Nice trolling. The government won't be any more in charge of healthcare than it was previously. The only difference is that nearly everybody will have health insurance.
A measure like that would cost jobs. That sort of a ban would reduce the copies sold if by only the people who are no longer able to buy it for themselves. I doubt that it's a significant enough number to make much of a difference though.
If they ran from CA it's more likely that they'd consolidate up here in WA. Seeing as we already have a video games industry. Nintendo of America, Bungie and a few others are already headquartered up here, consolidating near the others would make more sense.
You got more creative within the acceptable boundaries, but you didn't see a lot of movies being made which pushed the social consciousness either. Restraints do indeed spur creativity, but censorship doesn't do that. What it does is stifle expression and eliminate the possibility of certain stories being told.
That's the reason why people complain about the damage it does to civilization.
Assuming they can get a job in the first place. When I was that age there were paper routes available and other jobs. These days it's getting quite challenging for kids to get work, as a lot of those jobs are being taken over by adults or eliminated due to concerns about child welfare.
Because the pound is specified as being a certain amount of Kilograms, rather than an independent measure as it used to be. So if something happens to the kilogram, then something happens to the pound. Simple really.
Right now perhaps, but changes like this tend to deviate more and more over time making it a much bigger deal in the future than it is right now. Units do change from time to time in response to science.
The main reason is that NASA is the primary agency studying climate change, or at least it was until the Republicans in congress started cutting funding for the necessary satellites and research because they were concerned that they might prove global warming was real sufficiently that their constituents would start getting concerned. Or really continue failing to disprove global warming.
It's what happens whenever you let Sophists have access to the controls over research.
Intelligence is expensive to get. It's not like compiling a list of the best Pizzarias in the US, there's a lot of guesswork and probably bribery and extortion involved. Not to mention the cost of maintaining GITMO for however long it is before the Republicans acknowledge that we have to accept at least a few detainees if we want to be rid of the rest.
My former employer was like that. They expected the employees to report all payroll errors to them, but they only reported and fixed ones that we reported or that cost them money. Hence why I no longer work for them.
This is America, when's the last time you received an apology? Chances are if that the answer is at all recent your either a wife or living in some other land.
I've always found that to be moronic. When TD Ameritrade lost my contact information the settlement let them pay people with free trades. Needless to say I'd already left because of their ineptitude, leaving the settlement which was insultingly cheap in the first place completely worthless.
Typically you don't. You pay per line. And it does typically cost more money because they typically provide more service. Try getting a Service Level Agreement out of a carrier for home use.
Ouch, even AT&T isn't that bad. I think the most I've ever gotten charged for that sort of fat fingered mistakes was a few cents for the bandwidth. Don't get me wrong it was an outrageously large sum of money for the mistake, but far cheaper than 2.99.
In the US, the fines are pretty much always a slap on the wrist. Because as soon as you start suggesting a real penalty that might actually deter some of the malfeasance, they start threatening to raise rates and institute layoffs.
I've got a better solution, a bit of masking tape over the camera any time that you don't want to be caught on camera. It's not perfect, but they can't see anything.
They're doing that because you're delusional. Sort of like how the sky is now red and Safari doesn't suck balls on Windows.
Firefox is much more usable now than it was when I first started using it back when it was alpha and wasn't Firefox. 3.x and 4.x are continuing the evolution. It's hard for me to believe that a bunch of "moron" as you put it put together the second most popular browser. Even more shocking is that a bunch of morons are now leading the browser market.
That doesn't apply here. The difference is that there's no plausible reason why a rock would repel tigers. Especially since I'm assuming you aren't in a place where tigers are likely to come.
The point of nuclear weapons is to deter conflicts on the scale of the world wars from ever happening again, and so far they've done that admirably. They were never intended for the purpose of dealing with smaller scale outbreaks of violence even ones as large as the Iraq war.
A lot of that comes from eliminating PE and recess. Not to mention the ever increasing amounts of homework and the virtual elimination of free time.
The sole purpose of PE when I was in school was to make sure that kids were getting at least that much exercise during the week. Consequently there were numerous ways of dodging it like joining a sports team, or more dubiously joining the orchestra.
Indeed, but I'd wager the focus ought to be on what makes a difference rather than things which are more superficial in nature. For the most part, those desks were fine when I was in school. I don't recall them being a problem for most other students either. You got up out of them at least once an hour for a few minutes between classes. Perhaps they do need to be retooled for larger students, but for the most part the basica design was fine.
Spending the money elsewhere like on better curricula and more interesting classes would almost certainly go much further towards eliminating the problems cited in TFS.
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Nice trolling. The government won't be any more in charge of healthcare than it was previously. The only difference is that nearly everybody will have health insurance.
A measure like that would cost jobs. That sort of a ban would reduce the copies sold if by only the people who are no longer able to buy it for themselves. I doubt that it's a significant enough number to make much of a difference though.
