That may be true to some extent. However more often than not they advertise "Unlimited" and then flash all the details in near microscopic small print for a few seconds. The purpose of which is merely to get prospective customers to call and order services. Many "unawares" don't realize what they've got until their first bill.
A lie by any other word is still a lie. When a person or company purposely uses obtuse terms to mislead or confuse or even knowingly assert half-truths, it's still a self-serving distortion. And the purposes of such distortions are to lie without you realizing it's a lie. When it walks like a duck, talks like a duck... well you get the picture. Dishonesty in the pursuit of profit is blatantly immoral.
Cant say I concur with your assertion. Your focus upon cost ignores the reality of risk. If you don't own a vehicle then you don't incur the driving risk. However, the very fact of being alive means you incur the risks that accompany that privilege. Regardless of your age, health history, genetic inheritance, etc. merely being alive means you run the risk of being physically injured or incur some form of disease without knowing in advance. Insurance is the industry that handles risk not necessarily cost even though cost is based upon risk. So... for you to say auto insurance and health insurance are not the same you are wrong.
Perhaps. But there is a difference between nobility and civility. One doesn't need to maintain a veneer of nobility, merely civility. Civility merely requires a willingness to evaluate differing opinions with a good degree of rationality. Not display complete altruism as would be required to be "noble". Nobility is more the exception than the rule. Civility is a requirement for normal social cohesion and intercourse.
I concur. Complacency is the national political diet. Even if there is an iota concern by the public, that concern gets dissipated by narcissistic dreams of self-interest, immediate reward, escapist entertainment and extended work weeks. There is purpose behind "progress". To keep the masses content, occupied and overburdened so as there is little political will for revolution. Meanwhile, law enforcement has been militarized and tainted with the prospect with threats of domestic terrorism so as to make every citizen a potential jihadist. Everyone is suspect. Universal suspicion dissolves the social glue that makes a region a nation. When the foundations of society are undermined, who is willing to stake their life or livelihood for a sinking ship? Every man (or woman) for themselves. Hooray, hooray for the USA!!
Who said sequestration is the only carbon factor that effects climate conditions? Higher carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere certainly does effect climate and the process of photosynthesis in which plant life "eats" carbon dioxide and produces oxygen certainly is a climate factor. So I doubt your sequestration/climate assertion is as absolute as you like to portray it. Granted there are a number of factors that effect climate change but you cant rule out the biosphere.
One thing about "toll roads" if all roads were premised upon "pay as you go" you'd ultimately be stopped at each traffic light by different companies to pay their usage fees. It would end up being a far bigger headache than air travel. And it would be difficult to estimate what your personal costs would be on any individual trip because each company could change fees at random. You might as well privatize all the water ways, air space, subterranean travel, etc. into segments owned and operated by different companies for different segments. There are advantages to "public use property" funded up front at a predetermined cost by all potential users. In act the airline industry is a good example of industry fragmentation, nickel and diming as a result of deregulation. Free markets are not the be all and end all to every social issue.
You seem to ignore the fact that many of the needs her organization were met by donations, volunteers, etc. which cost her nothing. She professed a Spartan life but didn't emulate that personally. A majority of her "budget" could've been used to help the sick and dying but to her suffering was a saving grace. That was her sole (stated) objective, to bring people to god/Jesus. And evangelism via suffering was her intent. Period.
You're wrong. Momo Theresa did in fact deny on purpose, people who were under her care medicinal aids including antibiotics and pain ameliorates. The "good news" about her was about as good one can find in the Old Testament. She was catholic and the catholic church and various affiliated church organizations have promoted her righteousness while engaging in a misinformation campaign to hide her horrific acts. She denied bedding to the sick, withheld medicines and personal care while promoting her organization. And it was not because of a lack of funds. It was because as a dedicated catholic nun she believes in the salvation found in the experience of "suffering". That suffering brings one closer to god and induces the sick and dying to reach for the salvation of god or Christ. To her suffering was an integral part of the faith experience which is one of the pillars of the catholic church. Which by coincidence is the exact opposite of Buddhism which promotes the elimination of suffering in this world.
