The American people were broadly in support of nuclear power until the 3 Mile incident. This incident brought into stark relief the risk a nuclear accident provided and the shear numbers of people that could be impacted. The "Hippies" had nothing to do with the american people turning against nuclear power, it was the very industry that scared them shitless. I should point out that the Japanese had broad public support for their nuclear power as well up until fukishima. Just like America the Japanese public have turned against nuclear power.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big believer that nuclear power plays a front and center role in reducing carbon emissions, but don't downplay the responsibility the nuclear industry had in the public turning against it.
If you think that $7500 credit means dick to any of the buyers you are stupid. The people buying this car are buying it instead of a Lexus, Mercedes, Porche, etc. The cars they are forgoing for the Model S cost as much or MORE than the Model S.
The Model S is NOT a mainstream car. Though initially targeted at the mainstream market they couldn't get the dollar target so they upgraded the car and sold is as a luxury car. It comes fully loaded. Go to the website and price one, about the only option you can choose is whether it comes with a 240V fast charger they install in your house. Previous numbers I've seen show high end German cars have seen a 50% drop in sales due to the Model S. The Model S has and will remain a Luxury car with an electric drive train but it's in the same price range as the cars it's displacing. It's a really really nice car, and it's priced into that category and it also comes with the same service the people buying in this range expect. Such as you call Tesla if the battery dies and they tow and charge for free.
The Model S is just a high end Lexus or Mercedes, it appeals to the same audience of upper middle class that want cars that are pretty and that they will get great service with.
The space mining company that's recently been setup should be a gold investors worst nightmare. They could capture a gold asteroid and bring it into earths orbit and slowly deorbit more gold than the entire mining industry can produce every year with little to no cost (for re-entry) once it's in a stable earth orbit. They could easily destroy the entire value of gold and make themselves insanely rich in the process. And it's not just gold, it's any metal, there are asteroids the size of small cities up there that are 90% pure raw metal (no nasty oxygen in space to ruin everything). The trick is getting into orbit, but once it's there it's darn near trivial to hack pieces off and deorbit them.
I imagine in a decade or two they could have in orbit a dozen asteroids a mile or so in diameter each. They could cover every precious metal and even put in orbit less valuable metals such as nickel, zinc or even iron. In fact I think if we ever intend to build a real space station this will be how it's done.
The only difficulty is the putting them in orbit problem, but we might find that even something as simple as a solar sail could do it.
They could try, I wouldn't lay high odds on them succeeding, I believe under US court rulings obscenity is generally sex related and doesn't apply to images or video that doesn't depict sexual acts. I haven't and won't watch the video but unless he did something sexual with the body I don't think you've got good odds of an obscenity charge. Necrophilia has been prosecuted as obscenity, and I don't doubt it would be easy to convince a jury that it qualifies as obscenity to a jury.
They have better odds with the civil suit by the family. In fact there are several ways to attack stuff like this (such as copyright, which wouldn't work in this case) that doesn't even need to rely on vague and hard to prosecute things like obscenity.
What I want is a Linux that games as well as Windows. That just might come to be because of Valve. I could finally get rid of Windows if I can game on Linux reliably.
Your numbers include suicides. This is almost never reported. In fact suicides comprise _more_ than half the number of deaths. When you take suicides out you will find firearms aren't even used in the majority.
Bah, dog's don't care about sugar. You want to fool the dogs put a container of used kleenex on the boat and the dogs won't be interested in anything else.
The highway trust fund was exhausted more than a decade ago. Maintenance expenditures now exceed all gas tax revenue let alone necessary reconstruction. General fund monies now subsidize highways and roads because congress is unwilling to raise the gas tax to re-stabilize the trust fund. Blame an irrational public that would rather draw debt or not fix the roads than see their gas taxes go up a nickel.
So earnings are 25% higher but cost of living is 50% lower. Land and homes are cheap in rural areas. In the town of 600 my Wife is from you can rent a 4 bedroom home for $200 a month, and that was the price as of last labor day.
Yea, there are few jobs and the jobs that do exist are primarily crappy and low paid, but overall the poor rural resident is far better off than the poor city dweller.
