Without capitalism you have the poor and the rich party elite. The rich directly enact the laws.
Pick any developed nation with a relative lack of capitalism, China, Cuba, North Korea, USSR, etc., and tell me how they are/were doing.
All of them to some extent have capitalism flowing underneath the official communist economy. Some have only a little like North Korea and they are hurting. China is doing well because of a large capitalistic economy under the communist veneer.
Notice also you don't see protests for rights in NK, but you do in China. Capitalism goes hand in hand with freedom because capitalism is freedom.
Unfortunately people can and do abuse their freedoms, but they can be dealt with individually.
It's obvious from later movies that the company wanted the aliens to get technology to create bio-weapons, clone them as super-solders or something else along those lines.
It could be argued that the value of the defense contracts outweighed the potential loss of the Nostromo. Or instead of defense contracts they needed the aliens to suppress brewing rebellions potentially threatening very large profit sources.
As far as sending the Nostromo itself, the need for alien technology could have been time-sensitive and they couldn't afford decades of delay while another recovery crew was sent from Earth.
It was a sailplane. Behind the pilot it had a pusher propeller on a pod with folding props. You could sail all day, just starting the engine when the updrafts were bad and you needed to gain altitude again.
I think the article was titled something like "Fly all day on a gallon of gas."
I just love this tactic. Take down someone and then trash his reputation in order to make it look right.
It seems to be a standard with the administration and its followers.
Don't like a report you got from your own scientists? Bury it then attack the very credentials that are the reason you asked him for the report in the first place.
Don't like the IG investigating your friend? Fire him then brand him as an incoherent, senile right-wing operative.
In a Microsoft text editing product with a long document, click and hold with the mouse and drag down below the bottom of the text field to select more than one page of text. It doesn't work. If you want it to select with any speed you have to wiggle the mouse back and forth.
"likely plays havoc with global models of climate change"
No it won't. It can't challenge the models. The models are correct. Evidence doesn't matter. The Global Warming economic and political machine will not allow itself to be threatened.
A group that is so far right they call Mike Huckabee a "tax-increasing liberal governor of Arkansas" is quite extreme.
Mike Huckabee was a religious conservative, not a governmental conservative. He loved his taxes. They only support those who would lower taxes and spending, reducing the bloated government. Both Specter and Chafee might as well be Democrats with their love for taxes. And one is now.
As Washington warned, they will start serving themselves rather than the people. A politician will serve the party above the people who elected him. That means the parties run the country, not the representatives, not the people who elected them.
I would be praising him if he had left over ideological differences, if we knew he was tired of being told how to vote and wanted to serve the people, not the party. But it's obvious he only did this to keep his job.
right-wing anti-tax extremist group, the Club for Growth
If this is what you think, then you are probably extremist left-wing yourself. Their platform is more related to the Libertarian platform than any right-wing Republican faction.
Trying to get kids and old ladies to pay 2100 times the damages is unreasonable. Courts have found unreasonable damages unenforceable, can't remember the case but it was someone taking cash out of the country. I would support such a finding for this specific case.
But I do not want to attack the concept of high statutory damages in general. An author of open source software has no direct income from distributing his software, so what besides an injunction can he hit Huge Corporation with to discourage infringement of his work? Statutory damages. If not for statutory damages they can infringe at will, make millions, and just stop using the work when hit with an injunction.
It is a somewhat liberal counter to Fox's right-leaning. Why we need yet another counter, I don't know, with CNN, NBC, CBS and MSNBC being firmly on the left.
But NPR is probably the closest thing to neutral we get, the evidence being that partisans on both sides complain about it working for the other.
Now let's turn to the Book of Gore, Chapter 5, to determine my punishment for being an infidel.
Hell, your religion even has its own version of indulgences, they're called Carbon Credits. This way your prophet gets to put out probably 50 times the CO2 that I do (When was the last time I took a private jet everywhere? Oh yeah, never.) and still look pure in the eyes of the followers.
