To be fair, though, a couple dozen people put to death in this way in the 80's, as a publicized social policy, would probably have resulted in about 25 million less human deaths due to AIDS... so far.
Or if St. Ronnie hadn't flatly ignored the disease...but who cares about that when you can be an elminationist nazi shitbag AC? Do you also troll with similar BS that crime would go down if more black babies were aborted?
there are a few other good comments here that outline how little backup camera's do to save lives
You mean luddites pretending that kids are the only things that people accidentally back into with their cars? How about pets, parallel parking, utility poles, ledges, high curbs, expensive bikes left on pavement, tight parking spaces in packed garages...for less than the cost of a set of wiper blades, you can drastically reduce those property-damaging accidents when putting cars in reverse.
I've seen this repeated a few times in this thread (and indeed whenever the intersection between homosexuality and Christianity is raised as a topic), however it is a misunderstanding of the theology of the most common Christian traditions.
Hardly. Christianists are cherry picking hacks to say homosexuality is a sin, based on the Old Testament, but they can go on eating pork and wearing cloths made from different fibers because the New Testament wipes away "those" sins. Surely you've seen this pic floating around the series of tubes, captioned
Tattoo of Leviticus 18:22 forbidding homosexuality: $200 Not knowing that Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos: Priceless
Why anyone tries to argue this point 14 years after West Wing laid down the definitive smackdown on the subject is beyond me.
Except religion has nothing to do with marriage, at least in the U.S. What churches do here is to perform weddings. Marriage is you going to the courthouse with your fiance to get a license from the state.
People's attitudes on this are extremely hypocritical. We rail against hatred and discrimination, and yet here we are with a "BURN THE HEATHENS!" mob mentality the second we find out about someone donating a relatively measly $1000 to Prop8.
When a not-even-boycott of Firefox results in Eich not having custody, visitation, medical or inheritance rights, then you can whine about hypocrisy. Until then, you are simply full of shit to pretend that the public shaming of bigots is in anyway shape or form equivalent to legalized discrimination.
Realize that the safest driver on the planet isn't going to see what these backup cameras can. No amount of driver training is going to let you see a kid or a dog standing behind your rear bumper.
Which will prevent ~15 deaths per year, and ~1200 serious injuries.
And X parallel parking accidents, and backing up into shit like walls or poles.
Using the NHTSB estimates ($43 to upgrade models that already do backup cams to meet the new spec, $143 to put them in models that don't currently do that), we get an approximate cost to implement this mandate of $650 milllion annually.
Which is an obvious joke...seen a cheap cell phone in the last 10 years? Basic camera lenses and lcd screens are commodity items, and vehicles are already wired to the general vicinity for backup lights that come on when you go into reverse. So you can lop a zero off of the NHTSB's pricetag.
So why not make these cameras mandatory, since the real cost will be less than changing your wiper blades?
But good thing for this, lets make cars even more expensive for average joe just trying to get by.
So, you bought the industry whining that mandating these cameras would add hundreds of dollars to the cost of a vehicle. Maybe on some other planet where cell phones haven't made both screens and lenses insanely cheap.
Did you also moan about how seat belts were going to make cars soooo much more expensive for the "average joe"? If not, why not?
This "food security" tripe has been the rationale for more laws and taxes by the exact same bunch of statists that have us burning 40% of our corn crop for fuel. The fact that more people see through this nonsense isn't terribly mysterious.
On some other planet where the USDOA hasn't been prioritizing corporate ag profits for as long as it's been in existence?
No kidding! Dismissing the benefits of asbestos products, claiming the "science" of the effect of lead paint on children is "settled", flatly ignoring the oncologist cabal trying make money off of saying tobacco products lead to cancer...who do these Al Gore groupies think they're fooling?
You would have to have a content checking system that would compare incoming files to a blacklist. DMCA came out in '96...you'd think we would have heard of databases of blacklisted checksums before now, the onerous overhead imposed on hosting companies, and the various inaccuracies and court cases by now....almost 20 years later.
Hitting submit instead of preview FTW. Blaming Australia for overfishing is another red herring because 1) they're working on reducing quotas, as opposed to Japan 2) most of the overfishing has been done by....Japan and 3) most of the international trade of bluefin goes to....Japan.
Unless I am mistaken, siberian tigers aren't a marine animal poached for food supply south to south-east of the Australian coast.
I'm not mistaken, because your point was that caring about X is stupid when Y is more endangered. Maybe next time you could try coming up with a line of reasoning that isn't both stupid and irrelevant, since Japanese seafood options aren't limited to 1) whales 2) bluefin tuna.
