Trump is on track to outspend Obama on using Air Force One for vacationing.
No he's not. This is another example of liberal media playing with numbers to serve their agenda. See:
With President Donald Trump making his seventh presidential trip this weekend to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, government watchdogs and Democrats are once again seeing dollar signs: namely, $3 million. That's a widely used estimate of what each journey costs taxpayers. The figure comes from a government report on a trip President Barack Obama made to Palm Beach, Florida, but the report's author tells The Associated Press that it's a mistake to apply those findings to Trump's travel.
Given that large food concerns are opposed to the policies that logically follow from it I doubt they particularly lobbied for it.
That's not how it went down. The various groups didn't "lobby for it", they lobbied against it until the USDA finally came up with a version that was acceptable for all the lobbies.
You would immediately denounce the influence of lobbies if the government was to release a pyramid that would suggest 4h of TV, 2h of social media, 1h of videopoker and 30 minutes of book reading per day for a healthy lifestyle. But that's exactly what they did for food.
True. These "nutrition standards" are based on the same principles as the USDA food pyramid, which has been for the most part shaped by lobbyists, not nutritional experts.
That's it. Fanbois have now jumped the shark and joined the likes of Baghdad Bob.
Apple Inc reported a surprise fall in iPhone sales for the second quarter on Tuesday, indicating that customers had held back purchases in anticipation of the 10th-anniversary edition launch of the company's most important product.
Whoever submitted that, and whoever approved it for publishing, shame on you. This used to be a serious website.
The sum of all the taxes you will pay over your entire life won't be enough to pay for the fuel spent by Air Force One when Obama went on a single vacation trip in 2015. What did you get for that?
Ah, how cute, lucm is still complaining about Obama in 2015 when the popular vote loser is making regular jaunts to Mar-A-Largo on the government done. Which he uses to enrich himself, a severely dubious arrangement.
Tell you what, if you make Trump live the life of an ascetic monk, you can ask for Obama to pay his expenses back.
Trump declined to get a salary. Obama took $400,000 / year, and he's getting a $200,000 / year pension - after vetoing a bill from Congress to cap the pension for ex-Presidents.
He's not going to pay it back; the milking has just started. If you don't see it because of your intense hate for Trump, that's too bad.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return.
The sum of all the taxes you will pay over your entire life won't be enough to pay for the fuel spent by Air Force One when Obama went on a single vacation trip in 2015. What did you get for that?
I don't know where you got that ton of books in pdf format. Did you scan yourself books that you bought at the bookstore?
All the ebooks I have come from Amazon so they work natively with all the Amazon apps. It doesn't bother me because what I value is the ecosystem as a whole; the convenience of search and highlights, the easy inventory management, the built-in dictionaries. If Kindle was nothing more than pdf reader I would probably buy paper books because I really find reading pdf tedious, unless it's a very short document.
Bottom line: I'm a tablet guy ( 10" Yoga 2 with Android) and even I distrust regular ebooks to an extent. So I'm not really surprised about about this news.
I'm also a tablet guy (although I'd rather chew glass than buy Lenovo ones again) and the Kindle app is the first thing I install when I get a new tablet. It's as good as reading ebooks get; even the online version (read.amazon.com) is better than dealing with Pdf.
I read on average two books a week. Done that for years. It has come to a point where I sometimes look at a book that seems interesting on amazon.com and when I try to buy it I see the message saying that I already own it... When that happens I quickly look at the highlights I've made in that book, without even having to open the book, and it refreshes my memory. Then I can move on and buy something more advanced in that same topic or disregard it completely.
That's also how I brush up my Spanish. I buy Spanish books and use the built-in dictionary to look up new words. I've tried that with paper books and paper dictionaries in the past and it's just not the same. All I have to do in Kindle is tap a word and I see the definition inline; since I often need the dictionary 2-3 times per page in Spanish books it's a wonderful thing.
How many of those 900 books are still relevant? You probably have classics worth re-reading, but I bet you also have things like "Writing Java Applets in 24h With Jbuilder 3.0".
A physical library that has obsolete books is basically hoarding. I have obsolete ebooks but I don't download them on my Kindle or tablet, I can access them if needed but in the meantime they're Amazon's problem and that works well for everyone involved.
Indeed. There is so much garbage on Kindle now, even with a specific search there's tons of useless "books" that are either a low-quality blog post or a sales pitch for some other service, it ruins the whole experience.
I like ebooks and I like Kindle features like being able to see all the highlights I made in a central web page. But lately I spend so much time "shopping" before buying a book that I'm starting to consider going back to the actual bookstore.
OS/2 nostalgia is like JFK nostalgia; it's more about an idealized version of what could have been than fond memories of what it actually was.
