There are only two types of people who freely buy insurance: cowards and those who think they can fool the insurance company into paying more than the premiums cost.
Sure, let yourself be tracked. And when you're arrested because your favorite bookstore is between a drug smuggler and an Islamic bomber's home, don't act surprised.
The standard anonymous sex is male. Using "she" when the subject is not known to be female is confusing and is not proper English. It exposes your conscious bias.
Furthermore, the author of TFA is Matthew Braga, a male name.
Of course not. Logic, by its very nature, cannot be a motivator.
Instead, they use logic as a tool to satisfy their emotional needs.
That's understating the use of logic.
No tool suits every problem.
Logic adds value to the understanding of all problems.
The gist of the sum of your statements subtly undercuts the value of the human mind. What is your motivation?
The "closely held" test is pretty meaningless, since the majority of U.S. corporations are closely held.
It's more important to look at how many people are affected. According to https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html more than half of the employees in the US are employed by companies with more than 500 employees, which excludes almost all "closely held" corporations.
Sure, there are a lot of "closely held" companies, but most of them are pikers.
who said anything about revoking the First Amendment?
A large group of Democrats in the United States Senate are currently working on repealing the First Amendment and replacing it with something weaker and less explicit.
It has long been thought that the political right is the major force behind censorship, a notion reinforced by the attempts, some successful, to prohibit anti-religious and grossly sexual material. Prohibition of political communication is increasingly the realm of the political left, and it is far more dangerous.
If you strip a corporation of its assets its value goes to zero. You thereby strip its owners, the stockholders (which may include me) of their property. That severely impacts my individual liberties.
Consider freedom of the press, since it is more obvious and physical that freedom of speech. Freedom of the press means that the government may not interfere with printing and distributing books, pamphlets, posters, newspapers, bumper stickers, etc.. Government must not destroy printing presses, prevent printed material from being transported, regulate presses or printing businesses in a manner different from other businesses, threaten the owner of the press or his employees, or prevent him from receiving or spending money for the production of printed material, or regulate such monetary movement. Printing is not free, and the dissemination of ideas in print cannot be separated from the money needed to print.
Douglas Adams was an absurdist more interested in jokes than political reality; relying on him for accurate observations is an error.
The president is powerful enough to roll over the opposition of any single person. Wise enough, not necessarily, but surely powerful enough.
Every president for the last century has grabbed more power than the one before him
Sorry, you're off by 15 years. Harding and Coolidge reduced the power of the government; not until Hoover in 1929 did the relentless trend to tyranny begin.
"Runaway Convention" is a boogey man used by those in favor of the current corrupt big government to scare unthinking people into opposition. It didn't take a Constitutional Convention to create the horrid 16th and 17th amendments.
From your criticism of local standards I can't tell if you're supporting national/international standards or individual standards, so I'll point out the flaws in both. In the sense of a standard meaning a criterion the same for everyone, "individual standard" is an oxymoron. National education standards ends up with the censorship of history so common in totalitarian governments.
The standards of education need to be appropriate for the community. It's pointless to teach Eskimos to surf or Hawaiians to build igloos. At the other extreme, not every parent is capable of defining educational goals for their children; illiterates can't be allowed to prevent their children from reading.
There's hardly a single item of truth in your post, but I'll expose just one flaw. Political and philosophic movements seldom have names that agree with their policies. There's nothing progressive about progressivism. Originally liberalism referred to a freedom-based ideology somewhat like today's libertarianism, but modern American liberalism is an alternate name for progressivism. American conservatism doesn't mean maintenance of the status quo, it means conserving the principles of the government established 1776-1787.
I'll never forgive my mother for making me give away some of my more valued toys. I still have stuff from 50 years ago, and I dearly miss a few cherished things that her religious beliefs caused me to lose.
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There are only two types of people who freely buy insurance: cowards and those who think they can fool the insurance company into paying more than the premiums cost.
Both groups are immoral.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
Sure, let yourself be tracked. And when you're arrested because your favorite bookstore is between a drug smuggler and an Islamic bomber's home, don't act surprised.
