Let's be followers, not leaders. USA, we are number 32! We are number 32!
When it comes to risking our economy with overregulation, then yes, I say we follow and let someone else "lead" for awhile.
I think it IS time to let the other countries of the world show for real that they are willing to take the economic risks to do this and not us.
The US has already cleaned up its act FAR more than the leading polluters in the world have done, so why not hang back and bit and let's see if China really means what it says on this commitment.
If China actually *does* cut their pollution down and take the drastic steps required to do this in any reasonable period of time, then the US should take another look at joining in.
But no reason for us to be almost the only one that self imposes these regulations on ourselves and putting our economy at risk vs the other countries in the world that only pay lip service to these agreements.
Yeah...I'll believe it when I SEE as far as China and India going full in to get rid of fossil fuels and start being the "clean" countries in the world.
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
And that's somewhat evidenced by the related claim that he refuses to wear condoms
Or, perhaps, he just doesn't like having sex with one on. I personally find it almost boring with one on, it robs you almost completely of any sensation. I usually have a very difficult time busting a nut with one on.
If both parties are consenting, what's the problem?
I find fucking with a condom on similar to eating a steak with one on your tongue. Sure you know something good is going on there, but you can't sense it, and might as well find something or someone else to do.
Well, I"m serious. How can a woman forcibly rape a man? If he's not wanting to, he ain't getting hard...and if he is hard, well, you can't rape the willing, you know?
I mean, how is a woman going to not only force a grown man down, strip him and make him hard and ride him..? I'm sorry I just don't see that happening with a grown man.
Its like all these sexual assault cases you see in high schools of late. Female teacher "raping" a boy. Seriously? I'm watching these women, MANY of them are quite hot...wondering "where were these teacher when I was in school?"
If you have sex with more than 1000 partners, are they really all *people* to you?
Err...not sure what you're talking about here. The article didn't mention beastiality or the like....
If you're just trying to make some sort of point about the large number (1K)...well, you don't have to be in love with someone to fuck them....sex and love don't have to be combined in order to enjoy the act. Heck, often times, hookups are quite fun and more exciting that just hitting the same thing over and over and over and......
Feminist here. I'm really sorry you had to go through that. I can tell you know, it absolutely does count. Sexual assault against males is a real problem, and one which we want to solve.
When you say sexual assault against a man, I'm assuming you mean homosexual/gay...a guy raping a guy?
Otherwise, I can't see any heterosexual sexual assault, I mean, a chick can't rape a man.
But I do think it is worse with gay rape, as that its well...a guy taking a guy which really isn't in the "norm" of behavior, and hurts a guy more. So, yeah, that's a big deal. But isn't really the same thing as heterosexual sexual assault....which is more of the normal act between men and women. Its bad but I don't think as bad as homosexual assault which leaves the victim with even more psychological problems.
Is it taking small doses of acid? I mean, it takes so VERY little LSD to send you tripping, exactly how much and how are they keeping "micro" so that it doesn't blow you away for a day (if in fact this is what they're doing...).
Kids, when the parents want them to shut up for 3 minutes at a restaurant so they can place their order with the waitress without constantly having to yell at Billy to stop pulling Susie's hair.
Funny, when I was young, it only took a stern look or word from my Dad or Mom...and I knew to shut it.
Amazing what earlier ass whoopings did to instill a bit of discipline into me....and wasn't needed later in life, even at a very young age.
I guess parents just no longer have control of their offspring anymore, or forgot how to generate respect a yea...even a little fear in the kids.
Remember parents, YOU are supposed to be the one in charge and listened to an obeyed...not the other way around.
I don't blame the instructors for that. I blame the parents. If parents don't expect their children to behave, the children will have no expectations to follow. I grew up in a household that children were expect to be seen than heard or else the belt came out.
Hear, hear!!!
Goodness, I wonder when it was that what used to be common sense and basic public etiquette disappeared?
I am sure you follow what you preach in your own life. Instead of living in a house with Bedrooms, Living rooms , Kitchens and Batrooms you live in a collection of one room dwellings each with its own door and lock. After all you would not want to compromise the safety of your kitchen by letting anyone who gets past your front door to enter your kitchen?
Err...please come up with a better analogy.
My kitchen integrity and privacy do not directly affect my living health.
Film festivals are a weird old relic that should go the way of confederate statues.
Fuck off.....
Festivals are still a way often for new film makers to get seen and possibly get picked up for distribution.
And we don't need any efforts for revisionist history...where do you stop?
I hear Thomas Jefferson was pretty big into slaves, perhaps we should remove his likeness off money, and tear down those monuments to him and other slave owners....no?
