Well, they *are* vulnerable, because they operate outside the law and can be exploited by criminals You don't think that a prostitute you've paid $300 gets to keep that money? Almost all of that goes to the pimp.
During the research for Freakonomics, the authors found that prostitutes who use a pimp make more money than when working alone. The pimp also offers protection (remember, not all men pay the $300 of which you speak) and handles the cops. Yeah, two-way street.
I'm serious. I want to like Elon Musk, but seriously his entire business model is based on getting the government (at all levels) to help him. His cars are subsidized heavily by the government, meaning that poor people in California are helping to pay for rich people buying expensive cars. That's not right. Now he wants more governmental help to hurt his competition. He needs to simply do the right thing, and that means competing fair and square.
And don't bother telling me about the massive "subsidies" available to the fossil fuel industry. Those subsidies are tax breaks for industry in the US that are available to Tesla, also, and I guarantee that they take advantage of it all.
I don't even want to go into the fact that his cars are, for the most part, coal powered.
Let me explain this really simply. Every single cop who pulled over the preacher that I talked about is a violent felon. Yes, it's that simple.
It's not legal to point a gun at someone unless you have a reasonable belief that they are going to immediately cause great harm to you or someone else. Period.
Most police officers who die in the line of duty either have a car accident or a heart attack - only about 1/3 are actually victims of homicide.
Beyond that, yes, police don't actually kill that many people. But what we've found is that when they do, the others tend to cover up their bad behavior. A staggering number have killed multiple times. Given that half of all LEOs in the US don't ever draw their sidearm during their entire career, you get the picture that some guys just don't need to be police officers.
I didn't understand it until I went to a mixed-race church with a black preacher years ago. One Sunday he gently explained it to us white folks in the audience. This is a guy with no criminal history, college educated, etc. He started out by explaining that every single time he had been pulled over he had a gun pointed at him, sometimes touched to his bald head.
We have a pretty big problem with that stuff in this country, and the Tamir rices are just the tip of the iceberg.
Sigh, here we go again. He was impeached for lying under oath, also known as perjury. It's a crime. And, by the way, we know he lied.
Yes but how did that work out for you? You got angry, the Clinton's kept winning. Perhaps it's time to move on?
I got angry? Not really. I actually thought Clinton was about as good as a POTUS can get as far as the country goes. But, personally? He's a serial womanizer, and people who support him keep telling me that it's really important and really wrong.
Yeah, how did that impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying to congress about a blow job work out for you, anti-Clinton partisans?
Sigh, here we go again. He was impeached for lying under oath, also known as perjury. It's a crime. And, by the way, we know he lied. The FBI verified that a white spot on Monica's dress was the, ahem, presidential seal, so to speak. He also perjured himself in court in a case where a former employee under him sued him for sexual harassment.
Please quit lying about what he did. It was vile by any standard and people who claim the other side wages a "war on women" might have more credibility if they actually stood up for women like Paula Jones.
Bernie supporters don't "hate" Hillary, we just think Bernie is a better choice.
Every time someone says something about Bernie people show up acting sane and claiming that they're really the legit Bernie supporters. Of course, Trump is defined by the worst of his supporters while Bernie is supposed to be defined by the best of his. See the double standard?
I'm hoping this election cycle results in the GOP splitting in two.
How does that not happen without the Democrats splitting similarly?
I have a number of strongly Democratic friends on Facebook. I have NEVER seen such a massive dislike of the front-runner (Hillary) and support for the candidates being shafted (Sanders).
That's what I find funny about all the "Republican party is dead now" shit posted here and elsewhere. The Democrats are going through the exact same thing, but they don't control the house and senate. 3 years ago all I was hearing about from the Democrats on Facebook was how the Congress was going to go so strongly to the Democrats in the midterm election that the Republican party was finished. Instead, it went even more strongly to the Republicans.
I think the fantasy is that if they keep saying "The Republican party is dead" long enough it'll be true. These are the same people who think transgenderism is based on medical science, after all. Reality has a way of bitch-slapping them continuously to the point that I think they're numb to it.
I'm glad to see she'll be doing something where she can't effect or harm other people. Hopefully it'll be a few decades before she realizes that everybody is ignoring her.
