" Now however, the thought that the U.S. would retaliate for South Korea becomes less credible when North Korea can then (in theory) take out Los Angeles or Washington D.C. Everyone realizes this, so if the North gains a credible ICBM capability and if the U.S. lacks a credible defense, the American guarantee is gone and South Korea is left to the wolves (North Korea)"
I don't believe North Korea has the ability to observe US missile launches and get their missiles in the air before ours hit. China or Russia telling them they are coming so they can launch would be the same as launching themselves and we can trust that China and Russia are sane enough not to do that.
I imagine that once self-driving cars become the norm you'll be able to have your car drop you off at work and then you can rent out your car to do things like pick up other people's groceries and other goods, or to drive other people around. My local grocery store chain is rolling out an online ordering system with its own parking spots and you just walk in and pick up your order. It's not a big leap from there to having your car go there to a special drive thru to pick them up without you. I can also see standardization of loading heights on vehicles to make this process fully automated. The trouble is getting your refrigerated or frozen foods taken care of at the other end without you being there to unload it,
Because absolute numbers are pretty meaningless when you are comparing a country that is many times larger than most of the other countries you are comparing it to. A gallon of water will overfill your coffee cup but it doesn't do very much to a swimming pool.
The US is 65th in percentage of foreign born people (2014, NPR) and bounces around between 15th and 30th in immigration per capita. So yes, I guess the papers should do a better job educating you about that.
Rather than threatening to pick up our ball and go home when we lose, let's acknowledge that the country is divided on what we should be doing. It's hard to compare the different ideas because we have no control group to compare to when one party's ideas were in use. Comparing different times periods is difficult because the US is part of a global economy and has technological and societal changes.
So I propose we let the Democrats and Republicans come up with their own plans for taxes, entitlements, health care, and any other parts of the budget where practical. Add in a third non-partisan group of experts for an alternative plan.
Then we have a referendum with instant runoff voting. Each state gets to chose which plan it wants to implement. In order for a plan to go into effect it must have some threshold of states/population.
The debt is then split proportionately by population to the groups of states and we let the experiment run its course. Changes to the plans must be approved by the voters in the states currently on the plan. States can change plans on the same schedule as the Senate. 6 years, staggered so that 1/3 happens every 2 years. Continue until only one plan remains.
Ship something by UPS and there's often more in additional fees than the actual delivery charge. There's also no collusion between them and Fedex. They just coincidentally raise their prices and restructure fees the same amounts and the same ways at the same time every year.
I've heard that the sitting around is mostly them using their own trucks to bring the items from your order to a nearby fulfillment center. I notice this more when I order a bunch of unrelated small things. When I order a single large item it still ships fairly soon but spends longer with the shipping company. Either way it gets to me within the shipping estimate time. You just have to be aware that the shipping estimate range is not the same as what you get from a normal shipper where it's usually going to get to you at the early part of the range. From Amazon with free shipping it's always going to get to you at the end of the range.
"I'm not giving up any freedom. I'm still covered by the Constitution."
When the Constitution can be set aside whenever it suits the government then no, you aren't still covered. They've already shredded the 4th. They would like to take away the 2nd based on your name being placed, without any due process,on a secret list that you aren't allowed to know you are on.
It's fine to be in favor of changing your Constitutional rights. But they have to do it the right way, by actually amending them rather than just doing whatever they want whenever they want or the whole thing becomes meaningless.
It banned commercial and political campaign calls, but not all political calls.
" The court, applying strict scrutiny, held that the
statute was not narrowly tailored to protect the governmentâ(TM)s purported interestâ"to protect residential
privacy and tranquility from unwanted and intrusive automated calls. Id. The statute restricted two
types of automated callsâ"consumer and politicalâ"but permitted unlimited proliferation of other
types, so the statute was underinclusive. Id."
The AG argued that those were the only types of calls they received complaints about but what people actually want is of course irrelevant.
