A nearby shipyard was overrun with feral cats. They started a massive catch and kill program which more or less took care of the cat problem.
A nearby shipyard was soon overrun with rats....
It took almost forty years to get Cosby. Weinstein has been exploiting women for at least the same length of time.
Cosby was primarily prosecuted because, for years, he has been critical of the lack of morals in the black community. The chance to show him up as a hypocrite was just too great.
Weinstein is a loathsome individual in a morally loathsome industry. Of the 80 something women who made allegations against Weinstein how many were perfectly happy to trade favors for career success for decades but were quick enough to pile on when the worm turned?
I mean come on. The casting couch is so ingrained in the Hollywood landscape that it's a cliche. How many people don't think that there are still dozens, if not hundreds, of people in the Hollywood/media scene who haven't done the same thing as Cosby and Weinstein and will never get their comeuppance?
As for Chevron:This is a feel good, SJW move that will have no chance of actually resulting in Chevron loosing any money. They might even counter sue and when they win and end up costing Richmond a butt load of money. More likely the citizens will get fed up with this and the city politicians pushing this might find themselves out of a job.
I find it interesting is that your preferred answer is using the power of the state to impel people to do what you think is right through the use of violence.
And you wonder why so many people in the U.S. want guns to protect them from the corrupt power of the state.
Building houses in most places is a business. In most places buildings are built to sell. The process is to build the building as cheap as possible and sell it for as much as possible. Building codes are set to force builders to build structures that won't fall down and that will last for at least a few decades (That's right decades. Note that NM cable, NEC required for electrically wiring can have a service life as little as 25 years. So yes buildings built in the 1980's could have wiring that is beyond it's service life. Even Romex, which is used in commercial construction can have a service live no longer than 50 years.)
As in almost everything in the U.S. standards, while set by non-governmental organizations, are subject to regulatory capture. The groups that set them are heavily lobbied and in many cases administratively controlled by industry.
There is also anesthetics. In many places weird buildings which don't conform to local design standards are prohibited. For example stores in Williamsburg Va are required to match local colonial architecture, at least in their facades, so no obvious solar arrays or modern wind power units. My HOA prohibits roof mounted solar arrays.
Obviously only in the U.S. Both The Last Jedi and Solo bombed in China. Solo has already opened there and it made $1M since opening.
I know that unlike Marvel, Star Wars isn't a thing in China, but the Last Jedi closed after 2 weeks and I bet Solo won't even make it that long.
That's an international failure.
I think you have it reverse.
As Greg Gutfeld is fond of saying, "The difference between Liberals an Conservatives is that Conservatives think that Liberals are wrong, and Liberals think Conservatives are Evil."
When your opponent is evil you can justify any action you take against them, including scurrilous personal attacks based on nothing and subversion of the democratic process and the law. As we have seen with the FBI, the DNC and all.
Guilty pleas for lying to the FBI about doing things that are not illegal.
It works like this. I go to a movie while I'm suppose to be washing the car. Going to a movie is not illegal.
The FBI comes up to me and says, "You know your wife says you were washing the car. Is that true?"
You say, "Yes."
You have just committed a felony. By the way the FBI never talked to your wife. he was lying. He's allowed to do that.
So let's run this down:
1) George Papadopoulos, admitted guilt, to lying to the FBI. So basically if the FBI hadn't been investigating him they wouldn't have had anything to charge him with.
2) Michael Flynn admitted guilt to lying to the FBI about doing something that was not a crime. Same as Papadopoulos. If there had not been an investigation there would not have been a crime.
3) Paul Manafort. Charged and not yet convicted of activities which have nothing to do with Trump for activities which occurred in 2008, when Obama was president.
4) Gates is basically involved in the same activities as Paul Manafort.
Manafort has been involved with Republican campaigns since the time of Gerald Ford. I didn't vote for him.
5-20) These Russians and Russian companies have no link to Trump. One of these companies is even contesting that what they did was illegal.
