Comment Re: Wrong Title (Score 1) 499
It takes more than 50% to amend the Constitution...
It takes more than 50% to amend the Constitution...
Secession is not the same as overthrow - not even on Wikipedia...
1) somebody did a terrorist assault on the IRS. hmm I wonder who he identified with?
Because he felt he personallywas being targeted/harassed by the IRS.
2) someone shot a democratic congresswoman. hmm I wonder who he identified with?
He was a staggeringly apolitical college student, he (according to friends and relatives) had no political leanings one way or the other, he was all about proper grammar and precise language.
3) somebody bombed an abortion clinic. hmm I wonder who he identified with?
Wonder all you want, if he was a member of AARP, does that make all seniors responsible for his actions? How about the Sierra Club? The AAA?
4) somebody bombed a public event in a liberal city (boston marathon). hmm I wonder who he identified with?
As foreign students they probably didn't pay any taxes, and they didn't vote - why would they identify with a group opposed to a certain political party or be upset with taxes they didn't pay?
4) the US govt identified radical republicans as the greatest internal threat. hmm I wonder why?
Yes, the same DEMOCRAT government that admitted (and apologized, before denying it ever happened) to targeting right-wing 501c(3) and 501c(4) groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
Shocking that the party in charge felt comfortable trumping up baseless claims on their political opponents.
They also labelled anyone with political bumper stickers as a threat to the government - that's some sound reasoning there...
Zimmerman mentored underprivileged minorities (typically blacks) - the racist!
Lough ER was the most a-political person I've ever read about... He wrote to his congresswoman to force people to use proper grammar... He was likely 100% ignorant of her party affiliation! and he had no documented affiliations either.
What about the fellow that went to shoot up the Discovery channel because "they weren't doing enough' to combat global warming? He brought bags of Chik-Fil-A sandwiches to attempt to deflect blame onto right-wingers.
But federal investigators say that Barr lied during a routine background check about her affiliations with a domestic terrorist group that had ties to the two organizations to which she had belonged in the early 1980s. On 27 August, NSF said that her 'dishonest conduct' compelled them to cancel her temporary assignment immediately, at the end of the first of what was expected to be a 2-year stint.
How her colleagues are ignoring that she lied on her background check... They probably never got to the point where they investigated her involvement with the group (which, if she had disclosed it initially may or may not have barred her from working at the NSF).
Is it really acceptable yo lie on federal background checks?
And the screen of 3.2 inches isn't that much smaller than the 3.5 inchers on the older iPads.
You mean iPod Touch...
Chicago Public School teachers are paid between $50-97K, based on education and time in job, plus pension and healthcare benefits.
This $190K expense will buy google an awful lot of free press.
It's nice that Google did this, but let's be clear - the Chicago Public School system has a staggering number of problems, and a marimba and a classroom full of MS Surface laptop/tablets won't really make a difference outside of the handful of children that will be able to actually touch/use these items.
Home phone lines are required to allow 911 calls even when service is disconnected. On the off-chance something happens AND there is a functioning phone connected to the line, it has to allow the call.
Imagine the lawsuits - "my child was on the floor turning blue, not breathing and I couldn't get a dial tone! The phone company killed my child!"
911 calls are by nature a conversation, a two-way exchange of details from the caller and suggestions from the operator as the situation unfolds. That will (likely) be lost in a text exchange - what parent will keep texting 'she's not breathing, she's turning blue' to 911 when they are standing by their choking child?
As opposed to the clear, concise descriptions the 911 operators currently get from people in car accidents, house fires, home invasions, etc.
I'm not worried about operators deciphering the 'txt speak' so much as I am worried that when a person finds themselves in an emergency situation, like, say, a choking child, precious time will be lost as the parent decides how to contact 911, then struggle to enter the proper address in a text message because they think that might cause a quicker response from the first-responders...
...that SMS text messages include location information (long/lat).
I could see instances where it would be useful for a security/alarm system to send a text to 911, but the originating number would be set to a fixed location, but for a mobile phone to be required to send the 'exact' location is a technical 'bridge too far' in my opinion...
Does the FCC really think that in an emergency it is easier/quicker/better to send an SMS 'text' message from a mobile phone, rather than use the phone for it's original purpose and dimply CALL 911 and TALK to the agent?
It IS a phone you're sending that text from!
At $67K/yr 'average' teachers each earn more than the average US household.
Their income is, by definition, above average.
Employers got into providing health insurance to employees as a way to increase employee compensation when the government changed the tax code and made it a deductables business expense and tax-free for the worker in the 1940s.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
