Selective enforcement is how you end up with a lot of minorities in jail for certain crimes that are committed equally by all ethnic groups. The People either want a law or they don't, if the law is oppressive it needs to be eliminated not ignored at the whims of individuals within the Executive branch. Someone can always unignore it later, which is precisely what happened with Sessions.
How about "an EMP is coming in 10 minutes due to { solar flare | foreign attack | we done f'd up } unplug all electronics / disconnect your house mains power immediately."
I have Android 8.0. Every time I get a new alert I can see the old ones... so watch the weather and when it looks like a stormpocalypse is about to happen somewhere, go there, get the alert, and the alert history is revealed.
Wrong place to look, an AG choosing not to enforce certain laws he disagrees with is not the way to get those laws changed. Enforcing them vigorously is a good way to get things changed, because it makes the problem with those laws obvious.
What the President could do (and should do if he really supports medical marijuana) is direct the FDA to re-schedule it; this would pretty much solve the problem overnight. This goes for any President, whether it be Obama or Trump.
But really the law is ultimately in the hands of the Legislative branch.
I've visited two of them. I work with people from two of them. I've lived with someone who immigrated from one of them. And I've read / watched local news from all of those cultures. They do not suffer fools gladly.
There's statistics, and actually "boots on the ground" observation that can't be captured by statistics. The cost of living is very low, you can get locally grown food at markets at prices unheard of in the US. Bottled beer at a bar for $1. Rents are low, houses are cheap while still being fairly sturdy (often made of concrete). The poverty rate is high because a lot of people work under the table to avoid taxes while collecting benefits (none of that locally bought food is in anything other than cash). There's less beggars in San Juan than there are in virtually any US city of comparable size. Heck I was there in February, after the devastation of the hurricane and still the most aggressive panhandler was some dumbass mainland hippie who couldn't speak a word of Spanish hanging out in the train station (he would curse anyone out who gave him less than a dollar - total douche).
As for fleeing to the mainland, I agree that is due to lack of jobs. Can't point to one specific cause as to that lack of jobs, could be geography, politics, or the language barrier. Not much of that is due to its territory status.
The standard of living in Puerto Rico is actually not that bad (well, until the hurricane, but it's coming back). The high crime is entirely drug related gangs (yay war on drugs). Most everyone has a car, the capital has public transit no worse than most US cities of that size, there's suburbs, etc.
The mountain regions are poor, but taking that as representative is that's like considering West Virginia hillbillies as reflective of the DC Metro Area.
And yes, Ponce is Puerto Rico's Detroit. Don't ever go there.
Yes, because they have politeness built into their culture, it is always to reasonable limits. They've had thousands of years to refine it. There are subtle queues to turn someone down that people will instantly pick up on and not push against before anything gets to rude.
Conversely our culture is bipolar with it, and right now the rubber band is stretched all the way towards the PC side, where constructive criticism is equated to personal attack. Things will either snap in this position (grind to a halt) or bounce to the other extreme (descend into chaos as people decide being an asshole and owning it is easier than navigating the PC minefield).
The policies I have will pay out to me if I am severely crippled, up to 200% (Something like 50% per severed/paralyzed/otherwise unusable limb/eye/a few other things). The fact that a beneficiary will get 100% in the event of my untimely demise is a side benefit.
While losing a literal arm or leg would suck, a ton of tax-free cash will make it suck less.
It does sometimes take extra effort, and it absolutely takes time away from your work. My personality tends to be very low-conflict/people pleasing. Problem is, if someone just isn't getting it, or trying exceptionally hard to convince you that a bad idea is a good one, trying to fight that with low-conflict tactics is draining and time consuming. Once a few minutes of being nice fails, switching to a straight up, "your idea is shit, please go away now" is completely rude, but the result is the person will go away and you can go back to what you were doing before instead of wasting time talking to a wall.
I would say this trend is troubling for the human race, but fortunately Asian cultures are immune to this type of bullshit. In 100 years technological advancement will come from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Russia while western society has ground to a complete halt (or descended into chaos).
