if you went into a lineup and got chosen as the criminal you got a free golf club.
my department does this, and you're absolutely right about how bad people are at identifying perps. you wouldn't believe how many homicides I had to pull off before I got my goddamn nine iron.
how does one determine what a reasonable reward is when the value of the salvaged item is difficult to determine? can the owner simply offer a penny, or can the salvor hold the goods for ransom until he gets what he wants? such a right to claim reward seems ripe for abuse, unless it must be agreed upon in advance, in which case it is no longer a right really, given that in that case the salvor could be said to have the right to see the owner dance like a chicken (since he has the right to anything he can agree to get the owner to do as a precondition of the salvage operation).
As official spokesman for the FBI, I wish to inform you that we have implemented a new opt-out program to address your concerns. If you wish to opt out of the watch list, simply let us know and we will remove you from it. Simple, huh?
But we won't stop there. Want to be taken off our list of people who were once on the watch list? No problem! Just say the word.
But maybe that's not enough. Maybe you want to get taken off the list of people who were once on the list of people who were on the watch list. Seems a little paranoid, but fine.
Still not satisfied? Just keep making opt-out requests until you're happy. Hell, you can even have us opt you out once every millisecond. What more do you people want?
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That's like saying you can easily find that you've lost something by taking a full inventory of your house each week. If you don't suspect something has gone missing, why would you be checking/making the list?
Whether or not one needs the money is irrelevant. A rich person has a choice between remaining idle and keeping his capital safely out of danger, or continuing to work and putting his capital at risk. If you tax him sufficiently that going to work and putting his capital at risk is not worth the extra cash, he's not going to do it (or he's going to move somewhere else). Telling him "that extra money was just gravy" will have no effect.
As for "the real job creators," you seem to have as cartoonish a notion of the rich as a financier out of central casting might have of the poor.
that seems like a disincentive. if there were mass unemployment, why would boss moneybags invest in a new factory? in such a situation the economy would likely be lousy, so that his factory would have a hard time covering costs. if on the contrary it turned out to be successful, his profits would just get taxed away. he'd be better off waiting until other chumps take the risk of hiring enough workers that the tax rate goes down.
"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect."
so giving someone the finger is art, as is deliberately farting in class, and throwing all the mice in the computer lab onto the roof of the building... all my teenage years I was a consummate artist, and I didn't know it. in fact, I was persecuted for it, in precisely the same manner as were many other visionary artists through the centuries.
Ah, I see yer problem right here. You think that managers get managerial training.
I was speaking of army officers. My point is that one reason younger managers might dislike managing older workers is that the prejudice of some older workers against younger managers makes these workers more difficult to manage. The Peter Principle is irrelevant here, insofar as that principle applies to managers regardless of age and level.
The truth is that many of the managers in IT are younger and are not comfortable managing older workers.
and part of the reason for that is that many older works are not comfortable being managed by younger workers, which fact makes the former more difficult to manage. This is also a problem in the Army, in which older sergeants often have contentious relationships with younger officers. Part of officer training involves handling such situations properly.
You could probably say "Spammers Bribe Officials" and no doubt it's universally true.
What would be the downside of loosening entrapment regulations for elected officials, so that it is possible to spam them with bribe attempts, say three to five per year? Dishonest officials would then start ignoring legitimate bribes, just as someone flooded with spam starts missing legitimate messages (albeit the former would do so out of fear of accepting a fake offer).
In the fantasy state where such an idea could be put into practice, perhaps any corporate or political enterprise who donates to a candidate could be liable in proportion to the amount of their support for any fines resultant from his accepting fake bribes. Maybe then these bodies would give more weight to a candidate's integrity relative to his orthodoxy.
If Tesla misses any one of those targets, Neil says, he wins the bet and Musk must donate $1 million to Médecins Sans FrontiÃres (Doctors Without Borders).
But if Tesla does what it said it will, Neil loses, and--being a journalist, not a multimillionaire entrepreneur--he will donate $1,000 to the same group.
so basically Musk has ensured a bunch of starry-eyed doctors will shortly be skulking around the Model S factory, attempting to sugar all the gas tanks.
Apple/Steve Jobs was pretty much failure for a majority of its life-span. Company formed in 1977 was still struggling till 2006. It's iPhone and ONLY iphone that saved them. American dream is not about one smart guy to rule hundreds of idiots. American dream is about everyone one can reach there. Steve Jobs made sure no one reaches there. He killed them all.
it's too bad you can't massmarket butthurt, or you'd make the apple/exxon stock battle look like a couple of hobos fighting over a park bench
As a professional in this area, and as someone with autism, I note with interest that the number of words containing a prime number of vowels that Baron Cohen has used in his collective writings a prime number of times is also a prime number.
an Aiport is Sony's halfhearted, too-little, too-late, answer to Apple's new iPort, which is itself just a regular old airport except it has only one plane, that only flies one route in one direction at one time each day, and permits passengers to engage in only a certain limited number of approved activities once they arrive. It looks like it will put all the other carriers out of business.
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I'm mormon, and my wife's not barefoot nor pregnant.
I am sorry for your loss.
would be for the US to actually go ahead and give them the food aid they threatened to withhold if NK launched a satellite
It's the rough equivalent of Sam and Frodo getting to Mt. Doom and it just ending as the ring falls in.
SPOILER ALERT!
if you went into a lineup and got chosen as the criminal you got a free golf club.
my department does this, and you're absolutely right about how bad people are at identifying perps. you wouldn't believe how many homicides I had to pull off before I got my goddamn nine iron.
