All the while pretending like this is something that doesn't happen all the time. Pretty much every country in the world wants America's president to benefit their interests; Canada meddled, Mexico meddled, the UK meddled, Somalia meddled, the Koreas meddled, China meddled, etc etc.
So how exactly did Canada meddle in the US election. I don't even recall any Canadian authority stating that they supported one candidate over the other. Even if they did I wouldn't call that meddling. If Russia came out and said they preferred Trump over Clinton (or vice versa) I wouldn't call that meddling either. If you go to the extent of robo-posting to social media sites in hopes of seeding discord then I would call that meddling. As far as I know Canada has never been accused of that level of involvement in US elections.
The rest of the countries in your list probably fall in this same situation but I don't have any direct knowledge either way to say for sure.
You do realize that murder wouldn't be a crime either if there weren't laws and regulations against it? I assume you don't want murder deregulated. Anyone can cut regulations at a record pace when they don't care what the consequence of those deregulations are (or worse are cutting them to deliberately allow the corruption to become lawful).
I know, I know, it is silly of me to equate corruption with murder right.
I live in Texas. I paid for the Chattanooga fiber network. Do they want me to also pay for running fiber to rural areas of Tennessee? I'm not interested in paying for that. If people in those areas want fiber, they can pay the cost instead of forcing me to pay for their internet service.
So Texas gets no federal funds? Oh, you do. I hope you are saying thanks to all those people in Chattanooga that helped pay for your infrastructure.
The defense budget is a fraction the size of social services mostly which goes to fund deadbeats.
The big ticket entitlements are Social Security and Medicare, which supports those deadbeats known as Grandma and Grandpa and the deadbeat that is your cousin with Down Syndrome.
In general, the vast majority of those receiving government assistance are either: Elderly, disabled or children.
Such deadbeat parasites. Maybe we should just kill the lousy parasites and we can build a city where the great would not be constrained by the small...Rapture.
It is also interesting that military retirement and veterans' benefits aren't actually part of the defense spending. These fall outside of defense spending but are only really there because of defense spending. So some of those deadbeats that the GP is talking about are actually vets.
The vast majority of the increase during the Obama administration (and the end of the Bush II Administration) occurred while the Dems controlled congress. The first two years of his administration the Democratic party controlled both houses of congress, in 2010 they lost the House and in 2012 even as he won re-election the Senate swung to the right as well. Remember the infamous shutdown? The blame for that really lies on then Senate majority Leader Harry Reid who refused to let the Senate even debate, let alone vote on, multiple Budget bills passed by the house that would have prevented or shortened the shutdown.
The Democrats only had total control of the Senate for 4 months (from September 24, 2009 until February 4, 2010). There were times that they had control in theory but due to Teddy Kennedy's illness and dying they didn't have the actual sitting votes for the 60 needed for full control (and Al Franken's contested seat didn't help either).
While you're looking at the pimple of defense spending, you're ignoring the cancer of social security, medicare, Obamacare, corporate and farm welfare, and interest on the debt. Order of magnitude, bitch. One of these (defense) is actually constitutional - the rest are clearly not. And debt has a way of fucking over the very people you think should be helped.
That is why the parent post is talking about the constitution.
Obviously you haven't been to the Cambrian Shield. Here we have trees growing out of exposed bedrock. I don't think that soil would be much use for farming. 8^)
Trees are actually rather advantageous when it comes to places to grow.
Tree do decay but not all the captured carbon is released back to the atmosphere as a result. Some is permanently captured in the soil that results from the decay. This would still not be a very effective means of carbon capture in the short term though.
From that it looks like Apple's go to value on all their property is $200. You would think they could be at least a bit more creative than saying a property assessed at $1b and a property assessed at $384m are both worth only $200. At the very least say that the $1bil is worth $201.
The truth is that the US has a slight trade deficit with Canada if all you look at is goods. If you included services in the equation the US has a rather large trade surplus with Canada.
The Guess Who are Canadian, and Burton Cummings (the song's lyricist) insists it has nothing to do with American pride. "What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous," Cummings told the Toronto Star in 2014. "When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident."
I do agree that the song is usually misinterpreted by Americans though
The tariff is for 25% (steel) and 10% (aluminum). No this alone won't raise costs 80%. The problem is that:
"The biggest importers of steel into America, by far, are U.S. steel companies," said New York-based steel analyst Chuck Bradford.
