Truth be told the average US citizen is *far* more in support of us staying out of the rest world than our leaders are. If we took a simple vote, like a true democracy instead of a republic, and said who wants to pull all our troops back to the US and guard our own borders it would pass. We really don't like being around the globe and would far rather keep the troops safe at home. However what the leadership does bears only a slight correlation with what the citizens would like (citation below). Let the world police itself is a popular concept among citizen, just not among our leaders. I am in this group and would love to give the world it's wish of no US world police.
Citation:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
Makes sense, but a state still has ultimate control over whether that company can do business within that state, correct? Otherwise, state regulation would be worthless and toothless.
The ability of states to regulate much of anything has been reduced through the years. It helps that the Federal Supreme court gets to decide what the Federal government can and cannot do. Do doubt if a state's Supreme Court was deciding things would be different.
Would you argue that if a man decides he doesn't want to pay for a child he helped conceive he shouldn't be forced to?
This is why it isn't a simple question. If it is ok to absolve the woman involved of all responsibility then it follows that it must also be ok to absolve the man as well.
To be fair most people I know who pay child support don't mind supporting their children. However, what percent of child support goes to the children vs the moms "needs" is an open question. I'd be shocked if my kids see more than $.30 per dollar I pay. That's a scam.
... and I would be all for making it illegal if the state incubated the fetus from conception and paid all costs involved in the raising of the resulting child.
They kinda do the second part by way of forcing Dads to pay child support regardless of the Dad's opinion in the matter. It's unethical that 9 months on the woman's part allows her complete control over whether the child lives or dies. It's further unethical that child support, although called child support in name, is actually completely at the mothers discretion and is not required to be used on the child at all. That child support is enforced by law with extreme consequences with no fiduciary responsibility is an absolute scam.
The TPP might actually be a net financial gain for the United States - unfortunately, at the expense of other countries involved.
The current pie in the sky all, all lights are green projections from an administration desperate to push this is 0.6% growth. That's the best they could muster when fudging all the numbers in a favorable direction. The US will most assuredly lose on this just like every other first world country. This is NAFTA all over again. My only fond thought is that at some point citizens will get fed up enough to revolt. Vote Bernie or Trump if you want to end these "Free Trade" agreements. Vote Hillary or Rubio if you like bought and paid for politicians.
... and so should a baker who doesn't want to make a cake for their wedding.
The level of harassment for those who dare to have an opinion on LGBT issues other than the official SJW position is persecuted to a level that would make a Scientologist proud.
There is no way some crazy white guy calling himself a socialist is going to best "the Hill" like the unknown junior senator from Illinois did 8 years ago..
Obama was as pliable as Gumby. He danced like a puppet on strings and sold a lot of people on hope and change. I think he wasn't blocked like Bernie because he was all talk, no action. In reality, he delivered nothing that he ran on and to an outside observer from a policy perspective could have been confused as Bush's 3rd and 4th term. However to expect much honesty from a Chicago politician is probably the definition of gullible. Similar to expecting that Hillary, a clearly self serving person who has been well compensated by Wall St., will represent anyone in the 99%.
Only Trump and Bernie would really shake things up, which is why I expect that they would be assassinated before they would be allowed to run things.
They counted for a fairly small fraction of a delegate in the end. The odds off getting 6 coin flips your way is 1 in 64. Not an everyday occurrence, but hardly impossible. This is a cute story but it doesn't mean anything.
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Honestly the best way to deal with Shkreli was something horribly bad that would send a message - be a mega duschebag at your own risk. Setting an example every now and again would really help keep the world a better place.
Try running a 5k sprinting until you can't run any more, and then walking until you recover and can sprint again vs just running at your maximum steady pace. I guarantee you the latter strategy gets you a better time.
Interestingly for software development it seems the sprints are preferred.
I think the trick to this is getting both sides to really do their part, meaning I'll lower the tax rate but we have to close these other loopholes. Lowering the rate is the easy part since that's what people cheer. Closing loopholes always gets angry responses from whoever just lost a loophole. That's why loopholes tend to stay put or, if closed, are matched by a new loophole. It's not unlike amnesty programs for illegal aliens. I think a lot of people would be fine letting them stay in exchange for no more illegal immigration. Reagan tried that back in 1986 and gave amnesty in exchange for tougher border controls to stop the flow. The amnesty happened but of course millions more illegals came. Getting both sides to follow through is the hard part. A simpler tax process would also increase transparency, which in general is a good thing.
Summary: The middle class and wealthy of most modern countries are selfish and don't want to raise children because this is the me generation.
