Wow, a company is putting its own interests ahead of other companies? Is anyone surprised by this? They aren't a public service that is required to treat each company that sells through their site equal treatment, they are a corporation doing what corporations do - making money. Next up, we'll discuss the OUTRAGE of water that is wet.
Even if you can't point to a specific decay you can predict how many atoms will decay, on average, for a given time frame. Your proposed god (if he exists) would be detectable by similar statistical means. If people god favors were cured at a higher rate than the non-religious then that could be shown. His purported miracles are all of the non-measurable kind - situations where the person could have gotten better on their own or were being treated medically. There are thousands of examples of this, like the tumor that Mother Teresa supposedly miraculously cured after her death. But the doctor actually treating the tumor said differently:
Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who told the New York Times he had treated Besra, said that the cyst was caused by tuberculosis: "It was not a miracle... She took medicines for nine months to one year."
Now, I have no idea if that is your flavor of religion and if you consider that act a miracle but EVERY reported miracle has similar circumstances. If they were actually happening they could be measured. Which brings us to the real point, why won't God heal amputees?
But measuring over the entire base of Christianity, in a year, there are miracles that happen, healing that occurs, people who are delivered from addiction, and a host of messages to individuals or groups or churches from Him.
Great, please provide the citations for these studies. I have seen several that came to the opposite conclusion but I would love to see your evidence.
"My fear is if North Korea nukes us, Trump gonna get us into a war" - Maxine Waters
You realize she never said that, right? She said nothing even close - it's not an honest mistake or a misquote but just pure fabrication. I know it doesn't matter in this post-truth world but there are plenty of other cringe-worthy quotes available, so why go for a fake one?
SpaceX's solution of using triple redundancy COTS has a higher power requirement - something you don't want on a solar powered rover being dropped on a planet with less light than Earth.
Fortunately Curiosity is not such a rover. It's powered by an RTG, not solar panels. That's not to say it doesn't have a power budget, but it certainly could run another computer or two.
Article 1, Section 2: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
Amendment 12: no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
It appears that the whole notion of Roman soldiers being paid in salt (or salt equivalent) is a fairly recent invention and there don't appear to be any contemporary sources that back it up. It's just a myth, so don't try to reason it out too much. (source)
What are you talking about? If you read the article you linked, you'll see that the screwfly solution was based on work done on mosquitoes. If it was as effective in mosquito populations as it was in screwworm populations then we wouldn't be looking for an alternate solution. It's not like it hasn't been tried with mosquitoes, it just didn't work. Oh, and the screwfly solution certainly DOES require the introduction of genetically engineered insects into the wild, the only difference is that that technique uses radiation to modify the genome instead of the much more precise CRISPR.
Ummm, most of them? Bonds and CDs are generally in-line with inflation. If you insist on a sure-thing inflation hedge, how about TIPS? Nowhere near as volatile as gold and will always keep up with inflation.
Yes, over time gold has appreciated at about the rate of inflation, but so has most real property. If you're a long-term investor then you're way better off investing in equities - you can either make the rate of inflation with gold or make a much better return with equities.
There's a Rick that held a factory hostage after murdering his boss and several coworkers. The factory made cookies, flavored them with lies. He made us all take a look at what we were doing. And in the bargain, he got a taste of real freedom. We captured that taste, and we keep giving it to him so he give it right back to you, in every bite of new Simple Rick Freedom Wafer Selects. Come home to the unique flavor of shattering the grand illusion. Come home to Simple Rick.
Also, the "leisure class" is largely non-existent. Nearly EVERY one of the uber-rich folks out there have worked for their money and earned it. Who? Bill Gates, Elion Musk, The Koch brothers, George Soros, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump are just a few of the names that come to mind. None of these folks inherited much of what they currently own, but worked for it.
