I've seen people hit the lottery for $5 million, quit their job, and come back in a year poor. I can retire on a tenth of that, even planning for long-term inflation.
You see the thing is, if I won the Euromillions tonight, which is £31 million I'd quit my job, but I would end up perusing the things that I like doing or would like to do. Hobbies that I have in my spare time or would like to take up, many of which can easily be turned into a cottage industry. As I wouldn't have to worry about a mortgage, even if I were relying on it to put food on the table I wouldn't have to work hard... in fact if you like what you're doing it hardly feels like work at all.
If I did win the 31 million quid, I would end up spending some time per week managing my investments.
Of course Beyoncé needs a taxi! She doesn't own a car in every city she visits- even if she can afford to own a car in every city.
Yes but when someone like that gets a taxi, they have their minders arrange for the local limousine company to deliver a Maybach and competent driver, they wont order an Uber (Uber is for peasants).
That being said, a lot of artist do travel with their own cars. Bands like the Rolling Stones have a convoy of trucks and not all of them full of guitars.
Not if a job requirement was specified as being able to speak in Telugu. Boom your discrimination lawsuit has as much chance of guys filing a discrimination lawsuit against stripclubs hiring girls only
The problem is, well in most sane countries... is that you need to demonstrate a requirement to have that. Catholic or Muslim schools can list a requirement to have Catholic or Muslim teachers as that is something their clientele expect, even then it is usually limited to certain positions. So a cleaner at a catholic school cant be required to be a catholic, something like a stationary supply company cannot specify that applicants must be Catholic.
I've met a lot of people that have trouble wrapping their head around how I feel about unions.
Unions are a glorious thing that have helped a lot of workers. I wish I had an engineers union like the Germans do that fight for all workers in it.
The UAW one of the most corrupt, bloated, useless organizations I've ever had to deal with.
A lot of people understand.
Especially outside the US where we can separate the concept of labour unionism and the current sad state of some unions.
I agree and support the idea of labour unionism, it has bought us many advances and was instrumental in the rise of the working middle class. What I cant agree with are 6 union secretaries sitting around a table at a Chinese restaurant deciding things for everyone else.
Most of the above quote can be attributed to Australian politician and columnist, Mark Latham. You can support the idea of a union whilst opposing corruption within a union.
You had to over embellish with "tips", didn't you...
The fine article mentioned Scotland.
Scotland as you may or may not know is part of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland otherwise known as the "UK" for short. The UK is a short trip across the Atlantic Ocean which re refer to as "the Pond", right above this little consent that a certain NASCAR driver may call COMMUNIST but most of us know as Europe or Overbearing Money Grubbing Wankers... depending if you're sane or a UKIP voter.
Here in the UK we do not engage in this vulgar activity of "tipping" as we prefer to pay our workers a wage they can live on rather than relegating them to begging for scraps from the lords table... We did away with that nonsense centuries ago.
Of course, that being Scotland they will be fine if Amazon dropped off some Tennents and a few packs of fags.
Then, to digress a bit, Trump and Pence bribe Carrier with $7M (over 10 years) in tax breaks to save ~1000 jobs and the employees rejoice - ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
And that never works. I can guarantee you that they'll be back in a year or two with their hand out for more money. You don't need to be Nostradamus to predict that. Australia tried that with its car industry, Ford and GM produced cars in Australia that they couldn't sell anywhere else and rather than logically, letting it die quickly the government threw hundreds of millions of dollars at Ford and GM just to keep the plants open and save 2500 jobs. Every time they ran out of money they went back to the govt and asked for more or "thousands of jobs would be lost".
Ultimately the taps were turned off and the companies left anyway. For the A$2.17 Billion we gave to General Motors/Holden alone we could have paid the pension of it's 1,200 odd manufacturing workers for years... or better yet, re-skilled them.
ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
Its worse than that. it means other people are paying to keep them employed in a business that isn't making money. Its $700 per worker, per year. Even though their individual taxes would pay for that it still creates a shortfall the rest of us have to pick up.
Of course everyone knows free education isn't free... but it's cheaper than a user pays system as well as being more effective.
