There are advantages to each style so get off your soap box and stop being an asshole. For example, in an educated populace (which the United States does not have) a trial by jury is most fair. Have you forgotten the entire dark and middle ages? "Professionals" judged people then too.
Any power makes human beings subject to corruption. Police are no different but the government and themselves would have you believe they are somehow ethically superior. History shows differently.
I don't understand how you can "buy" spectrum off other companies if its technically owned by the people. They should only be allowed to rent it from us.
If you don't regulate the internet it leaves corporations open to price-fixing and monopolies or oligopolies, which is EXACTLY what he have right now. Or do you think Cell phone providers did not raise SMS rates up at the same time (price fixing) and also charge a fair value for their service (oligopoly)? Basically, you need a government that is immune to corporate interests (i.e. do not allow campaigns a single cent from private industry even through PAC's, and make it illegal for a politician to enter into corporate positions for a period of X number of years after/before campaigns) and you need to regulate a capitalist market so it stays open and free, so that little Jim can go buy up a bunch of cell minutes and resell them on the open market for example. Robber barons and the great stock market crash and our recent recession are all a result of a less-regulated or unregulated capitalist market. Its not in the interest for a company or collection of companies that has 99 percent market share to regulate its/their own actions for ethical reasons and fairness, it simply would cut too much into their profits.
I agree the bank should be held responsible. If its possible to forge checks/money orders/cashiers checks then they are flawed devices and the responsibility to verify they are legit is up to the institution that forces their customers to use them. It was their fault they specifically said it was legit and the money was in his account. Im not saying this guy isn't an idiot, as he should have been aware of this type of scam since its too random and also common. Likewise however, a bank probably deals with this sort of scam regularly enough that they should be informed and should be more cautious with these money transfer devices. Understandably they may have some reason to believe this man was trying to do something illegal, however since its been proven time and time again that these people are being scammed a reasonable judge should remove the lien.
Another explanation is that the average person would find it fishy to be asked to set up a bank transfer out of the blue when they have no credentials to do so, whereas an accountant or financial adviser would probably have their name out there and expect someone to possibly seek their help with a bank transfer.
I went to two years community college before a state university and I had the best math professor Ive ever had at the community college. He was better than any of my current ones and now Im in grad school at a tier 1 research university actually doing research. Point is it doesn't matter where you go as long as you are interested in what you are doing. There are some differences in math departments around the world, such as CU Denver is all about computational math, UH Houston is all about a very strong abstract math foundation with specialties in wavelets/signal processing or financial math or complex geometry. My undergrad university was MSU Montana and they were all about the applied math, i.e. math used for engineering purposes. Its better to find a department that has similar interests to yours than just shoot for somewhere like Princeton only because of the prestige.
If they move their money out of the states it would be taxed heavily. Im not saying its a perfect solution, its just that the disparity in wealth in this country is absolutely ridiculous. Its hasnt been this bad since 1920.
I would argue its pretty normal for a kid under 18 to watch adult entertainment. Thats when your hormones are charged up and all you want to do is get chicks (or dudes if thats your thing). I used to sneak downstairs to watch porn on my family computer when I was 15, and I happened to be smart enough to hide the evidence (this was 11 years ago too). I also had a chest full of nudie mags I bartered for from various people.
Actually, to be tangential, if a man and women is caught in an indelicate position in the park, they are more likely to be let off with a warning, whereas if it is two men, their names get in the paper.
That's just downright bullshit. I think its partially due to the idiotic idea that gay = pedophile or gay = deviant. There are equally as many deviant straight people as gay people and frankly deviant is in the eye of the beholder. Pedophilia is a different issue, but saying gay = pedophile is like saying straight = 'young girl panty smeller' or something.
Women do now serve in the same units as men. It is frowned upon to sleep with members of your unit, but so long as it is not fraternization, it is not expressly forbidden. Some units I knew were downright incestuous, every possible straight combination had been tried. I'm not saying that it is a good thing, just something that happens. When gays are allowed to serve openly, why not treat them like straight couples? If a gay couple gets a civil union, why not separate them into different commands and assign them the same duty stations?
