Five hundred square feet? Are you mad? Do you have any idea how LITTLE space 500 square feet is? That's a large studio apartment. There's room for a family of four, sure... room for their beds and NOTHING else.
Fiat currency has only the value that everyone agrees to give it. The fact that both your wallet and mine are filled with monopoly money isn't a new thing, but it's about the best thing we've got right now since gold-backed currency was phased out decades ago. The economic crisis is hardly due to the currency losing its value.
In lieu of any such currency though, is there anything you'd recommend to have to represent the time and effort you've put into working so that you can trade it for other goods and services?
Bad news, sparky, turns out that this is 2010 and Catholics don't think that God speaks directly through anyone, the last time he did was about two millennia ago, and last time there was a holy war it wasn't just them doing it. But you're right about female priests, I mean, that's why we see female priests in who aren't restricted to just one other Christian sect as well as all those female leaders in Islamic and Jewish faith, with women being treated so well by Muslims in general, right?
You're right, though, it's definitely time for bed when you start to self-Godwin.
What I'm going to be more interested in is the appeal. There's no way that he isn't going to try and appeal, and if as much of it has been glossed over or ignored as it seems to be at this time, he may get the conviction and any financial penalties overturned. As it stands now the city wants to bill him $900k for it.
I may not be in the medical field, but if any of the people who worked under me said something like that I'd recommend their termination in a heartbeat. When you play with people's lives, you DO. NOT. FUCK. AROUND.
I don't give a good god damn whether they say 'pretty please send me help, I don't feel well' or 'JESUS H SOMEONE IS DYING GET DOWN HERE AND HELP ME YOU MOTHERFUCKERS' because they're going to get help. If you require them to phrase it in a particular way you're in the wrong damned field of work, and if you require someone to say please and thank you you're going to be sadly disappointed.
Welcome to the adult world. We are not children in the first grade. We don't always play nice. We don't get to whine to teacher when someone else doesn't play nice and do exactly what we want. We do what we have to do, and then we can go to the pub and whine to our friends over a beer, or go home to dinner and complain to our family about how horrible the day was.
If you were my supervisor and you were able to fire me with that comment, I can guarantee you I would get your ass fired and get a nice settlement to keep it all out of the news.
Yes, but the ones that fail animal trials don't make it to human trials. Also, this particular drug targets the disease itself, as opposed to anything in the host; it's not a cancer treatment or anything like that. There is a respectable chance that it could work successfully in human beings. Even if it does not, it is one hundred percent successful. Completely and utterly successful. Whether it works in humans or not it'll open up new avenues of research.
If they wanted to arrest him on drunk and disorderly, they should have. Instead they arrested him for failing to show his ID, which is a failure on the part of the officer to do their damn job properly.
I disagree on your point, but it is largely more a thing done out of stupidity than maturity. Unfortunately some newbies (wheter police, fire or EMS) have sent out pictures while they're still in training, from what I understand... so, yeah, they didn't end up staying training long. So far as that goes, immaturity and stupidity go hand in hand.
Still, you reach the limits of what you can do, and unfortunately it's a thing you have to learn to accept. Not everyone can. But yes, some of us do believe that... it doesn't always help you sleep at night, no, but you can't just stop and go 'okay, this is too much'. Usually you don't get that option. For the record, I'm a dispatcher, so I don't usually get to take a pause after a mother's screaming that her baby is not breathing and I frequently don't find out the final disposition on a call, though I do get to see the photos taken at the scene for the worse ones, sometimes.
You learn to cope, or you wash out, and this is why 911 dispatchers have such a high rate of turnover. I've done this long enough that I've learned to deal with it, though, and in the end I do everything that I can do and move on to the next call. Anything else won't do any good for me or the people that call me and need help, and there will always be more people who need help. Someone has to be there to help them, and so long as I'm able to, I intend to be.
Hi. I'm the guy who shrugs it off and goes on with the next call.
Gallows humor is a fine coping mechanism, and there are plenty of others that are better and some that aren't as great, but the lucky ones among us can cope with the fact that we're doing a job that someone has to do, we're the best people who can do it, and we just do everything we can but eventually you have to be able to let it go. Unfortunately it took me a long time to even get to this point. I was otherwise the 80-hours-black-humor guy until relatively recently.
