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@Eslatt13 @robertgraham In the book, there's a whole page about how Nedry bid the work without being able to know anything and had to write all the programs with very vague requirements. Then they refused to pay for bug fixes

Nedry, in the Jurassic Park Movie, was actually part of a team. Nedry was the only one permitted on the island to work (Hammond is secretive). Nedry communicated with his team via dial-up modem, sending data to them. There was a line "Phone Nedry's people, in Cambridge." The payment stuff was a movie thing and we don't know how much/little he was being paid. I'd say it's more of a leadership and business management failure. In the book, he was more fed up with all the demands being made and the compartmentalized nature keeping things secret and making it difficult to automate the systems he was asked to make.

This is a popular joke in IT -- but it's also seriously true. In the original "Jurassic Park" movie, Hammond brags about "sparing no expense" in all the features of the park, but then underpays/understaffs the IT department. This is then the cause of the downfall of the park. Such is also true of ransomware. Companies cheap out on IT security: underpaid, understaff, and mostly, undervalued, nobody listens to them. As a result, they get ransomware which sometimes bankrupts the company. Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale of how not to treat IT.

The vast majority of dollars spent by the federal government is immoral if you're a strict constitutionalist. Someone is going to hold the bag. Millennials and younger are not going to get the full benefit. Do we make the current pain start now or later? Either way, it won't be fair to someone.

No, taxpayers honoring the contract made on their behalf by a century of elected representatives is not immoral. Suppose you contract with the government to build an airport for it. You pay out all the money needed to accomplish that goal. It is not immoral to require taxpayers to pay you for building it.

Social Security is a government-run Ponzi scheme. It is fraud. This is a FACT, not my opinion. The money that retired seniors like you collect from Social Security comes directly out of the paychecks of currently working Americans. People like myself are bankrolling YOUR retirement, when most (not all, let me make that disclaimer clear) seniors are, on average, far wealthier than me. Retirees like you are not getting back money that you supposedly “paid into” it for 40+ years. That money has been spent by the government and is long gone. It isn’t kept in a secret lock box just for you. That is a MYTH. I know this is true because: 1⃣ If working class people suddenly stopped paying into Social Security, the money that retirees get would be stretched thin and eventually dry up. 2⃣ Once you die, neither your children nor grandchildren can collect the rest of the money that you supposedly “paid into” the system. If you died and never got back all of the money that you “paid into” Social Security while you were alive, then there should be money left over that could be passed down to your loved ones. The fact that there isn't proves that people like me are paying you to enjoy retirement with payroll taxes. Social Security absolutely is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme: It is a fraudulent investment scam that pays “returns” to earlier investors by using money contributed to it by newer investors. When FDR signed the Social Security Act of 1935 into law and set the retirement age to 65, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 62. This, of course, meant that less than half of the population would live to be old enough to retire and collect Social Security. At the time, it was economically sustainable. But today, the retirement age has been raised slightly to 67 (for those born after 1960), but average life expectancy is much higher, at 79. What’s more, because people are having fewer kids, there are fewer workers available to support each retiree. In 1950, there ratio of workers to retirees was 16:1. Today, it’s near 2:1. The current Social Security system is a farce and it is one of the largest reasons why our debt is ballooning skyward past $40 trillion. Why? Because we have a bunch of boomers, the Social Security system now pays out more to seniors than it collects with payroll taxes, so the government must borrow to make up the difference, which directly adds to the national debt. It is currently nearly a quarter of our annual budget. And, what does the government do about that? Right, they print money to match the money supply to the debt, which causes inflation by decreasing the purchasing power of the U.S. Dollar. And, the result? Housing unaffordability. Sky-high grocery prices. The effect? Young people like me get screwed out of the American Dream. Although cultural decay and feminism play a role in such trends, this is a MAJOR reason why people are not getting married or having kids; they cannot afford it because WWII veterans decided to get frisky after the war ended, creating a population boom never seen before, and the federal government pandered to that generation with entitlement programs, which has economically screwed over this country. And, instead of trying to fix this crisis, politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle ignore the tidal wave that is building because it is politically unpopular to go after Social Security because their geriatric voting base wouldn't approve of it. The elderly want to collect every cent that they can (and I do not blame them at all for wanting their money back), but are leaving people my age and younger to deal with the consequences down the road. Of course, we should not leave the granny out on the street, especially elderly that are poor. That's selfish. But it is equally, if not more selfish for us to continue enabling an economically unstable and immoral system that is burdening the working class by forcing us to fund the retirement of a demographic of people, who are, on average, wealthier. Any good parent wants to build enough wealth so he or she can leave some to his or her kids and grandkids. It is most parents' goals to leave their kids better off than they themselves were. Social Security doesn't do that because your kids and grandkids cannot collect the money you “paid into it” once you kick the bucket. Retirement should be self-funded. You should be in charge of your own retirement fund. You would be far better off saving it in a savings account at the bank or cashing it out and saving it in a fire-proof safe in your house than paying into a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. You could then invest some of it in stocks or precious metals like gold and silver. And, by doing that, you can leave what's left over to your living descendants to ensure that they are better off than you were. And, if you mismanage it and spend it all (which a lot of people would probably do because they're stupid), then that is on them and they should be barred from being able to apply for welfare. Your poor life choices therefore wouldn't be my problem. We can't immediately abolish Social Security, but our elected officials need to be looking for a way out of it. I recommend allowing anyone under the age of 40 to opt out of payroll taxes. That wouldn't fix the debt right away (it might even make it worse), but it would work out in the long-term. The other sustainable alternative is to raise the retirement age such that you can be age-eligible to collect Social Security at 79. I am open to other ideas, but the status quo isn't going to work. Something systemic needs to change because Social Security is bankrupting our country, not to mention robbing future generations of economic freedom and achieving the American Dream. This is a harsh reality that boomers and some Gen Xers near retirement age don't like to hear. It is a harsh reality half of my own audience won't want to hear. But that is the reality.