It's a terrible experiment, anyway. "Choosing" the color (which is actually "guessing" - different concept) doesn't invoke the idea of "free will", anyway. They're trying to guess something random and inconsequential, and there's no actual basis for the decision. It would be akin to asking them to pick a number between 1 and 10 and then seeing how "good" they are - there's no way to actually guess it and nobody is going to actually be better than someone else.
The real question is given an actual meaningful choice in life - say, to ask a beautiful woman to marry me - am I actually making that choice when I weigh everything out, or am I simply a machine where a given set of inputs will always yield the same output. I'm not guessing at a random event in this example. To further the example, if I am such a machine am I also so complex that I've been endowed with the functionality such that my conscious mind is given the illusion that it has made such a choice when in fact the outcome was predetermined at lower levels that I cannot consciously understand.
The experimenters seem to be trying to claim that they're doing such an experiment, but they're not. At its simplest I suppose they could put two foods that you like in front of you and let you choose one of them to eat, and design the experiment around that. That's an actual choice. "I think the next random color is going to be red" isn't even in the same ballpark.
If you could take everyone's money away, divide it all 100% evenly and give it back to the people so that everyone started 100% equal, it would be unequal again in a week.
There are more than a few of us and I'm actually a Libertarian. I am not a Randian but I am a Libertarian. In fact, I've been with the party since about 1978. One of the many reasons I support Sanders is because his policies will be less expensive, overall, for the entirety.
Of course, there's a good chance that you don't know many Libertarians and have a crazy belief about the things most of us stand for. Though, to be fair, we do have some idiots in the party. I dare say that those idiots are not yet the majority.
I am a libertarian (small "l"). Yes, I know the platform. Sanders, at best, is Hugo Chavez, but not so ugly and mean.
I am wealthy, I support Bernie. Normally I wouldn't bother to state such an uninteresting combination of 2 facts, or with trying to list the various aspects of objective reality that contradict your ridiculous, uninformed and, well, hateful description of a group of 'others' (gee, where have I heard such rhetoric recently?), but you wrote your argument so poorly that this simple statement seems to QED the whole show, so...thanks for saving me some time I guess?
Congrats, there are a few of you. From what I see on my facebook wall you're 1) really bad with math and 2) really naive about government. I could also throw in 3) never heard of Venezuela, but I'd be a dick at that point.
Most of Bernie's supporters are the standard left-wingers who are envious of anybody who's "made it". If you think they won't turn on you in a heartbeat you're even more naive than I'm assuming above.
I am not a Trump support and will not be voting for him in any election. However Facebook should stay away from trying to shut him down as the institution. For one this guy is fueled by hate.
I'm so tired of this slur. You know who's *really* fueled by hate? Bernie Sanders. His followers' extreme envy of anybody who makes more than minimum wage is true hatred - and you can easily see where it leads with the extreme "protests" that they exhibit.
Not at all, NK is not even communist, it's called Juche - military leadership with focus on self-reliance and the individual. In other words, another way of justifying a military dictatorship.
Oh, give me a break. The state owns all means of production - it's communism. Like Cuba.
A bunch of peoples really nice coastal cities would also probably cease to exist. But we're not looking at 200 foot sea level rise. Even still, New York was 60 billion in the hole after Sandy. Even a few feet of sea level rise would make the average storm surge rather expensive.
I agree. But "average storm surge rather expensive" and "human life wiped out" aren't the same thing.
a mere 15 million years ago CO2 levels were 4 times higher, average temperature was several degrees warmer, and seas were 200 feet higher.
200 foot sea level rise (your words, not mine) would probably count as a global catastrophe.
It absolutely would count as a global catastrophe if it happened quickly.
But that has *nothing* to do with human life being wiped out. It just means the coastlines get redrawn and a bunch of people's really nice beachfront property ceases to exist.
Warming alarmists need to get a grip: it's not going to wipe out life on earth.
I suppose '92 Republican presidential hopeful and noted white supremacist David Duke was put up to endorsing Trump by Democratic party operatives. Your reality sounds really soft and cushy with all those pesky sharp corners filed off.
What does that have to do with it? Do you really think someone as polished as David Duke (note that I don't say this in an approving manner) would be so crass as to give a Nazi salute? I highly doubt the picture is an actual Trump supporter, regardless of all that. It looks like a lefty trying to make Trump look bad.
