He's non-white. With an Arabic name. Frankly, it's a miracle he wasn't executed on the spot by the police for "resisting arrest". He and his parents need to get the hell out of Texas. And the south in general.
the ONLY reason we have to have "electronic" voting AT ALL, is because the TV news media wants the results before voting has even ended.
Paper ballots require that they be actually COUNTED. But with electronic systems, you can see where the voting is headed before the polls have even closed.
Which is great for TV media, because they get to turn the entire thing into a horse race, and keep you on the edge of your seat, eating popcorn, watching their holograms and pie charts, and of course their commercials, so that they can rake in money on election night.
So; since this whole thing is about benefitting Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Disney, Sumner Redstone and whoever owns NBC, MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT.
The state is still a hell-hole of stupidity, ignorance and illiteracy. Just get on Craigslist and look at how people write their ads. They can't spell anything correctly; it's quite literally:
"Fer Sale; 1981 Chexy Camero, just fixed the breaks, run good now, 383 small block, edelbrock heads % headers, swaped in truck axle aded lift kit. New Triers. Sum rust.
I mean, if they are so afraid of not having god be the center of all schooling, can't you get away with saying that Two Plus Two Equals Five 'Cause God?
I mean, if you can't teach science at all because "god"; then how do you teach anything else. Is History class all about how God created the heavens and the earth and the planet is 6000 years old?
It seems to me that you can use that as the basic answer to anything ; "because God". And then scare teachers into accepting that because they don't want to lose their jobs.
To keep things nice and germ free in hospitals, for the last 50 years we've been wiping everything down with Lysol. And for a good 30 to 35 years, that worked pretty well. Then, about 20 or so years ago, it started getting harder to kill everything with Lysol.
Bacteria developed which was Lysol-resistant. Now, how do you suppose that happened? Unicorn-farts?
The irony is that, hospitals, once the cleanest places in the world, are now one of the most bacteria-ridden despite an on-going war to sterilize as much as possible.
Would you like to propose some alternate theory that doesn't utilize evolution to explain what's happening right in front of your eyes? And I mean one that doesn't involve any magic men in the sky who are everywhere and invisible?
And this person paid probably less than $10,000 for this operation, whereas, in the United States, with the greatest healthcare system in the world, the person would have simply died because he couldn't afford the $2 million pricetag.
Please pull out your calculator and just try and figure out what even a 0.5 degree temp difference means when applied worldwide.
You're talking about much more energetic storms. Now judging by your Faux News brainwashed redneck post, I'm sure you live nowhere near a hurricane, but those tornadoes are more than likely to rip your trailer-home to shreds.
In fact, the only good news about Global Warming is that it will completely eliminate Florida. All the oceans have to do is rise a few more inches. Which is coming by 2050.
Mars is smaller than Earth. Gravity-wise, Mars can't hold on to an atmosphere the way the Earth can. Plus solar wind, plus lack of protection from cosmic radiation.
It would be like living on top of Everest. O2 would be scarce, and it would bleed away quickly. Plus you couldn't stay out long without radiation shielding.
We can terraform Mars, but it would be expensive and not worth it. Easier and cheaper to do something about the runaway greenhouse issue on Venus; thin things out, reduce the atmospheric pressure, and there you've got something sustainable. Venus could even house enough solar to provide excess power to Earth, making it a useful colony. Mars would be like a welfare baby where we never stop having to provide for it.
They basically changed the typeface from a Serif typeface to a non-serif typeface. Why? Because more people access Google from their tiny telephone screens, where the serifs get lost anyhow.
You wrote: "Robots will exponentially decrease the costs of goods and services until they they cost nothing,"
And we've been told this lie before, with other things. Consider nuclear power. Nuclear was sold to the masses as "Electricity so cheap, there will be no need to meter". In other words, the dream of nuclear power was to make it so cheap, it would be free or close to free.
And that was the 1960's. Are we there yet? Because I've only seen my power bill go up. Nuclear was a nice experiment, but it was both more expensive than predicted, and fraught with unforeseen complications.
Trust me when I say that the robot "revolution" will be no different. There will be unexpected costs and complications, making those goods and services cost just as much, while still displacing workers who required income for those goods and services.
And let's not forget the factor of greed. Unless our society sees some kind of critical shift, the "job creators" (i.e; the 1%) will see this as an opportunity for greater profits, and will NOT pass the decreased costs to the consumer.