Bill Gates - Father was a prominent attorney Elon Musk - Father was an electromechanical engineer Koch Brothers - Father was in the oil refining business, founded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... George Soros - Father was a well-to-do lawyer Jeff Bezos - (step) Father was an engineer Donald Trump - Father was a real estate developer, with a company worth around $300 million at his death (which was being run by Donald)
Notice anything? None of the people you mentioned came from a working-class background (with the possible exceptions of Bezos and Musk), they all had significant resources at their disposal. It's a lot easier to get an education or take a risk starting a new company if you can rely on your parents to bail you out if you fail. Contrast this with someone who's family goes hungry if they fail and it's not hard to see why the already privileged people are the ones that become ultra-wealthy.
Sure, China deployed an antisatellite weapon in 2007 but the US has been working on weapons like that since the 1950s and has also destroyed satellites in orbit. To claim the US is "behind", at least in antisatellite weapons systems, is just simply wrong - they have a number of different antisatellite weapons in their arsenal.
The purpose of "Space Force" is simple, it's just another conduit for politicians to funnel public money to their cronies. This "news" is just propaganda to justify it. Nothing new.
NAFTA has enabled American farmers to dump cheap ag products there, totally destroying what ag economy they had.
1. How does NAFTA, which is an agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico, change how US agriculture producers can sell in Guatemala? 2. How are US farmers, who have a much higher labor cost plus higher shipping costs, able to compete with the cheap Guatemalan labor available to local farmers?
There certainly has been an uptick in Guatemalan immigration to the US coinciding with the rise of the drug trade and accompanying violence, but I haven't previously seen anything that attributes the rise to NAFTA. Perhaps you mean CAFTA-DR?
And the wiki page claims: "In another Operation Fish convoy on 5 July 1940 five ships loaded with $1.7 billion (US$ 29.70 billion in 2018), the largest movement of wealth in history." So a convoy of ships moving $30 billion is the "largest movement of wealth in history" but the Russians load more than four times that amount onto a random coaler headed into a war zone? Just doesn't seem plausible.
This was the same problem with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. Google wouldn't exists without that previous decision.
WTF are you talking about? The EU's original case against Microsoft wasn't about Internet Explorer, it was about Windows Media Player. The EU didn't open a case against MS concerning IE until 2009. Google was founded in 1998 and by 2003 they were the dominant search engine. So how did the EU suing Microsoft over the bundling of IE in 2009 make it so "Google wouldn't exists" if it didn't happen?
This guy was probably high (failed to yield) and the cops likely smelled pot so brought in the dog.
You don't have to imagine how the facts in the case came down, because they are documented. Nowhere did the police state they thought they smelled marijuana, and if they did they wouldn't have bothered with the dog, they would have just searched the car. Furthermore, the police have not stated they believe he was high at the time of the arrest, nor have they charged him with DUI, as they would have surely done if they had any evidence he was high. You are just making shit up to try to cloud the actual facts of this case. It's authoritarian bootlickers like you that got us into this useless drug war in the first place and rather than getting out of the situation now that it has been shown that the war has failed you just want to dig the hole deeper.
When Reagan testified during the Iran-Contra scandal he used the "I don't recall" defense like 90 times. If it's good enough for a President, it should be good enough for Joe Blow. I don't see how the court can disprove your assertion.
Also, it may not be unreasonable search and seizure. The article is written a bit one sided. If the cop smelled marijuana in the car, he/she was well within their rights to search the vehicle.
The cop did not claim to smell marijuana in this instance, although that pretext is frequently used in warrantless searches.
The request for the cell phone might be to find the dealer seeing as most dealers sue text messaging to coordinate the exchange.
That has no bearing on this case, since there was no probable cause (or even reasonable suspicion) that the defendant is a drug dealer. The amount of marijuana they found is not consistent with distribution and no evidence was presented that they suspected the defendant of any crime other than marijuana possession. This case is a clear-cut violation of the 5th amendment, they are forcing the defendant to give testimony in his own trial that may incriminate him.
The difference is that we use the government to ensure that we maintain healthy capitalism rather than just a single large company dominating the market.
Tell that to the Finns that used to work at Nokia.
