The argument is that piracy increases the income. If I cut your grass without your permission, that's a crime. Trespassing, or other things. If that action increases the value of your property, what's the complaint? That I did it without your permission, or that it gave you income?
The movie studios are the ones with the flawed logic. "Hey, you are increasing my income without my permission."
Depends on the sporting event. I couldn't think up a good one, so I picked one that's joked about going the other way.
What's amusing is that in many places, there was no problem using the other bathroom, until the anti-gay laws made an issue of it. Some of the south was quite specific because they had been specific previously with race, but why would a law be needed to make it illegal to use the other bathroom? It was never a problem. They might as well pass a law to make it illegal to refine plutonium in your garage with less than 7.12 mm of lead shielding. Sure, the law is better than someone violating it, but is there a problem with people violating it?
Gender is transient and fluid. But that doesn't mean that everyone that claims a gender does so honestly. It's not about locking them down, but about evaluating honesty. Someone fraudulently claiming something for personal gain should be treated as a fraudster, whether the claim is gender or other reasons.
One of the places of the worst pollution on Earth was London 100 years before modern environmental regulations. So much coal and such burned for heating (but not much wood, as it was all cut down in England). There wasn't a good measure of smog available at the time, but the estimations are it was worse than modern Beijing or the peaks in LA before modern air standards were implemented.
We like to pick on China and India and such, but the US has had burning rivers, and London had smog so thick Merry Poppins walked to work on the smog.
So a 5 foot deep "well" 20 feet from the ocean that pulls in seawater that seeps through the sand is "well water" in your definition, because it's from a well? You have an odd and quite useless definition of well if anything someone calls a "well" is a well.
It's a democracy, as the people have a vote in the lawmakers. It's a representative democracy because the people don't make the laws themselves. It's a Republic because it doesn't have a monarch. It's a constitutional democracy because there is a constitution that lays out the framework on which the government functions, which "consititional" is a weak term because many constitutional monarchies don't have a constitution.
As for what Trump owns, you clearly need to do your research. His real estate holdings alone are worth $3.5Billion.
And what of that are used as collateral for loans?
Maybe you don't understand how bankruptcies work.
He signed the papers for it as the owner. I realize it wasn't personal bankruptcies. As you say, he was the 57% owner when it failed twice, and it hasn't failed since he sold controlling interest. That's fiscal responsibility.
Seem like it may take around 2000 gallons to make a pair of jeans, the price above would quickly make such jeans something most people would never ever wear.
Or the capitalists would gain efficiencies, recycling inside their own plants to get that number down to 1 gallon per jeans or less. But we don't make the capitalists pay for their polution (here or in China), so they pollute, because it's easier.
In most countries, the government owns everything (or a bit of everything). The USA is one of the few countries with a pension program that's required by law to only buy government bonds for "investment". Had SS bought stock, and not bonds, it would have made enough to have never run out of money. And you'd not be able to brag about your ineffective government (the goal of every Republican isn't a small government, but an ineffective one). And the US government would "own" everything (or at least 0.05% of it), not unlike China.
They weren't measuring "well water" as you mean it. They were using shallow wells that were underground surface water, and wells that drained from lakes. Aquifer ground water isn't what was measured.
""In Chinese cities, drinking water often comes from deep underground sources, which are not easily polluted,"
The deep well water is fine. The shallow wells that pull mainly pooled surface water. None of TFAs showed a well. All the "pollution" was shown in surface water only. This looks like more FUD. And from what I can tell from reading TFA, pulling from a lake is considered an "underground well" by the measurement standards used. How's the tap water in Flint doing?
You certainly have the right to express yourselves but when you actively work to silence someone for expressing themselves then you're no longer expressing yourselves,
"You certainly have the right to express yourselves but when you actively express yourself to complain about someone for expressing themselves then you're no longer expressing yourselves,"
Nope, your logic is not internally consistent.
you're rebelling against our constitutional republic by invoking mob rule.
That's what a democracy is. What, you don't like it, and would rather go back to when only white male land-owners could vote?
Yeah, he inherited about $150M, and turned that into $100M. Losing $50M is "success", at least if you are loud enough about it. He has 4 more bankruptcies and 2 more divorces than I do, and has lost more inheritance than most people make over their entire lives.
If that's your definition of "success" then you may want to adjust your definitions. He seems like he's doing better because the has borrowed billions. He doesn't own anything, other than debt.
