I wish cars had deercatchers as an option. They'd probably work just as well on pedestrians (though the law may not like any aftermarket automatic cleaning and butchering options you add).
My old Crown Vic wouldn't have needed one but my current vehicle isn't as sturdily built. I don't think I'd get away with $30 in used parts with this car after smacking one.
You have to remember that corporations don't care about what's legal or illegal, only what is ethical.
Anything that increases their profit is ethical. Anything that decreases their profits in unethical.
Their sole purpose being making a profit for their investors, they can do nothing less.
Mind you, this isn't defending corporations, just an explanation for their sociopathic behavior. If it doesn't profit them, they don't care. Welfare of the common man? If it doesn't help the books, it doesn't matter. Some country will be ruined by their actions? If it profits the corporation, that's all that matters.
Corporations are modern day vampires (that truly exist). They feed off of humanity but are not a part of it nor bound by its expectations and norms.
"Something tells me he won't follow through on this when he realizes those same corporations helped get him into power."
Passing this would be a great thing for those corps and for Obama.
Obama gets to be tough on those evil, tax cheating corporations.
The corporations get a plausible excuse to officially move their HQ offshore, "we can't afford to do business here anymore."
End result, Obama gets the vote next election and the corps get to rake in even more profit without having Uncle Sam looking over their shoulder anymore.
Later, some politician will get to "try" to bring back the big formerly American corps, to help out the working class of course, but to be sure they don't get taxed out of doing business here they'll get special low tax rates for some period of time.
I think they'd mourn the loss of a very steady income rather than the loss of a boogie man. It takes money to make money and a lot of that money goes to politicians and law enforcement.
Anyways, there's always terrorists.
Or the old classic, are going to rape our white women!
There's lots of dangerous things already on board the airplane.
Banning knives and boxcutters is just security theater. Right up there with the liquids ban.
(And if you don't think the knife and boxcutter ban is security theater, look at the list of very knife like or stabbity stabbity objects that are A-OK to carry on.)
I can't recall who this statement is from, but it is very applicable here.
"Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that the dragons can be killed."
The original versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales served this purpose. Today, those stories would be deemed "inappropriate" for their target audience.
Hell, look even further back into myths and legends. What used to standard bedtime stories would get slapped with an R or NC-17 these days.
I've had my wireless (proprietary logitech dongle) mouse become rather unusable when moving files around the network over WiFi.
It basically boils down to: devices that rely on the use of radio frequencies will be affected by other things that emit radio signals. If you don't want this to happen, you should use a wired connection.
Well see, in gambling, there are rules against cheating and bad things tend to happen to cheaters, therefore, gambling is bad.
With the stockmarket, cheating is called creative accounting and cheaters get even bigger bonuses, therefore, the stockmarket is good.
If you gamble, you can only gamble away your life savings, and that's bad.
In the stockmarket, you can gamble away everyone's life savings and make a huge profit for yourself, so that's good.
See, gambling is like socialism, and socialism bad. The stockmarket is like The Capitalist Free Market, and the Capitalist Free Market is good (and you're a dirty socialist commie pinko bastard hippie if you say otherwise).
Republicrat or Democan, the only difference is where their pocket change comes from (and it doesn't come from We, the people).
Sure, sure, they each use different issues to trap you into voting against the other guy (who really votes *FOR* anyone these days?). But each side knows they need the other and that no matter who has the majority the "big" issues can't ever be completely done away with (what would they run on then?).
You don't have to pelletize it, just break it apart. One air-to-air missile would do that (which is what they are designed to do). The pieces of the plane wouldn't be nearly as aerodynamic or stable as an intact airplane so air resistance would quickly bleed off energy from the debris. The bigger pieces wouldn't have the benefit of still being a single object so it'd be like shooting something with shot instead of a slug.
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No one ever mentions the fact she was holding the cup of coffee between her knees.
Hot coffee + flimsy cup + holding with your legs = bad idea.
Unless "he" is both a male and gender neutral pronoun...
I wish cars had deercatchers as an option. They'd probably work just as well on pedestrians (though the law may not like any aftermarket automatic cleaning and butchering options you add).
My old Crown Vic wouldn't have needed one but my current vehicle isn't as sturdily built. I don't think I'd get away with $30 in used parts with this car after smacking one.
Robots have gone down the stairs.
Pistols have a short effective range and, oddballs aside, aren't powerful enough to guarantee a kill in one shot.
*cough*Blackwater*cough*
Remind me to never come into any contact with any clinically depressed people lest I be charged as an accessory to murder.
Also, you don't get to make the choice to have an allergic reaction or not.
You do get the choice of hanging yourself or not.
