Texas could maybe pull it off, Louisiana no... The only industry we have here is the Prison industry and the gov here is corrupt top to bottom. Those that aren't in prison are on food stamps. Its an all around crappy state... Every day I wake up I ask my self WTF am I doing here?
"Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's.... A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings"
Ya, but once they leave the union and stop all that welfare crap, those criminals and welfare cheats will have to go out and get jobs and become productive citizens or starve. Louisiana's biggest problems solved with the result of a booming economy!
Third party candidates are a fantasy. Either fix the system so they have any chance of winning, or just stop spewing this nonsense.
See, I think this is an actual case of begging the question. Third party candidates are a fantasy. Why? Because they can't win? Why? Because nobody votes for them. Why does nobody vote for them? Because they can't win.
You have it right there in your post - tax cuts vs tax increases. Ideologically, Republicans are for lower taxes....
No, the Republicans were in favor of "tax cuts" and spending more on the military, but not spending more because they would make that back through closing "loopholes" to make it up, so actually, they would end up raising taxes to certain people (but never said what loopholes) and overall to make up that other $200 million a year. Over all, the Economist had this to say about his whole economic plan: "For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says." and while they didn't like it, they had to back Obama.
From what I have read, you are about 30 years late on your information. At one time, it was like that and on top of it all, most of the population were true believers that were more than happy to turn you in. The only people to cross the border were usually the privledged or military who were in a spot where they feared for their lives. These days, they've done away with much of the blood guilt that would kill your family as well as you for such things and the boarder is much more porous. South Korean soap operas are a big hit in North Korea and smuggled in from China. Likewise, people smuggle themselves out via China (then to Vietnam) to get to South Korea. The South Korean government is currently having troubles because they are getting so many North Koreans who are just average folks whose only experience with anything outside of NK are those South Korean soaps. They undergo six months of acclimation training and still they have issues even functioning in South Korea because the idea of going into a store and being able to make their own choices between brands is so foreign to them. Many eventually go back because they can't handle SK or miss their families. The ones that stay send money back to NK and it is strongly hinted that the NK government encourages this to a degree both to cover their spies and because their economy needs that money.
One of their callers let it slip what my "ranking" was. For some reason they think I'm a strong democrat. I'm not sure what they think that means because if the Republicans would ever get their act together and field a Strong Moderate Republican like Powell then I'd vote Republican. Instead they've taken the last decade purging out moderates and acting crazy.
There's your answer. The Strong Moderate Republican you are waiting for is most likely a Democrat these days but you are possibly tied to a party name and color rather than issues. The quote that was going around this election that I head was “I’m undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I’m in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican Party platform.”
"small fringe" is sadly not, to my mind, a plausible interpretation of the evidence
When you look at many votes on questions touched on by the theocrats, it's pretty clear that they enjoy substantial support from large segments and often majorities of the GOP electorate.
I was reading an article in the Economist yesterday about this and the Republican Party declaring that the reason they lost was they weren't right enough and how the parties are very far apart ideologicaly while the actual issues they are working on are minor (the example they offered was debating tax rates of 36% versus 37.5%). The fanatics, or at least the Christian right, have the voice and the money and might just take their votes and money if they don't get what they want. Meanwhile, what's a moderate fiscal conservative that has always voted Republican to do? Unless they are willing to switch sides to the Democrats or a Third Party choice, they are still left with voting Republican and seemingly giving support to the fringe.
The fact that Conservatives want desperately to take the nation back to 40s is interesting but more than a little brain dead. By the way I distinguish social conservatives from fiscal conservatives.
Stop calling them social conservatives as they are actually social regressives.
Trouble is, to get those, there will probably have to be changes made to the constitution. I for one, doubt we could make changes to the constitution and come out with something better for the people than was cooked up by a bunch of idealistic white guys more than 200 years ago, especially when the planned changes are meant to fix the people that are supposed to be making the changes.
I can see the switch from PowerPC as IBM and Motorola could not keep up with supplies or advances. To switch from Intel to ARM on PC's will be suicide as performance in PC's far outweigh any negligible benefits in power savings. People using Macs are designers, programmers and heavy users. For those advocating unifying the mobile experience with the desktop, please STOP. I produce content on my desktop. I consume it on my iPad.
If this were to happen, I doubt if Macs would even change from Intel to ARM. If anything resembleing this was to happen, it will be because the Macs wither away and all that significantly left are the iOS ARM devices. Of course, that would leave Apple without a development platform, so what would need to happen before that would be some sort of ARM development platform and for Apple to give up gaming, development, and graphics on a Mac. If you start seeing docking iPads that people actually start developing and playing games on, then you might fear for your Mac and wonder if Apple will switch to ARM only.
