I'm not going to defend GWB or the Iraq War. And, if it matters, he did not compaign for small-limited government he campaigned on "compassionate conservatism" whatever that means.
Re immigration - yes - all governments everywhere at all times dictated immigration: that's part and parcel of the nation-state. Small government has to do with limiting government. ie, that government is not all-power and all-pervasive. Preventing people from breaking national laws and entering the country illegally is not breaking that covenant in letter or spirit.
The US population has increased from 130 million in 1930 to 310 million in 2010. If we continue to grow at the same rate the US population will be about 750 million in 80 years and will pass a billion in about 100. Are you saying that we - the citizens of the US - can do nothing about this?
No, I'm not saying that. All I'm saying is that so-called conservatives are not for fiscal conservatism or small government as they claim to be. They are for spending money and growing government in different areas than liberals are for. They just justify their distaste for liberal ideas by saying "fiscal conservative," but when cutting costs or smaller government hit their hot-button issues: defense, immigration, etc - the desire disappears.
There is an equal likelihood that both are guilty.The standard DNA test was not enough to differentiate between the pair, so the full-blown test may end up revealing both brothers' DNA. They can't even trust one brother saying he's guilty and the other innocent because an innocent brother could lie in order to let his guilty brother go free.
The prosecutors are basically being forced to pay for the full DNA test to find out the real truth, because if they don't pay both brothers go free on a technicality, which would also imply that the sexual assault victims' trauma (and possible future assaults) is not worth paying a million bucks to stop.
Equal likelihood? In what universe is that and how did you calculate that? The only even remotely possible way of calculating would be equal chances of each outcome: Twin 1, Twin 2, and Both - that's still half the chance.
It's the brothers that have the dilemma. Let's say both of them were committing these crimes:
If both stay silent, maybe end up with time served 'cause they can't be sure it which of you it was.
If one brother rats the other out (with convincing proof), he goes free while the other gets sentenced for all the crimes.
If both rat the other out, each gets sentenced for his actual share of the crimes.
So you're saying "let's suppose it's a prisoner's dilemma."
I don't see how any of those could be accomplished with a limited government. See, the left only knows how to attack the straw man Republican. When actually faced with a classical liberal, they are struck dumb (in both senses of the word).
Of course you don't see how those could be accomplished with limited government - that's the fucking point. You're not for limited government, just for DIFFERENT government. Admit it. Then you break out the ad hom - you ARE the strawman republican.
First, I was not the OP who used the term goose-steppers, I was only responding to theclaim that conservatives are for limited government. They are not. You try to justify the conservatives big government largesse by comparing it to liberal policy. That does not reduce the largesse in money or bureaucracy. GWB created a war in Iraq under false pretenses that has cost us over $3 trillion and created the DHS. That is not small government, period. Regardless of states rights to control who crosses the borders, it is still not "limited government" to build walls. Nothing in the constitution says people can't immigrate to the US.
You mean small like regulating vaginas, thrusting military might across the globe, building walls along our borders, and building ever more jail cells for victimless crimes?
Then move out of the subdivision. Mailboxes were mandated at the street in 1978. I have lived in four different USA houses that had the mailbox/slot on the door. The mailman did not drive up to my door, obviously.
A comparable situation would be if you purchased a 12-piece McNuggets lunch, but shat out 5 of them, and complained that you "only got 7."
The explanation is that your body can't use 100% of the nuggets, because you can't digest the stuff that is required to make it take the form of a nugget, and taste approximately like chicken.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Yeah, I pointed that out. Maybe you should read the whole post before you hit "Reply."
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Ron Paul is a loon. Like a broken clock he's right twice a day, as in Liberty'O'Clock. But other than that, he's quite literally batshit crazy.
... But the people who keep voting in the same oligarchs, time and time again, expecting said aristocracy to actually do things differently at some point, are not somehow 'batshit crazy?' Or are you silently acknowledging that the D and R voters are just-as-if-not-moreso crazy than those who vote for
Paul?