Land line is most certainly required in rural areas if for nothing else than emergency services. When you are 20 minutes to an hour away from a medical facility you don't want to run into a situation where you can't get a cell signal or the cell service is down. I would wager 95% of rural residents pay for a copper wire even if they don't use it so they have it in an emergency. At least all the ones I know do.
Apparently you don't know the answer to your own response. 99% of the German soldiers that used the just following orders defense had no punishment. Only ranking officers in the decision chain were punished and only the highest ranking officers or those in charge of the worst atrocities (such as the officers in charge of the death camps) were hanged. Most of the ordinary military personnel, even those staffing the death camps saw no punishment at all. If you were aware of history you would know this, it was quite controversial at the time but the Allied Millitary command felt it would do more long term damage to peace and the future German state to punish ordinary soldiers even if they committed atrocities.
I'll bet they didn't. The press release mentions Amazon agreed not to counter sue, That's usually code for we are losing the case and we talked the other side into not going after legal fees if we drop the case right now.
The case was silly, Amazon would have likely counter sued and at a minimum won legal fees and might have convinced the judge the case was so silly that punitive damages are viable. That could cost quite a bit of money so they talked Amazon into letting them off the hook if they drop it and walk away which prevents future expenditures. Amazon agreed because there was a risk the Judge wouldn't award the fees.
It's always the side notes that give away who was the victor in the lawsuit, a note about Amazon agreeing not to counter sue is one of those side notes. Because if Apple had a legitimate case they thought they could win they wouldn't be worried about counter suits.
I don't believe there is a real conspiracy to drown out the issue here. Snowden did this himself. The issue was completely the NSA program, up until HE changed the topic and started revealing US foreign spy efforts. I supported Snowden up until that point. Foreign espionage is a legitimate operation of a nation-state. Foreign spying prevents war (it helps people understand each other, their interests and their limits, spying helped prevent several wars with the Soviets for example). It also helps nation-states prepare for and anticipate actions of their adversaries so they can protect their interests and avoid war. When he started revealing details of foreign espionage he lost his Hero status IMO.
If he had stuck to informing the American public about what their government is doing to them he would have my support. But he damaged legitimate foreign espionage efforts and IMO he deserves to got to jail for that.
Dangerous gun-owner is not a relative. You are directly stating someone is dangerous, which literally means they are either so irresponsible they could harm someone or are deliberately engaged in activities that could cause harm to someone. There is no ambiguity and such an accusation could actually harm someone and I can think of hundreds of circumstances that would cause direct harm.
Protection from a claim of Defamation requires that the statement BE truthful, not that you think it is. If sued you would be forced to prove that your statement about this "dangerous gun owner" was in fact truthful (as decided by either the judge or jury depending on the state) and if it wasn't you are on the hook for damages and likely punitive damages as well. Anyone putting someone on that list is going to be sued for defamation. I'd wager there will be ambulance chasers monitoring it and offering services to anyone that's posted. Hell I can see the NRA funding a legal campaign against anyone that puts a name on the list. You'd be a fool to put any name on that list regardless of how egregious their conduct is.
I believe the issue with Chicago that draws the attention is that the vast majority of the killings are in certain areas that have a predominate population of ethnic minorities. Where if you lower the counting to just those areas the murder rate is the highest in the country.
They haven't said, that I'm aware of, but I believe he fits the perfect profile of Schizophrenia. Onset typically occurs during or shortly after puberty (12-14 years old) with each year exhibiting more and more paranoia and irrational behavior (most families comment on how irrational their children are while in highschool and their obsession with conspiracies, usually around the age of 16). Full blown disease has set in usually by the time they reach 18 though it can be as late as about 24.
I should point out that the vast majority of Schizophrenia sufferers are NOT violent. Only in very rare circumstances does violent responses happen. There are very poor treatments for the disease and they often have very severe side effects. I'd wager that significant chunk of the homeless population has Schizophrenia of one form or another because they won't take the medications.
No it wouldn't have worked. Look at the economy. The reason they are having power cuts is because the country is just about out of money. When Mubark was overthrown, Egypt had 30 billion in foreign reserves. Those are dropping steadily, in one year they've been cut it in half AND at the same time they've reduced wheat stockpiles 3/4 and are at the point of begging Oman for fuel.
