Today they may be imposing standards you like. Tomorrow, maybe not so much. Sorry if my sarcasm rattled your cage.
I think we may actually be on the same page. My statements were meant as cautionary, as opposed to being in support of socialized medicine. Tone is very difficult to express through test.
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
I must have been lucky -- I've never been asked that. I get asked what soft of salary I'm looking for instead.
Virtually every employment application I've ever filled out has asked me for my start & end salary at previous work places, along with start & end date of employment, plus why I left that position. I think those questions are pretty standard.
You probably also consider it a coincidence that better than 90% of all mass-shootings over the past several decades all occurred in so-called "gun-free zones", where attackers could be certain their victims were unarmed/defenseless.
I don't really find it useful to argue gun control with those in favor of it, because it really doesn't have as much to do with guns as it does control. They also usually want food control, energy control, tobacco control, population control, economic control, educational control, etc. In other words, they're control freaks who think they know better how to run peoples' lives than those people do, i.e. most politicians. They are the enemies of freedom, and no amount of facts can convince them otherwise.
We also had an unseasonably mild & dry Summer here in the Midwest, and the leaves had started falling in late August here. I was excited because I was hoping I could have my leaves taken care of by mid-October. Then things warmed up and it started raining, then suddenly the leaves stopped dropping again.
Actually, they've had several referendums on becoming a state and while the outcomes have been somewhat close, it certainly looks like a lot of the people of Puerto Rico want it to be a state. Besides, is it really just up to them? The USA has every right to either make it a state or cut them loose, doesn't it? This sorta-kinda part of America thing is senseless in this day and age.
We could make them a state, but probably never would without there first being a popular referendum passed. We'd also not be too likely to cut them loose in order to not lose influence in the area to Cuba.
I can't remember the last time I actually found something useful on Twitter. What am I doing wrong? How do others make Twitter useful?
1) You won't find anything useful on Twitter. It's the confetti of the internet.
2) You're not doing anything wrong.
3) They don't.
I'll give you an example of how I made Twitter useful:
Back in 2008, my stepson's team went to the state's wrestling championships. His team was favored to win that year, and a lot of people in our home town were interested in the results, but they weren't going to travel several hours to see it. The matches weren't televised, and the state HS athletic association didn't have a very dynamic website. I share a link to my twitter feed on Facebook, then other people shared that. I tweeted the results of the wrestling championships on my flip phone using the T9 keyboard. A popular wrestling website even picked up on the results, and was using them on their message boards. Several hundred people were able to see the results in near real time.
You're splitting hairs. Intrinsic rights don't exist; all rights are entitlements.
Only if you live under the "might makes right" law of the jungle. For instance, is the right to free speech an entitlement, because the government is benevolent enough to not kill you before you exercise it?
Do you have a credible source? Or is this right wing propaganda from Alex Jones or Briebart news?
I'm not sure what part of my post you're referring to, but I don't usually read those sites.
Aren't you even concerned at all a foreign unfriendly power altered an election?
I would be if they did, but there's 0 evidence that altered the results. You can't point to a single vote that was changed because of "The Russians". The only election that was rigged in 2016 was the Democrat primary.
If this were HIllary and she won would you even write such a post or would you be in the PUT HER IN JAIL NOW group because she doesn't have an R next to her name?
Nice try, I don't vote Republican. I do think they should put her in jail now, though.
or.... Apple could ship something of value, not a product with small features here and there
I just bought an iPhone 7 Plus after they announced the iPhone 8 & X. There were barely any differences between the iPhone 7 & iPhone 8, and the iPhone 8's are only available in 64 & 256 GB memory. Also, the iPhone 7 Plus's price dropped, and I was able to get 128 GB. Wireless charging isn't a compelling enough reason to drop an extra $150.
its ironic that these politicians think they get elected by amercans voters, who can be easily manipulated by alleged fake news from few macedonians, and $ 100,000 in facebook ads.
they have zero respect for voters who they claim to represent, and who, according to them, are unable to think for themselves...
That's the current goal of the U.S. indoctrination/miseducation system. They want easily manipulated lemmings, but are shocked when someone else started leading them toward a different cliff.
Didn't the Obama administration do something similar to the Israelis?
How come I never heard any kind of investigation? And by the way, it was to the legitimate government of a sovereign state. An ally of ours if I may add
Because when we do it, it's okay. It's even more okay because the Obama administration, which even didn't have a single controversy, did it! Are you some sort of racist?/sarcasm
The fact is, we've interfered in the internal workings of governments all over the world from nearly the start of our nation, and that's the cause of many of our problems, especially in the Middle East.
True enough, but the pen doesn't send a copy of your grocery list and location back to Apple/Google, and then present you with an offer for slightly less expensive carrots if you join Amazon Prime during your next visit to Whole Foods.