What you are describing may have been true of the America fifty years ago when we had a truly independent and professional press concerned with informing the populous in an objective way. That's no longer true. The media is as obtuse, slanted, bias, divided and misinformed and directed than ever before. News is very competitive and all the networks are more concerned about profit and promoting their own agendas than they are dedicated to uncovering the objective facts. Not only that but the world's viewing public will watch whatever re-enforces their preconceived notions and biases demonstrating that even the public don't care about facts, just entertainment.
Confirmation bias? Children will be successful if they want to be successful regardless of the school. I could use the same argument for public school because both daughters of mine did well in public school. Both have university level degrees (magna and summa cum laude), one has a masters and both have successful careers in education. They both went to public school. So I could say their school was "wonderful". The facts would support that each individual determines their own fate not necessarily the institution.
Private industry is motivated by self-interest and liability minimization. What are your chances that an apparent major malfunction of advanced technology will "self correct" after launch? When a private company like SpaceX experiences such a catastrophic failure its interest migrates to minimizing liability even if it results in a loss of profit. The profit will be lost anyway in such a failure so the priority is eliminating litigation.
Like some southern red necked female hog said, "Ain't no law a'gine be'n stupid." Anyone can "self medicate" with over-the-counter remedies (i.e. Wikipedia, etc). Understanding is an altogether different horse. And a big part of that comes from the education, personal experience with instructors and rigorous academic structure of a higher education. Unless you insist upon proclaiming yourself another "Einstein", or savant. But even Einstein had a higher education. And savants are only geniuses in one or two subjects while being socially maladjusted. The hypothesis that one can become an expert in something without supervised education is pure hubris for it ignores other aspects of education that one cannot experience on a error prone superhighway without signals, traffic control, etiquette, speed limits, etc.
Can't say I would agree. Such videos may initially cause revulsion but ultimately I think they are hanging themselves. Why? Because global powers and peoples will recommit themselves to wiping out such atrocious behavior in the long run. Which ultimately spells the demise of such terrorists.
YEH, NO British 1st Amendment rights. I don't care how offensive someone might view a video, a written publication, etc. People should have the right to "know" and know the details. Of you don't want to avail yourself to such things then don't. But knowing is better than not knowing. The British like to think of themselves as being more "civilized" than Americans even still referring to Americans sometimes as "cowboys". I can't help but think their smugness actually entrap their culture on a dystopian world.
And more costly as well. Lawyers make a lot of money defending " innocents". When they shouldn't have been arrested in the first place. I'm one that believes that law enforcement should not even be able to detain (indefinitely) anyone without at least some reasonable and factual "proof" of guilt. Why should a citizen be detained at all unless the police can demonstrate a person's involvement in some crime? Those detainment and arrests are expensive for the individuals accused. And that financial and civil right burden should not be encountered unless the law has good proof of one's guilt. Otherwise thousands of innocent people are arrested, imprisoned, financial burdens incurred and/or reputations ruined all based upon "suspicion". That's BS.
Your assertion is not sacrosanct. The spread mechanism of the virus is NOT completely understood. Infectious disease professionals are basing their conclusions merely upon the obvious, not upon definitive medical science. The very fact they have asserted it is spread by contact with bodily fluids does not rule out contact with fluids deposited or transmitted outside the body. Since the actual method of transmission is not completely understood it is a bit premature to make such conclusive statements about the contagion method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
That's not necessarily the correct conceptualization of "contact with bodily fluids". The bodily fluids don't necessarily mean you have to touch the person's body. Contact can occur with contaminated objects such as bus and stairway handrails, contaminated medical equipment such as used needles (addicts?), sneezing in a small enclosed area, shaking someone's hand, etc. Any situation in which one come in direct contact with bodily fluids. And, it is unknown just how long the virus can survive in the external environment.
