I would agree... if they could sing. Most can't. Good example... compare nearly any female 'porn star' looking singer of today to Dolly Parton. You may not like DP's music but she could SING... and looked like a porn star.
Actually it is. The CC price is the 'real' price but a company is allowed to offer discounts. Cash discount is entirely legitimate. Before you ask... the big corps dont do it because A) they get a much better deal from visa and mc than smaller companies (usually 1 percent or less). B) it is offset and then some by increased accounting costs C) having more cash at a store means higher theft rates.
I'm sorry but that is a load of bullshit. It was outlawed in civilized society because the end result is a broken person. At best PTSD and a nearly dog like want to please others. That is at typical outcome of full blown torture. Few can 'bounce back' from the experience. Hell even the training in how to survive it is not fun and can cause PTSD.
The very first thing they teach you in how to 'survive' torture is that everyone breaks. EVERYONE. Training simply gives you tools that will allow you to last long enough so that the information you give can no longer harm your friends and country... but before you are broken beyond repair.
At the end of the day people will say anything to make the pain stop. The 'trick' is to train them to say the truth -as that too is part of 'everything and anything'. It is horrible but that is the reality of what torture is - as one trainer put it to me its "making the dog not shit on your carpet, but with humans".
A skilled torturer will break most trained people in a day or two. A skilled pair of torturers with TWO people from the same team can do it in hours - even with training. The avg joe off the streets? Minutes to an hour. The 'hardest' part is not killing the poor SOB and making sure they have been trained to tell only the truth.
THIS is why torture is banned, as it is horrible. It is disgusting. It 'works'... it's just that it is NOT worth it. That is why it was outlawed, as it makes us all ashamed.
How many charges? Zero. How many convictions? Zero. The man is innocent until proven guilty. Anything else is mob justice. I don't even like KS, he may even be guilty as sin, but if it can happen to him it can happen to anyone. That is scary. That is the end of western civilization as we know it.
Man Google really needs to take it down a notch or two.:P Seriously though this just shows how the PXL3 was not properly alpha-tested let alone beta. Shite like this should not make it to market on a flag-fucking-ship device. Jesus google have some pride in your work... for once.
This over-reaction is all because of an ALLEGED issue. Nothing proven. Its a witch hunt / virtue signalling at its finest. IE Ever here of a Poison Pete? This is that on a grand scale. If you can not separate your personal from professional life... GTFO.
Want to be a drama-lama? Do it on your own time and dime. Not your employers. This is not college where you are paying for the privlege of acting like a child throwing a tantrum.
Plus its not like Google wont have ten for everyone they fire lining up for just the chance to work there. Why keep anyone that is not a team player? Why keep anyone who will make the workplace (more) toxic?
Fire them all. Send a message that SJW'ing is for your personal time only... and get back to work... or dont work for Google.
Exactly. Imagine the dumbest person you know. Know imagine the dumbest person THEY know. You now have a good idea on what the average driver is like on a 'bad day'.
Comp controlled cars dont have to be perfect as they are not replacing perfect drivers. They are replacing idiots. Cell phone taking, texting, drunk, sleep-deprived, angry idiots.
As long as they are good enough to reduce accidents they ARE an improvement.
Oh and just for shits and giggles... they used nic concentration of 31mg (the legal levels for sale are low 20mg lelves at most and most vapers use 3-6mg. Im down to 1.5mg and thinking on going lower). The LD50 of pure nic is 50mg. Gee I wonder if you use a concentration NO ONE would vape the results may be skewed.
Im sorry but this is pure FUD. From the study... they didnt use a vaporizer. They took healthy cells and BATHED it in a PG/VG + nic solution (aka ejuice). Sorry but that is not a legit way of study. Vapers dont snort ejuice. They vaporize it. Inhale the vapor and EXHALE. Usually in short 2-3 second bursts.
Bath healthy cells in water and there will be damage too.
All for science and finding out how to make vaping safer... but FFS study it and do legit science. Not paid for shilling.
Win 10 updates are like that ugly drunk chick (or hunk depending on your proclivities) at the bar that you take home. Why? Because you know at some point in the VERY NEAR future its going to fuck you. Maybe hard, fast and unforgettable, maybe it will be a forgettable experience that you shrug off in the morning... but you are gonna get fucked.
Compared to take off or landing? Not even in the same realm. One is bad and cost a ton of money to fix. The other results in a fireball and a big hole with bodies scattered around it.
