or lots of D&D? Ever shoot guns or join a pipe club? TV Sports are Social Circles. It's a reason to get together with people TV as a whole is great for socializing. Water Cooler talk and the like. It's a shared experience. When I couldn't afford cable and my kid had to go without she stuck out like a square peg in a round hole because she couldn't watch the 8 o'clock shows (too late for her to go over to a friends house; and hard to make friends without that ice breaker anyway).
These shared social experiences are what let Games Workshop charge $20 bucks for a little plastic toy soldier and they let DTV & Charter charge $100/bucks/mo for a sports package.
Now go after my cell phone company. I've had a bullshit "Regulatory Compliance Fee" that wasn't disclosed in their adverts for years. By the time I knew it was there I was knee deep in the contract. What pisses me off the most is the number of people I know who think this crap is taxes and go to the polls demanding a tax break for these poor over taxed companies. Laughing all the way to the bank, they are...
that's the trouble I have with him. I don't trust him. He changes on a moments notice. He was practically a socialist at one point in time. Now he's turning the gov't over to Mike Pence & Paul Ryan, who're as right wing as they come.
they're just not enforced/ignored. Stop voting in folks who won't enforce your trade agreements and they'll work. It's like buying an engine and skipping the oil. It's gonna break.
and have them enforced for real this time. Environmental protections too (and not the nebulous "climate change" ones but things like clean air and water). It was an extension of the progressive agenda.
The left has been putting stuff like this in trade agreements since the 70s and the right has been ignoring it for just as long. Sooner or later the guard changes and it's easy for these kind of rules to just not get enforced. But I guess the left decided that _this_ time it'll be different.
if they'd enforce the provisions that punish countries for lax environmental standards (and not the save the whales kind but the poison air/water kind ) and non-existent worker protection.
I could live with NAFTA if it actually leveled the playing field. But our trade deals have been promising to hold 2nd world countries accountable for abusing their citizens since the 70s and haven't done it even once.
Still, this is why progressives keep getting behind these deals. If progressives could stay in power long enough to actually enforce things maybe it'd work. But you're dealing with an electorate that will literally vote the other guy in because "Sure, the economy hasn't collapse in 8 years but, well, it's time for a change"....
he just like to make it public. At one point in time he's taken both an affirmative and a negative position on just about anything. He's Schrodinger's president. In a quantum state of being both left and right wing. But sooner or later you're gonna have to open the box and the waveform's gonna collapse...
As a public figure he's forced to balance his right to privacy to the public's right to know. Both the fact that he harbors severe racist sentiments and the fact that he's cheated on his a friend with his wife are relevant to the public. Most case law would side with the public's right to know. Gawker would have won the case if they'd just listened to the judge.
to the Whitehouse. And I'm not expecting Trump to reign Pence in. It was made pretty clear early on that Trump would let his VP run the show, and here we are with Pence running the Transition.
publishing these sorts of things has long since been declared free speech. They did ignore the judges order, which was a tremendous mistake. They made that mistake because they didn't realize a billionaire was backing Hogan and gunning for them. But all they had to do was follow the judges order until it was (inevitably) overturned and they'd have been fine. The whole thing was a hit piece by Thiel and any sane person would stand with Gawker in light of that.
And if we're talking morality Hogan's no spring chicken himself. What made those tapes a matter of public interest was his racist comments. Like it or not Hogan's a public figure and there is a public interest and good in knowing his character. You never know when they guy might have gone into politics.
but not necessarily unhinged. Pence is on the extreme right. He's intensely religious and believes his religion dictates his actions.
The thing that frightens me about Christians more than most religions is that their God punishes _them_ for _my_ sins. Think about Sodom & Gomorrah or the Floods. Think about how many baby's God killed. Sure, they're with God now, but they're still dead.
To many Christians who take the bible literally my sinning represents an existent threat to them. Not just their "way of life" but their actual lives. This makes Christianity powerful, because there is a powerful incentive to spread the faith by any means necessary. It's one of the reasons it's as successful as it is. But if your a non-believer and you notice it then it's downright terrifying...