The DMCA states that companies must take reasonable steps to prevent reuploading. Designing a system with the express purpose of not being able to prevent uploading would be thoroughly illegal.
tuna is actually more endangered than the minke whales Japan catch
Actually that's a red herring with zero relevance to the subject of whaling. Siberian tigers are even more rare than tuna, so Japan should be able to haul in as many bluefins as they can catch. Or something.
Republicans had no intentions of winning the 2012 election. Otherwise, they would have been tearing Obama a new asshole for taxing health care benefits after savaging McCain on the issue in 2008. Because why try and wrest back control of the White House when it's occupant is solidly committed to right wing Republican policies on taxation, regulation, economics, the environment, trade, and deficit reduction?
It could mean only one thing and scrolling up confirms it! More 'biggovernmentboogeyman' drivel brought to you by cold fjord.
Yet he's a rabid NSA/Israeli/American Exceptionalist when it comes too all things big brother and military. You'd think that brownshirt of his would give him a rash when he goes into ebil gubbment mode, but cold fjord is exceptionally exceptional.
Then we have Mommy Democrats who tells you how to behave with others and spend your money.
Then you bring out the Libertarian hand waving. Not that that winger claptrap had any basis in reality, but since Clinton, Democrats have been little more than secular Republicans.
And for those people complain that a libertarian party are the ones who would allow EPA disasters, schools to go unfunded, no fire/police departments are just using scare tactics to keep the status quo.
Because that's exactly what this does:
Keep the gov outta our personal, private and capitalist transactions. Why is this so hard to understand?
Why don't you read up on the 19th Century? That was your Libertarian Paradise in action, and it led to nothing but extreme wealth for an extreme minority, a slightly larger bourgeois class, and misery for everyone else. Now, go be a good little Paulbot and enjoy your nice West Virginian drinking water.
The UK has a problem with Islamic extremist gangs in prisons. Printed material from external well-wishers and visitors is a huge contributory factor. This problem is far, far worse than any right-ring white gangs in US jails.
Bedwetting bullshit. If you go to prison, you're going to try and make friends with people like you to keep the resizing of your asshole to a minimum. And there's no shortage of crazy christian proselytizing in prison, or violent gangs of wasps, but ZOMG MOOOSLIMS!
But if you really want to complain about fundamentalist Islam, start with the nearest mirror. Because it's either directly supported by western imperialism (Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria) or in direct backlash to western imperialism (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan.) But hey, anything that allows you to point your finger at somebody else.
Not voluntary if it's the only thing keeping you from moving into a refrigerator box and living off food stamps.
is an voluntary arrangement in which each side is looking out for their own best interests
To pretend employers and employees have equal standing in this system is laughable in a booming economy. In one that's seen a falling standard of living for the last 30 years and a borderline depression for the last five, it's a farce.
And when you get hired into positions where Corporate America does care about a long term relationship with you, you'll know it, because there will be retention bonuses and other kind of long term incentives.
On some other planet where what you are paid is primarily dictated by your ability, instead of luck and networking? Busting your butt at slave wages isn't going to get you a promotion or a raise, it's going to get you a pat on the head for making the company so much money for so little compensation.
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Or if St. Ronnie hadn't flatly ignored the disease...but who cares about that when you can be an elminationist nazi shitbag AC? Do you also troll with similar BS that crime would go down if more black babies were aborted?
You mean luddites pretending that kids are the only things that people accidentally back into with their cars? How about pets, parallel parking, utility poles, ledges, high curbs, expensive bikes left on pavement, tight parking spaces in packed garages...for less than the cost of a set of wiper blades, you can drastically reduce those property-damaging accidents when putting cars in reverse.
Hardly. Christianists are cherry picking hacks to say homosexuality is a sin, based on the Old Testament, but they can go on eating pork and wearing cloths made from different fibers because the New Testament wipes away "those" sins. Surely you've seen this pic floating around the series of tubes, captioned
Why anyone tries to argue this point 14 years after West Wing laid down the definitive smackdown on the subject is beyond me.
Except religion has nothing to do with marriage, at least in the U.S. What churches do here is to perform weddings. Marriage is you going to the courthouse with your fiance to get a license from the state.
Bwhahahaha hahahahaaha. I've spent years calling out Obama for his bigotry and cowardice on gay rights, but thanks for asking.
Of course that's what it was about. What's next, going to tell us that Arizona's birth certificate laws had nothing to do with "illegal" immigrants?
False Equivalency Buuuuuullshit Is Coming
When a not-even-boycott of Firefox results in Eich not having custody, visitation, medical or inheritance rights, then you can whine about hypocrisy. Until then, you are simply full of shit to pretend that the public shaming of bigots is in anyway shape or form equivalent to legalized discrimination.
