Say that after the coming battle over the very existence of Social Security.
Why haven't Social Security payouts already been trimmed back by the necessary quarter or more to bring future liabilities in line with future revenue?
Because if a politician touches Social Security they commit political suicide. Most of the people drawing Social Security are the people most active in the political process: retirees. Since many of them don't work they are the ones working polls, canvassing, attending rallies and, most importantly, they are a significant number of the people actually voting. Touch Social Security and it will look like the Grey Dawn South Park episode.
Which tells you that no government incentives or actions are needed: if this is a reasonable accounting of costs, companies will switch to renewables all by themselves.
Of course, since the US is all about fair competition-you know, free market and all-then we can safely remove government subsidies to other forms of power such as oil or coal as well. We wouldn't want one segment of an industry working with an unfair advantage now, would we?
Just what are people with only high school supposed to do? This is not Europe where govt pays for you to go to college. Many poor families cannot afford college and need jobs which can be done with a high school education.
Votechs. The US needs to go to a more European model where students pick either a college track or a technical skills track. Maybe slightly modify it to where they split the last 2 years of high school, and make the first 2 years a much more general education, ie liberal arts, math, and life skills like basic accounting etc. After the second year if you want to go the college track you can take more advanced sciences, math, literature, etc; if you want the technical track you can start taking classes specializing in mechanics, welding, shop class, nursing, AMT, whatever. Have some classes in house and for others pair up with local (certified and approved) vocational schools or community colleges. Push federal funding for votechs and community colleges (which all happen to be cheaper than 4 year institutions) with better regulated and tracked job placement-you could even go so far as to offer internships/coops/apprenticeships with local companies or unions to help with job placement once graduated. This keeps people who either shouldn't, can't, or won't go to college from going and racking up large debts while giving them another way to obtain a career that offers a fairly decent living wage (on up to exceedingly good wage depending on field/skills/experience in the case of some vocations such as AMT, welding, or nursing).
Now, of course there are always some people that don't even have the ability or desire to go through votech schools. In these cases that's where your burger flipping or menial jobs come in, supplemented with a little (or more, depending on situation and actual ability to work) safety net support. Couple in easy to access job retraining programs which tie in to vocational and technical fields so that older people who have been laid off or are otherwise jobless have opportunities to pivot to another field instead of relying on multiple minimum wage jobs or gig economy jobs and you have solved both the jobs issue and the mounting costs of college education.
Have you ever tried to punch through a window? I don't think it's as easy as it is on TV. I guess you can use a belt buckle to help, but you still probably injure your hand. Anyone know?
That's why in my car I keep a knife that has both a seatbelt cutter and a point for breaking windows. Never know if I will be trapped in the car or if I ever have to help someone out of theirs, so it's good to have in case of emergency. Worth the $20 price tag IMO.
In October, CFO Anthony Noto told analysts on an earnings call that the ads played during Twitter's NFL Thursday Night Football streaming exclusives had been especially successful, with many people watching them in their entirety with the sound turned on.
Shouldn't the ads only be considered "successful" if there is an accompanying quantifiable uptick in purchases for those products that can be attributed to those ads? All this data collection just to sell more and more ads-has anyone ever shown that they actually work?
Good question. If he had been any other applicant he would probably have been rejected. Younger and fit people are preferred for exactly this reason, they have less risk of medical problems.
He was down there on an organized tour for tourists. He wasn't working down there. And for anyone wondering, according to the tour service's website, they only cost 64,000 euros per person. Hope he sprung for the optional insurance.
And stand the fuck up for the anthem too, you aren't being oppressed.
There's a reason the very first Amendment in the Constitution is freedom of speech. Even the Second Amendment, which deals with the defense of the nation, comes second to it. You have every right to sit down or kneel for the Anthem, or burn a flag, whether you are trying to make a statement or just being a dick. It's hard to "Make America Great Again" when you want to remove some of the basic freedoms that make America great in the first place.
I figured the GoPro craze was doomed a year ago when I saw a person at the outlet mall near my house walking around with a GoPro mounted on his dog's back. Unless people are involved in action sports or in certain types of TV productions most of the people that bought GoPros don't really have anything to film so won't keep buying more cameras. GoPro got too big too fast. They should have stayed private, stuck to their niche, and they could make a very solid profit for many years. Why a camera maker ever thought it was a good idea to create an entertainment division is beyond me. They really shouldn't have even developed their own drones, at least not initially. They would have been better off partnering with a more established drone manufacturer.
This is a game changer for air travel, I've had to depend on rentals from Google or Amazon, now I can cache Netflix? Nice.
