You must be really interested to learn, then, that the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in the US have been committed by conservative white males.
So just as a survival mechanism, it is sensible to avoid US conservatives. Because if you're looking for murderous scumbags in America, that's where you're statistically most likely to encounter one.
No, "conservative" just means you can count on violent, willfully ignorant, loudmouth assholes being present in overwhelming numbers. It's not automatically bad, any more than a serious cockroach infestation is automatically bad.
It is, however, symptomatic of a place that lets filthy, loathsome pests take over, so that it becomes uninhabitable for decent people.
It certainly looks that way. Now is when it gets complicated. The current administration likes to make threatening public statements about stuff like this. Unfortunately, this puts them in a rather unenviable position when the other side drops trou and offers up its bum for Uncle Sam to kiss. Because the only remaining alternative is lose - lose. On one hand, the administration could choose to suffer the kind of international humiliation that would hurt its chances in other trade negotiations. Or they can find a way to quietly bribe India to accept some kind of cosmetic agreement that will let the US save face, even as they accept a vigorous, un-lubed backscuttle from the very people they were just trying to threaten.
Lesson available (but no doubt ignored): people in that area of the world had elevated baksheesh to an art form a thousand years before Uncle Sam was even born.
I'm somehow not surprised that as an American, you would get that exactly backwards. The end of that program would mean the best students India just spent time and money educating will no longer have the option of taking all that government-paid expertise and leaving India for the United States with it.
So yes, by all means threaten to cancel the H-1B program...then watch Indian officials laugh in your face and invite you to kiss their ass.
So you're well aware that if you said what I said, you'd lose your house. If you were actually in it when you said what I said, you'd lose your freedom, too.
I'm fortunate to know people who lived and grew up there, and got out.
Workers in the Rust Belt states that made Donald Trump President had better watch out for their jobs if manufacturers ever decide to sell those robots in the US. Of course, they'd have to dumb them down quite a bit first.
There are excellent economic and consumer-friendly reasons to avoid hydrogen, but I have to be fair. It's extremely unlikely the on-board storage of hydrogen would turn cars into rolling bombs. Think more in terms of a gasoline-soaked sponge than a tank of gasoline and you'll have an idea how they're planning to store it. So yes, hydrogen fuel would probably burn quite nicely as it escaped after an accident, but I doubt very much whether it would explode.
I wonder how long it will be before some evil bastard crams a drone full of a noxious substance and flies it to a location where the government will provide the means to scatter it all over a nice, wide area. How long would it take to clean up an airport contaminated with some kind of nasty, superfine powder?
Not that Google is a corporate saint, but the Republicans have a different problem. Since the rise of Fox News and the far right, fact-averse version of the GOP now being inflicted on America, objective truth has a liberal bias.
...ultimately, it's pretty simple - if you didn't do anything, LE won't bother with your data as they have enough on the go with actual investigations.
People who use this canard as a justification for wholesale, casual invasion of citizens' privacy should be pissed on from a height.
To a cop, president, well-connected church leader or even whole government, "If you didn't do anything" often means, "If you protest", "If your sexuality doesn't match what I say it should be", "If your skin is the wrong colour" or a dozen other alleged threats to the public good.
People who don't understand this are either hopelessly naive or members of the power structure. They almost certainly have something to gain by persuading people the privacy of a free citizen in a free country to go about their legal business without being targeted in one way or another by the government has no value. In fact it is the cornerstone of a free society.
Sometimes freedom has a cost. In today's world, that cost is more often paid by civilians than by police or the military. Accept this, or accept that you do not deserve to be free.
Interesting that you chose Alex Jones and Sandy Hook.
If denying the Holocaust is hate speech, then the Sandy Hook Massacre must be too. Either that, or we would need to figure out a number of dead people that distinguishes one mass murder from another...especially since some of shooters clearly choose their victims based on their skin colour, sex or religion.
Personally, I think the best response to hate speech is more speech.
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There appears to be a strong positive correlation between people who vote for Trump and people who have their heads up their ass.
Just sayin'.
You must be really interested to learn, then, that the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in the US have been committed by conservative white males.
So just as a survival mechanism, it is sensible to avoid US conservatives. Because if you're looking for murderous scumbags in America, that's where you're statistically most likely to encounter one.
No, I don't mean that. What kind of twat-head moron would even ask such a question?
No, "conservative" just means you can count on violent, willfully ignorant, loudmouth assholes being present in overwhelming numbers. It's not automatically bad, any more than a serious cockroach infestation is automatically bad.
