When one takes inflation into consideration, earning less money is most certainly a way to have a worse life. If you can't afford to buy necessities or live in a decent place, that doesn't sound like a good trade off for having a phone.
Fine. People want the government out of their lives so they're free to use any drug they want? Let's do it.
At the same time the government will also get out of their lives when it comes to taxpayer-funded treatment.
What's that? That's not how you want it to be? You want the government to not interfere in your life and what you do with it right up to the point you're looking up from the gutter? Sorry, you can't have it both ways. If you don't want the government in your life because you know best, that you're smarter than all the experts out there, you can't expect the government to come to your rescue.
I'm sure Buckley would agree with that sentiment (as does Penn Jillette).
Why do people say stupid things like this? The First Amendment applies to the government, not private industry. Private industry is free to censor whatever they want in any way they want. Don't believe me? Read the Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
See that first word? Congress. That means government. It says nothing about a business infringing on your freedom of speech. You know why? Because they're not government.
Must have a bunch of Scalia wannabes with the amount of tripe about the Constitution spewed out on here.
There is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke exposure; even brief exposure can be harmful to health.1,2,6
Since 1964, approximately 2,500,000 nonsmokers have died from health problems caused by exposure to secondhand smoke.1
Health Effects in Children
In children, secondhand smoke causes the following:1,2,3
Ear infections
More frequent and severe asthma attacks
Respiratory symptoms (for example, coughing, sneezing, and shortness of breath)
Respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia)
A greater risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Health Effects in Adults
In adults who have never smoked, secondhand smoke can cause:
Heart disease
For nonsmokers, breathing secondhand smoke has immediate harmful effects on the heart and blood vessels.1,3
It is estimated that secondhand smoke caused nearly 34,000 heart disease deaths each year during 2005â"2009 among adult nonsmokers in the United States.1
Lung cancer1,7
Secondhand smoke exposure caused more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths each year during 2005â"2009 among adult nonsmokers in the United States.1
It's no different then when an article about Russia comes up and paid Russian trolls come out of the woodwork to deny everything then try to twist things to make it sound like Putin is as pure as the driven snow. Watch.
Since Russia's theft of Crimea the Tartars are forbidden from speaking their own language, forbidden from having newspapers in their own language, having radio stations in their own language and more importantly, cannot teach their own language in schools.
In addition, Putin has begun his own pogrom-lilke exportation of Tartars deemed a threat to his and his oligarch friends security. Also, Tartar houses are routinely searched for "subversive" materials, both printed and electronic.
As to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has lost over 2,000 men yet Putin denies the Russian army is doing anything. Those freshly dug graves of dead Russian soldiers just happened to occur right when Russia invaded Ukraine and those soldiers just happened to be vacationing in that exact location.
Further, when Russian soldiers are captured and admit they have been ordered to invade Ukraine and supply the terrorists in the East with weapons and ammunition, Putin denies these people are Russian soldiers. He abandons them like refuse, disclaiming all knowledge of anything. It must be horrible to be a Russian soldier knowing your own government won't lift a finger to help you, that your lives are meaningless.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine is costing Russia dearly. The amount of money being poured down the drain to keep land under terrorist rule supplied with electricity, water and yes, even money, is something Russia can ill-afford. This was quickly discovered in Crimea when the power was cut by Ukraine. After all, why should a country which has been invaded continue to supply their enemy with anything?
Russia's response was to run cables from mainland Russia to the peninsula of Crimea at an expedited pace (and cost), cables which promptly disintegrated not long after they were turned on. Russia has been using gas generators to supply electricity for Crimea but the power is only on for so long through out the day and blackouts are quite common. This doesn't even take into consideration the cost of transporting food and other supplies to Crimea via water routes because there are no land routes through Ukraine (obviously).
Despite all the suffering of Russian people due to sanctions and the cost of continuing the war in Ukraine, the Russian people are too stupid to see who is to blame for their privations. Putin's lies keep them warm at night, paranoid lies about how everyone is out to get Russia who has done nothing wrong when it attacks and invades its neighbors.
