As a "US living people", I generally try to live my life morally. Most of the people I know personally do the same. There are obviously people here who don't, but I think that's true the world over.
You can make random assumptions all you want, but that doesn't make them correct. I'd be careful there, that horse is pretty high, you might fall off.
This clock has always bothered me, since I have no idea of the scale. Does it run from 12:01 AM to Midnight, or do they only use 11 PM to Midnight? Maybe they only ever move this thing between five minutes to midnight and one minute to midnight. I have no way of understanding the meaning of it, it's random. They might as well say "doomsday clock set to five sevenths.
This is true. And it is also true that, when your ability to have something is taken away, it should be a serious discussion, and not a "oh my god let's get a PLAN!" action. Otherwise you end up with shit like the TSA, as a perfect example.
1). Hmmm, I cannot access the site. It is being blocked by a protest. I think I shall investigate why they are doing this and possibly support their cause! 2). I can't get to my site. Those dumbass "protestors" are screwing up my time! If I had a hammer, I'd hammer them all like nails!
In some ways I agree with both of you. This time around, I'd venture to say that the always on level of connection is unique: This is a generation that ALWAYS has connection, all the time, everywhere. The internet is ubiquitous and omnipresent. The place where all the info is located, on the internet, is something that they're carrying all over the place.
I can't speak on riding on a New Boeing, as I haven't. I have, however, had the misfortune of riding in the lower level of the A380. My god what a depressing flight. How could a new plane have ripped up carpet, and feel so so much like I'm in the bottom of a cattle transport? If there was super tech at work, it must have been upstairs where the Gods lived, and not down in the lower galley slave decks. Never again on that one. Unless the ticket's super cheap.
This ALWAYS happens, be it gas, or water, or electricity, or whatever. People are encouraged to conserve, because the utililty has an emergency. Once conservation occurs, however, then the utililty states "oh, we're not selling enough now, we need to raise prices!". it's lose lose: use less, they raise prices, use more, they jack you for overuse.
All this strikes me the following way: if it's uncomfortable/dangerous to publish maps of permit owning pistol owners, and uncomfortable/dangerous to publish the addresses of those at the paper who published the map, then isn't this primarily a question of privacy, and is the public information too public?
Saying "gubmint" does not make you funny, or smart. It actually marks your position as slightly pathetic. The exact same way my calling you a "bleeding-heart liberal" would do to mine. but you already know that, or you wouldn't be posting AC.
I wish everyone would stop with using silly loaded phrases. They're not vaguely funny, and they contribute nothing.
Like all things, there's a healthy balance to this. Nobody DESERVES to have their iPhone stolen, but you can do things to minimize the chances. I think you'll agree that if I walked around in a very bad part of town, set my iPhone down on a bench and shouted "hey everybody, can you keep an eye on my phone while I go in and use the bathroom", it would likely be stolen and I would bear some of the blame.
And this is what I point at when I suggest flat taxation, and everyone says it would hurt the poor. The poor are already being hurt by the super rich paying almost nothing. I include businesses in this definition of super rich.
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As a "US living people", I generally try to live my life morally. Most of the people I know personally do the same. There are obviously people here who don't, but I think that's true the world over.
You can make random assumptions all you want, but that doesn't make them correct.
I'd be careful there, that horse is pretty high, you might fall off.
This clock has always bothered me, since I have no idea of the scale. Does it run from 12:01 AM to Midnight, or do they only use 11 PM to Midnight? Maybe they only ever move this thing between five minutes to midnight and one minute to midnight. I have no way of understanding the meaning of it, it's random. They might as well say "doomsday clock set to five sevenths.
Question: do you work for a private company or a governmental agency?
You're correct, you know.
We should begin using more emotional reactions in crafting our laws.
That always turns out well.
This is true. And it is also true that, when your ability to have something is taken away, it should be a serious discussion, and not a "oh my god let's get a PLAN!" action.
Otherwise you end up with shit like the TSA, as a perfect example.
1). Hmmm, I cannot access the site. It is being blocked by a protest. I think I shall investigate why they are doing this and possibly support their cause!
2). I can't get to my site. Those dumbass "protestors" are screwing up my time! If I had a hammer, I'd hammer them all like nails!
Which is more probable?
In some ways I agree with both of you.
This time around, I'd venture to say that the always on level of connection is unique: This is a generation that ALWAYS has connection, all the time, everywhere.
The internet is ubiquitous and omnipresent. The place where all the info is located, on the internet, is something that they're carrying all over the place.
God created evolution.
There, you can now both be right!
Good lord you're angry. I guess it's good you don't have a gun, or I'd be worried.
McVeigh didn't use a gun in his most infamous deed. He used fertilizer. As has your argument. BTW, nice troll!
I can't speak on riding on a New Boeing, as I haven't.
I have, however, had the misfortune of riding in the lower level of the A380. My god what a depressing flight. How could a new plane have ripped up carpet, and feel so so much like I'm in the bottom of a cattle transport? If there was super tech at work, it must have been upstairs where the Gods lived, and not down in the lower galley slave decks.
Never again on that one. Unless the ticket's super cheap.
This ALWAYS happens, be it gas, or water, or electricity, or whatever. People are encouraged to conserve, because the utililty has an emergency. Once conservation occurs, however, then the utililty states "oh, we're not selling enough now, we need to raise prices!". it's lose lose: use less, they raise prices, use more, they jack you for overuse.
Good points.
That's really the issue here, much moreso than guns. Though I wouldn't say suppress as much as "make publicly available".
All this strikes me the following way: if it's uncomfortable/dangerous to publish maps of permit owning pistol owners, and uncomfortable/dangerous to publish the addresses of those at the paper who published the map, then isn't this primarily a question of privacy, and is the public information too public?
I don't think those quotation marks mean what you think they mean.
Shhh, that's logical, reasonable, and doesn't address a scary boogeyman. Stop it!
Saying "gubmint" does not make you funny, or smart.
It actually marks your position as slightly pathetic. The exact same way my calling you a "bleeding-heart liberal" would do to mine.
but you already know that, or you wouldn't be posting AC.
I wish everyone would stop with using silly loaded phrases. They're not vaguely funny, and they contribute nothing.
"you people"?
wow. a dumb racist. Whod'a thought?
probably because they pay a fee when they take cards, while cash incurs no bank fee.
Like all things, there's a healthy balance to this.
Nobody DESERVES to have their iPhone stolen, but you can do things to minimize the chances.
I think you'll agree that if I walked around in a very bad part of town, set my iPhone down on a bench and shouted "hey everybody, can you keep an eye on my phone while I go in and use the bathroom", it would likely be stolen and I would bear some of the blame.
When you've got the Ban Hammer, every problem is a nail...
And this is what I point at when I suggest flat taxation, and everyone says it would hurt the poor. The poor are already being hurt by the super rich paying almost nothing. I include businesses in this definition of super rich.
If his delusion is that the government is out to get him, it really doesn't matter where he goes. He might as well go somewhere with less taxes.