Stores can try to screw it up by sticking their own codes over the UPC codes but all that need happen is a store code to UPC code database and you're back in business.
Unfortunately, the Saudis pay for a lot of mosques and imams and they have an outsized influence due to their control of the haj. Most people don't understand that US Islam is tremendously penetrated by Saudi financing as is Islam in many other countries. Cut the purse strings loose and you'll likely lose the associations.
It's not irrational to conclude that he who pays the piper calls the tune and the Saudis have been paying for a lot of pipers.
One of the nasty parts of history is that if you were a minority living in another king's lands, protectors of Islam, Catholicism, Calvinism, etc. would feel free to traipse across the border if you were abused. This led to continual warfare and, eventually when everybody was exhausted, the Peace of Westphalia and the modern system of sovereignty. So having a minority in your lands was something of a dangerous thing, geopolitically. All sorts of mischief could and often did ensue. The princes who expelled minorities were mean bastards but they weren't exactly irrational for doing it.
You really ought to look at research on what ancient warfare actually was like. Complete genocide down to the last individual was a completely normal thing to do in our pre-history. The casualty figures are staggering. The Old Testament is a history of a progressive reduction in the bloody scale of warfare and brutal punishments. By the time the muslims came around, complete genocide had been largely denormalized in the monotheistic traditions, though the Mongols made a good run at bringing it back in style.
The problem right now is that the muslims have lost control of their own theology and aren't keeping their nutters sufficiently marginalized. That lack of control is a legitimate criticism and good enough cause to thump them until they clean their own house up, said thumping is currently being administered by social shame, economic campaign (energy independence efforts for example) and the occasional military campaign. Hopefully the muslims will get their shit together soon and we can stop this.
And I'm generally ok with that. Government bailouts should not be a first resort but an "oh crap, we'll never do regulation with perverse incentives like that again" corollary.
Providing little people with certain protections certainly doesn't necessarily make you a socialist but it depends on what the protections are. In the real world, most of the time when people are protesting for protections for the little guy, the socialists are not very far away and the protections are quite disingenuous. So, yes, I'm playing the odds here a bit but I think its a very safe bet.
The current situation is that Fan/Fred bought enough politicians that they avoided enhanced oversight, something that this administration has been pushing for since at least 2002. Lowering lending standards was viewed as an anti-racist move and a favor to the little guy. The end result is that the blow up from that sort of change leads us to emergency measures to control the meltdown and deliver the blows slowly enough that those completely removed from the debacle have the least damage possible.
No, it's not free market capitalism but the start of the problem was the creation of the GSEs and their political capture of Congressional oversight committees.
The issue isn't whether somebody is going to fill a position. The issue is whether the big bucks behind the politician can corrupt the special prosecutor before they're given their first case to investigate.
Special prosecutors are called because the system of normal checks and balances has failed. If you institutionalize them, you've made a mistake. The fix is to fix the system so you don't have to institutionalize them.
Those bizarre weapons, not so bizarre 25 years later. They're getting deployed.
SDI was to research the problem of shooting out of the sky a certain class of ballistic objects. At the time, the only threat from those kinds of objects came from nuclear warheads. The threat class is growing, though. At some point somebody's going to try to hijack a spaceship 2 flight or one of its competitors and aim it for [insert important landmark here]. It's useful for the prevention of that kind of scenario for the terrorists to understand that they're just going to get taken out by THAAD or Aegis, or some other system and not actually make headlines beyond A7.
No, the actual study was about being more supportive of policies designed to protect the family unit. There are pleny of social conservatives who are liberal in other areas of life.
Actually not acting on fear may mean that you're infected with Toxoplasma gondii. The actual study has no value judgments as to what level of fear is more adaptive, just that there is a difference on social conservatism.
I think I detect just a bit of blame the victim here as well as moving the goalposts. Spreading around a confidential informant's info or an undercover cop's info are given enhanced penalties because the consequences tend to be higher. You or I might just get extra spam but the violently unstable tend to gravitate towards power and just because they're nuts doesn't mean they can't access 4chan.
