Good thing we learned so much about the obligations of ethical reporting from the Rolling Stone debacle.
Both rape & pollution are bad enough without fabricating stories, but it's not about the truth. It's about building the narrative for the "truth" you want people to believe.
Capital Punishment for anyone breaking any law or even for minor infractions. That will solve the problem real quick, or we'll run out of people to punish, or most likely we'll be overthrown by a revolt and executed.
Funnily enough, the iPod which did not work as a removable HD is the thing that made me switch away from apple, some 12 years ago.
Funnily enough the iPod has had disk mode for about 12 years. They must have enabled it right after you switched away...
Before the patent expires, the patent holder tends to do a smear campaign to inject FUD in further use of the pharmaceutical and discourages doctors from prescribing it. When the replacement medication is available it quickly supplants the old medication, even if it has more dangerous side-effects.
Medication is not a free market because the end-users are not the ones to make the decisions on which medication to purchase. It's a a decision made by doctors, who are often heavily influenced by sophisticated marketing campaigns from drug companies.
I'm fine letting the free market determine what I should pay for TVs, pajamas, corn, etc. Because I directly make the decision on what I buy. (note: corn is not sold on a free market)
For authentication, you need a password or passphrase. Something that can be independently chosen, changed, and rotated.
CEOs like to use special language because they are all sociopaths and have trouble with the truth.
States occasionally rewrite their constitutions. But as I understand it for the US Constitution to be rewritten we would have to get unanimous approval of every state legislature, and that Congress alone does not have the authority to do this. (anyone, is this true?)
I don't agree that a traffic citation is reasonable cause to search for drugs. Maybe if there is reckless driving and the driver appears intoxicated, but that is already a felony. I would much rather that it took a related felony before drug searches are permitted.
If we all mostly agree to something then we can legislate it to enforce that agreement. Isn't that what democracy is about? Resolving issues when unanimous agreement is not possible.
You bring up a good point. There are people who legitimately need it as medication.
The price of pharmaceuticals is not really well correlated by supply and demand. It's priced based on how much money the drug company wants to make that quarter. (I wish I were being facetious)
How many sick days do you get? How many paid holidays (vs personal days).
At my US job I officially have 0 sick days and 0 PTO. I am paid a salary whether I work or not. I can arrange to not show up to work and continue to get the same salary. But there is no written standard for how much I can take, and I do not accrue any PTO that I can collect as a check when I leave.
This sort of weirdo policy is starting to become popular in the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley. And it makes comparing job benefits almost impossible.
In the industry I work in, I am not permitted to form or join a union, as my job is considered to be a professional occupation and not protected by the state labor laws. (USA)
I don't see this changing in the US any time soon. (soon being before I retire)
The exploding star, which was seen in the constellation Eridanus, faded over two weeks — much too rapidly to qualify as a supernova. The outburst was also about ten times fainter than most supernovae, explosions that destroy some or all of a star. But it was about 100 times brighter than an ordinary nova, which is a type of surface explosion that leaves a star intact. "The combination of properties is puzzling," says Mario Livio, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "I thought about a number of possibilities, but each of them fails" to account for all characteristics of the outburst, he adds.
We can put this discovery on the bottom of a very long list of similar discoveries by Hubble, which this week is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its launch.
Honestly though the only reason to get an Explorer instead of a minivan is because you don't want to "look" old even though you are.
Either that, or the fact that the Explorer has a 5,000 lb. towing capacity vs. the 3,500 max you get from most minivans, and also has higher profile seating, etc. I was worried about functionality more than anything else. But yeah, the Explorer is the typical "go-to midlife crisis chick magnet" vehicle that most older guys get, so there's that too.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
