We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.
But a pregnant woman poisoning their unborn child for nine straight months while she smokes or does drugs is humane? That is acceptable but not having a child isn't?
What about obese women who are pregnant? There are many physical and mental defects which can occur because of obesity yet we are now supposed to celebrate it despite the lifelong pain and discomfort it may foist on a child.
Tell me, isn't the poisoning of a child a crime? If so, why aren't people like you, who most likely claim a ball of cells is a person, going after pregnant women who are poisoning their child? Why aren't you pressing your local DA to prosecute them for child abuse or attempted murder?
If you're so concerned about the welfare of the unborn then maybe we should have a government program which watches over pregnant women to make sure they aren't endangering their child. The women will have to report to a government agent every other week and give out a detailed description of what they've been eating, any exercising they've been doing, take tests to insure they haven't been using drugs, and a whole gamut of other tests to make sure their child isn't being harmed. Would that work for you? Would that be better than a woman making her own choice not to have a child?
waits for Uber to ding and jumps in his car. How much money he's making "per hour" isn't really a relevant metric...
Yes, it is. He is an Uber driver. He waits, hour after hour, for the ding. He only makes money when he is hailed. That is part of the metrics.
This is no different than guy in Miami who gets hailed 2-3 times per hour. He happens to work in an area with a larger population so doesn't have to wait as long to get hailed but there are times when he's waiting to get hailed, just like in Idaho Falls.
Are you including the higher insurance costs related to using your vehicle for business purposes?
As to smartphone use, it would be similar to a home office. The space designated as a home office would have to be the primary use of that space to get a tax deduction. Not your den where you occasionally work.
In this case the primary use of the smartphone would have to be for Uber. Not your personal phone which happens to have an app for Uber. This means you would have to have two phones and the cost of the second, for Uber use, can only be partially deducted.
TinyBuild lost nothing since nothing was stolen. At least that is what I am repeatedly by people on here when they try to justify not paying people for their work (movies or music).
So which is it? Either TinyBuild lost money because people are using games they haven't paid for or they haven't lost money because nothing was stolen. You can't have it both ways.
Just as Russia denies it's invasion of Ukraine, it's supplying weapons to the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine, it's oppression of the Tartars in Crimea via deportation, forbidding them from speaking their own language or having their own schools, the theft of people's property and businesses which are turned over to oligarch's in Putin's inner circle, the shutting down of independent news organizations which expose Putin's corruption, the deliberate bombing of hospitals in Syria. The list goes on
Because there is no word for truth in the Russian language it's easy for Russia to deny anything.
hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
Doubtful. People die every day from using drugs, including actors such as C. Phillip Hoffman, yet people insist it's still cool to do so.
People think driving with either an arm extended directly in front of them, grasping the top of the steering wheel, or with a single arm crossed over the body and holding the steering wheel is a safe way to drive despite people dying every day because they lack control of their vehicle.
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
Humans are stupid. No matter how many times something bad happens to someone else because of something that was clearly preventable they'll make a big deal about it then promptly forget it the next day.
Your maps continue to get worse and worse. Why can't I rotate a map to orient it on North? Why does the sidebar continually pop out even after I close it? Why is it so difficult to drag the line of a route to a different route without it doubling back on itself?
Hey Ed, how about taking care of the things which are important rather than worrying about shiny. All of the above are why paper maps are still superior in many ways to what you produce.
From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different.
Imagine if car manufacturers sued each other for similar design attributes.
You have four wheels. The steering wheel is on the left side. You have a key to start your vehicle. I'm suing you because your design is so similar to mine.
You know what a novel fucking idea is? Not doing drugs in the first place. Then you wouldn't have to have other people spending their money to treat you because of your poor choices.
But let's hear your excuses for why this isn't acceptable. I guess you're one of those who feels not shooting someone is too difficult a task despite billions of people every day not doing it.
You're applying to use other people's money. One of the conditions is you're not going to use that money for drugs or illegal activities. Or do you prefer to have your money wasted in such a manner?
The "benefits" are supposed to help people who need money for food, shelter, clothing or child support, not get their next fix.
Attempting to use semantics for your argument is a desperate sign you've lost the argument.
"Things" is a generic term. A thought is a thing yet it has no substance. A feeling is a thing yet you cannot hold it in your hand. The same for a wish, curse or prayer. All insubstantial yet all "things'.
As I stated in this post, people feel they are entitled to something someone else produced. It doesn't matter that the person or company has taken the time and effort to produce something other people want, everyone else demands it as an inherent right to have it instantly completely ignoring the fact they haven't lifted a finger to produce the product.
As I have always said, if people believe things should be free they can produce what they want and give it away. They shouldn't expect everyone else to do the same.
The same music he used to literally tell people to go online and steal when he was performing his concerts.
You mean his music? The stuff he produced? That he owned the rights to? That he spent time, energy and money to make available? That he could do with it what he wanted?
How dare he tell people what they can do with the stuff he produced! The horror!
When one considers the blank stares received when talking to this age group about world events, how those events may affect them or the history of the event, this is not surprising.
