If you can't understand that we are the United STATES of America, and not just "America", as in, one huge monolithic overbearing federal government, then the whole concept of the country is lost on you.
You appear to be trying to invoke the need for small states to balance their power against large states. Small states gain their power through overrepresentation in the Senate, not the Electoral College.
Wyoming got 3 electoral college votes instead of the roughly 1 they should have gotten based only on population. California got 55 votes. 3 does not cancel 55, especially when both states got exactly the same number of votes from their senators.
Much more to the point, neither Wyoming nor California were relevant in the 2016 election, just like the vast majority of states are not relevant. In 2016 they were going to vote for one party, regardless of the candidate. This demonstrates the problem with the Electoral College and the "United STATES of America" - only 5 states matter. The remaining 45 have no effect on the election, thanks to the structure of the Electoral College. That's a big problem if you're arguing for a confederation of states as opposed to direct democracy.
Sure there is. You can add up all the confirmed cases of in-person voting fraud, and use it as an estimate of how likely it is that there are millions of people committing in-person voter fraud in California.
In the 2016 election there were....4 cases. Across the entire United States. Btw, two were Trump voters, so our massive number of four cases were not exactly shifting the electoral results to one party.
That makes it really, really unlikely that there are millions of cases of in-person voter fraud in California. Especially since it would require millions of people to not talk about their crimes.
There's also the fact that public polling in California does not indicate a latent Republican majority being defrauded. And if you want to claim that's just the ebil librul media, Fox News polling shows the same.
But people like you will pay lots of money for entertainers to lie to you about voter fraud, so they're gonna keep lying to you.
And even in these "unreliable" vessels they had: air, water, temperature. Wind for propulsion. Gravity for health. Water for floating. Fish in the ocean. For free.
The water was salt water and not drinkable. They brought the water that they drank (in the form of grog or beer so it wouldn't kill them).
Not many fish are found near the surface in the middle of the oceans. Fisheries are near the coasts where the fish can find food. So no, they couldn't just toss a net overboard and haul in dinner. So they had to bring a food supply too.
Space adds the issue of bringing along air, but that's a pretty easy problem to solve compared to food and water.
Huh! That's odd, not one of those groups represent Trump or Republicans in any way.
That's because the goal is to split the Democratic vote. Much like one of the main goals in the 2016 efforts was to hurt Democratic turnout.
The people who are going to vote for Trump and allies are gonna vote. If they're still on board, they are REALLY on board. They are as excited as possible, so they do not need a program to boost their excitement. Fox News is sufficient to keep them going to the polls.
It's the opposition that is more fickle in going to the polls, so you apply your efforts there. Get Trump-regret people to just stay home instead of voting for a Democrat. Get Democrats to be so upset at some DLC-ish candidates that they continue to stay home or vote third party. Warn DLC-ish Democrats about the horrors of Socialism coming from these crazy Millennial candidates so that they don't vote for the Democrat in their race. And so on.
Yes there are plenty of dumb degrees and people keep studying them. This is a major problem.
No, it really isn't. The vast majority of degrees that are awarded are not "dumb". The majority of people who can't find work have a "smart" degree.
If you want another example, let's take Law that you mentioned. There's a massive unemployment problem among people with JDs. We're making faaaaaaar too many. Yet no one cites JD as a "dumb" degree.
You aren't. We are living in an attempt to sell off everything accomplished in the mid 20th century for short-term gain. The people getting rich from this are not at all concerned about the long-term.
Because of the stupidity in the first sentence. It's a very common right-wing talking point that all the people with college degrees, who can't find jobs that use those degrees, were in "dumb" majors.
It's a lovely-sounding talking point that lays the blame on the recent graduate so that you don't have to do anything to fix it. Problem is it's completely false.
For example, STEM degrees are something that poster would generally consider "something society needs". The US graduates 1.5 STEM students for every 1 entry-level STEM job opening.
I see nuclear power has now finally gone beyond being ignored. Seems we're at the "laugh at you" stage now.
Nope. We aren't laughing. We're shaking our heads at your uselessness.
France, the most nuclear-power-friendly country on the planet, just abandoned their latest nuclear power plant project mid-construction. Because it costs too much.
