No, they won't implode -- they'll simply choose one or the other, and if the United States is any indication, they'll choose their economy over the environment.
We've been spending "borrowed money" since 1776 -- that's all I'M saying.
You don't run up your credit cards buying big screen TVs (the wars), ATVs (Healthcare), and other such toys (tax cuts), and then suddenly decide "no more spending!" when your Grandma needs a kidney transplant -- that doesn't make you principled, son, that makes you a big chicken-shit.
If you think your POLITICAL COMMENTARY disguised as some type of "won't someone please think of the children!" type rant is truly hidden, I've got a big bridge to sell you.
Why don't you head over to CNN/MSNBC/Fox News/etc. and "wow them" with your jive-ass talk radio-esque political "insight" on any of their random comment sections.
Is that they are, IMHO, extremely hypocritical in how they conduct themselves.
On the one hand, they put themselves forward as this oh so "wholesome" family environment, while doing absolutely NOTHING to stop their "Pro" sellers from listing the most vulgar items you would care to search for.
These pages are also listed with the helpful "Sell yours here!" but if you actually set up an account and attempt to sell said items yourself, you run the definite risk of having your account terminated by what might as well be an anonymous email with no way to explain EVEN IF you intent was simply to alert them to their flawed system (meaning if you weren't just trying the old "they do it too" excuse)
Now, before someone mistakes me for a conservative (little "c", not in relation to anything political) prude, let me say I know this because I set up such an account:)
I saw that the adult items were selling and since I didn't have a "Pro" account -- that is too say, I couldn't sell anything that wasn't already listed on Amazon's site, you can't create pages yourself unless you have a "Pro" account -- I simply took it on faith that if Amazon was allowing the pages to remain, they must have been kosher with it. That is until about my first week in when my account was permanently suspended.
Now I want to make clear that I know full well what Amazon says -- I know they forbid "pornography" (though their description of "pornography" is, in my opinion, open enough to include almost anything they might simply decide they don't like) and I'm not claiming I should get some special exemption from the rules -- I'M SAYING THAT THEIR BEHAVIOR -- leaving pages with items they claim to forbid up and encouraging others to "join up" -- WOULD -- if done by a police officer on the street -- BE CONSIDERED ENTRAPMENT IN A COURT OF LAW.
I've since switched to eBay, where they have a section for "adult" items with age verification, etc. and that's cool. I guess my complaint, though, is that eBay never claimed they don't allow such products, Amazon does and, for lack of a better term, that makes Amazon a liar. Reminds me of the scene from the pilot episode of "Boardwalk Empire", when the kid shoved the envelope into Steve Buscemi's hand after robbing the bootleggers in the woods, he said "I didn't ask for this". The kid turned to him and said "That's your cut, regardless -- you can't be HALF a gangster".
His point was that if you're going to be a crook, THEN BE A CROOK and stop pretending you're anything else. Likewise, if Amazon intends to make money selling "unwholesome" merchandise THEN DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES -- speaking of setting up an area with age verification, etc. -- AND STOP PRETENDING YOUR SOMEHOW "BETTER" THAN YOU REALLY ARE.
Frankly, even us non-enemies are pretty glad to see this. Your country is getting fairly anti-democratic; how long before the world starts meeting without out you to discuss what to do about you?
Good -- the United States of America is a Representative Republic and always has been. Only when the majority pick Representatives the minority doesn't care for (like when Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008) does anyone start spouting nonsense about "Democracy"
"Democracy" is mob rule and always has been, throughout history. That's why The Founder's select the current system of Government we have and why true patriots -- such as myself -- aren't going to see it abolished just because a bunch of chicken-shit whiners (the left-wing in regards to George W. Bush and the right-wing in regards to Barack Obama) are pissed they aren't getting their way.
You have more faith than I do in there willingness to actually follow the constitution/common sense when it comes to writing/interpreting law. It would not surprise me at all if they'd just said 'fuck it' and acted as if the extension was valid anyway (nor would it have surprised me for the SC to agree with them).
