Comment Re:The wet t-shirt effect? (Score 1) 230
Just google it, if ya' know what I mean.
Just google it, if ya' know what I mean.
Since when are random road checkpoints unconstitutional? They use them to check registrations and catch drunk drivers every day.
I recommend reading his speech on race. He wrote it himself and it's probably the best political speech I've read in decades. His marketing department is not him. He's clearly above average intelligence if you read past the campaign slogans and edited interviews.
First, you don't mean fascism. You're referring to socialism. And it's not even socialism because the government does not own the companies doing the work or selling the product.
Second, companies can drill new wells offshore. The drill requests are getting approved. Offshore drilling and pipelines are regulated for their environmental and security impact, but that doesn't mean they are not capitalist.
You're either a troll or Republican shill. You must know what you're typing is false or at least misleading.
Congress gave the administration 2 months to approve the Keystone pipeline, knowing full well it wouldn't be enough time to complete an environmental investigation. So the administration was given two choices: approve a potentially dangerous massive project or not approve it. It has nothing at all to do with blocking oil refinement and wanting to raise prices. The consequences of the project must be researched first.
Second, if you think Obama has no clear overall plan, it's because you're choosing not to read what they publish. How about looking at the budget proposal? Or the papers from the Secretary of Energy and others. No, instead you ignore their plans because you disagree with them, or maybe you're one of those who hate everything done by the administration whether it's right or wrong.
I don't disagree with you, but the Koch brothers directly stated (in 2008?) that their oil speculation earned them $0.20 to $0.40 per gallon of gasoline in the US that year. That's every gallon of gas sold, they were able to calculate their average earnings from being speculators.
Oil speculators aren't the primary driver of oil prices, but they are a major factor.
Gingrich has directly stated he plans to invade Iran and take their oil. He's not dancing around the idea, he's very blunt.
You conveniently ignore the reasons why the energy secretary says that. He doesn't want each of us to spend more. He wants higher efficiency. To make us more efficient and less dependent on oil, the prices must go up. It doesn't mean "us peasants" spend more in the long run.
Not only that, but these people who love the free market are complaining that the president isn't playing dictator and directly controlling gas prices. They want an open market for oil, which is exactly what we have today, yet blame the president for how that open market acts. I'm not shocked at their own hypocrisy, I'm just always surprised at how many people fall for it.
Of the 4 examples in this post, "flu", "agent", and "cops drill" aren't inappropriate things to monitor (if it's appropriate to monitor at all, which is another story). "Flu" tracking is important for epidemics. Discussions of the location of cops and agents seems to make sense too. Again, I think it's silly they're trying to monitor social networks to this level, but if they're going to do it those aren't the worst keywords.
Also, I guess now I'm going to be tracked for discussing the keywords. How very meta.
That's how OS X works now. We've gone through a bunch of printers at my office, and a variety of brands. Each one just needs a wifi password set, then the desktop lets us print to it with no question. It just appears in the list of available printers.
OS X comes with a long list of drivers installed. Apple would love to drop those, partly because it involves a lot of coordination with printer manufacturers. Little from the customer perspective would likely change.
If you're "pretty much the IT systems guy" this company doesn't care about IT
One IT guy for an organization of 30 is totally reasonable. Unless their company's focus is in something IT-related (web services, hosting, etc.), one person should definitely be able to manage the IT of a very small company.
I use PHP for 90% of my work because it's the right tool for the job. We can also bring other developers up to speed on our own framework and projects pretty fast.
There are times when Python is a better fit. The fact that it remains running across page loads can be very handy (as opposed to every request to PHP being completely distinct, which has its own advantages). A continuously running app is often better for backend processing, especially when interacting with third party systems.
Credit card charges will probably cost them as much as mailing that paper
I doubt it. With their volume and fraud prevention they get an extremely low rate. Paper adds employees, postal fees, office space, printers, etc. Just the fact they can have less employees without paper makes their public financial statements looks better (higher revenue per employee, lower capital expenditures, etc.).
Interesting theory, but you could easily look at my comment history and sig link and see I'm a software developer. No PR spin here.
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