China's system is better from innocent people!? You've had multiple people point out the Uigher situation in China to you and yet you're claiming China's legal system is better for innocent people!?
Sure they have "rights". The thing is that they are so routinely violated that they might as well not exist. Meanwhile in the US, you actually have a chance at recourse if your rights are violated. Your lawyer won't even get arrested for taking your case.
You can talk to me about how much worse America's justice system is than China's when Americans are routinely made to disapear by our government. Until then, you don't have a leg to stand on.
" In practice, they are presented with a choice between copping a plea, or facing trumped up charges and a ruinously expensive prosecution that will bankrupt them even if innocent."
And yet they are still allowed a trial and legal council provided by the state. Meanwhile in China, if a Chinese person is lucky enough to even get a proper trial it is far less likely to be what anyone would call "fair". It's widely known that the verdict in high profile court cases in China is typically determined prior to trial. The trial is just for show. Likewise, I find it highly unlikely a person made to "disappear", like all of those Uighers, get anything close to the rights an American gets prior to sentencing.
You keep going on about the flaws in our system but how are any of them worse than being made to disappear by your government? Your family and friends have no idea where you are or if you're even alive. And good luck getting any kind of proper legal council as they've already decided you're guilty, that's why you've been made to disappear.
In the US, we have dysfunctional rights. In China, they are at the continued mercy of the state
"Yet the American is four times more likely to end up in prison."
Yet we have rights. Yet everyone is entitled to a trial no matter how dysfunctional that system is. Yet we legally can't be detained in this country with out proper cause and we actually have a proper means of combating illegal imprisonment.
I mean, where's the Chinese ACLU to help all those people who get disappeared? Probably all in prison...
"The bottom line is that an American is four times more likely to be incarcerated than a Chinese citizen."
I don't really feel that's the bottom line. I feel like the bottom line is that in this country we have guaranteed rights. They might not function as well as they should but they're a hell of a lot better than what a Chinese person has. When Americans are regularly made to disappear by the government for minor infractions or simply because of things they say, get back to me.
"If you are rotting in prison, the fact that America's system is transparently unjust, so everyone knows about the high false conviction rate, and the defects of our plea bargain based courts, doesn't really mean much, so long as people don't care about the injustice."
So a fucked system that is transparent is worse than a fucked one that isn't? You're not making sense here.
"So who doesn't care? Apparently you, since you would prefer to point to the other side of the world than address bigger problems here at home that we have the collective power to fix."
If you can't make a sound argument based on what some one has said then put words in their mouth! Good work!
How does me thinking the Chinese prison system is more fucked than ours mean that I don't think we should be working on our own? You're full of it.
There's more to criticize about the US' prison system!?
China is a country that regularly disappears people and is currently trying to break a minority population through mass incarceration for reasons no civilized country would prosecute some one for.
On top of that, China's system lacks so much transparency we have to go with international estimates on what's going on with their prison system.
How many times have you made almost the exact same post and why do you think it's insightful? So you don't agree with their top 5 movies of all time? Who cares?
All five of those movies were very well received critically and this is reflected in their scores so those seem to be accurate enough. This is what people come to the site for, an averaged metric to give them some indication as to whether a movie will be good or not based on average user and critic scores.
Their method for creating these scores though is hardly scientific and taking a top 100 movie list on a site like this with any level of seriousness is just foolish.
In other words, Rotten Tomatoes' scoring works well enough for the core purpose of the site but of course results get weird when you get too deep into the numbers.
"There's a problem at the other end of the spectrum of exaggerating or grabbing on the less likely scenarios to claim things are going to be worse then is likely. Claims that all the ice will permanently be gone soon or that an extreme event is proof. There are error bars in the best models and the good models do have variation and the smart thing is to put the brakes on CO2 emissions, but extreme claims in either direction is unproductive and can be counter-productive."
I definitely see these same people on the Left that you do and while I have no use for them they clearly aren't very influential. If they were, we wouldn't be in our current situation where the mainstream consensus is that we aren't doing any where near enough.
