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·vorgestern·discuss
And this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits.

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·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Why do climate people write headlines like this? Everyone gets cynical and dismissive when they endure predictions like those made by Al Gore or Greta Thunberg. Even if the predictions are directionally correct, people remember phrases like "locked in" and assume that the entire science was broken. If the current only partially collapses or changes in a material way, everyone will say, "See, it wasn't locked in."
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·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Probably with the help of some insider who told the criminals that the account existed. They figured you would never notice.
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·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
Yes. Or they stayed put. I had a friend who lived at home and drove a Jaguar. He helped his mom occasionally, but it was a financially great deal that allowed him to live large.
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·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
And there still is today. But are they producing good nectarines? Apparently not as good as these.

I know that occasionally philanthropic research works out, but generally I find that people are motivated by profit.
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·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
The 2020 Census had a number of issues and many of them ended up giving the Democrats more seats in the House than they should have. Oh, and the Census results were due at the White House in December 2016, but somehow they didn't reach the WH until January 21, 2017.

Was Differential Privacy specifically involved? I don't think so, but I think it's being lumped into the mix and being blamed for the other issues.
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·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
What's your plan? The parents don't believe the charges made against their child. At least the video helps the school figure out what happened and convey this accurately to the parents.

But it sounds like you have some magic idea of how this will work. Could you share it with us?
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·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Let me tell you that the Internet was really wild in the 70s. No need to log on or anything. It really was like the movie "War Games." If you had the right phone number, you were golden.
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·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
Yes, this is concerning. But there's also the other side. Some of the little miscreants who shared my bus ride were positively nasty. Some surveillance would have helped a number of people avoid bullying.
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·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
I suppose if they were actually deployed to the theater, the odds would be different. But they literally don't get within miles of the enemy so it's pretty hard for the enemy to kill them. Yes, there are dangers in a world filled with drones and missiles, but it's not that large.
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·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
I thought so too. Then I read the arguments about the passage of the amendment. The people passing clearly stated that, say, the children of ambassadors wouldn't be eligible. It was mainly aimed at clearing up the questions about the various Native Americans who may have considered themselves independent. It wasn't about opening the doors to anyone.
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·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
Really? If someone passes a law that criminalizes the activity of migrants, they say they're doing it to improve safety and living conditions. But it seems like the current people in the left-wing tent hate restrictions on migrants and view such regulations as racist.
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·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
I'm much older. I've always been able to type faster than I can write by hand. Forcing me to handwrite an answer slows me down -- and produces something that's much harder to read.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
People who want to use the current system to innovate and create jobs. The current system of venture capital often produces these situations when people have a huge amount paper "wealth". But this wealth is all pretty hypothetical. It's not like some of the "billionaires" can buy 1 billion things from the McDonald's Dollar Menu. It's all tied up in stock that can't be sold for a variety of reasons. Moreover, it's quite likely that the "billionaire" will end up with far less than $1b when he/she retires, even if everything is wildly successful.

Yet that big number encourages greedheads to try to tax something that doesn't really exist.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
And when those "union" bosses run off with the pension fund, who do you call? Or when they insist on the dues and then use them for something else?
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
And in "Moonraker" someone steals one in transport. It could happen here, I suppose.
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·vor 13 Tagen·discuss
I thought the same thing.

And I think some of the advertisement screens in places like Times Square could easily scale to 20 stories. I don't think they're that big now, but I think they could do it with little trouble.
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·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
The cartoon villainy is not the administration but the people who want to portray it that way. Anyone who reads the article will find a lengthy statement from the NPS that spells out something very different from the headline. They're not told to stay silent, but to wait the right amount of time and coordinate to avoid miscommunication and error.
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·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
This is what people say but I have yet to experience it myself. But maybe the problem is that I never had great expectations for management. I always assumed it was all a business. Making money was the goal. The unions, though, push this dreamy narrative about how there are these great knights in shining armor that will always defend you. Bah. Baloney. They're also profit-maximizing people motivated by selfishness, but they hide it.
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·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
Your suspicions are wrong in my case. (Yours may be different.) For the most part, I've found that companies have treated me fairly and, if anything, avoided making overly rosy promises. It's always been a very quid-pro-quo message.

Unions, though, spin up these stories of worker protections that haven't worked out in my life. When the unions didn't defend my colleague, I was pretty much gobsmacked. It was such a clear case. But in the end they didn't even give a reason. And they didn't have to because, well, they're a magical union and people like you reflexively love them and imagine that they'll defeat that evil capital. Hah. The scales fell off my eyes. I'm sure you'll experience the same one day.