Yep, if there's one place property values are sure to soar, it's areas where the schools are crappy and underfunded. Chicago is suffering from the same suburban sprawl that chokes the tax money off of many U.S. cities.
Not just Betteridge's law of headlines, but the idea of a place where any person can come and do whatever they want is anathema to the perception Americans have to a "public good". There's a quite unspoken undertone to a lot debate in the U.S. that reflects the perspective that things are either done in private or by employees for money. Public gathering places are few and far between, and not just because of fiscal concerns.
Now, with a spirited group of concerned citizens you can achieve a lot, as many charities demonstrate, but that represents support for maybe a couple such building renovations, not 50 school's worth.
Yes, but when you're using statistics to pre-judge people, you aren't confident enough to spend a fortune on addressing the risk they represent, but you're more than comfortable blindly squashing their rights.
There are a lot of people coming in here, saying "about time" or something similar. What this attitude fails to incorporate is that the judicial system isn't concerned with unjust policies until they actually create injustice. And even then, an actual judge has to be less terrible than those that created the policies in the first place.
It takes a long time, and is a natural component of how checks and balances work in the US. It's not perfect, and sometimes the bad comes from congress faster than it can be addressed, but this is how things are supposed to work.
Please, while that may be true on some level, on the level of the positions they directly assert, they clearly believe in universal freedom. Now whether that premise actually leads to the conclusions they claim it does, and whether the actual policy positions they support reinforce that universal freedom are up for debate(and are debated all the time), but you really don't need to resort to "The people I disagree actually believe something less respectable than what they claim to. Look at how easy to dismantle that position is."
Hipster libertarians? I get that that both groups are unlikable, but in what way does the "freedom solves everything" crowd reflect the slightest bit of hipster qualities?
Wait, we're blaming Obama for pushing unnecessary cuts? Since when? Not vetoing the dumb shit the republicans forced through congress by threatening to destroy the government's basic function, is bad, but it's hardly comparable to actually pushing for said dumb shit.
They are being screwed, because people see a thing they can exploit. My post was about why the exploitable phenomenon exists, not the exploitation of it.
Yeah, I'd lean towards the side effect of our cultural "work ethic" that equates full-time to 40 hours, so laws addressing what working people get focus exclusively on those working full time. Culture has not kept up with reality. This isn't an artifact of one party or another, just the set of people who'd be outraged at rights for anyone "doing less than their fair share."
I'll just clarify that I am, myself, fulltime, in case anyone gets it in their head that I'm a lazy person defending lazy people.
I did a little bit of software work for a company that did that. They scan outbound from ATMs, and inbound from cash registers as money is turned in. They use data mining to locate likely(marketers don't care about being absolutely right) repeat buyers, whose identities they get from the banks.
In the case of someone who is repeatedly attacked for things he didn't actually say, by idiots with an agenda, it sometimes does. Al Gore isn't a scientist, he isn't always right, but there's a whole cadre of people who feel the need to make things up in order to justify their points.
I'm pretty sure the sitting president cannot accept prizes or gifts of any sort, but can only accept them on behalf of the U.S., and they either get displayed in the White House, or shuttled off to be cataloged.
Usually you get a pace prize for being an exceptional member of the faculty at Pace university. Not sure how a Harvard teacher got one of those. As to the peace prize, basically everyone, including Obama said it was unwarranted, and it was really dumb.
This is because white phosphorous isn't classified as a chemical weapon by the powers that decided on the "no chemical weapons" rule. Nevermind that it was invented as an essentially identical replacement for Napalm once Napalm was declared a war crime.
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Yep, if there's one place property values are sure to soar, it's areas where the schools are crappy and underfunded. Chicago is suffering from the same suburban sprawl that chokes the tax money off of many U.S. cities.
Not just Betteridge's law of headlines, but the idea of a place where any person can come and do whatever they want is anathema to the perception Americans have to a "public good". There's a quite unspoken undertone to a lot debate in the U.S. that reflects the perspective that things are either done in private or by employees for money. Public gathering places are few and far between, and not just because of fiscal concerns.