That's in part because some of the biggest U.S. steel mills are nearly 80 years old and they aren't capable of making the specific types of steel that go into high-grade technology and aerospace products. U.S. mills mostly import what's known as "semi-finished" steel from places like Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and turn them into finished products they can resell.
It's not as if the U.S. even has the capacity to fill its own need for steel and aluminum. Steel mills take several years to get permitted and built.
So if you limit the import of steel and aluminum the supply will decrease and (as any econ 101 student will tell you) when supply goes down the price goes up. So the price of steel is 25% and aluminum is 10% higher just from the tariffs then they will increase more based on supply and demand. Does this actually account for an 80% increase in cost? I have no idea but it is as simple as saying that because the tariff is only 25% there is no way that costs for steel and aluminum products will only go up 25%.
And if the other party sees no reason to come to the negotiation table what then? Canada and Mexico had no interest in redoing NAFTA, now they do, and have agreed to negotiations.
You do realize that Mexico and Canada were in the process of renegotiating NAFTA before Trump implemented the tariffs? It is the US that is really not that interested in renegotiating NAFTA (Trump would prefer for NAFTA to be scrapped).
China went to the WTO in 2012 to challenge U.S. anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese exports including solar panels, wind towers, steel cylinders and aluminium extrusions.
A tariff on steel cylinders and aluminum extrusions is a bit different than a general tariff on steel and aluminum.
Another part of that article that is of interest is:
The dispute centred on 17 investigations carried out by the U.S. Department of Commerce between 2007 and 2012.
The products concerned were solar panels, wind towers, thermal and coated paper, tow-behind lawn groomers, kitchen shelving, steel sinks, citric acid, magnesia carbon bricks, pressure pipe, line pipe, seamless pipe, steel cylinders, drill pipe, oil country tubular goods, wire strand and aluminium extrusions.
So again these tariffs were focused on specific items not a general tariff on steel and aluminum.
Finally we have:
The United States did not fully comply with a 2014 ruling against its anti-subsidy tariffs on a range of Chinese products, a World Trade Organization compliance panel said in a ruling on Wednesday (March 21, 2018) that either side can appeal within 20 days.
and:
The WTO panel agreed that the United States had not correctly used third country prices to assess the subsidies, but supported the U.S. assertion that exporters were getting subsidies from Chinese “public bodies”, despite Beijing’s assertions to the contrary.
I don't see anywhere in the article that "the WTO reverse(d) them".
The EPA needs to look at the regulations of toxic chemicals due to the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (i.e."mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals with clear and enforceable deadlines"). There is no statement in that amendment that the EPA has to relax the use rules on asbestos.
If there is no alternative to asbestos in the chlorine industry then why are most plants moving to an alternative method of production.
Many have already converted from either mercury cell or asbestos to a newer, safer option called the membrane cell process. Short of a complete conversion, many other plants switched from dangerous asbestos diaphragms to those made of polymers, that show no dangerous health risks.
The cap would not apply to new wheelchair-accessible vehicles or new vehicles serving an area demonstrating need in a way that does not increase congestion.
This part would seem to cover your concerns about less served areas.
Its kind of too bad then that mass voter fraud has never been proven even with electronic voting. Even the 243-percent percent turnout in one precinct" from the topic title was shown to be an error in the number of registered voters not in the actual percentage of voter turnout.
But I guess if the president says that there is massive voter fraud it must be true (despite no evidence to back up the statement).
Sure they could remove all RSS readers but I really don't see that happening. If it did you could still use a browser (or RSS reader on a computer) and download the podcast as an mp3 (or mp4 for video?) and play on an appropriate player.
But if you are so paranoid that Google/Apple are going to remove all RSS/podcast apps I think you have other problems.
You do realize that they are only removing the listings from their own podcast apps? Nothing is stopping people from downloading a standalone RSS reader from the respective app store (there are quite a few on Google Play). If you created your own podcast app it would be more than within your rights to limit what feeds you would like to carry.
So by exposing the link that takes you to that actual comment form (instead of taking the circuitous route the FCC set up) is trying to set up a human level DDOS? His intent was to let people actually comment on the proposed removal of net neutrality instead of spending their time looking for the actual comment form.
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All the while pretending like this is something that doesn't happen all the time. Pretty much every country in the world wants America's president to benefit their interests; Canada meddled, Mexico meddled, the UK meddled, Somalia meddled, the Koreas meddled, China meddled, etc etc.