IBM has created some very advanced stuff for the enterprise, but they don't have a good track record when it comes down to consumer-grade or user-friendly software. Maybe the reason is because they enter the corporate world through the board room and golf greens, forcing their product down the chain of command instead of making things actual users can enjoy.
Windows didn't kill OS/2. "Something not OS/2" killed OS/2; if there hadn't been Windows it would have been something else, like BeOS.
I'm not surprised that there's still some VB6 apps doing important work out there. Just as I'm not surprised to see features added to ancient RPG programs or web services being created to wrap a bunch of FoxPro modules. Old doesn't mean bad; if it has worked until now, why throw it away.
In 10 years those apps will probably still run, but the countless NodeJs packages and ruby gems and whatnot that are currently hosted on github will be gone.
In this specific case, the poster simply said that some of the people who left their job maybe had other reasons than what the study is reporting. Someone accused that poster of showing the "quick to judge hostility" those people face. There was not even a hint of that in the actual comment; therefore, it qualifies as virtue signaling because essentially the person is taking the high road without justification.
Back in the days, virtue signaling would get someone a wedgie or at least a burning bag of dog shit. Now those people get Facebook Likes. I don't know if society comes out a winner.
It's the business version, now called G Suite. It has more features, for instance you can assign many domain names to your account or login with a dongle, so it's a good solution for a small business. Office 365 has a similar offering.
They do have an agenda. Big "Walk a half an hour a day and don't eat garbage" wants people to have a longer and healthier life so senior citizens can be milked longer by bingo halls and casinos. This lobby is in a perpetual fight against another lobby, Big "Eat sugar and die in your mid 60s" who want to accelerate the settlement of reverse mortgages.
we're also looking into commissioning a pilot for a new show called NCIS:Cyber, featuring the Naval Criminal Intelligence agencies that protect our brave Marines from hackers.
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everyone can wonder why American corporations keep getting their asses handed to them by more pragmatic approaches made by foreign companies
Like Volkswagen? BP? Toshiba? FIFA? Olympus? Tesco? MG Rover? Parmalat? Barclays?
10,000 applications for 800 positions
Sounds better than a "cute girl on Tinder" ratio
it is not much use.
There's 30 billion messages sent daily on Whatsapp. I don't know what you consider of "much use".
Germany is going for its ANISKI project to study non standardized communication.
They can't make diesel engines without cheating, I'm not worried about their encryption breaking skills.
Trump is on track to outspend Obama on using Air Force One for vacationing.
No he's not. This is another example of liberal media playing with numbers to serve their agenda. See:
With President Donald Trump making his seventh presidential trip this weekend to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, government watchdogs and Democrats are once again seeing dollar signs: namely, $3 million. That's a widely used estimate of what each journey costs taxpayers. The figure comes from a government report on a trip President Barack Obama made to Palm Beach, Florida, but the report's author tells The Associated Press that it's a mistake to apply those findings to Trump's travel.
http://time.com/4736490/presid...
Given that large food concerns are opposed to the policies that logically follow from it I doubt they particularly lobbied for it.
That's not how it went down. The various groups didn't "lobby for it", they lobbied against it until the USDA finally came up with a version that was acceptable for all the lobbies.
You would immediately denounce the influence of lobbies if the government was to release a pyramid that would suggest 4h of TV, 2h of social media, 1h of videopoker and 30 minutes of book reading per day for a healthy lifestyle. But that's exactly what they did for food.
True. These "nutrition standards" are based on the same principles as the USDA food pyramid, which has been for the most part shaped by lobbyists, not nutritional experts.
That's it. Fanbois have now jumped the shark and joined the likes of Baghdad Bob.
Apple Inc reported a surprise fall in iPhone sales for the second quarter on Tuesday, indicating that customers had held back purchases in anticipation of the 10th-anniversary edition launch of the company's most important product.
Whoever submitted that, and whoever approved it for publishing, shame on you. This used to be a serious website.
The cost of using Air Force One is $200,000 per hour. Look it up.
The sum of all the taxes you will pay over your entire life won't be enough to pay for the fuel spent by Air Force One when Obama went on a single vacation trip in 2015. What did you get for that?
Ah, how cute, lucm is still complaining about Obama in 2015 when the popular vote loser is making regular jaunts to Mar-A-Largo on the government done. Which he uses to enrich himself, a severely dubious arrangement.
Tell you what, if you make Trump live the life of an ascetic monk, you can ask for Obama to pay his expenses back.
Trump declined to get a salary. Obama took $400,000 / year, and he's getting a $200,000 / year pension - after vetoing a bill from Congress to cap the pension for ex-Presidents.
He's not going to pay it back; the milking has just started. If you don't see it because of your intense hate for Trump, that's too bad.
I don't mind paying my taxes. I get a lot in return.