21) Richard Pinedo seems to be some kind of operator of an online auction service who ram a site which allowed people to spoof online credentials. It appears some of the Russians might have used his service. Still nothing to do with Trump or real election interference either. Guilty i believe of activity as the agent of a foreign power without registering. One of the same crimes they went after Manafort for. He has since registered, since being a registered representative of a foreign power is not illegal.
For that matter, buying advertising to seek to convince people to believe a certain way is not illegal either and foreign government are allowed to do that. Which is why the one company is contesting Mueller's indictment.
22) Alex van der Zwaan like George Papadopoulos, convicted of lying to the FBI. So basically if the FBI hadn't been investigating him they wouldn't have had anything to charge him with. Because if you've committed a real crime to which they actually have proof then they charge you with that. He got 30 days in jail. I know DUI cases that resulted in larger penalties.
Basically if the FBI ask me if I was downtown yesterday at a McDonalds and I say no, if I was, they can charge me with a felony even if I haven't committed a crime. They can however lie to me with impunity. If you don't see how wrong that is I don't know what to say to you.
Yeah he committed perjury. I never understood that. He had already won his second election. It's not like stooping miss slut was a high crime or misdemeanor. Why commit perjury?
He should have stood up and owned it. Like the poster said everyone already knew he was a sleazy, lying womanizer and they elected and re-elected him anyway. Impeaching him was a waste of time and a terrible precedent.
Why does anybody believe the FBI ever? The FBI has been a crooked organization since the beginning. Does no one learn history anymore?
Look up J. Edgar Hoover. First FBI director. He abused his power from the very beginning.
There is no reason to believe the FBI has ever moved beyond the secret police force that Hoover created. Only the fact that subsequent FBI directors have been less competent criminals has prevented greater abuse.
If things keep going the way they have all of the FBI's present day abuses may actually come out, a testament to their increasing incompetence.
Words matter enormously. The militia of the United States consists of the organized and unorganized militia. The militia consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 and any women who are members of the National Guard. That designation is set by the Code of Federal Regulations. If you wish to limit gun ownership to anyone outside that group knock yourself out, but the constitution guarantees the right of those militia members to own arms (defined at the time as guns.)
It's not that the world is more dangerous, or even that parents necessarily feel their child is in more danger. it's that if something happens to your child Joy Behar will be on national television telling people what a bad parent you are (and how it's all because you're a conservative.)
Only 1-hundreth of 1 percent of missing children have been abducted by a stranger, so of course almost all Amber Alerts which are actually abductions are going to be abductions by the non-custodial parent.
Abductions by non-custodial parents are often as problematic as stranger abductions and require intervention. The custodial assignment system is not perfect, but usually tries to take the best interest of the child in to account.
By the Wikipedia article you sited a certain number were lost or ran away. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer that lost children were found and that children who ran away were located by authorities. Perhaps they had a valid reason to run away, but typically even children running away from abusive situations just end up in situations which are even worse. Many such children end up the victims of predators of one sort or another.
Do I even have to mention minors running away with adults of their own free will? Should they be allowed to do this without intervention?
By the same article 30% of Amber Alerts were for for children actually taken bey strangers or minors traveling with adults not their legal guardian. That seems pretty effective to me.
I once had a comparative language teacher who said:
English doesn't barrow words from other languages. English follows other languages into dark alleys and rifles their pockets.
Let's explain what's meant by deep state. In a democracy or a republic the top levels of government are subject to changing every few years from one party to another. These parties are likely to have differing political and policy priorities. Beneath these political types are a bureaucracy consisting of people whose job it is to carry out the policies of those elected or appointed over them, provided such policies are legal.
Their job does not include stonewalling or trying to prevent the implementation of policies with which they do not agree. Their choice is to resign if they disagree with a policy so much they cannot in good conscious implement it.
When, however instead they not only seek to sabotage the policies of the people appointed or elected over them, but they also actively attempt to use the levers of power they control to determine who is elected by intervening in the electoral process, then they have become a rouge government of their own. A state embedded deep in the existing legitimate government.
This is what is meant by the term 'deep state'. It is used to describe individuals working for partisan purposes for withing layers of the government which are suppose to be nonpartisan.