You're "skeptical"? Why just skeptical? Trump basically said it was a favor for Xi and how worried he was about Chinese losing jobs:
President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done! - Donald Trump
An important part of this decision was the fact that it was non-commercial for a non-profit organization.
Do you have some information that I don't have? Yes, the court ruled that it was non-commercial, since it wasn't directly selling a product (other than promoting the film festival, which I would consider a product), but it appears this film festival is put on by Violent Hues Productions, which does not appear to be a non-profit. Since the film festival site lists the Violent Hues business telephone number as the sole contact I would argue that the film festival is a commercial operation, promoting Violent Hues. Even the "sponsorship" page on the festival's site indicates the sponsors are participating for commercial reasons:
The NOVA Fest is excited to partner with companies that align their philanthropic and business objectives
If their "business objectives" are like any other business on the planet, they are about making money.
I'm going to slightly crop the movie, just like the "transformative" use in this case. I'll just advertise my popcorn business and under "things to do in the area while eating your popcorn" I'll show my cropped Star Wars.
When a company or organization appropriates an individual's photo for commercial use, the court found that it's fair use, but I'm betting they'll sing a different tune if it is an individual taking a corporation's intellectual property and have repeatedly found for the corporations in previous cases. To claim something is non-commercial when it's being used to promote your for-profit film festival is bullshit, that's like me screening the latest incarnation of Star Wars to my neighborhood and selling them greatly overpriced popcorn and snacks then claiming it's not a commercial use since I didn't actually sell the movie.
In the US, corporate profits for 2017 were around 6.8 trillion dollars*, 1% of that would be 68 billion. Divided among the 325 million residents of the US, each citizen would receive around $208. Personal income was around $16 trillion** (a lot of that is the aforementioned corporate profits, but we'll double count them for now), that would add anther $492 to the tally, so your scheme would result in a UBI of around $700. I don't know about you, but having $700 extra per year wouldn't change my lifestyle at all.
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Wow, a company is putting its own interests ahead of other companies? Is anyone surprised by this? They aren't a public service that is required to treat each company that sells through their site equal treatment, they are a corporation doing what corporations do - making money. Next up, we'll discuss the OUTRAGE of water that is wet.
Even if you can't point to a specific decay you can predict how many atoms will decay, on average, for a given time frame. Your proposed god (if he exists) would be detectable by similar statistical means. If people god favors were cured at a higher rate than the non-religious then that could be shown. His purported miracles are all of the non-measurable kind - situations where the person could have gotten better on their own or were being treated medically. There are thousands of examples of this, like the tumor that Mother Teresa supposedly miraculously cured after her death. But the doctor actually treating the tumor said differently:
Now, I have no idea if that is your flavor of religion and if you consider that act a miracle but EVERY reported miracle has similar circumstances. If they were actually happening they could be measured. Which brings us to the real point, why won't God heal amputees?
But measuring over the entire base of Christianity, in a year, there are miracles that happen, healing that occurs, people who are delivered from addiction, and a host of messages to individuals or groups or churches from Him.
Great, please provide the citations for these studies. I have seen several that came to the opposite conclusion but I would love to see your evidence.
"My fear is if North Korea nukes us, Trump gonna get us into a war" - Maxine Waters
You realize she never said that, right? She said nothing even close - it's not an honest mistake or a misquote but just pure fabrication. I know it doesn't matter in this post-truth world but there are plenty of other cringe-worthy quotes available, so why go for a fake one?
Anyway, please, can you explain to me what a "threesome" is?
It's the same thing as a Devil's Triangle -- a drinking game.
SpaceX's solution of using triple redundancy COTS has a higher power requirement - something you don't want on a solar powered rover being dropped on a planet with less light than Earth.
Fortunately Curiosity is not such a rover. It's powered by an RTG, not solar panels. That's not to say it doesn't have a power budget, but it certainly could run another computer or two.
Nothing in the Constitution says he can't be VP.
