Comment Re:Of course... (Score 0, Flamebait) 133
I'm doing that right now
I'm doing that right now
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Given that money can be considered speech, the fact she is reducing the price so much is, itself, transformative. No other alteration to the work was necessary: the price difference alone speaks volumes.
That is a good point......and it truly communicates more than the Richard Prince's 'transformation'
How is this insightful? The Patriot Act is less than 36 hours away from expiring, and all signs point toward the extension being filibustered into defeat.
It's insightful because only some provisions of the Patriot Act will expire, and the FISA court will continue to do whatever they want.
Laws as sweeping as the Patriot Act don't just go away.
I've had my own office in almost every job (I count as exceptions the startups/under 20 person shops I worked in) since 1985. In the late '90's I needed to move into management to do it. In 2013, I had to move to my own company to do it. It was (and is) worth it.
I remember when engineers were actually treated as professionals - offices, administrative assistants, and all. Now, you're treated in the information factory like the line workers you have become. It's a shame you decided not to have a union. They'll have you at treadmill desks to power your own machines soon. And you'll suck it up because you think you have no choice. Examine your axioms.
As for the other activities, well, this is how spying gets done. That is how you spy on people in this day and age. With all of the justified criticism of the NSA, it would still be bad if they couldn't spy at all. They do, in fact, have a function to fulfill, and it is a function that needs fulfilling.
Why don't you unpack that statement a little bit? What is the domestic function of the NSA?
If you said anything besides, "It doesn't have a domestic function" then you are wrong. The US government is not supposed to be spying on US citizens. If there's some foreign government or organization that's communicating with an American citizen or permanent resident in order to commit a crime, just get a goddamned warrant.
I think a Dixieland Jazz parade would be suitable.
I'm prepared to play in the second line at the Patriot Act jazz funeral.
They're typically defining "poverty" as less than 1/2 the median income.
Citation needed.
These sources don't define it that way:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15...
In place of the NSA, it will be Verizon, Comcast et al who will be doing the bulk data collection.
That is still better, it means a random NSA employee won't be able to do "love int" and more importantly, if a politician requests to see their opponent's records, it will be harder to do so.
Even with 3 kids, you do not need 5000 square feet of house.
That actually depends a lot on the people involved. As a single person with no kids, I'm finding ~1,800 square feet to be woefully insufficient for my needs. When I do woodworking projects, I have to either lose my master bathroom or my kitchen, and sometimes both, because I don't have a proper wood shop. My drum kit, weight bench, and grand piano take up almost the entire living room, so I don't have a proper living room. My filing cabinet, sewing table, printer table (for a printer the size of an office refrigerator), and Christmas tree (too big for any of my closets) ensure that I don't have a proper dining room, either—just the breakfast nook in the kitchen. My bedroom has essentially no available floor space, between the bed, dresser, two bedside tables, and a treadmill, with the exception of the main walking path into the room. My guest bedroom is completely filled with the bed, one tall dresser, and a small bedside table. I'd like to add another bookcase, but there's no space left in my house unless I put it on the front porch.
Basically, I've done the math, and to be comfortable, I need a minimum of 400 square feet for a wood shop, 200 square feet of closet space for the tree, at least 200 square feet of dedicated space for exercise equipment, and ideally a music room with another 400 square feet or so, for a total of 1,200 additional square feet, or 3,000 square feet total. If I got married, and if my wife had similarly space-demanding hobbies, and if we had three kids, even after you deduplicate the kitchen, bathrooms, and shared living space, we would still need well over 6,000 square feet. So 5,000 square feet for a family of 5 is not excessive. If anything, I'd find it kind of cramped.
Get a smaller, comfortable place to live and put you money somewhere more useful. If you're married, obviously your spouse needs to agree with this...
Or move to a location where you can afford a decent-sized house. Five thousand square feet is not a mansion. I believe that the current lower bound is 8,000 square feet.
Indeed, while he seems often villified, it was him who showed the US that the spying was happening. It it looking like his legacy is having some serious positive consequences, in real terms. And he's risked his life and will probably have to spend his life in exile. But he did it for the good of his country.
A true patriot and a true hero.
because we gotta show everyone how big our dicks are.
No, we're discussing improving productivity.
Welp, I see that the mods are out in farce today.
They'll come up with some sort of emergency measure or other. Not a snowflake's chance in Hell this will die.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
