Not in my experience. A megagram is normally referred to as a metric ton. Tonne shows up now and then. Unless you're talking about the non-US part of America, but still extending an absolute generalization to include the US is wrong.
Adding a couple of silent letters to the end of a word doesn't distinguish it very well. Since a ton in the US is generally a short ton of 2000 pounds, it's worthwhile referring to a metric ton here when you mean a megagram (and a long ton when you mean 2240 pounds).
You can also see this in people who sit on the political left who have no doubts as to minorities being just as smart and capable as whites, but will still call for and defend policies that assume that minorities aren't as smart or capable as whites.
Actually, no. Let's agree that blacks are as inherently smart and capable as whites, at least for the sake of discussion. The differences, then, are because of social factors.
Typically, blacks get worse education. They get worse treatment from the justice system - more likely to be arrested than a white committing a similar offense, more likely to be convicted, likely to serve a longer sentence. They're discriminated against in employment (people have sent out resumes with white-sounding and black-sounding names and noticed the difference in response rate). They're not starting on an even basis. I want equality of opportunity, and they're not getting that.
This also hurts their spirits. Look at what happened when one millionaire visited a classroom and offered to pay for their college if they graduated with good grades: the class responded enthusiastically and did well, because they had hope.
People have erected barriers to voting for black neighborhoods. Sometimes it's inadequate voting machines. Sometimes it's planning to require ID and close offices that provide IDs in black areas.
Very simply, blacks facing certain hardships don't do as well as whites not facing those hardships. Some of the hardships are because of historical conditions and some are because of deliberate actions on the part of governments and private enterprises.
Lois Lerner did no such thing. The tea party groups formed without her permission. What happened is that a lot of political-appearing groups applied for tax-exempt status, and she looked at group names to see who to examine first. The Left thinks the US should be a country, and that there are deplorables in the US. Talking about lunatics, how about the President?
They're not sure signs, as you can see from all the investigations conducted on Hillary Clinton. However, there are indictments coming out of it, so he's finding good (if not necessarily conclusive) evidence of guilt. The investigation isn't finished yet, and the cases are yet to be heard in court.
Why does everything turn on the "basket of deplorables"? Trump threw out insults like they were candy wrappers, but Clinton wasn't allowed a single insult? There's more to this than the Republicans want to talk about.
Also, Russia bought ads. Russia tried to influence the campaign. Assuming Russians aren't stupid, this suggests that they had some influence. The extraordinary claim would be that Russian efforts were entirely ineffectual.
We know Russia was attempting to tamper with the US political process. That's settled. Blaming things on the Russians is more or less reasonable.
The Democratic primaries (plural) were not rigged. Democrats genuinely wanted Clinton more than Sanders. In the states where caucuses started the process to select delegates, which you'd think would be easier to rig, Sanders did better. Clinton got more votes. Clinton got more regular delegates. Eliminate the superdelegates and Clinton still wins.
Nor is the DNC a public body requiring democracy. The job of the DNC is to select the best candidate, and to that effect there is some extra input from the party establishment, to avoid selecting a candidate like McGovern in 1972. The Republicans utterly failed to nominate a good candidate. There is no reason for outrage about the Democratic primary.
11.1 seems to work well on my iPhone 5S. I've had a couple of times when I lost battery charge fast, but usually it's fine. (My battery's also getting pretty old.) I haven't noticed anything else that annoyed me.
C'mon. Remember to drop your articles. Russian has no counterparts for "a", "an", and "the". You were "born and raised in cold tundra. In part that snows and where we drink vodka." That's a lot better as a written Russian accent.
And this would have anything to do with anti-virus...how? I don't like it when Russians try to mess with US elections. (I don't like it when the US messes with other countries' elections, but I seem to be in a minority here.)
Whitelisting would almost certainly not be good for my division of the company. There's too many things we might have to look at. It might work for others.
Pre-emptively attacking North Korea kills thousands and thousands of South Korean civilians right off the bat, considering the locations of North Korean artillery and Seoul. Under the present circumstances, it also risks war with China, which is not a good idea.
We kept the peace with much larger and more powerful countries. As long as North Korea doesn't launch an attack itself, which the Chinese don't want, and which would be disastrous for the North Korean government, we're doing well.
Sure. What I'm saying is that Nazis and militarist Japanese and Soviet and Chinese Communists and such were all extremely murderous, and that picking one out of those four to dismiss as lightweights isn't really supportable. Some of them killed more people, some less. Some had more time to work in, some had less. Some killed in larger populations, some in smaller. I see them all as abhorrent.