This is basic First Amendment stuff.
indeed. we're not even dealing with a question of libel here but basic artistic freedom. after all, trolling is a art.
The salvor may claim a reward
how does one determine what a reasonable reward is when the value of the salvaged item is difficult to determine? can the owner simply offer a penny, or can the salvor hold the goods for ransom until he gets what he wants? such a right to claim reward seems ripe for abuse, unless it must be agreed upon in advance, in which case it is no longer a right really, given that in that case the salvor could be said to have the right to see the owner dance like a chicken (since he has the right to anything he can agree to get the owner to do as a precondition of the salvage operation).
evil panel of old men trying to put a baby in every woman's uterus.
so, uh, asking purely for purposes of general edification, how would one get himself on such a panel?
As official spokesman for the FBI, I wish to inform you that we have implemented a new opt-out program to address your concerns. If you wish to opt out of the watch list, simply let us know and we will remove you from it. Simple, huh?
But we won't stop there. Want to be taken off our list of people who were once on the watch list? No problem! Just say the word.
But maybe that's not enough. Maybe you want to get taken off the list of people who were once on the list of people who were on the watch list. Seems a little paranoid, but fine.
Still not satisfied? Just keep making opt-out requests until you're happy. Hell, you can even have us opt you out once every millisecond. What more do you people want?
when the screen started displaying everything upside down
Today's deal is 50% off popular deal site GroupOn! Ever wanted to own your own website that uses quirky ad copy to sell local services at 50% off of double the retail price? Is owning a website that was the cat's pajamas 3 months ago up your alley, assuming alley cats wear 3-month-old pajamas? If so, this deal is for you!
That's like saying you can easily find that you've lost something by taking a full inventory of your house each week. If you don't suspect something has gone missing, why would you be checking/making the list?
because the bar doesn't open till noon
Whether or not one needs the money is irrelevant. A rich person has a choice between remaining idle and keeping his capital safely out of danger, or continuing to work and putting his capital at risk. If you tax him sufficiently that going to work and putting his capital at risk is not worth the extra cash, he's not going to do it (or he's going to move somewhere else). Telling him "that extra money was just gravy" will have no effect.
As for "the real job creators," you seem to have as cartoonish a notion of the rich as a financier out of central casting might have of the poor.
that seems like a disincentive. if there were mass unemployment, why would boss moneybags invest in a new factory? in such a situation the economy would likely be lousy, so that his factory would have a hard time covering costs. if on the contrary it turned out to be successful, his profits would just get taxed away. he'd be better off waiting until other chumps take the risk of hiring enough workers that the tax rate goes down.
great, I sell arm to both side of conflict. now how pick up money?
"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect."
so giving someone the finger is art, as is deliberately farting in class, and throwing all the mice in the computer lab onto the roof of the building... all my teenage years I was a consummate artist, and I didn't know it. in fact, I was persecuted for it, in precisely the same manner as were many other visionary artists through the centuries.
seeing as these are precious metals we're talking about, I would suggest "bedizening."
I knew those cops were from apple because their uniforms had only one button!
Ah, I see yer problem right here. You think that managers get managerial training.
I was speaking of army officers. My point is that one reason younger managers might dislike managing older workers is that the prejudice of some older workers against younger managers makes these workers more difficult to manage. The Peter Principle is irrelevant here, insofar as that principle applies to managers regardless of age and level.
The truth is that many of the managers in IT are younger and are not comfortable managing older workers.
and part of the reason for that is that many older works are not comfortable being managed by younger workers, which fact makes the former more difficult to manage. This is also a problem in the Army, in which older sergeants often have contentious relationships with younger officers. Part of officer training involves handling such situations properly.
You could probably say "Spammers Bribe Officials" and no doubt it's universally true.
What would be the downside of loosening entrapment regulations for elected officials, so that it is possible to spam them with bribe attempts, say three to five per year? Dishonest officials would then start ignoring legitimate bribes, just as someone flooded with spam starts missing legitimate messages (albeit the former would do so out of fear of accepting a fake offer).
In the fantasy state where such an idea could be put into practice, perhaps any corporate or political enterprise who donates to a candidate could be liable in proportion to the amount of their support for any fines resultant from his accepting fake bribes. Maybe then these bodies would give more weight to a candidate's integrity relative to his orthodoxy.
mistake you ever made?
If Tesla misses any one of those targets, Neil says, he wins the bet and Musk must donate $1 million to Médecins Sans FrontiÃres (Doctors Without Borders). But if Tesla does what it said it will, Neil loses, and--being a journalist, not a multimillionaire entrepreneur--he will donate $1,000 to the same group.
so basically Musk has ensured a bunch of starry-eyed doctors will shortly be skulking around the Model S factory, attempting to sugar all the gas tanks.
Apple/Steve Jobs was pretty much failure for a majority of its life-span. Company formed in 1977 was still struggling till 2006. It's iPhone and ONLY iphone that saved them. American dream is not about one smart guy to rule hundreds of idiots. American dream is about everyone one can reach there. Steve Jobs made sure no one reaches there. He killed them all.
it's too bad you can't massmarket butthurt, or you'd make the apple/exxon stock battle look like a couple of hobos fighting over a park bench
As a professional in this area, and as someone with autism, I note with interest that the number of words containing a prime number of vowels that Baron Cohen has used in his collective writings a prime number of times is also a prime number.
an Aiport is Sony's halfhearted, too-little, too-late, answer to Apple's new iPort, which is itself just a regular old airport except it has only one plane, that only flies one route in one direction at one time each day, and permits passengers to engage in only a certain limited number of approved activities once they arrive. It looks like it will put all the other carriers out of business.