stupid alarmist articles like this are counter-productive at getting people to take climate change seriously.
Personally, I think they're doing a public service.
But that's just because I know Al Gore bought seaside real estate. (Or so I've been told.)
Of course, it could just mean he he feels Good Will Prevail. Or that he's not sure, but he wants to have an even greater personal take in the GWP outcome.
A pretty good way to work the overly-excitable into a real froth of their hot-button issue of the moment is to ask them what they would consider a "success" to be.
What should be measured, and how we expect the measures change over time as the institution became more successful?
Then watch the frothing begin. Emotionally-charged nouns and verbs and adjectives with little or no objective meaning. Topic changes. Evasions. Personal insults.
I've never actually killed any by remote apoplexy (that I know of), but that's not the goal.
The goal is to get them to discredit their positions by getting them to behave badly while failing to answer simple, reasonable questions.
Well, that's Plan B.
Plan A is to get them to think about their positions. If not in the discussion (unlikely to happen), later.
Hey! It can happen. Not with complete strangers. Yet. But one was pretty close; we met, once, on a float trip.
There's a limit to how sucky a company in the private sector can be. Eventually, no amount of marketing and unthinking brand loyalty (what a delightfully awful term, "brand loyalty") can keep the company going. Hiring people for their connections rather than their abilities hastens the decline. (If it doesn't, they weren't really the wrong people, now were they?)
But Amtrak and the Post Office and unaccredited school districts just keep chugging alone, funded by taxpayers.
The limit there is how much the taxpayers are willing to tolerate. And apparently, that limit is nowhere near being reached.
Didn't he used to claim he had read the book, despite so much evidence to the contrary?
The mobile infantry suits had to go, for cinematic reasons, I suppose. Can't have soldiers in powered armored exoskeletons in a movie and make it work, right? (I didn't see "Pacific Rim", just trailers, so maybe you can. Did they?)
Juan "Johnny" Rico was Filipino, for instance. It's not stated baldly in the book, but the evidence is there. Not the only time RAH snuck a non-white protagonist into a book, BTW.
The first half of "Puppet Masters" was pretty good.
So, if someone violates this law in Washington state and sells an electronic product without a replaceable battery, what sort of punishment is appropriate? Hanging? Imprisonment for 5 years? For 25 years? Life, no possibility of parole?
Or to put it in different terms: is it about as serious as parking without feeding the meter? Bank robbery? Mugging? Drunk and disorderly? One count of first degree murder? Bribing a legislator to introduce well-intentioned but stupid-ass legislation?
These are not rhetorical questions. I really want an answer from those who advocate this law. How serious an offense do you think this is?
And a question for those who oppose it: if you were on a jury in such a case where the defendant was clearly guilty, would you vote to convict or acquit?
"Propaganda"? -- or as we like to call it, "advertising".
Oh, the horror. Weak-minded voters being swayed by those who would try to... sway them.
Instead of being swayed by other people who would sway them a different direction.
If an election can be changed by sneaky people, we might as well admit this whole "democracy" concept is a bad job, and go back to having a king, or something.
Despite the politicians' and bureaucrats' best efforts, Missourians will not be blessed with the costs of providing government services to Amazon while getting little or no tax money from Amazon to cover them.
Sometimes, ineffectual pols and red tapers are just what we need.
From all of us in the vicinities of St. Louis and Kansas City, thank you, thank you, thank you.
That irrational stance is why we're in this m[e]ss. You believe all the BS about Hillary and everything that Trump says.
Speaking of irrational: there was nothing in that post about Trump, and the general tone about him struck me as rather negative. Hardly reason to say that AC believes everything that Trump says.
As for Hillary's baggage, to deny that she has serious issues is simply astonishing. We're definitely in PKB territory.
Automate elections better. Right now, voters face a limited number of pre-selected candidates from a limited number of pre-selected political parties. Allow a broader range of candidate: all who meet the constitutional qualifications. All. Let the voter choose.
There was a time when government didn't decide which political parties were "real" and which ones weren't. The electorate did. There was a time when government didn't decide which candidates were "real" and which ones weren't. The voters did.
I was hoping for something we could put on a cheek that would thwart facial recognition software. Or at least make me look like somebody better looking. (No, I wasn't looking for a full-face mask.)
What I read on the subject said that he exercised his stock options, then sold all but 250,000 shares. He is required to own at least that many, by a certain date. IIRC correctly, March of this year or next year.
Do you think this should be applied to everything that has demand?
Nope. Just voluntary acts between consenting adults. Getting murdered is not something most people would pay to have done to themselves. Likewise, getting robbed.
