A few things for you to gnaw on in the corner of your mother's basement:
First: You can't hack a server once it has been taken offline and the information wiped from the drives. It isn't possible. To make it possible for ANYONE to hack it you would have to go back in time. And no, not now you mental midget, then...at the exact time those statements were made the dismantling and wiping of the server had already happened. That is why the entire subject came up between those politicians in the first place! Now, to be able to think that this is even possible you would have to be a huge idiot, I think we can all agree. That places you and AutodidactLibrat in the same bag of stupid as Trump if AutodidactLibrat is correct that Trump meant that Russia should hack a nonexistent server.
Second: At no point in this post did I support foreign hacking of US assets. First, as I said in my original post and just reiterated, it wasn't even possible, and second, you created that out of your own mind. You fail at reality even worse than AutodidactLibrat did. In his case he is positing something that is impossible, but to someone whose political zealotry is much larger than their intellect, this is sad but understandable. I see partisan people think, say, and do incredibly stupid things due to the effect that they let politics have on their mind all the time. Its has become just one of those things you learn to endure, like trash on the street, world hunger, and entrenched corporatism strangling the American middle class. In your case though, you are taking things from your own mind and inserting them into my post. The words I said are right there in black and white and are very easy to read. And, if necessary, you have access to online dictionaries and even Google Translate if you aren't an English first language individual and what I wrote is too complex for you. So there is absolutely no excuse for what you did. It is an entirely new level of stupid I can't even begin to fathom. Why even read what I wrote if you are just going to make up things to respond to? It's not even a straw man what you did. It is mind blowing.
Third: You can call me a traitor. You can call me an enemy of the US government. I will stand by those labels. I will wear them with pride. I stand in opposition to many things our government has done and continually does. If that makes me an enemy of our government and a traitor I am fine with that. My loyalty is with the people of the USA. They are my party, they are my brothers and sisters, they are the reason I stand in opposition to my government on many issues. So, yes, I will be a traitor against our government in favor of the people of the USA. I will endure your stupidity and accusations and still stand for what is best for you. Even when you would rather eat shit, I will try to feed you milk, meat, and bread.
I keep thinking his sister, who called the police and reported that he had shown her hundreds of images of child porn, could have encrypted his drives without him knowing.
He tried to decrypt the drive with his normal password, it didn't work. Now she gets the inheritance, the house, family jewels, or maybe just gets back at him for the ol' frog in the cereal bowl trick he played on her when she was 5.
Now, do I really believe this? No. However, that doesn't mean its not an easy way to get someone thrown in jail forever.
"That the key happens to be a word — rather than something tangible like a metal key or a thumb-print — is irrelevant and does not magically add a Constitutional protection."
Oh yeah, well what if his passkey is "I attest under penalty of perjury that I rape lots of kids"?
We don't need to mod you down. Just present facts. Not that I am a Trump supporter, but I can tell from how you write that you are unhinged due to rampant bias. It is affecting your mind. Specifically, but not limited to, your ability to process data, form correct opinions, and see facts as they are.
Case in point:
District Judge: Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo
He is an Obama appointee who made the original ruling and whose ruling the third circuit court of appeals upheld.
Please tell me how an Obama appointee is part of a vast right wing republican conspiracy to attack Americans.
Yep, he asked the Russians to hack a server that had not only been offline for over a year, but was also already wiped (with a cloth?) at that point.
Jumpin' spaghetti monsters! Do you even reality? Are you still trying to kill Hitler to prevent world war 2? Maybe you can take out Genghis Khan while you are at it.
Try really really hard to realize that your overt biases and total blindness to the facts have led you to create a time paradox in your mind and broadcast it to the internet.
Apparently you didn't read the article and see the examples given. Not to worry, there are some people out there that aren't as stupid as you are and who will realize that something is significantly wrong with how our government spends our money.
You left out the part where they spent $92 million on furniture over a decade. That's averaged out at $6000 per employee. Source is Forbes. Hope that isn't too "Fake newsy" for y'all. I know how sensitive some people are to truth that contradicts their preconceived notions.