*rimshot*
He'll be here all week folks.
Try the veal.
Because being lobbied by an American corporation sounds a lot better than being lobbied by a foreign corporation?
Paying farmers not to grow food also means some land will be left in a more natural state that can help ease flooding problems.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but giving them some money for not using all their land does have its reasons.
As more fields are sloped and tiled, and new land is converted to farmable land, there's less and less to slow the water from the spring melt down.
Combine that with developers developing former flood plains for McMansions...
You have to remember that corporations don't care about what's legal or illegal, only what is ethical.
Anything that increases their profit is ethical. Anything that decreases their profits in unethical.
Their sole purpose being making a profit for their investors, they can do nothing less.
Mind you, this isn't defending corporations, just an explanation for their sociopathic behavior. If it doesn't profit them, they don't care. Welfare of the common man? If it doesn't help the books, it doesn't matter. Some country will be ruined by their actions? If it profits the corporation, that's all that matters.
Corporations are modern day vampires (that truly exist). They feed off of humanity but are not a part of it nor bound by its expectations and norms.
He had people to do those things.
Also, he should be able to ask them, "Any skeletons in your closet that would make nominating you a risky move?" and expect to get a straight answer.
"Something tells me he won't follow through on this when he realizes those same corporations helped get him into power."
Passing this would be a great thing for those corps and for Obama.
Obama gets to be tough on those evil, tax cheating corporations.
The corporations get a plausible excuse to officially move their HQ offshore, "we can't afford to do business here anymore."
End result, Obama gets the vote next election and the corps get to rake in even more profit without having Uncle Sam looking over their shoulder anymore.
Later, some politician will get to "try" to bring back the big formerly American corps, to help out the working class of course, but to be sure they don't get taxed out of doing business here they'll get special low tax rates for some period of time.
Stupid slashdot eating brackets in plain text mode...
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I think they'd mourn the loss of a very steady income rather than the loss of a boogie man. It takes money to make money and a lot of that money goes to politicians and law enforcement.
Anyways, there's always terrorists.
Or the old classic, are going to rape our white women!
But those "threats" don't pay nearly as well.
They were obviously pining for the fjords.
There's lots of dangerous things already on board the airplane.
Banning knives and boxcutters is just security theater. Right up there with the liquids ban.
(And if you don't think the knife and boxcutter ban is security theater, look at the list of very knife like or stabbity stabbity objects that are A-OK to carry on.)
I can't recall who this statement is from, but it is very applicable here.
"Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that the dragons can be killed."
The original versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales served this purpose. Today, those stories would be deemed "inappropriate" for their target audience.
Hell, look even further back into myths and legends. What used to standard bedtime stories would get slapped with an R or NC-17 these days.
I've had my wireless (proprietary logitech dongle) mouse become rather unusable when moving files around the network over WiFi.
It basically boils down to: devices that rely on the use of radio frequencies will be affected by other things that emit radio signals. If you don't want this to happen, you should use a wired connection.
Card counting != real time stock analysis. Yup.
Being able to read the other players != knowing what a company is going to do. Totally.
Gambling != playing the stock market. Really. Absolutely different. See, there's this moral high ground that says it's different!
And then wait a few years while they contest the election results in court.
Thank you Norm Coleman, we really didn't want two senators for our state anyways...
Well see, in gambling, there are rules against cheating and bad things tend to happen to cheaters, therefore, gambling is bad.
With the stockmarket, cheating is called creative accounting and cheaters get even bigger bonuses, therefore, the stockmarket is good.
If you gamble, you can only gamble away your life savings, and that's bad.
In the stockmarket, you can gamble away everyone's life savings and make a huge profit for yourself, so that's good.
See, gambling is like socialism, and socialism bad. The stockmarket is like The Capitalist Free Market, and the Capitalist Free Market is good (and you're a dirty socialist commie pinko bastard hippie if you say otherwise).
Republicrat or Democan, the only difference is where their pocket change comes from (and it doesn't come from We, the people).
Sure, sure, they each use different issues to trap you into voting against the other guy (who really votes *FOR* anyone these days?). But each side knows they need the other and that no matter who has the majority the "big" issues can't ever be completely done away with (what would they run on then?).
You don't have to pelletize it, just break it apart. One air-to-air missile would do that (which is what they are designed to do). The pieces of the plane wouldn't be nearly as aerodynamic or stable as an intact airplane so air resistance would quickly bleed off energy from the debris. The bigger pieces wouldn't have the benefit of still being a single object so it'd be like shooting something with shot instead of a slug.
A remake of the B-25 hitting the Empire State Building? Lame. When will Hollywood get some new ideas?