He's a collage professor. If he "listened" his head would explode from all the bad information he receives from young college students that think they know everything.
It's survival instinct to stop listening once you become a teacher, otherwise the results could be catastrophic. The teacher could become aware that all the students are idiots that make garden snails look like PhD candidates and attempt mass murder of the student body.
News Flash: Teacher listens to students and climbs bell tower with high power rifle.
Embryonic stem cells can have the nucleus removed and replaced with the hosts DNA thus creating an embryonic stem cell with the DNA markers of the patient. The delay in advancing Stem cell's is at least a decade now as without use of embryonic stem cells they haven't developed the techniques to properly use them even if they do find a way to make adult version stem cells without using embryonic material.
The great fear of the abortion movement is that the public would become aware that the vast majority of embryonic material wouldn't be from abortion (where 95% of the material is mutilated tissue of little value) but the unused fertilized eggs contained in hundreds of thousands of fertility clinics around the country that are no longer needed by the parents that successfully produced children. Most importantly that these parents would then donate these unused fertilized eggs to curing diseases like Alzheimer and cancer, regrowing damaged organs or new skin for burn patients. It's ironic that the anti-abortion movement would rather see the eggs destroyed than used.
If you protect your markets you destroy your exports. Exports are what drive our economy. Just like the Smoot-Holey Act in the 30's did your support of protectionism, if successful, will do far more damage to the economy than the banks have.
The Oscars have nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. The Oscars are the entertainers themselves nominating and awarding themselves. The votes are from current members of the actors and director's guilds (unions) and other members of the entertainment industry. They have nothing to do with the AA's other than the fact that the actor's and director's don't get paid when you pirate.
Lying to the police is a crime. Many jurisdictions call it interfering with an investigation. Not only that but it SHOULD be a crime to lie in almost every circumstance I can think of, with a few extreme cases where I think it might be acceptable (keep in mind you still have the right to refuse to answer a question). Lying is destructive to almost every situation in which it's used. This is why almost every religion and moral code established in society have it considered taboo and why there are so many moral stories in which examples are shown of it's destructiveness.
It's a pair of sunglasses. In fact the first time you put them on and they "boot" you up you see "linux kernel loading..." in the upper corner of the screen before the HUD loads up. I thought that was pretty a pretty interesting addition.
Outdoor cats live an average of 6 years, indoor cats live an average of 18 years, 20+ is not uncommon. The outside world is a VERY dangerous place for cats.
Local adoption societies like the humane society don't adopt out cats to be hunters because that usually guarantee's the cat is going to be an outdoor only cat. A cat that is one step above feral. It's life will likely be short, it will not have human companionship, it won't be fed catfood as the owner will expect it to hunt it's food and it will be exposed to the elements. From most people's perspective the adoption of an animal is for companionship and there are better people to adopt the cat to then someone that wants it strictly for killing pests. If you want pests killed hirer and exterminator.
None of the mortgages Freddie and Fannie cut were subprime. Freddie and Fannie are suffering because of what the big banks did in destabilizing the housing market. Freddie and Fannie would in all likely hood have been OK had it not been for the Subprime lending.
Subprime was all through the major banks cutting their own mortgages and avoiding the government system and it's rules. Subprime is what destroyed the economy, the idea that you can lend that much money to someone that under no circumstance can they possibly make the payments after the ARM adjusts. The Bank's knowingly lent these huge amounts of money with knowledge that once the ARM adjusted all those subprimes would turn into foreclosures. Management acted to get their piece of the pie while they could then get out. Much of the major banks Management should be sued for what they did and bankrupted.
This activity has never required a warrant, because non-US Persons outside of the US are not protected by the Constitution of the United States.
And that's where your whole statement falls apart. The constitution limits government, it contains no clauses saying the limits imposed on government are void when dealing with foreigners. In fact everyone in the world is protected by the constitution when dealing with the US government. It's scary to think that some people in this country, and in particular those of republican persuasion, are advocating that foreigners have no rights.
She dropped out or two semesters of classes, her parents (or other important figure) found out so she found an "excuse" to give this figure. An excuse that has gone much further than she would have likely liked as it's apparently received press attention.
If you back feed power and you kill a lineman you will in all likely hood in most jurisdictions in the US get you charged with involuntary manslaughter resulting in up to 10 years of jail time.
