You and your attitude is the reason the rest of the world has been able to watch the rise and fall of the USA over the last 40 years.
His attitude is what made America great. The increasing entitlements are what have been draining the American work ethic.
When you realise the wealth of a nation is in how it cares for the worst off there may be some hope for the USA.
America takes care of its worst off very well, thank you very much. Then it takes care of its "not quite as worse off". Then it takes care of its "not bad off at all, but only have one flat screen TV and two game consoles, how am I supposed to eat?". In the latest RedBox article, there was this tidbit:
"Douchebags in the suburbs who can afford the 4 DVD plan from Netflix wouldn't know any redboxers but low income areas are all over these things. Reserving Blu rays from an iPhone app at one of the many kiosks means you don't even have to chance it anymore and waste time in these lines. A twenty cent increase != a twenty dollar increase."
Notice that? Low income, but using iPhone apps to rent movies.
But if you remain narrow-minded uncharitable xenophobes you will reap what you have sown.
Just because one gets taxed out the wazoo and that money is then given to someone else doesn't make one charitable. What makes one charitable is having the individual choice to give to someone else. I would advise you not to pay attention to sites like this which list charitable countries by how much their governments contribute, and instead check sites like http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/08/charitable-giving-country or http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682100&page=1 which discuss individual charity. Americans might be slightly xenophobic (although not really; we're the f-ing melting pot!), but we are charitable.
The reason the loan problem is so bad is that higher education in the US is so ridiculously overpriced. A year of university used to be equal to much less than a graduate could expect as a starting salary on a first job after graduation. Today, they are much more.
Some people think the reason that higher education in the US is so ridiculously overpriced is because the loan program is so bad. Artificially increase the resources that drive a particular economy, and prices raise (strike a new vein in a gold minIng town and suddenly everything costs a little more because the merchants know you can pay more).
And with all this information, he's now a perfect target as someone to frame if a criminal happens to want to commit a high profile crime near one of his regular stops. Quintuply so now that he's publicized it.
The problem with saying "prove" is that it is not logically correct in the context. When setting up a theory, one is supposed to create it in a way that it can be disproven, in a negative sense. It's actually quite easy to set up theories that cannot be disproven. I'm hoping that it's a translation problem.
Sorry, I don't get where this "flasify" myth comes from on/.... If you find a way "to falsify" a theory, the theory is already gone and no longer valid. In other words, all existing theories on which we base our current science, may it be physics, chemistry, biology or thermo dynamics... are not falsified (and not falsifiable).
The "myth" comes from the scientific method. You're supposed to construct your hypothesis such that it is falsifiable. ie "if the experiment results are X, then the theory doesn't hold water" to do the process of falsifying, you need the experimental data.
Shotguns can fire solid slugs, or as is probably the case here, bean-bag rounds. A laser sight is even more important when it's a mechanical device doing the shooting (much harder to aim via remote).
"engage somebody at altitude" with a hand to hand weapon? Does this UAV transform into a humanoid? Or maybe they plan on stunning skydivers (who then can't pull their ripcords).
There's a tried and true con game, called "salting." Criminals would "salt" an exhausted mine with uncut gemstones or the ore of precious metals, and let the investor "find" them, and thus trick the investor into giving them millions for a worthless hole in the ground.
Keeping in mind like most scams, salting a mine only works when the mark is dishonest enough to keep the find to themselves, thus thinking they're buying a multi-billion dollar "spent salt mine" for just a million. The con man has to pretend to be the patsy, thinking that the mine is only useful for storage.
An analogy would be a story about robbing Fort Knox but putting on a fake military uniform and saying you're an important general, and you want to look at the gold just to make sure it is all there.
Closer to pretending you're a traffic cop on a street directing people only in one direction. Authority, but not *too* much authority. The best part about the Fire Inspector is that he doesn't prevent anyone from doing their jobs (the job of the guards in your example are "don't let anyone past unless they're fully authorized (and random general isn't)".
Seriously, THATS how bad this story is. IDs not checked? USB ports not disabled? What?
Bank branches aren't the CIA. IDs don't get checked. USB ports most assuredly are not disabled, and I bet the desktop HDDs aren't encrypted either.