The sum of all the taxes you will pay over your entire life won't be enough to pay for the fuel spent by Air Force One when Obama went on a single vacation trip in 2015. What did you get for that?
and a "record" out of 8 titles isn't really that impressive. It's small enough to find some kind of record for each one.
Fuck me, this guy is a full blown autist.
He used Python, so he's probably just a mild aspie. If he had been a full-blown autist he would have used ruby.
I don't know where you got that ton of books in pdf format. Did you scan yourself books that you bought at the bookstore?
All the ebooks I have come from Amazon so they work natively with all the Amazon apps. It doesn't bother me because what I value is the ecosystem as a whole; the convenience of search and highlights, the easy inventory management, the built-in dictionaries. If Kindle was nothing more than pdf reader I would probably buy paper books because I really find reading pdf tedious, unless it's a very short document.
Bottom line: I'm a tablet guy ( 10" Yoga 2 with Android) and even I distrust regular ebooks to an extent. So I'm not really surprised about about this news.
I'm also a tablet guy (although I'd rather chew glass than buy Lenovo ones again) and the Kindle app is the first thing I install when I get a new tablet. It's as good as reading ebooks get; even the online version (read.amazon.com) is better than dealing with Pdf.
I read on average two books a week. Done that for years. It has come to a point where I sometimes look at a book that seems interesting on amazon.com and when I try to buy it I see the message saying that I already own it... When that happens I quickly look at the highlights I've made in that book, without even having to open the book, and it refreshes my memory. Then I can move on and buy something more advanced in that same topic or disregard it completely.
That's also how I brush up my Spanish. I buy Spanish books and use the built-in dictionary to look up new words. I've tried that with paper books and paper dictionaries in the past and it's just not the same. All I have to do in Kindle is tap a word and I see the definition inline; since I often need the dictionary 2-3 times per page in Spanish books it's a wonderful thing.
How many of those 900 books are still relevant? You probably have classics worth re-reading, but I bet you also have things like "Writing Java Applets in 24h With Jbuilder 3.0".
A physical library that has obsolete books is basically hoarding. I have obsolete ebooks but I don't download them on my Kindle or tablet, I can access them if needed but in the meantime they're Amazon's problem and that works well for everyone involved.
Indeed. There is so much garbage on Kindle now, even with a specific search there's tons of useless "books" that are either a low-quality blog post or a sales pitch for some other service, it ruins the whole experience.
I like ebooks and I like Kindle features like being able to see all the highlights I made in a central web page. But lately I spend so much time "shopping" before buying a book that I'm starting to consider going back to the actual bookstore.
OS/2 nostalgia is like JFK nostalgia; it's more about an idealized version of what could have been than fond memories of what it actually was.
IBM has created some very advanced stuff for the enterprise, but they don't have a good track record when it comes down to consumer-grade or user-friendly software. Maybe the reason is because they enter the corporate world through the board room and golf greens, forcing their product down the chain of command instead of making things actual users can enjoy.
Windows didn't kill OS/2. "Something not OS/2" killed OS/2; if there hadn't been Windows it would have been something else, like BeOS.
I'm not surprised that there's still some VB6 apps doing important work out there. Just as I'm not surprised to see features added to ancient RPG programs or web services being created to wrap a bunch of FoxPro modules. Old doesn't mean bad; if it has worked until now, why throw it away.
In 10 years those apps will probably still run, but the countless NodeJs packages and ruby gems and whatnot that are currently hosted on github will be gone.
In this specific case, the poster simply said that some of the people who left their job maybe had other reasons than what the study is reporting. Someone accused that poster of showing the "quick to judge hostility" those people face. There was not even a hint of that in the actual comment; therefore, it qualifies as virtue signaling because essentially the person is taking the high road without justification.
Back in the days, virtue signaling would get someone a wedgie or at least a burning bag of dog shit. Now those people get Facebook Likes. I don't know if society comes out a winner.
It's the business version, now called G Suite. It has more features, for instance you can assign many domain names to your account or login with a dongle, so it's a good solution for a small business. Office 365 has a similar offering.
They do have an agenda. Big "Walk a half an hour a day and don't eat garbage" wants people to have a longer and healthier life so senior citizens can be milked longer by bingo halls and casinos. This lobby is in a perpetual fight against another lobby, Big "Eat sugar and die in your mid 60s" who want to accelerate the settlement of reverse mortgages.
Business Requirements that expect the same code be running in 10 years on a massively different scale are usually a not very good idea.
Twitter, Facebook, Amazon...
we're also looking into commissioning a pilot for a new show called NCIS:Cyber, featuring the Naval Criminal Intelligence agencies that protect our brave Marines from hackers.
... and protect them against vaping also, I hope?