Comment Re:it's a figure of speech (Score 2) 102
This is a common misunderstanding. It's a giant pull switch with the word INTERNET spelled out in big letters on top. You have to break the glass panel that surrounds it before pulling the switch.
This is a common misunderstanding. It's a giant pull switch with the word INTERNET spelled out in big letters on top. You have to break the glass panel that surrounds it before pulling the switch.
...Tonight on 'World's Stupidest Judges.'
Now that the merger has FINALLY gone through I would like to take this opportunity to tell you all to suck it.
I was once told by a representative in our HR department that in a sexual harassment lawsuit the defendant bears the burden of proof. This was justified on the grounds that it protects the "victim" in some way. I tried to point at that you can't have a victim without first demonstrating the crime. They didn't want to hear it.
Has anyone else come across this?
It's the apps, stupid. Which one has a richer appstore?
So count my vote for Apple, because at the end of the day I want to get my work done, not just play around with a shiny toy.
Yeah, because it's so hard to get any work done without an appstore.
The data show that your risk of an accident increases while 4x when you're on the phone.
Freedom can get a little messy sometimes but it's far preferable to statism. I know you just want make people safe because you know what's best for other people but the more mature mind realizes that just because you don't like something does not mean it needs to be outlawed.
just because it's a popular idea doesn't mean it's in any way factually correct.
The idea that the government CAN create jobs is the one that's popular. Most people buy the politicians rhetoric about creating jobs hook, line and sinker.
The government can certainly hire people to do work but the money to do so ultimately has to come from tax dollars. This is money that people would have put to other uses had it not been taken from them by the government. Therefore the government cannot create jobs without ultimately sacrificing private sector jobs in the process.
Furthermore, even though the government prints the money, it's the workers and entrepreneurs who give it its value.
It's not that the government never does anything useful but out of all your examples only the "national highway system" has any credibility. Computers? They're a natural progression from the transistor which was developed in the private sector. IBM developed the integrated circuit and would have eventually done so no matter what the government was up to. The internet? I guess no one would have ever thought to hook 2 computers together had it not been for the government. The space program? It was a by product of the cold war which (talk about wasteful spending!) led to a hugely inflated military budget and the current problems we have in the Middle East.
Also, deficit spending is seriously irresponsible and leads to the long term decline of the economy.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.