It's a utopian fantasy to suggest that we will not need incomes when we're all out of work. Hell, we don't even have universal healthcare in the USA, and we're the richest economy on earth, so there's clearly something wrong here. We already have have 20 million below the poverty line, and that number is growing.
Can anyone who's a member of the GOP *explain* why the party of "Smaller Government" always wants to expand government when it comes to spying on US citizens and expanding the military?
Why does it always come down to "cut social programs because we're broke", but "no spending limit for bombs/aircraft carriers"?
And while we're at it, can someone explain why "every life is precious" when it comes to abortion, but then have no problem thowing away lives on useless wars, and expanding the death penalty to include petty theft?
Why will they spend every dollar to force an unwed mother to bring her child to birth and then refuse to support it in any way once it's out of her womb?
And why are these questions NEVER ASKED at a "debate"?
The early 707s were SCREAMERS. They had a high-pitched whine that made you hold your ears when they flew over. And that was just landings, I can't even imagine take-offs. As a kid, I lived in a place called Rosedale, just a few miles from JFK airport in Queens NYC.
The Concorde however, was a lower rumble. On landing, they weren't terribly noisy, although you heard them further out and the sound was so distinctive you knew it was coming at least 5 minutes ahead of it being visible. And what a sight! They came in at a high angle of attack, very nose-high, and with the beak of the plane drooped, and the landing gear extended, the plane looked like some kind of bird of prey about to swoop down and grab a mouse off a field.
It does need to be noted that Concorde flew mostly while turbofans were the norm, so most planes were quieter than it. The 707 flew when most other planes were still prop-driven, and it was only in the first few years of Concorde operation that 707s still flew (they were being phased out); but even by that time, they had made some changes to the engines to make the 707s less screechy.
That said, every plane had a distinctive engine sound, and if you lived in my area long enough, you could learn to identify which plane was flying over you simply from the sound. It got to the point where I never even had to look up, and I could name every aircraft coming over the house.
When a big Bank breaks the law, they are fined a tiny percentage of the money they made breaking the law. If a Bank makes $500 million illegally, their fine comes out to something like $20 million.
If corporations are people, it should work the other way as well. Therefore, if someone downloads a movie they would have otherwise paid $14 to see in a theater, the fine should be about 2 bucks.
The only reason fines are so huge for file sharers is because every company thinks that whatever crap it is that they "own" (i.e. "intellectual property") is always worth millions or billions, but it's not. Hell, CEOs probably take a dump in the executive crapper and think it's worth billions.
I recently had a fire, and lost plenty of property, both real and intellectual. Do you think the insurance company compensated me for millions or billions?
Why are things held to one standard for large corporations, while ignoring people? Why are rights several curtailed for actual people? Why is property move valuable than life?
I, uh, I dropped it. Who's brain did you get? Abby, Abby someone. Abby Normal I think. You mean to tell me that I put an Abnormal brain into a 74 inch tall, 54 inch wide.... GORILLLA!!?
RestoMods are where you take an older car and upgrade it to more modern standards. Thus, you get the best of both worlds; superior handling and acceleration, some added safety features, and a car that looks vintage, styled to stand out from the crowd of oval-shaped vehicles.
There's even an upgraded pan for the VW Beetle that provides disc brakes, better handling and smoother ride; as well as a large assortment of engines that can provide anything from mild performance to tire squealing, drag-strip style that'll smoke most other cars.
And yes, almost all RestoMods eschew too much electronics, which make the cars as unhackable as they were when they were original 60's and 70's cars.
They could save more water even cheaper if they ENFORCED the law and arrested RICH PEOPLE continuing to water their lawns despite the drought.
The rich entitled pricks continue to waste water by the millions of gallons because "they pay taxes", and therefore, deserve water more than poor people who want to drink it.
But do you think any millionaire/billionaire will ever serve even a single day in jail? PSHAW. There's a different "justice" system for the ruling class.
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He's non-white. With an Arabic name. Frankly, it's a miracle he wasn't executed on the spot by the police for "resisting arrest". He and his parents need to get the hell out of Texas. And the south in general.
the ONLY reason we have to have "electronic" voting AT ALL, is because the TV news media wants the results before voting has even ended.
Paper ballots require that they be actually COUNTED. But with electronic systems, you can see where the voting is headed before the polls have even closed.
Which is great for TV media, because they get to turn the entire thing into a horse race, and keep you on the edge of your seat, eating popcorn, watching their holograms and pie charts, and of course their commercials, so that they can rake in money on election night.