Ditches wouldn't work because of all the underground infrastructure. However, leaving the ground level to cars and building a network of elevated walkways into 2nd floor storefronts would work. Moving the cars up isn't ideal because then the pedestrians no longer have natural light, not to mention it's more expensive to put the heavier thing on a level above the lighter thing.
Each city block would have an elevator. To prevent the obvious problems with that, there should also be a restroom next to said elevator. The ground floor storefronts would still exist / be accessible by going downstairs. Bicycles can use the old sidewalks as bike lanes.
The vaccine against totalitarian dictators is private gun ownership. Unfortunately 1.25 of our 2 major political parties are anti-vaxxers in this regard...
In the case of the most recent example of the US Electoral College, the winner of the popular vote did not win more than half the votes cast. If everyone were forced to vote, this effect would simply have been enhanced (as the third parties would serve as the spite vote / "none of the above").
I understand Wikipedia's notability guideline. What I was stating was that I disagree with it and wish for a competitor that is making more of an effort to be a complete knowledge repository (at least as far as buildings/infrastructure and companies are concerned - there's no shortage of various fandom wikis for works of fiction, so Wikipedia's deletions aren't causing a gap of coverage there).
Fortunately this strict interpretation seems to only affect the English Wikipedia. I can get those exact details on so-called "non-notable" topics in other languages (though obviously this is usually only useful for places in countries where that language is spoken).
If it's already properly cited, how is it not verifiable? Anyone caring to check is free to hunt down the same ancient microfilm-only news articles and government documents. Meanwhile I'm just curious as to when a restaurant edition was added to $random_office_building, but not curious enough to hunt down the permits filed for the modifications or the article in the neighborhood-level newspaper from the 1980s. Someone else did, put the info up, and poof, whole building deleted, "not notable" (I only found it again through browser history).
Or, are you saying this obligatory XKCD is the "right way" for things to get in to wikipedia...
"Not notable" is the most nonsensical thing for what was once dubbed "the encyclopedia of everything". If it exists (or ever has existed), it is notable. Articles on open source software products and the history of ordinary buildings disappear. Which is annoying, because I can easily find information about the history of the Plaza hotel or Empire State building in NYC in dozens of places, but the permitting process/ordinances/renovation history of a random hotel by the airport or random nameless office building is buried in microfilm and FOIL requests. Someone does the work to research all that, put an article online, and within a few weeks "not notable" despite being properly cited and following all the rules.
Is there a Wikipedia competitor that has all the deleted stuff?
The divergence from Libertarianism is when they prevented reverse-engineering of the DRM. In a truly free market, John Deere is free to try and lock in as much as possible, and third parties are free to try and break that lock and undercut them.
And how did tractors get this special right, I'm sure game console manufacturers would love to be able to legally lock out the third party controller market...
SJWs don't actually care and will constantly challenge until they find something about you in violation of their moral code. They will call holding a door open for any woman sexist, and not holding the door for a black person racist. Thus creating a checkmate situation when a black woman is following you through a door.
There is no winning, so may as well have fun triggering them repeatedly.
A fun way to shut down an annoying SJW is to assert the thing they're claiming you're doing, even if untrue. They don't know how to deal with it. They already know that calling someone a racist, sexist, bigot, etc doesn't have any effect if the person they're trying to insult with it takes pride in being those things. An SJW is a bully wrapped in a thin veil of morality, trying to hurl insults similar to calling a straight person gay on the schoolyard, just to incite a reaction that will stroke their ego/superiority complex.
Yup the Tesla equivalent would be finding out that the were secretly selling ICE cars, and plugging in the charger signalled the nearest Tesla employee to sneak up to the cars and refill a hidden gas tank. And that superchargers are simply gas pumps disguised as power.
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Selective enforcement is how you end up with a lot of minorities in jail for certain crimes that are committed equally by all ethnic groups. The People either want a law or they don't, if the law is oppressive it needs to be eliminated not ignored at the whims of individuals within the Executive branch. Someone can always unignore it later, which is precisely what happened with Sessions.
