Best? If you are insanely stupid and vote the party line (Democrat or Republican) 100% of the time and completely forego any chance of actually representing your constituents, your party will reward you by giving you the plum committee seats and a big campaign war chest which will go a long way towards assuring your re-election. No, our two party system favors non-thinkers on both sides of the aisle.
Frankly, the book seems far more objectionable to liberal sensibilities than those of conservatives from my perspective - it is a book that justifies xenocide and is on the Marine Corps reading list.
You are using semantics, rather than logic. Logic dictates that if something is ever not true then it is not true. After finding a significant lie in Daisey's story (concerning underaged workers) they attempted to check other facts and failed to corroborate them because he lied about his interpreter. If one does not succeed in fact checking, one did not fact check. So based on your interpretation we would conclude that TAL fact checked, found a significant lie and went ahead with the story making them complicit in the lie, whereas the alternative is that they failed to be diligent.
Just because Mike Daisy claimed to have witnessed something that he didn't doesn't mean that the incident didn't occur.
It absolutely means the incident didn't occur. The incident as reported by Daisey involved Foxconn and Apple, neither of which were involved. It is equivalent to my testifying that you robbed a bank on Saturday; we both know you weren't there, but the bank was robbed - close enough for a conviction, right?
The sad truth is that with the difference in the burden of truth between civil and criminal law AND the fact that the state collects a fine, there is ample reason for governments at any level to file civil rather than criminal charges. The latter generates no revenue, but does incur the cost of prosecution and incarceration. Sadly this makes the state an accomplice after the fact in many of these cases, and the victims do not recover their lost money. The wrongdoers have come to see paying the government as another form of taxation, "crime tax", but because the profits are so high, it works out nicely for them. In most cases the perpetrator agrees to pay a settlement without admitting to wrongdoing.
The SEC "agreed"not to file criminal charges against Fannie and Freddie or Mudd. The Wall Street Journal had a nice "Overview of the problem."
A google search for "WSJ civil criminal charges -BP -Madoff" will turn up enough to keep you busy all day.
Lacking written records certainly facilitates revisionist history. I just read online that Encyclopedia Britannica stopped putting out printed editions over 25 years ago. So how is this news?;-)
The problem with your comment is that cops do make mistakes. I was pulled over once on suspicion of DUI one evening, I had had two beers several hours earlier. The cop asked me if I didn't think i was following the car ahead of me a little close? "No, I was about two seconds behind the car in front of me. If you were after a tailgater, I think you pulled the wrong car over." I passed the field sobriety tests and was still required to blow into the breathalyzer and was under.01% (less than one tenth the limit at the time) and the cop warned me to get off the freeway and drive home on the surface streets - as if that would be safer. In hindsight I should have told him to fuck himself. The only presumption I support is that of innocence of the accused.
You want SMS from your computer keyboard? You think that is really important? The feeling stupid part should have come from the desire to do it, not the failure to do it.
The MS Office app sucks anyway - get SoftMaker Office, it is heavy duty. You can download the.cab files by going to the store and installing the app, but when the installer program on your phone asks say no. The.cab file will be on your device and you can back it up. Always make a copy before installing as installation causes many programs to clean up after themselves by deleting the file.
90%? Try 125% I bought a used WM6.5 phone on eBay to replace mine when it broke and the carrier offered me a WP7 or Android for free (not even a contract) to replace it. There is a lot of software for WM that is unlikely to ever be duplicated for iOS, Android, or WP; and most of it is free. Many of the programs I run have equivalents in other OS's but I would have paid more for those apps than I did for the phone and would still be missing some of my important apps.
As to the app store closing? Who cares? I think I downloaded three apps from it. I hope the other user isn't too upset.
Technically yes, this a pretext for heavy-handed RIAA sponsored legislation that will eliminate many consumers' rights while doing nothing to the actual criminals involved in such crimes. Undoubtedly, Michael Jackson's name will be prominent in the rhetoric and bill. I expect broad bipartisan support for the measure in both houses and from the President.