In other words, the far Left element is hardly something to worry about right now, I worry about them as much as I do flat earthers. Meanwhile, it's a good sized chunk of our nation's Right that are keeping us from getting to where we should be on our emissions.
Yes, the loopholes have been there the whole time. What Trump did was introduce a tax plan that has Amazon paying 0% in taxes after using the loopholes that exist instead of the 11% it was paying in the past using the same loopholes.
In other words, it's incredibly clear it is Trump's fault that Amazon now pays nothing in federal taxes.
"Obviously a troll" because they're tired of unoriginal content? That would make me a troll as well. Or maybe they're "obviously a troll" because they don't like the shows you like?
"For us, those shows have been fresh, (mostly) well-done, and most importantly entertaining. They're not the over-the-top comic book material like the movies. They're just accessible, interesting shows about extraordinary people."
Sure, the Netflix shows were great but they were still contributing to many people's overall comic book fatigue. I watched the fist season of Daredevil, thought it was really good and never watched another episode because I just can't get excited about more comic book remakes. I never dove into the second season when it came out because I'm really just generally tired of comic book movies and shows.
Then there's the general frustration over the lack of original content from Hollywood that even IPs used well fuels. Many people liked it when Hollywood took risks and didn't entirely lean on the crutch of sequels, remakes, and financial proven IPs from other mediums.
Before we bash Amazon it's important to note the following from the linked to article.
"...ITEP notes that its non-existent federal tax payment is a result of the Trump Administration’s corporation-friendly tax cuts. The think tank writes that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act not only decreased corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, but it also didn’t close “a slew of tax loopholes that allow profitable companies to routinely avoid paying federal and state income taxes on almost half of their profits.”
According to The Week, Amazon ended up paying an 11.4% federal income tax rate between 2011 and 2016, which is a contrast to the -1% rate this year."
"It's not ignorance, so much as an unshakable belief set. There are many very intelligent folks on both sides of the Climate Change argument. Sadly, political beliefs skewer scientific evidence, because it is one of the pillars in the us vs. them political landscape our democracy has devolved into."
Huh? Sure there's an ignorant sort out there on both ends of the spectrum, I completely agree. The problem is with global warming is that it's the ignorant end of the Right that is the problem and even then a lot of the "moderates" are part of it too. I've never heard of the ignorant elements of the far left doubting the generally accepted model of human driven global warming in any substantive numbers. I'd like to see a data source before I'd think such a claim was even possible.
I'd like personalized ads more if they were more intelligently done. With cookies turned on if I buy a video card from Amazon I then see ads for video cards...
DUI check points need to go back to the Supreme Court. Decades ago they were deemed a necessary limitation to our right to not be detained by the government for absolutely no reason, in the name of public safety (getting drunks off the roads). In the last couple of decades though multiple studies have shown that saturation policing is both cheaper and more effective at stopping drunks rendering that ruling inaccurate
You've ruined your solid detective work with an overly partisan rant. Why does a claim that those glaciers will melt have to be partisan? Why does their claim not being properly peer reviewed mean horrible leftist conspiracy?
Then your post proceeds to go even more down hill from here.
"Want to stop global warming? Well first stop flying around the world in jet planes, the biggest per-mile contributor to upper atmosphere pollution."
Planes contribute to a total of 3% of US green house gas emissions and 12% percent of all US transportation emissions, https://www.epa.gov/regulation... . What are you even going on about with this rant?
Still though, thanks for the solid detective work.
"The US can't even send a person into space and hasn't been able to for years..."
Because of poor planning. We have a new shuttle in the works now thanks to Obama but Bush Jr. didn't want to pay for one despite the eminent retirement of the shuttles active during his presidency.
Of course none of that refutes the fact that China is replicating half century old American accomplishments. It would be equally impressive if they "invented" personal computers.
Did you not read my post all the way through or are you an alien?
Let me both repeat myself and expand a bit on the topic. Increasingly private enterprise has been engaging in areas of space tech that they never had anything to do with. Normal humans think it's impressive when things move from the strictly government funded domain to the publicly funded domain. It suggests a level of accessibility to things once considered sci-fi when the funding for such a thing doesn't require the massive wealth of nation states.
