What's idiotic is that people like you pretend to stand up for the little guy, while embracing policies that serve crony capitalists and the wealthy.
The corny capitalists are Uber and Lyft, idiot. The "little guy" is the Uber driver who makes less than minimum wage after costs. The "little guy" is the poor shlub passenger stuck with the drivers $25,000 in medial coverage, after an uninsured drunk causes a crash. The "little guy" is the disabled person (from the drunk driver) who's been left shit outta luck by Uber and Lyft, after the handy-capable taxi company has been driven out of business.
The only thing you're supporting here is exploitation....idiot.
When the city forces breweries to provide parking for their customers [austintexas.gov], then I think the city is at least partially responsible for the predictable drunk driving crashes that result, don't you?
Then take a taxi to get home, then another taxi back to your car in the morning. Any other stupid questions?
I think it's fair to say that most people (over 50%) have never taken Uber or Lyft and were just going by the horror stories they heard on the news.
Most people never are never in a serious car accident, either. Should we therefore get rid of requirements for seat belts and liability insurance? Same logic.
No form of public transit I have ever used has had any kind of service after midnight, which is when all the drunks are out. Austin has a great bus system...until about 8pm. 11pm-midnight is pretty much the universal cutoff hour worldwide for public transit.
Which means they need to extend their transportation services, so they can accommodate those getting off work at 1:00 am, as well as those who need to be on the way to work by 3:00 am.
None of the Apple hate. Mac OS X was just getting started, and had so much potential.
Eh? There has always been Apple hate here. No wireless, less space than a Nomad? Just a couple years after OS X came out. And before OS X, Apple was shit because of cooperative multitasking and a single button mouse - which the wankers went on to complain about for another decade after the last single-button mouse was sold.
Russia under Putin has been bombing and occupying its neighboring countries for decades. did you forget the carpet bombing of Grozny?
You mean you have one neighbor. Not countries on the other side of the planet from them. And that neighbor having "islamic extremists" in it - something American Exceptionalists bomb with gusto, but not on their borders. So, you were deflecting?
Subject-change detected â" the usual tactics of Kremlin bots.
You mean projection, from another American Exceptionalist. With the bit that anyone who answers western propaganda with facts is a Putinbot.
I accept your surrender of the previous topic â" of Russia being a dangerous aggressor
They're not. You're comparing an anthill to Mt. Everest. Parked on top of Mauna Kea. On top Mt. McKinley, on Fuji, on Rainier...It takes a positively Biblical level of willful blindness for a westerner to point at Russia and claim it's an aggressive power. How many democracies has Russia overthrown since Obama took office? How many countries in Central America have Russian drones flying over them, ready to murder suspects (and dozens of nearby people) at the touch of a button? How many countries has Russia illegally bombed/invaded since the fall of the USSR, compared to the United States? Has Putin been busy expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico and Canada, after promising not to do so, running the largest military drills since the second world war? How many bases does Russia have around the world, compared to the U.S.> I could go on all day with facts that cannot be disputed.
Notably, your bombastic accusation includes neither a link to the video, nor transcript of the actual words.
It is perfectly normal for countries to spend money on legal organizations abroad. USSR has been doing just that for decades fomenting racial strife in the US, for example, as well as the so-called "Peace Movement". In the Middle East KGB kept Arafat afloat and fighting Israel.
GTFO with that amateur hour BS. Radio America, heard of it? How many governments around the world has Russia - and even the USSR - overthrown compared to the United States? Is the KGB trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet? No, that would be the NSA.
You joked about Obama being a KGB-agent
On what planet was that?
And that, even if it were true, equates to an armed invasion in your opinion? Wow...
You want to play that game? Obama has bombed more countries than Bush - how many countries has Putin bombed without the request of that nation's government? Where's the evidence of Putin's "invasion" of Ukraine that doesn't come from social media? Months of western propaganda that Ukraine was being "invaded" by Russian forces, without a single satellite photo.
Because even Colin Powell, when testifying at the U.N., had satellite photos. He was as full of shit as the rest of you American Exceptionalists, but he had photos! Which is more than you have.
"American Exceptionalism" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. It's not "American Betterism". Look it up some time if you're interested in knowing what the words you use mean.
In brief summary, it's the idea that the US has a special responsibility to act in accordance with the principles of freedom and democracy because it was founded not as an ethnic group, but based on those principles.
You mean the principles of selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia - the beheading capital of the world, executing people for sorcery - or allowing child rape on military bases? The principles of supporting coups of democracies - most recently Honduras and Ukraine?
Look it up some time if you're interested in knowing what the words you use mean.