Take the recent tea party protests. Fox was absolutely glowing and promoting them. CNN had a reporter arguing with a protester, trying to prove his reason for protest was baseless. Olbermann on MSNBC was calling them "teabaggers" in a derogatory sense in reference to the sexual practice.
I didn't see one instance of reporting that just laid out the facts. The editorial column has now expanded to be the entire newspaper, the network pushes a political ideology instead of just reporting.
Skepticism is healthy in science. Yet Al Gore just the other day said there is no more to debate, the issue is settled. So did Arianna Huffington. Obama talks about it as if it were a real thing instead of a relatively young scientific theory still being researched. Attitudes like that do not belong in science. They are more often seen in religions -- "I believe, and that's it, end of discussion."
The wariness comes from the same wariness I have with religions, in that they often like to force their views on others. You can see that politicians all over the world are gearing up to force the global warming religion on everybody. Many of them don't even have motives related to any climate change, as one delegate in Brazil said the core of any solution needs to be a redistribution of wealth.
Disallowing skepticism and having alternative political motives pretty much kills global warming as any kind of science for me.
The same time as Stallman becomes Microsoft's leading evangelist.
Al Gore will NEVER be wrong. Does a Christian think Christ could have been wrong? You don't question the prophet of your religion. Remember that cult psychological phenomenon where when the prediction of the cult is proven wrong people just redouble their belief? The same will happen here because GW/GC/CC is being followed as a religion, not as a science.
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Without capitalism you have the poor and the rich party elite. The rich directly enact the laws.
Pick any developed nation with a relative lack of capitalism, China, Cuba, North Korea, USSR, etc., and tell me how they are/were doing.
All of them to some extent have capitalism flowing underneath the official communist economy. Some have only a little like North Korea and they are hurting. China is doing well because of a large capitalistic economy under the communist veneer.
Notice also you don't see protests for rights in NK, but you do in China. Capitalism goes hand in hand with freedom because capitalism is freedom.
Unfortunately people can and do abuse their freedoms, but they can be dealt with individually.
90% of their airfields, grid electricity, command and control, fixed missile launchers and rail lines would be down.
After that it gets ugly, and as long-term as Kim is stubborn.
I just hope our first target is that affront to architecture, the Ryugyong Hotel.
It's obvious from later movies that the company wanted the aliens to get technology to create bio-weapons, clone them as super-solders or something else along those lines.
It could be argued that the value of the defense contracts outweighed the potential loss of the Nostromo. Or instead of defense contracts they needed the aliens to suppress brewing rebellions potentially threatening very large profit sources.
As far as sending the Nostromo itself, the need for alien technology could have been time-sensitive and they couldn't afford decades of delay while another recovery crew was sent from Earth.
It was a sailplane. Behind the pilot it had a pusher propeller on a pod with folding props. You could sail all day, just starting the engine when the updrafts were bad and you needed to gain altitude again.
I think the article was titled something like "Fly all day on a gallon of gas."
I just love this tactic. Take down someone and then trash his reputation in order to make it look right.
It seems to be a standard with the administration and its followers.
Don't like a report you got from your own scientists? Bury it then attack the very credentials that are the reason you asked him for the report in the first place.
Don't like the IG investigating your friend? Fire him then brand him as an incoherent, senile right-wing operative.
He has been inventing stuff too. He went with liberals in stretching the Commerce Clause to absurdity in Gonzales v. Raich.
Is that people who text while driving crash into trees and drive off bridges and remove only themselves from humanity.
Unfortunately they like to take others with them.
That dark guano is going to absorb more sunlight and accelerate global warming and the melting of the ice!
We must preserve the home of the penguins, or they'll have nowhere to live.
Oops, we just shot them all.
Never mind.
From what I've read around the net the copyright attorneys for the corporations love her.
She tends to side with the big IP holders.
