Comment I always knew (Score 1) 40
If there is a cure for these diseases these diseases, this is degeneration to do it.
Right, I'm in the humanities and there is this running joke that you only need to publish one really bad and obviously flawed paper on a really popular topic, and your career is certain. It's true, one bad paper, a followup book that is even worse published at 'prestigious' publisher like Oxford UP*, and you will get cited
We're talking abourt science, not the humanities.
Texas, on the other hand, outlawed gay marriage and got deadly floods and tornadoes.
Don't forget another state blessed by God, Oklahoma. They are getting hammered too.I think that falls under the "working in mysterious ways" escape clause.
Seriously I do feel awful badly for those folks. I hate when bad things happen to anyone, even if they hate me with a passion.
Nah, I'm not nearly rad enough to drive an AMC Pacer. My car is just a nice, low-miles Miata.
Also, these days, Vanilla Ice is a general contractor / house-flipper. Not a bad gig, to be honest -- once I'm making enough money I'm maxing my tax-deferred investments, I indeed might try acting like him.
One guy actually wrote a freaking report in PowerPoint, then brought it down to be repaired. Had to be totally reset in a real layout program.
One person used the every crayon in the box approach, using every damn transition in the program. The room was just about to go into full freak mode.
But perhaps the worst thing about PowerPoint is the appearance of veracity, where unamalgamated bullshit can be presented in a slick official looking form that acts like propaganda that himmler would be proud of. Hope I didn't just Godwin myself - I think the comparison is accurate.
Maybe the anti-creationist, anti-Christian witch hunters set this bogus thing up, just to have an excuse to go after the Christians. Something looks bogus, but I'm nowhere near convinced that some church is responsible for it.
Who else would care? Fundamentalists have long lost the science war, so they go for the court of public opinion
Also noted your completely whacked conspiracy theory that a group of anti-cheristian witch hunters set this up so they have another thing to go after.
Seen any suspicious rainbows lately? This might fill you in on what the governmen is doing I hear it targets Christians:
No-one should have your SSN beyond the government.
That is silly. The original point of SSNs was so that employers could use them to identify workers when paying social security taxes to the government. So, obviously, your employer needs to know it.
We need to get away from the ridiculous idea that something can be both widely known and secret. SSNs should only be used for identification, and should never be used for authentication. We should have a separate system for that.
Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank, which you yourself point out is also effectively run by the German federal government.
I point out it's the other way around.
The other claim is backed up by every news article on the subject that you care to google.
I.e., they are lending money for purposes where any rational investor would say "Hell, no, too risky!" You know, like solar panels and the Greek government.
Crazy pills?
No, it's a "bank" in the sense that you would like all banks to be
You have an agenda here, and it is not to have an interesting discussion or provide useful information, therefore I'm wasting my time. Good bye.
The point is that private investors would not have "gambled" with their money like this;
Which is why Lehman Brothers is still a successful private bank, yes?
is pretty much the economic program of 20th century German fascists.
Let's not build roads, because the Nazis did it, too. What a solid argument.
It doesn't make a difference with regards to their motivations: they invested in Greece not because they are run by private, profit-hungry investors, they invested in Greece because politicians wanted them to.
Sources?
My (german) magazines tell that they invested exactly because they were looking for profits. The mix of unexperienced bureaucrats looking for profits and too-good-to-be-true investment opportunities made the mess.
and if you give politicians more control over banking, they are going to do more of this, not less.
Nobody wants to give politicians control over banking. Some of us want regulations, which means courts can force banks to not play russian roulette with the economy.
So yeah, it's not as easy as just throwing a GPS on your locomotive and calling it good.
Still, even a partial solution (e.g. one that matches the train's GPS location, if known, against a table of specified maximum-safe-under-any-circumstances speed limits for that location) would prevent a train wreck in certain cases (such as the recent one that prompted this article). I'm all for full PTC, but I don't think the perfect needs to be made the enemy of the good here.
If the engineers' concentration is so fragile that they are going to be distracted by a camera, they are obviously not the right people to be operating complex machinery.
They suffer from a condition called "being human". It causes occasional failures in an otherwise operational controller-human, some very small percentage of the time. Even the highest-quality controller-humans have a non-zero failure rate.
Maybe we should just replace them with automation and run the trains remotely. They could keep one engineer per train to engage the manual override in the event that someone hacks the control infrastructure and tries to do Bad Things(tm) to the trains.
That is actually a pretty good idea, and it's more or less what PTC is intended to do, at least as far as the "avoid accidents" part of the job is concerned. Automating things further than that is also possible, although probably not really necessary.
Where are the technical failsafes to limit the train's speed? Guess true security updates have been eaten by their desire for profit
Or, you could ask Congressional Republicans, who -- even as recently as 5 days ago -- cut/limit/deny funding for Amtrak.
More funding doesn't help Amtrak. Ever. They had the hardware to limit the speed, they just hadn't bothered to turn it on.
Why does the left think the answer to every problem is "more of other people's money"?
I thought I heard they started generating DL numbers for everyone though, so what's with your assertion?
Purely anecdotal evidence. I've lived in (I think) eight States in my life. Exactly one of them didn't use SSN as DL number by default. Admittedly that belief is time-biased - I've only lived in one State this past decade, so if the several States have changed this century, it's possible that I would have just missed it....
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
