You'll get a credit history just by paying off your student loans. I used that to qualify for a car. By that point I made enough that it wouldn't be a big hassle to pay off a card, so I got that too. It's a secure way to pay for stuff online and a convenient way to smooth out a big payment (like a hospital bill). The only way I can be screwed by it is if I lost my mind and maxed out the card on something stupid. Even after that I could still cover it with my savings.
Perhaps a good rule to go by is if you can't keep a savings roughly equal to your credit limit, you have no business using that credit card.
When NPR gets it wrong, they get it really wrong. Then weird stuff happens, like this:
Better information from a local right-wing talk radio pundit, as this is a topic they are split on, and the guy I listened to just so happened to ask better questions and have knowledgeable people calling in.
but yeah, dumbass, liquidate western civilization over it, you deserve it for being such sheep
You lack the self-awareness to see the irony in your post.
Question your sources. Think about who's spending millions to spread the narrative that you blindly align yourself with. Understand that just because our lifestyle is easy, that doesn't mean that it is beyond critique. Putting it beyond reproach like that is tantamount to idol worship. We should be looking out for future generations instead of just ourselves.
Sponsored, but not illegitimate. I think a revolution would happen in China without our involvement. In any case, it makes sense for them to crack down now, before the economic collapse triggers something like that later. When people aren't happy, they start asking why.
They're prosperous, but running off the cliff. They need to micromanage information now (pre collapse) before people are forced to look up from their distractions later (post-collapse). I would compare it to bracing for impact.
When new regulations are passed, old cars are grandfathered in, and I don't think Cuba will be an exception to this. The safety regs are for manufacturers. Individuals can ride anything they want if they can build them - even in the States (though you may have to work to get it registered). If anything, there will be more leeway for the old vehicles because of its cultural importance and their part-for-part nature as Cars of Theseus.
Love it or hate it, Twitter, and whether or not it sucks, is very much a Slashdot thing in both social, political, and techie respects.
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And kudos for getting there. If my assumption of your wealth is right, I think you're living the dream.
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If you're taking care of yourself and you're not disabled, you don't need a government check anyway and no one here is talking about you. We were talking about people who needed money but couldn't find a job. Someone pointed out there's going to be people who will never find work outside of the hypothetical government work program, and that these people are going to be unmanageable. My proposal was to put them through rehab to work out whatever it is that makes them impossible to deal with or impossible to employ.
I really doubt you'd qualify anywhere within the context of that discussion. I'm not saying independently wealthy software engineers should be shoveling dirt for the government, nor that they're insane and need to be reeducated. We can leave that kind of thing to Mao.
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There's probably more to that, but in case there isn't and it is impossible... the status-quo doesn't seem so bad.
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An otherwise healthy adult body, if proven unable to provide for him/herself, is probably dealing with mental issues outside of their control that prevents them from working. I don't judge those people, and we have a system in place for them already.
Maybe my language was too strong... though I do think people who chose to be dependent on others need to "get with the program", it's probably not a disease. And stay-at-home moms and dads aren't who I'm talking about - those people are awesome. I'm not talking about students either.
But if you're a grown man or woman below retirement age and just bumming it because you can, and not trying to do anything for yourself, you can probably be salvaged in an alternative to an otherwise wasteful no-strings government stipend. If we one day become a post-scarcity economy, it stops being an issue and I won't care. Until then, tax payers should get something for what they pay for. I think reform and rehab can have a seriously positive effect in this case. It can show you that not all jobs suck the life out of you, and that you can be comfortable in one, even if it's "lame".
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I have that level of contempt for Anarchists. But for Libertarians... I just feel sorry for them. They're the stooges of the Neo-Liberal psychopath elite. They are literally no different beyond the belief that "It'll all work out in the end for everyone." The actual sociopaths running the show and funding their party do not have that belief and do not care beyond the fact that they still need to sell it to the people who'll be harmed by their policies.
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That scenario is a figurative asylum to you, why not just put them in actual asylums after a certain period? If it's a sickness, education and work/responsibility conditioning could be a cure. Maybe model them after Job Corps and ROTC, but for adults of all ages with a special sub-program for ex-cons.
I originally was going to make this a snarky comment, but as I continued writing, I realized it wasn't a bad idea. Sure we wouldn't call them "asylums", but people who can't find jobs ever and/or don't want any? That's a sickness. We can and should try to fix that.
Blender falls short in the encoding department. Unless you use a different tool with it, you're stuck with its ffmpeg library, which makes malformed videos that sort-of work but sometimes won't with stricter players like Quicktime. Premier uses Adobe Media Encoder. I'm stuck with CS4 at work but even it does a better job than even the latest copy of Blender.
