Thanks but we're already taking in millions of Syrian refugees thanks to Assad and Putin and we still have lots of refugees from the USA's almighty fuck-ups* in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you want fewer refugees from the South, you'd do better to look at the results of the 40 year war on drugs, your country's appetite for illegal drugs and support for right-wing repressive governments.
* There is still uncertainty whether these were almighty fuck-ups or deliberate policy.
That's unfair. Look, you should have more compassion; some of them have no option but to take jobs with ICE because they would be unemployable elsewhere.
Most don't have the transferable skills or intellect for farming - shouting at a field of peas to be quiet and stop resisting rarely improves yields.
The recording disproved pretty much everything the two police officers had written in their statements. It also caught the sergeant apparently boasting about how he'd planned the arrest in advance with someone in the Procurator Fiscal's office, who had agreed to prosecute me.
Ahead of yesterday's hearing, my solicitor had played the recording to the Fiscal. We expected the Fiscal to tell the Sheriff that he was abandoning the prosecution. But the case wasnâ(TM)t even called. After two hours, my solicitor came over to me and said that's it, case dropped, you can go.
But of course thatâ(TM)s not the end of it. The Fiscal must now investigate and possibly prosecute the two police officers.
Pravda was a prototype for fake news, blatant lies told with a straight face.
Pravda.com now redirects to Ukrainian Pravda, whose top story is about "billionaire Ilon Mask" so Mask will need another domain name.
It was definitely of interest during the (first) Cold War if you had relatives or ancestors the other side of the Iron Curtain and you applied for a government or other potentially sensitive job. A relative of mine lost his job as a pilot because his brother was living in the West.
Family members are still used by ruthless regimes to put pressure on those otherwise out of reach so despite your exaggeration, it's a valid concern.
Unfortunately the bar is so high that this is difficult to rely on; mere billions can't guarantee honesty, indeed most of those who amass huge fortunes show few signs of becoming less acquisitive.
Gates is probably a rare exception, given his vast wealth and the protection offered by his nerd genes.
That was one of my favourite dance tracks of the past decade. For those who don't know the origin, it's a rallying call by the Muslim poet, activist and lesbian L. Nazina.
The world would have been better if Bernie had won but he couldn't. In a United States where the incompetent Trump became President, rationality didn't stand a chance.
This is the first time I've seen that splendid sobriquet so I apologize for being picky but shouldn't "baby" in "Kenyan Terror baby" have a capital B because we are referring not to a random baby suffering from Kenyan Terror but a specific, indeed The, Kenyan Terror Baby? Is there more than one?
Another site without replication, redundancy and automatic failover, similar to when British Airways' entire computer system collapsed because of a power surge when someone turned it off and on again.
It's not possible to test all scenarios ("Right, now we're going to see how our network would cope if someone took an axe to that cabinet. Derek, when you're ready") but someone should have planned for a data centre failure. Is this lack of resilience common in big networks?
Sovaldi [a hepatitis C drug], is a good example of how prices can vary between countries. In the US, a course of Sovaldi lasts 12 weeks and costs $90,000 US retail.
American insurers typically negotiate a discount of 41%, according to a Bloomberg News analysis. That puts the cost of the drug at $17,700 a month in the US.
But in the United Kingdom, that drug costs $16,770 a month, and in Canada $14,493.
For an even more dramatic example, consider Gleevec, a leukemia drug. It costs $10,122 in the US, $2,645 in the UK, and $2,420 in Canada.
“Our Medicaid drug prices, particularly for specialty drugs, are way over the top,” said Lyons. “So, we’re trying to identify those drugs where the cost has escalated in the past few years, or the payment per dose is very high as compared with Canada.”
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Americans pay on average three times more than British people for top-selling prescription drugs.
Our calculations suggest that the U.S. market accounts for as much as 78% of all global drug profits. These are the profits that drive innovation, and they are coming out of American wallets.
Why does this happen? Branded prescription drugs are 20% to 40% cheaper in Europe in large part because the national health plans there drive hard bargains. The state-run buyers can impose price caps, or even refuse to allow a drug onto a national formulary if they think it is not worth the cost.
Bargaining does occur in the free-market U.S., but not nearly in such draconian terms. Medicare was expressly forbidden from bargaining when the drug benefit was added during the George W. Bush Administration. If the Food and Drug Administration approves a drug and a physician prescribes it, Medicare will almost always cover it. Private insurers and pharmacy-benefit managers can usually negotiate down from sticker prices, but they typically don’t have the European-style ability to broadly deny access, which is the big bargaining chip.
There are thousands of bacteria in millions of dumps working on the same problem right now, not to mention all their relatives in the oceans. Who knows what they'll come up with?
I'm cheered by Chief Pussehl's reaction. No SWAT team, no one got shot or arrested, he didn't call for new laws, he didn't even say it was a bad idea to call your wifi "Remote Detonator".
I pointed out the problems with the name Autopilot at the time of some previous crash. If a geek like poor Mr Huang can be fatally wrong about its limitations (assuming that geeks are less likely to blindly trust technology) what chance do mere mortals have?
