What's funny is that so many here don't like Apple that they hold it to a higher standard. Nike has been linked to many more human rights violations they blatantly ignore, and Apple's big sin is that they build in China (like everyone else, but it's somehow worse for Apple).
The suicide rate at Foxconn is less than an average American High School. Until a US president is brought up on crimes against humanity for NCLB, it seems a bit silly to condemn Apple.
The trouble is the Civil War happened! For good or ill (mostly ill IMHO) one of the things that came out of that is people started seeing the USA as a single entity rather than a group of member states.
Yup, the south fought for a strong central government and though they lost the war, managed to get what they wanted when the Union united as one against them. The strong central government they wanted came to pass, just not under their control.
What say West Virgina look like without the massive disparity in the Federal tax revenues it generates vs what is distributed there? Not good.
Huh?
WV takes in $1.76 per dollar sent to the feds. So what would they look like with a $1:1 return? Worse. Much worse. Why do you hate WV so? http://visualeconomics.creditl...
Other confirmations: highschoolers are having A LOT less sex than they were 10 years ago.
You are confusing personal issues and political ones. Students are having less sex because abstinence is being taught less. It's that "paradox" that's making political waves.
You see 10 - 30% of characters on TV being gay, but that is not how people are getting lured into watching the shows. It's just the script writers wanting to be trendy (believing it isn't going to cost them in the ratings game). See the gap there?
The numbers of gay characters still being smaller than "real life" but those who are gay are often out of the closet, unlike real life. But it's not about people, or the media, but the politics.
How many politicians ran on a "family values" campaign in the 1950s? Unless that was code for anti-commie, I'd bet it was pretty low, if at all. But these days, "family values" is an important political platform.
Planned parenthood is only showing up in the headlines because of the recent expose. I don't see that really continuing, and I would bet against any legislation relating to that in the slightest way.
If the Republicans didn't think it an important political issue, why did Congress spend more time investigating Planned Parenthood than they spent investigating 9/11?
A non-US base built for WWI and "used" in WWII (used as in staffed and important, but never fired a shot). I prefer to not say, as I've had some people try to dox me on here before. And hints as to where I am or have been encourage them.
The structure was built for WWI, but didn't see action in WWI or WWII, and I saw it in a disused and somewhat preserved, but not restored post-WWII configuration.
Repeal the 16th in an amendment that allows for a national sales tax, but leaves in revenue tax for corporations, as well as a land tax on the states (not the people within them) and a head tax on the states (not the people within them).
The original idea was that the states would tax, but the feds wouldn't. Instead the fed would essentially charge the states for the cost of them. This was well tied in with the idea that senators were selected by the states, not the people within.
Personally I'd rather the USA stay the worlds richest nation!
Too late. Sure, some of the richest people, like Richard Murdoch, add in a US citizenship to their pile of citizenships, but only to get around laws against foreigners owning too many of specific things.
Replace the Income Tax with a sales tax (charged double on things shipped from overseas) and replace the ACA with single-payer health care, and replace welfare with UBI and our tax burden would be cut nearly in half, while improving services. But the "small government" conservatives hate those ideas and want a larger, more controlling central government.
So if Peru makes Cocaine legal and tries to export it to Singapore, Singapore would need to change its laws to allow cocaine? How is that a good thing for Singapore?
No treaty is unbreakable. You don't lose sovereignty. The government can break a treaty, then wouldn't be required to show up in international court.
Treaties are above all law, other than the Constitution. You can't end-run around the Constitution, but a treaty can give more power to the government, in direct violation of the 10th Amendment, But the Supreme Court has ruled that the 9th and 10th Amendments are legally void, vague and redundant.
I haven't looked at it, but it seems to be the consensus that Republicans are more likely to make up stories close to an election in order to sway it. It even has a name for it now, drawn by a recent time when the Republicans did it. "Swift boating" is used to describe an untrue personal attack (launched close enough to the election to not be refuted before the election - optional). When you want to hate the "other side" the facts don't matter. Fox News said it, so it must be true.