Back feeding is illegal because you are risking the lives of people who maintain your power. If you do this and someone gets injured you will likely end up in jail. If you need backup power, get a licensed electrician to install a proper automatic transfer switch.
The author of GPL software is NOT waiving rights. They are granting the person that agrees to the GPL license rights, including the ability to copy and modify. This is a very important difference. Without holding the rights afforded in copyright the author wouldn't be able to place restrictions on the copying and distribution for providing the code to any one they distribute to. If the author was waiving rights they would have no ability to enforce the copyright, essentially making the code public domain.
XY females although not common exist. There was a recent female track star that was banned from world competitions because genetic testing revealed she was XY even though she was born fully female, had lived as a female her whole life, had fully functioning female anatomy and had the structure and build of the average female.
XX males also exist. Gender is not soley tied to whether your 23rd chromosone is two XX's or an XY. This has been known for close to a decade. How gender is actually determined is still a mystery.
And 5 minutes after someone notices the sewer valve open and 2 hours later it's traced to a Chinese millitary IP the edge routers on the overseas cables will have all traffic from China routed to/dev/null/. The problem with an cyberwar is that you have to convince the other side not to cut the hard lines, something that would be very difficult to do.
"Cyberwar" is about spying, the second it moves into real war the hard lines will be cut and real planes start dropping real bombs on major infrastructure.
You are not a lawyer, or you are a bad one. The Law is very specific in regards to child pornography. IANAL and I don't remember the exact wording but the basic understanding of the law as conveyed by the judge is that the picture must be intended and shot to sexually arouse the viewer.
In almost every case tried of artists that shoot nude children the intent of the artist becomes the basis of the case because otherwise pedophiles would have to come forward and admit it arouses them and was intentionally shot to do so. Basically Juries are going to get you if you shoot pictures of nude children posing in typical pornographic positions, but if you shoot them playing tag outside the prosecutor is going to have a hell of a time winning.
The intent of the artist is almost the entire focus of every litigated case these days. Prosecutors have to prove the artist is not an artists and is actually a pedophile shooting pornographic pictures. It's one of the reasons Mapplethorpe was drug through the press for some of his pictures and was eventually vindicated because they couldn't prove he was anything but an artist.
Sally Mann was viciously prosecuted (and had her children taken by the state for a time) for taking pictures of her own children playing (often without clothing). She's a brilliant artist who was able to capture with the lens the innocence and beauty of childhood (a very difficult thing to capture with the still lens).
There are many other artists like her that have been attacked by the state for producing beautiful works of art because some prosecutor or some pedophile pretending to be an upstanding person was aroused by clearly beautiful works of art.
Your statistics are Bullshit. They aren't even close to right.
The study, by the UNâ(TM)s crime research institute, found that 3 per cent of Scots had been victims of assault compared with 1.2 per cent in America and just 0.1 per cent in Japan, 0.2 per cent in Italy and 0.8 per cent in Austria. In England and Wales the figure was 2.8 per cent.
Some police forces have been failing to record serious violent crime properly, the Home Office said today, as it reported an increase of 22 per cent this year. The category includes serious assault, murder, attempted murder and manslaughter. Officials said 13 forces were asked to re-examine their figures after they discovered some serious assaults were being recorded in a lower category of offence. They admitted the under-counting could have been going on for more than 10 years.
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said: "These figures fatally undermine Government spin that violent crime was getting better and betray a Government that is completely out of touch with what is going on, on our streets and in our communities."Labour's target-driven approach has simply been to manipulate the statistics."They should now face up to the reality of their failure and realise that if you can't count a problem, you can't combat it."In any event, serious violent crime would still have increased before miscounting was revealed."After 10 years the Government have proved themselves incapable of delivering crime statistics that reflect what is going on and which the public can have confidence in - a lot of this is due to their obsession with spin."