To end this, someone is going to come out with the short end of the deal, because everyone up to now has on average taken more than they give. We either spread out the pain by cutting benefits partially now and then gradually increase the size of the cut until it's gone or the last ones in get completely taken. Or everyone absorbs it through taxes or inflation.

@ChrisMartzWX You are 100% correct that Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. You are 100% incorrect to recommend any remedy that would include punishing seniors currently or about to be collecting their benefits. When someone is conned out of money, you don't make the victims pay restitution.

@esrtweet @justalexoki Most HOAs have banned clotheslines

@justalexoki I think I may have seen this once in my life, and that was in England. Almost all of us have dryers. A few of us are retro and have outside clotheslines, though I haven't seen one of those in a long time either

there's no way Americans don't do this. this is just a universal human experience

@CynicalPublius @DavidStrom from @FBIDDBongino - Conservatives think liberals are persons with bad ideas. Liberals think conservatives are bad people with ideas. The process makes sense to them when starting with the assumption that the other side is evil and the ends (defeating them) justifies the means.

You need to understand the Democrat mind. They don't care if the Southern Poverty Law Center committed wire fraud. They don't care if the SPLC made false official statements to the federal government. They don't care if the SPLC engaged in conspiracy to commit money laundering. They don't care because to them, the ends always justifies the means. Rank-and-file Democrats see the SPLC as being virtuous, so therefore they don't care about the crimes. The Democrat leadership sees the SPLC as one of the very most effective tools they have to achieve and maintain power, and since power is all they care about, they don't care about the crimes.

Better idea. Give most of what is left to Maryland. Remove half of the federal agencies. Move half of the remaining workers closer to the people their activities affect. Make all public asset trading outside of blind trusts illegal for anyone left. If you want to serve in the government, financial gain should not be the motivation.

There’s no reason not to do this, it could be done via executive order, and it would save Virginia Why not do it?

This is all a symptom of those whose lives don't matter. They have never had true need so have no reason to be protective for their property. Most of it is the result of someone else's labor or at best a meaningless easy job. They do not realize property is a claim on a portion of someone's life. Nothing has ever been hard in their life except what they have brought by their own choices. They think everything is luck or deserved government largesse.