Obviously not correct, as it doesn't correspond to reality. Is a Libertarian a conservative? If a conservative believes that the government should be allowed to collect information on its citizenry in order to carry out military objectives such as anti-terrorist activities does that not make that conservative a statist? That person would surely not be a libertarian, but in the United States at least they could certainly be considered a conservative. And they would want a larger more intrusive government. Many of the so-called big government programs the exist in the U.S. were pushed by conservatives originally, from the Interstate system to the military-industrial complex.
Hence the present confrontation in both parties about the NSA. Far left and far right are against the constitutionality of NSA snooping while conservatives and liberals of more centrist bent are for it. The far lefties are the anarchists and radical socialitst and the rightist are the libertarians.
So how does your cost breakdown relate to paperback books. Visit a local B&N and you find that the balance of the books are not Hardbacks but paperbacks, most of which were never published as hardbacks. These are the same books which are available as ebooks or paperback on Amazon for nearly the same price. I go to the SciFi or Romance section of B&N and see literally thousands of books which were never marketed, never appeared in hardback. As a matter of fact the paperbacks vastly outnumber the hardbacks.
Except for the small portion of books which are published as hardbacks these numbers are meaningless.
I wouldn't begrudge paying for ebooks, if I though the balance of the money went to the author instead of some publisher who is doing what exactly? Editing? Possibly. Other than that almost all non-technical books are automatically typeset by the software. The device picks the font, layout and so on. While the publisher might spend some amount of money flogging the book under most circumstances a well know author merely needs to put their name on the book to get initial sales and word of mouth and the press takes it from there. Lesser know authors get no great amount of help from the publishers, especially outside the narrow group of smut based "Best sellers" lists, which really have more to do with how the publishers are pushing the book than any real sales. How else can a book debut on the best seller list? Its on the list before it hits the bookstores.
I'm still amazed that most authors don't self publish. Especially well known ones. What do they need the publishers for? To set up book tours? If you're R.K. Rowling just write a book under another name and then let people know you wrote it. Instant best seller, no publisher flogging necessary. Why give them a good percentage of the profits? Hire your own PR firm to sell the book, the cost will be less than what the publishers take.
Well, comparing the trash that generally passes for literature now days with what was available before 1922 one might reasonably come to that conclusion.
We sent men to the moon as a cover for developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. And as a nationalistic fueled PR stunt. Note how once the U.S. succeeded in sending men to the moon the Soviets gave up? Note how once the Soviets gave up the U.S quickly close down the Apollo program?
Of course we sent man-made probes to Mars. We've sent them throughout the solar system. It makes much more sense to send unmanned probes out to collect information than it does to send people. As a matter of fact ask any genuine planetary scientist which makes more sense to send and unmanned probe will be answer every time. Most believe manned space flight is a distraction that prevents money being put into programs which are actually useful for scientific purposes, like more unmanned probes.
Sending Satellites into orbit does not require sending people into orbit (unless you're a dysfunctional government agency.) It does make it easier to repair faulty satellites (which have been built by your dysfunctional government agency.)
Your solar flare analysis is actually pretty valid. It is much more likely that another Carrington Event will hit Earth than some tine spec of a spacecraft. We should definitely be more worried about it.
Fail.
The purpose of the Constitution is to protect the individual, hence items like the fourth and fifth amendment, not to mention the first, second, seventh, eighth and tenth, all of which says that the protection and authority of the citizen over the government is more important than some obscure and undefined "benefit to society."
Even the completely superfluous and entirely untested third amendment puts the rights of the individual homeowner above the needs of the government (and society) except in the extreme situation of war and even then requires that the action be regulated by law.
Yeah, because having a government who spies on all its citizens, punishes people for their political beliefs through the IRS and lies to judges to get warrants to chill free speech is just the group I want in charge of administering the system that is going to keep me alive if I get sick.
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A nearby shipyard was overrun with feral cats. They started a massive catch and kill program which more or less took care of the cat problem. A nearby shipyard was soon overrun with rats....
