The ban on guns in society at large seems to work pretty well here in europe. Just because you can mention an exception doesn't mean de rule doesn't apply.
Tell that to the victims of Anders Behring Breivik.
The problem is that it is only going to be designed to weed out the for-profit colleges, whether they are diploma mills or not, and will leave the "non-profit" diploma mills untouched.
So, your argument is that the 9/11 attack only worked because it had never been tried before, but if we went back to the same airport screening as was in place on 9/11 it would work again?
You have a point, but it would only work once or twice before no one would believe them (or at least a sufficiently large fraction of the population would not believe them).
Actually, the CFPD was set up to ensure that big banks will get bailed out the next time they make a high risk gamble with other people's money and it goes bad. However, they had to give is a name that made people think it was about protecting the little guy
While the nominally capitalist societies in this world could be improved, I am sick and tired of hearing people who have never experienced true oppression compare what goes on in those countries to such...while calling for "reforming" their economies into an economy that ONLY works when there is true oprression.
Well, in today's America you are not forced to work for someone at the point of a gun AND you get to choose who you work for. In order for a planned economy to work, people need to work at the jobs they are told to work at, otherwise there will not be enough people doing the jobs that need to get done. The problem with a "planned" economy is that no group of people knows enough to make plans to address all of the needs.
If you do not know enough about economics to understand why planned economies invariably fail, this forum is too constrained for me to explain it to you (any "planned" economy that did not collapse survived because it allowed for free market work arounds).
You do know that the guy in charge is Chavez's chosen successor, right? The coup against Chavez failed and he died of natural causes. President Maduro was Chavez's Vice President and, more or less, the man whom Chavez chose to succeed him.
You are correct. What drives a planned economy is force. In other words, in a planned economy people fall into one of two groups: those who run things, and their slaves.
I saw nothing in the article that indicated that the blog was run on servers owned by the University. For that matter, if it was on University servers, there would have been no need to send a cease and desist notice.
So, they went and checked that they were not registered to vote in their parents' town? And they also checked that they did not list that town as their residence for tax purposes? You see, in most states, the laws concerning where you are supposed to register your car and where you are supposed to register to vote have similar, if not the same, criteria. What you are saying is that you are OK with college kids voting contrary to the law (or, conversely, registering their cars and their driver's licenses contrary to the law). If these college students are obeying the law regarding their driver's license AND the law regarding where they can vote, the new voter ID law should not present any problem (unless NH has laws different than the states I have lived in regarding one or both of those things and place of residence).
The reason that they want to stop college kids from voting is that college kids have a tendency to vote both where their parents live and where they go to school. The problem with stating that voter fraud is below the error level of the voting process is that we do not actually have a good way to track how much voter fraud goes on, since there are practically no systems in place to catch it (such as voter id laws). Your claim that voter fraud is below the error level of the voting process is an illustration of a classic logic flaw. It uses the absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
What, besides still being in the womb, distinguishes between a child and a foetus? I am not sure what you mean by "modal abortion age", but all over the U.S. a huge fuss was made because those evil right wingers in Texas changed the law to make it illegal to perform an abortion after week 20 of a pregnancy. How is it not at least a foetus at week 20 of the pregnancy?
Our state constitution says the right to vote is inherent in residency...
So, because someone resides in your state, they have the right to vote...even if they are not a citizen of the U.S.?
Does your state require you to register to vote? What happens if the people at the voting place who know you are not there? And since those at the polling place do not know the voters on sight, they allow someone else to vote in your name?
So, protecting an innocent child's right to life is an infringement on personal freedom now? You do know that right to life is one of the three freedoms mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as part of the justification for the American Revolution, right?
And where exactly is the right wing taking away the right to vote? Requiring that you demonstrate that you actually HAVE the right to vote is not the same as taking the right away from people. But then I guess you think it should be OK if people vote three and four times, as long as they vote the right way.