To be fair I would advise my son not to have kids for the following reason - Your kids can be taken away from you rather easily by their mom. Family courts are a joke and that joke is on men. For any man to not want kids based on the very real risk of them being taken away and you being given limited "visitation" is not being selfish but quite rational.
For my daughter I'd say kids are optional but she is in a very different situation by virtue of being female.
On the otherhand there's this years crop of angry republicans that are not very far removed from the president of idiocracy.
My observation over the past few years is that hell hath no fury like liberal media towards white males. Salon seems to publish at least one a week bashing the ever hated white male. The HuffPost does at least twice as many. Being an independent I'm rooting for Trump vs Sanders.
In the near term future, say 3-8 years, accident injuries and deaths will plummet as this technology is adopted. The notion of letting just anybody drive with minimal training will seem as barbaric as surgery without washing your hands first. The cost savings in both human suffering as well as dollars will have us scratching our heads on why we didn't mandate this earlier. I fully expect my grandchildren to be both amazed as well as slightly horrified that I drove along with millions of others at high speed despite the risk of drunks / sleepy / distracted drivers killing us.
In both movies a key character gets captured in the beginning, gets interrogated, gets rescued / escapes. Amazing how similar the two movies were. If it wasn't a Starwars movie it would have been called a Starwars knock off.
I opt out just about every time. I take about 14-18 flights a year for business and I have only seen another opt out at the same time as me once in the past few years. There just aren't that many opt outs anymore. I'm not surprised at all that the police state is tightening the noose a bit more. On the plus side for those interested in opting out I have not had any of the experiences that everyone loves to joke about (ie cavity searches, hours of detention, etc). I did once have a TSA officer mouth off about sending me to the back of the line. I reported him to his boss but there was no further incident there. Another time a big burly TSA agent tried to intimidate me which I found funny. He was all talk and I knew that his options were limited. Another time their machine claimed it found something so I was taken to a side room. That time I admit I was wondering what was next but it was just another pat down by a different person who then used a different machine. Opt out while you still can:-)
We have a global ruling class who forms powerful international organizations to protect their interests. Who knew? Can we working class shlubs _please_ stop fighting among ourselves long enough to notice?
Interesting that you say this. My pet theory on why the media has been trying their level best to stir the racism pot is to keep everyone divided. Articles that announce breathlessly that a white cop shot a black person and have little to no other facts besides that. "White privilege" rants that only do a superb job of driving people apart. The more people are separated and at each others throats the less they will notice important macro trends events like the middle class eroding or revolt level inequality. Yet more trade deals to make the US a race to the bottom and always more debt. Lots of really important macro events that effect the whole country yet the mass media continues to focus on BLM vs All Lives Matter. Pathetic.
What else would you expect from the Corporate Party?
While it's very true that the Republican party in its current incarnation is absolutely a corporate party it implies that other parties are not. The last 8 years could be dubbed the Goldman Sachs presidency as described here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITI...
or
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Not convinced yet? How about Obama pushing TPP as hard as he can? That's as corporate as it gets. Hillary is bought and paid for which is why the media is working its level best to feed us only smiling pics of her. Only Bernie, an independent who seeks the Democratic party nomination, could be described as anti corporate.
"explain how poor people are prevented from voting "
Then, require IDs to vote. But not just any ids, limit it to IDs that take some effort to get, like drivers licenses or state issued ID cards that can only be issued at the DMV. Close some DMVs and keep the other ones open only during those pesky business hours. Ensure the lines are long enough that it will require a three hour time commitment to get an ID. Once they reach the counter, turn them away because they're lacking some random piece of paperwork, even though they have more than enough with them to establish identity (true story: this is what happened to me last time I renewed my license in Texas - two afternoons off work and six hours in line).
I never understood this complaint about ID. Who the hell doesn't have ID? If you can't be bothered to get ID you probably shouldn't be voting. I feel for the working poor but have contempt for the non-working poor. They are swimming in time yet always claim to have "not gotten around to that yet" as they are too busy doing... something. Get some ID, it's not that hard. Even in your post where you complain about the DMV (hopeless in every state I'm sure) you still did it. The complaint about requiring ID is foolish. What's next, you expect us to have an address too, they nerve of these voting laws. Next I'll probably have to be able to spell my own name or something.
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Truth be told the average US citizen is *far* more in support of us staying out of the rest world than our leaders are. If we took a simple vote, like a true democracy instead of a republic, and said who wants to pull all our troops back to the US and guard our own borders it would pass. We really don't like being around the globe and would far rather keep the troops safe at home. However what the leadership does bears only a slight correlation with what the citizens would like (citation below). Let the world police itself is a popular concept among citizen, just not among our leaders. I am in this group and would love to give the world it's wish of no US world police. Citation: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
It takes a lot of people to watch everyone all the time.