So how exactly did Canada meddle in the US election. I don't even recall any Canadian authority stating that they supported one candidate over the other. Even if they did I wouldn't call that meddling. If Russia came out and said they preferred Trump over Clinton (or vice versa) I wouldn't call that meddling either. If you go to the extent of robo-posting to social media sites in hopes of seeding discord then I would call that meddling. As far as I know Canada has never been accused of that level of involvement in US elections.
The rest of the countries in your list probably fall in this same situation but I don't have any direct knowledge either way to say for sure.
Mylan has patent protection that lasts through 2025. So why is a generic version coming to market now?
Mylan to launch generic version of EpiPen, at half the cost
You do realize that murder wouldn't be a crime either if there weren't laws and regulations against it? I assume you don't want murder deregulated. Anyone can cut regulations at a record pace when they don't care what the consequence of those deregulations are (or worse are cutting them to deliberately allow the corruption to become lawful).
I know, I know, it is silly of me to equate corruption with murder right.
I live in Texas. I paid for the Chattanooga fiber network.
Do they want me to also pay for running fiber to rural areas of Tennessee? I'm not interested in paying for that. If people in those areas want fiber, they can pay the cost instead of forcing me to pay for their internet service.
So Texas gets no federal funds? Oh, you do. I hope you are saying thanks to all those people in Chattanooga that helped pay for your infrastructure.
The defense budget is a fraction the size of social services mostly which goes to fund deadbeats.
The big ticket entitlements are Social Security and Medicare, which supports those deadbeats known as Grandma and Grandpa and the deadbeat that is your cousin with Down Syndrome.
In general, the vast majority of those receiving government assistance are either: Elderly, disabled or children.
Such deadbeat parasites. Maybe we should just kill the lousy parasites and we can build a city where the great would not be constrained by the small...Rapture.
It is also interesting that military retirement and veterans' benefits aren't actually part of the defense spending. These fall outside of defense spending but are only really there because of defense spending. So some of those deadbeats that the GP is talking about are actually vets.
The vast majority of the increase during the Obama administration (and the end of the Bush II Administration) occurred while the Dems controlled congress. The first two years of his administration the Democratic party controlled both houses of congress, in 2010 they lost the House and in 2012 even as he won re-election the Senate swung to the right as well. Remember the infamous shutdown? The blame for that really lies on then Senate majority Leader Harry Reid who refused to let the Senate even debate, let alone vote on, multiple Budget bills passed by the house that would have prevented or shortened the shutdown.
The Democrats only had total control of the Senate for 4 months (from September 24, 2009 until February 4, 2010). There were times that they had control in theory but due to Teddy Kennedy's illness and dying they didn't have the actual sitting votes for the 60 needed for full control (and Al Franken's contested seat didn't help either).
You should go back and read the grandparent post:
While you're looking at the pimple of defense spending, you're ignoring the cancer of social security, medicare, Obamacare, corporate and farm welfare, and interest on the debt. Order of magnitude, bitch. One of these (defense) is actually constitutional - the rest are clearly not. And debt has a way of fucking over the very people you think should be helped.
That is why the parent post is talking about the constitution.
Obviously you haven't been to the Cambrian Shield. Here we have trees growing out of exposed bedrock. I don't think that soil would be much use for farming. 8^)
Trees are actually rather advantageous when it comes to places to grow.
Tree do decay but not all the captured carbon is released back to the atmosphere as a result. Some is permanently captured in the soil that results from the decay.
This would still not be a very effective means of carbon capture in the short term though.
From that it looks like Apple's go to value on all their property is $200. You would think they could be at least a bit more creative than saying a property assessed at $1b and a property assessed at $384m are both worth only $200. At the very least say that the $1bil is worth $201.
The truth is that the US has a slight trade deficit with Canada if all you look at is goods. If you included services in the equation the US has a rather large trade surplus with Canada.
Not really about the Statue of Liberty:
The Guess Who are Canadian, and Burton Cummings (the song's lyricist) insists it has nothing to do with American pride. "What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous," Cummings told the Toronto Star in 2014. "When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident."
I do agree that the song is usually misinterpreted by Americans though
This is a good read of the history of the song.
http://www.songfacts.com/detai...
The tariff is for 25% (steel) and 10% (aluminum). No this alone won't raise costs 80%. The problem is that:
"The biggest importers of steel into America, by far, are U.S. steel companies," said New York-based steel analyst Chuck Bradford.
