Nope. If you are for prostitution you must be against guns, obviously. Never ever could someone be for the right to do both.
I think you misunderstand. I think both should be legal--though I'd never say I was "for" prostitution--because they both come down to an issue of self-determinism. I was pointing out the GP's inconsistency.
I am actually pro both prostitution and guns, as long as both are properly regulated. Another poster was right, my comment was a statement of the hypocrisy of current American society where something natural is abhorred and something potentially deadly is lauded; where children must be protected from anything sexual while many people are trying to increase children's' exposure to weapons in places they don't belong, such as in schools.
When is our society going to crawl out of the dark ages and provide a safe workplace for sex workers?
Because sex outside marriage is bad and a horrible sin, unless of course you are a political or religious figure, in which case it is a simple human failing worthy of forgiveness. Heaven forbid (see what I did there?) we realize and embrace the fact that humans are sexual creatures. Oh well, at least we can have all the guns we want! Just work out all that sexual frustration the American way, at your local shooting range.
I would've done it for half of whatever they charged Facebook.
Congress critter: "Were you aware that user data was accessible by third parties and open to abuse?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "How much of Facebook's income is derived from providing user data to third parties?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "Does Facebook store or monetize deleted data, data from users that have deleted their accounts, or data collected on people who do not have Facebook accounts?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "Was Facebook aware that foreign, state-sponsored actors were utilizing Facebook's data?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "What steps are Facebook taking to ensure this doesn't happen again?"
Zuckerberg: "Here's $50,000 to each Committee member's reelection campaign."
It's a catch 22. The FDA usual process is slow and plodding but results in medications and medical procedures which are generally safe and effective by reducing as much risk as possible. However it takes a LONG time to perform all the necessary studies and clinical trials and critically ill patients die while they wait.
The catch is that if you are trying to get approval for a novel medication that saves lives of the critically ill, how do you justify the delay needed to do all the safety and effectiveness studies? People will die if you don't try, but you might also kill and/or cure. What to do?
What's worse is, if you read the article, the company that makes this drug wants to expand its use to other forms of dementia, not just Parkinson's related. For a drug like this, which was approved after only a few small trials with very questionable results (even the author of the latest trial has reservations), it should be limited only to patients who have tried all other available medications. But of course, the company expects $250 million in profits this year, and if a couple people have to die faster for that to happen, then so be it.
Now that US colleges are rolling in an unprecedented flood of money, why aren't they using more of it to make joining the faculty a better deal?
Because that would cut into the pay raises for the administrators and prevent them from spending more money on "campus life" and improvement projects to bring in more students/charge higher tuition so that the school can pay administrators more and spend more money on "improving" the campus. What, you thought college in the US was about teaching and learning?
This affected Delta and Sears websites where users entered data on the website to complete a transaction.
We understand malware present in [24]7.ai's software between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 2017 made unauthorized access possible for the following fields of information; name, address, payment card number, CVV number, and expiration date during their purchase process if this information was manually entered by the customer and the customer completed the purchase transaction.
Why did it take 5 months to disclose? As a simple hypothesis, I would suggest its because disclosure in November may have had an impact on Deltas ability to generate anticipated levels of revenue in December, a major holiday travel season.
Well, right now it's only a month or 2 away from another, longer major travel season: summer
So what if the brownshirts were fighting commies ? It's like saying you can't have multiple parties with the same idea duking it out. They were of the same cloth, the socialist murderous one. Whereever socialism went, famine and purges followed. Every, single, time. Hi Venesuela !
Love of allpowerful nanny state ? Check !
In socialism there is no nanny state, as the people/workers govern themselves.
Love of god emperor champion of the people ? Check !
See above. A "god emperor champion of the people" is not present in socialism.
Heavy state welfare ? Check ?
Socialism isn't a welfare state: the people own all means of production therefore they are all entitled to their share of the proceeds/products.
Adverse to personal liberties ? Check !
As long as a person contributes their share to the economy/state, why would the state care what that person is doing?
Extreme xenophobia and aggresivity towards others ? Check !
Socialism doesn't care about race, ethnicity, or nationality: socialism's end goal was to liberate all people/workers so that they could benefit from their own labor.