Back in 1985, I recall that someone took control of some satellite also. I can not really recall the article.
Back in 1987, a signal from the future took control of televisions everywhere and was used to sell toys that interact with a television show (actually a temporal signal that allowed kids to control UAVs in the future to fight evil bio-dreads). Captain Power changed the course of history, so the show was "canceled".
He wasn't modded down, his Karma is poor because he's one of the 400 MichaelKristopeit clones that insults everyone for using pseudonyms when he clearly stole the name MichaelKristopeit from some poor schlub.
I've never understood the European approach to numbers. A period is the end of a sentence, a comma is merely a separator. So the European approach makes no sense whatsoever. They write sentences the way we do, so why reverse the punctuation marks when it comes to numbers?
European backward use of punctuation is confusing. to say the least,
But it always started with an actual hit (or two), as it would mostly double with every scan (the odd extra actual hits would cause bubbles in the progression). So when I had this problem, I had the machines nuked too. Thankfully it was rare here (there were only a couple repeat offenders who didn't end up getting JRE afterward).
My unix "Tech Skills" are still quite marketable after more than a decade. Sure, specifics like futzing with IRIX software streams might not be useful any more, but a good 80% or more is still standard.
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You and your attitude is the reason the rest of the world has been able to watch the rise and fall of the USA over the last 40 years.
His attitude is what made America great. The increasing entitlements are what have been draining the American work ethic.
When you realise the wealth of a nation is in how it cares for the worst off there may be some hope for the USA.
America takes care of its worst off very well, thank you very much. Then it takes care of its "not quite as worse off". Then it takes care of its "not bad off at all, but only have one flat screen TV and two game consoles, how am I supposed to eat?". In the latest RedBox article, there was this tidbit:
"Douchebags in the suburbs who can afford the 4 DVD plan from Netflix wouldn't know any redboxers but low income areas are all over these things. Reserving Blu rays from an iPhone app at one of the many kiosks means you don't even have to chance it anymore and waste time in these lines. A twenty cent increase != a twenty dollar increase."
Notice that? Low income, but using iPhone apps to rent movies.
But if you remain narrow-minded uncharitable xenophobes you will reap what you have sown.
Just because one gets taxed out the wazoo and that money is then given to someone else doesn't make one charitable. What makes one charitable is having the individual choice to give to someone else. I would advise you not to pay attention to sites like this which list charitable countries by how much their governments contribute, and instead check sites like http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/08/charitable-giving-country or http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682100&page=1 which discuss individual charity. Americans might be slightly xenophobic (although not really; we're the f-ing melting pot!), but we are charitable.
The reason the loan problem is so bad is that higher education in the US is so ridiculously overpriced. A year of university used to be equal to much less than a graduate could expect as a starting salary on a first job after graduation. Today, they are much more.
Some people think the reason that higher education in the US is so ridiculously overpriced is because the loan program is so bad. Artificially increase the resources that drive a particular economy, and prices raise (strike a new vein in a gold minIng town and suddenly everything costs a little more because the merchants know you can pay more).
And with all this information, he's now a perfect target as someone to frame if a criminal happens to want to commit a high profile crime near one of his regular stops. Quintuply so now that he's publicized it.
The problem with saying "prove" is that it is not logically correct in the context. When setting up a theory, one is supposed to create it in a way that it can be disproven, in a negative sense. It's actually quite easy to set up theories that cannot be disproven. I'm hoping that it's a translation problem.
Sorry, I don't get where this "flasify" myth comes from on /. ... If you find a way "to falsify" a theory, the theory is already gone and no longer valid. In other words, all existing theories on which we base our current science, may it be physics, chemistry, biology or thermo dynamics ... are not falsified (and not falsifiable).
The "myth" comes from the scientific method. You're supposed to construct your hypothesis such that it is falsifiable. ie "if the experiment results are X, then the theory doesn't hold water" to do the process of falsifying, you need the experimental data.
Shotguns can fire solid slugs, or as is probably the case here, bean-bag rounds. A laser sight is even more important when it's a mechanical device doing the shooting (much harder to aim via remote).
