Considering my great uncle, who was an elected road superintendent for a county in the Appalachian mountains routinely carried a gun with him in his marked work truck because people would take potshots at him, I would say a lot of people in Appalachia want nothing to do with the government anyway
However, if there are people out there willing to work for less than $15/hour, or $13/hour, or $11/hour, or whatever, who are you to tell them that they can't.
People don't work minimum wage jobs because they want to, they work at them because they are the only jobs available to them (whether due to the skill/ability/hireability of the worker or the availability of jobs in the area). Employers have a monopoly on jobs, so without a minimum wage they employers get to set the "price" of those jobs (where "price" is measured as the difference between what the employee would like to get paid and what the employer will pay).
Judging by your username, you are most likely not a fan of socialism but rather prefer free market capitalism, however you are espousing capitalistic views that are so radical that the effect might as well be the same as under most Communist governments, and would leave the common worker in abject and permanent poverty.
I'm surprised actually that McD, Starbucks and Walmart don't actively drive minimum wages up just so they can completely drive out every other local business. If I were an 'evil CEO', I'd do that and then when I have 90% of a market, I'd lobby to get it reduced again or even just to get my company excluded.
Because it's easier and more efficient to kill local businesses by simply leveraging your size to charge less, even to the point where your store is losing money since you can afford losses at one store when you have hundred of other stores. Then, once local competition has been driven out, you raise prices. If you want to kill a business you go after their customers, not their employees. Plus, this way you don't have to deal with the mess of raising, then trying to lower the minimum wage (good luck getting a minimum wage reduced).
Obviously these guys don't watch tv or they would have seen the commercial with the bank robbers trying to rideshare their getaway car. Didn't work out too well in both cases
Unlike in Britain, the US has extremely strong free speech protections, especially if you can afford a decent lawyer (which Oliver/HBO/TW can). You basically can't win a defamation case in the US, therefore Robert E. Murray doesn't have a legitimate case.
For it to be defamation he would also have to prove that Oliver used false and damaging information. Which means he would have to state on record safety records, business practices, etc. And the burden of proof is on him, not on Oliver. And Murray is just drawing attention to Oliver and his criticism anyway. I hadn't even heard about this segment before this, but honestly I pretty much assume that, since coal companies have a long history of horrible working conditions and shitty and unfair business practices that they haven't changed too much in the previous years and, given the current administration, are probably looking at how to walk back what few changes they have made.
A little while back my mother in law randomly got a ringback time on her phone. She has no clue how it got on there and no clue how to get it off. It's some classical music that she wouldn't have picked anyway. She is on Verizon
Way too many co-workers were forced or voluntarily tried the Engineer -> Engineering Leader route and turned out to hate it.
Code, unlike subordinates, does exactly what I tell it to do. If a mechanical design of mine fails it's because I screwed up not because my subordinate did.
You just haven't programmed your subordinates correctly. Go to a North Korean "teambuilding" camp for your next group outing and you will have them reprogrammed to follow your orders completely.
I actually liked Rogue One, probably because I love classic war movies and it essentially had all the tropes of a classic war movie (right down to the surprising lack of blood), just in space. I want more of the actual war between the Rebellion and the Empire. More invasions, more ambushes, guerrilla/insurgent tactics. Show a war that is actually a war. Rogue One was on the right track with the end results of the group, but the way it happened was a bit deus ex machina. I want Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, or Fury in space. I don't want the contrived and cartoonish evil and darkness of episode 3. I want to see the real evils and horror that an interplanetary war can have.
When I was in high school I shattered the windshield of my parents truck by just stretching and flexing my leg while I had my legs up on the dash. Now though I just keep a knife with a window breaker and seatbelt cutter in my car. It's a little more practical
I've always loved the mental gymnastics that the government does when they charge children as adults for child pornography when they share naked pictures if themselves.
For a long time the US postal service has been losing money, they posted a 5.6 billion loss in 2016. I think they would be more than happy to grow their service but can they grow in a way that is profitable for the USPS that doesn't cost more than e-commerce is willing to pay?
Well, once they have their pension fully funded for the next 3 generations as legally mandated by Congress they will probably have enough money to expand capacity. Of course, growth=more workers=more pension, so they would probably have to fund that as well which would slow their growth.
They don't have the lowest prices on produce, dairy, or meat though.
