> Fortunately, most people don't think like you, and those who still do are on their way to old age and eventual extinction.
More of this self serving wishful thinking.
NOBODY in the target demographic for the Telsa/BMW measures up to your little fantasy. The Hippie appeal of an electric car simply doesn't exist among that class of consumer. You actually have to compete on merits and branding.
People who blow that kind of money on cars simply are nothing like what you are pretending.
You are confusing the Prius crowd with the BMW crowd. Age is really quite irrelevant here. You understand nothing.
That's a very large problem. Much larger than improving the tech of an individual device plugged into the grid. You are completely glossing over the scale of this problem because it suits your personal agenda to do so.
It has nothing to do with any practical consider.
You're running on nothing but wishful thinking. Unfortunately the real world doesn't work that way.
You mean like toll roads that charge you more for having more axles on your vehicle? There are TONS of those around here. Not a new idea really. They've been doing that with toll roads since at least the 70s.
Although the tech for doing it now is pretty transparent. They don't even need toll system transponders. They can just read your license plates.
The Bill of Rights isn't some sort of generic "get out of jail free" card like you seem to be advocating here. All it requires is that the government follows well established formal procedure. It did so in this case. So the hysterics here are a bit disputable.
South Dakota was booming with fraking for awhile before OPEC pushed the price of oil into the basement. People who were willing to move there were able to make a small fortune.
South Dakota is about comparable in size population wise to any of the "nordic utopias".
Socialism is the means of production being owned by the state. If you have any industries that are nationalized, then that's socialism. Doesn't matter how butt hurt you want to be about the term. It either applies or it doesn't.
> Please, explain Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Germany, etc. Do they have oil? No.
You mean German where kids can't move out of their parents dinky apartment not because they don't have the money but because the housing market is so distorted that there isn't anything to buy?
Before you push nonsense propaganda, you might want to make sure some of us don't have relatives in the countries in question.
Linux enables me to spend a great deal more on a laptop or a workstation actually. I see this anemic little SSD and chuckle. So what if it's "fast". I would rather have more storage.
I can get 2.5TB of SSD storage on a Linux laptop.
My old bruiser has 2.5TB of conventional storage. My "outdated" bruiser probably still has a better GPU than this Apple toy.
If it were any other state, I would be less sure. California seems highly permissive and tolerant of illegals. That might actually work to the benefit of ICE here. Instead of being more underground, illegals might be more out in the open and easier to identify.
Also, ICE may be aware of the offending cars regardless of what shenanigans may have occurred to register them. That's really the explanation that makes most sense.
"Fishing" through this data probably is not terribly feasible.
Unless you are a criminal, ICE really doesn't have any standing to hassle you if you have a Green Card. If you are a criminal, then you are by law subject to potential deportation.
Once you have become an actual immigrant, and are no longer "just visiting", then ICE no longer has any jurisdiction over you.
Data collection, aggregation, and distribution has been a thing for a long time now. It really has nothing to do with the tribal partisan hysteria du jour.
These days you could get seriously rich if that sort of thing were actually worth any money. You could have retired in style before Grandmaster Troll was even elected.
> One can sue for damages, but once the estate is divested, the estate has zero value.
Community property applies to debts as well as assets. If this is a community property jurisdiction, than the husband is still liable for it. The fact that she died of cancer doesn't alter that.
> The rate of new cases in the general population is about 12 per 100,000 population per year
So... a bit like knowing a victim of gun violence.
The problem with attributing any singular cause to any cancer is that it is so poorly understood. Even when they think they have a handle on it and have identified a single gene, even have targeted therapies to deal with that gene, those therapies pretty much behave completely randomly within the patient population.
There's nothing like actually being a cancer patient to disabuse you of any notions that "the guys in the white robes" have any real clue what they are talking about.
The same to you. Science is not a body of facts that you treat like religious dogma. It's a method of asking tough questions and finding answers that may contradict your own preconceived bias and make you uncomfortable. What we know at any given point time is a "best guess" and is ALWAYS subject to revision or being completely turned on it's head.
I'm not impressed by anti-cancer hysteria therefore I am anti-science? I don't treat any random pronoucement from any random "authority" as the word of god, therefore I am anti-science.
