I don't know why this is so surprising. If one place becomes too expensive to operate out of then a corporate will move to someplace that won't try to fleece if for every dime it can get. Or in this case use the law to keep from getting screwed by the frogs.
I have never been one for a lot of government intervention. However this is a prime example of the fact that it really has it's place. Sure, it's all well and good that General Mills has backed down. But there's nothing to say that you'll not see this stunt pulled again in the future. All it's going to take is corporation to decide they'll do better by using this tactic against it's customers than they'll loose from the public backlash.
Better to put out a grass fire in your yard with a hose than to wait for the fire department to show up to try and save what's left of your house.
Well that is actually true. Hemp honestly is a wonder crop for many reasons. Including the fact it can produce massive amounts of ethanol. However I don't think ethanol is the wonder answer that people make it out to be.
Yeah I've noticed that myself. Sure ethanol does 'clean' engines. But it also eats seals and gaskets. And sure, that's not that much of a problem in brand new cars... but if you're still banging around in something from the 80s or 90s you can expect more repairs. If not having to replace or rebuild the whole engine.
Yeah Howard Bloom is a pretty serious mouth piece for ethanol. He suggests using any number of other materials to make the stuff. And I do actually agree with that part of his platform. Just think he's kind over stating what it can do. Well that it eats old seals.... I can't afford a new car.
Going all the way back to the time of the revolution (or a bit after it) a legal president that actually crated two kinds of militia. A select militia and a general militia. In modern times the concept of the select militia has been taken to be the National Guard. Which actually isn't a militia at all as it's directly tied into the US Military. The other end of this spectrum is the concept of the general militia which is actually every able bodies man in the nation. The reasons for this being that in the past there were conflicts between the states and the federal government as a whole as to who was allowed to keep a militia. This precedent still hjolds true today. This is how those 'Michigan Militia' types don't routinely get stamped out by the ATF or DHS.
All I have said here really is a moot point given that what this ass-clown is pushing is a blatant call to revoke the right of the people to own personal weapons by harping on the concept of the militia and playing with the means of works. I won't bother trying to explan why this is completely wrong and instead will direct everyone to check out the episode of Penn and Teller's 'Bullshit' on gun control. They lay it out better and funnies than I could.
Doesn't seem like the best idea to try and make policy based off a questionable study. After all all it said that the rise in temperature data had nothing do to with simple clime fluctuation. It didn't really address anything else.
It think it would also help if we'd step away from the 'old fashion' reactors in favor of breeder reactors. Or the thorium based technology. When the kinks get worked out of that tech.
I thought that entire thing was kind of overblown. But I do kind of wonder what would have happened what would have happened if someone had flipped the switch with a conservative comedian making this kind of statement. I honestly think there there would still be people bitching about it.
Of course... about the only conservative comedian I can think of off the top of my head is Larry the Cable guy. Don't think he has the wit to pull something like that off.
I say this due to the fact of just how untrustworthy the Federal Government be come. And that's in all ways, not just with this new tax.
As a side note I'd really like to see real information on how many people have actually BOUGHT this new mandatory insurance. Last time I looked into it they were still keeping that under their proverbial hat. Wouldn't be surprised it was half... or even less.
There for a while he was pushing for a ban on a bit of a work around that 'gun-nuts' in California came up with to get around it's ban on so called 'Assault Weapons' A weird little device called a bullet button that makes it so that the magazine in a firearm can't be easier removed. Pretty clever work around for a completely asinine law.
... by the socialist center for hating rich white business men has reveled that golf clubs start forest fires!!1
I'm honestly wondering who the hell signed off on this article? Some intern straight out of J school? Even crappy public golf courses are not going to just have rocks laying around to hit. Let alone one of those meticulously groomed courses that the kind of person with titanium golf clubs are going to visit.
To actually suggest that there is a real chance of this is completely ludicrous. Statistically speaking you're probably going to see more fires started by falling meteorites than some golfer.
