Comment Re:Everything good is bad for you (Score 1) 308
is a badly designed, self-destructing patchwork of bits that are perpetually one bad jolt away from a breakdown
Sounds like someone's bad software application.
is a badly designed, self-destructing patchwork of bits that are perpetually one bad jolt away from a breakdown
Sounds like someone's bad software application.
You seem to be implying that under a communist workers would somehow be paid a fair wage. All historical evidence indicates that you're deluded.
I implied no such thing: There's actually only one completely non-exploitative labor arrangement I can think of, and that is the work the laborer does for themselves (cooking your own dinner, cleaning your own home, etc).
Probably close to it is service done by the laborer where all revenue goes to the laborer. It's nuanced and has plenty of counter examples. My example is someone sets up a nanny service where they are the sole laborer. They provide a service to customers and 100% of the revenue (minus expenses) goes to them.
If B-52s are fine, why not send in a B-2? It is a great opportunity for actual combat experience with minimal risk.
Exactly my point a few responses up. r00t says that it's too high risk to send in the secret technology.
We need the F-22 for when we enter World War III. Until then, we need to be paranoid about secrecy. Every time you fly over enemy territory, you risk that the plane will fall into enemy hands.
Then why fly the B-2 over Afghanistan when B-52s are fine? Paranoia means untested technology, and we're already having far more sophisticated stealth drones being put at risk and getting lost.
It's already flying.
Not in combat it's not. Same with the F-22. Sexy technology that wasn't used in the last 12 years of tactical bombing of a country with no fighters or anti-air infrastructure. Even the B-2 saw action.
Related to teamwork and historical comparisons...
The modern office better resembles the historical college than cottage industry. Cottage industry was repetitive work done at home. Other than the initial learning, there wasn't a need for knowledge sharing. Today in the office (or out of the office), we are sharing ideas constantly. We do benefit from being able to share information remotely, but cottage industry is the wrong comparison.
Or they are normal people, without much domain knowledge, forced to handle too many cases in too little time, and fit within the rules of a broken system.
I personally find that to be the more plausible situation.
This is the picture I got from someone who works at USPTO.
It is a form of bondage though, as those workers have no freedom to move to a different company on that visa. They are tied to the company. Therefore, they have to accept a lower wage because there is no threat of them leaving for a competitor.
The company doesn't have the incentive to increase salary because the barrier to switch jobs for the employee is very high. The employee could grow in experience and skill to be "Senior" while making an entry-level wage (which is still higher than back home). But the employee must work to increase their abilities or the corporation might cancel their visa and hire someone more capable.
3. The main rifle can have more that 2 attachments
And jacketed rounds aren't an "attachment" (upgrade); they are a requirement from the Geneva Convention.
I love the taste of fine wines...great with meals. I love a good, single malt scotch, with maybe a splash of water or a couple ice cubes (ok purists, bite me, I like it chilled a bit).
As a purist who drinks my scotch neat, I say it's more important to know how you enjoy the drink and to enjoy it as such rather than trying to conform to other people's method of enjoyment.
Unless you're mixing Diet Coke with 18 year single malt.
<quote>They figure given the asteroid's speed the cost of the speeding ticket could balance the budget.</quote> Brilliant!!!! Now the only problem is who to send the ticket to...
According to Fox, we are becoming a godless nation so... God?
The house? They're the only ones with blame here? Then how come congress refuses to pass (or even discuss) any of the budgets passed by the house?
It's BOTH side's fault, and it's not new. They've been doing it for years.
Correct me of I'm wrong but I recall budgets and other spending bills need to originate from the House. Nothing from the House means nothing for anyone else to do.
There's always room for another bug tracking app.
So sad yet so true.
The counterpoint to this argument is the following: Assume that you are a lawyer for a criminal who is at a trial for murder. Your client admitted it, people saw him do it, there's video of him doing it, audio, 300 witnesses, etc. In short, there's no doubt he did it. But you stand up and tell the jury that, despite all this evidence, they should not convict because there is some possibility that some unspecified evidence at some point in the future may come to light that will exonerate your client.
Correct. It's basically the John Conner defense (except not the savior in the future) and holds no merit in court.
Regardless of what your theological view is, we can't know all of the future effects of events today (some are obvious, many aren't) or know all the possible outcomes if things happened differently in days gone by. I posed a question that has no true, provable answer; only theoretical ones.
I know this is going to kill my mod points, but I'll throw it out anyway...
What if WWII wasn't the worst thing in the web of possible 20th century events? What if there was no WWII and the Cold War started pre or early-nuke with a (mostly) demilitarized Europe and America had minimal troops and arms factories setup (as is the case in almost every "somebody went back in time and killed Hitler" story)? What if the European powers continued pointless and frequent war, treating it as a sport as they did in the 19th century and before?
If you look at WWII as the almost-inevitable epilogue to WWI due to the terms put on Germany, WWI/WWII were sort of the "War to end all wars [in Europe]" (ignoring smaller, regional conflicts). No one has invaded London, Paris, Berlin (although it was divided), Brussels, or Rome in almost 70 years.
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