Gender Fluid is a gender identity all its own. The issue is the people who lie about their gender identity to prove a point. They should be prosecuted for fraud. They only claim anything other than their primary when they use that to prove a point. The only point they prove is that they are liars.
Goldwater has paragraphs in history. Nixon had paragraphs in history books by the time he ran again (lost to JFK in '60, won in '68), at least according to the memories of those who lived at that time that I asked. Dewey has chapters, but more for the effect on voting polls and surveys than who he was. Not sure about the 8th grade level. I can tell you every major presidential loser from my lifetime (And back 10-15+ from there), so they are remembered 15 years later.
He doesn't make money. Most of the stuff he sells isn't even sold by him or his companies, but is licensed. He's selling his likeness, not any products or services. He inherited $150M and turned it into about $100M and claims $10B, but refuses to open his finances the way all the other candidates have. He doesn't want anyone to know he's a loser that was born rich.
The interest in the field is similar pre-breast. So why would they be less interested with breasts? Because it's hard? So they don't do what they like because it's too hard? Then the question is, is it actually hard? Or is it just called hard?
Your friend liked changing alternators until she had breasts, then decided to not like changing alternators anymore, then decided to like them again, based on her breasts? That seems silly. She never liked it, but was capable of it. That's not the same as "interest", that's just "ability".
I've done it, but I didn't document it thoroughly. It's a waste of my time to argue with someone who has already made up their mind. I've done mine. Have you?
When you correct for recidivism, Black offend quite a bit less than whites. The oppression of Blacks as children causes a life of crime. No, not the oppression of their parents, or their grandparents, but them, today, are still being greatly oppressed.
You cherry pick murder. Go look at the crimes that are left unsolved in great numbers. I picked the gateway crimes. Many children of all colors shoplift. My own 7 year old shoplifted. He picked up something, put it in his pocket and didn't mention it until we were in the car. We had him walk it back in, hand it to the person behind the counter, and apologize. The shop owner could have called the police and pushed for prosecution, but obviously didn't (obviously because I'm white). I've heard similar stories where the child and parent ended up in jail (they were Black) because the shop owner thought they needed to be made an example of. Multiply that over the lifetimes of millions, and you end up with Black first-time offenders being much much more heavily prosecuted (though offending less), leading to a crime problem only because our justice system creates criminals, and Blacks are more heavily involved in that system because of our racism.
I noted you didn't address my points, but created a murder strawman. I hear and understand your concession, even if you are unwilling to admit it here, or even to yourself. Go on, tell me how many murderers had a clean record, and break that down by race. I'll give you a hint. You'll find that more whites have a clean record. The truth is that if you are in a room with 100 white people without convictions, or a room of 100 Black people without convictions, you'll be safer with the Black people (statistically, when you open your mouth, all bets are off). The trick is that Blacks are more likely to have a record, even when they offend less.
I'm not basing my opinion on my observations. My observations lead me to research. The research supported my observations. I've seen no research contradicting my observations. What independent research have you seen? Nothing, and you don't want to be proven wrong, so you have never challenged your opinion by attempting to verify it?
I'm a bleeding heart realist. That reality disagrees with your opinion doesn't make reality wrong. I've had a number of white friends who have run from the cops. 0/10 for going to jail for running from the police. Had plenty of Black friends who spent a night in jail for walking while Black as well. When a white person shoplifts, they are taken home (often with a free ride by the police) and handed to their parents, with no charges or documentation. There are studies on this. Reality shows that if two kids steal gum, one goes to jail and one is let go without any record. That's why the numbers don't work. They are kept by the government. The same government that moves DUI from.15 to.05 then complains that DUI is on the rise. Nope. It's not on the rise. Blacks don't offend more. The numbers are provably wrong. The same government will count a dead person with BAC of 0.9 (lethal) who crashed into a wall at 200 MPH who left behind a suicide note as "alcohol related" and "speed related" "accident" with no mention of it being a deliberate suicide.
The government has a vested interest in making sure the numbers are wrong. To appease the bigots who vote. And, based on Drumpf, there are hundreds of millions of them.
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The argument is that piracy increases the income. If I cut your grass without your permission, that's a crime. Trespassing, or other things. If that action increases the value of your property, what's the complaint? That I did it without your permission, or that it gave you income?