How about "an EMP is coming in 10 minutes due to { solar flare | foreign attack | we done f'd up } unplug all electronics / disconnect your house mains power immediately."
I have Android 8.0. Every time I get a new alert I can see the old ones... so watch the weather and when it looks like a stormpocalypse is about to happen somewhere, go there, get the alert, and the alert history is revealed.
Wrong place to look, an AG choosing not to enforce certain laws he disagrees with is not the way to get those laws changed. Enforcing them vigorously is a good way to get things changed, because it makes the problem with those laws obvious.
What the President could do (and should do if he really supports medical marijuana) is direct the FDA to re-schedule it; this would pretty much solve the problem overnight. This goes for any President, whether it be Obama or Trump.
But really the law is ultimately in the hands of the Legislative branch.
I'm sure someone, somewhere slipped on a spilled beer at a frat party and fell down the stairs landing at just the wrong angle...
I've visited two of them.
I work with people from two of them.
I've lived with someone who immigrated from one of them.
And I've read / watched local news from all of those cultures. They do not suffer fools gladly.
There's statistics, and actually "boots on the ground" observation that can't be captured by statistics. The cost of living is very low, you can get locally grown food at markets at prices unheard of in the US. Bottled beer at a bar for $1. Rents are low, houses are cheap while still being fairly sturdy (often made of concrete). The poverty rate is high because a lot of people work under the table to avoid taxes while collecting benefits (none of that locally bought food is in anything other than cash). There's less beggars in San Juan than there are in virtually any US city of comparable size. Heck I was there in February, after the devastation of the hurricane and still the most aggressive panhandler was some dumbass mainland hippie who couldn't speak a word of Spanish hanging out in the train station (he would curse anyone out who gave him less than a dollar - total douche).
As for fleeing to the mainland, I agree that is due to lack of jobs. Can't point to one specific cause as to that lack of jobs, could be geography, politics, or the language barrier. Not much of that is due to its territory status.
The standard of living in Puerto Rico is actually not that bad (well, until the hurricane, but it's coming back). The high crime is entirely drug related gangs (yay war on drugs). Most everyone has a car, the capital has public transit no worse than most US cities of that size, there's suburbs, etc.
The mountain regions are poor, but taking that as representative is that's like considering West Virginia hillbillies as reflective of the DC Metro Area.
And yes, Ponce is Puerto Rico's Detroit. Don't ever go there.
Yes, because they have politeness built into their culture, it is always to reasonable limits. They've had thousands of years to refine it. There are subtle queues to turn someone down that people will instantly pick up on and not push against before anything gets to rude.
Conversely our culture is bipolar with it, and right now the rubber band is stretched all the way towards the PC side, where constructive criticism is equated to personal attack. Things will either snap in this position (grind to a halt) or bounce to the other extreme (descend into chaos as people decide being an asshole and owning it is easier than navigating the PC minefield).
The policies I have will pay out to me if I am severely crippled, up to 200% (Something like 50% per severed/paralyzed/otherwise unusable limb/eye/a few other things). The fact that a beneficiary will get 100% in the event of my untimely demise is a side benefit.
While losing a literal arm or leg would suck, a ton of tax-free cash will make it suck less.
It does sometimes take extra effort, and it absolutely takes time away from your work. My personality tends to be very low-conflict/people pleasing. Problem is, if someone just isn't getting it, or trying exceptionally hard to convince you that a bad idea is a good one, trying to fight that with low-conflict tactics is draining and time consuming. Once a few minutes of being nice fails, switching to a straight up, "your idea is shit, please go away now" is completely rude, but the result is the person will go away and you can go back to what you were doing before instead of wasting time talking to a wall.
I would say this trend is troubling for the human race, but fortunately Asian cultures are immune to this type of bullshit. In 100 years technological advancement will come from China, Japan, Korea, India, and Russia while western society has ground to a complete halt (or descended into chaos).