Then after saying the law wasn't broad enough he went on to say it was too restrictive. Yay for contradictions!
Social media is an echo chamber. You have to be lucky to get someone with a big enough following to share your content and then someone else and someone else after that. Once you are big enough then your success builds upon itself. Otherwise you are invisible in a sea of other people. Better work still gets drowned out. Then we add in the fact that instead of corporate types directly picking the creators that will be put forward instead they are controlling the algorithms that decide which content you are going to see. It's the same thing just done more indirectly.
"It is difficult to BS in math. If the answer is correct or not, that is where the hatred of math is.... Math Grading is normally very mechanical."
I think that's a big problem with math grading. You are taking a test on a concept of calculus and you did all the calculus correctly but made a minor arithmetic mistake. You simply get a red slash through your answer and zero points. By their nature essay type answers, while BSable, inherently force the grader to try to determine whether the student understood the concept rather than just whether they got the right answer.
Such as why the weather module is incapable of keeping track of what day of the week it is or what city it it supposed to show. It definitely shows some weather happening somewhere though. When the whole site doesn't just give up and give error messages everywhere, that is.
Yes, I bought a truck that costs more than a car and gets worse full economy to avoid emissions controls, not because I need to put stuff in it that doesn't fit in a car in order to do my job. Clever of you to see through that.
My neighbor's teenage son rides his bike opposing traffic. His parents walk down the road with traffic. His face was not embedded in a windshield one day because I'm a good enough driver to anticipate what was going to happen in a blind corner and came to a complete stop in my lane so the opposing car that I couldn't even see yet had somewhere to go as he merrily rode his bike down the middle of the lane into traffic where an overpass at the sharp corner makes it impossible to see him coming. Maybe I was just too awe struck at the stupidity to drive rather than a good driver. He did not learn a thing from this event and continued merrily along the main road against traffic. He's going to continue doing this until he stops riding a bike or dies because his parents are idiots. Another much younger and unsupervised child almost ran her bike straight into the front of my truck after I came to a complete stop because she was again in the middle of my lane and apparently expected me to go into the opposite lane for her rather than stop. Nobody is teaching these kids the rules of the road.
What if I make two different ice sculptures from the same source of water with the same mass but different shapes. After they melt it's impossible to tell which one was which. That's not a paradox.
One pilot takes 20 minute naps for 5 days in between flying the plane, while the second pilot sits there waiting for the next leg where they will do the same thing. Who came up with this idea?
Back in my day all you had was a couple cordless drills for power and a remote control. I thought it was an engineering competition, not a programming contest.
That's not how it works anymore. You used to have to be invited to be a partner. Now anyone can be a partner and monetize their videos.
As someone who puts a lot of effort into making videos, thanks a whole bunch for adblocking away the tiny bit of money we get for our labor. I don't bother with doing any techie type twist to a video to appeal to that demo because you all block and the ads so it's worthless to do anything for you. Getting shared on Reddit gives you lots of views and zero money.
Covering yourself with reflectors is a very good way to make sure you are always the one who is detected first. The one who gets detected first is usually the one who is dead.
I still use yahoo email as my I don't care what happens to it address. Spam filter works well so I haven't seen a need to change.
Once she took over they redid the my yahoo homepage and broke literally everything about it. The sports feed has mostly become functional again but the weather... my god the weather... completely and utterly useless. The widget on the homepage can't keep track of where I am or even what day of the week it is. Everything else is more likely to give you a gateway timeout or other error than actual information.
Uh, Pentax/Ricoh has had their 645d out for less money than you want them to drop to for years. It's been around longer than your D800e. It is a crop sensor though and if you thought your Nikon FF glass was expensive... The difference between the Pentax and the 'blads is that the Pentax has the same AF module as their other cameras, which is primitive compared to Nikon's but well beyond anything else in MF land.