Perhaps those voting for the "same oligarchs, time and again" actually like the result they get. Or perhaps they prefer to have nothing accomplished, if the alternative is to elect someone (Ron Paul) who has batshit crazy ideas.
You can only do it on your turn. We don't charge a turn for doing it. What's nice is it prevents the butt-whipping that can occur when one player manages to draw both the blanks during a game (I generally don't play a blank unless I can get 40+ points on the play).
My favorite rule is blank replacement. If you have the letter a blank was played as, you get to swap it on the board and take the blank into your rack.
His methodology could be enhanced. Letters C and V should be bumped up as well since the fact that they cannot be made into 2 letter words often makes them less useful and harder to play.
I've been saying that for years. Really, it comes down to the two-letter words. I've noticed that Words with Friends uses a different scoring, perhaps in an attempt to fix the perceived problem.
A uniformed good guy with a gun. Anything else is handwaving bullshit.
FTFY. When a bunch of plain-clothes concealed-carry yahoos are there when someone starts to go postal, they are only going to make the situation worse, as they start shooting (with varying degrees of skill) and no one can tell the good guys from the bad guys.
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You should be modded troll for responding to yourself bitching about how you were modded.
My kingdom for mod points, sir. You are awarded one internets.
I'm not going to defend GWB or the Iraq War. And, if it matters, he did not compaign for small-limited government he campaigned on "compassionate conservatism" whatever that means.
Re immigration - yes - all governments everywhere at all times dictated immigration: that's part and parcel of the nation-state. Small government has to do with limiting government. ie, that government is not all-power and all-pervasive. Preventing people from breaking national laws and entering the country illegally is not breaking that covenant in letter or spirit.
The US population has increased from 130 million in 1930 to 310 million in 2010. If we continue to grow at the same rate the US population will be about 750 million in 80 years and will pass a billion in about 100. Are you saying that we - the citizens of the US - can do nothing about this?
No, I'm not saying that. All I'm saying is that so-called conservatives are not for fiscal conservatism or small government as they claim to be. They are for spending money and growing government in different areas than liberals are for. They just justify their distaste for liberal ideas by saying "fiscal conservative," but when cutting costs or smaller government hit their hot-button issues: defense, immigration, etc - the desire disappears.
There is an equal likelihood that both are guilty.The standard DNA test was not enough to differentiate between the pair, so the full-blown test may end up revealing both brothers' DNA. They can't even trust one brother saying he's guilty and the other innocent because an innocent brother could lie in order to let his guilty brother go free.
The prosecutors are basically being forced to pay for the full DNA test to find out the real truth, because if they don't pay both brothers go free on a technicality, which would also imply that the sexual assault victims' trauma (and possible future assaults) is not worth paying a million bucks to stop.
Equal likelihood? In what universe is that and how did you calculate that? The only even remotely possible way of calculating would be equal chances of each outcome: Twin 1, Twin 2, and Both - that's still half the chance.
It's the brothers that have the dilemma. Let's say both of them were committing these crimes: If both stay silent, maybe end up with time served 'cause they can't be sure it which of you it was. If one brother rats the other out (with convincing proof), he goes free while the other gets sentenced for all the crimes. If both rat the other out, each gets sentenced for his actual share of the crimes.
So you're saying "let's suppose it's a prisoner's dilemma."
I don't see how any of those could be accomplished with a limited government. See, the left only knows how to attack the straw man Republican. When actually faced with a classical liberal, they are struck dumb (in both senses of the word).
Of course you don't see how those could be accomplished with limited government - that's the fucking point. You're not for limited government, just for DIFFERENT government. Admit it. Then you break out the ad hom - you ARE the strawman republican.
First, I was not the OP who used the term goose-steppers, I was only responding to theclaim that conservatives are for limited government. They are not. You try to justify the conservatives big government largesse by comparing it to liberal policy. That does not reduce the largesse in money or bureaucracy. GWB created a war in Iraq under false pretenses that has cost us over $3 trillion and created the DHS. That is not small government, period. Regardless of states rights to control who crosses the borders, it is still not "limited government" to build walls. Nothing in the constitution says people can't immigrate to the US.
