Finally, I have no idea where you got the idea that compulsory home-visits for anything are "inevitable" but I can tell you this: barring a dramatic shift in the way the fourth amendment is interpreted, that isn't going to happen. As it is now, you need not answer anyone at your door sans a warrant.
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You haven't dealt with child protective services, have you?
I've had a go at them four times this week alone for trying to sell me Amazon Prime (only benefit is free shipping to USA),
Even if you do live in the USA, Prime is not a good deal. It is a psychological incentive to short-cut the math of comparison shopping and just buy from Amazon but much worse it is something Amazon can take away from you if they don't like you.
For example, a few years back, a whole bunch of people got in a billing dispute with Amazon, to make a long story short, Amazon shipped out a bunch of mispriced items and a week or two later they started demanding them back or full payment of the difference. Most of the people just blew it off, but then Amazon did two things - started charging their CC#'s on file (a major contractual violation of their merchant contract) and when that didn't work, they started "boycotting" some of those customers - people who had paid for Prime but now couldn't get any use out of it. Essentially taking their $50 Prime charges and keeping it.
Oh, so the public said, "In return for you making us something we really enjoy, we will, in return, for a finite amount of time, not simply take it from you. After that time though, your work belongs to us". How magnanimous.
That is exactly how copyright laws are written today. Do you have a problem with current copyright law?
Stem cells need not be gotten from aborted babies but from adult cells like wisdom teeth, brilliant!
FYI, the only fetal stem cells that have ever been considered for R&D or treatment purposes have been those of embryos created for in-vitro fertilization purposes that would have otherwise been destroyed anyway because the host mother got pregnant with one of the other embryos.
It seems to me that most of those opposed to fetal stem cell research would be thrown for a loop if they realized that the very same potential babies are being sacrificed in order to create one baby for a barren couple. Why is it 'OK' to aborted those babies just because they were second in line for implantation?
Read the link you provide. "Thor Shield is only sold to Military and Law Enforcement Agencies". Typical police-state stuff.
I'm quite aware of that. My reason for linking it was to point out that it exists and that the idea is pretty simple - clothing liner made with a conductive polyester.
I agree, he completely ignored the scale demonstrated in the examples from the OP and then went crazy with the strawmen. No way that should be rewarded with a 5.
No, that's a lot. You're seeing the cup as half empty
You can tell they cherry-picked the "top 140" number, seems obvious that #140 was an Open Office user, else they would have picked a more round number like top 150 or top 200. But even if we stick with the "top 140" - that's still 91.5% empty, not just half-empty.
Evidently they were concerned that she would hijack the aircraft with one of the many 1/4" tall solid plastic charms shaped like revolvers that were hanging from the necklace.
Each year, more people are killed by vending machines then are killed by shark attacks. So clearly the solution is to remove all vending machines from areas with people.
The complainers should be punished, and this is where the airline got it wrong: the Muslim Nine should have been let back on and the complainers gotten kicked off the plane and should have lost their fares.
Last year, congress passed a law giving legal protection to any dumbshit making such accusations. It was called the "John Doe Amendment" and while the democrats initially opposed it for all the obvious reasons, they eventually caved to the righteous right and the language was included in the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9-11 Commission Act of 2007" which Bush signed on August 3rd, 2007.
Actually, it is sexual. Ask any woman who has breast-fed - it feels good, they get turned on (at least until the kids grow some teeth). It's nature's way of encouraging women to breast-feed, nature just co-opted the same nerves end response as sexual stimulation. It does give some up-tight women a case of cognitive dissonance though.
I'm pretty sure I've heard that urine is mostly sterile - no more unhygienic than breast milk.
Sterile yes, hygenic no. It comes out sterile but it is chock-full of nutrients that all kinds of bad microorganisms need to grow rapidly. So leaving it lying around isn't the best thing. Breastmilk on the other hand is not such a great breeding ground for germs and it is immediately consumed. So, unless you limit public urination to pissing in someone's mouth, it really isn't anywhere near as hygenic as breast-feeding is.
Problem is, that puts you on the same side as those who are trying to except Israel by force.
Are you in favor of senseless and random pollution of the environemnt? No? Well, the problem then is that puts you on the same side as as the terrorists in the Earth Liberation Front. Why do you support terrorism?
...Except for the hand that feeds them. I'd rather have my news media unafraid to challenge the government, thanks.
The BBC's set up is designed to minimize that effect, for the most part, the goverment simply acts as the means of collecting the television tax and passing it on to the BBC with no control over the purse strings. I don't remember the specifics, but I think the government's control was limited to appointing a governing board with members serving 4 year terms without the possibility of recall. So, not perfect, but a lot better of a firewall than most publications have with their corporate masters.
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Finally, I have no idea where you got the idea that compulsory home-visits for anything are "inevitable" but I can tell you this: barring a dramatic shift in the way the fourth amendment is interpreted, that isn't going to happen. As it is now, you need not answer anyone at your door sans a warrant.
.
You haven't dealt with child protective services, have you?
I've had a go at them four times this week alone for trying to sell me Amazon Prime (only benefit is free shipping to USA),
Even if you do live in the USA, Prime is not a good deal. It is a psychological incentive to short-cut the math of comparison shopping and just buy from Amazon but much worse it is something Amazon can take away from you if they don't like you.