Stanford Shopping Center's security robot stands 5' tall and weighs 300 pounds. . . . 'The robot hit my son's head and he fell down facing down on the floor and the robot did not stop and it kept moving forward,'"
One takes their own life in their hands any time they go out in public nowadays, especially when they go stores. Get that much mass moving and momentum takes hold.
A trade group for the software industry claiming there are a quarter million software jobs open around the country. Yet oddly, when people with years of experience apply for these positions they are routinely told they don't have the experience the company is looking for.
Granted, not every candidate has the experience for every position, but it seems quite odd that for all the people who apply for a position, not one is qualified. Ever. Not even remotely close qualified. Even with the thousands of new developers being sent to pasture every month from other companies.
And here we have a trade group for the software industry essentially claiming the same thing. Coincidence? You decide.
That is what Trump wants, right? Lower taxes on companies so they can "compete" while raising the tax rates on individuals. I'm sure he wouldn't mind paying a 50% individual tax rate as happens in Belgium, or the 54.25% of Finland. He'd be happy to pay even the lower, 45% tax rate of Germany, right?
As can my teeth which have no cavities in my entire adult life despite a diet high in meat (all kinds) and sugar (cereal every morning plus, in some form, candy at night). Dentist is amazed how strong my teeth are and the no cavity thing.
Does that mean we should let pregnant mothers do drugs?
Quite obviously we do because I never heard a single anti-abortion person argue for laws to require pregnant women submit to tests to verify they aren't doing drugs, or anything else, which might endanger the fetus.
Instead, all we hear is ban abortion because it kills a "person" yet, as I originally stated, these same people have no problem with a pregnant woman poisoning this "person". Because telling a woman she must have a child isn't government intrusion into her personal life but having her verify she's not poisoning that same child is government intrusion in her persona life.
Put your own personal resources where your own personal mouth is
I keep trying to do just that but every time I ask why I have to hand over my money to a private company to pay for someone else's healthcare I'm told to shut and do what I'm told. In essence, I'm being made a slave because of other people forcing their will upon me.
science has no business telling people how to live.
Is the author seriously suggesting science shouldn't tell people that smoking is dangerous to their health and the health of those around them? That for their own well being they shouldn't smoke? What about pregnant mothers who do drugs? Does the author truly believe that women shouldn't be told how they're poisoning their unborn child through drugs?*
If the author is a scientist (I didn't check), they should have their credentials revoked. It is well within the realm of science to tell people how to live their lives BUT not force them to. People should be free to determine their own course of action based on the scientific evidence and in so doing, can not later complain no one told them something was bad for them (see cigarette lawsuits for a perfect example of such a situation).
* I only bring this up because of the whiners who talk about abortion killing a person yet remain absolutely silent when pregnant women poison that same person for nine straight months. Apparently poisoning is perfectly acceptable to them so long as something comes out. After all, they're not the ones who are going to pay for the mentally/physically deformed kid.
Which has nothing to do with being a criminal. Criminals are people who commit crimes. Think Michael Brown robbing a store and beating the owner then attacking a cop who told him not to walk in the middle of the road.
Think the guy shooting a gun in the air and endangering people around him.
Think the guy who has stolen a car and races down the road at over 100 mph to try and escape which endangers everyone around him and possibly damaging the car he stole.
These are all crimes in which the police have shot people and had every right to do so. Their job is to protect the populace, not coddle criminals.
So again, don't want to get shot? Don't be a criminal. It's a very simple idea which because it's so simple will never be implemented. Instead, there will always be excuses or deflections (like yours).
Or, better yet, hold people responsible for their own actions..
Hey now, that's crazy talk. That would mean criminals couldn't blame anyone but themselves when they commit a crime or fat people couldn't blame their "genes" when they refuse to eat a vegetable or walk up a flight of stairs.
That kind of attitude simply won't do around here. I'm surprised you got modded up. Give it time, you'll be modded to oblivion for stating such a heretical idea.
some players are already spoofing their GPS coordinates in order to catch Pokemon without leaving their house.
Why go outside and explore your environment when you can sit on your fat, artery-clogged ass and do nothing? Every day wall-E becomes more reality than fiction.