Okay, so you pull someone I hadn't heard of out of a hat (and I'm pretty familiar with the era), claim he's the father of fascist philosophy, and was a socialist. Even assuming that fascism has a philosophy (it's more mystical than that), and that Gentile is the originator, there are problems.
In the first place, movements don't always follow their founder. Mazzini was one of the people behind the unification of Italy, and he was bitterly disappointed that Garibaldi thought unifying Italy under a king was a good idea. The Soviet Union bore approximately no relationship to a Marxist utopia.
In the second place, learn about life in Nazi Germany. Learn how Hitler thought and acted. Look at how the economy operated. Hint: it wasn't anything like socialism at all. These are facts you can determine with some research, and they're very definite. If your philosophy says that the Sun comes up in the West on Fridays, guess what? It's wrong. If it says Nazi Germany was socialist? It's wrong. (I haven't studied Fascist Italy to that extent, but it appears to have been capitalist in addition. I know Mussolini was a socialist for a while, but he turned away from that to found Fascism. I suspect he just wanted to revolt against the existing government, and didn't care about the cause.)
The problem is that right-wingers don't like having to acknowledge Hitler as being in some respect like them (those that don't deify him, anyway), and so need to form their own fake history to lie about him.
As far as "Government is the only thing we all belong to," what's your problem with that? It's trivially true. Some people formed an association to discourage DUI called MADD. As a private organization, it had no power over others. It couldn't stop anyone who wanted from drinking and driving. It was influential in changing the law to be stricter, and then it was able to. Government is not the only power that can compel someone to do something or not do something, but the alternative is the private use of force, which is far more dangerous. Government can solve tragedies of the commons and eliminate free riders, which can be very useful. It can balance the market by putting costs on externalities.
Slashdot Mirror
I belong to the government in the same way I belong to a certain charitable organization. Neither of them owns me.
You mean there'd be an incentive for drivers to use their signals when changing lanes? Hot damn!
Not in my experience. A megagram is normally referred to as a metric ton. Tonne shows up now and then. Unless you're talking about the non-US part of America, but still extending an absolute generalization to include the US is wrong.
Adding a couple of silent letters to the end of a word doesn't distinguish it very well. Since a ton in the US is generally a short ton of 2000 pounds, it's worthwhile referring to a metric ton here when you mean a megagram (and a long ton when you mean 2240 pounds).
Actually, no. Let's agree that blacks are as inherently smart and capable as whites, at least for the sake of discussion. The differences, then, are because of social factors.
Typically, blacks get worse education. They get worse treatment from the justice system - more likely to be arrested than a white committing a similar offense, more likely to be convicted, likely to serve a longer sentence. They're discriminated against in employment (people have sent out resumes with white-sounding and black-sounding names and noticed the difference in response rate). They're not starting on an even basis. I want equality of opportunity, and they're not getting that.
This also hurts their spirits. Look at what happened when one millionaire visited a classroom and offered to pay for their college if they graduated with good grades: the class responded enthusiastically and did well, because they had hope.
People have erected barriers to voting for black neighborhoods. Sometimes it's inadequate voting machines. Sometimes it's planning to require ID and close offices that provide IDs in black areas.
Very simply, blacks facing certain hardships don't do as well as whites not facing those hardships. Some of the hardships are because of historical conditions and some are because of deliberate actions on the part of governments and private enterprises.
Lois Lerner did no such thing. The tea party groups formed without her permission. What happened is that a lot of political-appearing groups applied for tax-exempt status, and she looked at group names to see who to examine first. The Left thinks the US should be a country, and that there are deplorables in the US. Talking about lunatics, how about the President?
They're not sure signs, as you can see from all the investigations conducted on Hillary Clinton. However, there are indictments coming out of it, so he's finding good (if not necessarily conclusive) evidence of guilt. The investigation isn't finished yet, and the cases are yet to be heard in court.
Trump isn't the tool of the 1%. He's one of the least scrupulous of the 1%, who are hard at work now trying to set up the country the way they want.
Journalists are heavily leftists. Media owners are heavily rightists. You pulled that donation statistic out of your ass.
Why does everything turn on the "basket of deplorables"? Trump threw out insults like they were candy wrappers, but Clinton wasn't allowed a single insult? There's more to this than the Republicans want to talk about.
Also, Russia bought ads. Russia tried to influence the campaign. Assuming Russians aren't stupid, this suggests that they had some influence. The extraordinary claim would be that Russian efforts were entirely ineffectual.
