The government doesn't create jobs. We're told this over and over. The Cato Institute says so. And they're not alone. A quick search shows a multitude of people all saying the government can't create jobs.
So why the big fuss over where a non-job producing venture is to be placed? It's not like anyone is going to get a job out of this.
If someone is still using an AOL email address, so what? I know of several successful business which use AOL addresses.
People like Ms. Moore who are "weirded out" by what email domain people use are the problem, not the people applying for positions. Thinking the latest and greatest is the only thing which matters has brought us the abomination which is Windows 10 or the nearly walled and welded garden of Apple.
If these people are more worried about what email address someone uses rather than their qualifications, that explains the sorry state of affairs in the tech industry today. Flash over substance.
as more jobs are automated and "massive new wealth gets created."
If more jobs are automated that means more people without jobs. Who is going to pay them this income? Those getting massive new wealth?
All you've done is make the masses dependent on a select few continuing to give them money and in doing so create a redistribution of wealth (such that it is ).
I'm not the smartest person in the room, but how is this even remotely feasible and sustainable?
Europe as a whole has more people than the US yet across the board their numbers are much higher.
You, like so many others, conflate the entirety of Europe with the U.S. when you should be looking at each individual country. However, since you brought it up, this article says there were 19 mass shootings in all of Europe between 2009 and 2015 wherein 319 people were killed (the outlier being the shooting in Norway in which 69 people were killed). That comes out to 20 deaths as the result of mass shootings per year in the entirety of Europe, or just over one death as the result of a mass shooting for each European country per year.
During that same period in the U.S. there were 25 mass shootings with 199 people killed (apparently our shooters need more practice). Snopes laid out the skewed statistics and why the U.S. ranks far and above Europe in mass shootings.
Since that time, the U.S. continues to pull ahead of Europe in mass shootings. This article uses 2009- 2016 for their numbers in which they calculated 156 mass shootings with 848 people killed (their methodology is slightly different than above). One thing to note is, according their numbers, only ten percent of mass shootings take place in a "gun free" zone.
As to your other statistics, I said child molestation and rape, not rape as a whole. Big difference. But keep using statistics to justify racism and ignore who the real perpetrators are of certain crimes.
America is only 11 when it comes to mass shooting casualties per capita.
Ah yes, the infamous, "But when you look at the statistics. .." bullshit argument. It's the same one used to excuse away the fact white men are the largest perpetrators of child molestation/rape in the U.S., as well as the largest perpetrators of mass shootings in the U.S.
If a country of 6 million people has one mass shooting, of course their numbers will look higher. But looking at the number of occurrences and the totality of deaths, the U.S. leads the pack.
As opposed to the violence in European football? The ones we hear about every single year, including where a certain group has said women should be barred from the first few rows of a game?
Why would it matter if it's high powered or not? I used to drive a 90s something Honda Civic which could go over 100 mph. I know of no one who calls a stock Civic a high powered vehicle.
Go out and buy books, buy CDs and DVDs, buy the very things the author complains you no longer own.
Yes, your OS isn't yours, and your phone is welded shut (as are Macs in general), but there is nothing stopping someone from going out and buying a physical product.
But instead of doing this there will be those who will whine about the loss ownership.
Bothered? I encourage it! If people want to harm themselves, go for it. Fewer idiots to deal with every day. Just don't expect me to pay for their medical bills or offer any sympathy. Actions have consequences and all that.
Now we have another set of people who believe they know more than the experts. Can't wait until a decade passes and these people start keeling over in the streets because they can't breathe then whine they were never warned of the dangers.
It will be cigarette smokers all over again except this time there won't be any sympathy. They've been warned and even if they don't hear of the warnings, common sense should indicate if you inhale toxic vapors, bad things happen.
Then again, we're talking about people who deliberately inhale toxic vapors and think they're the shizzle.
If someone wants to sell them to someone else, that's none of Bethesda's business.
In this one particular case, it is Bethesda's business. The seller is claiming the game is new. In the broadest sense it is new in that it hasn't been played.
However, it is not new in that this is not the first sale of the game. This is the second sale. If/when someone buys this game and has a problem, who are they going to go to? The seller or Bethesda? Most likely they will contact Bethesda asking for help/support but they are not the original owner.
As Bethesda said, had the game been marked pre-owned, no problem. That wording clearly identifies the state of the product. Yes, it is nit-picking, but in this case it is warranted.
There's a steel company in my state which provides 1/5 of the tax base for the county it is in. There is a possibility the plant may close and 1,200 people would be out of work.
That doesn't sound like a company which was on the brink to begin with.
Further, as I said in the article, the largest nail manufacturer may have to relocate or go under. Again, that doesn't sound like a company which had problems before the tariffs were put in place.
