Alcoholic crashes involve people falling asleep. It's weariness that is the problem (and, of course, for a small fraction of people, alcohol makes them weary).
Falling asleep (behind the wheel or otherwise) due to alcohol consumption only happens to someone who is really blasted. Your ability to drive is affected well before you drink that much. From this article:
Alcohol is a substance that reduces the function of the brain, impairing thinking, reasoning and muscle coordination. All these abilities are essential to operating a vehicle safely.
And he did not even go as high as a tall building. Still, impressive, sorta like Evil Knievel.
What impresses me most is that he didn't kill or seriously injure himself. Look, I do wish the guy well. But I'm looking forward to him coming back safely and eating crow when he admits he saw the curvature of the earth.
And what he made is indeed a rocket. It expels propellant to go somewhere. The energy used to expel the propellant just comes from something other than a chemical reaction.
Oh BTW, it's Evel Knieval. Not the spelling of first and last names.
There are no strictures against vaccines in the Jewish religion and the overwhelming majority of American Jews are vaccinated. The reasons for the explosion of cases among members of insular, ultra-orthodox communities has more to do with their frequent contacts with Israel, which is undergoing its own measles crisis, combined with their insularity and general mistrust of government, say health officials.
In addition, a misinformation campaign, including phone calls, voice mails and pamphlets has targeted the community, say health officials and immunization advocates. One widely distributed booklet not only cites various rabbis questioning the obligation to vaccinate children, but also advances anecdotes and statistics in an attempt to connect vaccinations to physical harm and death.
Fake news is not benign. It can be dangerous. Consider that Pizzagate agitated some guy into taking a rifle into the restaurant that was the supposed site of human trafficking.
Fake news is written by fake reporters. It is not news with mistakes, or even news with a bias. It is not intended to inform. It is intended to cause fear, anger, or confusion -- the kinds of emotions that can lead people to make poor choices at best, or carry out violence at worst. Both the left and the right should strive to debunk it.
People that smoke pot are the most useless faggots in society.
Not so fast. Some of them smoke it for medicinal reasons. And the last thing they want is a high. They're trying to relieve pain or nausea, or increase their appetite, etc.
And I'm not judging those who smoke it for recreational purposes, as long as they do so responsibly. Just like alcohol and tobacco. Don't DUI and don't make the rest of us breathe it.
Well I for one welcome our new soundscape-composing algorithmic overlords.
Seriously, I think it sounds very nice. The tracks do have a strong similarity, and I don't think it helps that they're all in the same key. But they are intended to be ambient music, with ambiguous ephemeral chord-progressions. They kind of remind me of Brian Eno, with some touches of Sigur Ros.
Why would you gang up on 3rd world nations? These countries are just developing a middle class and billions of people are coming out of poverty. Its a shame you only look at it from a Western point of view.
The primary emitters are China, India, and the USA. While they all have wealth-distribution and other issues, I'd hardly call them third-world. All three are spacefaring. All three have high-quality universities whose graduates make an impact all over the globe. All three have considerable and unique contributions to world culture and knowledge.
Don't get me wrong, third-world nations should be given support. But you're making a mistake when you claim the OP wants to "gang up" on third-world nations. China, India, and the USA are the "couple counties" the OP suggest the rest of the world should "gang up" on.
Story that says differently. AOC stole $1 million out of her campaign and pocketed it for personal use, hasn't been charged.
You're grossly mischaracterizing the Fox News story. Here's what it actually says:
- Saikat Chakrabarti (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' chief of staff) transferred $885,000 from two PACs to two LLCs he controls. - Such transfers (even large ones) are not uncommon. - The PACs claimed the transfers were for "strategic consulting". - The complaint (and that's all it is right now) alleges that this was an attempt to dodge FEC reporting requirements. - The complaint was filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based conservative organization.
So no, AOC did not "steal" money from her campaign and pocket it "for personal use". And it's hardly outrageous that she hasn't been charged, because at this point it's still just a complaint.
Reactions from several former FEC officials appear to be mixed. Chakrabarti has been very forthcoming with explanations of what he did and why. So it doesn't appear he's trying to hide anything.
