A single place where internet costs more than the USA for comparable service does little to help the fact the three American cities on the list are among the most expensive. Americans pay far more for slower internet than the vast majority of the world. The repeal of net neutrality just made overall costs worse, expect to pay even more for services in the future as companies take fast lane fees and pass them back to consumers.
I always find it difficult to determine what is more wasteful and corrupt - politicans that pretend to represent people but who just turn around and take bribes to sell out the public to corporations and are never held accountable - or the corporations themselves who steal, launder massive amounts of money, collude to rob people blind, extract as much money as possible for a few executives and shareholders, and are never held accountable. I'm starting to think that there is some slim hope of reforming government, but not corporations until the goal of maximum profit is removed as the foundation.
The obvious answer to whataboutism is to hold everyone accountable. It doesn't work when my 3 year old tried to use it so why should adults get a pass?
Classified data is secretly marked with small changes to the material depending on who accessed it. It could be a few revealing pixels, or some minor phrasing, spelling, and/or punctuation. Making a lower fidelity copy of images and adding some noise to it can remove most of the identifying information. Rephrasing and summarizing text would erase most all of the identifying information as well. Or you could access it through another persons credentials without their knowledge and throw them under the bus. Without knowing the exact methods used it's still risky in any case.
IOW, you cannot provide EVIDENCE that something DIDN'T occur.
You can prove something didn't happen. For example, person X didn't go inside the bank lobby between 1 and 3pm. however that person was in jail with a constant video feed, thus assuring that it didnt happen.
With respect to something not repeatable, like the earths climate, on one hand you can't run multiple trials, but on the other hand it's disingenuous, ignorant, and in blatant denial of reality to say we can make no claims or predictions. Adding CO2 and methane are easily shown by repeatable experiment to increase the worlds temperature. If someone wanted to make a scientific claim as to why they wouldn't, in practice, they would need to actually come up with a better explanation, say some feedback mechanism such as increased cloud cover, or plant growth. But to just hand wave it away without a rational explanation is moronic and may simply be dismissed without evidence.
Even standard fasteners can be a major pain. I had a 70s Honda motorcycle that I was able to pick up salvaged, it was my first motorcycle that I ever bought. ALL the engine bolts were stripped. They use #3 Phillips heads on most of the engine, however most people are only familiar with #2. Because of this, most older hondas engine bolts got stripped like well paid escorts. Incidentally, that was when I also learned the trick of hammering a flat blade screwdriver, or chisel, into the side of the fastner, turning it at an angle, then impacting it in the direction to loosen it.
For profit capitalist health care pushes drugs in a way that would make any street dealer proud. It treats conditions because a cure or prevention, doubly so an easy one, has no profit by comparison. The entire opioid epidemic was manufactured and this is all according to plan, including not being held accountable and then profiting further on the treatment for addiction.
We pay double the normal price, plus pay insurance middle men on top, that's why it's unaffordable. Maybe try not waging 8 simultaneous wars spending 1 1/2 times what Iraq 1 cost all to make a few oil companies, mining companies, and millitary contractors rich. America has spent 6.5 trillion on the failed war on terror. Cut the millitary to a third, price cap and socialize the medical and pharmaceutical costs, it can be done. In fact there are 20 some countries doing it right now. There would be money left over for free college and infrastructure free college would but the millitary because no more GI bill recruits. The real reason we can't do it, besides the short term losses in gutting all insurance and limiting medical industry profits, is republicans and libertarians would explode, covering North America 6 feet deep in salty free market tears.
Maybe, just maybe, for profit capitalistic health care isn't working. Americans pay double for worse outcomes than socialized systems. Many can't afford it, and the insurance middle men take in 800 billion a year with 100 billion in unnecessary salaries, expenses, and profits. The system rewards treatments for conditions and not cures or prevention. This is the biggest reason why the US is so far behind Slovenia, and why it will never be #1.