The wheat harvest should total out a couple percent higher than last year but it won't come close to meeting the needs of the subsidized bread the poor are dependent on. They'll burn through the remaining money in a matter of months buying wheat to meet those subsidies.
Without the subsidized bread (sold for about 0.08 cents) several million people will starve to death. People starving to death are generally very disruptive to society. During the last Egyptian bread riots they nearly ended up in a civil war.
To compound the matter tourism is dead, it was Egypts only serious generator of foreign cash and the Islamists destroyed it in short order. Hell Morisi appointed an Islamist that leads an organization that killed several dozen tourists to be the governor of the area where tourism is the biggest. The incompetence of the administration boggles the mind.
If something isn't done right now the country is going to disintegrate into some of the worst violence the country has ever seen due to the intersection of several major issues (bread, currency, fuel, etc). The problem is the Muslim Brotherhood is more interested in doing things to cement their own rule and institute their own moral view than to stabilize the country. It's unfortunate but if the Army didn't step in now it would end far worse than it will by forcing the Islamists out (and the resulting damage that will do, they comprise better than 1/5th of the population). It's a bad situation and the smart Egyptians with means are getting out of the country while they can.
Utah does NOT spend more per student. Utah spends near the bottom of the 50 states per student. Utah spends the most per capita on education. There is a big difference between those two numbers. In other words in Spending Utah is near the top in spending per taxpayer, but near the bottom in spending per pupil. This is the result of Utah demographics where the average is 4 kids per family and an average age far lower than anywhere else in the nation.
I grew up in Utah, I was in elementary/middle school in the late 70's and 80's and I used textbooks from the 1950's in most of my classes. My average class size was about 32 students per teacher and some classes like gym were 60 or more. Yet in comparision of college attendance, SAT/ACT etc, Utah far outranked most of the states in the nation.
It's NOT spending, it's parental involvement and it always will be. If your parents treat school like a babysitting operation you will have poor results. But if you treat it as an education that you as the parent must be involved in you will get good results even if the spending is shitty. Utah parents are VERY involved in their kids education. PTA is nearly every single parent. Parents help their kids learn and kick their ass/get them extra help when they don't succeed. And I mean nearly every single parent does this, because they care about their kids getting a good education in a system where classrooms are so crowded that students don't get any special attention. This nets some of the best standardized testing and college attendance in the nation. Everything in learning is about Parents caring and assisting the education process.
My experience is Mormon parents are much more involved in their kids education than the general populace, and that's the difference. Average class sizes are around 32 kids per teacher. The teachers are some of the lowest paid in the nation and even things like textbooks go years without being updated. Education isn't something you can throw money at to fix, it's a parental responsibility issue.
I wouldn't mind metro if they'd let me put them in a fucking desktop window, then you could have separate interfaces (as god intended) and STILL leverage metro into phones/tablets.
Scalia is in favor of anything he thinks is a good idea. He isn't an originalist anymore than anyone else on the supreme court is. The founders would have NEVER approved of the massive expansion in government power under the drug laws (all using the commerce clause). Scalia has never seen a drug law he doesn't approve of (with the exception of a very small number of search related issues involving homes).
There isn't and never has been a strict original interpretation of the constitution by the court by any member in my lifetime. They all play politics and claim they aren't though there are few that are honest about their intentions. Reverence of Scalia is misplaced at best.
Because corporate taxation is double taxation. You hit the money transfer to people. I assume the GP is also including dividends and capital gains in that 55%, because if you do the system becomes extremely fair. It's incredibly unfair to exempt capital gains from income taxes, it results in people like Mitt Romney paying 10% tax because all his income is capital gains.
That it was the Republican party that fought for civil rights for minorities from the 40's all the way to the present.
The republican party had almost NOTHING to do with civil rights, most of the civil rights movement was given legs by Johnson, a democrat. And all those racists in the democratic party switched to the Republican party when Johnson desegregated the south. The only elected member of a neo-nazi party was a republican, David Duke and that was in the 80's!
Liberalism is a mental disease.
They have pushed people so far that I honestly believe a civil war is coming.
Buy those guns and hole up just like all the idiots in the late 70's that thought a race war was coming, you continue the same tired theme but substitute takers for black but in your head you are visualizing a black man and you know it.
Frankly you don't even know what progressives stand for and it's apparent.
