The 2nd amendment only went insane recently. It was perfectly sane and reasonable for the first 217 years of its existence. The effort started when the NRA was taken over by far right wing gun nuts in 1977. The NRA moved its primary purpose away from gun safety advocacy and marksmanship to gun ownership advocacy. They pushed for more guns, finally getting the dream of unlimited weapons for all in 2008. Why? Because they made money, that's why. No money in community gun safety programs. Shooting competitions? Boring. Lots of money in gun rights rallies, lots of fear, lots of excitement, and that generates money - to the tune of 350-400M a year now. Ka-Ching!
Except the US is the only first past the post that only has two parties. So the law works in the US, and fails to work anywhere else:
"While one of the only principles of political science elevated to the level of a law, in practice most countries with plurality voting have more than two parties. While the United States is very much a two-party system, the United Kingdom, Canada and India have consistently had multiparty parliaments.[3][4] Eric Dickson and Ken Sheve argue that there is a counter force to Duverger's Law, that on the national level a plurality system encourages two parties, but in the individual constituencies supermajorities will lead to the vote fracturing"
Yes you need to drive a 5000lb, 15mpg, 400 horsepower pickup truck so once a year you can pick up a piece of wood at Home Depot. Or you could just borrow the home depot truck. But why pay HD $15/hr for their truck when you can pay $50,000 for one of you very own?
An important part of ignorance is thinking things will never change. Up north, our parking lots are already wired for electricity. In the winter, you park, plug in and go to work. After work, the engine isn't frozen solid because it was plugged in . Sadly, most of these plug lots are gone now as synthetic oil, 0W20 and lighter engines don't freeze as much as conventional 10w40. The point is there is NO reason why your parking lot could not be wired. It's been done before. We can do it again. So if that's your only argument...what was your argument again?
I always rent cars for long trips. Saves wear and tear on my main vehicle, and we get something bigger for all the luggage and stuff - usually a minivan.
Requirements to watch 4 cable TV programs at the same time:
4 TV's, 4 cable boxes (@ 10/mo each) and a $100 cable plan
Requirements to watch 4 netflix streams at the same time:
Any combination of [laptops,desktops,phones,tablets,game machines, BR players, smart tvs, tvs], internet, and the $12/mo plan
OP's point was that Neilson can tell when your TV is on, but they can't tell if you are actually watching it. The morning news on mute with no one in the room counts as 'watched'. With netflix, generally, you have to explicitly turn it on and pick a show so you are more likely to be actually watching the content. That might explain the huge averages - the average american watches 5.4 hours of TV every. single. day? more likely they have TV on somewhere, but not necessarily watching it
Pilot A lands the plane.
Pilot B, having flown ahead on a commercial airliner, and is thus well rested, gets into the plane and takes off.
Claim to be green.
Repeat.
A lot of the respondents to this post just don't get it. At a certain point the computer is not the ends, it is a means. Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
Instead of not working and expecting me to figure out what I need to do to fix the computer, they sometimes do have a update to install first. That is fine, I switch to some other task, or read, while that is happening. . . or just play a different game and instal the patch when I am done for the day.
At a certain point, the computer ceases to be a hobby unto itself.
An off the shelf PC will play games with exactly the same amount of "tinkering" as a modern console requires.
No it won't. An off the shelf PC - DELL, Lenovo, Acer - has a 120watt power supply, an integrated intel video card that is directx 9 compatible. It won't play anything other than solitaire without a lot of tinkering. Oh, it's the buyers fault for not doing their research and buying a 'proper' PC, right? You buy a PS4, it plays PS4 games. You buy a PC...maybe. Did you check to make sure it has 8 lanes PCIe? 400 watt PSU? proper connectors? No? Toss a coin on whether that game will work or not....
OK fluffernutter. You've posted your junk all over this thread. You hate Elon, Tesla and SpaceX. A start up that loses money is somehow shocking to you.
Please outline any recent accomplishments you've made, and let us compare to Musk. We are particularly interested in your fantastic success creating profitable startups with no outside investors in extremely difficult fields.
The opening of the new master plan, which you clearly didn't bother to read:
The first master plan that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn't all that complicated and basically consisted of:
Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive
Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price
Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car
And...
Provide solar power. No kidding, this has literally been on our website for 10 years.
The reason we had to start off with step 1 was that it was all I could afford to do with what I made from PayPal. I thought our chances of success were so low that I didn't want to risk anyone's funds in the beginning but my own. The list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared....