Doesn't matter how many youtube videos you put out, you can't get the cost down low enough....Perhaps the next cost-cutting step should be not producing youtube videos.
- "But night!!" - "But this won't immediately cover all electricity generation, so it's useless." - "Nuclear is the only answer. Please ignore the multiple nuclear plants under construction that have been abandoned in multiple countries." - "I suddenly really, really, really care about birds, yet have completely forgotten about harm to birds from pollution." - "What we really need is a physically impossible electrical grid that covers (insert very large geographic area here)." - Elon Musk is a hero or a villain. - "My calculations based on retail power costs in a different place, as well as a massive overestimate of the maintenance costs, indicate this plant could never possibly be profitable."
They're required to sell the infrastructure to someone else. If they fail to do so in a timely manner, then eminent domain-style action will probably take place.
They failed to meet their deadlines and other commitments before the union fight started.
And there's things like pulling permits which do not require union work, and the lack of such activities demonstrates they aren't particularly gung-ho on actually meeting those commitments.
Gotta love the folks who just skip over the "failure to meet deadlines", "failure to serve rural areas as agreed", and "failure to meet obligations they agreed to in TWC merger" parts.
How DARE these evil regulators require a business do what it said it would do. This must be all about unions.
Grow a brain. I don't need to cite that - I cited the actual ACLU memo setting out their new policy of allowing "impact on the equality and justice work" to outweigh free speech.
Yet you can't actually find a case where it did.....odd for such a terrible and immediate problem.
It's almost like the ACLU is trying to navigate the complexities of balancing free speech with other Constitutional rights - you screaming in someone's face that they are "an illegal" in an attempt to intimidate them into not voting isn't just a free speech issue. And since the ACLU's mission has never been limited only to free speech, that balance is what they have to do.
Guess your fellow Klansmen will have to come up with their own lawyers for that case - which doesn't exist - in order to "save" democracy.
But always assuming the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful.
This is a tool for the police to arrest more people. It will be used in the worst possible way.
Take field drug test kits as an example. So incredibly unreliable that they are not admissible in court.....but you can use them to arrest someone. And with their incredibly high false positive rate, they arrest a lot of people. As an added bonus, the people arrested via this method don't have legal recourse for the false arrest. The cop had probable cause due to the drug test kit.
So no, it is a terrible idea to wait until the police start with the worst possible use.
So....You're mad that the ACLU is not doing more to defend white supremacists.
Could you cite an actual case that the ACLU should have taken to defend white supremacists? Or are you one of those folks who need a safe space to talk about your "innovative" racial theories without facing any repercussions from other people exercising their free speech and/or right of association?
You would hope the cops arn't crazy enough to start arresting people based entirely on the matching system and at least look at the profiles to confirm.
What about recent law enforcement activities have given you any reason for this hope?
You "match", you get arrested. And held until you can pay the bail for your "crime", or decide to plead to a lesser charge for time served.
Meanwhile, your life is completely destroyed while you're in jail, because you can't work, can't pay your bills, lose your house because you can't pay the mortgage/rent, can't care for your kids, and so on. So there's a ton of pressure to plead to something just to stop the destruction. And when you do, the cops have "solved" the crime and look good.
It is a W3C standard that has been deprecated in favor of v1. It's still a standard. One that Mozilla decided to not implement, largely because they could see v1 coming.
But v1 coming does not require Google to not write anything in v1, especially since it was probably the active standard when they started the project.
Also, v1 is a superset of v0. So v1 support would probably give Firefox the higher speed anyway.
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If you can't understand that we are the United STATES of America, and not just "America", as in, one huge monolithic overbearing federal government, then the whole concept of the country is lost on you.
You appear to be trying to invoke the need for small states to balance their power against large states. Small states gain their power through overrepresentation in the Senate, not the Electoral College.
Wyoming got 3 electoral college votes instead of the roughly 1 they should have gotten based only on population. California got 55 votes. 3 does not cancel 55, especially when both states got exactly the same number of votes from their senators.
