Hey look another article thats all like HEY AMERICA YOURE NOT DOING THIS AND WE ARE, and ignores the obvious things like the north american power grid designs, the scattered population centers over a large area, and so on.
If the population density is so low in some areas then they should have plenty of room to put up wind turbines locally
Slippery slope is almost universally a bullshit argument. Yes it's theoretically possible that this could evolve into a horrible police state that disappears innocent people.
Having more police wouldn't have helped if the police are powerless to arrest someone until they act,
So....arrest them before they commit a criminal act? Do you have to be Muslim for that to be ok? Or can the police arrest a guy standing outside a bank because they think he might be about to rob it, too?
or even to deport a suspect if they're known to associate with terrorists and be sympathetic to them (as the three koran-thumpers in the last attack were)
So it's now illegal to be around people that might be terrorists or to sympathize with them (but not in any way help them)? Tell me, are you trying to fight ISIS, or become them?
Comey wrote an unclassified memo precisely for this eventuality.
What's less easy to understand is why Slashdot is shilling articles for a traitor sitting in Russia at this very moment for stealing classified material.
Treason is committed against a country, not a government. While Snowden might have hurt the government, he helped the country. People need to remember that while the government works for the state and is usually an extension of the state, it is not the state itself.
That's the headline?! I know that was a big part of the testimony, but the real story is that Comey pretty much confirmed that Trump is a lying, self-serving douche who would joyfully obstruct justice if he thought he could get away with it (all Trump has at this point is a thin veneer of plausible deniability--"I only said that I hoped...it was a wish, not a command."). That's the part that's really worth talking about, not the Comey leak.
While I agree with you that Trump is a lying, self-serving douche, I do think that there is a good possibility he did not knowingly try to obstruct justice in that he did not realize that asking (or insinuating) Comey to drop the Flynn investigation could possibly be obstruction. The simple truth is that a lot of things you can do when you are sitting in a boardroom (that in and of themselves are perfectly legal) that you can not do when sitting in the Oval Office (which by virtue of your position might actually be illegal). I am sure Trump has told people countless times to ignore something or let something go when it involved his business and it was in his interest, however you cannot do that as President. It's the same with loyalty: any person running a business has a right to state that he expects loyalty from his subordinates, but a President has no right to request it from the director of a Federal agency- their loyalty is to the Constitution, not the presidency.
It goes to the crux of one of my big criticisms of the Trump administration: he is running the administration as a business and largely staffing it with people more familiar with business than politics, and most of them (Trump included) don't realize that there is a significant difference between the rules and responsibilities between running a business and a country.
I'm still waiting on a pickup. The bed of a pickup would be a perfect place for battery packs and should still leave a decent amount of space for hauling (most owners of electric pickups would not be doing any heavy hauling, but it's always nice to have room for bulky or large items).
Among the first recipients is Minneapolis-based Best Buy, which has long sold and serviced Apple products.
And I am sure as part of the agreement, Best Buy will charge a price that was decided by Apple. Oh, and don't forget about forcing their employees to try and upsell on a warranty for the repair-valid only at Best Buy of course.
No, but he does have his personal bodyguard/gofer taking on official business and running around flashing the Secretary of State's personal cell phone number for everyone to see.
Well, I'm sure this thread will be completely full of reasoned and polite discussions, free of any strawman arguments, ad hominem attacks, trolling, or general asshattery.
Knowing that 100% of your customers have insurance that pays 100% of the cost of medications is a green light for this type of price gouging.
In a situation where 100% of all prices are paid by a single entity, that entity has all the power. What does a company do when they jack the rates up 500% and the government says ok, we won't pay you? They either drop their prices or go out of business. They could simply refuse to offer their product in the US, but the then government could simply declare their patent open for generics. There wouldn't be a need for direct price controls, but there would be de facto price controls in that all providers would be forced to sell at a price that the only buyer would be willing to pay for.
The epipen isn't the only player in the market, its popularity is due to schools support for it, as an easy way to administer the drug..
The schools have support for it because they are legally required to do so. Schools are legally required to carry epinephrone pens, and Mylan took steps to become the dominant player in the epinephrine autoinjector market; so much so that "epipen" is now on the same level as kleenex, bandaid, or xerox in that it is now essentially a generic term for any epinephrine injector pen. Oh, yeah, and one of their top executives also happens to be the daughter of a senator. I'm sure that didn't have any bearing when it came to lobbying efforts.
