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  1. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Why is it then that the states are willing to break the law (and have) in order to get grey market prescription only drugs in order to use their cocktail rather than using nitrogen gas? Just abject stupidity?

  2. Re:Lol... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't scotchguard their pantlegs it should be OK.

  3. Re:Well, what do you expect. It's online. on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What of the emotionally strong with a sense of self-worth who figure that they can go contribute somewhere not populated with self-important assholes who never grew out of the terrible twos?

    Save the GTFOs for the assholes.

  4. Re:Lol... on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they want my piss, they can have it, but it won't be in a bottle when I give it to them.

  5. Like most twisting of various scripture, there's more than one way to do it.

    But back to the main point, many mainstream muslims view AlQaeda and ISIL much like a self-proclaimed vegan eating steak.

    It is likewise a shame to judge all Muslims based on the actions of some crazies in the Middle East.

    As for the silence, it continues. Driving through the midwest, I heard a radio preacher calling for the extermination of homosexuals. It was pretty scary stuff. Part of the silence is probably driven by being left speechless and part from not wanting to further inflame the idiots. I don't judge either Christians or mid-westerners based on him though, Every group has their crazies.

  6. They had all the trappings of the then popular secret societies but nevertheless, they were at the center a perversion of Protestantism. While most (in)famous got racism, they were also opposed to immigrants and Catholics. They also punished people they saw as flagrant sinners. The latter included bootleggers (they supported prohibition). They were very much fundamentalism gone wrong.

    They attacked Black churches because they considered them false churches (they had to be in their thinking because black people weren't of God).

    Don't you think it would be a shame to judge all Protestants based on the actions of the KKK?

  7. Re:an amazing coincidence on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the home is 2.8 times larger, but the expensive parts aren't duplicated and that's with TWO incomes. Very few can afford 10 children (even if they want to) even with two incomes.

  8. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to sit through one without fast forwarding myself. But a number of their "funny" pranks convince people shots are being fired in public places.

  9. Re:"Protecting us from real estate investors" on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Easy to say when you have all that government locking up people who might help themselves and limiting the number of people who might be desperate enough to take that wallet.

    But it occurs to me, you sure seem to feel entitled to keep your money when the taxman comes knocking. He disagrees.

  10. Re:"Protecting us from real estate investors" on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody is entitle to shit.

    Remember that when someone who needs to feed his family "finds" your wallet in your back pocket.

  11. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    High value robbery often endangers bystanders.They did their best to make people believe there was such a robbery in progress.

  12. Re:true, more increase on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And only one income was necessary.

    Based on adjusted GDP/capita, that one income should be able to buy 3 fully furnished homes, 3 cars and support 10 children by now.

  13. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a crime to deliberately put someone in reasonable fear for their life.

  14. Re:official numbers disagree. Three or four times on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much anything that involves a spreadsheet used to be done by a room full of people with adding machines lead by one higher paid person that fed them the figures.

    But if you're talking about billing, don't forget all the people typing up bills then stuffing envelopes, addressing and metering, etc. All automated now. (or eliminated along with paper costs through e-billing).

    With corporate profits at an all time high and real wages slipping against the cost of living, it's not hard to figure out who the benefits are going to.

  15. Re:The US has high labor costs on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And looking at the chart in your link, we are indeed NOT in the top 10.

  16. Re:Global economy on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    And look at how many companies that have been around "forever" are now a shell of their former selves.

  17. Re:citation needed, but possibly only wage earners on Tesla's New Factory Project Imported Foreign Laborers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    If nobody benefits then it was a malinvestment. But the vast majority of investments aren't like that. One guy using a $600 PC does the work of a roomfull of guys with adding machines, but that guy doesn't get paid more than one of those adding machine guys once you adjust for inflation.

  18. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see that viewpoint. It was on the edge so while it is legally in the clear, some may see it as over the line.

    Of course, we have to consider it in the social context of it's time as well.

  19. Re:Top people are completely replacable on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I never claimed no work was involved. Some work very hard, but that isn't enough to get there without dumb luck and sometimes psychopathy.

    Some did it through hard work and dumb luck without the psychopathy.

  20. They, like ISIL and Al-Qaeda claim that they are driven by their religious beliefs and justified by scripture. In all three cases, the members of the relevant mainstream religion wish they would stop giving them a bad name.

    That thing the KKK used to burn in people's yards wasn't a lower case t.

  21. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    >Making others believe they were in the middle of a dangerous situation.

  22. Re:Famous last words... on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The suicide prank was on the edge, but still on the legal (and tasteful) side since it didn't cause anyone to reasonably believe their life was in danger. If you find yourself in the midst of a "robbery", it is not at all unreasonable to feel that you are in danger.

  23. Re:Arrested for Violating the Strange-Sketch-Act on Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Semprini!

  24. I forget, when is it the KKK disbanded again?

    every religion has it's nuts.

  25. Re:Top people are completely replacable on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not so much merit as the right combination of psychopathy and dumb luck.