Sadly, this is why nobody pays attention to labels that read "this product is considered a carcinogen in the state of California". If they didn't take it to the lunatic extreme, those labels would be *really* useful. But when coffee's on the list, most of us know well enough to ignore the rest of the list by default.
Yes, you are very confused. His 'mowing down group of people' and 'stabbing spree' caused only injuries. The only person to die was Artan who got shot.
So what you're saying is that a good guy with a gun...
Be careful, little heads may explode if you finish that:)
after Abdul Razak Ali Artan had mowed down a group of people in his car, gone on a stabbing spree with a butcher's knife... on the grounds of Ohio State University...
You would vote for a guy because he showed the wherewithal to build a steam rocket and survive it? This is your job interview for political representation?
In a state that keep electing Dianne Feinstein this seems like a pretty substantial step up.
Columbus was taking a shot into the unknown. This guy is not.
He built a rocket powered by 350psi of steam, using an old motorhome as his launch pad. He wasn't exactly shooting into the "unknown", but, there are probably more "unknowns" in the equation here than Columbus had. I'm still astonished that he did all this and lived.
I have no idea what the NRA actually "stands for." I do get their promotional brochures tho and I don't see anything close to the voice of reason. They are trying to sell guns using fear.
The NRA doesn't sell guns. I have no idea what "promotional brochures" you're actually receiving.
firearms, ammunition, or explosives; drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, or any controlled substances
Is to throw "firearms" and "ammunition" in with things that are illegal or looked down upon why wide swaths of the country. They want you to see "guns" and "drugs" in the same sentence time and again, so at some point you'll start to see them in the same way.
We really need to fight back against this bullshit. It's time that the majority in this country starts making these slimeballs bake those cakes that they don't want to bake. I don't know the best way, yet, but we need to come up with something.
Here's what's happening. The Russia narrative fell apart. Even with Democrats screeching about it 24/7 for months, it's obvious that Trump isn't going to be ensnared in that and nobody right of Bernie Sanders believes it. So the next thing was some porn star that Trump apparently had sex with. Oh, wow, *nobody* knew he was a womanizer. Right. Of course, the left lost all their credibility on this being a big deal 20 years ago.
So this is the latest. Some company tied to Trump stole a bunch of data from Facebook. Oh, they haven't said "stole" yet, have they? I don't even read this shit at this point because it's not worth it. But my guess is that they'll go that route, and the retards who think Trump's going to be impeached and that'll make Hillary president will be dancing again.
The typical value of the spectrum for a radio station (just the rights to broadcast on it) are worth more than $23 million. And then the transmitter, etc...
Around $100m in the LA area some years ago. That’s the cost of the spectrum of The Sound 100.3 when the station was created. The station was recently sold off for $18m.
I should have qualified my statement better. Yes, you can find a radio station that has at some point sold for more than $23,000,000. But not 858 of them. Clear Channel has stations all over the US, so while it's possible and even likely that they own a couple of stations that are worth more than that, they also own a bunch of stations in the middle of nowhere that are priced at a couple of orders of magnitude less.
There's research saying that people are often changed after general anesthesia. The changes from sleep alone are probably so small as to be insignificant.
posting anon because I just modded.
I'm not talking about being "changed". What I mean is that right now I exist as a consciousness. I am not talking about my physical self, but the conscious me. That conscious me thinks it's the same one as yesterday, but doesn't have to be.
Torture absolutely works in a specific case, and that is to extract verifiable information. For instance, if I want to know the combination to a safe, torture works great for finding it.
Disregarding the morality (which isn't easy to disregard, but if people are "pro-torture" obviously they don't care) there are two issues. First, we've found that it's generally easier to just pay someone for the information. And usually this involves gaining their trust and going that route.
Second, and this is the big one, torture is terrible for what it's often used for: open ended questions or confessions of guilt. People will give you information or gladly confess to make it stop. The problem is that the information may be worthless and the confession may be false. Neither of these situations help whomever is trying to gather information.
I said "two" but there is a third issue, too. The torturers fall into two categories: 1) normal people who will be emotionally devastated by it and 2) sadists who enjoy it. As the normal people fall away you're left with sadists who enjoy doing it. They have no reason to get information from the victim because that would end their fun.
But make no mistake: torture is useful for extracting easily verifiable and specific information. I know because there are news stories of torture being used very effectively in that manner. You can find them easily on Google, I won't link.
Er, is being a career spymaster a bad thing for leading the CIA? Just wondering.
Of course. Having no experience in spying would also be bad. Or having some experience.