Trump offered to participate in new negotiations. I believe he said that in good faith. Naturally the eurocrats lost their shit and rejected that out of hand.
There are 191 signatories to the Agreement. The only ones not on the agreement were Syria, Nicaragua, and the Vatican (because they aren't a full member state). When 1 state out of 191 changes their mind and wants to renegotiate an agreement that 190 other states agreed to, you tell them to either stick to their agreement or pound sand. Trump's offer to renegotiate was either a token gesture that he knew they wouldn't go for or he is so delusional as to his power as a businessman and "terrific negotiator" that he thought they would actually go for it.
Was it Trump who misunderstood the study, or government advisers?
Many Trump advisors such as Musk and Iger, along with the CEOs of massive businesses including Exxon and Chevron (oil companies!), Microsoft, Apple, Goldman Sachs, GE, etc told Trump leaving the Paris Accords was a bad idea. Several, specifically Musk and Iger, have already stepped down from advisory councils. The only advisor Trump trusts is Trump. He has explicitly said so.
Let's be honest: the next time a Democrat is president they will probably either join the Paris accords, or adopt policies that align with the accords anyway. This is what American has turned into: our politics are so partisan that pretty much the first thing a new party administration does when they take office is to overrule or counteract policies of the previous administration (except of course for policies that erode away our rights in the name of "national security"). America is running around in circles (and wasting trillions of dollars in the process) while the rest of the world passes us by. And the sad thing is a lot of Americans are cheering as it happens.
On top of that, nobody that claims they wanted Trump to win can cite a single benefit that they have or would gain by having Trump in place,
Except for the fact that Russia had regular contact with multiple people in Trump's campaign who were in place to have considerably powerful roles in a Trump administration: Flynn, Manafort (until he got run out), Kushner, Sessions apparently, Page. And those are just the ones we know about. And don't forget the intercepts we have with the Russians stated that they believed they could influence Trump through Flynn. Other than putting a complete puppet into office, just about the best thing a state can hope for is an ability to directly influence the policies of a rival. Trump himself may not have had ties or contacts with the Russian government, but the Russian government was doing everything they could to make sure they had a man inside Trump's administration.
However, there is not enough sample data to make a universal assertion. What if Egyptian Pharos were a bit like European royalties, where the Austrian princess would marry the ruler of France or German royalty would marry the Russian Tzar. And these mummified people were prince or princes from Near East empires marrying into Egyptian royalty to forge political bonds? Perhaps the slave / worker / minstrel caste were Sub-Saharan Africans.
If you read the wikipedia entry on, say, Tutankhamun, it seems that there is a lot of evidence that the ruling class of ancient Egypt had a lot of inbreeding (the congenital issues of which quite possibly helped lead to Tutankhamun's early demise), with siblings and cousins often marrying. And remember, most Egyptian mummies are the wealthier members of society: wikipedia again states there are 3 documented methods of Egyptian mummification that is assumed to be based on price, the cheapest of which would be affordable by their equivalent of the middle class. So, in all likelihood most of the mummies that we find would be of the upper strata (or at least the upper half) of society and, as we all know, it is basically human nature that societal or class groups tend to try to keep themselves "pure". So they would probably be fairly homogenous. I am sure there were plenty of sub-Saharan and others in Egyptian society, but they were most likely slaves, laborers, or other members of the lower class that couldn't afford mummification.
They should just go into pop music. That stuff is already mass produced, with songwriters literally sitting in rooms together churning out songs (this is why songs from different artists can sound the same, because they essentially have the same parts in them). Seems like it should be pretty easy to automate that, especially given the formulaic nature of current pop music.
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Hey look another article thats all like HEY AMERICA YOURE NOT DOING THIS AND WE ARE, and ignores the obvious things like the north american power grid designs, the scattered population centers over a large area, and so on.
If the population density is so low in some areas then they should have plenty of room to put up wind turbines locally
This is unlike nazism - where the undesireables didn't get the option to leave in peace - they were killed off deliberately.
They didn't huh? And they only started deliberately killing them after the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from deporting millions of Jews to Madagascar .
Slippery slope is almost universally a bullshit argument. Yes it's theoretically possible that this could evolve into a horrible police state that disappears innocent people.
