If you're on the Do-Not-Call list, and this was a commercial, then it's illegal, and Gottschalks whatever can be prosecuted.
On the other hand, if that's some guy running for mayor, that's arguably protected under the First Amendment. That's probably why political calls got left out of the bill.
Polls are generally used to describe why delegates are the way they are, or what the delegate count is likely to be. The victory speeches fall into the category of what the candidates are saying and doing, which I consider perfectly legitimate.
CNN in particular has been guilty of completely misrepresenting what counts and what doesn't count, as well as covering the horse race rather than what the candidates are saying and doing (Wolf Blitzer, I'm looking at you). For instance, they devoted significant coverage to the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries, despite the fact that those don't count. They covered the Democratic primaries and caucuses as if what counted was how many states candidates "won", not how many delegates they picked up.
Other news organizations have generally been better about explaining that it's delegates that count, and that the vote differences make a big difference.
I'd say a better argument for actual prejudice can be found by scrolling to the bottom of TFA, and noticing that they have pages all about every candidate remaining in the race except Gravel and Paul.
The purpose of superdelegates was to prevent the Democratic Party from nominating another George McGovern. However, that seems like an unnecessary step given that one of the reasons McGovern was nominated in 1972 was that some nice fellows over in the White House and CRP were derailing his competitors' campaigns. (For instance, the "Canuck Letter" along with a front-page attack on Ed Muskie's wife ended the Muskie campaign.)
Grandparent isn't strictly making an ad hominem argument, because it doesn't say the article is wrong, it argues that the article should carry little to no weight because the author is not speaking as a valid authority on the subject.
In other words, it's not "Communists think this, so it's wrong", it's "some random guy on a street corner said it, so it probably should be ignored".
Even if the curve is smooth, there's no clear evidence on where the optimization point would be.
It is true, however, that any production that goes into government finances can't go anywhere else at the same time. That doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad thing to have taxes, it's just that the government has to use the money for something worthwhile.
I was quite surprised to have to scroll this far down to get the first reference to the S.C.U.M. Manifesto. And you're absolutely right, she'd love this.
AIDS is a lot bigger deal outside of the US in places like sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore in that region in particular there are significant numbers of people there who think that having unprotected sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS and thus will either purchase the services of one from her family or rape someone.
One solution to that is to get your politicians face to face, rather than going through the flappers. This is sometimes tricky, but essentially involves waiting for an opportunity (like when he's back in his district), and walk right up to him and start talking. Sometimes he'll walk away (which is a pretty clear message in and of itself), but most will listen to you for about 1-5 minutes first.
I've done this with my entire legislative delegation (congressman and 2 senators) at some point or another, and my results are at least as decent as calling or emailing: My congressman actually did what I asked him to do, which was to impeach Dick Cheney first.
This is just a specific case of my usual rule on driving in New England: The average rudeness of drivers in the New England region is inversely proportional to the distance from Boston.
An important corollary is that there exists at least one driver in Boston who is infinitely rude.
There's obviously a feasibility factor built-in to that suggestion, as with any other. My point is that you helped eliminate a lot of the congestion when you were 5 miles away from the office. Even 30 isn't that bad: I've known plenty of folks with commutes much longer than that strictly because they wanted to have a nice place in a far-flung suburb.
Here's another more logical answer for why criminals target students: 1. College students tend to be wealthier than the communities their schools are in. That means they have lots of valuable stuff to steal. 2. College students are young, naive, and frequently overprotected from the real world by their parents. This doesn't lend itself to paying attention to security: thinking that no one will take your laptop from the library while you're in the restroom, or thinking the strange guy who's been following you for 2 blocks is just trying to ask you out. 3. College students are frequently drunk, high, or otherwise impaired, because they have both the opportunity and the money to pay for it.
The kids who were most likely to run into those sorts of issues were rich white kids who spent very little time outside of their gated communities.
Here's what you as a single person need to do to get the proverbial ball rolling in places with a public transit system: - Use it yourself for your morning commute or doing the shopping and the like. - Convince a critical mass of relatively wealthy white people to do the same. This is probably the hardest part, but you need enough of them so that you have a chance of reducing the race and class biases against the public transit system. - If you aren't near a transit route but would like to be, see what you can do about convincing your neighbors that having a route would be a good idea, and then go to the transit agency with a request saying that if you go there then you know of x people who will ride it.
If your city / town / area doesn't have any transit system, suggest it to the appropriate elected official as an alternative to increased road spending. They may not listen, but you at least have a shot.
One last point: 1 person is always the first one to get the ball rolling. Someone has to be the first to say "We should migrate to Linux", this is really no different.
Isn't that the problem you should be trying to solve, then, rather than trying to make your inefficient driving to work cheaper? Especially if you live near a city, public transit is or at least should be a big part of making the city function without getting the Chicago rush hour effect. Or an even more radical concept: live closer to where you work.
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If you're on the Do-Not-Call list, and this was a commercial, then it's illegal, and Gottschalks whatever can be prosecuted.
On the other hand, if that's some guy running for mayor, that's arguably protected under the First Amendment. That's probably why political calls got left out of the bill.
Polls are generally used to describe why delegates are the way they are, or what the delegate count is likely to be. The victory speeches fall into the category of what the candidates are saying and doing, which I consider perfectly legitimate.
