Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. If a politician is reelected we have no right to complain. Take Bush for example not only did he violate civil rights and start two wars but many other things and yet knowing, or perhaps not but that is your own damn fault, exactly what we would get he was still reelected. Tell me how that is his fault.
That might have the side affect of getting people to vote for the worst candidate since their chance of affecting the outcome is slim compared to what they would gain by voting for the loser. However everyone would face that and in the end more people would vote for candidates they thought would loose.
the sinners are not the politicians but the people who vote for them. Until we get people to think about the issues or just remove themselves from the process we will continue to get crap politicians. Blaming anyone else, at least here in the U.S., is taking the easy way out and will not fix anything. Although I would like to know what form of government you suggest.
Because CDs wear out faster than cartridges. Since cartridges don't scratch up as easily weather you want to play the game a hundred times or a thousand times you pay the same amount. While with CDs when the CD gets so scratched up you can't use it any more you either deal with not playing the game any more or you go and buy another copy. With CDs companies can charge less per disc and sell to more people but if you really love the game you end up paying a little more to play a little longer.
Why can't it be that Obama was showing due respect to a fellow world leader. It's not like he was looking the other way while companies ship billions of dollars to a country with a horrible human rights record and labor standards. Or sells us oil to finance terrorist organizations. But yeah you are right the whole bowing thing that is the real problem we can't be seen to be respecting them while we do it in private by selling our souls for $1 a dozen tube socks or a cheap fill up.
They sure are similar to humans from the article. "They create a habitat with lots of water like a moat around their lodges so they can swim and *drive*, and keep one step ahead of predators such as coyotes and bears."
Maybe they already know the material. Some classes you have to take regardless of test scores. I had to take two semesters of intro econ at my school, boring as a rock not to mention the teacher had all the teaching charm of a econ teacher. I could reason this stuff in my sleep, almost did went to class 5 times all semester including three tests, I was late to the final (slept in) almost took a nap so I was at least somewhat awake but one of the proctors would have woken me in the middle of it I'm sure but still aced the class. Even though I knew the prof. personally he never knew I wasn't in class. Sad thing is I'm sure some people still failed the class.
so of course there is no way that this one can be real as well. mod me flame bait but this tarnishing of someones reputation, while in one case no evidence has been forth coming YET the other there is clear evidence he is not the best guy around, lets at least wait until we see the evidence that this guy CLAIMS to have. If it is complete crap then torch this AG up. If it is real deal with it. Treating this AG guilty and ignoring every thing he has to say will only play into his "ooh its a conspiracy they are all out to flame my reputation so I can't hurt 'them.'"
how about this, slow down. If you are going fast enough that 'propagation' times affect your decisions you don't need more accurate clocks but therapy for OCD.
what they really want is to be able to charge video moms a price they can afford so that they use their product while at the same time can charge more to someone who is using it commercially and making money from it. It would be like, assuming that like digital products they never wear down only become obsolete and are very similar, vans and buses were the exact same thing. Except the manufacturer wanted to provide the bus to soccer mom for a price she could afford and charge more to greyhound since they will be making money from it but you could always charge both the same and one person would be ripped off while the other got an amazing deal. It isn't a perfect analogy but when the products are similar enough that either a commercial group or individual could use it and one clearly gets more use from the same product should they both be charged the same?
wait so if someone else makes something that is instrumental to my making money that I could not have done other wise or at least would had to have paid for or even had to develop with great effort myself they deserve money from me? what communist country are you living in?
what are unions, AIPAC, Council for the National Interest, New Policy,... many citizens groups have lobbies for this exact reason and we need more of them.
In further other news only sitting head of state charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court gets reelected which seems to concern no one. But this whole IP thing is more important anyways. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/04/201042612282143933.html
I fully agree with that. That is why I said that any limits on them is short sighted. Only when the public understand their duty as citizens will the corrupting lobbyists loose influence. The positive will gain even more influence since they represent their groups.
