Come on all you Ron Paul supporters, let's hear it. We *should* be able to buy Canadian drugs at 1/10 the price of what we're being ripped off in the USA for the same crap.
I went looking for just that at Ron Paul's site the other day. He did make some mention of the cost of medicine being driven up by licensing, but I have yet to see him come out against prescription drug laws. Apparently the good Doc's libertarianism only goes so far.
Someone could buy the speech from the estate and refuse to sell it to anyone. You can send a piece of history to the Memory Hole if you have enough money.
A kleptocracy run by exKGB (current KGB?) who stifles speech and protest "against the national interest" has some voting irregularities. Who woulda thunk it?
I don't understand why the NFL isn't selling access to video libraries containing all these streams. With all the football fans, fantasy football and otherwise, obsessively analyzing the game, don't you think they could sell subscriptions? I'd buy. Give me a searchable archive. Let me find all targets at a receiver in a given year, or all fumbles of a players, or all INTs, etc.
The problem of delivering video on demand is already solved. They've got the content. It's just money in the street, waiting for them to pick up.
The bottled water companies wanted to put a dubious medical claim on their bottles,..
This is how we see that politics and rationality have little to do with each other.
Anyone but a government hack who said that water didn't prevent dehydration would have instantly voted himself off the island of the sane. But once the government says it, government true believers must defend it, so we are treated to tortured rationalizations on how water isn't wet.
Water prevents dehydration as much as anything can prevent anything else. You folks have gone insane. It should give you pause to say something so stupid.
Yes, my iron supplements can't even advertise that they treat, cure, or prevent iron deficiency. The very substance required to cure the deficiency cannot be sold with the claim that it can CURE that deficiency. Why? Same as above, it is an herbal/mineral supplement, and as such is not a "drug" and so it cannot be advertised to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
As water is a food, and not a drug, the US system would come up with the exact same ruling.
The most terrifying words in the English language "We're from the government, and we're here to help."
In this case, helping us out of factual information that would allow us to make informed choices about our health care in the name of protecting us. Oh, but that's right, we shouldn't be making our health care choices in the first place; only government deputized agents should be.
Federal Death Administration - literally regulating us to death.
The only thing here we know for a fact is that 100% of the women who were offended enough by Herman Cain making a pass to complain or hold something against him (justified or not) for an extended length of time for hitting on them them were white. Maybe this is about how racist the women who are stepping forward are.
I don't think we know even that. For how many of them do we have corroborating evidence beyond their word that Cain even made a pass at them?
From Bill Cosby's book "Come On People" -- o Homicide is the number one cause of death for black men between fifteen and twenty-nine years of age and has been for decades. o Ninety-four percent of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people. --
They are victims of themselves...
Unless the victims shot themselves in the head, they weren't victims of "themselves", they were victims of people with a similar ethnic background. Lumping those who are shot with those who shoot them is the worst kind of racial collectivist claptrap.
Maybe they're not expecting those job reqs to be filled. Maybe they want them to go unfilled, so they can get another H1-B allotment, and then hire someone who doesn't fulfill the requirements either.
As for how engineers are supposed to have enough experience to have a job when they graduate - I'd say the same way that philosophy majors do. They need to realize their degree doesn't prepare them for a job, and do it themselves.
I thought my PhD was a union card. I was wrong. On the bright side, with the training you get in engineering, it is easy to pick up a lot of marketable skills.
Colleges are largely an anachronism, a finishing school for the landed gentry. It might make you look and talk like the landed gentry, and that is useful in the world, but no so useful as marketable skills.
Engineers and scientists are underpaid and overworked as it is.
Adding more of them to the labor market will make these problems worse.
Worse, for who? Not for companies.
"We don't have enough engineers" is largely just an excuse for allowing corporations to get exemptions to immigration laws and import indentured servants in technical fields. US schools have produced plenty of engineers. Most of them aren't in engineering.