I can see the argument for banning something not shot on film, if film is your thing. But if you're going to allow that, then banning something for being straight-to-streaming is wrong.
Hardly anything is shot on film these days...so, I think that point is moot.
It is all mostly filmed in digital these days. Heck, its hard to even find film to shoot a movie on these days.
But to me...a movie is a movie, no matter where how it if filmed or where it is shown and enjoyed.
I'm not sure I can see what the object is over there, unless they are afraid that French physical cinema houses are going to go out of business, and this is some sort of ploy to try to have some protectionism against their demise?
I'm sure private sector companies all happily undertake the additional expense & complication of developing & running entirely separate systems for each branch/office.
But remind me, who do you work for?
Actually, in the US until the most recent couple decades or so, that has been precisely the case.
Of course, one problem was they didn't talk to each other (but keeps from a single source of failure)....
But before HMO's and bean counters and the like started forcing consolidation, many if not most doctors were independent, had their own offices (hung their shingle out)...and had their own office management and records solutions, usually offered by a number of different companies.
The only real thing they had to do, was be able to communicate with the insurance companies, with codes to get paid...and with Medicare/Medicade.
But the US move to force to a standard, electronic medical record...while it has its benefits, opens the door to hackers finding the crack and bringing down many sites, rather than a few.
I, personally, am not for the push to standardize the medical system to government run/managed....especially not single payer which will really open things up to system take downs, amongst the other problems with such a system as it would happen in the US.
I shudder to think the govt folks in charge of my medical care will have it as pleasant, respectful and responsive as a typical 2-5 hours wait at the DMV. Yes, I know that's locally run, but the feds aren't much better where they add even more tonnage of red tape and overregulation.
But I digress.
But govt in the US, so far, has not been that great at computer/network security, and I really don't see it getting any better any time soon. With a centrally planned and managed US medical system, comes great risk of data loss, and, I fear....the chance of this same type ransomware scheme or worse happening.
And no, I don't work for any medical computer company.
In addition to the mistake of having so many systems of importance connected to the greater internet....
I think it likely also points out the problems with homogeneous systems...centralized systems, and such mandated by the government.
A singular system with all information, while providing convenience in many ways, opens itself up to being completely shut down if anyone ever breaks through the always inevitable cracks.
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When it comes to risking our economy with overregulation, then yes, I say we follow and let someone else "lead" for awhile.
I think it IS time to let the other countries of the world show for real that they are willing to take the economic risks to do this and not us.
The US has already cleaned up its act FAR more than the leading polluters in the world have done, so why not hang back and bit and let's see if China really means what it says on this commitment.
If China actually *does* cut their pollution down and take the drastic steps required to do this in any reasonable period of time, then the US should take another look at joining in.
But no reason for us to be almost the only one that self imposes these regulations on ourselves and putting our economy at risk vs the other countries in the world that only pay lip service to these agreements.
Seriously?
If he'd have offed himself in prison, it would have been a blip in the news for 1-2 days tops, and then been forgotten into oblivion.
Pay what carbon tax...?!?!
We're not paying any type of tax, carbon or otherwise to any regulating body in the world....
I suppose if we see them actually do anything meaningful, then we in the US can look in on it again.
In the US, we've already made great strides in cleaner air...time to sit back and let the rest of the world and the worst polluters make some serious changes, and only then we start risking our economy on overregulation of energy industries that power our economy in so many ways.
I guess you volunteer to cut your dick off you get a "Get out of Jail Free" card....?
And how exactly are you going to get your boat from your house to the boat lauch in the first place??
You also DO know that not all boat launches have a marina facility around them, right?
Or, perhaps, he just doesn't like having sex with one on. I personally find it almost boring with one on, it robs you almost completely of any sensation. I usually have a very difficult time busting a nut with one on.
If both parties are consenting, what's the problem?
I find fucking with a condom on similar to eating a steak with one on your tongue. Sure you know something good is going on there, but you can't sense it, and might as well find something or someone else to do.
Well, if it is some ugly, fat chick that holds NO attraction to me...no, I'd not be hard and ready for sex.
And yes, I'd dare say most men can control their erection, especially if they're over the age of 14yrs...
I mean, how is a woman going to not only force a grown man down, strip him and make him hard and ride him..? I'm sorry I just don't see that happening with a grown man.
Its like all these sexual assault cases you see in high schools of late. Female teacher "raping" a boy. Seriously? I'm watching these women, MANY of them are quite hot...wondering "where were these teacher when I was in school?"
That's a HS boys dream!!