Well the only thing I'd personally worry about is if these changes result in stable and healthy genetics. I'm not really up on the latest in genetic research but I didn't know that we were at the point where science could move in to selectively excise 'bad' genes and insert health DNA. The last time I even looked into genetic engineering involved the science of GMO crops. And at that time there we just hammering random DNA into cells until they could get a cell that didn't automatically die.
Maybe it works since you're not trying to insert completely random DNA into the mix. But until we see some solid results with a high precentage of success I'll remain skeptical and be against it. But here's hoping it does work. I'm actually pretty interested in a lot of trans humanist concepts. (as long as they're all voluntary, that is.) So I say keep on working on it. But hold off on trying to push it out until we have some good results in the lab.
Joking aside there's no real way for such a technology to be rolled out on a national scale anyway. There's been people trying to get rid of the OTR/Long Haul trucking for a long time. Generally in favor of trains haulage. But the national transportation infrastructure is so dependent on trucks that that such a task would be a generational effort. That's assuming that they can actually get it to reliably work. Now moving in and out of urban centers... that might be doable. But I'm skeptical.
..project that'll go nowhere due to government intervention. Not that they'll directly ban this, but they'll probably never certify this for road use. Such a thing would be useful for running around a small community. But even then... as soon as it touches the main highroad way it'll come under jurisdiction of the state.
... send in an entire armada of lawyers to try and stamp this out before it can even happen.
I'm far more interested in what other companies will do with the idea than what Google will do with it. Especially if these 'knock offs' don't come with Google+ mandatory installed.
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I don't know why this is so surprising. If one place becomes too expensive to operate out of then a corporate will move to someplace that won't try to fleece if for every dime it can get. Or in this case use the law to keep from getting screwed by the frogs.
See you in November might be the more important question.
Heh. Yes, I know. Wouldn't have had with a proper helmet. Or a little less luck.
Save that Goliath has an M1 Abrams loaded with canister rounds and David... still has a sling.
I have never been one for a lot of government intervention. However this is a prime example of the fact that it really has it's place. Sure, it's all well and good that General Mills has backed down. But there's nothing to say that you'll not see this stunt pulled again in the future. All it's going to take is corporation to decide they'll do better by using this tactic against it's customers than they'll loose from the public backlash.
Better to put out a grass fire in your yard with a hose than to wait for the fire department to show up to try and save what's left of your house.
Well that is actually true. Hemp honestly is a wonder crop for many reasons. Including the fact it can produce massive amounts of ethanol. However I don't think ethanol is the wonder answer that people make it out to be.
Yeah I've noticed that myself. Sure ethanol does 'clean' engines. But it also eats seals and gaskets. And sure, that's not that much of a problem in brand new cars... but if you're still banging around in something from the 80s or 90s you can expect more repairs. If not having to replace or rebuild the whole engine.
Yeah Howard Bloom is a pretty serious mouth piece for ethanol. He suggests using any number of other materials to make the stuff. And I do actually agree with that part of his platform. Just think he's kind over stating what it can do. Well that it eats old seals.... I can't afford a new car.
Well some of the ones listed in the link are. Or near enough to make no never mind. Pity thought because I'd be aallll over that Skorpion...
Well better a bunch of GOP racist texting a-holes than left wing senators who smuggle in rocket launchers and heavy machine guns.
I'd just as soon have neither, but if I gotta chose the worse of the two...
Heh! Yeah, I remember that... Always wondered why he chose to mail order from Canada. Are Canadian dildos the best dildos?
Going all the way back to the time of the revolution (or a bit after it) a legal president that actually crated two kinds of militia. A select militia and a general militia. In modern times the concept of the select militia has been taken to be the National Guard. Which actually isn't a militia at all as it's directly tied into the US Military. The other end of this spectrum is the concept of the general militia which is actually every able bodies man in the nation. The reasons for this being that in the past there were conflicts between the states and the federal government as a whole as to who was allowed to keep a militia. This precedent still hjolds true today. This is how those 'Michigan Militia' types don't routinely get stamped out by the ATF or DHS.
