That doesn't contradict the point I was making. Also, and I know the article is over 5 years old, but one of those "fringe" Republicans is now their candidate for President.
So maybe Democrats created the monster, but Republicans are the ones who keep injecting it with steroids and letting it rampage through major population centers.
Too bad a bunch of other avowed Christians were likely responsible for cutting Turing's life in half. Also, I'll give you Babbage, but Boole was leaning hard towards deist.
Smart people are very good at rationalizing things they came to believe for not-very-smart reasons. That's why you gotta get the parents to brainwash the kids before they develop their critical thinking skills.
Holy crap. Look, I fucking hate George W. Bush, and the Saudis even more, but that "they let the Saudis leave the country" thing is just garbage. It simply isn't true.
I have never bought the Pearl Harbor thing either. In fact, there's very little in your comment that I can take seriously.
"The Americans wanting to get rid of the World Trade Center"? That's a new one. Just when I think you conspiracy nuts can't sink any lower, you rise to the occasion.
something untoward happened as testified to by industry pros
Who? What "untoward" thing happened? Is the hijacking of planes, destruction of landmarks, and killing of 3000 people not "untoward" enough?
when the mainstream-news-reported-it-before-it-happened thing has blown over
Why, if you're the government and you've planned this conspiracy, not just wait for the media to get wind of it the normal way? (I mean, I'm sure someone in the largest city in the country would have noticed the tallest building bursting into flames). Why leak the story to them early? What purpose does that serve in the conspiracy, except to blow it wide open?
videos of under-wing missiles on the aircraft have disappeared from youtube
This one is my favorite. So YouTube, which didn't exist until 2005, had these videos at one point that have since mysteriously vanished. In spite of the government being unable to stop ISIS recruiting people, child pornography, piracy... this is the one thing they've managed to completely erase without a single copy being hosted by anyone, anywhere? Why can't I get a torrent of this amazing piece of media? Julian Assange is really slacking off on the job here...
But let's assume this is true (because it's fun showing how ridiculous this is).
1. These couldn't have been commercial flights with civilians passengers, right? If the missiles were noticeable from the ground while the planes struck the buildings at 500mph, surely passengers with a window seat would have noticed something. Where are the people who died (or rather, didn't die) on that flight? What about the crews, who were United and American Airlines employees? Where did they disappear to?
2. They couldn't have taken off from a civilian airport, or else the ground crew, who spend all day every day staring at the underside of aircraft would have probably noticed a few extra engines that look nothing like engines.
3. The two Boeing 767s, built in 1983 and 1987, didn't come off the factory line with missile mounts on the wings. Either the government seized the planes from United and American Airlines, and then modified them, or they built new planes specifically for the purpose of this conspiracy.
3.a. If the former, that's quite a few people to keep quiet. You'd think someone at AA or UA would be able to put 2 and 2 together ("Gee, that plane just happens to be the one the government seized from us a few months ago..."). At the very least the accounting department is going to want to know why the fleet is suddenly short a 767.
3.b. If the latter, it's even more people to keep quiet. I mean, what happened to the original planes? There aren't 767s with those registration numbers flying around, so where are they? No one at Boeing was suspicious when the Government ordered 2 new 767s, with no paint jobs (or UA/AA paint jobs), no registration numbers (or even more suspiciously, with existing registrations that just happened to be the same as those that would be used on 9/11), and told them to keep their construction off the books?
4. Why bother? If you're going to crash a modified, mostly empty, 767 into a building with missiles under the wings... why not just rip out all the fucking seats and put the missiles inside? Better yet, just pack it full of C4 or dynamite.
There are a ton of other points I could make about how unbelievably stupid this is, but for now I think that's enough.
I like how the guys who supposedly pulled off perhaps the single greatest hoax in human history managed to overlook this one detail. Why plant any passports? They would have known who was on the plane from the manifests. This is a classic example of why conspiracy theories don't hold up, because they require the conspirators to be masterminds and complete idiots simultaneously.
I like how you equate 40% of the structure as "not the structure". Also, you're only accounting for the weight load of the building. The outer walls were responsible for supporting 100% of the lateral load.
But there are degrees of bad, aren't there? There are 2 people, one mishandled classified information, and the other tortured people. You only have enough room in prison for one. Who gets to walk?
Member states of the EU voluntarily gave up their sovereignty when they joined. You are free to join, and free to leave, but while you're a member, you follow the rules.
Also, there is precedent for a Union of States where you can freely join but are not allowed to leave...