Get the money out. America is a republic, the citizens are supposed to elect representatives. We now have unlimited dark money from PACs on top of other loopholes to donate huge sums of money to politicans. Some politicans are funded less than 3% by small donations and it's the money that plays the largest role in getting elected in the majority of cases. However with a first past the post it devolved into two parties, whose ruling members stamp out any non-corporate leaning competition, it makes it very difficult for a canidate of the people to actually get elected in a large election. Change the system to tax based public financing only, no donations or lobbying, crack down hard on in kind favors and contributions. That alone would see massive improvements. Use rank choice voting, people get a better say in who they want, for example putting trump or Hillary or both at the bottom, and it undermines the two party duopoly. Something needs to be done because Americas rotting from the inside and it's smelling up the entire planet.
Rather than futz with a k-cup reusable insert, I just use an espresso maker and put in the coffee of my choice. The one I have fits a full size mug and is inexpensive and quick.
The root of all of these problems is that bribery is legal in the US. I would imagine that we have probably the most corrupt government in the modern world. Make bribery illegal again, and most of these problems would (eventually) go away, because we'd have a government that represented the citizens again.
Precisely this. The party dosent matter. Go to opensecrets.org and look at your representatives funding. If small donations are lower than 50%, they won't care too much but will maintain some interests if not in direct conflict with the majority donors. Under 25% and you may get a few bones on top of a couple of core issues only. Under 10% and things get grim, you are probably going to be completely sold out. Under 3% lol, just lol. You are no longer represented at all.
There is no vehicle you loose brakes on if you kill the engine. You just loose power steering, which is a given as that is engine driven.
Off button only vehicles should definitely be illegal. On top of that there should be a mandate for fuel cut off valves, ones that requires electricity to open, especially on any diesel vehicle.
And. You lose power steering and power brakes. When the vacuum goes so do your power brakes and it becomes
Very very hard to stop many types of vehicles.
Sounded like the ignition on/off button was not responsive. Plus, on many vehicles, if you turn it off you lose power steering and brakes. Or worse, the steering column locks.
synonyms: law(s), body of laws, rules, rulings, regulations, acts, bills, statutes, enactments, ordinances
"pushing for stronger gun legislation"
So rulings would be reasonably covered as a synonym.
Most legislation has the opposite meaning or is arcanely worded
Right to work - delegitimize unions
Patriot Act - Unconstitutional spying and removal of citizen rights
Citizens United - legal bribery, constituents no longer represented
Defense of marriage act - restrict marriage to same sex only
Internet Freedom Act - attempted to repeal net neutrality
Centralizing control of AI to a handful of individuals will also make inequality far, far worse. Not having ownership of this increased productivity and capability means a larger and larger chunk of the value this work generates will fall into just a few hands. This will be a nightmare scenario when in 50 or 100 or X years when we finally have a general purpose humanoid android that can do nearly all human like tasks, but in many cases far more effectively and in all cases far cheaper. Where will blue and white collar workers go when a general purpose replacement can do anything and 6 people in the world own it all?
Here is where it happened. Use satellite and street view. She crossed on the red path in the middle where, according to reddit users, many cross. Note the yield to bikes as the right lane is a bike lane, she was half in this lane when she was hit if you bothered to watch the actual darkened video uber released. So despite crossing legally, in a non-designated area, where there was a sign pointing people to the cross walk (precisely becase so many people cross there) the car hit her. Had this been a regular car with the same footage - no swerving, no speed change, just plowing full speed into a pedestrian walking a bicycle, the driver would be facing criminal charges of man slaughter.
Not suprising as it is also thought to have created a tsunami 330 feet tall along the coasts of Texas and flordia, but as high as 2.9 miles in deep ocean. It is 12 miles deep and 93 miles in diameter. It's pretty amazing as you can date the effects in many areas by the layer of material it spread over the whole world. Good thing these giant impacts are extremely rare because if we spot it late there is jack squat we could do.
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A single place where internet costs more than the USA for comparable service does little to help the fact the three American cities on the list are among the most expensive. Americans pay far more for slower internet than the vast majority of the world. The repeal of net neutrality just made overall costs worse, expect to pay even more for services in the future as companies take fast lane fees and pass them back to consumers.
