So long as she gets her shots before going, she should be okay. The heat can be a bit much. Depending on how affluent the area, there will probably be mosquito netting (which is important in Zimbabwe) but she should make sure to pack one and a spare to take with her. As an added bonus, she can gift the netting on her last day and have more room for things to bring back to show the grandchildren.
Other than that? It's mostly fine. It has been a few years since I've been in that area but not a whole lot has changed. I'm assuming she's not just going to hope in a "ute" and travel to remote villages. The slums are mostly fine, they're almost certainly fine for any activity that she'll be engaging in. (I'm guessing she's not going to go out drinking, womanizing, and gambling or doing drugs.)
I've been fortunate enough to have had the time and means to travel and did a whole bunch after selling. I've been across the globe and even gone to areas where the State Department has reached out to me and told me that if I was to get into any trouble then they'd be unable to give me any assistance. I've even been to Somalia.
If I understood your comment right, she'll also have some other help. I noticed this after going on refuge. I'm a secular Buddhist (not a damned monk - or even a good Buddhist) and was wearing my kasaya (robes) afterwards and then on my return journey. I noticed that people are entirely different - like hugely different towards me while I was wearing kasaya. I've since made use of that behavior and it also impacts how people respond to those who are with me. So, your mom will be with a nun? That's a whole added bonus. In AD&D terms, it's a big bonus to your karma check.
It's tempting to "correct" you but I'll assume good faith. Unfortunately, your post is technically wrong and may be misinterpreted by those who do not know better. So, I will type it out a bit more clearly. Yes, yes I do think it's a requirement to be specific, lest people think it is in error and use it for justification for erroneous conclusions.
Virtually 100% of the current warming trend is caused by humans. Humans are not 100% (or even virtually 100%) responsible for climate change. The climate has changed before and will change again. This specific, and current, trend is believed to be nearly entirely the fault of humans. The rate at which it is currently changing is also believed to be caused by human activity. The Earth would have achieved this same level of warming on its own, it just would have warmed that same amount over a much, much longer period of time.
It's not like I enjoy being this pedantic. There are many who will willfully misinterpret and many who seem to simply not know better.
By the way, I have seen a claim of 97% of it being attributable to human activity but, if I remember the abstract properly, that's rather difficult to be certain of that. I'm quite positive that you know that it is just this specific trend that we're referencing. I'm not so positive that others will know.
I do believe that their justification is that the rape could not have happened if she'd been with a male relative and that she's to blame for not having followed the law, being a temptation too great, and getting raped. If she'd just been following the rules and been with a male relative then she'd have been fine and the man would not have raped her.
Not that I agree with that - I'm just adding that to the pile. Sadly, I have to point out that I'm not in agreement with them because there are some people here who think that just mentioning it means that one condones it. Yes, yes their idiots but it's faster to type this out than it is to reply to 'em.
At any rate, it's amusing when people try to equate the two. One of my favorites is when they try to equate Christians and Muslims. And no, no... I'm not a Christian either. I just chuckle at the rabid people.
One of my favorites is people who point to the French revolution and don't actually know what happened, how it happened, and what the results were. Very few revolts had the anticipated results. I am not a historian but I find history fascinating and so I guess you could say I'm a student of history. It's absolutely insane the things people will point to as acts of good and to be emulated or admired.
The adage about history repeating itself? I think there's some veracity to it. I'm not sure it's a cycle that can be stopped.
Sadly, yes. Realistic option includes ability to get elected. So, Trump is a realistic option. It's just not realistic to think he's qualified for the job.
One of them got mod points. I don't mind (I'll always have excellent karma) because it only proves you (and I) are correct.
If you point out that they're in the 1% *and* they happen to listen *and* they happen to finally agree then they'll (at best) change it to be the 0.1% or 0.2%. Oddly, these are often the same people who say that people shouldn't be prejudiced, should base arguments on facts, and things like that.