I'm all for sticking it to cable companies but if this makes a serious dent in content creator's revenue we're going to see a serious decline in the quality (well, what little quality exists) and quantity of new programming available for traditional TV. Locast's success would be its end.
HAHAHA, I see what you did there! You're so clever!
"China will have man on the moon within 7-9 years."
Anyways, we've landed more people on the moon then I even care to look up. It's great China is catching up to our decades old accomplishments and all but how about we aim for better than replicating shit we did half a century ago.
"Why is it impressive when private capital does it?"
Because private capital is taking over a domain that had, up until recently, been strictly based on government programs. How is it not impressive that private companies are seeing a profit motive in such things when in the past they clearly weren't? It speaks wonders to how far what had mostly been government funded development in such areas has come.
I have seen London and poor parking situation aside I feel like if these VTROL vehicles do somehow become a staple means of transportation finding a way to briefly land them won't be a major obstacle. This of all things is not the big thing holding back air taxis'.
Man Nintendo, I love you. Rather than release a pile of crap on us you've chosen to lose in the short term to keep the franchise strong in the long term. Not only is it proper business sense (if you can afford to just scrap a half way done game of course) but it's showing proper respect for your fan base. Sure, it'd been better if the Metroid they've been developing was actually good and we had a more timely release but at least they have the integrity to not feed us garbage.
I think that would be a long shot even with our current Supreme Court. Those people in the caravan aren't armed to any real degree. Without that it's beyond a stretch to call them an invading army. I'm fairly certain at least a few of the conservative justices would balk at setting legal precedence giving the position of the president that much more power.
"There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks."
You didn't read the post closely enough. They're designing them to be VTOL vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Land. Any parking spot will do if the autopilot they are creating for these things is reliable enough
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"China's system is better for innocent people."
China's system is better from innocent people!? You've had multiple people point out the Uigher situation in China to you and yet you're claiming China's legal system is better for innocent people!?
Sure they have "rights". The thing is that they are so routinely violated that they might as well not exist. Meanwhile in the US, you actually have a chance at recourse if your rights are violated. Your lawyer won't even get arrested for taking your case.
You can talk to me about how much worse America's justice system is than China's when Americans are routinely made to disapear by our government. Until then, you don't have a leg to stand on.
" In practice, they are presented with a choice between copping a plea, or facing trumped up charges and a ruinously expensive prosecution that will bankrupt them even if innocent."
And yet they are still allowed a trial and legal council provided by the state. Meanwhile in China, if a Chinese person is lucky enough to even get a proper trial it is far less likely to be what anyone would call "fair". It's widely known that the verdict in high profile court cases in China is typically determined prior to trial. The trial is just for show. Likewise, I find it highly unlikely a person made to "disappear", like all of those Uighers, get anything close to the rights an American gets prior to sentencing.
You keep going on about the flaws in our system but how are any of them worse than being made to disappear by your government? Your family and friends have no idea where you are or if you're even alive. And good luck getting any kind of proper legal council as they've already decided you're guilty, that's why you've been made to disappear.
In the US, we have dysfunctional rights. In China, they are at the continued mercy of the state
"Yet the American is four times more likely to end up in prison."
Yet we have rights. Yet everyone is entitled to a trial no matter how dysfunctional that system is. Yet we legally can't be detained in this country with out proper cause and we actually have a proper means of combating illegal imprisonment.
I mean, where's the Chinese ACLU to help all those people who get disappeared? Probably all in prison...
"The bottom line is that an American is four times more likely to be incarcerated than a Chinese citizen."
I don't really feel that's the bottom line. I feel like the bottom line is that in this country we have guaranteed rights. They might not function as well as they should but they're a hell of a lot better than what a Chinese person has. When Americans are regularly made to disappear by the government for minor infractions or simply because of things they say, get back to me.
"If you are rotting in prison, the fact that America's system is transparently unjust, so everyone knows about the high false conviction rate, and the defects of our plea bargain based courts, doesn't really mean much, so long as people don't care about the injustice."
