The USPS wouldn't actually be in the red if it weren't for the stupid rules congress imposed on them a few years back where they are the only federal entity that has to have 100% retirement funds paid for (my understanding is the industry standards are 10-15% funded) In fact they were doing fairly well until the change.
Since 2006, the Post Office has been legally required (by Congress) to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees (for the next 75 years) at a cost of around $5.5 billion a year.
What good is disappearing into a hole forever, with no further contact with the world, going to do for his cause?
His "cause?" As one comedian put it, he's probably just trying to get out of his engagement to his girlfriend. "No honey, I really *do* want to get married, I just have to lay low until this whole 'stolen security secrets' thing blows over..."
Cutting salt out of a diet that includes non-synthetic substances is probably impossible. If it lived on earth, it probably has salt in it.
Salt is actually pretty important nutritionally and for osmoregulation. Way too much/little is bad for you, but some salt is required. It's so important that part of our taste mechanism is dedicated to salt. Alton Brown summed it up nicely saying (okay, I'm paraphrasing) that while many things taste sweet (good eats), sour (bad eats) or bitter (poisonous eats), only one thing tastes salty - salt.
But I um... thought... um.. it was good for.me to um..... have a what's the.word Jenny? A diet low is salt. I may not be smart, but I know what high blood pressure is...
Just a note that, according to my doctor, and many articles I've read, excessive salt in the diet is NOT a problem for many/most people, but only those sensitive to it. Good explanations can be found:
The difference is purely semantic. The difference is that dogs didn't evolve from wolves through natural selection, they evolved via human selection (which may still considered natural), but it's still an evolution.
I've seen a few articles, like this one that suggests wolves domesticated humans... or this one that wolves/dogs domesticated themselves... to co-exist.
I am on Atkins diet. Basically I am eating only meat. (Almost) No vegetable, no fruits, no bread, no rice, no sweets. But it is effective and I will come off it slowly and start eating vegetables and fruits.
You might want to consider a Paleolithic diet (Caveman diet) instead, which does include fruits and vegetables. On related topics, these two university lecture talks are pretty interesting (each is about 1 - 1.5 hours long):
Food today, even freshly grown food, isn't the same the world over, and it isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. It is almost certainly poorer in quality.
Citation needed. What reason do you have to believe that food quality has diminished in the last 50 years?
I'll offer an opinion that a phrase like "RoundUp Ready" in a seed stock description doesn't sound either tasty or nutritious...
support a bill that would issue a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing... was charged with and convicted of "gross indecency" in 1952 for being gay.
The announcement marks a change of heart by the government, which declined last year to grant pardons to the 49,000 gay men, now dead, who were convicted under the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act.
According to Sandia Labs' Dale Murray, the ideomotor effect is so persuasive that for anyone who wants or needs to believe in it, even conclusive scientific evidence undermining the technology it exploits has little power."
That explains a LOT about how the US Congress thinks/works.
Ballmer's big, gung-ho memo to Microsofties, posted on the company's website, is chock full of nonsense and corporate executive doublespeak — or, as Ballmer might say, `high-value experiences' that will `involve repartitioning the work' and `drive partners across our integrated strategy and its execution.' Huh?"
Relax. I'm sure Ballmer didn't write anything. Rather it's the work of market-droids trying to justify their MBAs with buzz words - anything to keep the chairs on the floor and not in the air. I will comment on one quote, however:
“We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities..."
Chill. I'm in favor of abortion. Sorry if that wasn't clear. On the other side, I don't think anyone should be forced to either have a child or pay support for an unwanted child. I believe we're on the same page.
Not to get off on a tangent, but the majority of politicians are men making the reproductive rules for women *and* the support rules for all. The Republican, specifically, want to de-fund planned parenthood and reduce funding and support for single/poor parents (families).
As an American, as an American who loves my country, I need to have the courage to face the reality --- that my country has ceased to be the land of the free, the home of the braves, but has turned into an empire which is moving towards oblivion
I think part of the problem here in the US is the increasing polarization and narrow-mindedness of politics and and the political process. For example, I personally know someone who said they agreed with most of the platform of a Democratic candidate, but simply could not vote for that person because the candidate supported abortion rights. (Guys, until we get a uterus, it's none of our business and unless it's your uterus, it still none of your business.) Another is the Tea Party that wants austerity at all costs ("fuck the poor" they chant from their Medicare-paid electric wheel chairs - okay, I'm paraphrasing). Can't let illegal immigrants get citizenship, even if it would add $11 Trillion to the tax rolls over a decade, because we have to punish them for sneaking into our country to cut our lawns and pick our fruit.