That'd be pretty much any laser. In fact, I can't think of any laser that will not cause damage to one's vision. There might be one but I don't know of it. Not only can it cause vision damage, it can cause temporary blindness which could result in planes crashing.
And no, that's still not a good enough reason to try to ban the devices.
No no... If I was them I'd have said "that" instead of "this," for example.;-) I'd have said don't read into that what I didn't say, or something like that. I was just tossing some more information out there and then adding some of what I've personally witnessed.
But yeah that's a *tiny* section's worth of data. It's a potentially meaningless amount of data on a geological scale. I suspect if you made a time-line of the Earth's history that was ten feet long, that'd be about a quarter of an inch long. It really is a trivially short time. From 1893 until now is but a blink of an eye.
Which is not to say that the climate is not changing. That's not even saying that humans aren't to blame for some of the change. It's just pointing out that, yes those two dates *are* close together. The rest was added because lots of people are absurd zealots who will make assumptions about my beliefs should I point something like that out. It was to indicate that I should not be assumed to be in denial. Indeed, I have seen change. It's just that those two dates really are very close to each other on a greater scale - a scale that is (and must be) accounted for by the scientists.
Well, to be fair, you can pretty much say that a single month is of no significant importance and irrelevant in the scale of things. So, for simplicity sake, it is just weather. Or, really, it's just a month of average temperatures across the globe and might not even have been fully refined. I'd be surprised (I didn't read the article) if all the adjustments have been made already and passed around for review.
Just like if it were a cold month, it's just a month. By itself, it's nearly meaningless. Lots of people in here seem to be trying to assign more importance to it than it has. It's a human tendency, it supports their beliefs. The same thing happens when someone's got cold temperatures for a few days. But, really, it's statistically insignificant - by itself. It's not even, by itself, indicative of a greater trend. Combined with other date, there's a trend towards higher temperatures, more fluctuation, and isolated weather extremes with increased abnormalities from the historical norms.
The first row of characters was inserted using the keyboard - the U+12345 doesn't work (well, always, normally?). Use the AltGr keys or dead keys.
The second row is the HTML entity method. "& copy;" (sans spaces) "& lt;" (sans spaces) and, "& amp;" (sans spaces) but the ampersand can be just typed normally. It's really easier if you just click reply, quote parent, and see what I typed - that's easier to explain and kinda how I figured out it worked. I then played with it and figured out which ones did what. We have *some* Unicode support. We could use a few more characters, micro would be nice. 'ug' does not look right.
Don't read into this what I didn't say, please?;-)
Err... Um... I kinda *do* consider those close together. Those are but a drop in the bucket. A mere pittance, if you will.
That said, I have seen HUGE changes in the weather. Huge... I retired to Maine. I came to Maine to go to school, many years ago. It used to go down below 0 deg. F and stay there - for a week. Then, it might rise to 10. (Those are the highs.) We'd get so much snow that we'd have to help the grounds crew. You would throw the snow up in the air (over your head) and the wind would blow it away. This was preparatory school - not elementary. The snow was deeper than we were tall. Often... They now have to make snow at the school's ski slope.
There's snow coming today. To stick with that same area, it's going to snow, turn to ice, then turn to *rain* with the temperatures going over 40 - at night.
Yeah, it was a cold snap. They happen. They're sure as hell not climate. They may be a part of the climate but they're not climate by themselves. With wind-chill, it was -45 to -50 where my home is. (I'm not there. I'm cheating and in Florida.) It also didn't last long. It's unseasonably warm again. I just checked my temperatures back home and it's 0800 and 25. It's going to snow, turn to ice, and then turn to *rain*. (I probably won't get either - my home's on a mountain. The weatherman lies to me all the time. The village will.) It's supposed to hit 40+ - into the night.
My home is on the top of a mountain in NW Maine. Yeah... It *should* be somewhere in the 0 to 20 range. I do not make claims I can't substantiate. I have seen the *weather* change.
