"Their worker probably does which is why "would the city have more or less money" is a little sneaky question." It's the only question that matters. Whether greater tax revenues are handed to the city because they pay property tax, because they're able to levy direct luxury taxes on boards of directors, or if it comes through employing 000's of people (certainly the most moral of the choices as it both pays the city AND gives 000's of people jobs), the METHOD doesn't matter: at the end of the day, does the city have more dollars with the company or without?
"...if the students in the lecture do not have a sufficient background in maths and physics to understand the material then they are wasting their time and money being there."
Except the students that we're taking about aren't spending their own money, not at all. They are there either on the school's largesse or the taxpayer's.
Not as law, only as custom or practice that was established LONG before the interwebs were a vehicle for commercial traffic. I'd say that it's reasonable to assert that the context has changed from the internet of the 1970s and 80s.
She'll be allowed in other places, say, in hospitals (not that she's sick, or has ever had any medical conditions...ever. Did the Russians tell you that? Fake news! Fake news!)
Cities all over the country are climbing over each other to get Amazon's new building, but the quasi-Marxist city council of Seattle are too stupid to see that companies already paying a shit-ton of taxes don't like to be milked even further.
1) it's CANADA, so really Republicans v Democrats is entirely irrelevant
2) your assertion about which party wants which immigration is entirely pulled from your ass. I could equally assert with as many or more examples of democrats defending and protecting illegal immigrants (Cf the last president) while Republicans are simply anti criminal.
...I was promised the GÃtterdÃmmerung of the internet as every carrier was poised like a sprinter behind their lobbyists to charge me *BILLION$* for my fast internet connection, and that all my packets would suddenly come with a price tag, or be routed into a USB drive carried from house-to-house on a pigeon.
Or, it's going to be pretty much the internet ala Jan 2015, before NN even existed.
...China wasn't taking it because it's some sort of a utopia of recycling.
This story makes it sound like because of Trump, recycling isn't happening any more. Recycling (of these items that are no longer going to China) WAS NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENING. It was being taken out of the sight of effete righteous dilettante Westerners who didn't want to *actually* deal with the hard choices of their 'recycling life style'...and essentially being dumped around the corner in the poor people's neighborhood.
The US is *awash* in recycled paper and plastics. Nobody wants them. Nobody can use them. Even National Geographic, the MOST self-righteously environmental organization, prints its magazine on virgin clay-coated paper, justifying its choice to refuse recycled base by its mission to deliver stunning photography being more important than the small amount of recycled paper it might consume. (Until very recently it wasn't really even recyclable after. That's rationalized HOGWASH.
Nope. The earth has suffered temps much higher and lower AND MUCH FASTER CHANGES.
cf major meteorite strikes (many) and many catalclysmic vulcanic periods. In both cases, the entire climate of the earth was changed radically (usually warmer, obviously) over a span of days, weeks, months, or years. Not decades, not centuries, not millennia. Nearly instantly, in geological terms. And what's the result? An oscillation of climate which brings us back to our current norm.
One thing I didn't mention was that yes, many of these events killed 50, 70, even 96% of existing species...and yet, we wouldn't exist without them. Our rodentate ancestors were given their shot because of the last one. What this proves is that the earth is ASTONISHINGLY fecund; even with life reduced to 4% of existing species, in 200 million years it rebounded to our current world. Amazing testament to the durability of the earth's ecosystem. A bunch of hairless apes burning petrochemicals and driving around in SUVs won't impact that in the *slightest*.
This is why suicides are up, I agree. Oh, not with your facts - your facts are almost entirely wrong, tendentious, or meaningless. What I'm pointing to is YOUR histrionic overreaction to asserted facts that make you think that "everything is terrible"...when in fact, despite what CNN is telling you 24/7: life in 2018 is pretty fucking great by every objective measure.
"The division between the rich and poor, is without a question, worse than it was in 1999.": So? It's better than it was through the bulk of human history.
