Which has what to do with anything? Oh, you thought that moron who had a small amount of explosives in his shoes could somehow bring down a plane? Maybe he should have asked the folks on Hawiian Air flight 243 what happens when almost the entire roof of a plane comes off or the Southwest flight 281 which had part of its roof come off.
Yeah, some moron with explosives in his shoes will be able to bring a plane down. It's not like he and others couldn't use their pens to attack people and cause havoc.
But if you're having the goods shipped to you, doesn't that reveal at least WHERE you are?
Not necessarily. I guess you've never heard of fraudsters using the address of someone else, tracking the shipment then picking it up at the other address. It's quite common.
With the amount of abandoned houses in the country, it is quite easy to find a drop house to use.
How us this a bad decision? The worker used company property without permission, used company property for personal business, cost the company money through the use of fuel and potentially could have cost the company money had he gotten into an accident.
This is an excellent example of a management decision. A clear cut one at that. If you think it's acceptable to randomly take company equipment whenever you fell like it, I'll be sure to do the same where you work. No harm in hauling off a server for overnight use at my place, right?
and Spanish speaking Americans are one of the key groups of the uninsured.
Then maybe they should learn to speak English instead of expecting the entire country to bend over backwards for them. The same goes the various Asian folks as well.
It's all well and good to speak two languages, but you shouldn't expect people to accommodate you because you're too lazy. If I emigrated to Vietnam, should I expect them to bend over backwards for me because I didn't learn their language? They'd laugh at me day and night if I told them they need to go out of their way to post everything in English.
But I guess it's easier to find a technical solution to a human problem than it is to fix the human problem.
The only Congressional report on the events is this one which occurred in 2009, 8 years after the event.
Unlike Benghazi, there was no drumbeat, from any source, on how Bin Laden was allowed to escape, no daily update from Fox on how the most wanted criminal in modern times was allowed to escape, no daily demands for Congressional hearings on the matter. None.
There are no rose colored glasses on this event. There were no investigations, no cries of indignation or threats of impeachment. Instead, there was silence and when pressed, Bush refused to answer any questions. The same way he did when pressed to turn over documents on the 9/11 attack.
You do know Bush turned over 1, ONE, document for the entire 9/11 Commission report. Both he and Cheney refused to appear before any Congressional hearing or provide information to any Congressional member without a lawyer being present and with no documentation of what took place.
Imagine if this administration had done the same thing over Benghazi. The South most certainly would have risen, and the lynchings would have been fierce.
especially Ben Rhodes â" whom he accused of dodging questions about Benghazi.
I find it amusing people focusing on an event which transpired over a few hours when absolutely no investigation or questions were raised about the two DAY refusal by the Bush administration to send in more troops to block the escape of Bin Laden.
For those that don't know, officers on the ground, both U.S. and British, made repeated requests over a two day period to have more troops dropped in to block escape routes for Bin Laden when they had him pinned down in Tora Bora. They could hear him over the radio telling his people the end looked near and he had failed them. According to one British source, they estimated the troops were within 2 kilometers of Bin Laden.
However, for those two days the Bush administration refused all requests for more troops, claiming the Afghan forces could be used instead of allied troops (which was a complete failure). As a result, Bin Laden ran free for another decade until the Obama administration was able to track him down.
Funny how not one person ever jumped up and said, "We need to investigate why Bin Laden, the man who planned the worst terrorist attack on American soil, was allowed to escape!", yet people are hellbent on talking about mistakes made over a few hours which somehow ranks higher in importance.
When did we stop counting the cost of government intrusion into our daily lives?
Somewhere around the McCarthy era. Most definitely during Nixon's reign.
When did people stop dismissing that sort of thing as flatly unacceptable?
See above. Gotta watch out for the commies, dontcha know.
Is our need to try to force our neighbors to live the way we think in right so strong?
Yup. Witness the shunning and other measures of the Puritans and other interlopers to these lands. If you don't live the way they think you should live, you're outta here! Look at what happened to Roger Williams when he dared to suggest religious freedom and equality for all.
So long as people believe they won't be blown up on a plane or that the terrorist next door is stopped before they can commit their next act of violence, they will gladly, and willingly, give up any concept of limited government into their personal lives.
So what you're saying is you handed over your information to these hacks to prove you weren't a criminal, rather than being presumed innocent from the start. And you consider having to prove you're not a criminal a good thing?