YOU I think have no clue what that term really means.
Those of YOU treating the ALL parts of the scientific establishment as if they are the Pope, are the real anti-science crowd.
> I can't tell if you're intentionally misrepresenting the article, or if you're really this stupid.
This implication is pretty blatant in the article if you actually bothered to read it. That's why there is such a fever pitch in the associated hysterics.
One of his early reboot companions was just that kind of guy. Basically Captain Kirk for the new millenium who quite literally hit on EVERY thing that crossed his quarterdeck (and not just the girls).
Not that the Doctor should view any of his companions as much more than house pets. The current writers don't seem to get the intellectual distance between Time Lords and humans.
Sure. We already had one called The Rani. We've also had other female Time Lords. They must all be just "chopped liver" including River Song.
The last transgender regeneration they had came complete with entirely inappropriate sexist nonsense that doesn't really fit the context of supremely powerful aliens with huge livespans from the other side of the universe.
That nonsense is jarring to just a regular human who lacks a strong gender affinity.
These idiots don't really understand what they are toying with. Although that's true of "pop sci-fi" in general. High concepts are botched generally across the board.
> Some would argue that keeping the doctor male would have been pandering to demographics that prefer women be inconsequential sidekicks that required rescuing all the time.
Completely ignores a number of the female companions from the original run of the series in the 70s,80s, and 90s. Also ignores female antagonists from the same time period.
Modern token female characters actually tend to be WORSE than their 70s counterparts. The Last Jedi is a great example of this.
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> Fortunately, most people don't think like you, and those who still do are on their way to old age and eventual extinction.
More of this self serving wishful thinking.
NOBODY in the target demographic for the Telsa/BMW measures up to your little fantasy. The Hippie appeal of an electric car simply doesn't exist among that class of consumer. You actually have to compete on merits and branding.
People who blow that kind of money on cars simply are nothing like what you are pretending.
You are confusing the Prius crowd with the BMW crowd. Age is really quite irrelevant here. You understand nothing.
> The grid can be improved.
That's a very large problem. Much larger than improving the tech of an individual device plugged into the grid. You are completely glossing over the scale of this problem because it suits your personal agenda to do so.
It has nothing to do with any practical consider.
You're running on nothing but wishful thinking. Unfortunately the real world doesn't work that way.
You mean like toll roads that charge you more for having more axles on your vehicle? There are TONS of those around here. Not a new idea really. They've been doing that with toll roads since at least the 70s.
Although the tech for doing it now is pretty transparent. They don't even need toll system transponders. They can just read your license plates.
> Sounds like a certain president.
Like Thomas Jefferson? Or Obama even. This kind of stuff isn't anything new. Shameless partisans just choose to see what they want to see.
The Bill of Rights isn't some sort of generic "get out of jail free" card like you seem to be advocating here. All it requires is that the government follows well established formal procedure. It did so in this case. So the hysterics here are a bit disputable.
> In most parts of this world if you earned $50k you would be considered doing pretty good and in some parts you would be considered rich.
Not anywhere in Western Europe. Certainly not anywhere in the industrialized world that is highly urbanized.
$50K is very respectable for American flyover country but it's still not "rich".
> There is no oil in stupid america?
South Dakota was booming with fraking for awhile before OPEC pushed the price of oil into the basement. People who were willing to move there were able to make a small fortune.
South Dakota is about comparable in size population wise to any of the "nordic utopias".
> when American shitlibs call us socialist.
Socialism is the means of production being owned by the state. If you have any industries that are nationalized, then that's socialism. Doesn't matter how butt hurt you want to be about the term. It either applies or it doesn't.
> Please, explain Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Germany, etc. Do they have oil? No.
You mean German where kids can't move out of their parents dinky apartment not because they don't have the money but because the housing market is so distorted that there isn't anything to buy?
Before you push nonsense propaganda, you might want to make sure some of us don't have relatives in the countries in question.
Linux enables me to spend a great deal more on a laptop or a workstation actually. I see this anemic little SSD and chuckle. So what if it's "fast". I would rather have more storage.
I can get 2.5TB of SSD storage on a Linux laptop.