A 410 pistol would be on the large size, and loaded with shot would not be a precision item, and I have no idea what the penetration of a short-barrel 410 slug would be. Perhaps with a light load, and (light) kevlar seats, the slug would not go through more than one person.
Yes. Because luggage isn't the bottleneck for travel it was in the '70s. Half the time my luggage is rolling around the carousel before I get there to grab it. My checked bag is small enough to be a carry on, should I choose to do so.
I also get to carry toothpaste and such without worrying about whether it'll cause a 10 minute delay in security.
My wife tried to get through with a legal sized shampoo bottle. The TSA agent said all liquids must be in a bag, though the reasons on the card are to verify that the sum of liquids is under 1l, not lack of spillage. So she'd have to put the lone liquid in an otherwise empty bag to keep it. She didn't have one handy, so threw it away. Though she met all stated rules (no more than 1l liquid, and no single container above maximum size), she wasn't allowed to pass because the means to easily measure the total sum of liquid wasn't needed.
I don't know if it's the rules that are broken or those enforcing them, but they don't even do what they purport to do, which wouldn't increase security even if it were done right.
I've not been on a battleship, but the calculator I saw was quite simple. It looked like it was designed to be used by a drafted teen with no training. You use the markings on the window for a range estimate, then put it in for an angle. It didn't allow for any wind or other such things. I'd expect that'd be a miss, and then a re-aim. So direct line of sight only, and correction for wind or such in the calculator. But simple, and easy. The US battleship ones I'd expect to assume a greater level of competency and training.
And only with subsonic rounds that are low-energy. Something that has almost no stopping power, so that when you stand in the front and shoot 1C you won't kill 2C 3C and 4C. Though, there is the issue of stray buttons striking the hull, or worse, a hinge on a cargo door.
It's not a question about whether the rulers would allow it, but whether it'd be an improvement.
Banning guns, but not knives, and securing the cockpit doors would give us better security, and move to a walk-through metal detector and high speed baggage scanning. Work on a no-fly list where anyone who triggers the metal detectors from stuff left in pockets twice is moved to the "slow" lane, and a "fast" lane for people who travel once a month or more with no detections.
There are lots of ways to streamline the process and keep security the same or better than today.
They already did it. Last WWII fort I went to, they still had the trajectory calculator in place. Though it was much more slide-rule like, than mechanical computer like.
There was nothing in there comparative, nor iOS wide. That's just that a lot of people who bought the iWatch who continued to keep a subscription. Did it hurt Spotify? Not at all? Then irrelevant, as the GP asserted. Yes a few first-adopters of the iWatch kept a music service, but it didn't slay competitors.
Yeah, it's not like there'd be an incinsistent user experience between multiple platforms. Go on, find the OS back button on iOS. Oh, so you use the system back button on Android, but not on iOS? But you use the browser back button on PC.
And for playing, you have a few set sizes on iOS, and near infinite on Android and PC.
Simplicity and consistency for the UI would restrict the release to fewer platforms. Funny how the same people who bash Amazon have no problems with Halo being Xbox only.
There is no download limit. I downloaded a 65 MB app. Before it was playable, it was 1.2GB. It downloaded much more than the limit before it would play, but must be under 200 MB for the downloader that spawns it. A 2 MB app with a 20GB update is within the rules, from what I've seen. So I'm curious what the rules really are on it.
But there's been a spike in interest in gay marriage and other things sex related. Gay marriage, planned parenthood, and all that. Segregate and divide the voters on taxes (schools, progressive vs regressive) and sex. Wars and such are mentioned, but not key issues to the general voter. Too abstract.
Got any spots in your clan? I've tried local, and there were not too many active, but a lot of inactive ones. And the world ones were pretty bad, timing and such the worst. Not too many issues with English, though I think they'd do well to use something like Google's real time translation and have the clan leader set the language displayed.
