You can't be one of the guys while simultaneously being a protected class that can start a witch hunt off of any stray comment or misinterpreted comment. Indeed, with the microagression BS even casual conversation can be a problem. It's completely unsurprising that given today's state of cultural McCarthyism people are profession but not personable. SJW - you created this problem but I doubt you can fix it.
Walter Mondale, was a vehement foe of human space flight programs, maintaining that money spent on them were better used for social programs.
Real science, not to be confused with sociology much less various protected group studies, results in so much return on investment that it boggles the mind that the government doesn't do more of it. Social programs on the other hand tend to beget more social problems. Particularly as they are formed to suppress a disliked group and elevate a protected class. I have no problem with safety nets. I have huge problems with people being idle and unproductive.
The "truth" often depends on your assumptions. I typically find this to be true about social issues. Both the right and left often have facts to back up their narratives, but the way they interpret those facts or the priorities given those conclusions differ. For example is the US deficit because of welfare and illegals or because the rich pay little in taxes? Both sides have lots of facts and both are factors. Yet both sides seem to ignore the other and not admit that *both* of these are causing problems. Unfortunately the media seems to live in a world of XOR, never admitting that multiple reasons is sometimes the correct diagnosis.
Both Donald and Hillary oppose TPP. Gary and Jill also oppose it. Nobody running is for it.
Hillary is on record as supporting it many times. When Sanders gave her more of a fight than she expected then suddenly she was against it. If elected, I fully expect her to go back to her previous position of supporting it. The Clintons are easily (and rather openly) bought. If money is behind it she will find a way to justify it. Much like Bill & NAFTA.
Merely getting ready for when the country splits. I think that both the liberals and conservatives are ready for the split, it's more a question of working out the logistics. Water rights and things like that will probably be the flash points but in theory it could be a clean and bloodless affair. The Federal insistence of one size fits all just isn't working. Maybe we'll call it a Texit:-)
You already underpay them to an obscene degree....
Are you kidding me? Most cops make more than engineers when you factor in their benefits. Retire at age 55 with almost 100% pay, retire at age 58+ with >100% pay, Plus you never get a speeding ticket / DUI / or anything else unless it's caught on camera and goes viral. I'm kinda sorry I didn't become one.
Windows 10 changes impacted the user. When the "user" in my case is dead, and the organs will not benefit them any longer, why not help someone else. To mix the analogies, if a person died and their laptop had to be buried with them would it matter if it was changed to Win10 first?
One of the best aspects of self driving cars is not having to pay attention. "Wake me up when we get there" sounds awesome to me. It could also help alleviate traffic since many people will head out at night so that they can sleep for longer drives.
or in her case Queen. We are not a nation of laws applied equally, clearly some animals are more equal than others. While this may have been true in practice for some time, it's now being brazenly displayed.
I'm confident that if it were up to the citizens they wouldn't have those but alas as with so many other things the decisions aren't made by regular people with common sense. They are made by bureaucrats and bleeding heart judges who consider making people work cruel and unusual.
I can't comment about Japan but in the US give men an equivalent to "the pill" and see if this is still the case. I expect that once male birth control options are similar to the array that women have birth rates will plummet *much* more. Between family courts that are biased against men and the child support scam we'll go from worries about overpopulation to underpopulation faster than we went from the ice age fears of the 70s to global warming today.
PS - If you about to make a snarky comment regarding men not wanting to pay for their kids then you aren't familiar with the child support scam. The state makes sure child support gets paid to the mom. That's where their interest in it ends. They could care less what she spends it on and openly say as much. There is no requirement that it be spent on the kids. That's why I call it a scam. I estimate that my kids see about 1/4 - 1/3 of what I pay.
In North America our justice systems are not Data Driven, and they never will be -- they are Revenge Driven.
Prison and jail are run by gangs so the revenge angle isn't really true. If we wanted revenge we would make them do what gangs and the lazy fear most - actual work. They spend their time playing cards and watching TV. Only law abiding citizens fear prison, those most likely to go there have fashioned prison to their liking. No work and they spend all day playing internal politics and looking for new victims to intimidate and worse.
A friend of my sisters was a convicted felon. He's been to jail multiple times as well (indeed I wasn't clear on the difference between jail and prison until talking with him). Jail is for people with under 1 year of sentence. He described jail as a place where people play cards for the most part. In fact if he got a speeding ticket he would pick the couple of days of jail over paying the fine since they let you schedule it around work. This tells me that jail isn't working.
Prison on the other hand was a scary place with many more problems and is essentially run by gangs. Why the powers that be would allow things to devolve so far is beyond me though bleeding heart judges play a big role in it.
