Do you know WHY gets Federal money? It's pretty much all defense spending. Because of DoD assets in Alaska. The studies that say Alaska gets more than everyone else are based on federal dollars spent in that state, aggregated per capita.
Alaska has a low population density, but significant DoD activity, so all those DoD dollars (spread over a low per capita) make a big per capita number.
But that number is only worth whatever you think Federal dollars spent per capita as a metric is worth. California receives the most federal aid - but you can spin that around to make it look like Alaska gets "more" if you change the metric.
Sprint is desperate for customers. I took advantage of their "switch to Sprint for a year for free plan" and moved my family to Sprint in such a debacle that I wrote about it online, and it got their CEO's attention, a personal e-mail, then his executive services team involved to fix my account.
I'm currently four months into my free year, and when it's over, I'll be switching to Verizon, simply for the fact that Sprint has shitty coverage. There's a tower 3 miles from my house so that I can at least get a signal (but bad data), but data (and thus streaming music) is unavailable for most of my trips to other towns.
I called Sprint Executive Services back a month or two ago to ask if they had any magic boxes - so that I could put one on my property and at least have good reception at home, but they were out of stock and the support person suggested I consider changing carriers. T-Mobile uses the same network, so it doesn't matter how much people chirp about how awesome they are....if they don't have coverage, you don't get to use them.
This often happened to a buddy of mine. He'd write a song, play it on his guitar and post it. Then some random music company claimed it was theirs. It got to the point where he got tired of being flagged and stopped posting on YT for this reason.
Same. I stopped posting on youtube because I got tired of my content being claimed by music companies and youtube endorsing that bad behavior.
I write and make music with a modest following, and have had youtube take down several of my songs due to the auto-trawling bots that run around claiming everything is theirs and auto-issuing DMCA takedowns via youtube.
The "National Security" Loophole in our legal system. I am less annoyed with Trump, but the Republican "Leadership" who is looking the other way and explaining away why all good points of the Republican Ideal is systematically being destroyed.
I use to be a Republican, however the party in the past 18 years had slowly empowered the worst in their party, and discredited the moderate voices in the party as not being conservative enough, or American enough.
I am all for Lower Taxes, Religious Liberties, Open Trade, and reasonable regulations. I am not for Lowering Taxes without finding a way to pay for needed services. I am not for allowing for people of different faiths or none to be openly discriminated against, or bullied into thinking they are in the wrong. I am not for Trading harmful goods, or allowing trading partners to play by a different sets of rules. I am not for just getting rid of regulations because they are there and may be hard to follow.
The debate has moved from logical reasons for taking policy, to attacking ways of life, that we as Americans should feel feel to follow whatever way of life we feel that we should follow.
I used to be a Republican, I didn't leave the party, the party rejected me and left me on my own. In the two party system right now the Democrats, are no more centrist then the Republicans are. However they are more rational on views. And currently voting for a Democrat means more likly I am going to vote for someone who would be willing to put the greater good in front of their own ego.
All the things you describe make you a Libertarian.
or get Democrats to all re-register as Republican for 2020
That's how we got Trump - Democrats games the Republican primary to make the actual republicans lose to Trump...who in turn had been a life-long democrat until it was politically expedient to run as a Republican because he wasn't allowed to run against Clinton.
What worries me are not the Americans who are horrified at what Trump is doing to our country. I'm far, far more worried about the Americans who think Trump is doing an OK job, the economy is rosy, and he is keeping all his campaign promises to them. Because those are the people who are gonna vote Trump again in 2020 and I'm not sure the US can survive another 4 years of him.
America has said that about every president in living memory.
I haven't been job hunting in recent years, but definitely have found employers to be very inconsiderate on this matter. I've never ghosted..
Also have been surprised to hear people with hourly retail or food service jobs walked out immediately after giving two weeks notice. Puts people in a bind who are depending on steady pay. I advise college age workers to pay attention to how their employer operates and act accordingly..
That's not just retail. At GE, if you give your two week's notice, you're as likely as not to be walked out on the spot, 100% assured if you mention that you're going to a competitor.
But that is the behavior that has been established as non-deviant, normal behavior by American employers.
1. Apply for a job, likely never hear from the company. No "We're not pursuing your candidacy because...", just nothing. 2. Interview for a job and don't get it, likely never hear why. 50/50 that they'll even follow up, but there will NEVER be a professional critique on why you were overlooked, even if you ask for it. 3. Employers fire on a Friday and walk employees out of the building escorted by HR. The walk of shame. That's ghosting too motherfuckers.