Amazon Prime allows you to download prime movies/tv shows on Amazon video for free. Was great the last time me and my wife went to visit her sister's family out of state. I could watch movies on the drive.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Franklin was saying, "Fuck you. If you don't want to defend yourself, you deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Uh, I think you are interpreting his statement incorrectly. By taking up offered arms they would in fact be giving up their liberty (freedom of religion) for the temporary safety offered by bearing said arms. So in fact it would seem by his statement that Franklin would be supporting the Quakers.
because gun owners would overthrow the government. Right? Right?
In case you slept through the US elections, gun owner just did overthrow the government.
Really.....so a cabinet full of experienced politicians (and now the spouses of politicians) and a Congress almost completely full of re-elected members is somehow an "overthrow" of government?
I don't believe for a second that an individual would deliberately "oppress themselves". Common sense tells me that oppression, in any form, must come from the top down, not the bottom up. Oppression, like any relationship based on coercion, involves an aggressor and a victim, and obviously, they can't possibly be the same person.
The trick is to make the oppressed actually want the oppression. Do this, and you can very easily have the people oppress themselves, and cheer as it happens.
Who the hell is driving this reliability-be-damned design regime? Certainly not the war fighters.
People looking for the ego/resume boost of being involved in a major technologically advanced procurement and a sweet, sweet gig working for a contractor after retirement (with full military pension of course) supporting said procurement.
I would also suggest cheering that it seems we will not be going to war against Russia over Syria, and will instead stop arming ISIS and will let Russia stomp them out.
I didn't realize ISIS was in Aleppo, since Russia seems to be focusing most of their attention there.
Governments shouldn't be regulating or licensing any professions afaic, we need less government in our lives not more. Of course the west decided otherwise so the jobs left and will keep leaving.
Yes, so many jobs like doctors, pilots, and even Uber drivers are leaving this country in droves all due to over-restrictive government licensing. Or, you know, maybe licensing for professions that carry significant risk to the lives and properties of others and in many cases involves significant amounts of training and education is one of the few things government actually should do.
Musk's vision is so bold that some on Wall Street remain unable to fully comprehend it or, in the least, grasp how it's a catalyst for Tesla shares in the short term. "Whatever the synergies are down the road, it's negative for current holders," said Efraim Levy, analyst at CFRA Research.
Maybe Musk just doesn't give a shit about short term "investors" that jump around from stock to stock, but rather is more concerned with the long-term sustainability of his company? By owning solar panel production and having the ability to integrate the panels with the cars, it not only frees up reliance on external factors (the need for places to install charging stations for electric cars to remain viable, as well as reliance on many forms of energy) but also reduces the need for them to build out their own charging/battery swap infrastructure, which saves money. It should be obvious to anyone looking at SpaceX and Tesla that Musk is playing the long game.
What does either of the above 2 events - both of which happened >50 years ago - have to do w/ immigration to the UK? The creation of Israel did not displace the Arabs, except for those who left on their own to become refugees in other Arab countries, not UK. The creation of India and Pakistan caused a carnage during the movement of Hindus from the Pakistans to India, but did nothing to cause major migration to the UK. So how are those 2 events relevant at all here?
The British, through the Balfour Declaration/the carving up of the Middle East along with the French following WWI and the partition of India essentially laid the groundwork for the present conditions in those countries, leading to fairly significant exoduses. Due to lingering linguistic and cultural familiarity, the logical place for most of these immigrants/refugees is England. Nothing we do today happens in a vacuum.
Probably more like 99.99% We are many, they are few but how do you catch those bad apples?
Police work. Talk to people. Adopt policies that encourage assimilation and understanding instead of radicalization and separation (on both sides). Teach people to believe they are British first and Muslim second. Show people that when they attack Britain they are only attacking themselves. Even then it's impossible to catch all of them, but that's the trade off you have to make if you want to live in a free state. You're still more likely to die by getting hit by a plane while walking down your street than getting killed by a terrorist, whether they are a Muslim terrorist, an Irish extremist, or a psychotic Pastafarian trying to strangle you with a wet noodle.
The British people need to grow a set and first, kill the tyrants in the government running the place into the ground and stomping on your very humanity, and then drive out or kill the Muslims.
C'mon, Brits! Raid the military/police armories, grab some bleeding weapons, and start taking Britain back for Brits! Hang the bloody bastards on Whitehall, in 10 Downing, and Parliament! Drag those gestapo fucks out of GCHQ, the Met, MI5/6, and hang them from lamp posts as a warning to the next bastards who think they want to abuse the British people. I promise there will be many, many Americans who will support and aid you.
Clearly the contradiction of advocating for a genocide while calling those you don't like as Nazis is lost on you.
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Say that after the coming battle over the very existence of Social Security.
Why haven't Social Security payouts already been trimmed back by the necessary quarter or more to bring future liabilities in line with future revenue?