To be fair his experience is probably easier than most since he was a pretty big guy.
My takeaway from talking with him was that both prison and jail are hopelessly broken and should be improved. Work should be mandatory, none of this playing cards and watching TV all day. And since many (most?) of the rapes in the US happen in jails and prison that should be fixed also. Although people like to joke about the occasional jerk getting his due this way I'm confident that far more innocents are involved.
Destroying stuff is always easy. People are easily panicked and the media stokes that panic at every turn. If terrorism was a real problem that killed more than a handful of people then we should focus on it. As it stands far more people are killed by mundane yet far more likely events like car accidents and medical mistakes. Yet we obsess over statistically unlikely events like terrorism or mass shootings. Think of it this way - the police kill far more people per year than the terrorists.
I wish the funding for problems was in direct proportion to the number of deaths and injuries the problem causes each year. Then we could drop the "War on Terror" and focus on real problems.
My feelings are intact:-) My point is that centralizing everything and forcing one agenda leads to push back. Not unlike the Brexit. My position is that I'm willing to risk having Noah's Ark given 5 minutes of time in exchange for not having to have an ever sillier PC agenda force fed. As for my math skills, it was enough to get me an engineering degree so not too shabby. Common core has many more nuances than just the pathetic math approach. It's the triumph of ivory tower versus real world yes but it also limits fiction in libraries and has other less discussed aspects.
This is the bed political elites have made. Now sleep in it.
Given how far standards of living have fallen it's a wonder that the pitch forks haven't been broken out. Only one political elite paid the price for the destruction that they wrought.
Only people who are scared of facts that might be contrary to their narrative. When I see the phrase "white privilege" I know that I'm dealing with a SJW. Usually I keep reading though as I might learn something. Your loss if you just want to tune it out.
... but some of this in the US is the fault of the Republican Party, who in the past decade started embracing anti-intellectuals as a valued voting bloc.
Good to hear that the Democrats don't have any favored voting blocks that are poorly educated like illegal aliens or the black community. Nope, they are all highly educated like the Asians or guilt ridden white college students.
All large political parties cater to groups many groups, some of which will be better educated or more successful than others. You're merely showing your biases.
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google's tax lawyers understand the tax laws better than the people who wrote them. ...
And here I thought that corps and lobbyists *did* write them. My bad.
You can't be one of the guys while simultaneously being a protected class that can start a witch hunt off of any stray comment or misinterpreted comment. Indeed, with the microagression BS even casual conversation can be a problem. It's completely unsurprising that given today's state of cultural McCarthyism people are profession but not personable. SJW - you created this problem but I doubt you can fix it.
I imagine it must seem that way to you.
To be fair if he's in "Man Jose" then he's probably right, there aren't enough women to go around.
If you set a goal you can't achieve why are you surprised? Facts matter, people should really go back to using them.
Political correctness cares not for facts nor reality. Never has, never will.
Walter Mondale, was a vehement foe of human space flight programs, maintaining that money spent on them were better used for social programs.
Real science, not to be confused with sociology much less various protected group studies, results in so much return on investment that it boggles the mind that the government doesn't do more of it. Social programs on the other hand tend to beget more social problems. Particularly as they are formed to suppress a disliked group and elevate a protected class. I have no problem with safety nets. I have huge problems with people being idle and unproductive.
The "truth" often depends on your assumptions. I typically find this to be true about social issues. Both the right and left often have facts to back up their narratives, but the way they interpret those facts or the priorities given those conclusions differ. For example is the US deficit because of welfare and illegals or because the rich pay little in taxes? Both sides have lots of facts and both are factors. Yet both sides seem to ignore the other and not admit that *both* of these are causing problems. Unfortunately the media seems to live in a world of XOR, never admitting that multiple reasons is sometimes the correct diagnosis.
Both Donald and Hillary oppose TPP. Gary and Jill also oppose it. Nobody running is for it.
Hillary is on record as supporting it many times. When Sanders gave her more of a fight than she expected then suddenly she was against it. If elected, I fully expect her to go back to her previous position of supporting it. The Clintons are easily (and rather openly) bought. If money is behind it she will find a way to justify it. Much like Bill & NAFTA.
Merely getting ready for when the country splits. I think that both the liberals and conservatives are ready for the split, it's more a question of working out the logistics. Water rights and things like that will probably be the flash points but in theory it could be a clean and bloodless affair. The Federal insistence of one size fits all just isn't working. Maybe we'll call it a Texit :-)
You already underpay them to an obscene degree. ...
Are you kidding me? Most cops make more than engineers when you factor in their benefits. Retire at age 55 with almost 100% pay, retire at age 58+ with >100% pay, Plus you never get a speeding ticket / DUI / or anything else unless it's caught on camera and goes viral. I'm kinda sorry I didn't become one.