All of these have become the disinterested, unprofessional, discourteous staple of business standard practice.
Is it any wonder that employees mimic the behavior?
This isn't something that happens around industry, this is specifically something that primarily happens at entry level....as the article noted as well, but there is significantly more corroborating evidence outside of this discussions.
Like the old adage, you get what you pay for. Entry level applicants are the lowest common denominator, and you should expect the pool of candidates to reflect that.
I'm a disabled veteran. I don't eat poorly, but I can't exercise very well (or hardly walk) because of the injuries that caused my medical retirement. Type-2 diabetes is also caused by corticosteroids - right now I'm in the middle of working to get my Type-2 diabetes connected as a secondary condition to one of my service connected disabilities, because I didn't have Type 2 diabetes before having to get massive steroid injections and prednisone treatments.
There *are* a lot of fat fucks that could lose their diabetes if they would put away the cookies and get on the treadmill - but there are OTHER causes too.
So give firefighting helicopters omnidirectional radio burst jammer, or a spoofer, or ultrasound emitters or any of the other anti-drone technology that doesn't require aiming.
Killing somebody in anger is only "easy' if you're a psychopath. It's hard to imagine a non-psychopath saying such a thing. Who's anger raises to the level of murderousness? That's serious mental illness - which is the real violence problem in society.
I'll tell you who does want to kill you though - Mao, Stalin, Pol-Pot, Leopold II, and Hitler. They are empirically far more dangerous.
Killing someone in anger *is* easy. That's a crime of passion, and it happens all the time, around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't have to be a psychopath, nor a sociopath for that, you only need to recognize that humans are prone to fits of extremes. In fact, being a psychopath is the absolute opposite of killing someone in anger. It's killing someone without feeling anything. I think I'm probably a psychopath; but I haven't killed enough people to tell.
I said all that to say this - human life is cheap. There are more of us every day. There haven't even been any significant wars or depopulation events in living memory to make us feel fragile as a species. There are plenty of people who can look around themselves and see that no one is particularly important. Taking a life is socially repugnant, but ultimately irrelevant.
If you've seen the movie "Punisher" or movies like it and thought, "Those men deserved to die," you're closer to the latter. If you refuse to watch it, or have seen it and thought, "He has no right to kill those men" you're closer to the former. In the context of this article, I treat everyone with respect - even people I hate, and it amazes me every time I see someone provoke another intentionally to rage - because you never know who might be ready to justify killing you - ranging from that blind rage crime of passion, to the coldly calculated, "I can make the world a little better for their absence."
Working in Belgium and some of the things I have had happened to me.This is in several companies: On a Friday at the end of February: Hello, you still have not taken your 5 last days and you need to take them at the end of Febrary. "So that means I have the week of next week?" Yes. OK. Have a nice day I see you after that.
These stories are precisely why Belgium, and the rest of Europe are the king of tech development, innovation, and the global leader in envelope-pushing ideas.
I wonder how many people like me that used to go to the movies every weekend for entertainment have decided that movies simply aren't worth the risk of disappointment anymore?
Whereas I'd go to the movies 10-20 years ago by default and find a movie to watch, these days we wait for it to come out on streaming or blu-ray to watch at home because the chances are more likely than not that we're going to be disappointed.
I can't tell you how many movies my wife and I have started, gotten 10-30 minutes into, and turned off because it was really stupid.
"Our findings show that, at 12 months, almost half of participants achieved remission to a non-diabetic state and off antidiabetic drugs. Remission of type 2 diabetes is a practical target for primary care."
Since I have type II diabetes, I clicked that with interest to read what miracle might be there. To sum it up...intensive weight loss via exercise.
Every time I read about something like this, I'm reminded of Piers Anthony's book "Kill-O-Byte" which to my knowledge was the first time a sci-fi author had described virtual reality being used for hedonism, with the characters using bodygloves and stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, that was wrong:
Democratic Ideas: So Great that they have to be mandatory.
Like the old adage goes - Democrat Ideas: So great that they have to be enforced.
Do you know WHY gets Federal money? It's pretty much all defense spending. Because of DoD assets in Alaska. The studies that say Alaska gets more than everyone else are based on federal dollars spent in that state, aggregated per capita.
Alaska has a low population density, but significant DoD activity, so all those DoD dollars (spread over a low per capita) make a big per capita number.