We gave the cartels the power they have through prohibition.
Drugs like heroin, marijuana, and cocaine are basically free to produce if you have the land. The cost of making the drugs on a large scale in a third world country is so negligible its obscene. They literally "grow on trees" for fucks sake!!!
Prohibition turns something that is inherently worthless into something that is incredibly expensive. Furthermore, in addition to an essentially limitless supply of money, it also guarantees that the money returned to the sellers of the illicit goods MUST be used to fund other illicit activities. Any legitimate use of the money must start with money laundering, which is easily traced and prosecuted, so the funds first go into other illegal activities. Things like opening up other drug markets, like for meth, ecstasy, and synthetics of all types. Things like child prostitution and human trafficking. Things like extortion, kidnapping, and bribery. Arms dealing and gun smuggling are next on the list, but not before complete militarization of the organization for good measure, and they still aren't out of money yet.
If we wanted to fix our situation with the southern border and the cartels we could do it very quickly and easily. First, close the border. Fuck a wall, just station troops along it and shoot anyone that comes across. Ammo is cheap and word of mouth makes a big impact, especially when you start stacking the bodies along the fence. If this is too extreme of a position for you, build a wall. Second, legalize all drugs in the US. Prescription required, distributed at cheap cost, must interface with health practitioners, and everything is completely pure, clearly labeled, and measured in proper doses. Third, nationalize every undocumented immigrant currently in the country, or deport them if they don't want to become a citizen and pay taxes.
This shit could have been taken care of decades ago. Apparently our government has some vested interest in subjugating and oppressing illegal immigrants and leaving the border open and porous, like some giant chancre sore on the bottom of our country.
If only we had a bunch of hardy workers that we could exploit the shit out of and not give one fuck about. You know, some people we could honeypot into our country and then completely abandon. Use and abuse them into doing a bunch of work for us and then not even give them citizenship, medical benefits, or a straight look in the eye and the truth from our lips that they are welcome here. You know, the kind of people who would come to us destitute and bereft of any support or resources and in return we would make sure they only have access to menial jobs, enslaved at our pleasure and deported unceremoniously for the slightest infraction. Yeah, the kind of humans you can throw away when you aren't thinking about them, and then pull out when you are arguing for unfettered immigration to the US.
Oh wait, we already do all of that to the illegal immigrants that we allow into our country. Sorry I forgot what a bunch of fucking douche bags we are here in the US. We outlaw slavery and then go and create new slaves. We just don't call them that. They're "undocumented."
This is so apropos. Never finish anything. Never take responsibility. Never hold your own leaders accountable when you can point out the flaws of the "other side." Don't look at principles, the Constitution, or even sound economic theory before passing some fly-by-night bill into law. Don't look critically at anything your "side" is doing while they are in power, just acquiesce to their every overture because you are too stupid to realize that they aren't there to represent you but to represent themselves and their corporate interests.
Every day I stand awed and ashamed at the incredible stupidity of the average American. Then I look at the educated and erudite and they are riddled and wormy with blatant partisanship, so brainwashed they can't see the difference between talking points and truth, narrative and speech. Every day I watch you utter morons chase your tails, your ghostly phantoms that used to be rights, and all the toys the elite give you to play with to keep you busy. Every day I wonder "how much longer can it go on like this?"
Berkley does that and more for their students. The problem is that the people who brought the suit were not students of Berkley.
Personally I think since they are not students of the university they should not have any standing in the case, and therefore should not be able to sue.
The very worst part about this isn't even considered in the scope of the trial. The chilling effect this has on all universities. Not only did we almost lose these 20k videos, but I can bet you no more will be made by UC Berkley and their competitor universities will eschew this process as well.
Free enrichment of the commons should not be circumvented by a lawsuit and a couple of idiots.
We can't all pay in. It is un-American for everyone to pay in. Just like income tax. Most people have to be exempt from paying income taxes to the federal and state governments for our country to have a free and equitable system.
It's just like interest rates. You know, the better credit you have the higher rates you pay, so that everyone else can default on their loans and the bank will still be solvent. Oh wait, that's a terrible analogy as it shows the complete inequity of the situation we have created. Damn I hate logic.