I'll just leave thishere
Having more police wouldn't have helped if the police are powerless to arrest someone until they act,
So....arrest them before they commit a criminal act? Do you have to be Muslim for that to be ok? Or can the police arrest a guy standing outside a bank because they think he might be about to rob it, too?
or even to deport a suspect if they're known to associate with terrorists and be sympathetic to them (as the three koran-thumpers in the last attack were)
So it's now illegal to be around people that might be terrorists or to sympathize with them (but not in any way help them)? Tell me, are you trying to fight ISIS, or become them?
Comey wrote an unclassified memo precisely for this eventuality.
What's less easy to understand is why Slashdot is shilling articles for a traitor sitting in Russia at this very moment for stealing classified material.
Treason is committed against a country, not a government. While Snowden might have hurt the government, he helped the country. People need to remember that while the government works for the state and is usually an extension of the state, it is not the state itself.
That's the headline?! I know that was a big part of the testimony, but the real story is that Comey pretty much confirmed that Trump is a lying, self-serving douche who would joyfully obstruct justice if he thought he could get away with it (all Trump has at this point is a thin veneer of plausible deniability--"I only said that I hoped...it was a wish, not a command."). That's the part that's really worth talking about, not the Comey leak.
While I agree with you that Trump is a lying, self-serving douche, I do think that there is a good possibility he did not knowingly try to obstruct justice in that he did not realize that asking (or insinuating) Comey to drop the Flynn investigation could possibly be obstruction. The simple truth is that a lot of things you can do when you are sitting in a boardroom (that in and of themselves are perfectly legal) that you can not do when sitting in the Oval Office (which by virtue of your position might actually be illegal). I am sure Trump has told people countless times to ignore something or let something go when it involved his business and it was in his interest, however you cannot do that as President. It's the same with loyalty: any person running a business has a right to state that he expects loyalty from his subordinates, but a President has no right to request it from the director of a Federal agency- their loyalty is to the Constitution, not the presidency.
It goes to the crux of one of my big criticisms of the Trump administration: he is running the administration as a business and largely staffing it with people more familiar with business than politics, and most of them (Trump included) don't realize that there is a significant difference between the rules and responsibilities between running a business and a country.
This is why I always point my phone camera at my junk when reading Facebook.
I don't want anonymous people on facebook seeing my face.
Facebook tracking algorithm: He's bald and always winking, show him more ads for Rogaine and eye drops!
rocking out ahead of jimmy concerts with blenders running in my line-x bed
No, I give up, what does this mean?
Late middle aged guy pretending he's still young, making margaritas in the back of his car and wearing a Tommy Bahama shirt.
I'm still waiting on a pickup. The bed of a pickup would be a perfect place for battery packs and should still leave a decent amount of space for hauling (most owners of electric pickups would not be doing any heavy hauling, but it's always nice to have room for bulky or large items).
Among the first recipients is Minneapolis-based Best Buy, which has long sold and serviced Apple products.
And I am sure as part of the agreement, Best Buy will charge a price that was decided by Apple. Oh, and don't forget about forcing their employees to try and upsell on a warranty for the repair-valid only at Best Buy of course.
At least he has not appointed to his horse.
No, but he does have his personal bodyguard/gofer taking on official business and running around flashing the Secretary of State's personal cell phone number for everyone to see.
According to the radio, she changed it. Supposedly her name was Sara Leigh.
Well, I'm sure this thread will be completely full of reasoned and polite discussions, free of any strawman arguments, ad hominem attacks, trolling, or general asshattery.
Knowing that 100% of your customers have insurance that pays 100% of the cost of medications is a green light for this type of price gouging.
In a situation where 100% of all prices are paid by a single entity, that entity has all the power. What does a company do when they jack the rates up 500% and the government says ok, we won't pay you? They either drop their prices or go out of business. They could simply refuse to offer their product in the US, but the then government could simply declare their patent open for generics. There wouldn't be a need for direct price controls, but there would be de facto price controls in that all providers would be forced to sell at a price that the only buyer would be willing to pay for.
The epipen isn't the only player in the market, its popularity is due to schools support for it, as an easy way to administer the drug. .
The schools have support for it because they are legally required to do so. Schools are legally required to carry epinephrone pens, and Mylan took steps to become the dominant player in the epinephrine autoinjector market; so much so that "epipen" is now on the same level as kleenex, bandaid, or xerox in that it is now essentially a generic term for any epinephrine injector pen. Oh, yeah, and one of their top executives also happens to be the daughter of a senator. I'm sure that didn't have any bearing when it came to lobbying efforts.