Makes sense, but a state still has ultimate control over whether that company can do business within that state, correct? Otherwise, state regulation would be worthless and toothless.
The ability of states to regulate much of anything has been reduced through the years. It helps that the Federal Supreme court gets to decide what the Federal government can and cannot do. Do doubt if a state's Supreme Court was deciding things would be different.
Damn, your post is the best example of Poe's Law I've seen. Well done.
Would you argue that if a man decides he doesn't want to pay for a child he helped conceive he shouldn't be forced to? This is why it isn't a simple question. If it is ok to absolve the woman involved of all responsibility then it follows that it must also be ok to absolve the man as well.
To be fair most people I know who pay child support don't mind supporting their children. However, what percent of child support goes to the children vs the moms "needs" is an open question. I'd be shocked if my kids see more than $.30 per dollar I pay. That's a scam.
... and I would be all for making it illegal if the state incubated the fetus from conception and paid all costs involved in the raising of the resulting child.
They kinda do the second part by way of forcing Dads to pay child support regardless of the Dad's opinion in the matter. It's unethical that 9 months on the woman's part allows her complete control over whether the child lives or dies. It's further unethical that child support, although called child support in name, is actually completely at the mothers discretion and is not required to be used on the child at all. That child support is enforced by law with extreme consequences with no fiduciary responsibility is an absolute scam.
The TPP might actually be a net financial gain for the United States - unfortunately, at the expense of other countries involved.
The current pie in the sky all, all lights are green projections from an administration desperate to push this is 0.6% growth. That's the best they could muster when fudging all the numbers in a favorable direction. The US will most assuredly lose on this just like every other first world country. This is NAFTA all over again. My only fond thought is that at some point citizens will get fed up enough to revolt. Vote Bernie or Trump if you want to end these "Free Trade" agreements. Vote Hillary or Rubio if you like bought and paid for politicians.
... and so should a baker who doesn't want to make a cake for their wedding.
The level of harassment for those who dare to have an opinion on LGBT issues other than the official SJW position is persecuted to a level that would make a Scientologist proud.
Fortunately one of the requirements is that you not be a member of a criminal organization.
That's not true, they allow political parties. If ever there was a band of thieves they qualify.
There is no way some crazy white guy calling himself a socialist is going to best "the Hill" like the unknown junior senator from Illinois did 8 years ago..
Obama was as pliable as Gumby. He danced like a puppet on strings and sold a lot of people on hope and change. I think he wasn't blocked like Bernie because he was all talk, no action. In reality, he delivered nothing that he ran on and to an outside observer from a policy perspective could have been confused as Bush's 3rd and 4th term. However to expect much honesty from a Chicago politician is probably the definition of gullible. Similar to expecting that Hillary, a clearly self serving person who has been well compensated by Wall St., will represent anyone in the 99%. Only Trump and Bernie would really shake things up, which is why I expect that they would be assassinated before they would be allowed to run things.
They counted for a fairly small fraction of a delegate in the end. The odds off getting 6 coin flips your way is 1 in 64. Not an everyday occurrence, but hardly impossible. This is a cute story but it doesn't mean anything.
This message is approved by Hillary with assistance from Goldman Sachs.
Honestly the best way to deal with Shkreli was something horribly bad that would send a message - be a mega duschebag at your own risk. Setting an example every now and again would really help keep the world a better place.
Try running a 5k sprinting until you can't run any more, and then walking until you recover and can sprint again vs just running at your maximum steady pace. I guarantee you the latter strategy gets you a better time.
Interestingly for software development it seems the sprints are preferred.
I think the trick to this is getting both sides to really do their part, meaning I'll lower the tax rate but we have to close these other loopholes. Lowering the rate is the easy part since that's what people cheer. Closing loopholes always gets angry responses from whoever just lost a loophole. That's why loopholes tend to stay put or, if closed, are matched by a new loophole. It's not unlike amnesty programs for illegal aliens. I think a lot of people would be fine letting them stay in exchange for no more illegal immigration. Reagan tried that back in 1986 and gave amnesty in exchange for tougher border controls to stop the flow. The amnesty happened but of course millions more illegals came. Getting both sides to follow through is the hard part. A simpler tax process would also increase transparency, which in general is a good thing.
I could be wrong, but isn't that illegal under current laws?