The important question is: by how much does it increase the risk of heart disease? Does it increase the risk from 1% to 20%? Or does it raise the risk from 1% to 1.1%? Just because something increases the risk does not mean that it increases the risk by enough to justify banning it, or even enough to justify avoiding that something. In all too many of these discussions, we talk about increasing risk as something to be avoided at all costs. Sometimes, there are other factors that weigh into the decision which are more important than how much the risk of something bad happening increases, especially when that increase in risk is small, or the risk is small to begin with.
Actually, there is something to that (although it is more complex than that). The forward pass was introduced to open up the game and reduce injuries and deaths (18 college players died playing the game in 1905).
Actually, there is a very pragmatic reason that the U.S. dominates most sports it cares about. It has almost three times the population of the next country with a comparable average per capita income. In addition, the U.S. is ethnically more heterogeneous than any other country on the planet. These two factors mean that for any given activity the U.S. almost certainly has as many or more people with the inborn ability to excel at any given human activity and the money to make it worth their while to develop that ability IF sufficient numbers of people in the U.S. have an interest in that activity. This does not mean that the U.S. is better than other countries, it just means that the confluence of factors leads to there being people in the U.S. who can excel at an activity and there being, potentially, enough money to attract the best from elsewhere. No other country currently enjoys that combination.
The EU comes close to providing a similar environment, but it has greater cultural variations between its various parts than the U.S. does, at this time. In those instances where its interest in an activity crosses all, or most, of its internal borders, it is able to develop a similar position on the world stage that the U.S. does in baseball and basketball (that is, develop world class competitors and attract the best from the rest of the world).
Actually, gridiron football is called "football" because it derives from the same sport as association football does. If you go back and look at the sport as it existed before organizations started codifying the rules you will discover that different towns played the sport differently. Association football chose to adopt (and adapt) the rule sets from towns that minimized the use of the hands. The various rugby variants adopted (and adapted) rule sets from towns that emphasized carrying the ball. Both variants of the game were called "football" because they were played on foot, rather than on horseback. I have never seen a good explanation of how gridiron football evolved from the rugby variants, although I am sure it has something to do with the introduction of playing on fields laid out with yard markers.
No, it is Amazon making the sales. The line you quoted did not actually mention the sales tax. Now unless New Jersey's taxes are even worse than I have been led to believe, Amazon does not turn over the proceeds from their sales to the state of New Jersey, only the proceeds from the sales tax they collect in New Jersey.
Actually, this may be using the hype over global warming to gather data that is useful for other things. This data should be useful for making plans for dealing with storm surge. While storm surge occurs often, it is difficult to gather data on it while it is happening because of the danger to those who attempt to actually do so. Tides happen slowly enough that untrained people can take pictures and make measurements without endangering themselves (not that it is completely safe, there are people who are foolish enough to put themselves into situations that even at the slower pace of a rising tide will put them into danger).
It will tell us how the incoming water distributes as it comes in. There are some non-intuitive ways that the flow of incoming water reacts to obstacles and other features of the land (such as low points) as a result of fluid dynamics. While our understanding of fluid dynamics can explain what happens, the complexity of the interactions with a rising tide make it impractical to fully catalog those effects in advance. The data that can be gleaned from these pictures will be useful for dealing with storm surge issues as well.
Actually, the correct expression is "get out in front". It means to act before a bad thing happens and start mitigating the consequences before they occur (which may not quite get to the gist of the meaning). The best way to describe what this idiom means is to use the type of events from which it derived. The term derives from the idea of the best way to deal with a run away horse or horse drawn carriage. The best way is to get out in front of it and either get control of it, or, if that is not possible, divert it to where it will do the least damage.
Actually, they do not tax Amazon. They get Amazon to collect the tax for them. They have been unable to get other online retailers to do the same. In most, if not all, cases, the reason they have been able to get Amazon to collect sales tax for them is because Amazon either has a clear physical presence in the state, has lost their argument in court about not having a physical nexus in the state, or cut a deal to avoid a costly legal battle over having a physical nexus in the state. Amazon is now pushing for Congress passing a law making all online retailers subject to collecting sales tax because it would give them a competitive advantage over smaller retailers.