How are they different again ?
You seem to have confused "socialism" with Stalinism, Maoism, Juche, and other authoritarian, strong-man,socialist-like systems, but none of them were truly socialist systems. The NSDAP was a fascist organization which is also an authoritarian system and, since the Cold War has conditioned people to think of the authoritarian regimes of China/USSR/etc whenever they hear "socialist", it's a common mistake to liken the two.
Translation: how to better use technology to end human lives and mutilate fellow humans instead of improving human lives. It's unfortunate that a lot of new technology is first used to murder and maim.
One of the first uses I see for "AI" (which in this implementation isn't even true, "real" AI) is for semi-autonomous heavy load-bearing equipment. Think back to 2001: US special forces operating in Afghanistan had to use mules to help them move equipment over mountainous terrain. Imagine a 4 or 6 legged robot that can follow a patrol and carry supplies, ammunition, wounded soldiers, etc. With 6 legs and an articulated front segment it should be able to go over just about any terrain a person could reasonably go. Boston Dynamics has tried a few things but the technology is not quite there yet. Also, they seem to keep focusing on making them look like dogs or horses while I picture something more like an armored pickup with legs, with the "cab" holding the computers, sensors, batteries, etc and a bed in the back for the cargo. Of course, it's the military, so if it's big enough you can mount a manned machine gun/Mk 19 grenade launcher on top and you have instant LAV/gun truck support where normally a wheeled vehicle couldn't go.
Gun nuts are funny people. They think their peashooters are going to protect them from a "rogue Federal government".
I just like guns, especially older military issue firearms and antiques, because I am actually a history nut and each of those old guns tells a story. For example, my family has a Lorenz rifled musket which was one of the most used long guns in the Civil War, so it is very likely that gun was carried during the war. Same for my Mosin-Nagant which is stamped 1942 and is matching serial numbers except for 1 minor part. So it was manufactured during World War 2 and quite possibly issued during the war as well. My great uncle served in Korea and my grandfather was drafted but did not get deployed to Korea, so I will be buying a WW2/Korea dated M1 carbine to make a display to go along with my grandfather's dress helmet in honor of both of them (an original 1911 would be awesome as well but those are pricey, a war year M1 carbine should still be in the 3 digits-my dream one is an IBM just because I'm a nerd).
Do I think I'm ever going to need to use my guns against a "rogue federal government"? No. Do I think I will ever need to use one to protect myself on the street or in my house? Very unlikely (unless the country goes to shit). But do I enjoy shooting them? Yes. Are they heirlooms? Yes. Am I also for strong, sensible, effective gun control? Hell yes. Guns can kill, and it's likely at least one of the guns I own has done so during it's existence. When exercising a right you have a duty to do so responsibly.
Yet Trump can't actually say anything negative about Putin. If which there are many opportunities.
It's almost like they have dirt on him.
Ot almost like Trump has some understanding of international diplomacy that you, being a mouth-breathing idiot, lack?
First rule of diplomacy: do not congratulate the leader of a government (for winning a very questionable election where many opposition leaders were arrested or barred from running) who just tried to murder a former spy on the home soil of one of your biggest allies. It emasculates and humiliates your ally and emboldens the offending state.
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Nope. If you are for prostitution you must be against guns, obviously. Never ever could someone be for the right to do both.
I think you misunderstand. I think both should be legal--though I'd never say I was "for" prostitution--because they both come down to an issue of self-determinism. I was pointing out the GP's inconsistency.
I am actually pro both prostitution and guns, as long as both are properly regulated. Another poster was right, my comment was a statement of the hypocrisy of current American society where something natural is abhorred and something potentially deadly is lauded; where children must be protected from anything sexual while many people are trying to increase children's' exposure to weapons in places they don't belong, such as in schools.
When is our society going to crawl out of the dark ages and provide a safe workplace for sex workers?
Because sex outside marriage is bad and a horrible sin, unless of course you are a political or religious figure, in which case it is a simple human failing worthy of forgiveness. Heaven forbid (see what I did there?) we realize and embrace the fact that humans are sexual creatures. Oh well, at least we can have all the guns we want! Just work out all that sexual frustration the American way, at your local shooting range.