TL/DR: this looks complicated, but let's not jump to conclusions.
You do realize that Sanders cannot spend his campaign money on anything except campaigning?
Campaigns are required to report on how they spend their campaign money. I'm too lazy to chase down examples right now, but my observation is that both parties have messed up handling or reporting of campaign money from time to time. They have to fix the problem and possibly pay a fine. But the point is, candidates cannot do whatever they want with campaign money.
it is no longer "insurance". it no longer covers "what if". they KNOW it will cost them. it's no longer a gamble. they WILL lose money.
why would any company want to do that?
If you force them to do that. Someone will get fucked and it won't be the company.
Congratulations. You just described why Obamacare has an individual mandate, with an IRS-administered penalty for those who don't sign up. A penalty that Trump's tax bill removed. (The ACA still has an individual mandate, but the penalty is $0.)
Yes, I agree with all of that, and have made similar points in other stories. Please see my reply to gtall above.
Barr's claim that there was no obstruction because there was no crime of conspiracy is ridiculous. Tell that to Martha Stewart, who was not convicted for insider trading, but was convicted for obstructing the investigation of her alleged insider trading.
And it gets better with Barr. He maintains that the President cannot obstruct justice. Not hard to see how he got the nod from the WH to be the new AG.
Fair points. I should have said Trump was left unscathed by William Barr. And yes, we most definitely do need to see the report to get the full picture. I predict it will contain stuff that both sides will try to weaponize.
IMHO, if you want to do the least amount of emitting when you drive, you need to remember that nearly 70% of domestic electrical energy production in the USA comes from fossil fuels, including the energy you used to charge that battery.
Actually it's 63.5% (for 2018.) Natural gas provided 35.1% and coal provided 27.4%. Coal has been trending downward since 2008 -- largely due to market forces, not regulations. Nuclear has stayed pretty constant, but renewables have been trending upward.
Somehow I wonder if we'd be better off burning Natural Gas in internal combustion engines over burning it to charge my EV's battery given transmission losses, conversion losses and charge/discharge efficiency and losses you have to over come...
You may have a point, but let's review. Natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, and while hardly carbon-neutral, it is better on the environment than coal or oil. It will be hard to talk people out of using it, and it may make more sense to burn it in the car rather than in an electrical plan that charges an electric car. However, unburnt natural gas is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Leakage during transport is inevitable. (On the flip side, it does break down in the atmosphere more quickly than CO2.)
TL/DR: it's not just about the tailpipe.
But hey, your mileage may vary (literally) but I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a "zero" emission vehicle especially if you look at the whole life cycle of the car...
You overlook that electrical energy can be created from many sources, whereas fossil fuels come from only one: fossils, and their availability is far more finite than other sources of energy. No matter how we make it, we're never going to run out of electricity.
Which after this week and the fall out of the Mueller report and the spectacular flameout of AOC's "Green" new deal in the Senate soon to come is looking to be a pretty tall hill to climb.
Don't be too sure. Trump just put health care in play. I doubt he'll get votes by withdrawing protection for pre-existing conditions.
And although Trump may have been left unscathed by Mueller's probe, he is still facing lots of other legal issues.
On the other hand, if a campaign co-ordinates with foreigners to engage in activities aimed at influencing an election
BOGGLE!!! WTF do you think the purpose of the fucking dossier was??? Damn are you dense.
Yes, obviously the dossier was requested and purchased from a British former intelligence agent with the intent (by the DNC) to influence the election. There was no co-ordination between the agent and the DNC, other than the DNC telling him who they wanted information on, and then cutting him a check. The agent was not involved in the planning, strategizing, or decision-making for the campaign, nor did he donate to it. His research was a work-for-hire.
On the other hand, if a campaign co-ordinates with foreigners to engage in activities aimed at influencing an election (such as, oh say, hacking your opponent's email servers) then that is collusion.
Yeah, but Mueller stated, and Barr reported, that they found NO evidence (zip, nada, zilch) evidence that anyone in the Trump campaign ever coordinated anything with the Russians, despite the Russian's repeated explicit attempts to do just that.
