But, like, isn't the M in MCU for "Marvel," and surely that's pretty important? I don't know anything about either marvel, I only just learned in this thread that Shazam was not the name of the character who utters the phrase (I can take the heat for not being a comic book guy).
IDK, man, Daredevil has been pretty good, and season 3 here the best of the lot. I haven't seen it, but a lot of people, including, apparently, eminem (whose opinion counts more than ours because he's famous), say that the Punisher was mighty good.
Except that my 10 year old macbook pro 13" still renders webstuff just fine.
Even with an ssd upgrade, though, it's still not quite as speedy as my '12 rmbp 13. But that one, at 7 years old, is still as speedy for nearly all user interface functions as my partner's '17 15".
That one is by far the most amazing piece of comouter hardware i have ever owned.
This is the real point. Folks like us (well me, anyway, i don't know about all you zombies) are just a resource for which governments and big corporations are competing.
I hope you're right. But there have always been extreme libertarians among the nerdy. And I can sympathize. I am a high achiever, I work hard, and sometimes the success of group projects are due mainly to my own efforts with some half-asser hangers-on getting way more credit than they are due for my effort. If that were the extent of my experience and I were merely above average intelligence, it would be easy to conclude we should do everything to build a pure meritocracy and let the chips fall where they may, too bad you bought the ding dongs instead of the kale. But I'm well above average smart, perceptive, have a heart and a conscience, and have travelled the world and the hollers and I know that not only do a majority of the poor--a huge majority globally--get and stay that way through circumstances beyond their control (more often than not at the hands of exploitative people(s)), but that their staying poor makes my life worse. Not just in any cosmic sense, but it actually costs society more dollars to enforce the laws/support the institutions that leave the poor where they are, than it would be to give them a house, a good supply of food, healthcare, and weed, and a playstation.
As a leftist, i can tell you what i want: poor people to have as much access to and education about healthy choices--in food, finance, and their future--as rich people. Merry Christmas.
Also, don't internet business already, actually pay for connectivity? Like, million dollar contracts to backbone isps, which would include att and verizon? And don't subscribers pay?
How do they get away with this idiocy?
Nevermind the subsidies already mentioned.
I have no sympathy for google or even Netflix, but I do have sympathy for myself, because it is me that will be paying that tax.
Especially if you think it was good change, the point is, it took government subsidies to make the change happen, the market couldn't do it on its own.
You do know that gov't subsidies got internal combustion going back in the 1910's right? When ev trollies, with low operating costs and long lifespans, were supplanted with busses?
Clearly it made little sense to you. Let me ask it this way: did the children (as adults) or their parents (when they were still children) take any positive steps to assert Chinese citizenship? For example, by applying for the Chinese version of a social securty card, or by registering the birth, or any other means?
It's irrelevant whether or how a Chinese official views them, my moral indignation, and any justification for the U.S. state department to act, turns on whether the children or parents made a move toward citizenship
In other words, these folks and the United States itself is suffering from violated rights if these children/their parents never did anything to indicate they considered themselves to be Chinese nationals. The article you linked indicated that the parents at least held dual-citizenship, and maybe also the kids. If under Chinese law a child born of a citizen is also a citizen, and the parents took no act to renounce their Chinese citizenship, then those kids are in fact Chinese citizens in my view (and probably the view of most international tribunals). Now, China might be violating their human rights by holding them without just cause, but that's another matter. If they are Chinese citizens, they are subject under any analysis to Chinese law.
While what you say is generally true, trump is different. Not only did he go to great pains to hold himself out as different, he made different kinds of promises. Which was refreshing in a way. But many of us recognized his promises, while different, were still built on the same kind of bs as the worst politicians.
Utility CEO's are quite effective at padding their parachutes (see Duke energy), but at least there are some public interest mandates and oversight. As a result, the grid works pretty close to perfect, although rates are probably too high.
You have forgotten that the rich are that way because they are smarter than you and/or 'work' harder, and are therefore better stewards of money than you are, and we should therefore give them more.
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Yes. Before video games, noone ever commited stupid and/or violent crime.
According to those of your sources which aren't opinion pieces, the problem was poor execution, not bad policy.
But, like, isn't the M in MCU for "Marvel," and surely that's pretty important? I don't know anything about either marvel, I only just learned in this thread that Shazam was not the name of the character who utters the phrase (I can take the heat for not being a comic book guy).