Because if a politician touches Social Security they commit political suicide. Most of the people drawing Social Security are the people most active in the political process: retirees. Since many of them don't work they are the ones working polls, canvassing, attending rallies and, most importantly, they are a significant number of the people actually voting. Touch Social Security and it will look like the Grey Dawn South Park episode.
2 hours? These days you are luck if a movie runs past an hour and a half.
Which tells you that no government incentives or actions are needed: if this is a reasonable accounting of costs, companies will switch to renewables all by themselves.
Of course, since the US is all about fair competition-you know, free market and all-then we can safely remove government subsidies to other forms of power such as oil or coal as well. We wouldn't want one segment of an industry working with an unfair advantage now, would we?
How much does a byte weigh, anyway?
About a kilo
Just what are people with only high school supposed to do? This is not Europe where govt pays for you to go to college. Many poor families cannot afford college and need jobs which can be done with a high school education.
Votechs. The US needs to go to a more European model where students pick either a college track or a technical skills track. Maybe slightly modify it to where they split the last 2 years of high school, and make the first 2 years a much more general education, ie liberal arts, math, and life skills like basic accounting etc. After the second year if you want to go the college track you can take more advanced sciences, math, literature, etc; if you want the technical track you can start taking classes specializing in mechanics, welding, shop class, nursing, AMT, whatever. Have some classes in house and for others pair up with local (certified and approved) vocational schools or community colleges. Push federal funding for votechs and community colleges (which all happen to be cheaper than 4 year institutions) with better regulated and tracked job placement-you could even go so far as to offer internships/coops/apprenticeships with local companies or unions to help with job placement once graduated. This keeps people who either shouldn't, can't, or won't go to college from going and racking up large debts while giving them another way to obtain a career that offers a fairly decent living wage (on up to exceedingly good wage depending on field/skills/experience in the case of some vocations such as AMT, welding, or nursing).
Now, of course there are always some people that don't even have the ability or desire to go through votech schools. In these cases that's where your burger flipping or menial jobs come in, supplemented with a little (or more, depending on situation and actual ability to work) safety net support. Couple in easy to access job retraining programs which tie in to vocational and technical fields so that older people who have been laid off or are otherwise jobless have opportunities to pivot to another field instead of relying on multiple minimum wage jobs or gig economy jobs and you have solved both the jobs issue and the mounting costs of college education.
Have you ever tried to punch through a window? I don't think it's as easy as it is on TV. I guess you can use a belt buckle to help, but you still probably injure your hand. Anyone know?
That's why in my car I keep a knife that has both a seatbelt cutter and a point for breaking windows. Never know if I will be trapped in the car or if I ever have to help someone out of theirs, so it's good to have in case of emergency. Worth the $20 price tag IMO.
In October, CFO Anthony Noto told analysts on an earnings call that the ads played during Twitter's NFL Thursday Night Football streaming exclusives had been especially successful, with many people watching them in their entirety with the sound turned on.
Shouldn't the ads only be considered "successful" if there is an accompanying quantifiable uptick in purchases for those products that can be attributed to those ads? All this data collection just to sell more and more ads-has anyone ever shown that they actually work?
His social media? Buzzfeed?
No, that's the website for his catering company
Good question. If he had been any other applicant he would probably have been rejected. Younger and fit people are preferred for exactly this reason, they have less risk of medical problems.
He was down there on an organized tour for tourists. He wasn't working down there. And for anyone wondering, according to the tour service's website, they only cost 64,000 euros per person. Hope he sprung for the optional insurance.
And stand the fuck up for the anthem too, you aren't being oppressed.
There's a reason the very first Amendment in the Constitution is freedom of speech. Even the Second Amendment, which deals with the defense of the nation, comes second to it. You have every right to sit down or kneel for the Anthem, or burn a flag, whether you are trying to make a statement or just being a dick. It's hard to "Make America Great Again" when you want to remove some of the basic freedoms that make America great in the first place.
So now I will have to turn my phone off or I'll get texts at 3am every night....
I figured the GoPro craze was doomed a year ago when I saw a person at the outlet mall near my house walking around with a GoPro mounted on his dog's back. Unless people are involved in action sports or in certain types of TV productions most of the people that bought GoPros don't really have anything to film so won't keep buying more cameras. GoPro got too big too fast. They should have stayed private, stuck to their niche, and they could make a very solid profit for many years. Why a camera maker ever thought it was a good idea to create an entertainment division is beyond me. They really shouldn't have even developed their own drones, at least not initially. They would have been better off partnering with a more established drone manufacturer.
This is a game changer for air travel, I've had to depend on rentals from Google or Amazon, now I can cache Netflix? Nice.