I always find it difficult to determine what is more wasteful and corrupt - politicans that pretend to represent people but who just turn around and take bribes to sell out the public to corporations and are never held accountable - or the corporations themselves who steal, launder massive amounts of money, collude to rob people blind, extract as much money as possible for a few executives and shareholders, and are never held accountable.
I'm starting to think that there is some slim hope of reforming government, but not corporations until the goal of maximum profit is removed as the foundation.
Blockchain 2, the flamethrower!
The obvious answer to whataboutism is to hold everyone accountable. It doesn't work when my 3 year old tried to use it so why should adults get a pass?
Classified data is secretly marked with small changes to the material depending on who accessed it. It could be a few revealing pixels, or some minor phrasing, spelling, and/or punctuation. Making a lower fidelity copy of images and adding some noise to it can remove most of the identifying information. Rephrasing and summarizing text would erase most all of the identifying information as well. Or you could access it through another persons credentials without their knowledge and throw them under the bus. Without knowing the exact methods used it's still risky in any case.
IOW, you cannot provide EVIDENCE that something DIDN'T occur.
You can prove something didn't happen. For example, person X didn't go inside the bank lobby between 1 and 3pm. however that person was in jail with a constant video feed, thus assuring that it didnt happen.
With respect to something not repeatable, like the earths climate, on one hand you can't run multiple trials, but on the other hand it's disingenuous, ignorant, and in blatant denial of reality to say we can make no claims or predictions. Adding CO2 and methane are easily shown by repeatable experiment to increase the worlds temperature. If someone wanted to make a scientific claim as to why they wouldn't, in practice, they would need to actually come up with a better explanation, say some feedback mechanism such as increased cloud cover, or plant growth. But to just hand wave it away without a rational explanation is moronic and may simply be dismissed without evidence.
But there'd still be the possibility of the bad guys choosing the correct finger before enough successful panic-swipes.
Plot twist, all 10 fingers are invalid, the body part that actually unlocks it is left up to the readers imagination.
At least it stopped automatically for the cops.
Even standard fasteners can be a major pain. I had a 70s Honda motorcycle that I was able to pick up salvaged, it was my first motorcycle that I ever bought. ALL the engine bolts were stripped. They use #3 Phillips heads on most of the engine, however most people are only familiar with #2. Because of this, most older hondas engine bolts got stripped like well paid escorts. Incidentally, that was when I also learned the trick of hammering a flat blade screwdriver, or chisel, into the side of the fastner, turning it at an angle, then impacting it in the direction to loosen it.
For profit capitalist health care pushes drugs in a way that would make any street dealer proud. It treats conditions because a cure or prevention, doubly so an easy one, has no profit by comparison. The entire opioid epidemic was manufactured and this is all according to plan, including not being held accountable and then profiting further on the treatment for addiction.
We pay double the normal price, plus pay insurance middle men on top, that's why it's unaffordable. Maybe try not waging 8 simultaneous wars spending 1 1/2 times what Iraq 1 cost all to make a few oil companies, mining companies, and millitary contractors rich. America has spent 6.5 trillion on the failed war on terror. Cut the millitary to a third, price cap and socialize the medical and pharmaceutical costs, it can be done. In fact there are 20 some countries doing it right now. There would be money left over for free college and infrastructure free college would but the millitary because no more GI bill recruits. The real reason we can't do it, besides the short term losses in gutting all insurance and limiting medical industry profits, is republicans and libertarians would explode, covering North America 6 feet deep in salty free market tears.
Maybe, just maybe, for profit capitalistic health care isn't working. Americans pay double for worse outcomes than socialized systems. Many can't afford it, and the insurance middle men take in 800 billion a year with 100 billion in unnecessary salaries, expenses, and profits. The system rewards treatments for conditions and not cures or prevention. This is the biggest reason why the US is so far behind Slovenia, and why it will never be #1.