Never, in the history of history itself, has a judge looked down at the prisoner in the dock and declared "I sentence you to Concrete Mailbox". Why not? Because Concrete Mailbox is not a punishment, you factory-defective lawn gnome. It's a mailbox. Made from concrete. If you hurt yourself with it because you can't be bothered to learn the laws of physics in your own damn universe, that is a you problem. I am not obligated to suffer harm in order to protect you from a stupid action you might someday take. Of course, what you are really doing is engaging in the favorite marxist pastime of "pretending not to understand things". What you are pretending not to understand is the difference between consequences and punishment. For example, if you are a lazy marxist, and you won't work or do anything for anyone else, you'll be broke. This is not a conspiracy to deprive you of stuff. It is simply the consequence of you being selfish. You know this. But you pretend not to because you hope that if you confuse the issue enough, you can get suggestible people to give you free stuff. And in this case, you want to protect vandals at the expense of people who own mailboxes, because you are more likely to vandalize a mailbox than to own one, therefore you fail the Mailbox Test by sympathizing with the vandal.

@learning_yohei Above all, don't be discouraged by those who don't appreciate your effort or make fun. I am sure your English is much better than their Japanese.

日本からこんにちは🇯🇵👋 初心者ですが、英会話の勉強をしている日本人です🤭 アメリカ人に質問があります🇺🇸🙋 英会話は日本人にとって難しいです。英会話がうまくなるコツとか方法があれば、教えてください🥺

@UnoWordSpoken @WhiteBabyFac Paul spent 3 years between his conversion and going to Jerusalem and several more before the first mission trip

@WhiteBabyFac No. We shouldn't elevate her to any kind of leadership role because of 1 Tim 3:6 which says they can't be a novice. Our entire Bible was written by murderers, adulterers and deeply selfish people. God can only use people with "troubled pasts" - He's got no one else to use.

I seriously doubt the sincerity of Nala Ray's conversion because she's clearly still using her sex appeal to get attention online. A truly repentant ex porn prostitute would dress much more modestly, and wouldn't post suggestive photos and videos. But even if you take her conversion seriously, it doesn't make sense for Christians to put her on a pedestal and enable her to become an e-celebrity. What kind of message does it send to young women if an ex-prostitute gets elevated to celebrity status within the church? It's encouraging other women to follow the same path. > make millions in the porn industry > have a public conversion and retire from porn > go on a media tour > have a fairytale romance and marriage > launch a new career as a Christian e-celeb Why wouldn't young women see this and try to do the same thing? We should be praising and elevating women who have followed the righteous path, not ex-hookers.

Long live the Warthog.

@Prolife_Sam Anyone who says that rights are a construct of government aren't worth your time. It's like arguing with a fish about how to build a campfire.

Apparently I’ve had an abortion because my first baby still hadn’t arrived by 42 weeks and I had to be induced. Prolife Sam had an abortion! I’m ashamed!

@SimpsonArn68854 @MarioNawfal @elonmusk Also on the other end of the spectrum. The only reason 16 year olds have a license is so parents don't have to drive them places. It at least makes the conversation about that possible.

@MarioNawfal @elonmusk I can’t overstate how important this is and what the market will be when people figure out they do not have to drive around their boomer parents. Doctors appointments, church, grocery store. FSD gives the senior their freedom and their loved ones the comfort that they won’t crash

A 93 year old lady filmed her Tesla FSD taking her to church and her joy is the most wholesome content on the internet. Her take on Grok: "I love that lady."

@tanpukunokami And even if they reproduce, there is no increased chance that male kits would also be calico

This might be hard to believe, but calico cats are almost always female. Worldwide. The odds of a male being born calico are 1 in 3,000. It's a genetic anomaly — an extra X chromosome. Most of them are sterile. But only Japan turned them into gods. Japanese sailors believed a male calico could protect a ship from storms and shipwrecks. They paid fortunes to bring one on board. In 1957, Japan's Antarctic expedition carried a male calico kitten on their ship as a good luck charm. To Antarctica. The "Maneki-neko" — the waving lucky cat statue in every Japanese restaurant — is modeled after a calico. One male calico Maine Coon in Japan was listed for 30 million yen. That's $200,000. For a cat that can't even reproduce. 🐱

@themrhotwheels @RealPostFolder Getting it on record is more for when she accused the OP of harassment than HR doing anything.