Free refers to up front costs. It refers to the fact that if you dont have $5000 right now you don't get an education. Perhaps if you had taken English in a decent school system you'd understand colloquial usages.
The thing is, paying for public education is an investment in your future as you're relying on the next generation of workers to support all the infrastructure retired people will no longer be paying for.
Then again, you never think of those things and expect the world will magically take care of you.
Police Lieutenant: Captain, we think every Audi in the city has been taken over by a virus. Police Captain: Are you certain. Police Lieutenant: Well they're ignoring all traffic lights, driving less than an inch off the car in front of them, constantly on the wrong side of the road, beeping aggressively and going dangerous speeds down country lanes. Police Captain: Yes... But how do you know know they've been taken over by a virus. Police Lieutenant: They're offering me a good deal on a new Toyota.
When will we start cracking down and throwing some CEO's in prison for theft for these sorts of practices? Instead they get to walk away with a declaration of no guilt, write off the payback and go on about their business: figuring out the next scam.
That is expressly why they invented limited liability companies. Its not just to protect investors from financial mistakes, but to protect the perpetrators from legal ones.
Ireland attracted businesses with a lot of tax concessions (and conveniently forgetting to collect some taxes) and now the Irish workers are paying a lot of tax. It worked for a little while when the market was doing extremely well... Then the market started doing just OK and it was revealed for the complete failure it was. They're now dependent on the rest of Europe to stay afloat and Irish are flooding everywhere else in Europe to do jobs because there aren't that many jobs left in Ireland and those that are left in Ireland aren't paying very well.
However what was being discussed by the OP was setting a flat rate for corporate tax lower than the current rate and eliminating all concessions and deductions. Companies only pay 10%... but they always pay 10%, no more or less. This approach has been demonstrated to be successful in smaller countries with high levels of tax evasion. Yet to see if it scales but its worth a try compared to our current, stupidly complex corporate taxation systems.
And I'm so old that when I was five and told my dad I wanted Lincoln Logs for Christmas, he handed me a hand axe, a piece of flint and some beef jerky and dropped me off in the woods. I was out there in my little jammies in the middle of December and let me tell you, it got so cold I had to kill a deer and crawl inside to keep from freezing to death. It was like something out of The Revenant.
Yeah, I had a rough childhood, let me tell you.
Bah, you were pampered.
Every year I asked my dad for a.303 bullet. He slap me, then toss me a block of brass and some cordite, I had to mill my own Christmas present and I used to shoot myself in the foot with that.303 every year on Christmas morning... We didn't have no deer to crawl inside of and keep warm, we had to burn the remains of our hopes and dreams to keep warm then eat snow and tree bark for supper... And we were grateful for it.
Try to tell kids that these days and they'll never believe you.
80 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks from 2004 to 2013. the US defense budget in 2015 was 637 billion dollars. However, The US Health and Human Services budget for 2015 is 1.3 trillion dollars. How is it we as a nation can outspend ourselves as the largest military power in the world, and still be faced with a declining life expectency rate?
Maybe it's your entire health care system that is broken.
The UK spends far less on the NHS and even the Brits widely accept that that is one of the more expensive health care systems. They also admit that it's quite good (which it is).
Then again, the UK govt fined Pfizer £83 million for overcharging the NHS by 2600% where as this kind of behaviour isn't just tolerated in the US, it's encouraged.
LinkedIn today has over 400 million registered users
how many people have been active in the past 30-60 days and the level of activity of these accounts is always more useful than raw statistics. many of these are likely bots and callcenter employees.
I only bother with Linked In when I'm looking for work. For my career (tehcnology) it hasn't got any more use than something an employer or recruiter checks before calling you. So you make sure it's clean and presentable.
However for less... shall we say... practical careers like sales, marketing and HR they apparently use it quite a lot.
I feel microsoft has made another blunder.
Microsoft isn't exactly hurting. They've got money to burn and this is probably going to end up costing them less than their Games and Entertainment division that they're intent on keeping. All of it funded by the OS/Server sales.
