We the people just gave a bunch of politicians a blank check.
Not really - they'll still have to pass a bill to spend $X; they (like the rest of the civilized world) just don't have to pass a separate bill to pay for it.
Think of it this way - the current US system lets you vote to buy a hamburger but vote not to pay for it (because we can't *nomnom* afford it).
You got PASCAL? You're so lucky. My U was stuck on TURING
I'll see your TURING and raise you a Modula-2. A language that I've never heard of in any context beyond those two intro classes.
Geeks do tend to be too cute about names and I find that to be asinine, but that's up to the project owner.
And y'know, various copyright and trademark laws - not like you'll ever see a web-browser with "Internet" or "Explorer" in it's name anytime soon. (At least not without some deep pockets and tapdancing to keep Redmond off their backs.)
Yeah, geeks tend to pick cute names, but it's not like product names have had much relation to the product in some time. (Camry, to pick the first example that came to mind.)
Your typical open source project is indisputably lacking on documentation.
As opposed to your typical software project? It's a joyous day when I can find useful documentation at all for commercial software.
Professor Duane said "It CANNOT help if you talk to the police". Officer Bruch gave multiple real-life examples from his own career of people who helped themselves by talking to the police. Either Officer Bruch was lying or was Professor Duane wrong.
How did it "help"? They left in no worse condition (still innocent and free), but their situation didn't improve. (Unless the cops gave them a cup of coffee?)
* Don't invite them into your home. Once they've got their foot in the door, it can be difficult to get them back out. All they have to do is to declare your residence as some sort of crime scene. Your best bet is to meet in the establishment of some (friendly) third party. You can sit down over a cup of coffee and answer all the questions you want. But if the interview seems to go against you, you give your buddy a sign and he withdraws the invitation for the police officer to be on his premises. The cops leaves or he gets charged with trespassing.
Why would you subject a friend to this? Wouldn't your local coffee shop be just as suitable (in the sense you can just walk away), and perhaps *more* suitable (in being a public place which should temper any... excessive questioning techniques?)
Heck, since every dollar (excepting whatever the Mint generates each year) has already been taxed, we shouldn't have to pay taxes on *anything* anymore, right?
Police look at every single civilian as an enemy first. Remember that.
I disagree... there's certainly bad apples, and there's even entire forces that are in desperate need of a sharp kick in the ass, but I do still choose to think that the majority of people who go into police work are doing it because, fundamentally, they want to make a positive difference.
I'll spot you that, but then you need to consider that it's entirely possible for a cop to consider busting *you* to be "making a positive difference".
Of course, what the Senate is passing is a Continuing Resolution, where everything just stays the way it was for another year
Right, which constitutes "What the senate wants". Republicans want to cut spending to deal with a debt that is in excess of 100% GDP, and it is perfectly reasonable to do so in the main yearly "budget" discussion.
I may be mistaken, but isn't the CR levels *at* what the Republicans wanted? (Or below their wish-list numbers last year?)
Ah, here's the quote:
The continuing resolution that the White House and congressional Democrats have agreed to funds the government at sequestration levels. And even some members of Cantor's own caucus admit that they got the good end of that deal. “It is a concession, I acknowledge that,” Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) told The Huffington Post on Saturday. “I was glad to see that lower number. It didn’t take defense spending into account. We still have a big discrepancy between the House and Senate version. But there has been some compromise and I acknowledge that.”
Thats their prerogative. The Senate doesnt get to demand that everything they want funded gets funded, and say that anything else is stonewalling.
Of course, what the Senate is passing is a Continuing Resolution, where everything just stays the way it was for another year. So the Dems are proposing to fund everything (whether they support it or not). Better comparison would be if the Senate was planning to defund some Republican-stronghold items.
As another non-American, I'm mostly affected because the Astronomy Picture of the Day isn't auto-updating the background on my phone
I've been looking at Filaments of the Vela Supernove Remnant for days now...
My wife's been affected for work, since so many reference materials are hosted on *.gov websites (and are thus "closed").
Luckily, Google remembers all, so she can still be productive.
Beyond that, us Canadians are just waiting for the military to furlough so we can begin our invasion...
So why do they expect the Dems to buckle?
Because until now, Obama has been pretty reliable on that front?
Thats a fair point, except it exposes that BOTH parties are willing to shut the government down over their own ideals.
Here's another point - is there any expectation that there would be tit-for-tat on these a la carte bills? It doesn't take a genius to notice that the parts of the government the Republicans want to fund just happen to be areas relating to their core constituency...
That's not a compromise, that's just another way of moving the goalposts.
Depends on the school. Some places treat fighting back as a crime (apparently it's OK to beat the hell out of kids as long as you do it *regularly* - but heaven forbid you fight back for the first time!), and some places have a head on their shoulders and can differentiate instigator from defender. (You still get the lecture, but they don't make a federal case out of it.)
But I'll be giving my kid the same advice my father gave me - fair fights are for people who want to fight. If someone picks a fight with you and you can't walk away, then fight dirty and end it fast.
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