As Disney demonstrated paying to get laws changed in your favor is pretty straight forward. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those were great citations, I'm much better informed now ;-)
Summary: The middle class and wealthy of most modern countries are selfish and don't want to raise children because this is the me generation.
To be fair I would advise my son not to have kids for the following reason - Your kids can be taken away from you rather easily by their mom. Family courts are a joke and that joke is on men. For any man to not want kids based on the very real risk of them being taken away and you being given limited "visitation" is not being selfish but quite rational. For my daughter I'd say kids are optional but she is in a very different situation by virtue of being female.
On the otherhand there's this years crop of angry republicans that are not very far removed from the president of idiocracy.
My observation over the past few years is that hell hath no fury like liberal media towards white males. Salon seems to publish at least one a week bashing the ever hated white male. The HuffPost does at least twice as many. Being an independent I'm rooting for Trump vs Sanders.
The dismal state of the US news networks became obvious to me during the invasion of Iraq. ...
Sadly you're going to have to be more specific.
In the near term future, say 3-8 years, accident injuries and deaths will plummet as this technology is adopted. The notion of letting just anybody drive with minimal training will seem as barbaric as surgery without washing your hands first. The cost savings in both human suffering as well as dollars will have us scratching our heads on why we didn't mandate this earlier. I fully expect my grandchildren to be both amazed as well as slightly horrified that I drove along with millions of others at high speed despite the risk of drunks / sleepy / distracted drivers killing us.
In both movies a key character gets captured in the beginning, gets interrogated, gets rescued / escapes. Amazing how similar the two movies were. If it wasn't a Starwars movie it would have been called a Starwars knock off.
I opt out just about every time. I take about 14-18 flights a year for business and I have only seen another opt out at the same time as me once in the past few years. There just aren't that many opt outs anymore. I'm not surprised at all that the police state is tightening the noose a bit more. On the plus side for those interested in opting out I have not had any of the experiences that everyone loves to joke about (ie cavity searches, hours of detention, etc). I did once have a TSA officer mouth off about sending me to the back of the line. I reported him to his boss but there was no further incident there. Another time a big burly TSA agent tried to intimidate me which I found funny. He was all talk and I knew that his options were limited. Another time their machine claimed it found something so I was taken to a side room. That time I admit I was wondering what was next but it was just another pat down by a different person who then used a different machine. Opt out while you still can :-)
We have a global ruling class who forms powerful international organizations to protect their interests. Who knew? Can we working class shlubs _please_ stop fighting among ourselves long enough to notice?
Interesting that you say this. My pet theory on why the media has been trying their level best to stir the racism pot is to keep everyone divided. Articles that announce breathlessly that a white cop shot a black person and have little to no other facts besides that. "White privilege" rants that only do a superb job of driving people apart. The more people are separated and at each others throats the less they will notice important macro trends events like the middle class eroding or revolt level inequality. Yet more trade deals to make the US a race to the bottom and always more debt. Lots of really important macro events that effect the whole country yet the mass media continues to focus on BLM vs All Lives Matter. Pathetic.
What else would you expect from the Corporate Party?
While it's very true that the Republican party in its current incarnation is absolutely a corporate party it implies that other parties are not. The last 8 years could be dubbed the Goldman Sachs presidency as described here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITI... or http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Not convinced yet? How about Obama pushing TPP as hard as he can? That's as corporate as it gets. Hillary is bought and paid for which is why the media is working its level best to feed us only smiling pics of her. Only Bernie, an independent who seeks the Democratic party nomination, could be described as anti corporate.
"explain how poor people are prevented from voting "
Then, require IDs to vote. But not just any ids, limit it to IDs that take some effort to get, like drivers licenses or state issued ID cards that can only be issued at the DMV. Close some DMVs and keep the other ones open only during those pesky business hours. Ensure the lines are long enough that it will require a three hour time commitment to get an ID. Once they reach the counter, turn them away because they're lacking some random piece of paperwork, even though they have more than enough with them to establish identity (true story: this is what happened to me last time I renewed my license in Texas - two afternoons off work and six hours in line).
I never understood this complaint about ID. Who the hell doesn't have ID? If you can't be bothered to get ID you probably shouldn't be voting. I feel for the working poor but have contempt for the non-working poor. They are swimming in time yet always claim to have "not gotten around to that yet" as they are too busy doing ... something. Get some ID, it's not that hard. Even in your post where you complain about the DMV (hopeless in every state I'm sure) you still did it. The complaint about requiring ID is foolish. What's next, you expect us to have an address too, they nerve of these voting laws. Next I'll probably have to be able to spell my own name or something.