Ok..well, the civility has broken down greatly over the past 20 years or so...
By every measurable criteria, the opposite has happened. Crime has gone down. Violent crime has gone down even more. Formerly marginalized groups are doing better.
That and parents not raising their kids to respect others over the past 30 years...
Can you point to any actual evidence that kids today are less respectful than they were in 1986?
C'mon, this kind of thing has been going on for literally millennia.
Socrates wrote around 400 BC
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
So clearly society has been going down hill for over 2000 years.
Yes, more sponsored free data transfer and optimization from content providers. It's a grey area now. But "Stream Game of Thrones now without using your data, exclusively on AT&T" is something that carriers and content providers really want to do.
You can have this kind of thing with network neutrality.
What carriers REALLY want to do is hit up everyone for protection money by threatening them with slowdowns, delays, and data charges if they don't pony up.
This is the problem you have without network neutrality.
The problem isn't with promoting content or unmetered content. The problem is with deliberately slowing down or shaping content that isn't paying. Hell, you can even prioritise traffic as long as non-priority traffic is delivered at wire speed rather than at a shaped speed.
Given how national communication grids are designed, chances are at one point your stream of GOT will cross out of an AT&T network and onto another provider who hasn't got an exclusive deal with the content provider. Without network neutrality, they have the capability to slow that traffic.
I have never seen an airplane door open inwards. you have to slightly pull on itand then push it outwards pretty hard. that part where you pull does not move the door at all, and is what you use to disengage the lock. you then open the door outwards and to the side. the door is then on the side, the outer side, of the plane. I've taken over 2000 flights in my lifetime. have you been on a plane? you modded up a troll.
I take it you've never actually seen one open. Or read the instructions on how to open an emergency door.
Google "plug door". All aircraft cabin doors need to open inwards first, even if they use a complex hinge to open outwards (the exit doors). The inability to open aircraft cabin doors during flight has been an engineering consideration long before it was a regulation.
I've taken over 2000 flights in my lifetime. have you been on a plane? you modded up a troll.
If you've been flying for 20 years, that's one flight every 3.5 days. If you have no clue how aircraft doors work after that long you're either incredibly stupid or lying about flying. If you're going to lie, keep your lies believable.
You're delusional if you think Trump supporters will ever acknowledge a fuck-up. As Trump himself said, "I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose voters".
That was before he was elected.
Whilst the hardcore supporters wont, I suspect we'll see a wave of Orange Remorse after they start seeing how bad he is. There are very few hardcore supporters and a lot of people who got conned. Much the same as after the Brexit vote where everything the remain campaign said would happen happened and nothing the leave campaign said would happened happened. If the Brexit referendum was re-held, we'd be a solid remain.
There's nothing like failing under a spot light that makes you lose support. We saw this in the UK with Brexit, we saw it in Australia.. twice, once with the LNP and again with One Nation.
You would have noticed Trumps tune changed after the election. All the firebrand stuff went by the wayside, he's never going to kick out the Mexicans because then he'd have to pay American wages for his hotel cleaners. He's never going to list all the Muslims because his supporters will be put on a different list. He's never going to "lock her up" because that is tacit permission for his successor to go after him in the same way.
This will piss off almost all the people who voted for him, only the most hardcore ones will remain.
People who get voted in out of protest rarely survive their first term, they almost never get another. Trump will have a very short honeymoon period, then everyone will realise he's terrible.
What strikes me is that Facebook is asking the very people that believe the fake news to point out it's fake news.
Doesn't seem very prone to accuracy to me.
Actually its a good way to spot people who are bad a spotting fake news.
Put out a series of control stories, X number real and Y number fake (anything from Fox News or Brietbart should do). Then you weight the users votes depending on accuracy. In theory this can now be used to spot fake news as we've identified the unreliable voters.
Facebook's problem is that they need their site to remain an echo chamber for their userbase to not shrink. So this kind of weighting would better be used to determine which stories and advertisements to push at people. I.E. someone who often reads Fox News should be be ready to buy several tons of male cow manure.
Not really.