Apple would be stupid not to explore alternatives that may only become viable years down the road. Every tech company does it. Bloomberg is just trolling.
What! How can you say Bloomberg is trolling? Didn't you read the article? It's printed right there that "some engineers say" this might happen! How can you doubt the sureness of such a quote and the technical expertise of any engineer?
Vote for the Mormon or you'll get the Muslim. Communism is NOT THE ANSWER.
As a Brit, I honestly have no idea whether this is parody or not.
As a foreigner having been living legally in a Southern American State for quiet a few years, I can inform you that it is sadly not a parody. It is frankly a very scary belief by many.
I can honestly say that I've heard the same words come out of my Oklahoman father's mouth as all the family and friends around the dinner table just nod in agreement. He gets all sorts of strange emails and letter they all forward between each other that they take as gospel. I can disprove each one with a few minutes and Google, usually even by using Fox news as a source. He then just gets confused and doesn't want to talk about it. Mom is about as bad (but I finally got her to check Snopes before sending me stuff). They just simply haven't learned not to believe everything they read on the internet or in email. Thus, the faked article about Obama being gone from office more than any other president in history because he left to perform Hadj in Mecca complete with bad photoshopped pictures is taken as truth.
So he spent all his political capital during the 2 months when the Democrats had a majority of both houses pushing through Obama Care, which was one of his platform positions during the election.
Right, but I imagine lots of people thought like I did, that he would do what the last two presidents did and present a plan, put it up the flag pole, let it get voted down and then get on with his job. Instead he spent all his political capital doing one thing when he might have done more.
Look out third parties more likely. Strategic voting in the US means that the Big 2 will change before a third party will grow big enough to do anything. Once any third party starts to become a threat, the Big 2 will just start stealing planks out of their platform, divide up their issues, and get those voters. That being said, it's one of the reasons I vote 3rd party because the Big 2 care more about their votes than those in their own party.
Is it an agent working for China, the largest producer of walnuts, next being the U,.S., wanting to control the Great Paper Tiger?
Could it be someone trying to beat the commodities market pricing for walnuts, to cover a loss or to make a profit?
If it turns out to be either one of those, I will... laugh-out-loud.
Probably somebody with contacts back in China. Steal $300k in something. Ship it back to China where it probably came from before. Sell to supplier (probably also a family member) cheap who will then just ship it back to the US for another $300k. Perhaps even ship back the truck.Shipping container to China is probably a few thousand and everything else is profit.
Yep, there are reasons that the SS Ahnenerbe performed expeditions to Tibet. Of course, those reasons have more to do with ancient astronaut theories than actual genetics or archeology.
They were idiots for going out to sea. Even if it was marginally safer for the boat to be at sea than in port for the storm, it was safer for the crew to be in port, or in hotel rooms 100 miles inland. Those people died due to a combination of greedy ownership that valued the ship more than the crew's safety and their own stupidity in not refusing. All this for a reproduction used in movie shoots. A senseless waste.
With an attitude like that, you'd never have any crab or probably fish for that matter. Some jobs are simply more dangerous than others, and sailing even in good weather is one of those. I suspect they knew what they were getting into way before they were even hired, let alone asked to sail out. They left with plenty of time and when the forecasts painted a much more favorable situation. For that matter, I know some sailors on tall ships here on the West coast, and if you think you could have kept them from sailing out n their ship, you don't know sailors. Pretty sure, if given the chance to do it again knowing what they know now, they'd still take the ship out, just with a backup generator.
In any case, the parent AC was responding to a previous AC who asked for evidence that it (being brought up by same-sex couples) mattered. The '50 years of sexual liberation' argument looks meaningless in that light because likely only a very small fraction of same sex couples raised kids during those 50 years.
The '50 years of of sexual liberation' argument looks meaningless when puritans in the US get all worked up and make a big deal about an accidental breast being shown on the TV. Things might be a little less strict than they used to be but in general, there is still a large repressive trend towards sex in American culture. I suspect from personal antidotes that many of those single parents and some of those different sex couples would be same sex marriages if they could. One friend's single parent turned out to be gay but he didn't even realize till well after college when he finally put two and two together about his mother and her live in "best friend".
