MADD are not prohibitionists, they are against drinking and driving.
I'm not sure I can see the logic in defending people who drive while impaired. Most drivers are bad enough when stone cold sober. I certainly don't want them driving after having 2 or 3 drinks.
There is a BIG difference between a corporation and a government. A government has a monopoly on using force over the territory it controls while corporations have no right to use force at all.
Corporations have to co-opt governments, or break the law, to do much of their naughty stuff.
Exactly right. Show me a right an angry armed mob can't take form me and I'll admit it is a "natural" right.
All rights are artificial. It is important to have a strong constitution and laws and justice system to protect the rights we have collectively decided are important, but rights are still just laws made by men.
You could call the police. You could yell at the thief. You shouldn't be killing people who are just thieves. Lethal force should be reserved for saving lives not property.
where I live, yelling at the thief has had a 100% success rate at driving off the thief.
Those earmarks and unrelated riders should not be allowed. That sort of crap is corruption, plain and simple. Bills should be about one thing or topic. All spending bills should be part of the budget, not spread around. A bill should be about one thing, it should be debated on its merits, not I'll vote for it if I get a bridge in my district. And gerrymandering! Another example of blatant corruption that most civilized places don't allow. Why are you parties even involved in setting district boundaries? that should be done by non-partisan bureaucrats.
I agree on your marriage rant. When it comes to abortion my view is that full grown women are people, but I'm not sure when a fetus becomes a person, and an embryo certainly is not a person so the adult women who is a person gets to decide what to do with her body and her embryo, not me or you.
The CRA did not force any banks to make dodgy loans. It simply asked banks to be colour blind when evaluating loan applications.
The whole mortgage melt down was caused by greed, lying to applicants to get them to take on mortgages they could not afford, then repackaging these bad mortgages as financial instruments that the raters (moodys etc..) rated triple A when they were junk and reselling them thus taking the risk away from the banks that made the bad loans. A lack of regulation allowed investment firms and banks to be woefully under capitalized which meant when the bubble burst they did not have enough cash on hand to survive the downturn.
When things are booming everyone laughs at the stodgy Canadian banks that play by the rules, are much more regulated than USA banks, and are generally pretty conservative. When the bubble bursts Canadian banks look like geniuses.
I prefer glasses to contacts as contacts, even the new soft ones with better oxygen permeability, make my eyes go very red after only 2 or 3 hours. So I have to wear the 3D glasses over my glasses. Maybe it depends on your glasses, but wearing the 3D glasses over my regular glasses has always worked just fine for me.
I'm glad most 3d movies also play in 2d at the same multi-plex. This allows people with one eye, or who just don't like 3D, to see nice clear, 2D movies.
$3 seems like small premium to pay for 3D, but tix up here are $12.00
3 minutes isn't reasonable if there is no evidence of a crime. And what the hell is "detained"? If they don't arrest you should be able to go your own way.
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
And name calling never made an argument more persuasive.
Motorcycle dude posted his video, but did not otherwise complain about the police actions, as far as I can tell. Seems like motorcycle dude rightly deserved his speeding ticket. The real issue is abusing a wiretapping law to silence free speech, the posting of the video that may be construed to show the police in a bad light.
The issue is that any citizen should be allowed to tape public police actions and post them to the internet without being charged with a crime. Any discussion about whether the police actions in this cause were good police work or not is a separate issue.
And where do they find judges that will allow this sort of abuse?
The USA government is likely going to make a profit on most of the bailouts. They were loans not grants. Your average bureaucrat is not over paid. I can't argue about Wall Street's excesses, but a functioning banking system is a necessary part of a healthy free market market.
It isn't exactly glowing praise about your freedoms if the best you can come up with is "we aren't quite as bad as China".
Draconian copyright laws and giving too much influence to corporations seems to be the problem in the USA, vs plain old fashioned political repression in China.
As non-usa'ian, I have to agree that your Republicans are extremely right wing, and your Democrats are only very right wing. Compared to most of the rest of the "western" world politics in the USA are extremely right wing. Obama does not qualify as a "liberal" in any western country except the USA.
If all people allowed facts to easily sway their judgment there would be no creationists, no global warming deniers, no birthers, and no war on drugs.
I wasn't saying that, I was saying that if you observe something for a long enough time, you will start seeing anything that you want to believe.
If you start with a preconceived notion of what you want to find, yes, this can happen. I doubt you read the article as it states the authors decided to reject one potential finding as "noise" because repeated observations were not more frequent than chance. In general, more observations give you better data.
"Unlimited" plans were never really unlimited. Coming out and declaring the actual plan limits is much more honest than the old "pretend to be unlimited plan".
It is easy to disprove things. I believe if I let go of this rock it will float gently up into the sky. Lets test this! I get a rock, I let go of it.... and it falls. I have disproved my theory that rocks float gently up int the sky.
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MADD are not prohibitionists, they are against drinking and driving.
I'm not sure I can see the logic in defending people who drive while impaired. Most drivers are bad enough when stone cold sober. I certainly don't want them driving after having 2 or 3 drinks.
The part where a court order isn't required is also greatly troubling.
There is a BIG difference between a corporation and a government. A government has a monopoly on using force over the territory it controls while corporations have no right to use force at all.