The Left is all about Big State solutions, which comes under the rubrik of "Statist Collectiivism" at the state level and "globalism" at the international level.
The Right (at least in the US, but increasingly internationally) is all about Individual Liberty. Since there can be no Individual Liberty without decreasing State power it means the Right is about limiting the power of government and letting citizens and the Free Market of voluntary exchange work out solutions. This is because power (the ability to enforce your will on the unwilling) is a zero sum game - the State only gets power by taking it from individuals, and vice versa
And other such fantasies.
The "right" have been more responsible increasing government size and welfare than the alleged "left" in the last 20 years. Mass surveillance programs draw their origins to the Bush govt in the US, Howard govt in Australia and all the way back to the Thatcher govt in the UK.
(1) You're getting on a 6am flight, so you're going through security at 5am and haven't had a cup of coffee yet because the TSA won't allow you to carry one. So you're just in a "haze."
6am flights don't appear out of nowhere, plan to go to bed earlier or at least get up earlier so you can feed yourself some caffeine. FFS, coffee shops are everywhere and if you can't operate without caffeine I'm sure you've done worse things than go to Starbucks for a fix.
(2) You have small children or are accompanying a person who can't take care of their own stuff for some reason, so you're juggling a huge number of bins and bags and trying not to forget anything, while also trying not to hold up the line.
I have a novel solution here, pack less. Much less.
You don't need to bring your kitchen sink with you, with kids, make a game of it like my sister does, get one of those little suitcases they can drag and sit on (my sister has one for her kid).
I can carry everything I need for a 4 day trip in a 30L backpack... what's your excuse for carrying on an 80L expandable suitcase.
(3) The TSA personnel distract you with some bogus extra search procedure that makes you feel uncomfortable... or they are overly brusque with you, which makes you a little paranoid (because they have the power to detain you). So you're distracted by this other stuff -- in ADDITION to having to deal with the indignities of putting back on your belt, shoes, packing up you little "baggie of liquids," etc. while people are crowding around trying to do the same.
Well first off, fix your country. I've travelled over 4 continents in the last 6 months, I was only asked to de-belt once (in Heathrow... and I went through Heathow 4 times in that period).
The only "extra" search procedure I've been called out for is a random explosives trace detection test* and most of the time they just run the swab over me and thank me for my time.
Belt: Stop wearing one, get some trousers with an elasticated waist (if you're like me, if the belt comes off, so do the trousers). There are other options like shorts and sweatpants, the only limitation is your sense of self worth.
Shoes: Two words, slip ons... or just learn to do your laces like ordinary adults.
Baggies of liquids: Well they're already in a baggie... so put that baggie on the top of your carry on or put them in your checked luggage. Simples.
There is only one excuse for leaving your laptop. You're an idiot. I wont coddle them for it.
*I once failed an explosive trace detection test. I'd been handling nitrate based fertilisers the previous day. Australian customs seemed happy with this explanation.
Suppose it depends on the water depth. I know I'd rather not wait for the cabin to flood if I were sinking in a lake. You might be pretty deep before you could get the door open and try to swim to the surface.
You more or less have to. The pressure difference means that you wont be able to open the doors. Its the same phenomena that prevents you from opening aeroplane doors mid flight.
I believe that both Top Gear and Mythbusters did a segment on it.
Everyone with two brain cells to rub together expects Trump to be a complete fuck up.
So all Trump has to do to exceed expectations is be a lame duck that didn't break anything.
I expect this comment to be modded down due to it disagreeing with the Trump Groupthink. Ironic that they'll protest trumps right to speak his mind without consequence but would seek to censor their critics.
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I've seen people hit the lottery for $5 million, quit their job, and come back in a year poor. I can retire on a tenth of that, even planning for long-term inflation.
You see the thing is, if I won the Euromillions tonight, which is £31 million I'd quit my job, but I would end up perusing the things that I like doing or would like to do. Hobbies that I have in my spare time or would like to take up, many of which can easily be turned into a cottage industry. As I wouldn't have to worry about a mortgage, even if I were relying on it to put food on the table I wouldn't have to work hard... in fact if you like what you're doing it hardly feels like work at all.