Keystone was shut down because it was primarily a way for Canada to ship oil to China. It's of very, very limited use to the United States while presenting significant risks (oil pipelines break all the time because it's cheaper to let 'em break than to maintain them since the tax payer cleans up the spills).
Coal burning isn't a big deal because we regulated the fuck out of it. It's not profitable when they coal burners can't externalize their costs by dumping crap into the air and water. That's what shut down coal burning.
He won't gas jews, but I am worried about my daughter's access to reproductive services. She's got some fairly serious congenital health issues that might someday require an abortion of a non-viable fetus to save her life. This is a surprisingly common occurrence that Mike Pence believes his God forbid's. If you think I'm speaking hyperbole then you don't know the horror of child birth left in God's hands. Educate yourself.
since we produce way more steel than we need. We need to be able to export the stuff for it to be profitable and with China dumping steel that ain't happening. Maybe if we really did build that wall (it'd need tons and tons of steel rebar) but other than that...
he put cronies in charge that had no idea what the hell they were doing. That's a large part of why New Orleans was such a cluster fuck (aside from diverting billions meant for their levies to the war in Iraq). The Trump presidency won't just be about corruption. They'll be plenty of gross incompetence to go around. I pity anyone who lives in a state with real natural disasters. Jesus I hope the weather holds...
and it cost her Ohio. Coal's pretty worthless if you're not willing to allow massive pollution of the kind that has immediately negative consequences for people's quality of life. Sure, you can make steel with it instead of burning it for power, but there's a glut of Chinese steel that's not going away anytime soon.
The thing about Hilary is she wasn't going to make things better but she also wasn't going to make them worse. Trump will accelerate all the bad stuff while his running mate + supreme court picks take away women's reproductive rights. If you have a wife, girlfriend or daughter and no anything about the terror that is child birth left up to God's whim you know this is terrifying...
they just want cheap foreign labor in the form of easy Visas. They're afraid Trump is gonna take that away. They're stirring up trouble to try and get him on their side. It won't work. He's bloody nuts.
Progressives didn't create that leviathan. It's always been there. If you allow a weak central government you just get robber barons on a national level filling the power vacuum you just left in your mad dash to freedom.
Also, what they hell is wrong with 'elites'? What's wrong with people who take their work seriously, study and learn the optimal approaches while constantly striving to improve? That's an elite. If you don't like being talked down to then crack a book, study up and learn enough about politics, economics and policy so that you're _not_ being talked down to. The rest of us sane people like experts in a field.
or could for that matter I might want to get on the Trump Train. Lord knows H1-Bs have bit into my career mightily and I'll wager many/.ers can concur. But he's literally taken every possible position during the campaign. I wasn't expecting much from Hilary, but I knew what I was getting into. Just a tinsy bit of progress and things more or less holding together. With Trump I've got no idea, and I've got Mike Pence behind him doing God knows what to my daughter's access to Birth Control and health services...
which is what is Trump going to have to do to get that second term? He's not likely to improve the economy. His policies might cause a depression if he actually does them. So what did Bush jr have that kept him in office?
War. A massive war that left folks wanting to stick with the guy already in power. I'm guessing we're off to war with Iran in the middle of year 3.
is on inciting violence. Particularly and terrifyingly against the press. I guess it's more accurate to say he's the next Mussolini. But really, we're just splitting hairs at that point.
Also I have a friend who's in the same boat. Obamacare saves millions of lives. Those people are going to die now. Whatever else any of us wants to believe one thing is true: either Trump lied about repealing Obamacare or Trump is going to be the death of these folks.
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or lots of D&D? Ever shoot guns or join a pipe club? TV Sports are Social Circles. It's a reason to get together with people TV as a whole is great for socializing. Water Cooler talk and the like. It's a shared experience. When I couldn't afford cable and my kid had to go without she stuck out like a square peg in a round hole because she couldn't watch the 8 o'clock shows (too late for her to go over to a friends house; and hard to make friends without that ice breaker anyway).