Walmart doesn't but Sams does. 6lbs of 90/10 ground beef for under $3 per lb. Buy a pack of that, a pack of 2 chuck roasts, and a bag of frozen chicken breasts and me and my wife get a month's worth of meat for $50. For the chuck roasts Publix usually has a little bit better flavor, but ground beef is ground beef and you really can't beat the price.
They've also been working on that "Amazon Go" thing where you have a store without cashiers or checkout lines. If they can bring a lot of automation and efficiency to Whole Foods, they could bring prices down quite a lot, which has been one of the principle complaints about Whole Foods.
If they get rid of workers and automate everything, they will have to come up with an algorithm to "accidentally" over weigh meat.
In an economic downturn Whole Foods would be a boat anchor.
Grocery stores are practically recession proof. Everyone has to eat even when times are hard.
True, but as disposable income shrinks, most people start to reconsider whether $6 a dozen cage free, no-stress, gluten free-fed, artisan handmade coop housed eggs are really worth the price premium over the $2 a dozen regular eggs.
Since we share our alma mater, I would say that when Jesse Helms switched from Democrat to Republican would be a good timeframe for when Democrats and Republicans fully switched. But it wasn't overnight and you know it. It was a gradual transition.
Let's live in the real world. Gun ownership is a constitutional right. That's not going away without a constitutional amendment.
So, right now, it is an actual reality that if you make gun ownership illegal only criminals will have guns.
I'm a gun owner. I love guns, and I collect them. I don't want to ban them. The simple truth is that most guns either aren't owned by criminals, or were stolen from people that did legally own them. Train people how to own and use them safely and shootings will go down. The likelihood of getting shot by someone you don't know outside your own home is very small, but that is what people focus on. By supporting safe gun ownership and anger management you greatly reduce the likelihood of accidents or domestic violence which accounts for a large part of gun deaths. Throw in reasonable mental health support and you can cut down on the incidences of suicide too.
my argument was that eventhough he was a cop, he was a good guy with a gun. he didnt have to be a cop to be a good guy with a gun but he was.
I agree, but you can't use this situation in that argument because, gun control or not, the cops would already have been armed. If it was a case of a guy taking his dog for a walk in the park engaging with the shooter and taking him down then it would be a perfect case to use in that argument.
So the good part of your suggestion is done. Fuck the government mandates and tracking though, right in the ear.
What tracking? You take the class, you get a certificate which is shown when you apply for a carry permit. The permit shows the date of your class. You then have to take a recurrent class every 10-14 months, the date of which is noted on your permit as well. If a cop pulls you over and stops you in the street and they ask for your ID, you show them the permit that has the class dates on it. Coming up on your window, they remind you to take the class. If the last date on your permit is outside 14 months, then you inelligble to carry the firearm. My proposal is in regards to carrying permits, not ownership permits. If you have a CCL you are probably in a database already,so why are you worried about tracking in the first place?
We need cop control more than we need gun control.
In a way you are right. I always get worried whenever I see a sheriff or a police chief say their most important goal is making sure all their people get home safely. I'm sorry, but that is wrong. The ultimate goal of law enforcement is to make sure citizens get home safely. I understand that you feared for your life when you shot that guy sitting in the front seat of a car, but unless he was actively threatening other people, you shouldn't have shot him. Unless a weapon is already out and being pointed at/threatening people, there is no reason for police to be shooting first. Cops need to stop being law enforcement officers and go back to being peace officers.
How so? The Constitution only specifies that we have a right to bear arms. It's doesn't specify the type of arms covered. A very strict but logical argument for the 2nd Amendment would be that it only allows single shot muzzleloaders, since that was what was in common usage at the time. But, since that is obviously both unreasonable and impracticable, you already agree that the amendment requires some form of interpretation. Either that, or you are going to go off the deep end and agree that private citizens should be allowed to own operational tanks, nukes, fighters, etc. I could totally see someone like Steve Bannon or Roger Ailes sitting off the coast of DC in their privately owned battleship.
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The Airbus aircraft that they are purchasing already use that. In the cargo bins. Should be easy to retrofit a couple of those in the passenger cabin
Considering my great uncle, who was an elected road superintendent for a county in the Appalachian mountains routinely carried a gun with him in his marked work truck because people would take potshots at him, I would say a lot of people in Appalachia want nothing to do with the government anyway
However, if there are people out there willing to work for less than $15/hour, or $13/hour, or $11/hour, or whatever, who are you to tell them that they can't.