As does every industry. Space travel was very recently 100% subsidized, air travel, anything that burns gas really, farming are all heavily, heavily subsidized. Farming is just insane - sometimes paying farmers to not grow food. Do we pay Musk not to make Tesla's?
Yes because for the average person who buys a dell, which come with 200W power supplies, making sure your "400 psu w has 'right' connections' is so easy.Simple!!
That's cool and all, but how does it apply to this case? The records were in the state department the whole time. They were created there and stayed there. .
"only" Gross negligence ? Do you know hard that is to prove? This case is miles, and miles away from gross negligence. Miles. Negligent? maybe. But Gross? No way. Gross requires the accused to not having taken any precautions. There is evidence that the email server she had might have been better than the one the state department IT could give her.
if you or i mishandled a single 1 classified document, we would be in jail or at least barred from having security clearance (something you need as president)
That is bullshit. I've mishandled classified documents. I once had classified docs that were not mine, handed to me right in front of an audit committee! There is an exception form you fill out. You explain the breech, you sign it, your manager signs it, your done. Happens all the time.
Well, guess what. Clinton accidentally leaked classified information to third party governments through known negligence.
Do you have any evidence to back up this assertion? You know as SoS she deals with 3r party governments and the resulting classified information as part of her job, right?
GW has his staff use private email servers too, specifically to get around the archives issue (is with intent, unlike HRC who wanted a secure BB and was denied).
I would agree to HRC getting whatever punishment GW got for doing the same thing. What was that again?
Except none of those are even close to "exactly the same thing". As SoS she created classified material as part of her job. She wasn't caught downloading other peoples classified material (navy reservist),or hiding other peoples classified material in her garage (nishimura), or crazy cyber stalking love triangles (patreaus).
30,000 work emails, 110 were classified, another 30,000 personal email none classified...peanuts. There is nothing there to prosecute on.
You guys need a new witchunt - quick! Is there more Benghazi inquires lined up? The first seven haven't turned up anything, but lucky #8 could be the one!
I do the same thing, but I take 6 months to to the evaluation. Sometimes a year. You can never be too careful with your code base! If they want the job they will happily work for free for a year. Or two. Maybe three, because sometimes they are slow to catch on. I love capitalism!
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The 2nd amendment only went insane recently. It was perfectly sane and reasonable for the first 217 years of its existence. The effort started when the NRA was taken over by far right wing gun nuts in 1977. The NRA moved its primary purpose away from gun safety advocacy and marksmanship to gun ownership advocacy. They pushed for more guns, finally getting the dream of unlimited weapons for all in 2008. Why? Because they made money, that's why. No money in community gun safety programs. Shooting competitions? Boring. Lots of money in gun rights rallies, lots of fear, lots of excitement, and that generates money - to the tune of 350-400M a year now. Ka-Ching!
Except the US is the only first past the post that only has two parties. So the law works in the US, and fails to work anywhere else: "While one of the only principles of political science elevated to the level of a law, in practice most countries with plurality voting have more than two parties. While the United States is very much a two-party system, the United Kingdom, Canada and India have consistently had multiparty parliaments.[3][4] Eric Dickson and Ken Sheve argue that there is a counter force to Duverger's Law, that on the national level a plurality system encourages two parties, but in the individual constituencies supermajorities will lead to the vote fracturing"
If your wealth is generating income, and it should be, then your tax returns do indeed give a very good sense of your overall wealth...
Yes you need to drive a 5000lb, 15mpg, 400 horsepower pickup truck so once a year you can pick up a piece of wood at Home Depot. Or you could just borrow the home depot truck. But why pay HD $15/hr for their truck when you can pay $50,000 for one of you very own?
An important part of ignorance is thinking things will never change. Up north, our parking lots are already wired for electricity. In the winter, you park, plug in and go to work. After work, the engine isn't frozen solid because it was plugged in . Sadly, most of these plug lots are gone now as synthetic oil, 0W20 and lighter engines don't freeze as much as conventional 10w40. The point is there is NO reason why your parking lot could not be wired. It's been done before. We can do it again. So if that's your only argument...what was your argument again?
I always rent cars for long trips. Saves wear and tear on my main vehicle, and we get something bigger for all the luggage and stuff - usually a minivan.