46 year old. Ivy League EE undergrad. Neither me nor any of my friends in undergrad spent more than 7 years as engineers. A couple jumped to business school in undergrad. After spending a couple years working, a couple went to business school, and a one went for a MSEE, and I went for a PhD in EE. MSEE worked for 5 years after graduation then went back for MBA. I worked in engineering 5 years after PhD, then moved to business IT analysis/proj mgmnt.
The opportunities in engineering were lacking. The opportunities in business were better. There are plenty of engineers. There aren't great opportunities for them.
Granted that there wasn't a lot of permanent physical damage, or even the kind of tremendous pain a cold blooded torturer could produce, but I don't know that physical pain is generally the real harm in these situations anyway.
Most of the damage is in the fear and terroristic threats. Then the shame and humiliation of being treated as a dog/sex slave, to be beaten, tormented, and humiliated *by her parents* to satisfy their sick, twisted fetishes. Clearly the whole episode was about domination/submission for dear old dad, who could barely contain his sexual arousal. And from Mom's comment about "taking it", I'm guessing hubby isn't all too charming to her in bed either.
Bend over. Submit. Take it. Obey. Followed by terroristic threats of even greater beatings.
Weeping. Crying. Begging. All of a 16 year old girl with a physical disability. Leather. Whipping. Threesome. Dad. Mom.
I suspect this will be making the rounds on porn sites for year to come. How many tags can you put on one video at those sites anyway?
I wonder when this Judge will be prosecuting his daughter for producing and distributing this porn. I don't think he can get her for illegally taping the conversation - usually there is a loophole for taping criminal acts.
But I've had years of discussions about law with a friend who is a lawyer, and he has explained to me that there is more to a contract than verbal nitpicking. There's context and reasonable expectations, because you don't and can't specify every last detail of the universe in a contract.
As for being paid, that would certainly be seen as *part* of the consideration given by the University to Coyne for your efforts, but you have to deliver on all of your agreement, not just part. Was that all? I don't know, and neither do you. The value of publishing is considerable in academic settings.
And no, it isn't "just like" anything else. Blah blah blah blah blah. It depends on the facts of the situation, and in general, juries are the triers of facts, not you, not me, and not even judges. Unless you've seen the contract, and have transcripts of all their interactions, you don't know. Neither do I. And even if either of us did know, it wouldn't mean diddley, because a judge in possession of all that data would probably leave it to the jury to make the judgment. So it could still be actionable, even if in the end you lost.
Whether there was a legally binding agreement for them to show the video is a matter of fact that goes beyond the permission agreement, and gets into what was said and what the general practice is. I don't think either of us know enough of the facts to say one way or another.
The fact that the University owns the rights to the video does not preclude them from having entered into a verbal agreement to show the video.
Whether there was an implicit agreement to post the video would be a matter of fact to be found by the jury. From what I've seen stated, I think an argument can be made that such an agreement was implicit in the other explicitly stated terms of their negotiations. It does depend on just what was said, but there can be implicit terms to a verbal agreement.
As I noted on the web site, this is likely actionable by Coyne.
He expended time and effort to prepare for and engage in the debate with a justified expectation of having the video posted. An agreement, with consideration given. Sounds actionable to me. Haught should be made to deliver on the agreement, or give compensation.
I suspect the US will knuckle under on this in fairly short order.
How much does the US really spend at the UN? I can think of a few countries who would be happy to pony up the money to get the US out of the UN, and look like benefactors to the world in the process.
I checked. Even Fox says the total yearly budget is only 14bil. 20% 20bil per month.
That yearly 3bil looks like chicken feed. The US will have to knuckle under quick, before China volunteers the amount and makes the US look even more ridiculous. What China should really do is endow the UN with a pile of US treasuries, making the US look even worse come the inevitable default.
But let's see them adapt to vacuum. To cosmic rays. To a year of hibernation.
A human mission requires orders of magnitude more cost and complexity than a robotic mission. For the same lift requirements, you could set up a robotic science center good for years if not decades of experiments.
And robots are getting better every year. Computers are getting better every year. It's really no contest at this point.
A prodigy, or even the very intelligent, will easily be destroyed by any usual school system.