Excellent. I can only go by what you choose to share so I figured it'd be something you might enjoy. I'm glad you got the chance to go and I wish more people had gone - it's so not anything like many people expect. At least not people in the US. We've been blasted with propaganda, from our own media, for a very long time and it's really nothing like that. No, it's not idyllic but it is enjoyable and it was fairly unique.
And no, you're supposed to smoke a cigar or ten. They won't kill you - unless you keep smoking them. I have to have lungs like the inside of a wood stove's chimney. I only smoke cigars. I smoke like five of 'em in a day. Well, more 3/4 of a cigar, five times. I never finish 'em.
At any rate, I'm assuming you wore your fancy rum bib... That's pretty much a mandatory item in Cuba. I don't think I've ever actually been sober in Cuba, come to think of it. Surprisingly enough, they let me in a second time. I'm assuming they'll let me back in. I don't remember any reasons why they might not. I'll bend the rules a little bit and have a drink or two when I return. Tradition...
I lost data once and only once. Well, a significant amount of data. I've had crashes with not-yet-saved documents that took out trivial amounts but that doesn't even happen any more. You're not only correct, you're spot on.
One other thing to add - without verifying your backup - you have no backup at all. That includes a restoration strategy, that's part of the verification process. That includes having the ability to put a fresh system up, while the system is down, and have it isolated to access tools for recovery (such as updated patches).
My loss of data was infuriating and bizarre. I've been very anal about keeping backups ever since. To this day, even for my personal data, I keep regular updates at disparate locations and provision the same services for my friends. It's all fairly automated at this point but I still test the recovery often enough to know that I shouldn't ever lose any valuable data ever again.
Hardware, software, and bandwidth are cheap. They're cheap enough to be considered ubiquitous and there's no excuse for me to not do this. It is not expensive and doesn't even require physically moving the data on a regular basis. With a little bit of initiative, you can even automate a good portion of it. (I've not really found a good way to do the verification completely automatically from within the OS. I've not yet found one that I can really be certain of so I do verifications on my own.)
Well, if your name checks out - you're probably getting a kick out of these replies!
Actually, I seem to recall that unaided landings were technically possible but not advised and by unaided I mean the pilot's not in direct control of the plane with a yoke, throttle, etc... Is that accurate?
Is there anything you won't ban in the name of think of the children? I do hope you're joking. Sadly, I can't tell.
If you aren't, the world is never going to be perfectly safe. Oppression (even over something as trivial as a laser pointer) isn't really a good solution. Prohibition doesn't work. There will always be bad things happening to good people - needlessly so. It's a part of the fragility of life that makes it so grand. You're going to die and it might be because someone else is an idiot. That's going to remain true for as long as we have humans.
I admit that "Give me liberty or give me death!" is a pretty strong commitment to make but how about "reasonable liberties" instead? I don't even or want a laser pointer and I think the idea of prohibiting them is stupid. I could probably make a laser pointer in a couple of hours. So couldn't half the people here. Genies don't go back into bottles unless they want to. Shit happens. It's a part of life. Bad people may use encryption to plot harmful things without their communications being intercepted. Do you think we should take that away too? I mean, come on now, think of the children!
If you let someone make you angry, you're giving that person the power to control your emotions. You're conceding your autonomy and thoughts to someone whom you probably don't want to have that power. So, yeah, in a way - perhaps he's no longer granting those people the power to control his thinking? I'm not sure I agree with his method but that's for him to decide. I find it much easier just to point out the logical fallacies, the inability to reason, and amuse myself until I get bored when people attempt to troll me in real life or on the 'net. Fuck 'em, they're random pixels on the screen.
And no, no I'm not going to go driving across the country with those in my trunk. Not a chance in hell. I can't imagine what would happen if I ended up, say, rear-ended in New York State with a couple of NFA classed weapons in the trunk, boxes of ammunition, and a sheepish grin. I'm not white. Man, I'd never get out of there alive - and that's not even a joke. (I'm kinda white, I can pass for most races, I guess. I'm Micmac.)