I understand that everyone has causes that are important to them, and some are more important than others, but "We The People" and especially our Representatives, would be better off if we focused on what's important for the Country, State, City, Individual - in that order. We are stronger as a whole of disparate parts working together, than as individuals just out for ourselves, as are our hopes and ideals.
Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Math is the most difficult subject known by humankind. Basic math is very easy, college math is reasonably easy, engineering school math is quite hard, mathematics graduation math is considerably harder, and math research is ridiculously hard.
By that time, Mars One is scheduled to have people on Mars, so NASA can simply send a retrieval rocket and ask those people to collect some samples - for a reasonable fee, of course:-)
Clearly, you're trolling because no one can realistically be as unbelievably stupid as you portray. But, I live in a tourist town and routinely see bicyclists riding against traffic, so uneducated people like you (pretend to be) are out there, so I'll bite one last time:
so i am not allowed to question stupid rules?
Sure, but this rule isn't actually stupid - fact..
a car coming at you at a very high rate of speed compounded with your speed in the opposite direction is a low possibility of survival
Very true, so don't ride against traffic.
as opposed to a zero chance of survival from the idiot swiping you from behind because you cannot SEE him at all, and have NO chance of evasive maneuvers
I was swiped by a car I did not see and lived, so this argument is invalid.
and so i will continue to prefer a low chance of survival over a zero chance of survival, and continue to ride against traffic, and continue to advise others to do the same, and support that the laws will change to recognize this common sense
You're obviously statistically challenged, and your "zero chance of survival" scenario is invalid, but please continue in your endeavor to be a Darwin Award winner as you have no common sense...
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Maybe Snowden should go to China. Now, if the US places sanctions on China, that would be funny.
The sanctions law will probably be so hastily/poorly written that if Snowden ever returns to the US, the US will have to sanction itself :-)
[ If we could ever harness the power of all our politicians' knees jerking, all our energy problems would be solved... ]
The USPS wouldn't actually be in the red if it weren't for the stupid rules congress imposed on them a few years back where they are the only federal entity that has to have 100% retirement funds paid for (my understanding is the industry standards are 10-15% funded) In fact they were doing fairly well until the change.
You understand correctly. From USPS Healthcare Expenses (and other sources):
Since 2006, the Post Office has been legally required (by Congress) to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees (for the next 75 years) at a cost of around $5.5 billion a year.
What good is disappearing into a hole forever, with no further contact with the world, going to do for his cause?
His "cause?" As one comedian put it, he's probably just trying to get out of his engagement to his girlfriend. "No honey, I really *do* want to get married, I just have to lay low until this whole 'stolen security secrets' thing blows over..."
Submit the problem to the what-if blog and Randall will have it figured out - probably more accurately - by next Tuesday.
Cutting salt out of a diet that includes non-synthetic substances is probably impossible. If it lived on earth, it probably has salt in it.
Salt is actually pretty important nutritionally and for osmoregulation. Way too much/little is bad for you, but some salt is required. It's so important that part of our taste mechanism is dedicated to salt. Alton Brown summed it up nicely saying (okay, I'm paraphrasing) that while many things taste sweet (good eats), sour (bad eats) or bitter (poisonous eats), only one thing tastes salty - salt.
But I um... thought... um.. it was good for.me to um..... have a what's the.word Jenny? A diet low is salt. I may not be smart, but I know what high blood pressure is...
Just a note that, according to my doctor, and many articles I've read, excessive salt in the diet is NOT a problem for many/most people, but only those sensitive to it. Good explanations can be found:
The difference is purely semantic. The difference is that dogs didn't evolve from wolves through natural selection, they evolved via human selection (which may still considered natural), but it's still an evolution.
I've seen a few articles, like this one that suggests wolves domesticated humans ... or this one that wolves/dogs domesticated themselves ... to co-exist.
The big boys build weaponry to keep each other in check, and to eliminate all the smaller boys.
Works nicely for them all.
Hmm... I think I saw some prior art for this in a movie:
Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Flying an F-16 is not very good preparation for flying a 737.
Nor a 787 - there's a big difference between being fired "on" and fired "in" ... :-)
Growing food covered in biohazardous poison doesn't exactly conjure up images of healthy and nutritious.
True, but one can wash many/most of those off. Can't wash off genes.
Is there any evidence that roundup ready crops are less nutritious?
I didn't say is *was* less nutritious, just that it didn't *sound* tasty or nutritious - geesh.
I am on Atkins diet. Basically I am eating only meat. (Almost) No vegetable, no fruits, no bread, no rice, no sweets. But it is effective and I will come off it slowly and start eating vegetables and fruits.
You might want to consider a Paleolithic diet (Caveman diet) instead, which does include fruits and vegetables. On related topics, these two university lecture talks are pretty interesting (each is about 1 - 1.5 hours long):
Food today, even freshly grown food, isn't the same the world over, and it isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. It is almost certainly poorer in quality.
