You're obviously referring to something but I have no idea what. Please tell me you aren't referring to some niche super bowl commercial without explaining yourself.
That's absurd, We have dictionaries for a reason and while definitions do change a bit between publisher they should all be similar enough for a conversation on the internet for such common terms,
"... and Walmart is playing by the rules in regards to what wages they pay."
You clearly didn't read my second paragraph.
"To put it differently, sure, you can say that Walmart is just playing by the minimum wage rules but they also probably pay as little in taxes as they possibly can as well"
If Walmart pays as little in taxes as it can just like every single company I've ever heard of and also pays as little as it can to its employees how is it better than Amazon who only does one of those things? It's not Amazon's fault the tax code is written as it is.
"Go Walmart! Can't believe they're on higher ground..."
They are? Amazon is playing by the rules in regards to what taxes they pay just like every single other company I've ever heard of. Otherwise the IRS would be after them big time. The problem with Amazon not paying taxes isn't Amazon, it's our broken tax system.
Meanwhile, for the type of unskilled labor both Walmart and Amazon employ a lot of people for, a $15 minimum wage and decent benefits is extremely generous in the context of what you often see in this sector of our economy. All Walmart does is give their employees a stack of pamphlets explaining how to take advantage of federal and state welfare programs because they know their employees need them.
To put it differently, sure, you can say that Walmart is just playing by the minimum wage rules but they also probably pay as little in taxes as they possibly can as well.
I like how you wrote out a small essay critiquing the 70% support abortion statistic as being too simplistic and then make a statement like..."as opposed to Democrats who want no line at all.". Most Democrats opinions are far more nuanced than that, just like everyone else.
" Whether the bills are popular or not doesn't really matter..."
If the bills are popular (which I take to mean a significant majority of Americans support it across party lines), why would there then be enough support for McConnell "as a stalwart defender strong enough to resist the onslaught" to matter? Sure, people don't always act or vote logically but that's pretty far out there on the lack of logic scale.
"In actual facts dogs are stupid because they will do cheap tricks for food out of greed."
No. Doing what some needs to be done to get what you want when what you want isn't otherwise related to the task isn't dumb at all. It's quite intelligent and a good bit of abstract thinking as far as animals go.
As far as cats go though, in viewing them at family and friends houses I've never seen one do something a dog couldn't but I have seen dogs do plenty I've never seen a cat do. Of course my lack of cat ownership and the facts that cats arent anywhere near as social might have something to do with my own observations.
So after you said "Why factor in internet cost?" you then followed that up with something that had nothing to do with factoring in internet costs. Got it.
How on earth is that not him getting lucky? I could use that scenario to explain the concept of luck to some one and they would understand it perfectly when I was done.
He has nothing to do with what the Democrats did but yet he benefited immensely from many of their decisions. He straight up got lucky https://www.dictionary.com/bro... that they made the choices that they did.
"Right now, you dems are pushing women, with nearly all being far left extremists that do not care about fiscal issues"
Maybe from all the way over there on America's far right they all look far left. Relative to the rest of the world we all live in though, many of them would be called moderates.
"Sure, I don't care about what's only on streaming but you MUST have internet to use streaming so you have to consider the cost."
No you really don't. If you had the same internet connection both before and after cutting the cord then it would be completely incorrect to include unless you included the internet bill into your prior cable costs as well. In other words, the necessity of having a broadband internet connection to watch streaming content is irrelevant in this context because it is typically a cost that was already being payed before cutting the cord.
Also, I have no idea what you personally having an antenna has to do with this conversation at all.
Why would ones internet connection be factored into the cost? This being the day and age it is, I imagine most of those we typically think of as cord cutters already had broadband connections when they switched off cable.
"It is far more likely that this is being conducted with adult supervision"
No it's not. Kids don't need adult supervision to ditch school.
" You're going to tell me they can do complicated political activism, the kind that most adults can't get right, without any expert assistance?"
Not at all. What I will tell you is that they will ditch school and/or take advantage of an excuse to be self righteous on a whim. It should surprise no one that a bunch of kids acted on perfectly open social media calls to ditch school.
"Either way, it's a Pulitzer waiting to be won."
No. No one will be talking about this in a week because it really doesn't matter much at all.
"My ENTIRE position has been that punishing legal, licensed firearm owners for the actions committed by illegal, unlicensed criminals is both unfair and ineffective as a policy. So you shouldn't really be surprised that my stats cover legal firearms owners.. "
There are plenty of dangerous things that are outlawed or heavily restricted by government. It's not "punishing" anyone.
"1. Person passes driving test and gets a license. Person buys car. Car is stolen. Car is used in a crime. Cars are not generally used to commit crimes (refer back to my statistics). Therefore cars should not be banned but people using them for illegal purposes should be prosecuted.
2. 1. Person passes firearms test and gets a license. Person buys fire. Firearm is stolen*. Firearm is used in a crime. Firearms are not generally used to commit crimes (refer back to my statistics). Therefore firearms should not be banned but people using them for illegal purposes should be prosecuted."
