This post getting a +5 insightful is just an embarrassment. Ever stop to think that all of these doubts swirling around in your head weren't put there by the "feminists", and may be more about the frustrations of not getting a date until you were out of high school?
This used to be the case, before the DMCA was passed, attaching criminal sentencing to infringement, and more draconian measures (criminalizing education on the circumvention of copy protection). One could argue fair use as a defense, but I don't think that has been very successful in the last 18 years, on the rare occasion one can afford to plead innocent.
And the people DO elect their Electors. Even though it looks like you are voting for a single person, you are actually selecting the group of Electors who will vote for that person if they go to the Electoral Collage.
No, if I was voting for electors, I would have a choice, for instance, between Bob and Larry, both pledged to vote for Trump. Maybe I like Larry because I think he is honest, and not Bob, because Bob raped my dog. Larry would get my vote and represent my desire to vote for Trump if we win.
What I vote for now, is a candidate, for example, Trump. Then Trump's party sends some shadowy and unknown elector, probably a donor of some kind, to cast a vote for Trump, but that unvetted and unelected person has the power, in most states, to cast a vote for whoever he wants, including write in candidates, though he may incur a small fine.
Those are not the same things.
And POTUS, not being a lifetime appointment, is totally meant to be answerable to the people, not just the senate.
There are about 130,000,000 tax payers in the US. The tax cut is projected to add an extra 1.3 trillion to the national debt. Split evenly, that means that every single one of us is on the hook for $10,000 of extra debt. You might try looking up your projected tax relief. I did, and it doesn't come out even until around the $250,000 mark.
For me, the consequence of this tax cut is that I was forced to take a loan with a really shitty interest rate. And if you make less than $250,000, so were you.
...require knowing his state of mind, and well that's pretty much impossible. For anyone.
By this standard, how could anyone anywhere ever be diagnosed unstable?
I know, we could look at what he says and does! Like arguing that photographic evidence is somehow inaccurate. Or holding that he never said things for which there is video of him saying them.
One is left with 2 conclusions from which to draw. Either he has a very tenuous grasp on reality, or he is telling the worlds most obvious lies and thinks that YOU are dumb enough to believe them.
At the very least it seems obvious that he holds you with far less respect than you do him.
I know I am feeding the troll here, but I just can't help myself.
"We don't like the middle class lefties looking down on us, so we are going to vote for the rich guy who thinks so little of us, he claims he could shoot someone in public and not loose our vote!"
It is worth noting that there is another aspect to the electoral college that those who benefit from it fail to acknowledge. It is totally possible and legal for an elector sworn to vote for a candidate that wins their state to vote for a different candidate. It is entirely possible to win the majority of electoral seats, and the popular vote, and still lose the election because enough electors decided to vote contrary to their pledge. These are known as faithless electors. And before you say it would never happen, it has before, in 1836 .
Over the years there have been more than 150 faithless electors. Not super common, but also not unheard of.
Now, you might be fine with a small cabal of unelected, unaccountable people deciding your leaders, but I'm not. I find a lot of people who really support the electoral college don't really understand how it functions.
It is true that the system hasn't been exploited very effectively... yet. But, considering there are so many other forms of fairly electing candidates we could transition to, which don't involve more than half of the population feeling as if they aren't being represented, I can't think of a good reason to keep it around.
That's because a pirated copy does not equal a lost sale. Most people turn to piracy because of a lack of funds, or "principle" which would prevent them from purchasing a copy anyway. Anecdotally I have seen people pirate a game of dubious quality rather than risk the funds, but I would argue that would often just be a sale and return, rather than a lost sale.
It's like the case when an 11 yo with a 20 dollar a week allowance who downloads 1000 songs. Did the record companies loose 1000 dollars? No. At most they would have lost 20 dollars a week, but more than likely, those dollars would have went elsewhere.
Ironically, I have seen people pirate a cracked version of a game because they didn't like the DRM scheme (out of spite), but that is anecdotal as well, and no basis for policy.