Err...and exactly "how" are they going to do something like this against my will....a woman forcing a grown man and overpowering him?
I think that's a bit unlikely.....
Err...not sure what you're talking about here. The article didn't mention beastiality or the like....
If you're just trying to make some sort of point about the large number (1K)...well, you don't have to be in love with someone to fuck them....sex and love don't have to be combined in order to enjoy the act. Heck, often times, hookups are quite fun and more exciting that just hitting the same thing over and over and over and......
When you say sexual assault against a man, I'm assuming you mean homosexual/gay...a guy raping a guy?
Otherwise, I can't see any heterosexual sexual assault, I mean, a chick can't rape a man.
But I do think it is worse with gay rape, as that its well...a guy taking a guy which really isn't in the "norm" of behavior, and hurts a guy more. So, yeah, that's a big deal. But isn't really the same thing as heterosexual sexual assault....which is more of the normal act between men and women. Its bad but I don't think as bad as homosexual assault which leaves the victim with even more psychological problems.
I"m guessing you are not from the US.
Is it taking small doses of acid? I mean, it takes so VERY little LSD to send you tripping, exactly how much and how are they keeping "micro" so that it doesn't blow you away for a day (if in fact this is what they're doing...).
There is a difference between "beating" which is abuse and the use of corporal punishment for children.
I would posit that many if not most of the problems we see with recent generations is due to sparing the rod, so to speak, entirely.
In ever since this trend, we've seen the loss of general civility in public, much less respect of those in authority and our elders.
What is a "T-V" distinction?
Funny, when I was young, it only took a stern look or word from my Dad or Mom...and I knew to shut it.
Amazing what earlier ass whoopings did to instill a bit of discipline into me....and wasn't needed later in life, even at a very young age.
I guess parents just no longer have control of their offspring anymore, or forgot how to generate respect a yea...even a little fear in the kids.
Remember parents, YOU are supposed to be the one in charge and listened to an obeyed...not the other way around.
Hear, hear!!!
Goodness, I wonder when it was that what used to be common sense and basic public etiquette disappeared?
Err...please come up with a better analogy.
My kitchen integrity and privacy do not directly affect my living health.
Fuck off.....
Festivals are still a way often for new film makers to get seen and possibly get picked up for distribution.
And we don't need any efforts for revisionist history...where do you stop?
I hear Thomas Jefferson was pretty big into slaves, perhaps we should remove his likeness off money, and tear down those monuments to him and other slave owners....no?
Hardly anything is shot on film these days...so, I think that point is moot.
It is all mostly filmed in digital these days. Heck, its hard to even find film to shoot a movie on these days.
But to me...a movie is a movie, no matter where how it if filmed or where it is shown and enjoyed.
I'm not sure I can see what the object is over there, unless they are afraid that French physical cinema houses are going to go out of business, and this is some sort of ploy to try to have some protectionism against their demise?
Actually, in the US until the most recent couple decades or so, that has been precisely the case.
Of course, one problem was they didn't talk to each other (but keeps from a single source of failure)....
But before HMO's and bean counters and the like started forcing consolidation, many if not most doctors were independent, had their own offices (hung their shingle out)...and had their own office management and records solutions, usually offered by a number of different companies.
The only real thing they had to do, was be able to communicate with the insurance companies, with codes to get paid...and with Medicare/Medicade.
But the US move to force to a standard, electronic medical record...while it has its benefits, opens the door to hackers finding the crack and bringing down many sites, rather than a few.
I, personally, am not for the push to standardize the medical system to government run/managed....especially not single payer which will really open things up to system take downs, amongst the other problems with such a system as it would happen in the US.
I shudder to think the govt folks in charge of my medical care will have it as pleasant, respectful and responsive as a typical 2-5 hours wait at the DMV. Yes, I know that's locally run, but the feds aren't much better where they add even more tonnage of red tape and overregulation.
But I digress.
But govt in the US, so far, has not been that great at computer/network security, and I really don't see it getting any better any time soon. With a centrally planned and managed US medical system, comes great risk of data loss, and, I fear....the chance of this same type ransomware scheme or worse happening.
And no, I don't work for any medical computer company.
I think it likely also points out the problems with homogeneous systems...centralized systems, and such mandated by the government.
A singular system with all information, while providing convenience in many ways, opens itself up to being completely shut down if anyone ever breaks through the always inevitable cracks.
Well, we never saw this with obama...what makes you think we'd see it with hillary if she'd made it into office?
LOL...in what part of the US do you live where cars only go 20-25mph on city streets?
If you're in a car and go that slow here, you'll get your ass run over.