Every article I come across seems to involve the FCC getting slapped down over pretty much everything, especially when it risks a corporations profits.
If no one wants them to regulate anything. why even bother having an FCC at all at this point?
Because this is something that should be handled by legislation, not regulation. That's why we elect Congress.
Similar to above, had Obama said anything about Russia interfering with the election it would have been seen as an excuse and would have given more fire to the con artist's delusions about the election being rigged.
So, how does that jive with your alternate reality where Trump is a Russian puppet? I mean, wouldn't Russian puppet Trump already know about the rigging and all that since it's rigged in his favor?
Watching you people devolve into the basic equivalent of 9/11 troofers has been fascinating.
Where you can fail hard, and still get a $23 million ‘golden parachute’ for your effort./s
To be fair, I don't think Yahoo was salvageable. But that doesn't justify giving her millions of dollars. If anything, the board should have found someone to take on the job of simply running Yahoo for a million or so a year, which the job is worth if they're able to keep it profitable.
They do it very much in the name of the god. Religion was cited as the motivation for the law prescribing death penalty for gay people. Again, are they not Christian enough or "this doesn't count"?
It's not that "they are not Christian enough" - they simply *aren't* Christian. And don't even bother with "no true Scotsman fallacy" - the teachings of Jesus are simple enough that there's no question that killing gay people is absolutely wrong. There's no wiggle room.
As others have said, they passed the anti-gay laws with support from hateful American "christians" who were excited to be able to persecute gays for real. It's sickening. At least it's not a capitol offense, which I believe they were trying for.
The sad part is that actual Christians have done a lot of great work in Uganda, building hospitals, schools, orphanages, etc. But it's overshadowed by these anti-gay nuts.
Years ago I became familiar with a company called eTreppid that was making some crazy claims about compression technology while securing investment. The "Trepp" part is Warren Trepp (https://lasvegassun.com/news/2006/nov/19/trepp-often-seems-to-be-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-/).
Anyway, see here for information about the compression:
I recommend that the TSA be disbanded, whatever building their management occupies be demolished (there's no way to clean that much stupid out of a building to make it habitable by anyone else) and their now former employees be banned from ever having a job again that is related to either "airplanes" or "security".
It's funny, I like my recommendation better than theirs, and mine will actually have a more positive impact on airport and airplane security.
Which is true. You are much more likely to be killed on the way to or from the airport than in the air. But those are individual cases, and nobody cares about those.
We have unemployed, homeless people right here that need housing...
Homelessness isn't the problem, it's a symptom. Usually "mental illness" is the actual problem, and that's the reason you can't just give a homeless person a house and make everything right again. That's also the reason they typically don't get a job.
There are a few - very few - homeless people who don't have mental issues and just need a job. I knew a guy like that when I was younger. But that's a drop in the bucket.
Let's be honest: the next time a Democrat is president they will probably either join the Paris accords, or adopt policies that align with the accords anyway.
Right. Meanwhile, here's what Democrats actually DO:
Here's the entire email exchange between Hillary and Huma Abedin when going to former First Lady Betty Ford's funeral:
"Looks like plane won't be an issue," Abedin wrote. "Also, looks like Michelle Obama also going."
"Is it ok [sic] that we and Mrs. O take two separate planes?" Clinton asked.
"I think it's ok [sic]. But let me see what kind of plane she's taking," Abedin responded.
"I would rather have our own of course," Clinton added.
So, yeah, Clinton wants *you* to do something about climate change. But she'd rather take an entire separate airplane than ride on one with Michelle Obama.
Do you see why many of us don't think the Democrats really care about this stuff as much as they claim to?
If these schools and profs want to get an early look at the kinds of problems they can expect when a massive swell in IT courses happens, look no further than India. What problems do they have?
My experience would suggest that their problems are lack of money and the inability to write computer code.
You claim the Orlando nightclub shooting is an "angry Republican type" and get modded up? That was perpetrated - not surprisingly to anybody paying attention - by a Muslim, like almost all terrorist attacks are. We just had another smaller incident that the looneys are trying to pin on right wingers - turns out it was a Jill Stein supporter.
Burning natural gas cleanly creates water vapor and CO2. If you simply run the exhaust through a still, the water vapor will condense down to liquid water and the gas will be almost pure CO2. I'm not sure what their fancy combustion method actually brings to the table.
... and yet leaking is almost never punished, much less prosecuted.
If you want to see why, look at one of the few cases of leaking that *was* prosecuted: Scooter Libby's leaking of the fact Valerie Plame was an active CIA agent.
It was leaked by Richard Armitrage. Libby was convicted of lying to investigators.
"Novak had learned of Plame's employment, which was classified information, from State Department official Richard Armitage."
"The scandal led to a criminal investigation; no one was charged for the leak itself. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to investigators. His prison sentence was ultimately commuted by President Bush."
