“Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas,” Krugman quipped, referring to Breitbart’s recent invention of a group purportedly tied to defence Secretary Chuck Hagel that ended up not actually existing.
That is so funny.
I love the weirdo US far right. They are extremely entertaining, especially when I see Sarah Palin on the news giving a "speech".
If there are any other speakers on the bill, you can see them in the background with looks of utter revulsion on their faces, because even other right wing weirdos think she's beyond the pale.
I had this vague hope that London Has Fallen might be some awesome alternate history thing about the Nazis winning WWII, but no, part of a "Franchise" the first of which was a total load, but made money.
I noted that Gerard Butler is a "Producer" for the third one, which I assume is code for "You need to pay me more to keep doing this rubbish".
The Catholic Church is not afraid of science, true enough, as you point out, they employ a bunch of scientists, and have done for a long time.
Other religions are terrified of science however, Islam being a good example. In the early Middle Ages Islam was the centre of scientific progress, but the religious elements suppressed science, based on the notion that the explanation that "God wills it" is enough. (This is probably simplistic, but is my rough understanding).
Islam is not the only anti-science religious group though, from the Scopes Monkey trial to attempts to teach Creationism in science classes in the US, various Protestant groups are obviously anti-science.
Am I the only one here who thinks the age range they've used is odd?
Of course 15 - 24 years olds will be over represented in unemployment statistics.
The lower age range there are going to be 15, 16, 17 and 18 year olds who are not in school or training of some kind, and who will employ them?
I have checked and school is compulsory until 16 in Canada, so any 15 year old not in school probably has some other problems in their life, making employment even less likely.
The DragonBox Pyra has been available to preorder since 2013 (from what I can tell, it's a bit hard because the website is awful). So Michael Mrozek is the creator of not much so far.
He is however correct about tablets being awkward for anything other than browsing the web, which is why that's exactly what they are used for.
Any tiny Linux handheld is a niche device, which is why no mainstream manufacturer will make them.
It sounds like there is no real market for Internet access in many places in the US.
Chattanooga tried to set up a city owned ISP a few years ago because the local monopoly was terrible, and the state government legislated to prevent them doing it.
That's what happens when money dominates politics.
Women could always apply for the factory jobs where I work.
Those are great jobs for people who don't have degrees, pretty good pay, regular hours, overtime paid at penal rates, but it's demanding physical labour, and as far as I'm aware not one woman has ever applied.
Haven't you noticed how Donald is not locking her up anymore? No-one who is part of the machinery of state ever sees the inside of a court, that's just not how it works.
Don't go pretending Donald is any different to Hilary, none of them are on your side.
I've also been using a mobile mechanic off and on for about 20 years.
The summary says the mechanics are all independent contractors, so they will be poorly paid and poorly motivated until they can find a better job, whereas the guys I use all seem to be highly skilled. (At least they've always done a good job for me).
I'm not sure to be honest. Wikipedia says they bought up all their competition in the early 20th Century, and had various anti-trust finding against them, but until Bell was broken up in 1984 the terms all seem pretty generous.
With what I know of US politics, I'm going to go right ahead and assume they used a tiny portion of their profits to buy off politicians, because that's exactly what the current telecoms monopolies do.
I don't understand why anybody would bother investing in this, but I'm going to assume that a huge investment bank will make a huge profit, so that's probably the reason.
Not bad, about 24C at the moment, (it's the afternoon right now), gentle nor'wester sea-breeze. Quite pleasant.
Interestingly, it absolutely hosed with rain last night at my house, for about an hour and a half, but one of my colleagues was about 10 kms away at her cousin's house and saw no rain at all, so go figure.
Drop them at a computer with internet access, give them a couple hours, and see what they have at the end of it.
This is exactly what happened to a friend of mine last year, they told him to alow an hour or so, gave him what he said was a pretty run of the mill problem to solve, and some tools to do it.
He said they were well organised and the whole process was great. They then offered him about 2/3 of what he currently makes, but that's a whole other problem.
Wellington has the worst climate in New Zealand. It gets both Northerly and Southerly gales, sometimes in the same day. The winters are not cold enough to snow, but they get "lazy winds" (they can't be bothered going around you, so they just cut right through).
Having said that, Cuba St. is quite fun, bars and restaurants and some good bands playing most weekends.
I clicked the link, and the Wellingtonnz.com website is "taking a short break".
Also, what the hell is a "Tech Community"? Is it some sort of industry group or something?. The article is pretty short on details.
What the stupid article fails to mention is that we have a points system for immigrants, if you don't reach the points threshold, you don't get in, even if you have a job offer (although a firm job offer is usually enough).
So you might get a free week in Wellington, and if the gale force winds are to your liking you might get a job offer, then not be allowed to stay anyway.
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after you subtract all the taxes (GST, payroll, excise tax, etc) that they DO pay.
There are no payroll or excise taxes in NZ. Apple pay no tax. It's quite simple.