Much more to the point, neither Wyoming nor California were relevant in the 2016 election, just like the vast majority of states are not relevant. In 2016 they were going to vote for one party, regardless of the candidate. This demonstrates the problem with the Electoral College and the "United STATES of America" - only 5 states matter. The remaining 45 have no effect on the election, thanks to the structure of the Electoral College. That's a big problem if you're arguing for a confederation of states as opposed to direct democracy.
Sure there is. You can add up all the confirmed cases of in-person voting fraud, and use it as an estimate of how likely it is that there are millions of people committing in-person voter fraud in California.
In the 2016 election there were....4 cases. Across the entire United States. Btw, two were Trump voters, so our massive number of four cases were not exactly shifting the electoral results to one party.
That makes it really, really unlikely that there are millions of cases of in-person voter fraud in California. Especially since it would require millions of people to not talk about their crimes.
There's also the fact that public polling in California does not indicate a latent Republican majority being defrauded. And if you want to claim that's just the ebil librul media, Fox News polling shows the same.
But people like you will pay lots of money for entertainers to lie to you about voter fraud, so they're gonna keep lying to you.
And even in these "unreliable" vessels they had: air, water, temperature. Wind for propulsion. Gravity for health. Water for floating. Fish in the ocean. For free.
The water was salt water and not drinkable. They brought the water that they drank (in the form of grog or beer so it wouldn't kill them).
Not many fish are found near the surface in the middle of the oceans. Fisheries are near the coasts where the fish can find food. So no, they couldn't just toss a net overboard and haul in dinner. So they had to bring a food supply too.
Space adds the issue of bringing along air, but that's a pretty easy problem to solve compared to food and water.
Huh! That's odd, not one of those groups represent Trump or Republicans in any way.
That's because the goal is to split the Democratic vote. Much like one of the main goals in the 2016 efforts was to hurt Democratic turnout.
The people who are going to vote for Trump and allies are gonna vote. If they're still on board, they are REALLY on board. They are as excited as possible, so they do not need a program to boost their excitement. Fox News is sufficient to keep them going to the polls.
It's the opposition that is more fickle in going to the polls, so you apply your efforts there. Get Trump-regret people to just stay home instead of voting for a Democrat. Get Democrats to be so upset at some DLC-ish candidates that they continue to stay home or vote third party. Warn DLC-ish Democrats about the horrors of Socialism coming from these crazy Millennial candidates so that they don't vote for the Democrat in their race. And so on.
traditional news agencies that are held accountable.
The best comedy is always in the comments.
Then why charge $7500/yr and then have an expensive-to-administer program to refund a large portion of that?
Just charge "free".
Yes there are plenty of dumb degrees and people keep studying them. This is a major problem.
No, it really isn't. The vast majority of degrees that are awarded are not "dumb". The majority of people who can't find work have a "smart" degree.
If you want another example, let's take Law that you mentioned. There's a massive unemployment problem among people with JDs. We're making faaaaaaar too many. Yet no one cites JD as a "dumb" degree.
Depends where -- in NY state, public university tuition is maximum about $7500/yr for undergraduate in-state
$7500/year is 682 hours at NY's minimum wage. There are roughly 480 full-time job hours during the summer.
So it's only 202 hours under what you can make during the summer.....assuming you do not eat, do not need books or other supplies, and don't pay rent.
You aren't. We are living in an attempt to sell off everything accomplished in the mid 20th century for short-term gain. The people getting rich from this are not at all concerned about the long-term.
Because of the stupidity in the first sentence. It's a very common right-wing talking point that all the people with college degrees, who can't find jobs that use those degrees, were in "dumb" majors.
It's a lovely-sounding talking point that lays the blame on the recent graduate so that you don't have to do anything to fix it. Problem is it's completely false.
For example, STEM degrees are something that poster would generally consider "something society needs". The US graduates 1.5 STEM students for every 1 entry-level STEM job opening.
I see nuclear power has now finally gone beyond being ignored. Seems we're at the "laugh at you" stage now.
Nope. We aren't laughing. We're shaking our heads at your uselessness.
France, the most nuclear-power-friendly country on the planet, just abandoned their latest nuclear power plant project mid-construction. Because it costs too much.
Doesn't matter how many youtube videos you put out, you can't get the cost down low enough....Perhaps the next cost-cutting step should be not producing youtube videos.
- "But night!!"