If they ran from CA it's more likely that they'd consolidate up here in WA. Seeing as we already have a video games industry. Nintendo of America, Bungie and a few others are already headquartered up here, consolidating near the others would make more sense.
You got more creative within the acceptable boundaries, but you didn't see a lot of movies being made which pushed the social consciousness either. Restraints do indeed spur creativity, but censorship doesn't do that. What it does is stifle expression and eliminate the possibility of certain stories being told.
That's the reason why people complain about the damage it does to civilization.
Assuming they can get a job in the first place. When I was that age there were paper routes available and other jobs. These days it's getting quite challenging for kids to get work, as a lot of those jobs are being taken over by adults or eliminated due to concerns about child welfare.
Because the pound is specified as being a certain amount of Kilograms, rather than an independent measure as it used to be. So if something happens to the kilogram, then something happens to the pound. Simple really.
Indeed. Everybody knows that a Planck value is whatever you demand in lieu of making them walk the Planck. Duh, I thought everybody knew that.
Right now perhaps, but changes like this tend to deviate more and more over time making it a much bigger deal in the future than it is right now. Units do change from time to time in response to science.
It's hardly just us. When's the last time somebody went into a British bar and offered to pay in Kilos?
Speaking as somebody who had an awful site on Geocities circa mid 2000, I have to assume that most of the sites were at least as bad.
I'm a bit surprised that it wasn't already up.
The main reason is that NASA is the primary agency studying climate change, or at least it was until the Republicans in congress started cutting funding for the necessary satellites and research because they were concerned that they might prove global warming was real sufficiently that their constituents would start getting concerned. Or really continue failing to disprove global warming.
It's what happens whenever you let Sophists have access to the controls over research.
Intelligence is expensive to get. It's not like compiling a list of the best Pizzarias in the US, there's a lot of guesswork and probably bribery and extortion involved. Not to mention the cost of maintaining GITMO for however long it is before the Republicans acknowledge that we have to accept at least a few detainees if we want to be rid of the rest.
My former employer was like that. They expected the employees to report all payroll errors to them, but they only reported and fixed ones that we reported or that cost them money. Hence why I no longer work for them.
This is America, when's the last time you received an apology? Chances are if that the answer is at all recent your either a wife or living in some other land.
I've always found that to be moronic. When TD Ameritrade lost my contact information the settlement let them pay people with free trades. Needless to say I'd already left because of their ineptitude, leaving the settlement which was insultingly cheap in the first place completely worthless.
Typically you don't. You pay per line. And it does typically cost more money because they typically provide more service. Try getting a Service Level Agreement out of a carrier for home use.
Ouch, even AT&T isn't that bad. I think the most I've ever gotten charged for that sort of fat fingered mistakes was a few cents for the bandwidth. Don't get me wrong it was an outrageously large sum of money for the mistake, but far cheaper than 2.99.
In the US, the fines are pretty much always a slap on the wrist. Because as soon as you start suggesting a real penalty that might actually deter some of the malfeasance, they start threatening to raise rates and institute layoffs.
I've got a better solution, a bit of masking tape over the camera any time that you don't want to be caught on camera. It's not perfect, but they can't see anything.
They're doing that because you're delusional. Sort of like how the sky is now red and Safari doesn't suck balls on Windows.
Firefox is much more usable now than it was when I first started using it back when it was alpha and wasn't Firefox. 3.x and 4.x are continuing the evolution. It's hard for me to believe that a bunch of "moron" as you put it put together the second most popular browser. Even more shocking is that a bunch of morons are now leading the browser market.
That doesn't apply here. The difference is that there's no plausible reason why a rock would repel tigers. Especially since I'm assuming you aren't in a place where tigers are likely to come.
The point of nuclear weapons is to deter conflicts on the scale of the world wars from ever happening again, and so far they've done that admirably. They were never intended for the purpose of dealing with smaller scale outbreaks of violence even ones as large as the Iraq war.
Don't forget about those eyelid holders like they had in A Clockwork Orange, they might blink at the wrong time and screw up the lecture.
A lot of that comes from eliminating PE and recess. Not to mention the ever increasing amounts of homework and the virtual elimination of free time.
The sole purpose of PE when I was in school was to make sure that kids were getting at least that much exercise during the week. Consequently there were numerous ways of dodging it like joining a sports team, or more dubiously joining the orchestra.
Indeed, but I'd wager the focus ought to be on what makes a difference rather than things which are more superficial in nature. For the most part, those desks were fine when I was in school. I don't recall them being a problem for most other students either. You got up out of them at least once an hour for a few minutes between classes. Perhaps they do need to be retooled for larger students, but for the most part the basica design was fine.
Spending the money elsewhere like on better curricula and more interesting classes would almost certainly go much further towards eliminating the problems cited in TFS.