In a comparison of all violent crime where an individual is injured. (this comparison is difficult as the US properly categorizes much more crime as violent than the UK, you also need to take into account the massive under-reporting that occurs in the UK at the local level to influence the statistics) What you will find is that the number of violent crimes in the UK is almost equal to the number in the US and the US has more than 3 times the population of the UK. You are much more likely to be beaten or stabbed in the UK than in the US. Sure the murder rate is higher in the US, but what isn't accounted for is that many of the murders in the US are actually against other criminals. Gang warfare accounts for a very significant portion of the murder rate in the US and can be tied directly to drugs and retaliation killings. In my state alone murder is more than 75% of the time directly attributable to drugs and gangs and in those cases most of the killings are other violent criminals. It's rare that innocent victims are killed, so rare the media jumps all over it and scares everyone into thinking they are going to be killed walking down the street.
HIV would not make humans go extinct. There are people that are completely immune to HIV. They are nearly impossible to identify because it's unethical to deliberatly infect someone and see if they get HIV. Even with the extreme difficulty in finding the people that are immune several have been identified that at one point had the virus in their blood then it disappeared, indicating they were immune and their body destroyed it. There was even a recent story about an HIV positive, AIDS patient that was given a bone marrow transplant from a person that exhibited immunity and had the virus disappear from their system leaving them HIV negative and making their AIDS go away.
As a result like any other disease if it became widespread and killed most of the population the human species would survive as those that are immune to the disease would simply live on and pass their immunity on to future generations neutralizing the virus threat to the species through natural selection. It's called evolution people and it's a reality.
Malaria hasn't wiped out the humanity in Africa because Sickle cell anemia is the result of two of the genes that prevent malaria. Those who have one of the genes are immune to malaria. Such is true of any disease that affects humanity, none are ever 100% fatal, even at 99.9999% fatal vast numbers (assuming 6.2billion and 99.9999% fatal 620,000 would survive) of people would be immune and survive.
It's not just your states laws, it's what people win in civil suits. Often the legal language doesn't adequately reflect what people can actually win in front of a jury. Juries are VERY sympathetic to perceived discrimination, especially age, gender and race.
Chase is one step from bankruptcy, has already taken some of the federal monies and has already taken a massive stock drop from their subprime exposure.
Consumer credit was still available in October, barely. Another month and it would have followed business credit. When I said they weren't loaning money I said Business credit. It's a different animal with different risks and without it businesses don't make payroll. Contrary to what you might think the federal bailout came only AFTER credit dried up, not before as you assert. Bush waited until the signs of collapse were imminent before reacting. The nations largest bank was liquidated for close the value of it's Data centers meaning the entire rest of the assets was equal to it's debt.
You are under the assumption that EVERY single bank in the world is going under?
I'm not under any impression. I know that the nations 6-8 largest banks were in imminent danger of bankruptcy. Those banks alone control more than 60% of the nations wealth. Know what happens when that much banking goes under? It's called a run on the banks and with all the available cash in the banks the run on the deposits wouldn't have covered 5% of the deposits. Even if FDIC limited the bailout to the $125,000 guaranteed and made people lose the rest the FDIC would have needed a federal cash injection of 300 billion just to cover the insured deposits.
Because all banks are tied to one another in the form of borrowing, for example if your local credit union needs cash they generally borrow at low interest from one of the big banks. Take the big banks under and that's no longer available. In addition, the run on the major banks would likely cause a run on all the rest as well as people went into fear mode. Believe it or not almost every single central bank in the world is tied to the US banking system in one form or another, mostly in the form of paper held in US banks or percentage ownership. Not only that but most of the worlds banks have purchased these subprime investments that are now considered worthless. Iceland's banking system has already collapsed. There would no doubt be countries that weathered the collapse better than others but all the western banks are very very interconnected and would all collapse together.
You have a fairly dire outlook on the whole thing. You've possibly lost money somehow in the whole deal, but not everyone has.
I've lost nothing but paper digits that are meaningless. The fed's refused to talk about how severe the scenario was for fear of causing the very panic they were afraid of. What has been unfolding in the credit markets is unprecedented, and your very doubts are indicative of how little people are aware of what has been unfolding. The fed's very reluctance to talk about the severity is one of the problems. Make no mistake, without direct and quick intervention we are facing a financial crisis at least as severe as the great depression. We are just at the start, most of the fairly upbeat predictions say in 1 year we'll peak at 8% unemployment and might recover 2 years later. The more realistic predictions say 12% unemployment and 5-10 years to recover.