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The ban on guns in society at large seems to work pretty well here in europe. Just because you can mention an exception doesn't mean de rule doesn't apply.
Tell that to the victims of Anders Behring Breivik.
The problem is that it is only going to be designed to weed out the for-profit colleges, whether they are diploma mills or not, and will leave the "non-profit" diploma mills untouched.
So, your argument is that the 9/11 attack only worked because it had never been tried before, but if we went back to the same airport screening as was in place on 9/11 it would work again?
You have a point, but it would only work once or twice before no one would believe them (or at least a sufficiently large fraction of the population would not believe them).
Actually, the CFPD was set up to ensure that big banks will get bailed out the next time they make a high risk gamble with other people's money and it goes bad. However, they had to give is a name that made people think it was about protecting the little guy
While the nominally capitalist societies in this world could be improved, I am sick and tired of hearing people who have never experienced true oppression compare what goes on in those countries to such...while calling for "reforming" their economies into an economy that ONLY works when there is true oprression.
Well, in today's America you are not forced to work for someone at the point of a gun AND you get to choose who you work for. In order for a planned economy to work, people need to work at the jobs they are told to work at, otherwise there will not be enough people doing the jobs that need to get done. The problem with a "planned" economy is that no group of people knows enough to make plans to address all of the needs.
If you do not know enough about economics to understand why planned economies invariably fail, this forum is too constrained for me to explain it to you (any "planned" economy that did not collapse survived because it allowed for free market work arounds).
You do know that the guy in charge is Chavez's chosen successor, right? The coup against Chavez failed and he died of natural causes. President Maduro was Chavez's Vice President and, more or less, the man whom Chavez chose to succeed him.
You are correct. What drives a planned economy is force. In other words, in a planned economy people fall into one of two groups: those who run things, and their slaves.
I saw nothing in the article that indicated that the blog was run on servers owned by the University. For that matter, if it was on University servers, there would have been no need to send a cease and desist notice.
So, they went and checked that they were not registered to vote in their parents' town? And they also checked that they did not list that town as their residence for tax purposes? You see, in most states, the laws concerning where you are supposed to register your car and where you are supposed to register to vote have similar, if not the same, criteria. What you are saying is that you are OK with college kids voting contrary to the law (or, conversely, registering their cars and their driver's licenses contrary to the law). If these college students are obeying the law regarding their driver's license AND the law regarding where they can vote, the new voter ID law should not present any problem (unless NH has laws different than the states I have lived in regarding one or both of those things and place of residence).
The reason that they want to stop college kids from voting is that college kids have a tendency to vote both where their parents live and where they go to school. The problem with stating that voter fraud is below the error level of the voting process is that we do not actually have a good way to track how much voter fraud goes on, since there are practically no systems in place to catch it (such as voter id laws). Your claim that voter fraud is below the error level of the voting process is an illustration of a classic logic flaw. It uses the absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
What, besides still being in the womb, distinguishes between a child and a foetus? I am not sure what you mean by "modal abortion age", but all over the U.S. a huge fuss was made because those evil right wingers in Texas changed the law to make it illegal to perform an abortion after week 20 of a pregnancy. How is it not at least a foetus at week 20 of the pregnancy?
Our state constitution says the right to vote is inherent in residency...
So, because someone resides in your state, they have the right to vote...even if they are not a citizen of the U.S.?
Does your state require you to register to vote? What happens if the people at the voting place who know you are not there? And since those at the polling place do not know the voters on sight, they allow someone else to vote in your name?
So, protecting an innocent child's right to life is an infringement on personal freedom now? You do know that right to life is one of the three freedoms mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as part of the justification for the American Revolution, right?
And where exactly is the right wing taking away the right to vote? Requiring that you demonstrate that you actually HAVE the right to vote is not the same as taking the right away from people. But then I guess you think it should be OK if people vote three and four times, as long as they vote the right way.
Those marshals are not a military rank.