Blavasky and 19th century occultism along with the swastika. Realize that the Aryans were the latest a "root race" descended from the last inhabitants of Atlantis. As far as "race" goes, even to the Nazis, race meant something much different than the genetic meaning we assume and involved proper spiritual traits as well as genetics. That's why they liked the Japanese but not others.
I couldn't watch them either. Especially that Jersey Shore train wreck!
Everybody I know who has ever watched Jersey Shore, and the only reason I have ever seen an episode, was because it was a train wreck. Similar to many of the other shows, I suspect that a large part of the viewing audience is watching it just to make themselves feel better because they see those in the show as so much worse than they are, not because they actually relate or like the show's subject matter.
An 84 inch television is a massive waste of wall space, and of life.
Unless you're in a teaching or conference space trying to use a projected computer program for a room full of people. In those cases, $17k is probably less than the audio system that is installed in the room.
I think the point is that Stalinist Russia is more commonly know for some other -ism that isn't atheism. The implication is, of course, that the other -ism is the real reason for the persecution of religion in Stalinist Russia.
I'm sure if you spend some more time studying the subject you will figure it out. While it's true that USSR was officially atheist, the question you need to answer is why it was atheist and why they persecuted religion.
Well, if atheism gets a pass due to Russia being communist and other political details, then Christianity and Islam should also get a pass though most of history and even in many parts of the current day world as religion again is just being used as political and cultural device of control.
When it all comes down to it, lots of people blame religion for various things, but if they got rid of religion, the same things would still be carried out in the name of nationalism. Get rid of nationalism and you'll end up with other idealogies being the cause. Get rid of those and it will just default to clan and family matters. Get rid of them and you'll still have the same things being carried out over resources and money, which it could be argued that they are being done for even in all the other cases.
>> proper social skills to deal with a small group of people just like themselves
"Do you play D&D?"
"Yes, why?"
"You're in!"
Of course, then it turns out after launch that one is a AD&D grognard and the other is a fan of 4E. Interpersonnel violence occurs and the mission never makes it past the moon.
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They were given that land, legally.
Oh really?? By whom? Some bald headed old white men who didn't own it? If you mean, by legal, with a big gun, you would be right.
Dude, they guys with the guns are who always makes the laws, just ask Mao, thus it was legal.
Texas could maybe pull it off, Louisiana no... The only industry we have here is the Prison industry and the gov here is corrupt top to bottom. Those that aren't in prison are on food stamps. Its an all around crappy state... Every day I wake up I ask my self WTF am I doing here? "Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's.... A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings"
Ya, but once they leave the union and stop all that welfare crap, those criminals and welfare cheats will have to go out and get jobs and become productive citizens or starve. Louisiana's biggest problems solved with the result of a booming economy!
Third party candidates are a fantasy. Either fix the system so they have any chance of winning, or just stop spewing this nonsense.
See, I think this is an actual case of begging the question. Third party candidates are a fantasy. Why? Because they can't win? Why? Because nobody votes for them. Why does nobody vote for them? Because they can't win.
You have it right there in your post - tax cuts vs tax increases. Ideologically, Republicans are for lower taxes....
No, the Republicans were in favor of "tax cuts" and spending more on the military, but not spending more because they would make that back through closing "loopholes" to make it up, so actually, they would end up raising taxes to certain people (but never said what loopholes) and overall to make up that other $200 million a year. Over all, the Economist had this to say about his whole economic plan: "For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says." and while they didn't like it, they had to back Obama.
From what I have read, you are about 30 years late on your information. At one time, it was like that and on top of it all, most of the population were true believers that were more than happy to turn you in. The only people to cross the border were usually the privledged or military who were in a spot where they feared for their lives. These days, they've done away with much of the blood guilt that would kill your family as well as you for such things and the boarder is much more porous. South Korean soap operas are a big hit in North Korea and smuggled in from China. Likewise, people smuggle themselves out via China (then to Vietnam) to get to South Korea. The South Korean government is currently having troubles because they are getting so many North Koreans who are just average folks whose only experience with anything outside of NK are those South Korean soaps. They undergo six months of acclimation training and still they have issues even functioning in South Korea because the idea of going into a store and being able to make their own choices between brands is so foreign to them. Many eventually go back because they can't handle SK or miss their families. The ones that stay send money back to NK and it is strongly hinted that the NK government encourages this to a degree both to cover their spies and because their economy needs that money.
One of their callers let it slip what my "ranking" was. For some reason they think I'm a strong democrat. I'm not sure what they think that means because if the Republicans would ever get their act together and field a Strong Moderate Republican like Powell then I'd vote Republican. Instead they've taken the last decade purging out moderates and acting crazy.
