You don't like religions dictating how your government is run? The price to be paid for this is not having your government dictating how religions operate.
When will people just say "Thank you France but we'll take our goodies elsewhere." Let the Belgians and Germans get all of the benefits and leave the French out in the cold. The only way to stop this bullshit is to opt out of it and let them suffer the consequences.
Granted, I'm a boxing fan so I don't claim to be objective but it's insanity that someone can have a history of making false rape allegations and the judge doesn't allow the jury to consider that.
I have attended one college and one university since Wikipedia was created and it's not permitted as a source *at all*. You, clearly may use it to find actual sources but it shouldn't even appear in your bibliography or sources.
Namely, this was in the page for Desiree Washington, the woman that Mike Tyson was convicted of raping.
In the section about the rape accusation, trial and conviction of Mike Tyson, I added information about a previous false allegation made by Ms. Washington against a high school friend.
Someone reverted my change with a cryptic comment about "BLP". I saw it a few days later and re-created my change. Again, my change was reverted with more comments about "BLP".
This was several years ago so I don't remember exactly what was said back and forth but the gist of it is that the other party thought that there was something in the wikipedia rules about the "Biographies of Living Persons" that prevented me from including the information about the false rape allegations Desiree Washington made in the past. I challenged the person to show specifically where BLP precluded me from including this information, they could not so I restored my change.
Apparently this other editor had wikipedia political connections because I received a "Warning" for making my edits. I was willing to be banned over this because for me it's about the principle of the thing. If wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, I was going to make sure that this factual information was included. Hell, I can generate throw-away email addresses and wikipedia accounts. I'm not sure who resolved this but what happened in the end was that Desiree Washington's page went away and the information about the false rape allegations in her past were included on Mike Tyson's page.
After this, I stopped editing articles. I realized that situations like this are precisely why wikipedia isn't considered an authoritative source in the academic sense. People with more knowledge about a subject and with the supporting documentation can lose edit wars if the ignoramus on the other side has the political clout to have them blocked.
The first thing is to remind them that you could be hit by a bus or win the powerball tomorrow and they need to have at least one more person who knows your job in order to stay in business.
Where/When during Shaun of the Dead did they establish that one had to be in close contact with a zombie in order to become one?
This was explicitly established in Zack Snyder's Dawn remake and in 28 Days Later, one could only become infected by exposure to bodily fluids from infected but there's nothing that establishes this rule in Shaun.
I've seen this numerous times and it's usually one of the following cases at work.
1. Sometimes managers have a specific candidate in mind for a job but the rules of the business require that they use a job posting system to announce any openings. So, the opening is tailored to a the person that the manager wanted to hire from the beginning. Very few people will meet those exact specifications and in the end, they'll be able to hire the person the manager wanted from the beginning.
2. Because they know that no one will meet the requirements so they can hire a H1B worker and drive down the cost of tech labor.
I'm in Pennsylvania and my electric bill is less than $2,000 per year. Gas and electric for the entire year is somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,200.
I would be far better served by adding additional insulation to my house than I would be by spending an extra $4,000 on my HVAC system.
Really, what's wrong with buying all of our solar panels from China? If they can produce them cheap enough to ship them halfway around the planet and still sell them cheaper than locally produced panels, they deserve to win.
The price difference between the 13 and 16 SEER units? Total of about $4000, that will be paid back in less than 2 years with the power savings (our old units were 13 SEER models).
For an awful lot of people, $4,000 is a lot of money and not something that they'd say it "isn't that much".
Weird, I wasn't aware the US was a Constitutional Monarchy where the Senate is a rubber stamp and the Head of State a figurehead. I thought when all three branches had a saw they had roughly proportional power.
No. The House of Representatives is not a head of state, it's an elected body of those to whom the people delegate their authority and in whom the control of the government's purse strings are trusted by the constitution.
I didn't ask you to have the government solve all the problems, I asked you to give a solution. If you wish that solution can be take the government out of healthcare entirely but actually give an alternative.