Our country's method of collecting income from the people will work in direct contravention to the way the system needs to work. "Healthcare is really complex."
So I am confused. Are we blaming the 34 republicans in the House who voted for the ACA and not the 219 democrats who voted for it? Or are we blaming the 39 republican senators that voted "no" on the bill and not blaming the 59 democrats and the 1 independent who voted "yes" for the bill?
Or maybe we're blaming the republicans for adding all of the bad stuff in the bill and then paying Senora Pelosi to block for them by encouraging everyone to not read it, just vote for it?
How about this, instead of you just making shit up to try to retcon one of the most closely watched votes in history so that you feel better about supporting a shit law, even when all of the signs were there that it would be shit law, why don't you just finally admit that you have been taken, conned, bamboozled, led astray...all by the party you support. But wait, don't feel so all alone. Everyone who has a "party" has been conned. Republican, Democrat, doesn't matter. They both drink blood and shit laws.
They don't give a fuck about you. They don't have to. They all have 3 things in common which none of us, the hoi polloi if you will, have: 1) they are incredibly wealthy and have access to power 2) they don't have to worry about retirement like the people do 3) they don't have to worry about health care like we do.
If you can trust someone like that to be your proxy for how this country works and should work in the future, well you get exactly the government you deserve then.
Yo, I did not make a judgement call on whether or not a $15 minimum wage needs to happen or not, homie. Pick a number and go with it for all I care.
Just realize that there will be consequences of changes to the minimum wage. It really is that simple. Right, wrong, should, shouldn't...completely irrelevant to what will happen as a direct result of changes to the law.
And, before you reply with "No" as your starting statement, yet again, you unnecessarily contrary contrarian, just have a long think about how you would mitigate job replacement through properly crafted legislation *before* pushing for wage increases that would put millions of people out of work. The problems start when people confuse ideals with reality. If you can't face reality you can't prepare for the repercussions of the changes you want before you make them.
You can't "socialize" a law that enthrones the status quo of profiteering by the government FOR corporate interests. The ACA transfers wealth directly from taxpayers to the government and, subsequent to them, directly to the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. It did nothing to address the absurdly high rates we pay for health care compared to other first world countries and may have even made the problem worse.
I am definitely in favor of repealing the ACA. I would like a single payer system. I would prefer to have a risk pool the same size as the electorate. None of that will happen now. The way the ACA was passed and the way it was implemented have led us to a quagmire of never ending revisions. With all of that tax money there for the taking...there isn't a politician alive that would pass that up.
Mark my words, there will be changes to health care regulations in perpetuity every time a new administration takes office.
Too bad Obama was such a lying bastard and didn't put in single payer during his first 100 days like he promised to.
Everything that becomes of health care subsequent to the Affordable Care Act is directly related to how terribly this law was written, publicized, and implemented. Sorry, but when democrats overwhelmingly support the largest taxation bill in history disguised as a health care reform bill, and it doesn't fix the problems with health care, massively transfers wealth to insurance companies and big pharma, and actually makes some of the worst problems of health care worse any attempt made after that to fix it is just icing on shit.
You only get one chance to do something right the first time. If you do there is no need to fuck with it after that. Popular support for it will keep it in place. Just look at medicare, social security, etc., ad nauseum. They were socialistic measures that some would call un-American. They worked because their initial implementation didn't completely fuck the people they were intended to help. Why is the ACA up for massive revision and even repeal without a huge groundswell and grass roots outcry against changing it? You guessed it! Everyone knows it is shit.
Now people are used to the idea of meddling with it. Its not a fix it once and be done with it. We will get revisions to health care every 4-8 years now, in perpetuity.
And the result? You fucking idiots just put our collective heads in the noose. By turning health care into a political football our government now gets to hold health care hostage from us. They get to decide who gets heath care, when, from who, and for how much. You trust these people with this power? I sure don't.
The threat of $15 minimum wage combined with lower costs to install machines causes businesses to hedge their bets and develop alternative solutions to insolvency and profit loss.