I agree with your statement. Im just attempting to use a more objective counter-argument for the sake of being difficult. I honestly grow tired of hearing about who is "gay" or who is "straight" or who is "bi". Oh my gosh! "female celebrity" kissed another woman! Maybe she likes to bump donuts! ZOMG! It doesn't matter in the end. We all contribute to society, and it seems gay people actually contribute more by many statistics Ive read (maybe because they have to deal with more bullshit). Sex seems to be some weird suppressed obsession in America but it really doesn't matter if you have some of your frontal lobe left unfilled with propaganda.
Obama is an extremely lame president. It seems to me he is just trying to get through his presidency without being called quitter. I imagine him waking up every day thinking "Fuck. I hate my job, but the pay is OK and I get to make a name for myself. Ill just go though another day chain-smoking so I can pull through". He doesn't do shit for the people. Even worse, our congress also has been bought by the highest bidder (i.e. telecom, oil, etc.) and they spend more time bitching at one another than representing the people that voted them into office. Meanwhile our education system and media is such a joke it spawns millions of morons that do not even realize that voting for republican or democrat ends up fucking them up the ass in the end./rant over
"Don't ask, don't tell" forces gays and lesbians to separate their lives in a way that straights don't worry about. That is why it was homophobic. It averted some persecution, but it gave no freedom.
I have the utmost respect for gay people, in fact I firmly believe gay people should not have any rights separate of straight people. I think all people regardless of sexual orientation should be allowed to form civil unions, all current marriages should be considered civil unions (legally) and marriage should be relegated to the church if they so choose to adopt it as a ritual. However, frankly I don't think "don't ask don't tell" was necessarily about restricting freedom. A typical American battlefield commander doesn't want his soldiers having sex with one another, as sex tends to complicate things for the majority of human beings. An easy way to separate people emotionally is to separate the sexes with the supposition that same sex people probably wont enter into relationships. Friendship does not have the same devotion as pairings such as spouse and spouse (which I confirmed for myself by meeting my wife). A person won't execute their orders as efficiently if they are sleeping with their lover/partner/spouse in the same unit. Instead, they will try to save them from harm at their own expense and probably even their unit's expense. This is partially the reason why a military husband and wife do not have the same commander. I don't necessarily think that my excuse for the policy is just, I am only playing devils advocate (and then again, look at the ancient Greek city state of Sparta for a military history including a successful integration of homosexual behavior and good military). I do not even think you need to have the disclaimer that "I'm not saying that we should be allowed to have gay sex on a table in the chow hall during lunch", as its ridiculous. It wouldn't even be allowed nor socially acceptable for a straight man and woman to bone on the chow table. At any rate, take care.
Simple fix. Tax the shit out of the wealthy, make it free to bring money to the United States and tax the shit out of any money leaving the United States. Then spend the money on upgrading our infrastructure, giving millions of people jobs and thus the ability to buy things. Wealthy people make too damn much money. Im not saying that some people don't deserve 250k+ a year, but many of them do not.
Corporations don't plot the downfall of the working class, they plot the expansion of the coffers of the wealthy class. It just so happens the way to do that is pay people less money for more work and charge more money for things while driving the corporate cost of production or service of it down. In the US companies have learned to cooperate and all reap greater rewards. Its illegal, but they do it anyway. A prime example is the telecomm industry. Its essentially an oligopoly with behind the scenes price fixing.
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There are advantages to each style so get off your soap box and stop being an asshole. For example, in an educated populace (which the United States does not have) a trial by jury is most fair. Have you forgotten the entire dark and middle ages? "Professionals" judged people then too.
Any power makes human beings subject to corruption. Police are no different but the government and themselves would have you believe they are somehow ethically superior. History shows differently.