The person who posted that obviously thought people would figure that out -- or forgot to include it for the benefit of those who would not.
The patient is not the customer. The insurance company is. That's why things in the health care arena suck, in the various ways.
There's a similar situation for other kinds of patients. The kind that go to veterinarians.
There's a category of medical services that hasn't gone up in price so dramatically: the ones that aren't covered by insurance. Those have generally gone down, or at worst, kept pace with inflation. Laser eye surgery. Cosmetic procedures.
Mormons now, no. Except some offshoots not recognized by the LDS church. A cynical person not of their faith might conclude the change in their theology was politically motivated, rather than divinely inspired.
Apparently Vikings were polygamous, too. Not just a "Muslim thing" or an "Arab thing" or a "brown people thing".
And they were not especially nice, either, it seems. Having a lot of young men without women tends to be unconducive to niceness, no matter where it happens, or to whom.
Rewrite of news release. Might be heavily edited -- possibly even fact-checked! -- or slightly paraphrased or truncated, or published verbatim. That's why news release rookies are advised to write in a "journalistic" style -- to make it as easy as possible for a journalist to publish something about your news release's topic -- and ideally, what you want them to publish.
Precognition. A news story about an event scheduled to happen later in the day. Often includes phrases like "it is expected". Nobody in particular ever seems to be doing the expecting, though occasionally they are vaguely described as "experts" or "insiders" or "the X community". (I once heard the passive voice used twice in the same sentence, one use nested inside the other.) Few or no facts in the story beyond the scheduled time and/or place of the event, yet they somehow manage to make a paragraph or two out of it.
Media event (establishment). The scheduled event occurs -- with photo ops, video news releases, text news release, prepared statements -- and is reported as though it was something. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's just the Fed or whatever announcing that it is doing what it said it would do.
Media event (outsider). Planned protest or demonstration or disruption by new or ad hoc group. So: Ferguson residents protesting in Ferguson, yes, Al Sharpton before the cameras in Ferguson, no. (See "Media event (establishment)".)
Investigative journalism. Continues to be an endangered species, because it is labor-intensive and its natural enemies are often in a symbiotic relationship with the journalist's employer. Conception is rare, and it tends to die in the womb or be throttled after birth, or crippled before leaving the nest.
Ads as news. Someone has a new book or (more likely) movie or TV show, and coincidentally has an interesting event or talent peripherally related to that project.
Science as boogeyman/savior/party-pooper. Some research in the physical or social sciences leads to counter-intuitive or controversial conclusions, possibly tentative ones. The research suggests possible products or public policy initiatives. Even if the researchers and commenting experts aren't trying to panic or enrage or gull the general public or some dimwitted or excitable segment of it, by the time the sausage factory turns it into a story, it very possibly have that effect.
Breaking news (expected unexpected event). A specific instance of a typical unscheduled event occurs: inner-city shooting, election went "the wrong way", etc. Reporters interview official sources at or near the site of the accident/election/crime/fire/championship. May also seek out local or national experts (or "experts") for information or bloviating, so the reporter doesn't have to.
Breaking news (unexpected unexpected event). An event that has no story template: politician resumes doing incredibly stupid thing that got him in so much trouble before, person of integrity appears in unlikely place/profession. My personal favorite in this category: the election of Jesse Ventura as Governor of Minnesota. The reporters went all deer-in-the-headlights, as their mental scripts had no contingency plans for a non-duopoly candidate doing the unthinkable: winning. Those pesky voters went off-script. (Insert own cynical "professional wrestling" remark here.) (Maybe there is a template now for that politician-with-self-destructive-compulsion, due to the careers of Marion Berry and Anthony Wiener.)
Regulatory capture is a bi-partisan phenomenon. It would even be non-partisan, if the deck were not stacked in favor of two (those two) parties. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=regul...
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stupid alarmist articles like this are counter-productive at getting people to take climate change seriously.
Personally, I think they're doing a public service.
But that's just because I know Al Gore bought seaside real estate. (Or so I've been told.)
Of course, it could just mean he he feels Good Will Prevail. Or that he's not sure, but he wants to have an even greater personal take in the GWP outcome.
A pretty good way to work the overly-excitable into a real froth of their hot-button issue of the moment is to ask them what they would consider a "success" to be.
What should be measured, and how we expect the measures change over time as the institution became more successful?
Then watch the frothing begin. Emotionally-charged nouns and verbs and adjectives with little or no objective meaning. Topic changes. Evasions. Personal insults.
I've never actually killed any by remote apoplexy (that I know of), but that's not the goal.