If you're interested in not being a complete shit-for-brains, ray, you might want to do something about your willful ignorance before you prattle on about what others should know. Has Russia spent the last 30 years expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico, Canada and surrounding islands after promising not to? Is Russia murdering people with robot planes on the other side of the planet from them?
Has Russia run a worldwide kidnapping and torture program, that was so brutal it even shocked Bush? Is Russia trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet, the way the NSA has? Nope, nope and nope.
She'll likely win it, but not because she's liked. The only reason why she'll win is that the R side is just so horribly/bad/. Indeed the justification by a lot of Clintonistas is that they hold up the spectre of a "Trump Presidency."
Yep. It's getting harder and harder to beat voters with the LOTE crowbar, though, when their candidates are actually the Greater Evil in many respects. Trump, for example, would have to overthrow two democracies and start two regional wars, just to catch up to Hillary.
I love this term. Consider it stolen.
Just don't tell Jayne Cullen that I stole it from one of her Salon comments.:)
"But that's negative ads" and he pledged to not do negative ads. All the while she's killing him in the media with rumors and nonsense.
The part that drove me nuts was how her supporters were dragging out the fainting couches when ever Bernie would touch her with a feather....while at the same time HRC was rhetorically exhuming the bodies of dead Sandy Hook kids to leave on Bernie's campaign doorstep. Hillbots are as obnoxious (and as right wing) as the Bushbots ever were. Anyway, I doubt Trump is going to be so kind as to not bring up HRC's hypocrisy over private email servers, or mention the fact that at least Brian Williams heard actual gunfire.
The majority of those news outlets want her to win.
Well, that's the biased conservative media for you. Bernie's kid-gloves treatment of the Megathatcher, combined with the media's willingness to ignore her brazen trainwreck of incompetence at just about everything she's ever done, means she might just win this thing.
And here come Russians deluded by Putin-TV into believing, it was the US, who invaded Ukraine. So sad...
And here come the American Exceptionalists, ignoring the fact that their assistant Secretary of State is on video bragging about spending billions to subvert a democracy - in front of banners for American oil companies - and then caught on the phone picking leaders after the coup.
American Exceptionalists are as full of shit on Russia, as all the Bush chickenhawks when they were running around accusing wounded veterans of cowardice for opposing the Iraq war.
Only the Camaro will run for more than a few years before the battery starts to fail and requires it to be sent back to the manufacturer for a replacement. Then you can drive again after 2-3 weeks
Better than having your device cut off from updates 18 months after purchase, Fandroid.
There is no reason not to give real human authors or creators a share of any use of their works, during their lifetime, that makes money or equivalent compensation.
Other than the fact that those authors and creators received inspiration from previous authors and creators - which they wouldn't be able to sell if that previous work was locked up in perpetual copyright.
We start getting massive problems once we, as a society, decide to allow these rights to be transferred over the long term via contract or other mechanism to a corporation or a third party.
Corporate interests are big part of the problem - but what's the difference going to be in the end if the copyright term is 20 years or 200 years?
20 years: Disney waits for something to fall into the public domain (like Harry Potter), at which point they pimp the shit out their own version for 20 years.
200 years: author has to do all his own marketing and promotion, or sell his work to a corporation for what will be a pittance in the end - just ask the author of Forrest Gump.
our citation of isolated anti-gay incidents over the course of the past century just proves my point.
Says the person relying on preconceptions, prejudice, and confirmation bias. You know....same as every other bigot throughout human history.
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A list of attacks overwhelmingly carried out by Christianists. I once had a conversation with another butthurt Christianist, who said that gays who didn't like discrimination in the United States should move to Iran. Nevermind that that there are 3 to 4 many times as many GLBT's in the United States as there are Muslims.
Meanwhile, the number of (Muslim) districts and (Muslim) nations which are *EXPANDING* their adoption of the strictest code of Sharia is GROWING.
Meanwhile, the Mother Jones link you ignored talked about Christofascist Uganda, and their kill-the-gays-bill. Which was pushed for by Christofascist pastors in the United States.
I'm not pinning it on Islam, you fool, the shooter called 911 before his crime and did that himself!
And both you and ISIS have hung your dumbfuck asses out the window on this, as the shooter didn't give a shit about the Islamic State. He was a self-hating gay, the worst kind of homophobe. Because his dad was an uptight follower of Old Testament, Abrahamic BS, just like you Christianists.
Suggesting that the children of new immigrants (many of whom speak another language) exact a toll upon overall school performance is a realistic perspective.
The reality is children are quickest at picking up new languages and concepts. Any non-half-assed ESL (or in this case SSL) program has no problems teaching math and history while teaching the language at the same time. Any such "toll" is going to be extremely short in duration.
Calling every observation about the sometimes negative consequences of cultural diversity racist discourages any and all conversation about the matter.
