Does it matter? This is bringing in partisan politics. It's a disgrace in this country, and most countries. We should care about the citizens, not whether our side won or their side won. Ie, the decision about what to do should always be "is this the right thing to do" and never "which team is going to gain an advantage?"
As I see it the decision to do this may likely have been based on choosing teams; but the criticism against it is also about choosing teams. Where are the ones asking whether or not it's the right thing to do?
It's all the same thing. Globalists who want their global powers to be in charge, and globalist who want a different group of global powers to be in charge. And conspiracy theorists who claim even other global powers are really in control, but really it's which corporate powers you want to be in charge.
Convicted felons can have the right to vote, it's up to the individual states. The right to vote is more important than the right to prevent people you don't like from voting.
Tricking old people is a very popular business model these days. Amazon for instance has "click here for FREE shipping!" and then if you click you get a trial Amazon Prime account, and if you don't notice you get charged at the end of the month. Cancelling this trial can be tricky, I tried to cancel my mother's prime account but it had not verified the credit card on file yet (which was also outdated) so there was no option to cancel. Instead I removed all cards from the account (almost mandatory because a cat walking across the keyboard could cost you a lot of one-click purchases). The next day the trial account was bitching and whining that there was no valid card on file and to PLEASE add a new one. It still has not given up and is whining about an invalid card a week later. Unsurprisingly you can find a lot of people online also complaining that their elderly parents were paying for Prime who don't remember signing up for it.
My mother was getting the Windows 10 update, but we cancelled it before it was done. She had very very slow internet so it was taking several days for it to download.
I have noticed that Adobe Flash is no longer doing the "install MacAffee" checkbox that's pre-checked, maybe they got enough complaints that someone with a conscience finally removed it. Meanwhile Avast still tries to trick people into installing Chrome when they upgrade their antivirus.
He sounds typical of the sort of guy who thinks what he rights at work should be his own property. And also typical of a fired-for-cause worker who won't just let things go and try to fix the problems that got him fired in the first place. People like that are why so many people are escorted out by security when there are layoffs.
The biggest sign of extremism for me is when someone takes a stand and declares their side to be the right one and the other side to be the wrong one. Loyalty to a party of faction should come dead last in priorities, Put loyalty to fellow citizens first, even if they have different political stances.
There are good professional 3d printers. They're very useful and they've been around for some time. Makerbot though is not all that good. I didn't understand why people liked it so much when the output was so mediocre. Yes it's affordable in the home, but there's not a lot you can do with it either.
What are they going to make though? Mostly toys. You can make lumps of plastic basically. A professional 3d printer for use by professionals makes models and mockups, not something someone off the street is going to want or need.
By essentially blackmailing a defense contractor. Sure, it works, but you can't do this large scale. And threatening to take away some business with government if they don't do what they're told elsewhere is what many leftist/socialist governments do to force businesses to fall in line, which seems somewhat ironic here.
It's not free on Amazon Prime. You have to pay for that. True, there are shows on Amazon Prime where you have to pay extra but that's not the same as the other shows being free. It's $99 a year or $10 a month or something like that.
Right to privacy usually extends beyond that. The right to be secure in your houses, papers, and effects may or may not apply to spying on someone in thse street. "Unreasonable" is also a very fluid word that changes meaning depending upon the current mood in the country (ie, fear of terrorism may mean the public thinks it is reasonable to search phone records). Also the 4th amendment is a restriction to the government, but is not generally taken to prevent others from doing the spying, such as by newspapers, employers, ISPs, corporations.
I don't understand what you're saying. Could you please present your views using PowerPoint slides? (well actually I'll only look at the first slide and then sleep through the rest)
No, we just got a majority is all. Current politics means there are two and only two positions on every issue, and legislators usually vote in lock step with their party overlords. 50%+1 is all you need. Thus one side wins or the other side wins, always, since a tie means that the side opposed is the winner. If congress did not pass this law then perhaps you could say tthat congress managed to agree to not pass the law?
The US does not have an official right to privacy. It wants to snoop on your ISP also and the hurdle to implementing this is not the constitution but rather the unwillingness of congress to grant this power to the executive all at once. Overall I'd say some European countries actually give more rights than Americans, just a slightly different set.
True, it did take time for the bill of rights to be considered applicable to the various states as well. For all the people out there who go on and on about how the US is the greatest country ever and that the constitution was divinely inspired are overlooking all the major flaws in the constitution.
Your rights aren't guaranteed, meaning they can be abridged or ignored by the government and there's nothing you can really do about it as an individual. You have to rise up as a group to prevent this erosion, by voting for people who uphold rights, to protest when violations occur, and to push back when needed. Instead the population is more passive now, we've been told that we should be scared of terrorists so we've become willing to lose our rights and freedoms as long as the government promises to get rid of the bogeymen. After all, everyone is a big fan of rights for him or herself but it's rarer to be a fan of rights for people you don't like.
The bill of rights are something of an anomaly, because the American colonies were not supporters of rights for individuals. The rights snuck their way in because the people who approved them for the most part thought that they wouldn't apply to other people, like slaves, or women, or foreigners, or other political parties, etc. Even the founding fathers and the earliest congresses were busy violating rights when they could.
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Does it matter? This is bringing in partisan politics. It's a disgrace in this country, and most countries. We should care about the citizens, not whether our side won or their side won. Ie, the decision about what to do should always be "is this the right thing to do" and never "which team is going to gain an advantage?"
As I see it the decision to do this may likely have been based on choosing teams; but the criticism against it is also about choosing teams. Where are the ones asking whether or not it's the right thing to do?