The goal is to get them to discredit their positions by getting them to behave badly while failing to answer simple, reasonable questions.
Well, that's Plan B.
Plan A is to get them to think about their positions. If not in the discussion (unlikely to happen), later.
Hey! It can happen. Not with complete strangers. Yet. But one was pretty close; we met, once, on a float trip.
There's a limit to how sucky a company in the private sector can be. Eventually, no amount of marketing and unthinking brand loyalty (what a delightfully awful term, "brand loyalty") can keep the company going. Hiring people for their connections rather than their abilities hastens the decline. (If it doesn't, they weren't really the wrong people, now were they?)
But Amtrak and the Post Office and unaccredited school districts just keep chugging alone, funded by taxpayers.
The limit there is how much the taxpayers are willing to tolerate. And apparently, that limit is nowhere near being reached.
Maybe it was the screenwriter who claimed to have read the book, and I'm misremembering it.
Whatever. I hear some of the other works (including an unauthorized Japanese knockoff?) actually were pretty close to the book.
Didn't he used to claim he had read the book, despite so much evidence to the contrary?
The mobile infantry suits had to go, for cinematic reasons, I suppose. Can't have soldiers in powered armored exoskeletons in a movie and make it work, right? (I didn't see "Pacific Rim", just trailers, so maybe you can. Did they?)
Juan "Johnny" Rico was Filipino, for instance. It's not stated baldly in the book, but the evidence is there. Not the only time RAH snuck a non-white protagonist into a book, BTW.
The first half of "Puppet Masters" was pretty good.
So, if someone violates this law in Washington state and sells an electronic product without a replaceable battery, what sort of punishment is appropriate? Hanging? Imprisonment for 5 years? For 25 years? Life, no possibility of parole?
Or to put it in different terms: is it about as serious as parking without feeding the meter? Bank robbery? Mugging? Drunk and disorderly? One count of first degree murder? Bribing a legislator to introduce well-intentioned but stupid-ass legislation?
These are not rhetorical questions. I really want an answer from those who advocate this law. How serious an offense do you think this is?
And a question for those who oppose it: if you were on a jury in such a case where the defendant was clearly guilty, would you vote to convict or acquit?
As long as honesty was one of their core values, they had to remove "Honesty", because they're so often dishonest.
Now that "Honesty" has been removed, they can add it back in.
Wait a sec!
They said "continues" not "completes".
"Propaganda"? -- or as we like to call it, "advertising".
Oh, the horror. Weak-minded voters being swayed by those who would try to ... sway them.
Instead of being swayed by other people who would sway them a different direction.
If an election can be changed by sneaky people, we might as well admit this whole "democracy" concept is a bad job, and go back to having a king, or something.
I'm available, folks.
Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream.
You say that like it's a bad thing to split up the electoral votes of a large state.
Is it?
If so, why?
Despite the politicians' and bureaucrats' best efforts, Missourians will not be blessed with the costs of providing government services to Amazon while getting little or no tax money from Amazon to cover them.
Sometimes, ineffectual pols and red tapers are just what we need.
From all of us in the vicinities of St. Louis and Kansas City, thank you, thank you, thank you.
That irrational stance is why we're in this m[e]ss. You believe all the BS about Hillary and everything that Trump says.
Speaking of irrational: there was nothing in that post about Trump, and the general tone about him struck me as rather negative. Hardly reason to say that AC believes everything that Trump says.
As for Hillary's baggage, to deny that she has serious issues is simply astonishing. We're definitely in PKB territory.
Automate elections better. Right now, voters face a limited number of pre-selected candidates from a limited number of pre-selected political parties. Allow a broader range of candidate: all who meet the constitutional qualifications. All. Let the voter choose.
There was a time when government didn't decide which political parties were "real" and which ones weren't. The electorate did. There was a time when government didn't decide which candidates were "real" and which ones weren't. The voters did.
And voter turnout was a lot higher.
And the usual plug for _Why America Stopped Voting_, by Mark L. Kornbluh. http://www.worldcat.org/search...
I was hoping for something we could put on a cheek that would thwart facial recognition software. Or at least make me look like somebody better looking. (No, I wasn't looking for a full-face mask.)
Next up: The FBI takes on the problem of letters inside opaque envelopes.
"Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook"
Why not include far-left "dog whistle" symbols, too?
Or do you just need to look for things like "This is CNN" or "Copyright 2018 New York Times" and such?
(The preceding paragraph was hyperbole for effect, and possibly humor.)
Where did you read that?