I will go out of my way not to buy a product made in China. About the only thing I can't buy are sunglasses and winter gloves, and that includes those overpriced Marmot gloves. Even companies such as North Face have their products made in China then charge outrageous prices because, you know, they're specially made for the adventurer in you.
Stop buying Chinese-made products and their industries will dry up. Stop having products made in China and they don't have the exact specs of your product. It's really a very simple solution but like everything else it makes too much sense so will never be done.
Agreed. The temporal stuff was bad but for the most part the episodes, even the first ones, were good for what they were trying to represent.
I know people whined about Hoshi, how she was a blithering idiot, but think about her position. She was asked to do something no one else had ever done (translate unknown languages on the fly), was reluctant to do so in the first place, in an unknown environment (in a spaceship) and had to deal with translation software which was shit (much like today's software).
The balancing act that Archer played between the Vulcans and the Andorians once he caught on to the games being played (mostly by the Vulcans) was very good. He, like Hoshi, had to deal with the unknown, on very limited information, with two disparate races, one of which he didn't truly trust to begin with.
Let us not forget how Enterprise was routinely overmatched by those it encountered in combat. No more tricks by Scotty to miraculously pull them out of the fire, no deux ex machina to save the day. They suffered, badly, and the scenes where this played out more or less conveyed their desperation at being bested.
Nor were the transporters the miracle they are in later shows. These barely worked and when they did were much more slow and finicky to operate.
And yes, some of the eventualities of the Star Trek universe such as how the Prime Directive came about might be considered forced, but the circumstances by which it came about was straight out of the original: meeting strange new worlds and civilizations and trying to understand them.
If black lives matter why are they killing each other at a rate orders of magnitude higher than police? Take a look at Chicago. How many black criminals have killed blacks this month alone? How many last year?
If black lives matter so much why isn't the black community doing something about blacks killing blacks? Why is it one never hears of protests when a black criminal kills a three-year old black girl because of random gunfire? Where are the marches to clog the streets when blacks kill blacks?
By their actions the black community is saying black lives don't matter.
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As is Trump. He's been cheating people all his life.
Earning less money != worse life.
When one takes inflation into consideration, earning less money is most certainly a way to have a worse life. If you can't afford to buy necessities or live in a decent place, that doesn't sound like a good trade off for having a phone.
Crank up the fines and forbid people from renting at more than one location.
Start at $10,000 per violation.
Fine. People want the government out of their lives so they're free to use any drug they want? Let's do it.
At the same time the government will also get out of their lives when it comes to taxpayer-funded treatment.
What's that? That's not how you want it to be? You want the government to not interfere in your life and what you do with it right up to the point you're looking up from the gutter? Sorry, you can't have it both ways. If you don't want the government in your life because you know best, that you're smarter than all the experts out there, you can't expect the government to come to your rescue.
I'm sure Buckley would agree with that sentiment (as does Penn Jillette).
Why do people say stupid things like this? The First Amendment applies to the government, not private industry. Private industry is free to censor whatever they want in any way they want. Don't believe me? Read the Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
See that first word? Congress. That means government. It says nothing about a business infringing on your freedom of speech. You know why? Because they're not government.
Must have a bunch of Scalia wannabes with the amount of tripe about the Constitution spewed out on here.
Bullshit. CDC link:
Health Effects in Adults
From the American Cancer Society
But go ahead, claim all their science is junk and you're smarter than the experts. That seems to be a symptom of people who can't admit facts.
Here come the China apologist astroturfers
It's no different then when an article about Russia comes up and paid Russian trolls come out of the woodwork to deny everything then try to twist things to make it sound like Putin is as pure as the driven snow. Watch.
Since Russia's theft of Crimea the Tartars are forbidden from speaking their own language, forbidden from having newspapers in their own language, having radio stations in their own language and more importantly, cannot teach their own language in schools.
In addition, Putin has begun his own pogrom-lilke exportation of Tartars deemed a threat to his and his oligarch friends security. Also, Tartar houses are routinely searched for "subversive" materials, both printed and electronic.