Then you don't know what you're talking about. I'm really not trying to be hateful, but I cannot think of a better answer to such an uninformed ignorant (again, not trying to be hateful, just factual) statement.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander -- the law is followed regardless if the left-wing perceives the right as doing something they don't like OR if the right-wing perceives the left of doing something they don't like.
Just like people like myself will not stand by while people such as yourself get hot and bothered about EVERY SINGLE THING someone you didn't personally vote does.
You remind me of the stories the established GOP have made about the incoming "tea partiers" -- you all act like you're the first ones to ever have a bitch about something and the whole world should just stop on its axis to hear you. Grow up.
"the American public should have an opinion and should be heard on that matter"
NO, they shouldn't. This convenient concern over "what the public thinks" from those NOT getting their way is getting quite old, not to put to fine a point on it.
The United States of America is a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC, not a Democracy. You as a voter get input every two years on who your Representative in the House is, every six years on who your Representative in the Senate is, and every four years on who who think should be President.
AT NO TIME NOR PLACE ARE YOU ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY HAVE ANY INPUT ON WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO OR SAY. The only question is is the "autopen" constitutional, not what you (any any other "member of the public") personally think of it.
The JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (you know, those people who get paid SPECIFICALLY to know what's legal and what isn't) has said it is. You don't like it, then feel free to trot on down to your local Federal Courthouse and see about filing an official complaint.
But in either event, don't come bellyaching about "the will of the people" as though "the people" have EVER had a direct say in what their leaders do or don't do. They never have and for damn good reason -- mainly, we all think everyone BUT us are fucking morons -- which I'm willing to bet you are thinking right now about me -- and so my point is proven as to the wisdom of the Representative Republic over the Democracy.
Same goes for this Representative. YOU NOTICE FOR SOMEONE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, HIS FIRST STOP WAS A REPORTER, NOT AN ACTUAL COURT OF LAW.
Kinda reminds me of all the Cold Fusion bullshit in the 80s -- where the first stop the scientist made was to NBC News rather than, you know, ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW boards that could have stated right out front whether it was real or not. Between the two, I think they both have the same reasons for their actions (mainly that they're both full of shit and they know it).
And in the immortal words "Mr. French" from "The Departed" -- "Anyone in America who can't make enough money to pay their bills is a douche bag!"
And that INCLUDES taxes, BTW.
I would tell the "rich" (whoever or whatever you consider that to be) to shut up and pay the tab JUST LIKE THE REST OF US do in our income taxes AND our sales taxes, payroll taxes, etc. (I say that because it's become quite the cliché for "the rich" to bitch because some don't pay Income tax, conveniently forgetting all the other taxes we ALL pay regardless of income).
Yeah, and thats great and all, but how about we spend more of our public resources on fixing earth rather than useless trivia like this. Like, I don't know, reversing the government spending trend. If this data (and I call it data, because it isn't useful enough to be called knowledge), were good for anything, then why doesn't the private industry seem interested in it. This type of research is just welfare for otherwise bright individuals who decided to get an ivory tower education so they could spend their lives on meaningless pursuits.
Everyone is a Socialist when the government is helping/paying them and a Libertarian when it is helping/paying anyone but them.
Yes because I'm sure they managed to reach the point of developing a civilization that was capable of traveling the stars by only holding hands and never, ever doing anything "bad".
Que the limousine liberals and pickup truck right-wingers.
Limousine Liberals and the Pickup Truck right-wingers.
If they had let this cute little kid pass unmolested, just to have the 10 pounds of high explosives planted in his/her diaper go off on the flight and blow, perhaps, a ten hole in the side of an airliner at 35,000 ft., it would be accusations all the way around.
YOU PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP. The type of people the TSA is looking for are NOT the type of people who are above doing what I just described.
You don't like the time it takes for security, take a train/boat.
Unmanned drones can be made cheaply because they're small, and do not need the volume and life support systems needed to house a pilot.