What I read on the subject said that he exercised his stock options, then sold all but 250,000 shares. He is required to own at least that many, by a certain date. IIRC correctly, March of this year or next year.
Or was that "all" hyperbole, for effect?
Previous price: infinity. Not available at any price.
The trend will continue, no doubt. Though that first price decrease will be tough to beat.
Well, drain it of their most capable.
Close enough.
Do you think this should be applied to everything that has demand?
Nope. Just voluntary acts between consenting adults. Getting murdered is not something most people would pay to have done to themselves. Likewise, getting robbed.
The person who posted that obviously thought people would figure that out -- or forgot to include it for the benefit of those who would not.
The patient is not the customer. The insurance company is. That's why things in the health care arena suck, in the various ways.
There's a similar situation for other kinds of patients. The kind that go to veterinarians.
There's a category of medical services that hasn't gone up in price so dramatically: the ones that aren't covered by insurance. Those have generally gone down, or at worst, kept pace with inflation. Laser eye surgery. Cosmetic procedures.
Coincidence? Hell now.
Mormons now, no. Except some offshoots not recognized by the LDS church. A cynical person not of their faith might conclude the change in their theology was politically motivated, rather than divinely inspired.
Apparently Vikings were polygamous, too. Not just a "Muslim thing" or an "Arab thing" or a "brown people thing".
And they were not especially nice, either, it seems. Having a lot of young men without women tends to be unconducive to niceness, no matter where it happens, or to whom.
Go figure.
Rewrite of news release. Might be heavily edited -- possibly even fact-checked! -- or slightly paraphrased or truncated, or published verbatim. That's why news release rookies are advised to write in a "journalistic" style -- to make it as easy as possible for a journalist to publish something about your news release's topic -- and ideally, what you want them to publish.
Precognition. A news story about an event scheduled to happen later in the day. Often includes phrases like "it is expected". Nobody in particular ever seems to be doing the expecting, though occasionally they are vaguely described as "experts" or "insiders" or "the X community". (I once heard the passive voice used twice in the same sentence, one use nested inside the other.) Few or no facts in the story beyond the scheduled time and/or place of the event, yet they somehow manage to make a paragraph or two out of it.
Media event (establishment). The scheduled event occurs -- with photo ops, video news releases, text news release, prepared statements -- and is reported as though it was something. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's just the Fed or whatever announcing that it is doing what it said it would do.
Media event (outsider). Planned protest or demonstration or disruption by new or ad hoc group. So: Ferguson residents protesting in Ferguson, yes, Al Sharpton before the cameras in Ferguson, no. (See "Media event (establishment)".)
Investigative journalism. Continues to be an endangered species, because it is labor-intensive and its natural enemies are often in a symbiotic relationship with the journalist's employer. Conception is rare, and it tends to die in the womb or be throttled after birth, or crippled before leaving the nest.
Ads as news. Someone has a new book or (more likely) movie or TV show, and coincidentally has an interesting event or talent peripherally related to that project.
Science as boogeyman/savior/party-pooper. Some research in the physical or social sciences leads to counter-intuitive or controversial conclusions, possibly tentative ones. The research suggests possible products or public policy initiatives. Even if the researchers and commenting experts aren't trying to panic or enrage or gull the general public or some dimwitted or excitable segment of it, by the time the sausage factory turns it into a story, it very possibly have that effect.
Breaking news (expected unexpected event). A specific instance of a typical unscheduled event occurs: inner-city shooting, election went "the wrong way", etc. Reporters interview official sources at or near the site of the accident/election/crime/fire/championship. May also seek out local or national experts (or "experts") for information or bloviating, so the reporter doesn't have to.
Breaking news (unexpected unexpected event). An event that has no story template: politician resumes doing incredibly stupid thing that got him in so much trouble before, person of integrity appears in unlikely place/profession. My personal favorite in this category: the election of Jesse Ventura as Governor of Minnesota. The reporters went all deer-in-the-headlights, as their mental scripts had no contingency plans for a non-duopoly candidate doing the unthinkable: winning. Those pesky voters went off-script. (Insert own cynical "professional wrestling" remark here.) (Maybe there is a template now for that politician-with-self-destructive-compulsion, due to the careers of Marion Berry and Anthony Wiener.)
I see a potential problem. Perhaps I'd better RTFA.
If somebody is tailgating me dangerously closely, to equalize the distances fore and aft shouldn't I also tailgate just as closely?
Yeah, definitely RTFA time.
Regulatory capture is a bi-partisan phenomenon. It would even be non-partisan, if the deck were not stacked in favor of two (those two) parties. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=regul...