All I have said here really is a moot point given that what this ass-clown is pushing is a blatant call to revoke the right of the people to own personal weapons by harping on the concept of the militia and playing with the means of works. I won't bother trying to explan why this is completely wrong and instead will direct everyone to check out the episode of Penn and Teller's 'Bullshit' on gun control. They lay it out better and funnies than I could.
Doesn't seem like the best idea to try and make policy based off a questionable study. After all all it said that the rise in temperature data had nothing do to with simple clime fluctuation. It didn't really address anything else.
It think it would also help if we'd step away from the 'old fashion' reactors in favor of breeder reactors. Or the thorium based technology. When the kinks get worked out of that tech.
Found the vegan!
I thought that entire thing was kind of overblown. But I do kind of wonder what would have happened what would have happened if someone had flipped the switch with a conservative comedian making this kind of statement. I honestly think there there would still be people bitching about it.
Of course... about the only conservative comedian I can think of off the top of my head is Larry the Cable guy. Don't think he has the wit to pull something like that off.
I say this due to the fact of just how untrustworthy the Federal Government be come. And that's in all ways, not just with this new tax.
As a side note I'd really like to see real information on how many people have actually BOUGHT this new mandatory insurance. Last time I looked into it they were still keeping that under their proverbial hat. Wouldn't be surprised it was half... or even less.
There for a while he was pushing for a ban on a bit of a work around that 'gun-nuts' in California came up with to get around it's ban on so called 'Assault Weapons' A weird little device called a bullet button that makes it so that the magazine in a firearm can't be easier removed. Pretty clever work around for a completely asinine law.
... by the socialist center for hating rich white business men has reveled that golf clubs start forest fires!!1
I'm honestly wondering who the hell signed off on this article? Some intern straight out of J school? Even crappy public golf courses are not going to just have rocks laying around to hit. Let alone one of those meticulously groomed courses that the kind of person with titanium golf clubs are going to visit.
To actually suggest that there is a real chance of this is completely ludicrous. Statistically speaking you're probably going to see more fires started by falling meteorites than some golfer.
Well the only thing I'd personally worry about is if these changes result in stable and healthy genetics. I'm not really up on the latest in genetic research but I didn't know that we were at the point where science could move in to selectively excise 'bad' genes and insert health DNA. The last time I even looked into genetic engineering involved the science of GMO crops. And at that time there we just hammering random DNA into cells until they could get a cell that didn't automatically die.
Maybe it works since you're not trying to insert completely random DNA into the mix. But until we see some solid results with a high precentage of success I'll remain skeptical and be against it. But here's hoping it does work. I'm actually pretty interested in a lot of trans humanist concepts. (as long as they're all voluntary, that is.) So I say keep on working on it. But hold off on trying to push it out until we have some good results in the lab.
... They took mah JOB!!!
They took his job!
Durp-a-dduurr!
Joking aside there's no real way for such a technology to be rolled out on a national scale anyway. There's been people trying to get rid of the OTR/Long Haul trucking for a long time. Generally in favor of trains haulage. But the national transportation infrastructure is so dependent on trucks that that such a task would be a generational effort. That's assuming that they can actually get it to reliably work. Now moving in and out of urban centers... that might be doable. But I'm skeptical.
..project that'll go nowhere due to government intervention. Not that they'll directly ban this, but they'll probably never certify this for road use. Such a thing would be useful for running around a small community. But even then... as soon as it touches the main highroad way it'll come under jurisdiction of the state.
... they sure as hell will now.
I'm not an IT person, but weren't there a few companies that tried this crap wwaayy back when? I seem to remember them all failing miserably.
Of course... I wouldn't live in the UK either.
... send in an entire armada of lawyers to try and stamp this out before it can even happen.
I'm far more interested in what other companies will do with the idea than what Google will do with it. Especially if these 'knock offs' don't come with Google+ mandatory installed.