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" Now however, the thought that the U.S. would retaliate for South Korea becomes less credible when North Korea can then (in theory) take out Los Angeles or Washington D.C. Everyone realizes this, so if the North gains a credible ICBM capability and if the U.S. lacks a credible defense, the American guarantee is gone and South Korea is left to the wolves (North Korea)"
I don't believe North Korea has the ability to observe US missile launches and get their missiles in the air before ours hit. China or Russia telling them they are coming so they can launch would be the same as launching themselves and we can trust that China and Russia are sane enough not to do that.
I imagine that once self-driving cars become the norm you'll be able to have your car drop you off at work and then you can rent out your car to do things like pick up other people's groceries and other goods, or to drive other people around. My local grocery store chain is rolling out an online ordering system with its own parking spots and you just walk in and pick up your order. It's not a big leap from there to having your car go there to a special drive thru to pick them up without you. I can also see standardization of loading heights on vehicles to make this process fully automated. The trouble is getting your refrigerated or frozen foods taken care of at the other end without you being there to unload it,
Because absolute numbers are pretty meaningless when you are comparing a country that is many times larger than most of the other countries you are comparing it to. A gallon of water will overfill your coffee cup but it doesn't do very much to a swimming pool.
The US is 65th in percentage of foreign born people (2014, NPR) and bounces around between 15th and 30th in immigration per capita. So yes, I guess the papers should do a better job educating you about that.
Rather than threatening to pick up our ball and go home when we lose, let's acknowledge that the country is divided on what we should be doing. It's hard to compare the different ideas because we have no control group to compare to when one party's ideas were in use. Comparing different times periods is difficult because the US is part of a global economy and has technological and societal changes.
So I propose we let the Democrats and Republicans come up with their own plans for taxes, entitlements, health care, and any other parts of the budget where practical. Add in a third non-partisan group of experts for an alternative plan.
Then we have a referendum with instant runoff voting. Each state gets to chose which plan it wants to implement. In order for a plan to go into effect it must have some threshold of states/population.
The debt is then split proportionately by population to the groups of states and we let the experiment run its course. Changes to the plans must be approved by the voters in the states currently on the plan. States can change plans on the same schedule as the Senate. 6 years, staggered so that 1/3 happens every 2 years. Continue until only one plan remains.
Ship something by UPS and there's often more in additional fees than the actual delivery charge. There's also no collusion between them and Fedex. They just coincidentally raise their prices and restructure fees the same amounts and the same ways at the same time every year.
I've heard that the sitting around is mostly them using their own trucks to bring the items from your order to a nearby fulfillment center. I notice this more when I order a bunch of unrelated small things. When I order a single large item it still ships fairly soon but spends longer with the shipping company. Either way it gets to me within the shipping estimate time. You just have to be aware that the shipping estimate range is not the same as what you get from a normal shipper where it's usually going to get to you at the early part of the range. From Amazon with free shipping it's always going to get to you at the end of the range.
"I'm not giving up any freedom. I'm still covered by the Constitution."
When the Constitution can be set aside whenever it suits the government then no, you aren't still covered. They've already shredded the 4th. They would like to take away the 2nd based on your name being placed, without any due process,on a secret list that you aren't allowed to know you are on.
It's fine to be in favor of changing your Constitutional rights. But they have to do it the right way, by actually amending them rather than just doing whatever they want whenever they want or the whole thing becomes meaningless.
It banned commercial and political campaign calls, but not all political calls. " The court, applying strict scrutiny, held that the statute was not narrowly tailored to protect the governmentâ(TM)s purported interestâ"to protect residential privacy and tranquility from unwanted and intrusive automated calls. Id. The statute restricted two types of automated callsâ"consumer and politicalâ"but permitted unlimited proliferation of other types, so the statute was underinclusive. Id." The AG argued that those were the only types of calls they received complaints about but what people actually want is of course irrelevant. Then after saying the law wasn't broad enough he went on to say it was too restrictive. Yay for contradictions!
In order for a trademark on thank you to lose distinctiveness it would have to actually have some to begin with.