That is not a star trek universe. In the trek everyone does whatever they want because resources are unlimited. We dont have that.
The future is seemingly more along the lines of Larry Niven (a short story IIRC) where machines do all the work.... but to keep the economy going people have to consume more and more. So much so that to be 'rich' is to live frugally where ever you want, but the poor have to live (s)lavishly always consuming more and more to keep up with the robots output.
ROFL. In what universe do YOU live in. Instant food replication? Nope. Instant replication of machines/tools/etc? Nope. Instant transportation? Nope. Until then - ie no limit to resources - this world is NOT approaching a star trek communist economy.... as that is the only way old '100million+ deaths and growing' Marx based economy is happening.
The enemy of your enemy is your enemies enemy. Nothing more nothing less. You may have to spend just as much resources fighting that new enemy as your original enemy. There are plenty of examples of this in conflicts around the world. Say a country is ruled by a dictator and rebel group A are democratically inclined. Rebel group B are hardcore communists. Both rebel groups will fight each other just as much as the gov troops.It happens a LOT in civil wars and major conflicts that fall along religious lines. Think yuoglsavia in the early 90s with Croats vs Serbs vs Albanians all duking it out with each other. Each hating each other almost equally. Same during WW2 in China. You had commie vs national chinese AND the japanese.
Look up the term 'three way war' for more examples.
Ahhh how cute. You actually think small town main street still exists to any extent. It doesn't. Hasnt since the days of 'cheap crap is better than expensive but good'. Amazon is kicking the shit out of the mega-chain corner of the market - Toy R Us, Wally world, Sears, etc. Small companies either died or learned that customer service is still king long ago. Amazon is good at CS for a large retailer but sucks compared to a small family owned store. The small stores that are still around are not afraid. They already understand what it takes for a mouse to survive in an elephant's world.
Hey man don't be so gender racist!!! Me? Im self-IDing as an apache attack helicopter. I figure in another 5 or so years I will be able to get the gov to pay for my 20mm chaingun AND 'copter pilot licence that I cant afford myself... 'cause feelings... or think of the children(tm)... or whatever.:P
Not twice but the A11 is 4 Billion transistors vs 3 bill for Snapdragon. It was Apples MO for years to simply make their chips bigger than the comp. The comp is starting to wise up to this and up their tranny count to compete... as the entire industry loves Trannys and the more the better... cause "Love Wins".:P
Where exactly does it state that the US has the right to invade a country without formal declaration of war? There is this thing called Internal Law that goes over extradition procedures. It does not involve invading the air space of foreign country just because a criminal is there. No deceleration of war... no bombing other countries to kill someone. He had all the rights and privileges of any US citizen. Saying he was a bad man - and probably was- is no excuse for killing someone without a trial.
Ding ding. He looked the other way with the NSA and in doing so was party to the crime until it became law.
Congress IS the purse strings. Your argument boils down to a kid lying to his parents saying he wants to give money to the poor and instead uses it to buy comic books. Treaties and deals with foreign countries MUST be approved by congress. He misappropriated funds to do his deal. That would land you or I in jail if we did the same while working for a company as a CEO.
As for obamacare exemptions. Read up on it. Congress got a waiver by Barry. Unions who voted Democrat got one. Companies who were came donors to his election got one. It was ruled a tax, and thus these waivers he gave out were illegal.
Only during legally sanctioned times of war does that apply. Last time I checked the US had not formally declared war on Pakistan... a somewhat allied country. During peace time you dont blow up people and innocent bystanders because you THINK they are 'bad guys'. You dont even do it if you can prove it. You arrest them and put them on trial. This is especially true of US citizens who have not formally renounced their citizenship and the rights and privileges that go along with having the franchise.
Either the US formally declares was on ISIS and its ilk or it is bound by Int'l laws as well as US laws on the killing of innocent until proven guilty citizens. Barry did neither. Instead he authorized the killing of a 'bad man'. Might as well bring back the 'he needed killing' defence as that is what it boiled down to.
Actually its Barry to me. As only a 'barry' could be that big of a douche. IMHO Barry is right up there with 'chad' in douchebag names. Seems kind of fitting that a douchebag would pick a douchbag name to be called by. He will go down in history as a great divider. Without him and his actions the US would never have gotten Drumph. So stick your 'you people' up your ass. Its ALL people not just some who are getting screwed by his legacy.