It may be that "overunity" sucks energy out of some sort of sub-space field (intentionally borrowing from sci-fi, calm down) that we haven't yet discovered.
We'll do that, and find that the process speeds along the Heat Death of the Universe, and that suddenly half of our Senators find something new to deny.
On the upside, we'll finally be able to pass meaningful legislation on Climate Change.
That's why we need to expand our surveillance programs. If we work with the tech industry, we can put cameras into more televisions, and spy on more cellular microphones, sell it as a feature, and eventually we'll find you. If we work with individuals, we can have on the ground reports of everyone's activities and investigate any suspicions our loyal Americans may have. Total awareness of everyone's intent at all times will result in total security and safety. America will no-longer just be the city on the hill, but an impregnable fortress!
Our history as a country where we over-react to something and regret it decades later must repeat itself if we are ever to become great again.
... which fools MS into thinking it's still nagging you as designed.
It's in the startup directory (yes, Windows 8.1 still has one). I opted for this instead of uninstalling the update or changing registry values since it was the option no one else was doing. I'm not at home right now, but it's easy enough to figure out on your own.
You've listed: climate change, climate change, poverty, poverty, and poverty.
Some people care about things you may not care about. Not everyone's hyperbolic about western liberal talking points. Some people are more concerned about local issues, like the hundreds of artillery shells trained on their cities for the past half century by an extremely hostile enemy with nuclear weapons.
That hydrogen bomb was really just ten-thousand tons of actual TNT, manufactured at great expense to meet an impossible deadline set by the world's worst boss.
"Flying cars" of this sort exist already, they just require a real pilot. The really interesting thing about the Terrafugia flying car is that it flies itself, so I imagine the challenge isn't so much the hardware as it is the software. If they can get that done right, "flying cars" could be made accessible to more people.
You joke, but if you parse it out mentally and actually play that scenario out - everyone open carrying would dramatically reduce the chance of mass gun violence much in the same way that nuclear weapons have reduced the chance of nuclear war.
What terrorist would want to shoot up an arena where everyone is armed? It sounds crazy and invokes images of Borderlands 1 & 2, but hell... that's got to be more effective than penning laws that only affect the people who willingly follow them.
Or it could be a confusing blood bath like what happened at that Twin Peaks between the two rival biker gangs. But hey, we're f*cked up right now, we might as well try something before deciding to become a police state and confiscating property.
I don't have any graphs plotted by lone-wolf indie climatologists to show you, but if I did, I'd have to prove to you that they weren't funded under the table by our evil government or maybe just misguided. Maybe I'll get lucky one day though. I guess this will have to do:
Summary:
CO2 levels are rising and it's our fault.
CO2 traps heat.
The planet is accumulating heat, especially in the oceans.
This causes bleaching in our dying coral reefs, hurting the ecosystem.
Hot oceans means bigger storms (in opposition to climate skeptic Dr. Matt Briggs claim tonight on Michael Savage).
Strong storms and rising seas erode islands and continental coasts.
Immigrants from these areas are an increasing issue because of that erosion and additional sea level rise(this article).
I believe that for you, this isn't about science, but about ideology. Savage for instance is calling us all Lysenkoists (I'm listening to it now), which is the biggest, most direct psychological projection I've heard yet out of the mouth of a so-called "conservative". I think people like him are more like communists they realize.
My first introduction to this concept was in the early 1990s, as a child when I first read Cosmos by Carl Sagan. He explained why Venus was the way it was, how its hotter than Mercury despite being further from the sun, and how we are at risk to succumbing to something similar because of our carbon output. The book was published in 1980. I'd learn this again later in elementary school.
Exxon knew about the subject and did their own research confirming it in 1981. This research factored into their decision making. http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Meanwhile, a caller to Savage's show explains how these cycles are normal and that the ice caps melted and caused the Biblical flood... suppose we should just let it happen then. GOD WILLS IT!
Your folks would get more respect if they were consistent, but commitment to the concept of no climate change seems to be waning. I just think the point is that your side wants us confused and divided over it long enough for the people you (knowingly or unknowingly) work for to get away with pollution as long as possible.
I enjoy watching the slippage over time, but it is irritating to know the only thing in the way of meaningful action is a bunch of impressionable folks duped into the doing dirty work for a doomed industry.