Also the reason that they reduced the Grand Slam tournaments from 5 to 3 is because women's matches last much longer than men's. So if we're talking on a time basis, women should be paid more even though they play less sets.
I have never understood this argument, and I hear it a lot (never from women, btw).
Let's take a job that has some inherent danger, like lion-taming. It's also highly exclusive, there are only 2000 lion-tamers in the world, and they all happen to be men. There's no gender bias among ring-masters, women simply "don't like to tame lions", even though the average salary is around $100,000. So, what is the gender pay-gap among lion-tamers? Is it 100%, since "all" the women lion-tamers are earning an average of $0 while the men are earning $100,000? Of course not.
So I don't understand how women not working in a particular industry has any affect on the pay gap at all. We all know how risky and physically demanding jobs at Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, GoDaddy, etc., are. Not a week goes by where another life isn't tragically cut short by a sudden bitcoin mine collapse. (A male life, of course, no woman is stupid enough to enter those deathtraps.)
Seriously though, the actual comparison that should be made is simple: two people with the same qualifications, workload, and responsibility should be paid the same. You seem to assert that this comparison can't be made between a man and a woman because there are no women who meet these standards. That, my friend, is why the pay-gap exists. Not because the assertion is true, but because people like you believe that it's true, and you use that belief to justify why you can pay women less than men.
If you really think you're underpaid compared to your co-workers, then yes, you should ask for a raise (not simply "expect" one). Whether they are women or not, the "correct" answer doesn't change.
However, you've probably never asked because you're afraid that the answer will be that they are actually more qualified and/or better at their jobs than you are.
I don't understand how people take anything the man says seriously.
Because he's running for President, and being President is serious. Not only that, but there are a substantial amount of people who take him seriously and actually agree with him.
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That doesn't contradict the point I was making. Also, and I know the article is over 5 years old, but one of those "fringe" Republicans is now their candidate for President.
So maybe Democrats created the monster, but Republicans are the ones who keep injecting it with steroids and letting it rampage through major population centers.
The Saudi's involvement in 9/11 is not the same thing as saying that they were allowed to fly out of the country when all other planes are grounded.
Too bad a bunch of other avowed Christians were likely responsible for cutting Turing's life in half. Also, I'll give you Babbage, but Boole was leaning hard towards deist.
Smart people are very good at rationalizing things they came to believe for not-very-smart reasons. That's why you gotta get the parents to brainwash the kids before they develop their critical thinking skills.
Poe's Law in all it's glory.
Holy crap. Look, I fucking hate George W. Bush, and the Saudis even more, but that "they let the Saudis leave the country" thing is just garbage. It simply isn't true.
I have never bought the Pearl Harbor thing either. In fact, there's very little in your comment that I can take seriously.
"The Americans wanting to get rid of the World Trade Center"? That's a new one. Just when I think you conspiracy nuts can't sink any lower, you rise to the occasion.
something untoward happened as testified to by industry pros
Who? What "untoward" thing happened? Is the hijacking of planes, destruction of landmarks, and killing of 3000 people not "untoward" enough?
when the mainstream-news-reported-it-before-it-happened thing has blown over
Why, if you're the government and you've planned this conspiracy, not just wait for the media to get wind of it the normal way? (I mean, I'm sure someone in the largest city in the country would have noticed the tallest building bursting into flames). Why leak the story to them early? What purpose does that serve in the conspiracy, except to blow it wide open?
videos of under-wing missiles on the aircraft have disappeared from youtube
This one is my favorite. So YouTube, which didn't exist until 2005, had these videos at one point that have since mysteriously vanished. In spite of the government being unable to stop ISIS recruiting people, child pornography, piracy... this is the one thing they've managed to completely erase without a single copy being hosted by anyone, anywhere? Why can't I get a torrent of this amazing piece of media? Julian Assange is really slacking off on the job here...
But let's assume this is true (because it's fun showing how ridiculous this is).
1. These couldn't have been commercial flights with civilians passengers, right? If the missiles were noticeable from the ground while the planes struck the buildings at 500mph, surely passengers with a window seat would have noticed something. Where are the people who died (or rather, didn't die) on that flight? What about the crews, who were United and American Airlines employees? Where did they disappear to?
2. They couldn't have taken off from a civilian airport, or else the ground crew, who spend all day every day staring at the underside of aircraft would have probably noticed a few extra engines that look nothing like engines.
3. The two Boeing 767s, built in 1983 and 1987, didn't come off the factory line with missile mounts on the wings. Either the government seized the planes from United and American Airlines, and then modified them, or they built new planes specifically for the purpose of this conspiracy.
