I still remember being a little kid in the late 60s/early 70s and thumbing through Sears's "Wish LIst" catalog a few weeks prior to Christmas, the toy section was always in the back. It was one of the most gleefully anticipated traditions of the season. I'm not sure what Amazon's angle is here though, kids would probably be just as happy surfing their website, but I guess it'd be nostalgic for older parents..?
Not really arbitrary. 12:00am/pm is the final hour after which the clock "resets", and then you start back at 1 again. 12 signifies both noon, AKA Midday, halfway through the Earth's spin on the day side, as well as Midnight, exactly the middle of the night (so long as you're using standard time), the point at which you're halfway through the spin on the night side of the Earth. The clock is logically tied to the solar day. You could change it... but then it really would be arbitrary.
The question was, "saved from whom"? There are instances where species have been saved from natural extinction by mankind's efforts; in other cases, we saved them from ourselves. The 99.9% was cited simply to show that mother nature is indeed a serious threat to species survival, not just mankind. I wasn't interested in ratios or comparisons nor am I inclined to humor your homework assignments. But who decides what species are/were relevant and which are/were not? What does that even mean?
Mother nature. Evolution. She's wiped out far more species than man has. Over 99.9% of species that have ever existed have gone extinct since life evolved on this planet. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolu...
So while man is inevitably wiping out some species due to our expansion and applied technologies, and at a more rapid rate, we are nonetheless far from the only threat to species' survival.
If they are refugees, then why are they reportedly waving proudly their country's flag as they march up, and in some cases even burning the US flag? That isn't the behavior of people seeking help from a host, that is a hostile invasion and damn rude. It is not indicative of asylum seekers, which, by international law, are supposed to stop at the nearest country for help, not cross over 3 or more borders to get to a target country.
If you want to believe no one is calling for open borders, go ahead, but here's the evidence to the contrary:
There has been some digging-in and over-the-top rhetoric on the Right, sure; but not to the extent the Left has moved further to the Left. This ridiculous argument that the problem with the country is that the Right has moved further right just needs to die. The whoosh one hears is the doppler effect of the Left moving rapidly towards the left (blue shifting), and seeing conservatism as red shifted from their relative position.
To wit: A few years ago, openly embracing socialism was taboo and democrats vehemently denied it. Today, Ocasio-Cruz is a bit of a young democrat rock star among a large subset of democrats. Many of the protests and riots over the past few years, whether BLM, Antifa, or others, have curiously seen representation of the Communist party.
A huge contingent of democrats, including those in media and entertainment abandoned all notion of guilty until proven innocent (and reason) over the Kavanaugh hearing. The fact that it was not a criminal hearing is irrelevant; the notion, the right, is immutable.
Screaming, chanting, angry mobs harassing Republicans whether at work or on personal time is actually championed (and on video) by the likes of Maxine Waters and Eric Holder, (you don't see that happening to Democrat lawmakers by conservative protesters) and doxxing of republicans has occurred by democrat staff, not to mention the shooting of Repub senator Steve Scalise at a baseball game, over politics.
The new Democrat motto, unspoken, seems to be, "The ends justifies the means because we're just right, dammit". Any debate over illegal immigration descends immediately into strawman arguments, conflating illegal with legal immigrants, appeals to emotion, and (more often than not, false) charges of racism. In fact, almost any contentious topical discussion almost immediately degrades into emotional keywords rather than the rationally debated consequences, boiling down to accusations of racism, sexism, and bigotry in lieu of a factual rebuttal.
Meanwhile, CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC have had to let go of, or suspend, no shortage of tainted anchors who can't seem to tell the truth or keep their hands off women. If you want to discuss manipulation, look at how CNN covers the candidates they like vs Trump. Look at how NBC famously edited the 911 audio tape of George Zimmerman to remove the question of the operator as to the race of Trevon Martin, instead making it appear as though Zimmerman was using race as the sole reason to call 911. Then, they came up with the subversive "white latino" term to stir up more racial division and further drive a wedge that generally results in bigger headlines and sensationalism.
All in all, society has been moving more liberal and open over the decades. Most societies do. Major societal changes reflect this reality, from the integration of minorities into more aspects of life, including positions of government or corporate power, to the adoption of gay marriage, to the changing values seen on the great mirror of society: media, from television to movies, to magazines to the Internet. Just compare today's lifestyles to the stereotypes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, and this becomes self-evident.
Recent video prove otherwise. Assault isn't the same as battery, but it's still assault. Maxine Waters and Eric Holder, among others, are on video calling for confrontations. Ted Cruz and Sarah Sanders get harassed by screaming yelling mobs, right out out of restaurants. Antifa always gets downright violent when they show up. Who shot Senator Scalise again? And you're about to get a whole lot worse. But then, these aren't classic liberals, this is the new breed of Progressives/Leftists.