So a fucked system that is transparent is worse than a fucked one that isn't? You're not making sense here.
"So who doesn't care? Apparently you, since you would prefer to point to the other side of the world than address bigger problems here at home that we have the collective power to fix."
If you can't make a sound argument based on what some one has said then put words in their mouth! Good work!
How does me thinking the Chinese prison system is more fucked than ours mean that I don't think we should be working on our own? You're full of it.
There's more to criticize about the US' prison system!?
China is a country that regularly disappears people and is currently trying to break a minority population through mass incarceration for reasons no civilized country would prosecute some one for.
On top of that, China's system lacks so much transparency we have to go with international estimates on what's going on with their prison system.
How many times have you made almost the exact same post and why do you think it's insightful? So you don't agree with their top 5 movies of all time? Who cares?
All five of those movies were very well received critically and this is reflected in their scores so those seem to be accurate enough. This is what people come to the site for, an averaged metric to give them some indication as to whether a movie will be good or not based on average user and critic scores.
Their method for creating these scores though is hardly scientific and taking a top 100 movie list on a site like this with any level of seriousness is just foolish.
In other words, Rotten Tomatoes' scoring works well enough for the core purpose of the site but of course results get weird when you get too deep into the numbers.
"There's a problem at the other end of the spectrum of exaggerating or grabbing on the less likely scenarios to claim things are going to be worse then is likely. Claims that all the ice will permanently be gone soon or that an extreme event is proof.
There are error bars in the best models and the good models do have variation and the smart thing is to put the brakes on CO2 emissions, but extreme claims in either direction is unproductive and can be counter-productive."
I definitely see these same people on the Left that you do and while I have no use for them they clearly aren't very influential. If they were, we wouldn't be in our current situation where the mainstream consensus is that we aren't doing any where near enough.
In other words, the far Left element is hardly something to worry about right now, I worry about them as much as I do flat earthers. Meanwhile, it's a good sized chunk of our nation's Right that are keeping us from getting to where we should be on our emissions.
You didn't read what I posted at all did you?
Yes, the loopholes have been there the whole time. What Trump did was introduce a tax plan that has Amazon paying 0% in taxes after using the loopholes that exist instead of the 11% it was paying in the past using the same loopholes.
In other words, it's incredibly clear it is Trump's fault that Amazon now pays nothing in federal taxes.
"You're obviously a troll"
"Obviously a troll" because they're tired of unoriginal content? That would make me a troll as well. Or maybe they're "obviously a troll" because they don't like the shows you like?
"For us, those shows have been fresh, (mostly) well-done, and most importantly entertaining. They're not the over-the-top comic book material like the movies. They're just accessible, interesting shows about extraordinary people."
Sure, the Netflix shows were great but they were still contributing to many people's overall comic book fatigue. I watched the fist season of Daredevil, thought it was really good and never watched another episode because I just can't get excited about more comic book remakes. I never dove into the second season when it came out because I'm really just generally tired of comic book movies and shows.
Then there's the general frustration over the lack of original content from Hollywood that even IPs used well fuels. Many people liked it when Hollywood took risks and didn't entirely lean on the crutch of sequels, remakes, and financial proven IPs from other mediums.
Before we bash Amazon it's important to note the following from the linked to article.
"...ITEP notes that its non-existent federal tax payment is a result of the Trump Administration’s corporation-friendly tax cuts. The think tank writes that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act not only decreased corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, but it also didn’t close “a slew of tax loopholes that allow profitable companies to routinely avoid paying federal and state income taxes on almost half of their profits.”
According to The Week, Amazon ended up paying an 11.4% federal income tax rate between 2011 and 2016, which is a contrast to the -1% rate this year."
"It's not ignorance, so much as an unshakable belief set. There are many very intelligent folks on both sides of the Climate Change argument. Sadly, political beliefs skewer scientific evidence, because it is one of the pillars in the us vs. them political landscape our democracy has devolved into."
