Comment Re:Well, sort of. (Score 1) 109
The other crap in the lines is noise. It's insane to imagine that you could reliably extract any reliable information from it.
The other crap in the lines is noise. It's insane to imagine that you could reliably extract any reliable information from it.
Given the cost overruns and the fact the schedule has been already pushed out 20 years any sane person would question what is going on here.
I'm in favor of government funded R&D but this one stinks of gross mismanagement big time.
Writing off a loss generally doesn't do much for you. It might save you 30% of the charge or so.
Insurance companies have a better deal because their business often involves re-insurance, that is off-loading their liabilities to pools.
The best of all is credit cards. They charge fees to merchants to cover the losses. The merchants then bake the fees into the retail price which people pay regardless of whether or not they use the card.
So no, T-Mobile isn't quite in the same league as insurance and credit cards.
I didn't say there is no reason for it. There are in fact a lot of reasons, primarily in the tax code for such.
However the idea of 'group discount' is not one of these reasons. We have lots of other insurance programs that work fine for individual purchasers. Homeowners, auto, term life, umbrella policies etc. My experience (through CORBA) is that you can usually find coverage for LESS than what your employer is paying.
Citations needed.
That's the basis for the lawsuit. However the Supreme Court decision covers more than just morning after drugs.
It covers the contraception mandate of the PPACA.
Coupling the two has always been a cluster fuck. This is just one more reason to abolish this particular linkage.
Hobby Lobby did not want to pay for contraceptive drugs that created a condition they consider to be abortion.
Others may have a different view as to what they consider objectionable.
This really did not establish much of a precedent because the court based the decision on Federal law, not Constitutional law.
The reason I have a garden is to have a place where I can go outside and putter around with living things. The pace at which things happen in the garden is very slow and relaxing. The needs of the plants are simple.
The most stressful thing that happens in my garden is the annual competition between me and the birds to see who will get the grapes and blueberries. Really though I don't mind much if the birds get some. They are enjoyable to have around in their own way.
The last thing I want is some sort of automation that takes away from this process and replaces it with the technology that I am trying to escape from with my hobby.
So I went into the thesis.
There is NOTHING quantitative here. Department of Thematic Studies? WTF?
As far as I can tell this is a conclusion based on building castles in the air.
The telegram was contributory, but the submarine attacks would have drawn the US into WWI by themselves.
The only reason US developed nuclear weapons was to put an end to wars that it didn't start and didn't want to be involved in.
Maybe Germany should think back to how lucky it was that the US didn't complete the Manhattan project before the end of WWII in Europe. Yes, the US probably would have nuked German cities if the war was still going on. Britain also wanted to nuke Germany in retaliation for Germany's blitz of London etc. - the first time mass bombings of civilian cities had been carried out.
While nuclear weapons are a terrible thing, let's not forget who REALLY started mass bombings of civilian targets. Some of the conventional strikes on cities in Europe killed far more people than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
First, what kind of numbnut country outsources their state communications services? Come on man.
Then who are they going to get as a replacement? Some other company that has no doubt already been suborned by a secret agency?
Not really. German subs had already started unrestricted attacks on US shipping. The Zimmerman telegram was not necessary to get the US into WWI.
Regional conflicts are a whole lot less nasty than the world wars that were going on before the US became a superpower.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.