Windows 10 changes impacted the user. When the "user" in my case is dead, and the organs will not benefit them any longer, why not help someone else. To mix the analogies, if a person died and their laptop had to be buried with them would it matter if it was changed to Win10 first?
One of the best aspects of self driving cars is not having to pay attention. "Wake me up when we get there" sounds awesome to me. It could also help alleviate traffic since many people will head out at night so that they can sleep for longer drives.
I wish that organ donating was an opt out system instead of an opt in system. It's not like anyone will miss their organs anyway.
or in her case Queen. We are not a nation of laws applied equally, clearly some animals are more equal than others. While this may have been true in practice for some time, it's now being brazenly displayed.
I'm confident that if it were up to the citizens they wouldn't have those but alas as with so many other things the decisions aren't made by regular people with common sense. They are made by bureaucrats and bleeding heart judges who consider making people work cruel and unusual.
It's mostly women who are opting out dude.
I can't comment about Japan but in the US give men an equivalent to "the pill" and see if this is still the case. I expect that once male birth control options are similar to the array that women have birth rates will plummet *much* more. Between family courts that are biased against men and the child support scam we'll go from worries about overpopulation to underpopulation faster than we went from the ice age fears of the 70s to global warming today.
PS - If you about to make a snarky comment regarding men not wanting to pay for their kids then you aren't familiar with the child support scam. The state makes sure child support gets paid to the mom. That's where their interest in it ends. They could care less what she spends it on and openly say as much. There is no requirement that it be spent on the kids. That's why I call it a scam. I estimate that my kids see about 1/4 - 1/3 of what I pay.
In North America our justice systems are not Data Driven, and they never will be -- they are Revenge Driven.
Prison and jail are run by gangs so the revenge angle isn't really true. If we wanted revenge we would make them do what gangs and the lazy fear most - actual work. They spend their time playing cards and watching TV. Only law abiding citizens fear prison, those most likely to go there have fashioned prison to their liking. No work and they spend all day playing internal politics and looking for new victims to intimidate and worse.
Prison on the other hand was a scary place with many more problems and is essentially run by gangs. Why the powers that be would allow things to devolve so far is beyond me though bleeding heart judges play a big role in it.
To be fair his experience is probably easier than most since he was a pretty big guy.
My takeaway from talking with him was that both prison and jail are hopelessly broken and should be improved. Work should be mandatory, none of this playing cards and watching TV all day. And since many (most?) of the rapes in the US happen in jails and prison that should be fixed also. Although people like to joke about the occasional jerk getting his due this way I'm confident that far more innocents are involved.
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Destroying stuff is always easy. People are easily panicked and the media stokes that panic at every turn. If terrorism was a real problem that killed more than a handful of people then we should focus on it. As it stands far more people are killed by mundane yet far more likely events like car accidents and medical mistakes. Yet we obsess over statistically unlikely events like terrorism or mass shootings. Think of it this way - the police kill far more people per year than the terrorists. I wish the funding for problems was in direct proportion to the number of deaths and injuries the problem causes each year. Then we could drop the "War on Terror" and focus on real problems.
Good call. For many songs the chorus is the best part anyway.
Brilliant comment AC. Maybe you could elaborate on why?
My feelings are intact :-) My point is that centralizing everything and forcing one agenda leads to push back. Not unlike the Brexit. My position is that I'm willing to risk having Noah's Ark given 5 minutes of time in exchange for not having to have an ever sillier PC agenda force fed. As for my math skills, it was enough to get me an engineering degree so not too shabby. Common core has many more nuances than just the pathetic math approach. It's the triumph of ivory tower versus real world yes but it also limits fiction in libraries and has other less discussed aspects.
WTO/WIPO brought us the DMCA. That alone earned them all of my contempt.
I believe that being a traitor should carry a higher penalty than your contempt. Something far harsher is called for.
This is the bed political elites have made. Now sleep in it.
Given how far standards of living have fallen it's a wonder that the pitch forks haven't been broken out. Only one political elite paid the price for the destruction that they wrought.
Only people who are scared of facts that might be contrary to their narrative. When I see the phrase "white privilege" I know that I'm dealing with a SJW. Usually I keep reading though as I might learn something. Your loss if you just want to tune it out.
Good to hear that the Democrats don't have any favored voting blocks that are poorly educated like illegal aliens or the black community. Nope, they are all highly educated like the Asians or guilt ridden white college students.
All large political parties cater to groups many groups, some of which will be better educated or more successful than others. You're merely showing your biases.