As perspective consider, the auto industry going into bankruptcy will put around 5million unemployed onto the streets and wipe out the pension and benefits of 3 times that (each auto worker supports 3 people on pensions, one of the reasons for the companies problems). That's 15 million people suddenly without money or jobs. Job's are exponential in growth and loss, a typical job generates at least 3 other jobs in service industries. So 15 million without jobs or pensions becomes 45 million in short order. It will completely destroy the midwest economy.
Although I'm preaching doom and gloom, especially to those who haven't a clue of the severity, my guess is we'll lose around 500,000 jobs a quarter for the next 6 quarters and if we act quickly and decisively on the bailout we'll begin to recove
Contrary to what some of you might think when you drink tap water there is a very high likely hood it's been processed from the wastewater of others.
Unless you live at the top of water supply chain (the literal top of the mountain) another city used your water source and discharged it's sewage back into it before you got it. To put it bluntly, everyone is downstream and you are drinking the wastewater of the cities upstream from you.
Just because it flowed in a river or seeped into the ground and was pumped out doesn't change the fact that you are already drinking processed waste water. The best part is the guys in space are going to be drinking a known source. The stuff you drink has mine runoff, animal feces and industrial waste along with acid rain.
The astronauts water will be cleaner than the stuff you drink. Especially if you are stupid enough to drink water bottled water.
Business operate on borrowed money. Lets take milk for example. The farmer borrows money to buy cows, feed, milk machines, and to pay his employees until he gets paid by the milk producer 30-60 days after he delivers the milk. The Milk packaging company also borrows money to pay their workers until they get paid by the grocery store 30-60 days after delivery. And the Grocery store borrows money to pay it's workers until it processes and clears all sales for the month.
Without the ability to borrow money to meet payroll all these business are forced to A: Not pay their employees until they are paid (which BTW is illegal in almost every state) or B: Lay off all their employees. So the grocery store fires it's employees, the milk packagers fires all their employees and the farmer has no one to sell milk to even if he works alone. Without the ability to get paid the farmer can't make payments on his equipment and goes bankrupt, the cows are sold to slaughter and you can't buy milk. So now there is no milk on the shelves and you are unemployed along with more than 50% of the rest of the country.
You are ignorant of business. In that ignorance you think that capital can dry up and business can continue, which is impossible. The cause of the great depression is still debated today, but the depression lasted as long as it did because no one could borrow money. It's the reason the government created agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie May were setup. If all the major banks in this country went under (Citi, Bear Sterns, America First, Chase and others) there wouldn't be ANY credit. Even the small banks that survived wouldn't be lending money as they would lose significant assets in the economic collapse that would follow.
The whole point of the bailout was to get credit available again because when the bailout was proposed the banks stopped lending money to everyone. (In the month of October if you didn't have a prearranged line of credit you couldn't borrow money for a business from anyone but your local loan shark.) Because of the massive losses on sub-prime mortgages the banks realized their net losses were going to exceed their assets and the only course was bankruptcy and liquidation. As a result they stopped issuing lines of new credit. Allow that to continue and all Credit drys up and the entire economy melts down in less than 6months because no one can borrow money to meet payroll. Without the ability to borrow money to meet payroll most companies would have begun immediate massive layoffs because as I said you can't not pay employees without going to jail in most states.
No one likes the bailout, but the fact is without it the entire banking system melts down and takes the entire economy with it. The fact that not just the US bailed out the banking system should show the severity of the problem. The US put 700billion into a bailout, the combined European bailout was around 600 billion, and the remaining countries around the world probably pumped in another 2 trillion. Even with all that money to bail out banks all over the world the entire system is still in danger of collapse. Just the other day the treasury begged the major banks to start lending money again. Until the banks start lending money again there won't be any new businesses, and no company is going to hire any new people because they can't expand their line of credit used for payroll.
Pray the bailout works and banks start lending again or the entire world economy is going in the shitter. War will follow a few years afterwards as countries covet their neighbors goods.
And we'd be in a Depression that would make the Great Depression look like a hay ride. If you think the solution was to let all credit evaporate and trillions of dollars in assets, millions of jobs and the availability of any form of money lending fly out the window you are a fool.