'Tis okay and, if you ever need to get away... There's even the house that was on the property when I bought it. It's got it's own 'net and everything. I actually have ended up with a couple of Slashdotters who've made it up to Maine. There was another one who lived in Maine but he's gone missing in the past couple of years - he was having personal issues and I've no idea what happened to him. Life, I suppose.
Either way, it's awesome that you're able (and willing) to aid your parents. It's unfortunate that your father's in ill health but it's probably comforting that he's got a kid that still cares. Lots of old people don't have that. So, if nobody else says it, you're a good man for doing so.
That's close enough to what I said earlier. Here's my name. Do you want to place a wager on it and use an escrow service so that we can actually make this interesting?
I have to wonder about the validity of the experiment. They know the money isn't going to last forever. It seems rather unlikely that they'll act like the money is going to last forever. They're not free to quit their jobs. They're not even necessarily free to cut down on their working hours. Doing so means they risk losing their job and being unemployed when the experiment concludes.
What the hell are they actually testing? This doesn't really prove anything, it doesn't even give any meaningful indicators if these people are already employed or might become employed soon. I'd not place a whole lot of stock in their "findings." It doesn't sound very rigorous to me.
You're correct. I'm a Libertarian. Dyed in the wool, bona fide member of the party and everything. Hell, I've been a member since the earliest days of the party, back when we were fighting to get on the ballots as a recognized party.
I think Ayn Rand is an idiot. I think the GGGP is a moron - Libertarians are not anarchists. I also think they're an idiot for conflating an economic model with a political ideology. Hell, I'm typically associated with the loony left instead of the conservative right.
What's this about a generalization fallacy? Go ahead, check my post history. I'm not just making it up for you. I've been correcting idiots with their generalization fallacies about Libertarians for years. I invite you to read the Wikipedia article, it's actually pretty good. It will stop you from looking silly in front of your friends and family.
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So long as she gets her shots before going, she should be okay. The heat can be a bit much. Depending on how affluent the area, there will probably be mosquito netting (which is important in Zimbabwe) but she should make sure to pack one and a spare to take with her. As an added bonus, she can gift the netting on her last day and have more room for things to bring back to show the grandchildren.
Other than that? It's mostly fine. It has been a few years since I've been in that area but not a whole lot has changed. I'm assuming she's not just going to hope in a "ute" and travel to remote villages. The slums are mostly fine, they're almost certainly fine for any activity that she'll be engaging in. (I'm guessing she's not going to go out drinking, womanizing, and gambling or doing drugs.)
I've been fortunate enough to have had the time and means to travel and did a whole bunch after selling. I've been across the globe and even gone to areas where the State Department has reached out to me and told me that if I was to get into any trouble then they'd be unable to give me any assistance. I've even been to Somalia.
If I understood your comment right, she'll also have some other help. I noticed this after going on refuge. I'm a secular Buddhist (not a damned monk - or even a good Buddhist) and was wearing my kasaya (robes) afterwards and then on my return journey. I noticed that people are entirely different - like hugely different towards me while I was wearing kasaya. I've since made use of that behavior and it also impacts how people respond to those who are with me. So, your mom will be with a nun? That's a whole added bonus. In AD&D terms, it's a big bonus to your karma check.
It's tempting to "correct" you but I'll assume good faith. Unfortunately, your post is technically wrong and may be misinterpreted by those who do not know better. So, I will type it out a bit more clearly. Yes, yes I do think it's a requirement to be specific, lest people think it is in error and use it for justification for erroneous conclusions.
Virtually 100% of the current warming trend is caused by humans. Humans are not 100% (or even virtually 100%) responsible for climate change. The climate has changed before and will change again. This specific, and current, trend is believed to be nearly entirely the fault of humans. The rate at which it is currently changing is also believed to be caused by human activity. The Earth would have achieved this same level of warming on its own, it just would have warmed that same amount over a much, much longer period of time.
It's not like I enjoy being this pedantic. There are many who will willfully misinterpret and many who seem to simply not know better.