"the world is straight the fuck up, dying" No, it isn't. Humans have likely overpopulated the planet, but believe me, there will be a correction. And the earth itself? Won't even notice. The earth's ecosystems have been through FAR more cataclysmic changes than humanity could ever inflict at our worst, and after some oscillations, has returned to a fairly stable norm. Yes, likely that correction will kill lots of people but TBH with 7000+ million on the planet, losing even 50-100 million really isn't as big a deal objectively as everyone makes it out to be. (Setting aside "every life is sacred" bullshit that nobody ACTUALLY believes except at their own convenience.)
"Then we have the internet" which is basically the problem.
"Co2 is up, heat is up", the paleoclimate has spiked both CO2 and temps regularly about every 120k-140k years ago. Last one was about...140k years ago. Really, aside from some postmodern ethnocentric narcissism that insists humans are the center of everything, this is normal.
"methane bubbles are going off in siberia", happened before. There's clearly some feedback mechanism that reacts to send the climate plummeting again.
"animals are dying out, bees are dying off" yep, adapt or die; that's how Darwin works. Of course, you're only talking about highly specialized megafauna in regards animals, which are a vanishingly tiny part of the earth's ecosystems. Bees? Try facts, instead of popculture hysteria. https://www.attn.com/stories/1... and http://www.slate.com/articles/...
"America is slowly crumbling into debt." America has been plunging into debt (not slowly) since Vietnam. Think about that: we are the wealthiest society ever in human history, yet we STILL can't pay for everything we want to have. Evolution works by death, and a society so wedded to consumption beyond its means gets what it deserves.
Violent crime is down. Modern politics are far tamer than they were 200 years ago. The economy is roaring ahead. Unemployment is at a long-time low (historic lows for minorities!). Women, minorities, and historically marginalized groups are treated legally fully as equals, and culturally we're getting there. People living at the "poverty line" in the US are better off than 85%+ of the rest of the world, including (by some measures) better than the middle class in Europe. (https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/air-conditioning-cable-tv-and-xbox-what-poverty-the-united-states) From that link:
The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed.The typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
So really...it's you. And people like you. Buying into the tocsin of doom and gloom in the media that is calculated and designed to make you anxious, make you fearful, and make you pay attention because that's how they sell advertising (or worse, manipulate you in other ways).
Because there's a Republican in office. This will get modded troll but it's a fact: homelessness was a cause celebre in the later 80s under Bush I, then VANISHED from headlines 1993-2000 (some how these legions of homeless people found homes instantly?). It reappeared as an American tragedy 2000-2001 (until it was overtaken by other events) until now when it's a "new" crisis. Homelessness as a crisis is reported on only with Republican presidents. A simple LexisNexus search shows this is a fact.
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So you have a breach SIX MONTHS AGO and not only do you not tell anyone, but the day you supposedly announce it, that doesn't seem to make it to your page? Really?
...how much of this is GENUINE analysis, how much is wish-fulfillment, and how much is just telling companies what they want to hear?
5. Voice-controlled products like Amazon Echo are taking off. The Echo's installed base in the U.S. grew from 20 million in the third quarter of 2017 to more than 30 million in the fourth quarter.....and that's it. I understand early-adopters will try anything, but I'm astonished that ANYONE wants what amounts to a live, recording surveillance device in their home.
6. Tech companies are facing a "privacy paradox." They're caught between using data to provide better consumer experiences and violating consumer privacy.....you mean they're caught between their BUSINESS PLAN (which included the monetization of private data) and violating consumer privacy?
And you can't see past ***RACISM!! RACISM!! EVERYONE LOOK I'VE FOUND A DIRTY RACIST OVER HERE!** to see that I'm not **actually** blaming race for crime at all./facepalm.
keep virtue-signaling, I'm sure a member of your tribe will be pleased.
"...The biggest offenders are indeed two of the largest rivers in the world, with the Yangtze and the Ganges carrying over 900,000 tons of plastic between them to the ocean every year.
