Won't California actually get more in property taxes too? As a retiree, he's grandfathered to a certain property tax rate by some Proposition (9? I forget now), but when the house is sold, the property tax rate gets reset to the current rate.
It's really in California's best interest to encourage retirees to leave the state and replace them with working-age home-buyers.
Why is sexual intercourse with a close relative a jailable crime? A 40-year-old brother and sister screwing each other can go to prison? That's a pretty stupid law. And how close is "close" anyway?
And they say we Americans are prudes... I can sorta understand not letting them legally marry (though this will be obsolete soon thanks to genetic engineering), but even here in the US there's no laws I've heard of against relatives having sex, as long as everyone is of-age and consenting. Any such laws (probably old state or local laws) would have been made unconstitutional by the Supreme Court decision that overturned all anti-sodomy laws a while ago.
Yes, it's true that for criminal cases, it's the state bringing charges against you, not the victim. That's what that stuff in cop TV shows about the victim refusing to "press charges" is sort-of BS. However, not completely: a prosecutor who pursues charges against a (alleged) criminal, but has a victim who is completely uncooperative, is going to have a hard time winning that case, so in practice they rarely pursue cases like these because it's a waste of time and money, and makes them look bad too.
You need to modify her Jeep's throttle so it's less aggressive. This can be done with a microcontroller, modifying the outputs of the throttle pedal. Do it very slowly, so she doesn't notice.
Oh please. I routinely beat the EPA figures on my 2015 Mazda, just by driving relatively conservatively and at lower speeds. Any "normal human" can match EPA figures, they just have to stop driving like an asshole and flooring it every time the light turns green.
This isn't completely true. Lots of police departments are using FWD or even RWD cars for their cruisers now: the Impalas and Chargers are both popular. The Charger is a RWD car.
Yes, there are a lot of big gas-guzzling SUVs used by police, but there's also plenty of much more efficient cars, which are a lot better than those piece-of-shit Crown Vics and Chevy Caprices they used to use. I've driven in both those things, and they were absolutely horrible cars. A modern Charger or Impala is better in every way.
Sure it was. There were 6 candidates running, and Hitler won the largest number of votes. Sure, there were allegations of malfeasance, but we have that here in America too, with electronic voting machines doing all kinds of fishy things like visibly changing peoples' votes, showing completely different results than exit polling, or even the voting machine company CEO promising to deliver the election to a particular candidate, and we just accept that as "democracy" too.
A lot of people do have problems with it, which is why various systems exist to counter it.
A few people have a problem with it, so in a few small venues (like your examples) there's better systems, but overall there aren't. Heck, if you did a poll of random Americans, you'd probably find most of them think FPTP is just fine and we should stick with that.
You don't need "overwhelming support of the population" in a democracy. In any election where there's more than 2 candidates, it's entirely likely the winner will not have a clear majority (at least 50% of the vote). You can't call that "not democracy"; restricting a race to 2 candidates is not democratic in any way, unless perhaps you do some kind of runoff voting, which almost no country ever does (there's some local elections here in the US which do this, but only in modern times).
It is entirely democratic for a candidate to win an election with significantly less than 50% of the vote, unless you're going to somehow claim that no first-past-the-post election is democratic, which is just silly since that's how most elections are conducted, flawed as that voting system may be.
When there's more than 2 candidates in an election, you don't need to win an outright majority. Hitler won the 1933 elections with far more votes than the #2 candidate.
It's no different than the US. In the 2000 elections, neither Gore nor Bush won an outright majority of votes, because of Nader. It doesn't matter though: that's how it works when there's more than 2 candidates. In the 1933 German election, there were 6 candidates. Hitler was the clear winner with over 40% of the vote, which isn't that far from what Gore got with only 3 candidates in that race.
Yeah, you're probably right. Carly Fiorina is a good example of this. If I were in her position, I'd just go enjoy my millions and relax, but for some reason she feels compelled to make a fool of herself even more by running for office.
