If we did not do the welfare madness one of two things would happen. The servant class would be forced to flea the city for green pastures, property values would collapse because obtaining a cup of coffee or getting your lawn mowed; the property otherwise maintained, you kids tutored would be impossible; or wages would rise, until those workers could afford to live.
Where exactly are the "servant class" going to flee to, and how are they going to finance said move and secure housing and employment in said destination? They aren't going anywhere. The people that stayed aren't there because they love working menial jobs and subsisting on welfare living in government housing. The ones that can leave have already left. Cut off the welfare for those left behind and you'll just have more homeless, more hungry people. And that leads to more crime. What those making six-figure salaries would save in taxes, they will more than make up for in higher insurance costs, or paying for security as those "servants" start breaking into their $100k cars and $1 million homes.
If NK can get the US to agree not to invade and officially end the war with SK, there is a non-zero chance that Trump will pull all the US troops out of South Korea ("the war is over, why should we spend billions on troops over there? "). With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably. China is playing the long game here and Trump will prpbably fall right in line. And dont forget, the US is always one drunken rape away from getting kicked out of Japan. If fhat were to happen too, the US would essentially loose all geopolitical influence in Asia.
So to paraphrase you, it's fine for news organizations to make up sources and content, because they're under competitive pressures. Talk about rationalizing bad behavior.
My post simply identifies an issue (which also is not the issue that you allege), it does not judge it. In this particular case, these news organizations did not "make up sources and content", they were taking content from a source that was not who it purported to be. Reporting a story or content without due diligence and research is poor journalism. Making up subjects and sources is professional misconduct and, depending on the subject or content of the story, possible fraud or libel. Surely you have credible evidence to back up your claim that, if true that news organizations are making up content and reporting it as news (and not opinion/editorial), would be a career ender at best and lead to criminal charges at worst.
There was no evidence that the disembodied pig brains regained consciousness. However, in what Sestan termed a “mind-boggling” and “unexpected” result, billions of individual cells in the brains were found to be healthy and capable of normal activity.
So the brains are still dead. There is no consciousness, no functioning of the brain itself. All this really shows is something that really isn't a surprise: the brain cells don't die right away. Because the neurons are still dead, this is no different than keeping an arm or an organ alive outside the body. It might lead to some improvements with transplants, but until they can actually show renewed neuron activity in the brain, this idea is as dead as a slab of bacon.
If you cross reference this with MyPillow and ShamWow lists, you would have a very valuable list of people who will basically throw away money on anything.
But Vince really came across as a trustworthy expert on absorbent, square pieces of cloth. He even had a headset!
It's really more a product of the 24-hour news cycle combined with an increasingly online, and therefore difficult to monetize, audience. Journalists have to churn out story after story without time to do adequate research, and cuts to editorial staff means lower and lower quality stories get published. There's not a day that goes by now that I don't see a typo or garbled sentence in a story on a major news organization's website. It's a problem that is not likely to be solved any time soon, especially given the current political climate and the views a certain subset of American society has towards the media, as your post so clearly demonstrates.
By your reasoning, Kazakhstan should also revert to Arabic script.
It might be because I naturally connect most of my letters when I write, but I found learning how to write Arabic incredibly easy and natural, even though it is written right to left. The main problem with an Arabic script is the diacritic vowels that are very often dropped when writing or in print. Makes reading Arabic a real pain because the same 3 root letters can have different meanings and pronunciation based on those missing diacritics so can only be figured out through context or practice. But find a way to use an Arabic script without needing the diacritic vowels and you've got yourself a pretty decent and often visually appealing alphabet.
Interesting sidenote, my college roommate who served a tour in Iraq said he remembered the spelling of the imperative "stop" because it looked like 2 guys in a canoe.
Somebody should send a Tweet to Bill Gates, and ask him how this ruling "helps" his cause for providing technology for low income people and developing countries. Seems like it would do quite the opposite.
Where do you think most "recycled" e-waste goes? By extending the life of older computers he is actively preventing poor people in developing countries from getting technology. And even worse, because of this guy, there are kids somewhere in Asia that won't eat tonight because they were unable to sit there in toxic smoke burning off valuable materials from the components of these computers! Why does he hate poor people?
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
You fucking islamaphobe, you need to be more accepting of other cultures.
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
You fucking islamaphobe, you need to be more accepting of other cultures.
Nice troll attempt, but I believe in the latest incident right before he committed the act, the perpetrator shouted out to an MRA guy that killed people a couple years ago.
