I don't disagree here. The law is poorly written and the courts should overturn it. However I really believe that we have many other pressing problems in this country and we should not be focusing on transgendered bathrooms. There are 1,000,000 problems in the country and men who identify as females is 999,998 on the list.
You are confusing the situation. No law states that Jews must worship Jesus. In fact the Constitution specifically provides you the choice to worship whoever you like. The Constitution also states that everyone should be treated as the same. So if you're a male you should be treated as a male. Just because you want to be female, until you are, you should be treated as a male. People who want "equal rights" tend to really want "special rights". If we truly had equal rights there would be equal marriage, equal relationships and equal bathrooms. You can't have equal marriage and then say you're special and need special rights to use whatever bathroom you identify with. I think it's quite black and white.
People are arguing that it's grey but they only argue that when it suits their argument. Everyone should be equal, but some of us should be more equal than others, is that it?
I personally think this whole issue is dumb. Out of all the problems with this country, a transgendered male using a woman's bathroom is not a concern. Transgendered people using opposite bathrooms did not contribute to $18 trillion in national debt or 20 million illegal aliens or the destruction of the middle class or 20 million unemployed people in this country. Let's focus on stuff that solves those problems first, then we can worry about Mr. Jones wanting to use the Miss Jones room.
The activists didn't ask for a unisex bathroom (gender neutral) they asked for special rights. The NC government said no. Vote them out if you disagree.
And how often do you think this is going to happen? Do you think it is irrational to punish all legal gun owners because very infrequently, some asshole takes advantage of the changed rules?
All liberties can be abused, and to some point they can be abused in such a way that there is precious little anyone can do about them. That's hardly an argument for revoking liberties for everyone. Punishing every legal gun owner because some asshole wants to show off doesn't strike me as a very wise or desirable use of state power.
I don't get it? Why do these millionaire need government to dictate how much everyone else should pay? Why don't they just pay more? If those 40 millionaire want to pay more taxes why don't they? Why do they suggest that everyone else has to pay more? I don't get it..
If they really want to do something why don't they pay for the roads themselves? Why have government force more money out of my pocket after they already took money for the roads?
People seem to forget that tax money ALREADY goes to fixing roads and poverty. The government chooses not to spend that money on roads and poverty doesn't mean they should get more of my money. This is the problem with forced taxation. I give money to have roads and fire trucks and street lights. Then the government spends all that money on some roads and some fire trucks and some street lights, leaving places without roads / fire trucks / lights. Then they ask for more money, after I gave them money to do exactly what they needed money for in the first place. And the cycle repeats itself constantly. More money for roads, money taken by government for roads, roads not fixed or built, more money needed, more money taken, etc.
If you look at what the government spent on road in the last 10 years, its over 1 trillion dollars. 1 TRILLION DOLLARS! And they can't fucking fix a pothole on a major highway in Massachusetts? They need more tax money? Fuck them.
If millionaire want to pay for the poor they don't need government (or my money) to do so. Just write a fucking check for eleventy billion dollars and poverty will go away.
I think a real leader might have wanted to side with the FBI but knows the slippery slope that's created. Its a tough leader that would willingly restrict government on his own.
The Constitution provides the rules to run the government. It does not provide the rights of the people. The rights of the people are automatic and "god" given. The Constitution restricts the function of government. Therefore, rights of the people are inalienable. The right to privacy is automatically granted. There is no need to establish it as a 'right'. The Bill of Rights is an affirmation of the inalienable rights already granted by 'the creator', or by the universe, or whatever. The Constitution is a document that creates and restricts government. It does not restrict the rights of the people.
I don't disagree with this philosophy. Yes the government is using your money and giving it back without interest. Yes you should be investing that money instead of letting the government keep it all year. But in the real world, having a 'bonus' of money at the beginning of the year, even if it's my money, and even if its money the government should have given to me throughout the year, is something I'm ok with. There are some things that make sense logically that just don't work in the real word, and I believe this is one of them.
Why is GM buying these assets and Lyft assets? Didn't they just get $80 billion in taxpayer money in the form of a bailout 8 years ago? All the people who got screwed with pension loss and job loss due to GM filing for bankruptcy and getting out of paying those contracts should be furious. Furious that GM couldn't keep its contractual obligation to those pensioners and couldn't afford to keep the jobs in the US. Furious that taxpayers had to bail GM out. Furious that after getting tens of billions and still being allowed to escape pension payments, they are now spending hundreds of millions on Lyft and Sidecar assets. This is absolutely ridiculous that GM is spending money on things like this after getting bailed out and allowed to terminate their supplier, job and pension contracts by going through bankruptcy.
Or when you come back to work after an approved vacation your boss approaches you and tells you that a customer complained about you, and that you're fired. Even though in the industry I work in, customer complaints, while taken seriously, are a frequent event. Everyone complains about something, and to get fired for it is rare, and in some shops, illegal under contract.