If you were in a crowd of leftists, centrists, Democratic voters, liberals, liberal leaners, etc., you'd be correct. This is not a site like that; this is a site full of extremists, both conservative and libertarian. Conservatives hate LGBT rights, and while good libertarians support them since they support equal rights, the extremist libertarians on this site are basically a bunch of assholes who combine social conservatism with extreme economic libertarianism so they don't care about LGBT stuff either.
I just installed a trailer hitch probably 7 or 8 months ago, and I had to remove the back bumper! Of course, this was a TorkLift stealth "EcoHitch" which was hidden up inside the bumper, unlike those Curt hitches that hang underneath the muffler. It was a bit of a job to install it. However the manufacturer helpfully included detailed instructions with pictures (which looked like they were copied from the factory service manual, which I have a copy of) showing how to install it.
But yeah, you're right: most of that stuff is simple. Usually you can google it and find a discussion forum or a YouTube video showing exactly how to do it. If you need a factory manual to change an air filter, you've got issues.
I'm not talking about Chilton and Hayes, I'm talking about factory service manuals. You can download them online, just like you can download Game of Thrones and just about anything else.
Yeah, and I consider it about as likely, that's why I brought up New Holland. I also hear Kubota stuff is great.
So basically, it appears we have a situation somewhat similar to OSes: there's one really crappy but very popular OS which advertises to you now, and there's two others which don't, so the people using the first one bitch and complain about the spying and advertising, but keep buying it anyway and say stuff like "when all OSes advertise to you..." even though there's no evidence that the alternatives are going to do that.
From what I've read about it, the Chinese one can do everything the real one can, because it's a duplicate, hardware-wise, and then they give you a pirated copy of the VIDA software. However, if you have to get something special from a Volvo engineer, obviously that's not going to work. So you'd only be able to do stuff that their included software allows.
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Won't California actually get more in property taxes too? As a retiree, he's grandfathered to a certain property tax rate by some Proposition (9? I forget now), but when the house is sold, the property tax rate gets reset to the current rate.
It's really in California's best interest to encourage retirees to leave the state and replace them with working-age home-buyers.
Why is sexual intercourse with a close relative a jailable crime? A 40-year-old brother and sister screwing each other can go to prison? That's a pretty stupid law. And how close is "close" anyway?
And they say we Americans are prudes... I can sorta understand not letting them legally marry (though this will be obsolete soon thanks to genetic engineering), but even here in the US there's no laws I've heard of against relatives having sex, as long as everyone is of-age and consenting. Any such laws (probably old state or local laws) would have been made unconstitutional by the Supreme Court decision that overturned all anti-sodomy laws a while ago.
Yes, it's true that for criminal cases, it's the state bringing charges against you, not the victim. That's what that stuff in cop TV shows about the victim refusing to "press charges" is sort-of BS. However, not completely: a prosecutor who pursues charges against a (alleged) criminal, but has a victim who is completely uncooperative, is going to have a hard time winning that case, so in practice they rarely pursue cases like these because it's a waste of time and money, and makes them look bad too.
I don't follow. Would it be foolish because the feds might get your IP and try to come after you, or because you might catch some malware?
If it's the latter, what's foolish is running an OS that's susceptible to this malware.
No, he didn't. He merely forgot to mention Trump alongside her name.
Trump is a loose canon.
Are you sure he's not a loose Nikon?
You need to modify her Jeep's throttle so it's less aggressive. This can be done with a microcontroller, modifying the outputs of the throttle pedal. Do it very slowly, so she doesn't notice.
Oh please. I routinely beat the EPA figures on my 2015 Mazda, just by driving relatively conservatively and at lower speeds. Any "normal human" can match EPA figures, they just have to stop driving like an asshole and flooring it every time the light turns green.
This isn't completely true. Lots of police departments are using FWD or even RWD cars for their cruisers now: the Impalas and Chargers are both popular. The Charger is a RWD car.
Yes, there are a lot of big gas-guzzling SUVs used by police, but there's also plenty of much more efficient cars, which are a lot better than those piece-of-shit Crown Vics and Chevy Caprices they used to use. I've driven in both those things, and they were absolutely horrible cars. A modern Charger or Impala is better in every way.
And how's that any worse than us having electronic voting machines that we're somehow supposed to trust to give us accurate results?