My solution is for the government to get as far away from healthcare as possible.
I'm going to guess this is code for "Huh, I looked for those hundreds of cases of fraud that I heard Republican X describe in state Y for election Z, and it turned out that of all those hundreds of alleged cases none/virtually none of them turned out to be fraud"
No, it's code for "Sorry, I'm not dumb enough to engage in any game where my opponent is the sole arbiter of the rules."
Now, you'll argue some variant of "Well, I said 'significant' and for all you know these individuals were an anomaly, unless you can provide documentation of whatever arbitrary figure I decide is 'significant', I'm going to ignore your cases of voter fraud".
It was about the Republicans tying to force Democrats to defund ObamaCare, the partial funding offers were just a way to turn phrase it as a negotiation rather than a hostage taking.
The constitution gives the power of the purse to the House of Representatives. It's the House's prerogative to determine what gets funded and what does not. The shutdown occurred because Senate Democrats wanted to obstruct the House's Constitutionally provided power.
Either you turn them away to die (unconscionable). Cover them with some kind of public healthcare (Tea Party should hate that). Do what they were doing previously, which is to have them covered only by the people paying insurance (Tea Party should have that more). Or have a mandate.
I can't help buy be amused when someone who has expressed nothing but antipathy towards to the Tea Party has some idea of what they "should" think.
What solution do you have for this problem that is consistent with the Tea Party principals?
I reject the premise that it's the government's role to solve all problems.
So I played a bit loose with the terminology but default could eventually lead to actual default if receipts plummet or have an unexpected shortfall and there's insufficient capital to pay the debt.
Technically possible but that wasn't going to happen. The US Government takes in nearly 20 times the amount of money it needs to service the debt.
But exercise is very limited when you're a representative of the government, prayer to open council meetings is a definite problem as are religious displays in schools and on government property.
Only in their official capacity as a government representative. But notice that at the beginning of ever session of the Supreme Court, the phrase "God save the United States and this Honorable Court!" is uttered. Does THAT violate the Separation of Church and State?
Ok. Show me the fraud. Show me the cases of illegal aliens or fraudsters casting votes in any significant numbers in any election.
That's the sticky wicket, isn't it? You would be the arbiter of "significant". I'll decline to play that game.
Many establishment Republicans supported an individual mandate. They're the ones who pressured Boehner to to cave during the shutdown.
The government was never in danger of a default on the debt. The debt service would have been paid first. What we were looking at was forced austerity, not default.
There is no "Separation of church and state" in the constitution. There is a prohibition on establishment of a state religion.
In what way does an ID requirement disenfranchise minorities? You have to argue that minorities are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID if you think that requiring one is designed to disenfranchise them.
But, never let the truth get in the way of your leftist rhetoric.
To take the Tea Party metaphor they're the worst of both worlds, their principles are constantly changing, but whatever principle they decide on their actions are completely uncompromising.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. The Tea Party has been consistent. Lower taxes, smaller government and adherence to the Constitution.
Individual members have their own agendas too but the thing that unites all of the various Tea Party factions is that they agree on something.
The AK-47 is considerably less accurate than the M-16. Granted, CS made it far worse than it needed to be. A skilled rifleman can put shots into a paper plate at 150 yards all day.
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The "separation of church state" works both ways.
You don't like religions dictating how your government is run? The price to be paid for this is not having your government dictating how religions operate.
LK
The Ender series was a lot deeper than you're giving it credit for.
LK
When will people just say "Thank you France but we'll take our goodies elsewhere."
Let the Belgians and Germans get all of the benefits and leave the French out in the cold. The only way to stop this bullshit is to opt out of it and let them suffer the consequences.
LK
Granted, I'm a boxing fan so I don't claim to be objective but it's insanity that someone can have a history of making false rape allegations and the judge doesn't allow the jury to consider that.
LK
I have attended one college and one university since Wikipedia was created and it's not permitted as a source *at all*. You, clearly may use it to find actual sources but it shouldn't even appear in your bibliography or sources.
