Yes, indeed. Will these newspapers now put their publications behind darkened glass paper dispensers, so that no one will just look at the headline and decide no to buy it?
"We want free advertising of our product, but don't want you to make any money doing it for us!" Google should consider charging them for advertising they're giving them.
You mean the body that, by flexing its muscle and getting everyone to agree when all hope was lost, has prevented countless wars and solved dozens of conflicts for 70 years?
I'm sorry, but are you a visitor from a parallel universe where the U.N. actually works?
Well, I'm glad you're not either. To quote from Wikipedia:
MedellÃn v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008) is a United States Supreme Court decision that held that even if an international treaty may constitute an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or unless the treaty itself is "self-executing."
So Texas doesn't have to follow it, unless Congress passed a law requiring them too, which they haven't.
Okay, I'm going to waste 10 stamps, who's with me?
Instead of a KickStarter Campaign I'm calling this a KickAss Campaign. I will make up 10 names, etc, and send them off to PayPal with fake info, making them waste untold time and effort on opening a mountain of paper, sorting through it, checking it for validity against the accounts, etc., costing them a ton of money.
Maybe they'll get the message.
Of course, I'll also send them my real opt-out. So, for $4.50 in stamps, a few envelopes and a few minutes of fun, it will cost them about an hour or so of employee time.
Let's see if we can't cross post this everywhere and multiply it by 10,000!
I have a much better idea, tax gasoline at $5/gallon.
Add a dollar a year until you get to that level, so people have time to adjust. Consumer demand will move to more efficient vehicles.
Wow! SO much is wrong with that!
Let's start with the economic impact on those barely able to afford to drive now: I use 1 gallon of gas each way on my commute, so, assuming 50 weeks a year (2 off for vacation) I use 500 gallons yearly to go to work. You've just cost me $500 more, wich I can't use to buy a more efficient vehicle, in the first year.
By the 5th year, you've cost me $7,500 in extra commuting costs. I paid $2500 for my current vehicle, and would have replaced it long ago, if I could afford to.
The problem is, the used vehicle market is screwed up because of the "Cash for Clunkers" deal that wasn't cash for clunkers - my vehicle was worse in economy and emmissions than most turned in - it was "Let's destroy all those good used cars and waste taxpayers $$ to get them to buy new ones, totally destryoing those used cars and the used car market at the same time" program. Obviously, that was too wordy and accurate, so they used Govt. Speak to call it "Cash for clunkers".
Now you want to further skew the market by introducing another bad idea that will significantly raise the price of used vehicles getting decent mileage. How do you ever expect me to save enough to buy that car, since you have raped my salary by your tax scheme, and significantly raised the cost of the decent used cars?
"If you want to play such games, what happens when they name him as a diplomat, what does the Vienna convention say about safe passage when expelling?"
To be a diplomat to another country you must present your credentials and be accepted by that country. They can name him King of Ecuador if they want, but he has no such status there unless recognized as such by the UK.
Wouldn't it be easier to just send them all an e-mail: "Hello, I am Mrs. Kadafi, wife of the late ruler of Lybia. My husband left me with 300 millions USD in a Swiss account..."
I just went back into my parents box of save school papers from long ago, I was drawing rectangles with rounded corners when I was still wearing short-pant.
I wonder how many billion I can sue Apple for for stealing my design.
This whole "it looks too much like mine" crap has got to stop. If you make it with sharp corners, you get sued when it pokes out someone's eye. If you make it round corners, you get sued because it looks too much like Apple's.
And how can they assume that Samsung's profits are their losses? Maybe people were just too smart to get locked into a closed system.
Not really. Your $700K home, even if you get it for a cheap 4% interest rate, will cost you $3341.91 per month in mortgage. At the end of 30 years, you've paid an additional 1/2 million in interest, hundreds of thousands in taxes and maintenance, and then it you don't buy a home of equal or higher value Uncle Sam will tax you on the capital gains!
Homes are not good investments unless you can pay cash or rent them at a profit.
Uh, no. They don't "receive govt. support or handouts of tax money". They are a private organization with private funding. As such, they are (at least for a whiel, in the US) allowed to set their own standards, as is any other private organization.
Or perhaps you would like it if the Pope sued to be let into your Atheists Club?
The Internet requires a financial burden to be placed on several other parties in order to work... even when they have no direct interest in the data being transferred.