Oh please
It took almost forty years to get Cosby. Weinstein has been exploiting women for at least the same length of time.
Cosby was primarily prosecuted because, for years, he has been critical of the lack of morals in the black community. The chance to show him up as a hypocrite was just too great.
Weinstein is a loathsome individual in a morally loathsome industry. Of the 80 something women who made allegations against Weinstein how many were perfectly happy to trade favors for career success for decades but were quick enough to pile on when the worm turned?
I mean come on. The casting couch is so ingrained in the Hollywood landscape that it's a cliche. How many people don't think that there are still dozens, if not hundreds, of people in the Hollywood/media scene who haven't done the same thing as Cosby and Weinstein and will never get their comeuppance?
As for Chevron:This is a feel good, SJW move that will have no chance of actually resulting in Chevron loosing any money. They might even counter sue and when they win and end up costing Richmond a butt load of money. More likely the citizens will get fed up with this and the city politicians pushing this might find themselves out of a job.
I find it interesting is that your preferred answer is using the power of the state to impel people to do what you think is right through the use of violence. And you wonder why so many people in the U.S. want guns to protect them from the corrupt power of the state.
Because: Money.
Building houses in most places is a business. In most places buildings are built to sell. The process is to build the building as cheap as possible and sell it for as much as possible. Building codes are set to force builders to build structures that won't fall down and that will last for at least a few decades (That's right decades. Note that NM cable, NEC required for electrically wiring can have a service life as little as 25 years. So yes buildings built in the 1980's could have wiring that is beyond it's service life. Even Romex, which is used in commercial construction can have a service live no longer than 50 years.)
As in almost everything in the U.S. standards, while set by non-governmental organizations, are subject to regulatory capture. The groups that set them are heavily lobbied and in many cases administratively controlled by industry.
There is also anesthetics. In many places weird buildings which don't conform to local design standards are prohibited. For example stores in Williamsburg Va are required to match local colonial architecture, at least in their facades, so no obvious solar arrays or modern wind power units. My HOA prohibits roof mounted solar arrays.
Amazon: We're very sorry. The recordings were suppose to go to the NSA. We just don't know how it went to some random person.
Obviously only in the U.S. Both The Last Jedi and Solo bombed in China. Solo has already opened there and it made $1M since opening. I know that unlike Marvel, Star Wars isn't a thing in China, but the Last Jedi closed after 2 weeks and I bet Solo won't even make it that long. That's an international failure.
I think you have it reverse. As Greg Gutfeld is fond of saying, "The difference between Liberals an Conservatives is that Conservatives think that Liberals are wrong, and Liberals think Conservatives are Evil." When your opponent is evil you can justify any action you take against them, including scurrilous personal attacks based on nothing and subversion of the democratic process and the law. As we have seen with the FBI, the DNC and all.
Guilty pleas for lying to the FBI about doing things that are not illegal. It works like this. I go to a movie while I'm suppose to be washing the car. Going to a movie is not illegal. The FBI comes up to me and says, "You know your wife says you were washing the car. Is that true?" You say, "Yes." You have just committed a felony. By the way the FBI never talked to your wife. he was lying. He's allowed to do that.
If you ever trusted the FBI then you obviously don't know history. J. Edgar Hoover. Look him up and then tell me how we should trust the FBI.
