No, I meant the problem of hotels picking and choosing their customers. It hasn't been that way for a long time, and now it's making a comeback with these "rent my spare bedroom in NYC" services.
That's the major problem, eh? Can't tax it, can't regulate it. As government gets larger and larger, it needs more and more money to sustain itself. It seeks out new forms of revenue from wherever it finds weakness. Renting out your spare bedroom in New York City causes a lot of losses. No bed tax (in NYC it's something like 20%, or used to be when I worked in hotels), no income tax for the housekeeping staff, no sales tax from the gift shop, etc.
Let's not even get into room owners picking and choosing clients. I've seen them proudly say that they check Facebook and such beforehand, only allow professionals and other clean people, etc. Yeah, what they really mean is "no Negroes". When the "sharing economy" is beyond the reach of government regulation, problems like this that society thought solved re-appear with disturbing frequency.
What European looked UP to America 20 years ago? I think you're making shit up. They hated us just as much, wanted our bases out of Europe, beat up servicemen at bars, hated our TV shows contaminating their culture, cheated our tourists, etc. Europeans have always looked down on America and always will.
It's pretty rich that you think that spies are an exclusively American phenomenon. I guarantee the same thing is going on against America, but for some strange reason nobody has exposed it. Weird, eh?
They're taking their investors for a ride. The executives spend money on a marketing campaign, and the marketing company gives them some of the money to keep in their own pockets. Works like a charm.
Wow, way to be a condescending douche. "The autonomous and self-defined individual"? As if there is only one kind of person in the world, "the good kind". Anyone who wants to kick back and relax on vacation...well passive adventures are for pussies, amirite? Jeez modded up to +5, too. How shameful.
Well, yeah. It's called "spying". Every country does it, including yours. In fact, it is precisely the job of the NSA to spy on foreigners. It's that the NSA was breaking the law by spying on Americans that caused the entire crisis in the first place.
Are we really going to pretend that gentlemen don't read each other's mail? Hell, spying on foreigners is how the Allies won WWII against both your country and Japan. That sort of thing makes a deep impression on a nation.
I wouldn't call that supremely long name that I can't even remember how to type right now an "improvement". Ulan Bator rolls right off the tongue, though. English doesn't contain two a's in a row and sounds really unnatural.
If we're going to go this route, we need to start calling other countries Zhongguo, Deutschland, and Italia, mmmkay?
Ulan Bator is the English name. The native name is Ulaanbaatar. Lots of places have English names...Lake Constance, China, Burma...the list goes on and on. If we're speaking Mongolian let's go with Ulaanbaatar, otherwise let's use the English name. How many people even know who "Chinggis" is? But mention Ghengis and everyone knows. Why? Because that's his name in English.
Maybe that's because they've seen what happens to right-wing dissidents when left-wingers take over a country. It ain't pretty.
The left-wingism has nothing to do with Christianity, it has to do with the people who take up the cloth. If they're despicable then that reflects on everything they do. Just like pedophile priests reflect on Christians in other countries.
Hey, my old company once had a man arrested by exaggerating the amount he cost us by hacking. The FBI said they wouldn't get involved unless the amount was over $50,000. My company came up with a figure of $200,000 lost, apparently out of their ass. Much, much later the guy (who was guilty as hell and did exactly what he was charged with doing, he just thought he would get away with it because he was a total prick) got his conviction overturned and the amount of loss was retroactively restated to $4,000. Part of which includes my time cleaning up the mess he intentionally left, so I feel kind of insulted.
Wow, way to shit all over someone who is working hard and shows promise. What do you do on weekends, go to the old folks' home and shout at them for failing in life because they ended up in an old folks' home?
Wow, it really says something about the mentality of the reporter..."you're young therefore you read Harry Potter." WTF? These are not universal values, they are just YOUR values from inside the bubble.
Hurrah for his response, by the way. Stick it to 'em.
If you don't have a job then you have no stake in society and your "job" becomes voting for more free money for yourself. This is a well-known bug in democracy and will lead to the destruction of our Republic.