Actually, what Mueller said, and Barr cited was that "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." (emphasis mine.) That doesn't sound like "zip, nada, zilch" evidence, although that may very well be the case. We'll need to see the report to find out. But at this stage it does appear that Mueller's finding is that, whatever Trump's campaign did, it did not rise to the level of conspiracy or co-ordination with a foreign government.
And if a foreign government handed a campaign unsolicited information about its opponent, then that would be an illegal campaign contribution
But if you pay for the information from the same foreign government it's OK?
The dossier paid for by the DNC was prepared by a British former intelligence agent, not a government. But anyway, as for whether it's okay to buy information from a foreign government in the context of an election campaign, I confess I don't know, but perhaps it's okay. The FEC rules appear to be mostly concerned with active foreign influence on a campaign, such as a foreign entity participating in the strategizing or decision-making with a candidate. (The Trump Tower meeting had the look of that kind of activity, but apparently Mueller concluded there was smoke but no fire.) If a campaign simply requested and paid for information from a foreign source (government or otherwise) without involving the source in campaign planning, that doesn't sound to me like a violation.
obstruction, which, by the way, REQUIRES that there be an actual crime for which the investigation was obstructed...
Well hold on. That's just AG William Barr's view. And he has even more generous views on whether the POTUS can obstruct justice at all. Which is to say, he think the POTUS can't. And to that point, he wrote what was practically an audition letter to be AG.
As for whether there has to be an underlying crime for there to be obstruction... I give you Martha Stweart.
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Alcoholic crashes involve people falling asleep. It's weariness that is the problem (and, of course, for a small fraction of people, alcohol makes them weary).
Falling asleep (behind the wheel or otherwise) due to alcohol consumption only happens to someone who is really blasted. Your ability to drive is affected well before you drink that much. From this article:
Alcohol is a substance that reduces the function of the brain, impairing thinking, reasoning and muscle coordination. All these abilities are essential to operating a vehicle safely.
Oh BTW, it's Evel Knieval. Not the spelling of first and last names.
Whoops, his last name is spelled Knievel after all. Sorry. But he's Evel, not Evil.
It was a water rocket.
And he did not even go as high as a tall building. Still, impressive, sorta like Evil Knievel.
What impresses me most is that he didn't kill or seriously injure himself. Look, I do wish the guy well. But I'm looking forward to him coming back safely and eating crow when he admits he saw the curvature of the earth.
And what he made is indeed a rocket. It expels propellant to go somewhere. The energy used to expel the propellant just comes from something other than a chemical reaction.
Oh BTW, it's Evel Knieval. Not the spelling of first and last names.
Calm down. From the article:
There are no strictures against vaccines in the Jewish religion and the overwhelming majority of American Jews are vaccinated. The reasons for the explosion of cases among members of insular, ultra-orthodox communities has more to do with their frequent contacts with Israel, which is undergoing its own measles crisis, combined with their insularity and general mistrust of government, say health officials.
In addition, a misinformation campaign, including phone calls, voice mails and pamphlets has targeted the community, say health officials and immunization advocates. One widely distributed booklet not only cites various rabbis questioning the obligation to vaccinate children, but also advances anecdotes and statistics in an attempt to connect vaccinations to physical harm and death.
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Fake news is not benign. It can be dangerous. Consider that Pizzagate agitated some guy into taking a rifle into the restaurant that was the supposed site of human trafficking.
Fake news is written by fake reporters. It is not news with mistakes, or even news with a bias. It is not intended to inform. It is intended to cause fear, anger, or confusion -- the kinds of emotions that can lead people to make poor choices at best, or carry out violence at worst. Both the left and the right should strive to debunk it.
People that smoke pot are the most useless faggots in society.
Not so fast. Some of them smoke it for medicinal reasons. And the last thing they want is a high. They're trying to relieve pain or nausea, or increase their appetite, etc.
And I'm not judging those who smoke it for recreational purposes, as long as they do so responsibly. Just like alcohol and tobacco. Don't DUI and don't make the rest of us breathe it.
This. What you described is known as survivorship bias.
Well I for one welcome our new soundscape-composing algorithmic overlords.