If you torrent a film, shouldn't be a big deal. If you mass produce copied DVDs though...
They're the same thing. In both case you are redistributing something to which you have no right to do so. That DVD was for your personal use. You can fold, spindle and mutilate it to your heart's delight so long as it's for your personal use. Not you and 10,000 of your "friends".
There are studies that prove spices such as turmeric. ..
You mean (A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23723666">one study which had 3 patients who were given turmeric capsules. This one study didn't prove anything. It only suggested there is some kind of link between properties in turmeric and the somewhat mitigated effects of Alzheimer's.
Further, it's not tumeric per se but curcumin, the source of turmeric, which seems to have the effect.
Teach your child to focus on their own health.
If I had children, I would but the government has said my health doesn't matter. What matters is your neighbors health which is why I'm forced to hand over my money to smokers, the obese, alcoholics and drug users who never have to change their ways.
You most certainly can negotiate price with physicians, surgeons, and hospitals.
Exactly. They pay with cash. The medical community loves cash because they don't have to jump through the paperwork hoops for insurance.
Except now that everyone is forced to pay money to a private company, that option has essentially been removed. What's the point of paying with cash if you've already been told what you have to pay? Thus, prices will not come down and we all suffer because we can't negotiate lower prices.
I don't want to hear anyone saying what someone else buys is unnecessary if this guy is spending that much for a headset. I don't care about the tonal values or fit or anything else. To someone looking in, that is just a waste of money to play a game.
Follow up. I don't care that it's Phil Plait. If anything he should be less likely to show his bias considering how much into the science realm and debunking nonsense he is involved with.
except righteous talk about "blabla nuclear weapons yikes we sure suck as a species"...
Exactly. When the author interjects about being conflicted, he shows his moronity. How would he like his precious satellites to get up in to space? How would like the ISS to be where it's at? What about the Hubble and the rest of the space telescope cadre?
The fact that he looks like a more angular version of Moby, bald head and all, doesn't help.
So you demand that the BBC give you these episodes for free despite never having paid a single cent - or rather penny - of licensing fee?
Well duh! Of course they do! That's the mentality today. No one should have to pay for anything because producing something doesn't cost anything.
Along the same lines, people shouldn't be allowed to make oodles of money from their products. They should be forced to give it over to the unwashed masses because "it's the moral thing to do."
It's called entitlement. People believe they are entitled to anything and everything because dammit, they deserve it, and fuck off to the people who take the time and money to produce something. They deserve to take what they want, when they want it and you if don't comprehend that then you're an evil, self-serving capitalist who deserves to be punished.
The so called "bloggosphere" tends to be more accurate in my opinion.
Glad it's only an opinion because there is no evidence to suggest this is true. One can use the Boston bombing as a classic example of how the blogosphere got it completely wrong. Same with Sandy Hook, to use just two examples.
The reason why blogs appear to be more accurate is because they generally cater to one specific area whereas those in the industry cover just about everything and need to put that information in a form digestible to the masses. Even though they may have a reporter dedicated to an area, that one person has to cover the gamut of the subject which isn't easy under any circumstance. When you're on a deadline, it is much more difficult.
Unless someone is on the scene, recording things as they happen then write about it in an unbiased manner (or as unbiased as they can be by not using terms such as "pigs", "gestapo" and so on), their reporting will be significantly less accurate than those who do this for a living. Further, and as previously mentioned, they need to put concepts and ideas into neat and compact sound bites for people to understand.
That said, and to use a tired quote, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Same with the blogosphere.
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at least we're not fucking torturing people(ourselves) anymore.
That we know of. Most likely the current administration just farmed out the job to other nations who don't see a problem with it.
I think it would be best to have a firing squad composed of the jury that found someone guilty and imposed the death penalty.
If I were ever on such a jury, I would jump at this chance. Where do I sign up?
The injustice is bombs on planes.
Which has what to do with anything? Oh, you thought that moron who had a small amount of explosives in his shoes could somehow bring down a plane? Maybe he should have asked the folks on Hawiian Air flight 243 what happens when almost the entire roof of a plane comes off or the Southwest flight 281 which had part of its roof come off.
Yeah, some moron with explosives in his shoes will be able to bring a plane down. It's not like he and others couldn't use their pens to attack people and cause havoc.