Spare me the fainting couch. You're blaming (minority) immigrants and their children, which makes you a racist, same as any fuckstick still prattling on about the Bell Curve.
What NSA programs are clear violations of the Fourth Amendment?
Being willfully obtuse does not become you. Warrantless wiretapping. 4th Amendment. You know this already, so feel free to stop being obnoxious at any time.
Putin's just showing he likes Trump, after all one dictator can recognize a rising dictator.
It's always amusing to watch American Exceptionalists - who think nothing of killing millions of Vietnamese, Iraqis, global spying and torture - cast aspersions at foreign leaders who aren't in the business of bombing weddings and funerals.
If one has a pre-bate or some sort of compensation then the regressiveness of the consumption tax goes away and the net result can be progressive.
Nope - consumption taxes are inherently regressive.
One oculd for example remove them on food. many states do that.
That doesn't change the fact that it's regressive - what you're changing is that it would no longer fall hardest on the poor, who by nature spend the highest percentage of their income. The mega-rich would still pay far less than the pitiful amount they do now, which is why they like consumption taxes.
Raise exemptions to the point where you don't start paying until you make six figures - and it's still a regressive tax because you're paying a higher percentage of your income than the megarich. Hell, say everything under a million dollars is exempt, and it would still be a regressive tax, because the billionaires would still be paying less of a percentage.
I'll probably get modded down for saying this, but I know people who have worked with the NSA, and these people have always been very impressed with how seriously NSA employees take the legislative limits on what they can do.
As they spend every minute of every day treating the 4th Amendment as joke? Their day job is to violate the law.
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The corny capitalists are Uber and Lyft, idiot. The "little guy" is the Uber driver who makes less than minimum wage after costs. The "little guy" is the poor shlub passenger stuck with the drivers $25,000 in medial coverage, after an uninsured drunk causes a crash. The "little guy" is the disabled person (from the drunk driver) who's been left shit outta luck by Uber and Lyft, after the handy-capable taxi company has been driven out of business.
The only thing you're supporting here is exploitation....idiot.
...alcohol. So, either you want to bring back Prohibition, or you're a concern troll.
Then take a taxi to get home, then another taxi back to your car in the morning. Any other stupid questions?
Most people never are never in a serious car accident, either. Should we therefore get rid of requirements for seat belts and liability insurance? Same logic.
Exactly - don't let the door bruise your ass on the way out, freeloader.
Which means they need to extend their transportation services, so they can accommodate those getting off work at 1:00 am, as well as those who need to be on the way to work by 3:00 am.
No. What's idiotic is treating a hey-we're-not-a-taxi-company, taxi company as a legitimate business.
Hint: it's not targeting people.
Eh? There has always been Apple hate here. No wireless, less space than a Nomad? Just a couple years after OS X came out. And before OS X, Apple was shit because of cooperative multitasking and a single button mouse - which the wankers went on to complain about for another decade after the last single-button mouse was sold.
You mean you have one neighbor. Not countries on the other side of the planet from them. And that neighbor having "islamic extremists" in it - something American Exceptionalists bomb with gusto, but not on their borders. So, you were deflecting?
You mean projection, from another American Exceptionalist. With the bit that anyone who answers western propaganda with facts is a Putinbot.
They're not. You're comparing an anthill to Mt. Everest. Parked on top of Mauna Kea. On top Mt. McKinley, on Fuji, on Rainier...It takes a positively Biblical level of willful blindness for a westerner to point at Russia and claim it's an aggressive power. How many democracies has Russia overthrown since Obama took office? How many countries in Central America have Russian drones flying over them, ready to murder suspects (and dozens of nearby people) at the touch of a button? How many countries has Russia illegally bombed/invaded since the fall of the USSR, compared to the United States? Has Putin been busy expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico and Canada, after promising not to do so, running the largest military drills since the second world war? How many bases does Russia have around the world, compared to the U.S.> I could go on all day with facts that cannot be disputed.
Like asking for a citation that water is wet.
GTFO with that amateur hour BS. Radio America, heard of it? How many governments around the world has Russia - and even the USSR - overthrown compared to the United States? Is the KGB trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet? No, that would be the NSA.
On what planet was that?
You want to play that game? Obama has bombed more countries than Bush - how many countries has Putin bombed without the request of that nation's government? Where's the evidence of Putin's "invasion" of Ukraine that doesn't come from social media? Months of western propaganda that Ukraine was being "invaded" by Russian forces, without a single satellite photo.
Because even Colin Powell, when testifying at the U.N., had satellite photos. He was as full of shit as the rest of you American Exceptionalists, but he had photos! Which is more than you have.
You mean the principles of selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia - the beheading capital of the world, executing people for sorcery - or allowing child rape on military bases? The principles of supporting coups of democracies - most recently Honduras and Ukraine?