Instead of getting a much more full and complete picture of the event they get a snippet devoid of content. All they hear/read is, "White guy found with child porn" or "Catholic priest rapes young boy", with no understanding of how long this has been going on, what happened to the victim or the punishment of the criminal.
Remember when the protestors were outside Trump's speech in CA and some right-wing tabloid put up a picture of a woman bleeding from the head, claiming this is what the protestor's did to her?
But that's not what they saw. They saw only a woman beaten by Trump protestors when the reality was much different but because they only use social media for "news", the facts of the situation will most likely never be known to them.
Yes, yes there is and it has been used to great effect to wipe out succeeding "leaders" within the Daesh terrorist organization.
It's been so effective Daesh is turning against itself in a frenzied attempt to find out if there are spies among their ranks because their people keep dying so frequently.
Desertions are up, territory keeps getting lost, and terrorists keep getting killed, all thanks to the Drone Strike app. Available now for Apple and Android devices.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld overrode the Pentagon's concerns about the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. We were repeatedly told the war would be over very quickly, a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would pay for the reconstruction of their country through oil revenues. We were also told we would be welcomed with open arms by the entire Iraqi community.
Cheney continues to say he knows where the wmds are yet refuses to reveal their locations. Perhaps he should be waterboarded, since it's not torture, to reveal that information.
Heard this wonderful news on NPR this morning. The company has been a sham since the beginning. You name it, they lied about it.
To date Theranos has never let the government or anyone from the outside reproduce the results they claim they get with their system. They have delayed, delayed and delayed.
Now, finally, the fraud of Elizabeth Holmes will be revealed. She can deny all she likes but she has known about this from the beginning.
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We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.
But a pregnant woman poisoning their unborn child for nine straight months while she smokes or does drugs is humane? That is acceptable but not having a child isn't?
What about obese women who are pregnant? There are many physical and mental defects which can occur because of obesity yet we are now supposed to celebrate it despite the lifelong pain and discomfort it may foist on a child.
Tell me, isn't the poisoning of a child a crime? If so, why aren't people like you, who most likely claim a ball of cells is a person, going after pregnant women who are poisoning their child? Why aren't you pressing your local DA to prosecute them for child abuse or attempted murder?
If you're so concerned about the welfare of the unborn then maybe we should have a government program which watches over pregnant women to make sure they aren't endangering their child. The women will have to report to a government agent every other week and give out a detailed description of what they've been eating, any exercising they've been doing, take tests to insure they haven't been using drugs, and a whole gamut of other tests to make sure their child isn't being harmed. Would that work for you? Would that be better than a woman making her own choice not to have a child?
waits for Uber to ding and jumps in his car. How much money he's making "per hour" isn't really a relevant metric...
Yes, it is. He is an Uber driver. He waits, hour after hour, for the ding. He only makes money when he is hailed. That is part of the metrics.
This is no different than guy in Miami who gets hailed 2-3 times per hour. He happens to work in an area with a larger population so doesn't have to wait as long to get hailed but there are times when he's waiting to get hailed, just like in Idaho Falls.
Are you including the higher insurance costs related to using your vehicle for business purposes?
As to smartphone use, it would be similar to a home office. The space designated as a home office would have to be the primary use of that space to get a tax deduction. Not your den where you occasionally work.
In this case the primary use of the smartphone would have to be for Uber. Not your personal phone which happens to have an app for Uber. This means you would have to have two phones and the cost of the second, for Uber use, can only be partially deducted.
TinyBuild lost nothing since nothing was stolen. At least that is what I am repeatedly by people on here when they try to justify not paying people for their work (movies or music).
So which is it? Either TinyBuild lost money because people are using games they haven't paid for or they haven't lost money because nothing was stolen. You can't have it both ways.
Just as Russia denies it's invasion of Ukraine, it's supplying weapons to the terrorists in Eastern Ukraine, it's oppression of the Tartars in Crimea via deportation, forbidding them from speaking their own language or having their own schools, the theft of people's property and businesses which are turned over to oligarch's in Putin's inner circle, the shutting down of independent news organizations which expose Putin's corruption, the deliberate bombing of hospitals in Syria. The list goes on
Because there is no word for truth in the Russian language it's easy for Russia to deny anything.
from a better educated population being able to afford to buy software, as opposed to having to illegally copy it.
Or that their intelligence leads them to understand that not compensating someone for the work they did is not a moral thing to do.
But please, go ahead and make excuses for why stealing is acceptable.
hopefully the rest of us can learn to take one extra moment to make sure that what we think of as a mundane, simple thing is not overlooked.
Doubtful. People die every day from using drugs, including actors such as C. Phillip Hoffman, yet people insist it's still cool to do so.
People think driving with either an arm extended directly in front of them, grasping the top of the steering wheel, or with a single arm crossed over the body and holding the steering wheel is a safe way to drive despite people dying every day because they lack control of their vehicle.