Seriously, I think it sounds very nice. The tracks do have a strong similarity, and I don't think it helps that they're all in the same key. But they are intended to be ambient music, with ambiguous ephemeral chord-progressions. They kind of remind me of Brian Eno, with some touches of Sigur Ros.
I thought they liked to be called Persians.
Yes they do. As opposed to Arabs. But they're still Iranians.
Why would you gang up on 3rd world nations? These countries are just developing a middle class and billions of people are coming out of poverty. Its a shame you only look at it from a Western point of view.
The primary emitters are China, India, and the USA. While they all have wealth-distribution and other issues, I'd hardly call them third-world. All three are spacefaring. All three have high-quality universities whose graduates make an impact all over the globe. All three have considerable and unique contributions to world culture and knowledge.
Don't get me wrong, third-world nations should be given support. But you're making a mistake when you claim the OP wants to "gang up" on third-world nations. China, India, and the USA are the "couple counties" the OP suggest the rest of the world should "gang up" on.
Liberal breaks law, other liberals give pass..
See Somollett in Chicago. One rule for them, another for you.
News at 11.
Anthony Weiner, Al Franken, Rod Blagojevich, John Conyers, and so on ... all were urged to resign by their fellow Democrats.
Ditto for the two guys in Virginia, although they have refused to leave (yet).
Story that says differently. AOC stole $1 million out of her campaign and pocketed it for personal use, hasn't been charged.
You're grossly mischaracterizing the Fox News story. Here's what it actually says:
- Saikat Chakrabarti (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' chief of staff) transferred $885,000 from two PACs to two LLCs he controls.
- Such transfers (even large ones) are not uncommon.
- The PACs claimed the transfers were for "strategic consulting".
- The complaint (and that's all it is right now) alleges that this was an attempt to dodge FEC reporting requirements.
- The complaint was filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based conservative organization.
So no, AOC did not "steal" money from her campaign and pocket it "for personal use". And it's hardly outrageous that she hasn't been charged, because at this point it's still just a complaint.
Reactions from several former FEC officials appear to be mixed. Chakrabarti has been very forthcoming with explanations of what he did and why. So it doesn't appear he's trying to hide anything.
TL/DR: this looks complicated, but let's not jump to conclusions.
You do realize that Sanders cannot spend his campaign money on anything except campaigning?
Campaigns are required to report on how they spend their campaign money. I'm too lazy to chase down examples right now, but my observation is that both parties have messed up handling or reporting of campaign money from time to time. They have to fix the problem and possibly pay a fine. But the point is, candidates cannot do whatever they want with campaign money.
There needs to be a right to repair Politicians!
There is. The repair is performed by voting.
So taxes are robbery?
Try laying charges against the IRS then. See how far you get. I'll wait.
if you cover 'pre existing conditions'.
it is no longer "insurance". it no longer covers "what if".
they KNOW it will cost them. it's no longer a gamble. they WILL lose money.
why would any company want to do that?
If you force them to do that. Someone will get fucked and it won't be the company.
Congratulations. You just described why Obamacare has an individual mandate, with an IRS-administered penalty for those who don't sign up. A penalty that Trump's tax bill removed. (The ACA still has an individual mandate, but the penalty is $0.)
Yes, I agree with all of that, and have made similar points in other stories. Please see my reply to gtall above.
Barr's claim that there was no obstruction because there was no crime of conspiracy is ridiculous. Tell that to Martha Stewart, who was not convicted for insider trading, but was convicted for obstructing the investigation of her alleged insider trading.
And it gets better with Barr. He maintains that the President cannot obstruct justice. Not hard to see how he got the nod from the WH to be the new AG.
Fair points. I should have said Trump was left unscathed by William Barr. And yes, we most definitely do need to see the report to get the full picture. I predict it will contain stuff that both sides will try to weaponize.
As for how/why Barr got the AG job, I'm not the only one who thinks he basically auditioned for it.
IMHO, if you want to do the least amount of emitting when you drive, you need to remember that nearly 70% of domestic electrical energy production in the USA comes from fossil fuels, including the energy you used to charge that battery.