We need to force Congress eliminate every rule that favors the "two party system" over independents (independence). Those rules short circuit the intent of the Constitution. Senators are supposed to represent their state, and Representatives are supposed to represent their congressional district, but instead they represent their party. so instead of having a fifty (presumably both senators from a state would generally act together) viewpoints in the Senate and 435 in the Senate we have two (unless the lobbyists have been really effective in which case we get one). Whips and committee assignments based on one's voting record assure that only the most incompetent members attain positions of power. We need the guys who voted with their party the least to be heading the important committees.
Don't blame me, I voted for neither Kang nor Kodos.
$10 gasoline? Frankly I'm for it. Let each of us pay for what we consume. At that rate it would be beneficial to the country to subsidize the car. I support eliminating tax breaks and tax offsets for all industries, not just the oil and gas producers.
The fact that you resort to name calling, and think it is a good idea for others to subsidize your lifestyle shows obvious character flaws, I'm sure you can get counseling for that.
You have ignored true cost of the car, confusing it with YOUR cost of the car. The true cost includes the subsidy ($7500) that I am helping to pay of $208 each month so that YOU can save $75 a month. It is a losing proposition for the country. When the taxpayers' subsidy drops below the monthly savings I'll be happy to compare notes.
In order to get the savings in gasoline cost you project, you would have to drive a lot of miles. You can't get a lease on a $38K vehicle with a decent mileage allowance for $360/mo. Your math is in error, you would end up paying thousands of dollars in over-mileage charges and the residual value would be very important as buying the car would be the only way to avoid those charges.
It means their estimate of how many they would sell in 2012 was way off. But even if 2012 is totally flat for sales they will still sell more than they did in 2011.
They are hoping to do as well as totally flat. Frankly, it seems unlikely.
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Best? If you are insanely stupid and vote the party line (Democrat or Republican) 100% of the time and completely forego any chance of actually representing your constituents, your party will reward you by giving you the plum committee seats and a big campaign war chest which will go a long way towards assuring your re-election. No, our two party system favors non-thinkers on both sides of the aisle.
That's not "steganography", that's "security through obscurity."
Frankly, the book seems far more objectionable to liberal sensibilities than those of conservatives from my perspective - it is a book that justifies xenocide and is on the Marine Corps reading list.
English has too many words, please use Newspeak.
how you say irony in chinese?
Not sure, but with a Chinese accent, it's ILONY
While three ways may seem appropriate, we have a different paradigm and the ways must be "new" in order to be appropriate.
You are using semantics, rather than logic. Logic dictates that if something is ever not true then it is not true. After finding a significant lie in Daisey's story (concerning underaged workers) they attempted to check other facts and failed to corroborate them because he lied about his interpreter. If one does not succeed in fact checking, one did not fact check. So based on your interpretation we would conclude that TAL fact checked, found a significant lie and went ahead with the story making them complicit in the lie, whereas the alternative is that they failed to be diligent.
Just because Mike Daisy claimed to have witnessed something that he didn't doesn't mean that the incident didn't occur.
It absolutely means the incident didn't occur. The incident as reported by Daisey involved Foxconn and Apple, neither of which were involved. It is equivalent to my testifying that you robbed a bank on Saturday; we both know you weren't there, but the bank was robbed - close enough for a conviction, right?
The sad truth is that with the difference in the burden of truth between civil and criminal law AND the fact that the state collects a fine, there is ample reason for governments at any level to file civil rather than criminal charges. The latter generates no revenue, but does incur the cost of prosecution and incarceration. Sadly this makes the state an accomplice after the fact in many of these cases, and the victims do not recover their lost money. The wrongdoers have come to see paying the government as another form of taxation, "crime tax", but because the profits are so high, it works out nicely for them. In most cases the perpetrator agrees to pay a settlement without admitting to wrongdoing.
The SEC "agreed"not to file criminal charges against Fannie and Freddie or Mudd. The Wall Street Journal had a nice "Overview of the problem."
A google search for "WSJ civil criminal charges -BP -Madoff" will turn up enough to keep you busy all day.