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
Humans are stupid. No matter how many times something bad happens to someone else because of something that was clearly preventable they'll make a big deal about it then promptly forget it the next day.
You have made the classic mistake of thinking there is only one way to access data. You must be either a developer or database admin.
Everything I talked about occurs on a computer and none of what you suggested will work.
Your maps continue to get worse and worse. Why can't I rotate a map to orient it on North? Why does the sidebar continually pop out even after I close it? Why is it so difficult to drag the line of a route to a different route without it doubling back on itself?
Hey Ed, how about taking care of the things which are important rather than worrying about shiny. All of the above are why paper maps are still superior in many ways to what you produce.
I guess you're right. The thousands of daily emails warning Bush of an impending attack were never recovered either.
private industry doing it better than government:
the effort to recover the files involved Lockheed Martin and Oracle, the two defense contractors that run the database,
Wonder how much these two billed the taxpayers to clean up the mess they created?
a Runaway?
Will we have to have police units track down those robots who go out on their own?
From a practical standpoint, it would seem that these devices must be more alike than different.
Imagine if car manufacturers sued each other for similar design attributes.
You have four wheels. The steering wheel is on the left side. You have a key to start your vehicle. I'm suing you because your design is so similar to mine.
There's a novel fucking idea.
You know what a novel fucking idea is? Not doing drugs in the first place. Then you wouldn't have to have other people spending their money to treat you because of your poor choices.
But let's hear your excuses for why this isn't acceptable. I guess you're one of those who feels not shooting someone is too difficult a task despite billions of people every day not doing it.
Ha ha!
I can't think of anything more invasive.
You're applying to use other people's money. One of the conditions is you're not going to use that money for drugs or illegal activities. Or do you prefer to have your money wasted in such a manner?
The "benefits" are supposed to help people who need money for food, shelter, clothing or child support, not get their next fix.
Attempting to use semantics for your argument is a desperate sign you've lost the argument.
"Things" is a generic term. A thought is a thing yet it has no substance. A feeling is a thing yet you cannot hold it in your hand. The same for a wish, curse or prayer. All insubstantial yet all "things'.
As I stated in this post, people feel they are entitled to something someone else produced. It doesn't matter that the person or company has taken the time and effort to produce something other people want, everyone else demands it as an inherent right to have it instantly completely ignoring the fact they haven't lifted a finger to produce the product.
As I have always said, if people believe things should be free they can produce what they want and give it away. They shouldn't expect everyone else to do the same.
The same music he used to literally tell people to go online and steal when he was performing his concerts.
You mean his music? The stuff he produced? That he owned the rights to? That he spent time, energy and money to make available? That he could do with it what he wanted?
How dare he tell people what they can do with the stuff he produced! The horror!
When one considers the blank stares received when talking to this age group about world events, how those events may affect them or the history of the event, this is not surprising.
Instead of getting a much more full and complete picture of the event they get a snippet devoid of content. All they hear/read is, "White guy found with child porn" or "Catholic priest rapes young boy", with no understanding of how long this has been going on, what happened to the victim or the punishment of the criminal.
Remember when the protestors were outside Trump's speech in CA and some right-wing tabloid put up a picture of a woman bleeding from the head, claiming this is what the protestor's did to her?
The fact was it a picture from Ash vs. Evil and it was Samara Weaving in full blown horror makeup.
But that's not what they saw. They saw only a woman beaten by Trump protestors when the reality was much different but because they only use social media for "news", the facts of the situation will most likely never be known to them.
Yes, yes there is and it has been used to great effect to wipe out succeeding "leaders" within the Daesh terrorist organization.
It's been so effective Daesh is turning against itself in a frenzied attempt to find out if there are spies among their ranks because their people keep dying so frequently.
Desertions are up, territory keeps getting lost, and terrorists keep getting killed, all thanks to the Drone Strike app. Available now for Apple and Android devices.
"We found that Instagrammers were routinely tapping on a company's name from a direct response ad to learn more.
Routinely? The word they are looking for is "inadvertently". No one deliberately clicks or taps an ad unless they've been tricked into doing so.
The desperation to justify their existence is comical.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld overrode the Pentagon's concerns about the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. We were repeatedly told the war would be over very quickly, a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would pay for the reconstruction of their country through oil revenues. We were also told we would be welcomed with open arms by the entire Iraqi community.
Cheney continues to say he knows where the wmds are yet refuses to reveal their locations. Perhaps he should be waterboarded, since it's not torture, to reveal that information.
Still waiting on their indictments.
Heard this wonderful news on NPR this morning. The company has been a sham since the beginning. You name it, they lied about it.
To date Theranos has never let the government or anyone from the outside reproduce the results they claim they get with their system. They have delayed, delayed and delayed.
Now, finally, the fraud of Elizabeth Holmes will be revealed. She can deny all she likes but she has known about this from the beginning.
Point to the Christian mass shootings against gays in this country in the last 5-10 years.
You mean like the Christian terrorist who was thwarted in LA today from carrying out his attack on gays?
Of course there are the Christian terrorists shooting up abortion clinics.