Think of school like a gym. He is a 300lb muscle bound athletic freak surrounded by 100lb kids, but he is judged by how well he lifts weights compared to his classmates. He will always win, and will never need to train. Whenever he wants, the weight goes up, without any effort on his part. His only effort is containing his boredom. He learns that work, effort, motivation, are not required at all in life. And he is still *wonderful*, because what matters at a gym is how *strong* you are, not what you can *do* with that strength.
Ask yourself - will this super freak ever be a great athlete? No. He will never learn how to work, or how to motivate himself. He will never learn the joy of accomplishment, because he will never accomplish anything. He will leave the gym exactly as he came in - an athletic freak with the will, drive, and determination of a 5 year old. No, that's not true - a 5 year old hasn't been emotionally crippled by a decade of living in a universe where he is "better" than his peers by the virtue of being born as he is. In many ways, he'll have the emotional development of a spoiled little teenage princeling. He will be fawned over for an accident of birth.
The difference between an athletic super freak and an intelligent super freak is the athletic one is forced to go to school and think, something he is not as good at. The intelligent super freak can get by as a brain in a bottle for his entire childhood.
The 300lb athletic super freak should be in athletic competitions where he is challenged. The intellectual freak should be in academic competitions where he is challenged. But the easiest way for both of them to learn about hard work is to work outside their special gifts.
Have the prodigy play sports. Take martial arts. Learn how to dance. Then start showing him *books* about on theory of movement. Physical training. Anatomy. Kinesiology. Start connecting *thinking* to *doing*, to making the world *better*.
What the prodigy needs to learn is something that going to school will *prevent* him from learning - will, drive, motivation, determination. How to control his mental focus to achieve something over the long term. How to control *himself*.
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Come on all you Ron Paul supporters, let's hear it. We *should* be able to buy Canadian drugs at 1/10 the price of what we're being ripped off in the USA for the same crap.
I went looking for just that at Ron Paul's site the other day. He did make some mention of the cost of medicine being driven up by licensing, but I have yet to see him come out against prescription drug laws. Apparently the good Doc's libertarianism only goes so far.
Someone could buy the speech from the estate and refuse to sell it to anyone. You can send a piece of history to the Memory Hole if you have enough money.
Wasn't there a recent article about China leading the world in patent applications?
A kleptocracy run by exKGB (current KGB?) who stifles speech and protest "against the national interest" has some voting irregularities. Who woulda thunk it?
I'm suing Marvel. Thor is just way too buff. And he's a God. How am I supposed to live up to that?
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
The Statist solution to the failures of the State power is to give the State more power.
I don't understand why the NFL isn't selling access to video libraries containing all these streams. With all the football fans, fantasy football and otherwise, obsessively analyzing the game, don't you think they could sell subscriptions? I'd buy. Give me a searchable archive. Let me find all targets at a receiver in a given year, or all fumbles of a players, or all INTs, etc.
The problem of delivering video on demand is already solved. They've got the content. It's just money in the street, waiting for them to pick up.
The bottled water companies wanted to put a dubious medical claim on their bottles,..
This is how we see that politics and rationality have little to do with each other.
Anyone but a government hack who said that water didn't prevent dehydration would have instantly voted himself off the island of the sane. But once the government says it, government true believers must defend it, so we are treated to tortured rationalizations on how water isn't wet.
Water prevents dehydration as much as anything can prevent anything else. You folks have gone insane. It should give you pause to say something so stupid.
Yes, my iron supplements can't even advertise that they treat, cure, or prevent iron deficiency. The very substance required to cure the deficiency cannot be sold with the claim that it can CURE that deficiency. Why? Same as above, it is an herbal/mineral supplement, and as such is not a "drug" and so it cannot be advertised to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
As water is a food, and not a drug, the US system would come up with the exact same ruling.
The most terrifying words in the English language "We're from the government, and we're here to help."
In this case, helping us out of factual information that would allow us to make informed choices about our health care in the name of protecting us. Oh, but that's right, we shouldn't be making our health care choices in the first place; only government deputized agents should be.
Federal Death Administration - literally regulating us to death.