This is Donald Trump. Anything he does is "bad" to the left and the media (but I repeat myself). They're not even bothering to put the goalposts in the ground at this point since they move too much.
If that were true, everytime someone on Star Trek stepped through a transporter they would be dead too.
The problem is that this may happen when you fall asleep. We don't know. I've always called it the "transporter problem" because I came to it from thinking about the transporter in Star Trek. Like you have.
The issue is that if I made an absolutely perfect replica of me at the molecular level, and assuming consciousness fully resides in the physical flesh (which I believe), then the replica would think he's me. He would not think he's a replica. Therefore, I can be a replica and not know it. I know I'm not because what I just described isn't possible.
But the issue is that when I go to sleep at night, I lose consciousness. When I awake, it's me again.
Or is it?
"I" don't have to survive that. Whoever I am tomorrow will think they're the same person that I am now because they will remember all my experiences (including this one), so there's no reason for the consciousness residing in my brain tomorrow to be the same as today. We literally have no way of knowing how that works.
This was also very well explored by the movie "Multiplicity", although they added some great comic elements that took it in a different direction.
What I find funny about your comment is you don't even try to dispute the actual facts. You're supposed to be barfing up something stupid like "duh, everybody knows the Republicans are the party of big business."
It's California. Apple already owns the Democrat Party from their numerous donations over the years, so this is apparently a legislator who missed out on that and doesn't have his marching orders. This could turn out interesting.
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Sadly, this is why nobody pays attention to labels that read "this product is considered a carcinogen in the state of California". If they didn't take it to the lunatic extreme, those labels would be *really* useful. But when coffee's on the list, most of us know well enough to ignore the rest of the list by default.
The levelized cost of nuclear power, cost over plant lifetime. is the most expensive form of electricity on the market.
Exactly right!*
* If you add in every single externality for nuclear while ignoring every single externality for all other power generation technologies.
Yes, you are very confused. His 'mowing down group of people' and 'stabbing spree' caused only injuries. The only person to die was Artan who got shot.
So what you're saying is that a good guy with a gun...
Be careful, little heads may explode if you finish that :)
after Abdul Razak Ali Artan had mowed down a group of people in his car, gone on a stabbing spree with a butcher's knife ... on the grounds of Ohio State University...
I'm confused - I thought guns were the problem.
FWIW he beat both SpaceX and Blue Origin to a manned rocket launch.
And he's got the whole "rocket lands back on earth" thing covered, too.
You would vote for a guy because he showed the wherewithal to build a steam rocket and survive it? This is your job interview for political representation?
In a state that keep electing Dianne Feinstein this seems like a pretty substantial step up.
Columbus was taking a shot into the unknown. This guy is not.
He built a rocket powered by 350psi of steam, using an old motorhome as his launch pad. He wasn't exactly shooting into the "unknown", but, there are probably more "unknowns" in the equation here than Columbus had. I'm still astonished that he did all this and lived.
I have no idea what the NRA actually "stands for." I do get their promotional brochures tho and I don't see anything close to the voice of reason. They are trying to sell guns using fear.
The NRA doesn't sell guns. I have no idea what "promotional brochures" you're actually receiving.
It's about having enough movies worth watching at all.
That's my thought. It's overpriced. I watch every single movie I want to in the theater, which means I was there last year one time.
"The NRA should be acting as a steward, being the voice of reason that champions gun rights by making sure they're well and properly used."
They are. You should see what the NRA actually stands for instead of parroting the looney left talking points.
Guns are not illegal.
Yet. The idea of this:
firearms, ammunition, or explosives; drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, or any controlled substances
Is to throw "firearms" and "ammunition" in with things that are illegal or looked down upon why wide swaths of the country. They want you to see "guns" and "drugs" in the same sentence time and again, so at some point you'll start to see them in the same way.
We really need to fight back against this bullshit. It's time that the majority in this country starts making these slimeballs bake those cakes that they don't want to bake. I don't know the best way, yet, but we need to come up with something.
1. Get back with me when Trump is convicted
2. It'd be interesting to set Mueller loose on Clinton's campaign staff, wouldn't it?
Here's what's happening. The Russia narrative fell apart. Even with Democrats screeching about it 24/7 for months, it's obvious that Trump isn't going to be ensnared in that and nobody right of Bernie Sanders believes it. So the next thing was some porn star that Trump apparently had sex with. Oh, wow, *nobody* knew he was a womanizer. Right. Of course, the left lost all their credibility on this being a big deal 20 years ago.
