But instead, all of the apathetic slugs out there contribute the the problem by saying "I really like blah-blahs positions but I dont want to waste my vote so I dunno, Hillary Clinton I guess".
I especially don't understand why people do this in states that are never close - for example, I live in New Jersey. It doesn't matter what anyone does, New Jersey will go Democrat in almost every Presidential election, and you can bet if it's close here, it won't be nationally. There's easily place for a few hundred thousand 'protest' third party votes in the northeast alone without changing the outcome of any of the elections.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding the argument - but doesn't the cursor stay centered by default in every PC FPS game?
The age of consent varies state by state (I'd find a link but god knows what the company filter would think I was looking for). Looking isn't the problem but "relations" with someone under 17 are considered statutory rape, or corruption of a minor.
(again) Replace (probably?) every instance of 'lens' in my original post with 'cornea'. Same questions apply, if anyone knows the answers.
Wish there was an edit button...
My parents are both MDs, so I always go to them with medical questions before paying anyone for advice.
Last time I asked (I'm around -4.5 in both eyes), they were worried about the long terms of removing part of the lens in either eye. Apparently, part of the lens is also removed as a treatment for cataracts, and they had some worry that
a) Laser eye surgery could remove enough of the lens to make cataract treatment later in life difficult or impossible, and, also
b) There weren't any large scale long term (20+ yrs) studies on the rusults of the surgery.
As I said, this is secondhand... perhaps if there's a MD or a Optometrist on these boards they could comfirm/deny/just explain better?
Oh, and the only gun control I'm for is the ability to accurately hit your mark.
Completely agree. If someone's going to try to jack my car, I doubt they're too worried about illegal firearm possession. The least I can do is even the odds...
If you can find something that harms the people living there, instead of just destroying the ecology for no gain (and then spreading out to any contiguous landmasses).
It's also rather indiscriminite - though maybe that's the point of biological warfare.
Why? More than likely hyperbole, to make his point seem stronger. But of course, you probably already knew that, and I just answered a hypothetical question.
I think it's also open to debate whether the 20-year term of most patents has become obsolete (can you say 'yes, definitely'?). If 20 years was the proper term of a patent in a time when a letter took a week to send from one coast to the other, then certainly 3-5 years would be the correct "inflation adjusted" value today. Also, we need to fix the loopholes that some companies exploit in order to unfairly extend patents beyond the maximum.
This may be true in some industries (computer hardware and software especially, since even 5 years is long past irrelevancy for a lot of ideas), but it is not universally true. Take the pharmaceutical industry for example: The patent is filed before the beginning of the approval process, which may take 8-12 years in and of itself, leaving the company the remaining 8-12 years to recoup its investments (if it is indeed approved).
I completely agree that the number of bad patents is probably a small minority that happen to generate a lot of press, especially on sites like/.
I work for a DoD contractor, and I have two computers in my cube. A sun machine connected to a classified intranet with no external access whatsoever, and a windoze machine connected to the outside world, with presumably the normal protection you'd expect from a large company. The windows machine may have proprietary information which we wouldn't want comprimised, but anything truly sensitive is on the classified net, which has no external access.
It's a little more expensive to give everyone two machines, but it works, besides, all the windows machine needs is Office, Acrobat and IE/Firefox, so an old P3 would be fine.
But in the end, whether they work hard or not (I personally have known teachers that do not fit the workaholic description you give above), the market determines their pay.
You are under some sort of delusion about what "the market" is if you think that government paid jobs whose raises are up the whim of the state legislature or governor are subject to the whims of "the market." You must have some very strange definition of "market" that includes politics as a deciding factor. Unlike a normal free-market driven job, the quality / quantity of labor does not affect profits, since there is no profit in teaching -- a necessity to keep education universal. The same forces are not at work as in a regular free market job.
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You mean, besides the fact that they have a shortage of nearly 1000 teachers? Exactly what attraction is there to a job that offers too poor pay to live off of in an area with very expensive average home costs that involves dealing with poorly behaved kids and irresponsible parents? Teaching is a job that requires a lot of personal sacrifice and the fact that people go into it at all shows that there are a lot of people with dedication that are willing to sacrifice money to help out children. That doesn't mean that they should be rewarded with the opportunity to sacrifice as much as they can.
This is the end result of the free market economy. Eventually that district will be forced to raise the salary for its teachers, because too many positions will be unfilled for it to do an effective job teaching students. At this point, more teachers will be willing to work there. Free market.
"In the younger generation (20somethings and below) it is THE way to meet people for dates, and there's no social stigma attached to it"
This strikes me as a gross exaggeration, though maybe I'm too young to really be a '20-something' yet, at 22, and haven't spent enough time in the post-college world where it isn't quite so easy to meet as many girls my age as I could during school... but most of my friends in relationships met their signifigant others the old fashioned way. I do know people who have met through internet dating sites, and maybe I'll know more in 3 or 4 years, but I'd hardly call it "THE way to meet people".
The grand walkway in the french airport that collapsed in 2004, killing 5 people and costing close to a billion dollars? Sounds like a pretty serious engineering mistake to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3739715.stm
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But instead, all of the apathetic slugs out there contribute the the problem by saying "I really like blah-blahs positions but I dont want to waste my vote so I dunno, Hillary Clinton I guess".