Do you know what happens in the US when the population of a game animal gets too large? The next season the bag limit is raised or more permits are issued. This is repeated until wildlife management authorities determine that the population is back to sustainable levels.
You are assuming they existed long enough to reach a space age. They may have just reached the age of steam then collapsed. The fact they they failed to do something about the incoming asteroid would support this clam.
There is another answer too. If they did reach the space age they might have simply been more tidy about space than we are. Plus a 70+ million years is plenty of time for all orbital space junk to fall back to earth.
Maybe they made it off this rock and we are the descendants of some pets that got left behind to run wild.
Look up topics like "out-of-place artifacts", tools and manufactured items found embedded in coal rock, or unexpectedly found at great depths during construction or mining.
I'll just leave this here. TLDR, proponents of out of place objects are either seeing what they want to see, perpetuating a hoax, or have an insufficient grasp of relevant scientific or historical topics.
I could see the Johnnycab being the nightmare of a Borg that has finally passed out after 76 hours of straight Starcraft playing as Protoss. Kind of like the opposite of a dragoon.
I was sleeping last night and my cat jumped up on my chest and sat down.. and I remember thinking, I wonder if this is where the "old hag" vision comes from. (A creature that sits on your chest usually accompanied by a feeling of severe panic like you're going to die) Someone in a state of dreamy hallucination with a cat on their chest could easily invoke that image.
That's actually a sign of sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis comes with a sensation of something pressing on your chest as well as hallucinations of something on you or in the room. According to wikipedia it's surprisingly common, but rarely occurs regularly. Supposedly it can be really terrifying.
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
I'm tired of the pandering that this great "war" and its genocide gets. I get it, wars bad mmkay and killing people is bad.
Remind me why that genocide deserves all of the attention versus Armenian, Darfur, etc genocides?
It doesn't. That's what made that generation great. They saw an evil in this world and were willing to put a stop to it. Remember, they didn't even know about the Holocaust until deep in the war. Millions signed up to fight and possibly die to put a stop to a regime that was trying to take over Europe and Asia. Meanwhile we just let things go on and on like Sudan, Syria, Palestine, the Rohingya, the "drug war" in the Philippines, the drug war in Mexico, Kashmir, Yemen, North Korea, the militarization of police in the US. We're too busy instagramming and following the latest celebrity pregnancy while ignoring the rise of the same type of nationalistic, authoritarian, cult of personality sentiments that the greatest generation fought to begin with.
I really believe if a small group of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans in Congress could come together to denounce all anti-democratic activities, and pledge to act together in the country's best interests, they would do themselves and the country a great deal of good. The silent majority would applaud them.
The sad thing is, at least from the Republican standpoint, it seems that the only ones that still have the ethics and backbone to do something like have started retiring instead of making a stand. Almost all of our politicians on both sides have been conditioned for partei uber alles. Compromise is almost impossible for them at this point.
Yea, Obama's last 6 years didn't count in your view? Nothing got done w/o both parties' consent during that time.
People seem to forget that the Republicans do NOT control the Senate by the current rules. Yea, they could pull out the nuclear option and just go Majority rules if they wanted, I can see folks rioting and crying into their beer over that, really loud..
So, if the democrats wanted, they could get lots of stuff done... They just don't want to. Current democrats, like the republicans under Obama, just want to obstruct.
So drop this "you guys cannot govern" pretense, because both sides have the same problem.
None of them actually want to get things done. If things get done they might fail, leaving the politicians open for challengers in the next election. Much safer to only appear to get things done or that you tried and failed, so that come next election cycle you can blame it on the other guy.
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.
I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
There is no way Bernie could have won the election though. He is too-far left, America will never elect a Bernie.
A lot of voters didn't care about far-left or far-right. They were just sick of your average politician. So if the choice was Hillary, the embodiment of an average "corrupt" politician, or Trump, a decidedly non-political person who (at least appeared to) speak his mind, the choice was obvious for them.
If a significant portion of the people you personally selected (by your own claims!) to work under you/advise you/etc have been caught doing something illegal
Everyone you work with and are friends with has been doing illegals things. What does that say about you?
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If we did not do the welfare madness one of two things would happen. The servant class would be forced to flea the city for green pastures, property values would collapse because obtaining a cup of coffee or getting your lawn mowed; the property otherwise maintained, you kids tutored would be impossible; or wages would rise, until those workers could afford to live.