Same with the 2nd Life griefing. Do you really think actual Trump supporters are using Nazi imagery? Doubtful. I'm not saying there aren't neo-nazis supporting current candidates, Trump included, just saying that most of them are smart enough to keep it toned down.
We laugh, but failures are how one learns how to do things; we had many dozens of rockets fail before we perfected the technology.
Eventually they'll figure it out. Then what? I don't trust that crazy government with ICBMs.
I dunno. When our tests failed von Braun and crew figured out the issue, fixed it, had another iteration. In NK I would imagine each failure adds 20+ people to the labor camps, hard to say if a scientist gets a second chance.
Most of what's been pinned on Trump supporters has actually been paid and planted people from the Hillary camp, and in a couple of cases Cruz/"establishment" people.
Plenty of people ARE interested in nursing and similar jobs, the foreign workers are if not cheaper, more reliable and hard working and don't have much legal recourses for shorting them overtime pay and sick days.
Yes, again, I cover this elsewhere. Employers love them because they're stuck in their job and have little mobility. Ultimately this all plays into the price for their labor, and the inability to change jobs skews the labor market so that they can be paid less. They're also treated badly in some places in various ways because there's no way to complain. I had an acquaintance who worked for a "staffing company" that one day changed the nurses' contracts to remove some of their paid leave. Nobody complained. I told her they couldn't do that and she didn't understand why they couldn't change their own contract. This stuff is common.
But as I said, Americans would be interested if the free market were allowed to work properly and raise wages. Cronies don't like that, though, so they bring in cheap foreigners to disrupt the market and lower wages.
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Well, they *are* vulnerable, because they operate outside the law and can be exploited by criminals You don't think that a prostitute you've paid $300 gets to keep that money? Almost all of that goes to the pimp.
During the research for Freakonomics, the authors found that prostitutes who use a pimp make more money than when working alone. The pimp also offers protection (remember, not all men pay the $300 of which you speak) and handles the cops. Yeah, two-way street.
This has become a trend in American life: the culture of stupid.
Started with Sarah Palin...
Uh, yeah, totally started with Sarah Palin. <eyeroll>
And by subsidies, I mean specific transfer payments to the oil/gas industry or specific tax credits offered to the oil/gas industry.
The answer is "no". The "subsidies" that the looney left yell about all the time are standard tax breaks available to manufacturers in the US.
I'm serious. I want to like Elon Musk, but seriously his entire business model is based on getting the government (at all levels) to help him. His cars are subsidized heavily by the government, meaning that poor people in California are helping to pay for rich people buying expensive cars. That's not right. Now he wants more governmental help to hurt his competition. He needs to simply do the right thing, and that means competing fair and square.
And don't bother telling me about the massive "subsidies" available to the fossil fuel industry. Those subsidies are tax breaks for industry in the US that are available to Tesla, also, and I guarantee that they take advantage of it all.
I don't even want to go into the fact that his cars are, for the most part, coal powered.
Let me explain this really simply. Every single cop who pulled over the preacher that I talked about is a violent felon. Yes, it's that simple.
It's not legal to point a gun at someone unless you have a reasonable belief that they are going to immediately cause great harm to you or someone else. Period.
It's frightening how easily you ignore that.
Most police officers who die in the line of duty either have a car accident or a heart attack - only about 1/3 are actually victims of homicide.
Beyond that, yes, police don't actually kill that many people. But what we've found is that when they do, the others tend to cover up their bad behavior. A staggering number have killed multiple times. Given that half of all LEOs in the US don't ever draw their sidearm during their entire career, you get the picture that some guys just don't need to be police officers.
I didn't understand it until I went to a mixed-race church with a black preacher years ago. One Sunday he gently explained it to us white folks in the audience. This is a guy with no criminal history, college educated, etc. He started out by explaining that every single time he had been pulled over he had a gun pointed at him, sometimes touched to his bald head.
We have a pretty big problem with that stuff in this country, and the Tamir rices are just the tip of the iceberg.
Sigh, here we go again. He was impeached for lying under oath, also known as perjury. It's a crime. And, by the way, we know he lied.
