Somehow I happened to see a commercial for it. I say somehow because I no longer have a cable connection so wouldn't normally see commercials.
Anyway, I watched the commercial for this new show and instantly recognized it was a complete and utter disaster, on multiple levels.
Just the preview alone showed the execs were trying much too hard to make a show with suspense and/or cuteness. It's one thing to have someone be able to fool people. It's quite another for someone to deduce which hard drive to pull from a bank of hundreds to stop the explosion/traffic jam/whatever from occurring.
However, one small bit I did like was as the lead character and someone else are racing through the streets, she, the driver, makes some comment about not using seat belts because the car has air bags. Scorpion replied to the effect, the air bags would make things worse at their speed. Therefore, drive faster.
Aside from that, suspension of belief was impossible for anything the commercial showed.
where we are not the highest corporate taxed country on earth.
Except we're not the highest. Chad and the UAE have the highest.
Also, to make up for the loss of revenue, we would have to raise the personal income tax. We could be like Germany with a 45% personal income tax, Norway with 47.2% or Japan at 50.84%.
Oh wait, you thought by lowering corporate taxes things would work themselves out. Now I see the problem.
My 2010 Hyundai Elantra claims it will get 29/40. The first time I took it on an extended (highway) trip, I got exactly their 40 mpg figure (actually a fraction above).
As to local driving, I filled up yesterday and the calculation gave me 32.22 mpg though I don't drive what one would consider true city driving such as in New York or LA, more a hybrid of stopping and starting with some distances in between. That is comparable to my usual number with has been as high as 35 in this hybrid city driving.
Obviously winter driving kills your mpg but every car I've driven for the past several decades have all been these types and I have consistently gotten above what the manufacturer says. And no, I'm not doing hyper driving or anything like that. Just common sense driving such as not flooring it to the red light then slamming on the brakes, heavy acceleration off the line and related driving maneuvers.
And then the online world becomes customized, just for you.
Fuck that, just give me the information. I don't need no customization. There's a reason AdBlock exists.
It's bad enough we have to put up with shitty web sites 'designed' by people trying to show off how shiny, but unusable, things can be, we don't need ads trying to predict what we want adding to the damage.
Considering people don't read the 2nd Amendment correctly, there shouldn't be a problem with misreading the 1st.
Both in words and actions the Colonial government required people to register with their local authorities whether or not they had a gun so they could be called up to suppress insurrection or protect the state (PA has that written explicitly in its Constitution. Article 1, section 20. Also, go read The Federalist Papers where calling up the militia, using their own guns, was mentioned several times by Madison, the guy who wrote the Constitution).
Yet apparently what was good enough for the originating government isn't good enough for us so people read only the part of the Amendment they want to read and ignore the rest.
This is why soccer (European football) is so much better to watch. No commercials. The game plays until the time runs out.
Instead of a 1 hour game of football (American), it runs to well over twice that amount, not including the pre and post pontifications.
Here's the way pro football works. Flip the coin to decide who kicks off. Go to commercial. Come back from commercial and have kick off. Four seconds elapse then play is ended. Go to commercial.
Have first three plays of game. Go to commercial. Punt ball away or get second series. Rinse and repeat.
Because in civilization no one would dare think to use a knife, steel pipe, baseball bat, wrench, box cutter, hammer, screwdriver, ice pick, awl, straight razor or any number of commonly found items to use in a robbery.
Timothy Geithner never worked for Goldman Sachs and off the top of my head I can also see Warren Buffet never worked for Goldman Sachs or the Obama administration, Robert Rubin never worked for Obama, Rogert Altman has neither worked at Goldman Sachs or the Obama administration.
Might want to check that list again to see what other missteps are there.
Considering Bush and his Attorney General didn't have a problem with gutting the Constitution, don't see why the next AG couldn't do the same. Precedent had already been set.
Well yeah! Have to make some extra money on the side.
Obviously that scenario would not be legal, but putting cameras in your house to see what the babysitter is doing or to see if anyone breaks in is perfectly legal.
This wouldn't be any different from putting hidden cameras in your house when the babysitter is over. You're not in a public place, so you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Nope, wrong. It's your house. You can put all the cameras you want inside of it. There are no restrictions.