Nice way to tell half the story. Why were communists targeted? Because they wanted to overthrow the US government! Protecting America against exactly these kinds of threats is fundamentally part of the FBI's job.
What I'm wondering is: how did he get authorization to obtain such a large sum of helium from the Canadian government? Which official thought this was a good idea and allowed him to go forward with this plan?
Excellent move! I love how you changed the focus from an abusive nation back to America, who is always the center of attention no matter what. Every topic can always be related to ourselves because we are always right! Fuck talking about other countries for once.
We just did. A couple of politicians who expressly said they didn't care what their constituents thought were just booted out of office. The recall didn't even start until the statement was made, which infuriated the people.
Of course, if you read the article, the New York Times says that it's bullying politicians. No, really: "To many opponents of the recalls, the campaign felt like an attempt to bully legislators who had taken tough votes, and represented a costly hijacking of the democratic process."
No it doesn't. *sigh* So many people, including a lot of people who should know better, still insist on pronouncing pinyin X as "sh". Chinese already has an sh sound. X is pronounced in a way that native English speakers cannot replicate. You have to learn an entirely new way to move your mouth. I cringe whenever I hear people saying "shay shay" instead of "xie xie" for thank you.
Xiaomi should have chosen a new name for overseas export. Lots of unpronounceable Chinese brands do this. Gome instead of Guomei is one that springs to mind.
The problem that is it shifts the balance of power from women to men. Men already have enough advantages in life and don't need another thing to hold over women's heads.
Oh, bullshit, no you aren't critical of ALL religion. Give me a paragraph of why you hate Daoism, or Zoroastrianism, or Coptics, or Hindus. You just hate Christians, why not be open about it?
They don't just say "LOL WTF;-P" in emails. They say it out loud.
No, seriously, instead of laughing out loud (hence the abbreviation LOL) they will say "ell oh ell". As in, they speak the letters. They'll also say "smiley face" or "winky face" instead of smiling or winking. I wish I was joking but I am not.
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No, I meant the problem of hotels picking and choosing their customers. It hasn't been that way for a long time, and now it's making a comeback with these "rent my spare bedroom in NYC" services.
That's the major problem, eh? Can't tax it, can't regulate it. As government gets larger and larger, it needs more and more money to sustain itself. It seeks out new forms of revenue from wherever it finds weakness. Renting out your spare bedroom in New York City causes a lot of losses. No bed tax (in NYC it's something like 20%, or used to be when I worked in hotels), no income tax for the housekeeping staff, no sales tax from the gift shop, etc.
Let's not even get into room owners picking and choosing clients. I've seen them proudly say that they check Facebook and such beforehand, only allow professionals and other clean people, etc. Yeah, what they really mean is "no Negroes". When the "sharing economy" is beyond the reach of government regulation, problems like this that society thought solved re-appear with disturbing frequency.
What European looked UP to America 20 years ago? I think you're making shit up. They hated us just as much, wanted our bases out of Europe, beat up servicemen at bars, hated our TV shows contaminating their culture, cheated our tourists, etc. Europeans have always looked down on America and always will.
It's pretty rich that you think that spies are an exclusively American phenomenon. I guarantee the same thing is going on against America, but for some strange reason nobody has exposed it. Weird, eh?
They're taking their investors for a ride. The executives spend money on a marketing campaign, and the marketing company gives them some of the money to keep in their own pockets. Works like a charm.
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Wow, way to be a condescending douche. "The autonomous and self-defined individual"? As if there is only one kind of person in the world, "the good kind". Anyone who wants to kick back and relax on vacation...well passive adventures are for pussies, amirite? Jeez modded up to +5, too. How shameful.
Well, yeah. It's called "spying". Every country does it, including yours. In fact, it is precisely the job of the NSA to spy on foreigners. It's that the NSA was breaking the law by spying on Americans that caused the entire crisis in the first place.
Are we really going to pretend that gentlemen don't read each other's mail? Hell, spying on foreigners is how the Allies won WWII against both your country and Japan. That sort of thing makes a deep impression on a nation.
