I can imagine a manufacturer sending you a notice of a recall in the mail. In the same envelope, they include an explanation that you could get this update over the air with no effort in $(nearby_state), and include a business-reply-mail envelope with a form letter addressed to your state congressmen: "Dear Rep. Bork. I just went ___ miles out of my way and spent an extra ___ hour(s) getting a software update at a dealership instead of wirelessly. Please change this law."
we literally fought a war over whether it was OK to be a Nazi, and it isn't.
Please. World War II was a war over whether it was okay for the Axis powers to usurp the government, territories, and citizens' lives of various sovereign nations in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. It was a counter-conquest war, not a war waged against an ideology in the abstract. You'll further notice that there was no substantial Allied campaign to ruin the lives of conquered persons in Germany who had been associated with the Nazi party, merely against those who were associated with war crimes. Nuremburg convicted people who organised and implemented the system of mass murder, not the petty propagandists who said being white was bestest.
If you want a war on an ideology, I've got a War on Terror to sell you.
Some day an innocent man is going to set up a crowdfunding campaign for his defence and is going to get it shut down because he's been pre-emptively judged guilty. It's that old "first they came for the (x)" story, except this time they came for the Nazis, and it's all that more seductive because the Nazis deserve it.
Well, yes, but this is perfectly normal - like oh-so-much else that is wrong with this administration.
There are men who have been not just in prison, but in solitary confinement, for decades. There's a citizen who have been detained by ICE, imprisoned for three years without a lawyer, won $80k in damages, and just had the award thrown out on appeal because the statute of limitations on the "false imprisonment" charge expired while he was imprisoned. Last year there was a man in Florida locked in a shower with the hot water running until he died.
All of this is normal. All of this predates Trump. I mean, it's great that you're paying attention now, and all, but do try to look beyond Mr. Trump, beyond the outrage du jour, and even beyond the groups who will call you racist if you should question their demands for reparations.
Proving it's true would not put a full stop to the suit; it would be a thing that you prove in the suit itself. This is expensive because it means you're paying lawyers lots of money. The thing that's supposed to put a full stop to the suit is an anti-SLAPP motion, because this appears to be a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation; among other things, this typically stays all discovery, saving much expense,
Unfortunately I'm not up to speed on California-specific anti-SLAPP statutes.
They gave you: Weekends off, eight hour work day, Holidays off. And a safer workplace.
See, now, take this pro-union propaganda with a grain of salt. There were a lots of factors that led to a shorter American work week, and while unions were in fact one force, another major factor was that labor market conditions were much tighter. Manufacturing was expanding. Immigration was falling. Technological changes improved worker productivity. There were gross population shifts from rural areas to urban areas. There was plenty of government intervention into the labor market as well. All of these factors contributed to shorter work weeks too.
Unions in the abstract made a material contribution, and can
be recognized as such, and lauded, but the usual case like we see here, you are told "without unions no weekends", and that's just ill-informed propaganda.
Jewish Law? Begins in Exodus. More in Leviticus. Ongoing tradition of interpretation through your local rabbi.
Christian law? Begins with acknowledgement of Jewish law and extracts the Great Commandment (Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind) and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. From there has always been a diversity of practice in interpretation by various Christian religious communities, Christian religious leaders, and Christian rulers (where you will find it blended with civil law).
If you want to talk about how a particular United States midwestern Protestant group with a sola scriptura mindset goes about it, that's another matter, and a bit harder.
I assume that, like most huge data centers with enormous power drains, their needs were involved in the planning of and construction of regional power plants, so having a fee associated with a shutdown or changeover makes lots of sense.
In the USA it is actionable. All you have to do is outspend your opponent, does not matter if something is legal or not.
It's not quite as simple as that, as there are substantial anti-SLAPP statutes in many states which allow people who are sued to get the case dismissed quickly and sometimes get their legal fees paid for it. But it's not the greatest situation, either.
Have you landed from an international flight in New York or Los Angeles, recently, with a connecting flight? I've only done Atlanta myself, but if I recall correctly, you have to go through both customs and security.
Power. Except for the moon, Venus and Mercury, where solar power may be feasible, I don't see any option other than nuclear fusion for sustainably fulfilling a colony's power needs.
As an auto driver who cycles, the part that I've had trouble with, is when the cyclist zips out across a cross street from behind a row of parked cars (and sometimes, heading the wrong way) at full bicycle-speed.
in dark clothing, after dusk, without proper reflectors or a helmet, naturally
But evolution doesn't care about groups. It only cares about genes.
Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the more conventional level of the individual... As of yet, there is no clear consensus among biologists regarding the importance of group selection.
SPLC-designated hate group? This is the same SPLC that calls Ayaan Hirsi Ali an hateful extremist, mocking her experience with female genital mutilation, for speaking out about such matters in the context of the Islamic world, right?