There have been several cases where people hid cameras in their house to catch babysitters or others doing things and there is no issue with them doing it.
The general answer to all your questions is no. You can't build a house on any plot of land you feel like. I'm sure someone with more knowledge will correct me, but the basic route to building a house on a piece of land, as opposed to buying an already existing house, is:
1) Buy the land. This generally involves you and a broker but it could also be done through private parties (i.e. from you to me). In either case there is a record of who owns what, the amount they paid and, most importantly, a record with the local government of who now owns the land
This last step is crucial as it prevents an agent from selling the same piece of property to different people or someone building on someone else's land.
2) Find a home builder. Once you own the land you have to find someone to build your house unless you're going to do it yourself. Regardless, this involves filings with your local government to make sure the building meets the local requirements for water and sewer (whether on the land or through the public service), certain structural designs and so on. Since every municipality is different, some are more lenient than others but you still have to notify them you're going to build your house so they can determine how much tax you will pay on it (again, depending on the municipality. Some places don't charge tax on property, others do).
The 4th Amendment does not enter into this in any way. The 4th Amendment only comes into play once you have your property. The police can't walk in just to see if you're doing anything wrong.
To sum up, if you're building a house anywhere in the U.S. you have to file enough paperwork that everyone will know about it. If by chance you were able to build a house without anyone realizing it and were then found out, you'd have a lot of legal issues to take care of.
neo-liberal notion that more liquidity in an economy always benefits all actors
Neo-liberal? It under Bush who signed off the government using taxpayer money to add more money into the system, first by giving the money to the very people who created the financial crisis, then secondly by dropping the interest rate to near zero.
But let me guess, you subscribe to the voodoo of trickle down economics where those at the top graciously give those at the bottom whatever scraps fall from the table.
Because a large portions of Americans are obese, having the iPhone in such cramped conditions under extreme pressure for extended periods of time is causing the issue.
Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
Well then, I guess the decision to be uneducated and ignorant will serve them well when their carcasses are being zipped up in a double-lined black bag and tossed into a common grave.
Yes, many, many injustices have been perpetrated against the African continent and its peoples, but when your people are dying and people are coming in, risking their own lives to try and help you, and your response is to attack and kill them, trying to use the injustices of the past to justify the mass deaths of the present won't win you any friends, will it?
Considering there was the recent killings of doctors who were trying to educate the unwashed masses on how to prevent or mitigate the spread of Ebola, along with the other attacks and general mistrust of health workers, letting the disease spread might not be a bad option.
Those who don't want to listen to experts die off, those who are too panicked to touch the dead bodies live, and things work themselves out.
Cruel? Maybe. But when you're already putting your life on the line trying to help people and those people attack and kill you, sometimes you have to make the tough decision to let nature take its course.
our so-called representatives voted to bail out the supposed `too big to fail` organizations.
Which was the direct result of the financial industry whining that the proposed regulations would make them less competitive in the markets.
I have an article at home which outlines how the proposed regulations would have either mitigated to a significant degree, or even prevented, the bailout such by requiring higher capital requirements, more diligent use of mark-to-market, risk analysis and so on.
One can blame Congress and the President for agreeing to the bailouts, but there is a direct line between the bailouts and the lack of regulations.
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Considering how much a 12 oz box of Cheerios costs, these guys must have a direct line to a consistent source of funding.
I just steal them from The Pirate Bay.
Who are these people who think they should get paid for their work? This is 2014. Get with the times.
Somehow I happened to see a commercial for it. I say somehow because I no longer have a cable connection so wouldn't normally see commercials.
Anyway, I watched the commercial for this new show and instantly recognized it was a complete and utter disaster, on multiple levels.
Just the preview alone showed the execs were trying much too hard to make a show with suspense and/or cuteness. It's one thing to have someone be able to fool people. It's quite another for someone to deduce which hard drive to pull from a bank of hundreds to stop the explosion/traffic jam/whatever from occurring.