LK
Namely, this was in the page for Desiree Washington, the woman that Mike Tyson was convicted of raping.
In the section about the rape accusation, trial and conviction of Mike Tyson, I added information about a previous false allegation made by Ms. Washington against a high school friend.
Someone reverted my change with a cryptic comment about "BLP". I saw it a few days later and re-created my change. Again, my change was reverted with more comments about "BLP".
This was several years ago so I don't remember exactly what was said back and forth but the gist of it is that the other party thought that there was something in the wikipedia rules about the "Biographies of Living Persons" that prevented me from including the information about the false rape allegations Desiree Washington made in the past. I challenged the person to show specifically where BLP precluded me from including this information, they could not so I restored my change.
Apparently this other editor had wikipedia political connections because I received a "Warning" for making my edits. I was willing to be banned over this because for me it's about the principle of the thing. If wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, I was going to make sure that this factual information was included. Hell, I can generate throw-away email addresses and wikipedia accounts. I'm not sure who resolved this but what happened in the end was that Desiree Washington's page went away and the information about the false rape allegations in her past were included on Mike Tyson's page.
After this, I stopped editing articles. I realized that situations like this are precisely why wikipedia isn't considered an authoritative source in the academic sense. People with more knowledge about a subject and with the supporting documentation can lose edit wars if the ignoramus on the other side has the political clout to have them blocked.
LK
Dawkins is concerned only with enriching himself, hence his assholery.
You don't convince people that you're right by being an asshole.
You can prompt people to question their beliefs by asking the right questions.
Be friendly, be personable, don't be an asshole.
Be Penn Gillette, don't be Dawkins.
Evangelical Atheists are just as annoying as Jehovah's witnesses.
LK
The first thing is to remind them that you could be hit by a bus or win the powerball tomorrow and they need to have at least one more person who knows your job in order to stay in business.
Keep it in terms that they will see as practical.
LK
Where/When during Shaun of the Dead did they establish that one had to be in close contact with a zombie in order to become one?
This was explicitly established in Zack Snyder's Dawn remake and in 28 Days Later, one could only become infected by exposure to bodily fluids from infected but there's nothing that establishes this rule in Shaun.
LK
I've seen this numerous times and it's usually one of the following cases at work.
1. Sometimes managers have a specific candidate in mind for a job but the rules of the business require that they use a job posting system to announce any openings. So, the opening is tailored to a the person that the manager wanted to hire from the beginning. Very few people will meet those exact specifications and in the end, they'll be able to hire the person the manager wanted from the beginning.
2. Because they know that no one will meet the requirements so they can hire a H1B worker and drive down the cost of tech labor.
LK
This renews my faith in our youth. I am much older. In fact, I'm technically old enough to be the parent of most of the people in that demographic.
LK
I'm in Pennsylvania and my electric bill is less than $2,000 per year. Gas and electric for the entire year is somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,200.
I would be far better served by adding additional insulation to my house than I would be by spending an extra $4,000 on my HVAC system.
LK
My primary concern is what they cost me. 15%(or more) better at retail is more than enough reason, for me, to purchase Chinese.
LK
Really, what's wrong with buying all of our solar panels from China? If they can produce them cheap enough to ship them halfway around the planet and still sell them cheaper than locally produced panels, they deserve to win.
LK
The price difference between the 13 and 16 SEER units? Total of about $4000, that will be paid back in less than 2 years with the power savings (our old units were 13 SEER models).
For an awful lot of people, $4,000 is a lot of money and not something that they'd say it "isn't that much".
LK
Weird, I wasn't aware the US was a Constitutional Monarchy where the Senate is a rubber stamp and the Head of State a figurehead. I thought when all three branches had a saw they had roughly proportional power.
No. The House of Representatives is not a head of state, it's an elected body of those to whom the people delegate their authority and in whom the control of the government's purse strings are trusted by the constitution.
I didn't ask you to have the government solve all the problems, I asked you to give a solution. If you wish that solution can be take the government out of healthcare entirely but actually give an alternative.