He pled guilty BTW
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Requirements to watch 4 cable TV programs at the same time: 4 TV's, 4 cable boxes (@ 10/mo each) and a $100 cable plan
Requirements to watch 4 netflix streams at the same time: Any combination of [laptops,desktops,phones,tablets,game machines, BR players, smart tvs, tvs], internet, and the $12/mo plan
OP's point was that Neilson can tell when your TV is on, but they can't tell if you are actually watching it. The morning news on mute with no one in the room counts as 'watched'. With netflix, generally, you have to explicitly turn it on and pick a show so you are more likely to be actually watching the content. That might explain the huge averages - the average american watches 5.4 hours of TV every. single. day? more likely they have TV on somewhere, but not necessarily watching it
Pilot A lands the plane. Pilot B, having flown ahead on a commercial airliner, and is thus well rested, gets into the plane and takes off. Claim to be green. Repeat.
A lot of the respondents to this post just don't get it. At a certain point the computer is not the ends, it is a means. Consoles provide a computer that, relatively, easily plays games. No tinkering or fussing required.
Instead of not working and expecting me to figure out what I need to do to fix the computer, they sometimes do have a update to install first. That is fine, I switch to some other task, or read, while that is happening. . . or just play a different game and instal the patch when I am done for the day.
At a certain point, the computer ceases to be a hobby unto itself.
An off the shelf PC will play games with exactly the same amount of "tinkering" as a modern console requires.
No it won't. An off the shelf PC - DELL, Lenovo, Acer - has a 120watt power supply, an integrated intel video card that is directx 9 compatible. It won't play anything other than solitaire without a lot of tinkering. Oh, it's the buyers fault for not doing their research and buying a 'proper' PC, right? You buy a PS4, it plays PS4 games. You buy a PC...maybe. Did you check to make sure it has 8 lanes PCIe? 400 watt PSU? proper connectors? No? Toss a coin on whether that game will work or not....
Please outline any recent accomplishments you've made, and let us compare to Musk. We are particularly interested in your fantastic success creating profitable startups with no outside investors in extremely difficult fields.
Thanks
Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive
Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price
Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car
And...
Provide solar power. No kidding, this has literally been on our website for 10 years.
The reason we had to start off with step 1 was that it was all I could afford to do with what I made from PayPal. I thought our chances of success were so low that I didn't want to risk anyone's funds in the beginning but my own. The list of successful car company startups is short. As of 2016, the number of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt is a grand total of two: Ford and Tesla. Starting a car company is idiotic and an electric car company is idiocy squared....
As does every industry. Space travel was very recently 100% subsidized, air travel, anything that burns gas really, farming are all heavily, heavily subsidized. Farming is just insane - sometimes paying farmers to not grow food. Do we pay Musk not to make Tesla's?
Yes because for the average person who buys a dell, which come with 200W power supplies, making sure your "400 psu w has 'right' connections' is so easy.Simple!!
The FBI didn't say her server was accessed by "unknown third parties." They said it was a risk - like all servers are at risk. Sheesh.
Gross Negligence is a legal term. It has a precise definition (which does not apply here). Look it up. The other is not a legal term.
That's cool and all, but how does it apply to this case? The records were in the state department the whole time. They were created there and stayed there. .
"only" Gross negligence ? Do you know hard that is to prove? This case is miles, and miles away from gross negligence. Miles. Negligent? maybe. But Gross? No way. Gross requires the accused to not having taken any precautions. There is evidence that the email server she had might have been better than the one the state department IT could give her.
Fine her $50.
That is bullshit. I've mishandled classified documents. I once had classified docs that were not mine, handed to me right in front of an audit committee! There is an exception form you fill out. You explain the breech, you sign it, your manager signs it, your done. Happens all the time.
Do you have any evidence to back up this assertion? You know as SoS she deals with 3r party governments and the resulting classified information as part of her job, right?
I would agree to HRC getting whatever punishment GW got for doing the same thing. What was that again?
30,000 work emails, 110 were classified, another 30,000 personal email none classified...peanuts. There is nothing there to prosecute on.
You guys need a new witchunt - quick! Is there more Benghazi inquires lined up? The first seven haven't turned up anything, but lucky #8 could be the one!
I do the same thing, but I take 6 months to to the evaluation. Sometimes a year. You can never be too careful with your code base! If they want the job they will happily work for free for a year. Or two. Maybe three, because sometimes they are slow to catch on. I love capitalism!