Americans who supported the Iraq war because we were bring freedom to Iraq should be very happy. Bringing democracy to Iraq cost us about 700 billion $$s. Were getting democracies in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, etc are coming for free!
I worked as a contractor at Chrysler and maintained their driving simulator. There was a union guy in the lab that was responsible for moving stuff around (I'd get fired if I moved a PC, I had to ask him to do it). Since we weren't moving stuff around much, he spent most of the day sleeping. Every once and a while the mock-up shop needed him to build a 1-1 scale car out of wood. It would take him a few days to build an exact replica of a new vehicle. The work he did (does?) was amazing.
Long story short: people with great potential and skills are sitting around doing nothing.
Some schools don't have proctors in exams, for example the University of Michigan engineering school. In fact there are no instructors/profs watching over grown adults who paid a lot of money to be educated.
Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian value system that Europe and the US was brought up in, we were taught that once Adam & Eve ate the fruit and became smart, they put clothes on - to be in public without clothes on is an affront to modesty and morality.
Europe?!? I take it you never went to the Sauna in Finland. Even in Turkey you can go topless at any beach. Only in the US will you be thrown in jail for showing your bare breasts.
As somebody who has spent time on the helm of a sailboat sailing by myself: it is hard to sail at 100% efficiency, but pretty easy to sail at, say, 50%.
require extremely quick and accurate responses to avoid capsizing
If you make the keel big and the sails small capsizing is a non-issue. I'm sure the boat was designed for stability NOT speed.
Having an unmanned craft sail from Portugal to the Caribbean is more complicated than landing an unmanned craft on Mars.
Bullshit. All they are doing is enter a course into the raymarine autopilot telling it to follow wind direction (for example: keep wind always at beam). Periodically the "robot" does course correction and trim the sails.
Solar could only feasibly be a supplement to the grid.
But its possible to turn off plants no? Assume you can generate all your energy needs plus some using solar, then if you need more power you can turn on more plants. Or you can keep a couple of coal burning plants around doing nothing in case you need extra power.
The parents cannot watch their children 24/7 and they cannot give a list of correct behaviors for each thing life throws at them. What they can do is perhaps to educate their children so that they know the solution to bullying is not suicide.
So either the girl is sick in the head and can't be helped. Or the parents are so bad that the only answer the girl could come up with was to kill herself. Either way no need to come up with new stupid laws.
Not all content is illegal to share (linux ISO's for example). So encrypted traffic between you and I can be just innocent ISOs. I don't think ISPs would terminate your connection if they aren't sure that you are doing something illegal.
We haven't published an e-book yet. Since the printing costs would be 0 then the book should potentially cost less by that amount. The author/publisher would get the same amount of money while the consumer pays less. Ebooks could push the printing cost up for ordinary books as printing houses would have the increase their prices to cope with reduced business.
That said, I think being able to hold a book in your hand, IMHO, has a lot of value.
As a publisher I can tell you the breakdown is roughly something like the 25% for printing, 25% for the author/publisher, 50% for the distributor. When amazon gives a discount it is from its own share (the 50%).
Dumping means selling less than the cost to print (>75% off the cover price). In the US the laws are designed for the benefit of the consumer. Lowering prices are encouraged.
Ron Paul supports opposing immigration with force which is morally unacceptable.
Interesting. Lets say you just flew into a foreign country, they asked you for a passport and you said "fuck you" and just walked through the checkpoint. Wouldn't that behavior create a physical response (i.e. a border guard at the airport would physically stop you)? How is that physical response immoral? Are you really against Ron Paul or are you against borders in general?
Yes, you're right. I don't know where this crap about no-free-healthcare is coming from. Here is an example: the parents of a friend came to visit her from Turkey. Her father (retired, in his 60s?) had a medical emergency and collapsed. They called the ambulance and was taken to a local hospital in NJ. He could have died but he received treatment and survived. He had no insurance and he didn't have the money to cover the bills. My friend was in a "what do we do now" kind of situation when a local organization came to her aid. Appearantly this organization pays medical expenses of tourists who visits the states and have an emergency.
"Free" treatment can not always be considered treatment. Wealthy western democracies are not always the best example of social medicine. One can also take a look at the failed system in Turkey.
The guy who thinks the medicine in the US is "the worst" is a moron.
Lower my income tax and I will donate the difference (if not more) to the needy and the most qualified in my area so that they can go to whichever school they choose.
The fact that a piece of paper from one of these overpriced institutions is overvalued does not change the fact that the institution is overpriced.
This has got to be one of the funniest sentences I've ever read. The fact that it is overpriced doesn't change the fact that it is overpriced. Please, tell me are you Donald Rumsfeld or in anyway related to him? Brilliant.
US colleges are best in the world. Everyone from accoss the globe come here to go to school. I think it is the right of a university to charge anything they want. It is a free market and you don't have to go if you don't like it.
