Free enterprise and capitalism is the ONLY system that has lifted millions out of poverty and misery, and continues to do so.
Of course it did. Can't make money if you don't have customers to buy your products. So pay your employees just enough that they can afford to consume, and pocket the rest of the profit. To quote of the biggest capitalists in the 20th century who basically revolutionized the manufacturing process: "Leisure is an indispensable ingredient in a growing consumer market because working people need to have enough free time to find uses for consumer products, including automobiles." Henry Ford realized, pay his workers a little more and give them more time off and they will buy the very products they make.
What benefits society more? 1 person already worth millions making millions more while thousands of others make just enough to survive, or that one person (who is still already worth millions) making fewer millions while those thousands of others make enough not just to survive, but to thrive? We are currently in the first situation, and those with the money have trained everyone else to think that those making massive tons of money earned it or deserve it when the greatest factor to making money isn't effort but rather already having money (and most of the rest is timing more than anything else).
Do we need corporations worth billions of dollars with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves paying employees $10 an hour or bringing in cheap foreign labor, while at the same time paying executives multi-million dollar bonuses and large payouts to stockholders? Oh yeah, and while these companies are making record profits they also use tax schemes to funnel money outside the country to tax havens saying paying taxes is too onerous to their bottom line, leaving their employees (who are paid at least a quarter, if not half of what they company could actually afford to pay them) to make up the shortfall in their own taxes. And remember those executives making multi-million dollar bonuses? They make sure they get as many tax breaks as possible too.
You probably have a weak argument if you put it into the passive voice so you don't have to admit that it originates with you. I pronounce good writing dead at the scene of this shill's Twitter account.
It's a play on a common reporting line: "X was pronounced dead on the scene/on arrival/etc."
Lord of the Flies is about a bunch of schoolkids who start out trying to cooperate and end up turning on each other, so I don't know what it has to do with a game where the explicit goal is for everyone to kill each other. Because they both take place on an island?
Mineral water has things tap water doesn't. You are stupid.
Almost half the bottled water available in the US actually come from public water sources. They do filter it before bottling, and may add small traces of minerals such as sodium for taste.
And if worse comes to worst, use aluminum cans! Beverages taste better from those anyhow...
When there is a disaster, the beer companies will switch over to water so that they can assist the disaster victims. And yes, they use aluminum cans.
https://www.nydailynews.com/ne...
Switch over? Isn't most mass produced American beer basically water anyway?
Netflix's Haunting of Hill House episodes 1-5 is my favorite horror of all time. The child actors are excellent. The characters are interesting and likable. The director trusts the actors to carry scenes that in other lesser shows and movies other directors focus on effects.
Hill House was great. I liked that most of the horror/terror aspects were subtle with only a few jump (and in one case drop) scares. One neat aspect was the "hidden" ghosts in the backgrounds that become more and more visible and obvious to the audience as the story progresses. And episode 6 with the long shots was very good from a technical standpoint. And you are right, the child acting was some of the best I've seen in a while.
Historically if the incumbent runs again they tend to win. Also, however, historically a party does not win more than 2 terms in a row. So it is quite likely that, if he does win again, the Democrats will win in 2024.
When I was in college I would work a summer job for spending money during the school year. Most of the people working the seasonal job with me were students and teachers.
You can have fedex deliver to your closest Walgreens or other similar location. I did that recently when I ordered a new computer and it would have been delivered when no one was home.
A friend of mine who served in Iraq said you could get ripped DVDs for a couple dollars each off base. 1 out of 4 might not work, but for a couple bucks who cares. These were sold by the locals. You could also buy guns if you really wanted to....
We could have continued production of the F-22 and updated/upgraded the designs of the A-10 and F-16/F-15 platforms for a fraction of the cost of the F-35 program and maintained both operational and deterrent capability. The F-22 program cost $66 billion. The F-35 program is estimated to cost $1.5 trillion through 2070 and is a piece of overengineered crap that asphyxiates it's pilots and repeated has fleet-wide groundings. And then there's the LCS debacle. We waste a crapload of money on the military on projects that only exist to drive promotions, pork, and post-career lobbying/consulting jobs.
By eating popcorn you are just funneling more money and therefore influence to the powerful corn and ethanol/HFCS lobby. Why do you hate the planet and skinny people?
All countries go after criminal suspects. The US even finger prints innocent tourists who plan on spending money in their country. Allies and all. Some friendship.
Citation where the Untied States GOVERNMENT is fingerprinting tourists please...
I'm a US citizen and even I had to have my fingerprints scanned at Immigration coming back from Canada last week.
The father of the child who died has no complaints about the treatment she received. Revived multiple times, air-lifted to a hospital. I guess that is murder to you? You're sick.
Well, if Trump hadn't very publicly sent troops to the border, talked about allowing the US troops to use live ammunition against unarmed civilians (and no, a rock is notequivalent to a gun), and generally made conditions at the border so hostile that it is driving people to cross illegally at the most inhospitable and dangerous areas of the border she wouldn't have needed medical treatment in the first place. Yes, I know the troops had logistical roles only, but most people would not see it that way (I also take offense to deploying active duty military personnel domestically in what amounted to a political stunt).