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The American people were broadly in support of nuclear power until the 3 Mile incident. This incident brought into stark relief the risk a nuclear accident provided and the shear numbers of people that could be impacted. The "Hippies" had nothing to do with the american people turning against nuclear power, it was the very industry that scared them shitless. I should point out that the Japanese had broad public support for their nuclear power as well up until fukishima. Just like America the Japanese public have turned against nuclear power.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big believer that nuclear power plays a front and center role in reducing carbon emissions, but don't downplay the responsibility the nuclear industry had in the public turning against it.
If you think that $7500 credit means dick to any of the buyers you are stupid. The people buying this car are buying it instead of a Lexus, Mercedes, Porche, etc. The cars they are forgoing for the Model S cost as much or MORE than the Model S.
The Model S is NOT a mainstream car. Though initially targeted at the mainstream market they couldn't get the dollar target so they upgraded the car and sold is as a luxury car. It comes fully loaded. Go to the website and price one, about the only option you can choose is whether it comes with a 240V fast charger they install in your house. Previous numbers I've seen show high end German cars have seen a 50% drop in sales due to the Model S. The Model S has and will remain a Luxury car with an electric drive train but it's in the same price range as the cars it's displacing. It's a really really nice car, and it's priced into that category and it also comes with the same service the people buying in this range expect. Such as you call Tesla if the battery dies and they tow and charge for free.
The Model S is just a high end Lexus or Mercedes, it appeals to the same audience of upper middle class that want cars that are pretty and that they will get great service with.
The space mining company that's recently been setup should be a gold investors worst nightmare. They could capture a gold asteroid and bring it into earths orbit and slowly deorbit more gold than the entire mining industry can produce every year with little to no cost (for re-entry) once it's in a stable earth orbit. They could easily destroy the entire value of gold and make themselves insanely rich in the process. And it's not just gold, it's any metal, there are asteroids the size of small cities up there that are 90% pure raw metal (no nasty oxygen in space to ruin everything). The trick is getting into orbit, but once it's there it's darn near trivial to hack pieces off and deorbit them.
I imagine in a decade or two they could have in orbit a dozen asteroids a mile or so in diameter each. They could cover every precious metal and even put in orbit less valuable metals such as nickel, zinc or even iron. In fact I think if we ever intend to build a real space station this will be how it's done.
The only difficulty is the putting them in orbit problem, but we might find that even something as simple as a solar sail could do it.
They could try, I wouldn't lay high odds on them succeeding, I believe under US court rulings obscenity is generally sex related and doesn't apply to images or video that doesn't depict sexual acts. I haven't and won't watch the video but unless he did something sexual with the body I don't think you've got good odds of an obscenity charge. Necrophilia has been prosecuted as obscenity, and I don't doubt it would be easy to convince a jury that it qualifies as obscenity to a jury.
They have better odds with the civil suit by the family. In fact there are several ways to attack stuff like this (such as copyright, which wouldn't work in this case) that doesn't even need to rely on vague and hard to prosecute things like obscenity.
Well they've updated the collection. Good for them. Based on their definition I still think the numbers are bullshit.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/murder
What I want is a Linux that games as well as Windows. That just might come to be because of Valve. I could finally get rid of Windows if I can game on Linux reliably.
Your numbers include suicides. This is almost never reported. In fact suicides comprise _more_ than half the number of deaths. When you take suicides out you will find firearms aren't even used in the majority.
Bah, dog's don't care about sugar. You want to fool the dogs put a container of used kleenex on the boat and the dogs won't be interested in anything else.
The highway trust fund was exhausted more than a decade ago. Maintenance expenditures now exceed all gas tax revenue let alone necessary reconstruction. General fund monies now subsidize highways and roads because congress is unwilling to raise the gas tax to re-stabilize the trust fund. Blame an irrational public that would rather draw debt or not fix the roads than see their gas taxes go up a nickel.
So earnings are 25% higher but cost of living is 50% lower. Land and homes are cheap in rural areas. In the town of 600 my Wife is from you can rent a 4 bedroom home for $200 a month, and that was the price as of last labor day.
Yea, there are few jobs and the jobs that do exist are primarily crappy and low paid, but overall the poor rural resident is far better off than the poor city dweller.
