They needed someone who would speak sentences that legislators could actually comprehend. Plus, they feel more important while talking to the CEOs who they consider to be the most important people in the companies. Can you imagine them asking the companies to "send someone who is knowledgeable about your position on this topic and competent to tell us about it." The testimony would move from CNN to C-Span, greatly reducing the number of voters watching the Representatives' attempts to sound like they're providing benefit. Plus, "knowledgeable person who is good at communicating the company position" is a job description for lobbyist. And, regardless of the truth of the words, listening to lobbyist testimony in an official hearing doesn't sound to the idiot public like Representatives doing their job. It sounds like a future exposé waiting to happen.
To eliminate your TSA problem, the airline has to own the airports at both ends as well. Then, they can be much more successful at excluding the TSA. Take the massive engine power necessary for supersonic travel and use it to make the planes VTOL for the bottom 200 feet as well. Then, your super fast airline for its super exclusive clients can easily have its own entire airport, with helicopter taxi service to avoid all that traffic.Plus, your air traffic control can use computers that were made during this millennium.
So, when I said they needed more facts that were relevant to the sentences they wrote, your response is:
On that point, I'm "yeah, whatever."
and then you write
We care about different things. What I care about is are the facts correct, or not?
So, you're indifferent to whether all the relevant data is present, but you really care about facts that are correct. No problem. Have some correct facts. Water is wet. Copper conducts electricity. Lead has a higher specific gravity than aluminum. Lead had a higher specific gravity than calcium. Compounds containing phosphorous are necessary for metabolism in plants and animals. Copper is a better conductor than lead above 8 Kelvin. Lead is a better conductor than copper below 7 Kelvin.
I think they could have gone a long way towards seeming unbiased by putting a little research into their words:
Certainly some correlation between voter registration and party membership exists
This is the sort of information on which political parties must have done a lot of research. If they had a ballpark number for the 10 years out continued party membership of people who register Democrat at age 19, then they could give a guess at odds on whether he was still a Democrat, and instantly the article appears less biased. With one piece of data, "unknown" in the summary sounds too much like "nothing is known" instead of "it's old data." And, a big paragraph of explanation with no new data comes across as someone trying to justify a bias. I'm not saying that they were trying to justify a bias, just that this writing gives that impression.
No, if he was impeached and didn't accept it, the question would be whether the people who work for the executive branch accept it. He could sue, but if the security guards in the building were convinced that he wasn't the president anymore, they would escort him to the door. I agree with you that impeachment based on policy decisions won't happen, even if they're really unpopular. However, it doesn't have to be just criminal misconduct for him to be forced out of office. If he chose to do the next hundred days wearing nothing but a thong, it wouldn't be illegal, but it would be sufficiently defamatory to the office that he'd be impeached, and if it went to the courts, I strongly feel that they would say that it's Congress who get to decide how defamatory is too defamatory.
I don't think it would work that way. The country might be polarized enough that it could, but I think actual impeachment won't happen until Trump has done something so improper that voters wouldn't support members of Congress who let him get away with it. Contrariwise, voters won't support members of Congress who abuse the power to impeach, either. If impeachment happens, it'll have to be for behavior strong enough so that the Congresspeople can convincingly say that he invalidated his own placement in the office of president, not that they are overriding the will of the voters because "Congress knows best." So, I don't think impeachment will be about a political calculation as to who they'd prefer to hold the office of president, but rather about him doing something that the public wouldn't allow. Also, the Senate is so nearly even now that even if the Democrats pull ahead in the midterm they'd still need almost the same number of Republican Senators for an impeachment, so impeaching Pence is likely off the table. Also, unless Trump and Pence were impeached for the same thing at the same time while Pelosi was speaker, she wouldn't become president. With sequential impeachment, each Vice President picks (subject to Congressional approval) another Vice President after he assumes the office of President, and you'd have the same sort of rebellion if Congress didn't let him pick from his own party.