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What's funny is that so many here don't like Apple that they hold it to a higher standard. Nike has been linked to many more human rights violations they blatantly ignore, and Apple's big sin is that they build in China (like everyone else, but it's somehow worse for Apple).
The suicide rate at Foxconn is less than an average American High School. Until a US president is brought up on crimes against humanity for NCLB, it seems a bit silly to condemn Apple.
That is explicitly not true (in the USA, at least).
So explain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Constitution trumps treaties.
The trouble is the Civil War happened! For good or ill (mostly ill IMHO) one of the things that came out of that is people started seeing the USA as a single entity rather than a group of member states.
Yup, the south fought for a strong central government and though they lost the war, managed to get what they wanted when the Union united as one against them. The strong central government they wanted came to pass, just not under their control.
What say West Virgina look like without the massive disparity in the Federal tax revenues it generates vs what is distributed there? Not good.
Huh?
WV takes in $1.76 per dollar sent to the feds. So what would they look like with a $1:1 return? Worse. Much worse. Why do you hate WV so?
http://visualeconomics.creditl...
Other confirmations: highschoolers are having A LOT less sex than they were 10 years ago.
You are confusing personal issues and political ones. Students are having less sex because abstinence is being taught less. It's that "paradox" that's making political waves.
You see 10 - 30% of characters on TV being gay, but that is not how people are getting lured into watching the shows. It's just the script writers wanting to be trendy (believing it isn't going to cost them in the ratings game). See the gap there?
The numbers of gay characters still being smaller than "real life" but those who are gay are often out of the closet, unlike real life. But it's not about people, or the media, but the politics.
How many politicians ran on a "family values" campaign in the 1950s? Unless that was code for anti-commie, I'd bet it was pretty low, if at all. But these days, "family values" is an important political platform.
Planned parenthood is only showing up in the headlines because of the recent expose. I don't see that really continuing, and I would bet against any legislation relating to that in the slightest way.
If the Republicans didn't think it an important political issue, why did Congress spend more time investigating Planned Parenthood than they spent investigating 9/11?
A non-US base built for WWI and "used" in WWII (used as in staffed and important, but never fired a shot). I prefer to not say, as I've had some people try to dox me on here before. And hints as to where I am or have been encourage them.
The structure was built for WWI, but didn't see action in WWI or WWII, and I saw it in a disused and somewhat preserved, but not restored post-WWII configuration.
You just grep for the piece you are intersted in, and nobody understands it all, especially those voting for it.
The original idea was that the states would tax, but the feds wouldn't. Instead the fed would essentially charge the states for the cost of them. This was well tied in with the idea that senators were selected by the states, not the people within.
Personally I'd rather the USA stay the worlds richest nation!
Too late. Sure, some of the richest people, like Richard Murdoch, add in a US citizenship to their pile of citizenships, but only to get around laws against foreigners owning too many of specific things.
Replace the Income Tax with a sales tax (charged double on things shipped from overseas) and replace the ACA with single-payer health care, and replace welfare with UBI and our tax burden would be cut nearly in half, while improving services. But the "small government" conservatives hate those ideas and want a larger, more controlling central government.
So if Peru makes Cocaine legal and tries to export it to Singapore, Singapore would need to change its laws to allow cocaine? How is that a good thing for Singapore?
No treaty is unbreakable. You don't lose sovereignty. The government can break a treaty, then wouldn't be required to show up in international court.
Treaties are above all law, other than the Constitution. You can't end-run around the Constitution, but a treaty can give more power to the government, in direct violation of the 10th Amendment, But the Supreme Court has ruled that the 9th and 10th Amendments are legally void, vague and redundant.
I haven't looked at it, but it seems to be the consensus that Republicans are more likely to make up stories close to an election in order to sway it. It even has a name for it now, drawn by a recent time when the Republicans did it. "Swift boating" is used to describe an untrue personal attack (launched close enough to the election to not be refuted before the election - optional). When you want to hate the "other side" the facts don't matter. Fox News said it, so it must be true.