There's your answer. The Strong Moderate Republican you are waiting for is most likely a Democrat these days but you are possibly tied to a party name and color rather than issues. The quote that was going around this election that I head was “I’m undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I’m in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican Party platform.”
"small fringe" is sadly not, to my mind, a plausible interpretation of the evidence
When you look at many votes on questions touched on by the theocrats, it's pretty clear that they enjoy substantial support from large segments and often majorities of the GOP electorate.
I was reading an article in the Economist yesterday about this and the Republican Party declaring that the reason they lost was they weren't right enough and how the parties are very far apart ideologicaly while the actual issues they are working on are minor (the example they offered was debating tax rates of 36% versus 37.5%). The fanatics, or at least the Christian right, have the voice and the money and might just take their votes and money if they don't get what they want. Meanwhile, what's a moderate fiscal conservative that has always voted Republican to do? Unless they are willing to switch sides to the Democrats or a Third Party choice, they are still left with voting Republican and seemingly giving support to the fringe.
The fact that Conservatives want desperately to take the nation back to 40s is interesting but more than a little brain dead. By the way I distinguish social conservatives from fiscal conservatives.
Stop calling them social conservatives as they are actually social regressives.
In the USA, we need:
Trouble is, to get those, there will probably have to be changes made to the constitution. I for one, doubt we could make changes to the constitution and come out with something better for the people than was cooked up by a bunch of idealistic white guys more than 200 years ago, especially when the planned changes are meant to fix the people that are supposed to be making the changes.
A paper ballot and a black marker beats the hell out of the paper ballot and the No. 2 pencil.
Paper also beats rock. But watch out! Here comes the scissors.
Nope, here comes the eraser.
I can see the switch from PowerPC as IBM and Motorola could not keep up with supplies or advances. To switch from Intel to ARM on PC's will be suicide as performance in PC's far outweigh any negligible benefits in power savings. People using Macs are designers, programmers and heavy users. For those advocating unifying the mobile experience with the desktop, please STOP. I produce content on my desktop. I consume it on my iPad.
If this were to happen, I doubt if Macs would even change from Intel to ARM. If anything resembleing this was to happen, it will be because the Macs wither away and all that significantly left are the iOS ARM devices. Of course, that would leave Apple without a development platform, so what would need to happen before that would be some sort of ARM development platform and for Apple to give up gaming, development, and graphics on a Mac. If you start seeing docking iPads that people actually start developing and playing games on, then you might fear for your Mac and wonder if Apple will switch to ARM only.
Apple would be stupid not to explore alternatives that may only become viable years down the road. Every tech company does it. Bloomberg is just trolling.
What! How can you say Bloomberg is trolling? Didn't you read the article? It's printed right there that "some engineers say" this might happen! How can you doubt the sureness of such a quote and the technical expertise of any engineer?
Vote for the Mormon or you'll get the Muslim. Communism is NOT THE ANSWER.
As a Brit, I honestly have no idea whether this is parody or not.
As a foreigner having been living legally in a Southern American State for quiet a few years, I can inform you that it is sadly not a parody. It is frankly a very scary belief by many.
I can honestly say that I've heard the same words come out of my Oklahoman father's mouth as all the family and friends around the dinner table just nod in agreement. He gets all sorts of strange emails and letter they all forward between each other that they take as gospel. I can disprove each one with a few minutes and Google, usually even by using Fox news as a source. He then just gets confused and doesn't want to talk about it. Mom is about as bad (but I finally got her to check Snopes before sending me stuff). They just simply haven't learned not to believe everything they read on the internet or in email. Thus, the faked article about Obama being gone from office more than any other president in history because he left to perform Hadj in Mecca complete with bad photoshopped pictures is taken as truth.
So he spent all his political capital during the 2 months when the Democrats had a majority of both houses pushing through Obama Care, which was one of his platform positions during the election.
Right, but I imagine lots of people thought like I did, that he would do what the last two presidents did and present a plan, put it up the flag pole, let it get voted down and then get on with his job. Instead he spent all his political capital doing one thing when he might have done more.
Look out, Big 2.
Look out third parties more likely. Strategic voting in the US means that the Big 2 will change before a third party will grow big enough to do anything. Once any third party starts to become a threat, the Big 2 will just start stealing planks out of their platform, divide up their issues, and get those voters. That being said, it's one of the reasons I vote 3rd party because the Big 2 care more about their votes than those in their own party.