I think you're mistaken. You're conflating criminal penalties for a criminal act with not getting to be president anymore. One is a legal - criminal sort of thing, and the other is a political sort of thing. Congress doesn't get to decide if someone committed a crime (other than, perhaps, contempt of Congress). The courts don't get to decide if someone ought to be impeached. Members of Congress would vote in the manner that they consider best for their future with the public. I don't think Trump has done anything that would motivate impeachment yet, but if he uses the power of the pardon to allow friends and family to be above the law, that would do it. I think the public would vote out people who let a president get away with that.
And, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" includes "conduct unbecoming the office." 30 Republican Representatives & 20 Republican Senators are what it would take (assuming all non-Republicans favored impeachment).
You'd think that a digital ID service could provide a hash to enter into age check sites that would allow the site to confirm the age but not the identity. I bet e-Estonia could do something like that.
It would make sense for them to share more of their detailed information with the people doing production for the show. If the natural tendency of the talent is to dive down a creative rabbithole, for the show's survival it's better to restrain them close enough to the edge so that they maintain sufficient viewership to support the show. As the Netflix view base gets larger, the growing number of viewers within a given niche will allow the talent to pursue a less mainstream path. If the show intends to survive in the margin, it's crucial to know how far into the margin is actually survivable. It might work better to release two or three six episode mini-seasons per year rather than one ten or twelve episode season, so that they can be responsive to what they learn from each release. For Netflix, original content that lives in the margins may be ideal for acquiring new subscribers, since they have no shortage of mainstream content already available to license from other networks.
I read an article about that show once telling how pleasantly surprised the Wachowskis were to be given no budget restrictions by Netflix. It's too bad there wasn't some middle ground between "no budget restrictions" and "canceled for being too expensive."
Another issue is how do I pay my neighbor kid to mow my lawn with a credit card?
Scrap metals have known prices on the market and so could be exchanged for services. One of the best prices per pound right now for a non-precious metal is for pure tin. McMaster-Carr sells lead-free bar solder that's 100% tin, so you could buy some with a credit card, slice it into laminar pieces, stamp them Sn 100% in a corner and exchange them for goods and services. If asked, tell the officers that it's a commodity, not a currency.
I'd certainly be happier if harm reduction was the primary technique used regarding recreational drug use and prostitution. In particular, I think that if recreational drug use isn't outlawed as a concept, then it won't take long for chemists to find drugs that do a better job of getting people high without the adverse health effects of current low tech drugs. This won't end the epidemic that starts with prescription opioids, but it might go a long ways towards replacing other physiologically unsafe recreational drugs with ones that don't harm the body directly.
If you don't want to rely on a computer, don't forget the engine control computer. You'll want to avoid that electronic fuel injection and get something with a mechanically driven distributor and a carburetor or a diesel with some nice old fashioned swirl chambers. Perhaps they could provide it with a free Curta, so you can check the math on your receipts.
If investors sue that the money used on lobbying against Network Neutrality is poorly spent, then the counter-arguments made by management showing how they can monetize lack of Network Neutrality are exactly the arguments for why we need Network Neutrality regulations.
I think it's that the EFF doesn't want DRM to be convenient - like how the FBI doesn't want smartphone encryption to be convenient. They figure if something they consider evil is convenient, then we'll end up in an Eminiar-Vendikar sort of situation where we tolerate evil rather than stamp it out. This argument is sort of like the one people have about acceptable beach wear, someone's not going to be happy with the outcome, regardless of what it is.
that carry Tata Air Pod size cars. The buses never turn off the arterial that is their route. They let pods off at cross streets. At the farther from the city end of the route they swap batteries and move to the other lane. At the city end, a crane moves them to the other lane.
Ethanol and marijuana are already restricted for under 21 in Oregon. I don't think they differentiate on age for unhealthy food. Acetone, rat poison and paint thinner can all be purchased by 18 year old Oregonians.
For an even bigger discount, just hop into this meat grinder, and our paid employee will say very nice things about the paste that comes out, before it gets pelletized and sent to a fish farm.
