nathaniel

Ignorance is seductive, there's more myth than truth in your remarks. Trespassing on property is unrelated to immigration; the labor market is not fixed--immigrants (yes illegal ones too) create jobs, boost wages and generally contributes to the economy; immigrants commit as many or fewer crimes than locals; money is not public property, it circulates. Just say you don't like immigrants, that's more direct. Here's a deal, if you quit trotting out the veiled (racist) blarney, we'll stop calling you on it. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

It's about selectively enforcing the law against Mexicans to our nation's (and others') detriment. It sure looks like racism as it's been in response to every wave of immigration since the 19th century. Each time it "wasn't" racism but in retrospect they were all racism. The pattern is clear, the means are similar and in many cases identical, why should the result be any different? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Also, why doesn't Home Depot make sure your improvements are within municipal building code specifications? You might be committing a crime with those renovations. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Other mysteries about Home Depot: * why don't they check your zoning permits * why don't they ask to see your electrical / plumbing / etc licensing My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

No delays to speak of. Both times the departure was delayed for ~10 minutes to allow other passengers to make connections to my flights, but there was so much slack in the schedules we arrived on time anyway. Security was fast if sketchy. On one flight I was carrying an antique solid silver cigarette box, a little shorter but wider and thicker than a paperback. Didn't draw a blink from the xray goon... I was under the assumption that it would be totally opaque in the xray scanner and would have drawn a bag check -- I'd once brought on a pair of cufflinks that came in a foil lined box and that took about 5 minutes of re-scans till the xray goon isolated it from my bag and satisfied himself with its construction. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

A NYT article on the same said that previous research on mice demonstrated that the stem cells could be converted into whole mice -- with 20% incidence of cancer in the offspring. When can I get my clone? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

To continue with this line of argument, devil's advocacy, part of the reason for the disparity between cocaine vs crack sentencing is that crack does seem to be more destructive than cocaine in how it affects inner cities. Cocaine had been around for ~100 years but the emergence of the crack trade yet accelerated the problems of addiction in our inner cities. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

That sounds a lot more like speculating, not investing per se. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

welcome to 1997, we have this game in multiplayer http://www.planetfortress.com/jmcstfmapzone/border1.htm My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I think there'd be a real challenge if we were to have statistics about the risk in skydiving. We might find, for instance, that the risk of serious injury or death goes up by a factor of 5 on a per jump basis for someone over the USPA's WL advisory chart. But that might mean on an annual basis that someone with more experience yet who makes five times as many jumps in a year (someone with only 100 jumps can't have made more than 100 in a year) may be at greater overall risk of serious injury / death, even if they are at a much lower risk on each jump. Pretending we could calculate a person's risk of injury/death per jump, would it be ethical to limit them to X number of jumps per year on the basis of their marginal propensity to get hurt? What should the threshold be? 0.1% per annum? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

How can you be so certain of a quantity, yet be unable to quantify it? It cuts at the very classification of "expert". Surely they are able to swoop enormous distances and execute precise maneuvers in the sky, but that does not grant a person infinite wisdom over the laws of probability and their manifestations on the DZ -- experts from all human endeavors are prone to misunderstand probability. Sometimes frighteningly so. Any professed expert should see the futility of pissing contests. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

They've got the causality twisted...but on DZ.com downsizing is the sine qua non of risk tolerance and a byword for the same. What they're saying is they don't like you because you are risk tolerant, and they fear that your appetite for risk reflects on them (and it does, imo). There's several factors at play...more than anything I think it's a case of projection / diversion. "I'm not so much at risk, he's at greater risk!" Even though the posts are littered with trifles like "you could do anything right and still die", it's still comforting to gawk at other people making decisions they wouldn't. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I take it then you now endorse free government handouts for citizens... My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

For instance some of them work as parachute packers. They produce packed parachutes from unpacked parachutes. The fruits of their labor are increased jumping at dropzones, stable and on-heading openings and increased gear safety. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Every second an illegal immigrant is in jail they are subtracting instead of contributing to the economy. At some point you have to choose between barratry and economy. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

We still use a lot of oil. It has certain advantages that science has not yet replicated, namely a combination of energy density, portability and affordability. Not to mention all of our cars and many of our generators large and small are geared to run on it. The invisible hand is hard at work, and there's a tremendous amount of research on just about every conceivable front to replace oil... As substitute technologies become available it will be a matter of replacing infrastructure. You can bet that OPEC will be very busy as such technologies come on line, manipulating supply such that prices stay competitive. Consider Brazil, where most of their cars can run alternately on alcohol derived from local sugar crops or on gasoline. How much does Brazil care about Saudi Arabia or Kuwait? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Where have all the oil shocks gone? The author of that blog post is a Harvard professor and a former adviser to Bush the Lesser. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Do you think the cops are more likely or less likely to drag someone down to the station if he can't produce ID when stopped? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

FTFY, fiscal reality. There's nearly unanimous agreement among economists that we are overspending, and that tax increases are the only way to reconcile our debts. It's yet possible to play games with accounting and with bonds to lighten the load today, but the net result will be increased burdens later on, and on our children / grandchildren. Hope it was worth it. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Considering that they also constitute approx 4% of the broader population, this fact sheds light on the persistent myth that immigrants (of any sort) cause more crime than natives, a transparent and shameful racist legacy of the 19th Century. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/624913,CST-NWS-illegal29.article My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Representing the low end I've got a Linksys NSLU2. I flashed the bootloader and put linux on it (per unslung) and use it as a low-power multifunction device including a 1 TB NAS. 133mhz is plenty for lots of things...its main role is an ad-filtering and caching web proxy. All for $100 + cost of external hdds to tack onto it.

I propose a fair tax: 99.999% wealth tax on anyone possessing total assets of any sort in excess of $1B. The rest of us don't pay any tax. Steeply progressive, fair to almost everyone! My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Here's an idea for a wingsuit competition: 4 way competition, base + 3 wingmen -- could be any number but let's start with 4-way for sake of argument. Mount the base with 3 distance sensors: left thigh, right thigh, tail wing and mount corresponding units on the hands and / or helmets of the wingmen. Score by any of 1- tightest formation held for at least 15 seconds 1a - tightest formation while performing a maneuver 2- least deviation / most rigid formation over 60 seconds 2b - least deviation while performing a maneuver 3- use the sensors to key points within a maximum range for no-contact formations Technically, could we do it? What would you use as a distance sensor? What technology would work reliably and precisely over distances of 10 to 0.1 meters despite temperature, pressure & shock / shaking concerns? Would it make good video? Is it worthwhile? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Not that it's consolation but my cat had very similar symptoms, vomiting, duodenal ulcers, lethargy etc about a month ago. Did the xray, ultrasound, endoscopic biopsy bit along with bloodwork and eventually settled on a differential diagnosis of either small aggressive cancer or systemic fungal infection, neither of which was directly detected but they were pretty much the only things that it could have been (per multiple vets). Either way it was going to be 6 months to a year of treatment with toxic & expensive drugs combined with a significant risk of recurrence. I put my kitty to sleep so she didn't have to suffer all that. Hope your cat turns out better. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

As a scientist you should know the perils of extrapolating from a sample set of two. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/09/the_forbes_400_as_a_lesson_in.html My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?