By comparison, the Thames dumps 19 tons of plastic into the sea annually...."
So while this is a tremendous act of virtue-signaling and public inconvenience for the western world, the impact of this will be...nearly NOTHING.
Jesus it would be nice if politicians in 2018 just once made a decision based on facts, not show. The Left likes to take the Right (often correctly) for their stupid anti-science positions. I would argue this time the shoe is on the other foot...but it's apparently too uncomfortable for affluent, white, western countries to 'call out' 3rd world shitholes for what they actually are and start actually trying to fix their problems that really affect all of us.
"We lost our key" isn't the same as (from TFA): "..."We talked about donating it to a journalism institution, or setting it aside as a scholarship. But we decided that if we gained any benefit from it at all, it would color our future coverage of bitcoin," says Calore. "So we just destroyed the key, knowing full well that it could eventually be worth six or seven figures." McMillan then posted a story announcing the key had been ripped to pieces."
So they didn't LOSE the key, they deliberately and with forethought and recognition of the consequences, destroyed the key.
This is a rather stupid article; essentially it's about how a bunch of people pursued a course of action that...had pretty nearly exactly the result they expected.
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...are you suggesting that we can't simply have everything we want when we want it, and just charge it on our credit card?
Next you're going to say stuff costs money and we have to pay for it.
"Their worker probably does which is why "would the city have more or less money" is a little sneaky question."
It's the only question that matters.
Whether greater tax revenues are handed to the city because they pay property tax, because they're able to levy direct luxury taxes on boards of directors, or if it comes through employing 000's of people (certainly the most moral of the choices as it both pays the city AND gives 000's of people jobs), the METHOD doesn't matter: at the end of the day, does the city have more dollars with the company or without?
"...if the students in the lecture do not have a sufficient background in maths and physics to understand the material then they are wasting their time and money being there."
Except the students that we're taking about aren't spending their own money, not at all. They are there either on the school's largesse or the taxpayer's.
You mean, like the results of a 2 year investigation into Russia/Trump collusion?
Same result.
Not as law, only as custom or practice that was established LONG before the interwebs were a vehicle for commercial traffic. I'd say that it's reasonable to assert that the context has changed from the internet of the 1970s and 80s.
Stop spreading lies.
Thanks.
We're talking about Seattle, not the Federal government.
So if you want to split hairs, let's boil it down: if Amazon COMPLETELY left Seattle, would the city have more or less money coming in?
Only in stores.
She'll be allowed in other places, say, in hospitals (not that she's sick, or has ever had any medical conditions...ever. Did the Russians tell you that? Fake news! Fake news!)
Cities all over the country are climbing over each other to get Amazon's new building, but the quasi-Marxist city council of Seattle are too stupid to see that companies already paying a shit-ton of taxes don't like to be milked even further.
How is this in any way insightful?
1) it's CANADA, so really Republicans v Democrats is entirely irrelevant
2) your assertion about which party wants which immigration is entirely pulled from your ass. I could equally assert with as many or more examples of democrats defending and protecting illegal immigrants (Cf the last president) while Republicans are simply anti criminal.
...I was promised the GÃtterdÃmmerung of the internet as every carrier was poised like a sprinter behind their lobbyists to charge me *BILLION$* for my fast internet connection, and that all my packets would suddenly come with a price tag, or be routed into a USB drive carried from house-to-house on a pigeon.
Or, it's going to be pretty much the internet ala Jan 2015, before NN even existed.
....that LL saying anything is pretty much the DEFINITION of "preaching to the choir". The only people who know who he is likely already agree.
For the other 7 billion people in the world, it's "Larry who?"
...China wasn't taking it because it's some sort of a utopia of recycling.