Same here.. for the past two weeks, I tried DuckDuckGo on my work linux box. When looking for technical documents or more detailed info, DDG just didn't cut it, regrettably. I'm back to using google again, for now. For personal use though, I think DDG might just work out fine.
How about we just eat people.. at least until the population gets back down to 3 billion. Set up a lottery. Problem solved. Human - the other, other, white meat*. Yummy.
*No that has nothing to do with skin color, it's based on an old pork industry slogan
You may want to try a little harder to avoid exposing your arrogance. I'd wager you're from somewhere in South America, because they're about the only people who get butthurt over this, and only recently, like in the last 5 years, has this been a "thing". The USA is the *only* country in the Americas with 'America' as actually part of it's official name, so over a century ago those of us in the US became known as "Americans" as a form of shorthand, since "United Statesian" or whatever is just ridiculously cumbersome. It's not just a term we use ourselves, it's how most of the rest of the world identified us. It's an identity long and well established, worldwide. You're just being pedantic about it.
This is the correct answer right here. To wit: it depends on whether you turn it off from the swipe up Control Panel, or from Settings. If you turn it off via Control Panel, it will tell you it will be reenabled the next day. Kinda handy, actually.
A 1,000 times this. Otherwise we'll have non-stop police brutality claims and mass riots every time a suspect or perpetrator gets hit, knocked down, or shot. Context is key.
LOL... "100% for sure" And you just know this...how? Psychic? BK hasn't lied about his drinking habits, he was quite transparent about them in fact, unless you believe more unverified people paid by Avenatti or CNN to come out and say otherwise. Again, what proof? This is a ridiculous character assassination to paint him as an alcoholic. And what about Ford's own inconsistencies? Or Swetnick's utterly absurd claims? You buy those too? -that Kavanaugh was part of a roving rape gang but she kept attending those parties without telling anyone? There's little to no logic in any of these arguments. You want to screw over an innocent man because somehow you believe he'll single-handedly overturn Roe vs Wade, that's what this is all about. Which he can't do even if he wanted to, and he doesn't. WTF is wrong with you??
I came here to say the same, but you said it better than I could have. Students today are already overwhelmed with all the courses, research, and piles of homework they do; this won't help, so this will just flop.
I understand that but it's not germane as to whether he's fit for the title or not, if that is being used as an argument. He either isn't fit, because of his supposed "drinking" problem they keep citing, or he is. Many of the same people who had no problem voting for Obama, knowing his past drug use in college, now say Kavanaugh is essentially unfit for the SCOTUS for his alleged binge drinking in college, even if he didn't assault any of those women. That's a double standard.
Because you claim that experts claim this? Where are your citations? I call BS in this case, she wasn't actually raped, just pushed, and briefly groped according to her. If that is reportedly enough to scramble someone's memories so they don't need to provide more information of a useful nature, then no man is safe from a woman who wants to claim you sexually assualted her but doesn't have to provide any verifiable type details at all.. a selective memory, heresay, is enough. My wife was raped from a group "friend" of her hers, some years before we met, and she says you damn well remember everything, so long as you aren't beaten half unconscious. Which Ford did not claim. No my friend, the partisanship is all yours; you want to believe the democrats who trot out a woman as a last ditch resort at the 11th hour, with literally absolutely no usable evidence whatsoever, whose own friends will not corroborate her story, because you don't want another conservative judge on the SCOTUS. I'd consider this if there were some kind of evidence, and it were brought to light at the beginning of the confirmation process when all the data is supposed to have been put out there, but they didn't do that, and there is none. Not to mention the suspicious tactics, she lied about a fear of flying, AND ignored their offer to come to her. Failing the accusations, a man who has been accused of the very serious and nasty things he was accused of (and he was responding more to Avenetti's clients' claims than to Dr. Ford when he got angry), has a right to be justifiably angry when his hard earned reputation is being dragged through the mud and his family threatened, but now you try to claim that disqualifies him. Funny, NBC was hinting that he was creepy for remaining calm during his interview with Martha MacCallum, just minutes before his testimony. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. He isn't presiding over a case here where he's the impartial judge, this is all about his own life, and it's gotten personal and dirty. He's responding as a client.
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Well, they did start off by being a book store.. and they still are.
I still remember being a little kid in the late 60s/early 70s and thumbing through Sears's "Wish LIst" catalog a few weeks prior to Christmas, the toy section was always in the back. It was one of the most gleefully anticipated traditions of the season.
I'm not sure what Amazon's angle is here though, kids would probably be just as happy surfing their website, but I guess it'd be nostalgic for older parents..?