So let's run this down: 1) George Papadopoulos, admitted guilt, to lying to the FBI. So basically if the FBI hadn't been investigating him they wouldn't have had anything to charge him with. 2) Michael Flynn admitted guilt to lying to the FBI about doing something that was not a crime. Same as Papadopoulos. If there had not been an investigation there would not have been a crime. 3) Paul Manafort. Charged and not yet convicted of activities which have nothing to do with Trump for activities which occurred in 2008, when Obama was president. 4) Gates is basically involved in the same activities as Paul Manafort. Manafort has been involved with Republican campaigns since the time of Gerald Ford. I didn't vote for him. 5-20) These Russians and Russian companies have no link to Trump. One of these companies is even contesting that what they did was illegal. 21) Richard Pinedo seems to be some kind of operator of an online auction service who ram a site which allowed people to spoof online credentials. It appears some of the Russians might have used his service. Still nothing to do with Trump or real election interference either. Guilty i believe of activity as the agent of a foreign power without registering. One of the same crimes they went after Manafort for. He has since registered, since being a registered representative of a foreign power is not illegal. For that matter, buying advertising to seek to convince people to believe a certain way is not illegal either and foreign government are allowed to do that. Which is why the one company is contesting Mueller's indictment. 22) Alex van der Zwaan like George Papadopoulos, convicted of lying to the FBI. So basically if the FBI hadn't been investigating him they wouldn't have had anything to charge him with. Because if you've committed a real crime to which they actually have proof then they charge you with that. He got 30 days in jail. I know DUI cases that resulted in larger penalties. Basically if the FBI ask me if I was downtown yesterday at a McDonalds and I say no, if I was, they can charge me with a felony even if I haven't committed a crime. They can however lie to me with impunity. If you don't see how wrong that is I don't know what to say to you.
Yeah he committed perjury. I never understood that. He had already won his second election. It's not like stooping miss slut was a high crime or misdemeanor. Why commit perjury? He should have stood up and owned it. Like the poster said everyone already knew he was a sleazy, lying womanizer and they elected and re-elected him anyway. Impeaching him was a waste of time and a terrible precedent.
Why does anybody believe the FBI ever? The FBI has been a crooked organization since the beginning. Does no one learn history anymore? Look up J. Edgar Hoover. First FBI director. He abused his power from the very beginning. There is no reason to believe the FBI has ever moved beyond the secret police force that Hoover created. Only the fact that subsequent FBI directors have been less competent criminals has prevented greater abuse. If things keep going the way they have all of the FBI's present day abuses may actually come out, a testament to their increasing incompetence.
Words matter enormously. The militia of the United States consists of the organized and unorganized militia. The militia consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 and any women who are members of the National Guard. That designation is set by the Code of Federal Regulations. If you wish to limit gun ownership to anyone outside that group knock yourself out, but the constitution guarantees the right of those militia members to own arms (defined at the time as guns.)
It's not that the world is more dangerous, or even that parents necessarily feel their child is in more danger. it's that if something happens to your child Joy Behar will be on national television telling people what a bad parent you are (and how it's all because you're a conservative.)
Only 1-hundreth of 1 percent of missing children have been abducted by a stranger, so of course almost all Amber Alerts which are actually abductions are going to be abductions by the non-custodial parent. Abductions by non-custodial parents are often as problematic as stranger abductions and require intervention. The custodial assignment system is not perfect, but usually tries to take the best interest of the child in to account. By the Wikipedia article you sited a certain number were lost or ran away. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer that lost children were found and that children who ran away were located by authorities. Perhaps they had a valid reason to run away, but typically even children running away from abusive situations just end up in situations which are even worse. Many such children end up the victims of predators of one sort or another. Do I even have to mention minors running away with adults of their own free will? Should they be allowed to do this without intervention? By the same article 30% of Amber Alerts were for for children actually taken bey strangers or minors traveling with adults not their legal guardian. That seems pretty effective to me.
I once had a comparative language teacher who said: English doesn't barrow words from other languages. English follows other languages into dark alleys and rifles their pockets.
And yet they employ workers in Asian sweatshops to manufacture their products. Pretty low bar you've set there.
Let's explain what's meant by deep state. In a democracy or a republic the top levels of government are subject to changing every few years from one party to another. These parties are likely to have differing political and policy priorities. Beneath these political types are a bureaucracy consisting of people whose job it is to carry out the policies of those elected or appointed over them, provided such policies are legal. Their job does not include stonewalling or trying to prevent the implementation of policies with which they do not agree. Their choice is to resign if they disagree with a policy so much they cannot in good conscious implement it. When, however instead they not only seek to sabotage the policies of the people appointed or elected over them, but they also actively attempt to use the levers of power they control to determine who is elected by intervening in the electoral process, then they have become a rouge government of their own. A state embedded deep in the existing legitimate government. This is what is meant by the term 'deep state'. It is used to describe individuals working for partisan purposes for withing layers of the government which are suppose to be nonpartisan.