I love it how things are worded "this data can only be used for XXXXX" or "can't be used for YYYYY" or "won't be disclosed to ZZZZZZ". Bull crap. They will do whatever they want and even if they abide by it for the moment, computers don't "forget" and laws can change at any time.
The real issue is that laws like this are never constructed in the same manner as laws for little people.
If the law were for a non-governmental actor, it would say "This data can only be used for XXXXX. Failure to abide by this statute will be considered a _______ felony with a minimum penalty of ______ and a maximum penalty of ______."
They leave out the part that criminalizes the behavior that they're supposedly prohibiting, so there is literally no reason for anyone to follow this law. There's no penalty for disobeying. The only reason anyone would have to follow it is morals, but it's trivial to find someone with no morals in government work.
It's not surprising to anyone who actually lives in the South. It's not perfect down here, but there's way less hangup on race down here than up north. I think this guy accurately sums it up:
but the extremely unattractive US Dollar exchange.
I think you just hit on another reason for tourism to be down in the US - a strong dollar. Looks like the Canadian Dollar has been falling vs. the US Dollar for about 4 years now.
There is a difference in the terms: Fired = let go for cause. Laid off = let go due to company downsizing or similar, not due to employee fault.
Sometimes there's a reason people use different words, and it's usually because they have different meanings.
Not only that, but if you grew up in a factory town like I did there was a big difference between being fired and being laid off. Laid off was often temporary. If sales were down the factory would cut back on production and cut back on staffing by laying off some workers. When sales were back up the laid off workers were called up again. That's pretty normal.
Oh, right, I forgot, conservatives are immune from having any sort of political agenda. My mistake.
Goit.
That's not what I said - I said nothing about conservatives. What it really comes down to is that "political power elite" and "liberal" are identical terms. That says nothing of conservatives.
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1. I didn't vote for Trump, and would never do so.
2. Evidence of what?
Every article I come across seems to involve the FCC getting slapped down over pretty much everything, especially when it risks a corporations profits.
If no one wants them to regulate anything. why even bother having an FCC at all at this point?
Because this is something that should be handled by legislation, not regulation. That's why we elect Congress.
Similar to above, had Obama said anything about Russia interfering with the election it would have been seen as an excuse and would have given more fire to the con artist's delusions about the election being rigged.
So, how does that jive with your alternate reality where Trump is a Russian puppet? I mean, wouldn't Russian puppet Trump already know about the rigging and all that since it's rigged in his favor?
Watching you people devolve into the basic equivalent of 9/11 troofers has been fascinating.
Where you can fail hard, and still get a $23 million ‘golden parachute’ for your effort. /s
To be fair, I don't think Yahoo was salvageable. But that doesn't justify giving her millions of dollars. If anything, the board should have found someone to take on the job of simply running Yahoo for a million or so a year, which the job is worth if they're able to keep it profitable.
They do it very much in the name of the god. Religion was cited as the motivation for the law prescribing death penalty for gay people. Again, are they not Christian enough or "this doesn't count"?
It's not that "they are not Christian enough" - they simply *aren't* Christian. And don't even bother with "no true Scotsman fallacy" - the teachings of Jesus are simple enough that there's no question that killing gay people is absolutely wrong. There's no wiggle room.
As others have said, they passed the anti-gay laws with support from hateful American "christians" who were excited to be able to persecute gays for real. It's sickening. At least it's not a capitol offense, which I believe they were trying for.
The sad part is that actual Christians have done a lot of great work in Uganda, building hospitals, schools, orphanages, etc. But it's overshadowed by these anti-gay nuts.
Years ago I became familiar with a company called eTreppid that was making some crazy claims about compression technology while securing investment. The "Trepp" part is Warren Trepp (https://lasvegassun.com/news/2006/nov/19/trepp-often-seems-to-be-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-/).
Anyway, see here for information about the compression:
http://endlesscompression.com/
Note that they reference Sloot and describe his methodology.
I have a recommendation, too.
I recommend that the TSA be disbanded, whatever building their management occupies be demolished (there's no way to clean that much stupid out of a building to make it habitable by anyone else) and their now former employees be banned from ever having a job again that is related to either "airplanes" or "security".
It's funny, I like my recommendation better than theirs, and mine will actually have a more positive impact on airport and airplane security.
Which is true. You are much more likely to be killed on the way to or from the airport than in the air. But those are individual cases, and nobody cares about those.
And it doesn't cause buildings to fall down.
We have unemployed, homeless people right here that need housing...
Homelessness isn't the problem, it's a symptom. Usually "mental illness" is the actual problem, and that's the reason you can't just give a homeless person a house and make everything right again. That's also the reason they typically don't get a job.
There are a few - very few - homeless people who don't have mental issues and just need a job. I knew a guy like that when I was younger. But that's a drop in the bucket.
We'll always have the homeless.
In a few hours, Apple will kickstart its annual developer conference.