For example, a few years back, a whole bunch of people got in a billing dispute with Amazon, to make a long story short, Amazon shipped out a bunch of mispriced items and a week or two later they started demanding them back or full payment of the difference. Most of the people just blew it off, but then Amazon did two things - started charging their CC#'s on file (a major contractual violation of their merchant contract) and when that didn't work, they started "boycotting" some of those customers - people who had paid for Prime but now couldn't get any use out of it. Essentially taking their $50 Prime charges and keeping it.
Oh, so the public said, "In return for you making us something we really enjoy, we will, in return, for a finite amount of time, not simply take it from you. After that time though, your work belongs to us". How magnanimous.
That is exactly how copyright laws are written today. Do you have a problem with current copyright law?
In the real world, everything has different prices depending on demand.
In the real world, products are both rivalrous and excludable. Downloaded music is neither.
Stem cells need not be gotten from aborted babies but from adult cells like wisdom teeth, brilliant!
FYI, the only fetal stem cells that have ever been considered for R&D or treatment purposes have been those of embryos created for in-vitro fertilization purposes that would have otherwise been destroyed anyway because the host mother got pregnant with one of the other embryos.
It seems to me that most of those opposed to fetal stem cell research would be thrown for a loop if they realized that the very same potential babies are being sacrificed in order to create one baby for a barren couple. Why is it 'OK' to aborted those babies just because they were second in line for implantation?
Read the link you provide. "Thor Shield is only sold to Military and Law Enforcement Agencies". Typical police-state stuff.
I'm quite aware of that. My reason for linking it was to point out that it exists and that the idea is pretty simple - clothing liner made with a conductive polyester.
I shouldn't have to get tased to stand up for my rights. Since cops are so taser happy these days I'd rather take the sneaky approach.
Well, try some Thor Shield then.
I agree, he completely ignored the scale demonstrated in the examples from the OP and then went crazy with the strawmen.
No way that should be rewarded with a 5.
True or not, that's completely irrelevant to the question of whether the guy on the plane next to you poses an immediate danger.
No, that's a lot. You're seeing the cup as half empty
You can tell they cherry-picked the "top 140" number, seems obvious that #140 was an Open Office user, else they would have picked a more round number like top 150 or top 200. But even if we stick with the "top 140" - that's still 91.5% empty, not just half-empty.
Doesn't matter - because that implies that it's okay to profile one group of people, but not another.
You don't understand the OP's point - the point was, if you are going to use numbers as an excuse, at least get your numbers right.
Evidently they were concerned that she would hijack the aircraft with one of the many 1/4" tall solid plastic charms shaped like revolvers that were hanging from the necklace.
You think that's bad?
This guy was prevented from boarding because there was a picture of a gun on his t-shirt.
I shit you not.
Each year, more people are killed by vending machines then are killed by shark attacks.
So clearly the solution is to remove all vending machines from areas with people.
The complainers should be punished, and this is where the airline got it wrong: the Muslim Nine should have been let back on and the complainers gotten kicked off the plane and should have lost their fares.
Last year, congress passed a law giving legal protection to any dumbshit making such accusations. It was called the "John Doe Amendment" and while the democrats initially opposed it for all the obvious reasons, they eventually caved to the righteous right and the language was included in the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9-11 Commission Act of 2007" which Bush signed on August 3rd, 2007.
Do you really believe that the ratio of muslim-terrorists to muslims is higher than the ratio of white-muggers to whites?
It's a totally nonsexual thing.
Actually, it is sexual. Ask any woman who has breast-fed - it feels good, they get turned on (at least until the kids grow some teeth). It's nature's way of encouraging women to breast-feed, nature just co-opted the same nerves end response as sexual stimulation. It does give some up-tight women a case of cognitive dissonance though.
I'm pretty sure I've heard that urine is mostly sterile - no more unhygienic than breast milk.
Sterile yes, hygenic no.
It comes out sterile but it is chock-full of nutrients that all kinds of bad microorganisms need to grow rapidly. So leaving it lying around isn't the best thing. Breastmilk on the other hand is not such a great breeding ground for germs and it is immediately consumed. So, unless you limit public urination to pissing in someone's mouth, it really isn't anywhere near as hygenic as breast-feeding is.
Think you meant you'd have to kill 10,000 people. The downside is you won't go down in history as a great conqueror for it.
If you switch to a diet of long pig then you'll be more efficient and won't have to kill as many people.
Problem is, that puts you on the same side as those who are trying to except Israel by force.
Are you in favor of senseless and random pollution of the environemnt?
No?
Well, the problem then is that puts you on the same side as as the terrorists in the Earth Liberation Front.
Why do you support terrorism?
IANAL (sounds like a new apple product, no?)
Click it and look, I promise it isn't goatsecx
Right, the free market system doesn't work for shit. Got it.
Right, because people who are looking for a cheaper option are not smart enough to figure out if the choices available to them really are cheaper.
Nice to know, but irrelevant to the topic of "do people use alternate means to communicate when cheaper options are available?"
...Except for the hand that feeds them. I'd rather have my news media unafraid to challenge the government, thanks.
The BBC's set up is designed to minimize that effect, for the most part, the goverment simply acts as the means of collecting the television tax and passing it on to the BBC with no control over the purse strings. I don't remember the specifics, but I think the government's control was limited to appointing a governing board with members serving 4 year terms without the possibility of recall. So, not perfect, but a lot better of a firewall than most publications have with their corporate masters.
which, depending on carrier/application, may still use sms to transport the messages...
It's quite possible, but their carriers don't charge them same as regular sms, which is why they go to the effort.