CNN in particular has been guilty of completely misrepresenting what counts and what doesn't count, as well as covering the horse race rather than what the candidates are saying and doing (Wolf Blitzer, I'm looking at you). For instance, they devoted significant coverage to the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries, despite the fact that those don't count. They covered the Democratic primaries and caucuses as if what counted was how many states candidates "won", not how many delegates they picked up.
Other news organizations have generally been better about explaining that it's delegates that count, and that the vote differences make a big difference.
I'd say a better argument for actual prejudice can be found by scrolling to the bottom of TFA, and noticing that they have pages all about every candidate remaining in the race except Gravel and Paul.
The purpose of superdelegates was to prevent the Democratic Party from nominating another George McGovern. However, that seems like an unnecessary step given that one of the reasons McGovern was nominated in 1972 was that some nice fellows over in the White House and CRP were derailing his competitors' campaigns. (For instance, the "Canuck Letter" along with a front-page attack on Ed Muskie's wife ended the Muskie campaign.)
Grandparent isn't strictly making an ad hominem argument, because it doesn't say the article is wrong, it argues that the article should carry little to no weight because the author is not speaking as a valid authority on the subject.
In other words, it's not "Communists think this, so it's wrong", it's "some random guy on a street corner said it, so it probably should be ignored".
It is true, however, that any production that goes into government finances can't go anywhere else at the same time. That doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad thing to have taxes, it's just that the government has to use the money for something worthwhile.
Funny, Dennis Kucinich's supporters have been talking about precisely the same problem.
I was quite surprised to have to scroll this far down to get the first reference to the S.C.U.M. Manifesto. And you're absolutely right, she'd love this.
So obviously we should have the zoo put up a sign that says "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE TIGER".
I think they figure that at least in the US they have a better shot of doing this now than with a President Obama or Clinton in charge.
AIDS is a lot bigger deal outside of the US in places like sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore in that region in particular there are significant numbers of people there who think that having unprotected sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS and thus will either purchase the services of one from her family or rape someone.
One solution to that is to get your politicians face to face, rather than going through the flappers. This is sometimes tricky, but essentially involves waiting for an opportunity (like when he's back in his district), and walk right up to him and start talking. Sometimes he'll walk away (which is a pretty clear message in and of itself), but most will listen to you for about 1-5 minutes first.
I've done this with my entire legislative delegation (congressman and 2 senators) at some point or another, and my results are at least as decent as calling or emailing: My congressman actually did what I asked him to do, which was to impeach Dick Cheney first.
This is just a specific case of my usual rule on driving in New England: The average rudeness of drivers in the New England region is inversely proportional to the distance from Boston.
An important corollary is that there exists at least one driver in Boston who is infinitely rude.
At the risk of Godwin'ing the thread, we could call this new law the "Enabling Act".
You, sir or madam, are in violation of the copyright on my signature. Please pay the sum of $699 per violation to the our offices to avoid litigation.
Sincerely,
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
Attorneys at Law
To quote an old legal proverb: He who represents himself has a fool for a client.
After all, Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book" sold well.
So how is this different than your typical government contract work?
They're not just molded from the same cloth, they're both controlled by the same 4 media conglomerates: Disney, GE, AOL Time Warner, and News Corp.
There's obviously a feasibility factor built-in to that suggestion, as with any other. My point is that you helped eliminate a lot of the congestion when you were 5 miles away from the office. Even 30 isn't that bad: I've known plenty of folks with commutes much longer than that strictly because they wanted to have a nice place in a far-flung suburb.
Here's another more logical answer for why criminals target students:
1. College students tend to be wealthier than the communities their schools are in. That means they have lots of valuable stuff to steal.
2. College students are young, naive, and frequently overprotected from the real world by their parents. This doesn't lend itself to paying attention to security: thinking that no one will take your laptop from the library while you're in the restroom, or thinking the strange guy who's been following you for 2 blocks is just trying to ask you out.
3. College students are frequently drunk, high, or otherwise impaired, because they have both the opportunity and the money to pay for it.
The kids who were most likely to run into those sorts of issues were rich white kids who spent very little time outside of their gated communities.
Here's what you as a single person need to do to get the proverbial ball rolling in places with a public transit system:
- Use it yourself for your morning commute or doing the shopping and the like.
- Convince a critical mass of relatively wealthy white people to do the same. This is probably the hardest part, but you need enough of them so that you have a chance of reducing the race and class biases against the public transit system.
- If you aren't near a transit route but would like to be, see what you can do about convincing your neighbors that having a route would be a good idea, and then go to the transit agency with a request saying that if you go there then you know of x people who will ride it.
If your city / town / area doesn't have any transit system, suggest it to the appropriate elected official as an alternative to increased road spending. They may not listen, but you at least have a shot.
One last point: 1 person is always the first one to get the ball rolling. Someone has to be the first to say "We should migrate to Linux", this is really no different.
public transit is by and by large garbage
Isn't that the problem you should be trying to solve, then, rather than trying to make your inefficient driving to work cheaper? Especially if you live near a city, public transit is or at least should be a big part of making the city function without getting the Chicago rush hour effect. Or an even more radical concept: live closer to where you work.
Obvious solution to this problem: White House webcams.