Keep in mind for many industries the discussion and exploration of cost effective machine replacement of humans was given a massive kick start by the $15 minimum wage talk. An unintended consequence is that businesses looked very closely at what they have to lose and gain in the realm of human employment and compared it to machine employment. Turns out they never knew it could be so cheap, and it takes care of the problem of government dicking with the pay floor.
You want someone to blame for that, blame the $15 minimum wage crowd, not Trump.
LOL at you completely confusing cause and effect, past and future. What a rube!
The way you wrote that link to your google search is one way to look at the situation, but its incredibly 3rd grade and full of obvious emotional baggage unrelated to reality and seems to be written by someone with an axe to grind and who doesn't mind obscuring the facts.
The fact is this: The natural repercussions of implementing that law led to lower hiring. This is not punishment of Obama by businesses. It is merely a natural outcome of what happens when you change regulations to this new state. Now, implementing these regulations could be considered punishment for the people they adversely affect, namely the labor pool, but the blame of that lands squarely on the shoulders of those who created the underlying structure. Namely, those who wrote the law and implemented it.
Blaming "business" for some kind of concerted antagonistic action is just plain fucking stupid. Businesses follow the money and play by the rules that are handed down to them by government. If you don't like how a new law has changed how the majority of businesses operate, look at how the law was written.
"Memory palace" and "method of loci" are exactly the same thing. The techniques were used by the Ancient Greeks but they were not the originators of this method.
I learned a technique similar to the "memory palace" as an introduction to the "memory palace." This one uses a preset list, called the Tree List. I found it to be useful in and of itself, and also as an introduction to the other memory methods. Here is a link: http://greglhamon.com/memorize...
The tree list can be used independently of the "memory palace" or even as a first stage, before entering the palace. The results are impressive. In the example of the article, just imagine not only being able to recall the words on the list, but also to be able to recall them in and out of order, and also to know which number they are 1-72, instantly.
For instance if someone said "What was the third word on the list?" I could tell them. Or the question could be phrased "The word is 'munchkin.' Which word was that?" And I could instantly respond with, "That was the 19th word."
The best part of learning the method was realizing that this is how the human brain works. It is so incredibly easy because it is using the underlying principles on which all memory is predicated. Normally vivid memories are spontaneously activated by outside circumstances and random chance, leaving their indelible mark because of their oddness, intensity, or humor. These memory techniques use visualization, spacial relationships, and a mental "glue" of absurdity, violence, or oddness to provide conscious control over and access to creating vivid memories at will.
I find it humbling that these memory techniques were first developed and used before humans had writing. They are mind artifacts from the era of "Man, Earth, Sky" and the lifeblood of oral tradition. That people are using them to perform extreme feats of memory today is a testament to the creators of this method. In many ways they had to know more about how the human mind and memory operates, in a practical working sense, than we do today.
Every illegal immigrant is by definition a criminal. In addition, many illegal immigrants also break additional laws including robbery, burglary, arson, rape, and murder. These are both factual statements that cannot be refuted. The evidence is, in the first part, self evident and in the second part too well known and researched to cover up or deny. So you are accusing the president of using facts to bolster his case for a border wall.
Our government has stated on numerous occasions that there is no evidence of collusion between the Russians and Trump and that the Russians did not influence the results of the election. They have also stated that there is no evidence of a Russia/Wikileaks connection. Again, you feint towards the truth, but completely misapply facts and truth in your argumentation.
I just have one question: What exactly is the nature of your issue with facts?
Cuckolding is a great example of unmitigated matriarchal control of sexuality and sexual expression. If you are a good liberal you will be happy to be a Cuckold as it demonstrates your support of feminism by allowing women to express their sexuality without patriarchal interference, judgement, or restriction.