I especially don't understand why people do this in states that are never close - for example, I live in New Jersey. It doesn't matter what anyone does, New Jersey will go Democrat in almost every Presidential election, and you can bet if it's close here, it won't be nationally. There's easily place for a few hundred thousand 'protest' third party votes in the northeast alone without changing the outcome of any of the elections.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the argument - but doesn't the cursor stay centered by default in every PC FPS game?
In case that wasn't a joke, First Person Shooter
The age of consent varies state by state (I'd find a link but god knows what the company filter would think I was looking for). Looking isn't the problem but "relations" with someone under 17 are considered statutory rape, or corruption of a minor.
(again) Replace (probably?) every instance of 'lens' in my original post with 'cornea'. Same questions apply, if anyone knows the answers.
Wish there was an edit button...
Massive reserves of a hydrocarbon that comes from the breakdown of biomass... on a nearby planet?
Replace (probably?) every instance of 'lens' in my original post with 'cornea'. Same questions apply, if anyone knows the answers.
Obviously meant as a joke? It wasn't funny it was stupid. Being a dipshit is pretty poor comedy. It's not something that everyone can do well.
Why was this modded insightful? It's STUPID.
My parents are both MDs, so I always go to them with medical questions before paying anyone for advice.
Last time I asked (I'm around -4.5 in both eyes), they were worried about the long terms of removing part of the lens in either eye. Apparently, part of the lens is also removed as a treatment for cataracts, and they had some worry that
a) Laser eye surgery could remove enough of the lens to make cataract treatment later in life difficult or impossible, and, also
b) There weren't any large scale long term (20+ yrs) studies on the rusults of the surgery.
As I said, this is secondhand... perhaps if there's a MD or a Optometrist on these boards they could comfirm/deny/just explain better?
Oh, and the only gun control I'm for is the ability to accurately hit your mark.
Completely agree. If someone's going to try to jack my car, I doubt they're too worried about illegal firearm possession. The least I can do is even the odds...
If you can find something that harms the people living there, instead of just destroying the ecology for no gain (and then spreading out to any contiguous landmasses).
It's also rather indiscriminite - though maybe that's the point of biological warfare.
Why? More than likely hyperbole, to make his point seem stronger. But of course, you probably already knew that, and I just answered a hypothetical question.
I think it's also open to debate whether the 20-year term of most patents has become obsolete (can you say 'yes, definitely'?). If 20 years was the proper term of a patent in a time when a letter took a week to send from one coast to the other, then certainly 3-5 years would be the correct "inflation adjusted" value today. Also, we need to fix the loopholes that some companies exploit in order to unfairly extend patents beyond the maximum.
/.
This may be true in some industries (computer hardware and software especially, since even 5 years is long past irrelevancy for a lot of ideas), but it is not universally true. Take the pharmaceutical industry for example: The patent is filed before the beginning of the approval process, which may take 8-12 years in and of itself, leaving the company the remaining 8-12 years to recoup its investments (if it is indeed approved).
I completely agree that the number of bad patents is probably a small minority that happen to generate a lot of press, especially on sites like
Here's an alternative:
I work for a DoD contractor, and I have two computers in my cube. A sun machine connected to a classified intranet with no external access whatsoever, and a windoze machine connected to the outside world, with presumably the normal protection you'd expect from a large company. The windows machine may have proprietary information which we wouldn't want comprimised, but anything truly sensitive is on the classified net, which has no external access.
It's a little more expensive to give everyone two machines, but it works, besides, all the windows machine needs is Office, Acrobat and IE/Firefox, so an old P3 would be fine.
I suppose you have a better term for the reaction of the going rate for a good or service to the changing supply and demand of the marketplace?
You contradicted yourself.
But in the end, whether they work hard or not (I personally have known teachers that do not fit the workaholic description you give above), the market determines their pay. You are under some sort of delusion about what "the market" is if you think that government paid jobs whose raises are up the whim of the state legislature or governor are subject to the whims of "the market." You must have some very strange definition of "market" that includes politics as a deciding factor. Unlike a normal free-market driven job, the quality / quantity of labor does not affect profits, since there is no profit in teaching -- a necessity to keep education universal. The same forces are not at work as in a regular free market job.
vs.
You mean, besides the fact that they have a shortage of nearly 1000 teachers? Exactly what attraction is there to a job that offers too poor pay to live off of in an area with very expensive average home costs that involves dealing with poorly behaved kids and irresponsible parents? Teaching is a job that requires a lot of personal sacrifice and the fact that people go into it at all shows that there are a lot of people with dedication that are willing to sacrifice money to help out children. That doesn't mean that they should be rewarded with the opportunity to sacrifice as much as they can.
This is the end result of the free market economy. Eventually that district will be forced to raise the salary for its teachers, because too many positions will be unfilled for it to do an effective job teaching students. At this point, more teachers will be willing to work there. Free market.
"In the younger generation (20somethings and below) it is THE way to meet people for dates, and there's no social stigma attached to it"
This strikes me as a gross exaggeration, though maybe I'm too young to really be a '20-something' yet, at 22, and haven't spent enough time in the post-college world where it isn't quite so easy to meet as many girls my age as I could during school... but most of my friends in relationships met their signifigant others the old fashioned way. I do know people who have met through internet dating sites, and maybe I'll know more in 3 or 4 years, but I'd hardly call it "THE way to meet people".
The grand walkway in the french airport that collapsed in 2004, killing 5 people and costing close to a billion dollars? Sounds like a pretty serious engineering mistake to me. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3739715.stm