Actually no it wasnt. The Iran deal back in the day was 400mil. Obama gave them 1.7 billion. NONE of which was his to give. It was up to congress to authorize that payment and whether or not to pay 1.3 billion on interest to Iran. IE The US President can indeed make deals BUT congress has to approve the deal AND release the money. Flying over pallets of money in the middle of the night by president decree is not legal as the president does not have the power of the purse. If a Repub president had done it the main stream media would have had a field day with it. Instead they fell over themselves carrying his water on why it was such a brilliant move. That money was used to pay terrorists and help them push their nuclear weapons program. An argument could be made that he gave aid and comfort to the enemy which is treason.
So when something is considered illegal... you think it should continue for 6 months because that would be 'fair'? The Obama executive action was an over-reach by the executive branch. Drumph rescinded it. He didnt make a new law, just removed a previous admins illegal actions. If congress wants to make a law thats up to them. He has nothing to do with making laws that the Senate and Congress branches of gov's responsibility.
Barry had a TERRIBLE record when it comes to the Constitution. He bombed american citizens without trial. He authorized the expansion of the NSA spying on US citizens. He gave exemptions to obmacare to his 'friends'. He gave a ton of money to Iran without Congress even knowing about it let alone approving it. The list goes on and on. He had a 'phone and a pen' and used it with little regards to the US Constitution.
Actually the standard is pretty clear. The officer perceives a threat (a person with a gun). He issues a lawful command to drop the weapon so he can sort out the reason the person is carrying. If said muppet doesn't drop the weapon he is under the law perceived as being hostile. Since he has a deadly weapon, deadly force is authorized.
The police are in a lose-lose scenario. If they dont shoot A) they can get killed or B) the muppet kills someone else and the public gets the pitchforks out or C) they shoot the threat... and the public gets the pitch forks out. Either way it sucks for the police and a large reason why areas are now NOT being policed properly as the cops are PEOPLE. People dislike sticking their dicks in a meat grinder if they can avoid it.
Its pretty simple solution. If you are CCW'ing or not. FOLLOW ALL ORDERS. Even ones that are 'wrong'. Do that and you wont get shot. You can always sue the next day. Can't do that if you are dead.
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I would agree... if they could sing. Most can't. Good example... compare nearly any female 'porn star' looking singer of today to Dolly Parton. You may not like DP's music but she could SING... and looked like a porn star.
Actually it is. The CC price is the 'real' price but a company is allowed to offer discounts. Cash discount is entirely legitimate. Before you ask... the big corps dont do it because A) they get a much better deal from visa and mc than smaller companies (usually 1 percent or less). B) it is offset and then some by increased accounting costs C) having more cash at a store means higher theft rates.
Apple charging FIFTEEN fucking percent is usury.
I'm sorry but that is a load of bullshit. It was outlawed in civilized society because the end result is a broken person. At best PTSD and a nearly dog like want to please others. That is at typical outcome of full blown torture. Few can 'bounce back' from the experience. Hell even the training in how to survive it is not fun and can cause PTSD.
The very first thing they teach you in how to 'survive' torture is that everyone breaks. EVERYONE. Training simply gives you tools that will allow you to last long enough so that the information you give can no longer harm your friends and country... but before you are broken beyond repair.
At the end of the day people will say anything to make the pain stop. The 'trick' is to train them to say the truth -as that too is part of 'everything and anything'. It is horrible but that is the reality of what torture is - as one trainer put it to me its "making the dog not shit on your carpet, but with humans".
A skilled torturer will break most trained people in a day or two. A skilled pair of torturers with TWO people from the same team can do it in hours - even with training. The avg joe off the streets? Minutes to an hour. The 'hardest' part is not killing the poor SOB and making sure they have been trained to tell only the truth.
THIS is why torture is banned, as it is horrible. It is disgusting. It 'works'... it's just that it is NOT worth it. That is why it was outlawed, as it makes us all ashamed.
How many charges? Zero. How many convictions? Zero. The man is innocent until proven guilty. Anything else is mob justice.
I don't even like KS, he may even be guilty as sin, but if it can happen to him it can happen to anyone. That is scary. That is the end of western civilization as we know it.
Man Google really needs to take it down a notch or two. :P
Seriously though this just shows how the PXL3 was not properly alpha-tested let alone beta. Shite like this should not make it to market on a flag-fucking-ship device.
Jesus google have some pride in your work... for once.
You don't even have to be hetro. They killed Kavin Spacey's career over an allegation. All you have to be is white and self-ID as a man.