By the way, I have seen a claim of 97% of it being attributable to human activity but, if I remember the abstract properly, that's rather difficult to be certain of that. I'm quite positive that you know that it is just this specific trend that we're referencing. I'm not so positive that others will know.
Oh, I agree. Obama's the shittiest president we have!
I do believe that their justification is that the rape could not have happened if she'd been with a male relative and that she's to blame for not having followed the law, being a temptation too great, and getting raped. If she'd just been following the rules and been with a male relative then she'd have been fine and the man would not have raped her.
Not that I agree with that - I'm just adding that to the pile. Sadly, I have to point out that I'm not in agreement with them because there are some people here who think that just mentioning it means that one condones it. Yes, yes their idiots but it's faster to type this out than it is to reply to 'em.
At any rate, it's amusing when people try to equate the two. One of my favorites is when they try to equate Christians and Muslims. And no, no... I'm not a Christian either. I just chuckle at the rabid people.
One of my favorites is people who point to the French revolution and don't actually know what happened, how it happened, and what the results were. Very few revolts had the anticipated results. I am not a historian but I find history fascinating and so I guess you could say I'm a student of history. It's absolutely insane the things people will point to as acts of good and to be emulated or admired.
The adage about history repeating itself? I think there's some veracity to it. I'm not sure it's a cycle that can be stopped.
Sadly, yes. Realistic option includes ability to get elected. So, Trump is a realistic option. It's just not realistic to think he's qualified for the job.
One of them got mod points. I don't mind (I'll always have excellent karma) because it only proves you (and I) are correct.
If you point out that they're in the 1% *and* they happen to listen *and* they happen to finally agree then they'll (at best) change it to be the 0.1% or 0.2%. Oddly, these are often the same people who say that people shouldn't be prejudiced, should base arguments on facts, and things like that.
That'd be pretty much any laser. In fact, I can't think of any laser that will not cause damage to one's vision. There might be one but I don't know of it. Not only can it cause vision damage, it can cause temporary blindness which could result in planes crashing.
And no, that's still not a good enough reason to try to ban the devices.
No no... If I was them I'd have said "that" instead of "this," for example. ;-) I'd have said don't read into that what I didn't say, or something like that. I was just tossing some more information out there and then adding some of what I've personally witnessed.
But yeah that's a *tiny* section's worth of data. It's a potentially meaningless amount of data on a geological scale. I suspect if you made a time-line of the Earth's history that was ten feet long, that'd be about a quarter of an inch long. It really is a trivially short time. From 1893 until now is but a blink of an eye.
Which is not to say that the climate is not changing. That's not even saying that humans aren't to blame for some of the change. It's just pointing out that, yes those two dates *are* close together. The rest was added because lots of people are absurd zealots who will make assumptions about my beliefs should I point something like that out. It was to indicate that I should not be assumed to be in denial. Indeed, I have seen change. It's just that those two dates really are very close to each other on a greater scale - a scale that is (and must be) accounted for by the scientists.
Well, to be fair, you can pretty much say that a single month is of no significant importance and irrelevant in the scale of things. So, for simplicity sake, it is just weather. Or, really, it's just a month of average temperatures across the globe and might not even have been fully refined. I'd be surprised (I didn't read the article) if all the adjustments have been made already and passed around for review.
Just like if it were a cold month, it's just a month. By itself, it's nearly meaningless. Lots of people in here seem to be trying to assign more importance to it than it has. It's a human tendency, it supports their beliefs. The same thing happens when someone's got cold temperatures for a few days. But, really, it's statistically insignificant - by itself. It's not even, by itself, indicative of a greater trend. Combined with other date, there's a trend towards higher temperatures, more fluctuation, and isolated weather extremes with increased abnormalities from the historical norms.
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It's a limited subset, based on a whitelist. Just hit reply, quote parent and you'll see. You can also do this:
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The first row of characters was inserted using the keyboard - the U+12345 doesn't work (well, always, normally?). Use the AltGr keys or dead keys.