This story makes it sound like because of Trump, recycling isn't happening any more. Recycling (of these items that are no longer going to China) WAS NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENING. It was being taken out of the sight of effete righteous dilettante Westerners who didn't want to *actually* deal with the hard choices of their 'recycling life style'...and essentially being dumped around the corner in the poor people's neighborhood.
The US is *awash* in recycled paper and plastics. Nobody wants them. Nobody can use them. Even National Geographic, the MOST self-righteously environmental organization, prints its magazine on virgin clay-coated paper, justifying its choice to refuse recycled base by its mission to deliver stunning photography being more important than the small amount of recycled paper it might consume. (Until very recently it wasn't really even recyclable after.
That's rationalized HOGWASH.
"Yes but today's warming is 10 times faster."
Nope. The earth has suffered temps much higher and lower AND MUCH FASTER CHANGES.
cf major meteorite strikes (many) and many catalclysmic vulcanic periods. In both cases, the entire climate of the earth was changed radically (usually warmer, obviously) over a span of days, weeks, months, or years. Not decades, not centuries, not millennia. Nearly instantly, in geological terms. And what's the result? An oscillation of climate which brings us back to our current norm.
One thing I didn't mention was that yes, many of these events killed 50, 70, even 96% of existing species...and yet, we wouldn't exist without them. Our rodentate ancestors were given their shot because of the last one. What this proves is that the earth is ASTONISHINGLY fecund; even with life reduced to 4% of existing species, in 200 million years it rebounded to our current world. Amazing testament to the durability of the earth's ecosystem.
A bunch of hairless apes burning petrochemicals and driving around in SUVs won't impact that in the *slightest*.
By that measure, so is burning gasoline. Carbon isn't created or destroyed, it's merely attached/detached from various other elements.
This is why suicides are up, I agree.
Oh, not with your facts - your facts are almost entirely wrong, tendentious, or meaningless.
What I'm pointing to is YOUR histrionic overreaction to asserted facts that make you think that "everything is terrible"...when in fact, despite what CNN is telling you 24/7: life in 2018 is pretty fucking great by every objective measure.
"The division between the rich and poor, is without a question, worse than it was in 1999.": So? It's better than it was through the bulk of human history.
"the world is straight the fuck up, dying" No, it isn't. Humans have likely overpopulated the planet, but believe me, there will be a correction. And the earth itself? Won't even notice. The earth's ecosystems have been through FAR more cataclysmic changes than humanity could ever inflict at our worst, and after some oscillations, has returned to a fairly stable norm. Yes, likely that correction will kill lots of people but TBH with 7000+ million on the planet, losing even 50-100 million really isn't as big a deal objectively as everyone makes it out to be. (Setting aside "every life is sacred" bullshit that nobody ACTUALLY believes except at their own convenience.)
"Then we have the internet" which is basically the problem.
"Co2 is up, heat is up", the paleoclimate has spiked both CO2 and temps regularly about every 120k-140k years ago. Last one was about...140k years ago. Really, aside from some postmodern ethnocentric narcissism that insists humans are the center of everything, this is normal.
"methane bubbles are going off in siberia", happened before. There's clearly some feedback mechanism that reacts to send the climate plummeting again.
"animals are dying out, bees are dying off" yep, adapt or die; that's how Darwin works. Of course, you're only talking about highly specialized megafauna in regards animals, which are a vanishingly tiny part of the earth's ecosystems. Bees? Try facts, instead of popculture hysteria.
https://www.attn.com/stories/1... and http://www.slate.com/articles/...
"America is slowly crumbling into debt." America has been plunging into debt (not slowly) since Vietnam. Think about that: we are the wealthiest society ever in human history, yet we STILL can't pay for everything we want to have. Evolution works by death, and a society so wedded to consumption beyond its means gets what it deserves.