So it's back to cars and your slippery slope a third time. Repeating myself, cars have massively productive uses outside of the undesirable scenario you describe. Guns on the other hand don't have any other use aside from shooting a person (aside from hunting rifles as I mentioned before). In other words, there is no massive social detriment to be had from having very restrictive gun ownership laws. This can be easily observed in every other Western society.
"I think it funny that you believe that AOC is "mild Leftist"."
I think it's funny that you think that AOC is the entirety of the Democratic party and not just one of 235 Democratic house members who represent's only one of New York's 27 congressional districts. Is the entire Republican party libertarian because the people of Kentucky elected Rand Paul to the Senate?
" What they want is to take my money so that the politicians can decide who deserves it."
Every government, no matter where on the political spectrum, does this. It's what governments do and the odds are fairly certain you're in favor of government doing this in some sort of context so you can quit with the delusion that only those on the Left practice what you describe.
I think it's funny you pointing to Salon's political bias (which it certainly does have) while making claims of an eminent communist revolution in this country. You either don't understand what communism is or have a personal political bias so far departed from reality that you're consciously choosing to characterize the mild Leftist push the Democrats are actually experiencing as communism.
"Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are not suggestive of a studio "not looking to spread division.""
See, here's the problem. There are people out there who hear "feminism" and some how come to the conclusion that something divisive is happening. Since you seem to be of this group here's the definition of feminism just so we can both be on the same page in regards to what you and yours are outraged about. https://www.merriam-webster.co...
What you're illustrating in your post is how elements of our country have spun a concept most Americans are perfectly fine with into their outrage machine in an attempt to diminish it or simply as a way of being outraged about something.
Also, your signature is stupid. Of the top 10 games of 2018 https://www.fool.com/investing... you play as either a character of your choice with "white male" being available or exclusively as a white male.
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You're obviously referring to something but I have no idea what. Please tell me you aren't referring to some niche super bowl commercial without explaining yourself.
"Whatever you want them to mean."
That's absurd, We have dictionaries for a reason and while definitions do change a bit between publisher they should all be similar enough for a conversation on the internet for such common terms,
"... and Walmart is playing by the rules in regards to what wages they pay."
You clearly didn't read my second paragraph.
"To put it differently, sure, you can say that Walmart is just playing by the minimum wage rules but they also probably pay as little in taxes as they possibly can as well"
If Walmart pays as little in taxes as it can just like every single company I've ever heard of and also pays as little as it can to its employees how is it better than Amazon who only does one of those things? It's not Amazon's fault the tax code is written as it is.
"Go Walmart! Can't believe they're on higher ground..."
They are? Amazon is playing by the rules in regards to what taxes they pay just like every single other company I've ever heard of. Otherwise the IRS would be after them big time. The problem with Amazon not paying taxes isn't Amazon, it's our broken tax system.
Meanwhile, for the type of unskilled labor both Walmart and Amazon employ a lot of people for, a $15 minimum wage and decent benefits is extremely generous in the context of what you often see in this sector of our economy. All Walmart does is give their employees a stack of pamphlets explaining how to take advantage of federal and state welfare programs because they know their employees need them.
To put it differently, sure, you can say that Walmart is just playing by the minimum wage rules but they also probably pay as little in taxes as they possibly can as well.
I like how you wrote out a small essay critiquing the 70% support abortion statistic as being too simplistic and then make a statement like ..."as opposed to Democrats who want no line at all.". Most Democrats opinions are far more nuanced than that, just like everyone else.
" Whether the bills are popular or not doesn't really matter..."
If the bills are popular (which I take to mean a significant majority of Americans support it across party lines), why would there then be enough support for McConnell "as a stalwart defender strong enough to resist the onslaught" to matter? Sure, people don't always act or vote logically but that's pretty far out there on the lack of logic scale.
No, you don't understand what you're talking about.
If a company has a steady revenue stream then it will not fail. In other words, as long as profits exceed expenses there is no failure happening.
"In actual facts dogs are stupid because they will do cheap tricks for food out of greed."
No. Doing what some needs to be done to get what you want when what you want isn't otherwise related to the task isn't dumb at all. It's quite intelligent and a good bit of abstract thinking as far as animals go.
As far as cats go though, in viewing them at family and friends houses I've never seen one do something a dog couldn't but I have seen dogs do plenty I've never seen a cat do. Of course my lack of cat ownership and the facts that cats arent anywhere near as social might have something to do with my own observations.
I can't speak for the other companies but as long as Madden is the massively successful game franchise that it is, EA isn't going anywhere.
Finally you made. I was wondering when our leader would come.
Man, this is great. You're modded down to zero for not knowing what "luck" means and I'm modded down to zero for telling you that.
So after you said "Why factor in internet cost?" you then followed that up with something that had nothing to do with factoring in internet costs. Got it.
" You dems ran a HORRIBLE candidate."
