If I send in the form and it is blank, I have responded as required by law. My response was "blank". If my answers cannot be used as evidence, then it appears to me that the government will not meet the burden of proof that I did not respond to the census. Because in order to meet the burden of proof, they must present my form.
I'm just being pedantic, of course. I filled out my form and sent it in as usual.
In the instructions with the census form it says that the information on the form cannot be used in a court of law. However, at the same time it says that completing the form is required by law.
So the obvious question is, if the form cannot be used as evidence, how can they prove that I did not complete it?
Either the law is not enforceable, or they are lying when they say it cannot be used as evidence.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
"Dismantled" would be a better choice.
Of course I may be wrong. Perhaps the Seabees really have been standing around considering the the dome's true meaning and searching for inconsistencies in its design.
Talk to a CPA. If you're working for yourself, your health insurance expenses (even those for your family) can be deducted from your taxes. This does ease the burden a bit.
I'm going to miss TV, at least a little bit. I calculated that if I connect my macMini to my TV, I can do practically everything I'm doing now with cable and Tivo -- but at $50 less per month.
There are a few drawbacks, of course. Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado, to name a couple. But I almost never watch sports, and the radio can suffice when it comes to severe weather. Ultimately, these things just aren't worth the $100+ per month that I'm paying for my "bundled" cable package.
Flopping down on the couch and turning on the TV to "see what's on" are going to become a thing of the past at my house.
If Nielson doesn't make some changes to their rating system, they'll become as redundant as TV.
Good point. Another example: the military still uses the Browning.50 caliber machine gun, which has changed little since it first went into service in the 1920's.
There's a great sci-fi short story that was written along those lines. I wish I could remember the title. It was written about 20 years ago. Everyone had a "little buddy" -- a little box that would tell them what to do, and how to think. I look at smart phones today and think, "hmmm".
Firefighters aren't just "hanging around the firehouse" when they're not putting out fires. They spend that time maintaining equipment, training, performing building inspections, and a lot of other duties. I'm sure municipal policies vary, but I'm certain that many firefighters work regular shifts, and when an emergency call extends beyond their regular shift they are paid overtime.
You can lose weight just by eating less calories than you burn, no exercise required.
Well, yes, in the sense that if you are starving, or nearly so, you will definitely lose weight. But even being on a 1200 calorie a day diet (when everything says that I require 2500 calories a day) never caused me to lose weight. That is because I was insulin resistant, so my body over-produced insulin to compensate. And insulin is the hormone that causes glucose to be stored as fat.
Exercise helps your body to utilize the glucose in your blood, thus lowering your blood glucose level, and lowering the amount of fat-building insulin being secreted. This helps you lose weight. Otherwise, my experience has been that losing weight is almost impossible without exercise, unless I practically starve myself.
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If I send in the form and it is blank, I have responded as required by law. My response was "blank". If my answers cannot be used as evidence, then it appears to me that the government will not meet the burden of proof that I did not respond to the census. Because in order to meet the burden of proof, they must present my form.
I'm just being pedantic, of course. I filled out my form and sent it in as usual.
In the instructions with the census form it says that the information on the form cannot be used in a court of law. However, at the same time it says that completing the form is required by law.
So the obvious question is, if the form cannot be used as evidence, how can they prove that I did not complete it?
Either the law is not enforceable, or they are lying when they say it cannot be used as evidence.
Weaponize it.
"...And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"
Well, because the original prototypes developed in warmer climes and adapted to colder environments later on.
I wouldn't get my hopes up too high about complex life on Europa.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
"Dismantled" would be a better choice.
Of course I may be wrong. Perhaps the Seabees really have been standing around considering the the dome's true meaning and searching for inconsistencies in its design.
Talk to a CPA. If you're working for yourself, your health insurance expenses (even those for your family) can be deducted from your taxes. This does ease the burden a bit.
Don't you mean, "watt if they resist?"
I'm going to miss TV, at least a little bit. I calculated that if I connect my macMini to my TV, I can do practically everything I'm doing now with cable and Tivo -- but at $50 less per month.
There are a few drawbacks, of course. Live sporting events and knowing the exact location of the nearest tornado, to name a couple. But I almost never watch sports, and the radio can suffice when it comes to severe weather. Ultimately, these things just aren't worth the $100+ per month that I'm paying for my "bundled" cable package.
Flopping down on the couch and turning on the TV to "see what's on" are going to become a thing of the past at my house.
If Nielson doesn't make some changes to their rating system, they'll become as redundant as TV.
Good point. Another example: the military still uses the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, which has changed little since it first went into service in the 1920's.
I won't cop to paranoia, but perhaps I am being a little myopic. I was only thinking about terrorist attacks in Western countries.
There's a great sci-fi short story that was written along those lines. I wish I could remember the title. It was written about 20 years ago. Everyone had a "little buddy" -- a little box that would tell them what to do, and how to think. I look at smart phones today and think, "hmmm".
In Soviet Russia, meme ends YOU.
Perhaps another reason engineers predominate is because it is easier to get a visa, or otherwise travel, to Western countries if one is an engineer.
Hey, thanks for the post. I've never talked with anyone who has worked in the field before, so it was interesting.
While that's pretty interesting, I'd like to see a non-invasive wristband blood glucose sensor. Now that would be something.
Since they mentioned criminal charges, I just imagined him being placed in a cell with other suspects...
Cellmate: "What are you in for?"
Haering: "Causing earthquakes."
The trouble with this, of course, is that one man's "hacker" is another man's journalist, or whistle-blower, or what have you.
Firefighters aren't just "hanging around the firehouse" when they're not putting out fires. They spend that time maintaining equipment, training, performing building inspections, and a lot of other duties. I'm sure municipal policies vary, but I'm certain that many firefighters work regular shifts, and when an emergency call extends beyond their regular shift they are paid overtime.
The big question is, how soon can we turn this into some sort of weapon?
...where it will evaporate...
I'm no physicist, by any stretch of the imagination, but black holes "evaporating" just doesn't sound right to me.
You might be snow? And your kernel is naïve?
In the future every entity will have an associated conspiracy theory, for 15 minutes.
I predict 50 years from now people will look back and think that SETI was just as silly as listening for radio transmissions from Mars.
What happens when one of the vehicles in the "road train" has a blowout, or something like that?
You can lose weight just by eating less calories than you burn, no exercise required.
Well, yes, in the sense that if you are starving, or nearly so, you will definitely lose weight. But even being on a 1200 calorie a day diet (when everything says that I require 2500 calories a day) never caused me to lose weight. That is because I was insulin resistant, so my body over-produced insulin to compensate. And insulin is the hormone that causes glucose to be stored as fat.
Exercise helps your body to utilize the glucose in your blood, thus lowering your blood glucose level, and lowering the amount of fat-building insulin being secreted. This helps you lose weight. Otherwise, my experience has been that losing weight is almost impossible without exercise, unless I practically starve myself.