Sure it was. There were 6 candidates running, and Hitler won the largest number of votes. Sure, there were allegations of malfeasance, but we have that here in America too, with electronic voting machines doing all kinds of fishy things like visibly changing peoples' votes, showing completely different results than exit polling, or even the voting machine company CEO promising to deliver the election to a particular candidate, and we just accept that as "democracy" too.
A lot of people do have problems with it, which is why various systems exist to counter it.
A few people have a problem with it, so in a few small venues (like your examples) there's better systems, but overall there aren't. Heck, if you did a poll of random Americans, you'd probably find most of them think FPTP is just fine and we should stick with that.
Don't worry, at the current rate, your "100's of thousands" mistype will actually be correct in a few days.
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You don't need "overwhelming support of the population" in a democracy. In any election where there's more than 2 candidates, it's entirely likely the winner will not have a clear majority (at least 50% of the vote). You can't call that "not democracy"; restricting a race to 2 candidates is not democratic in any way, unless perhaps you do some kind of runoff voting, which almost no country ever does (there's some local elections here in the US which do this, but only in modern times).
It is entirely democratic for a candidate to win an election with significantly less than 50% of the vote, unless you're going to somehow claim that no first-past-the-post election is democratic, which is just silly since that's how most elections are conducted, flawed as that voting system may be.
When there's more than 2 candidates in an election, you don't need to win an outright majority. Hitler won the 1933 elections with far more votes than the #2 candidate.
It's no different than the US. In the 2000 elections, neither Gore nor Bush won an outright majority of votes, because of Nader. It doesn't matter though: that's how it works when there's more than 2 candidates. In the 1933 German election, there were 6 candidates. Hitler was the clear winner with over 40% of the vote, which isn't that far from what Gore got with only 3 candidates in that race.
This is blatantly false. Hitler won the 1933 federal election in Germany.
Yeah, you're probably right. Carly Fiorina is a good example of this. If I were in her position, I'd just go enjoy my millions and relax, but for some reason she feels compelled to make a fool of herself even more by running for office.
Yes, actually, it is.
If you were in a crowd of leftists, centrists, Democratic voters, liberals, liberal leaners, etc., you'd be correct. This is not a site like that; this is a site full of extremists, both conservative and libertarian. Conservatives hate LGBT rights, and while good libertarians support them since they support equal rights, the extremist libertarians on this site are basically a bunch of assholes who combine social conservatism with extreme economic libertarianism so they don't care about LGBT stuff either.
With a lot of vehicles, you can just go to YouTube these days for simple stuff like that. Everyone and his brother now has YT videos for car repairs.
I just installed a trailer hitch probably 7 or 8 months ago, and I had to remove the back bumper! Of course, this was a TorkLift stealth "EcoHitch" which was hidden up inside the bumper, unlike those Curt hitches that hang underneath the muffler. It was a bit of a job to install it. However the manufacturer helpfully included detailed instructions with pictures (which looked like they were copied from the factory service manual, which I have a copy of) showing how to install it.
But yeah, you're right: most of that stuff is simple. Usually you can google it and find a discussion forum or a YouTube video showing exactly how to do it. If you need a factory manual to change an air filter, you've got issues.
And your point is....?
I'm not talking about Chilton and Hayes, I'm talking about factory service manuals. You can download them online, just like you can download Game of Thrones and just about anything else.
Yep, after all this is over with, she can retire to her private island and laugh at all the people calling her "incompetent".
Yeah, and I consider it about as likely, that's why I brought up New Holland. I also hear Kubota stuff is great.
So basically, it appears we have a situation somewhat similar to OSes: there's one really crappy but very popular OS which advertises to you now, and there's two others which don't, so the people using the first one bitch and complain about the spying and advertising, but keep buying it anyway and say stuff like "when all OSes advertise to you..." even though there's no evidence that the alternatives are going to do that.
From what I've read about it, the Chinese one can do everything the real one can, because it's a duplicate, hardware-wise, and then they give you a pirated copy of the VIDA software. However, if you have to get something special from a Volvo engineer, obviously that's not going to work. So you'd only be able to do stuff that their included software allows.