The latter is what actually happened to air traffic controllers under Reagan. Reagan saw all of the strikers fired, and used military (?) ATCs until the airports hired new ones. I would not be surprised if the same tactics were used to break any strike by 'essential' workers. Longshoreman strike? Fire 'em all, use active-duty military to replace them, the hire new, lower-paid ones, and automate (longshoremen unions are threatening to strike over attempts to automate large parts of their job).
About $750, IIRC. It was a resized copy of a piece that I'd made for a runway show. I think it took me about 60 hours in fittings, patterning, cutting, and sewing to make. (My sewing process wasn't very efficient, since I was working with a single machine, and had to keep changing it attachments, folders, feet, etc.)
It still takes me a long time to make my first piece--when I sew at all--but I'm faster now.
I remember the 80s when high sulphur coal was the norm, and we had problem with the sulphur emissions causing acid rain; I def. don't want to return to that...
Related - I saw a science alert that speculated that we could buy time to cut carbon emissions by seeding the atmosphere with superfine diamond dust; it would both block and reflect solar radiation. The downside? About $250T in cost.
Eh. Methane is worse when it's released as a gas than when it's burned and released as carbon dioxide. If you drive by oil refineries in Beaumont, TX, you'll see them burning off methane--flaring--because it's a byproduct of oil refining. Is any of this great, or even good? No; any way you slice it, it's all greenhouse gasses. OTOH, there are far fewer other pollutants with LNG than there are from coal-fired plants, and we don't yet have the capacity to generate sufficient power using renewables or nuclear. (Meanwhile, a lot of hydro power is at risk because climate change has shifted rain and snow patterns so that rivers and reservoirs are drying up so that we're losing that source of renewable power.)
I knew a guy--Ola Bini--that fled the US, and emigrated to Ecuador, because he was afraid that he was going to be targeted by the US gov't. I think he made it less than two years in Ecuador before he was arrested for 'hacking' Ecuador gov't computers; he was jailed during the entire judicial process, almost a decade, before all the charges were dropped, and he was released and deported to Sweden. Best guess is that despite not having a extradition treaty with the US, the US still put a ton of pressure on Ecuador to detain him. (Maybe he actually committed crimes? IDK, it's possible, but all charges being dropped after all that time in jail without a trial seems iffy. )
Point is, there aren't a lot of places you can go if the US wants to fuck your life. Russia and China are the best options, and both are not great.
Having done both, it's simple: you can't have a deep relationship without time. Not just quality time, but quantity time as well. The more relationships you try to juggle, the less you can spend with any single person, and that limits the amount if emotional intimacy that you can achieve.
Yes, yes, love is infinite. The time that you have to be alive, however, is not.
That is even if you intentionally ignore any issues of jealousy.
Bullshit. I've quit jobs before. like the job I had at a veneer mill. It was boring me to tears, was so loud that ear-pro was mandatory--about 110dB, IIRC--and I was spending about an hour each day digging splinters out of my hands. (Couldn't wear gloves b/c they didn't have the dexterity needed for picking up a single sheet of veneer without breaking it.) I don't think I even saw my manager more than a few times in the brief period i worked there.
ASD is great in an office where you can work in an office without distractions and noise, not so great in creative work IMO.
I say that as someone that's both ASD and ADHD, and have a BFA with a focus on fashion design. I was pretty good at pattern making, but too literal in for design. Currently I do pre-press, and I'm solidly competent.
Ethanol is also a medication. It's used to treat both methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning, as well as the withdrawal symptoms from severe alcoholism (...which are able to kill a patient, unlike opiate/opioid withdrawal).
Hell, oxycodone is a medication; I got enough to kill a horse (which really isn't saying a lot; horses are surprisingly delicate animals) after a major surgery. But guess what? It's still addictive, and will kill you.
The fact that something might have a medical use doesn't preclude addiction.
Antonin Scalia would be your best bet in that case. He's the most directly responsible for cutting off the vote recount that would have seen Gore win. Wm. Renquist might be a better choice though, since he set the stage for Scalia.
Tough call. There are so many possible points of inflection, and it's hard to know where history goes when you eliminate any single point. Let's say that you snap Adam Smith; does that mean that capitalism never happens, and that we live in a system of mercantilism forever? Or does the system get described by someone else and happen inevitably? What about Ghengis Khan? How does history change if the Mongol empire never happens? Do we all end up speaking Chinese? I you snap Julius Ceasar so that the library of Alexandria never burns, and the Roman empire remains democratic--for a time, at least--then what?
Why stop there? There's an energy gulf between the evolution of DNA and the first thing we could call a cell. Eliminate the first cell to ever exist on the planet, and the right conditions to evolve to that point may never be replicated again.
Fuck me, I hate the fact that I agree with Bannon on this. But I've seen far too many instances of H1-B visas being issued when American workers "couldn't be found" for positions, when the reality was that America workers couldn't be found at rates the company wanted to pay. It's never about finding actual expertise, and always about saving money combined with hiring people that can't complain about abuse.
Tell ya what, the 'solution' might be to naturalize all H1-B workers so that they have the same rights and can't be deported if they quit.
Shrimp have multiple color recptors because their brains are too primitive/rudimentary to combine input from more than a single receptor into a composite color. The result is that 12 colors (or however many receptors it is) is the total number of colors they can see.
I was thinking Edge becaudse that comes stock with every new system you buy; Chrome is something you have to install proactively. But yeah, you're probably right. You eith look anonymous because your system looks generic, or you have some small degree of privacy without anonymity. It's a shitty choice to make.
I think that you're thinking i2p torrent. It's not necessarily encrypted, but it's extremely difficult to trace.
(I've never managed to make i2p work for some reason. I assume I'm fucking up somewhere, but I don't know where.)