IDK, man, Daredevil has been pretty good, and season 3 here the best of the lot. I haven't seen it, but a lot of people, including, apparently, eminem (whose opinion counts more than ours because he's famous), say that the Punisher was mighty good.
Except that my 10 year old macbook pro 13" still renders webstuff just fine.
Even with an ssd upgrade, though, it's still not quite as speedy as my '12 rmbp 13. But that one, at 7 years old, is still as speedy for nearly all user interface functions as my partner's '17 15".
That one is by far the most amazing piece of comouter hardware i have ever owned.
What do you think property is?
Maybe. But shouldn't a business be able to make that decision for itself?
This is the real point. Folks like us (well me, anyway, i don't know about all you zombies) are just a resource for which governments and big corporations are competing.
I hope you're right. But there have always been extreme libertarians among the nerdy. And I can sympathize. I am a high achiever, I work hard, and sometimes the success of group projects are due mainly to my own efforts with some half-asser hangers-on getting way more credit than they are due for my effort. If that were the extent of my experience and I were merely above average intelligence, it would be easy to conclude we should do everything to build a pure meritocracy and let the chips fall where they may, too bad you bought the ding dongs instead of the kale. But I'm well above average smart, perceptive, have a heart and a conscience, and have travelled the world and the hollers and I know that not only do a majority of the poor--a huge majority globally--get and stay that way through circumstances beyond their control (more often than not at the hands of exploitative people(s)), but that their staying poor makes my life worse. Not just in any cosmic sense, but it actually costs society more dollars to enforce the laws/support the institutions that leave the poor where they are, than it would be to give them a house, a good supply of food, healthcare, and weed, and a playstation.
As a leftist, i can tell you what i want: poor people to have as much access to and education about healthy choices--in food, finance, and their future--as rich people. Merry Christmas.
That's a long title for a book. Who is the author?
We can never know for sure in this timeline, but your assertion fails on plausibility grounds.
Apparently predictive programming is real, and the onion was at the forefront.
Also, don't internet business already, actually pay for connectivity? Like, million dollar contracts to backbone isps, which would include att and verizon? And don't subscribers pay?
How do they get away with this idiocy?
Nevermind the subsidies already mentioned.
I have no sympathy for google or even Netflix, but I do have sympathy for myself, because it is me that will be paying that tax.
Vacuum...sucks.
Very clever.
Especially if you think it was good change, the point is, it took government subsidies to make the change happen, the market couldn't do it on its own.
You do know that gov't subsidies got internal combustion going back in the 1910's right? When ev trollies, with low operating costs and long lifespans, were supplanted with busses?
Why should the U.S. state department care what a chinese official thinks when deciding whether to try to get these people out?
Clearly it made little sense to you. Let me ask it this way: did the children (as adults) or their parents (when they were still children) take any positive steps to assert Chinese citizenship? For example, by applying for the Chinese version of a social securty card, or by registering the birth, or any other means?
It's irrelevant whether or how a Chinese official views them, my moral indignation, and any justification for the U.S. state department to act, turns on whether the children or parents made a move toward citizenship
In other words, these folks and the United States itself is suffering from violated rights if these children/their parents never did anything to indicate they considered themselves to be Chinese nationals. The article you linked indicated that the parents at least held dual-citizenship, and maybe also the kids. If under Chinese law a child born of a citizen is also a citizen, and the parents took no act to renounce their Chinese citizenship, then those kids are in fact Chinese citizens in my view (and probably the view of most international tribunals). Now, China might be violating their human rights by holding them without just cause, but that's another matter. If they are Chinese citizens, they are subject under any analysis to Chinese law.
I would like to know more information. Primarily is it true that the detainees are Chinese citizens by choice (either their own or their parents).
While technically true, gym at least paid back the bailout with interest.
While what you say is generally true, trump is different. Not only did he go to great pains to hold himself out as different, he made different kinds of promises. Which was refreshing in a way. But many of us recognized his promises, while different, were still built on the same kind of bs as the worst politicians.
Apple is preparing us for a virtual keyboard future. With sufficiently refined haptics, it could actually be pretty cool.
Utility CEO's are quite effective at padding their parachutes (see Duke energy), but at least there are some public interest mandates and oversight. As a result, the grid works pretty close to perfect, although rates are probably too high.
You have forgotten that the rich are that way because they are smarter than you and/or 'work' harder, and are therefore better stewards of money than you are, and we should therefore give them more.