If I did win the 31 million quid, I would end up spending some time per week managing my investments.
Of course Beyoncé needs a taxi! She doesn't own a car in every city she visits- even if she can afford to own a car in every city.
Yes but when someone like that gets a taxi, they have their minders arrange for the local limousine company to deliver a Maybach and competent driver, they wont order an Uber (Uber is for peasants).
That being said, a lot of artist do travel with their own cars. Bands like the Rolling Stones have a convoy of trucks and not all of them full of guitars.
Not if a job requirement was specified as being able to speak in Telugu. Boom your discrimination lawsuit has as much chance of guys filing a discrimination lawsuit against stripclubs hiring girls only
The problem is, well in most sane countries... is that you need to demonstrate a requirement to have that. Catholic or Muslim schools can list a requirement to have Catholic or Muslim teachers as that is something their clientele expect, even then it is usually limited to certain positions. So a cleaner at a catholic school cant be required to be a catholic, something like a stationary supply company cannot specify that applicants must be Catholic.
I've met a lot of people that have trouble wrapping their head around how I feel about unions.
Unions are a glorious thing that have helped a lot of workers. I wish I had an engineers union like the Germans do that fight for all workers in it.
The UAW one of the most corrupt, bloated, useless organizations I've ever had to deal with.
A lot of people understand.
Especially outside the US where we can separate the concept of labour unionism and the current sad state of some unions.
I agree and support the idea of labour unionism, it has bought us many advances and was instrumental in the rise of the working middle class. What I cant agree with are 6 union secretaries sitting around a table at a Chinese restaurant deciding things for everyone else.
Most of the above quote can be attributed to Australian politician and columnist, Mark Latham. You can support the idea of a union whilst opposing corruption within a union.
You had to over embellish with "tips", didn't you...
The fine article mentioned Scotland.
Scotland as you may or may not know is part of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland otherwise known as the "UK" for short. The UK is a short trip across the Atlantic Ocean which re refer to as "the Pond", right above this little consent that a certain NASCAR driver may call COMMUNIST but most of us know as Europe or Overbearing Money Grubbing Wankers... depending if you're sane or a UKIP voter.
Here in the UK we do not engage in this vulgar activity of "tipping" as we prefer to pay our workers a wage they can live on rather than relegating them to begging for scraps from the lords table... We did away with that nonsense centuries ago.
Of course, that being Scotland they will be fine if Amazon dropped off some Tennents and a few packs of fags.
People over here in Europa defended the NSA spying on the basis that it isn't a dictatorship, but a democracy doing it.
What is the opinion of Io and Ganymede?
Then, to digress a bit, Trump and Pence bribe Carrier with $7M (over 10 years) in tax breaks to save ~1000 jobs and the employees rejoice - ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
And that never works. I can guarantee you that they'll be back in a year or two with their hand out for more money. You don't need to be Nostradamus to predict that. Australia tried that with its car industry, Ford and GM produced cars in Australia that they couldn't sell anywhere else and rather than logically, letting it die quickly the government threw hundreds of millions of dollars at Ford and GM just to keep the plants open and save 2500 jobs. Every time they ran out of money they went back to the govt and asked for more or "thousands of jobs would be lost".
Ultimately the taps were turned off and the companies left anyway. For the A$2.17 Billion we gave to General Motors/Holden alone we could have paid the pension of it's 1,200 odd manufacturing workers for years... or better yet, re-skilled them.
ignoring the fact the those Indiana employees just paid that bribe themselves. So lucky that Pence is (was) Governor of Indiana.
Its worse than that. it means other people are paying to keep them employed in a business that isn't making money. Its $700 per worker, per year. Even though their individual taxes would pay for that it still creates a shortfall the rest of us have to pick up.
Of course everyone knows free education isn't free... but it's cheaper than a user pays system as well as being more effective.
Free refers to up front costs. It refers to the fact that if you dont have $5000 right now you don't get an education. Perhaps if you had taken English in a decent school system you'd understand colloquial usages.