3.a. If the former, that's quite a few people to keep quiet. You'd think someone at AA or UA would be able to put 2 and 2 together ("Gee, that plane just happens to be the one the government seized from us a few months ago..."). At the very least the accounting department is going to want to know why the fleet is suddenly short a 767.
3.b. If the latter, it's even more people to keep quiet. I mean, what happened to the original planes? There aren't 767s with those registration numbers flying around, so where are they? No one at Boeing was suspicious when the Government ordered 2 new 767s, with no paint jobs (or UA/AA paint jobs), no registration numbers (or even more suspiciously, with existing registrations that just happened to be the same as those that would be used on 9/11), and told them to keep their construction off the books?
4. Why bother? If you're going to crash a modified, mostly empty, 767 into a building with missiles under the wings... why not just rip out all the fucking seats and put the missiles inside? Better yet, just pack it full of C4 or dynamite.
There are a ton of other points I could make about how unbelievably stupid this is, but for now I think that's enough.
I like how the guys who supposedly pulled off perhaps the single greatest hoax in human history managed to overlook this one detail. Why plant any passports? They would have known who was on the plane from the manifests. This is a classic example of why conspiracy theories don't hold up, because they require the conspirators to be masterminds and complete idiots simultaneously.
I like how you equate 40% of the structure as "not the structure". Also, you're only accounting for the weight load of the building. The outer walls were responsible for supporting 100% of the lateral load.
Except when it comes to the magical man in the sky of course...
A "remotely credible claim" would be about 1000x more credible than anything birthers have claimed about Obama.
Right after the Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld ones. A week from Never.
But there are degrees of bad, aren't there? There are 2 people, one mishandled classified information, and the other tortured people. You only have enough room in prison for one. Who gets to walk?
Oh please, those people were clearly left alive for plausible deniability.
Member states of the EU voluntarily gave up their sovereignty when they joined. You are free to join, and free to leave, but while you're a member, you follow the rules.
Also, there is precedent for a Union of States where you can freely join but are not allowed to leave...
All they have to do is make the Capitol the only place you can catch a Mew, and they would bring the country to its knees.
Interesting post. Too bad it doesn't contain one single citation for the (likely) BS you're spouting.
If you buy a game through Steam the patcher/launcher IS Steam.
Actually giving men 5 sets makes it easier for the favorites, and limits the number of upsets that can happen.
Also the reason that they reduced the Grand Slam tournaments from 5 to 3 is because women's matches last much longer than men's. So if we're talking on a time basis, women should be paid more even though they play less sets.
You can't get a raise until you can pin me!
I have never understood this argument, and I hear it a lot (never from women, btw).
Let's take a job that has some inherent danger, like lion-taming. It's also highly exclusive, there are only 2000 lion-tamers in the world, and they all happen to be men. There's no gender bias among ring-masters, women simply "don't like to tame lions", even though the average salary is around $100,000. So, what is the gender pay-gap among lion-tamers? Is it 100%, since "all" the women lion-tamers are earning an average of $0 while the men are earning $100,000? Of course not.
So I don't understand how women not working in a particular industry has any affect on the pay gap at all. We all know how risky and physically demanding jobs at Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, GoDaddy, etc., are. Not a week goes by where another life isn't tragically cut short by a sudden bitcoin mine collapse. (A male life, of course, no woman is stupid enough to enter those deathtraps.)
Seriously though, the actual comparison that should be made is simple: two people with the same qualifications, workload, and responsibility should be paid the same. You seem to assert that this comparison can't be made between a man and a woman because there are no women who meet these standards. That, my friend, is why the pay-gap exists. Not because the assertion is true, but because people like you believe that it's true, and you use that belief to justify why you can pay women less than men.
If you really think you're underpaid compared to your co-workers, then yes, you should ask for a raise (not simply "expect" one). Whether they are women or not, the "correct" answer doesn't change.
However, you've probably never asked because you're afraid that the answer will be that they are actually more qualified and/or better at their jobs than you are.
You sound like someone who's publicly anti-gay because they're deep in the closet and incredibly repressed.
I bet you cry yourself to sleep every night clutching your copy of The Communist Manifesto. It's OK to admit who you really are.
I don't understand how people take anything the man says seriously.
Because he's running for President, and being President is serious. Not only that, but there are a substantial amount of people who take him seriously and actually agree with him.
I don't understand how you don't understand that.
I don't think you can default on student loans. I'm pretty sure that in the US even bankruptcy can't free you from student loan debt.