Really? The common off-label uses of the pill suddenly makes it not a contraceptive? If being used for a teenager with heavy and irregular periods, it no longer prevents pregnancy? Your attempted analogies aren't even close to the actual discussion here.
Matthew 19:20-22 The young man said to Him, "All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?" Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me." But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.
Luke 12:32-34 Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Mark 10:25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God
Luke 12:16-20 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
Luke 12:22-26 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
Doesn't sound like much of a capitalist to me...
Birth control pills are hormones and are prescribed for more than just preventing pregnancies.
I haven't tried it myself but I read the review on Anand's site a month or so ago and they were very impressed with how it worked. NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SOC has a quad-core CPU plus a low-powered fifth core invisible to the OS. Apparently NVIDIA is using some proprietary algorithms on this "stealth core" to handle the stylus processing.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to read anything about the product before posting? I consider hitting a $200 price point with nice hardware very worthy of mention. Also of interest is the high quality stylus support implemented without the need for specialized hardware and the first Android tablet from NVIDIA and their manufacturing model of providing reference models for their partners to brand and sell.
No mod points today but I agree 1000% on The Omnivore's Dilemma.
So yeah.. What Would Jesus Do? Impose communist bullshit and make half the world starve... or embrace capitalism..
Assuming you believe the New Testament of the Bible represents the words, or at least the intent, of Jesus, you can just see what Jesus had to say.
Armchair communists are so stupid.
Rabid Christian Capitalists are hypocrites and, generally speaking, embarrassingly ignorant of both economics and religion.
Stop saying "free storage". It's not. There are two things. First, the power co doesn't "store" those electrons, they SELL THEM. It's more like a loan, and you're the bank.
To the homeowner it is storage - I generate more power than I need during the day and I'm allowed to use that excess power in the evenings. Without the power company and their grid, I would have to implement my own storage system with batteries. Regardless of how the electricity utility balances it on their side, they are providing me the service of electricity storage.
Second, they power co benefits from your electrons. During peak times, which is generally when the sun is shining and people have their AC cranked, the power co would normally have to send tons of power out, losing a TON in the transmission due to capacitance and resistance loss. Until we get superconducting wiring to the transformers, they suffer loss. But when someone sends power to a nearby neighbor, far fewer electrons are lost and the power company charges them the full amount, yet would have to send far more energy from the power plant if not for that neighbor.
They benefit only if they need those electrons at the time I'm putting them there. If they can't count on my power generation (which they can't), then they still have pay for the electricity from a traditional source (e.g. coal-fired power plant).
I can't speak to the specifics of the Austin Energy system but as an IT manager in the public utility space, I can promise you that few CIS/billing system upgrades go well and most people who go through one swear off ever doing it again. Many utilities are still stumbling along on legacy systems written 30-40 years ago on platforms increasingly difficult to support and customized in house by staffs outsourced in the past decade. The rules and regs vary from state to state and business logic is often very different between types of utilities, but the consultant or salesperson will assure you that they can handle your RFP without issue. Once you figure out otherwise, you are deep into a project that you're unlikely to do again in your career.
However, if Austin Energy is getting misreads from an AMR or AMI setup (my assumption given your comment about a smart meter), something is really wrong. That isn't bleeding edge technology and lots of companies have been doing it for years. Our limited AMR deployment generates near zero complaints about misreads, unlike our manual reads or estimates. We estimate that a full AMR rollout would eliminate nearly 40% of the calls to our call center.
Tell the school to kiss your ass. They don't have the power to say how your kid gets to school or how they get home. They will certainly try to pretend that they do and will make a bunch of noise. But that's about all they can do.
Some will have you arrested. This dad wasn't allowed to walk into the school and pick up his kid. Instead, he was expected to stand outside in a line with vehicles for 40 minutes.
Even younger than that. My wife is fortyish and remembers it. It was common for parents to basically kick kids out of the house so they could have some time to themselves.
I'm not yet fortyish and that's how it worked in my house as a kid. Mom literally locked the door and we weren't allowed back in the house until dinner time.
Not with Apple, and AppleCare. If they have the same system in an Apple store often they'll just swap it out if something is really wrong...
Yes, if you are lucky and the folks at the store are able to successfully diagnose the problem, have spare equipment in stock, and are willing to make the exchange for you. Of course, for me the nearest Apple store is a three hour drive into a neighboring state so that's not a great answer.
I was a long time Newegg customer and fan until my Black Friday laptop two years ago. They shipped me a DOA unit (which was a common issue in this model as comments after Black Friday revealed). They were reasonably quick to suggest a few basic troubleshooting items and issue an RMA. Then it went to hell. Long story short, they received my laptop then lost it. They lied to me repeatedly, blamed it on the carrier, refused to cooperate with the carrier (who was willing to cover it despite the obvious problems with Newegg's story), and strung out the process over several months. I eventually filed a claim with my credit card company and got my money back. I have refused to deal with them since. I don't remember being treated so poorly by any vendor in the past decade.
I fail to understand why international espionage comes as a shock to anyone.
Look at the submitter. He's also one of the most active posters in the thread. This is propaganda from 'cold fjord' - a straw man that he builds, feigning outrage about run-of-the-mill international spying in hopes of distracting you from the massive illegal surveillance of ordinary US citizens practiced by the US government.
So you can get to the front of the security line, see the x-ray machines, metal detectors, scanners, etc., you're free to turn around and leave, and the TSA cannot prevent you from leaving.
It's a fourth amendment issue only if they prevent you from voluntarily leaving after deciding that you'd feel violated.
"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami. Such passengers will be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.
Once you are near the TSA security check points, you are not allowed to leave. The "Don't touch my junk" guy was told that he was being ejected from the airport while simultaneously being told that he would be arrested and fined $11,000 if he tried to leave. Not only was the underwear dude in San Diego arrested, another passenger who filmed the encounter on her iPhone also was arrested and had her phone confiscated for "illegally filming".
What's your position on this now?
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