I don't understand how you can "buy" spectrum off other companies if its technically owned by the people. They should only be allowed to rent it from us.
That game is pretty awesome.
If you don't regulate the internet it leaves corporations open to price-fixing and monopolies or oligopolies, which is EXACTLY what he have right now. Or do you think Cell phone providers did not raise SMS rates up at the same time (price fixing) and also charge a fair value for their service (oligopoly)? Basically, you need a government that is immune to corporate interests (i.e. do not allow campaigns a single cent from private industry even through PAC's, and make it illegal for a politician to enter into corporate positions for a period of X number of years after/before campaigns) and you need to regulate a capitalist market so it stays open and free, so that little Jim can go buy up a bunch of cell minutes and resell them on the open market for example. Robber barons and the great stock market crash and our recent recession are all a result of a less-regulated or unregulated capitalist market. Its not in the interest for a company or collection of companies that has 99 percent market share to regulate its/their own actions for ethical reasons and fairness, it simply would cut too much into their profits.
I agree the bank should be held responsible. If its possible to forge checks/money orders/cashiers checks then they are flawed devices and the responsibility to verify they are legit is up to the institution that forces their customers to use them. It was their fault they specifically said it was legit and the money was in his account. Im not saying this guy isn't an idiot, as he should have been aware of this type of scam since its too random and also common. Likewise however, a bank probably deals with this sort of scam regularly enough that they should be informed and should be more cautious with these money transfer devices. Understandably they may have some reason to believe this man was trying to do something illegal, however since its been proven time and time again that these people are being scammed a reasonable judge should remove the lien.
Another explanation is that the average person would find it fishy to be asked to set up a bank transfer out of the blue when they have no credentials to do so, whereas an accountant or financial adviser would probably have their name out there and expect someone to possibly seek their help with a bank transfer.
I went to two years community college before a state university and I had the best math professor Ive ever had at the community college. He was better than any of my current ones and now Im in grad school at a tier 1 research university actually doing research. Point is it doesn't matter where you go as long as you are interested in what you are doing. There are some differences in math departments around the world, such as CU Denver is all about computational math, UH Houston is all about a very strong abstract math foundation with specialties in wavelets/signal processing or financial math or complex geometry. My undergrad university was MSU Montana and they were all about the applied math, i.e. math used for engineering purposes. Its better to find a department that has similar interests to yours than just shoot for somewhere like Princeton only because of the prestige.
If they move their money out of the states it would be taxed heavily. Im not saying its a perfect solution, its just that the disparity in wealth in this country is absolutely ridiculous. Its hasnt been this bad since 1920.
Im not being serious. Its similar to quoting 1984.
Reminds me of V for Vendetta, where the government will go round up "deviants" and send them to facilities where they are experimented on.
To be fair the BBC is actually pretty awesome.
I would argue its pretty normal for a kid under 18 to watch adult entertainment. Thats when your hormones are charged up and all you want to do is get chicks (or dudes if thats your thing). I used to sneak downstairs to watch porn on my family computer when I was 15, and I happened to be smart enough to hide the evidence (this was 11 years ago too). I also had a chest full of nudie mags I bartered for from various people.
HEY! Im from the mid-west and I support teh gayz.
That's called "studliness". I want to bone my E-7, too bad I'm not in the military. Ill "don't ask and don't tell" the shit out of that.
PS You are a well spoken and respectful person. Its been a pleasure to "debate" with you.
Actually, to be tangential, if a man and women is caught in an indelicate position in the park, they are more likely to be let off with a warning, whereas if it is two men, their names get in the paper.
That's just downright bullshit. I think its partially due to the idiotic idea that gay = pedophile or gay = deviant. There are equally as many deviant straight people as gay people and frankly deviant is in the eye of the beholder. Pedophilia is a different issue, but saying gay = pedophile is like saying straight = 'young girl panty smeller' or something.