It's not entirely obvious to me that once you become a governor that you should isolate yourself in a high security bubble 24/7 for your entire mandate. She should have picked a better provider than Yahoo, agreed. She should have taken better care that even the trivial government stuff didn't leak over into her private correspondance. I think that somebody committing a felony to expose this sort of weak tea bullshit technical violations on the part of Gov. Palin is way over the line and they should not suffer enhanced penalties for it because they exposed Gov. Palin to enhanced risks.
You see, the funny thing here is that the US has a system where the majority and minority leaders of each legislative house get briefed about these things at the bare minimum and generally other legislative leaders are briefed, understand, and sign off on these programs otherwise the budgets don't get approved.
Black budgets aren't black to the legislature if you're in a relevant leadership position. The executive does not do this stuff alone. If it did, there would be grounds for impeachment. Had the Congress not been notified, the impeachment bill would likely have been passed.
I'm sorry but I can't let the double standard go. Had you ever bothered to look, you would notice that the power elite in socialist countries make out quite well without any of that bothersome trickle down wealth getting out to the rest of the people. The idea of selfless bureaucrats toiling for little remuneration in service to the people should have died of embarrassment several reports back on the massive corruption in the EU bureaucracy.
And the EU, let's face it, is the best case. Elsewhere you end up with Robert Mugabe lookalikes.
And the kids of Presidential and VP candidates should get no consideration because nobody would kidnap or otherwise go after them just to get at our government.
You've got no imagination, no freaking imagination at all. A bunch of people who have no desire to be in the power game but were personal friends with Gov. Palin due to family connections, my kids know your kids stuff, etc. just got some of their personal information exposed for spam harvesting and worse because they didn't know that in this brave new world they need to isolate their friend like a pariah.
Try actually thinking for a bit. Most fundamentalists believe that we live in a sinful world where the vast majority have not yet been saved. If such a world would be nuked, fundamentalists would believe that the great majority would not be going to a "happy fluffy fucking cloud world", not in the least. So while there may actually be some fever dream that one could legitimately worry about a particular fundamentalist, yours isn't very likely.
Generally we hope that the fundamentalist has read enough of the Bible including the part about God pledging never to do that again and writing his pledge in the sky, the rainbow.
Why is it that so many secular critics of fundamentalists are so profoundly ignorant of the Bible and what fundamentalists actually believe.
I think that fundamentalists are absolutely wrong about all sorts of things, including biblical interpretation and how they interpret divine creation. But they deserve at least the respect that anyone else deserves that their beliefs should be evaluated as for suitability for whatever public task they want to do.
There are plenty of secular people who I wouldn't want near any sort of war fighting authority, ditto religious ones. That's not the determinant.
You lack imagination as to what could be done with the information. The Secret Service is paid to have a very active imagination in this regard and they likely have a copy of the contents from Yahoo even if Gov. Palin killed the account before they got on the case.
The Secret Service doesn't care much about public embarrassment. They do care about assassinations, kidnappings, blackmail, and other pressure that can be brought to bear to illegitimately change national policy. That's what we pay them for, to safeguard the highest of the people's representatives so that the will of the electorate can be expressed during the present and next mandate.
Wake me up when Matt Damon wins a gubernatorial race or two. Ronald Reagan was a two-time governor of the US' biggest state and only got the nod after he gave a very creditable, but losing showing in 1976 against Ford. He was also a union official (SAG) which meant he never was just an actor.
It's a 5 year federal offense just on the email break-in and when a protected person is involved, the Secret Service pays very close attention to any parole hearings. You're very likely to do the full term after they throw every charge they can think of at you.
I do not want to even think about what would happen to this country if somebody brought harm to one of the candidates or their families, especially either of the 'firsters' (first black man/first woman). It would likely be very violent and have bad consequences that would ripple for decades. This is not a partisan matter.
That's true most of the time but every once in awhile a 3rd party outpolls one of the two majors and then the calculus changes. This is every third party's wet dream but only generally happens when one or both of the incumbents become corrupt and decrepit, unable to fend off defections. If you pay attention, it's actually starting to happen to both incumbent major parties right now. 20 years from now, we're quite likely to have 2 parties in the US. They may not be the same 2 parties we have right now.
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Stores can try to screw it up by sticking their own codes over the UPC codes but all that need happen is a store code to UPC code database and you're back in business.
Unfortunately, the Saudis pay for a lot of mosques and imams and they have an outsized influence due to their control of the haj. Most people don't understand that US Islam is tremendously penetrated by Saudi financing as is Islam in many other countries. Cut the purse strings loose and you'll likely lose the associations.