These shared social experiences are what let Games Workshop charge $20 bucks for a little plastic toy soldier and they let DTV & Charter charge $100/bucks/mo for a sports package.
Now go after my cell phone company. I've had a bullshit "Regulatory Compliance Fee" that wasn't disclosed in their adverts for years. By the time I knew it was there I was knee deep in the contract. What pisses me off the most is the number of people I know who think this crap is taxes and go to the polls demanding a tax break for these poor over taxed companies. Laughing all the way to the bank, they are...
that's the trouble I have with him. I don't trust him. He changes on a moments notice. He was practically a socialist at one point in time. Now he's turning the gov't over to Mike Pence & Paul Ryan, who're as right wing as they come.
they're just not enforced/ignored. Stop voting in folks who won't enforce your trade agreements and they'll work. It's like buying an engine and skipping the oil. It's gonna break.
and have them enforced for real this time. Environmental protections too (and not the nebulous "climate change" ones but things like clean air and water). It was an extension of the progressive agenda.
The left has been putting stuff like this in trade agreements since the 70s and the right has been ignoring it for just as long. Sooner or later the guard changes and it's easy for these kind of rules to just not get enforced. But I guess the left decided that _this_ time it'll be different.
if they'd enforce the provisions that punish countries for lax environmental standards (and not the save the whales kind but the poison air/water kind ) and non-existent worker protection.
I could live with NAFTA if it actually leveled the playing field. But our trade deals have been promising to hold 2nd world countries accountable for abusing their citizens since the 70s and haven't done it even once.
Still, this is why progressives keep getting behind these deals. If progressives could stay in power long enough to actually enforce things maybe it'd work. But you're dealing with an electorate that will literally vote the other guy in because "Sure, the economy hasn't collapse in 8 years but, well, it's time for a change"....
he just like to make it public. At one point in time he's taken both an affirmative and a negative position on just about anything. He's Schrodinger's president. In a quantum state of being both left and right wing. But sooner or later you're gonna have to open the box and the waveform's gonna collapse...
As a public figure he's forced to balance his right to privacy to the public's right to know. Both the fact that he harbors severe racist sentiments and the fact that he's cheated on his a friend with his wife are relevant to the public. Most case law would side with the public's right to know. Gawker would have won the case if they'd just listened to the judge.
to the Whitehouse. And I'm not expecting Trump to reign Pence in. It was made pretty clear early on that Trump would let his VP run the show, and here we are with Pence running the Transition.
publishing these sorts of things has long since been declared free speech. They did ignore the judges order, which was a tremendous mistake. They made that mistake because they didn't realize a billionaire was backing Hogan and gunning for them. But all they had to do was follow the judges order until it was (inevitably) overturned and they'd have been fine. The whole thing was a hit piece by Thiel and any sane person would stand with Gawker in light of that.
And if we're talking morality Hogan's no spring chicken himself. What made those tapes a matter of public interest was his racist comments. Like it or not Hogan's a public figure and there is a public interest and good in knowing his character. You never know when they guy might have gone into politics.
but not necessarily unhinged. Pence is on the extreme right. He's intensely religious and believes his religion dictates his actions.
The thing that frightens me about Christians more than most religions is that their God punishes _them_ for _my_ sins. Think about Sodom & Gomorrah or the Floods. Think about how many baby's God killed. Sure, they're with God now, but they're still dead.
To many Christians who take the bible literally my sinning represents an existent threat to them. Not just their "way of life" but their actual lives. This makes Christianity powerful, because there is a powerful incentive to spread the faith by any means necessary. It's one of the reasons it's as successful as it is. But if your a non-believer and you notice it then it's downright terrifying...
Keystone was shut down because it was primarily a way for Canada to ship oil to China. It's of very, very limited use to the United States while presenting significant risks (oil pipelines break all the time because it's cheaper to let 'em break than to maintain them since the tax payer cleans up the spills).
