I haven't seen anyone assert that Google is providing nothing of value. The argument that I see brewing is that Google is questioning the value provided by independent music.
This is the same distribution and revenue channel which pours advertising money into Google's account, right? And which only works when people go there to watch videos, correct?
This is all business man, these artists get free bandwidth from Youtube and possibly the option to make a profit of ad revenues, all for nothing.
You make it sound like Google gets nothing. Google gets the rest of the ad revenue from people going to Youtube and watching those videos. Now Google wants a bigger piece of the pie, they want to move people to their music streaming service (which I never even knew existed).
I don't need to run it by you or other slashtards first to get your blessing.
Well, you kind of do though. Right now there are eight +5 comments, and yours is not one of them. If you don't get the community's blessing then he never even sees your question.
I don't care about your question though, I'm just calling you out on your "I'm not even trolling" BS when you are obviously trolling.
If you weren't trolling you wouldn't have asserted that he was wasting his life, and you wouldn't have called video games pointless. Video games most certainly have a point, as much as any entertainment product. As for wasting his life, he owns a restaurant chain and is slinging hot sauce. What are you doing with your life, other than trolling?
He's already announced his resignation as majority leader effective at the end of July, I'm not sure if that is an indication that he plans to go away or launch a campaign.
That's the previous Congress, the 112th. They were the least productive (in terms of the number of bills passed) in the 60 years that we have been keeping track of that. The 113th Congress has another 7 months or so remaining, but they aren't exactly looking a whole lot better.
I'm not convinced that a corporation giving a politician a bucket of money in exchange for their vote really qualifies as petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. Something tells me that is not what the founding fathers meant, it is not in the spirit of the constitution.
Don't worry, there are 2 ways to get a constitutional amendment. One way is through Congress. The other way is through an article V convention of the states. There's a very specific reason why the framers of the constitution allowed a way to make new amendments without going through Congress.
According to Wired, it sort of depends on which questions you decide to ask.
WIRED: Where are you from? Goostman: A big Ukrainian city called Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea
WIRED: Oh, I’m from the Ukraine. Have you ever been there? Goostman: ukraine? I’ve never there. But I do suspect that these crappy robots from the Great Robots Cabal will try to defeat this nice place too.
I think in is entirely in the realm of possibility that if they were truly very effective in their goals we would see a tilt toward one party rule.
I hate to break this to you pal, but we already have one party rule. You might think that distractions like gay marriage or healthcare or whatever else are the issues, but you're wrong. Those aren't the reasons that the people of Congress are there, those are the distractions to try and keep you divided from whoever you don't agree with on that issue.
The goal of Congress is to stay in power, regardless of which side they sit on. They're all there to help each other. The point of the PAC is to change that. If you don't agree with Mayday PAC, try WOLF-PAC.
The name of the PAC is May Day, which is a pro union and pro leftist holiday. It is a prominent holiday in many socialist countries. I am not sure why that is a good pick for a supposed non-partisan PAC with a mission to end PAC money.
Really? You're not sure? You don't understand that mayday is an international distress call? The registered name of the organization is "Mayday PAC", not "May Day PAC". In some places it is stylized as "MAYDAY PAC". There is never a space after "May" as you wrote.
The Anti-Corruption Act would go a long way towards helping. Lobbying is the major way that corporations influence legislation, and it needs to be completely stopped. It needs to be criminalized.
they must include implementing term limits on congress
I completely agree, that is long overdue. We have people currently in Congress who have been there for 40 or 50 years and have become millionaires because of it. That is not public service, that is a career. That needs to end also, there needs to be a strict limit of years of service covering both branches of Congress. If you've served 20 years in Congress, you are not eligible to get elected again. All the way back to the beginning, George Washington refused to run for a third term. A few others ran, but no one succeeded until FDR. After his death, the 22nd Amendment made the 2 term limit permanent instead of tradition. Term limits for Congress are long, long overdue.
The difficult thing about implementing any of this, whether it is banning lobbying or establishing term limits or banning corporate donations or whatever needs to happen in order to help, is that we are relying on Congress to limit themselves. Since the obvious goal for many of them is to remain in power, that's clearly an uphill battle.
I'm not waiting for a perfect solution. The Mayday PAC is a good start and I want to (and have) shown support. If it fails, and someone else decides to step up and take the leadership role, I'll support them too. If you're going to sit there and wait for a perfect solution then, well, you'll die before that happens. Many, many people want to see change, what we need is a good leader.
That's what I noticed about the list of things they bought at the end of the article. They're getting M-14 rifles for $120 each,.45 pistols for $58.71, M-16s for $120, etc. Hell, if I was getting discounts like that I might buy an armored vehicle also.