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A few things for you to gnaw on in the corner of your mother's basement:
First: You can't hack a server once it has been taken offline and the information wiped from the drives. It isn't possible. To make it possible for ANYONE to hack it you would have to go back in time. And no, not now you mental midget, then...at the exact time those statements were made the dismantling and wiping of the server had already happened. That is why the entire subject came up between those politicians in the first place! Now, to be able to think that this is even possible you would have to be a huge idiot, I think we can all agree. That places you and AutodidactLibrat in the same bag of stupid as Trump if AutodidactLibrat is correct that Trump meant that Russia should hack a nonexistent server.
Second: At no point in this post did I support foreign hacking of US assets. First, as I said in my original post and just reiterated, it wasn't even possible, and second, you created that out of your own mind. You fail at reality even worse than AutodidactLibrat did. In his case he is positing something that is impossible, but to someone whose political zealotry is much larger than their intellect, this is sad but understandable. I see partisan people think, say, and do incredibly stupid things due to the effect that they let politics have on their mind all the time. Its has become just one of those things you learn to endure, like trash on the street, world hunger, and entrenched corporatism strangling the American middle class. In your case though, you are taking things from your own mind and inserting them into my post. The words I said are right there in black and white and are very easy to read. And, if necessary, you have access to online dictionaries and even Google Translate if you aren't an English first language individual and what I wrote is too complex for you. So there is absolutely no excuse for what you did. It is an entirely new level of stupid I can't even begin to fathom. Why even read what I wrote if you are just going to make up things to respond to? It's not even a straw man what you did. It is mind blowing.
Third: You can call me a traitor. You can call me an enemy of the US government. I will stand by those labels. I will wear them with pride. I stand in opposition to many things our government has done and continually does. If that makes me an enemy of our government and a traitor I am fine with that. My loyalty is with the people of the USA. They are my party, they are my brothers and sisters, they are the reason I stand in opposition to my government on many issues. So, yes, I will be a traitor against our government in favor of the people of the USA. I will endure your stupidity and accusations and still stand for what is best for you. Even when you would rather eat shit, I will try to feed you milk, meat, and bread.
I keep thinking his sister, who called the police and reported that he had shown her hundreds of images of child porn, could have encrypted his drives without him knowing.
He tried to decrypt the drive with his normal password, it didn't work. Now she gets the inheritance, the house, family jewels, or maybe just gets back at him for the ol' frog in the cereal bowl trick he played on her when she was 5.
Now, do I really believe this? No. However, that doesn't mean its not an easy way to get someone thrown in jail forever.
"That the key happens to be a word — rather than something tangible like a metal key or a thumb-print — is irrelevant and does not magically add a Constitutional protection."
Oh yeah, well what if his passkey is "I attest under penalty of perjury that I rape lots of kids"?
Ta da! (I am joking of course)
We don't need to mod you down. Just present facts. Not that I am a Trump supporter, but I can tell from how you write that you are unhinged due to rampant bias. It is affecting your mind. Specifically, but not limited to, your ability to process data, form correct opinions, and see facts as they are.
Case in point:
District Judge: Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo
He is an Obama appointee who made the original ruling and whose ruling the third circuit court of appeals upheld.
Please tell me how an Obama appointee is part of a vast right wing republican conspiracy to attack Americans.
Yep, he asked the Russians to hack a server that had not only been offline for over a year, but was also already wiped (with a cloth?) at that point.
Jumpin' spaghetti monsters! Do you even reality? Are you still trying to kill Hitler to prevent world war 2? Maybe you can take out Genghis Khan while you are at it.
Try really really hard to realize that your overt biases and total blindness to the facts have led you to create a time paradox in your mind and broadcast it to the internet.
Apparently you didn't read the article and see the examples given. Not to worry, there are some people out there that aren't as stupid as you are and who will realize that something is significantly wrong with how our government spends our money.
You left out the part where they spent $92 million on furniture over a decade. That's averaged out at $6000 per employee. Source is Forbes. Hope that isn't too "Fake newsy" for y'all. I know how sensitive some people are to truth that contradicts their preconceived notions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...
We gave the cartels the power they have through prohibition.
Drugs like heroin, marijuana, and cocaine are basically free to produce if you have the land. The cost of making the drugs on a large scale in a third world country is so negligible its obscene. They literally "grow on trees" for fucks sake!!!