If you're fool enough to buy the philosophy that government doesn't create value, then please stay off the paved highways, the bridges, stay out of airports (most owned and/or operated by municipals agents), turn in you vehicle license plate, don't drink or bathe in the water from your municipal authority, don't go fishing or motorboating at any public beaches or waterways, don't go vacationing at any of your regional forests or national parks, have a whole-house air filtration system installed in your place of residence because everyone else has fucked up all the outside air (like in China?), don't fly (on) any aircraft in the public skies, don't utilize any public walkways, stop at every single traffic intersection to check traffic (because of a lack of traffic flow management with public traffic signals), etc. That's the problem with libertarians/conservatives, you don't see "value" in anything unless someone had to invent it. There's no value in preserving what all ready was/is. Your type are so enthralled with private product/service "creation" you have no appreciation for protecting the conditions that permitted the evolution of our and thousands of other species. Only "progress" has value to the narcissistic miscreants that promote the supremacy of Friedmanism. A sad commentary on the understanding of the concept of "value" on the part of the free-marketeers .
And what's "technical" about Wall Streeters pushing buttons on a computer and raking in $300,000/yr? Long hours? Teachers work long hours grading papers, doing lesson plans, attending after school activities, attending graduate classes for their Masters degree (as mandated by most states), etc. Not only that, their jobs often require they not only teach certain subject matter but also teach children proper social behavior, right and wrong, responsibility and other skills many modern parents fail to teach their kids in order to maintain a learning environment. It's not anything like sitting in a plush office with a panoramic view having peons bring your coffee, fetch you shrimp before sucking your dick under their mahogany desk like many CEO's do. All the while getting tips from corporate lawyers on how to avoid paying taxes. Instilling knowledge and teaching social mores to children is far more responsible an activity than what the "elite" think of themselves.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I'm on my second Surface RT in less than a year. Both RT's intermittently freeze up. The first one's battery died after 8 months. I was figuring the first RT's freezing problem was a glitch with that Surface. When the battery died, MS replaced it. Lo and behold the second RT freezes also. I've never had a tablet or laptop freeze up so much. Since the second one has the same freezing problem, I've concluded it's a design flaw. I've emailed MS support about the freezing issue and their response was to "refresh" the device. I've attempted refreshing and restoring both tablets (first one was returned to MS due to the dead battery) but nothing worked. Needless to say I don't think I'd invest in another MS tablet at anytime. I haven't heard of tablets from other companies having such a problem.
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That may be true to some extent. However more often than not they advertise "Unlimited" and then flash all the details in near microscopic small print for a few seconds. The purpose of which is merely to get prospective customers to call and order services. Many "unawares" don't realize what they've got until their first bill.
A lie by any other word is still a lie. When a person or company purposely uses obtuse terms to mislead or confuse or even knowingly assert half-truths, it's still a self-serving distortion. And the purposes of such distortions are to lie without you realizing it's a lie. When it walks like a duck, talks like a duck... well you get the picture. Dishonesty in the pursuit of profit is blatantly immoral.
Cant say I concur with your assertion. Your focus upon cost ignores the reality of risk. If you don't own a vehicle then you don't incur the driving risk. However, the very fact of being alive means you incur the risks that accompany that privilege. Regardless of your age, health history, genetic inheritance, etc. merely being alive means you run the risk of being physically injured or incur some form of disease without knowing in advance. Insurance is the industry that handles risk not necessarily cost even though cost is based upon risk. So... for you to say auto insurance and health insurance are not the same you are wrong.
Perhaps. But there is a difference between nobility and civility. One doesn't need to maintain a veneer of nobility, merely civility. Civility merely requires a willingness to evaluate differing opinions with a good degree of rationality. Not display complete altruism as would be required to be "noble". Nobility is more the exception than the rule. Civility is a requirement for normal social cohesion and intercourse.
I concur. Complacency is the national political diet. Even if there is an iota concern by the public, that concern gets dissipated by narcissistic dreams of self-interest, immediate reward, escapist entertainment and extended work weeks. There is purpose behind "progress". To keep the masses content, occupied and overburdened so as there is little political will for revolution. Meanwhile, law enforcement has been militarized and tainted with the prospect with threats of domestic terrorism so as to make every citizen a potential jihadist. Everyone is suspect. Universal suspicion dissolves the social glue that makes a region a nation. When the foundations of society are undermined, who is willing to stake their life or livelihood for a sinking ship? Every man (or woman) for themselves. Hooray, hooray for the USA!!
Of course they will. Government falls for anything that makes corporations more dough.