That's why this "pilot-optional" concept seems so silly to me. The craft needs to carry around all the equipment weight and body size needed to have a pilot, yet may often fly without a pilot? Sounds like a massive waste.
I'd be very surprised if the pilot support system was not highly compartmentalized specifically so it could be removed to save weight. Alternatively I'd be surprised if the space allotted to it could not be reused for other purposes when it isn't need.
-- Please someone kick me in the ass for responding to a AC --
You can't see me, but I'm currently playing the world's smallest violin for all the candyass whiners who behave as though, somehow, they should get a metal for discovering the perpetual unfair shittiness of the world.
moveon.org and the teabaggers can both claim their prizes now.
Harry S. Truman -- Term in Office 1945 to 1953 -- Oversaw the United States' Victory in Europe and over Japan.
Richard M. Nixon -- Term in Office 1969 to 1974 -- Oversaw the United States' diplomatic reconnection with China, creating a strategic balance of power placed the Soviet Union solidly second to the United States for the remainder of its existence.
Ronald W. Reagan -- Term in Office 1981 to 1989 -- Oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the firm establishment of the United States' as the world's only Superpower.
William J. Clinton -- Term in Office 1993 to 2001 -- Oversaw the United States' longest period of Economic growth since World War II, leading to the countries first Balanced Budget in a Generation.
Barack H. Obama -- Term in Office 2009 to 2017 -- Oversaw the United States' victory over organized Terrorism by securing the d e a t h of Osama Bin Laden.
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I'm sorry folks, but in politics "to the victor go the spoils".
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No, they won't implode -- they'll simply choose one or the other, and if the United States is any indication, they'll choose their economy over the environment.
"France's Nuclear Energy Sector predicts strong growth in French Electricity Exports"
We've been spending "borrowed money" since 1776 -- that's all I'M saying.
You don't run up your credit cards buying big screen TVs (the wars), ATVs (Healthcare), and other such toys (tax cuts), and then suddenly decide "no more spending!" when your Grandma needs a kidney transplant -- that doesn't make you principled, son, that makes you a big chicken-shit.
If you think your POLITICAL COMMENTARY disguised as some type of "won't someone please think of the children!" type rant is truly hidden, I've got a big bridge to sell you.
Why don't you head over to CNN/MSNBC/Fox News/etc. and "wow them" with your jive-ass talk radio-esque political "insight" on any of their random comment sections.
Let's just hope he doesn't wind up in a bathtub trying to cut tumors out of his leg.
Is that they are, IMHO, extremely hypocritical in how they conduct themselves.
On the one hand, they put themselves forward as this oh so "wholesome" family environment, while doing absolutely NOTHING to stop their "Pro" sellers from listing the most vulgar items you would care to search for.
These pages are also listed with the helpful "Sell yours here!" but if you actually set up an account and attempt to sell said items yourself, you run the definite risk of having your account terminated by what might as well be an anonymous email with no way to explain EVEN IF you intent was simply to alert them to their flawed system (meaning if you weren't just trying the old "they do it too" excuse)
Now, before someone mistakes me for a conservative (little "c", not in relation to anything political) prude, let me say I know this because I set up such an account :)
I saw that the adult items were selling and since I didn't have a "Pro" account -- that is too say, I couldn't sell anything that wasn't already listed on Amazon's site, you can't create pages yourself unless you have a "Pro" account -- I simply took it on faith that if Amazon was allowing the pages to remain, they must have been kosher with it. That is until about my first week in when my account was permanently suspended.
Now I want to make clear that I know full well what Amazon says -- I know they forbid "pornography" (though their description of "pornography" is, in my opinion, open enough to include almost anything they might simply decide they don't like) and I'm not claiming I should get some special exemption from the rules -- I'M SAYING THAT THEIR BEHAVIOR -- leaving pages with items they claim to forbid up and encouraging others to "join up" -- WOULD -- if done by a police officer on the street -- BE CONSIDERED ENTRAPMENT IN A COURT OF LAW.