One thing everyone here is missing is that U.S. Steel and Nucor Steel have been fighting every single exemption request companies have put forth to the U.S. Commerce Department. These companies want exemptions from the tariffs so they can continue to get steel at reasonable prices and/or quality and type they need.
Charlotte-based Nucor, which financed a documentary film made by a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump, and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, which has previously employed several top administration officials, have objected to 1,600 exemption requests filed with the Commerce Department over the past several months.
To date, their efforts have never failed, resulting in denials for companies that are based in the United States but rely on imported pipes, screws, wire and other foreign steel products for their supply chains.
In one case, a company stated “the sole U.S. producer of high speed steel material appropriate for cutting tools is not currently ramping up any production to expand this aspect of their business and has not shown any interest in quoting new business.”
As the tariffs take hold, expect prices of finished goods to rise substantially and more businesses to either go under or relocate out of the country. The largest nail manufacturer in the country has already laid off 12% of its workforce, cut hours for the remainder and is still on the brink of extinction, so it has to make such a decision.
This is why I don't fly. I am not a criminal and don't appreciate being treated as one. Considering the TSA misses up to 95% of all fake bombstaken on board planes, they have other issues to worry about than harassing people.
Going on the presumption they have a ton of safety systems built in along with multiple redundant systems, this would be a very interesting ride. Looking up to see the blackness of space, out to see the curvature of Earth, and down to all the folks below.
My bank account can handle it, but it would be nice if they brought the price down.
We have the government saying encryption is thwarting their efforts to gather information on people, while at the same time (some) government folks are saying it's perfectly reasonable for them to use apps which thwart the public's effort to gather information on them.
Now we'll be hearing from all those people claiming radiation from cell phones gives them headaches, completely ignoring this study is about phones placed an inch or less from ones head, not feet or miles.
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The government doesn't create jobs. We're told this over and over. The Cato Institute says so. And they're not alone. A quick search shows a multitude of people all saying the government can't create jobs.
So why the big fuss over where a non-job producing venture is to be placed? It's not like anyone is going to get a job out of this.
If someone is still using an AOL email address, so what? I know of several successful business which use AOL addresses.
People like Ms. Moore who are "weirded out" by what email domain people use are the problem, not the people applying for positions. Thinking the latest and greatest is the only thing which matters has brought us the abomination which is Windows 10 or the nearly walled and welded garden of Apple.
If these people are more worried about what email address someone uses rather than their qualifications, that explains the sorry state of affairs in the tech industry today. Flash over substance.
as more jobs are automated and "massive new wealth gets created."
If more jobs are automated that means more people without jobs. Who is going to pay them this income? Those getting massive new wealth?
All you've done is make the masses dependent on a select few continuing to give them money and in doing so create a redistribution of wealth (such that it is ).
I'm not the smartest person in the room, but how is this even remotely feasible and sustainable?
Europe as a whole has more people than the US yet across the board their numbers are much higher.
You, like so many others, conflate the entirety of Europe with the U.S. when you should be looking at each individual country. However, since you brought it up, this article says there were 19 mass shootings in all of Europe between 2009 and 2015 wherein 319 people were killed (the outlier being the shooting in Norway in which 69 people were killed). That comes out to 20 deaths as the result of mass shootings per year in the entirety of Europe, or just over one death as the result of a mass shooting for each European country per year.
During that same period in the U.S. there were 25 mass shootings with 199 people killed (apparently our shooters need more practice). Snopes laid out the skewed statistics and why the U.S. ranks far and above Europe in mass shootings.
Since that time, the U.S. continues to pull ahead of Europe in mass shootings. This article uses 2009- 2016 for their numbers in which they calculated 156 mass shootings with 848 people killed (their methodology is slightly different than above). One thing to note is, according their numbers, only ten percent of mass shootings take place in a "gun free" zone.
As to your other statistics, I said child molestation and rape, not rape as a whole. Big difference. But keep using statistics to justify racism and ignore who the real perpetrators are of certain crimes.
America is only 11 when it comes to mass shooting casualties per capita.
Ah yes, the infamous, "But when you look at the statistics. . ." bullshit argument. It's the same one used to excuse away the fact white men are the largest perpetrators of child molestation/rape in the U.S., as well as the largest perpetrators of mass shootings in the U.S.
If a country of 6 million people has one mass shooting, of course their numbers will look higher. But looking at the number of occurrences and the totality of deaths, the U.S. leads the pack.
As opposed to the violence in European football? The ones we hear about every single year, including where a certain group has said women should be barred from the first few rows of a game?
You never hear about mass shootings in Texas
Oh really? Never hear about them?
I guess this list is bogus. No mass shootings you say? Perhaps you're not looking hard enough.