A 410 pistol would be on the large size, and loaded with shot would not be a precision item, and I have no idea what the penetration of a short-barrel 410 slug would be. Perhaps with a light load, and (light) kevlar seats, the slug would not go through more than one person.
Yes. Because luggage isn't the bottleneck for travel it was in the '70s. Half the time my luggage is rolling around the carousel before I get there to grab it. My checked bag is small enough to be a carry on, should I choose to do so.
I also get to carry toothpaste and such without worrying about whether it'll cause a 10 minute delay in security.
My wife tried to get through with a legal sized shampoo bottle. The TSA agent said all liquids must be in a bag, though the reasons on the card are to verify that the sum of liquids is under 1l, not lack of spillage. So she'd have to put the lone liquid in an otherwise empty bag to keep it. She didn't have one handy, so threw it away. Though she met all stated rules (no more than 1l liquid, and no single container above maximum size), she wasn't allowed to pass because the means to easily measure the total sum of liquid wasn't needed.
I don't know if it's the rules that are broken or those enforcing them, but they don't even do what they purport to do, which wouldn't increase security even if it were done right.
I've not been on a battleship, but the calculator I saw was quite simple. It looked like it was designed to be used by a drafted teen with no training. You use the markings on the window for a range estimate, then put it in for an angle. It didn't allow for any wind or other such things. I'd expect that'd be a miss, and then a re-aim. So direct line of sight only, and correction for wind or such in the calculator. But simple, and easy. The US battleship ones I'd expect to assume a greater level of competency and training.
And only with subsonic rounds that are low-energy. Something that has almost no stopping power, so that when you stand in the front and shoot 1C you won't kill 2C 3C and 4C. Though, there is the issue of stray buttons striking the hull, or worse, a hinge on a cargo door.
It's not a question about whether the rulers would allow it, but whether it'd be an improvement.
Banning guns, but not knives, and securing the cockpit doors would give us better security, and move to a walk-through metal detector and high speed baggage scanning. Work on a no-fly list where anyone who triggers the metal detectors from stuff left in pockets twice is moved to the "slow" lane, and a "fast" lane for people who travel once a month or more with no detections.
There are lots of ways to streamline the process and keep security the same or better than today.
They already did it. Last WWII fort I went to, they still had the trajectory calculator in place. Though it was much more slide-rule like, than mechanical computer like.
There was nothing in there comparative, nor iOS wide. That's just that a lot of people who bought the iWatch who continued to keep a subscription. Did it hurt Spotify? Not at all? Then irrelevant, as the GP asserted. Yes a few first-adopters of the iWatch kept a music service, but it didn't slay competitors.
Yeah, it's not like there'd be an incinsistent user experience between multiple platforms. Go on, find the OS back button on iOS. Oh, so you use the system back button on Android, but not on iOS? But you use the browser back button on PC.
And for playing, you have a few set sizes on iOS, and near infinite on Android and PC.
Simplicity and consistency for the UI would restrict the release to fewer platforms. Funny how the same people who bash Amazon have no problems with Halo being Xbox only.
There is no download limit. I downloaded a 65 MB app. Before it was playable, it was 1.2GB. It downloaded much more than the limit before it would play, but must be under 200 MB for the downloader that spawns it. A 2 MB app with a 20GB update is within the rules, from what I've seen. So I'm curious what the rules really are on it.
But there's been a spike in interest in gay marriage and other things sex related. Gay marriage, planned parenthood, and all that. Segregate and divide the voters on taxes (schools, progressive vs regressive) and sex. Wars and such are mentioned, but not key issues to the general voter. Too abstract.
Lose the votes to whom? Democrats? Not the racist vote...
Because some people like them and want them higher, for certain segments.
Got any spots in your clan? I've tried local, and there were not too many active, but a lot of inactive ones. And the world ones were pretty bad, timing and such the worst. Not too many issues with English, though I think they'd do well to use something like Google's real time translation and have the clan leader set the language displayed.