Hypothetical: The police need a warrant to search your house, but it's OK to have 24/7 surveillance of the inside of your house because you purchased a Kinect, and Microsoft decided to send the stream to the authorities. Why would anyone be upset over that?
You are more than welcome to publish a paper in a medical journal disproving the health benefits of vaccination and herd immunity. Until such revolutionary change comes about in medicine, choosing not to vaccinate a child *is* particularly evil, as it endangers not only the child but everyone around him or her. Teaching the child not to vaccinate only exacerbates the problem.
It's also true that House Republicans negotiated clean bill back in July with the Senate and reneged on it a few weeks ago because "OMG Obamacare!". It's a fact that there are enough votes right now in the House to pass a clean bill if only one was put up for vote.
While I have no love for either party, and I would love to do a clean sweep in all three branches of government, the blame for this crisis lies primarily in the lap of one group. The Republicans (and more specifically, the Tea Party) are throwing a tantrum because they couldn't successfully repeal ACA (despite 40+ votes), and they are holding the government hostage until their demands are met.
In another week, expect a default for the same reason.
I would much rather my mechanic focus his efforts on being good at diagnosing problems and installing factory-made parts rather than troubling himself with building parts himself. I feel the same way about programmers. The simple components (like sorting algorithms) are largely available in libraries, and I would be more concerned that someone I work with know when to use a particular sorting algorithm than that he/she can code up one from scratch.
You're stretching it too far the other way. Are you honestly suggesting we should be able to monitor the contents of all communications because someone *might* be using it to plan/execute a crime like sending child pornography?
Only the first automatic raise had to wait. The amendment only states that the law had to wait until the next election to go into effect. It is in effect now. Subsequent raises merely follow the law which is already in effect.
Congress could pass a law which states that their salaries double every time they vote on a bill, and while that law could not take effect until November 2014, Congressmen would see their raises after every bill after that without running afoul of the amendment. It's completely against the spirit of the amendment, of course, but it should be pretty clear by now that the spirit of a law means next to nothing
Well, the Republicans did themselves no favors. The economy had just been destroyed by Wall Street fraud, and the culprits brazenly waved their fistfuls of bailout cash at the public.
Who do the Republicans put up for their Presidential candidate? Mr. Wall Street
Had they presented a down-to-earth, moderate candidate for the election, the Republicans would have won it by a landslide.
18 times (including the one that started an hour ago), in fact. I was a little surprised to see just how many there were when I looked it up. Obama has nothing on Carter and Reagan for shutdowns.
You're thinking too narrow. There is a glut of news anchors when you expand your search to all news outlets. You even get premium, high-volume ones if you include Fox and MSNBC. Just remember not to use them together, because the opposing biases would cancel themselves out.
Depending on the type of zombies (slow and lumbering Night of the Living Dead type versus fast Zombieland type), you may do well to save the ammunition for normal humans. With a societal breakdown, you're just as likely to run across looters and bandits as helpful people.
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There is a market solution to the above scenario. Stop doing business with companies who do not go to bat for their customers.
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*shrug* Shame on me for thinking that bringing up an extreme and absurd example would make the satire easier to recognize, I suppose.
Maybe the goal was to put the KGB out of business so we could hire its agents as consultants on the cheap.
Hypothetical: The police need a warrant to search your house, but it's OK to have 24/7 surveillance of the inside of your house because you purchased a Kinect, and Microsoft decided to send the stream to the authorities. Why would anyone be upset over that?
Spokesbunny sums it up in one word :)
You are more than welcome to publish a paper in a medical journal disproving the health benefits of vaccination and herd immunity. Until such revolutionary change comes about in medicine, choosing not to vaccinate a child *is* particularly evil, as it endangers not only the child but everyone around him or her. Teaching the child not to vaccinate only exacerbates the problem.
Never. They only take the good ideas. They innovate on their own for the bad ones.
It's also true that House Republicans negotiated clean bill back in July with the Senate and reneged on it a few weeks ago because "OMG Obamacare!". It's a fact that there are enough votes right now in the House to pass a clean bill if only one was put up for vote.
While I have no love for either party, and I would love to do a clean sweep in all three branches of government, the blame for this crisis lies primarily in the lap of one group. The Republicans (and more specifically, the Tea Party) are throwing a tantrum because they couldn't successfully repeal ACA (despite 40+ votes), and they are holding the government hostage until their demands are met.
In another week, expect a default for the same reason.
This is a well known scenario called the dead sea effect.
I would much rather my mechanic focus his efforts on being good at diagnosing problems and installing factory-made parts rather than troubling himself with building parts himself. I feel the same way about programmers. The simple components (like sorting algorithms) are largely available in libraries, and I would be more concerned that someone I work with know when to use a particular sorting algorithm than that he/she can code up one from scratch.
You're stretching it too far the other way. Are you honestly suggesting we should be able to monitor the contents of all communications because someone *might* be using it to plan/execute a crime like sending child pornography?
No way. I am fully in support of employing kids as young as 13 in intellectual labor. After all, that's when they know everything.
Only the first automatic raise had to wait. The amendment only states that the law had to wait until the next election to go into effect. It is in effect now. Subsequent raises merely follow the law which is already in effect.
Congress could pass a law which states that their salaries double every time they vote on a bill, and while that law could not take effect until November 2014, Congressmen would see their raises after every bill after that without running afoul of the amendment. It's completely against the spirit of the amendment, of course, but it should be pretty clear by now that the spirit of a law means next to nothing
In this "experiment", what was the control group?
Well, the Republicans did themselves no favors. The economy had just been destroyed by Wall Street fraud, and the culprits brazenly waved their fistfuls of bailout cash at the public.
Who do the Republicans put up for their Presidential candidate? Mr. Wall Street
Had they presented a down-to-earth, moderate candidate for the election, the Republicans would have won it by a landslide.
In this case, there was a test bed - Massachusetts.
18 times (including the one that started an hour ago), in fact. I was a little surprised to see just how many there were when I looked it up. Obama has nothing on Carter and Reagan for shutdowns.
You're thinking too narrow. There is a glut of news anchors when you expand your search to all news outlets. You even get premium, high-volume ones if you include Fox and MSNBC. Just remember not to use them together, because the opposing biases would cancel themselves out.
Depending on the type of zombies (slow and lumbering Night of the Living Dead type versus fast Zombieland type), you may do well to save the ammunition for normal humans. With a societal breakdown, you're just as likely to run across looters and bandits as helpful people.
The only zombies would be the ones buying the truck.
That's easy - the vehicle launched from the lunar surface was of significantly lower mass (4819kg for the lunar module plus fuel versus 15065kg for the Saturn V rocket), and it had to work against significantly less gravity (1/6) and zero air resistance.
I suspect he was referring to Apple blocking "unauthorized" lightning cables.
Governments have always had the technical means to be invasive, they are restrained by common decency and the law of the land.
What governments would those be which are restrained by the law, let alone common decency?