The fine isn't just about pollution. VW committed fraud by advertising their cars with false information. Consumers made choices based on that information.
If someone fraudulently advertises a product that doesn't do what they say it will do and they get caught, having to make the product work as stated or refund customer's money is a fairly standard penalty.
And yet you said "You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine" in the post I responded to. What's the matter? Not feeling so comfortable with that statement now?
The fact is that you aren't born with the right to anything you can imagine. In simplest terms, your rights end where another person's rights begin. If you don't believe that, I have a fire poker for you.
You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine.
So everyone here has the right to take turns shoving a glowing hot fire poker up your ass? Awesome! Please post your address and we'll all be right over.
I don't see any way the actions of the German authorities were justified to prevent the hacker from being charged and standing trial in the United States.
Really? Because it says right there in the article that they arrested Gembe because he'd written malware that used the same exploit as another hacker that they arrested on the same day and thought the two might be connected. Seems like a pretty obvious justification. Maybe you just didn't want to see it.
Regardless of what they say, the fact that they take women and use them as sex slaves demonstrates that a naked woman doesn't really offend them. They might not admit that porn turns them on, but it will.
If you're trying to piss ISIS off, post stuff supporting -other- religions. Pictures of Jesus, the cross, the Star of David, the Wheel of Dharma. Post links to positive stories about other religions. Post scripture from any holy book other than the Qur'an. Hell, post Chick Tracts.
It's the phrasing used. "[life] rarely evolves quickly enough to regulate greenhouse gases" implies that the origin of life on exoplanets been observed often enough for us to to determine that the probability of it evolving to regulate greenhouse gasses is low. We can't even prove how life began on earth, so we sure as hell can't determine the probability for it occurring and evolving on a planet light years away from us.
You aren't making that up, but the article you linked is. The referendum that's actually on the ballot doesn't have details on exactly how the universal basic income would be implemented. The article linked in the summary says The wording on the ballot paper is vague â" it calls for the countryâ(TM)s constitution to be changed to âoeguarantee the introduction of an unconditional basic incomeâ that guarantees âoea humane existence and participation in public life for the whole populationâ â" but the proposed scale is ambitious.
What you (and the article you linked here) are proposing is a transparent attempt to paint the idea as being unworkable by adding unworkable elements to the idea and arguing against those... a strawman argument, and not a very good one at that.
That's a fairly retarded attempt at building a strawman.
First, the income tax rate on personal income in Switzerland is 40%. You're suggesting that it will suddenly be 96%. Nobody has proposed that and your paranoid ravings aren't based on anything factual.
Second, the guy making 2600/month also gets the 2500/month universal basic income. That's what universal means, after all... everyone gets it. He's now getting 5100/month, or 4060 after taxes. This is not a pay cut.
Third, not working is a 1560 pay cut, not 100. Some people will be willing to give up their jobs and assume a subsistence lifestyle, but most won't give up a third or more of their income.
Fourth, having people who don't work is actually the point of all this. As automation takes more and more jobs out of the market, there aren't enough to go around. Right now the only other options are mass executions, imprisonment or hoping that they starve to death quietly and don't riot or resort to crime as their new career (which leads back to improsonment).
If you have better ideas for how to deal with masses of unemployed people, feel free to suggest them.
And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit...
Especially since 5000 MPH is over twice as fast as an SR-71 and is way the fuck faster than any commercial aircraft available. New York to Los Angeles in 30 minutes is kinda hard to beat.
I find it absolutely the opposite. If you get an email, you can ignore it until later, think over your answer, etc. You can even type a reply, and then re-read it before you send it off to make sure it sounds like what you want to say. With a phone call, you're on the spot - you need to decide if you answer it now . If you answer it, you need to decide what to say now . If you say the wrong thing, you can't unsay it.
You've confused stress with effort. Typing up an answer, thinking about it, re-reading it, etc. is a lot more effort than just blurting out whatever answer you come up with first and being done with it.
. If it is different, then the current smallpox virus probably won't be of any real benefit in developing a vaccine for the new variant; they would need samples of the new virus instead.
Comparing the structure and genome of an old smallpox sample to a new smallpox sample would help isolate what makes the new one different and resistant to the previous vaccine. That information would be helpful to anyone trying to develop a new vaccine.