But that number is only worth whatever you think Federal dollars spent per capita as a metric is worth. California receives the most federal aid - but you can spin that around to make it look like Alaska gets "more" if you change the metric.
Sprint is desperate for customers. I took advantage of their "switch to Sprint for a year for free plan" and moved my family to Sprint in such a debacle that I wrote about it online, and it got their CEO's attention, a personal e-mail, then his executive services team involved to fix my account.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprin...
I'm currently four months into my free year, and when it's over, I'll be switching to Verizon, simply for the fact that Sprint has shitty coverage. There's a tower 3 miles from my house so that I can at least get a signal (but bad data), but data (and thus streaming music) is unavailable for most of my trips to other towns.
I called Sprint Executive Services back a month or two ago to ask if they had any magic boxes - so that I could put one on my property and at least have good reception at home, but they were out of stock and the support person suggested I consider changing carriers. T-Mobile uses the same network, so it doesn't matter how much people chirp about how awesome they are....if they don't have coverage, you don't get to use them.
This often happened to a buddy of mine. He'd write a song, play it on his guitar and post it. Then some random music company claimed it was theirs. It got to the point where he got tired of being flagged and stopped posting on YT for this reason.
Same. I stopped posting on youtube because I got tired of my content being claimed by music companies and youtube endorsing that bad behavior.
This happens more frequently than you think.
I write and make music with a modest following, and have had youtube take down several of my songs due to the auto-trawling bots that run around claiming everything is theirs and auto-issuing DMCA takedowns via youtube.
Yeah, but we probably all added two cents to this and don't have mod points. ;(
Publicly act a cunt, get fired.
Being a woman doesn't get you a free pass to being a cunt.
See subject.
The "National Security" Loophole in our legal system.
I am less annoyed with Trump, but the Republican "Leadership" who is looking the other way and explaining away why all good points of the Republican Ideal is systematically being destroyed.
I use to be a Republican, however the party in the past 18 years had slowly empowered the worst in their party, and discredited the moderate voices in the party as not being conservative enough, or American enough.
I am all for Lower Taxes, Religious Liberties, Open Trade, and reasonable regulations.
I am not for Lowering Taxes without finding a way to pay for needed services.
I am not for allowing for people of different faiths or none to be openly discriminated against, or bullied into thinking they are in the wrong.
I am not for Trading harmful goods, or allowing trading partners to play by a different sets of rules.
I am not for just getting rid of regulations because they are there and may be hard to follow.
The debate has moved from logical reasons for taking policy, to attacking ways of life, that we as Americans should feel feel to follow whatever way of life we feel that we should follow.
I used to be a Republican, I didn't leave the party, the party rejected me and left me on my own. In the two party system right now the Democrats, are no more centrist then the Republicans are. However they are more rational on views. And currently voting for a Democrat means more likly I am going to vote for someone who would be willing to put the greater good in front of their own ego.
All the things you describe make you a Libertarian.
or get Democrats to all re-register as Republican for 2020
That's how we got Trump - Democrats games the Republican primary to make the actual republicans lose to Trump...who in turn had been a life-long democrat until it was politically expedient to run as a Republican because he wasn't allowed to run against Clinton.
What worries me are not the Americans who are horrified at what Trump is doing to our country. I'm far, far more worried about the Americans who think Trump is doing an OK job, the economy is rosy, and he is keeping all his campaign promises to them. Because those are the people who are gonna vote Trump again in 2020 and I'm not sure the US can survive another 4 years of him.
America has said that about every president in living memory.
> The VA is terrible.
The current alternative is nothing. Everyone with nothing, would love to have the terrible VA. At least they had a chance at life.
They can have the VA too. Everyone knows the requirements to join our dysfunctional club.
I haven't been job hunting in recent years, but definitely have found employers to be very inconsiderate on this matter. I've never ghosted..
Also have been surprised to hear people with hourly retail or food service jobs walked out immediately after giving two weeks notice. Puts people in a bind who are depending on steady pay. I advise college age workers to pay attention to how their employer operates and act accordingly..
That's not just retail. At GE, if you give your two week's notice, you're as likely as not to be walked out on the spot, 100% assured if you mention that you're going to a competitor.
Ghosting is a disturbing behaviour.
But that is the behavior that has been established as non-deviant, normal behavior by American employers.
1. Apply for a job, likely never hear from the company. No "We're not pursuing your candidacy because...", just nothing.
2. Interview for a job and don't get it, likely never hear why. 50/50 that they'll even follow up, but there will NEVER be a professional critique on why you were overlooked, even if you ask for it.
