...yet they're just itching to let local law enforcement use their tool for what plainly is not a matter of national security. I really hope that Americans aren't quite as dumb as I perceive and can see things for the way they are. Also, the more I hear Comey speaking, the more I wish somebody would just put a sock in him. The 1990's called and wants its Clipper chip back.
I fail to see how 1 man holding another man at gunpoint is justification for trampling over everybody else's privacy. Is it common to batter down everybody's door in this case to search every house for the culprit?
It's not just about being lazy. Think about how much of everything is centered around on wearing your done completely so that you no longer have energy to fight back and will just pay up. Making threats of lawsuit hold no weight, you actually have to go and file the paperwork. I'm rather overworked at the moment, and don't have time to deal with going to small claims over $42 - the opportunity cost for me for that is too high. And yet I would really love it if somebody kicked the shit out of whoever thought that ISIS == Daesh. Besides, does Daesh actually allow for the consumption of alcohol? I don't think the Wahabi'ists in Saudi do, but don't know about Daesh.
John Oliver had an episode of Last Week Tonight about food waste. According to what his team determined, the vast majority of that waste (at least for produce) was for purely aesthetic reasons - whether or not the food was physically attractive.
Neil deGrasse Tyson basically says the same thing: There's not a food at our supermarket that we haven't been performing some form of GMO - some for thousands of years even. Unless they can find for me a truly wild beef cow, then all beef products need to be labeled at GMO... There's multiple copies of NdGT's comments, but here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I appreciate that you at least took the time to put thought into your response. I see at least two problems in your responses: they are still framed in the way things were, not in the way they are changing to, and they neglect the opportunity costs involved in getting that education when you can barely afford to pay the rent right now (not everybody has what you perceive to be your abilities, but should they be left to rot as the income disparity continues to grow? Should they be treated as subhuman because they are "lazy slobs" ?). Beyond our basic needs, the vast majority of folks do not need to be employed full time anymore. A lot of our jobs are just useless jobs we have to keep people busy. Maybe our future is maybe still having similar employment rates as now but at 10-15 hours a week instead of 40+ hours a week? Morally there is no reason to have to work for the sake of work. It is not an end unto itself.
If you're in the USA, you're already giving a LOT more money to corporations in the form of corporate welfare, tax breaks, and other sweetheart deals while the big boys pay their heads exorbitant incomes. For example, why was it that we bailed out those banks again? Please remind me... I'd rather at least give food to people to eat or a roof over their head. And yes, you do already pay for that at gunpoint, or at least under threat of jail time.
I'm glad you had the guts to not post as AC, for that I actually have respect. But your argument is very weak if all you can do is call me an idiot. And sorry, not everybody can be as Superman as you are. All you've done is knock the empathy out of your body with every self-pat-on-the-back you give yourself. And I have news for you: your fate is only partially in your hands. Or you're going to tell me that a guy like Bill Gates got where he is completely and totally on his own?
Wow, all I can say is that the first half of your response is a very big pile of stinky judgmental vitriol. It's really easy to sit on a high horse and judge others, especially those who are poor, as it deflects any judgment of your own poor decisions over your life. And I'd put a lot of money on there being at least a decent number of mistakes in your own past. I guess you've never been poor because if you were, you'd understand just HOW rigged the system is against you. Let me ask you this: In this day an age, WHY must people work? How is it somehow morally required to work and toil when technology has obsoleted us in so many ways already, and will only continue to do so?
Ma Bell has signs about Gigafiber in select neighborhoods of the general 4 Points area (a rather affluent area) in Austin now. Guess who else is in town, just at the other end, right now? You-know-who...
Texas has some other exemptions, such as the Over 65 one, but I'd have to read up on what all the other exemptions entail. Also we have the 1-d and 1-d-1 exemptions/valuations (commonly referred to as "agricultural exemptions"). I'm pretty sure that's why the guy with the 3-5 acre lot right near Lakeline Mall puts a few cattle out there to graze: His annual taxation goes waaaay down, and that's a prime lot he has these days.
In Texas we have the homestead exemption, and you get it for exactly one property: your homestead. It caps ad valorem taxation (property taxes) at an annual increase in valuation to 10%. In some parts the values of the properties have been going up higher than 10%, so at least there is this. It still kind of sucks because your tax bill can still double within 7 years time.
A very old trick is to take a card that has all of your information on it and clone somebody else's card information onto the magstripe. Presto-bango, you pass the ID check. Very few places enter the checksum digits shown on the face of the card to verify the face and the magstripe match. Face it, the ID check only stops a pickpocket or a lazy and stupid thief.
The Children's Place at my local mall HAS refused to sell me $16 of boys jeans for my son because i refused to show them government ID. The photograph for my warehouse club membership on the back of the card was deemed insufficient.
You've obviously not met Donald Trump before... and again, this is not about private debt, it's about punitive fees and fines. Take for example a speeding ticket in Los Angeles, CA: That $80 speeding ticket, after all fines are added, it's more around $285-300. And you cannot "cry poor" - the best that they'll do is let you pay $5 a month until it's paid off. Now I know we're talking TX here, but you can end up with owing the gov't something as equally retarded there as you can in CA.
Owing someone is different than owing a punitive debt, and having to decide between "do I eat more than ketchup packets and saltine crackers for the next week and pay this fine?" These types of arrangements between the police and the private sector have been shown again and again to keep the poor in a perpetually poor state. See John Oliver's episode about this.
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...yet they're just itching to let local law enforcement use their tool for what plainly is not a matter of national security. I really hope that Americans aren't quite as dumb as I perceive and can see things for the way they are. Also, the more I hear Comey speaking, the more I wish somebody would just put a sock in him. The 1990's called and wants its Clipper chip back.