Not really arbitrary. 12:00am/pm is the final hour after which the clock "resets", and then you start back at 1 again.
12 signifies both noon, AKA Midday, halfway through the Earth's spin on the day side, as well as Midnight, exactly the middle of the night (so long as you're using standard time), the point at which you're halfway through the spin on the night side of the Earth.
The clock is logically tied to the solar day.
You could change it... but then it really would be arbitrary.
Who needs 5 minutes to change a clock? Grandma maybe..
"Would you like cream or sugar?"
"No thanks, I prefer a little vitreous humour in my coffee" grabs spoon
The question was, "saved from whom"? There are instances where species have been saved from natural extinction by mankind's efforts; in other cases, we saved them from ourselves. The 99.9% was cited simply to show that mother nature is indeed a serious threat to species survival, not just mankind. I wasn't interested in ratios or comparisons nor am I inclined to humor your homework assignments.
But who decides what species are/were relevant and which are/were not? What does that even mean?
Mother nature. Evolution. She's wiped out far more species than man has. Over 99.9% of species that have ever existed have gone extinct since life evolved on this planet.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolu...
So while man is inevitably wiping out some species due to our expansion and applied technologies, and at a more rapid rate, we are nonetheless far from the only threat to species' survival.
Next to get FDA approval: GeXuntite.
Keep it coming, Boris.
and what's it make us, if we're aware that we know that we're aware that we know that we're aware that we're distinct from our surroundings?
If they are refugees, then why are they reportedly waving proudly their country's flag as they march up, and in some cases even burning the US flag? That isn't the behavior of people seeking help from a host, that is a hostile invasion and damn rude.
It is not indicative of asylum seekers, which, by international law, are supposed to stop at the nearest country for help, not cross over 3 or more borders to get to a target country.
If you want to believe no one is calling for open borders, go ahead, but here's the evidence to the contrary:
https://openborders.info/
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.salon.com/2017/03/...
and those are just for starters..
There has been some digging-in and over-the-top rhetoric on the Right, sure; but not to the extent the Left has moved further to the Left. This ridiculous argument that the problem with the country is that the Right has moved further right just needs to die. The whoosh one hears is the doppler effect of the Left moving rapidly towards the left (blue shifting), and seeing conservatism as red shifted from their relative position.
To wit: A few years ago, openly embracing socialism was taboo and democrats vehemently denied it. Today, Ocasio-Cruz is a bit of a young democrat rock star among a large subset of democrats. Many of the protests and riots over the past few years, whether BLM, Antifa, or others, have curiously seen representation of the Communist party.
A huge contingent of democrats, including those in media and entertainment abandoned all notion of guilty until proven innocent (and reason) over the Kavanaugh hearing. The fact that it was not a criminal hearing is irrelevant; the notion, the right, is immutable.
Screaming, chanting, angry mobs harassing Republicans whether at work or on personal time is actually championed (and on video) by the likes of Maxine Waters and Eric Holder, (you don't see that happening to Democrat lawmakers by conservative protesters) and doxxing of republicans has occurred by democrat staff, not to mention the shooting of Repub senator Steve Scalise at a baseball game, over politics.
The new Democrat motto, unspoken, seems to be, "The ends justifies the means because we're just right, dammit". Any debate over illegal immigration descends immediately into strawman arguments, conflating illegal with legal immigrants, appeals to emotion, and (more often than not, false) charges of racism. In fact, almost any contentious topical discussion almost immediately degrades into emotional keywords rather than the rationally debated consequences, boiling down to accusations of racism, sexism, and bigotry in lieu of a factual rebuttal.
Meanwhile, CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC have had to let go of, or suspend, no shortage of tainted anchors who can't seem to tell the truth or keep their hands off women. If you want to discuss manipulation, look at how CNN covers the candidates they like vs Trump. Look at how NBC famously edited the 911 audio tape of George Zimmerman to remove the question of the operator as to the race of Trevon Martin, instead making it appear as though Zimmerman was using race as the sole reason to call 911. Then, they came up with the subversive "white latino" term to stir up more racial division and further drive a wedge that generally results in bigger headlines and sensationalism.
All in all, society has been moving more liberal and open over the decades. Most societies do. Major societal changes reflect this reality, from the integration of minorities into more aspects of life, including positions of government or corporate power, to the adoption of gay marriage, to the changing values seen on the great mirror of society: media, from television to movies, to magazines to the Internet.
Just compare today's lifestyles to the stereotypes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, and this becomes self-evident.
Are you saying.. they've been stringing us along? I guess they're at the end of their rope now.
Ughh.. I won't be here all week.
Beetlejuice.
There, that's three now.
Where is he ?!?