Still... I don't care what you have to do to cope with it, you do NOT send pictures of a scene out to anyone that isn't part of the agency. That's total bullshit, and they should have known better. It should have been common sense... but unfortunately, common sense isn't.
Plausible? Hell, where have you been the last twenty years?
Nobody cares for cyberpunk anymore, because the corporations quietly took control. It's just not as blatant as it was in any of the games and stories; who needs standing armies when you've got lawyers?
So wait, if you don't HAVE Flash installed, they've got backups, but if you DO have Flash installed and the elements sit there and are never loaded...
Jeez. This whole article reads like a little boy who nobody's listening to because he cries 'wolf', and he's trying to get people to listen to him cry 'wolf' again. Where is the real wolf when you need it?!
You're forgetting that the manmade global warming advocates like to latch onto every alarmist headline that they can and tout it everywhere. Such statements of fact merely get in the way of their agenda.
Can you say -1 flamebait, kids? I knew you could. Won't be the first time I get modded down for speaking the truth.
I did not mean to imply that just because they've both exhibited some really poor behavior in the past it should put them on an even playing field. I do, however, mean to imply that no one should feel morally superior here due to the action of the military or intelligence agencies.
Any moral superiority should be limited strictly to civilian law enforcement.
I'm from the United States and MI6 has done worse. And our police and shops don't use classical music, flashing lights, or anything else to drive kids away.
And that's exactly what it's going to do -- the youth of Britain will identify ALL classical music as repugnant based on its use and the majority will want nothing to do with it. Indeed, they will want to see it burned.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
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Fifty Shades of Gray.
The debate starts and ends RIGHT FUCKING THERE.
Five hundred square feet? Are you mad? Do you have any idea how LITTLE space 500 square feet is? That's a large studio apartment. There's room for a family of four, sure... room for their beds and NOTHING else.
Oh, that's easy. I'll just google a new search engine to use! Yes, this plan has no flaws...
Fiat currency has only the value that everyone agrees to give it. The fact that both your wallet and mine are filled with monopoly money isn't a new thing, but it's about the best thing we've got right now since gold-backed currency was phased out decades ago. The economic crisis is hardly due to the currency losing its value.
In lieu of any such currency though, is there anything you'd recommend to have to represent the time and effort you've put into working so that you can trade it for other goods and services?
Sorry, but every time I see any type of resource described as "renewable", I get pissed off.
How exactly do you think we would "renew" matter when proton decay sets in? Glue positrons and pions back together?
No, when crashing your last words are statistically most likely to be in English: "oh shit".
Bad news, sparky, turns out that this is 2010 and Catholics don't think that God speaks directly through anyone, the last time he did was about two millennia ago, and last time there was a holy war it wasn't just them doing it. But you're right about female priests, I mean, that's why we see female priests in who aren't restricted to just one other Christian sect as well as all those female leaders in Islamic and Jewish faith, with women being treated so well by Muslims in general, right?
You're right, though, it's definitely time for bed when you start to self-Godwin.
They also read Brave New World.
What they've found best is a mixture of Huxley and Orwell. Give the people their bread and circuses, and remove those who are unsatisfied by it.
Two words: gorilla arm.
What I'm going to be more interested in is the appeal. There's no way that he isn't going to try and appeal, and if as much of it has been glossed over or ignored as it seems to be at this time, he may get the conviction and any financial penalties overturned. As it stands now the city wants to bill him $900k for it.
I may not be in the medical field, but if any of the people who worked under me said something like that I'd recommend their termination in a heartbeat. When you play with people's lives, you DO. NOT. FUCK. AROUND.
I don't give a good god damn whether they say 'pretty please send me help, I don't feel well' or 'JESUS H SOMEONE IS DYING GET DOWN HERE AND HELP ME YOU MOTHERFUCKERS' because they're going to get help. If you require them to phrase it in a particular way you're in the wrong damned field of work, and if you require someone to say please and thank you you're going to be sadly disappointed.
Welcome to the adult world. We are not children in the first grade. We don't always play nice. We don't get to whine to teacher when someone else doesn't play nice and do exactly what we want. We do what we have to do, and then we can go to the pub and whine to our friends over a beer, or go home to dinner and complain to our family about how horrible the day was.