You gotta admit, it would be a lot cooler if it did!
Now, and it's possible they've already thought about this, but what's their "return" policy? You see, at an actual bodega (or any store, for that matter), I could be shopping, and put something in my cart, and then decide "Nah, I really don't need this." and put it back on the shelf.
What happens when you do that here? Do you confirm your purchases? What do they have in place for loss prevention (i.e. the five-finger discount)?
Since they're filming & scanning what you're buying, and you need a credit card to open it up, they're probably not concerned about shoplifting. There's the middle situation though that might not have been addressed. What if someone picks a box of Cheese Nips from the shelf, opens the box & scarfs down half of it, then puts the box back in? Are they weighing the items on the shelves, the way shelf check-outs do to know that you put your items in bags? Even so, you could grab the Cheese Nips, pour out the bag into a zip lock, then replace the contents with something else. Like maybe your doggy duty bags.
Actually, they've managed to make something less useful than a vending machine.If they'd figured out a way to make vending machines more useful, that would have been news. This is mostly a story of how venture capitalists are blowing their money on dumb ideas.
Not rigged, influenced. Mostly it's just a reflection of Americans seeking validating stories to share with others gullible enough to be influenced.
That's pretty much it. I have a few friends who were Trump supporters, posting a lot of fake news articles every day. The articles were obviously fake: "Hillary indictment this week!", "Hillary dropping out of race!", etc. It is hard for me to imagine them posting those articles had any influence over anyone to change their vote, and these people wouldn't have voted for Hillary under any set of circumstances.
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Tone is very difficult to express through test.
It's even more difficult to express with typos in your text...
Today they may be imposing standards you like. Tomorrow, maybe not so much. Sorry if my sarcasm rattled your cage.
I think we may actually be on the same page. My statements were meant as cautionary, as opposed to being in support of socialized medicine. Tone is very difficult to express through test.
Makes sense to me. Now tell us how you feel about drug tests for recipients of public assistance.
I'm against both. Now tell us how you feel about bread lines.
It's not society's job to do it for you
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
I must have been lucky -- I've never been asked that. I get asked what soft of salary I'm looking for instead.
Virtually every employment application I've ever filled out has asked me for my start & end salary at previous work places, along with start & end date of employment, plus why I left that position. I think those questions are pretty standard.
You probably also consider it a coincidence that better than 90% of all mass-shootings over the past several decades all occurred in so-called "gun-free zones", where attackers could be certain their victims were unarmed/defenseless.
I don't really find it useful to argue gun control with those in favor of it, because it really doesn't have as much to do with guns as it does control. They also usually want food control, energy control, tobacco control, population control, economic control, educational control, etc. In other words, they're control freaks who think they know better how to run peoples' lives than those people do, i.e. most politicians. They are the enemies of freedom, and no amount of facts can convince them otherwise.
(1) We have had an unseasonably warm fall.
We also had an unseasonably mild & dry Summer here in the Midwest, and the leaves had started falling in late August here. I was excited because I was hoping I could have my leaves taken care of by mid-October. Then things warmed up and it started raining, then suddenly the leaves stopped dropping again.
virtual tours of weather-torn 3rd world countries
And yes, I know Puerto Rico is a US territory and not a 3rd world country. I used this phrase as an example of where Facebook's VR is going...
Why would Zuckerberg ever want us to log out of Facebook to enter a 'virtual reality?'
So we can go on virtual tours of weather-torn 3rd world countries, in hopes that we'll be so grief-stricken, we'll send aid to help, using Facebook, of course.
Actually, they've had several referendums on becoming a state and while the outcomes have been somewhat close, it certainly looks like a lot of the people of Puerto Rico want it to be a state. Besides, is it really just up to them? The USA has every right to either make it a state or cut them loose, doesn't it? This sorta-kinda part of America thing is senseless in this day and age.
We could make them a state, but probably never would without there first being a popular referendum passed. We'd also not be too likely to cut them loose in order to not lose influence in the area to Cuba.
I can't remember the last time I actually found something useful on Twitter. What am I doing wrong? How do others make Twitter useful?
1) You won't find anything useful on Twitter. It's the confetti of the internet.
2) You're not doing anything wrong.
3) They don't.
I'll give you an example of how I made Twitter useful:
Back in 2008, my stepson's team went to the state's wrestling championships. His team was favored to win that year, and a lot of people in our home town were interested in the results, but they weren't going to travel several hours to see it. The matches weren't televised, and the state HS athletic association didn't have a very dynamic website. I share a link to my twitter feed on Facebook, then other people shared that. I tweeted the results of the wrestling championships on my flip phone using the T9 keyboard. A popular wrestling website even picked up on the results, and was using them on their message boards. Several hundred people were able to see the results in near real time.