Most people simply can't comprehend what would have happened if the magic bank failure ride we were on had kept going. Even now they might not stop a MAJOR recession not seen since the great depression, but it would have been 100X worse if every major bank, insurance company and lending institution along with the stock market and the entire US economy went in the toilet. Not to mention the next world war that would have triggered a few years afterwards because financial suffering brings war.
Read your history. The amendment was included because the new constitution (as opposed to the articles of confederation) granted much more power to the federal government and the founders wanted the states to still have the authority to raise and arm a militia as a separation of power against the federal government mobilizing an army under the power of the president. The founders had experienced fighting against an army employed by the central power against the citizens and they didn't want the feds banning the states from having militias. See in the days of the founding fathers and up until after WWII the USA had no standing army.
If you had played the good role more than a couple minutes you would have realized that saving the girls netted you far more in the long run. Someone ran a graph of total ADAM and in the end if you save the girls you end up with more. Not only that but you get freebies and some items are cheaper as a result. Not only that but the ending was different depending on if you saved them or not.
It was actually interesting in how they coded it because being bad netted you bigger rewards in the short run, but if you were good you got more in the long run. There is probably a moral in that.
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He's a collage professor. If he "listened" his head would explode from all the bad information he receives from young college students that think they know everything.
It's survival instinct to stop listening once you become a teacher, otherwise the results could be catastrophic. The teacher could become aware that all the students are idiots that make garden snails look like PhD candidates and attempt mass murder of the student body.
News Flash: Teacher listens to students and climbs bell tower with high power rifle.
Embryonic stem cells can have the nucleus removed and replaced with the hosts DNA thus creating an embryonic stem cell with the DNA markers of the patient. The delay in advancing Stem cell's is at least a decade now as without use of embryonic stem cells they haven't developed the techniques to properly use them even if they do find a way to make adult version stem cells without using embryonic material.
The great fear of the abortion movement is that the public would become aware that the vast majority of embryonic material wouldn't be from abortion (where 95% of the material is mutilated tissue of little value) but the unused fertilized eggs contained in hundreds of thousands of fertility clinics around the country that are no longer needed by the parents that successfully produced children. Most importantly that these parents would then donate these unused fertilized eggs to curing diseases like Alzheimer and cancer, regrowing damaged organs or new skin for burn patients. It's ironic that the anti-abortion movement would rather see the eggs destroyed than used.
If you protect your markets you destroy your exports. Exports are what drive our economy. Just like the Smoot-Holey Act in the 30's did your support of protectionism, if successful, will do far more damage to the economy than the banks have.
The Oscars have nothing to do with the MPAA or RIAA. The Oscars are the entertainers themselves nominating and awarding themselves. The votes are from current members of the actors and director's guilds (unions) and other members of the entertainment industry. They have nothing to do with the AA's other than the fact that the actor's and director's don't get paid when you pirate.
Lying to the police is a crime. Many jurisdictions call it interfering with an investigation. Not only that but it SHOULD be a crime to lie in almost every circumstance I can think of, with a few extreme cases where I think it might be acceptable (keep in mind you still have the right to refuse to answer a question). Lying is destructive to almost every situation in which it's used. This is why almost every religion and moral code established in society have it considered taboo and why there are so many moral stories in which examples are shown of it's destructiveness.
It's a pair of sunglasses. In fact the first time you put them on and they "boot" you up you see "linux kernel loading..." in the upper corner of the screen before the HUD loads up. I thought that was pretty a pretty interesting addition.
Outdoor cats live an average of 6 years, indoor cats live an average of 18 years, 20+ is not uncommon. The outside world is a VERY dangerous place for cats.
Local adoption societies like the humane society don't adopt out cats to be hunters because that usually guarantee's the cat is going to be an outdoor only cat. A cat that is one step above feral. It's life will likely be short, it will not have human companionship, it won't be fed catfood as the owner will expect it to hunt it's food and it will be exposed to the elements. From most people's perspective the adoption of an animal is for companionship and there are better people to adopt the cat to then someone that wants it strictly for killing pests. If you want pests killed hirer and exterminator.
None of the mortgages Freddie and Fannie cut were subprime. Freddie and Fannie are suffering because of what the big banks did in destabilizing the housing market. Freddie and Fannie would in all likely hood have been OK had it not been for the Subprime lending.