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You'll get a credit history just by paying off your student loans. I used that to qualify for a car. By that point I made enough that it wouldn't be a big hassle to pay off a card, so I got that too. It's a secure way to pay for stuff online and a convenient way to smooth out a big payment (like a hospital bill). The only way I can be screwed by it is if I lost my mind and maxed out the card on something stupid. Even after that I could still cover it with my savings.
Perhaps a good rule to go by is if you can't keep a savings roughly equal to your credit limit, you have no business using that credit card.
When NPR gets it wrong, they get it really wrong. Then weird stuff happens, like this:
Better information from a local right-wing talk radio pundit, as this is a topic they are split on, and the guy I listened to just so happened to ask better questions and have knowledgeable people calling in.
but yeah, dumbass, liquidate western civilization over it, you deserve it for being such sheep
You lack the self-awareness to see the irony in your post.
Question your sources. Think about who's spending millions to spread the narrative that you blindly align yourself with. Understand that just because our lifestyle is easy, that doesn't mean that it is beyond critique. Putting it beyond reproach like that is tantamount to idol worship. We should be looking out for future generations instead of just ourselves.
Sponsored, but not illegitimate. I think a revolution would happen in China without our involvement. In any case, it makes sense for them to crack down now, before the economic collapse triggers something like that later. When people aren't happy, they start asking why.
They're prosperous, but running off the cliff. They need to micromanage information now (pre collapse) before people are forced to look up from their distractions later (post-collapse). I would compare it to bracing for impact.
With so much empty space you could live inside of the rest of that thing.
When new regulations are passed, old cars are grandfathered in, and I don't think Cuba will be an exception to this. The safety regs are for manufacturers. Individuals can ride anything they want if they can build them - even in the States (though you may have to work to get it registered). If anything, there will be more leeway for the old vehicles because of its cultural importance and their part-for-part nature as Cars of Theseus.
Love it or hate it, Twitter, and whether or not it sucks, is very much a Slashdot thing in both social, political, and techie respects.
And kudos for getting there. If my assumption of your wealth is right, I think you're living the dream.
If you're taking care of yourself and you're not disabled, you don't need a government check anyway and no one here is talking about you. We were talking about people who needed money but couldn't find a job. Someone pointed out there's going to be people who will never find work outside of the hypothetical government work program, and that these people are going to be unmanageable. My proposal was to put them through rehab to work out whatever it is that makes them impossible to deal with or impossible to employ.
I really doubt you'd qualify anywhere within the context of that discussion. I'm not saying independently wealthy software engineers should be shoveling dirt for the government, nor that they're insane and need to be reeducated. We can leave that kind of thing to Mao.
There's probably more to that, but in case there isn't and it is impossible... the status-quo doesn't seem so bad.
An otherwise healthy adult body, if proven unable to provide for him/herself, is probably dealing with mental issues outside of their control that prevents them from working. I don't judge those people, and we have a system in place for them already.
Maybe my language was too strong... though I do think people who chose to be dependent on others need to "get with the program", it's probably not a disease. And stay-at-home moms and dads aren't who I'm talking about - those people are awesome. I'm not talking about students either.
But if you're a grown man or woman below retirement age and just bumming it because you can, and not trying to do anything for yourself, you can probably be salvaged in an alternative to an otherwise wasteful no-strings government stipend. If we one day become a post-scarcity economy, it stops being an issue and I won't care. Until then, tax payers should get something for what they pay for. I think reform and rehab can have a seriously positive effect in this case. It can show you that not all jobs suck the life out of you, and that you can be comfortable in one, even if it's "lame".
I have that level of contempt for Anarchists. But for Libertarians... I just feel sorry for them. They're the stooges of the Neo-Liberal psychopath elite. They are literally no different beyond the belief that "It'll all work out in the end for everyone." The actual sociopaths running the show and funding their party do not have that belief and do not care beyond the fact that they still need to sell it to the people who'll be harmed by their policies.
That scenario is a figurative asylum to you, why not just put them in actual asylums after a certain period? If it's a sickness, education and work/responsibility conditioning could be a cure. Maybe model them after Job Corps and ROTC, but for adults of all ages with a special sub-program for ex-cons.
I originally was going to make this a snarky comment, but as I continued writing, I realized it wasn't a bad idea. Sure we wouldn't call them "asylums", but people who can't find jobs ever and/or don't want any? That's a sickness. We can and should try to fix that.
Blender falls short in the encoding department. Unless you use a different tool with it, you're stuck with its ffmpeg library, which makes malformed videos that sort-of work but sometimes won't with stricter players like Quicktime. Premier uses Adobe Media Encoder. I'm stuck with CS4 at work but even it does a better job than even the latest copy of Blender.