But if you're having the goods shipped to you, doesn't that reveal at least WHERE you are?
Not necessarily. I guess you've never heard of fraudsters using the address of someone else, tracking the shipment then picking it up at the other address. It's quite common.
With the amount of abandoned houses in the country, it is quite easy to find a drop house to use.
That sounds like a bad management decision.
How us this a bad decision? The worker used company property without permission, used company property for personal business, cost the company money through the use of fuel and potentially could have cost the company money had he gotten into an accident.
This is an excellent example of a management decision. A clear cut one at that. If you think it's acceptable to randomly take company equipment whenever you fell like it, I'll be sure to do the same where you work. No harm in hauling off a server for overnight use at my place, right?
and Spanish speaking Americans are one of the key groups of the uninsured.
Then maybe they should learn to speak English instead of expecting the entire country to bend over backwards for them. The same goes the various Asian folks as well.
It's all well and good to speak two languages, but you shouldn't expect people to accommodate you because you're too lazy. If I emigrated to Vietnam, should I expect them to bend over backwards for me because I didn't learn their language? They'd laugh at me day and night if I told them they need to go out of their way to post everything in English.
But I guess it's easier to find a technical solution to a human problem than it is to fix the human problem.
The only Congressional report on the events is this one which occurred in 2009, 8 years after the event.
Unlike Benghazi, there was no drumbeat, from any source, on how Bin Laden was allowed to escape, no daily update from Fox on how the most wanted criminal in modern times was allowed to escape, no daily demands for Congressional hearings on the matter. None.
There are no rose colored glasses on this event. There were no investigations, no cries of indignation or threats of impeachment. Instead, there was silence and when pressed, Bush refused to answer any questions. The same way he did when pressed to turn over documents on the 9/11 attack.
You do know Bush turned over 1, ONE, document for the entire 9/11 Commission report. Both he and Cheney refused to appear before any Congressional hearing or provide information to any Congressional member without a lawyer being present and with no documentation of what took place.
Imagine if this administration had done the same thing over Benghazi. The South most certainly would have risen, and the lynchings would have been fierce.
especially Ben Rhodes â" whom he accused of dodging questions about Benghazi.
I find it amusing people focusing on an event which transpired over a few hours when absolutely no investigation or questions were raised about the two DAY refusal by the Bush administration to send in more troops to block the escape of Bin Laden.
For those that don't know, officers on the ground, both U.S. and British, made repeated requests over a two day period to have more troops dropped in to block escape routes for Bin Laden when they had him pinned down in Tora Bora. They could hear him over the radio telling his people the end looked near and he had failed them. According to one British source, they estimated the troops were within 2 kilometers of Bin Laden.
However, for those two days the Bush administration refused all requests for more troops, claiming the Afghan forces could be used instead of allied troops (which was a complete failure). As a result, Bin Laden ran free for another decade until the Obama administration was able to track him down.
Funny how not one person ever jumped up and said, "We need to investigate why Bin Laden, the man who planned the worst terrorist attack on American soil, was allowed to escape!", yet people are hellbent on talking about mistakes made over a few hours which somehow ranks higher in importance.
You're a sucker if you're perpetually buying new cars. Maintain them properly and save some money.
You try finding a manual car which doesn't have its clutch burned out or which has been well maintained. They are virtually impossible to find.
Like you, I keep my cars a minimum of a decade. My last one was just shy of 13 years. I intend to keep my current car just as long if not longer.
As a side note, my dad has a car which is 25 years old (Honda Accord) and it runs perfectly and looks almost as good as when it was bought.
When did we stop counting the cost of government intrusion into our daily lives?
Somewhere around the McCarthy era. Most definitely during Nixon's reign.
When did people stop dismissing that sort of thing as flatly unacceptable?
See above. Gotta watch out for the commies, dontcha know.
Is our need to try to force our neighbors to live the way we think in right so strong?
Yup. Witness the shunning and other measures of the Puritans and other interlopers to these lands. If you don't live the way they think you should live, you're outta here! Look at what happened to Roger Williams when he dared to suggest religious freedom and equality for all.
So long as people believe they won't be blown up on a plane or that the terrorist next door is stopped before they can commit their next act of violence, they will gladly, and willingly, give up any concept of limited government into their personal lives.