The movie studios are the ones with the flawed logic. "Hey, you are increasing my income without my permission."
Depends on the sporting event. I couldn't think up a good one, so I picked one that's joked about going the other way.
What's amusing is that in many places, there was no problem using the other bathroom, until the anti-gay laws made an issue of it. Some of the south was quite specific because they had been specific previously with race, but why would a law be needed to make it illegal to use the other bathroom? It was never a problem. They might as well pass a law to make it illegal to refine plutonium in your garage with less than 7.12 mm of lead shielding. Sure, the law is better than someone violating it, but is there a problem with people violating it?
Gender is transient and fluid. But that doesn't mean that everyone that claims a gender does so honestly. It's not about locking them down, but about evaluating honesty. Someone fraudulently claiming something for personal gain should be treated as a fraudster, whether the claim is gender or other reasons.
One of the places of the worst pollution on Earth was London 100 years before modern environmental regulations. So much coal and such burned for heating (but not much wood, as it was all cut down in England). There wasn't a good measure of smog available at the time, but the estimations are it was worse than modern Beijing or the peaks in LA before modern air standards were implemented.
We like to pick on China and India and such, but the US has had burning rivers, and London had smog so thick Merry Poppins walked to work on the smog.
So a 5 foot deep "well" 20 feet from the ocean that pulls in seawater that seeps through the sand is "well water" in your definition, because it's from a well? You have an odd and quite useless definition of well if anything someone calls a "well" is a well.
It's a democracy, as the people have a vote in the lawmakers. It's a representative democracy because the people don't make the laws themselves. It's a Republic because it doesn't have a monarch. It's a constitutional democracy because there is a constitution that lays out the framework on which the government functions, which "consititional" is a weak term because many constitutional monarchies don't have a constitution.
As for what Trump owns, you clearly need to do your research. His real estate holdings alone are worth $3.5Billion.
And what of that are used as collateral for loans?
Maybe you don't understand how bankruptcies work.
He signed the papers for it as the owner. I realize it wasn't personal bankruptcies. As you say, he was the 57% owner when it failed twice, and it hasn't failed since he sold controlling interest. That's fiscal responsibility.
Seem like it may take around 2000 gallons to make a pair of jeans, the price above would quickly make such jeans something most people would never ever wear.
Or the capitalists would gain efficiencies, recycling inside their own plants to get that number down to 1 gallon per jeans or less. But we don't make the capitalists pay for their polution (here or in China), so they pollute, because it's easier.
In most countries, the government owns everything (or a bit of everything). The USA is one of the few countries with a pension program that's required by law to only buy government bonds for "investment". Had SS bought stock, and not bonds, it would have made enough to have never run out of money. And you'd not be able to brag about your ineffective government (the goal of every Republican isn't a small government, but an ineffective one). And the US government would "own" everything (or at least 0.05% of it), not unlike China.
They weren't measuring "well water" as you mean it. They were using shallow wells that were underground surface water, and wells that drained from lakes. Aquifer ground water isn't what was measured.
""In Chinese cities, drinking water often comes from deep underground sources, which are not easily polluted,"
The deep well water is fine. The shallow wells that pull mainly pooled surface water. None of TFAs showed a well. All the "pollution" was shown in surface water only. This looks like more FUD. And from what I can tell from reading TFA, pulling from a lake is considered an "underground well" by the measurement standards used. How's the tap water in Flint doing?
You certainly have the right to express yourselves but when you actively work to silence someone for expressing themselves then you're no longer expressing yourselves,
"You certainly have the right to express yourselves but when you actively express yourself to complain about someone for expressing themselves then you're no longer expressing yourselves,"
Nope, your logic is not internally consistent.
you're rebelling against our constitutional republic by invoking mob rule.
That's what a democracy is. What, you don't like it, and would rather go back to when only white male land-owners could vote?
Yeah, he inherited about $150M, and turned that into $100M. Losing $50M is "success", at least if you are loud enough about it. He has 4 more bankruptcies and 2 more divorces than I do, and has lost more inheritance than most people make over their entire lives.
If that's your definition of "success" then you may want to adjust your definitions. He seems like he's doing better because the has borrowed billions. He doesn't own anything, other than debt.
Gender Fluid is a gender identity all its own. The issue is the people who lie about their gender identity to prove a point. They should be prosecuted for fraud. They only claim anything other than their primary when they use that to prove a point. The only point they prove is that they are liars.
