Though locally rather than generally. We don't call lidocaine a narcotic. I believe that the legal definition is any drug which is scheduled, with the only difference being that schedules II-V are potentially legal, while schedule I are always illegal.
I accidentally bought a house in a poor neighborhood in Northeastern North Carolina because I naively didn't know segregation still existed in the South.
The two parts of that sentence - before the "because" and after - do not appear to have a relationship to each other. Did you mean that you accidentally bought a house in a poor black neighborhood, when you meant to get one in a poor white neighborhood? Or did you really accidentally buy a crappy house in a crappy neighborhood because you didn't even bother to look at the thing, or meet the neighbors, before buying it?
By being more fuel efficient and "green" it will actually boost the economy.
Depends on how much you have to spend in order to get that green tech. There's a gas station about ten miles from my house that's cheaper than any other one in the metro area. Every time I pass it, I fill up. But I don't go there often, and I would obliterate all the savings if I had to burn even a third of a gallon of gas to go there and back.
You're missing the step where the police arrest you for filing false reports and defrauding people. As far as holding the device goes, if they gave it to you willingly, and you find it in a database of stolen property, why would there be any question about whether you get to keep it? It's stolen. You're keeping it for the police, who will be the ones who determine who is the rightful owner. You don't have to detain the individual at all: they are in possession of property that has been reported stolen. They can either leave their contact information, giving them an opportunity to explain why it's actually not stolen, or they can leave without the device, in which case it's returned to the rightful owner.
This solution works for stolen phones, but it actually does better for phones lost and then found by someone without a lot of scruples who is nonetheless not really a thief - someone who might otherwise have just activated it on the grounds of finders-keepers.
Demand that the seller write and sign a bill of sale. When AT&T says no dice, bring your bill of sale and watch the cops arrest your original seller for filing a false police report.
When buying phones off Craigslist I have just insisted that the transaction take place at the carrier's store so that there can be no question about what is going on - no "bad ESNs", problems with activation, etc.
Why would you need to see original proof of purchase? When a phone is reported stolen, stick its IMEI in a "banned" list. When someone brings the phone in to have it activated, take it from them and store it. Tell them they are in possession of property reported stolen and that the phone can be returned to the prior owner or they can leave their contact information and hash it out with the cops over who it belongs to.
So when these guys talk about reserve pressure accumulators or (any of a thousand places) hydro-boost brakes, they're wrong? The effect they describe was present in the four GM vehicles I've driven (three cars and a Tahoe) - you have at least one, occasionally two, full stops worth of pressure when you turn the engine off. If you press it repeatedly after turning the car off, your first push will feel normal, the second will stop sooner, and the third or fourth will give you that good manual feeling.
Because matters that would be handled by consumer safety or automotive regulators in Europe are fodder for liability lawsuits in the US. People who would otherwise be embarrassed to admit that they wrecked their car because they accidentally shoved the floor mat into the accelerator and were then too dumb to think to slam the brakes and put it in neutral will come out of the woodwork if there's a potential profit in it.
Lexus and at least some Toyota models don't have an ignition switch like most cars - it's a "start/stop" switch with a radio-based "key". In the case in question here, you'd have to hold that switch down for an extended period of time - at least three seconds, IIRC - in order to force the engine to shut down.
And yes, you can push an automatic into neutral while driving. I've done it accidentally plenty of times. You can also just drop it right back into drive. And yes, our cars have stronger brakes than engines.
You know that hydraulic brakes have reserve pressure in the cylinder for one full press, right? True in every car I've ever driven, and I'm almost 40. And power steering only matters at low speed - my first car had power steering that was broken, so parallel parking was a nightmare but once you were moving it didn't really matter.
Free workers also don't choose to stay and grow cotton (or sugar cane, if you want to generalize this to the rest of the Americas) at the kind of wages that allow cotton to be sold profitably, which is a major part of why the Great Migration occurred. Poorly productive slaves are still far more productive than anyone who isn't there.
If you believe everyone has a right to vote, then none of the Northern states had legitimate government either, since they didn't let women vote.
Lincoln's announced plans would not have actually affected any of these state's internal policies on slavery. He wanted to ban it from the territories, not emancipate it nation-wide.
And the South correctly recognized that any system that prevented new slave states from coming into being would eventually result in the abolishment of slavery. Since abolition would destroy the economy of the South, they decided not to wait until the North had an even larger lead but instead gambled that the North would leave them alone. They were wrong.