The second row is the HTML entity method. "& copy ;" (sans spaces) "& lt ;" (sans spaces) and, "& amp ;" (sans spaces) but the ampersand can be just typed normally. It's really easier if you just click reply, quote parent, and see what I typed - that's easier to explain and kinda how I figured out it worked. I then played with it and figured out which ones did what. We have *some* Unicode support. We could use a few more characters, micro would be nice. 'ug' does not look right.
Don't read into this what I didn't say, please? ;-)
Err... Um... I kinda *do* consider those close together. Those are but a drop in the bucket. A mere pittance, if you will.
That said, I have seen HUGE changes in the weather. Huge... I retired to Maine. I came to Maine to go to school, many years ago. It used to go down below 0 deg. F and stay there - for a week. Then, it might rise to 10. (Those are the highs.) We'd get so much snow that we'd have to help the grounds crew. You would throw the snow up in the air (over your head) and the wind would blow it away. This was preparatory school - not elementary. The snow was deeper than we were tall. Often... They now have to make snow at the school's ski slope.
There's snow coming today. To stick with that same area, it's going to snow, turn to ice, then turn to *rain* with the temperatures going over 40 - at night.
Yeah, it was a cold snap. They happen. They're sure as hell not climate. They may be a part of the climate but they're not climate by themselves. With wind-chill, it was -45 to -50 where my home is. (I'm not there. I'm cheating and in Florida.) It also didn't last long. It's unseasonably warm again. I just checked my temperatures back home and it's 0800 and 25. It's going to snow, turn to ice, and then turn to *rain*. (I probably won't get either - my home's on a mountain. The weatherman lies to me all the time. The village will.) It's supposed to hit 40+ - into the night.
My home is on the top of a mountain in NW Maine. Yeah... It *should* be somewhere in the 0 to 20 range. I do not make claims I can't substantiate. I have seen the *weather* change.
I spy with my little eyes, a Dr. Demento fan.
You can use the latest toothpaste, and then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.
Excellent. I can only go by what you choose to share so I figured it'd be something you might enjoy. I'm glad you got the chance to go and I wish more people had gone - it's so not anything like many people expect. At least not people in the US. We've been blasted with propaganda, from our own media, for a very long time and it's really nothing like that. No, it's not idyllic but it is enjoyable and it was fairly unique.
And no, you're supposed to smoke a cigar or ten. They won't kill you - unless you keep smoking them. I have to have lungs like the inside of a wood stove's chimney. I only smoke cigars. I smoke like five of 'em in a day. Well, more 3/4 of a cigar, five times. I never finish 'em.
At any rate, I'm assuming you wore your fancy rum bib... That's pretty much a mandatory item in Cuba. I don't think I've ever actually been sober in Cuba, come to think of it. Surprisingly enough, they let me in a second time. I'm assuming they'll let me back in. I don't remember any reasons why they might not. I'll bend the rules a little bit and have a drink or two when I return. Tradition...
I lost data once and only once. Well, a significant amount of data. I've had crashes with not-yet-saved documents that took out trivial amounts but that doesn't even happen any more. You're not only correct, you're spot on.
One other thing to add - without verifying your backup - you have no backup at all. That includes a restoration strategy, that's part of the verification process. That includes having the ability to put a fresh system up, while the system is down, and have it isolated to access tools for recovery (such as updated patches).
My loss of data was infuriating and bizarre. I've been very anal about keeping backups ever since. To this day, even for my personal data, I keep regular updates at disparate locations and provision the same services for my friends. It's all fairly automated at this point but I still test the recovery often enough to know that I shouldn't ever lose any valuable data ever again.
Hardware, software, and bandwidth are cheap. They're cheap enough to be considered ubiquitous and there's no excuse for me to not do this. It is not expensive and doesn't even require physically moving the data on a regular basis. With a little bit of initiative, you can even automate a good portion of it. (I've not really found a good way to do the verification completely automatically from within the OS. I've not yet found one that I can really be certain of so I do verifications on my own.)
Well, if your name checks out - you're probably getting a kick out of these replies!