A lot of people hate illegal immigration and illegal immigrants. I agree it's not the right way to come here, but I take it as a compliment. People are willing to travel thousands of miles, use up all their savings, cross what amounts to war zones, and risk not only their lives but the lives of their children to come here, because America is so much better, so much safer than where they come from. That's what this country was founded on, yet a significant portion of our country wants to stop them and the only way they can think of to do it make America just as bad as the places these immigrants are fleeing. We should celebrate the fact that America is still seen as a place of hope and opportunity. Because if and when people stop wanting and trying to come here we might not like what America has turned into.
The idea of a tax credit like the GP suggested is a pretty good one. You have to cook feral hog well-done but it's quite delicious.
Finally some government pork many (just not kosher or halal) Americans can get behind!
Seriously though, a government program to collect nuisance or surplus game meat for donation to shelters or even for use in prisons would be nice. Shelters -homeless, battered women, etc-are always looking for donations and the food prisoners get served is total crap and processed a little fresh meat now and then would probably be welcomed.
Most youtubers are shitheads. My favorite was this Mormon family my wife would always watch. They put on a show of being the happy, perfect family. The dad even made a deal with Disney, made some good money off it. Turns out he was also an alcoholic and sexting other women on the side. YouTube is more of a lie and fabrication than TV ever was.
So you have a problem. You need a plane designed to work very well at Mach 2, and it has to be designed to work well subsonic. These are two very different designs. It's hard to have the same plane do well with both. It's kinda like designing an ocean-going ship that's also a bicycle.
A perfect example is the SR-71. The metal in the plane would get so hot and expand so much that they had to build in gaps with tanks and seals. As a result it would constantly leak fuel both on the ground and in subsonic flight and would only seal up once it reached supersonic speeds.
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Free enterprise and capitalism is the ONLY system that has lifted millions out of poverty and misery, and continues to do so.
Of course it did. Can't make money if you don't have customers to buy your products. So pay your employees just enough that they can afford to consume, and pocket the rest of the profit. To quote of the biggest capitalists in the 20th century who basically revolutionized the manufacturing process: "Leisure is an indispensable ingredient in a growing consumer market because working people need to have enough free time to find uses for consumer products, including automobiles." Henry Ford realized, pay his workers a little more and give them more time off and they will buy the very products they make.
What benefits society more? 1 person already worth millions making millions more while thousands of others make just enough to survive, or that one person (who is still already worth millions) making fewer millions while those thousands of others make enough not just to survive, but to thrive? We are currently in the first situation, and those with the money have trained everyone else to think that those making massive tons of money earned it or deserve it when the greatest factor to making money isn't effort but rather already having money (and most of the rest is timing more than anything else).
Do we need corporations worth billions of dollars with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash reserves paying employees $10 an hour or bringing in cheap foreign labor, while at the same time paying executives multi-million dollar bonuses and large payouts to stockholders? Oh yeah, and while these companies are making record profits they also use tax schemes to funnel money outside the country to tax havens saying paying taxes is too onerous to their bottom line, leaving their employees (who are paid at least a quarter, if not half of what they company could actually afford to pay them) to make up the shortfall in their own taxes. And remember those executives making multi-million dollar bonuses? They make sure they get as many tax breaks as possible too.
Hmm... Plants that can grow, reproduce itself, grow ,reproduce itself, grow, reproduce itself, grow, reproduce itself, infinium.
That sound like a cancer.
Tasty, carb-loaded cancer. Get some soy sauce and vegetables and it's fried rice for everyone! (No egg, don't like egg in fried rice)
You probably have a weak argument if you put it into the passive voice so you don't have to admit that it originates with you. I pronounce good writing dead at the scene of this shill's Twitter account.
It's a play on a common reporting line: "X was pronounced dead on the scene/on arrival/etc."
I was in Montreal in 1989
Daddy?
Lord of the Flies is about a bunch of schoolkids who start out trying to cooperate and end up turning on each other, so I don't know what it has to do with a game where the explicit goal is for everyone to kill each other. Because they both take place on an island?
Maybe the winner of Fortnite gets a conch?
Mineral water has things tap water doesn't. You are stupid.
Almost half the bottled water available in the US actually come from public water sources. They do filter it before bottling, and may add small traces of minerals such as sodium for taste.
And if worse comes to worst, use aluminum cans! Beverages taste better from those anyhow... When there is a disaster, the beer companies will switch over to water so that they can assist the disaster victims. And yes, they use aluminum cans. https://www.nydailynews.com/ne...
Switch over? Isn't most mass produced American beer basically water anyway?
Netflix's Haunting of Hill House episodes 1-5 is my favorite horror of all time. The child actors are excellent. The characters are interesting and likable. The director trusts the actors to carry scenes that in other lesser shows and movies other directors focus on effects.