Ditches wouldn't work because of all the underground infrastructure. However, leaving the ground level to cars and building a network of elevated walkways into 2nd floor storefronts would work. Moving the cars up isn't ideal because then the pedestrians no longer have natural light, not to mention it's more expensive to put the heavier thing on a level above the lighter thing.
Each city block would have an elevator. To prevent the obvious problems with that, there should also be a restroom next to said elevator.
The ground floor storefronts would still exist / be accessible by going downstairs. Bicycles can use the old sidewalks as bike lanes.
A modification to the robots.txt convention, if google finds an approval in there, proceed as normal.
The vaccine against totalitarian dictators is private gun ownership. Unfortunately 1.25 of our 2 major political parties are anti-vaxxers in this regard...
In the case of the most recent example of the US Electoral College, the winner of the popular vote did not win more than half the votes cast. If everyone were forced to vote, this effect would simply have been enhanced (as the third parties would serve as the spite vote / "none of the above").
I understand Wikipedia's notability guideline. What I was stating was that I disagree with it and wish for a competitor that is making more of an effort to be a complete knowledge repository (at least as far as buildings/infrastructure and companies are concerned - there's no shortage of various fandom wikis for works of fiction, so Wikipedia's deletions aren't causing a gap of coverage there).
Fortunately this strict interpretation seems to only affect the English Wikipedia. I can get those exact details on so-called "non-notable" topics in other languages (though obviously this is usually only useful for places in countries where that language is spoken).
If it's already properly cited, how is it not verifiable? Anyone caring to check is free to hunt down the same ancient microfilm-only news articles and government documents. Meanwhile I'm just curious as to when a restaurant edition was added to $random_office_building, but not curious enough to hunt down the permits filed for the modifications or the article in the neighborhood-level newspaper from the 1980s. Someone else did, put the info up, and poof, whole building deleted, "not notable" (I only found it again through browser history).
Or, are you saying this obligatory XKCD is the "right way" for things to get in to wikipedia...
Russia would love the opportunity.
After Brexit, UK might do it as a middle finger.
"Not notable" is the most nonsensical thing for what was once dubbed "the encyclopedia of everything". If it exists (or ever has existed), it is notable. Articles on open source software products and the history of ordinary buildings disappear. Which is annoying, because I can easily find information about the history of the Plaza hotel or Empire State building in NYC in dozens of places, but the permitting process/ordinances/renovation history of a random hotel by the airport or random nameless office building is buried in microfilm and FOIL requests. Someone does the work to research all that, put an article online, and within a few weeks "not notable" despite being properly cited and following all the rules.
Is there a Wikipedia competitor that has all the deleted stuff?
The divergence from Libertarianism is when they prevented reverse-engineering of the DRM. In a truly free market, John Deere is free to try and lock in as much as possible, and third parties are free to try and break that lock and undercut them.
And how did tractors get this special right, I'm sure game console manufacturers would love to be able to legally lock out the third party controller market...
Locking a credit score doesn't prevent a breach but it does limit the useful things that can be done with the data.
SJWs don't actually care and will constantly challenge until they find something about you in violation of their moral code. They will call holding a door open for any woman sexist, and not holding the door for a black person racist. Thus creating a checkmate situation when a black woman is following you through a door.
There is no winning, so may as well have fun triggering them repeatedly.
A fun way to shut down an annoying SJW is to assert the thing they're claiming you're doing, even if untrue. They don't know how to deal with it. They already know that calling someone a racist, sexist, bigot, etc doesn't have any effect if the person they're trying to insult with it takes pride in being those things. An SJW is a bully wrapped in a thin veil of morality, trying to hurl insults similar to calling a straight person gay on the schoolyard, just to incite a reaction that will stroke their ego/superiority complex.
Yup the Tesla equivalent would be finding out that the were secretly selling ICE cars, and plugging in the charger signalled the nearest Tesla employee to sneak up to the cars and refill a hidden gas tank. And that superchargers are simply gas pumps disguised as power.