The thing is, paying for public education is an investment in your future as you're relying on the next generation of workers to support all the infrastructure retired people will no longer be paying for.
Then again, you never think of those things and expect the world will magically take care of you.
Police Lieutenant: Captain, we think every Audi in the city has been taken over by a virus.
Police Captain: Are you certain.
Police Lieutenant: Well they're ignoring all traffic lights, driving less than an inch off the car in front of them, constantly on the wrong side of the road, beeping aggressively and going dangerous speeds down country lanes.
Police Captain: Yes... But how do you know know they've been taken over by a virus.
Police Lieutenant: They're offering me a good deal on a new Toyota.
When will we start cracking down and throwing some CEO's in prison for theft for these sorts of practices? Instead they get to walk away with a declaration of no guilt, write off the payback and go on about their business: figuring out the next scam.
That is expressly why they invented limited liability companies. Its not just to protect investors from financial mistakes, but to protect the perpetrators from legal ones.
The Texas miracle is a lot like the Celtic tiger.
Ireland attracted businesses with a lot of tax concessions (and conveniently forgetting to collect some taxes) and now the Irish workers are paying a lot of tax. It worked for a little while when the market was doing extremely well... Then the market started doing just OK and it was revealed for the complete failure it was. They're now dependent on the rest of Europe to stay afloat and Irish are flooding everywhere else in Europe to do jobs because there aren't that many jobs left in Ireland and those that are left in Ireland aren't paying very well.
However what was being discussed by the OP was setting a flat rate for corporate tax lower than the current rate and eliminating all concessions and deductions. Companies only pay 10%... but they always pay 10%, no more or less. This approach has been demonstrated to be successful in smaller countries with high levels of tax evasion. Yet to see if it scales but its worth a try compared to our current, stupidly complex corporate taxation systems.
At least my Lincoln Logs never spied on me.
And I'm so old that when I was five and told my dad I wanted Lincoln Logs for Christmas, he handed me a hand axe, a piece of flint and some beef jerky and dropped me off in the woods. I was out there in my little jammies in the middle of December and let me tell you, it got so cold I had to kill a deer and crawl inside to keep from freezing to death. It was like something out of The Revenant.
Yeah, I had a rough childhood, let me tell you.
Bah, you were pampered.
.303 bullet. He slap me, then toss me a block of brass and some cordite, I had to mill my own Christmas present and I used to shoot myself in the foot with that .303 every year on Christmas morning... We didn't have no deer to crawl inside of and keep warm, we had to burn the remains of our hopes and dreams to keep warm then eat snow and tree bark for supper... And we were grateful for it.
Every year I asked my dad for a
Try to tell kids that these days and they'll never believe you.
Listening to folks yell into their phones passing by or in a restaurant is bad enough, imagine sitting next to one for an eight hour flight. :|
With no way to escape it.
Would almost be worth opening the door and jumping to your death from 30,000 feet. . . .
If they allow phone calls on aircraft I can easily see the rate of air rage incidents increasing by an order of magnitude.
80 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks from 2004 to 2013. the US defense budget in 2015 was 637 billion dollars. However, The US Health and Human Services budget for 2015 is 1.3 trillion dollars. How is it we as a nation can outspend ourselves as the largest military power in the world, and still be faced with a declining life expectency rate?
Maybe it's your entire health care system that is broken.
The UK spends far less on the NHS and even the Brits widely accept that that is one of the more expensive health care systems. They also admit that it's quite good (which it is).
Then again, the UK govt fined Pfizer £83 million for overcharging the NHS by 2600% where as this kind of behaviour isn't just tolerated in the US, it's encouraged.
LinkedIn today has over 400 million registered users
how many people have been active in the past 30-60 days and the level of activity of these accounts is always more useful than raw statistics. many of these are likely bots and callcenter employees.
I only bother with Linked In when I'm looking for work. For my career (tehcnology) it hasn't got any more use than something an employer or recruiter checks before calling you. So you make sure it's clean and presentable.
However for less... shall we say... practical careers like sales, marketing and HR they apparently use it quite a lot.