I find this really surprising. I was sure Apple had plenty of capital.
Yeah, but it's in Ireland.
Let's be honest: the next time a Democrat is president they will probably either join the Paris accords, or adopt policies that align with the accords anyway.
Right. Meanwhile, here's what Democrats actually DO:
http://freebeacon.com/politics...
Here's the entire email exchange between Hillary and Huma Abedin when going to former First Lady Betty Ford's funeral:
"Looks like plane won't be an issue," Abedin wrote. "Also, looks like Michelle Obama also going."
"Is it ok [sic] that we and Mrs. O take two separate planes?" Clinton asked.
"I think it's ok [sic]. But let me see what kind of plane she's taking," Abedin responded.
"I would rather have our own of course," Clinton added.
So, yeah, Clinton wants *you* to do something about climate change. But she'd rather take an entire separate airplane than ride on one with Michelle Obama.
Do you see why many of us don't think the Democrats really care about this stuff as much as they claim to?
We've been cutting CO2, anyway, since we're getting more electricity from natural gas.
If these schools and profs want to get an early look at the kinds of problems they can expect when a massive swell in IT courses happens, look no further than India. What problems do they have?
My experience would suggest that their problems are lack of money and the inability to write computer code.
You claim the Orlando nightclub shooting is an "angry Republican type" and get modded up? That was perpetrated - not surprisingly to anybody paying attention - by a Muslim, like almost all terrorist attacks are. We just had another smaller incident that the looneys are trying to pin on right wingers - turns out it was a Jill Stein supporter.
Sorry, narrative fail.
Burning natural gas cleanly creates water vapor and CO2. If you simply run the exhaust through a still, the water vapor will condense down to liquid water and the gas will be almost pure CO2. I'm not sure what their fancy combustion method actually brings to the table.
1. Because it's a whole lot cheaper than paying for a hospital delivery, and then for health care for a kid.
I don't disagree, but interesting point is that they refused to pay a dime for my vasectomy. I tried the same logic.
Interesting that Obamacare didn't change that. Now, why would that be?
... and yet leaking is almost never punished, much less prosecuted.
If you want to see why, look at one of the few cases of leaking that *was* prosecuted: Scooter Libby's leaking of the fact Valerie Plame was an active CIA agent.
It was leaked by Richard Armitrage. Libby was convicted of lying to investigators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Novak had learned of Plame's employment, which was classified information, from State Department official Richard Armitage."
"The scandal led to a criminal investigation; no one was charged for the leak itself. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to investigators. His prison sentence was ultimately commuted by President Bush."
Why should health insurance pay for birth control? Serious question.
I love it how things are worded "this data can only be used for XXXXX" or "can't be used for YYYYY" or "won't be disclosed to ZZZZZZ". Bull crap. They will do whatever they want and even if they abide by it for the moment, computers don't "forget" and laws can change at any time.
The real issue is that laws like this are never constructed in the same manner as laws for little people.
If the law were for a non-governmental actor, it would say "This data can only be used for XXXXX. Failure to abide by this statute will be considered a _______ felony with a minimum penalty of ______ and a maximum penalty of ______."
They leave out the part that criminalizes the behavior that they're supposedly prohibiting, so there is literally no reason for anyone to follow this law. There's no penalty for disobeying. The only reason anyone would have to follow it is morals, but it's trivial to find someone with no morals in government work.
The Dukes of Hazard had more black actors than Seinfeld or Friends.
It's not a show based up in the segregated North.
It's not surprising to anyone who actually lives in the South. It's not perfect down here, but there's way less hangup on race down here than up north. I think this guy accurately sums it up:
https://www.facebook.com/sylva...
but the extremely unattractive US Dollar exchange.
I think you just hit on another reason for tourism to be down in the US - a strong dollar. Looks like the Canadian Dollar has been falling vs. the US Dollar for about 4 years now.
There is a difference in the terms:
Fired = let go for cause.
Laid off = let go due to company downsizing or similar, not due to employee fault.
Sometimes there's a reason people use different words, and it's usually because they have different meanings.
Not only that, but if you grew up in a factory town like I did there was a big difference between being fired and being laid off. Laid off was often temporary. If sales were down the factory would cut back on production and cut back on staffing by laying off some workers. When sales were back up the laid off workers were called up again. That's pretty normal.
Are you saying that conservatives can't have a political power elite? It sure looks to me like they can and do.
They *can*, but not so much in America. Liberals love government and power, so it's not surprising that they tend to gravitate there.
Oh, right, I forgot, conservatives are immune from having any sort of political agenda. My mistake.
Goit.
That's not what I said - I said nothing about conservatives. What it really comes down to is that "political power elite" and "liberal" are identical terms. That says nothing of conservatives.
Trying to bend science to a liberal agenda is just as bad as it being bent to a political power elite agenda.
"liberal agenda" and "political power elite agenda" are the same thing.