So; since this whole thing is about benefitting Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Disney, Sumner Redstone and whoever owns NBC, MAKE THEM PAY FOR IT.
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.....
The state is still a hell-hole of stupidity, ignorance and illiteracy. Just get on Craigslist and look at how people write their ads. They can't spell anything correctly; it's quite literally:
"Fer Sale; 1981 Chexy Camero, just fixed the breaks, run good now, 383 small block, edelbrock heads % headers, swaped in truck axle aded lift kit. New Triers. Sum rust.
I mean, if they are so afraid of not having god be the center of all schooling, can't you get away with saying that Two Plus Two Equals Five 'Cause God?
I mean, if you can't teach science at all because "god"; then how do you teach anything else. Is History class all about how God created the heavens and the earth and the planet is 6000 years old?
It seems to me that you can use that as the basic answer to anything ; "because God". And then scare teachers into accepting that because they don't want to lose their jobs.
To keep things nice and germ free in hospitals, for the last 50 years we've been wiping everything down with Lysol. And for a good 30 to 35 years, that worked pretty well. Then, about 20 or so years ago, it started getting harder to kill everything with Lysol.
Bacteria developed which was Lysol-resistant. Now, how do you suppose that happened? Unicorn-farts?
The irony is that, hospitals, once the cleanest places in the world, are now one of the most bacteria-ridden despite an on-going war to sterilize as much as possible.
Would you like to propose some alternate theory that doesn't utilize evolution to explain what's happening right in front of your eyes? And I mean one that doesn't involve any magic men in the sky who are everywhere and invisible?
And this person paid probably less than $10,000 for this operation, whereas, in the United States, with the greatest healthcare system in the world, the person would have simply died because he couldn't afford the $2 million pricetag.
Please pull out your calculator and just try and figure out what even a 0.5 degree temp difference means when applied worldwide.
You're talking about much more energetic storms. Now judging by your Faux News brainwashed redneck post, I'm sure you live nowhere near a hurricane, but those tornadoes are more than likely to rip your trailer-home to shreds.
In fact, the only good news about Global Warming is that it will completely eliminate Florida. All the oceans have to do is rise a few more inches. Which is coming by 2050.
Mars is smaller than Earth. Gravity-wise, Mars can't hold on to an atmosphere the way the Earth can. Plus solar wind, plus lack of protection from cosmic radiation.
It would be like living on top of Everest. O2 would be scarce, and it would bleed away quickly. Plus you couldn't stay out long without radiation shielding.
We can terraform Mars, but it would be expensive and not worth it. Easier and cheaper to do something about the runaway greenhouse issue on Venus; thin things out, reduce the atmospheric pressure, and there you've got something sustainable. Venus could even house enough solar to provide excess power to Earth, making it a useful colony. Mars would be like a welfare baby where we never stop having to provide for it.
Global Warming doesn't exist, The Earth was created in Six Days, Woman evolved from Adam's Rib, and liberal policies are destroying the planet.
THIS explains why Starbuck's WiFi is maxed out!
I thought someone was downloading porn.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Failing that, why not "ubid.com?" after all, their TV commercials claim you can buy a Macbook there for twenty bucks!
Then, when you can't, sue them for false advertising, and use your windfall to purchase all the kids some laptops.
If there's a Chinese space station, she can use their Soyuz clone to get back to earth after the shuttle and the ISS is destroyed.
They basically changed the typeface from a Serif typeface to a non-serif typeface. Why? Because more people access Google from their tiny telephone screens, where the serifs get lost anyhow.
You're obviously not aware of what kinds of decision trees are at work within trading programs.
You wrote:
"Robots will exponentially decrease the costs of goods and services until they they cost nothing,"
And we've been told this lie before, with other things. Consider nuclear power. Nuclear was sold to the masses as "Electricity so cheap, there will be no need to meter". In other words, the dream of nuclear power was to make it so cheap, it would be free or close to free.
And that was the 1960's. Are we there yet? Because I've only seen my power bill go up. Nuclear was a nice experiment, but it was both more expensive than predicted, and fraught with unforeseen complications.
Trust me when I say that the robot "revolution" will be no different. There will be unexpected costs and complications, making those goods and services cost just as much, while still displacing workers who required income for those goods and services.
And let's not forget the factor of greed. Unless our society sees some kind of critical shift, the "job creators" (i.e; the 1%) will see this as an opportunity for greater profits, and will NOT pass the decreased costs to the consumer.
