at home two blocks away is not that much different than the parents being inside while the kids play in the yard.
Juries aren't supposed to bring in outside information? Yet many of them are empaneled already having a firm grasp of arithmetic and the English language and how a gun works and how Tor works etc etc.
Juries aren't supposed to have outside information about the specific case at hand. Information about the world in general is expected, including aspects of the world relevant to the case. Otherwise all trials would start with a jury of newborns.
And obviously if your choice is between imagining false dichotomies and acknowledging that adequately funded mental health care is not "padded rooms," you go with the former.
Ford got a lot of shit for pardoning Nixon and the dismal economy (which wasn’t his fault) but at least he was a naval combat veteran who served on an aircraft carrier in WW2. Naming a carrier after him makes a lot more sense than naming one after Ronald fucking Reagan.
Okay, I followed your suggestion, and... no verb.
Convenient that your link is subscriber-only. Neither New Oxford American nor Merriam-Webster list any verb usage of “action;” which indicates that it is not in common usage, so even by your screwy definition of correct usage it is incorrect.
Also it sounds stupid.
Jesus Christ. "Action" is not a verb. Stop that. Just take out the i and leave a space there.
I've seen it on occasion, even beyond "to-do list" meaning "these are the emails I still need to respond to." Some people will send themselves emails containing notes and action items just so all their shit is in one place, because handling an inbox that's separate from a to-do list that's separate from a calendar is just too complicated for them, the poor dears. There's a significant overlap between this group and the group that prints out every incoming email for reading.
Just because they have the old sleeves and cards doesn’t mean they were still being used. You don’t know how often they were checked out via barcode after the old handstamp system was retired.
(Paul Josephson was one of my professors! For a seminar class on Appropriate Technology. Good teacher.)
What type of motorcycle racing? Can you elaborate? (I don’t know much about it but I’ve been getting curious. Is it like the increasingly arcane F1 restrictions expressly designed to keep speeds down on tracks designed for slower cars?)
Where are you getting that calumny from? I mean the part about not conserving, not owning Hetch Hetchy. San Francisco has reduced its water usage around 10% in the current drought (although the goal is 20%.)
The Los Angeles area has actually increased its usage by 8%. Go talk to them about morals.
Nothing in that language excludes cafeteria workers, janitors, HVAC repairmen, etc. Does MS really mean to restrict blue-collar workers to 18-month stints too? Their employers won’t necessarily have another gig available for them, and they’re far less likely than coders and managers to have a financial cushion.
Now that you mention it, I do want an intelligent melon baller.
+1 Informative if I had any mod points, but it's your last paragraph that's really the most salient.
Music listening is not measured only by fidelity to the original recording, there's a whole gestalt that makes taking an LP out of its sleeve, placing it on the turntable, putting the needle down, looking at the glowing bottles of outer space and the sleeve art, and actively paying attention a much different experience than having iTunes on shuffle while you code or do laundry or drive to work, even if your digital setup is instrument-measurably better-sounding.
Car analogy (SORRY): It's the difference between driving a beautiful but cranky old car that needs ignition points replaced every few months, and a brand-new, in-warranty, utterly reliable, utterly forgettable midrange sedan. If you just need to get to work and the grocery store you want the latter, but an overall interactive aesthetic experience is enhanced by the more intimate involvement with the former.
How does being at the end of a line make it inconvenient?