@RealPostFolder >trusting HR to not side with the woman HR are the cops of the working world, except they don't actually have laws to enforce, just company policy, which can often be whatever the hell they want

>Be the guy >Email, not call, email HR tonight if possible. Let them know about this and tell them that you do not want to make a formal complaint but you want to at the minimum get this on record. >Tell her that the comments are making you uncomfortable and to please stop. (Only say that do not go into any details or anything, don't explain how you are happily married or anything, just say that) >She continues; go to HR and make a formal complaint (Handled many situations like this and they get messy)

@teachthemx3 This is also why a BA is the new high school diploma. Well that and once the free money started, colleges wanted to expand as much as possible

Low standards today become lifelong consequences tomorrow. When schools care more about graduation rates than student growth, the damage follows students long after they leave the classroom.

>Plot centers entirely around fighting extreme government taxation and overreach >The Sheriff of Nottingham literally collects taxes from the church poor box >Friar Tuck gets so fed up with the state disrespecting the Church that he physically throws hands with the Sheriff >Casts the Crusades in a positive light >Male protagonist who risks his life for his people >Unapologetically traditional romance with Maid Marian without any modern subversion >Climax is literally a raid to break political prisoners out of a corrupt jail >Story resolves when the rightful, divinely-appointed monarch returns from the Holy Land to crush the corrupt politicians >Ends with a beautiful church wedding and a happily ever after We need to make Kid's stories based again

@Avonleebythesea It seems like daycare is a more important part of school than learning sometimes.

All these stories of teachers actively working to sabotage kids’ love of learning are devastating, but it’s a top-down issue. I remember being told by admin not to let a bright little boy in my kindergarten class keep moving ahead in the math curriculum “because he’ll have nothing left to do and be bored when he finishes it.” I didn’t listen, but this was just the first in a series of such “recommendations.” If your children are bright, even slightly above average, they will be horribly bored in school, which caters to the bottom quintile. And if we’re being honest here, most teachers also fall in that category and are threatened by smart kids. My daughter’s teacher introduced their poetry unit by saying she hated poetry and it was fine if they did too. I had to fight the school to allow her to take algebra in 6th grade because “we’ve never had a 6th grader take it before.” If your kids are in school (even good private ones), you’ll have to teach them at some point that it’s ok to not listen to the teacher. It’s ok to read ahead, to choose a book that’s not on the silly list, to do homework in class and have time later for other pursuits.

@MINorthWoods @dissidentwest Exactly. There are no jobs Americans refuse to do, only jobs that owners want to cheap out on.

@dissidentwest Gosh, maybe they'll have to pay more.

Time to open the borders again to solve the dish washer shortage.

Baseball is unique since they play every day. Other sports are tactical - how do I win today? Baseball is strategic - If I play this relief pitcher today too long, he can't play tomorrow. American football is the ultimate in tactical. Today's game is the only one that matters. There is no pacing yourself in football. All out, every play.

アメリカニキへ質問です。 アメリカの国民的スポーツと言ったらやはり野球かNBAですか？⚾️🏀 日本では野球かサッカーかで一部過激派組織さん達が毎回のように揉めてます

@iynusuke @johntanaka We work to earn money to live. There is no reason if you don't really live.

@johntanaka 「冠婚葬祭ごときで休まない」と宣い、それを他者にも押し付ける上司がいて、ほいで社長令嬢の夫だと言うのに社長が亡くなっても尚通夜にすら顔出さず「社会人としてあるべき姿」と言わんばかりに有言実行して自主退職&離婚に追い込まれた話あったな(つべのスカッと系の動画の話)

上司「君の仕事への意欲はそんなものなんだ」 若手「すみません...」 先輩 (また怒られてんな…) 上司「僕はそんなことで休まなかったけどな」 若手「すみません...」 先輩 (なにしたんだろ...) 上司「妹の結婚式ごときで休むなんて…」 先輩「ちょっと待ったあああああ！！！」