My old bruiser has 2.5TB of conventional storage. My "outdated" bruiser probably still has a better GPU than this Apple toy.
> Different points of view come from different experiences - and different skin color definitely leads to different experiences, as does sex.
It contributes far less than you think.
If it were any other state, I would be less sure. California seems highly permissive and tolerant of illegals. That might actually work to the benefit of ICE here. Instead of being more underground, illegals might be more out in the open and easier to identify.
Also, ICE may be aware of the offending cars regardless of what shenanigans may have occurred to register them. That's really the explanation that makes most sense.
"Fishing" through this data probably is not terribly feasible.
> And don't have anyone wrongly report a debt.
That will be an interesting achievement if you don't have your own uniquely identifiable primary key for the debt reporting system.
Unless you are a criminal, ICE really doesn't have any standing to hassle you if you have a Green Card. If you are a criminal, then you are by law subject to potential deportation.
Once you have become an actual immigrant, and are no longer "just visiting", then ICE no longer has any jurisdiction over you.
Data collection, aggregation, and distribution has been a thing for a long time now. It really has nothing to do with the tribal partisan hysteria du jour.
It's much like the INS in this regard.
> Example number 1299006 of why you should not take legal advice from /.
It's almost like we're more like 50 petty fiefdoms than a single unified country or some such.
The answer to a lot of stuff is "it depends". My state has some nice debtor protections but still has community property debt.
These days you could get seriously rich if that sort of thing were actually worth any money. You could have retired in style before Grandmaster Troll was even elected.
> One can sue for damages, but once the estate is divested, the estate has zero value.
Community property applies to debts as well as assets. If this is a community property jurisdiction, than the husband is still liable for it. The fact that she died of cancer doesn't alter that.
It's almost like you don't want to give government too much power because sooner or later someone you don't like will be running it.
Welcome to the Federalist Society.
> The rate of new cases in the general population is about 12 per 100,000 population per year
So... a bit like knowing a victim of gun violence.
The problem with attributing any singular cause to any cancer is that it is so poorly understood. Even when they think they have a handle on it and have identified a single gene, even have targeted therapies to deal with that gene, those therapies pretty much behave completely randomly within the patient population.
There's nothing like actually being a cancer patient to disabuse you of any notions that "the guys in the white robes" have any real clue what they are talking about.
The same to you. Science is not a body of facts that you treat like religious dogma. It's a method of asking tough questions and finding answers that may contradict your own preconceived bias and make you uncomfortable. What we know at any given point time is a "best guess" and is ALWAYS subject to revision or being completely turned on it's head.
This is what separates science from religion.
I'm not impressed by anti-cancer hysteria therefore I am anti-science? I don't treat any random pronoucement from any random "authority" as the word of god, therefore I am anti-science.
YOU I think have no clue what that term really means.
Those of YOU treating the ALL parts of the scientific establishment as if they are the Pope, are the real anti-science crowd.
> I can't tell if you're intentionally misrepresenting the article, or if you're really this stupid.
This implication is pretty blatant in the article if you actually bothered to read it. That's why there is such a fever pitch in the associated hysterics.
One of his early reboot companions was just that kind of guy. Basically Captain Kirk for the new millenium who quite literally hit on EVERY thing that crossed his quarterdeck (and not just the girls).
Not that the Doctor should view any of his companions as much more than house pets. The current writers don't seem to get the intellectual distance between Time Lords and humans.
Sure. We already had one called The Rani. We've also had other female Time Lords. They must all be just "chopped liver" including River Song.
The last transgender regeneration they had came complete with entirely inappropriate sexist nonsense that doesn't really fit the context of supremely powerful aliens with huge livespans from the other side of the universe.
That nonsense is jarring to just a regular human who lacks a strong gender affinity.
These idiots don't really understand what they are toying with. Although that's true of "pop sci-fi" in general. High concepts are botched generally across the board.
> Some would argue that keeping the doctor male would have been pandering to demographics that prefer women be inconsequential sidekicks that required rescuing all the time.
Completely ignores a number of the female companions from the original run of the series in the 70s,80s, and 90s. Also ignores female antagonists from the same time period.
Modern token female characters actually tend to be WORSE than their 70s counterparts. The Last Jedi is a great example of this.