Actually, I seem to recall that unaided landings were technically possible but not advised and by unaided I mean the pilot's not in direct control of the plane with a yoke, throttle, etc... Is that accurate?
Is there anything you won't ban in the name of think of the children? I do hope you're joking. Sadly, I can't tell.
If you aren't, the world is never going to be perfectly safe. Oppression (even over something as trivial as a laser pointer) isn't really a good solution. Prohibition doesn't work. There will always be bad things happening to good people - needlessly so. It's a part of the fragility of life that makes it so grand. You're going to die and it might be because someone else is an idiot. That's going to remain true for as long as we have humans.
I admit that "Give me liberty or give me death!" is a pretty strong commitment to make but how about "reasonable liberties" instead? I don't even or want a laser pointer and I think the idea of prohibiting them is stupid. I could probably make a laser pointer in a couple of hours. So couldn't half the people here. Genies don't go back into bottles unless they want to. Shit happens. It's a part of life. Bad people may use encryption to plot harmful things without their communications being intercepted. Do you think we should take that away too? I mean, come on now, think of the children!
Yes but they called you that because you were yelling it on the street corner while wearing nothing but a plant pot and a lobster bib.
Pfft... We post on Slashdot nearly every day, we're used to it.
If you let someone make you angry, you're giving that person the power to control your emotions. You're conceding your autonomy and thoughts to someone whom you probably don't want to have that power. So, yeah, in a way - perhaps he's no longer granting those people the power to control his thinking? I'm not sure I agree with his method but that's for him to decide. I find it much easier just to point out the logical fallacies, the inability to reason, and amuse myself until I get bored when people attempt to troll me in real life or on the 'net. Fuck 'em, they're random pixels on the screen.
Hmm... Have gun, will travel? ;-)
And no, no I'm not going to go driving across the country with those in my trunk. Not a chance in hell. I can't imagine what would happen if I ended up, say, rear-ended in New York State with a couple of NFA classed weapons in the trunk, boxes of ammunition, and a sheepish grin. I'm not white. Man, I'd never get out of there alive - and that's not even a joke. (I'm kinda white, I can pass for most races, I guess. I'm Micmac.)
'Tis okay and, if you ever need to get away... There's even the house that was on the property when I bought it. It's got it's own 'net and everything. I actually have ended up with a couple of Slashdotters who've made it up to Maine. There was another one who lived in Maine but he's gone missing in the past couple of years - he was having personal issues and I've no idea what happened to him. Life, I suppose.
Either way, it's awesome that you're able (and willing) to aid your parents. It's unfortunate that your father's in ill health but it's probably comforting that he's got a kid that still cares. Lots of old people don't have that. So, if nobody else says it, you're a good man for doing so.
That's close enough to what I said earlier. Here's my name. Do you want to place a wager on it and use an escrow service so that we can actually make this interesting?
I have to wonder about the validity of the experiment. They know the money isn't going to last forever. It seems rather unlikely that they'll act like the money is going to last forever. They're not free to quit their jobs. They're not even necessarily free to cut down on their working hours. Doing so means they risk losing their job and being unemployed when the experiment concludes.
What the hell are they actually testing? This doesn't really prove anything, it doesn't even give any meaningful indicators if these people are already employed or might become employed soon. I'd not place a whole lot of stock in their "findings." It doesn't sound very rigorous to me.
You're correct. I'm a Libertarian. Dyed in the wool, bona fide member of the party and everything. Hell, I've been a member since the earliest days of the party, back when we were fighting to get on the ballots as a recognized party.
I think Ayn Rand is an idiot. I think the GGGP is a moron - Libertarians are not anarchists. I also think they're an idiot for conflating an economic model with a political ideology. Hell, I'm typically associated with the loony left instead of the conservative right.
What's this about a generalization fallacy? Go ahead, check my post history. I'm not just making it up for you. I've been correcting idiots with their generalization fallacies about Libertarians for years. I invite you to read the Wikipedia article, it's actually pretty good. It will stop you from looking silly in front of your friends and family.