It's called flip-flopping. Did you change girlfriends and thus political leanings?
You mean small like regulating vaginas, thrusting military might across the globe, building walls along our borders, and building ever more jail cells for victimless crimes?
The new name for Windows 8: Vista Part 2.
I'll pick you up at nine next monday morning ~9am.
With the bail money?
Given that the standard definition of space (the Kármán Line) is 100 km above mean sea level, *everyone* lives within 100 miles (160 km) of space...
Time to dig yourself a VERY deep bunker!
I have never in my life seen a mailman walk
Then move out of the subdivision. Mailboxes were mandated at the street in 1978. I have lived in four different USA houses that had the mailbox/slot on the door. The mailman did not drive up to my door, obviously.
Yeah, but the entry was written by a Linux fanboy, so they had to claim that was the competition.
Typo in the summary - it's boner conduction they're using.
No, the equivalent would be McDonalds selling a 1/4 pound burger but measuring the weight before cooking.
Wow. How many people hit "Reply" without reading the whole comment?
A comparable situation would be if you purchased a 12-piece McNuggets lunch, but shat out 5 of them, and complained that you "only got 7."
The explanation is that your body can't use 100% of the nuggets, because you can't digest the stuff that is required to make it take the form of a nugget, and taste approximately like chicken.
Funny as hell, but not a comparable situation.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Except that McDonald's does exactly what the article is talking about. Your Quarter Pounder is a quater of a pound before they cook it. You are not getting a quarter pound of meat on the bun. Some of the mass is lost during cooking. Now granted, I think this case is much more extreme than the case of a hamburger.
Yeah, I pointed that out. Maybe you should read the whole post before you hit "Reply."
I thought White Plague was far better than anything Dune.
Should McDonald's tell you exactly what is in their burgers when we buy them or should we have the foresight to look up nutrition facts before buying?
Um, no. A comparable situation would be if McDonald's advertised that that their McNuggets Lunch-a-rama had 12 nuggets, but when you buy one you only got 7. Their explanation being that the server has to eat some, too. At least McDonald's has the decency to admit that their Quarter Pounder is *pre-cooked weight. MS could do the same by saying pre-OS storage. However, if the Quarter Pounder was delivered at less than 2 oz, I think there would be an uproar.
Ron Paul is a loon. Like a broken clock he's right twice a day, as in Liberty'O'Clock. But other than that, he's quite literally batshit crazy.
... But the people who keep voting in the same oligarchs, time and time again, expecting said aristocracy to actually do things differently at some point, are not somehow 'batshit crazy?' Or are you silently acknowledging that the D and R voters are just-as-if-not-moreso crazy than those who vote for Paul?
Perhaps those voting for the "same oligarchs, time and again" actually like the result they get. Or perhaps they prefer to have nothing accomplished, if the alternative is to elect someone (Ron Paul) who has batshit crazy ideas.
You can only do it on your turn. We don't charge a turn for doing it. What's nice is it prevents the butt-whipping that can occur when one player manages to draw both the blanks during a game (I generally don't play a blank unless I can get 40+ points on the play).
My favorite rule is blank replacement. If you have the letter a blank was played as, you get to swap it on the board and take the blank into your rack.
His methodology could be enhanced. Letters C and V should be bumped up as well since the fact that they cannot be made into 2 letter words often makes them less useful and harder to play.
I've been saying that for years. Really, it comes down to the two-letter words. I've noticed that Words with Friends uses a different scoring, perhaps in an attempt to fix the perceived problem.
See the school shooting, he DITCHED the assault rifle and killed with pistols.
Um, no. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/gunman-kills-20-children-at-school-in-connecticut-28-dead-in-all.html?_r=0
You know how you stop a bad guy with a gun?
A uniformed good guy with a gun. Anything else is handwaving bullshit.
FTFY. When a bunch of plain-clothes concealed-carry yahoos are there when someone starts to go postal, they are only going to make the situation worse, as they start shooting (with varying degrees of skill) and no one can tell the good guys from the bad guys.