Lacking written records certainly facilitates revisionist history. I just read online that Encyclopedia Britannica stopped putting out printed editions over 25 years ago. So how is this news? ;-)
The Supreme Court explicitly rejected nullification in Cooper v. Aaron. There is no power of nullification.
Thoreau's, "Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government)" was published in 1849. He was in no way connected to the founding of the US.
The problem with your comment is that cops do make mistakes. I was pulled over once on suspicion of DUI one evening, I had had two beers several hours earlier. The cop asked me if I didn't think i was following the car ahead of me a little close? "No, I was about two seconds behind the car in front of me. If you were after a tailgater, I think you pulled the wrong car over." I passed the field sobriety tests and was still required to blow into the breathalyzer and was under .01% (less than one tenth the limit at the time) and the cop warned me to get off the freeway and drive home on the surface streets - as if that would be safer. In hindsight I should have told him to fuck himself. The only presumption I support is that of innocence of the accused.
You want SMS from your computer keyboard? You think that is really important? The feeling stupid part should have come from the desire to do it, not the failure to do it.
The MS Office app sucks anyway - get SoftMaker Office, it is heavy duty. You can download the .cab files by going to the store and installing the app, but when the installer program on your phone asks say no. The .cab file will be on your device and you can back it up. Always make a copy before installing as installation causes many programs to clean up after themselves by deleting the file.
90%? Try 125% I bought a used WM6.5 phone on eBay to replace mine when it broke and the carrier offered me a WP7 or Android for free (not even a contract) to replace it. There is a lot of software for WM that is unlikely to ever be duplicated for iOS, Android, or WP; and most of it is free. Many of the programs I run have equivalents in other OS's but I would have paid more for those apps than I did for the phone and would still be missing some of my important apps.
As to the app store closing? Who cares? I think I downloaded three apps from it. I hope the other user isn't too upset.
People are not (should not be) defending him, just his rights. There is a big difference.
Hugs and kisses with the little boys in the showers?
Technically yes, this a pretext for heavy-handed RIAA sponsored legislation that will eliminate many consumers' rights while doing nothing to the actual criminals involved in such crimes. Undoubtedly, Michael Jackson's name will be prominent in the rhetoric and bill. I expect broad bipartisan support for the measure in both houses and from the President.
Yes, but first you have to elect me to office.
We need to force Congress eliminate every rule that favors the "two party system" over independents (independence). Those rules short circuit the intent of the Constitution. Senators are supposed to represent their state, and Representatives are supposed to represent their congressional district, but instead they represent their party. so instead of having a fifty (presumably both senators from a state would generally act together) viewpoints in the Senate and 435 in the Senate we have two (unless the lobbyists have been really effective in which case we get one). Whips and committee assignments based on one's voting record assure that only the most incompetent members attain positions of power. We need the guys who voted with their party the least to be heading the important committees.
Don't blame me, I voted for neither Kang nor Kodos.
$10 gasoline? Frankly I'm for it. Let each of us pay for what we consume. At that rate it would be beneficial to the country to subsidize the car. I support eliminating tax breaks and tax offsets for all industries, not just the oil and gas producers.
The fact that you resort to name calling, and think it is a good idea for others to subsidize your lifestyle shows obvious character flaws, I'm sure you can get counseling for that.
You have ignored true cost of the car, confusing it with YOUR cost of the car. The true cost includes the subsidy ($7500) that I am helping to pay of $208 each month so that YOU can save $75 a month. It is a losing proposition for the country. When the taxpayers' subsidy drops below the monthly savings I'll be happy to compare notes.
The interpretations, and those interpreting the laws desperately need an overhaul, the document itself is just fine.
In order to get the savings in gasoline cost you project, you would have to drive a lot of miles. You can't get a lease on a $38K vehicle with a decent mileage allowance for $360/mo. Your math is in error, you would end up paying thousands of dollars in over-mileage charges and the residual value would be very important as buying the car would be the only way to avoid those charges.
It means their estimate of how many they would sell in 2012 was way off. But even if 2012 is totally flat for sales they will still sell more than they did in 2011.
They are hoping to do as well as totally flat. Frankly, it seems unlikely.