Violent crime is down. Modern politics are far tamer than they were 200 years ago. The economy is roaring ahead. Unemployment is at a long-time low (historic lows for minorities!). Women, minorities, and historically marginalized groups are treated legally fully as equals, and culturally we're getting there. People living at the "poverty line" in the US are better off than 85%+ of the rest of the world, including (by some measures) better than the middle class in Europe. (https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/air-conditioning-cable-tv-and-xbox-what-poverty-the-united-states) From that link:
So really...it's you. And people like you. Buying into the tocsin of doom and gloom in the media that is calculated and designed to make you anxious, make you fearful, and make you pay attention because that's how they sell advertising (or worse, manipulate you in other ways).
Because there's a Republican in office.
This will get modded troll but it's a fact: homelessness was a cause celebre in the later 80s under Bush I, then VANISHED from headlines 1993-2000 (some how these legions of homeless people found homes instantly?).
It reappeared as an American tragedy 2000-2001 (until it was overtaken by other events) until now when it's a "new" crisis.
Homelessness as a crisis is reported on only with Republican presidents.
A simple LexisNexus search shows this is a fact.
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So you have a breach SIX MONTHS AGO and not only do you not tell anyone, but the day you supposedly announce it, that doesn't seem to make it to your page? Really?
That is the most ludicrous retelling of Venezuela's recent history I've ever heard. Thanks for the chuckle.
"....some of those wounds were self inflicted..." Some?
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...how much of this is GENUINE analysis, how much is wish-fulfillment, and how much is just telling companies what they want to hear?
5. Voice-controlled products like Amazon Echo are taking off. The Echo's installed base in the U.S. grew from 20 million in the third quarter of 2017 to more than 30 million in the fourth quarter. ....and that's it. I understand early-adopters will try anything, but I'm astonished that ANYONE wants what amounts to a live, recording surveillance device in their home.
6. Tech companies are facing a "privacy paradox." They're caught between using data to provide better consumer experiences and violating consumer privacy. ....you mean they're caught between their BUSINESS PLAN (which included the monetization of private data) and violating consumer privacy?
...I'll just tell you now that Intellivision SUCKED.
I never had any of the game systems - Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, etc but played them incessantly at friends houses.
And NOBODY wanted to go over any play Kelly's intellivision. Nobody. The controllers sucked so bad.
How about we start with the one that's ACTUAL, OBSERVABLE pollution instead of the faintly-painted-over redistributive ecomarxism?
And you can't see past ***RACISM!! RACISM!! EVERYONE LOOK I'VE FOUND A DIRTY RACIST OVER HERE!** to see that I'm not **actually** blaming race for crime at all. /facepalm.
keep virtue-signaling, I'm sure a member of your tribe will be pleased.
It's worse than that:
10 Rivers contribute 90% of the plastic in the oceans:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/...
"...The biggest offenders are indeed two of the largest rivers in the world, with the Yangtze and the Ganges carrying over 900,000 tons of plastic between them to the ocean every year.
By comparison, the Thames dumps 19 tons of plastic into the sea annually...."
So while this is a tremendous act of virtue-signaling and public inconvenience for the western world, the impact of this will be...nearly NOTHING.
Jesus it would be nice if politicians in 2018 just once made a decision based on facts, not show.
The Left likes to take the Right (often correctly) for their stupid anti-science positions. I would argue this time the shoe is on the other foot...but it's apparently too uncomfortable for affluent, white, western countries to 'call out' 3rd world shitholes for what they actually are and start actually trying to fix their problems that really affect all of us.
"We lost our key"
isn't the same as (from TFA):
"..."We talked about donating it to a journalism institution, or setting it aside as a scholarship. But we decided that if we gained any benefit from it at all, it would color our future coverage of bitcoin," says Calore. "So we just destroyed the key, knowing full well that it could eventually be worth six or seven figures." McMillan then posted a story announcing the key had been ripped to pieces."
So they didn't LOSE the key, they deliberately and with forethought and recognition of the consequences, destroyed the key.
This is a rather stupid article; essentially it's about how a bunch of people pursued a course of action that...had pretty nearly exactly the result they expected.
Slow news day, Wired?