Actually it's 63.5% (for 2018.) Natural gas provided 35.1% and coal provided 27.4%. Coal has been trending downward since 2008 -- largely due to market forces, not regulations. Nuclear has stayed pretty constant, but renewables have been trending upward.
Somehow I wonder if we'd be better off burning Natural Gas in internal combustion engines over burning it to charge my EV's battery given transmission losses, conversion losses and charge/discharge efficiency and losses you have to over come...
You may have a point, but let's review. Natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, and while hardly carbon-neutral, it is better on the environment than coal or oil. It will be hard to talk people out of using it, and it may make more sense to burn it in the car rather than in an electrical plan that charges an electric car. However, unburnt natural gas is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. Leakage during transport is inevitable. (On the flip side, it does break down in the atmosphere more quickly than CO2.)
TL/DR: it's not just about the tailpipe.
But hey, your mileage may vary (literally) but I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a "zero" emission vehicle especially if you look at the whole life cycle of the car...
You overlook that electrical energy can be created from many sources, whereas fossil fuels come from only one: fossils, and their availability is far more finite than other sources of energy. No matter how we make it, we're never going to run out of electricity.
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Which after this week and the fall out of the Mueller report and the spectacular flameout of AOC's "Green" new deal in the Senate soon to come is looking to be a pretty tall hill to climb.
Don't be too sure. Trump just put health care in play. I doubt he'll get votes by withdrawing protection for pre-existing conditions.
And although Trump may have been left unscathed by Mueller's probe, he is still facing lots of other legal issues.
On the other hand, if a campaign co-ordinates with foreigners to engage in activities aimed at influencing an election
BOGGLE!!! WTF do you think the purpose of the fucking dossier was??? Damn are you dense.
Yes, obviously the dossier was requested and purchased from a British former intelligence agent with the intent (by the DNC) to influence the election. There was no co-ordination between the agent and the DNC, other than the DNC telling him who they wanted information on, and then cutting him a check. The agent was not involved in the planning, strategizing, or decision-making for the campaign, nor did he donate to it. His research was a work-for-hire.
On the other hand, if a campaign co-ordinates with foreigners to engage in activities aimed at influencing an election (such as, oh say, hacking your opponent's email servers) then that is collusion.
Yeah, but Mueller stated, and Barr reported, that they found NO evidence (zip, nada, zilch) evidence that anyone in the Trump campaign ever coordinated anything with the Russians, despite the Russian's repeated explicit attempts to do just that.
Actually, what Mueller said, and Barr cited was that "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." (emphasis mine.) That doesn't sound like "zip, nada, zilch" evidence, although that may very well be the case. We'll need to see the report to find out. But at this stage it does appear that Mueller's finding is that, whatever Trump's campaign did, it did not rise to the level of conspiracy or co-ordination with a foreign government.
And if a foreign government handed a campaign unsolicited information about its opponent, then that would be an illegal campaign contribution
But if you pay for the information from the same foreign government it's OK?
The dossier paid for by the DNC was prepared by a British former intelligence agent, not a government. But anyway, as for whether it's okay to buy information from a foreign government in the context of an election campaign, I confess I don't know, but perhaps it's okay. The FEC rules appear to be mostly concerned with active foreign influence on a campaign, such as a foreign entity participating in the strategizing or decision-making with a candidate. (The Trump Tower meeting had the look of that kind of activity, but apparently Mueller concluded there was smoke but no fire.) If a campaign simply requested and paid for information from a foreign source (government or otherwise) without involving the source in campaign planning, that doesn't sound to me like a violation.
obstruction, which, by the way, REQUIRES that there be an actual crime for which the investigation was obstructed...
Well hold on. That's just AG William Barr's view. And he has even more generous views on whether the POTUS can obstruct justice at all. Which is to say, he think the POTUS can't. And to that point, he wrote what was practically an audition letter to be AG.
As for whether there has to be an underlying crime for there to be obstruction ... I give you Martha Stweart.
Forgiven and forgotten.
As I said, I was misled by another post. You and others have pointed out my error. I googled and verified you are all correct.
Thanks for the improvement. But I have no angle. I just screwed up.