Colleges have learned and adapted to the free market system...
I'll stop you right there. With the number of federal, state, and local subsidies in the form of the subsidized federal student loan program (which, for full disclosure, I participated in), and merit- and need-based grants unbalancing the supply of funding for college, we don't have a free market. And it is because of all the extra money made available by the government interference in the marketplace that has helped to drive college costs even higher than they might be otherwise. It's the law of supply and demand -- the schools want (or need if they want to maintain their current size) to soak up the supply of extra money. Without these programs, colleges and universities would have to price their offerings to be more affordable in order to compete with each other and other continuing education programs like trade schools.
You've just compared *all* homicides between two countries, as opposed to *gun* homicides to attempt to explain how it's a *gun* problem in one of those countries. I'll leave it to you to work out the flaws in that argument.
Are economic ones the only roles that society has?
You may not think of it as such, but *everything* is an economic transaction or endeavor, since at its core, economics is the study of dealing with scarcity: of time, of resources, of personnel, etc.
I fail to see what's crazy about keeping food, potable water, and other supplies around in case of catastrophe. They're self-starters, and don't want to rely on a government that might take a long time to get themselves in gear (if they're able to do anything at all) in cases of natural disaster and such.
"Vegan egg substitute" may be one of the more off-putting "food" ideas I've ever read about.
There was an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown used avocados to replace the eggs in certain recipes, including for ice cream. Depending on how you feel about avocados, it's doable.
I have no experience camping, so I'll not comment on the ease of working out in the wilderness like this, but I have recently been involved in a project to have a rechargeable cart using a pair of marine batteries to power a laptop (a Toughbook, in fact) and document scanner. Some posters suggested using car batteries and an inverter, but the batteries are a DC power source, and your Toughbook's power input is also DC. Your laptop's power brick converts the AC current from your wall outlet or an inverter into DC, meaning you'd be converting from 12 VDC to 120VAC to ~15.6VDC (with the attendant changes in Amperage) again. This process consumes additional Watts of power above what is needed to run the laptop. Wiring a 12 Volt "cigarette lighter" socket to the battery, and using a car adapter for your laptop would be much more efficient because it removes the middle step, so I'd avoid an inverter unless you need to run other equipment on it.
Judging from the trailers, it seems that the title is nonetheless appropriate, as multiple characters have prosthetic limbs. Knowing Kojima's body of work, the title is deliberate and thematic.
Charities are also the least efficient way to assist because of their overhead
Right, because government doesn't ever use money in a horribly inefficient manner. Government is the heavyweight champion of overhead.
You didn't earn what you own without assistance no matter what you think. Society enabled you to do it and only expects you to reciprocate if you stay. If you decide to leave when you've just reached working age, you're a massive net recipient of what was funded through taxes.
This is horse crap. Business owners didn't use government largess to get ahead; they paid for the roads, infrastructure, and services it in taxes and fees, sometimes multiple times on the same earnings, because the government likes nothing better than to take multiple bites from the apple. And their success (not to mention the tax dollars taken as rake) would have been non-existent if it were not for their effort and ingenuity.
Stop shooting who aren't armed; if he isn't pointing a gun at you, he's not armed.
Because only guns are deadly weapons, right? Not knives, machetes, baseball bats, etc. Get a clue.
You also make the mistake of insisting cops shoot only when their *own* life is in danger ("if he isn't pointing a gun at YOU" emphasis mine).
I'm not familiar with GitHub's culture, but perhaps I should be concerned that these sorts of problems even come up in a community about *software development*. Why does anyone's race, gender, orientation, etc. even enter into it?
Do you really you think an Uber taxi monopoly is somehow better than a local government one...