Goldwater has paragraphs in history. Nixon had paragraphs in history books by the time he ran again (lost to JFK in '60, won in '68), at least according to the memories of those who lived at that time that I asked. Dewey has chapters, but more for the effect on voting polls and surveys than who he was. Not sure about the 8th grade level. I can tell you every major presidential loser from my lifetime (And back 10-15+ from there), so they are remembered 15 years later.
So everyone has the right to free speech, except leftist, because you don't like them, so they shouldn't complain.
He doesn't make money. Most of the stuff he sells isn't even sold by him or his companies, but is licensed. He's selling his likeness, not any products or services. He inherited $150M and turned it into about $100M and claims $10B, but refuses to open his finances the way all the other candidates have. He doesn't want anyone to know he's a loser that was born rich.
Proposition 8 wasn't a petition. It was a vote. That you don't understand the difference doesn't mean there is none.
The interest in the field is similar pre-breast. So why would they be less interested with breasts? Because it's hard? So they don't do what they like because it's too hard? Then the question is, is it actually hard? Or is it just called hard?
Your friend liked changing alternators until she had breasts, then decided to not like changing alternators anymore, then decided to like them again, based on her breasts? That seems silly. She never liked it, but was capable of it. That's not the same as "interest", that's just "ability".
I've done it, but I didn't document it thoroughly. It's a waste of my time to argue with someone who has already made up their mind. I've done mine. Have you?
They don't mind raping a page while they are there. But then, being Republican, they are men going to the men's bathroom looking for man-sex.
When you correct for recidivism, Black offend quite a bit less than whites. The oppression of Blacks as children causes a life of crime. No, not the oppression of their parents, or their grandparents, but them, today, are still being greatly oppressed.
You cherry pick murder. Go look at the crimes that are left unsolved in great numbers. I picked the gateway crimes. Many children of all colors shoplift. My own 7 year old shoplifted. He picked up something, put it in his pocket and didn't mention it until we were in the car. We had him walk it back in, hand it to the person behind the counter, and apologize. The shop owner could have called the police and pushed for prosecution, but obviously didn't (obviously because I'm white). I've heard similar stories where the child and parent ended up in jail (they were Black) because the shop owner thought they needed to be made an example of. Multiply that over the lifetimes of millions, and you end up with Black first-time offenders being much much more heavily prosecuted (though offending less), leading to a crime problem only because our justice system creates criminals, and Blacks are more heavily involved in that system because of our racism.
I noted you didn't address my points, but created a murder strawman. I hear and understand your concession, even if you are unwilling to admit it here, or even to yourself. Go on, tell me how many murderers had a clean record, and break that down by race. I'll give you a hint. You'll find that more whites have a clean record. The truth is that if you are in a room with 100 white people without convictions, or a room of 100 Black people without convictions, you'll be safer with the Black people (statistically, when you open your mouth, all bets are off). The trick is that Blacks are more likely to have a record, even when they offend less.
stop taking all my money to distribute among those the government has decided is more worthy.
Like Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, and GM?
So people can't take offense at things, because that offends you? Sounds like you are the problem you complain about.
I'm not basing my opinion on my observations. My observations lead me to research. The research supported my observations. I've seen no research contradicting my observations. What independent research have you seen? Nothing, and you don't want to be proven wrong, so you have never challenged your opinion by attempting to verify it?
I'm a bleeding heart realist. That reality disagrees with your opinion doesn't make reality wrong. I've had a number of white friends who have run from the cops. 0/10 for going to jail for running from the police. Had plenty of Black friends who spent a night in jail for walking while Black as well. When a white person shoplifts, they are taken home (often with a free ride by the police) and handed to their parents, with no charges or documentation. There are studies on this. Reality shows that if two kids steal gum, one goes to jail and one is let go without any record. That's why the numbers don't work. They are kept by the government. The same government that moves DUI from .15 to .05 then complains that DUI is on the rise. Nope. It's not on the rise. Blacks don't offend more. The numbers are provably wrong. The same government will count a dead person with BAC of 0.9 (lethal) who crashed into a wall at 200 MPH who left behind a suicide note as "alcohol related" and "speed related" "accident" with no mention of it being a deliberate suicide.
The government has a vested interest in making sure the numbers are wrong. To appease the bigots who vote. And, based on Drumpf, there are hundreds of millions of them.