Lobbyists have no power when the electorate is well informed and active. WE are failing and causing these problems by allowing these lobbyists to have influence. The only way a lobbyist can have influence is if the gain from more money to a campaign offsets the number of people who leave because a politician was bought off and voted against his constituents interest. Please keep money in government especially when it helps the candidates I like. If a politician votes against my interests I refuse to vote for him. No amount of fancy campaign ads will ever change that. However there are more people who will vote for a candidate just because of a fancy and expensive ad. These people offset me and many other voters who vote not for nicest campaign ad but voting record and their ability to represent us. This is the fundamental problem with our country. Believing anything else is delusional and seeking a simple short term solution, the voters are the problem, until they take their civic duty seriously by ignoring nice haircuts and expensive ads and voting for actual substance we will not have a government that represents us.
Shocking, shocking I say that when I use p2p to upload and download files to other people that someone could possibly be sitting around listening to and recording my requests for data as well as requesting data that I have sourced that they 'want' who would have guessed?
I'm just arguing that good child raising is a common good. It is easier to be a bad parent than it is to be a good one and the child suffers. All you need now to be a parent is a few body parts. Common goods are the main category that economists argue for gov't intervention. Think about it as a tax paid for having good parents just as pollution control is a tax for having clean air. I'm not saying the gov't needs to control every aspect of child raising but we clearly are doing something wrong.
well they aren't given sufficient resources to be the children's sole source of child raising. Nor do we expect them to since if they were we would expect the teachers to be able to teach the children to say no to nice toys in happy meals.
As much as I hate to say it, this law does make some sense. The one being punished is the child not the parent when they get stuck with a stupid parent. So unless you want to ban people from having kids if they can't pass a child raising class or you want to call child services on bad parents. One more option is that the gov't raises all of our kids for us by professional child raisers, why would trust amateurs raising our little leaders of tomorrow?
you would rather they be doing something to keep them occupied because you understand the risks of a bored pilot. General public doesn't. These rules are to satisfy them. A lot of them are probably wondering why this hasn't been taken care of already.
just wondering aloud. I don't recall earthquakes being this prevalent. Or is this just a mental bias where I haven't paid much attention to earthquakes until recently. Having been in several I probably didn't care if they happened to someone else. I would write a script to crawl USGS data and calculate but I don't have my stat textbook on hand atm.
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Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. If a politician is reelected we have no right to complain. Take Bush for example not only did he violate civil rights and start two wars but many other things and yet knowing, or perhaps not but that is your own damn fault, exactly what we would get he was still reelected. Tell me how that is his fault.
That might have the side affect of getting people to vote for the worst candidate since their chance of affecting the outcome is slim compared to what they would gain by voting for the loser. However everyone would face that and in the end more people would vote for candidates they thought would loose.
the sinners are not the politicians but the people who vote for them. Until we get people to think about the issues or just remove themselves from the process we will continue to get crap politicians. Blaming anyone else, at least here in the U.S., is taking the easy way out and will not fix anything. Although I would like to know what form of government you suggest.
Because CDs wear out faster than cartridges. Since cartridges don't scratch up as easily weather you want to play the game a hundred times or a thousand times you pay the same amount. While with CDs when the CD gets so scratched up you can't use it any more you either deal with not playing the game any more or you go and buy another copy. With CDs companies can charge less per disc and sell to more people but if you really love the game you end up paying a little more to play a little longer.
Why can't it be that Obama was showing due respect to a fellow world leader. It's not like he was looking the other way while companies ship billions of dollars to a country with a horrible human rights record and labor standards. Or sells us oil to finance terrorist organizations. But yeah you are right the whole bowing thing that is the real problem we can't be seen to be respecting them while we do it in private by selling our souls for $1 a dozen tube socks or a cheap fill up.
No we do it here too. We just have been messing with the internet longer so it is no longer news, damn n00bz.
They sure are similar to humans from the article. "They create a habitat with lots of water like a moat around their lodges so they can swim and *drive*, and keep one step ahead of predators such as coyotes and bears."
