As with most of the Republican "outrages of the day", this isn't new. In 2012 a Republican PAC called Americans for Limited Growth was doing the same thing:
In December, a judge approved settlements involving book publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin after a federal court ruled they conspired with Amazon rival Apple. In the lawsuit, the Justice Department claimed Apple conspired with book publishers to fix prices in order to thwart a discount initiative from Amazon.
Hatchette is now trying to reinstate the price-fixing it just got fined $69 million over via other avenues. And of course all the usual idiots are falling for the "Ooo, Amazon evil!" propaganda because Hatchette is the publisher for a lot of high power media personality who can go on TV and pretend this is all about "the little guy" rather than padding thier own pockets.
The use of speeding tickets for revenue necessarily depends on spotty enforcement. You need lot of people willing to risk a ticket because they think they're unlikely to get caught. The problem with speeding cameras then is that they catch everyone; if they want to increase revenue, they need to make the cameras so they only issue a ticket for every 20th car they catch speeding or something like that.
If you compare most active male to least active female, is the difference because of male v. female or because of most active v. least active? The comparison, as stated, is completely useless for drawing any conclusions.
During one week, the most metabolically active male burned an average of 3,450 calories per day, while the least metabolically active female expended 1,475 calories per day.
And this comparison is useful to point out because.... ?
They still recieved water without doing the test, just not as much. By your logic, if someon offers pizza to help them move, they're forcing me to help them.
Subjects initiated each trial by poking their nose into the center port of a three-port chamber. A narrow-band sound was presented for 100 ms indicating the location of reward.
If they didn't want to participate in the testing, they were free to do so by not sticking their noses in the start port.
You're confusing "Right to Work" with "At will emplyment". This is understandable since most states that are right to work are also at will employment states, but strictly speaking the two are distinct.
...everyone is acting like their side is the good guys and the other side is the bad guys, when it increasingly seems like it's the bad guys vs. the bad guys.
It's like being a Ukranian in 1941 and having to choose between fighting for Germany or Russia.
The rabies virus and the ebola virus aren't even in the same taxonomic family. It's like worrying that humans might start cross breeding with rats because they're both plesiadapiformes.
Yes, but the city generally isn't collecting the trash itself. It's just bidding it out to a contractor anyways (e.g. Seattle contracts with Waste Managent and Cleanscapes), so you get all the contractor overhead anyways, plus the government overhead on top of it.
Which is what makes it so weird. Since you end up paying for it anyways, why not just contract with a commercial trash hauler directly rather than paying a huge administrative overhead for a bunch of municipal employees to do it?
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As with most of the Republican "outrages of the day", this isn't new. In 2012 a Republican PAC called Americans for Limited Growth was doing the same thing:
‘Vote history audit’ shows whether your neighbors voted
As usual, now that Democrats are doing it too, it's the worst thing ever.
So if a cop ever demands you unlock your phone for them, be sure to give them the finger!
Per aspera ad astra ("A rough road leads to the stars")
There certainly is an anti-trust issue here, but it's on the Hatchette side, not the Amazon side:
E-book price fixing settlements rolling out
Hatchette is now trying to reinstate the price-fixing it just got fined $69 million over via other avenues. And of course all the usual idiots are falling for the "Ooo, Amazon evil!" propaganda because Hatchette is the publisher for a lot of high power media personality who can go on TV and pretend this is all about "the little guy" rather than padding thier own pockets.
You mean Ringling Brothers ISN'T actually the greatest show on earth?
...immeditately declared that the temple was obvious built by Russians and demanded Ukraine return it.
The use of speeding tickets for revenue necessarily depends on spotty enforcement. You need lot of people willing to risk a ticket because they think they're unlikely to get caught. The problem with speeding cameras then is that they catch everyone; if they want to increase revenue, they need to make the cameras so they only issue a ticket for every 20th car they catch speeding or something like that.
If you compare most active male to least active female, is the difference because of male v. female or because of most active v. least active? The comparison, as stated, is completely useless for drawing any conclusions.
And this comparison is useful to point out because.... ?
They still recieved water without doing the test, just not as much. By your logic, if someon offers pizza to help them move, they're forcing me to help them.
If you RTFA, they are getting their consent:
If they didn't want to participate in the testing, they were free to do so by not sticking their noses in the start port.
Don't forget that time the gave it to Al Gore for doing a really awesome job on his Powerpoint slides.
You're confusing "Right to Work" with "At will emplyment". This is understandable since most states that are right to work are also at will employment states, but strictly speaking the two are distinct.
De gustibus non est disputandum
Yes, you got the reference. =P
...It's finally come to this.
...everyone is acting like their side is the good guys and the other side is the bad guys, when it increasingly seems like it's the bad guys vs. the bad guys.
It's like being a Ukranian in 1941 and having to choose between fighting for Germany or Russia.
The rabies virus and the ebola virus aren't even in the same taxonomic family. It's like worrying that humans might start cross breeding with rats because they're both plesiadapiformes.
YOU FAIL BIOLOGY FOREVER.
Most carriers don't count wifi usage against the data cap, so this seems a bit paranoid.
Yes, but the city generally isn't collecting the trash itself. It's just bidding it out to a contractor anyways (e.g. Seattle contracts with Waste Managent and Cleanscapes), so you get all the contractor overhead anyways, plus the government overhead on top of it.
...because Android users don't all wear hipster skinny jeans.
Which is what makes it so weird. Since you end up paying for it anyways, why not just contract with a commercial trash hauler directly rather than paying a huge administrative overhead for a bunch of municipal employees to do it?
I always find it kind of weird that people who live in cities expect the government to collect the trash to begin with.
What makes you think I don't consider myself one of the "feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic" already?