Somewhere a tree is furiously making oxygen for you to breathe.
You should find it and apologize.
They restrict the use of high-powered vehicles
Why would it matter if it's high powered or not? I used to drive a 90s something Honda Civic which could go over 100 mph. I know of no one who calls a stock Civic a high powered vehicle.
Go out and buy books, buy CDs and DVDs, buy the very things the author complains you no longer own.
Yes, your OS isn't yours, and your phone is welded shut (as are Macs in general), but there is nothing stopping someone from going out and buying a physical product.
But instead of doing this there will be those who will whine about the loss ownership.
They should. It's what insurance companies do all the time, and look at how rich Warren Buffet has become because of it.
Bothered? I encourage it! If people want to harm themselves, go for it. Fewer idiots to deal with every day. Just don't expect me to pay for their medical bills or offer any sympathy. Actions have consequences and all that.
How you think I'm mad at them is unknown.
Now we have another set of people who believe they know more than the experts. Can't wait until a decade passes and these people start keeling over in the streets because they can't breathe then whine they were never warned of the dangers.
It will be cigarette smokers all over again except this time there won't be any sympathy. They've been warned and even if they don't hear of the warnings, common sense should indicate if you inhale toxic vapors, bad things happen.
Then again, we're talking about people who deliberately inhale toxic vapors and think they're the shizzle.
If someone wants to sell them to someone else, that's none of Bethesda's business.
In this one particular case, it is Bethesda's business. The seller is claiming the game is new. In the broadest sense it is new in that it hasn't been played.
However, it is not new in that this is not the first sale of the game. This is the second sale. If/when someone buys this game and has a problem, who are they going to go to? The seller or Bethesda? Most likely they will contact Bethesda asking for help/support but they are not the original owner.
As Bethesda said, had the game been marked pre-owned, no problem. That wording clearly identifies the state of the product. Yes, it is nit-picking, but in this case it is warranted.
There's a steel company in my state which provides 1/5 of the tax base for the county it is in. There is a possibility the plant may close and 1,200 people would be out of work.
That doesn't sound like a company which was on the brink to begin with.
Further, as I said in the article, the largest nail manufacturer may have to relocate or go under. Again, that doesn't sound like a company which had problems before the tariffs were put in place.
One thing everyone here is missing is that U.S. Steel and Nucor Steel have been fighting every single exemption request companies have put forth to the U.S. Commerce Department. These companies want exemptions from the tariffs so they can continue to get steel at reasonable prices and/or quality and type they need.
Instead, the two largest producers of steel in the country have raised their prices and told the Commerce Department the exemptions are bogus because they can make the product, even though in at least one case, a company stopped buying steel from U.S. Steel because of quality control issues.
Of course politics plays a big role in all this:
In one case, a company stated “the sole U.S. producer of high speed steel material appropriate for cutting tools is not currently ramping up any production to expand this aspect of their business and has not shown any interest in quoting new business.”
As the tariffs take hold, expect prices of finished goods to rise substantially and more businesses to either go under or relocate out of the country. The largest nail manufacturer in the country has already laid off 12% of its workforce, cut hours for the remainder and is still on the brink of extinction, so it has to make such a decision.
Don't give Ajit Pai any more ideas. He'll use this study as an excuse to set the broadband speed in the U.S. back to DSL levels.
By forcing slower speeds on people, they'll be less willing to stay up because of the frustration of waiting for pages to download.
This is why I don't fly. I am not a criminal and don't appreciate being treated as one. Considering the TSA misses up to 95% of all fake bombstaken on board planes, they have other issues to worry about than harassing people.
Going on the presumption they have a ton of safety systems built in along with multiple redundant systems, this would be a very interesting ride. Looking up to see the blackness of space, out to see the curvature of Earth, and down to all the folks below.
My bank account can handle it, but it would be nice if they brought the price down.
low-price Chinese imports are needed to "make ends meet" for cash-strapped Americans.
It's why he has his name brand clothes made in China rather than U.S. and until recently, so did his daughter.
Funny how the con artist touts made in America yet refuses to have his stuff made here.
We have the government saying encryption is thwarting their efforts to gather information on people, while at the same time (some) government folks are saying it's perfectly reasonable for them to use apps which thwart the public's effort to gather information on them.
Just like a parking brake on a car is there for a reason, the option to safely eject a USB drive is also there for a reason.
But don't let that stop all the experts on here and elsewhere from saying otherwise.
Now we'll be hearing from all those people claiming radiation from cell phones gives them headaches, completely ignoring this study is about phones placed an inch or less from ones head, not feet or miles.
If only they'd built it to withstand 16 drops! When will they learn?
No Terminators or mobile dolls, but Gundams are okay.