No. You don't.
Realize that the safest driver on the planet isn't going to see what these backup cameras can. No amount of driver training is going to let you see a kid or a dog standing behind your rear bumper.
And X parallel parking accidents, and backing up into shit like walls or poles.
Which is an obvious joke...seen a cheap cell phone in the last 10 years? Basic camera lenses and lcd screens are commodity items, and vehicles are already wired to the general vicinity for backup lights that come on when you go into reverse. So you can lop a zero off of the NHTSB's pricetag.
So why not make these cameras mandatory, since the real cost will be less than changing your wiper blades?
So, you bought the industry whining that mandating these cameras would add hundreds of dollars to the cost of a vehicle. Maybe on some other planet where cell phones haven't made both screens and lenses insanely cheap.
Did you also moan about how seat belts were going to make cars soooo much more expensive for the "average joe"? If not, why not?
If not, why not?
Geeze, lets not be willfully obtuse. What mirror is going to show you backing up over the neighbors dog, or worse, the neighbors kid?
Only if the wire between the $3 screen and $2 lens gets shorted, because you can replace those parts yourself, like with your ripped-off side mirror.
On some other planet where the USDOA hasn't been prioritizing corporate ag profits for as long as it's been in existence?
No kidding! Dismissing the benefits of asbestos products, claiming the "science" of the effect of lead paint on children is "settled", flatly ignoring the oncologist cabal trying make money off of saying tobacco products lead to cancer...who do these Al Gore groupies think they're fooling?
You would have to have a content checking system that would compare incoming files to a blacklist. DMCA came out in '96...you'd think we would have heard of databases of blacklisted checksums before now, the onerous overhead imposed on hosting companies, and the various inaccuracies and court cases by now....almost 20 years later.
Hitting submit instead of preview FTW. Blaming Australia for overfishing is another red herring because 1) they're working on reducing quotas, as opposed to Japan 2) most of the overfishing has been done by....Japan and 3) most of the international trade of bluefin goes to....Japan.
I'm not mistaken, because your point was that caring about X is stupid when Y is more endangered. Maybe next time you could try coming up with a line of reasoning that isn't both stupid and irrelevant, since Japanese seafood options aren't limited to 1) whales 2) bluefin tuna.
And you are?
[Citation needed]
Actually that's a red herring with zero relevance to the subject of whaling. Siberian tigers are even more rare than tuna, so Japan should be able to haul in as many bluefins as they can catch. Or something.
Republicans had no intentions of winning the 2012 election. Otherwise, they would have been tearing Obama a new asshole for taxing health care benefits after savaging McCain on the issue in 2008. Because why try and wrest back control of the White House when it's occupant is solidly committed to right wing Republican policies on taxation, regulation, economics, the environment, trade, and deficit reduction?
Yet he's a rabid NSA/Israeli/American Exceptionalist when it comes too all things big brother and military. You'd think that brownshirt of his would give him a rash when he goes into ebil gubbment mode, but cold fjord is exceptionally exceptional.
With the guy that passed the first round of Obomneycare, Mitt Romney himself? How do you figure?
Then you bring out the Libertarian hand waving. Not that that winger claptrap had any basis in reality, but since Clinton, Democrats have been little more than secular Republicans.
Because that's exactly what this does:
Why don't you read up on the 19th Century? That was your Libertarian Paradise in action, and it led to nothing but extreme wealth for an extreme minority, a slightly larger bourgeois class, and misery for everyone else. Now, go be a good little Paulbot and enjoy your nice West Virginian drinking water.
Bedwetting bullshit. If you go to prison, you're going to try and make friends with people like you to keep the resizing of your asshole to a minimum. And there's no shortage of crazy christian proselytizing in prison, or violent gangs of wasps, but ZOMG MOOOSLIMS!
But if you really want to complain about fundamentalist Islam, start with the nearest mirror. Because it's either directly supported by western imperialism (Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria) or in direct backlash to western imperialism (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan.) But hey, anything that allows you to point your finger at somebody else.
Not voluntary if it's the only thing keeping you from moving into a refrigerator box and living off food stamps.
To pretend employers and employees have equal standing in this system is laughable in a booming economy. In one that's seen a falling standard of living for the last 30 years and a borderline depression for the last five, it's a farce.
On some other planet where what you are paid is primarily dictated by your ability, instead of luck and networking? Busting your butt at slave wages isn't going to get you a promotion or a raise, it's going to get you a pat on the head for making the company so much money for so little compensation.