So this is the latest. Some company tied to Trump stole a bunch of data from Facebook. Oh, they haven't said "stole" yet, have they? I don't even read this shit at this point because it's not worth it. But my guess is that they'll go that route, and the retards who think Trump's going to be impeached and that'll make Hillary president will be dancing again.
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You can say that's different, but I'd argue it's just a little farther up the slippery slope.
I don't even want to know how come your apostrophes end up looking like your cat sat on your keyboard. Knock it the fuck off.
I've found that when I post from my phone that's what comes up. Frustrating, but hardly the fault of the user.
The typical value of the spectrum for a radio station (just the rights to broadcast on it) are worth more than $23 million. And then the transmitter, etc...
Around $100m in the LA area some years ago. That’s the cost of the spectrum of The Sound 100.3 when the station was created. The station was recently sold off for $18m.
I should have qualified my statement better. Yes, you can find a radio station that has at some point sold for more than $23,000,000. But not 858 of them. Clear Channel has stations all over the US, so while it's possible and even likely that they own a couple of stations that are worth more than that, they also own a bunch of stations in the middle of nowhere that are priced at a couple of orders of magnitude less.
I am just shaking my head. They own 858 stations and have $20,000,000,000 in debt?
Holy. Shit.
That's more than $23,000,000 per station. In debt. Radio stations do not cost $23,000,000.
I cannot figure out how they've managed to run up $20,000,000,000 in debt. That takes a special kind of talent.
And, I mean "special" as in "special ed".
Those "success" stories mean they were able to influence elections where Democrats were elected. They don't considers Trump's election a "success".
There's research saying that people are often changed after general anesthesia. The changes from sleep alone are probably so small as to be insignificant.
posting anon because I just modded.
I'm not talking about being "changed". What I mean is that right now I exist as a consciousness. I am not talking about my physical self, but the conscious me. That conscious me thinks it's the same one as yesterday, but doesn't have to be.
Torture absolutely works in a specific case, and that is to extract verifiable information. For instance, if I want to know the combination to a safe, torture works great for finding it.
Disregarding the morality (which isn't easy to disregard, but if people are "pro-torture" obviously they don't care) there are two issues. First, we've found that it's generally easier to just pay someone for the information. And usually this involves gaining their trust and going that route.
Second, and this is the big one, torture is terrible for what it's often used for: open ended questions or confessions of guilt. People will give you information or gladly confess to make it stop. The problem is that the information may be worthless and the confession may be false. Neither of these situations help whomever is trying to gather information.
I said "two" but there is a third issue, too. The torturers fall into two categories: 1) normal people who will be emotionally devastated by it and 2) sadists who enjoy it. As the normal people fall away you're left with sadists who enjoy doing it. They have no reason to get information from the victim because that would end their fun.
But make no mistake: torture is useful for extracting easily verifiable and specific information. I know because there are news stories of torture being used very effectively in that manner. You can find them easily on Google, I won't link.
Er, is being a career spymaster a bad thing for leading the CIA? Just wondering.
Of course. Having no experience in spying would also be bad. Or having some experience.
This is Donald Trump. Anything he does is "bad" to the left and the media (but I repeat myself). They're not even bothering to put the goalposts in the ground at this point since they move too much.
If that were true, everytime someone on Star Trek stepped through a transporter they would be dead too.
The problem is that this may happen when you fall asleep. We don't know. I've always called it the "transporter problem" because I came to it from thinking about the transporter in Star Trek. Like you have.
The issue is that if I made an absolutely perfect replica of me at the molecular level, and assuming consciousness fully resides in the physical flesh (which I believe), then the replica would think he's me. He would not think he's a replica. Therefore, I can be a replica and not know it. I know I'm not because what I just described isn't possible.
But the issue is that when I go to sleep at night, I lose consciousness. When I awake, it's me again.
Or is it?
"I" don't have to survive that. Whoever I am tomorrow will think they're the same person that I am now because they will remember all my experiences (including this one), so there's no reason for the consciousness residing in my brain tomorrow to be the same as today. We literally have no way of knowing how that works.
This was also very well explored by the movie "Multiplicity", although they added some great comic elements that took it in a different direction.
What I find funny about your comment is you don't even try to dispute the actual facts. You're supposed to be barfing up something stupid like "duh, everybody knows the Republicans are the party of big business."
It's California. Apple already owns the Democrat Party from their numerous donations over the years, so this is apparently a legislator who missed out on that and doesn't have his marching orders. This could turn out interesting.
If you want rents to be lower, allow people to build more housing. Rent control doesn't fix anything.