It's a utopian fantasy to suggest that we will not need incomes when we're all out of work. Hell, we don't even have universal healthcare in the USA, and we're the richest economy on earth, so there's clearly something wrong here. We already have have 20 million below the poverty line, and that number is growing.
When he was CEO of SUN, Scott was once quoted as saying "You already have no privacy. Get over it."
Or we should, considering how broadly we interpret the 2nd Amendment. If you go by the NRA's assessment, all US citizens have the right to have guns.
However, the 2nd Amendment says "arms"; which can also be interpreted as *any* type of weapon, including explosives.
However; explosives are prohibited because our corporate masters are more concerned about property damage than about the lives of people.
Consider what the TSA is really protecting; not the lives of people on the plane, but the plane itself, which is worth hundreds of millions.
Can anyone who's a member of the GOP *explain* why the party of "Smaller Government" always wants to expand government when it comes to spying on US citizens and expanding the military?
Why does it always come down to "cut social programs because we're broke", but "no spending limit for bombs/aircraft carriers"?
And while we're at it, can someone explain why "every life is precious" when it comes to abortion, but then have no problem thowing away lives on useless wars, and expanding the death penalty to include petty theft?
Why will they spend every dollar to force an unwed mother to bring her child to birth and then refuse to support it in any way once it's out of her womb?
And why are these questions NEVER ASKED at a "debate"?
The early 707s were SCREAMERS. They had a high-pitched whine that made you hold your ears when they flew over. And that was just landings, I can't even imagine take-offs. As a kid, I lived in a place called Rosedale, just a few miles from JFK airport in Queens NYC.
The Concorde however, was a lower rumble. On landing, they weren't terribly noisy, although you heard them further out and the sound was so distinctive you knew it was coming at least 5 minutes ahead of it being visible. And what a sight! They came in at a high angle of attack, very nose-high, and with the beak of the plane drooped, and the landing gear extended, the plane looked like some kind of bird of prey about to swoop down and grab a mouse off a field.
It does need to be noted that Concorde flew mostly while turbofans were the norm, so most planes were quieter than it. The 707 flew when most other planes were still prop-driven, and it was only in the first few years of Concorde operation that 707s still flew (they were being phased out); but even by that time, they had made some changes to the engines to make the 707s less screechy.
That said, every plane had a distinctive engine sound, and if you lived in my area long enough, you could learn to identify which plane was flying over you simply from the sound. It got to the point where I never even had to look up, and I could name every aircraft coming over the house.
Exactly how is Hooperfly different from Brundlefly?
And what happens when you run both of them through the telepod?
When a big Bank breaks the law, they are fined a tiny percentage of the money they made breaking the law. If a Bank makes $500 million illegally, their fine comes out to something like $20 million.
If corporations are people, it should work the other way as well. Therefore, if someone downloads a movie they would have otherwise paid $14 to see in a theater, the fine should be about 2 bucks.
The only reason fines are so huge for file sharers is because every company thinks that whatever crap it is that they "own" (i.e. "intellectual property") is always worth millions or billions, but it's not. Hell, CEOs probably take a dump in the executive crapper and think it's worth billions.
I recently had a fire, and lost plenty of property, both real and intellectual. Do you think the insurance company compensated me for millions or billions?
Why are things held to one standard for large corporations, while ignoring people? Why are rights several curtailed for actual people? Why is property move valuable than life?
I, uh, I dropped it.
Who's brain did you get?
Abby, Abby someone. Abby Normal I think.
You mean to tell me that I put an Abnormal brain into a 74 inch tall, 54 inch wide.... GORILLLA!!?
RestoMods are where you take an older car and upgrade it to more modern standards. Thus, you get the best of both worlds; superior handling and acceleration, some added safety features, and a car that looks vintage, styled to stand out from the crowd of oval-shaped vehicles.
There's even an upgraded pan for the VW Beetle that provides disc brakes, better handling and smoother ride; as well as a large assortment of engines that can provide anything from mild performance to tire squealing, drag-strip style that'll smoke most other cars.
And yes, almost all RestoMods eschew too much electronics, which make the cars as unhackable as they were when they were original 60's and 70's cars.
They could save more water even cheaper if they ENFORCED the law and arrested RICH PEOPLE continuing to water their lawns despite the drought.
The rich entitled pricks continue to waste water by the millions of gallons because "they pay taxes", and therefore, deserve water more than poor people who want to drink it.
But do you think any millionaire/billionaire will ever serve even a single day in jail? PSHAW. There's a different "justice" system for the ruling class.