We do have Goods and Services tax, which Apples customers pay. Apple paid no tax.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas,” Krugman quipped, referring to Breitbart’s recent invention of a group purportedly tied to defence Secretary Chuck Hagel that ended up not actually existing.
That is so funny.
I love the weirdo US far right. They are extremely entertaining, especially when I see Sarah Palin on the news giving a "speech".
If there are any other speakers on the bill, you can see them in the background with looks of utter revulsion on their faces, because even other right wing weirdos think she's beyond the pale.
I noted that Gerard Butler is a "Producer" for the third one, which I assume is code for "You need to pay me more to keep doing this rubbish".
Other religions are terrified of science however, Islam being a good example. In the early Middle Ages Islam was the centre of scientific progress, but the religious elements suppressed science, based on the notion that the explanation that "God wills it" is enough. (This is probably simplistic, but is my rough understanding).
Islam is not the only anti-science religious group though, from the Scopes Monkey trial to attempts to teach Creationism in science classes in the US, various Protestant groups are obviously anti-science.
Of course 15 - 24 years olds will be over represented in unemployment statistics.
The lower age range there are going to be 15, 16, 17 and 18 year olds who are not in school or training of some kind, and who will employ them?
I have checked and school is compulsory until 16 in Canada, so any 15 year old not in school probably has some other problems in their life, making employment even less likely.
The DragonBox Pyra has been available to preorder since 2013 (from what I can tell, it's a bit hard because the website is awful). So Michael Mrozek is the creator of not much so far.
He is however correct about tablets being awkward for anything other than browsing the web, which is why that's exactly what they are used for.
Any tiny Linux handheld is a niche device, which is why no mainstream manufacturer will make them.
That's what I read in the headline until I checked it again. I'm not sure it's possible to prove the Time Cube without daytime drinking.
Thank you for that clarification.
Chattanooga tried to set up a city owned ISP a few years ago because the local monopoly was terrible, and the state government legislated to prevent them doing it.
That's what happens when money dominates politics.
Those are great jobs for people who don't have degrees, pretty good pay, regular hours, overtime paid at penal rates, but it's demanding physical labour, and as far as I'm aware not one woman has ever applied.
Haven't you noticed how Donald is not locking her up anymore? No-one who is part of the machinery of state ever sees the inside of a court, that's just not how it works.
Don't go pretending Donald is any different to Hilary, none of them are on your side.
It was started as a "state-owned and private-operating" economic entity. None of this is a secret, it's easy to find on the Internet.
No business in China gets as big as ZTE without input from the Chinese Government, that's how business is done over there.
While they have not told the US to get stuffed this time, there might come a day when they will, and I wonder what will happen then?
The summary says the mechanics are all independent contractors, so they will be poorly paid and poorly motivated until they can find a better job, whereas the guys I use all seem to be highly skilled. (At least they've always done a good job for me).
With what I know of US politics, I'm going to go right ahead and assume they used a tiny portion of their profits to buy off politicians, because that's exactly what the current telecoms monopolies do.
The US broke up Bell exactly because they were a monopoly, and service suffered as a result.
The broken up bits of Bell have spent the last few years trying to re-form, and it looks like they will succeed.
I gotta admit, I was less than thrilled.
I think this every time I have the chance to test VR, and I suspect most other people do too.
VR will go the way of 3D TV's.
I'm just not stupid enough to be able to see why this, like Facebook, could possibly be profitable. So, I'll lose out on this one, too.
Snap inc. don't know either. They didn't even make a secret of it.
I don't understand why anybody would bother investing in this, but I'm going to assume that a huge investment bank will make a huge profit, so that's probably the reason.
Interestingly, it absolutely hosed with rain last night at my house, for about an hour and a half, but one of my colleagues was about 10 kms away at her cousin's house and saw no rain at all, so go figure.
If they bought that in where I live, traffic jams would be a thing of the past, but the trains and buses would be filled to overflowing.
Drop them at a computer with internet access, give them a couple hours, and see what they have at the end of it.
This is exactly what happened to a friend of mine last year, they told him to alow an hour or so, gave him what he said was a pretty run of the mill problem to solve, and some tools to do it.
He said they were well organised and the whole process was great. They then offered him about 2/3 of what he currently makes, but that's a whole other problem.
Having said that, Cuba St. is quite fun, bars and restaurants and some good bands playing most weekends.
You really don't want to live in Hamilton. It is a country town that got big, so none of the charm of a small town, and all the inconvience of a city.
I clicked the link, and the Wellingtonnz.com website is "taking a short break".
Also, what the hell is a "Tech Community"? Is it some sort of industry group or something?. The article is pretty short on details.
What the stupid article fails to mention is that we have a points system for immigrants, if you don't reach the points threshold, you don't get in, even if you have a job offer (although a firm job offer is usually enough).
So you might get a free week in Wellington, and if the gale force winds are to your liking you might get a job offer, then not be allowed to stay anyway.