However, one small bit I did like was as the lead character and someone else are racing through the streets, she, the driver, makes some comment about not using seat belts because the car has air bags. Scorpion replied to the effect, the air bags would make things worse at their speed. Therefore, drive faster.
Aside from that, suspension of belief was impossible for anything the commercial showed.
where we are not the highest corporate taxed country on earth.
Except we're not the highest. Chad and the UAE have the highest.
Also, to make up for the loss of revenue, we would have to raise the personal income tax. We could be like Germany with a 45% personal income tax, Norway with 47.2% or Japan at 50.84%.
Oh wait, you thought by lowering corporate taxes things would work themselves out. Now I see the problem.
A comparison of corporate and personal income tax rates
It's also sparsely populated, which should increase cost of infrastructure deployment.
So use Montana, North or South Dakota or even Wyoming as substitutes. Large states, comparable in size, which are sparsely populated.
What's the excuse for them not having good internet service?
Yeah, yeah, one data and all that.
My 2010 Hyundai Elantra claims it will get 29/40. The first time I took it on an extended (highway) trip, I got exactly their 40 mpg figure (actually a fraction above).
As to local driving, I filled up yesterday and the calculation gave me 32.22 mpg though I don't drive what one would consider true city driving such as in New York or LA, more a hybrid of stopping and starting with some distances in between. That is comparable to my usual number with has been as high as 35 in this hybrid city driving.
Obviously winter driving kills your mpg but every car I've driven for the past several decades have all been these types and I have consistently gotten above what the manufacturer says. And no, I'm not doing hyper driving or anything like that. Just common sense driving such as not flooring it to the red light then slamming on the brakes, heavy acceleration off the line and related driving maneuvers.
is the on-screen keyboard, which is unbearable.
So it's like the keyboard on an iPhone?
Typing on an iPhone is like being in a pile of naked people in a dark room. You know you're touching something, you're just not sure what.
And then the online world becomes customized, just for you.
Fuck that, just give me the information. I don't need no customization. There's a reason AdBlock exists.
It's bad enough we have to put up with shitty web sites 'designed' by people trying to show off how shiny, but unusable, things can be, we don't need ads trying to predict what we want adding to the damage.
. . . if we would pare down the population to 2 billion.
If we let the current Ebola outbreaks take their course, we could reach that goal fairly quickly rather than the 60 years you propose.
Unfortunately there are those who might think allowing this to happen would not be the most efficient way to get us to that population level.
You drive 400 miles, each way, 3 times a week? I'm presuming you're a trucker or something similar and not a masochist.
Her ego is big enough it shouldn't be hard to track from space.
Her ego? Have you seen how fat her ass is? Her ego looks like a pimple next to the ostrich egg which is her ass.
What an agreeble culture!
Yes, they're so agreeable that no one visits beaches after September 1st.
From the article:
"Many of us are so submissive to authority that we will never think to challenge the status quo," says Sato.
Indoctrination starts at school. Children are drilled: "Follow the rules. Don't be selfish. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."
Considering people don't read the 2nd Amendment correctly, there shouldn't be a problem with misreading the 1st.
Both in words and actions the Colonial government required people to register with their local authorities whether or not they had a gun so they could be called up to suppress insurrection or protect the state (PA has that written explicitly in its Constitution. Article 1, section 20. Also, go read The Federalist Papers where calling up the militia, using their own guns, was mentioned several times by Madison, the guy who wrote the Constitution).
Yet apparently what was good enough for the originating government isn't good enough for us so people read only the part of the Amendment they want to read and ignore the rest.
Pretty convenient, huh?
This is why soccer (European football) is so much better to watch. No commercials. The game plays until the time runs out.
Instead of a 1 hour game of football (American), it runs to well over twice that amount, not including the pre and post pontifications.
Here's the way pro football works. Flip the coin to decide who kicks off. Go to commercial. Come back from commercial and have kick off. Four seconds elapse then play is ended. Go to commercial.
Have first three plays of game. Go to commercial. Punt ball away or get second series. Rinse and repeat.
Because in civilization no one would dare think to use a knife, steel pipe, baseball bat, wrench, box cutter, hammer, screwdriver, ice pick, awl, straight razor or any number of commonly found items to use in a robbery.