The victims didn't shoot *themselves*. We call that suicide, not murder.
To quote myself - "Lumping those who are shot with those who shoot them is the worst kind of racial collectivist claptrap."
The only thing here we know for a fact is that 100% of the women who were offended enough by Herman Cain making a pass to complain or hold something against him (justified or not) for an extended length of time for hitting on them them were white. Maybe this is about how racist the women who are stepping forward are.
I don't think we know even that. For how many of them do we have corroborating evidence beyond their word that Cain even made a pass at them?
From Bill Cosby's book "Come On People"
--
o Homicide is the number one cause of death for black men between fifteen and twenty-nine years of age and has been for decades.
o Ninety-four percent of all black people who are murdered are murdered by other black people.
--
They are victims of themselves ...
Unless the victims shot themselves in the head, they weren't victims of "themselves", they were victims of people with a similar ethnic background. Lumping those who are shot with those who shoot them is the worst kind of racial collectivist claptrap.
Maybe they're not expecting those job reqs to be filled. Maybe they want them to go unfilled, so they can get another H1-B allotment, and then hire someone who doesn't fulfill the requirements either.
As for how engineers are supposed to have enough experience to have a job when they graduate - I'd say the same way that philosophy majors do. They need to realize their degree doesn't prepare them for a job, and do it themselves.
I thought my PhD was a union card. I was wrong. On the bright side, with the training you get in engineering, it is easy to pick up a lot of marketable skills.
Colleges are largely an anachronism, a finishing school for the landed gentry. It might make you look and talk like the landed gentry, and that is useful in the world, but no so useful as marketable skills.
Engineers and scientists are underpaid and overworked as it is.
Adding more of them to the labor market will make these problems worse.
Worse, for who? Not for companies.
"We don't have enough engineers" is largely just an excuse for allowing corporations to get exemptions to immigration laws and import indentured servants in technical fields. US schools have produced plenty of engineers. Most of them aren't in engineering.
46 year old. Ivy League EE undergrad. Neither me nor any of my friends in undergrad spent more than 7 years as engineers. A couple jumped to business school in undergrad. After spending a couple years working, a couple went to business school, and a one went for a MSEE, and I went for a PhD in EE. MSEE worked for 5 years after graduation then went back for MBA. I worked in engineering 5 years after PhD, then moved to business IT analysis/proj mgmnt.
The opportunities in engineering were lacking. The opportunities in business were better. There are plenty of engineers. There aren't great opportunities for them.
Granted that there wasn't a lot of permanent physical damage, or even the kind of tremendous pain a cold blooded torturer could produce, but I don't know that physical pain is generally the real harm in these situations anyway.
Most of the damage is in the fear and terroristic threats. Then the shame and humiliation of being treated as a dog/sex slave, to be beaten, tormented, and humiliated *by her parents* to satisfy their sick, twisted fetishes. Clearly the whole episode was about domination/submission for dear old dad, who could barely contain his sexual arousal. And from Mom's comment about "taking it", I'm guessing hubby isn't all too charming to her in bed either.
Overtones?
Bend over. Submit. Take it. Obey. Followed by terroristic threats of even greater beatings.
Weeping. Crying. Begging. All of a 16 year old girl with a physical disability. Leather. Whipping. Threesome. Dad. Mom.
I suspect this will be making the rounds on porn sites for year to come. How many tags can you put on one video at those sites anyway?
I wonder when this Judge will be prosecuting his daughter for producing and distributing this porn. I don't think he can get her for illegally taping the conversation - usually there is a loophole for taping criminal acts.
I'm not a lawyer. I don't even play one on tv.
But I've had years of discussions about law with a friend who is a lawyer, and he has explained to me that there is more to a contract than verbal nitpicking. There's context and reasonable expectations, because you don't and can't specify every last detail of the universe in a contract.
As for being paid, that would certainly be seen as *part* of the consideration given by the University to Coyne for your efforts, but you have to deliver on all of your agreement, not just part. Was that all? I don't know, and neither do you. The value of publishing is considerable in academic settings.