- "But this won't immediately cover all electricity generation, so it's useless."
- "Nuclear is the only answer. Please ignore the multiple nuclear plants under construction that have been abandoned in multiple countries."
- "I suddenly really, really, really care about birds, yet have completely forgotten about harm to birds from pollution."
- "What we really need is a physically impossible electrical grid that covers (insert very large geographic area here)."
- Elon Musk is a hero or a villain.
- "My calculations based on retail power costs in a different place, as well as a massive overestimate of the maintenance costs, indicate this plant could never possibly be profitable."
Charter and the PSC agreed to them as part of the approval for the TWC purchase.
They're required to sell the infrastructure to someone else. If they fail to do so in a timely manner, then eminent domain-style action will probably take place.
They failed to meet their deadlines and other commitments before the union fight started.
And there's things like pulling permits which do not require union work, and the lack of such activities demonstrates they aren't particularly gung-ho on actually meeting those commitments.
Gotta love the folks who just skip over the "failure to meet deadlines", "failure to serve rural areas as agreed", and "failure to meet obligations they agreed to in TWC merger" parts.
How DARE these evil regulators require a business do what it said it would do. This must be all about unions.
Grow a brain. I don't need to cite that - I cited the actual ACLU memo setting out their new policy of allowing "impact on the equality and justice work" to outweigh free speech.
Yet you can't actually find a case where it did.....odd for such a terrible and immediate problem.
It's almost like the ACLU is trying to navigate the complexities of balancing free speech with other Constitutional rights - you screaming in someone's face that they are "an illegal" in an attempt to intimidate them into not voting isn't just a free speech issue. And since the ACLU's mission has never been limited only to free speech, that balance is what they have to do.
Guess your fellow Klansmen will have to come up with their own lawyers for that case - which doesn't exist - in order to "save" democracy.
And now that recruiter has your rejection (and mine and a few others) to use as proof that they need an H1B visa.
But always assuming the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful.
This is a tool for the police to arrest more people. It will be used in the worst possible way.
Take field drug test kits as an example. So incredibly unreliable that they are not admissible in court.....but you can use them to arrest someone. And with their incredibly high false positive rate, they arrest a lot of people. As an added bonus, the people arrested via this method don't have legal recourse for the false arrest. The cop had probable cause due to the drug test kit.
So no, it is a terrible idea to wait until the police start with the worst possible use.
Could you cite an actual case that the ACLU should have taken to defend white supremacists?
You skipped over that part in your self-righteous tirade.
What case should the ACLU have supported that they did not?
Has the ACLU ever supported a straight white person against discrimination from any other classification of human beings?
The ACLU has supported the KKK in past legal cases. So yes.
Now, could you cite an actual case that the ACLU should have taken to defend white supremacists?
So....You're mad that the ACLU is not doing more to defend white supremacists.
Could you cite an actual case that the ACLU should have taken to defend white supremacists? Or are you one of those folks who need a safe space to talk about your "innovative" racial theories without facing any repercussions from other people exercising their free speech and/or right of association?
You would hope the cops arn't crazy enough to start arresting people based entirely on the matching system and at least look at the profiles to confirm.
What about recent law enforcement activities have given you any reason for this hope?
You "match", you get arrested. And held until you can pay the bail for your "crime", or decide to plead to a lesser charge for time served.
Meanwhile, your life is completely destroyed while you're in jail, because you can't work, can't pay your bills, lose your house because you can't pay the mortgage/rent, can't care for your kids, and so on. So there's a ton of pressure to plead to something just to stop the destruction. And when you do, the cops have "solved" the crime and look good.
but the bigger question is why Youtube chose v0 rather than v1 that everyone is working to support.
My guess is Youtube probably started on the project when v0 was the active standard.
Also, AFAIK they didn't do anything that is v0-specific. So v1 support in Firefox should give it the same "higher speed" as Chrome.
It is a W3C standard that has been deprecated in favor of v1. It's still a standard. One that Mozilla decided to not implement, largely because they could see v1 coming.
But v1 coming does not require Google to not write anything in v1, especially since it was probably the active standard when they started the project.
Also, v1 is a superset of v0. So v1 support would probably give Firefox the higher speed anyway.