People don't work minimum wage jobs because they want to, they work at them because they are the only jobs available to them (whether due to the skill/ability/hireability of the worker or the availability of jobs in the area). Employers have a monopoly on jobs, so without a minimum wage they employers get to set the "price" of those jobs (where "price" is measured as the difference between what the employee would like to get paid and what the employer will pay).
Judging by your username, you are most likely not a fan of socialism but rather prefer free market capitalism, however you are espousing capitalistic views that are so radical that the effect might as well be the same as under most Communist governments, and would leave the common worker in abject and permanent poverty.
I'm surprised actually that McD, Starbucks and Walmart don't actively drive minimum wages up just so they can completely drive out every other local business. If I were an 'evil CEO', I'd do that and then when I have 90% of a market, I'd lobby to get it reduced again or even just to get my company excluded.
Because it's easier and more efficient to kill local businesses by simply leveraging your size to charge less, even to the point where your store is losing money since you can afford losses at one store when you have hundred of other stores. Then, once local competition has been driven out, you raise prices. If you want to kill a business you go after their customers, not their employees. Plus, this way you don't have to deal with the mess of raising, then trying to lower the minimum wage (good luck getting a minimum wage reduced).
Obviously these guys don't watch tv or they would have seen the commercial with the bank robbers trying to rideshare their getaway car. Didn't work out too well in both cases
Nah, a baseball bat will just tire you out. A power drill would be much more efficient, and the screams very cathartic
Unlike in Britain, the US has extremely strong free speech protections, especially if you can afford a decent lawyer (which Oliver/HBO/TW can). You basically can't win a defamation case in the US, therefore Robert E. Murray doesn't have a legitimate case.
For it to be defamation he would also have to prove that Oliver used false and damaging information. Which means he would have to state on record safety records, business practices, etc. And the burden of proof is on him, not on Oliver. And Murray is just drawing attention to Oliver and his criticism anyway. I hadn't even heard about this segment before this, but honestly I pretty much assume that, since coal companies have a long history of horrible working conditions and shitty and unfair business practices that they haven't changed too much in the previous years and, given the current administration, are probably looking at how to walk back what few changes they have made.
A little while back my mother in law randomly got a ringback time on her phone. She has no clue how it got on there and no clue how to get it off. It's some classical music that she wouldn't have picked anyway. She is on Verizon
He is the main author of LLVM
Way too many co-workers were forced or voluntarily tried the Engineer -> Engineering Leader route and turned out to hate it.
Code, unlike subordinates, does exactly what I tell it to do. If a mechanical design of mine fails it's because I screwed up not because my subordinate did.
You just haven't programmed your subordinates correctly. Go to a North Korean "teambuilding" camp for your next group outing and you will have them reprogrammed to follow your orders completely.
I actually liked Rogue One, probably because I love classic war movies and it essentially had all the tropes of a classic war movie (right down to the surprising lack of blood), just in space. I want more of the actual war between the Rebellion and the Empire. More invasions, more ambushes, guerrilla/insurgent tactics. Show a war that is actually a war. Rogue One was on the right track with the end results of the group, but the way it happened was a bit deus ex machina. I want Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, or Fury in space. I don't want the contrived and cartoonish evil and darkness of episode 3. I want to see the real evils and horror that an interplanetary war can have.
Are you sure cats aren't aware of it? Sounds to me like they are waging biological warfare on us.
When I was in high school I shattered the windshield of my parents truck by just stretching and flexing my leg while I had my legs up on the dash. Now though I just keep a knife with a window breaker and seatbelt cutter in my car. It's a little more practical
I've always loved the mental gymnastics that the government does when they charge children as adults for child pornography when they share naked pictures if themselves.
Just asking for a friend, right?
For a long time the US postal service has been losing money, they posted a 5.6 billion loss in 2016. I think they would be more than happy to grow their service but can they grow in a way that is profitable for the USPS that doesn't cost more than e-commerce is willing to pay?
Well, once they have their pension fully funded for the next 3 generations as legally mandated by Congress they will probably have enough money to expand capacity. Of course, growth=more workers=more pension, so they would probably have to fund that as well which would slow their growth.
They don't have the lowest prices on produce, dairy, or meat though.
