The shooting at the NRA convention was an April Fools joke. I know you hoped it was true, but that kind of thing doesn't actually happen.
There was a shooting at a gun show a while back, some idiot brought in a loaded shotgun to sell it, and it went off when he set it on a table. In the middle of a hall with many armed people, that was the only shot fired.
In Germany in the midst of real constant terrorism in the 70s and 80s by the RAF, many Polizei would be roaming around the airports with submachine guns obviously displayed.
No TSA, no taking off shoes, not liquid limits, no confiscating knitting needles, just a clear message that if you try something you will be hosed down by 9mm. They never attacked a German airport. But they did attack the US air base at Ramstein.
Recently photos were taken of Billy Ray Cyrus letting his 13 year-old drive on public roads. The police said they couldn't do anything since the police themselves didn't see it. Maybe that applies here.
Do you drive dangerously, or just speed? Autobahnpolizei are known to ignore the guy going fast but safe in favor of catching the guys passing on the right, tailgating, weaving through traffic, and camping out in the middle lane.
In the US we ticket for speed, since it's the easiest to prove and carries the highest fines. The cops don't care so much about actual unsafe driving. Yes, it's screwed up.
Lots of contracts have an initial period that allows either party to cancel without penalty. Purchase contracts often haf a short cooling off rule. By law there is a cooling off period for sales made by door-to-door salesmen.
The problem here is to balance the interests of the company and the employee. Non-competes definitely aren't a balance, but neither is an employee quickly jumping ship after the company has invested time and money. A contract is one way where it can be equitable.
want to announce at every opportunity that Taiwan is its own nation, even if they die as a result (they are not smart enough to realize this might happen).
Sounds like the American colonies in the late 1700s. We won.
It was started by a couple local guys who never had anything to do with political organization. Those organizations you hear like Basic Freedom Defense Foundation that ran the recall effort were set up by them. This is fact. They started it.
Once their movement grew they realized the big money they were up against, the warchests of the powerful incumbent politicians. So they asked the NRA for money, and they got some.
Then the recall effort gained steam. Bloomberg donated big money to stop it, and so did other billionaires and corporations (most of the anti-recall money was large donations). After this, the NRA donated the bulk of their contribution to counter that. The Koch brothers did use their existing organization to distribute flyers, but that's about it.
But in total the big-money anti-gun interests spent at least five times the amount as the recall people. They thought they could buy those senate seats from the people of Colorado. That's most of your $100 per vote -- against the recall from big out of state money.
What many people may not realize is that this wasn't completely about guns. In their zeal to follow the will of their anti-gun bosses, these politicians completely ignored the citizens of Colorado. They didn't allow them to speak as is traditional, they cut off debate to prevent it. At townhall meetings, the gun bills were a forbidden topic. The people rightfully felt their voices weren't being heard, so they decided to teach these politicians a lesson. This is why independents were the reason the incumbents lost, one in a heavily Democratic district.
Normally the ODM also designs the laptop while the vendor just provides the specs and requirements, so I'm not even sure if Apple even designs the Macbooks.
Normally. But Apple designed them inside and out to every last detail. Apple also designed the manufacturing process for the aluminum bodies. Apple also spent over a billion dollars working with their manufacturers to buy the CNC and other manufacturing equipment to be capable of producing Apple's designs.
That's the dirty little secret of the laptop industry -- except for Apple. These manufacturers do have reference designs for any company to use, but Apple doesn't use those. Entirely separate production is set up for Apple.
Not just Samsung phones, but only a couple new models of Samsung phone. An iWatch will probably be compatible with at least the 4S, meaning most iPhone users will be able to use it.
A stellar employee would probably hate that. What if the company sucks?
Then he doesn't sign the contract, and instead goes to work for someone else. You get to make your decision every 2-3 years. The difference between this and anti-poaching is that this is actually a contract with considerations on both sides. Anti-poaching is just screwing the employee.
Or they could do it like executives, wrapping up much of the compensation in ways that depend on long-term employment.
only 14 of the 50* decided to set up their own exchanges
Those were the smart ones. Most signed up for the federal program on the promise of lots of money flowing in to pay for a higher Medicaid mandate. It's a great handout to the voters so the politicians can get reelected. The problem is that after a few years that federal money will stop coming, and the state will be left holding the bag for the higher expenses. They can barely pair their Medicaid budget now, so imagine them trying to pay an expanded Medicare budget.
The locals mainly. I do know that the NRA's big $250K donation (at the request of its local members) came after Bloomberg. In the end, pro-recall forces were outspent 5 to 1, mainly due to these large contributions from outside the state.
There's a map of contributions out there. In it, you'll see that pro-recall donations came from around the country in small amounts, while the far smaller number of anti donations came mainly in large amounts on the East and West coasts. Within Colorado, large amounts came from the cities against the recall, while those supporting the recall were more widespread.