Obviously not correct, as it doesn't correspond to reality. Is a Libertarian a conservative? If a conservative believes that the government should be allowed to collect information on its citizenry in order to carry out military objectives such as anti-terrorist activities does that not make that conservative a statist? That person would surely not be a libertarian, but in the United States at least they could certainly be considered a conservative. And they would want a larger more intrusive government. Many of the so-called big government programs the exist in the U.S. were pushed by conservatives originally, from the Interstate system to the military-industrial complex. Hence the present confrontation in both parties about the NSA. Far left and far right are against the constitutionality of NSA snooping while conservatives and liberals of more centrist bent are for it. The far lefties are the anarchists and radical socialitst and the rightist are the libertarians.
So how does your cost breakdown relate to paperback books. Visit a local B&N and you find that the balance of the books are not Hardbacks but paperbacks, most of which were never published as hardbacks. These are the same books which are available as ebooks or paperback on Amazon for nearly the same price. I go to the SciFi or Romance section of B&N and see literally thousands of books which were never marketed, never appeared in hardback. As a matter of fact the paperbacks vastly outnumber the hardbacks. Except for the small portion of books which are published as hardbacks these numbers are meaningless.
I wouldn't begrudge paying for ebooks, if I though the balance of the money went to the author instead of some publisher who is doing what exactly? Editing? Possibly. Other than that almost all non-technical books are automatically typeset by the software. The device picks the font, layout and so on. While the publisher might spend some amount of money flogging the book under most circumstances a well know author merely needs to put their name on the book to get initial sales and word of mouth and the press takes it from there. Lesser know authors get no great amount of help from the publishers, especially outside the narrow group of smut based "Best sellers" lists, which really have more to do with how the publishers are pushing the book than any real sales. How else can a book debut on the best seller list? Its on the list before it hits the bookstores. I'm still amazed that most authors don't self publish. Especially well known ones. What do they need the publishers for? To set up book tours? If you're R.K. Rowling just write a book under another name and then let people know you wrote it. Instant best seller, no publisher flogging necessary. Why give them a good percentage of the profits? Hire your own PR firm to sell the book, the cost will be less than what the publishers take.
Well, comparing the trash that generally passes for literature now days with what was available before 1922 one might reasonably come to that conclusion.
We sent men to the moon as a cover for developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. And as a nationalistic fueled PR stunt. Note how once the U.S. succeeded in sending men to the moon the Soviets gave up? Note how once the Soviets gave up the U.S quickly close down the Apollo program? Of course we sent man-made probes to Mars. We've sent them throughout the solar system. It makes much more sense to send unmanned probes out to collect information than it does to send people. As a matter of fact ask any genuine planetary scientist which makes more sense to send and unmanned probe will be answer every time. Most believe manned space flight is a distraction that prevents money being put into programs which are actually useful for scientific purposes, like more unmanned probes. Sending Satellites into orbit does not require sending people into orbit (unless you're a dysfunctional government agency.) It does make it easier to repair faulty satellites (which have been built by your dysfunctional government agency.) Your solar flare analysis is actually pretty valid. It is much more likely that another Carrington Event will hit Earth than some tine spec of a spacecraft. We should definitely be more worried about it.
Fail. The purpose of the Constitution is to protect the individual, hence items like the fourth and fifth amendment, not to mention the first, second, seventh, eighth and tenth, all of which says that the protection and authority of the citizen over the government is more important than some obscure and undefined "benefit to society." Even the completely superfluous and entirely untested third amendment puts the rights of the individual homeowner above the needs of the government (and society) except in the extreme situation of war and even then requires that the action be regulated by law.
Yeah, because having a government who spies on all its citizens, punishes people for their political beliefs through the IRS and lies to judges to get warrants to chill free speech is just the group I want in charge of administering the system that is going to keep me alive if I get sick.