I used GIMP for a while. Then I needed to design a CD cover for my band. I downloaded PixelMator for my Mac and used that. It felt like I could do the same project in GIMP but it would have taken a lot longer. I bought PixelMator when the trial ran out, because I used that program a little more often, and I completed my CD project using it, so I felt that the developers should be compensated. I would have bought GIMP too, if it worked out of the box for my particular needs (import multiple-layer PDF and export in CYMK PDF).
I think you make an interesting point. No one wants to maintain this stuff anymore. It's not fun. I am happy to pay people to add or fix features to the software I use. But my days of taking the source code and rolling my own distro are long gone.
I think your last sentence is spot on. Us "old farts" spent hours, weeks, months playing, installing, compiling, hacking together FOSS projects like GIMP and Gnome and Slackware. Now I'm at the old age of 40 and I just want the shit to work. I don't have the time or desire to "work" on software projects anymore. I just want whatever it is I need to just work. My days of playing with Linux boxen are pretty much over. It's not because I'm being a jerk or I got suckered into a Windows or Mac garden. Its just that my time is spent with my family and watching my kid grow up. When she's old enough to use a computer I'll show her how I did things "back in the old bastard days" and I'm sure she'll laugh at my antiquated techniques etc. Like I laugh at those old farts who used to use punch cards for their 'input'.
Depending on the environmental conditions, going "balls to the wall" on a modern jet without computer controls would likely wipe out the engines by over torquing them and overheating them. Modern engine controls keep the engines together. Basically what happens now is that the computer is programmed for the aircraft configuration and the computer says "max power is XYZ". Then pushing the throttles all the way forward only nets you Max Power of XYZ. Some systems have an override condition, provision or button/lever, but most throttle systems on take off are "set and forget". This is to keep the engines together and keep them from over spinning, overheating or over torquing.
Modern jet engines have more power than necessary for take off and climb. If you notice right after take off, the engines spin down slightly. This is to prevent over heating and increase engine reliability.
Read about that more than a decade ago in Car and Driver. What ever happened to that idea... Sounded plausible. Any car that failed would get flagged. If the car was a "classic" or "vintage" it was exempt. Otherwise you had to get it fixed. Seemed simple.
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Unisex bathrooms immediately fix this problem. No law needed. I agree with you.
I don't disagree here. The law is poorly written and the courts should overturn it. However I really believe that we have many other pressing problems in this country and we should not be focusing on transgendered bathrooms. There are 1,000,000 problems in the country and men who identify as females is 999,998 on the list.
You are confusing the situation. No law states that Jews must worship Jesus. In fact the Constitution specifically provides you the choice to worship whoever you like. The Constitution also states that everyone should be treated as the same. So if you're a male you should be treated as a male. Just because you want to be female, until you are, you should be treated as a male. People who want "equal rights" tend to really want "special rights". If we truly had equal rights there would be equal marriage, equal relationships and equal bathrooms. You can't have equal marriage and then say you're special and need special rights to use whatever bathroom you identify with. I think it's quite black and white. People are arguing that it's grey but they only argue that when it suits their argument. Everyone should be equal, but some of us should be more equal than others, is that it? I personally think this whole issue is dumb. Out of all the problems with this country, a transgendered male using a woman's bathroom is not a concern. Transgendered people using opposite bathrooms did not contribute to $18 trillion in national debt or 20 million illegal aliens or the destruction of the middle class or 20 million unemployed people in this country. Let's focus on stuff that solves those problems first, then we can worry about Mr. Jones wanting to use the Miss Jones room.
You think a female who identifies as a man would 'fit in' a men's bathroom? I don't think so.
The activists didn't ask for a unisex bathroom (gender neutral) they asked for special rights. The NC government said no. Vote them out if you disagree.
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And how often do you think this is going to happen? Do you think it is irrational to punish all legal gun owners because very infrequently, some asshole takes advantage of the changed rules? All liberties can be abused, and to some point they can be abused in such a way that there is precious little anyone can do about them. That's hardly an argument for revoking liberties for everyone. Punishing every legal gun owner because some asshole wants to show off doesn't strike me as a very wise or desirable use of state power.
I don't get it? Why do these millionaire need government to dictate how much everyone else should pay? Why don't they just pay more? If those 40 millionaire want to pay more taxes why don't they? Why do they suggest that everyone else has to pay more? I don't get it.. If they really want to do something why don't they pay for the roads themselves? Why have government force more money out of my pocket after they already took money for the roads? People seem to forget that tax money ALREADY goes to fixing roads and poverty. The government chooses not to spend that money on roads and poverty doesn't mean they should get more of my money. This is the problem with forced taxation. I give money to have roads and fire trucks and street lights. Then the government spends all that money on some roads and some fire trucks and some street lights, leaving places without roads / fire trucks / lights. Then they ask for more money, after I gave them money to do exactly what they needed money for in the first place. And the cycle repeats itself constantly. More money for roads, money taken by government for roads, roads not fixed or built, more money needed, more money taken, etc. If you look at what the government spent on road in the last 10 years, its over 1 trillion dollars. 1 TRILLION DOLLARS! And they can't fucking fix a pothole on a major highway in Massachusetts? They need more tax money? Fuck them. If millionaire want to pay for the poor they don't need government (or my money) to do so. Just write a fucking check for eleventy billion dollars and poverty will go away.