Prohibition turns something that is inherently worthless into something that is incredibly expensive. Furthermore, in addition to an essentially limitless supply of money, it also guarantees that the money returned to the sellers of the illicit goods MUST be used to fund other illicit activities. Any legitimate use of the money must start with money laundering, which is easily traced and prosecuted, so the funds first go into other illegal activities. Things like opening up other drug markets, like for meth, ecstasy, and synthetics of all types. Things like child prostitution and human trafficking. Things like extortion, kidnapping, and bribery. Arms dealing and gun smuggling are next on the list, but not before complete militarization of the organization for good measure, and they still aren't out of money yet.
If we wanted to fix our situation with the southern border and the cartels we could do it very quickly and easily. First, close the border. Fuck a wall, just station troops along it and shoot anyone that comes across. Ammo is cheap and word of mouth makes a big impact, especially when you start stacking the bodies along the fence. If this is too extreme of a position for you, build a wall. Second, legalize all drugs in the US. Prescription required, distributed at cheap cost, must interface with health practitioners, and everything is completely pure, clearly labeled, and measured in proper doses. Third, nationalize every undocumented immigrant currently in the country, or deport them if they don't want to become a citizen and pay taxes.
This shit could have been taken care of decades ago. Apparently our government has some vested interest in subjugating and oppressing illegal immigrants and leaving the border open and porous, like some giant chancre sore on the bottom of our country.
If only we had a bunch of hardy workers that we could exploit the shit out of and not give one fuck about. You know, some people we could honeypot into our country and then completely abandon. Use and abuse them into doing a bunch of work for us and then not even give them citizenship, medical benefits, or a straight look in the eye and the truth from our lips that they are welcome here. You know, the kind of people who would come to us destitute and bereft of any support or resources and in return we would make sure they only have access to menial jobs, enslaved at our pleasure and deported unceremoniously for the slightest infraction. Yeah, the kind of humans you can throw away when you aren't thinking about them, and then pull out when you are arguing for unfettered immigration to the US.
Oh wait, we already do all of that to the illegal immigrants that we allow into our country. Sorry I forgot what a bunch of fucking douche bags we are here in the US. We outlaw slavery and then go and create new slaves. We just don't call them that. They're "undocumented."
This is so apropos. Never finish anything. Never take responsibility. Never hold your own leaders accountable when you can point out the flaws of the "other side." Don't look at principles, the Constitution, or even sound economic theory before passing some fly-by-night bill into law. Don't look critically at anything your "side" is doing while they are in power, just acquiesce to their every overture because you are too stupid to realize that they aren't there to represent you but to represent themselves and their corporate interests.
Every day I stand awed and ashamed at the incredible stupidity of the average American. Then I look at the educated and erudite and they are riddled and wormy with blatant partisanship, so brainwashed they can't see the difference between talking points and truth, narrative and speech. Every day I watch you utter morons chase your tails, your ghostly phantoms that used to be rights, and all the toys the elite give you to play with to keep you busy. Every day I wonder "how much longer can it go on like this?"
Berkley does that and more for their students. The problem is that the people who brought the suit were not students of Berkley.
Personally I think since they are not students of the university they should not have any standing in the case, and therefore should not be able to sue.
Unfortunately this is not an equal comparison. These videos were available for free. There was no profit motive involved.
So, with the exception of billions of dollars in revenue vs. zero dollars in revenue, your comparison is correct.
The very worst part about this isn't even considered in the scope of the trial. The chilling effect this has on all universities. Not only did we almost lose these 20k videos, but I can bet you no more will be made by UC Berkley and their competitor universities will eschew this process as well.
Free enrichment of the commons should not be circumvented by a lawsuit and a couple of idiots.
We can't all pay in. It is un-American for everyone to pay in. Just like income tax. Most people have to be exempt from paying income taxes to the federal and state governments for our country to have a free and equitable system.
It's just like interest rates. You know, the better credit you have the higher rates you pay, so that everyone else can default on their loans and the bank will still be solvent. Oh wait, that's a terrible analogy as it shows the complete inequity of the situation we have created. Damn I hate logic.