This over-reaction is all because of an ALLEGED issue. Nothing proven. Its a witch hunt / virtue signalling at its finest.
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Ever here of a Poison Pete? This is that on a grand scale. If you can not separate your personal from professional life... GTFO.
Want to be a drama-lama? Do it on your own time and dime. Not your employers. This is not college where you are paying for the privlege of acting like a child throwing a tantrum.
Plus its not like Google wont have ten for everyone they fire lining up for just the chance to work there. Why keep anyone that is not a team player? Why keep anyone who will make the workplace (more) toxic?
Fire them all. Send a message that SJW'ing is for your personal time only... and get back to work... or dont work for Google.
Exactly. Imagine the dumbest person you know. Know imagine the dumbest person THEY know. You now have a good idea on what the average driver is like on a 'bad day'.
Comp controlled cars dont have to be perfect as they are not replacing perfect drivers. They are replacing idiots. Cell phone taking, texting, drunk, sleep-deprived, angry idiots.
As long as they are good enough to reduce accidents they ARE an improvement.
Oh and just for shits and giggles... they used nic concentration of 31mg (the legal levels for sale are low 20mg lelves at most and most vapers use 3-6mg. Im down to 1.5mg and thinking on going lower). The LD50 of pure nic is 50mg. Gee I wonder if you use a concentration NO ONE would vape the results may be skewed.
Im sorry but this is pure FUD. From the study... they didnt use a vaporizer. They took healthy cells and BATHED it in a PG/VG + nic solution (aka ejuice). Sorry but that is not a legit way of study. Vapers dont snort ejuice. They vaporize it. Inhale the vapor and EXHALE. Usually in short 2-3 second bursts.
Bath healthy cells in water and there will be damage too.
All for science and finding out how to make vaping safer... but FFS study it and do legit science. Not paid for shilling.
Win 10 updates are like that ugly drunk chick (or hunk depending on your proclivities) at the bar that you take home. Why? Because you know at some point in the VERY NEAR future its going to fuck you. Maybe hard, fast and unforgettable, maybe it will be a forgettable experience that you shrug off in the morning... but you are gonna get fucked.
Compared to take off or landing? Not even in the same realm. One is bad and cost a ton of money to fix. The other results in a fireball and a big hole with bodies scattered around it.
That is not a star trek universe. In the trek everyone does whatever they want because resources are unlimited. We dont have that.
The future is seemingly more along the lines of Larry Niven (a short story IIRC) where machines do all the work.... but to keep the economy going people have to consume more and more. So much so that to be 'rich' is to live frugally where ever you want, but the poor have to live (s)lavishly always consuming more and more to keep up with the robots output.
ROFL. In what universe do YOU live in. Instant food replication? Nope. Instant replication of machines/tools/etc? Nope. Instant transportation? Nope. Until then - ie no limit to resources - this world is NOT approaching a star trek communist economy.... as that is the only way old '100million+ deaths and growing' Marx based economy is happening.
The enemy of your enemy is your enemies enemy. Nothing more nothing less. You may have to spend just as much resources fighting that new enemy as your original enemy. There are plenty of examples of this in conflicts around the world. Say a country is ruled by a dictator and rebel group A are democratically inclined. Rebel group B are hardcore communists. Both rebel groups will fight each other just as much as the gov troops.It happens a LOT in civil wars and major conflicts that fall along religious lines. Think yuoglsavia in the early 90s with Croats vs Serbs vs Albanians all duking it out with each other. Each hating each other almost equally. Same during WW2 in China. You had commie vs national chinese AND the japanese.
Look up the term 'three way war' for more examples.
Ahhh how cute. You actually think small town main street still exists to any extent. It doesn't. Hasnt since the days of 'cheap crap is better than expensive but good'. Amazon is kicking the shit out of the mega-chain corner of the market - Toy R Us, Wally world, Sears, etc. Small companies either died or learned that customer service is still king long ago. Amazon is good at CS for a large retailer but sucks compared to a small family owned store. The small stores that are still around are not afraid. They already understand what it takes for a mouse to survive in an elephant's world.