It's not irrational to conclude that he who pays the piper calls the tune and the Saudis have been paying for a lot of pipers.
One of the nasty parts of history is that if you were a minority living in another king's lands, protectors of Islam, Catholicism, Calvinism, etc. would feel free to traipse across the border if you were abused. This led to continual warfare and, eventually when everybody was exhausted, the Peace of Westphalia and the modern system of sovereignty. So having a minority in your lands was something of a dangerous thing, geopolitically. All sorts of mischief could and often did ensue. The princes who expelled minorities were mean bastards but they weren't exactly irrational for doing it.
You really ought to look at research on what ancient warfare actually was like. Complete genocide down to the last individual was a completely normal thing to do in our pre-history. The casualty figures are staggering. The Old Testament is a history of a progressive reduction in the bloody scale of warfare and brutal punishments. By the time the muslims came around, complete genocide had been largely denormalized in the monotheistic traditions, though the Mongols made a good run at bringing it back in style.
The problem right now is that the muslims have lost control of their own theology and aren't keeping their nutters sufficiently marginalized. That lack of control is a legitimate criticism and good enough cause to thump them until they clean their own house up, said thumping is currently being administered by social shame, economic campaign (energy independence efforts for example) and the occasional military campaign. Hopefully the muslims will get their shit together soon and we can stop this.
The crusades, every one of them, were defensive wars to recover lands invaded by muslims. Stopping crusades is easy, stop invading christian lands.
And I'm generally ok with that. Government bailouts should not be a first resort but an "oh crap, we'll never do regulation with perverse incentives like that again" corollary.
Providing little people with certain protections certainly doesn't necessarily make you a socialist but it depends on what the protections are. In the real world, most of the time when people are protesting for protections for the little guy, the socialists are not very far away and the protections are quite disingenuous. So, yes, I'm playing the odds here a bit but I think its a very safe bet.
The current situation is that Fan/Fred bought enough politicians that they avoided enhanced oversight, something that this administration has been pushing for since at least 2002. Lowering lending standards was viewed as an anti-racist move and a favor to the little guy. The end result is that the blow up from that sort of change leads us to emergency measures to control the meltdown and deliver the blows slowly enough that those completely removed from the debacle have the least damage possible.
No, it's not free market capitalism but the start of the problem was the creation of the GSEs and their political capture of Congressional oversight committees.
The issue isn't whether somebody is going to fill a position. The issue is whether the big bucks behind the politician can corrupt the special prosecutor before they're given their first case to investigate.
Special prosecutors are called because the system of normal checks and balances has failed. If you institutionalize them, you've made a mistake. The fix is to fix the system so you don't have to institutionalize them.
Those bizarre weapons, not so bizarre 25 years later. They're getting deployed.
SDI was to research the problem of shooting out of the sky a certain class of ballistic objects. At the time, the only threat from those kinds of objects came from nuclear warheads. The threat class is growing, though. At some point somebody's going to try to hijack a spaceship 2 flight or one of its competitors and aim it for [insert important landmark here]. It's useful for the prevention of that kind of scenario for the terrorists to understand that they're just going to get taken out by THAAD or Aegis, or some other system and not actually make headlines beyond A7.
No, the actual study was about being more supportive of policies designed to protect the family unit. There are pleny of social conservatives who are liberal in other areas of life.
As opposed to the classic riposte "a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested." Both sides paint the other as out of touch.
Actually not acting on fear may mean that you're infected with Toxoplasma gondii. The actual study has no value judgments as to what level of fear is more adaptive, just that there is a difference on social conservatism.
I think I detect just a bit of blame the victim here as well as moving the goalposts. Spreading around a confidential informant's info or an undercover cop's info are given enhanced penalties because the consequences tend to be higher. You or I might just get extra spam but the violently unstable tend to gravitate towards power and just because they're nuts doesn't mean they can't access 4chan.
It's not entirely obvious to me that once you become a governor that you should isolate yourself in a high security bubble 24/7 for your entire mandate. She should have picked a better provider than Yahoo, agreed. She should have taken better care that even the trivial government stuff didn't leak over into her private correspondance. I think that somebody committing a felony to expose this sort of weak tea bullshit technical violations on the part of Gov. Palin is way over the line and they should not suffer enhanced penalties for it because they exposed Gov. Palin to enhanced risks.