As to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has lost over 2,000 men yet Putin denies the Russian army is doing anything. Those freshly dug graves of dead Russian soldiers just happened to occur right when Russia invaded Ukraine and those soldiers just happened to be vacationing in that exact location.
Further, when Russian soldiers are captured and admit they have been ordered to invade Ukraine and supply the terrorists in the East with weapons and ammunition, Putin denies these people are Russian soldiers. He abandons them like refuse, disclaiming all knowledge of anything. It must be horrible to be a Russian soldier knowing your own government won't lift a finger to help you, that your lives are meaningless.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine is costing Russia dearly. The amount of money being poured down the drain to keep land under terrorist rule supplied with electricity, water and yes, even money, is something Russia can ill-afford. This was quickly discovered in Crimea when the power was cut by Ukraine. After all, why should a country which has been invaded continue to supply their enemy with anything?
Russia's response was to run cables from mainland Russia to the peninsula of Crimea at an expedited pace (and cost), cables which promptly disintegrated not long after they were turned on. Russia has been using gas generators to supply electricity for Crimea but the power is only on for so long through out the day and blackouts are quite common. This doesn't even take into consideration the cost of transporting food and other supplies to Crimea via water routes because there are no land routes through Ukraine (obviously).
Despite all the suffering of Russian people due to sanctions and the cost of continuing the war in Ukraine, the Russian people are too stupid to see who is to blame for their privations. Putin's lies keep them warm at night, paranoid lies about how everyone is out to get Russia who has done nothing wrong when it attacks and invades its neighbors.
A device housing a computer which allows people to get their work done rather than fiddling with something which sits in their lap.
than a typical obese American?
Stanford Shopping Center's security robot stands 5' tall and weighs 300 pounds. . . . 'The robot hit my son's head and he fell down facing down on the floor and the robot did not stop and it kept moving forward,'"
One takes their own life in their hands any time they go out in public nowadays, especially when they go stores. Get that much mass moving and momentum takes hold.
A trade group for the software industry claiming there are a quarter million software jobs open around the country. Yet oddly, when people with years of experience apply for these positions they are routinely told they don't have the experience the company is looking for.
Granted, not every candidate has the experience for every position, but it seems quite odd that for all the people who apply for a position, not one is qualified. Ever. Not even remotely close qualified. Even with the thousands of new developers being sent to pasture every month from other companies.
And here we have a trade group for the software industry essentially claiming the same thing. Coincidence? You decide.
Yes, lower the corporate tax and raise the individual tax, just like Europe, Scandinavia and other industrialized countries do.
Worldwide corporate tax rates
Individual worldwide tax rates
That is what Trump wants, right? Lower taxes on companies so they can "compete" while raising the tax rates on individuals. I'm sure he wouldn't mind paying a 50% individual tax rate as happens in Belgium, or the 54.25% of Finland. He'd be happy to pay even the lower, 45% tax rate of Germany, right?
one does not have a Google account? Does it sign you up for one or does it go apoplectic when it can't find your information?
As can my teeth which have no cavities in my entire adult life despite a diet high in meat (all kinds) and sugar (cereal every morning plus, in some form, candy at night). Dentist is amazed how strong my teeth are and the no cavity thing.
Most of the criminals doing the shootings and outright murders are the younger ones in the 20s-40s.
Does that mean we should let pregnant mothers do drugs?
Quite obviously we do because I never heard a single anti-abortion person argue for laws to require pregnant women submit to tests to verify they aren't doing drugs, or anything else, which might endanger the fetus.
Instead, all we hear is ban abortion because it kills a "person" yet, as I originally stated, these same people have no problem with a pregnant woman poisoning this "person". Because telling a woman she must have a child isn't government intrusion into her personal life but having her verify she's not poisoning that same child is government intrusion in her persona life.
Put your own personal resources where your own personal mouth is
I keep trying to do just that but every time I ask why I have to hand over my money to a private company to pay for someone else's healthcare I'm told to shut and do what I'm told. In essence, I'm being made a slave because of other people forcing their will upon me.
science has no business telling people how to live.