Yes but how did that work out for you? You got angry, the Clinton's kept winning. Perhaps it's time to move on?
I got angry? Not really. I actually thought Clinton was about as good as a POTUS can get as far as the country goes. But, personally? He's a serial womanizer, and people who support him keep telling me that it's really important and really wrong.
When Republicans do it.
Yeah, how did that impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying to congress about a blow job work out for you, anti-Clinton partisans?
Sigh, here we go again. He was impeached for lying under oath, also known as perjury. It's a crime. And, by the way, we know he lied. The FBI verified that a white spot on Monica's dress was the, ahem, presidential seal, so to speak. He also perjured himself in court in a case where a former employee under him sued him for sexual harassment.
Please quit lying about what he did. It was vile by any standard and people who claim the other side wages a "war on women" might have more credibility if they actually stood up for women like Paula Jones.
Bernie supporters don't "hate" Hillary, we just think Bernie is a better choice.
Every time someone says something about Bernie people show up acting sane and claiming that they're really the legit Bernie supporters. Of course, Trump is defined by the worst of his supporters while Bernie is supposed to be defined by the best of his. See the double standard?
These people are Bernie supporters:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n...
I'm hoping this election cycle results in the GOP splitting in two.
How does that not happen without the Democrats splitting similarly?
I have a number of strongly Democratic friends on Facebook. I have NEVER seen such a massive dislike of the front-runner (Hillary) and support for the candidates being shafted (Sanders).
That's what I find funny about all the "Republican party is dead now" shit posted here and elsewhere. The Democrats are going through the exact same thing, but they don't control the house and senate. 3 years ago all I was hearing about from the Democrats on Facebook was how the Congress was going to go so strongly to the Democrats in the midterm election that the Republican party was finished. Instead, it went even more strongly to the Republicans.
I think the fantasy is that if they keep saying "The Republican party is dead" long enough it'll be true. These are the same people who think transgenderism is based on medical science, after all. Reality has a way of bitch-slapping them continuously to the point that I think they're numb to it.
I'm glad to see she'll be doing something where she can't effect or harm other people. Hopefully it'll be a few decades before she realizes that everybody is ignoring her.
It's a terrible experiment, anyway. "Choosing" the color (which is actually "guessing" - different concept) doesn't invoke the idea of "free will", anyway. They're trying to guess something random and inconsequential, and there's no actual basis for the decision. It would be akin to asking them to pick a number between 1 and 10 and then seeing how "good" they are - there's no way to actually guess it and nobody is going to actually be better than someone else.
The real question is given an actual meaningful choice in life - say, to ask a beautiful woman to marry me - am I actually making that choice when I weigh everything out, or am I simply a machine where a given set of inputs will always yield the same output. I'm not guessing at a random event in this example. To further the example, if I am such a machine am I also so complex that I've been endowed with the functionality such that my conscious mind is given the illusion that it has made such a choice when in fact the outcome was predetermined at lower levels that I cannot consciously understand.
The experimenters seem to be trying to claim that they're doing such an experiment, but they're not. At its simplest I suppose they could put two foods that you like in front of you and let you choose one of them to eat, and design the experiment around that. That's an actual choice. "I think the next random color is going to be red" isn't even in the same ballpark.
> sure they are playing on fairer ground
If you could take everyone's money away, divide it all 100% evenly and give it back to the people so that everyone started 100% equal, it would be unequal again in a week.
Bingo.
There are more than a few of us and I'm actually a Libertarian. I am not a Randian but I am a Libertarian. In fact, I've been with the party since about 1978. One of the many reasons I support Sanders is because his policies will be less expensive, overall, for the entirety.
Of course, there's a good chance that you don't know many Libertarians and have a crazy belief about the things most of us stand for. Though, to be fair, we do have some idiots in the party. I dare say that those idiots are not yet the majority.
I am a libertarian (small "l"). Yes, I know the platform. Sanders, at best, is Hugo Chavez, but not so ugly and mean.
I am wealthy, I support Bernie. Normally I wouldn't bother to state such an uninteresting combination of 2 facts, or with trying to list the various aspects of objective reality that contradict your ridiculous, uninformed and, well, hateful description of a group of 'others' (gee, where have I heard such rhetoric recently?), but you wrote your argument so poorly that this simple statement seems to QED the whole show, so...thanks for saving me some time I guess?