Is it an agent working for China, the largest producer of walnuts, next being the U,.S., wanting to control the Great Paper Tiger? Could it be someone trying to beat the commodities market pricing for walnuts, to cover a loss or to make a profit?
If it turns out to be either one of those, I will ... laugh-out-loud.
Probably somebody with contacts back in China. Steal $300k in something. Ship it back to China where it probably came from before. Sell to supplier (probably also a family member) cheap who will then just ship it back to the US for another $300k. Perhaps even ship back the truck.Shipping container to China is probably a few thousand and everything else is profit.
Yep, there are reasons that the SS Ahnenerbe performed expeditions to Tibet. Of course, those reasons have more to do with ancient astronaut theories than actual genetics or archeology.
They were idiots for going out to sea. Even if it was marginally safer for the boat to be at sea than in port for the storm, it was safer for the crew to be in port, or in hotel rooms 100 miles inland. Those people died due to a combination of greedy ownership that valued the ship more than the crew's safety and their own stupidity in not refusing. All this for a reproduction used in movie shoots. A senseless waste.
With an attitude like that, you'd never have any crab or probably fish for that matter. Some jobs are simply more dangerous than others, and sailing even in good weather is one of those. I suspect they knew what they were getting into way before they were even hired, let alone asked to sail out. They left with plenty of time and when the forecasts painted a much more favorable situation. For that matter, I know some sailors on tall ships here on the West coast, and if you think you could have kept them from sailing out n their ship, you don't know sailors. Pretty sure, if given the chance to do it again knowing what they know now, they'd still take the ship out, just with a backup generator.
In any case, the parent AC was responding to a previous AC who asked for evidence that it (being brought up by same-sex couples) mattered. The '50 years of sexual liberation' argument looks meaningless in that light because likely only a very small fraction of same sex couples raised kids during those 50 years.
The '50 years of of sexual liberation' argument looks meaningless when puritans in the US get all worked up and make a big deal about an accidental breast being shown on the TV. Things might be a little less strict than they used to be but in general, there is still a large repressive trend towards sex in American culture. I suspect from personal antidotes that many of those single parents and some of those different sex couples would be same sex marriages if they could. One friend's single parent turned out to be gay but he didn't even realize till well after college when he finally put two and two together about his mother and her live in "best friend".
Aber nicht in Deutsch. Arisch!
Where the "y" came from is a mystery.
Blavasky and 19th century occultism along with the swastika. Realize that the Aryans were the latest a "root race" descended from the last inhabitants of Atlantis. As far as "race" goes, even to the Nazis, race meant something much different than the genetic meaning we assume and involved proper spiritual traits as well as genetics. That's why they liked the Japanese but not others.
I couldn't watch them either. Especially that Jersey Shore train wreck!
Everybody I know who has ever watched Jersey Shore, and the only reason I have ever seen an episode, was because it was a train wreck. Similar to many of the other shows, I suspect that a large part of the viewing audience is watching it just to make themselves feel better because they see those in the show as so much worse than they are, not because they actually relate or like the show's subject matter.
An 84 inch television is a massive waste of wall space, and of life.
Unless you're in a teaching or conference space trying to use a projected computer program for a room full of people. In those cases, $17k is probably less than the audio system that is installed in the room.
I think the point is that Stalinist Russia is more commonly know for some other -ism that isn't atheism. The implication is, of course, that the other -ism is the real reason for the persecution of religion in Stalinist Russia.
I'm sure if you spend some more time studying the subject you will figure it out. While it's true that USSR was officially atheist, the question you need to answer is why it was atheist and why they persecuted religion.
Well, if atheism gets a pass due to Russia being communist and other political details, then Christianity and Islam should also get a pass though most of history and even in many parts of the current day world as religion again is just being used as political and cultural device of control.
When it all comes down to it, lots of people blame religion for various things, but if they got rid of religion, the same things would still be carried out in the name of nationalism. Get rid of nationalism and you'll end up with other idealogies being the cause. Get rid of those and it will just default to clan and family matters. Get rid of them and you'll still have the same things being carried out over resources and money, which it could be argued that they are being done for even in all the other cases.
Leaving location services on is a condition of getting to keep the phone.
Makes all kinds of logical sense until:
*snip*
Just get them unlimited texting and they'll never be without it.
>> proper social skills to deal with a small group of people just like themselves
"Do you play D&D?"
"Yes, why?"
"You're in!"
Of course, then it turns out after launch that one is a AD&D grognard and the other is a fan of 4E. Interpersonnel violence occurs and the mission never makes it past the moon.