I've since switched to eBay, where they have a section for "adult" items with age verification, etc. and that's cool. I guess my complaint, though, is that eBay never claimed they don't allow such products, Amazon does and, for lack of a better term, that makes Amazon a liar. Reminds me of the scene from the pilot episode of "Boardwalk Empire", when the kid shoved the envelope into Steve Buscemi's hand after robbing the bootleggers in the woods, he said "I didn't ask for this". The kid turned to him and said "That's your cut, regardless -- you can't be HALF a gangster".
His point was that if you're going to be a crook, THEN BE A CROOK and stop pretending you're anything else. Likewise, if Amazon intends to make money selling "unwholesome" merchandise THEN DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE DOES -- speaking of setting up an area with age verification, etc. -- AND STOP PRETENDING YOUR SOMEHOW "BETTER" THAN YOU REALLY ARE.
Just what would be the International law regarding...oh, I don't know...salvage of these things :)
Frankly, even us non-enemies are pretty glad to see this. Your country is getting fairly anti-democratic; how long before the world starts meeting without out you to discuss what to do about you?
Good -- the United States of America is a Representative Republic and always has been. Only when the majority pick Representatives the minority doesn't care for (like when Democrats won control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008) does anyone start spouting nonsense about "Democracy"
"Democracy" is mob rule and always has been, throughout history. That's why The Founder's select the current system of Government we have and why true patriots -- such as myself -- aren't going to see it abolished just because a bunch of chicken-shit whiners (the left-wing in regards to George W. Bush and the right-wing in regards to Barack Obama) are pissed they aren't getting their way.
if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek!
You have more faith than I do in there willingness to actually follow the constitution/common sense when it comes to writing/interpreting law. It would not surprise me at all if they'd just said 'fuck it' and acted as if the extension was valid anyway (nor would it have surprised me for the SC to agree with them).
Then you don't know what you're talking about. I'm really not trying to be hateful, but I cannot think of a better answer to such an uninformed ignorant (again, not trying to be hateful, just factual) statement.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander -- the law is followed regardless if the left-wing perceives the right as doing something they don't like OR if the right-wing perceives the left of doing something they don't like.
Just like people like myself will not stand by while people such as yourself get hot and bothered about EVERY SINGLE THING someone you didn't personally vote does.
You remind me of the stories the established GOP have made about the incoming "tea partiers" -- you all act like you're the first ones to ever have a bitch about something and the whole world should just stop on its axis to hear you. Grow up.
"the American public should have an opinion and should be heard on that matter"
NO, they shouldn't. This convenient concern over "what the public thinks" from those NOT getting their way is getting quite old, not to put to fine a point on it.
The United States of America is a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC, not a Democracy. You as a voter get input every two years on who your Representative in the House is, every six years on who your Representative in the Senate is, and every four years on who who think should be President.
AT NO TIME NOR PLACE ARE YOU ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY HAVE ANY INPUT ON WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO OR SAY. The only question is is the "autopen" constitutional, not what you (any any other "member of the public") personally think of it.
The JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (you know, those people who get paid SPECIFICALLY to know what's legal and what isn't) has said it is. You don't like it, then feel free to trot on down to your local Federal Courthouse and see about filing an official complaint.
But in either event, don't come bellyaching about "the will of the people" as though "the people" have EVER had a direct say in what their leaders do or don't do. They never have and for damn good reason -- mainly, we all think everyone BUT us are fucking morons -- which I'm willing to bet you are thinking right now about me -- and so my point is proven as to the wisdom of the Representative Republic over the Democracy.
Same goes for this Representative. YOU NOTICE FOR SOMEONE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, HIS FIRST STOP WAS A REPORTER, NOT AN ACTUAL COURT OF LAW.
Kinda reminds me of all the Cold Fusion bullshit in the 80s -- where the first stop the scientist made was to NBC News rather than, you know, ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW boards that could have stated right out front whether it was real or not. Between the two, I think they both have the same reasons for their actions (mainly that they're both full of shit and they know it).