So what you have is a handful of rich people and corporations looking to protect the infringement of rights, but widespread popular support trying to stop it.
The NRA didn't start the recall effort. It was started by locals. Then the organization of which they are members and pay their dues helped the effort, to try to counter the much higher amount of money pumped in by out of state billionaires.
Powerful people are using the Citizens United case to funnel large amounts of money into local elections to F up the society that we are trying to build.
Good, we need an article about how Bloomberg and another billionaire tried to derail the grassroots effort to recall those two Colorado anti-gun rights state senators.
Big difference: Christianity has pretty much grown up. The number of recent incidents of people killing in the name of Christianity are rather few, and of small scale.
Islam is where Christianity was several hundred years ago, with a rather large amount of religious violence associated, and a shockingly large percentage of adherents agreeing with intolerance towards other religions. A majority of Muslims in many Muslim countries still call for the death penalty for apostates, and in Britain that's still one third among younger Muslims. Further statistics involving implementation of Sharia (and enforcing it on the non-Muslim population) and others are scary.
What's worse is Muslims lying to themselves. Take Pakistan, where three quarters of Muslims think those of other religions are very free to practice their faith, but Pakistan is one of the worst countries for non-Muslim religious freedom. They don't see their own oppression. They don't even see the death penalty for leaving Islam as being a violation of religious freedom.
I don't even remember what the book was about, beyond an alien warlord tasked with softening up the Earth for invasion but actually wasting time feathering his nest
The Earth having been long ago conquered, an alien bureaucrat stuck with the crappy backwater Earth assignment wants to feather his nest using the few remaining humans left to mine gold in areas his people can't get to.
It was kind of interesting, old-fashioned adventure, humans vs. the aliens, but adding the worst of beaucracy, business and government on top of it.
Ted Kennedy considered the lack of health care reform prior to the ACA as his unfinished work
Ted Kennedy already had his health care reform heyday back in the 70s. The dreaded HMOs were supposed to be the answer to healthcare back then, so Ted Kennedy introduced and pushed through the Health Maintenance Organization Act.
By the 2000s his main push for "healthcare reform" consisted of condemning the very creature he created.
I'm surprised at Republicans...for 'free market' people their party is remarkable bereft of any new ideas.
The point of a free market is that the politicians don't have the ideas. They keep government from interfering with others who do have the good ideas. Of course the Republicans aren't very good at that either. They're just as meddling as the Democrats.
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The shooting at the NRA convention was an April Fools joke. I know you hoped it was true, but that kind of thing doesn't actually happen.
There was a shooting at a gun show a while back, some idiot brought in a loaded shotgun to sell it, and it went off when he set it on a table. In the middle of a hall with many armed people, that was the only shot fired.
In Germany in the midst of real constant terrorism in the 70s and 80s by the RAF, many Polizei would be roaming around the airports with submachine guns obviously displayed.
No TSA, no taking off shoes, not liquid limits, no confiscating knitting needles, just a clear message that if you try something you will be hosed down by 9mm. They never attacked a German airport. But they did attack the US air base at Ramstein.
There is little chance of needing to exercise a liability shield in exercising political free speech.
The authoritarianism is quite thick on this topic.
On an autobahnpolizei cop show they pulled over and ticketed a few girls cruising in the middle lane on an empty road. There wasn't a truck in sight.
Recently photos were taken of Billy Ray Cyrus letting his 13 year-old drive on public roads. The police said they couldn't do anything since the police themselves didn't see it. Maybe that applies here.
Do you drive dangerously, or just speed? Autobahnpolizei are known to ignore the guy going fast but safe in favor of catching the guys passing on the right, tailgating, weaving through traffic, and camping out in the middle lane.
In the US we ticket for speed, since it's the easiest to prove and carries the highest fines. The cops don't care so much about actual unsafe driving. Yes, it's screwed up.
So like-minded people are no longer to get together to petition the government for a redress of grievances? They must all do it individually?
Oh, and we'd have to disband the Democratic and Republican parties.
On second thought, your idea may have merit.
The EFF is a corporation. So we silence the EFF so they can't influence policy and elections?
Lots of contracts have an initial period that allows either party to cancel without penalty. Purchase contracts often haf a short cooling off rule. By law there is a cooling off period for sales made by door-to-door salesmen.
The problem here is to balance the interests of the company and the employee. Non-competes definitely aren't a balance, but neither is an employee quickly jumping ship after the company has invested time and money. A contract is one way where it can be equitable.
Sounds like the American colonies in the late 1700s. We won.
Put a cancellation period on it for the company or the employee.
It was started by a couple local guys who never had anything to do with political organization. Those organizations you hear like Basic Freedom Defense Foundation that ran the recall effort were set up by them. This is fact. They started it.