We know Russia was attempting to tamper with the US political process. That's settled. Blaming things on the Russians is more or less reasonable.
The Democratic primaries (plural) were not rigged. Democrats genuinely wanted Clinton more than Sanders. In the states where caucuses started the process to select delegates, which you'd think would be easier to rig, Sanders did better. Clinton got more votes. Clinton got more regular delegates. Eliminate the superdelegates and Clinton still wins.
Nor is the DNC a public body requiring democracy. The job of the DNC is to select the best candidate, and to that effect there is some extra input from the party establishment, to avoid selecting a candidate like McGovern in 1972. The Republicans utterly failed to nominate a good candidate. There is no reason for outrage about the Democratic primary.
11.1 seems to work well on my iPhone 5S. I've had a couple of times when I lost battery charge fast, but usually it's fine. (My battery's also getting pretty old.) I haven't noticed anything else that annoyed me.
If the door proves too hard, the determined burglar smashes through the wall. If I'm going to be burgled, I'd rather forego the structural damage.
The NSA really doesn't have that good a reputation for internal security, although it's probably better than it was when the agency was younger.
When I visited it in the late 60s, kvass (fermented black bread, not very alcoholic) seemed to be popular also.
C'mon. Remember to drop your articles. Russian has no counterparts for "a", "an", and "the". You were "born and raised in cold tundra. In part that snows and where we drink vodka." That's a lot better as a written Russian accent.
India is by far the largest country with English as a native language. Shouldn't that be default?
There was at least one incident where a virus checker found that an important Windows system file was malware, and removed it. Not good.
And this would have anything to do with anti-virus...how? I don't like it when Russians try to mess with US elections. (I don't like it when the US messes with other countries' elections, but I seem to be in a minority here.)
Whitelisting would almost certainly not be good for my division of the company. There's too many things we might have to look at. It might work for others.
But why shouldn't we accept people who fit into society and aren't threats? What harm does it do?
Pre-emptively attacking North Korea kills thousands and thousands of South Korean civilians right off the bat, considering the locations of North Korean artillery and Seoul. Under the present circumstances, it also risks war with China, which is not a good idea.
We kept the peace with much larger and more powerful countries. As long as North Korea doesn't launch an attack itself, which the Chinese don't want, and which would be disastrous for the North Korean government, we're doing well.
Sure. And, if someone's underperforming for that long, don't continue to employ that person. It beats nagging at them for a year and getting nowhere.
Sure. What I'm saying is that Nazis and militarist Japanese and Soviet and Chinese Communists and such were all extremely murderous, and that picking one out of those four to dismiss as lightweights isn't really supportable. Some of them killed more people, some less. Some had more time to work in, some had less. Some killed in larger populations, some in smaller. I see them all as abhorrent.
Okay, so you pull someone I hadn't heard of out of a hat (and I'm pretty familiar with the era), claim he's the father of fascist philosophy, and was a socialist. Even assuming that fascism has a philosophy (it's more mystical than that), and that Gentile is the originator, there are problems.
In the first place, movements don't always follow their founder. Mazzini was one of the people behind the unification of Italy, and he was bitterly disappointed that Garibaldi thought unifying Italy under a king was a good idea. The Soviet Union bore approximately no relationship to a Marxist utopia.
In the second place, learn about life in Nazi Germany. Learn how Hitler thought and acted. Look at how the economy operated. Hint: it wasn't anything like socialism at all. These are facts you can determine with some research, and they're very definite. If your philosophy says that the Sun comes up in the West on Fridays, guess what? It's wrong. If it says Nazi Germany was socialist? It's wrong. (I haven't studied Fascist Italy to that extent, but it appears to have been capitalist in addition. I know Mussolini was a socialist for a while, but he turned away from that to found Fascism. I suspect he just wanted to revolt against the existing government, and didn't care about the cause.)
The problem is that right-wingers don't like having to acknowledge Hitler as being in some respect like them (those that don't deify him, anyway), and so need to form their own fake history to lie about him.
As far as "Government is the only thing we all belong to," what's your problem with that? It's trivially true. Some people formed an association to discourage DUI called MADD. As a private organization, it had no power over others. It couldn't stop anyone who wanted from drinking and driving. It was influential in changing the law to be stricter, and then it was able to. Government is not the only power that can compel someone to do something or not do something, but the alternative is the private use of force, which is far more dangerous. Government can solve tragedies of the commons and eliminate free riders, which can be very useful. It can balance the market by putting costs on externalities.