The study was of american adults, not fundamentalists. A lot of people are syncretic that way. They tend not to be fundies though.
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You see, the funny thing here is that the US has a system where the majority and minority leaders of each legislative house get briefed about these things at the bare minimum and generally other legislative leaders are briefed, understand, and sign off on these programs otherwise the budgets don't get approved.
Black budgets aren't black to the legislature if you're in a relevant leadership position. The executive does not do this stuff alone. If it did, there would be grounds for impeachment. Had the Congress not been notified, the impeachment bill would likely have been passed.
I'm sorry but I can't let the double standard go. Had you ever bothered to look, you would notice that the power elite in socialist countries make out quite well without any of that bothersome trickle down wealth getting out to the rest of the people. The idea of selfless bureaucrats toiling for little remuneration in service to the people should have died of embarrassment several reports back on the massive corruption in the EU bureaucracy.
And the EU, let's face it, is the best case. Elsewhere you end up with Robert Mugabe lookalikes.
Special prosecutors aren't and shouldn't be permanent positions because they need to be surprises for the people who are going to be their targets.
And the kids of Presidential and VP candidates should get no consideration because nobody would kidnap or otherwise go after them just to get at our government.
You've got no imagination, no freaking imagination at all. A bunch of people who have no desire to be in the power game but were personal friends with Gov. Palin due to family connections, my kids know your kids stuff, etc. just got some of their personal information exposed for spam harvesting and worse because they didn't know that in this brave new world they need to isolate their friend like a pariah.
Asshat.
Try actually thinking for a bit. Most fundamentalists believe that we live in a sinful world where the vast majority have not yet been saved. If such a world would be nuked, fundamentalists would believe that the great majority would not be going to a "happy fluffy fucking cloud world", not in the least. So while there may actually be some fever dream that one could legitimately worry about a particular fundamentalist, yours isn't very likely.
Generally we hope that the fundamentalist has read enough of the Bible including the part about God pledging never to do that again and writing his pledge in the sky, the rainbow.
Why is it that so many secular critics of fundamentalists are so profoundly ignorant of the Bible and what fundamentalists actually believe.
I think that fundamentalists are absolutely wrong about all sorts of things, including biblical interpretation and how they interpret divine creation. But they deserve at least the respect that anyone else deserves that their beliefs should be evaluated as for suitability for whatever public task they want to do.
There are plenty of secular people who I wouldn't want near any sort of war fighting authority, ditto religious ones. That's not the determinant.
You lack imagination as to what could be done with the information. The Secret Service is paid to have a very active imagination in this regard and they likely have a copy of the contents from Yahoo even if Gov. Palin killed the account before they got on the case.
The Secret Service doesn't care much about public embarrassment. They do care about assassinations, kidnappings, blackmail, and other pressure that can be brought to bear to illegitimately change national policy. That's what we pay them for, to safeguard the highest of the people's representatives so that the will of the electorate can be expressed during the present and next mandate.
Wake me up when Matt Damon wins a gubernatorial race or two. Ronald Reagan was a two-time governor of the US' biggest state and only got the nod after he gave a very creditable, but losing showing in 1976 against Ford. He was also a union official (SAG) which meant he never was just an actor.
It's a 5 year federal offense just on the email break-in and when a protected person is involved, the Secret Service pays very close attention to any parole hearings. You're very likely to do the full term after they throw every charge they can think of at you.
I do not want to even think about what would happen to this country if somebody brought harm to one of the candidates or their families, especially either of the 'firsters' (first black man/first woman). It would likely be very violent and have bad consequences that would ripple for decades. This is not a partisan matter.
The US is not a parliamentary democracy. For the past two years, the legislature has been controlled by the Democrats and we've had split government.
That's true most of the time but every once in awhile a 3rd party outpolls one of the two majors and then the calculus changes. This is every third party's wet dream but only generally happens when one or both of the incumbents become corrupt and decrepit, unable to fend off defections. If you pay attention, it's actually starting to happen to both incumbent major parties right now. 20 years from now, we're quite likely to have 2 parties in the US. They may not be the same 2 parties we have right now.