And in the immortal words "Mr. French" from "The Departed" -- "Anyone in America who can't make enough money to pay their bills is a douche bag!"
And that INCLUDES taxes, BTW.
I would tell the "rich" (whoever or whatever you consider that to be) to shut up and pay the tab JUST LIKE THE REST OF US do in our income taxes AND our sales taxes, payroll taxes, etc. (I say that because it's become quite the cliché for "the rich" to bitch because some don't pay Income tax, conveniently forgetting all the other taxes we ALL pay regardless of income).
Oh I see "Do it my way or the terrorist win"?
How very Cliché, even for a British subject, sir/mam.
It's full of stars!
Yeah, and thats great and all, but how about we spend more of our public resources on fixing earth rather than useless trivia like this. Like, I don't know, reversing the government spending trend. If this data (and I call it data, because it isn't useful enough to be called knowledge), were good for anything, then why doesn't the private industry seem interested in it. This type of research is just welfare for otherwise bright individuals who decided to get an ivory tower education so they could spend their lives on meaningless pursuits.
Everyone is a Socialist when the government is helping/paying them and a Libertarian when it is helping/paying anyone but them.
Yes because I'm sure they managed to reach the point of developing a civilization that was capable of traveling the stars by only holding hands and never, ever doing anything "bad".
Que the limousine liberals and pickup truck right-wingers.
He may have control, but no choice.
We're not letting ANYONE get on something that has been proven can be used as a missile without checking everyone from head to toe.
The President was exactly right, you don't like it, take a train (I would add a boat for overseas trips).
"Will the US Supremes do the right thing"
Translates in right-wing speak as : will the Supreme Court agree with our preformed opinion.
Limousine Liberals and the Pickup Truck right-wingers.
If they had let this cute little kid pass unmolested, just to have the 10 pounds of high explosives planted in his/her diaper go off on the flight and blow, perhaps, a ten hole in the side of an airliner at 35,000 ft., it would be accusations all the way around.
YOU PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP. The type of people the TSA is looking for are NOT the type of people who are above doing what I just described.
You don't like the time it takes for security, take a train/boat.
Unmanned drones can be made cheaply because they're small, and do not need the volume and life support systems needed to house a pilot.
That's why this "pilot-optional" concept seems so silly to me. The craft needs to carry around all the equipment weight and body size needed to have a pilot, yet may often fly without a pilot? Sounds like a massive waste.
I'd be very surprised if the pilot support system was not highly compartmentalized specifically so it could be removed to save weight. Alternatively I'd be surprised if the space allotted to it could not be reused for other purposes when it isn't need.
"Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?""
No, it shows like any complicated machine, it must be maintained.
-- Please someone kick me in the ass for responding to a AC --
You can't see me, but I'm currently playing the world's smallest violin for all the candyass whiners who behave as though, somehow, they should get a metal for discovering the perpetual unfair shittiness of the world.
moveon.org and the teabaggers can both claim their prizes now.
Harry S. Truman -- Term in Office 1945 to 1953 -- Oversaw the United States' Victory in Europe and over Japan.
Richard M. Nixon -- Term in Office 1969 to 1974 -- Oversaw the United States' diplomatic reconnection with China, creating a strategic balance of power placed the Soviet Union solidly second to the United States for the remainder of its existence.
Ronald W. Reagan -- Term in Office 1981 to 1989 -- Oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the firm establishment of the United States' as the world's only Superpower.
William J. Clinton -- Term in Office 1993 to 2001 -- Oversaw the United States' longest period of Economic growth since World War II, leading to the countries first Balanced Budget in a Generation.
Barack H. Obama -- Term in Office 2009 to 2017 -- Oversaw the United States' victory over organized Terrorism by securing the d e a t h of Osama Bin Laden.
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I'm sorry folks, but in politics "to the victor go the spoils".
Which is why we are paying the interest.
That's precisely what this "budget battle" is all about, allowing the Treasury to sell new bonds in order to cover the Interest.