Corporations have to co-opt governments, or break the law, to do much of their naughty stuff.
A close to Mars sized rock hit the Earth, tearing off the moon, way back. The earth was melted, but is still here.
No big nuclear anything.
Exactly right. Show me a right an angry armed mob can't take form me and I'll admit it is a "natural" right.
All rights are artificial. It is important to have a strong constitution and laws and justice system to protect the rights we have collectively decided are important, but rights are still just laws made by men.
You could call the police. You could yell at the thief. You shouldn't be killing people who are just thieves. Lethal force should be reserved for saving lives not property.
where I live, yelling at the thief has had a 100% success rate at driving off the thief.
I'm no more worried about the death of a clump of cells that is an embryo than I am of the clump of cells that is my toe nail clippings.
Full grown women have more rights than clumps of cells in my opinion.
Those earmarks and unrelated riders should not be allowed. That sort of crap is corruption, plain and simple. Bills should be about one thing or topic. All spending bills should be part of the budget, not spread around. A bill should be about one thing, it should be debated on its merits, not I'll vote for it if I get a bridge in my district. And gerrymandering! Another example of blatant corruption that most civilized places don't allow. Why are you parties even involved in setting district boundaries? that should be done by non-partisan bureaucrats.
I agree on your marriage rant. When it comes to abortion my view is that full grown women are people, but I'm not sure when a fetus becomes a person, and an embryo certainly is not a person so the adult women who is a person gets to decide what to do with her body and her embryo, not me or you.
The CRA did not force any banks to make dodgy loans. It simply asked banks to be colour blind when evaluating loan applications.
The whole mortgage melt down was caused by greed, lying to applicants to get them to take on mortgages they could not afford, then repackaging these bad mortgages as financial instruments that the raters (moodys etc..) rated triple A when they were junk and reselling them thus taking the risk away from the banks that made the bad loans. A lack of regulation allowed investment firms and banks to be woefully under capitalized which meant when the bubble burst they did not have enough cash on hand to survive the downturn.
When things are booming everyone laughs at the stodgy Canadian banks that play by the rules, are much more regulated than USA banks, and are generally pretty conservative. When the bubble bursts Canadian banks look like geniuses.
I prefer glasses to contacts as contacts, even the new soft ones with better oxygen permeability, make my eyes go very red after only 2 or 3 hours. So I have to wear the 3D glasses over my glasses. Maybe it depends on your glasses, but wearing the 3D glasses over my regular glasses has always worked just fine for me.
I'm glad most 3d movies also play in 2d at the same multi-plex. This allows people with one eye, or who just don't like 3D, to see nice clear, 2D movies.
$3 seems like small premium to pay for 3D, but tix up here are $12.00
3 minutes isn't reasonable if there is no evidence of a crime. And what the hell is "detained"? If they don't arrest you should be able to go your own way.
You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.
And name calling never made an argument more persuasive.
Motorcycle dude posted his video, but did not otherwise complain about the police actions, as far as I can tell. Seems like motorcycle dude rightly deserved his speeding ticket. The real issue is abusing a wiretapping law to silence free speech, the posting of the video that may be construed to show the police in a bad light.
The issue is that any citizen should be allowed to tape public police actions and post them to the internet without being charged with a crime. Any discussion about whether the police actions in this cause were good police work or not is a separate issue.
And where do they find judges that will allow this sort of abuse?
Most exploring was done to make money, find new resources, expand territory, but not directly to relieve population pressures.
When we visit another star we will be doing it "because it is there".
The USA government is likely going to make a profit on most of the bailouts. They were loans not grants. Your average bureaucrat is not over paid. I can't argue about Wall Street's excesses, but a functioning banking system is a necessary part of a healthy free market market.
It isn't exactly glowing praise about your freedoms if the best you can come up with is "we aren't quite as bad as China".
Draconian copyright laws and giving too much influence to corporations seems to be the problem in the USA, vs plain old fashioned political repression in China.
As non-usa'ian, I have to agree that your Republicans are extremely right wing, and your Democrats are only very right wing. Compared to most of the rest of the "western" world politics in the USA are extremely right wing. Obama does not qualify as a "liberal" in any western country except the USA.
If all people allowed facts to easily sway their judgment there would be no creationists, no global warming deniers, no birthers, and no war on drugs.
I wasn't saying that, I was saying that if you observe something for a long enough time, you will start seeing anything that you want to believe.
If you start with a preconceived notion of what you want to find, yes, this can happen. I doubt you read the article as it states the authors decided to reject one potential finding as "noise" because repeated observations were not more frequent than chance. In general, more observations give you better data.
I imagine there are certain classes of problems that "crowd sourcing" will work with, and a much larger class where it does not work.
"Unlimited" plans were never really unlimited. Coming out and declaring the actual plan limits is much more honest than the old "pretend to be unlimited plan".
The educated would be able to leave the religious alone if they stopped trying to do stupid things like teach creationism in science class.
It is easy to disprove things. I believe if I let go of this rock it will float gently up into the sky. Lets test this! I get a rock, I let go of it.... and it falls. I have disproved my theory that rocks float gently up int the sky.
That is known as "Pascal's Wager".
All faith is blind.