If you were my supervisor and you were able to fire me with that comment, I can guarantee you I would get your ass fired and get a nice settlement to keep it all out of the news.
Yes, but the ones that fail animal trials don't make it to human trials. Also, this particular drug targets the disease itself, as opposed to anything in the host; it's not a cancer treatment or anything like that. There is a respectable chance that it could work successfully in human beings. Even if it does not, it is one hundred percent successful. Completely and utterly successful. Whether it works in humans or not it'll open up new avenues of research.
If they wanted to arrest him on drunk and disorderly, they should have. Instead they arrested him for failing to show his ID, which is a failure on the part of the officer to do their damn job properly.
Well, sure, that's ideal. But that also requires that stories that belong in Idle GET FUCKING POSTED IN IDLE WHERE THEY BELONG.
I disagree on your point, but it is largely more a thing done out of stupidity than maturity. Unfortunately some newbies (wheter police, fire or EMS) have sent out pictures while they're still in training, from what I understand... so, yeah, they didn't end up staying training long. So far as that goes, immaturity and stupidity go hand in hand.
Still, you reach the limits of what you can do, and unfortunately it's a thing you have to learn to accept. Not everyone can. But yes, some of us do believe that... it doesn't always help you sleep at night, no, but you can't just stop and go 'okay, this is too much'. Usually you don't get that option. For the record, I'm a dispatcher, so I don't usually get to take a pause after a mother's screaming that her baby is not breathing and I frequently don't find out the final disposition on a call, though I do get to see the photos taken at the scene for the worse ones, sometimes.
You learn to cope, or you wash out, and this is why 911 dispatchers have such a high rate of turnover. I've done this long enough that I've learned to deal with it, though, and in the end I do everything that I can do and move on to the next call. Anything else won't do any good for me or the people that call me and need help, and there will always be more people who need help. Someone has to be there to help them, and so long as I'm able to, I intend to be.
Hi. I'm the guy who shrugs it off and goes on with the next call.
Gallows humor is a fine coping mechanism, and there are plenty of others that are better and some that aren't as great, but the lucky ones among us can cope with the fact that we're doing a job that someone has to do, we're the best people who can do it, and we just do everything we can but eventually you have to be able to let it go. Unfortunately it took me a long time to even get to this point. I was otherwise the 80-hours-black-humor guy until relatively recently.
Still... I don't care what you have to do to cope with it, you do NOT send pictures of a scene out to anyone that isn't part of the agency. That's total bullshit, and they should have known better. It should have been common sense... but unfortunately, common sense isn't.
Plausible? Hell, where have you been the last twenty years?
Nobody cares for cyberpunk anymore, because the corporations quietly took control. It's just not as blatant as it was in any of the games and stories; who needs standing armies when you've got lawyers?
Surely you are mistaken, there was no Master of Orion 3. Though I hear Sword of the Stars was fairly close.
Just like there was no sequel to The Matrix...
So wait, if you don't HAVE Flash installed, they've got backups, but if you DO have Flash installed and the elements sit there and are never loaded...
Jeez. This whole article reads like a little boy who nobody's listening to because he cries 'wolf', and he's trying to get people to listen to him cry 'wolf' again. Where is the real wolf when you need it?!
Actually what I find far more interesting than the fact that I simply got modded down was that I also got modded up.
It's all about who has the most willingness to burn mod points on modding down people they don't agree with.
You're forgetting that the manmade global warming advocates like to latch onto every alarmist headline that they can and tout it everywhere. Such statements of fact merely get in the way of their agenda.
Can you say -1 flamebait, kids? I knew you could. Won't be the first time I get modded down for speaking the truth.
I did not mean to imply that just because they've both exhibited some really poor behavior in the past it should put them on an even playing field. I do, however, mean to imply that no one should feel morally superior here due to the action of the military or intelligence agencies.
Any moral superiority should be limited strictly to civilian law enforcement.
I'm from the United States and MI6 has done worse. And our police and shops don't use classical music, flashing lights, or anything else to drive kids away.
Fuck Britain.
And that's exactly what it's going to do -- the youth of Britain will identify ALL classical music as repugnant based on its use and the majority will want nothing to do with it. Indeed, they will want to see it burned.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
Hackers can turn your home computer into a bomb...
... & blow your family to smithereens!