In a Microsoft text editing product with a long document, click and hold with the mouse and drag down below the bottom of the text field to select more than one page of text. It doesn't work. If you want it to select with any speed you have to wiggle the mouse back and forth.
"likely plays havoc with global models of climate change"
No it won't. It can't challenge the models. The models are correct. Evidence doesn't matter. The Global Warming economic and political machine will not allow itself to be threatened.
Mike Huckabee was a religious conservative, not a governmental conservative. He loved his taxes. They only support those who would lower taxes and spending, reducing the bloated government. Both Specter and Chafee might as well be Democrats with their love for taxes. And one is now.
As Washington warned, they will start serving themselves rather than the people. A politician will serve the party above the people who elected him. That means the parties run the country, not the representatives, not the people who elected them.
I would be praising him if he had left over ideological differences, if we knew he was tired of being told how to vote and wanted to serve the people, not the party. But it's obvious he only did this to keep his job.
If this is what you think, then you are probably extremist left-wing yourself. Their platform is more related to the Libertarian platform than any right-wing Republican faction.
Apple's designers pored over every icon on the iPhone with a loupe to make sure every pixel displayed correctly.
That kind of dedication and attention to detail produces great UIs.
Trying to get kids and old ladies to pay 2100 times the damages is unreasonable. Courts have found unreasonable damages unenforceable, can't remember the case but it was someone taking cash out of the country. I would support such a finding for this specific case.
But I do not want to attack the concept of high statutory damages in general. An author of open source software has no direct income from distributing his software, so what besides an injunction can he hit Huge Corporation with to discourage infringement of his work? Statutory damages. If not for statutory damages they can infringe at will, make millions, and just stop using the work when hit with an injunction.
I haven't listened to it lately, but BBC World News was pretty good in the 90s.
It is a somewhat liberal counter to Fox's right-leaning. Why we need yet another counter, I don't know, with CNN, NBC, CBS and MSNBC being firmly on the left.
But NPR is probably the closest thing to neutral we get, the evidence being that partisans on both sides complain about it working for the other.
Now let's turn to the Book of Gore, Chapter 5, to determine my punishment for being an infidel.
Hell, your religion even has its own version of indulgences, they're called Carbon Credits. This way your prophet gets to put out probably 50 times the CO2 that I do (When was the last time I took a private jet everywhere? Oh yeah, never.) and still look pure in the eyes of the followers.
Take the recent tea party protests. Fox was absolutely glowing and promoting them. CNN had a reporter arguing with a protester, trying to prove his reason for protest was baseless. Olbermann on MSNBC was calling them "teabaggers" in a derogatory sense in reference to the sexual practice.
I didn't see one instance of reporting that just laid out the facts. The editorial column has now expanded to be the entire newspaper, the network pushes a political ideology instead of just reporting.
It's called "Spot the unbiased US news source."
I haven't won yet. Anybody got some cheat codes?
Skepticism is healthy in science. Yet Al Gore just the other day said there is no more to debate, the issue is settled. So did Arianna Huffington. Obama talks about it as if it were a real thing instead of a relatively young scientific theory still being researched. Attitudes like that do not belong in science. They are more often seen in religions -- "I believe, and that's it, end of discussion."
The wariness comes from the same wariness I have with religions, in that they often like to force their views on others. You can see that politicians all over the world are gearing up to force the global warming religion on everybody. Many of them don't even have motives related to any climate change, as one delegate in Brazil said the core of any solution needs to be a redistribution of wealth.
Disallowing skepticism and having alternative political motives pretty much kills global warming as any kind of science for me.
All he needs is believers.
The same time as Stallman becomes Microsoft's leading evangelist.
Al Gore will NEVER be wrong. Does a Christian think Christ could have been wrong? You don't question the prophet of your religion. Remember that cult psychological phenomenon where when the prediction of the cult is proven wrong people just redouble their belief? The same will happen here because GW/GC/CC is being followed as a religion, not as a science.