So what you're saying is you handed over your information to these hacks to prove you weren't a criminal, rather than being presumed innocent from the start. And you consider having to prove you're not a criminal a good thing?
Wait, NOW you're trying to say licenses should be used to restrict how one uses software?
Would you people please make up your minds!
If you torrent a film, shouldn't be a big deal. If you mass produce copied DVDs though...
They're the same thing. In both case you are redistributing something to which you have no right to do so. That DVD was for your personal use. You can fold, spindle and mutilate it to your heart's delight so long as it's for your personal use. Not you and 10,000 of your "friends".
There are studies that prove spices such as turmeric. . .
You mean (A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23723666">one study which had 3 patients who were given turmeric capsules. This one study didn't prove anything. It only suggested there is some kind of link between properties in turmeric and the somewhat mitigated effects of Alzheimer's.
Further, it's not tumeric per se but curcumin, the source of turmeric, which seems to have the effect.
Teach your child to focus on their own health.
If I had children, I would but the government has said my health doesn't matter. What matters is your neighbors health which is why I'm forced to hand over my money to smokers, the obese, alcoholics and drug users who never have to change their ways.
You most certainly can negotiate price with physicians, surgeons, and hospitals.
Exactly. They pay with cash. The medical community loves cash because they don't have to jump through the paperwork hoops for insurance.
Except now that everyone is forced to pay money to a private company, that option has essentially been removed. What's the point of paying with cash if you've already been told what you have to pay? Thus, prices will not come down and we all suffer because we can't negotiate lower prices.
The presence of SAS men
One man and he was off-duty.
and Israeli commandos in Westgate
Those commandos were airlifted after the siege began. They were not there when things happened.
Either go back on or get your off meds because the tinfoil isn't working.
I don't want to hear anyone saying what someone else buys is unnecessary if this guy is spending that much for a headset. I don't care about the tonal values or fit or anything else. To someone looking in, that is just a waste of money to play a game.
Because aside from Facebook, there is no other way to be notified of upcoming parties, right?
Follow up. I don't care that it's Phil Plait. If anything he should be less likely to show his bias considering how much into the science realm and debunking nonsense he is involved with.
It's a missile, get over it.
except righteous talk about "blabla nuclear weapons yikes we sure suck as a species" ...
Exactly. When the author interjects about being conflicted, he shows his moronity. How would he like his precious satellites to get up in to space? How would like the ISS to be where it's at? What about the Hubble and the rest of the space telescope cadre?
The fact that he looks like a more angular version of Moby, bald head and all, doesn't help.
So you demand that the BBC give you these episodes for free despite never having paid a single cent - or rather penny - of licensing fee?
Well duh! Of course they do! That's the mentality today. No one should have to pay for anything because producing something doesn't cost anything.
Along the same lines, people shouldn't be allowed to make oodles of money from their products. They should be forced to give it over to the unwashed masses because "it's the moral thing to do."
It's called entitlement. People believe they are entitled to anything and everything because dammit, they deserve it, and fuck off to the people who take the time and money to produce something. They deserve to take what they want, when they want it and you if don't comprehend that then you're an evil, self-serving capitalist who deserves to be punished.
Oh, hey. Nice virtual presence device.
The so called "bloggosphere" tends to be more accurate in my opinion.
Glad it's only an opinion because there is no evidence to suggest this is true. One can use the Boston bombing as a classic example of how the blogosphere got it completely wrong. Same with Sandy Hook, to use just two examples.
The reason why blogs appear to be more accurate is because they generally cater to one specific area whereas those in the industry cover just about everything and need to put that information in a form digestible to the masses. Even though they may have a reporter dedicated to an area, that one person has to cover the gamut of the subject which isn't easy under any circumstance. When you're on a deadline, it is much more difficult.
Unless someone is on the scene, recording things as they happen then write about it in an unbiased manner (or as unbiased as they can be by not using terms such as "pigs", "gestapo" and so on), their reporting will be significantly less accurate than those who do this for a living. Further, and as previously mentioned, they need to put concepts and ideas into neat and compact sound bites for people to understand.
That said, and to use a tired quote, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Same with the blogosphere.
No, she's not. She's that borderline cute depending on how her hair is cut and whatever dastardly makeup is forced on her.
Extremism is extremism, no matter how large or small.