If only there was a way to check your bomb with your luggage and have it detonate later...that would be something. It would revolutionize domestic terrorism. It would be the best thing box cutters. Where is all the terror innovation folks? Have we just already invented (and thwarted) all the different ways to blow up an airplane?
To recoup the R&D investment, reasonable revenues are sometimes billions of dollars.
Right. And they need to recoup the cost of marketing (all those commercials, the people who design and redesign the boxes, presentations and free samples for doctors) and lobbyists to make sure the competition is put out (and stays out) of business and lawyers to enforce the fruits of the lobbyists. And then the cost of the propagandists who quell the uprising when people start complaining about the 10,000% markup.
Which should tell us all that this was a carefully contrived controversy meant to anger people and bring them to the polls. Not to sound paranoid or anything...but seriously...it must have been deliberately engineered. Right? This just seems too stupid an issue otherwise.
Yes, but saying addiction is evolved is like saying obesity is evolved because we crave nutrient dense food. It's human industry that created unnatural abundances. Addictive substances don't occur in nature with the kind of purity and abundance that has a significant impact in evolution.
It was never my intention to try to justify authoritarianism. We should still strive to be better, and I think we can without sacrificing the significance and economic might of the US. But the fact is, without a stupidly big army and the willingness to use it, somebody else will just come in and fill that "power" void. That is a fact. I'd still rather we spend more of our budget on science and social programs than on the fucking military....but it does keeps the wolves out of camp.
The half a million who switched to streaming services are the ones who are actually dissatisfied.* The ones who keep paying a monthly bill for cable TV are satisfied enough.
Actually, no, I'm not dissatisfied streaming. What I was dissatisfied with was having 200 channels of mostly unwatchable garbage, paying $100 a month for commercial ridden shows that I didn't really want to watch.
Calling "alpha" behavior a deviant behavior doesn't detract from the fact that such *deviant* individuals are *always* in leadership positions. It's so common that it simply has to be an evolutionarily created behavior.... Ergo, necessary and *normal*.
You can belittle my analogy between nation-states and dog society all you like, but it is nonetheless an apt analogy.
We spend a lot of time and money making ourselves believe we are morally superior. Then when believers make it into the ranks of organizations that are the strong arm of the US government, they suddenly see the evidence that we aren't morally superior at all. We are bullies, using our superior weapons to bully other nations into favoring western business. Some can't deal with this reality, and try to right the wrongs. Or at least, that's how I think this keeps happening. But it's the plight of leadership. The other dogs are constantly looking for advantage, and nipping at your heals. You have to smack them down or lose your position. That also means taking food from betas to maintain your strength. I'm not saying it's right, but it's the reality.
This administration doesn't care what you think. Whenever people speak out about something the government is doing, they deny people are upset and go ahead and do it anyway. Don't like the ACA replacement? Wait a couple of weeks, then say you've fixed it and rush it through before anyone reads it. Don't like the fact that they're selling the internet off to Comcast? It was just a DDOS attack. Nobody actually complained. This is so typical of Republicans...they claim the open market will fix everything, then they auction off a monopoly to the highest bidder.
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The Americans didn't respond because they thought they were miles ahead.
They probably are. It's just that American (and everyone else's) infrastructure is still in the stone age.
Where does it get blown to?
Downwind.
If only there was a way to check your bomb with your luggage and have it detonate later...that would be something. It would revolutionize domestic terrorism. It would be the best thing box cutters. Where is all the terror innovation folks? Have we just already invented (and thwarted) all the different ways to blow up an airplane?
To recoup the R&D investment, reasonable revenues are sometimes billions of dollars.
Right. And they need to recoup the cost of marketing (all those commercials, the people who design and redesign the boxes, presentations and free samples for doctors) and lobbyists to make sure the competition is put out (and stays out) of business and lawyers to enforce the fruits of the lobbyists. And then the cost of the propagandists who quell the uprising when people start complaining about the 10,000% markup.
So, what you're saying is, you want to have babies?
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I like bananas, and I like republics. So everything's just fine.
Which should tell us all that this was a carefully contrived controversy meant to anger people and bring them to the polls. Not to sound paranoid or anything...but seriously...it must have been deliberately engineered. Right? This just seems too stupid an issue otherwise.
It's a setting that turns on/off the ability to make anonymous connections to the windows IPC named pipes service.
Trump is still popular with the Republican base
Most republicans are not actively denouncing and disavowing him yet, if that's what you consider popular support.
Republicans in Congress would gain nothing by going after him.
You means besides demonstrating they still have decency, character, and a backbone?
WE ARE SUPERIOR.
Jesus man, slow down on the kool-aid. Too much is harmful.
Yes, but saying addiction is evolved is like saying obesity is evolved because we crave nutrient dense food. It's human industry that created unnatural abundances. Addictive substances don't occur in nature with the kind of purity and abundance that has a significant impact in evolution.
It was never my intention to try to justify authoritarianism. We should still strive to be better, and I think we can without sacrificing the significance and economic might of the US. But the fact is, without a stupidly big army and the willingness to use it, somebody else will just come in and fill that "power" void. That is a fact. I'd still rather we spend more of our budget on science and social programs than on the fucking military....but it does keeps the wolves out of camp.
Nobody said our leaders weren't monstrous.
By the way, addiction wasn't created by evolution. Man created addiction by creating industry and excessive goods.
The half a million who switched to streaming services are the ones who are actually dissatisfied.* The ones who keep paying a monthly bill for cable TV are satisfied enough.
Actually, no, I'm not dissatisfied streaming. What I was dissatisfied with was having 200 channels of mostly unwatchable garbage, paying $100 a month for commercial ridden shows that I didn't really want to watch.
Calling "alpha" behavior a deviant behavior doesn't detract from the fact that such *deviant* individuals are *always* in leadership positions. It's so common that it simply has to be an evolutionarily created behavior. ... Ergo, necessary and *normal*.
You can belittle my analogy between nation-states and dog society all you like, but it is nonetheless an apt analogy.
We spend a lot of time and money making ourselves believe we are morally superior. Then when believers make it into the ranks of organizations that are the strong arm of the US government, they suddenly see the evidence that we aren't morally superior at all. We are bullies, using our superior weapons to bully other nations into favoring western business. Some can't deal with this reality, and try to right the wrongs. Or at least, that's how I think this keeps happening. But it's the plight of leadership. The other dogs are constantly looking for advantage, and nipping at your heals. You have to smack them down or lose your position. That also means taking food from betas to maintain your strength. I'm not saying it's right, but it's the reality.
Q: What's the best way to ensure everyone stops using voice mail?
A: Fill up their call-screening-utility/voice-mail with spam.
Now the trolls write articles and slashdot links to them.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google
On another hand, it's 41 Jonestowns.
How could this be stupidity? Who accidentally adds keylogging code to an audio driver?
It seems to work for government, so why not software?
No reason to pull out. Just have to let the Austrian government block facebook. No effort required.
This administration doesn't care what you think. Whenever people speak out about something the government is doing, they deny people are upset and go ahead and do it anyway. Don't like the ACA replacement? Wait a couple of weeks, then say you've fixed it and rush it through before anyone reads it. Don't like the fact that they're selling the internet off to Comcast? It was just a DDOS attack. Nobody actually complained. This is so typical of Republicans...they claim the open market will fix everything, then they auction off a monopoly to the highest bidder.