Who said sequestration is the only carbon factor that effects climate conditions? Higher carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere certainly does effect climate and the process of photosynthesis in which plant life "eats" carbon dioxide and produces oxygen certainly is a climate factor. So I doubt your sequestration/climate assertion is as absolute as you like to portray it. Granted there are a number of factors that effect climate change but you cant rule out the biosphere.
One thing about "toll roads" if all roads were premised upon "pay as you go" you'd ultimately be stopped at each traffic light by different companies to pay their usage fees. It would end up being a far bigger headache than air travel. And it would be difficult to estimate what your personal costs would be on any individual trip because each company could change fees at random. You might as well privatize all the water ways, air space, subterranean travel, etc. into segments owned and operated by different companies for different segments. There are advantages to "public use property" funded up front at a predetermined cost by all potential users. In act the airline industry is a good example of industry fragmentation, nickel and diming as a result of deregulation. Free markets are not the be all and end all to every social issue.
I concur. But in all things being "free market" directed, money talks and bullshit walks. Who's the man? Cock, I mean Koch.
You seem to ignore the fact that many of the needs her organization were met by donations, volunteers, etc. which cost her nothing. She professed a Spartan life but didn't emulate that personally. A majority of her "budget" could've been used to help the sick and dying but to her suffering was a saving grace. That was her sole (stated) objective, to bring people to god/Jesus. And evangelism via suffering was her intent. Period.
You're wrong. Momo Theresa did in fact deny on purpose, people who were under her care medicinal aids including antibiotics and pain ameliorates. The "good news" about her was about as good one can find in the Old Testament. She was catholic and the catholic church and various affiliated church organizations have promoted her righteousness while engaging in a misinformation campaign to hide her horrific acts. She denied bedding to the sick, withheld medicines and personal care while promoting her organization. And it was not because of a lack of funds. It was because as a dedicated catholic nun she believes in the salvation found in the experience of "suffering". That suffering brings one closer to god and induces the sick and dying to reach for the salvation of god or Christ. To her suffering was an integral part of the faith experience which is one of the pillars of the catholic church. Which by coincidence is the exact opposite of Buddhism which promotes the elimination of suffering in this world.
What you are describing may have been true of the America fifty years ago when we had a truly independent and professional press concerned with informing the populous in an objective way. That's no longer true. The media is as obtuse, slanted, bias, divided and misinformed and directed than ever before. News is very competitive and all the networks are more concerned about profit and promoting their own agendas than they are dedicated to uncovering the objective facts. Not only that but the world's viewing public will watch whatever re-enforces their preconceived notions and biases demonstrating that even the public don't care about facts, just entertainment.
Confirmation bias? Children will be successful if they want to be successful regardless of the school. I could use the same argument for public school because both daughters of mine did well in public school. Both have university level degrees (magna and summa cum laude), one has a masters and both have successful careers in education. They both went to public school. So I could say their school was "wonderful". The facts would support that each individual determines their own fate not necessarily the institution.
Private industry is motivated by self-interest and liability minimization. What are your chances that an apparent major malfunction of advanced technology will "self correct" after launch? When a private company like SpaceX experiences such a catastrophic failure its interest migrates to minimizing liability even if it results in a loss of profit. The profit will be lost anyway in such a failure so the priority is eliminating litigation.
Like some southern red necked female hog said, "Ain't no law a'gine be'n stupid." Anyone can "self medicate" with over-the-counter remedies (i.e. Wikipedia, etc). Understanding is an altogether different horse. And a big part of that comes from the education, personal experience with instructors and rigorous academic structure of a higher education. Unless you insist upon proclaiming yourself another "Einstein", or savant. But even Einstein had a higher education. And savants are only geniuses in one or two subjects while being socially maladjusted. The hypothesis that one can become an expert in something without supervised education is pure hubris for it ignores other aspects of education that one cannot experience on a error prone superhighway without signals, traffic control, etiquette, speed limits, etc.
Can't say I would agree. Such videos may initially cause revulsion but ultimately I think they are hanging themselves. Why? Because global powers and peoples will recommit themselves to wiping out such atrocious behavior in the long run. Which ultimately spells the demise of such terrorists.