3. Employers fire on a Friday and walk employees out of the building escorted by HR. The walk of shame. That's ghosting too motherfuckers.
All of these have become the disinterested, unprofessional, discourteous staple of business standard practice.
Is it any wonder that employees mimic the behavior?
This isn't something that happens around industry, this is specifically something that primarily happens at entry level....as the article noted as well, but there is significantly more corroborating evidence outside of this discussions.
Like the old adage, you get what you pay for. Entry level applicants are the lowest common denominator, and you should expect the pool of candidates to reflect that.
type-2 is truly a lifestyle choice.
Speak for yourself.
I'm a disabled veteran. I don't eat poorly, but I can't exercise very well (or hardly walk) because of the injuries that caused my medical retirement. Type-2 diabetes is also caused by corticosteroids - right now I'm in the middle of working to get my Type-2 diabetes connected as a secondary condition to one of my service connected disabilities, because I didn't have Type 2 diabetes before having to get massive steroid injections and prednisone treatments.
There *are* a lot of fat fucks that could lose their diabetes if they would put away the cookies and get on the treadmill - but there are OTHER causes too.
I think I'm probably a psychopath; but I haven't killed enough people to tell.
if you've actually considered the possibility that you're a psychopath then you probably aren't one.
I hope so. I consider the idea because I don't feel remorse or guilt about the ones I have killed.
So give firefighting helicopters omnidirectional radio burst jammer, or a spoofer, or ultrasound emitters or any of the other anti-drone technology that doesn't require aiming.
Fourteen.
Killing somebody in anger is only "easy' if you're a psychopath. It's hard to imagine a non-psychopath saying such a thing. Who's anger raises to the level of murderousness? That's serious mental illness - which is the real violence problem in society.
I'll tell you who does want to kill you though - Mao, Stalin, Pol-Pot, Leopold II, and Hitler. They are empirically far more dangerous.
Killing someone in anger *is* easy. That's a crime of passion, and it happens all the time, around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't have to be a psychopath, nor a sociopath for that, you only need to recognize that humans are prone to fits of extremes. In fact, being a psychopath is the absolute opposite of killing someone in anger. It's killing someone without feeling anything. I think I'm probably a psychopath; but I haven't killed enough people to tell.
I said all that to say this - human life is cheap. There are more of us every day. There haven't even been any significant wars or depopulation events in living memory to make us feel fragile as a species. There are plenty of people who can look around themselves and see that no one is particularly important. Taking a life is socially repugnant, but ultimately irrelevant.
If you've seen the movie "Punisher" or movies like it and thought, "Those men deserved to die," you're closer to the latter. If you refuse to watch it, or have seen it and thought, "He has no right to kill those men" you're closer to the former. In the context of this article, I treat everyone with respect - even people I hate, and it amazes me every time I see someone provoke another intentionally to rage - because you never know who might be ready to justify killing you - ranging from that blind rage crime of passion, to the coldly calculated, "I can make the world a little better for their absence."
Working in Belgium and some of the things I have had happened to me.This is in several companies:
On a Friday at the end of February: Hello, you still have not taken your 5 last days and you need to take them at the end of Febrary. "So that means I have the week of next week?" Yes. OK. Have a nice day I see you after that.
These stories are precisely why Belgium, and the rest of Europe are the king of tech development, innovation, and the global leader in envelope-pushing ideas.
I wonder how many people like me that used to go to the movies every weekend for entertainment have decided that movies simply aren't worth the risk of disappointment anymore?
Whereas I'd go to the movies 10-20 years ago by default and find a movie to watch, these days we wait for it to come out on streaming or blu-ray to watch at home because the chances are more likely than not that we're going to be disappointed.
I can't tell you how many movies my wife and I have started, gotten 10-30 minutes into, and turned off because it was really stupid.
There's recent research showing a cure for type 2 diabetes, as well. The conclusion:
"Our findings show that, at 12 months, almost half of participants achieved remission to a non-diabetic state and off antidiabetic drugs. Remission of type 2 diabetes is a practical target for primary care."
Since I have type II diabetes, I clicked that with interest to read what miracle might be there. To sum it up...intensive weight loss via exercise.
Well no shit.
Every time I read about something like this, I'm reminded of Piers Anthony's book "Kill-O-Byte" which to my knowledge was the first time a sci-fi author had described virtual reality being used for hedonism, with the characters using bodygloves and stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...