You are incorrectly assuming Uber will be a monopoly, possibly just because the taxi cartel was one. Uber already has competition in this very same marketplace from Lyft. Furthermore, just because the taxi companies' current monopoly would be broken doesn't mean the taxi companies simply go away. They can adapt their model to compete with Uber and Lyft. There's room for more than one revenue model in the marketplace, but the government needs to back down the level of regulation so that people have room to innovate and try new ways of doing things.
and in most of the US, its borderline illegal to even MENTION JN in court. judges will kick you out, lock you up, threaten you, try to scare you. voire dire does all it can to try to reject jurors that even KNOW what JN is. and if you tell them during VD that you don't know what JN is and then later, they find out you do, you are in contempt.
its all neatly stacked up so that your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS are not vocalized or listed or communicated to you.
"nice liberty you got there; would be a shame if something were to happen to it"
In one jury I sat on the judge mentioned jury nullification to us as a reason juries were important as a check on the uncontrolled power of the state. In fact, the most famous case affirming the people's right to enter a not guilty verdict at their discretion involves the founder of my hometown, Philadelphia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The most incredible thing is there's a piece of legislation titled the "Protect Our Children Act". Unsurprisingly it's being used to "track" "terrorists"
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation whose title includes "Children", "Homeland", "Security", "Safety", "Protect", "Patriot", "Freedom", "Motherhood" or "Kittens".
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation... FULL STOP.
There. It's fixed.
If I had mod points to give, you and the parent to your post would have them. The Tea Party was seen as a threat to the passage of Obamacare, and later to President Obama's re-election, so IRS officials (not necessarily acting under the administration's direct orders, but I wouldn't be surprised either) went ahead and tied up conservative political organizations in bureaucratic red tape. This is *fact*. Giving government this kind of unchecked power stifles the people's participation in their governance.
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Colleges have learned and adapted to the free market system...
I'll stop you right there. With the number of federal, state, and local subsidies in the form of the subsidized federal student loan program (which, for full disclosure, I participated in), and merit- and need-based grants unbalancing the supply of funding for college, we don't have a free market. And it is because of all the extra money made available by the government interference in the marketplace that has helped to drive college costs even higher than they might be otherwise. It's the law of supply and demand -- the schools want (or need if they want to maintain their current size) to soak up the supply of extra money. Without these programs, colleges and universities would have to price their offerings to be more affordable in order to compete with each other and other continuing education programs like trade schools.
You've just compared *all* homicides between two countries, as opposed to *gun* homicides to attempt to explain how it's a *gun* problem in one of those countries. I'll leave it to you to work out the flaws in that argument.
Are economic ones the only roles that society has?
You may not think of it as such, but *everything* is an economic transaction or endeavor, since at its core, economics is the study of dealing with scarcity: of time, of resources, of personnel, etc.
Because we have labor laws that didn't exist during Victorian times.
I fail to see what's crazy about keeping food, potable water, and other supplies around in case of catastrophe. They're self-starters, and don't want to rely on a government that might take a long time to get themselves in gear (if they're able to do anything at all) in cases of natural disaster and such.
"Vegan egg substitute" may be one of the more off-putting "food" ideas I've ever read about.
There was an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown used avocados to replace the eggs in certain recipes, including for ice cream. Depending on how you feel about avocados, it's doable.
No. Suck it up.
I have no experience camping, so I'll not comment on the ease of working out in the wilderness like this, but I have recently been involved in a project to have a rechargeable cart using a pair of marine batteries to power a laptop (a Toughbook, in fact) and document scanner. Some posters suggested using car batteries and an inverter, but the batteries are a DC power source, and your Toughbook's power input is also DC. Your laptop's power brick converts the AC current from your wall outlet or an inverter into DC, meaning you'd be converting from 12 VDC to 120VAC to ~15.6VDC (with the attendant changes in Amperage) again. This process consumes additional Watts of power above what is needed to run the laptop. Wiring a 12 Volt "cigarette lighter" socket to the battery, and using a car adapter for your laptop would be much more efficient because it removes the middle step, so I'd avoid an inverter unless you need to run other equipment on it.
Judging from the trailers, it seems that the title is nonetheless appropriate, as multiple characters have prosthetic limbs. Knowing Kojima's body of work, the title is deliberate and thematic.
Bush stated he refused to provide help because he doesn't like black people.