Now, with a spirited group of concerned citizens you can achieve a lot, as many charities demonstrate, but that represents support for maybe a couple such building renovations, not 50 school's worth.
Yes, but when you're using statistics to pre-judge people, you aren't confident enough to spend a fortune on addressing the risk they represent, but you're more than comfortable blindly squashing their rights.
There are a lot of people coming in here, saying "about time" or something similar. What this attitude fails to incorporate is that the judicial system isn't concerned with unjust policies until they actually create injustice. And even then, an actual judge has to be less terrible than those that created the policies in the first place.
It takes a long time, and is a natural component of how checks and balances work in the US. It's not perfect, and sometimes the bad comes from congress faster than it can be addressed, but this is how things are supposed to work.
I think you missed some sarcasm there, my good friend.
You can't go demanding that other people don't have the basic food safety you do.
Well, I mean, you can, but it's tantamount to killing those people.
I don't disagree, but I'd prefer this point to be made with substantially less patronizing.
But with the special caveat that more tax cuts on those profits will make them hire more people.
Please, while that may be true on some level, on the level of the positions they directly assert, they clearly believe in universal freedom. Now whether that premise actually leads to the conclusions they claim it does, and whether the actual policy positions they support reinforce that universal freedom are up for debate(and are debated all the time), but you really don't need to resort to "The people I disagree actually believe something less respectable than what they claim to. Look at how easy to dismantle that position is."
Hipster libertarians? I get that that both groups are unlikable, but in what way does the "freedom solves everything" crowd reflect the slightest bit of hipster qualities?
Wait, we're blaming Obama for pushing unnecessary cuts? Since when? Not vetoing the dumb shit the republicans forced through congress by threatening to destroy the government's basic function, is bad, but it's hardly comparable to actually pushing for said dumb shit.
They are being screwed, because people see a thing they can exploit. My post was about why the exploitable phenomenon exists, not the exploitation of it.
Yeah, I'd lean towards the side effect of our cultural "work ethic" that equates full-time to 40 hours, so laws addressing what working people get focus exclusively on those working full time. Culture has not kept up with reality. This isn't an artifact of one party or another, just the set of people who'd be outraged at rights for anyone "doing less than their fair share."
I'll just clarify that I am, myself, fulltime, in case anyone gets it in their head that I'm a lazy person defending lazy people.
We do grant subhuman rights to all minors, with a gradual approach to full rights as they grow up. That isn't a hypothetical.
I did a little bit of software work for a company that did that. They scan outbound from ATMs, and inbound from cash registers as money is turned in. They use data mining to locate likely(marketers don't care about being absolutely right) repeat buyers, whose identities they get from the banks.
Most people also don't seem to realize that large scale merchants already scan currency serial numbers for the purpose of tracking your purchases.
Yep, you're totally right, "risky" sure isn't a word with a specific meaning.
And using a telephone isn't contacting someone directly? Even as far as pedantry goes, that's pretty pedantic.
In the case of someone who is repeatedly attacked for things he didn't actually say, by idiots with an agenda, it sometimes does. Al Gore isn't a scientist, he isn't always right, but there's a whole cadre of people who feel the need to make things up in order to justify their points.
I'm pretty sure the sitting president cannot accept prizes or gifts of any sort, but can only accept them on behalf of the U.S., and they either get displayed in the White House, or shuttled off to be cataloged.
I didn't state(but I guess you could interpret what I said to mean that) that Napalm is a WMD. It's not.
I think since we're dealing with international law here, you're going to have to define "illegal" and the original source of your conclusion.
Usually you get a pace prize for being an exceptional member of the faculty at Pace university. Not sure how a Harvard teacher got one of those. As to the peace prize, basically everyone, including Obama said it was unwarranted, and it was really dumb.
This is because white phosphorous isn't classified as a chemical weapon by the powers that decided on the "no chemical weapons" rule. Nevermind that it was invented as an essentially identical replacement for Napalm once Napalm was declared a war crime.
Welcome to human history.