Maybe they already know the material. Some classes you have to take regardless of test scores. I had to take two semesters of intro econ at my school, boring as a rock not to mention the teacher had all the teaching charm of a econ teacher. I could reason this stuff in my sleep, almost did went to class 5 times all semester including three tests, I was late to the final (slept in) almost took a nap so I was at least somewhat awake but one of the proctors would have woken me in the middle of it I'm sure but still aced the class. Even though I knew the prof. personally he never knew I wasn't in class. Sad thing is I'm sure some people still failed the class.
so of course there is no way that this one can be real as well. mod me flame bait but this tarnishing of someones reputation, while in one case no evidence has been forth coming YET the other there is clear evidence he is not the best guy around, lets at least wait until we see the evidence that this guy CLAIMS to have. If it is complete crap then torch this AG up. If it is real deal with it. Treating this AG guilty and ignoring every thing he has to say will only play into his "ooh its a conspiracy they are all out to flame my reputation so I can't hurt 'them.'"
how about this, slow down. If you are going fast enough that 'propagation' times affect your decisions you don't need more accurate clocks but therapy for OCD.
what they really want is to be able to charge video moms a price they can afford so that they use their product while at the same time can charge more to someone who is using it commercially and making money from it. It would be like, assuming that like digital products they never wear down only become obsolete and are very similar, vans and buses were the exact same thing. Except the manufacturer wanted to provide the bus to soccer mom for a price she could afford and charge more to greyhound since they will be making money from it but you could always charge both the same and one person would be ripped off while the other got an amazing deal. It isn't a perfect analogy but when the products are similar enough that either a commercial group or individual could use it and one clearly gets more use from the same product should they both be charged the same?
wait so if someone else makes something that is instrumental to my making money that I could not have done other wise or at least would had to have paid for or even had to develop with great effort myself they deserve money from me? what communist country are you living in?
what are unions, AIPAC, Council for the National Interest, New Policy, ... many citizens groups have lobbies for this exact reason and we need more of them.
In further other news only sitting head of state charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international criminal court gets reelected which seems to concern no one. But this whole IP thing is more important anyways. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/04/201042612282143933.html
I fully agree with that. That is why I said that any limits on them is short sighted. Only when the public understand their duty as citizens will the corrupting lobbyists loose influence. The positive will gain even more influence since they represent their groups.
Lobbyists have no power when the electorate is well informed and active. WE are failing and causing these problems by allowing these lobbyists to have influence. The only way a lobbyist can have influence is if the gain from more money to a campaign offsets the number of people who leave because a politician was bought off and voted against his constituents interest. Please keep money in government especially when it helps the candidates I like. If a politician votes against my interests I refuse to vote for him. No amount of fancy campaign ads will ever change that. However there are more people who will vote for a candidate just because of a fancy and expensive ad. These people offset me and many other voters who vote not for nicest campaign ad but voting record and their ability to represent us. This is the fundamental problem with our country. Believing anything else is delusional and seeking a simple short term solution, the voters are the problem, until they take their civic duty seriously by ignoring nice haircuts and expensive ads and voting for actual substance we will not have a government that represents us.
Stewart pointed out that his networks slogan isn't "fair and balanced."
so can you build the airplane you fly in? explain in detail internal combustion? how about ...
so when I copy all your private information that isn't theft either right?
Shocking, shocking I say that when I use p2p to upload and download files to other people that someone could possibly be sitting around listening to and recording my requests for data as well as requesting data that I have sourced that they 'want' who would have guessed?
I'm just arguing that good child raising is a common good. It is easier to be a bad parent than it is to be a good one and the child suffers. All you need now to be a parent is a few body parts. Common goods are the main category that economists argue for gov't intervention. Think about it as a tax paid for having good parents just as pollution control is a tax for having clean air. I'm not saying the gov't needs to control every aspect of child raising but we clearly are doing something wrong.
well they aren't given sufficient resources to be the children's sole source of child raising. Nor do we expect them to since if they were we would expect the teachers to be able to teach the children to say no to nice toys in happy meals.
As much as I hate to say it, this law does make some sense. The one being punished is the child not the parent when they get stuck with a stupid parent. So unless you want to ban people from having kids if they can't pass a child raising class or you want to call child services on bad parents. One more option is that the gov't raises all of our kids for us by professional child raisers, why would trust amateurs raising our little leaders of tomorrow?
you would rather they be doing something to keep them occupied because you understand the risks of a bored pilot. General public doesn't. These rules are to satisfy them. A lot of them are probably wondering why this hasn't been taken care of already.
just wondering aloud. I don't recall earthquakes being this prevalent. Or is this just a mental bias where I haven't paid much attention to earthquakes until recently. Having been in several I probably didn't care if they happened to someone else. I would write a script to crawl USGS data and calculate but I don't have my stat textbook on hand atm.