Where exactly are the "servant class" going to flee to, and how are they going to finance said move and secure housing and employment in said destination? They aren't going anywhere. The people that stayed aren't there because they love working menial jobs and subsisting on welfare living in government housing. The ones that can leave have already left. Cut off the welfare for those left behind and you'll just have more homeless, more hungry people. And that leads to more crime. What those making six-figure salaries would save in taxes, they will more than make up for in higher insurance costs, or paying for security as those "servants" start breaking into their $100k cars and $1 million homes.
If NK can get the US to agree not to invade and officially end the war with SK, there is a non-zero chance that Trump will pull all the US troops out of South Korea ("the war is over, why should we spend billions on troops over there? "). With the US out of South Korea China's position in Asia strengthens considerably. China is playing the long game here and Trump will prpbably fall right in line. And dont forget, the US is always one drunken rape away from getting kicked out of Japan. If fhat were to happen too, the US would essentially loose all geopolitical influence in Asia.
So to paraphrase you, it's fine for news organizations to make up sources and content, because they're under competitive pressures. Talk about rationalizing bad behavior.
My post simply identifies an issue (which also is not the issue that you allege), it does not judge it. In this particular case, these news organizations did not "make up sources and content", they were taking content from a source that was not who it purported to be. Reporting a story or content without due diligence and research is poor journalism. Making up subjects and sources is professional misconduct and, depending on the subject or content of the story, possible fraud or libel. Surely you have credible evidence to back up your claim that, if true that news organizations are making up content and reporting it as news (and not opinion/editorial), would be a career ender at best and lead to criminal charges at worst.
You've got the comma down, now try to work on your periods and capitalization.
There was no evidence that the disembodied pig brains regained consciousness. However, in what Sestan termed a “mind-boggling” and “unexpected” result, billions of individual cells in the brains were found to be healthy and capable of normal activity.
So the brains are still dead. There is no consciousness, no functioning of the brain itself. All this really shows is something that really isn't a surprise: the brain cells don't die right away. Because the neurons are still dead, this is no different than keeping an arm or an organ alive outside the body. It might lead to some improvements with transplants, but until they can actually show renewed neuron activity in the brain, this idea is as dead as a slab of bacon.
If you cross reference this with MyPillow and ShamWow lists, you would have a very valuable list of people who will basically throw away money on anything.
But Vince really came across as a trustworthy expert on absorbent, square pieces of cloth. He even had a headset!
It's really more a product of the 24-hour news cycle combined with an increasingly online, and therefore difficult to monetize, audience. Journalists have to churn out story after story without time to do adequate research, and cuts to editorial staff means lower and lower quality stories get published. There's not a day that goes by now that I don't see a typo or garbled sentence in a story on a major news organization's website. It's a problem that is not likely to be solved any time soon, especially given the current political climate and the views a certain subset of American society has towards the media, as your post so clearly demonstrates.
That's a pretty suspicious looking name.
They should have picked a better name for a fake spokesman. Something like John Barron.
By your reasoning, Kazakhstan should also revert to Arabic script.
It might be because I naturally connect most of my letters when I write, but I found learning how to write Arabic incredibly easy and natural, even though it is written right to left. The main problem with an Arabic script is the diacritic vowels that are very often dropped when writing or in print. Makes reading Arabic a real pain because the same 3 root letters can have different meanings and pronunciation based on those missing diacritics so can only be figured out through context or practice. But find a way to use an Arabic script without needing the diacritic vowels and you've got yourself a pretty decent and often visually appealing alphabet.
Interesting sidenote, my college roommate who served a tour in Iraq said he remembered the spelling of the imperative "stop" because it looked like 2 guys in a canoe.
Somebody should send a Tweet to Bill Gates, and ask him how this ruling "helps" his cause for providing technology for low income people and developing countries. Seems like it would do quite the opposite.
Where do you think most "recycled" e-waste goes? By extending the life of older computers he is actively preventing poor people in developing countries from getting technology. And even worse, because of this guy, there are kids somewhere in Asia that won't eat tonight because they were unable to sit there in toxic smoke burning off valuable materials from the components of these computers! Why does he hate poor people?
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
You fucking islamaphobe, you need to be more accepting of other cultures.
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
You fucking islamaphobe, you need to be more accepting of other cultures.
Nice troll attempt, but I believe in the latest incident right before he committed the act, the perpetrator shouted out to an MRA guy that killed people a couple years ago.
Do you know what happens in the US when the population of a game animal gets too large? The next season the bag limit is raised or more permits are issued. This is repeated until wildlife management authorities determine that the population is back to sustainable levels.