Huh? Sure there's an ignorant sort out there on both ends of the spectrum, I completely agree. The problem is with global warming is that it's the ignorant end of the Right that is the problem and even then a lot of the "moderates" are part of it too. I've never heard of the ignorant elements of the far left doubting the generally accepted model of human driven global warming in any substantive numbers. I'd like to see a data source before I'd think such a claim was even possible.
I'd like personalized ads more if they were more intelligently done. With cookies turned on if I buy a video card from Amazon I then see ads for video cards...
What kind of stupid is this?
DUI check points need to go back to the Supreme Court. Decades ago they were deemed a necessary limitation to our right to not be detained by the government for absolutely no reason, in the name of public safety (getting drunks off the roads). In the last couple of decades though multiple studies have shown that saturation policing is both cheaper and more effective at stopping drunks rendering that ruling inaccurate
You've ruined your solid detective work with an overly partisan rant. Why does a claim that those glaciers will melt have to be partisan? Why does their claim not being properly peer reviewed mean horrible leftist conspiracy?
Then your post proceeds to go even more down hill from here.
"Want to stop global warming? Well first stop flying around the world in jet planes, the biggest per-mile contributor to upper atmosphere pollution."
Planes contribute to a total of 3% of US green house gas emissions and 12% percent of all US transportation emissions, https://www.epa.gov/regulation... . What are you even going on about with this rant?
Still though, thanks for the solid detective work.
"The US can't even send a person into space and hasn't been able to for years..."
Because of poor planning. We have a new shuttle in the works now thanks to Obama but Bush Jr. didn't want to pay for one despite the eminent retirement of the shuttles active during his presidency.
Of course none of that refutes the fact that China is replicating half century old American accomplishments. It would be equally impressive if they "invented" personal computers.
Did you not read my post all the way through or are you an alien?
Let me both repeat myself and expand a bit on the topic. Increasingly private enterprise has been engaging in areas of space tech that they never had anything to do with. Normal humans think it's impressive when things move from the strictly government funded domain to the publicly funded domain. It suggests a level of accessibility to things once considered sci-fi when the funding for such a thing doesn't require the massive wealth of nation states.
I'm all for sticking it to cable companies but if this makes a serious dent in content creator's revenue we're going to see a serious decline in the quality (well, what little quality exists) and quantity of new programming available for traditional TV. Locast's success would be its end.
"Hopefully, CONgress"
HAHAHA, I see what you did there! You're so clever!
"China will have man on the moon within 7-9 years."
Anyways, we've landed more people on the moon then I even care to look up. It's great China is catching up to our decades old accomplishments and all but how about we aim for better than replicating shit we did half a century ago.
"Why is it impressive when private capital does it?"
Because private capital is taking over a domain that had, up until recently, been strictly based on government programs. How is it not impressive that private companies are seeing a profit motive in such things when in the past they clearly weren't? It speaks wonders to how far what had mostly been government funded development in such areas has come.
Way to tell anyone who has ever done LSD what they already know.
It's a drug, it fucks with your brain. How profound is it that effects your sense of time perception? Not at all.
I have seen London and poor parking situation aside I feel like if these VTROL vehicles do somehow become a staple means of transportation finding a way to briefly land them won't be a major obstacle. This of all things is not the big thing holding back air taxis'.
Man Nintendo, I love you. Rather than release a pile of crap on us you've chosen to lose in the short term to keep the franchise strong in the long term. Not only is it proper business sense (if you can afford to just scrap a half way done game of course) but it's showing proper respect for your fan base. Sure, it'd been better if the Metroid they've been developing was actually good and we had a more timely release but at least they have the integrity to not feed us garbage.
I think that would be a long shot even with our current Supreme Court. Those people in the caravan aren't armed to any real degree. Without that it's beyond a stretch to call them an invading army. I'm fairly certain at least a few of the conservative justices would balk at setting legal precedence giving the position of the president that much more power.
"There is plenty of space in the air, but there will never be plenty of landing places in cities (or anywhere else that the "congestion" is headed for) and those will be the bottlenecks."
You didn't read the post closely enough. They're designing them to be VTOL vehicles, Vertical Take Off and Land. Any parking spot will do if the autopilot they are creating for these things is reliable enough
Oh please, for the love of god mod up.