Citation needed. What reason do you have to believe that food quality has diminished in the last 50 years?
I'll offer an opinion that a phrase like "RoundUp Ready" in a seed stock description doesn't sound either tasty or nutritious...
support a bill that would issue a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing ... was charged with and convicted of "gross indecency" in 1952 for being gay.
The announcement marks a change of heart by the government, which declined last year to grant pardons to the 49,000 gay men, now dead, who were convicted under the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act.
One down, 48,999 pardons to go.
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe.
Linus is one beard away from becoming RMS.
...will probably be better than most network / basic-cable shows.
According to Sandia Labs' Dale Murray, the ideomotor effect is so persuasive that for anyone who wants or needs to believe in it, even conclusive scientific evidence undermining the technology it exploits has little power."
That explains a LOT about how the US Congress thinks/works.
Ballmer's big, gung-ho memo to Microsofties, posted on the company's website, is chock full of nonsense and corporate executive doublespeak — or, as Ballmer might say, `high-value experiences' that will `involve repartitioning the work' and `drive partners across our integrated strategy and its execution.' Huh?"
Relax. I'm sure Ballmer didn't write anything. Rather it's the work of market-droids trying to justify their MBAs with buzz words - anything to keep the chairs on the floor and not in the air. I will comment on one quote, however:
“We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities..."
So when will this start? :-)
Chill. I'm in favor of abortion. Sorry if that wasn't clear. On the other side, I don't think anyone should be forced to either have a child or pay support for an unwanted child. I believe we're on the same page.
Not to get off on a tangent, but the majority of politicians are men making the reproductive rules for women *and* the support rules for all. The Republican, specifically, want to de-fund planned parenthood and reduce funding and support for single/poor parents (families).
As an American, as an American who loves my country, I need to have the courage to face the reality --- that my country has ceased to be the land of the free, the home of the braves, but has turned into an empire which is moving towards oblivion
I think part of the problem here in the US is the increasing polarization and narrow-mindedness of politics and and the political process. For example, I personally know someone who said they agreed with most of the platform of a Democratic candidate, but simply could not vote for that person because the candidate supported abortion rights. (Guys, until we get a uterus, it's none of our business and unless it's your uterus, it still none of your business.) Another is the Tea Party that wants austerity at all costs ("fuck the poor" they chant from their Medicare-paid electric wheel chairs - okay, I'm paraphrasing). Can't let illegal immigrants get citizenship, even if it would add $11 Trillion to the tax rolls over a decade, because we have to punish them for sneaking into our country to cut our lawns and pick our fruit.
I understand that everyone has causes that are important to them, and some are more important than others, but "We The People" and especially our Representatives, would be better off if we focused on what's important for the Country, State, City, Individual - in that order. We are stronger as a whole of disparate parts working together, than as individuals just out for ourselves, as are our hopes and ideals.
Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Math is the most difficult subject known by humankind. Basic math is very easy, college math is reasonably easy, engineering school math is quite hard, mathematics graduation math is considerably harder, and math research is ridiculously hard.
Oblig: Purity
Yeah, because, you know... money is just going to be so useful on Mars,
Or, a Mars One ground-support fee ... The colonists will get supplies from Earth *and* money will probably still be useful Earth-side.
[ I considered mentioning that the OP, but didn't think it *actually* necessary. Never over-estimate people on /. ... ]
By that time, Mars One is scheduled to have people on Mars, so NASA can simply send a retrieval rocket and ask those people to collect some samples - for a reasonable fee, of course :-)
"any machine or device or system or network of devices" that can be used in games of chance.
Anyone driven a car in Florida? Going to the grocery store is a game of chance down there. :-)
Clearly, you're trolling because no one can realistically be as unbelievably stupid as you portray. But, I live in a tourist town and routinely see bicyclists riding against traffic, so uneducated people like you (pretend to be) are out there, so I'll bite one last time:
so i am not allowed to question stupid rules?
Sure, but this rule isn't actually stupid - fact..
a car coming at you at a very high rate of speed compounded with your speed in the opposite direction is a low possibility of survival
Very true, so don't ride against traffic.
as opposed to a zero chance of survival from the idiot swiping you from behind because you cannot SEE him at all, and have NO chance of evasive maneuvers
I was swiped by a car I did not see and lived, so this argument is invalid.
and so i will continue to prefer a low chance of survival over a zero chance of survival, and continue to ride against traffic, and continue to advise others to do the same, and support that the laws will change to recognize this common sense
You're obviously statistically challenged, and your "zero chance of survival" scenario is invalid, but please continue in your endeavor to be a Darwin Award winner as you have no common sense...
Again, please don't breed - ever. Cheers.