YEH, NO British 1st Amendment rights. I don't care how offensive someone might view a video, a written publication, etc. People should have the right to "know" and know the details. Of you don't want to avail yourself to such things then don't. But knowing is better than not knowing. The British like to think of themselves as being more "civilized" than Americans even still referring to Americans sometimes as "cowboys". I can't help but think their smugness actually entrap their culture on a dystopian world.
And more costly as well. Lawyers make a lot of money defending " innocents". When they shouldn't have been arrested in the first place. I'm one that believes that law enforcement should not even be able to detain (indefinitely) anyone without at least some reasonable and factual "proof" of guilt. Why should a citizen be detained at all unless the police can demonstrate a person's involvement in some crime? Those detainment and arrests are expensive for the individuals accused. And that financial and civil right burden should not be encountered unless the law has good proof of one's guilt. Otherwise thousands of innocent people are arrested, imprisoned, financial burdens incurred and/or reputations ruined all based upon "suspicion". That's BS.
Surely you jest.
Your assertion is not sacrosanct. The spread mechanism of the virus is NOT completely understood. Infectious disease professionals are basing their conclusions merely upon the obvious, not upon definitive medical science. The very fact they have asserted it is spread by contact with bodily fluids does not rule out contact with fluids deposited or transmitted outside the body. Since the actual method of transmission is not completely understood it is a bit premature to make such conclusive statements about the contagion method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
That's not necessarily the correct conceptualization of "contact with bodily fluids". The bodily fluids don't necessarily mean you have to touch the person's body. Contact can occur with contaminated objects such as bus and stairway handrails, contaminated medical equipment such as used needles (addicts?), sneezing in a small enclosed area, shaking someone's hand, etc. Any situation in which one come in direct contact with bodily fluids. And, it is unknown just how long the virus can survive in the external environment.
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If you're fool enough to buy the philosophy that government doesn't create value, then please stay off the paved highways, the bridges, stay out of airports (most owned and/or operated by municipals agents), turn in you vehicle license plate, don't drink or bathe in the water from your municipal authority, don't go fishing or motorboating at any public beaches or waterways, don't go vacationing at any of your regional forests or national parks, have a whole-house air filtration system installed in your place of residence because everyone else has fucked up all the outside air (like in China?), don't fly (on) any aircraft in the public skies, don't utilize any public walkways, stop at every single traffic intersection to check traffic (because of a lack of traffic flow management with public traffic signals), etc. That's the problem with libertarians/conservatives, you don't see "value" in anything unless someone had to invent it. There's no value in preserving what all ready was/is. Your type are so enthralled with private product/service "creation" you have no appreciation for protecting the conditions that permitted the evolution of our and thousands of other species. Only "progress" has value to the narcissistic miscreants that promote the supremacy of Friedmanism. A sad commentary on the understanding of the concept of "value" on the part of the free-marketeers .
And what's "technical" about Wall Streeters pushing buttons on a computer and raking in $300,000/yr? Long hours? Teachers work long hours grading papers, doing lesson plans, attending after school activities, attending graduate classes for their Masters degree (as mandated by most states), etc. Not only that, their jobs often require they not only teach certain subject matter but also teach children proper social behavior, right and wrong, responsibility and other skills many modern parents fail to teach their kids in order to maintain a learning environment. It's not anything like sitting in a plush office with a panoramic view having peons bring your coffee, fetch you shrimp before sucking your dick under their mahogany desk like many CEO's do. All the while getting tips from corporate lawyers on how to avoid paying taxes. Instilling knowledge and teaching social mores to children is far more responsible an activity than what the "elite" think of themselves.
Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I'm on my second Surface RT in less than a year. Both RT's intermittently freeze up. The first one's battery died after 8 months. I was figuring the first RT's freezing problem was a glitch with that Surface. When the battery died, MS replaced it. Lo and behold the second RT freezes also. I've never had a tablet or laptop freeze up so much. Since the second one has the same freezing problem, I've concluded it's a design flaw. I've emailed MS support about the freezing issue and their response was to "refresh" the device. I've attempted refreshing and restoring both tablets (first one was returned to MS due to the dead battery) but nothing worked. Needless to say I don't think I'd invest in another MS tablet at anytime. I haven't heard of tablets from other companies having such a problem.