I feel microsoft has made another blunder.
Microsoft isn't exactly hurting. They've got money to burn and this is probably going to end up costing them less than their Games and Entertainment division that they're intent on keeping. All of it funded by the OS/Server sales.
Ok..well, the civility has broken down greatly over the past 20 years or so...
By every measurable criteria, the opposite has happened. Crime has gone down. Violent crime has gone down even more. Formerly marginalized groups are doing better.
That and parents not raising their kids to respect others over the past 30 years...
Can you point to any actual evidence that kids today are less respectful than they were in 1986?
C'mon, this kind of thing has been going on for literally millennia.
Socrates wrote around 400 BC
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
So clearly society has been going down hill for over 2000 years.
Yes, more sponsored free data transfer and optimization from content providers. It's a grey area now. But "Stream Game of Thrones now without using your data, exclusively on AT&T" is something that carriers and content providers really want to do.
You can have this kind of thing with network neutrality.
What carriers REALLY want to do is hit up everyone for protection money by threatening them with slowdowns, delays, and data charges if they don't pony up.
This is the problem you have without network neutrality.
The problem isn't with promoting content or unmetered content. The problem is with deliberately slowing down or shaping content that isn't paying. Hell, you can even prioritise traffic as long as non-priority traffic is delivered at wire speed rather than at a shaped speed.
Given how national communication grids are designed, chances are at one point your stream of GOT will cross out of an AT&T network and onto another provider who hasn't got an exclusive deal with the content provider. Without network neutrality, they have the capability to slow that traffic.
I have never seen an airplane door open inwards. you have to slightly pull on itand then push it outwards pretty hard. that part where you pull does not move the door at all, and is what you use to disengage the lock. you then open the door outwards and to the side. the door is then on the side, the outer side, of the plane. I've taken over 2000 flights in my lifetime. have you been on a plane? you modded up a troll.
I take it you've never actually seen one open. Or read the instructions on how to open an emergency door. Google "plug door". All aircraft cabin doors need to open inwards first, even if they use a complex hinge to open outwards (the exit doors). The inability to open aircraft cabin doors during flight has been an engineering consideration long before it was a regulation.
BTW, with the emergency doors, you have to pull them completely inside the cabin, then discard them outside the aircraft... as in this placard I've seen on every emergency seat I've ever sat in.
I've taken over 2000 flights in my lifetime. have you been on a plane? you modded up a troll.
If you've been flying for 20 years, that's one flight every 3.5 days. If you have no clue how aircraft doors work after that long you're either incredibly stupid or lying about flying. If you're going to lie, keep your lies believable.
You're delusional if you think Trump supporters will ever acknowledge a fuck-up. As Trump himself said, "I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose voters".
That was before he was elected. Whilst the hardcore supporters wont, I suspect we'll see a wave of Orange Remorse after they start seeing how bad he is. There are very few hardcore supporters and a lot of people who got conned. Much the same as after the Brexit vote where everything the remain campaign said would happen happened and nothing the leave campaign said would happened happened. If the Brexit referendum was re-held, we'd be a solid remain.
There's nothing like failing under a spot light that makes you lose support. We saw this in the UK with Brexit, we saw it in Australia.. twice, once with the LNP and again with One Nation.
You would have noticed Trumps tune changed after the election. All the firebrand stuff went by the wayside, he's never going to kick out the Mexicans because then he'd have to pay American wages for his hotel cleaners. He's never going to list all the Muslims because his supporters will be put on a different list. He's never going to "lock her up" because that is tacit permission for his successor to go after him in the same way.
This will piss off almost all the people who voted for him, only the most hardcore ones will remain.
People who get voted in out of protest rarely survive their first term, they almost never get another. Trump will have a very short honeymoon period, then everyone will realise he's terrible.
What strikes me is that Facebook is asking the very people that believe the fake news to point out it's fake news.
Doesn't seem very prone to accuracy to me.
Actually its a good way to spot people who are bad a spotting fake news.