It's only guns you have to worry about.
Timothy Geithner never worked for Goldman Sachs and off the top of my head I can also see Warren Buffet never worked for Goldman Sachs or the Obama administration, Robert Rubin never worked for Obama, Rogert Altman has neither worked at Goldman Sachs or the Obama administration.
Might want to check that list again to see what other missteps are there.
Considering Bush and his Attorney General didn't have a problem with gutting the Constitution, don't see why the next AG couldn't do the same. Precedent had already been set.
Well yeah! Have to make some extra money on the side.
Obviously that scenario would not be legal, but putting cameras in your house to see what the babysitter is doing or to see if anyone breaks in is perfectly legal.
This wouldn't be any different from putting hidden cameras in your house when the babysitter is over. You're not in a public place, so you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Nope, wrong. It's your house. You can put all the cameras you want inside of it. There are no restrictions.
There have been several cases where people hid cameras in their house to catch babysitters or others doing things and there is no issue with them doing it.
The general answer to all your questions is no. You can't build a house on any plot of land you feel like. I'm sure someone with more knowledge will correct me, but the basic route to building a house on a piece of land, as opposed to buying an already existing house, is:
1) Buy the land. This generally involves you and a broker but it could also be done through private parties (i.e. from you to me). In either case there is a record of who owns what, the amount they paid and, most importantly, a record with the local government of who now owns the land
This last step is crucial as it prevents an agent from selling the same piece of property to different people or someone building on someone else's land.
2) Find a home builder. Once you own the land you have to find someone to build your house unless you're going to do it yourself. Regardless, this involves filings with your local government to make sure the building meets the local requirements for water and sewer (whether on the land or through the public service), certain structural designs and so on. Since every municipality is different, some are more lenient than others but you still have to notify them you're going to build your house so they can determine how much tax you will pay on it (again, depending on the municipality. Some places don't charge tax on property, others do).
The 4th Amendment does not enter into this in any way. The 4th Amendment only comes into play once you have your property. The police can't walk in just to see if you're doing anything wrong.
To sum up, if you're building a house anywhere in the U.S. you have to file enough paperwork that everyone will know about it. If by chance you were able to build a house without anyone realizing it and were then found out, you'd have a lot of legal issues to take care of.
neo-liberal notion that more liquidity in an economy always benefits all actors
Neo-liberal? It under Bush who signed off the government using taxpayer money to add more money into the system, first by giving the money to the very people who created the financial crisis, then secondly by dropping the interest rate to near zero.
But let me guess, you subscribe to the voodoo of trickle down economics where those at the top graciously give those at the bottom whatever scraps fall from the table.
Because a large portions of Americans are obese, having the iPhone in such cramped conditions under extreme pressure for extended periods of time is causing the issue.
Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
Well then, I guess the decision to be uneducated and ignorant will serve them well when their carcasses are being zipped up in a double-lined black bag and tossed into a common grave.
Yes, many, many injustices have been perpetrated against the African continent and its peoples, but when your people are dying and people are coming in, risking their own lives to try and help you, and your response is to attack and kill them, trying to use the injustices of the past to justify the mass deaths of the present won't win you any friends, will it?
Considering there was the recent killings of doctors who were trying to educate the unwashed masses on how to prevent or mitigate the spread of Ebola, along with the other attacks and general mistrust of health workers, letting the disease spread might not be a bad option.
Those who don't want to listen to experts die off, those who are too panicked to touch the dead bodies live, and things work themselves out.
Cruel? Maybe. But when you're already putting your life on the line trying to help people and those people attack and kill you, sometimes you have to make the tough decision to let nature take its course.
our so-called representatives voted to bail out the supposed `too big to fail` organizations.
Which was the direct result of the financial industry whining that the proposed regulations would make them less competitive in the markets.
I have an article at home which outlines how the proposed regulations would have either mitigated to a significant degree, or even prevented, the bailout such by requiring higher capital requirements, more diligent use of mark-to-market, risk analysis and so on.
One can blame Congress and the President for agreeing to the bailouts, but there is a direct line between the bailouts and the lack of regulations.