That's in part because some of the biggest U.S. steel mills are nearly 80 years old and they aren't capable of making the specific types of steel that go into high-grade technology and aerospace products. U.S. mills mostly import what's known as "semi-finished" steel from places like Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and turn them into finished products they can resell.
It's not as if the U.S. even has the capacity to fill its own need for steel and aluminum. Steel mills take several years to get permitted and built.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...
So if you limit the import of steel and aluminum the supply will decrease and (as any econ 101 student will tell you) when supply goes down the price goes up. So the price of steel is 25% and aluminum is 10% higher just from the tariffs then they will increase more based on supply and demand. Does this actually account for an 80% increase in cost? I have no idea but it is as simple as saying that because the tariff is only 25% there is no way that costs for steel and aluminum products will only go up 25%.
And if the other party sees no reason to come to the negotiation table what then? Canada and Mexico had no interest in redoing NAFTA, now they do, and have agreed to negotiations.
You do realize that Mexico and Canada were in the process of renegotiating NAFTA before Trump implemented the tariffs? It is the US that is really not that interested in renegotiating NAFTA (Trump would prefer for NAFTA to be scrapped).
If you are referring to this:
China went to the WTO in 2012 to challenge U.S. anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese exports including solar panels, wind towers, steel cylinders and aluminium extrusions.
A tariff on steel cylinders and aluminum extrusions is a bit different than a general tariff on steel and aluminum.
Another part of that article that is of interest is:
The dispute centred on 17 investigations carried out by the U.S. Department of Commerce between 2007 and 2012.
The products concerned were solar panels, wind towers, thermal and coated paper, tow-behind lawn groomers, kitchen shelving, steel sinks, citric acid, magnesia carbon bricks, pressure pipe, line pipe, seamless pipe, steel cylinders, drill pipe, oil country tubular goods, wire strand and aluminium extrusions.
So again these tariffs were focused on specific items not a general tariff on steel and aluminum.
Finally we have:
The United States did not fully comply with a 2014 ruling against its anti-subsidy tariffs on a range of Chinese products, a World Trade Organization compliance panel said in a ruling on Wednesday (March 21, 2018) that either side can appeal within 20 days.
and:
The WTO panel agreed that the United States had not correctly used third country prices to assess the subsidies, but supported the U.S. assertion that exporters were getting subsidies from Chinese “public bodies”, despite Beijing’s assertions to the contrary.
I don't see anywhere in the article that "the WTO reverse(d) them".
The EPA needs to look at the regulations of toxic chemicals due to the 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (i.e."mandatory requirement for EPA to evaluate existing chemicals with clear and enforceable deadlines"). There is no statement in that amendment that the EPA has to relax the use rules on asbestos.
If there is no alternative to asbestos in the chlorine industry then why are most plants moving to an alternative method of production.
Many have already converted from either mercury cell or asbestos to a newer, safer option called the membrane cell process. Short of a complete conversion, many other plants switched from dangerous asbestos diaphragms to those made of polymers, that show no dangerous health risks.
https://www.maacenter.org/blog...
The cap would not apply to new wheelchair-accessible vehicles or new vehicles serving an area demonstrating need in a way that does not increase congestion.
This part would seem to cover your concerns about less served areas.
Its kind of too bad then that mass voter fraud has never been proven even with electronic voting. Even the 243-percent percent turnout in one precinct" from the topic title was shown to be an error in the number of registered voters not in the actual percentage of voter turnout.
But I guess if the president says that there is massive voter fraud it must be true (despite no evidence to back up the statement).
Sure they could remove all RSS readers but I really don't see that happening. If it did you could still use a browser (or RSS reader on a computer) and download the podcast as an mp3 (or mp4 for video?) and play on an appropriate player.
But if you are so paranoid that Google/Apple are going to remove all RSS/podcast apps I think you have other problems.
You do realize that they are only removing the listings from their own podcast apps? Nothing is stopping people from downloading a standalone RSS reader from the respective app store (there are quite a few on Google Play). If you created your own podcast app it would be more than within your rights to limit what feeds you would like to carry.
I didn't realize the Internet was that old. How did it work back in the 18th century? Carrier pigeon? 8-)
You skipped the most important part of his point:
unemployment is being counted the same way as it was before, which Trump himself said was a lie
So by exposing the link that takes you to that actual comment form (instead of taking the circuitous route the FCC set up) is trying to set up a human level DDOS?
His intent was to let people actually comment on the proposed removal of net neutrality instead of spending their time looking for the actual comment form.
Everything is just a few hundred clicks away.