Subprime was all through the major banks cutting their own mortgages and avoiding the government system and it's rules. Subprime is what destroyed the economy, the idea that you can lend that much money to someone that under no circumstance can they possibly make the payments after the ARM adjusts. The Bank's knowingly lent these huge amounts of money with knowledge that once the ARM adjusted all those subprimes would turn into foreclosures. Management acted to get their piece of the pie while they could then get out. Much of the major banks Management should be sued for what they did and bankrupted.
And that's where your whole statement falls apart. The constitution limits government, it contains no clauses saying the limits imposed on government are void when dealing with foreigners. In fact everyone in the world is protected by the constitution when dealing with the US government. It's scary to think that some people in this country, and in particular those of republican persuasion, are advocating that foreigners have no rights.
You forgot the 3rd Scenario.
She dropped out or two semesters of classes, her parents (or other important figure) found out so she found an "excuse" to give this figure. An excuse that has gone much further than she would have likely liked as it's apparently received press attention.
If you back feed power and you kill a lineman you will in all likely hood in most jurisdictions in the US get you charged with involuntary manslaughter resulting in up to 10 years of jail time.
Back feeding is illegal because you are risking the lives of people who maintain your power. If you do this and someone gets injured you will likely end up in jail. If you need backup power, get a licensed electrician to install a proper automatic transfer switch.
The author of GPL software is NOT waiving rights. They are granting the person that agrees to the GPL license rights, including the ability to copy and modify. This is a very important difference. Without holding the rights afforded in copyright the author wouldn't be able to place restrictions on the copying and distribution for providing the code to any one they distribute to. If the author was waiving rights they would have no ability to enforce the copyright, essentially making the code public domain.
XY females although not common exist. There was a recent female track star that was banned from world competitions because genetic testing revealed she was XY even though she was born fully female, had lived as a female her whole life, had fully functioning female anatomy and had the structure and build of the average female.
XX males also exist. Gender is not soley tied to whether your 23rd chromosone is two XX's or an XY. This has been known for close to a decade. How gender is actually determined is still a mystery.
And 5 minutes after someone notices the sewer valve open and 2 hours later it's traced to a Chinese millitary IP the edge routers on the overseas cables will have all traffic from China routed to /dev/null/. The problem with an cyberwar is that you have to convince the other side not to cut the hard lines, something that would be very difficult to do.
"Cyberwar" is about spying, the second it moves into real war the hard lines will be cut and real planes start dropping real bombs on major infrastructure.
You are not a lawyer, or you are a bad one. The Law is very specific in regards to child pornography. IANAL and I don't remember the exact wording but the basic understanding of the law as conveyed by the judge is that the picture must be intended and shot to sexually arouse the viewer.
In almost every case tried of artists that shoot nude children the intent of the artist becomes the basis of the case because otherwise pedophiles would have to come forward and admit it arouses them and was intentionally shot to do so. Basically Juries are going to get you if you shoot pictures of nude children posing in typical pornographic positions, but if you shoot them playing tag outside the prosecutor is going to have a hell of a time winning.
The intent of the artist is almost the entire focus of every litigated case these days. Prosecutors have to prove the artist is not an artists and is actually a pedophile shooting pornographic pictures. It's one of the reasons Mapplethorpe was drug through the press for some of his pictures and was eventually vindicated because they couldn't prove he was anything but an artist.
Sally Mann was viciously prosecuted (and had her children taken by the state for a time) for taking pictures of her own children playing (often without clothing). She's a brilliant artist who was able to capture with the lens the innocence and beauty of childhood (a very difficult thing to capture with the still lens).
There are many other artists like her that have been attacked by the state for producing beautiful works of art because some prosecutor or some pedophile pretending to be an upstanding person was aroused by clearly beautiful works of art.
Your statistics are Bullshit. They aren't even close to right.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article568214.ece
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/violent-crimes-have-been-underrecorded-970172.html
HIV would not make humans go extinct. There are people that are completely immune to HIV. They are nearly impossible to identify because it's unethical to deliberatly infect someone and see if they get HIV. Even with the extreme difficulty in finding the people that are immune several have been identified that at one point had the virus in their blood then it disappeared, indicating they were immune and their body destroyed it. There was even a recent story about an HIV positive, AIDS patient that was given a bone marrow transplant from a person that exhibited immunity and had the virus disappear from their system leaving them HIV negative and making their AIDS go away.