Is the author seriously suggesting science shouldn't tell people that smoking is dangerous to their health and the health of those around them? That for their own well being they shouldn't smoke? What about pregnant mothers who do drugs? Does the author truly believe that women shouldn't be told how they're poisoning their unborn child through drugs?*
If the author is a scientist (I didn't check), they should have their credentials revoked. It is well within the realm of science to tell people how to live their lives BUT not force them to. People should be free to determine their own course of action based on the scientific evidence and in so doing, can not later complain no one told them something was bad for them (see cigarette lawsuits for a perfect example of such a situation).
* I only bring this up because of the whiners who talk about abortion killing a person yet remain absolutely silent when pregnant women poison that same person for nine straight months. Apparently poisoning is perfectly acceptable to them so long as something comes out. After all, they're not the ones who are going to pay for the mentally/physically deformed kid.
Which has nothing to do with being a criminal. Criminals are people who commit crimes. Think Michael Brown robbing a store and beating the owner then attacking a cop who told him not to walk in the middle of the road.
Think the guy shooting a gun in the air and endangering people around him.
Think the guy who has stolen a car and races down the road at over 100 mph to try and escape which endangers everyone around him and possibly damaging the car he stole.
These are all crimes in which the police have shot people and had every right to do so. Their job is to protect the populace, not coddle criminals.
So again, don't want to get shot? Don't be a criminal. It's a very simple idea which because it's so simple will never be implemented. Instead, there will always be excuses or deflections (like yours).
This is what happens when you're a criminal. Don't want to be shot? Don't be a criminal.
Or, better yet, hold people responsible for their own actions..
Hey now, that's crazy talk. That would mean criminals couldn't blame anyone but themselves when they commit a crime or fat people couldn't blame their "genes" when they refuse to eat a vegetable or walk up a flight of stairs.
That kind of attitude simply won't do around here. I'm surprised you got modded up. Give it time, you'll be modded to oblivion for stating such a heretical idea.
some players are already spoofing their GPS coordinates in order to catch Pokemon without leaving their house.
Why go outside and explore your environment when you can sit on your fat, artery-clogged ass and do nothing? Every day wall-E becomes more reality than fiction.
I will go out of my way not to buy a product made in China. About the only thing I can't buy are sunglasses and winter gloves, and that includes those overpriced Marmot gloves. Even companies such as North Face have their products made in China then charge outrageous prices because, you know, they're specially made for the adventurer in you.
Stop buying Chinese-made products and their industries will dry up. Stop having products made in China and they don't have the exact specs of your product. It's really a very simple solution but like everything else it makes too much sense so will never be done.
If you don't respect yourself why should anyone respect you?
Agreed. The temporal stuff was bad but for the most part the episodes, even the first ones, were good for what they were trying to represent.
I know people whined about Hoshi, how she was a blithering idiot, but think about her position. She was asked to do something no one else had ever done (translate unknown languages on the fly), was reluctant to do so in the first place, in an unknown environment (in a spaceship) and had to deal with translation software which was shit (much like today's software).
The balancing act that Archer played between the Vulcans and the Andorians once he caught on to the games being played (mostly by the Vulcans) was very good. He, like Hoshi, had to deal with the unknown, on very limited information, with two disparate races, one of which he didn't truly trust to begin with.
Let us not forget how Enterprise was routinely overmatched by those it encountered in combat. No more tricks by Scotty to miraculously pull them out of the fire, no deux ex machina to save the day. They suffered, badly, and the scenes where this played out more or less conveyed their desperation at being bested.
Nor were the transporters the miracle they are in later shows. These barely worked and when they did were much more slow and finicky to operate.
And yes, some of the eventualities of the Star Trek universe such as how the Prime Directive came about might be considered forced, but the circumstances by which it came about was straight out of the original: meeting strange new worlds and civilizations and trying to understand them.
If black lives matter why are they killing each other at a rate orders of magnitude higher than police? Take a look at Chicago. How many black criminals have killed blacks this month alone? How many last year?
If black lives matter so much why isn't the black community doing something about blacks killing blacks? Why is it one never hears of protests when a black criminal kills a three-year old black girl because of random gunfire? Where are the marches to clog the streets when blacks kill blacks?
By their actions the black community is saying black lives don't matter.