Article 1, Section 2: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
Amendment 12: no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
It appears that the whole notion of Roman soldiers being paid in salt (or salt equivalent) is a fairly recent invention and there don't appear to be any contemporary sources that back it up. It's just a myth, so don't try to reason it out too much. (source)
What are you talking about? If you read the article you linked, you'll see that the screwfly solution was based on work done on mosquitoes. If it was as effective in mosquito populations as it was in screwworm populations then we wouldn't be looking for an alternate solution. It's not like it hasn't been tried with mosquitoes, it just didn't work. Oh, and the screwfly solution certainly DOES require the introduction of genetically engineered insects into the wild, the only difference is that that technique uses radiation to modify the genome instead of the much more precise CRISPR.
No, it's about funneling public money to cronies of the politicians, same as it ever was.
Ummm, most of them? Bonds and CDs are generally in-line with inflation. If you insist on a sure-thing inflation hedge, how about TIPS? Nowhere near as volatile as gold and will always keep up with inflation.
Yes, over time gold has appreciated at about the rate of inflation, but so has most real property. If you're a long-term investor then you're way better off investing in equities - you can either make the rate of inflation with gold or make a much better return with equities.
There's a Rick that held a factory hostage after murdering his boss and several coworkers.
The factory made cookies, flavored them with lies.
He made us all take a look at what we were doing.
And in the bargain, he got a taste of real freedom.
We captured that taste, and we keep giving it to him so he give it right back to you, in every bite of new
Simple Rick Freedom Wafer Selects.
Come home to the unique flavor of shattering the grand illusion.
Come home to Simple Rick.
Also, the "leisure class" is largely non-existent. Nearly EVERY one of the uber-rich folks out there have worked for their money and earned it. Who? Bill Gates, Elion Musk, The Koch brothers, George Soros, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump are just a few of the names that come to mind. None of these folks inherited much of what they currently own, but worked for it.
Bill Gates - Father was a prominent attorney
Elon Musk - Father was an electromechanical engineer
Koch Brothers - Father was in the oil refining business, founded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
George Soros - Father was a well-to-do lawyer
Jeff Bezos - (step) Father was an engineer
Donald Trump - Father was a real estate developer, with a company worth around $300 million at his death (which was being run by Donald)
Notice anything? None of the people you mentioned came from a working-class background (with the possible exceptions of Bezos and Musk), they all had significant resources at their disposal. It's a lot easier to get an education or take a risk starting a new company if you can rely on your parents to bail you out if you fail. Contrast this with someone who's family goes hungry if they fail and it's not hard to see why the already privileged people are the ones that become ultra-wealthy.
Sure, China deployed an antisatellite weapon in 2007 but the US has been working on weapons like that since the 1950s and has also destroyed satellites in orbit. To claim the US is "behind", at least in antisatellite weapons systems, is just simply wrong - they have a number of different antisatellite weapons in their arsenal.
The purpose of "Space Force" is simple, it's just another conduit for politicians to funnel public money to their cronies. This "news" is just propaganda to justify it. Nothing new.
NAFTA has enabled American farmers to dump cheap ag products there, totally destroying what ag economy they had.
1. How does NAFTA, which is an agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico, change how US agriculture producers can sell in Guatemala?
2. How are US farmers, who have a much higher labor cost plus higher shipping costs, able to compete with the cheap Guatemalan labor available to local farmers?
There certainly has been an uptick in Guatemalan immigration to the US coinciding with the rise of the drug trade and accompanying violence, but I haven't previously seen anything that attributes the rise to NAFTA. Perhaps you mean CAFTA-DR?
And the wiki page claims: "In another Operation Fish convoy on 5 July 1940 five ships loaded with $1.7 billion (US$ 29.70 billion in 2018), the largest movement of wealth in history." So a convoy of ships moving $30 billion is the "largest movement of wealth in history" but the Russians load more than four times that amount onto a random coaler headed into a war zone? Just doesn't seem plausible.
