The problem is that there's no actual use for people in space, so the practice is useless too.
As far as anyone can tell, there's no actual use for people here, unless you count self-propagation, pollution, and destruction. But any bacteria can do those things.
I will welcome them when the drivers reach parity and they scrub the commercial driver, until then I've been burned too many times by ATI to even consider one of their GPUs. Not literally, either, just continual wrestling with shit drivers.
I'm told they've gotten better, but I've got no reason to change
You do realize that until the point where his daughter died, he very much wanted to see the photos and share them, right? You're essentially asking for a grieving father to go through his entire photo collection and mark his daughter's photos as "don't show this". That's in no way a solution.
The solution is not to pretend that bad things don't happen. It's for our society to grow up and learn to accept that they do, and learn to take care of one another. If your daughter dies next year, at the end of the year, will you pretend it didn't happen? Someone with a happier year would have a happier year in review.
People are confused by Facebook, it's just life with more ads.
The day is coming when the principles of Christ will be put on trial and you will not want to be on the wrong side.
That's why I'm going to get out of the alcohol, pork, and shellfish businesses, and get into the slave trade. It's biblically approved!
Getting convictions is hard, cycling through people is a lot easier. And having to get to work without a car gets the message across,
This is a side effect of our nation being built around the car. In most U.S. cities, let alone in the suburbs, trying to exist without an automobile is at best isolating and will often lead to loss of opportunity. Potential employers judge you in part by your car, and if you don't have one they may well decide that they can't expect you to get to work reliably.
Since you reasonably need a car to participate in our society, driving should be a right and the focus should be on helping people defeat alcoholism. That, however, would require that someone act like they care about that person, and by and large we don't actually give one fuck about one another. We just don't want people inconveniencing us on our way home from work.
Or, and here's a novel idea, we could restore our public transportation systems to the track they were on when the auto companies destroyed them. Then our society could easily absorb the cost of taking driving privileges away from people, since they could still reasonably function in their daily lives, and the debate over whether it's right to terminate people's driving rights would be a much simpler one because it wouldn't interfere with their human rights.
TL;DR: We intentionally rebuilt our society around the car, you can't just take away people's driving privileges because without treating them as rights our society doesn't work.
But in Oz you have functional public health. In the USA, if you lose your job, you lose any functional health insurance you might have had. The kind I can buy with my own money doesn't have any available doctors taking new patients, just like when I last had health insurance before Obamacare. I literally cannot get anything but lackluster emergency care in my county.
No. Children are underdeveloped and require a considerable amount of investment before they create value. Compared to adults where the investment has already been made and who now cannot pay it back, children are worth less.
Children have potential and with considerable investment may create value, compared to adults who have already proven that they lack potential and will never do anything more significant in their lifetime than pollute.
False. Slapstick comedies have been around for as long as film itself and many of the producers of such films have been amongst the most talented actors.
So you're comparing this to Keaton or Chaplin? I think you missed the mark there.
What is more likely to happen is that either a) no FTL particle, ever or b) the standard model will have to be amended. What makes some people think going back in time (and violating causality) is possible, is the elegance of the mathematics that fits what we know about physics. Would not be the first time that when more becomes known, the mathematics loses significantly in elegance. Just look at the mess of the current mathematical modeling (not: "foundation"!) quantum physics has.
It seems your problem is that you think code can be "EXACT". You cannot specify projects of meaningful size exactly. It is an old idea from several decades ago and it fails consistently, so nobody competent even tries these days. You also seem to confuse people that can write code fast with people that do understand what the machine can do in terms of actual applications and how to make it do that. Those are the exceptional programmers, not the people that can crank out lines of dubious quality really fast.
Unless the project gets scrapped like this one, because there was zero change of it ever working and it was already vastly over time and budget. The really stupid thing was that the person responsible did not get fired though, so you have a point.
It is a technical term used by me as a technical term. If your media uses it as a trigger, that does not change its meaning. You also seem to have completely ignored what I wrote besides that word. There is another reason many exceptional people do not want to go to the US: The people there are just so incredibly dumb and uneducated, as your posting amply demonstrates.
You confuse what makes them exceptional. What surgeons and physicists and others get in training is just about known facts and procedures and approaches. It does not make them exceptional at all. What makes them exceptional is what they add by themselves on top of that training and that "icing" always has to be added by the exceptional person themselves. So, yes, what makes an exceptional surgeon exceptional was added by the surgeon himself, what makes him a (not yet exceptional) surgeon was added by training.
Seeing things from the outside and "training" somebody are fundamentally different things.
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