Get the money out. America is a republic, the citizens are supposed to elect representatives. We now have unlimited dark money from PACs on top of other loopholes to donate huge sums of money to politicans. Some politicans are funded less than 3% by small donations and it's the money that plays the largest role in getting elected in the majority of cases. However with a first past the post it devolved into two parties, whose ruling members stamp out any non-corporate leaning competition, it makes it very difficult for a canidate of the people to actually get elected in a large election. Change the system to tax based public financing only, no donations or lobbying, crack down hard on in kind favors and contributions. That alone would see massive improvements. Use rank choice voting, people get a better say in who they want, for example putting trump or Hillary or both at the bottom, and it undermines the two party duopoly. Something needs to be done because Americas rotting from the inside and it's smelling up the entire planet.
Rather than futz with a k-cup reusable insert, I just use an espresso maker and put in the coffee of my choice. The one I have fits a full size mug and is inexpensive and quick.
The root of all of these problems is that bribery is legal in the US. I would imagine that we have probably the most corrupt government in the modern world. Make bribery illegal again, and most of these problems would (eventually) go away, because we'd have a government that represented the citizens again.
Precisely this. The party dosent matter. Go to opensecrets.org and look at your representatives funding. If small donations are lower than 50%, they won't care too much but will maintain some interests if not in direct conflict with the majority donors. Under 25% and you may get a few bones on top of a couple of core issues only. Under 10% and things get grim, you are probably going to be completely sold out. Under 3% lol, just lol. You are no longer represented at all.
There is no vehicle you loose brakes on if you kill the engine. You just loose power steering, which is a given as that is engine driven.
Off button only vehicles should definitely be illegal. On top of that there should be a mandate for fuel cut off valves, ones that requires electricity to open, especially on any diesel vehicle.
And. You lose power steering and power brakes. When the vacuum goes so do your power brakes and it becomes Very very hard to stop many types of vehicles.
Go into neutral and turn off the car?
Sounded like the ignition on/off button was not responsive. Plus, on many vehicles, if you turn it off you lose power steering and brakes. Or worse, the steering column locks.
legislation
noun. laws, considered collectively
synonyms: law(s), body of laws, rules, rulings, regulations, acts, bills, statutes, enactments, ordinances "pushing for stronger gun legislation" So rulings would be reasonably covered as a synonym.
Most legislation has the opposite meaning or is arcanely worded
Right to work - delegitimize unions
Patriot Act - Unconstitutional spying and removal of citizen rights
Citizens United - legal bribery, constituents no longer represented
Defense of marriage act - restrict marriage to same sex only
Internet Freedom Act - attempted to repeal net neutrality
Good, now we just need to do something about swat teams busting in and shooting up the place when no one is armed or dangerous.
Altering the course of the meteor? It doesn't need much change of its course if it is detected early enough.
Yep. If we have a few decades warning it wouldn't be that hard. Simply impacting it with a small probe could even be enough if it's solid.
Centralizing control of AI to a handful of individuals will also make inequality far, far worse. Not having ownership of this increased productivity and capability means a larger and larger chunk of the value this work generates will fall into just a few hands. This will be a nightmare scenario when in 50 or 100 or X years when we finally have a general purpose humanoid android that can do nearly all human like tasks, but in many cases far more effectively and in all cases far cheaper. Where will blue and white collar workers go when a general purpose replacement can do anything and 6 people in the world own it all?
I didn't realize steampunk ran on python. You learn something new every day.
Here is where it happened. Use satellite and street view. She crossed on the red path in the middle where, according to reddit users, many cross. Note the yield to bikes as the right lane is a bike lane, she was half in this lane when she was hit if you bothered to watch the actual darkened video uber released. So despite crossing legally, in a non-designated area, where there was a sign pointing people to the cross walk (precisely becase so many people cross there) the car hit her. Had this been a regular car with the same footage - no swerving, no speed change, just plowing full speed into a pedestrian walking a bicycle, the driver would be facing criminal charges of man slaughter.
Not suprising as it is also thought to have created a tsunami 330 feet tall along the coasts of Texas and flordia, but as high as 2.9 miles in deep ocean. It is 12 miles deep and 93 miles in diameter. It's pretty amazing as you can date the effects in many areas by the layer of material it spread over the whole world. Good thing these giant impacts are extremely rare because if we spot it late there is jack squat we could do.