"engage somebody at altitude" with a hand to hand weapon? Does this UAV transform into a humanoid? Or maybe they plan on stunning skydivers (who then can't pull their ripcords).
If it is true, then he has solved the energy problems of the world. And he patented it.
Which would mean that twenty years out, we'd have it free and clear, plus documentation.
There's a tried and true con game, called "salting." Criminals would "salt" an exhausted mine with uncut gemstones or the ore of precious metals, and let the investor "find" them, and thus trick the investor into giving them millions for a worthless hole in the ground.
Keeping in mind like most scams, salting a mine only works when the mark is dishonest enough to keep the find to themselves, thus thinking they're buying a multi-billion dollar "spent salt mine" for just a million. The con man has to pretend to be the patsy, thinking that the mine is only useful for storage.
Help help! I'm being repressed! Come and see the incompetence inherent in the institution!
To extract energy from the zero-point vacuum, we must assume that it is a "false vacuum", and a lower-energy vacuum could be created.
Okay
If you convert a region of false vacuum into a lower-energy vacuum, you can extract the difference in energy.
Uh huh
Unfortunately that region must necessarily obey different physical laws than our universe,
Umm
and because it has a lower energy, that region will expand at the speed of light.
Oh, come on!
$1.20 is better than $1.25 since it is a lower price and considering the RedBox doesn't take cash, it doesn't matter much where you round it to.
Well, it does unless they want Richard Pryor driving to their office in a Ferrari. That would make for an interesting Halloween I suppose...
An analogy would be a story about robbing Fort Knox but putting on a fake military uniform and saying you're an important general, and you want to look at the gold just to make sure it is all there.
Closer to pretending you're a traffic cop on a street directing people only in one direction. Authority, but not *too* much authority. The best part about the Fire Inspector is that he doesn't prevent anyone from doing their jobs (the job of the guards in your example are "don't let anyone past unless they're fully authorized (and random general isn't)".
Seriously, THATS how bad this story is. IDs not checked? USB ports not disabled? What?
Bank branches aren't the CIA. IDs don't get checked. USB ports most assuredly are not disabled, and I bet the desktop HDDs aren't encrypted either.
Back in 1985, I recall that someone took control of some satellite also. I can not really recall the article.
Back in 1987, a signal from the future took control of televisions everywhere and was used to sell toys that interact with a television show (actually a temporal signal that allowed kids to control UAVs in the future to fight evil bio-dreads). Captain Power changed the course of history, so the show was "canceled".
He wasn't modded down, his Karma is poor because he's one of the 400 MichaelKristopeit clones that insults everyone for using pseudonyms when he clearly stole the name MichaelKristopeit from some poor schlub.
I've never understood the European approach to numbers. A period is the end of a sentence, a comma is merely a separator. So the European approach makes no sense whatsoever. They write sentences the way we do, so why reverse the punctuation marks when it comes to numbers?
European backward use of punctuation is confusing. to say the least,
But it always started with an actual hit (or two), as it would mostly double with every scan (the odd extra actual hits would cause bubbles in the progression). So when I had this problem, I had the machines nuked too. Thankfully it was rare here (there were only a couple repeat offenders who didn't end up getting JRE afterward).
We're on the right track. We've already got planes that look like wingless DC-8 spacecraft (except they have wings because they're aircraft).
date formats are a done deal. There's the American way and the way the rest of the world uses
"and the proper way" -Culture20, 2011/10/27
And no, filesystem timestamps are not good enough.
Protip: if 5% of a species survives, it's not extinct. But even 50% of humans dying would be considered bad.
Forget Government Cheese. I want some of that sweet and tangy Government BBQ Limestone Communication Media!
"Monolithic." I don't think that word means what you think it means.
My unix "Tech Skills" are still quite marketable after more than a decade. Sure, specifics like futzing with IRIX software streams might not be useful any more, but a good 80% or more is still standard.
Google could put an ad about *AA abuse on every search results page. They could even pay for ad time on Bing.
WoW players grind boars for 1XP a piece. I'd bet a percentage of the population would resort to WMDs to remove competition for resources.