Land line is most certainly required in rural areas if for nothing else than emergency services. When you are 20 minutes to an hour away from a medical facility you don't want to run into a situation where you can't get a cell signal or the cell service is down. I would wager 95% of rural residents pay for a copper wire even if they don't use it so they have it in an emergency. At least all the ones I know do.
Apparently you don't know the answer to your own response. 99% of the German soldiers that used the just following orders defense had no punishment. Only ranking officers in the decision chain were punished and only the highest ranking officers or those in charge of the worst atrocities (such as the officers in charge of the death camps) were hanged. Most of the ordinary military personnel, even those staffing the death camps saw no punishment at all. If you were aware of history you would know this, it was quite controversial at the time but the Allied Millitary command felt it would do more long term damage to peace and the future German state to punish ordinary soldiers even if they committed atrocities.
I'll bet they didn't. The press release mentions Amazon agreed not to counter sue, That's usually code for we are losing the case and we talked the other side into not going after legal fees if we drop the case right now.
The case was silly, Amazon would have likely counter sued and at a minimum won legal fees and might have convinced the judge the case was so silly that punitive damages are viable. That could cost quite a bit of money so they talked Amazon into letting them off the hook if they drop it and walk away which prevents future expenditures. Amazon agreed because there was a risk the Judge wouldn't award the fees.
It's always the side notes that give away who was the victor in the lawsuit, a note about Amazon agreeing not to counter sue is one of those side notes. Because if Apple had a legitimate case they thought they could win they wouldn't be worried about counter suits.
I don't believe there is a real conspiracy to drown out the issue here. Snowden did this himself. The issue was completely the NSA program, up until HE changed the topic and started revealing US foreign spy efforts. I supported Snowden up until that point. Foreign espionage is a legitimate operation of a nation-state. Foreign spying prevents war (it helps people understand each other, their interests and their limits, spying helped prevent several wars with the Soviets for example). It also helps nation-states prepare for and anticipate actions of their adversaries so they can protect their interests and avoid war. When he started revealing details of foreign espionage he lost his Hero status IMO.
If he had stuck to informing the American public about what their government is doing to them he would have my support. But he damaged legitimate foreign espionage efforts and IMO he deserves to got to jail for that.
Dangerous gun-owner is not a relative. You are directly stating someone is dangerous, which literally means they are either so irresponsible they could harm someone or are deliberately engaged in activities that could cause harm to someone. There is no ambiguity and such an accusation could actually harm someone and I can think of hundreds of circumstances that would cause direct harm.
Protection from a claim of Defamation requires that the statement BE truthful, not that you think it is. If sued you would be forced to prove that your statement about this "dangerous gun owner" was in fact truthful (as decided by either the judge or jury depending on the state) and if it wasn't you are on the hook for damages and likely punitive damages as well. Anyone putting someone on that list is going to be sued for defamation. I'd wager there will be ambulance chasers monitoring it and offering services to anyone that's posted. Hell I can see the NRA funding a legal campaign against anyone that puts a name on the list. You'd be a fool to put any name on that list regardless of how egregious their conduct is.
I believe the issue with Chicago that draws the attention is that the vast majority of the killings are in certain areas that have a predominate population of ethnic minorities. Where if you lower the counting to just those areas the murder rate is the highest in the country.
Anyone that gets listed has a legitimate claim of defamation IMO. The very title is defamatory.
They haven't said, that I'm aware of, but I believe he fits the perfect profile of Schizophrenia. Onset typically occurs during or shortly after puberty (12-14 years old) with each year exhibiting more and more paranoia and irrational behavior (most families comment on how irrational their children are while in highschool and their obsession with conspiracies, usually around the age of 16). Full blown disease has set in usually by the time they reach 18 though it can be as late as about 24.
I should point out that the vast majority of Schizophrenia sufferers are NOT violent. Only in very rare circumstances does violent responses happen. There are very poor treatments for the disease and they often have very severe side effects. I'd wager that significant chunk of the homeless population has Schizophrenia of one form or another because they won't take the medications.
No it wouldn't have worked. Look at the economy. The reason they are having power cuts is because the country is just about out of money. When Mubark was overthrown, Egypt had 30 billion in foreign reserves. Those are dropping steadily, in one year they've been cut it in half AND at the same time they've reduced wheat stockpiles 3/4 and are at the point of begging Oman for fuel.