Our country's method of collecting income from the people will work in direct contravention to the way the system needs to work. "Healthcare is really complex."
And you continue to sell unfiltered access to reverse engineering your brain to Facebook every single fucking day for zero payback. So what?
This is the 21st century. You don't own your data, your body, or your mind. Get over it already.
Not that I don't think astronauts shouldn't get free health care. You just picked the wrong argument.
So I am confused. Are we blaming the 34 republicans in the House who voted for the ACA and not the 219 democrats who voted for it? Or are we blaming the 39 republican senators that voted "no" on the bill and not blaming the 59 democrats and the 1 independent who voted "yes" for the bill?
Or maybe we're blaming the republicans for adding all of the bad stuff in the bill and then paying Senora Pelosi to block for them by encouraging everyone to not read it, just vote for it?
How about this, instead of you just making shit up to try to retcon one of the most closely watched votes in history so that you feel better about supporting a shit law, even when all of the signs were there that it would be shit law, why don't you just finally admit that you have been taken, conned, bamboozled, led astray...all by the party you support. But wait, don't feel so all alone. Everyone who has a "party" has been conned. Republican, Democrat, doesn't matter. They both drink blood and shit laws.
They don't give a fuck about you. They don't have to. They all have 3 things in common which none of us, the hoi polloi if you will, have:
1) they are incredibly wealthy and have access to power
2) they don't have to worry about retirement like the people do
3) they don't have to worry about health care like we do.
If you can trust someone like that to be your proxy for how this country works and should work in the future, well you get exactly the government you deserve then.
Yo, I did not make a judgement call on whether or not a $15 minimum wage needs to happen or not, homie. Pick a number and go with it for all I care.
Just realize that there will be consequences of changes to the minimum wage. It really is that simple. Right, wrong, should, shouldn't...completely irrelevant to what will happen as a direct result of changes to the law.
And, before you reply with "No" as your starting statement, yet again, you unnecessarily contrary contrarian, just have a long think about how you would mitigate job replacement through properly crafted legislation *before* pushing for wage increases that would put millions of people out of work. The problems start when people confuse ideals with reality. If you can't face reality you can't prepare for the repercussions of the changes you want before you make them.
You can't "socialize" a law that enthrones the status quo of profiteering by the government FOR corporate interests. The ACA transfers wealth directly from taxpayers to the government and, subsequent to them, directly to the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. It did nothing to address the absurdly high rates we pay for health care compared to other first world countries and may have even made the problem worse.
I am definitely in favor of repealing the ACA. I would like a single payer system. I would prefer to have a risk pool the same size as the electorate. None of that will happen now. The way the ACA was passed and the way it was implemented have led us to a quagmire of never ending revisions. With all of that tax money there for the taking...there isn't a politician alive that would pass that up.
Mark my words, there will be changes to health care regulations in perpetuity every time a new administration takes office.
Too bad Obama was such a lying bastard and didn't put in single payer during his first 100 days like he promised to.
Everything that becomes of health care subsequent to the Affordable Care Act is directly related to how terribly this law was written, publicized, and implemented. Sorry, but when democrats overwhelmingly support the largest taxation bill in history disguised as a health care reform bill, and it doesn't fix the problems with health care, massively transfers wealth to insurance companies and big pharma, and actually makes some of the worst problems of health care worse any attempt made after that to fix it is just icing on shit.
You only get one chance to do something right the first time. If you do there is no need to fuck with it after that. Popular support for it will keep it in place. Just look at medicare, social security, etc., ad nauseum. They were socialistic measures that some would call un-American. They worked because their initial implementation didn't completely fuck the people they were intended to help. Why is the ACA up for massive revision and even repeal without a huge groundswell and grass roots outcry against changing it? You guessed it! Everyone knows it is shit.
Now people are used to the idea of meddling with it. Its not a fix it once and be done with it. We will get revisions to health care every 4-8 years now, in perpetuity.
And the result? You fucking idiots just put our collective heads in the noose. By turning health care into a political football our government now gets to hold health care hostage from us. They get to decide who gets heath care, when, from who, and for how much. You trust these people with this power? I sure don't.