That being said, a sheriff saying that America is a war zone when it is clearly not and using that as an excuse is pretty damn worrying. If you want better equipment, fine, say that. But when I walk outside my house, a war zone is not what I see. Sort of makes you wonder that, if America is a war zone, who are the police fighting against?
They don't do that way, that is leading the witness. They include the person they've identified along with other people in a mug shot lineup and ask the witness to pick the person they saw. If the witness picks the same person that the police have already identified, then that is 2 pieces of evidence that they know who did it.
Yes, I'm one of them. I'm not saying the police don't arrest users, I'm saying that their sting operations are not targeted at someone buying a dime bag of weed. They want the guys selling pounds of it. I would wager that the vast majority of drug arrests are people who were investigated for another crime and found to have drugs. Those people, whether or not they were on drugs at the time, were creating a public problem that the police responded to (in our case, we managed to fill the hallway of the dorm with smoke - we created a problem). There's no one staking out my house just waiting for me to go buy a bag, and if I'm running around my house singing after eating MDMA no one is calling the cops. The war on drugs is a terrible policy, but that doesn't mean the police are going out with the intention of busting small-time users.
Yeah I don't know if that would hold up. It sounds like they are conflating the hardware with the software. And I doubt it would apply to someone who was given a used iPhone but did not purchase it themselves, they would never see the agreement.
Well, considering that that website has a navigation link to "Sample Page", with all of the glory of a default Wordpress install, and links to "Disclosure", "Privacy Policy", and "Terms" that have no content on the page, I'm going to suggest that you probably don't want to download their software or give them your money. If you want to replace the default OS of an Android device I would suggest you look here instead of a shady clickbaiting site. That's not exactly the best example to prove a point.
For the most part, the police aren't all that interested in arresting drug users (assuming their drug use is not creating a public problem). They're more interested in the distributors.
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I haven't seen anyone assert that Google is providing nothing of value. The argument that I see brewing is that Google is questioning the value provided by independent music.
This is the same distribution and revenue channel which pours advertising money into Google's account, right? And which only works when people go there to watch videos, correct?
This is all business man, these artists get free bandwidth from Youtube and possibly the option to make a profit of ad revenues, all for nothing.
You make it sound like Google gets nothing. Google gets the rest of the ad revenue from people going to Youtube and watching those videos. Now Google wants a bigger piece of the pie, they want to move people to their music streaming service (which I never even knew existed).
I don't need to run it by you or other slashtards first to get your blessing.
Well, you kind of do though. Right now there are eight +5 comments, and yours is not one of them. If you don't get the community's blessing then he never even sees your question.
I don't care about your question though, I'm just calling you out on your "I'm not even trolling" BS when you are obviously trolling.
I am legitimately interested in how much he considers this time to be a waste
That is a different question than this:
Do you regret wasting your life on pointless video games?
One of those is trolling, one of them is not.
If you weren't trolling you wouldn't have asserted that he was wasting his life, and you wouldn't have called video games pointless. Video games most certainly have a point, as much as any entertainment product. As for wasting his life, he owns a restaurant chain and is slinging hot sauce. What are you doing with your life, other than trolling?
He's already announced his resignation as majority leader effective at the end of July, I'm not sure if that is an indication that he plans to go away or launch a campaign.
That's the previous Congress, the 112th. They were the least productive (in terms of the number of bills passed) in the 60 years that we have been keeping track of that. The 113th Congress has another 7 months or so remaining, but they aren't exactly looking a whole lot better.
Why should Duke or Kucinich not be allowed to be on the ballet?
I'm not convinced that a corporation giving a politician a bucket of money in exchange for their vote really qualifies as petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. Something tells me that is not what the founding fathers meant, it is not in the spirit of the constitution.
Don't worry, there are 2 ways to get a constitutional amendment. One way is through Congress. The other way is through an article V convention of the states. There's a very specific reason why the framers of the constitution allowed a way to make new amendments without going through Congress.
According to Wired, it sort of depends on which questions you decide to ask.
WIRED: Where are you from?
Goostman: A big Ukrainian city called Odessa on the shores of the Black Sea
WIRED: Oh, I’m from the Ukraine. Have you ever been there?
Goostman: ukraine? I’ve never there. But I do suspect that these crappy robots from the Great Robots Cabal will try to defeat this nice place too.
I think in is entirely in the realm of possibility that if they were truly very effective in their goals we would see a tilt toward one party rule.