Walmart doesn't but Sams does. 6lbs of 90/10 ground beef for under $3 per lb. Buy a pack of that, a pack of 2 chuck roasts, and a bag of frozen chicken breasts and me and my wife get a month's worth of meat for $50. For the chuck roasts Publix usually has a little bit better flavor, but ground beef is ground beef and you really can't beat the price.
They've also been working on that "Amazon Go" thing where you have a store without cashiers or checkout lines. If they can bring a lot of automation and efficiency to Whole Foods, they could bring prices down quite a lot, which has been one of the principle complaints about Whole Foods.
If they get rid of workers and automate everything, they will have to come up with an algorithm to "accidentally" over weigh meat.
In an economic downturn Whole Foods would be a boat anchor.
Grocery stores are practically recession proof. Everyone has to eat even when times are hard.
True, but as disposable income shrinks, most people start to reconsider whether $6 a dozen cage free, no-stress, gluten free-fed, artisan handmade coop housed eggs are really worth the price premium over the $2 a dozen regular eggs.
Since we share our alma mater, I would say that when Jesse Helms switched from Democrat to Republican would be a good timeframe for when Democrats and Republicans fully switched. But it wasn't overnight and you know it. It was a gradual transition.
Let's live in the real world. Gun ownership is a constitutional right. That's not going away without a constitutional amendment.
So, right now, it is an actual reality that if you make gun ownership illegal only criminals will have guns.
I'm a gun owner. I love guns, and I collect them. I don't want to ban them. The simple truth is that most guns either aren't owned by criminals, or were stolen from people that did legally own them. Train people how to own and use them safely and shootings will go down. The likelihood of getting shot by someone you don't know outside your own home is very small, but that is what people focus on. By supporting safe gun ownership and anger management you greatly reduce the likelihood of accidents or domestic violence which accounts for a large part of gun deaths. Throw in reasonable mental health support and you can cut down on the incidences of suicide too.
my argument was that eventhough he was a cop, he was a good guy with a gun. he didnt have to be a cop to be a good guy with a gun but he was.
I agree, but you can't use this situation in that argument because, gun control or not, the cops would already have been armed. If it was a case of a guy taking his dog for a walk in the park engaging with the shooter and taking him down then it would be a perfect case to use in that argument.
So either expand bag limits and/or the dates of deer hunting season.
Good luck getting approval to kill Bambi from urban California voters.
Tell them its either Bambi or they will run out of trees to hug. Although that moral dilemma might just make their heads explode.
Good news. The NRA already provides the classes.
So the good part of your suggestion is done. Fuck the government mandates and tracking though, right in the ear.
What tracking? You take the class, you get a certificate which is shown when you apply for a carry permit. The permit shows the date of your class. You then have to take a recurrent class every 10-14 months, the date of which is noted on your permit as well. If a cop pulls you over and stops you in the street and they ask for your ID, you show them the permit that has the class dates on it. Coming up on your window, they remind you to take the class. If the last date on your permit is outside 14 months, then you inelligble to carry the firearm. My proposal is in regards to carrying permits, not ownership permits. If you have a CCL you are probably in a database already,so why are you worried about tracking in the first place?
We need cop control more than we need gun control.
In a way you are right. I always get worried whenever I see a sheriff or a police chief say their most important goal is making sure all their people get home safely. I'm sorry, but that is wrong. The ultimate goal of law enforcement is to make sure citizens get home safely. I understand that you feared for your life when you shot that guy sitting in the front seat of a car, but unless he was actively threatening other people, you shouldn't have shot him. Unless a weapon is already out and being pointed at/threatening people, there is no reason for police to be shooting first. Cops need to stop being law enforcement officers and go back to being peace officers.
Every "gun control" law is unconstitutional.
How so? The Constitution only specifies that we have a right to bear arms. It's doesn't specify the type of arms covered. A very strict but logical argument for the 2nd Amendment would be that it only allows single shot muzzleloaders, since that was what was in common usage at the time. But, since that is obviously both unreasonable and impracticable, you already agree that the amendment requires some form of interpretation. Either that, or you are going to go off the deep end and agree that private citizens should be allowed to own operational tanks, nukes, fighters, etc. I could totally see someone like Steve Bannon or Roger Ailes sitting off the coast of DC in their privately owned battleship.