The wheat harvest should total out a couple percent higher than last year but it won't come close to meeting the needs of the subsidized bread the poor are dependent on. They'll burn through the remaining money in a matter of months buying wheat to meet those subsidies.
Without the subsidized bread (sold for about 0.08 cents) several million people will starve to death. People starving to death are generally very disruptive to society. During the last Egyptian bread riots they nearly ended up in a civil war.
To compound the matter tourism is dead, it was Egypts only serious generator of foreign cash and the Islamists destroyed it in short order. Hell Morisi appointed an Islamist that leads an organization that killed several dozen tourists to be the governor of the area where tourism is the biggest. The incompetence of the administration boggles the mind.
If something isn't done right now the country is going to disintegrate into some of the worst violence the country has ever seen due to the intersection of several major issues (bread, currency, fuel, etc). The problem is the Muslim Brotherhood is more interested in doing things to cement their own rule and institute their own moral view than to stabilize the country. It's unfortunate but if the Army didn't step in now it would end far worse than it will by forcing the Islamists out (and the resulting damage that will do, they comprise better than 1/5th of the population). It's a bad situation and the smart Egyptians with means are getting out of the country while they can.
Utah does NOT spend more per student. Utah spends near the bottom of the 50 states per student. Utah spends the most per capita on education. There is a big difference between those two numbers. In other words in Spending Utah is near the top in spending per taxpayer, but near the bottom in spending per pupil. This is the result of Utah demographics where the average is 4 kids per family and an average age far lower than anywhere else in the nation.
I grew up in Utah, I was in elementary/middle school in the late 70's and 80's and I used textbooks from the 1950's in most of my classes. My average class size was about 32 students per teacher and some classes like gym were 60 or more. Yet in comparision of college attendance, SAT/ACT etc, Utah far outranked most of the states in the nation.
It's NOT spending, it's parental involvement and it always will be. If your parents treat school like a babysitting operation you will have poor results. But if you treat it as an education that you as the parent must be involved in you will get good results even if the spending is shitty. Utah parents are VERY involved in their kids education. PTA is nearly every single parent. Parents help their kids learn and kick their ass/get them extra help when they don't succeed. And I mean nearly every single parent does this, because they care about their kids getting a good education in a system where classrooms are so crowded that students don't get any special attention. This nets some of the best standardized testing and college attendance in the nation. Everything in learning is about Parents caring and assisting the education process.
My experience is Mormon parents are much more involved in their kids education than the general populace, and that's the difference. Average class sizes are around 32 kids per teacher. The teachers are some of the lowest paid in the nation and even things like textbooks go years without being updated. Education isn't something you can throw money at to fix, it's a parental responsibility issue.
I wouldn't mind metro if they'd let me put them in a fucking desktop window, then you could have separate interfaces (as god intended) and STILL leverage metro into phones/tablets.
Scalia is in favor of anything he thinks is a good idea. He isn't an originalist anymore than anyone else on the supreme court is. The founders would have NEVER approved of the massive expansion in government power under the drug laws (all using the commerce clause). Scalia has never seen a drug law he doesn't approve of (with the exception of a very small number of search related issues involving homes).
There isn't and never has been a strict original interpretation of the constitution by the court by any member in my lifetime. They all play politics and claim they aren't though there are few that are honest about their intentions. Reverence of Scalia is misplaced at best.
Because corporate taxation is double taxation. You hit the money transfer to people. I assume the GP is also including dividends and capital gains in that 55%, because if you do the system becomes extremely fair. It's incredibly unfair to exempt capital gains from income taxes, it results in people like Mitt Romney paying 10% tax because all his income is capital gains.
The republican party had almost NOTHING to do with civil rights, most of the civil rights movement was given legs by Johnson, a democrat. And all those racists in the democratic party switched to the Republican party when Johnson desegregated the south. The only elected member of a neo-nazi party was a republican, David Duke and that was in the 80's!
Buy those guns and hole up just like all the idiots in the late 70's that thought a race war was coming, you continue the same tired theme but substitute takers for black but in your head you are visualizing a black man and you know it.
Frankly you don't even know what progressives stand for and it's apparent.