Hey man don't be so gender racist!!! Me? Im self-IDing as an apache attack helicopter. I figure in another 5 or so years I will be able to get the gov to pay for my 20mm chaingun AND 'copter pilot licence that I cant afford myself... 'cause feelings... or think of the children(tm)... or whatever. :P
Not twice but the A11 is 4 Billion transistors vs 3 bill for Snapdragon. It was Apples MO for years to simply make their chips bigger than the comp. The comp is starting to wise up to this and up their tranny count to compete... as the entire industry loves Trannys and the more the better... cause "Love Wins". :P
Where exactly does it state that the US has the right to invade a country without formal declaration of war? There is this thing called Internal Law that goes over extradition procedures. It does not involve invading the air space of foreign country just because a criminal is there. No deceleration of war... no bombing other countries to kill someone. He had all the rights and privileges of any US citizen. Saying he was a bad man - and probably was- is no excuse for killing someone without a trial.
Ding ding. He looked the other way with the NSA and in doing so was party to the crime until it became law.
Congress IS the purse strings. Your argument boils down to a kid lying to his parents saying he wants to give money to the poor and instead uses it to buy comic books. Treaties and deals with foreign countries MUST be approved by congress. He misappropriated funds to do his deal. That would land you or I in jail if we did the same while working for a company as a CEO.
As for obamacare exemptions. Read up on it. Congress got a waiver by Barry. Unions who voted Democrat got one. Companies who were came donors to his election got one. It was ruled a tax, and thus these waivers he gave out were illegal.
Only during legally sanctioned times of war does that apply. Last time I checked the US had not formally declared war on Pakistan... a somewhat allied country. During peace time you dont blow up people and innocent bystanders because you THINK they are 'bad guys'. You dont even do it if you can prove it. You arrest them and put them on trial. This is especially true of US citizens who have not formally renounced their citizenship and the rights and privileges that go along with having the franchise.
Either the US formally declares was on ISIS and its ilk or it is bound by Int'l laws as well as US laws on the killing of innocent until proven guilty citizens. Barry did neither. Instead he authorized the killing of a 'bad man'. Might as well bring back the 'he needed killing' defence as that is what it boiled down to.
Actually its Barry to me. As only a 'barry' could be that big of a douche. IMHO Barry is right up there with 'chad' in douchebag names. Seems kind of fitting that a douchebag would pick a douchbag name to be called by.
He will go down in history as a great divider. Without him and his actions the US would never have gotten Drumph. So stick your 'you people' up your ass. Its ALL people not just some who are getting screwed by his legacy.
Actually no it wasnt. The Iran deal back in the day was 400mil. Obama gave them 1.7 billion. NONE of which was his to give. It was up to congress to authorize that payment and whether or not to pay 1.3 billion on interest to Iran. IE The US President can indeed make deals BUT congress has to approve the deal AND release the money. Flying over pallets of money in the middle of the night by president decree is not legal as the president does not have the power of the purse. If a Repub president had done it the main stream media would have had a field day with it. Instead they fell over themselves carrying his water on why it was such a brilliant move. That money was used to pay terrorists and help them push their nuclear weapons program. An argument could be made that he gave aid and comfort to the enemy which is treason.
So when something is considered illegal... you think it should continue for 6 months because that would be 'fair'? The Obama executive action was an over-reach by the executive branch. Drumph rescinded it. He didnt make a new law, just removed a previous admins illegal actions. If congress wants to make a law thats up to them. He has nothing to do with making laws that the Senate and Congress branches of gov's responsibility.
Barry had a TERRIBLE record when it comes to the Constitution. He bombed american citizens without trial. He authorized the expansion of the NSA spying on US citizens. He gave exemptions to obmacare to his 'friends'. He gave a ton of money to Iran without Congress even knowing about it let alone approving it. The list goes on and on. He had a 'phone and a pen' and used it with little regards to the US Constitution.
Actually the standard is pretty clear. The officer perceives a threat (a person with a gun). He issues a lawful command to drop the weapon so he can sort out the reason the person is carrying. If said muppet doesn't drop the weapon he is under the law perceived as being hostile. Since he has a deadly weapon, deadly force is authorized.
The police are in a lose-lose scenario. If they dont shoot A) they can get killed or B) the muppet kills someone else and the public gets the pitchforks out or C) they shoot the threat... and the public gets the pitch forks out. Either way it sucks for the police and a large reason why areas are now NOT being policed properly as the cops are PEOPLE. People dislike sticking their dicks in a meat grinder if they can avoid it.
Its pretty simple solution. If you are CCW'ing or not. FOLLOW ALL ORDERS. Even ones that are 'wrong'. Do that and you wont get shot. You can always sue the next day. Can't do that if you are dead.