He probably doesn't even believe you are really a pope
Luckily I live in a soulless, polluting, sprawl of a suburb. Biking is very impractical here
Still better than the literal mountains of bikes dumped outside large businesses in China.
I assume one of the more weird things about him would be whatever experience led him to be adamant about not giving guns to ducks.
So ask them for their aunt or uncles last name instead. Chances are they'll never make the connection to mothers maiden name.
Congress critter: "What steps are Facebook taking to ensure this doesn't happen again?"
Zuckerberg: "Here's $50,000 to each Committee member's reelection campaign."
You're missing a few zeroes there.
There's a lot of people on the committee. And you underestimate just how cheap it can really be to buy a Congressman
Congress critter: "Were you aware that user data was accessible by third parties and open to abuse?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "How much of Facebook's income is derived from providing user data to third parties?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "Does Facebook store or monetize deleted data, data from users that have deleted their accounts, or data collected on people who do not have Facebook accounts?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "Was Facebook aware that foreign, state-sponsored actors were utilizing Facebook's data?"
Zuckerberg: "I do not recall."
Congress critter: "What steps are Facebook taking to ensure this doesn't happen again?"
Zuckerberg: "Here's $50,000 to each Committee member's reelection campaign."
It's a catch 22. The FDA usual process is slow and plodding but results in medications and medical procedures which are generally safe and effective by reducing as much risk as possible. However it takes a LONG time to perform all the necessary studies and clinical trials and critically ill patients die while they wait.
The catch is that if you are trying to get approval for a novel medication that saves lives of the critically ill, how do you justify the delay needed to do all the safety and effectiveness studies? People will die if you don't try, but you might also kill and/or cure. What to do?
What's worse is, if you read the article, the company that makes this drug wants to expand its use to other forms of dementia, not just Parkinson's related. For a drug like this, which was approved after only a few small trials with very questionable results (even the author of the latest trial has reservations), it should be limited only to patients who have tried all other available medications. But of course, the company expects $250 million in profits this year, and if a couple people have to die faster for that to happen, then so be it.
Now that US colleges are rolling in an unprecedented flood of money, why aren't they using more of it to make joining the faculty a better deal?
Because that would cut into the pay raises for the administrators and prevent them from spending more money on "campus life" and improvement projects to bring in more students/charge higher tuition so that the school can pay administrators more and spend more money on "improving" the campus. What, you thought college in the US was about teaching and learning?
This affected Delta and Sears websites where users entered data on the website to complete a transaction.
We understand malware present in [24]7.ai's software between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 2017 made unauthorized access possible for the following fields of information; name, address, payment card number, CVV number, and expiration date during their purchase process if this information was manually entered by the customer and the customer completed the purchase transaction.
Why did it take 5 months to disclose? As a simple hypothesis, I would suggest its because disclosure in November may have had an impact on Deltas ability to generate anticipated levels of revenue in December, a major holiday travel season.
Well, right now it's only a month or 2 away from another, longer major travel season: summer
What's the point of schooling other than to get kids used to being under the thumb of a ruler?
So that they are smart enough to know the answer to that question.
So what if the brownshirts were fighting commies ? It's like saying you can't have multiple parties with the same idea duking it out. They were of the same cloth, the socialist murderous one. Whereever socialism went, famine and purges followed. Every, single, time. Hi Venesuela !
Love of allpowerful nanny state ? Check !
In socialism there is no nanny state, as the people/workers govern themselves.
Love of god emperor champion of the people ? Check !
See above. A "god emperor champion of the people" is not present in socialism.
Heavy state welfare ? Check ?
Socialism isn't a welfare state: the people own all means of production therefore they are all entitled to their share of the proceeds/products.
Adverse to personal liberties ? Check !
As long as a person contributes their share to the economy/state, why would the state care what that person is doing?
Extreme xenophobia and aggresivity towards others ? Check !
Socialism doesn't care about race, ethnicity, or nationality: socialism's end goal was to liberate all people/workers so that they could benefit from their own labor.
How are they different again ?