How on earth is that not him getting lucky? I could use that scenario to explain the concept of luck to some one and they would understand it perfectly when I was done.
He has nothing to do with what the Democrats did but yet he benefited immensely from many of their decisions. He straight up got lucky https://www.dictionary.com/bro... that they made the choices that they did.
"Right now, you dems are pushing women, with nearly all being far left extremists that do not care about fiscal issues"
Maybe from all the way over there on America's far right they all look far left. Relative to the rest of the world we all live in though, many of them would be called moderates.
"Sure, I don't care about what's only on streaming but you MUST have internet to use streaming so you have to consider the cost."
No you really don't. If you had the same internet connection both before and after cutting the cord then it would be completely incorrect to include unless you included the internet bill into your prior cable costs as well. In other words, the necessity of having a broadband internet connection to watch streaming content is irrelevant in this context because it is typically a cost that was already being payed before cutting the cord.
Also, I have no idea what you personally having an antenna has to do with this conversation at all.
Why would ones internet connection be factored into the cost? This being the day and age it is, I imagine most of those we typically think of as cord cutters already had broadband connections when they switched off cable.
Did anyone honestly believe that SPECTRE wouldn't be able to figure out a way to decrypt Apple's 4k movies?
"Take the classic "wormhole" concept... It is entirely bunk"
I'll let Einstein know you think he's a shithead next time I see him.
In the mean time I won't be taking my advice on science off some random on the internet.
The same way anything we currently have stops in space. We just have to start the slow down a loooong ways out.
"It is far more likely that this is being conducted with adult supervision"
No it's not. Kids don't need adult supervision to ditch school.
" You're going to tell me they can do complicated political activism, the kind that most adults can't get right, without any expert assistance?"
Not at all. What I will tell you is that they will ditch school and/or take advantage of an excuse to be self righteous on a whim. It should surprise no one that a bunch of kids acted on perfectly open social media calls to ditch school.
"Either way, it's a Pulitzer waiting to be won."
No. No one will be talking about this in a week because it really doesn't matter much at all.
....Or the more likely scenario that there is no massive conspiracy waiting to be broken open here.
"My ENTIRE position has been that punishing legal, licensed firearm owners for the actions committed by illegal, unlicensed criminals is both unfair and ineffective as a policy. So you shouldn't really be surprised that my stats cover legal firearms owners.. "
There are plenty of dangerous things that are outlawed or heavily restricted by government. It's not "punishing" anyone.
"1. Person passes driving test and gets a license. Person buys car. Car is stolen. Car is used in a crime. Cars are not generally used to commit crimes (refer back to my statistics). Therefore cars should not be banned but people using them for illegal purposes should be prosecuted.
2. 1. Person passes firearms test and gets a license. Person buys fire. Firearm is stolen*. Firearm is used in a crime. Firearms are not generally used to commit crimes (refer back to my statistics). Therefore firearms should not be banned but people using them for illegal purposes should be prosecuted."
So it's back to cars and your slippery slope a third time. Repeating myself, cars have massively productive uses outside of the undesirable scenario you describe. Guns on the other hand don't have any other use aside from shooting a person (aside from hunting rifles as I mentioned before). In other words, there is no massive social detriment to be had from having very restrictive gun ownership laws. This can be easily observed in every other Western society.
"I think it funny that you believe that AOC is "mild Leftist"."
I think it's funny that you think that AOC is the entirety of the Democratic party and not just one of 235 Democratic house members who represent's only one of New York's 27 congressional districts. Is the entire Republican party libertarian because the people of Kentucky elected Rand Paul to the Senate?
" What they want is to take my money so that the politicians can decide who deserves it."
Every government, no matter where on the political spectrum, does this. It's what governments do and the odds are fairly certain you're in favor of government doing this in some sort of context so you can quit with the delusion that only those on the Left practice what you describe.
I think it's funny you pointing to Salon's political bias (which it certainly does have) while making claims of an eminent communist revolution in this country. You either don't understand what communism is or have a personal political bias so far departed from reality that you're consciously choosing to characterize the mild Leftist push the Democrats are actually experiencing as communism.
Rent growth in Seattle has gone stagnant and may start decreasing thanks to increased development. https://www.seattletimes.com/b...
"Having your star go on every talk show bragging about it being a feminist film, insisting on dividing her interviewers up by race and gender, and releasing it on International Women's Day are not suggestive of a studio "not looking to spread division.""
See, here's the problem. There are people out there who hear "feminism" and some how come to the conclusion that something divisive is happening. Since you seem to be of this group here's the definition of feminism just so we can both be on the same page in regards to what you and yours are outraged about. https://www.merriam-webster.co...
What you're illustrating in your post is how elements of our country have spun a concept most Americans are perfectly fine with into their outrage machine in an attempt to diminish it or simply as a way of being outraged about something.
Also, your signature is stupid. Of the top 10 games of 2018 https://www.fool.com/investing... you play as either a character of your choice with "white male" being available or exclusively as a white male.