Women do now serve in the same units as men. It is frowned upon to sleep with members of your unit, but so long as it is not fraternization, it is not expressly forbidden. Some units I knew were downright incestuous, every possible straight combination had been tried. I'm not saying that it is a good thing, just something that happens. When gays are allowed to serve openly, why not treat them like straight couples? If a gay couple gets a civil union, why not separate them into different commands and assign them the same duty stations?
I agree with your statement. Im just attempting to use a more objective counter-argument for the sake of being difficult. I honestly grow tired of hearing about who is "gay" or who is "straight" or who is "bi". Oh my gosh! "female celebrity" kissed another woman! Maybe she likes to bump donuts! ZOMG! It doesn't matter in the end. We all contribute to society, and it seems gay people actually contribute more by many statistics Ive read (maybe because they have to deal with more bullshit). Sex seems to be some weird suppressed obsession in America but it really doesn't matter if you have some of your frontal lobe left unfilled with propaganda.
Obama is an extremely lame president. It seems to me he is just trying to get through his presidency without being called quitter. I imagine him waking up every day thinking "Fuck. I hate my job, but the pay is OK and I get to make a name for myself. Ill just go though another day chain-smoking so I can pull through". He doesn't do shit for the people. Even worse, our congress also has been bought by the highest bidder (i.e. telecom, oil, etc.) and they spend more time bitching at one another than representing the people that voted them into office. Meanwhile our education system and media is such a joke it spawns millions of morons that do not even realize that voting for republican or democrat ends up fucking them up the ass in the end. /rant over
"Don't ask, don't tell" forces gays and lesbians to separate their lives in a way that straights don't worry about. That is why it was homophobic. It averted some persecution, but it gave no freedom.
I have the utmost respect for gay people, in fact I firmly believe gay people should not have any rights separate of straight people. I think all people regardless of sexual orientation should be allowed to form civil unions, all current marriages should be considered civil unions (legally) and marriage should be relegated to the church if they so choose to adopt it as a ritual. However, frankly I don't think "don't ask don't tell" was necessarily about restricting freedom. A typical American battlefield commander doesn't want his soldiers having sex with one another, as sex tends to complicate things for the majority of human beings. An easy way to separate people emotionally is to separate the sexes with the supposition that same sex people probably wont enter into relationships. Friendship does not have the same devotion as pairings such as spouse and spouse (which I confirmed for myself by meeting my wife). A person won't execute their orders as efficiently if they are sleeping with their lover/partner/spouse in the same unit. Instead, they will try to save them from harm at their own expense and probably even their unit's expense. This is partially the reason why a military husband and wife do not have the same commander. I don't necessarily think that my excuse for the policy is just, I am only playing devils advocate (and then again, look at the ancient Greek city state of Sparta for a military history including a successful integration of homosexual behavior and good military). I do not even think you need to have the disclaimer that "I'm not saying that we should be allowed to have gay sex on a table in the chow hall during lunch", as its ridiculous. It wouldn't even be allowed nor socially acceptable for a straight man and woman to bone on the chow table. At any rate, take care.
Im a social-libertarian communist so I was just saying...
Simple fix. Tax the shit out of the wealthy, make it free to bring money to the United States and tax the shit out of any money leaving the United States. Then spend the money on upgrading our infrastructure, giving millions of people jobs and thus the ability to buy things. Wealthy people make too damn much money. Im not saying that some people don't deserve 250k+ a year, but many of them do not.
That sounds like communism.
Telecom industry owes us for running their lines on public properties and also their access to public locations.
Corporations don't plot the downfall of the working class, they plot the expansion of the coffers of the wealthy class. It just so happens the way to do that is pay people less money for more work and charge more money for things while driving the corporate cost of production or service of it down. In the US companies have learned to cooperate and all reap greater rewards. Its illegal, but they do it anyway. A prime example is the telecomm industry. Its essentially an oligopoly with behind the scenes price fixing.
Price fixing.