If we're going to go this route, we need to start calling other countries Zhongguo, Deutschland, and Italia, mmmkay?
Ulan Bator is the English name. The native name is Ulaanbaatar. Lots of places have English names...Lake Constance, China, Burma...the list goes on and on. If we're speaking Mongolian let's go with Ulaanbaatar, otherwise let's use the English name. How many people even know who "Chinggis" is? But mention Ghengis and everyone knows. Why? Because that's his name in English.
Maybe that's because they've seen what happens to right-wing dissidents when left-wingers take over a country. It ain't pretty.
The left-wingism has nothing to do with Christianity, it has to do with the people who take up the cloth. If they're despicable then that reflects on everything they do. Just like pedophile priests reflect on Christians in other countries.
So, the point you're making is that your hostility is completely justified, and these people deserve the abuse. Yay, I guess?
Hey, my old company once had a man arrested by exaggerating the amount he cost us by hacking. The FBI said they wouldn't get involved unless the amount was over $50,000. My company came up with a figure of $200,000 lost, apparently out of their ass. Much, much later the guy (who was guilty as hell and did exactly what he was charged with doing, he just thought he would get away with it because he was a total prick) got his conviction overturned and the amount of loss was retroactively restated to $4,000. Part of which includes my time cleaning up the mess he intentionally left, so I feel kind of insulted.
Wow, way to shit all over someone who is working hard and shows promise. What do you do on weekends, go to the old folks' home and shout at them for failing in life because they ended up in an old folks' home?
Wow, it really says something about the mentality of the reporter..."you're young therefore you read Harry Potter." WTF? These are not universal values, they are just YOUR values from inside the bubble.
Hurrah for his response, by the way. Stick it to 'em.
If you don't have a job then you have no stake in society and your "job" becomes voting for more free money for yourself. This is a well-known bug in democracy and will lead to the destruction of our Republic.
Nice way to tell half the story. Why were communists targeted? Because they wanted to overthrow the US government! Protecting America against exactly these kinds of threats is fundamentally part of the FBI's job.
What I'm wondering is: how did he get authorization to obtain such a large sum of helium from the Canadian government? Which official thought this was a good idea and allowed him to go forward with this plan?
Excellent move! I love how you changed the focus from an abusive nation back to America, who is always the center of attention no matter what. Every topic can always be related to ourselves because we are always right! Fuck talking about other countries for once.
We just did. A couple of politicians who expressly said they didn't care what their constituents thought were just booted out of office. The recall didn't even start until the statement was made, which infuriated the people.
Of course, if you read the article, the New York Times says that it's bullying politicians. No, really: "To many opponents of the recalls, the campaign felt like an attempt to bully legislators who had taken tough votes, and represented a costly hijacking of the democratic process."
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No it doesn't. *sigh* So many people, including a lot of people who should know better, still insist on pronouncing pinyin X as "sh". Chinese already has an sh sound. X is pronounced in a way that native English speakers cannot replicate. You have to learn an entirely new way to move your mouth. I cringe whenever I hear people saying "shay shay" instead of "xie xie" for thank you.
Xiaomi should have chosen a new name for overseas export. Lots of unpronounceable Chinese brands do this. Gome instead of Guomei is one that springs to mind.
The problem that is it shifts the balance of power from women to men. Men already have enough advantages in life and don't need another thing to hold over women's heads.
Oh, bullshit, no you aren't critical of ALL religion. Give me a paragraph of why you hate Daoism, or Zoroastrianism, or Coptics, or Hindus. You just hate Christians, why not be open about it?
Nope! You heard wrong. Where have you been getting your talking points? Which website did you obtain this "understanding" from?
I'm also interested to find out in which reality it is acceptable to assault someone based on nothing but words.
They don't just say "LOL WTF ;-P" in emails. They say it out loud.
No, seriously, instead of laughing out loud (hence the abbreviation LOL) they will say "ell oh ell". As in, they speak the letters. They'll also say "smiley face" or "winky face" instead of smiling or winking. I wish I was joking but I am not.