Ah, but it recruited them by keeping them higher in status than the slaves. After the war, they had to compete with the former slaves on much more equal terms. (This prospect also frightened a lot of northern states.)
it would have probably happened within another couple decades anyway
Morally, you're probably right. I believe that Brazil was the last major country to outlaw slavery, in 1888. Economically, though? Slavery would have continued until mechanization around WW2.
It's got to be your device. There have been three Kindles in my household, one of each generation, and none has ever looked bad in direct light - in fact they look their best in direct sun. And glare is a much bigger problem with the glossy iPad surface than the matte Kindle surface. Outdoors, nothing beats e-Ink.
Do you have a problem with, say, pharma-employed scientists publishing their phase I and phase II results in biochemical journals? Because it's the same thing: nobody is going to work for free, and the doctors are paid to conduct Phase III trials.
Comparing life expectancy across different populations isn't going to tell you anything useful about those populations' health care. They don't have the same underlying state-of-nature life expectancy, the statistics are often massaged, and the risks of various diseases are highly variable.
Some sort of nationalized healthcare system
That is emphatically not the case. There is some provision for basic health care; it is not nationalized health care. Personally, I think the French model is a pretty good one, but the fundamental problem with any system is that Americans are not going to accept taking second-tier health care if they're indigent. Politically, that's a nonstarter. And the current system, where nearly everyone gets as much as they like, will not get cheaper just because the government runs it.
Why on earth would you believe this? Popcorn is nothing but starch, which is basically just sugar. If you add liquid butter-flavored oils to it, you have sugar + oil. In another context, this is known as "cake icing". And yet nobody has any misconception what a 100% cake icing diet would produce.
I know a lot of fatasses who could use all the help they can get shedding pounds
Yeah, but I've struggled with my weight my whole life, and I can tell you that a lack of product labeling has never - ever - been a factor in my gain or loss of weight. The ingredient list is useful to people with allergies, but the kind of people who read nutrition labels don't need anyone to tell them just how caloric a Snickers bar is. They might be fat, but they know why.
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cocaine, for example, is definitely numbening
Though locally rather than generally. We don't call lidocaine a narcotic. I believe that the legal definition is any drug which is scheduled, with the only difference being that schedules II-V are potentially legal, while schedule I are always illegal.
I accidentally bought a house in a poor neighborhood in Northeastern North Carolina because I naively didn't know segregation still existed in the South.
The two parts of that sentence - before the "because" and after - do not appear to have a relationship to each other. Did you mean that you accidentally bought a house in a poor black neighborhood, when you meant to get one in a poor white neighborhood? Or did you really accidentally buy a crappy house in a crappy neighborhood because you didn't even bother to look at the thing, or meet the neighbors, before buying it?
By being more fuel efficient and "green" it will actually boost the economy.
Depends on how much you have to spend in order to get that green tech. There's a gas station about ten miles from my house that's cheaper than any other one in the metro area. Every time I pass it, I fill up. But I don't go there often, and I would obliterate all the savings if I had to burn even a third of a gallon of gas to go there and back.
You're missing the step where the police arrest you for filing false reports and defrauding people. As far as holding the device goes, if they gave it to you willingly, and you find it in a database of stolen property, why would there be any question about whether you get to keep it? It's stolen. You're keeping it for the police, who will be the ones who determine who is the rightful owner. You don't have to detain the individual at all: they are in possession of property that has been reported stolen. They can either leave their contact information, giving them an opportunity to explain why it's actually not stolen, or they can leave without the device, in which case it's returned to the rightful owner.
This solution works for stolen phones, but it actually does better for phones lost and then found by someone without a lot of scruples who is nonetheless not really a thief - someone who might otherwise have just activated it on the grounds of finders-keepers.
Demand that the seller write and sign a bill of sale. When AT&T says no dice, bring your bill of sale and watch the cops arrest your original seller for filing a false police report.
When buying phones off Craigslist I have just insisted that the transaction take place at the carrier's store so that there can be no question about what is going on - no "bad ESNs", problems with activation, etc.
Why would you need to see original proof of purchase? When a phone is reported stolen, stick its IMEI in a "banned" list. When someone brings the phone in to have it activated, take it from them and store it. Tell them they are in possession of property reported stolen and that the phone can be returned to the prior owner or they can leave their contact information and hash it out with the cops over who it belongs to.