My solution is for the government to get as far away from healthcare as possible.
I'm going to guess this is code for "Huh, I looked for those hundreds of cases of fraud that I heard Republican X describe in state Y for election Z, and it turned out that of all those hundreds of alleged cases none/virtually none of them turned out to be fraud"
No, it's code for "Sorry, I'm not dumb enough to engage in any game where my opponent is the sole arbiter of the rules."
I'll show you what I mean, like this.
Now, you'll argue some variant of "Well, I said 'significant' and for all you know these individuals were an anomaly, unless you can provide documentation of whatever arbitrary figure I decide is 'significant', I'm going to ignore your cases of voter fraud".
Here's another one.
But to be fair, these are not illegal aliens, they are non-citizens who are registered to vote and cast ballots in our elections.
LK
It was about the Republicans tying to force Democrats to defund ObamaCare, the partial funding offers were just a way to turn phrase it as a negotiation rather than a hostage taking.
The constitution gives the power of the purse to the House of Representatives. It's the House's prerogative to determine what gets funded and what does not. The shutdown occurred because Senate Democrats wanted to obstruct the House's Constitutionally provided power.
Either you turn them away to die (unconscionable). Cover them with some kind of public healthcare (Tea Party should hate that). Do what they were doing previously, which is to have them covered only by the people paying insurance (Tea Party should have that more). Or have a mandate.
I can't help buy be amused when someone who has expressed nothing but antipathy towards to the Tea Party has some idea of what they "should" think.
What solution do you have for this problem that is consistent with the Tea Party principals?
I reject the premise that it's the government's role to solve all problems.
So I played a bit loose with the terminology but default could eventually lead to actual default if receipts plummet or have an unexpected shortfall and there's insufficient capital to pay the debt.
Technically possible but that wasn't going to happen. The US Government takes in nearly 20 times the amount of money it needs to service the debt.
But exercise is very limited when you're a representative of the government, prayer to open council meetings is a definite problem as are religious displays in schools and on government property.
Only in their official capacity as a government representative. But notice that at the beginning of ever session of the Supreme Court, the phrase "God save the United States and this Honorable Court!" is uttered. Does THAT violate the Separation of Church and State?
Ok. Show me the fraud. Show me the cases of illegal aliens or fraudsters casting votes in any significant numbers in any election.
That's the sticky wicket, isn't it? You would be the arbiter of "significant". I'll decline to play that game.
LK
Many establishment Republicans supported an individual mandate. They're the ones who pressured Boehner to to cave during the shutdown.
The government was never in danger of a default on the debt. The debt service would have been paid first. What we were looking at was forced austerity, not default.
There is no "Separation of church and state" in the constitution. There is a prohibition on establishment of a state religion.
In what way does an ID requirement disenfranchise minorities? You have to argue that minorities are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID if you think that requiring one is designed to disenfranchise them.
But, never let the truth get in the way of your leftist rhetoric.
LK
To take the Tea Party metaphor they're the worst of both worlds, their principles are constantly changing, but whatever principle they decide on their actions are completely uncompromising.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. The Tea Party has been consistent. Lower taxes, smaller government and adherence to the Constitution.
Individual members have their own agendas too but the thing that unites all of the various Tea Party factions is that they agree on something.
LK
Apparently, I was clever enough to make the same point you did without you realizing it.
LK
People with flexible ethics are often inconvenienced by those with principles that they don't compromise.
LK
Unless I inadvertently drove over one crossing the street, I have never killed a cockroach.
Know why?
BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE COCKROACHES IN MY HOUSE!
LK
The AK-47 is considerably less accurate than the M-16. Granted, CS made it far worse than it needed to be. A skilled rifleman can put shots into a paper plate at 150 yards all day.
LK
Ah. You actually logged in this time.
I like to sign my posts. Get used to it, New Guy.
LK
Chicago was within the light cone from the Washington DC disclosure when those trades were made.
You're talking network latency and not relativistic reality.
LK