Amazon Prime allows you to download prime movies/tv shows on Amazon video for free. Was great the last time me and my wife went to visit her sister's family out of state. I could watch movies on the drive.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Franklin was saying, "Fuck you. If you don't want to defend yourself, you deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Uh, I think you are interpreting his statement incorrectly. By taking up offered arms they would in fact be giving up their liberty (freedom of religion) for the temporary safety offered by bearing said arms. So in fact it would seem by his statement that Franklin would be supporting the Quakers.
because gun owners would overthrow the government. Right? Right?
In case you slept through the US elections, gun owner just did overthrow the government.
Really.....so a cabinet full of experienced politicians (and now the spouses of politicians) and a Congress almost completely full of re-elected members is somehow an "overthrow" of government?
I don't believe for a second that an individual would deliberately "oppress themselves". Common sense tells me that oppression, in any form, must come from the top down, not the bottom up. Oppression, like any relationship based on coercion, involves an aggressor and a victim, and obviously, they can't possibly be the same person.
The trick is to make the oppressed actually want the oppression. Do this, and you can very easily have the people oppress themselves, and cheer as it happens.
Who the hell is driving this reliability-be-damned design regime? Certainly not the war fighters.
People looking for the ego/resume boost of being involved in a major technologically advanced procurement and a sweet, sweet gig working for a contractor after retirement (with full military pension of course) supporting said procurement.
I would also suggest cheering that it seems we will not be going to war against Russia over Syria, and will instead stop arming ISIS and will let Russia stomp them out.
I didn't realize ISIS was in Aleppo, since Russia seems to be focusing most of their attention there.
Governments shouldn't be regulating or licensing any professions afaic, we need less government in our lives not more. Of course the west decided otherwise so the jobs left and will keep leaving.
Yes, so many jobs like doctors, pilots, and even Uber drivers are leaving this country in droves all due to over-restrictive government licensing. Or, you know, maybe licensing for professions that carry significant risk to the lives and properties of others and in many cases involves significant amounts of training and education is one of the few things government actually should do.
Musk's vision is so bold that some on Wall Street remain unable to fully comprehend it or, in the least, grasp how it's a catalyst for Tesla shares in the short term. "Whatever the synergies are down the road, it's negative for current holders," said Efraim Levy, analyst at CFRA Research.
Maybe Musk just doesn't give a shit about short term "investors" that jump around from stock to stock, but rather is more concerned with the long-term sustainability of his company? By owning solar panel production and having the ability to integrate the panels with the cars, it not only frees up reliance on external factors (the need for places to install charging stations for electric cars to remain viable, as well as reliance on many forms of energy) but also reduces the need for them to build out their own charging/battery swap infrastructure, which saves money. It should be obvious to anyone looking at SpaceX and Tesla that Musk is playing the long game.
Love watching the rats scurry as Trump the exterminator is brought in to drain the swamp.
For someone claiming to drain the swamp he sure is bringing on board a lot of established Washington players....
What does either of the above 2 events - both of which happened >50 years ago - have to do w/ immigration to the UK? The creation of Israel did not displace the Arabs, except for those who left on their own to become refugees in other Arab countries, not UK. The creation of India and Pakistan caused a carnage during the movement of Hindus from the Pakistans to India, but did nothing to cause major migration to the UK. So how are those 2 events relevant at all here?
The British, through the Balfour Declaration/the carving up of the Middle East along with the French following WWI and the partition of India essentially laid the groundwork for the present conditions in those countries, leading to fairly significant exoduses. Due to lingering linguistic and cultural familiarity, the logical place for most of these immigrants/refugees is England. Nothing we do today happens in a vacuum.
Probably more like 99.99% We are many, they are few but how do you catch those bad apples?
Police work. Talk to people. Adopt policies that encourage assimilation and understanding instead of radicalization and separation (on both sides). Teach people to believe they are British first and Muslim second. Show people that when they attack Britain they are only attacking themselves. Even then it's impossible to catch all of them, but that's the trade off you have to make if you want to live in a free state. You're still more likely to die by getting hit by a plane while walking down your street than getting killed by a terrorist, whether they are a Muslim terrorist, an Irish extremist, or a psychotic Pastafarian trying to strangle you with a wet noodle.
The British people need to grow a set and first, kill the tyrants in the government running the place into the ground and stomping on your very humanity, and then drive out or kill the Muslims.
C'mon, Brits! Raid the military/police armories, grab some bleeding weapons, and start taking Britain back for Brits! Hang the bloody bastards on Whitehall, in 10 Downing, and Parliament! Drag those gestapo fucks out of GCHQ, the Met, MI5/6, and hang them from lamp posts as a warning to the next bastards who think they want to abuse the British people. I promise there will be many, many Americans who will support and aid you.
Clearly the contradiction of advocating for a genocide while calling those you don't like as Nazis is lost on you.
then they can spy on me as well. I don't mind, since I'm not trying to overthrow any government.
Neither are about 99.9999% of the Muslims in Britain.