I'm afraid the once-proud SPLC has squandered all moral authority.
Would it be okay to totally destroy someone's career for ideological reasons if that someone (quietly, clandestinely, without fanfare or any indication) donated $1,000 to a California campaign in favor of Prop 8?
Would it be okay to launch an Internet-wide Two Minutes' Hate against them to put pressure on their employer? (Assume, perhaps, that they're in some leadership position â" like, say, CTO.)
While I won't disagree with the sentiments about how feasible it is to conduct business, as I've never attempted it in the described territories, I have a very close friend attempting to regain custody of her child where, at the father's request, the judge agreed to postpone the case from December until the end of turkey-hunting season.
This is a special local quirk for the jurisdiction, but more generally, when the degree of social cohesion in an area is just a bit too good then the good-old-boy networks turn into a source of abuse, not of strength.
Damn son, you really still think America is all that?
I'm not sure what failure of reading comprehension would make someone believe I'm suggesting "america is all that."
However, let me throw some names out there. First of all, by population: China. India. Our neighbor: Mexico. Then, just some of the worst: Venezuela, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Uganda, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Honduras, Nicaragua, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar, Guatemala, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uzbekistan, Ecuador, Madagascar, Lebanon, Iran, Tanzania, Belize, Zambia. Albania. Brazil. Colombia. Peru. Vietnam. Senegal. Argentina. Malawi.
All of these have justice systems worse than one where cops policing for profit is a matter of routine. Hell, even Japan will just interrogate you until you confess (99% of arrests in Japan lead to confessions). The world is just that damn sad.
Of course, if this were in the US, the police might just seize everything anyway, hold a trial against the property (instead of against the photographer) and then auction it off for profit.
And the saddest part is, this is still well above average for a justice system.
It's one thing to fire the guy for the contents of the videos. It's another thing entirely to report on the guy getting fired by deliberately editing together clips to strip them of their context and make the guy out to be as much of a monster as possible in the service of manufacturing outrage for your yellow journalism.
But these days - in America at least - intellectuals trained in the same classical tradition as Winston Churchill are derided as beholden to the white male patriarchy. Hell, even figures previously associated with high minded ideals and liberty like Thomas Jefferson are now considered personas non grata. Meanwhile, the typical modern university does its best to train Alinskyite radicals.
Of course intellectuals are disdained. Thought is dead.
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I can imagine a manufacturer sending you a notice of a recall in the mail. In the same envelope, they include an explanation that you could get this update over the air with no effort in $(nearby_state), and include a business-reply-mail envelope with a form letter addressed to your state congressmen: "Dear Rep. Bork. I just went ___ miles out of my way and spent an extra ___ hour(s) getting a software update at a dealership instead of wirelessly. Please change this law."
Please. World War II was a war over whether it was okay for the Axis powers to usurp the government, territories, and citizens' lives of various sovereign nations in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. It was a counter-conquest war, not a war waged against an ideology in the abstract. You'll further notice that there was no substantial Allied campaign to ruin the lives of conquered persons in Germany who had been associated with the Nazi party, merely against those who were associated with war crimes. Nuremburg convicted people who organised and implemented the system of mass murder, not the petty propagandists who said being white was bestest.
If you want a war on an ideology, I've got a War on Terror to sell you.
Some day an innocent man is going to set up a crowdfunding campaign for his defence and is going to get it shut down because he's been pre-emptively judged guilty. It's that old "first they came for the (x)" story, except this time they came for the Nazis, and it's all that more seductive because the Nazis deserve it.
Well, yes, but this is perfectly normal - like oh-so-much else that is wrong with this administration.
There are men who have been not just in prison, but in solitary confinement, for decades. There's a citizen who have been detained by ICE, imprisoned for three years without a lawyer, won $80k in damages, and just had the award thrown out on appeal because the statute of limitations on the "false imprisonment" charge expired while he was imprisoned. Last year there was a man in Florida locked in a shower with the hot water running until he died.
All of this is normal. All of this predates Trump. I mean, it's great that you're paying attention now, and all, but do try to look beyond Mr. Trump, beyond the outrage du jour, and even beyond the groups who will call you racist if you should question their demands for reparations.
Proving it's true would not put a full stop to the suit; it would be a thing that you prove in the suit itself. This is expensive because it means you're paying lawyers lots of money. The thing that's supposed to put a full stop to the suit is an anti-SLAPP motion, because this appears to be a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation; among other things, this typically stays all discovery, saving much expense,
Unfortunately I'm not up to speed on California-specific anti-SLAPP statutes.