But where is the space-junk?
You are assuming they existed long enough to reach a space age. They may have just reached the age of steam then collapsed. The fact they they failed to do something about the incoming asteroid would support this clam.
There is another answer too. If they did reach the space age they might have simply been more tidy about space than we are. Plus a 70+ million years is plenty of time for all orbital space junk to fall back to earth.
Maybe they made it off this rock and we are the descendants of some pets that got left behind to run wild.
Look up topics like "out-of-place artifacts", tools and manufactured items found embedded in coal rock, or unexpectedly found at great depths during construction or mining.
I'll just leave this here. TLDR, proponents of out of place objects are either seeing what they want to see, perpetuating a hoax, or have an insufficient grasp of relevant scientific or historical topics.
I could see the Johnnycab being the nightmare of a Borg that has finally passed out after 76 hours of straight Starcraft playing as Protoss. Kind of like the opposite of a dragoon.
I was sleeping last night and my cat jumped up on my chest and sat down.. and I remember thinking, I wonder if this is where the "old hag" vision comes from. (A creature that sits on your chest usually accompanied by a feeling of severe panic like you're going to die) Someone in a state of dreamy hallucination with a cat on their chest could easily invoke that image.
That's actually a sign of sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis comes with a sensation of something pressing on your chest as well as hallucinations of something on you or in the room. According to wikipedia it's surprisingly common, but rarely occurs regularly. Supposedly it can be really terrifying.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
I'm tired of the pandering that this great "war" and its genocide gets. I get it, wars bad mmkay and killing people is bad.
Remind me why that genocide deserves all of the attention versus Armenian, Darfur, etc genocides?
It doesn't. That's what made that generation great. They saw an evil in this world and were willing to put a stop to it. Remember, they didn't even know about the Holocaust until deep in the war. Millions signed up to fight and possibly die to put a stop to a regime that was trying to take over Europe and Asia. Meanwhile we just let things go on and on like Sudan, Syria, Palestine, the Rohingya, the "drug war" in the Philippines, the drug war in Mexico, Kashmir, Yemen, North Korea, the militarization of police in the US. We're too busy instagramming and following the latest celebrity pregnancy while ignoring the rise of the same type of nationalistic, authoritarian, cult of personality sentiments that the greatest generation fought to begin with.
At the very least we need to make sure some minor noble doesn't get killed touring around Europe.
Please point to where in that oh-so-small post pollarda says anything about Trump hiring the best. Feel free to take all the time you need.
Why get it from pollarda when you can go straight to the source?
I'll choose the best people for my administration.
Donald Trump, September 2016
She has all her dangerous detractors eliminated.
Then how are Trump and Obama, the 2 people who beat her so visibly, still alive?
I really believe if a small group of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans in Congress could come together to denounce all anti-democratic activities, and pledge to act together in the country's best interests, they would do themselves and the country a great deal of good. The silent majority would applaud them.
The sad thing is, at least from the Republican standpoint, it seems that the only ones that still have the ethics and backbone to do something like have started retiring instead of making a stand. Almost all of our politicians on both sides have been conditioned for partei uber alles. Compromise is almost impossible for them at this point.
Yea, Obama's last 6 years didn't count in your view? Nothing got done w/o both parties' consent during that time.
People seem to forget that the Republicans do NOT control the Senate by the current rules. Yea, they could pull out the nuclear option and just go Majority rules if they wanted, I can see folks rioting and crying into their beer over that, really loud..
So, if the democrats wanted, they could get lots of stuff done... They just don't want to. Current democrats, like the republicans under Obama, just want to obstruct.
So drop this "you guys cannot govern" pretense, because both sides have the same problem.
None of them actually want to get things done. If things get done they might fail, leaving the politicians open for challengers in the next election. Much safer to only appear to get things done or that you tried and failed, so that come next election cycle you can blame it on the other guy.
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.
I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
There is no way Bernie could have won the election though. He is too-far left, America will never elect a Bernie.
A lot of voters didn't care about far-left or far-right. They were just sick of your average politician. So if the choice was Hillary, the embodiment of an average "corrupt" politician, or Trump, a decidedly non-political person who (at least appeared to) speak his mind, the choice was obvious for them.
If a significant portion of the people you personally selected (by your own claims!) to work under you/advise you/etc have been caught doing something illegal
Everyone you work with and are friends with has been doing illegals things. What does that say about you?
That I probably shouldn't be president?