The important question is: by how much does it increase the risk of heart disease? Does it increase the risk from 1% to 20%? Or does it raise the risk from 1% to 1.1%? Just because something increases the risk does not mean that it increases the risk by enough to justify banning it, or even enough to justify avoiding that something. In all too many of these discussions, we talk about increasing risk as something to be avoided at all costs. Sometimes, there are other factors that weigh into the decision which are more important than how much the risk of something bad happening increases, especially when that increase in risk is small, or the risk is small to begin with.
Actually, there is something to that (although it is more complex than that). The forward pass was introduced to open up the game and reduce injuries and deaths (18 college players died playing the game in 1905).
Actually, there is a very pragmatic reason that the U.S. dominates most sports it cares about. It has almost three times the population of the next country with a comparable average per capita income. In addition, the U.S. is ethnically more heterogeneous than any other country on the planet. These two factors mean that for any given activity the U.S. almost certainly has as many or more people with the inborn ability to excel at any given human activity and the money to make it worth their while to develop that ability IF sufficient numbers of people in the U.S. have an interest in that activity. This does not mean that the U.S. is better than other countries, it just means that the confluence of factors leads to there being people in the U.S. who can excel at an activity and there being, potentially, enough money to attract the best from elsewhere. No other country currently enjoys that combination.
The EU comes close to providing a similar environment, but it has greater cultural variations between its various parts than the U.S. does, at this time. In those instances where its interest in an activity crosses all, or most, of its internal borders, it is able to develop a similar position on the world stage that the U.S. does in baseball and basketball (that is, develop world class competitors and attract the best from the rest of the world).
Actually, gridiron football is called "football" because it derives from the same sport as association football does. If you go back and look at the sport as it existed before organizations started codifying the rules you will discover that different towns played the sport differently. Association football chose to adopt (and adapt) the rule sets from towns that minimized the use of the hands. The various rugby variants adopted (and adapted) rule sets from towns that emphasized carrying the ball. Both variants of the game were called "football" because they were played on foot, rather than on horseback. I have never seen a good explanation of how gridiron football evolved from the rugby variants, although I am sure it has something to do with the introduction of playing on fields laid out with yard markers.
No, it is Amazon making the sales. The line you quoted did not actually mention the sales tax. Now unless New Jersey's taxes are even worse than I have been led to believe, Amazon does not turn over the proceeds from their sales to the state of New Jersey, only the proceeds from the sales tax they collect in New Jersey.
Actually, this may be using the hype over global warming to gather data that is useful for other things. This data should be useful for making plans for dealing with storm surge. While storm surge occurs often, it is difficult to gather data on it while it is happening because of the danger to those who attempt to actually do so. Tides happen slowly enough that untrained people can take pictures and make measurements without endangering themselves (not that it is completely safe, there are people who are foolish enough to put themselves into situations that even at the slower pace of a rising tide will put them into danger).
It will tell us how the incoming water distributes as it comes in. There are some non-intuitive ways that the flow of incoming water reacts to obstacles and other features of the land (such as low points) as a result of fluid dynamics. While our understanding of fluid dynamics can explain what happens, the complexity of the interactions with a rising tide make it impractical to fully catalog those effects in advance. The data that can be gleaned from these pictures will be useful for dealing with storm surge issues as well.
Actually, the correct expression is "get out in front". It means to act before a bad thing happens and start mitigating the consequences before they occur (which may not quite get to the gist of the meaning). The best way to describe what this idiom means is to use the type of events from which it derived. The term derives from the idea of the best way to deal with a run away horse or horse drawn carriage. The best way is to get out in front of it and either get control of it, or, if that is not possible, divert it to where it will do the least damage.
Actually, they do not tax Amazon. They get Amazon to collect the tax for them. They have been unable to get other online retailers to do the same. In most, if not all, cases, the reason they have been able to get Amazon to collect sales tax for them is because Amazon either has a clear physical presence in the state, has lost their argument in court about not having a physical nexus in the state, or cut a deal to avoid a costly legal battle over having a physical nexus in the state. Amazon is now pushing for Congress passing a law making all online retailers subject to collecting sales tax because it would give them a competitive advantage over smaller retailers.