As a result like any other disease if it became widespread and killed most of the population the human species would survive as those that are immune to the disease would simply live on and pass their immunity on to future generations neutralizing the virus threat to the species through natural selection. It's called evolution people and it's a reality.
Malaria hasn't wiped out the humanity in Africa because Sickle cell anemia is the result of two of the genes that prevent malaria. Those who have one of the genes are immune to malaria. Such is true of any disease that affects humanity, none are ever 100% fatal, even at 99.9999% fatal vast numbers (assuming 6.2billion and 99.9999% fatal 620,000 would survive) of people would be immune and survive.
It's not just your states laws, it's what people win in civil suits. Often the legal language doesn't adequately reflect what people can actually win in front of a jury. Juries are VERY sympathetic to perceived discrimination, especially age, gender and race.
Chase is one step from bankruptcy, has already taken some of the federal monies and has already taken a massive stock drop from their subprime exposure.
Consumer credit was still available in October, barely. Another month and it would have followed business credit. When I said they weren't loaning money I said Business credit. It's a different animal with different risks and without it businesses don't make payroll. Contrary to what you might think the federal bailout came only AFTER credit dried up, not before as you assert. Bush waited until the signs of collapse were imminent before reacting. The nations largest bank was liquidated for close the value of it's Data centers meaning the entire rest of the assets was equal to it's debt.
I'm not under any impression. I know that the nations 6-8 largest banks were in imminent danger of bankruptcy. Those banks alone control more than 60% of the nations wealth. Know what happens when that much banking goes under? It's called a run on the banks and with all the available cash in the banks the run on the deposits wouldn't have covered 5% of the deposits. Even if FDIC limited the bailout to the $125,000 guaranteed and made people lose the rest the FDIC would have needed a federal cash injection of 300 billion just to cover the insured deposits.
Because all banks are tied to one another in the form of borrowing, for example if your local credit union needs cash they generally borrow at low interest from one of the big banks. Take the big banks under and that's no longer available. In addition, the run on the major banks would likely cause a run on all the rest as well as people went into fear mode. Believe it or not almost every single central bank in the world is tied to the US banking system in one form or another, mostly in the form of paper held in US banks or percentage ownership. Not only that but most of the worlds banks have purchased these subprime investments that are now considered worthless. Iceland's banking system has already collapsed. There would no doubt be countries that weathered the collapse better than others but all the western banks are very very interconnected and would all collapse together.
I've lost nothing but paper digits that are meaningless. The fed's refused to talk about how severe the scenario was for fear of causing the very panic they were afraid of. What has been unfolding in the credit markets is
unprecedented, and your very doubts are indicative of how little people are aware of what has been unfolding. The fed's very reluctance to talk about the severity is one of the problems. Make no mistake, without direct and quick intervention we are facing a financial crisis at least as severe as the great depression. We are just at the start, most of the fairly upbeat predictions say in 1 year we'll peak at 8% unemployment and might recover 2 years later. The more realistic predictions say 12% unemployment and 5-10 years to recover.
As perspective consider, the auto industry going into bankruptcy will put around 5million unemployed onto the streets and wipe out the pension and benefits of 3 times that (each auto worker supports 3 people on pensions, one of the reasons for the companies problems). That's 15 million people suddenly without money or jobs. Job's are exponential in growth and loss, a typical job generates at least 3 other jobs in service industries. So 15 million without jobs or pensions becomes 45 million in short order. It will completely destroy the midwest economy.
Although I'm preaching doom and gloom, especially to those who haven't a clue of the severity, my guess is we'll lose around 500,000 jobs a quarter for the next 6 quarters and if we act quickly and decisively on the bailout we'll begin to recove
Contrary to what some of you might think when you drink tap water there is a very high likely hood it's been processed from the wastewater of others.
Unless you live at the top of water supply chain (the literal top of the mountain) another city used your water source and discharged it's sewage back into it before you got it. To put it bluntly, everyone is downstream and you are drinking the wastewater of the cities upstream from you.
Just because it flowed in a river or seeped into the ground and was pumped out doesn't change the fact that you are already drinking processed waste water. The best part is the guys in space are going to be drinking a known source. The stuff you drink has mine runoff, animal feces and industrial waste along with acid rain.