If you're interested in not being a complete shit-for-brains, ray, you might want to do something about your willful ignorance before you prattle on about what others should know. Has Russia spent the last 30 years expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico, Canada and surrounding islands after promising not to? Is Russia murdering people with robot planes on the other side of the planet from them?
Has Russia run a worldwide kidnapping and torture program, that was so brutal it even shocked Bush? Is Russia trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet, the way the NSA has? Nope, nope and nope.
No problem.
Then stop toking, Exceptionalist, so you stop looking like a dumbass by disputing indisputable facts.
Yep. It's getting harder and harder to beat voters with the LOTE crowbar, though, when their candidates are actually the Greater Evil in many respects. Trump, for example, would have to overthrow two democracies and start two regional wars, just to catch up to Hillary.
Just don't tell Jayne Cullen that I stole it from one of her Salon comments. :)
The part that drove me nuts was how her supporters were dragging out the fainting couches when ever Bernie would touch her with a feather....while at the same time HRC was rhetorically exhuming the bodies of dead Sandy Hook kids to leave on Bernie's campaign doorstep. Hillbots are as obnoxious (and as right wing) as the Bushbots ever were. Anyway, I doubt Trump is going to be so kind as to not bring up HRC's hypocrisy over private email servers, or mention the fact that at least Brian Williams heard actual gunfire.
Well, that's the biased conservative media for you. Bernie's kid-gloves treatment of the Megathatcher, combined with the media's willingness to ignore her brazen trainwreck of incompetence at just about everything she's ever done, means she might just win this thing.
And here come the American Exceptionalists, ignoring the fact that their assistant Secretary of State is on video bragging about spending billions to subvert a democracy - in front of banners for American oil companies - and then caught on the phone picking leaders after the coup.
American Exceptionalists are as full of shit on Russia, as all the Bush chickenhawks when they were running around accusing wounded veterans of cowardice for opposing the Iraq war.
Better than having your device cut off from updates 18 months after purchase, Fandroid.
Other than the fact that those authors and creators received inspiration from previous authors and creators - which they wouldn't be able to sell if that previous work was locked up in perpetual copyright.
Corporate interests are big part of the problem - but what's the difference going to be in the end if the copyright term is 20 years or 200 years?
20 years: Disney waits for something to fall into the public domain (like Harry Potter), at which point they pimp the shit out their own version for 20 years.
200 years: author has to do all his own marketing and promotion, or sell his work to a corporation for what will be a pittance in the end - just ask the author of Forrest Gump.
Says the person relying on preconceptions, prejudice, and confirmation bias. You know....same as every other bigot throughout human history.
A list of attacks overwhelmingly carried out by Christianists. I once had a conversation with another butthurt Christianist, who said that gays who didn't like discrimination in the United States should move to Iran. Nevermind that that there are 3 to 4 many times as many GLBT's in the United States as there are Muslims.
Meanwhile, the Mother Jones link you ignored talked about Christofascist Uganda, and their kill-the-gays-bill. Which was pushed for by Christofascist pastors in the United States.
And both you and ISIS have hung your dumbfuck asses out the window on this, as the shooter didn't give a shit about the Islamic State. He was a self-hating gay, the worst kind of homophobe. Because his dad was an uptight follower of Old Testament, Abrahamic BS, just like you Christianists.
The reality is children are quickest at picking up new languages and concepts. Any non-half-assed ESL (or in this case SSL) program has no problems teaching math and history while teaching the language at the same time. Any such "toll" is going to be extremely short in duration.
Spare me the fainting couch. You're blaming (minority) immigrants and their children, which makes you a racist, same as any fuckstick still prattling on about the Bell Curve.
Being willfully obtuse does not become you. Warrantless wiretapping. 4th Amendment. You know this already, so feel free to stop being obnoxious at any time.
It's always amusing to watch American Exceptionalists - who think nothing of killing millions of Vietnamese, Iraqis, global spying and torture - cast aspersions at foreign leaders who aren't in the business of bombing weddings and funerals.
Nope - consumption taxes are inherently regressive.
That doesn't change the fact that it's regressive - what you're changing is that it would no longer fall hardest on the poor, who by nature spend the highest percentage of their income. The mega-rich would still pay far less than the pitiful amount they do now, which is why they like consumption taxes.
Raise exemptions to the point where you don't start paying until you make six figures - and it's still a regressive tax because you're paying a higher percentage of your income than the megarich. Hell, say everything under a million dollars is exempt, and it would still be a regressive tax, because the billionaires would still be paying less of a percentage.
As they spend every minute of every day treating the 4th Amendment as joke? Their day job is to violate the law.