Once their movement grew they realized the big money they were up against, the warchests of the powerful incumbent politicians. So they asked the NRA for money, and they got some.
Then the recall effort gained steam. Bloomberg donated big money to stop it, and so did other billionaires and corporations (most of the anti-recall money was large donations). After this, the NRA donated the bulk of their contribution to counter that. The Koch brothers did use their existing organization to distribute flyers, but that's about it.
But in total the big-money anti-gun interests spent at least five times the amount as the recall people. They thought they could buy those senate seats from the people of Colorado. That's most of your $100 per vote -- against the recall from big out of state money.
What many people may not realize is that this wasn't completely about guns. In their zeal to follow the will of their anti-gun bosses, these politicians completely ignored the citizens of Colorado. They didn't allow them to speak as is traditional, they cut off debate to prevent it. At townhall meetings, the gun bills were a forbidden topic. The people rightfully felt their voices weren't being heard, so they decided to teach these politicians a lesson. This is why independents were the reason the incumbents lost, one in a heavily Democratic district.
Normally. But Apple designed them inside and out to every last detail. Apple also designed the manufacturing process for the aluminum bodies. Apple also spent over a billion dollars working with their manufacturers to buy the CNC and other manufacturing equipment to be capable of producing Apple's designs.
That's the dirty little secret of the laptop industry -- except for Apple. These manufacturers do have reference designs for any company to use, but Apple doesn't use those. Entirely separate production is set up for Apple.
Not just Samsung phones, but only a couple new models of Samsung phone. An iWatch will probably be compatible with at least the 4S, meaning most iPhone users will be able to use it.
Then he doesn't sign the contract, and instead goes to work for someone else. You get to make your decision every 2-3 years. The difference between this and anti-poaching is that this is actually a contract with considerations on both sides. Anti-poaching is just screwing the employee.
Or they could do it like executives, wrapping up much of the compensation in ways that depend on long-term employment.
Guaranteed period of employment in exchange for not defecting to a competitor during that period.
Those were the smart ones. Most signed up for the federal program on the promise of lots of money flowing in to pay for a higher Medicaid mandate. It's a great handout to the voters so the politicians can get reelected. The problem is that after a few years that federal money will stop coming, and the state will be left holding the bag for the higher expenses. They can barely pair their Medicaid budget now, so imagine them trying to pay an expanded Medicare budget.
The locals mainly. I do know that the NRA's big $250K donation (at the request of its local members) came after Bloomberg. In the end, pro-recall forces were outspent 5 to 1, mainly due to these large contributions from outside the state.
There's a map of contributions out there. In it, you'll see that pro-recall donations came from around the country in small amounts, while the far smaller number of anti donations came mainly in large amounts on the East and West coasts. Within Colorado, large amounts came from the cities against the recall, while those supporting the recall were more widespread.
So what you have is a handful of rich people and corporations looking to protect the infringement of rights, but widespread popular support trying to stop it.
The NRA didn't start the recall effort. It was started by locals. Then the organization of which they are members and pay their dues helped the effort, to try to counter the much higher amount of money pumped in by out of state billionaires.
Good, we need an article about how Bloomberg and another billionaire tried to derail the grassroots effort to recall those two Colorado anti-gun rights state senators.
Big difference: Christianity has pretty much grown up. The number of recent incidents of people killing in the name of Christianity are rather few, and of small scale.
Islam is where Christianity was several hundred years ago, with a rather large amount of religious violence associated, and a shockingly large percentage of adherents agreeing with intolerance towards other religions. A majority of Muslims in many Muslim countries still call for the death penalty for apostates, and in Britain that's still one third among younger Muslims. Further statistics involving implementation of Sharia (and enforcing it on the non-Muslim population) and others are scary.
What's worse is Muslims lying to themselves. Take Pakistan, where three quarters of Muslims think those of other religions are very free to practice their faith, but Pakistan is one of the worst countries for non-Muslim religious freedom. They don't see their own oppression. They don't even see the death penalty for leaving Islam as being a violation of religious freedom.
The Earth having been long ago conquered, an alien bureaucrat stuck with the crappy backwater Earth assignment wants to feather his nest using the few remaining humans left to mine gold in areas his people can't get to.
It was kind of interesting, old-fashioned adventure, humans vs. the aliens, but adding the worst of beaucracy, business and government on top of it.
Ted Kennedy already had his health care reform heyday back in the 70s. The dreaded HMOs were supposed to be the answer to healthcare back then, so Ted Kennedy introduced and pushed through the Health Maintenance Organization Act.
By the 2000s his main push for "healthcare reform" consisted of condemning the very creature he created.
The point of a free market is that the politicians don't have the ideas. They keep government from interfering with others who do have the good ideas. Of course the Republicans aren't very good at that either. They're just as meddling as the Democrats.