Geez how did we stop these people BEFORE cell phones?
I think a real leader might have wanted to side with the FBI but knows the slippery slope that's created. Its a tough leader that would willingly restrict government on his own.
The Constitution provides the rules to run the government. It does not provide the rights of the people. The rights of the people are automatic and "god" given. The Constitution restricts the function of government. Therefore, rights of the people are inalienable. The right to privacy is automatically granted. There is no need to establish it as a 'right'. The Bill of Rights is an affirmation of the inalienable rights already granted by 'the creator', or by the universe, or whatever. The Constitution is a document that creates and restricts government. It does not restrict the rights of the people.
I feel bad people have to deal with this nonsense. I am very happy to have moved on to OS X.
I don't disagree with this philosophy. Yes the government is using your money and giving it back without interest. Yes you should be investing that money instead of letting the government keep it all year. But in the real world, having a 'bonus' of money at the beginning of the year, even if it's my money, and even if its money the government should have given to me throughout the year, is something I'm ok with. There are some things that make sense logically that just don't work in the real word, and I believe this is one of them.
Why is GM buying these assets and Lyft assets? Didn't they just get $80 billion in taxpayer money in the form of a bailout 8 years ago? All the people who got screwed with pension loss and job loss due to GM filing for bankruptcy and getting out of paying those contracts should be furious. Furious that GM couldn't keep its contractual obligation to those pensioners and couldn't afford to keep the jobs in the US. Furious that taxpayers had to bail GM out. Furious that after getting tens of billions and still being allowed to escape pension payments, they are now spending hundreds of millions on Lyft and Sidecar assets. This is absolutely ridiculous that GM is spending money on things like this after getting bailed out and allowed to terminate their supplier, job and pension contracts by going through bankruptcy.
Really.. https://xkcd.com/927/
Wasn't there a web-based random number generator that used space or cosmic noise as its source?
He isn't saying Russian Literature is not necessary for society. He's saying people taking it shouldn't expect it to be free.
Or when you come back to work after an approved vacation your boss approaches you and tells you that a customer complained about you, and that you're fired. Even though in the industry I work in, customer complaints, while taken seriously, are a frequent event. Everyone complains about something, and to get fired for it is rare, and in some shops, illegal under contract.
I used GIMP for a while. Then I needed to design a CD cover for my band. I downloaded PixelMator for my Mac and used that. It felt like I could do the same project in GIMP but it would have taken a lot longer. I bought PixelMator when the trial ran out, because I used that program a little more often, and I completed my CD project using it, so I felt that the developers should be compensated. I would have bought GIMP too, if it worked out of the box for my particular needs (import multiple-layer PDF and export in CYMK PDF).
I think you make an interesting point. No one wants to maintain this stuff anymore. It's not fun. I am happy to pay people to add or fix features to the software I use. But my days of taking the source code and rolling my own distro are long gone.
I think your last sentence is spot on. Us "old farts" spent hours, weeks, months playing, installing, compiling, hacking together FOSS projects like GIMP and Gnome and Slackware. Now I'm at the old age of 40 and I just want the shit to work. I don't have the time or desire to "work" on software projects anymore. I just want whatever it is I need to just work. My days of playing with Linux boxen are pretty much over. It's not because I'm being a jerk or I got suckered into a Windows or Mac garden. Its just that my time is spent with my family and watching my kid grow up. When she's old enough to use a computer I'll show her how I did things "back in the old bastard days" and I'm sure she'll laugh at my antiquated techniques etc. Like I laugh at those old farts who used to use punch cards for their 'input'.
Depending on the environmental conditions, going "balls to the wall" on a modern jet without computer controls would likely wipe out the engines by over torquing them and overheating them. Modern engine controls keep the engines together. Basically what happens now is that the computer is programmed for the aircraft configuration and the computer says "max power is XYZ". Then pushing the throttles all the way forward only nets you Max Power of XYZ. Some systems have an override condition, provision or button/lever, but most throttle systems on take off are "set and forget". This is to keep the engines together and keep them from over spinning, overheating or over torquing. Modern jet engines have more power than necessary for take off and climb. If you notice right after take off, the engines spin down slightly. This is to prevent over heating and increase engine reliability.
THANK YOU for that explanation I was wondering the same thing for ever. That really helped thank you!
Read about that more than a decade ago in Car and Driver. What ever happened to that idea... Sounded plausible. Any car that failed would get flagged. If the car was a "classic" or "vintage" it was exempt. Otherwise you had to get it fixed. Seemed simple.
Exactly.