Social media is an echo chamber. You have to be lucky to get someone with a big enough following to share your content and then someone else and someone else after that. Once you are big enough then your success builds upon itself. Otherwise you are invisible in a sea of other people. Better work still gets drowned out. Then we add in the fact that instead of corporate types directly picking the creators that will be put forward instead they are controlling the algorithms that decide which content you are going to see. It's the same thing just done more indirectly.
I knew Brienne didn't really kill you.
If 2% of the world buys it that's $56.8 billion.
"It is difficult to BS in math. If the answer is correct or not, that is where the hatred of math is.... Math Grading is normally very mechanical." I think that's a big problem with math grading. You are taking a test on a concept of calculus and you did all the calculus correctly but made a minor arithmetic mistake. You simply get a red slash through your answer and zero points. By their nature essay type answers, while BSable, inherently force the grader to try to determine whether the student understood the concept rather than just whether they got the right answer.
Such as why the weather module is incapable of keeping track of what day of the week it is or what city it it supposed to show. It definitely shows some weather happening somewhere though. When the whole site doesn't just give up and give error messages everywhere, that is.
Yes, I bought a truck that costs more than a car and gets worse full economy to avoid emissions controls, not because I need to put stuff in it that doesn't fit in a car in order to do my job. Clever of you to see through that.
My neighbor's teenage son rides his bike opposing traffic. His parents walk down the road with traffic. His face was not embedded in a windshield one day because I'm a good enough driver to anticipate what was going to happen in a blind corner and came to a complete stop in my lane so the opposing car that I couldn't even see yet had somewhere to go as he merrily rode his bike down the middle of the lane into traffic where an overpass at the sharp corner makes it impossible to see him coming. Maybe I was just too awe struck at the stupidity to drive rather than a good driver. He did not learn a thing from this event and continued merrily along the main road against traffic. He's going to continue doing this until he stops riding a bike or dies because his parents are idiots. Another much younger and unsupervised child almost ran her bike straight into the front of my truck after I came to a complete stop because she was again in the middle of my lane and apparently expected me to go into the opposite lane for her rather than stop. Nobody is teaching these kids the rules of the road.
What if I make two different ice sculptures from the same source of water with the same mass but different shapes. After they melt it's impossible to tell which one was which. That's not a paradox.
One pilot takes 20 minute naps for 5 days in between flying the plane, while the second pilot sits there waiting for the next leg where they will do the same thing. Who came up with this idea?
Back in my day all you had was a couple cordless drills for power and a remote control. I thought it was an engineering competition, not a programming contest.
How can Republicans criticize Obamacare when they support Israel that has universal health care?
That's not how it works anymore. You used to have to be invited to be a partner. Now anyone can be a partner and monetize their videos.
As someone who puts a lot of effort into making videos, thanks a whole bunch for adblocking away the tiny bit of money we get for our labor. I don't bother with doing any techie type twist to a video to appeal to that demo because you all block and the ads so it's worthless to do anything for you. Getting shared on Reddit gives you lots of views and zero money.
Covering yourself with reflectors is a very good way to make sure you are always the one who is detected first. The one who gets detected first is usually the one who is dead.
I still use yahoo email as my I don't care what happens to it address. Spam filter works well so I haven't seen a need to change.
Once she took over they redid the my yahoo homepage and broke literally everything about it. The sports feed has mostly become functional again but the weather... my god the weather... completely and utterly useless. The widget on the homepage can't keep track of where I am or even what day of the week it is. Everything else is more likely to give you a gateway timeout or other error than actual information.
Uh, Pentax/Ricoh has had their 645d out for less money than you want them to drop to for years. It's been around longer than your D800e. It is a crop sensor though and if you thought your Nikon FF glass was expensive... The difference between the Pentax and the 'blads is that the Pentax has the same AF module as their other cameras, which is primitive compared to Nikon's but well beyond anything else in MF land.