This was the same problem with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. Google wouldn't exists without that previous decision.
WTF are you talking about? The EU's original case against Microsoft wasn't about Internet Explorer, it was about Windows Media Player. The EU didn't open a case against MS concerning IE until 2009. Google was founded in 1998 and by 2003 they were the dominant search engine. So how did the EU suing Microsoft over the bundling of IE in 2009 make it so "Google wouldn't exists" if it didn't happen?
This guy was probably high (failed to yield) and the cops likely smelled pot so brought in the dog.
You don't have to imagine how the facts in the case came down, because they are documented. Nowhere did the police state they thought they smelled marijuana, and if they did they wouldn't have bothered with the dog, they would have just searched the car. Furthermore, the police have not stated they believe he was high at the time of the arrest, nor have they charged him with DUI, as they would have surely done if they had any evidence he was high. You are just making shit up to try to cloud the actual facts of this case. It's authoritarian bootlickers like you that got us into this useless drug war in the first place and rather than getting out of the situation now that it has been shown that the war has failed you just want to dig the hole deeper.
When Reagan testified during the Iran-Contra scandal he used the "I don't recall" defense like 90 times. If it's good enough for a President, it should be good enough for Joe Blow. I don't see how the court can disprove your assertion.
Also, it may not be unreasonable search and seizure. The article is written a bit one sided. If the cop smelled marijuana in the car, he/she was well within their rights to search the vehicle.
The cop did not claim to smell marijuana in this instance, although that pretext is frequently used in warrantless searches.
The request for the cell phone might be to find the dealer seeing as most dealers sue text messaging to coordinate the exchange.
That has no bearing on this case, since there was no probable cause (or even reasonable suspicion) that the defendant is a drug dealer. The amount of marijuana they found is not consistent with distribution and no evidence was presented that they suspected the defendant of any crime other than marijuana possession. This case is a clear-cut violation of the 5th amendment, they are forcing the defendant to give testimony in his own trial that may incriminate him.
The difference is that we use the government to ensure that we maintain healthy capitalism rather than just a single large company dominating the market.
Tell that to the Finns that used to work at Nokia.
You're "skeptical"? Why just skeptical? Trump basically said it was a favor for Xi and how worried he was about Chinese losing jobs:
An important part of this decision was the fact that it was non-commercial for a non-profit organization.
Do you have some information that I don't have? Yes, the court ruled that it was non-commercial, since it wasn't directly selling a product (other than promoting the film festival, which I would consider a product), but it appears this film festival is put on by Violent Hues Productions, which does not appear to be a non-profit. Since the film festival site lists the Violent Hues business telephone number as the sole contact I would argue that the film festival is a commercial operation, promoting Violent Hues. Even the "sponsorship" page on the festival's site indicates the sponsors are participating for commercial reasons:
If their "business objectives" are like any other business on the planet, they are about making money.
I'm going to slightly crop the movie, just like the "transformative" use in this case. I'll just advertise my popcorn business and under "things to do in the area while eating your popcorn" I'll show my cropped Star Wars.
When a company or organization appropriates an individual's photo for commercial use, the court found that it's fair use, but I'm betting they'll sing a different tune if it is an individual taking a corporation's intellectual property and have repeatedly found for the corporations in previous cases. To claim something is non-commercial when it's being used to promote your for-profit film festival is bullshit, that's like me screening the latest incarnation of Star Wars to my neighborhood and selling them greatly overpriced popcorn and snacks then claiming it's not a commercial use since I didn't actually sell the movie.
In the US, corporate profits for 2017 were around 6.8 trillion dollars*, 1% of that would be 68 billion. Divided among the 325 million residents of the US, each citizen would receive around $208. Personal income was around $16 trillion** (a lot of that is the aforementioned corporate profits, but we'll double count them for now), that would add anther $492 to the tally, so your scheme would result in a UBI of around $700. I don't know about you, but having $700 extra per year wouldn't change my lifestyle at all.
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** https://www.statista.com/stati...