And no, it isn't "just like" anything else. Blah blah blah blah blah. It depends on the facts of the situation, and in general, juries are the triers of facts, not you, not me, and not even judges. Unless you've seen the contract, and have transcripts of all their interactions, you don't know. Neither do I. And even if either of us did know, it wouldn't mean diddley, because a judge in possession of all that data would probably leave it to the jury to make the judgment. So it could still be actionable, even if in the end you lost.
Whether there was a legally binding agreement for them to show the video is a matter of fact that goes beyond the permission agreement, and gets into what was said and what the general practice is. I don't think either of us know enough of the facts to say one way or another.
The fact that the University owns the rights to the video does not preclude them from having entered into a verbal agreement to show the video.
Whether there was an implicit agreement to post the video would be a matter of fact to be found by the jury. From what I've seen stated, I think an argument can be made that such an agreement was implicit in the other explicitly stated terms of their negotiations. It does depend on just what was said, but there can be implicit terms to a verbal agreement.
As I noted on the web site, this is likely actionable by Coyne.
He expended time and effort to prepare for and engage in the debate with a justified expectation of having the video posted. An agreement, with consideration given. Sounds actionable to me. Haught should be made to deliver on the agreement, or give compensation.
Or, they're just publicly shutting up, but going to work on the cartels without opening their big yaps first.
I suspect the US will knuckle under on this in fairly short order.
How much does the US really spend at the UN? I can think of a few countries who would be happy to pony up the money to get the US out of the UN, and look like benefactors to the world in the process.
I checked. Even Fox says the total yearly budget is only 14bil. 20% 20bil per month.
That yearly 3bil looks like chicken feed. The US will have to knuckle under quick, before China volunteers the amount and makes the US look even more ridiculous. What China should really do is endow the UN with a pile of US treasuries, making the US look even worse come the inevitable default.
I'm a US citizen, just facing the facts.
Companies don't want to know. Literally. If they know, it increases their liability for doing nothing in the event of a problem.
But let's see them adapt to vacuum. To cosmic rays. To a year of hibernation.
A human mission requires orders of magnitude more cost and complexity than a robotic mission. For the same lift requirements, you could set up a robotic science center good for years if not decades of experiments.
And robots are getting better every year. Computers are getting better every year. It's really no contest at this point.
A prodigy, or even the very intelligent, will easily be destroyed by any usual school system.
Think of school like a gym. He is a 300lb muscle bound athletic freak surrounded by 100lb kids, but he is judged by how well he lifts weights compared to his classmates. He will always win, and will never need to train. Whenever he wants, the weight goes up, without any effort on his part. His only effort is containing his boredom. He learns that work, effort, motivation, are not required at all in life. And he is still *wonderful*, because what matters at a gym is how *strong* you are, not what you can *do* with that strength.
Ask yourself - will this super freak ever be a great athlete? No. He will never learn how to work, or how to motivate himself. He will never learn the joy of accomplishment, because he will never accomplish anything. He will leave the gym exactly as he came in - an athletic freak with the will, drive, and determination of a 5 year old. No, that's not true - a 5 year old hasn't been emotionally crippled by a decade of living in a universe where he is "better" than his peers by the virtue of being born as he is. In many ways, he'll have the emotional development of a spoiled little teenage princeling. He will be fawned over for an accident of birth.
The difference between an athletic super freak and an intelligent super freak is the athletic one is forced to go to school and think, something he is not as good at. The intelligent super freak can get by as a brain in a bottle for his entire childhood.
The 300lb athletic super freak should be in athletic competitions where he is challenged. The intellectual freak should be in academic competitions where he is challenged. But the easiest way for both of them to learn about hard work is to work outside their special gifts.
Have the prodigy play sports. Take martial arts. Learn how to dance. Then start showing him *books* about on theory of movement. Physical training. Anatomy. Kinesiology. Start connecting *thinking* to *doing*, to making the world *better*.
What the prodigy needs to learn is something that going to school will *prevent* him from learning - will, drive, motivation, determination. How to control his mental focus to achieve something over the long term. How to control *himself*.