Oh please! These guys are all charging the end user to hook up to the internet and making money off of it. If they weren't, they wouldn't do it, as nobody works for free!
Round up all the climate deniers, flat earthers, and other fuckwits and put them to the sword.
You first! Really, my solution is that all that believe in this crap should kill or sterilize themselves so as not to add to the problem.
Ever notice how everyone claiming this is happening is living the good life but not giving up what they have to solve the problem? Can you hear me, billionaire Al Gore?
While we do have a higher firearms homicide rate than Canada, we are actually 18th in the world, not first as is generally perceived (not that you said that, it's just a general perception.)
Still, the article is about a strangulation death, so firearms don't play into this at all, do they?
No. Our constitution doesn't allow you to be arrested for thinking about committing a crime, only for committing one.
How about we go back to swift and sure punishment that's so severe that most sane people wont do the crime? Instead, we have too many in jail for minor offenses, while the well connected can steal billions or kill people and not even get indited or get off on technicalities.
Let's fix the criminal justice system we have, not create one in which we make up more crimes that haven't happened.
And what about the time I spend prepping for work, traveling to and fro, and winding down afterward?
I have to keep my body in a certain physical condition, continuously learn new skills, and maintain mental alertness for my job, so why is that any different?
Of course, I don't get paid for my looks, I get paid for my work. If, however, I thought it too demeaning to take money from my employer to feed my family, I could quit and go dig ditches. As can they.
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Well, I guess if you have a hybrid SUV, you better think twice before you use it to back your boat into the lake!
Not necessarily. Many cars are flooded and restored.
Yes, indeed. Will these newspapers now put their publications behind darkened glass paper dispensers, so that no one will just look at the headline and decide no to buy it?
"We want free advertising of our product, but don't want you to make any money doing it for us!" Google should consider charging them for advertising they're giving them.
You mean the body that, by flexing its muscle and getting everyone to agree when all hope was lost, has prevented countless wars and solved dozens of conflicts for 70 years?
I'm sorry, but are you a visitor from a parallel universe where the U.N. actually works?
Let's not forget, that the UN doesn't have enough money now, so they'll naturally have to put a tax on the internet to be able to afford to govern it.
Then, with the establishment of that precedent, they'll start asking for other taxes from us, too.
Well, I'm glad you're not either. To quote from Wikipedia:
MedellÃn v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008) is a United States Supreme Court decision that held that even if an international treaty may constitute an international commitment, it is not binding domestic law unless Congress has enacted statutes implementing it or unless the treaty itself is "self-executing."
So Texas doesn't have to follow it, unless Congress passed a law requiring them too, which they haven't.
That's what pumped-storage hydroelectricity and molten salt are for. And they do it *far* more efficiently.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure my 1996 Olds doesn't have an option for using that as a fuel.
Okay, I'm going to waste 10 stamps, who's with me?
Instead of a KickStarter Campaign I'm calling this a KickAss Campaign. I will make up 10 names, etc, and send them off to PayPal with fake info, making them waste untold time and effort on opening a mountain of paper, sorting through it, checking it for validity against the accounts, etc., costing them a ton of money.
Maybe they'll get the message.
Of course, I'll also send them my real opt-out. So, for $4.50 in stamps, a few envelopes and a few minutes of fun, it will cost them about an hour or so of employee time.
Let's see if we can't cross post this everywhere and multiply it by 10,000!
Which - the broadband access or the wild monkey sex with the 18 yo hottie next door?
I have a much better idea, tax gasoline at $5/gallon. Add a dollar a year until you get to that level, so people have time to adjust. Consumer demand will move to more efficient vehicles.
Wow! SO much is wrong with that!
Let's start with the economic impact on those barely able to afford to drive now: I use 1 gallon of gas each way on my commute, so, assuming 50 weeks a year (2 off for vacation) I use 500 gallons yearly to go to work. You've just cost me $500 more, wich I can't use to buy a more efficient vehicle, in the first year.
By the 5th year, you've cost me $7,500 in extra commuting costs. I paid $2500 for my current vehicle, and would have replaced it long ago, if I could afford to.
