Generally soon-to-be-ex employees do this because they receive a larger severance payment for doing so.
It's easy to be high-and-mighty, but when you have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed it's hard to turn down that free cash, as you're going to be fired either way.
when calling 911 from my phone the operator still asked me my location and city, I was calling in to report black ice on a state route in a city I'm not familiar with
You called 911 to report black ice? Is that a thing in the USA?
SK would definitely suffer for a period after they absorbed them - Not unlike Germany in the 1990s after the wall fell - But there are huge benefits too. NK has huge amounts of natural resources in the ground, possibly including rare-earth minerals. SK's coffers would benefits greatly from access to those resources.
Economic imbeciles who don't understand anything more than "why doesn't the government make more money" vote for Sandurz.
Sanders has built his economic model on countries like Sweden and Norway, where the citizens have a high standard of living, education and healthcare are accessible and people are generally very happy.
Only an 'imbecile' would think "Hey, I don't want that."
What good does access to digital currency and "financial services" do for anyone but the banks?
Imagine you're an Indian farmer and you take your goods to a buyer. Now you can be paid immediately and electronically, and you won't be robbed as you and your oxe and cart make your 20km journey back to your village.
Imagine you're a woman in India doing piecemeal work. Now you can be paid on your 2G flipphone and your husband can't take your earnings and blow it on liquor.
Imagine you're a worker working in Mumbai and your wife and family are in Delhi. How do you get your money back to them without paying huge fees? Just transfer it digitally.
Fun fact: When Bill Suitor stood-in for Sean Connery and flew the jet-pack (aka "The Rocket Belt") in the 1965 James Bond movie "Thunderball," he refused to do it without a helmet, much to the chagrin of the producers who felt it made Bond look less cool
Why do i have to go out and watch it while its in theaters?
You don't have to watch it in theaters - But you do have to pay for it. Otherwise eventually all we'll have is poorly-acted Star Trek TOS fan-films, with a new one released every 7 months.
The additional bill for attacking ISIS is about $100B per year
What dollar figure are you attaching to the dead American soldiers? To the soldiers with limbs blown off? To the soldiers with PTSD who come home and start beating their children?
The "bill" is dead boys and girls from all across America... Killed trying to defeat an enemy who, in the end, represents a very small threat to the USA.
A big part of the issue is that voters demand 'total security' from their governments - Citizens expect to be wrapped in a big, warm security blanket. You can't have total security and total liberty, so the governments dispense with liberty. Voters don't mind because hey, their kids are 'safe.'
I think what a lot of younger people fail to grasp today is how back in the day, *everyone* went to Star Wars. Everyone. Sure, a lot of people went to Jurassic World last year, or Skyfall a few years ago, but with Star Wars, everyone went. Young, old, rural, urban. Everyone. There's a reason it's the second-highest grossing film of all time (indexed to inflation).
It should have only run into the seventies but a lot of the boomers actually waited to have kids.
Most Gen-Xers parents aren't baby boomers. They're pre-baby boom. My parents for example, were born in 1939 and 1941 in England and grew up during the war and post-war era.
It may have been billed purely as "Star Wars" but I can remember being puzzled as I sat in the cinema over the fact that the scrolling text at the start was titled "Episode IV: A New Hope".
If you sat in the cinema in 1977 you're remembering wrong.
Here's the original crawl - No "Episode IV" no "A New Hope."
Most Gen-Xers would not have seen Star Wars in the theatres. Gen-X covers early 1960s to early 1980s. Star Wars was PG, thus only some parents would bring their sub 13 year old (born before '63) to see the movie
I was born in 1967 and was 10 when Star Wars came out - Born and raised in Vancouver. Everyone I knew had seen Star Wars. Many kids in my grade 4 class saw it multiple times. I myself saw Star Wars 13 times in the theatre and I bought every comic. I read the novelization until it fell apart.
Parents back then weren't all paranoid about their kids being damaged by a PG movie. They were coming out of the 60s, before the new puritanism that has swept America as the baby boomers became parents. If the kid wasn't scared, then go watch it. Heck, when we went the first time we took my sister, who would have been age 6.5 at the time.
A restored HD version of the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Sigh.
If it's the original movie it's not "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope."
Ask any Gen-Xer who saw this movie in the theatres in 1977 (likely multiple times) and they'll tell you the same thing: The movie is called "Star Wars." Nothing more, nothing less.
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I wouldn't train a single one of these dipshits.
Generally soon-to-be-ex employees do this because they receive a larger severance payment for doing so.
It's easy to be high-and-mighty, but when you have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed it's hard to turn down that free cash, as you're going to be fired either way.
My first impression is that this does not look like a good day for Microsoft. Is this back to Windows RT? That worked so well last time.
Nope - You just go knock on AMD's door.
unmitigated nonsense. we would have developed tech to have radio broadcast in non interfering ways
Hey Anonymous Coward, do you even know how the physics of Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Frequency Modulation (FM) radio transmission works?
when calling 911 from my phone the operator still asked me my location and city, I was calling in to report black ice on a state route in a city I'm not familiar with
You called 911 to report black ice? Is that a thing in the USA?
They CAN handle them, but they don't WANT them.