So all the ex convicts voted as a bloc?
That's no how neurons work. They fire with different amounts. More like transistors than switches.
It's all the same thing. Globalists who want their global powers to be in charge, and globalist who want a different group of global powers to be in charge. And conspiracy theorists who claim even other global powers are really in control, but really it's which corporate powers you want to be in charge.
Convicted felons can have the right to vote, it's up to the individual states. The right to vote is more important than the right to prevent people you don't like from voting.
Tricking old people is a very popular business model these days. Amazon for instance has "click here for FREE shipping!" and then if you click you get a trial Amazon Prime account, and if you don't notice you get charged at the end of the month. Cancelling this trial can be tricky, I tried to cancel my mother's prime account but it had not verified the credit card on file yet (which was also outdated) so there was no option to cancel. Instead I removed all cards from the account (almost mandatory because a cat walking across the keyboard could cost you a lot of one-click purchases). The next day the trial account was bitching and whining that there was no valid card on file and to PLEASE add a new one. It still has not given up and is whining about an invalid card a week later. Unsurprisingly you can find a lot of people online also complaining that their elderly parents were paying for Prime who don't remember signing up for it.
My mother was getting the Windows 10 update, but we cancelled it before it was done. She had very very slow internet so it was taking several days for it to download.
I have noticed that Adobe Flash is no longer doing the "install MacAffee" checkbox that's pre-checked, maybe they got enough complaints that someone with a conscience finally removed it. Meanwhile Avast still tries to trick people into installing Chrome when they upgrade their antivirus.
Or Judge Dread. Rude boys don't cry!
He sounds typical of the sort of guy who thinks what he rights at work should be his own property. And also typical of a fired-for-cause worker who won't just let things go and try to fix the problems that got him fired in the first place. People like that are why so many people are escorted out by security when there are layoffs.
Seriously, drugs have a use-by date, after that you should be tossing them out.
Trump said there were millions! We know he never lies or exaggerates. So where are they?
Not anti-establishment, but those who want to establish their own establishment.
The biggest sign of extremism for me is when someone takes a stand and declares their side to be the right one and the other side to be the wrong one. Loyalty to a party of faction should come dead last in priorities, Put loyalty to fellow citizens first, even if they have different political stances.
A precision part can be hard, but for a lot of other things you can just use a piece of sturdy plastic or metal and a Dremel.
There are good professional 3d printers. They're very useful and they've been around for some time. Makerbot though is not all that good. I didn't understand why people liked it so much when the output was so mediocre. Yes it's affordable in the home, but there's not a lot you can do with it either.
What are they going to make though? Mostly toys. You can make lumps of plastic basically. A professional 3d printer for use by professionals makes models and mockups, not something someone off the street is going to want or need.
By essentially blackmailing a defense contractor. Sure, it works, but you can't do this large scale. And threatening to take away some business with government if they don't do what they're told elsewhere is what many leftist/socialist governments do to force businesses to fall in line, which seems somewhat ironic here.
It's not free on Amazon Prime. You have to pay for that. True, there are shows on Amazon Prime where you have to pay extra but that's not the same as the other shows being free. It's $99 a year or $10 a month or something like that.
No, if the show is good and the price is inexpensive, then people MAY pay for the rest. However the prices are absurd at the moment.
No commercials on netflix so that's ok too. And no facebook.
Right to privacy usually extends beyond that. The right to be secure in your houses, papers, and effects may or may not apply to spying on someone in thse street. "Unreasonable" is also a very fluid word that changes meaning depending upon the current mood in the country (ie, fear of terrorism may mean the public thinks it is reasonable to search phone records). Also the 4th amendment is a restriction to the government, but is not generally taken to prevent others from doing the spying, such as by newspapers, employers, ISPs, corporations.
I don't understand what you're saying. Could you please present your views using PowerPoint slides? (well actually I'll only look at the first slide and then sleep through the rest)
No, we just got a majority is all. Current politics means there are two and only two positions on every issue, and legislators usually vote in lock step with their party overlords. 50%+1 is all you need. Thus one side wins or the other side wins, always, since a tie means that the side opposed is the winner. If congress did not pass this law then perhaps you could say tthat congress managed to agree to not pass the law?
It's practically our duty to criticize the government and dog its every step with scrutiny.
The US does not have an official right to privacy. It wants to snoop on your ISP also and the hurdle to implementing this is not the constitution but rather the unwillingness of congress to grant this power to the executive all at once. Overall I'd say some European countries actually give more rights than Americans, just a slightly different set.
True, it did take time for the bill of rights to be considered applicable to the various states as well. For all the people out there who go on and on about how the US is the greatest country ever and that the constitution was divinely inspired are overlooking all the major flaws in the constitution.
Your rights aren't guaranteed, meaning they can be abridged or ignored by the government and there's nothing you can really do about it as an individual. You have to rise up as a group to prevent this erosion, by voting for people who uphold rights, to protest when violations occur, and to push back when needed. Instead the population is more passive now, we've been told that we should be scared of terrorists so we've become willing to lose our rights and freedoms as long as the government promises to get rid of the bogeymen. After all, everyone is a big fan of rights for him or herself but it's rarer to be a fan of rights for people you don't like.
The bill of rights are something of an anomaly, because the American colonies were not supporters of rights for individuals. The rights snuck their way in because the people who approved them for the most part thought that they wouldn't apply to other people, like slaves, or women, or foreigners, or other political parties, etc. Even the founding fathers and the earliest congresses were busy violating rights when they could.