The standard anonymous sex is male. Using "she" when the subject is not known to be female is confusing and is not proper English. It exposes your conscious bias.
Furthermore, the author of TFA is Matthew Braga, a male name.
The video was obviously edited. Bad or boring parts didn't make it to the final cut.
Fireworks are quite bright. I've photographed plenty with 100 ISO film.
Argh! Now I can't get rid of the image of adult blue whales fired 500 feet into the air.
The Charles River is over 1500 feet wide near MIT. If a firework were aimed at the shore, there's a good chance it wouldn't make it.
Of course not. Logic, by its very nature, cannot be a motivator.
That's understating the use of logic.
Logic adds value to the understanding of all problems.
The gist of the sum of your statements subtly undercuts the value of the human mind. What is your motivation?
It's more important to look at how many people are affected. According to https://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html more than half of the employees in the US are employed by companies with more than 500 employees, which excludes almost all "closely held" corporations.
Sure, there are a lot of "closely held" companies, but most of them are pikers.
The fact the it is called MayDay is all that is needed to determine its political orientation.
A large group of Democrats in the United States Senate are currently working on repealing the First Amendment and replacing it with something weaker and less explicit.
It has long been thought that the political right is the major force behind censorship, a notion reinforced by the attempts, some successful, to prohibit anti-religious and grossly sexual material. Prohibition of political communication is increasingly the realm of the political left, and it is far more dangerous.
If you strip a corporation of its assets its value goes to zero. You thereby strip its owners, the stockholders (which may include me) of their property. That severely impacts my individual liberties.
Please think before posting.
Consider freedom of the press, since it is more obvious and physical that freedom of speech. Freedom of the press means that the government may not interfere with printing and distributing books, pamphlets, posters, newspapers, bumper stickers, etc.. Government must not destroy printing presses, prevent printed material from being transported, regulate presses or printing businesses in a manner different from other businesses, threaten the owner of the press or his employees, or prevent him from receiving or spending money for the production of printed material, or regulate such monetary movement. Printing is not free, and the dissemination of ideas in print cannot be separated from the money needed to print.
Douglas Adams was an absurdist more interested in jokes than political reality; relying on him for accurate observations is an error.
The president is powerful enough to roll over the opposition of any single person. Wise enough, not necessarily, but surely powerful enough.
Sorry, you're off by 15 years. Harding and Coolidge reduced the power of the government; not until Hoover in 1929 did the relentless trend to tyranny begin.
The Whiskey Rebellion in 1791 came after the new Constitution. Apparently bigger government wasn't the solution.
It occurs to me that having a government murderous enough to quash all rebellions is worse than having rebellions.
"Runaway Convention" is a boogey man used by those in favor of the current corrupt big government to scare unthinking people into opposition. It didn't take a Constitutional Convention to create the horrid 16th and 17th amendments.
They must have been AOLian Harpies.
Beta is worthless. I'm out of here, and it will be a long time until I even look here again.
Actually, in most states a fucking contract can get you jailed.
When the government is telling you who you must do business with, the government is, by definition, fascist.
From your criticism of local standards I can't tell if you're supporting national/international standards or individual standards, so I'll point out the flaws in both. In the sense of a standard meaning a criterion the same for everyone, "individual standard" is an oxymoron. National education standards ends up with the censorship of history so common in totalitarian governments.
The standards of education need to be appropriate for the community. It's pointless to teach Eskimos to surf or Hawaiians to build igloos. At the other extreme, not every parent is capable of defining educational goals for their children; illiterates can't be allowed to prevent their children from reading.
There's hardly a single item of truth in your post, but I'll expose just one flaw. Political and philosophic movements seldom have names that agree with their policies. There's nothing progressive about progressivism. Originally liberalism referred to a freedom-based ideology somewhat like today's libertarianism, but modern American liberalism is an alternate name for progressivism. American conservatism doesn't mean maintenance of the status quo, it means conserving the principles of the government established 1776-1787.
I'll never forgive my mother for making me give away some of my more valued toys. I still have stuff from 50 years ago, and I dearly miss a few cherished things that her religious beliefs caused me to lose.