If you would make 50K without a degree and 100K with, it probibly is beneficial to go to college. I would suggest that you do a cost vs. benefit analysis and decide whether it is a good idea to go to college. If it isn't going to make you money at the end, don't go. If you find out you are making a profit, then please, STFU.
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Americans who supported the Iraq war because we were bring freedom to Iraq should be very happy. Bringing democracy to Iraq cost us about 700 billion $$s. Were getting democracies in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, etc are coming for free!
Wait, I'm confused. Are you German or American?
I worked as a contractor at Chrysler and maintained their driving simulator. There was a union guy in the lab that was responsible for moving stuff around (I'd get fired if I moved a PC, I had to ask him to do it). Since we weren't moving stuff around much, he spent most of the day sleeping. Every once and a while the mock-up shop needed him to build a 1-1 scale car out of wood. It would take him a few days to build an exact replica of a new vehicle. The work he did (does?) was amazing.
Long story short: people with great potential and skills are sitting around doing nothing.
Some schools don't have proctors in exams, for example the University of Michigan engineering school. In fact there are no instructors/profs watching over grown adults who paid a lot of money to be educated.
Europe?!? I take it you never went to the Sauna in Finland. Even in Turkey you can go topless at any beach. Only in the US will you be thrown in jail for showing your bare breasts.
I don't ask permission before I point my browser to a website either. How is DHCP any different?
If you make the keel big and the sails small capsizing is a non-issue. I'm sure the boat was designed for stability NOT speed.
Bullshit. All they are doing is enter a course into the raymarine autopilot telling it to follow wind direction (for example: keep wind always at beam). Periodically the "robot" does course correction and trim the sails.
But its possible to turn off plants no? Assume you can generate all your energy needs plus some using solar, then if you need more power you can turn on more plants. Or you can keep a couple of coal burning plants around doing nothing in case you need extra power.
The parents cannot watch their children 24/7 and they cannot give a list of correct behaviors for each thing life throws at them. What they can do is perhaps to educate their children so that they know the solution to bullying is not suicide.
So either the girl is sick in the head and can't be helped. Or the parents are so bad that the only answer the girl could come up with was to kill herself. Either way no need to come up with new stupid laws.
I disagree with the GP but the rights of many are not greater than the rights of the few.
Not all content is illegal to share (linux ISO's for example). So encrypted traffic between you and I can be just innocent ISOs. I don't think ISPs would terminate your connection if they aren't sure that you are doing something illegal.
We haven't published an e-book yet. Since the printing costs would be 0 then the book should potentially cost less by that amount. The author/publisher would get the same amount of money while the consumer pays less. Ebooks could push the printing cost up for ordinary books as printing houses would have the increase their prices to cope with reduced business.
That said, I think being able to hold a book in your hand, IMHO, has a lot of value.
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens
As a publisher I can tell you the breakdown is roughly something like the 25% for printing, 25% for the author/publisher, 50% for the distributor. When amazon gives a discount it is from its own share (the 50%).
Dumping means selling less than the cost to print (>75% off the cover price). In the US the laws are designed for the benefit of the consumer. Lowering prices are encouraged.
But in this case isn't "destroying competition" called progress? This law would fine Gutenberg for taking scribes out of business.
Interesting. Lets say you just flew into a foreign country, they asked you for a passport and you said "fuck you" and just walked through the checkpoint. Wouldn't that behavior create a physical response (i.e. a border guard at the airport would physically stop you)? How is that physical response immoral? Are you really against Ron Paul or are you against borders in general?
Yes, you're right. I don't know where this crap about no-free-healthcare is coming from. Here is an example: the parents of a friend came to visit her from Turkey. Her father (retired, in his 60s?) had a medical emergency and collapsed. They called the ambulance and was taken to a local hospital in NJ. He could have died but he received treatment and survived. He had no insurance and he didn't have the money to cover the bills. My friend was in a "what do we do now" kind of situation when a local organization came to her aid. Appearantly this organization pays medical expenses of tourists who visits the states and have an emergency.
"Free" treatment can not always be considered treatment. Wealthy western democracies are not always the best example of social medicine. One can also take a look at the failed system in Turkey.
The guy who thinks the medicine in the US is "the worst" is a moron.
Lower my income tax and I will donate the difference (if not more) to the needy and the most qualified in my area so that they can go to whichever school they choose.
This has got to be one of the funniest sentences I've ever read. The fact that it is overpriced doesn't change the fact that it is overpriced. Please, tell me are you Donald Rumsfeld or in anyway related to him? Brilliant.
US colleges are best in the world. Everyone from accoss the globe come here to go to school. I think it is the right of a university to charge anything they want. It is a free market and you don't have to go if you don't like it.
If you would make 50K without a degree and 100K with, it probibly is beneficial to go to college. I would suggest that you do a cost vs. benefit analysis and decide whether it is a good idea to go to college. If it isn't going to make you money at the end, don't go. If you find out you are making a profit, then please, STFU.
Its a shared car. Read the article.
Really? What about the guy in University of Florida that got tazered and thrown in jail?
... and also transformers and robotech.