It may be that "overunity" sucks energy out of some sort of sub-space field (intentionally borrowing from sci-fi, calm down) that we haven't yet discovered.
We'll do that, and find that the process speeds along the Heat Death of the Universe, and that suddenly half of our Senators find something new to deny.
On the upside, we'll finally be able to pass meaningful legislation on Climate Change.
Oh yeah? Well when the state of Jefferson gets established and Mitt is the governor, you're going to have egg on your face. =P
That's why we need to expand our surveillance programs. If we work with the tech industry, we can put cameras into more televisions, and spy on more cellular microphones, sell it as a feature, and eventually we'll find you. If we work with individuals, we can have on the ground reports of everyone's activities and investigate any suspicions our loyal Americans may have. Total awareness of everyone's intent at all times will result in total security and safety. America will no-longer just be the city on the hill, but an impregnable fortress!
Our history as a country where we over-react to something and regret it decades later must repeat itself if we are ever to become great again.
... which fools MS into thinking it's still nagging you as designed. It's in the startup directory (yes, Windows 8.1 still has one). I opted for this instead of uninstalling the update or changing registry values since it was the option no one else was doing. I'm not at home right now, but it's easy enough to figure out on your own.
You've listed: climate change, climate change, poverty, poverty, and poverty.
Some people care about things you may not care about. Not everyone's hyperbolic about western liberal talking points. Some people are more concerned about local issues, like the hundreds of artillery shells trained on their cities for the past half century by an extremely hostile enemy with nuclear weapons.
That hydrogen bomb was really just ten-thousand tons of actual TNT, manufactured at great expense to meet an impossible deadline set by the world's worst boss.
"Flying cars" of this sort exist already, they just require a real pilot. The really interesting thing about the Terrafugia flying car is that it flies itself, so I imagine the challenge isn't so much the hardware as it is the software. If they can get that done right, "flying cars" could be made accessible to more people.
If I were Bill Gates, I'd do it for fun, make him think I'm about to do something, and then humiliate him in front of everybody.
You joke, but if you parse it out mentally and actually play that scenario out - everyone open carrying would dramatically reduce the chance of mass gun violence much in the same way that nuclear weapons have reduced the chance of nuclear war.
What terrorist would want to shoot up an arena where everyone is armed? It sounds crazy and invokes images of Borderlands 1 & 2, but hell... that's got to be more effective than penning laws that only affect the people who willingly follow them.
Or it could be a confusing blood bath like what happened at that Twin Peaks between the two rival biker gangs. But hey, we're f*cked up right now, we might as well try something before deciding to become a police state and confiscating property.
I don't have any graphs plotted by lone-wolf indie climatologists to show you, but if I did, I'd have to prove to you that they weren't funded under the table by our evil government or maybe just misguided. Maybe I'll get lucky one day though. I guess this will have to do:
http://climate.nasa.gov/eviden...
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
Summary:
CO2 levels are rising and it's our fault.
CO2 traps heat.
The planet is accumulating heat, especially in the oceans.
This causes bleaching in our dying coral reefs, hurting the ecosystem.
Hot oceans means bigger storms (in opposition to climate skeptic Dr. Matt Briggs claim tonight on Michael Savage).
Strong storms and rising seas erode islands and continental coasts.
Immigrants from these areas are an increasing issue because of that erosion and additional sea level rise(this article).
I believe that for you, this isn't about science, but about ideology. Savage for instance is calling us all Lysenkoists (I'm listening to it now), which is the biggest, most direct psychological projection I've heard yet out of the mouth of a so-called "conservative". I think people like him are more like communists they realize.
My first introduction to this concept was in the early 1990s, as a child when I first read Cosmos by Carl Sagan. He explained why Venus was the way it was, how its hotter than Mercury despite being further from the sun, and how we are at risk to succumbing to something similar because of our carbon output. The book was published in 1980. I'd learn this again later in elementary school.
Exxon knew about the subject and did their own research confirming it in 1981. This research factored into their decision making. http://www.theguardian.com/env...
Meanwhile, a caller to Savage's show explains how these cycles are normal and that the ice caps melted and caused the Biblical flood... suppose we should just let it happen then. GOD WILLS IT!
Your folks would get more respect if they were consistent, but commitment to the concept of no climate change seems to be waning. I just think the point is that your side wants us confused and divided over it long enough for the people you (knowingly or unknowingly) work for to get away with pollution as long as possible. I enjoy watching the slippage over time, but it is irritating to know the only thing in the way of meaningful action is a bunch of impressionable folks duped into the doing dirty work for a doomed industry.