Congrats, there are a few of you. From what I see on my facebook wall you're 1) really bad with math and 2) really naive about government. I could also throw in 3) never heard of Venezuela, but I'd be a dick at that point.
Most of Bernie's supporters are the standard left-wingers who are envious of anybody who's "made it". If you think they won't turn on you in a heartbeat you're even more naive than I'm assuming above.
I am not a Trump support and will not be voting for him in any election. However Facebook should stay away from trying to shut him down as the institution.
For one this guy is fueled by hate.
I'm so tired of this slur. You know who's *really* fueled by hate? Bernie Sanders. His followers' extreme envy of anybody who makes more than minimum wage is true hatred - and you can easily see where it leads with the extreme "protests" that they exhibit.
Not at all, NK is not even communist, it's called Juche - military leadership with focus on self-reliance and the individual. In other words, another way of justifying a military dictatorship.
Oh, give me a break. The state owns all means of production - it's communism. Like Cuba.
North Korea is leftist in much the same way that the Andromeda Galaxy is gluten free.
North Korea is absolutely the end result of extreme leftism. I'm guessing you think Cuba is right-wing also?
I was not aware you could keep people from dying by outlawing funerals.
Does the US really want to piss off a guy with that kind of power?
A bunch of peoples really nice coastal cities would also probably cease to exist. But we're not looking at 200 foot sea level rise. Even still, New York was 60 billion in the hole after Sandy. Even a few feet of sea level rise would make the average storm surge rather expensive.
I agree. But "average storm surge rather expensive" and "human life wiped out" aren't the same thing.
a mere 15 million years ago CO2 levels were 4 times higher, average temperature was several degrees warmer, and seas were 200 feet higher.
200 foot sea level rise (your words, not mine) would probably count as a global catastrophe.
It absolutely would count as a global catastrophe if it happened quickly.
But that has *nothing* to do with human life being wiped out. It just means the coastlines get redrawn and a bunch of people's really nice beachfront property ceases to exist.
Warming alarmists need to get a grip: it's not going to wipe out life on earth.
I suppose '92 Republican presidential hopeful and noted white supremacist David Duke was put up to endorsing Trump by Democratic party operatives. Your reality sounds really soft and cushy with all those pesky sharp corners filed off.
What does that have to do with it? Do you really think someone as polished as David Duke (note that I don't say this in an approving manner) would be so crass as to give a Nazi salute? I highly doubt the picture is an actual Trump supporter, regardless of all that. It looks like a lefty trying to make Trump look bad.
Same with the 2nd Life griefing. Do you really think actual Trump supporters are using Nazi imagery? Doubtful. I'm not saying there aren't neo-nazis supporting current candidates, Trump included, just saying that most of them are smart enough to keep it toned down.
We laugh, but failures are how one learns how to do things; we had many dozens of rockets fail before we perfected the technology.
Eventually they'll figure it out. Then what? I don't trust that crazy government with ICBMs.
I dunno. When our tests failed von Braun and crew figured out the issue, fixed it, had another iteration. In NK I would imagine each failure adds 20+ people to the labor camps, hard to say if a scientist gets a second chance.
You are delusional.
https://img.washingtonpost.com...
How does that picture refute what he says? False flag operations are part and parcel of the looney left. Hell, this just came across the wire today:
http://college.usatoday.com/20...
Plenty of people ARE interested in nursing and similar jobs, the foreign workers are if not cheaper, more reliable and hard working and don't have much legal recourses for shorting them overtime pay and sick days.
Yes, again, I cover this elsewhere. Employers love them because they're stuck in their job and have little mobility. Ultimately this all plays into the price for their labor, and the inability to change jobs skews the labor market so that they can be paid less. They're also treated badly in some places in various ways because there's no way to complain. I had an acquaintance who worked for a "staffing company" that one day changed the nurses' contracts to remove some of their paid leave. Nobody complained. I told her they couldn't do that and she didn't understand why they couldn't change their own contract. This stuff is common.
But as I said, Americans would be interested if the free market were allowed to work properly and raise wages. Cronies don't like that, though, so they bring in cheap foreigners to disrupt the market and lower wages.