Recent video prove otherwise. Assault isn't the same as battery, but it's still assault.
Maxine Waters and Eric Holder, among others, are on video calling for confrontations.
Ted Cruz and Sarah Sanders get harassed by screaming yelling mobs, right out out of restaurants.
Antifa always gets downright violent when they show up.
Who shot Senator Scalise again?
And you're about to get a whole lot worse.
But then, these aren't classic liberals, this is the new breed of Progressives/Leftists.
Damnit, Moonmoon!
I came here just for this.
Same here.. for the past two weeks, I tried DuckDuckGo on my work linux box. When looking for technical documents or more detailed info, DDG just didn't cut it, regrettably. I'm back to using google again, for now.
For personal use though, I think DDG might just work out fine.
How about we just eat people .. at least until the population gets back down to 3 billion. Set up a lottery. Problem solved.
Human - the other, other, white meat*. Yummy.
*No that has nothing to do with skin color, it's based on an old pork industry slogan
You may want to try a little harder to avoid exposing your arrogance. I'd wager you're from somewhere in South America, because they're about the only people who get butthurt over this, and only recently, like in the last 5 years, has this been a "thing".
The USA is the *only* country in the Americas with 'America' as actually part of it's official name, so over a century ago those of us in the US became known as "Americans" as a form of shorthand, since "United Statesian" or whatever is just ridiculously cumbersome. It's not just a term we use ourselves, it's how most of the rest of the world identified us. It's an identity long and well established, worldwide. You're just being pedantic about it.
This is the correct answer right here.
To wit: it depends on whether you turn it off from the swipe up Control Panel, or from Settings.
If you turn it off via Control Panel, it will tell you it will be reenabled the next day. Kinda handy, actually.
A 1,000 times this. Otherwise we'll have non-stop police brutality claims and mass riots every time a suspect or perpetrator gets hit, knocked down, or shot. Context is key.
LOL... "100% for sure" And you just know this...how? Psychic? BK hasn't lied about his drinking habits, he was quite transparent about them in fact, unless you believe more unverified people paid by Avenatti or CNN to come out and say otherwise. Again, what proof? This is a ridiculous character assassination to paint him as an alcoholic. And what about Ford's own inconsistencies? Or Swetnick's utterly absurd claims? You buy those too? -that Kavanaugh was part of a roving rape gang but she kept attending those parties without telling anyone? There's little to no logic in any of these arguments. You want to screw over an innocent man because somehow you believe he'll single-handedly overturn Roe vs Wade, that's what this is all about. Which he can't do even if he wanted to, and he doesn't. WTF is wrong with you??
I came here to say the same, but you said it better than I could have. Students today are already overwhelmed with all the courses, research, and piles of homework they do; this won't help, so this will just flop.
I understand that but it's not germane as to whether he's fit for the title or not, if that is being used as an argument.
He either isn't fit, because of his supposed "drinking" problem they keep citing, or he is. Many of the same people who had no problem voting for Obama, knowing his past drug use in college, now say Kavanaugh is essentially unfit for the SCOTUS for his alleged binge drinking in college, even if he didn't assault any of those women. That's a double standard.
Because you claim that experts claim this? Where are your citations? I call BS in this case, she wasn't actually raped, just pushed, and briefly groped according to her. If that is reportedly enough to scramble someone's memories so they don't need to provide more information of a useful nature, then no man is safe from a woman who wants to claim you sexually assualted her but doesn't have to provide any verifiable type details at all.. a selective memory, heresay, is enough. My wife was raped from a group "friend" of her hers, some years before we met, and she says you damn well remember everything, so long as you aren't beaten half unconscious. Which Ford did not claim.
No my friend, the partisanship is all yours; you want to believe the democrats who trot out a woman as a last ditch resort at the 11th hour, with literally absolutely no usable evidence whatsoever, whose own friends will not corroborate her story, because you don't want another conservative judge on the SCOTUS. I'd consider this if there were some kind of evidence, and it were brought to light at the beginning of the confirmation process when all the data is supposed to have been put out there, but they didn't do that, and there is none. Not to mention the suspicious tactics, she lied about a fear of flying, AND ignored their offer to come to her.
Failing the accusations, a man who has been accused of the very serious and nasty things he was accused of (and he was responding more to Avenetti's clients' claims than to Dr. Ford when he got angry), has a right to be justifiably angry when his hard earned reputation is being dragged through the mud and his family threatened, but now you try to claim that disqualifies him. Funny, NBC was hinting that he was creepy for remaining calm during his interview with Martha MacCallum, just minutes before his testimony. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. He isn't presiding over a case here where he's the impartial judge, this is all about his own life, and it's gotten personal and dirty. He's responding as a client.