It's actually about giving the rest of society an incentive to not engage in the same crimes for which someone else was found guilty.
And that's been so effective that US prisoners account for 50% of the entire world's prison population despite that fact the we're only 4% of the global population.
If I could a a picture here, it would be the one of Bush in front of the "Mission accomplished" banner.
Yeah. And it's not like Obama inherited a multi-trillion dollar unwinnable war on terror and a housing market collapse from the ass monkey who held the office before him.
seeing the sun rise in the east every day for the last few thousand years of human recorded history tells us nothing about what'll happen tomorrow!
When you look a little closer and have enough data points, you'll find that the sun doesn't rise in the same exact place every day. The position varies over a cycle of about 365.25 days. You can indeed see that pattern with hundreds of thousands of data points. You cannot see it with 10.
Thanks for proving my point, even if you were being an ass in the process.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet divided among 100 or so ethnicities and about 200 countries. If you're trying to determine the demographics of the world, checking only 10 random people will not give you any meaningful data. Checking a million random people, on the other hand, will give you a fairly good idea of the demographics of the world.
Same with hard drives. Statistics on 5 hard drives won't tell you anything about the likelihood of a 6th drive failing. Statistics on 100,000 drives will.
Sure. We'll just have to require that all married people have their rings permanently grafted onto their fingers so that they can't be removed. Maybe tattoo their foreheads while we're at it.
You're assuming that people aren't hypocrites who will look down on other people for doing the same things that they do. Just one look at the number of rabidly homophobic politicians and religious leaders who turned out to be having gay sex on the side should be more than enough to prove that assumption is wildly wrong.
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If it's not entertaining at normal speed, it's not entertaining at any speed.
While that is true in most cases, In general, there are some exceptions.
Bullshit.
The fine isn't just about pollution. VW committed fraud by advertising their cars with false information. Consumers made choices based on that information.
If someone fraudulently advertises a product that doesn't do what they say it will do and they get caught, having to make the product work as stated or refund customer's money is a fairly standard penalty.
Sure it is. Obligatory Hyperbole and a Half link.
And yet you said "You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine" in the post I responded to. What's the matter? Not feeling so comfortable with that statement now?
The fact is that you aren't born with the right to anything you can imagine. In simplest terms, your rights end where another person's rights begin. If you don't believe that, I have a fire poker for you.
You are born with the right to absolutely anything you can imagine.
So everyone here has the right to take turns shoving a glowing hot fire poker up your ass? Awesome! Please post your address and we'll all be right over.
I don't see any way the actions of the German authorities were justified to prevent the hacker from being charged and standing trial in the United States.
Really? Because it says right there in the article that they arrested Gembe because he'd written malware that used the same exploit as another hacker that they arrested on the same day and thought the two might be connected. Seems like a pretty obvious justification. Maybe you just didn't want to see it.
The USA held the record for the longest prison sentence for computer hacking for quite a while. Turkey recently stepped up, however, and showed us all what over-the-top really means.
No. You're probably thinking of Arduino.
Regardless of what they say, the fact that they take women and use them as sex slaves demonstrates that a naked woman doesn't really offend them. They might not admit that porn turns them on, but it will.
If you're trying to piss ISIS off, post stuff supporting -other- religions. Pictures of Jesus, the cross, the Star of David, the Wheel of Dharma. Post links to positive stories about other religions. Post scripture from any holy book other than the Qur'an. Hell, post Chick Tracts.
Yeah!Whathehellisitwithpeopleandwhitespaceanyway?
Those are just the top five. There's quite a few more than 5 streaming services out there.
What part of "British Startup" made you think that the USA's constitutional amendments would have any relevance whatsoever?
It's the phrasing used. "[life] rarely evolves quickly enough to regulate greenhouse gases" implies that the origin of life on exoplanets been observed often enough for us to to determine that the probability of it evolving to regulate greenhouse gasses is low. We can't even prove how life began on earth, so we sure as hell can't determine the probability for it occurring and evolving on a planet light years away from us.