I wish I weren't out of mod points... Put up or shut up. Show me where Dubya said anything of the sort. He didn't. Troll.
This was hundreds of years ago. Why has nobody yet learned that government intervention with the free market results in disaster?
Because reducing government intervention in the free market is unprofitable for government/politicians.
are you evil, or do you support this program?
look directly at the camera while you answer, citizen 0xfeb928428a
-LT (my -1 Karma is better than yours)
No.
Charities are also the least efficient way to assist because of their overhead
Right, because government doesn't ever use money in a horribly inefficient manner. Government is the heavyweight champion of overhead.
You didn't earn what you own without assistance no matter what you think. Society enabled you to do it and only expects you to reciprocate if you stay. If you decide to leave when you've just reached working age, you're a massive net recipient of what was funded through taxes.
This is horse crap. Business owners didn't use government largess to get ahead; they paid for the roads, infrastructure, and services it in taxes and fees, sometimes multiple times on the same earnings, because the government likes nothing better than to take multiple bites from the apple. And their success (not to mention the tax dollars taken as rake) would have been non-existent if it were not for their effort and ingenuity.
Don't give government too much power, and then politicians don't attract rich donors. Less influence = less influence to peddle.
Good luck, pal. They're probably armed.
Because only guns are deadly weapons, right? Not knives, machetes, baseball bats, etc. Get a clue. You also make the mistake of insisting cops shoot only when their *own* life is in danger ("if he isn't pointing a gun at YOU" emphasis mine).
I'm not familiar with GitHub's culture, but perhaps I should be concerned that these sorts of problems even come up in a community about *software development*. Why does anyone's race, gender, orientation, etc. even enter into it?
Do you really you think an Uber taxi monopoly is somehow better than a local government one...
You are incorrectly assuming Uber will be a monopoly, possibly just because the taxi cartel was one. Uber already has competition in this very same marketplace from Lyft. Furthermore, just because the taxi companies' current monopoly would be broken doesn't mean the taxi companies simply go away. They can adapt their model to compete with Uber and Lyft. There's room for more than one revenue model in the marketplace, but the government needs to back down the level of regulation so that people have room to innovate and try new ways of doing things.
Or maybe Bush was the mask. Did you consider that?
GAME OVER "Snake?! Snaaaaaaaaaaaake!"
There is no such thing as "renewable" energy. It's only a goddamn law of thermodynamics.
Wow. Second post in the thread and it's already the hands-down winner of the "Pendantic Dipshit" award.
Do I get the Pedantic and Off-Topic Dipshit award for pointing out that there's no such thing as inorganic produce? :)
and in most of the US, its borderline illegal to even MENTION JN in court. judges will kick you out, lock you up, threaten you, try to scare you. voire dire does all it can to try to reject jurors that even KNOW what JN is. and if you tell them during VD that you don't know what JN is and then later, they find out you do, you are in contempt.
its all neatly stacked up so that your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS are not vocalized or listed or communicated to you.
"nice liberty you got there; would be a shame if something were to happen to it"
In one jury I sat on the judge mentioned jury nullification to us as a reason juries were important as a check on the uncontrolled power of the state. In fact, the most famous case affirming the people's right to enter a not guilty verdict at their discretion involves the founder of my hometown, Philadelphia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The most incredible thing is there's a piece of legislation titled the "Protect Our Children Act". Unsurprisingly it's being used to "track" "terrorists"
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation whose title includes "Children", "Homeland", "Security", "Safety", "Protect", "Patriot", "Freedom", "Motherhood" or "Kittens".
You should IMMEDIATELY be suspicious of any legislation... FULL STOP. There. It's fixed.
If I had mod points to give, you and the parent to your post would have them. The Tea Party was seen as a threat to the passage of Obamacare, and later to President Obama's re-election, so IRS officials (not necessarily acting under the administration's direct orders, but I wouldn't be surprised either) went ahead and tied up conservative political organizations in bureaucratic red tape. This is *fact*. Giving government this kind of unchecked power stifles the people's participation in their governance.
To paraphrase Tony Stark, "Can't it be both?"