The threat of $15 minimum wage combined with lower costs to install machines causes businesses to hedge their bets and develop alternative solutions to insolvency and profit loss.
Keep in mind for many industries the discussion and exploration of cost effective machine replacement of humans was given a massive kick start by the $15 minimum wage talk. An unintended consequence is that businesses looked very closely at what they have to lose and gain in the realm of human employment and compared it to machine employment. Turns out they never knew it could be so cheap, and it takes care of the problem of government dicking with the pay floor.
You want someone to blame for that, blame the $15 minimum wage crowd, not Trump.
LOL at you completely confusing cause and effect, past and future. What a rube!
The way you wrote that link to your google search is one way to look at the situation, but its incredibly 3rd grade and full of obvious emotional baggage unrelated to reality and seems to be written by someone with an axe to grind and who doesn't mind obscuring the facts.
The fact is this: The natural repercussions of implementing that law led to lower hiring. This is not punishment of Obama by businesses. It is merely a natural outcome of what happens when you change regulations to this new state. Now, implementing these regulations could be considered punishment for the people they adversely affect, namely the labor pool, but the blame of that lands squarely on the shoulders of those who created the underlying structure. Namely, those who wrote the law and implemented it.
Blaming "business" for some kind of concerted antagonistic action is just plain fucking stupid. Businesses follow the money and play by the rules that are handed down to them by government. If you don't like how a new law has changed how the majority of businesses operate, look at how the law was written.
"Memory palace" and "method of loci" are exactly the same thing. The techniques were used by the Ancient Greeks but they were not the originators of this method.
I learned a technique similar to the "memory palace" as an introduction to the "memory palace." This one uses a preset list, called the Tree List. I found it to be useful in and of itself, and also as an introduction to the other memory methods. Here is a link: http://greglhamon.com/memorize...
The tree list can be used independently of the "memory palace" or even as a first stage, before entering the palace. The results are impressive. In the example of the article, just imagine not only being able to recall the words on the list, but also to be able to recall them in and out of order, and also to know which number they are 1-72, instantly.
For instance if someone said "What was the third word on the list?" I could tell them. Or the question could be phrased "The word is 'munchkin.' Which word was that?" And I could instantly respond with, "That was the 19th word."
The best part of learning the method was realizing that this is how the human brain works. It is so incredibly easy because it is using the underlying principles on which all memory is predicated. Normally vivid memories are spontaneously activated by outside circumstances and random chance, leaving their indelible mark because of their oddness, intensity, or humor. These memory techniques use visualization, spacial relationships, and a mental "glue" of absurdity, violence, or oddness to provide conscious control over and access to creating vivid memories at will.
I find it humbling that these memory techniques were first developed and used before humans had writing. They are mind artifacts from the era of "Man, Earth, Sky" and the lifeblood of oral tradition. That people are using them to perform extreme feats of memory today is a testament to the creators of this method. In many ways they had to know more about how the human mind and memory operates, in a practical working sense, than we do today.
I can't quite pin down what you are saying here.
Every illegal immigrant is by definition a criminal. In addition, many illegal immigrants also break additional laws including robbery, burglary, arson, rape, and murder. These are both factual statements that cannot be refuted. The evidence is, in the first part, self evident and in the second part too well known and researched to cover up or deny. So you are accusing the president of using facts to bolster his case for a border wall.
Our government has stated on numerous occasions that there is no evidence of collusion between the Russians and Trump and that the Russians did not influence the results of the election. They have also stated that there is no evidence of a Russia/Wikileaks connection. Again, you feint towards the truth, but completely misapply facts and truth in your argumentation.
I just have one question: What exactly is the nature of your issue with facts?
How can "Cucks" or "Cuck" be a woman hating term?
Cuckolding is a great example of unmitigated matriarchal control of sexuality and sexual expression. If you are a good liberal you will be happy to be a Cuckold as it demonstrates your support of feminism by allowing women to express their sexuality without patriarchal interference, judgement, or restriction.