It is, however, symptomatic of a place that lets filthy, loathsome pests take over, so that it becomes uninhabitable for decent people.
I hope this clears things up for you.
Next headline: American air strike takes out children's hospital. Nice work, Forest.
Yeah, good luck triangulating the half-second cell phone signal that triggered a king-size IED.
Gotta love Americans...no wonder you're still thrashing around in Afghanistan with no plan, no exit strategy and no way to win.
Yeah, those are so effective against IED's.
"Just get the one with the driver in it, Achmed. The rest will stop and wait for us to unload them."
That would actually make sense. Sadly, it's not do-able in this political climate.
Well, he must be a pretty good grifter, at least. He's certainly got you fooled.
His goal is to wind up kissing Narendra Modi's nether cheeks? A worthy aspiration for a US President!
I wish him every success.
It certainly looks that way. Now is when it gets complicated. The current administration likes to make threatening public statements about stuff like this. Unfortunately, this puts them in a rather unenviable position when the other side drops trou and offers up its bum for Uncle Sam to kiss. Because the only remaining alternative is lose - lose. On one hand, the administration could choose to suffer the kind of international humiliation that would hurt its chances in other trade negotiations. Or they can find a way to quietly bribe India to accept some kind of cosmetic agreement that will let the US save face, even as they accept a vigorous, un-lubed backscuttle from the very people they were just trying to threaten.
Lesson available (but no doubt ignored): people in that area of the world had elevated baksheesh to an art form a thousand years before Uncle Sam was even born.
I'm somehow not surprised that as an American, you would get that exactly backwards. The end of that program would mean the best students India just spent time and money educating will no longer have the option of taking all that government-paid expertise and leaving India for the United States with it.
So yes, by all means threaten to cancel the H-1B program...then watch Indian officials laugh in your face and invite you to kiss their ass.
So you're well aware that if you said what I said, you'd lose your house. If you were actually in it when you said what I said, you'd lose your freedom, too.
I'm fortunate to know people who lived and grew up there, and got out.
Harper was our national embarrassment, and all the fascist cocksuckers who supported him.
Please try to keep up.
Can't disagree.
Workers in the Rust Belt states that made Donald Trump President had better watch out for their jobs if manufacturers ever decide to sell those robots in the US. Of course, they'd have to dumb them down quite a bit first.
"Sergei...stop screwing around. This is only for special occasions."
Sergei: "Sorry, Comrade. It's only been about an hour. And I thought this was as special occasion." (Flips switch)
Maybe, maybe not. Assuming they caught him, of course.
There are excellent economic and consumer-friendly reasons to avoid hydrogen, but I have to be fair. It's extremely unlikely the on-board storage of hydrogen would turn cars into rolling bombs. Think more in terms of a gasoline-soaked sponge than a tank of gasoline and you'll have an idea how they're planning to store it. So yes, hydrogen fuel would probably burn quite nicely as it escaped after an accident, but I doubt very much whether it would explode.
I wonder how long it will be before some evil bastard crams a drone full of a noxious substance and flies it to a location where the government will provide the means to scatter it all over a nice, wide area. How long would it take to clean up an airport contaminated with some kind of nasty, superfine powder?
Really, it's just a different kind of evolution.
Yeah, an AC with a buddy who nearly died.
Right
Names dates and records or you're a liar. We really don't need this kind of anti-vax bullshit here.
Not that Google is a corporate saint, but the Republicans have a different problem. Since the rise of Fox News and the far right, fact-averse version of the GOP now being inflicted on America, objective truth has a liberal bias.
People who use this canard as a justification for wholesale, casual invasion of citizens' privacy should be pissed on from a height.
To a cop, president, well-connected church leader or even whole government, "If you didn't do anything" often means, "If you protest", "If your sexuality doesn't match what I say it should be", "If your skin is the wrong colour" or a dozen other alleged threats to the public good.
People who don't understand this are either hopelessly naive or members of the power structure. They almost certainly have something to gain by persuading people the privacy of a free citizen in a free country to go about their legal business without being targeted in one way or another by the government has no value. In fact it is the cornerstone of a free society.
Sometimes freedom has a cost. In today's world, that cost is more often paid by civilians than by police or the military. Accept this, or accept that you do not deserve to be free.
Interesting that you chose Alex Jones and Sandy Hook.
If denying the Holocaust is hate speech, then the Sandy Hook Massacre must be too. Either that, or we would need to figure out a number of dead people that distinguishes one mass murder from another...especially since some of shooters clearly choose their victims based on their skin colour, sex or religion.
Personally, I think the best response to hate speech is more speech.