Coal burning isn't a big deal because we regulated the fuck out of it. It's not profitable when they coal burners can't externalize their costs by dumping crap into the air and water. That's what shut down coal burning.
He won't gas jews, but I am worried about my daughter's access to reproductive services. She's got some fairly serious congenital health issues that might someday require an abortion of a non-viable fetus to save her life. This is a surprisingly common occurrence that Mike Pence believes his God forbid's. If you think I'm speaking hyperbole then you don't know the horror of child birth left in God's hands. Educate yourself.
since we produce way more steel than we need. We need to be able to export the stuff for it to be profitable and with China dumping steel that ain't happening. Maybe if we really did build that wall (it'd need tons and tons of steel rebar) but other than that...
but I want it now....
he put cronies in charge that had no idea what the hell they were doing. That's a large part of why New Orleans was such a cluster fuck (aside from diverting billions meant for their levies to the war in Iraq). The Trump presidency won't just be about corruption. They'll be plenty of gross incompetence to go around. I pity anyone who lives in a state with real natural disasters. Jesus I hope the weather holds...
and it cost her Ohio. Coal's pretty worthless if you're not willing to allow massive pollution of the kind that has immediately negative consequences for people's quality of life. Sure, you can make steel with it instead of burning it for power, but there's a glut of Chinese steel that's not going away anytime soon.
The thing about Hilary is she wasn't going to make things better but she also wasn't going to make them worse. Trump will accelerate all the bad stuff while his running mate + supreme court picks take away women's reproductive rights. If you have a wife, girlfriend or daughter and no anything about the terror that is child birth left up to God's whim you know this is terrifying...
Heart on Fire and everything. It's not a SOC, So it'll run the games just fine. The real question I have is will it have the proper Yamaha sound chip
that those signs were printed for other anti-Trump protests. There were lots and lots of those pre election ya know?
Show me the proof protesters were paid cash.
Professional inciters? You don't need to be a pro to rile up a crowd after a Trump win. Again, show me the money.
Alert Media? Gee, it's almost like they were covering a major national election or something.
You've been manipulated, but not by a few tens of thousands of anti-Trumpers.
You keep using that word, I don't think you know what that means.
they just want cheap foreign labor in the form of easy Visas. They're afraid Trump is gonna take that away. They're stirring up trouble to try and get him on their side. It won't work. He's bloody nuts.
Progressives didn't create that leviathan. It's always been there. If you allow a weak central government you just get robber barons on a national level filling the power vacuum you just left in your mad dash to freedom.
Also, what they hell is wrong with 'elites'? What's wrong with people who take their work seriously, study and learn the optimal approaches while constantly striving to improve? That's an elite. If you don't like being talked down to then crack a book, study up and learn enough about politics, economics and policy so that you're _not_ being talked down to. The rest of us sane people like experts in a field.
or could for that matter I might want to get on the Trump Train. Lord knows H1-Bs have bit into my career mightily and I'll wager many /.ers can concur. But he's literally taken every possible position during the campaign. I wasn't expecting much from Hilary, but I knew what I was getting into. Just a tinsy bit of progress and things more or less holding together. With Trump I've got no idea, and I've got Mike Pence behind him doing God knows what to my daughter's access to Birth Control and health services...
It's easy to do, here, let me fix that:
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which is what is Trump going to have to do to get that second term? He's not likely to improve the economy. His policies might cause a depression if he actually does them. So what did Bush jr have that kept him in office?
War. A massive war that left folks wanting to stick with the guy already in power. I'm guessing we're off to war with Iran in the middle of year 3.
is on inciting violence. Particularly and terrifyingly against the press. I guess it's more accurate to say he's the next Mussolini. But really, we're just splitting hairs at that point.
I've ever read in my entire life.
Also I have a friend who's in the same boat. Obamacare saves millions of lives. Those people are going to die now. Whatever else any of us wants to believe one thing is true: either Trump lied about repealing Obamacare or Trump is going to be the death of these folks.