Hill House was great. I liked that most of the horror/terror aspects were subtle with only a few jump (and in one case drop) scares. One neat aspect was the "hidden" ghosts in the backgrounds that become more and more visible and obvious to the audience as the story progresses. And episode 6 with the long shots was very good from a technical standpoint. And you are right, the child acting was some of the best I've seen in a while.
Historically if the incumbent runs again they tend to win. Also, however, historically a party does not win more than 2 terms in a row. So it is quite likely that, if he does win again, the Democrats will win in 2024.
When I was in college I would work a summer job for spending money during the school year. Most of the people working the seasonal job with me were students and teachers.
No, Venezuela is kleptocratic populism, not socialism.
You can have fedex deliver to your closest Walgreens or other similar location. I did that recently when I ordered a new computer and it would have been delivered when no one was home.
A friend of mine who served in Iraq said you could get ripped DVDs for a couple dollars each off base. 1 out of 4 might not work, but for a couple bucks who cares. These were sold by the locals. You could also buy guns if you really wanted to....
We could have continued production of the F-22 and updated/upgraded the designs of the A-10 and F-16/F-15 platforms for a fraction of the cost of the F-35 program and maintained both operational and deterrent capability. The F-22 program cost $66 billion. The F-35 program is estimated to cost $1.5 trillion through 2070 and is a piece of overengineered crap that asphyxiates it's pilots and repeated has fleet-wide groundings. And then there's the LCS debacle. We waste a crapload of money on the military on projects that only exist to drive promotions, pork, and post-career lobbying/consulting jobs.
By eating popcorn you are just funneling more money and therefore influence to the powerful corn and ethanol/HFCS lobby. Why do you hate the planet and skinny people?
Walk around in a Guy Fawkes mask?
Yes, maybe, but for more formal occasions, I would suggest something more subtle
Only if it comes with a cigar.
And this is possible how exactly?
By staying inside your home I guess...
Walk around in a Guy Fawkes mask?
All countries go after criminal suspects. The US even finger prints innocent tourists who plan on spending money in their country. Allies and all. Some friendship.
Citation where the Untied States GOVERNMENT is fingerprinting tourists please...
I'm a US citizen and even I had to have my fingerprints scanned at Immigration coming back from Canada last week.
The father of the child who died has no complaints about the treatment she received. Revived multiple times, air-lifted to a hospital. I guess that is murder to you? You're sick.
Well, if Trump hadn't very publicly sent troops to the border, talked about allowing the US troops to use live ammunition against unarmed civilians (and no, a rock is notequivalent to a gun), and generally made conditions at the border so hostile that it is driving people to cross illegally at the most inhospitable and dangerous areas of the border she wouldn't have needed medical treatment in the first place. Yes, I know the troops had logistical roles only, but most people would not see it that way (I also take offense to deploying active duty military personnel domestically in what amounted to a political stunt).
A lot of people hate illegal immigration and illegal immigrants. I agree it's not the right way to come here, but I take it as a compliment. People are willing to travel thousands of miles, use up all their savings, cross what amounts to war zones, and risk not only their lives but the lives of their children to come here, because America is so much better, so much safer than where they come from. That's what this country was founded on, yet a significant portion of our country wants to stop them and the only way they can think of to do it make America just as bad as the places these immigrants are fleeing. We should celebrate the fact that America is still seen as a place of hope and opportunity. Because if and when people stop wanting and trying to come here we might not like what America has turned into.
Not to mention the hew and cry of the SJWs about how poor prisoners are being fed sub-standard food -
Uh, they already do, because prisoners already are.
The idea of a tax credit like the GP suggested is a pretty good one. You have to cook feral hog well-done but it's quite delicious.
Finally some government pork many (just not kosher or halal) Americans can get behind!
Seriously though, a government program to collect nuisance or surplus game meat for donation to shelters or even for use in prisons would be nice. Shelters -homeless, battered women, etc-are always looking for donations and the food prisoners get served is total crap and processed a little fresh meat now and then would probably be welcomed.
Most youtubers are shitheads. My favorite was this Mormon family my wife would always watch. They put on a show of being the happy, perfect family. The dad even made a deal with Disney, made some good money off it. Turns out he was also an alcoholic and sexting other women on the side. YouTube is more of a lie and fabrication than TV ever was.
So you are saying it was the aliens? I knew it.
Could've been the Russians.
So you have a problem. You need a plane designed to work very well at Mach 2, and it has to be designed to work well subsonic. These are two very different designs. It's hard to have the same plane do well with both. It's kinda like designing an ocean-going ship that's also a bicycle.
A perfect example is the SR-71. The metal in the plane would get so hot and expand so much that they had to build in gaps with tanks and seals. As a result it would constantly leak fuel both on the ground and in subsonic flight and would only seal up once it reached supersonic speeds.
Has anything changed from 6 months ago when we saw this story?
They had hired someone to make sure the mods never posted dupes, but they stopped showing up for work.