*Every* recent iOS release has had reports of battery-drain issues. Wait for the x.0.1 version to address the issue.
Exactly what I always do. I've bled enough, I'll let others be on the bleeding edge for a change.
You're splitting hairs. Intrinsic rights don't exist; all rights are entitlements.
Only if you live under the "might makes right" law of the jungle. For instance, is the right to free speech an entitlement, because the government is benevolent enough to not kill you before you exercise it?
...so that scientists can track the threatened insect's behaviour and help its survival.
Now, I know I'm not a scientist, but it seems to me that putting bees in tiny backpacks would not be very conducive to the bees' survival...
A faster processor or The best cellphone camera Dx0mark has ever reviewed?
Well, I'm the world's worst photographer, so it doesn't really make much of a difference to me.
Fire, indoor plumbing and refrigeration don't make the cut?
Do you have a credible source? Or is this right wing propaganda from Alex Jones or Briebart news?
I'm not sure what part of my post you're referring to, but I don't usually read those sites.
Aren't you even concerned at all a foreign unfriendly power altered an election?
I would be if they did, but there's 0 evidence that altered the results. You can't point to a single vote that was changed because of "The Russians". The only election that was rigged in 2016 was the Democrat primary.
If this were HIllary and she won would you even write such a post or would you be in the PUT HER IN JAIL NOW group because she doesn't have an R next to her name?
Nice try, I don't vote Republican. I do think they should put her in jail now, though.
or.... Apple could ship something of value, not a product with small features here and there
I just bought an iPhone 7 Plus after they announced the iPhone 8 & X. There were barely any differences between the iPhone 7 & iPhone 8, and the iPhone 8's are only available in 64 & 256 GB memory. Also, the iPhone 7 Plus's price dropped, and I was able to get 128 GB. Wireless charging isn't a compelling enough reason to drop an extra $150.
its ironic that these politicians think they get elected by amercans voters, who can be easily manipulated by alleged fake news from few macedonians, and $ 100,000 in facebook ads. they have zero respect for voters who they claim to represent, and who, according to them, are unable to think for themselves...
That's the current goal of the U.S. indoctrination/miseducation system. They want easily manipulated lemmings, but are shocked when someone else started leading them toward a different cliff.
Didn't the Obama administration do something similar to the Israelis?
How come I never heard any kind of investigation? And by the way, it was to the legitimate government of a sovereign state. An ally of ours if I may add
Because when we do it, it's okay. It's even more okay because the Obama administration, which even didn't have a single controversy, did it! Are you some sort of racist? /sarcasm
The fact is, we've interfered in the internal workings of governments all over the world from nearly the start of our nation, and that's the cause of many of our problems, especially in the Middle East.
There already is a dark sky preserve in America. It's located in southern Quebec, Canada, around the Mont Megantic observatory.
There's a dark sky preserve in southern Michigan: Dark sky preserve at Lake Hudson state recreation area. My wife & I go camping there often, and have watched the Perseid showers and a lunar eclipse.
True enough, but the pen doesn't send a copy of your grocery list and location back to Apple/Google, and then present you with an offer for slightly less expensive carrots if you join Amazon Prime during your next visit to Whole Foods.
You gotta admit, it would be a lot cooler if it did!
Now, and it's possible they've already thought about this, but what's their "return" policy? You see, at an actual bodega (or any store, for that matter), I could be shopping, and put something in my cart, and then decide "Nah, I really don't need this." and put it back on the shelf. What happens when you do that here? Do you confirm your purchases? What do they have in place for loss prevention (i.e. the five-finger discount)?
Since they're filming & scanning what you're buying, and you need a credit card to open it up, they're probably not concerned about shoplifting. There's the middle situation though that might not have been addressed. What if someone picks a box of Cheese Nips from the shelf, opens the box & scarfs down half of it, then puts the box back in? Are they weighing the items on the shelves, the way shelf check-outs do to know that you put your items in bags? Even so, you could grab the Cheese Nips, pour out the bag into a zip lock, then replace the contents with something else. Like maybe your doggy duty bags.
They've invented the Vending Machine!
Actually, they've managed to make something less useful than a vending machine.If they'd figured out a way to make vending machines more useful, that would have been news. This is mostly a story of how venture capitalists are blowing their money on dumb ideas.
Not rigged, influenced. Mostly it's just a reflection of Americans seeking validating stories to share with others gullible enough to be influenced.
That's pretty much it. I have a few friends who were Trump supporters, posting a lot of fake news articles every day. The articles were obviously fake: "Hillary indictment this week!", "Hillary dropping out of race!", etc. It is hard for me to imagine them posting those articles had any influence over anyone to change their vote, and these people wouldn't have voted for Hillary under any set of circumstances.