SK would definitely suffer for a period after they absorbed them - Not unlike Germany in the 1990s after the wall fell - But there are huge benefits too. NK has huge amounts of natural resources in the ground, possibly including rare-earth minerals. SK's coffers would benefits greatly from access to those resources.
Brought peace?
Economic imbeciles who don't understand anything more than "why doesn't the government make more money" vote for Sandurz.
Sanders has built his economic model on countries like Sweden and Norway, where the citizens have a high standard of living, education and healthcare are accessible and people are generally very happy.
Only an 'imbecile' would think "Hey, I don't want that."
I'm writing this on an HP PC I got in 2012. Still works fine. No need to replace it for the foreseeable future.
I'm using PocketCasts which I like as well
Second vote for PocketCasts. It's a pretty cool little app that works well.
The amount the banks will "rob" the villager with fees and penalties will outweigh any roadside robberies.
Hey Anonymous Coward, in India, financial services to the poor are largely delivered through the post office.
What good does access to digital currency and "financial services" do for anyone but the banks?
Imagine you're an Indian farmer and you take your goods to a buyer. Now you can be paid immediately and electronically, and you won't be robbed as you and your oxe and cart make your 20km journey back to your village.
Imagine you're a woman in India doing piecemeal work. Now you can be paid on your 2G flipphone and your husband can't take your earnings and blow it on liquor.
Imagine you're a worker working in Mumbai and your wife and family are in Delhi. How do you get your money back to them without paying huge fees? Just transfer it digitally.
Fun fact: When Bill Suitor stood-in for Sean Connery and flew the jet-pack (aka "The Rocket Belt") in the 1965 James Bond movie "Thunderball," he refused to do it without a helmet, much to the chagrin of the producers who felt it made Bond look less cool
Why do i have to go out and watch it while its in theaters?
You don't have to watch it in theaters - But you do have to pay for it. Otherwise eventually all we'll have is poorly-acted Star Trek TOS fan-films, with a new one released every 7 months.
I can't visit Vancouver without a passport anymore. I could do that ten years ago.
If you are an American citizen you don't require a passport to enter Canada. All you need is a means to prove your citizenship.
How many of our freedoms have these terrorists killed already?
I dunno - Other than taking jackknives and shampoo bottles on airplanes, what freedom is not available to you today that was 25 years ago?
The additional bill for attacking ISIS is about $100B per year
What dollar figure are you attaching to the dead American soldiers? To the soldiers with limbs blown off? To the soldiers with PTSD who come home and start beating their children?
The "bill" is dead boys and girls from all across America... Killed trying to defeat an enemy who, in the end, represents a very small threat to the USA.
That price is a lot more than $100B.
America needs to once again put Americans first
Trump is just a Flim-Flam man.
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...
If you want a president who puts American workers first then Sanders is your guy.
A big part of the issue is that voters demand 'total security' from their governments - Citizens expect to be wrapped in a big, warm security blanket. You can't have total security and total liberty, so the governments dispense with liberty. Voters don't mind because hey, their kids are 'safe.'
Everyone I went to school with had seen it.
Exactly.
I think what a lot of younger people fail to grasp today is how back in the day, *everyone* went to Star Wars. Everyone. Sure, a lot of people went to Jurassic World last year, or Skyfall a few years ago, but with Star Wars, everyone went. Young, old, rural, urban. Everyone. There's a reason it's the second-highest grossing film of all time (indexed to inflation).
I was also born in Vancouver (...well, okay, Burnaby) in 1967
I lied too - I grew up on Capitol Hill. Other than at the Capitol 6, most of my viewings were at The Dolphin.
My friends and I were extremely free-ranging
Best was when my buddies and I rode our banana-seat bikes from Capitol Hill down to Vanterm. Nice longshoreman showed us all the container cranes.
That ride home was a lotta uphill.
Pedantry aside
You must be new here.
It should have only run into the seventies but a lot of the boomers actually waited to have kids.
Most Gen-Xers parents aren't baby boomers. They're pre-baby boom. My parents for example, were born in 1939 and 1941 in England and grew up during the war and post-war era.
It may have been billed purely as "Star Wars" but I can remember being puzzled as I sat in the cinema over the fact that the scrolling text at the start was titled "Episode IV: A New Hope".
If you sat in the cinema in 1977 you're remembering wrong.
Here's the original crawl - No "Episode IV" no "A New Hope."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most Gen-Xers would not have seen Star Wars in the theatres. Gen-X covers early 1960s to early 1980s. Star Wars was PG, thus only some parents would bring their sub 13 year old (born before '63) to see the movie
I was born in 1967 and was 10 when Star Wars came out - Born and raised in Vancouver. Everyone I knew had seen Star Wars. Many kids in my grade 4 class saw it multiple times. I myself saw Star Wars 13 times in the theatre and I bought every comic. I read the novelization until it fell apart.
Parents back then weren't all paranoid about their kids being damaged by a PG movie. They were coming out of the 60s, before the new puritanism that has swept America as the baby boomers became parents. If the kid wasn't scared, then go watch it. Heck, when we went the first time we took my sister, who would have been age 6.5 at the time.
A restored HD version of the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Sigh.
If it's the original movie it's not "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope."
Ask any Gen-Xer who saw this movie in the theatres in 1977 (likely multiple times) and they'll tell you the same thing: The movie is called "Star Wars." Nothing more, nothing less.