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They needed someone who would speak sentences that legislators could actually comprehend. Plus, they feel more important while talking to the CEOs who they consider to be the most important people in the companies. Can you imagine them asking the companies to "send someone who is knowledgeable about your position on this topic and competent to tell us about it." The testimony would move from CNN to C-Span, greatly reducing the number of voters watching the Representatives' attempts to sound like they're providing benefit. Plus, "knowledgeable person who is good at communicating the company position" is a job description for lobbyist. And, regardless of the truth of the words, listening to lobbyist testimony in an official hearing doesn't sound to the idiot public like Representatives doing their job. It sounds like a future exposé waiting to happen.
To eliminate your TSA problem, the airline has to own the airports at both ends as well. Then, they can be much more successful at excluding the TSA. Take the massive engine power necessary for supersonic travel and use it to make the planes VTOL for the bottom 200 feet as well. Then, your super fast airline for its super exclusive clients can easily have its own entire airport, with helicopter taxi service to avoid all that traffic.Plus, your air traffic control can use computers that were made during this millennium.
Have you ever taken the TGV trip from Paris to Milan? How is it through the mountains?
On that point, I'm "yeah, whatever."
and then you write
We care about different things. What I care about is are the facts correct, or not?
So, you're indifferent to whether all the relevant data is present, but you really care about facts that are correct. No problem. Have some correct facts.
Water is wet.
Copper conducts electricity.
Lead has a higher specific gravity than aluminum.
Lead had a higher specific gravity than calcium.
Compounds containing phosphorous are necessary for metabolism in plants and animals.
Copper is a better conductor than lead above 8 Kelvin.
Lead is a better conductor than copper below 7 Kelvin.
Certainly some correlation between voter registration and party membership exists
This is the sort of information on which political parties must have done a lot of research. If they had a ballpark number for the 10 years out continued party membership of people who register Democrat at age 19, then they could give a guess at odds on whether he was still a Democrat, and instantly the article appears less biased. With one piece of data, "unknown" in the summary sounds too much like "nothing is known" instead of "it's old data." And, a big paragraph of explanation with no new data comes across as someone trying to justify a bias. I'm not saying that they were trying to justify a bias, just that this writing gives that impression.
I think you're right.
No, if he was impeached and didn't accept it, the question would be whether the people who work for the executive branch accept it. He could sue, but if the security guards in the building were convinced that he wasn't the president anymore, they would escort him to the door. I agree with you that impeachment based on policy decisions won't happen, even if they're really unpopular. However, it doesn't have to be just criminal misconduct for him to be forced out of office. If he chose to do the next hundred days wearing nothing but a thong, it wouldn't be illegal, but it would be sufficiently defamatory to the office that he'd be impeached, and if it went to the courts, I strongly feel that they would say that it's Congress who get to decide how defamatory is too defamatory.
I don't think it would work that way. The country might be polarized enough that it could, but I think actual impeachment won't happen until Trump has done something so improper that voters wouldn't support members of Congress who let him get away with it. Contrariwise, voters won't support members of Congress who abuse the power to impeach, either. If impeachment happens, it'll have to be for behavior strong enough so that the Congresspeople can convincingly say that he invalidated his own placement in the office of president, not that they are overriding the will of the voters because "Congress knows best." So, I don't think impeachment will be about a political calculation as to who they'd prefer to hold the office of president, but rather about him doing something that the public wouldn't allow. Also, the Senate is so nearly even now that even if the Democrats pull ahead in the midterm they'd still need almost the same number of Republican Senators for an impeachment, so impeaching Pence is likely off the table. Also, unless Trump and Pence were impeached for the same thing at the same time while Pelosi was speaker, she wouldn't become president. With sequential impeachment, each Vice President picks (subject to Congressional approval) another Vice President after he assumes the office of President, and you'd have the same sort of rebellion if Congress didn't let him pick from his own party.
I think you're mistaken. You're conflating criminal penalties for a criminal act with not getting to be president anymore. One is a legal - criminal sort of thing, and the other is a political sort of thing. Congress doesn't get to decide if someone committed a crime (other than, perhaps, contempt of Congress). The courts don't get to decide if someone ought to be impeached. Members of Congress would vote in the manner that they consider best for their future with the public. I don't think Trump has done anything that would motivate impeachment yet, but if he uses the power of the pardon to allow friends and family to be above the law, that would do it. I think the public would vote out people who let a president get away with that.
And, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" includes "conduct unbecoming the office." 30 Republican Representatives & 20 Republican Senators are what it would take (assuming all non-Republicans favored impeachment).
Well sure, consider trying to design a working rocket without believing in reality. It would be quite challenging to do so successfully.
You'd think that a digital ID service could provide a hash to enter into age check sites that would allow the site to confirm the age but not the identity. I bet e-Estonia could do something like that.
It would make sense for them to share more of their detailed information with the people doing production for the show. If the natural tendency of the talent is to dive down a creative rabbithole, for the show's survival it's better to restrain them close enough to the edge so that they maintain sufficient viewership to support the show. As the Netflix view base gets larger, the growing number of viewers within a given niche will allow the talent to pursue a less mainstream path. If the show intends to survive in the margin, it's crucial to know how far into the margin is actually survivable. It might work better to release two or three six episode mini-seasons per year rather than one ten or twelve episode season, so that they can be responsive to what they learn from each release. For Netflix, original content that lives in the margins may be ideal for acquiring new subscribers, since they have no shortage of mainstream content already available to license from other networks.
I read an article about that show once telling how pleasantly surprised the Wachowskis were to be given no budget restrictions by Netflix. It's too bad there wasn't some middle ground between "no budget restrictions" and "canceled for being too expensive."
This is why people launder money.
Another issue is how do I pay my neighbor kid to mow my lawn with a credit card?
Scrap metals have known prices on the market and so could be exchanged for services. One of the best prices per pound right now for a non-precious metal is for pure tin. McMaster-Carr sells lead-free bar solder that's 100% tin, so you could buy some with a credit card, slice it into laminar pieces, stamp them Sn 100% in a corner and exchange them for goods and services. If asked, tell the officers that it's a commodity, not a currency.
I'd certainly be happier if harm reduction was the primary technique used regarding recreational drug use and prostitution. In particular, I think that if recreational drug use isn't outlawed as a concept, then it won't take long for chemists to find drugs that do a better job of getting people high without the adverse health effects of current low tech drugs. This won't end the epidemic that starts with prescription opioids, but it might go a long ways towards replacing other physiologically unsafe recreational drugs with ones that don't harm the body directly.
If you don't want to rely on a computer, don't forget the engine control computer. You'll want to avoid that electronic fuel injection and get something with a mechanically driven distributor and a carburetor or a diesel with some nice old fashioned swirl chambers. Perhaps they could provide it with a free Curta, so you can check the math on your receipts.
If investors sue that the money used on lobbying against Network Neutrality is poorly spent, then the counter-arguments made by management showing how they can monetize lack of Network Neutrality are exactly the arguments for why we need Network Neutrality regulations.
I think it's that the EFF doesn't want DRM to be convenient - like how the FBI doesn't want smartphone encryption to be convenient. They figure if something they consider evil is convenient, then we'll end up in an Eminiar-Vendikar sort of situation where we tolerate evil rather than stamp it out. This argument is sort of like the one people have about acceptable beach wear, someone's not going to be happy with the outcome, regardless of what it is.
Sure, and Moscow is legitimately Mongolian, because they owned it once, and then later they didn't.
that carry Tata Air Pod size cars. The buses never turn off the arterial that is their route. They let pods off at cross streets. At the farther from the city end of the route they swap batteries and move to the other lane. At the city end, a crane moves them to the other lane.
Paypal may suck for receiving money. They're great for hiding my plastic when I'm spending it.
Ethanol and marijuana are already restricted for under 21 in Oregon. I don't think they differentiate on age for unhealthy food. Acetone, rat poison and paint thinner can all be purchased by 18 year old Oregonians.
For an even bigger discount, just hop into this meat grinder, and our paid employee will say very nice things about the paste that comes out, before it gets pelletized and sent to a fish farm.