I fail to see how 1 man holding another man at gunpoint is justification for trampling over everybody else's privacy. Is it common to batter down everybody's door in this case to search every house for the culprit?
It's not just about being lazy. Think about how much of everything is centered around on wearing your done completely so that you no longer have energy to fight back and will just pay up. Making threats of lawsuit hold no weight, you actually have to go and file the paperwork. I'm rather overworked at the moment, and don't have time to deal with going to small claims over $42 - the opportunity cost for me for that is too high. And yet I would really love it if somebody kicked the shit out of whoever thought that ISIS == Daesh. Besides, does Daesh actually allow for the consumption of alcohol? I don't think the Wahabi'ists in Saudi do, but don't know about Daesh.
Yeah, it was an ad for The Alamo Drafthouse... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They don't have that much of a military mentality. Compare the TSA to Ben Gurion Airport security or El Al security...
And it sucks even harder if you need to run up a 200 foot tower on your property in order to get line-of-sight to the other end..
John Oliver had an episode of Last Week Tonight about food waste. According to what his team determined, the vast majority of that waste (at least for produce) was for purely aesthetic reasons - whether or not the food was physically attractive.
Neil deGrasse Tyson basically says the same thing: There's not a food at our supermarket that we haven't been performing some form of GMO - some for thousands of years even. Unless they can find for me a truly wild beef cow, then all beef products need to be labeled at GMO... There's multiple copies of NdGT's comments, but here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
At least it's not vagina dentata....
Such as?
I appreciate that you at least took the time to put thought into your response. I see at least two problems in your responses: they are still framed in the way things were, not in the way they are changing to, and they neglect the opportunity costs involved in getting that education when you can barely afford to pay the rent right now (not everybody has what you perceive to be your abilities, but should they be left to rot as the income disparity continues to grow? Should they be treated as subhuman because they are "lazy slobs" ?). Beyond our basic needs, the vast majority of folks do not need to be employed full time anymore. A lot of our jobs are just useless jobs we have to keep people busy. Maybe our future is maybe still having similar employment rates as now but at 10-15 hours a week instead of 40+ hours a week? Morally there is no reason to have to work for the sake of work. It is not an end unto itself.
If you're in the USA, you're already giving a LOT more money to corporations in the form of corporate welfare, tax breaks, and other sweetheart deals while the big boys pay their heads exorbitant incomes. For example, why was it that we bailed out those banks again? Please remind me... I'd rather at least give food to people to eat or a roof over their head. And yes, you do already pay for that at gunpoint, or at least under threat of jail time.
I'm glad you had the guts to not post as AC, for that I actually have respect. But your argument is very weak if all you can do is call me an idiot. And sorry, not everybody can be as Superman as you are. All you've done is knock the empathy out of your body with every self-pat-on-the-back you give yourself. And I have news for you: your fate is only partially in your hands. Or you're going to tell me that a guy like Bill Gates got where he is completely and totally on his own?
Wow, all I can say is that the first half of your response is a very big pile of stinky judgmental vitriol. It's really easy to sit on a high horse and judge others, especially those who are poor, as it deflects any judgment of your own poor decisions over your life. And I'd put a lot of money on there being at least a decent number of mistakes in your own past. I guess you've never been poor because if you were, you'd understand just HOW rigged the system is against you. Let me ask you this: In this day an age, WHY must people work? How is it somehow morally required to work and toil when technology has obsoleted us in so many ways already, and will only continue to do so?
Soylent green, yo...
Ma Bell has signs about Gigafiber in select neighborhoods of the general 4 Points area (a rather affluent area) in Austin now. Guess who else is in town, just at the other end, right now? You-know-who...
Texas has some other exemptions, such as the Over 65 one, but I'd have to read up on what all the other exemptions entail. Also we have the 1-d and 1-d-1 exemptions/valuations (commonly referred to as "agricultural exemptions"). I'm pretty sure that's why the guy with the 3-5 acre lot right near Lakeline Mall puts a few cattle out there to graze: His annual taxation goes waaaay down, and that's a prime lot he has these days.
In Texas we have the homestead exemption, and you get it for exactly one property: your homestead. It caps ad valorem taxation (property taxes) at an annual increase in valuation to 10%. In some parts the values of the properties have been going up higher than 10%, so at least there is this. It still kind of sucks because your tax bill can still double within 7 years time.
If you got open sores, I feel for you, son. I got 99 problems, but herpes ain't one.
If I'm not mistaken, Cruz has already publicly demonstrated that he doesn't understand a single thing about what net neutrality is.
They could always bring back Bennett Hasselton...
A very old trick is to take a card that has all of your information on it and clone somebody else's card information onto the magstripe. Presto-bango, you pass the ID check. Very few places enter the checksum digits shown on the face of the card to verify the face and the magstripe match. Face it, the ID check only stops a pickpocket or a lazy and stupid thief.
The Children's Place at my local mall HAS refused to sell me $16 of boys jeans for my son because i refused to show them government ID. The photograph for my warehouse club membership on the back of the card was deemed insufficient.
You've obviously not met Donald Trump before... and again, this is not about private debt, it's about punitive fees and fines. Take for example a speeding ticket in Los Angeles, CA: That $80 speeding ticket, after all fines are added, it's more around $285-300. And you cannot "cry poor" - the best that they'll do is let you pay $5 a month until it's paid off. Now I know we're talking TX here, but you can end up with owing the gov't something as equally retarded there as you can in CA.
Owing someone is different than owing a punitive debt, and having to decide between "do I eat more than ketchup packets and saltine crackers for the next week and pay this fine?" These types of arrangements between the police and the private sector have been shown again and again to keep the poor in a perpetually poor state. See John Oliver's episode about this.