I hate to break this to you pal, but we already have one party rule. You might think that distractions like gay marriage or healthcare or whatever else are the issues, but you're wrong. Those aren't the reasons that the people of Congress are there, those are the distractions to try and keep you divided from whoever you don't agree with on that issue.
The goal of Congress is to stay in power, regardless of which side they sit on. They're all there to help each other. The point of the PAC is to change that. If you don't agree with Mayday PAC, try WOLF-PAC.
The name of the PAC is May Day, which is a pro union and pro leftist holiday. It is a prominent holiday in many socialist countries. I am not sure why that is a good pick for a supposed non-partisan PAC with a mission to end PAC money.
Really? You're not sure? You don't understand that mayday is an international distress call? The registered name of the organization is "Mayday PAC", not "May Day PAC". In some places it is stylized as "MAYDAY PAC". There is never a space after "May" as you wrote.
The Anti-Corruption Act would go a long way towards helping. Lobbying is the major way that corporations influence legislation, and it needs to be completely stopped. It needs to be criminalized.
they must include implementing term limits on congress
I completely agree, that is long overdue. We have people currently in Congress who have been there for 40 or 50 years and have become millionaires because of it. That is not public service, that is a career. That needs to end also, there needs to be a strict limit of years of service covering both branches of Congress. If you've served 20 years in Congress, you are not eligible to get elected again. All the way back to the beginning, George Washington refused to run for a third term. A few others ran, but no one succeeded until FDR. After his death, the 22nd Amendment made the 2 term limit permanent instead of tradition. Term limits for Congress are long, long overdue.
The difficult thing about implementing any of this, whether it is banning lobbying or establishing term limits or banning corporate donations or whatever needs to happen in order to help, is that we are relying on Congress to limit themselves. Since the obvious goal for many of them is to remain in power, that's clearly an uphill battle.
I'm not waiting for a perfect solution. The Mayday PAC is a good start and I want to (and have) shown support. If it fails, and someone else decides to step up and take the leadership role, I'll support them too. If you're going to sit there and wait for a perfect solution then, well, you'll die before that happens. Many, many people want to see change, what we need is a good leader.
might as well snap them up if the price is good.
That's what I noticed about the list of things they bought at the end of the article. They're getting M-14 rifles for $120 each, .45 pistols for $58.71, M-16s for $120, etc. Hell, if I was getting discounts like that I might buy an armored vehicle also.
That being said, a sheriff saying that America is a war zone when it is clearly not and using that as an excuse is pretty damn worrying. If you want better equipment, fine, say that. But when I walk outside my house, a war zone is not what I see. Sort of makes you wonder that, if America is a war zone, who are the police fighting against?
They don't do that way, that is leading the witness. They include the person they've identified along with other people in a mug shot lineup and ask the witness to pick the person they saw. If the witness picks the same person that the police have already identified, then that is 2 pieces of evidence that they know who did it.
I see some possibilities here:
1. He did not actually release everything he had.
2. Why would Russia release this information? What do they have to gain from saying this?
I see 1 possibility and 2 questions.
Besides, if money is speech then that throws into question some of our other laws.
I don't see it listed on the Play app on my phone either now, looks like it has been removed for whatever reason.
Yes, they are. Or Google retroactively made them.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the correct answer is that the app was simply removed from the store.
Yes, I'm one of them. I'm not saying the police don't arrest users, I'm saying that their sting operations are not targeted at someone buying a dime bag of weed. They want the guys selling pounds of it. I would wager that the vast majority of drug arrests are people who were investigated for another crime and found to have drugs. Those people, whether or not they were on drugs at the time, were creating a public problem that the police responded to (in our case, we managed to fill the hallway of the dorm with smoke - we created a problem). There's no one staking out my house just waiting for me to go buy a bag, and if I'm running around my house singing after eating MDMA no one is calling the cops. The war on drugs is a terrible policy, but that doesn't mean the police are going out with the intention of busting small-time users.
Yeah I don't know if that would hold up. It sounds like they are conflating the hardware with the software. And I doubt it would apply to someone who was given a used iPhone but did not purchase it themselves, they would never see the agreement.
Well, considering that that website has a navigation link to "Sample Page", with all of the glory of a default Wordpress install, and links to "Disclosure", "Privacy Policy", and "Terms" that have no content on the page, I'm going to suggest that you probably don't want to download their software or give them your money. If you want to replace the default OS of an Android device I would suggest you look here instead of a shady clickbaiting site. That's not exactly the best example to prove a point.
But they are still slowly messing up their brains.
That's no different than aging. At least drugs make you feel good.
For the most part, the police aren't all that interested in arresting drug users (assuming their drug use is not creating a public problem). They're more interested in the distributors.