The problem is, the used vehicle market is screwed up because of the "Cash for Clunkers" deal that wasn't cash for clunkers - my vehicle was worse in economy and emmissions than most turned in - it was "Let's destroy all those good used cars and waste taxpayers $$ to get them to buy new ones, totally destryoing those used cars and the used car market at the same time" program. Obviously, that was too wordy and accurate, so they used Govt. Speak to call it "Cash for clunkers".
Now you want to further skew the market by introducing another bad idea that will significantly raise the price of used vehicles getting decent mileage. How do you ever expect me to save enough to buy that car, since you have raped my salary by your tax scheme, and significantly raised the cost of the decent used cars?
Okay, we'll stop having kids, when you stop expecting them to fund your old-age pensions and health care!
"If you want to play such games, what happens when they name him as a diplomat, what does the Vienna convention say about safe passage when expelling?"
To be a diplomat to another country you must present your credentials and be accepted by that country. They can name him King of Ecuador if they want, but he has no such status there unless recognized as such by the UK.
Wouldn't it be easier to just send them all an e-mail: "Hello, I am Mrs. Kadafi, wife of the late ruler of Lybia. My husband left me with 300 millions USD in a Swiss account..."
I just went back into my parents box of save school papers from long ago, I was drawing rectangles with rounded corners when I was still wearing short-pant.
I wonder how many billion I can sue Apple for for stealing my design.
This whole "it looks too much like mine" crap has got to stop. If you make it with sharp corners, you get sued when it pokes out someone's eye. If you make it round corners, you get sued because it looks too much like Apple's.
And how can they assume that Samsung's profits are their losses? Maybe people were just too smart to get locked into a closed system.
Not really. Your $700K home, even if you get it for a cheap 4% interest rate, will cost you $3341.91 per month in mortgage. At the end of 30 years, you've paid an additional 1/2 million in interest, hundreds of thousands in taxes and maintenance, and then it you don't buy a home of equal or higher value Uncle Sam will tax you on the capital gains!
Homes are not good investments unless you can pay cash or rent them at a profit.
Even better, it should just open a browser to a porn site.
Imagine how well their research will go when all their top scientists are beheaded for being perverts under Islamic Law!
Yes, what a crazy nation we live in, where you get in trouble for bringing horrifically lethal weapons to school.
I agree. No more cars in schools! After all, even in America, cars kill more people every year than guns do.
Uh, no. They don't "receive govt. support or handouts of tax money". They are a private organization with private funding. As such, they are (at least for a whiel, in the US) allowed to set their own standards, as is any other private organization.
Or perhaps you would like it if the Pope sued to be let into your Atheists Club?
Well, being part of the Militia in my state, it's no problem, even by your definition, that I have them.
The Internet requires a financial burden to be placed on several other parties in order to work... even when they have no direct interest in the data being transferred.
Oh please! These guys are all charging the end user to hook up to the internet and making money off of it. If they weren't, they wouldn't do it, as nobody works for free!
Round up all the climate deniers, flat earthers, and other fuckwits and put them to the sword.
You first! Really, my solution is that all that believe in this crap should kill or sterilize themselves so as not to add to the problem.
Ever notice how everyone claiming this is happening is living the good life but not giving up what they have to solve the problem? Can you hear me, billionaire Al Gore?
Uh, no.
The US had 9.2 times the population of Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population/ and 2.88 times the number of weapons per capita. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country/.
While we do have a higher firearms homicide rate than Canada, we are actually 18th in the world, not first as is generally perceived (not that you said that, it's just a general perception.)
Still, the article is about a strangulation death, so firearms don't play into this at all, do they?
This is the group of "smart" people with too much time on their hands.
The smart, employed, people are too busy with their lives to play on-line games.
No. Our constitution doesn't allow you to be arrested for thinking about committing a crime, only for committing one.
How about we go back to swift and sure punishment that's so severe that most sane people wont do the crime? Instead, we have too many in jail for minor offenses, while the well connected can steal billions or kill people and not even get indited or get off on technicalities.
Let's fix the criminal justice system we have, not create one in which we make up more crimes that haven't happened.
And what about the time I spend prepping for work, traveling to and fro, and winding down afterward?
I have to keep my body in a certain physical condition, continuously learn new skills, and maintain mental alertness for my job, so why is that any different?
Of course, I don't get paid for my looks, I get paid for my work. If, however, I thought it too demeaning to take money from my employer to feed my family, I could quit and go dig ditches. As can they.