Totally agree that Autopilot is broken if it ignores a lane divider. If I had a Tesla I'd keep my hands on the wheel, my feet over the pedals and my eyes on the road.
Then after 10,000 miles I'd think, "Hey this Autopilot is pretty good" and trust it more and more until one day I'm doing 50, looking in the glovebox for my favourite Barry Manilow CD, well we all know what happens then.
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Thanks but we're already taking in millions of Syrian refugees thanks to Assad and Putin and we still have lots of refugees from the USA's almighty fuck-ups* in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If you want fewer refugees from the South, you'd do better to look at the results of the 40 year war on drugs, your country's appetite for illegal drugs and support for right-wing repressive governments.
* There is still uncertainty whether these were almighty fuck-ups or deliberate policy.
That's unfair. Look, you should have more compassion; some of them have no option but to take jobs with ICE because they would be unemployable elsewhere.
Most don't have the transferable skills or intellect for farming - shouting at a field of peas to be quiet and stop resisting rarely improves yields.
Something made the prosecution drop the case.
Off topic maybe but just wondering if he has a brother called Tristan.
I bet they don't even call the police if they get a brown customer.
To which country does this statement refer:
any time one of the "top 10" most popular guns used in school shootings appears in view
Is it
A) Brazil
B) Estonia
C) Kenya
D) The USA
You forgot
8) A society awash with guns and too many people who value them above others' lives.
Funny how it's only the US which specializes in gun massacres. Must be more of that American exceptionalism.
Pravda was a prototype for fake news, blatant lies told with a straight face.
Pravda.com now redirects to Ukrainian Pravda, whose top story is about "billionaire Ilon Mask" so Mask will need another domain name.
It was definitely of interest during the (first) Cold War if you had relatives or ancestors the other side of the Iron Curtain and you applied for a government or other potentially sensitive job. A relative of mine lost his job as a pilot because his brother was living in the West.
Family members are still used by ruthless regimes to put pressure on those otherwise out of reach so despite your exaggeration, it's a valid concern.
"has so much money that he can't be corrupted"
Unfortunately the bar is so high that this is difficult to rely on; mere billions can't guarantee honesty, indeed most of those who amass huge fortunes show few signs of becoming less acquisitive.
Gates is probably a rare exception, given his vast wealth and the protection offered by his nerd genes.
"UNIDENTIFIABLE WEASELS"
Hey, watch it with the racial insults.
For those few who made it as far as reading the Guardian piece, here's an earlier version of Graeber's argument.
How close are we to a mathematical model for this spooky action at a distance?
That was one of my favourite dance tracks of the past decade. For those who don't know the origin, it's a rallying call by the Muslim poet, activist and lesbian L. Nazina.
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Space? This Bridenstine guy will probably turn out to be a Flat Earther as well.
The world would have been better if Bernie had won but he couldn't. In a United States where the incompetent Trump became President, rationality didn't stand a chance.
This is the first time I've seen that splendid sobriquet so I apologize for being picky but shouldn't "baby" in "Kenyan Terror baby" have a capital B because we are referring not to a random baby suffering from Kenyan Terror but a specific, indeed The, Kenyan Terror Baby? Is there more than one?
Another site without replication, redundancy and automatic failover, similar to when British Airways' entire computer system collapsed because of a power surge when someone turned it off and on again.
It's not possible to test all scenarios ("Right, now we're going to see how our network would cope if someone took an axe to that cabinet. Derek, when you're ready") but someone should have planned for a data centre failure. Is this lack of resilience common in big networks?
Isn't that the norm in the USA for non-emergency medicine?
Do you have insurance? Does your insurance cover this?
In any case, medical outcomes in the USA are nothing special compared to the rest of the world and very poor value for money.
And yet,
States consider bringing prescription drugs from Canada to US as costs soar
How many people have to pay the retail price?
Average foreign-to-Canadian price ratio for patented drugs as of 2016
It looks like the drug companies charge what they like because the market in the US is fixed.
Are Canadian Pharmacies the Solution to America's High Prescription Drug Prices?
This is what’s at stake if U.S. drug prices fall — and Europeans don’t pay more
There are thousands of bacteria in millions of dumps working on the same problem right now, not to mention all their relatives in the oceans. Who knows what they'll come up with?
They stopped using the Carbon Reinforced Airplane Polymer for some reason.
I'm cheered by Chief Pussehl's reaction. No SWAT team, no one got shot or arrested, he didn't call for new laws, he didn't even say it was a bad idea to call your wifi "Remote Detonator".
I pointed out the problems with the name Autopilot at the time of some previous crash. If a geek like poor Mr Huang can be fatally wrong about its limitations (assuming that geeks are less likely to blindly trust technology) what chance do mere mortals have?
Totally agree that Autopilot is broken if it ignores a lane divider. If I had a Tesla I'd keep my hands on the wheel, my feet over the pedals and my eyes on the road.
Then after 10,000 miles I'd think, "Hey this Autopilot is pretty good" and trust it more and more until one day I'm doing 50, looking in the glovebox for my favourite Barry Manilow CD, well we all know what happens then.
You think President "I love Wikileaks" Trump will send Julian to Gitmo?