See, now, take this pro-union propaganda with a grain of salt. There were a lots of factors that led to a shorter American work week, and while unions were in fact one force, another major factor was that labor market conditions were much tighter. Manufacturing was expanding. Immigration was falling. Technological changes improved worker productivity. There were gross population shifts from rural areas to urban areas. There was plenty of government intervention into the labor market as well. All of these factors contributed to shorter work weeks too.
Unions in the abstract made a material contribution, and can be recognized as such, and lauded, but the usual case like we see here, you are told "without unions no weekends", and that's just ill-informed propaganda.
Jewish Law? Begins in Exodus. More in Leviticus. Ongoing tradition of interpretation through your local rabbi.
Christian law? Begins with acknowledgement of Jewish law and extracts the Great Commandment (Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind) and Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. From there has always been a diversity of practice in interpretation by various Christian religious communities, Christian religious leaders, and Christian rulers (where you will find it blended with civil law).
If you want something specific the best bet for codified Christian law is probably the Code of Canon Law -- perhaps starting with The Obligations and Rights of All the Christian Faithful.
If you want to talk about how a particular United States midwestern Protestant group with a sola scriptura mindset goes about it, that's another matter, and a bit harder.
Heck, if you don't compile it yourself with a fully reproducible build process, the source could be a lie.
I assume that, like most huge data centers with enormous power drains, their needs were involved in the planning of and construction of regional power plants, so having a fee associated with a shutdown or changeover makes lots of sense.
No, the Yonkers thing is the aftermath of the city's complete and total bankruptcy in the 1980s. It's not designed as a meaningful incentive.
Is it or is it not bad? Because drug addiction is definitely a habit.
It's not quite as simple as that, as there are substantial anti-SLAPP statutes in many states which allow people who are sued to get the case dismissed quickly and sometimes get their legal fees paid for it. But it's not the greatest situation, either.
No!!! This is not about it being a monopoly; if anything, this is about Wal-Mart as monopsony, a single buyer. It's different.
Have you landed from an international flight in New York or Los Angeles, recently, with a connecting flight? I've only done Atlanta myself, but if I recall correctly, you have to go through both customs and security.
Wilfully blind to nuclear fission, I see.
The funny thing is that most modern, new American traffic lights are in black cases as well...
in dark clothing, after dusk, without proper reflectors or a helmet, naturally
Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the more conventional level of the individual... As of yet, there is no clear consensus among biologists regarding the importance of group selection.
SPLC-designated hate group? This is the same SPLC that calls Ayaan Hirsi Ali an hateful extremist, mocking her experience with female genital mutilation, for speaking out about such matters in the context of the Islamic world, right?
I'm afraid the once-proud SPLC has squandered all moral authority.
Would it be okay to launch an Internet-wide Two Minutes' Hate against them to put pressure on their employer? (Assume, perhaps, that they're in some leadership position â" like, say, CTO.)
While I won't disagree with the sentiments about how feasible it is to conduct business, as I've never attempted it in the described territories, I have a very close friend attempting to regain custody of her child where, at the father's request, the judge agreed to postpone the case from December until the end of turkey-hunting season.
This is a special local quirk for the jurisdiction, but more generally, when the degree of social cohesion in an area is just a bit too good then the good-old-boy networks turn into a source of abuse, not of strength.
I'm not sure what failure of reading comprehension would make someone believe I'm suggesting "america is all that."
However, let me throw some names out there. First of all, by population: China. India. Our neighbor: Mexico. Then, just some of the worst: Venezuela, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Uganda, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Honduras, Nicaragua, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar, Guatemala, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uzbekistan, Ecuador, Madagascar, Lebanon, Iran, Tanzania, Belize, Zambia. Albania. Brazil. Colombia. Peru. Vietnam. Senegal. Argentina. Malawi.
All of these have justice systems worse than one where cops policing for profit is a matter of routine. Hell, even Japan will just interrogate you until you confess (99% of arrests in Japan lead to confessions). The world is just that damn sad.
Any time you deal with the cops, you've already lost. Hell, in some places in the US, they send kids to jail and then bill their parents for the jail stay when the kid is found innocent. And inner-city cops have a saying: "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride".
Of course, if this were in the US, the police might just seize everything anyway, hold a trial against the property (instead of against the photographer) and then auction it off for profit.
And the saddest part is, this is still well above average for a justice system.
It's one thing to fire the guy for the contents of the videos. It's another thing entirely to report on the guy getting fired by deliberately editing together clips to strip them of their context and make the guy out to be as much of a monster as possible in the service of manufacturing outrage for your yellow journalism.
But these days - in America at least - intellectuals trained in the same classical tradition as Winston Churchill are derided as beholden to the white male patriarchy. Hell, even figures previously associated with high minded ideals and liberty like Thomas Jefferson are now considered personas non grata. Meanwhile, the typical modern university does its best to train Alinskyite radicals.
Of course intellectuals are disdained. Thought is dead.