The astronauts water will be cleaner than the stuff you drink. Especially if you are stupid enough to drink water bottled water.
Business operate on borrowed money. Lets take milk for example. The farmer borrows money to buy cows, feed, milk machines, and to pay his employees until he gets paid by the milk producer 30-60 days after he delivers the milk. The Milk packaging company also borrows money to pay their workers until they get paid by the grocery store 30-60 days after delivery. And the Grocery store borrows money to pay it's workers until it processes and clears all sales for the month.
Without the ability to borrow money to meet payroll all these business are forced to A: Not pay their employees until they are paid (which BTW is illegal in almost every state) or B: Lay off all their employees. So the grocery store fires it's employees, the milk packagers fires all their employees and the farmer has no one to sell milk to even if he works alone. Without the ability to get paid the farmer can't make payments on his equipment and goes bankrupt, the cows are sold to slaughter and you can't buy milk. So now there is no milk on the shelves and you are unemployed along with more than 50% of the rest of the country.
You are ignorant of business. In that ignorance you think that capital can dry up and business can continue, which is impossible. The cause of the great depression is still debated today, but the depression lasted as long as it did because no one could borrow money. It's the reason the government created agencies like Freddie Mac and Fannie May were setup. If all the major banks in this country went under (Citi, Bear Sterns, America First, Chase and others) there wouldn't be ANY credit. Even the small banks that survived wouldn't be lending money as they would lose significant assets in the economic collapse that would follow.
The whole point of the bailout was to get credit available again because when the bailout was proposed the banks stopped lending money to everyone. (In the month of October if you didn't have a prearranged line of credit you couldn't borrow money for a business from anyone but your local loan shark.) Because of the massive losses on sub-prime mortgages the banks realized their net losses were going to exceed their assets and the only course was bankruptcy and liquidation. As a result they stopped issuing lines of new credit. Allow that to continue and all Credit drys up and the entire economy melts down in less than 6months because no one can borrow money to meet payroll. Without the ability to borrow money to meet payroll most companies would have begun immediate massive layoffs because as I said you can't not pay employees without going to jail in most states.
No one likes the bailout, but the fact is without it the entire banking system melts down and takes the entire economy with it. The fact that not just the US bailed out the banking system should show the severity of the problem. The US put 700billion into a bailout, the combined European bailout was around 600 billion, and the remaining countries around the world probably pumped in another 2 trillion. Even with all that money to bail out banks all over the world the entire system is still in danger of collapse. Just the other day the treasury begged the major banks to start lending money again. Until the banks start lending money again there won't be any new businesses, and no company is going to hire any new people because they can't expand their line of credit used for payroll.
Pray the bailout works and banks start lending again or the entire world economy is going in the shitter. War will follow a few years afterwards as countries covet their neighbors goods.
And we'd be in a Depression that would make the Great Depression look like a hay ride. If you think the solution was to let all credit evaporate and trillions of dollars in assets, millions of jobs and the availability of any form of money lending fly out the window you are a fool.
Most people simply can't comprehend what would have happened if the magic bank failure ride we were on had kept going. Even now they might not stop a MAJOR recession not seen since the great depression, but it would have been 100X worse if every major bank, insurance company and lending institution along with the stock market and the entire US economy went in the toilet. Not to mention the next world war that would have triggered a few years afterwards because financial suffering brings war.
Read your history. The amendment was included because the new constitution (as opposed to the articles of confederation) granted much more power to the federal government and the founders wanted the states to still have the authority to raise and arm a militia as a separation of power against the federal government mobilizing an army under the power of the president. The founders had experienced fighting against an army employed by the central power against the citizens and they didn't want the feds banning the states from having militias. See in the days of the founding fathers and up until after WWII the USA had no standing army.
If you had played the good role more than a couple minutes you would have realized that saving the girls netted you far more in the long run. Someone ran a graph of total ADAM and in the end if you save the girls you end up with more. Not only that but you get freebies and some items are cheaper as a result. Not only that but the ending was different depending on if you saved them or not.
It was actually interesting in how they coded it because being bad netted you bigger rewards in the short run, but if you were good you got more in the long run. There is probably a moral in that.