Put out a series of control stories, X number real and Y number fake (anything from Fox News or Brietbart should do). Then you weight the users votes depending on accuracy. In theory this can now be used to spot fake news as we've identified the unreliable voters.
Facebook's problem is that they need their site to remain an echo chamber for their userbase to not shrink. So this kind of weighting would better be used to determine which stories and advertisements to push at people. I.E. someone who often reads Fox News should be be ready to buy several tons of male cow manure.
Then realize that airplane does open inward, so it the higher pressure inside the plane holding it closed.
A mod point for the AC.
Not really. The Left is all about Big State solutions, which comes under the rubrik of "Statist Collectiivism" at the state level and "globalism" at the international level. The Right (at least in the US, but increasingly internationally) is all about Individual Liberty. Since there can be no Individual Liberty without decreasing State power it means the Right is about limiting the power of government and letting citizens and the Free Market of voluntary exchange work out solutions. This is because power (the ability to enforce your will on the unwilling) is a zero sum game - the State only gets power by taking it from individuals, and vice versa
And other such fantasies.
The "right" have been more responsible increasing government size and welfare than the alleged "left" in the last 20 years. Mass surveillance programs draw their origins to the Bush govt in the US, Howard govt in Australia and all the way back to the Thatcher govt in the UK.
(1) You're getting on a 6am flight, so you're going through security at 5am and haven't had a cup of coffee yet because the TSA won't allow you to carry one. So you're just in a "haze."
6am flights don't appear out of nowhere, plan to go to bed earlier or at least get up earlier so you can feed yourself some caffeine. FFS, coffee shops are everywhere and if you can't operate without caffeine I'm sure you've done worse things than go to Starbucks for a fix.
(2) You have small children or are accompanying a person who can't take care of their own stuff for some reason, so you're juggling a huge number of bins and bags and trying not to forget anything, while also trying not to hold up the line.
I have a novel solution here, pack less. Much less.
You don't need to bring your kitchen sink with you, with kids, make a game of it like my sister does, get one of those little suitcases they can drag and sit on (my sister has one for her kid).
I can carry everything I need for a 4 day trip in a 30L backpack... what's your excuse for carrying on an 80L expandable suitcase.
(3) The TSA personnel distract you with some bogus extra search procedure that makes you feel uncomfortable... or they are overly brusque with you, which makes you a little paranoid (because they have the power to detain you). So you're distracted by this other stuff -- in ADDITION to having to deal with the indignities of putting back on your belt, shoes, packing up you little "baggie of liquids," etc. while people are crowding around trying to do the same.
Well first off, fix your country. I've travelled over 4 continents in the last 6 months, I was only asked to de-belt once (in Heathrow... and I went through Heathow 4 times in that period).
The only "extra" search procedure I've been called out for is a random explosives trace detection test* and most of the time they just run the swab over me and thank me for my time.
Belt: Stop wearing one, get some trousers with an elasticated waist (if you're like me, if the belt comes off, so do the trousers). There are other options like shorts and sweatpants, the only limitation is your sense of self worth.
Shoes: Two words, slip ons... or just learn to do your laces like ordinary adults.
Baggies of liquids: Well they're already in a baggie... so put that baggie on the top of your carry on or put them in your checked luggage. Simples.
There is only one excuse for leaving your laptop. You're an idiot. I wont coddle them for it.
*I once failed an explosive trace detection test. I'd been handling nitrate based fertilisers the previous day. Australian customs seemed happy with this explanation.
Suppose it depends on the water depth. I know I'd rather not wait for the cabin to flood if I were sinking in a lake. You might be pretty deep before you could get the door open and try to swim to the surface.
You more or less have to. The pressure difference means that you wont be able to open the doors. Its the same phenomena that prevents you from opening aeroplane doors mid flight.
I believe that both Top Gear and Mythbusters did a segment on it.
Everyone with two brain cells to rub together expects Trump to be a complete fuck up.
So all Trump has to do to exceed expectations is be a lame duck that didn't break anything.
I expect this comment to be modded down due to it disagreeing with the Trump Groupthink. Ironic that they'll protest trumps right to speak his mind without consequence but would seek to censor their critics.