Use the bodies of your dead and sick coworkers as a ladder to climb your way to success!
Trump offered to participate in new negotiations. I believe he said that in good faith. Naturally the eurocrats lost their shit and rejected that out of hand.
There are 191 signatories to the Agreement. The only ones not on the agreement were Syria, Nicaragua, and the Vatican (because they aren't a full member state). When 1 state out of 191 changes their mind and wants to renegotiate an agreement that 190 other states agreed to, you tell them to either stick to their agreement or pound sand. Trump's offer to renegotiate was either a token gesture that he knew they wouldn't go for or he is so delusional as to his power as a businessman and "terrific negotiator" that he thought they would actually go for it.
Of course your response ignores a third option; don't sign this turd of an agreement and do something else instead.
Do you actually think President "Moar Coal Jobs" Trump, advised by Steve "Who needs the EPA" Bannon, will do something about climate change?
Not to put too fine a point on the issue but...
Was it Trump who misunderstood the study, or government advisers?
Many Trump advisors such as Musk and Iger, along with the CEOs of massive businesses including Exxon and Chevron (oil companies!), Microsoft, Apple, Goldman Sachs, GE, etc told Trump leaving the Paris Accords was a bad idea. Several, specifically Musk and Iger, have already stepped down from advisory councils. The only advisor Trump trusts is Trump. He has explicitly said so.
Let's be honest: the next time a Democrat is president they will probably either join the Paris accords, or adopt policies that align with the accords anyway. This is what American has turned into: our politics are so partisan that pretty much the first thing a new party administration does when they take office is to overrule or counteract policies of the previous administration (except of course for policies that erode away our rights in the name of "national security"). America is running around in circles (and wasting trillions of dollars in the process) while the rest of the world passes us by. And the sad thing is a lot of Americans are cheering as it happens.
On top of that, nobody that claims they wanted Trump to win can cite a single benefit that they have or would gain by having Trump in place,
Except for the fact that Russia had regular contact with multiple people in Trump's campaign who were in place to have considerably powerful roles in a Trump administration: Flynn, Manafort (until he got run out), Kushner, Sessions apparently, Page. And those are just the ones we know about. And don't forget the intercepts we have with the Russians stated that they believed they could influence Trump through Flynn. Other than putting a complete puppet into office, just about the best thing a state can hope for is an ability to directly influence the policies of a rival. Trump himself may not have had ties or contacts with the Russian government, but the Russian government was doing everything they could to make sure they had a man inside Trump's administration.
However, there is not enough sample data to make a universal assertion. What if Egyptian Pharos were a bit like European royalties, where the Austrian princess would marry the ruler of France or German royalty would marry the Russian Tzar. And these mummified people were prince or princes from Near East empires marrying into Egyptian royalty to forge political bonds? Perhaps the slave / worker / minstrel caste were Sub-Saharan Africans.
If you read the wikipedia entry on, say, Tutankhamun, it seems that there is a lot of evidence that the ruling class of ancient Egypt had a lot of inbreeding (the congenital issues of which quite possibly helped lead to Tutankhamun's early demise), with siblings and cousins often marrying. And remember, most Egyptian mummies are the wealthier members of society: wikipedia again states there are 3 documented methods of Egyptian mummification that is assumed to be based on price, the cheapest of which would be affordable by their equivalent of the middle class. So, in all likelihood most of the mummies that we find would be of the upper strata (or at least the upper half) of society and, as we all know, it is basically human nature that societal or class groups tend to try to keep themselves "pure". So they would probably be fairly homogenous. I am sure there were plenty of sub-Saharan and others in Egyptian society, but they were most likely slaves, laborers, or other members of the lower class that couldn't afford mummification.
The Matrix, Terminator, 9, etc-all wrong. The war between humans and machines will really begin over cheese.
They should just go into pop music. That stuff is already mass produced, with songwriters literally sitting in rooms together churning out songs (this is why songs from different artists can sound the same, because they essentially have the same parts in them). Seems like it should be pretty easy to automate that, especially given the formulaic nature of current pop music.
1. Get a job with an outsourcing firm
2. Work on IT project for major international company
3. Purposefully introduce bugs into the software
4. Report (or have a friend report) said bugs
5. Profit!