You aren't making that up, but the article you linked is. The referendum that's actually on the ballot doesn't have details on exactly how the universal basic income would be implemented. The article linked in the summary says The wording on the ballot paper is vague â" it calls for the countryâ(TM)s constitution to be changed to âoeguarantee the introduction of an unconditional basic incomeâ that guarantees âoea humane existence and participation in public life for the whole populationâ â" but the proposed scale is ambitious.
What you (and the article you linked here) are proposing is a transparent attempt to paint the idea as being unworkable by adding unworkable elements to the idea and arguing against those... a strawman argument, and not a very good one at that.
That's a fairly retarded attempt at building a strawman.
First, the income tax rate on personal income in Switzerland is 40%. You're suggesting that it will suddenly be 96%. Nobody has proposed that and your paranoid ravings aren't based on anything factual.
Second, the guy making 2600/month also gets the 2500/month universal basic income. That's what universal means, after all... everyone gets it. He's now getting 5100/month, or 4060 after taxes. This is not a pay cut.
Third, not working is a 1560 pay cut, not 100. Some people will be willing to give up their jobs and assume a subsistence lifestyle, but most won't give up a third or more of their income.
Fourth, having people who don't work is actually the point of all this. As automation takes more and more jobs out of the market, there aren't enough to go around. Right now the only other options are mass executions, imprisonment or hoping that they starve to death quietly and don't riot or resort to crime as their new career (which leads back to improsonment).
If you have better ideas for how to deal with masses of unemployed people, feel free to suggest them.
And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit...
Especially since 5000 MPH is over twice as fast as an SR-71 and is way the fuck faster than any commercial aircraft available. New York to Los Angeles in 30 minutes is kinda hard to beat.
My friend had given birth to 0 kids last month. She had 1 this month. By January of 2021, linear extrapolation shows that she will have over 50 kids.
I find it absolutely the opposite. If you get an email, you can ignore it until later, think over your answer, etc. You can even type a reply, and then re-read it before you send it off to make sure it sounds like what you want to say. With a phone call, you're on the spot - you need to decide if you answer it now . If you answer it, you need to decide what to say now . If you say the wrong thing, you can't unsay it.
You've confused stress with effort. Typing up an answer, thinking about it, re-reading it, etc. is a lot more effort than just blurting out whatever answer you come up with first and being done with it.
. If it is different, then the current smallpox virus probably won't be of any real benefit in developing a vaccine for the new variant; they would need samples of the new virus instead.
Comparing the structure and genome of an old smallpox sample to a new smallpox sample would help isolate what makes the new one different and resistant to the previous vaccine. That information would be helpful to anyone trying to develop a new vaccine.
It's actually about giving the rest of society an incentive to not engage in the same crimes for which someone else was found guilty.
And that's been so effective that US prisoners account for 50% of the entire world's prison population despite that fact the we're only 4% of the global population.
If I could a a picture here, it would be the one of Bush in front of the "Mission accomplished" banner.
Yeah. And it's not like Obama inherited a multi-trillion dollar unwinnable war on terror and a housing market collapse from the ass monkey who held the office before him.
Oh wait, it's exactly like that.
seeing the sun rise in the east every day for the last few thousand years of human recorded history tells us nothing about what'll happen tomorrow!
When you look a little closer and have enough data points, you'll find that the sun doesn't rise in the same exact place every day. The position varies over a cycle of about 365.25 days. You can indeed see that pattern with hundreds of thousands of data points. You cannot see it with 10.
Thanks for proving my point, even if you were being an ass in the process.
It's how statistics work.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet divided among 100 or so ethnicities and about 200 countries. If you're trying to determine the demographics of the world, checking only 10 random people will not give you any meaningful data. Checking a million random people, on the other hand, will give you a fairly good idea of the demographics of the world.
Same with hard drives. Statistics on 5 hard drives won't tell you anything about the likelihood of a 6th drive failing. Statistics on 100,000 drives will.
Sure. We'll just have to require that all married people have their rings permanently grafted onto their fingers so that they can't be removed. Maybe tattoo their foreheads while we're at it.
You're assuming that people aren't hypocrites who will look down on other people for doing the same things that they do. Just one look at the number of rabidly homophobic politicians and religious leaders who turned out to be having gay sex on the side should be more than enough to prove that assumption is wildly wrong.