So when these guys talk about reserve pressure accumulators or (any of a thousand places) hydro-boost brakes, they're wrong? The effect they describe was present in the four GM vehicles I've driven (three cars and a Tahoe) - you have at least one, occasionally two, full stops worth of pressure when you turn the engine off. If you press it repeatedly after turning the car off, your first push will feel normal, the second will stop sooner, and the third or fourth will give you that good manual feeling.
Because matters that would be handled by consumer safety or automotive regulators in Europe are fodder for liability lawsuits in the US. People who would otherwise be embarrassed to admit that they wrecked their car because they accidentally shoved the floor mat into the accelerator and were then too dumb to think to slam the brakes and put it in neutral will come out of the woodwork if there's a potential profit in it.
Lexus and at least some Toyota models don't have an ignition switch like most cars - it's a "start/stop" switch with a radio-based "key". In the case in question here, you'd have to hold that switch down for an extended period of time - at least three seconds, IIRC - in order to force the engine to shut down.
And yes, you can push an automatic into neutral while driving. I've done it accidentally plenty of times. You can also just drop it right back into drive. And yes, our cars have stronger brakes than engines.
You know that hydraulic brakes have reserve pressure in the cylinder for one full press, right? True in every car I've ever driven, and I'm almost 40. And power steering only matters at low speed - my first car had power steering that was broken, so parallel parking was a nightmare but once you were moving it didn't really matter.
If you stand on the brake, you'll stop. The brakes are more powerful than the engine in everything on the market.
Free workers also don't choose to stay and grow cotton (or sugar cane, if you want to generalize this to the rest of the Americas) at the kind of wages that allow cotton to be sold profitably, which is a major part of why the Great Migration occurred. Poorly productive slaves are still far more productive than anyone who isn't there.
Try the Thirty Years' War.
There were a lot of textile mills up North that wanted that cotton. Who would you put in place to harvest it?
Lincoln's announced plans would not have actually affected any of these state's internal policies on slavery. He wanted to ban it from the territories, not emancipate it nation-wide.
And the South correctly recognized that any system that prevented new slave states from coming into being would eventually result in the abolishment of slavery. Since abolition would destroy the economy of the South, they decided not to wait until the North had an even larger lead but instead gambled that the North would leave them alone. They were wrong.
(which they probably would have, given a general lack of industry, low population, and an economy dependent on slave labor cash crops)
Probably not until around WW2, when mechanization really took hold in agriculture. In 1850, Mississippi was the richest state in the Union.
Ah, but it recruited them by keeping them higher in status than the slaves. After the war, they had to compete with the former slaves on much more equal terms. (This prospect also frightened a lot of northern states.)
it would have probably happened within another couple decades anyway
Morally, you're probably right. I believe that Brazil was the last major country to outlaw slavery, in 1888. Economically, though? Slavery would have continued until mechanization around WW2.
It's got to be your device. There have been three Kindles in my household, one of each generation, and none has ever looked bad in direct light - in fact they look their best in direct sun. And glare is a much bigger problem with the glossy iPad surface than the matte Kindle surface. Outdoors, nothing beats e-Ink.
Because politics matters.
Do you have a problem with, say, pharma-employed scientists publishing their phase I and phase II results in biochemical journals? Because it's the same thing: nobody is going to work for free, and the doctors are paid to conduct Phase III trials.
The fact that there wasn't one among climate scientists doesn't mean there wasn't one.
You care what the CSPI thinks?
Some sort of nationalized healthcare system
That is emphatically not the case. There is some provision for basic health care; it is not nationalized health care. Personally, I think the French model is a pretty good one, but the fundamental problem with any system is that Americans are not going to accept taking second-tier health care if they're indigent. Politically, that's a nonstarter. And the current system, where nearly everyone gets as much as they like, will not get cheaper just because the government runs it.
popcorn's not supposed to make you fat
Why on earth would you believe this? Popcorn is nothing but starch, which is basically just sugar. If you add liquid butter-flavored oils to it, you have sugar + oil. In another context, this is known as "cake icing". And yet nobody has any misconception what a 100% cake icing diet would produce.
I know a lot of fatasses who could use all the help they can get shedding pounds
Yeah, but I've struggled with my weight my whole life, and I can tell you that a lack of product labeling has never - ever - been a factor in my gain or loss of weight. The ingredient list is useful to people with allergies, but the kind of people who read nutrition labels don't need anyone to tell them just how caloric a Snickers bar is. They might be fat, but they know why.