You seem to have confused "socialism" with Stalinism, Maoism, Juche, and other authoritarian, strong-man,socialist-like systems, but none of them were truly socialist systems. The NSDAP was a fascist organization which is also an authoritarian system and, since the Cold War has conditioned people to think of the authoritarian regimes of China/USSR/etc whenever they hear "socialist", it's a common mistake to liken the two.
National-socialist German Workers' Party
"National-socialism" is to socialism as "people's democratic" is to democracy. The brownshirts were literally fighting the Communists in the streets
"now that you mention it, theres a surprising amount of wicker in this marmalade..."
So there's a reasonable and expected amount of wicker to be found in jellies?
I can't get through the first 30 minutes of the movie. The only part I found mildly entertaining is the (now) anachronism of a Pan-Am spaceship.
Horses don't funnel more and more money to the military industrial complex, and horse breeders aren't big contributors to campaigns nationwide.
Translation: how to better use technology to end human lives and mutilate fellow humans instead of improving human lives. It's unfortunate that a lot of new technology is first used to murder and maim.
One of the first uses I see for "AI" (which in this implementation isn't even true, "real" AI) is for semi-autonomous heavy load-bearing equipment. Think back to 2001: US special forces operating in Afghanistan had to use mules to help them move equipment over mountainous terrain. Imagine a 4 or 6 legged robot that can follow a patrol and carry supplies, ammunition, wounded soldiers, etc. With 6 legs and an articulated front segment it should be able to go over just about any terrain a person could reasonably go. Boston Dynamics has tried a few things but the technology is not quite there yet. Also, they seem to keep focusing on making them look like dogs or horses while I picture something more like an armored pickup with legs, with the "cab" holding the computers, sensors, batteries, etc and a bed in the back for the cargo. Of course, it's the military, so if it's big enough you can mount a manned machine gun/Mk 19 grenade launcher on top and you have instant LAV/gun truck support where normally a wheeled vehicle couldn't go.
The American bison should just evolved to use guns just like humans did. Then there would still be millions of them roaming around the central US.
Gun nuts are funny people. They think their peashooters are going to protect them from a "rogue Federal government".
I just like guns, especially older military issue firearms and antiques, because I am actually a history nut and each of those old guns tells a story. For example, my family has a Lorenz rifled musket which was one of the most used long guns in the Civil War, so it is very likely that gun was carried during the war. Same for my Mosin-Nagant which is stamped 1942 and is matching serial numbers except for 1 minor part. So it was manufactured during World War 2 and quite possibly issued during the war as well. My great uncle served in Korea and my grandfather was drafted but did not get deployed to Korea, so I will be buying a WW2/Korea dated M1 carbine to make a display to go along with my grandfather's dress helmet in honor of both of them (an original 1911 would be awesome as well but those are pricey, a war year M1 carbine should still be in the 3 digits-my dream one is an IBM just because I'm a nerd).
Do I think I'm ever going to need to use my guns against a "rogue federal government"? No. Do I think I will ever need to use one to protect myself on the street or in my house? Very unlikely (unless the country goes to shit). But do I enjoy shooting them? Yes. Are they heirlooms? Yes. Am I also for strong, sensible, effective gun control? Hell yes. Guns can kill, and it's likely at least one of the guns I own has done so during it's existence. When exercising a right you have a duty to do so responsibly.
What are you going to do? Invade Ireland?
We could threaten to ship all of Boston back across the pond. That would make Ireland shape up in a hurry.
Yet Trump can't actually say anything negative about Putin. If which there are many opportunities.
It's almost like they have dirt on him.
Ot almost like Trump has some understanding of international diplomacy that you, being a mouth-breathing idiot, lack?
First rule of diplomacy: do not congratulate the leader of a government (for winning a very questionable election where many opposition leaders were arrested or barred from running) who just tried to murder a former spy on the home soil of one of your biggest allies. It emasculates and humiliates your ally and emboldens the offending state.
... but this comes from the brain dead idea that everything is privatized.
You can't buy a german or french university. Well, we have a few "private schools", too. Sure. But I don't even have one in mind while I write this.
Since the company that is trying to buy this school is (Chinese) state-owned, does that mean the school is no longer a private university?
At least someone is investing in education.
Uh, what do you call a trillion or two in student debt?
A shitload of free money in interest payments to banks and lenders.