That's right, there is a huge multinational conspiracy of life long academics with tenure all hell bent on oppressing you by forcing more fuel efficient vehicles on you! And you saw through it all! Keep it up QAnon, you are doing God's work!
Also, know how I know you watch fox news? Climategate.
Buddy, I'm a full blown socialist. I was just challenging gp to provide examples of his assertions that the US's problems are because of it social programs.
I think any definition of "better off" that doesn't include the social welfare of it people would be very interesting to see.
Just out of curiosity, could you kindly provide examples of countries that are MORE capitalist than the united states and also "better off" than the worlds largest economy?
Not trying to pull an Al Gore here, but if it were not for my 7th grade computer literacy teacher, and our brief introduction to BASIC on a trs-80, I am not sure what my life would be like today. I came from a food insecure household, and rarely owned more than 3 pairs of pants and 3 shirts at a time. A family computer was just out of the question. Even back then, in the mid 80s, I was keenly interested in video games, and decided I wanted to learn how to program them, so I took that first class.
I was instantly hooked. I owe a lifelong debt to my teacher, who let me stay after school messing around writing programs while I waited on the bus (city, not school, we were using a fake residence to keep me out of the school in the bad part of town.) I decided right then and there that I needed to have one. So I scrimped and saved every penny I could get my hands on, hid them from my mom, and after 2 years I had 150 dollars, which I used to buy a used commodore 64 from a college kid without my mom's knowledge. Except for the few times it got pawned by my mom, I was on it constantly, taught myself the hardware and ml, and eventually started a career as a programmer.
I know it's not sharing a family computer, but when I look back on it, that Jr. high class was the most important thing I ever did in my life, and I still think of that c64, which I still own, as probably my fondest possession.
Anyway, obligatory shout out to Code.org , which hopefully is reaching kids like me every day.
Anyone with half a brain realized that comment was about the candidates popularity, and not the electoral college. But by all means, keep dropping your "wisdom."
I think you are missing the point. The idea was to discover if a disaster thousands of miles away could become part of a land based ecosystem at that distance. You are assuming this is about safety of wine, it isn't. And it is valuable to know if, for some reason, someone proposes to build 100 fukushima type plants (with all the poor choices that would entail).
I for one am looking forward to the new Note. I'm 6' 3" and over 40. The bigger screen size is much more comfortable for both typing and reading. My thumbs take up a quarter of the screen for my s7. Though I wouldn't mind a price drop.
First of all, you are damn right i think what he tweets is important. He is the face of us diplomacy. You should care more as well. Secondly, what exact about the us/ Canadian.steel and aluminum trade was so unfair? I'm sure, like him, you don't know. Why are you ok with him using a power only granted to him for the purpose of national defence on our allies? Or does Papa know best and it doesn't matter what he does, because you just know, deep down, he is a good guy.
The reason we get upset is because you folks, after years of manufactured outrage over Obama, refuse to hold his feet to the fire about absolutely anything he does. Just as long as he gives you a little smug upturned smile and calls all his ideas the best, you praise him. No matter how badly he fucks with the deficit. No matter how many dictators he snuggles up to. No matter how many times he publicly flaunts that he is a vile, mean little man. As he said, in his words, he could shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and not lose any voters. That's how little he respects you. But still you worship him.
I'm guessing you missed his "Trade wars are good and easy to win" tweet. It's ok, try hard and you can rationalize it. Or just choose your eyes and ignore reality. Seems to have worked for you so far.
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This post getting a +5 insightful is just an embarrassment. Ever stop to think that all of these doubts swirling around in your head weren't put there by the "feminists", and may be more about the frustrations of not getting a date until you were out of high school?
Really, do we "gotta ask" that question? Because that question sounds insecure as hell to me.
Fracking destroyed those economies. Cheaper natural gas replaced cheap coal. It was the market at work, not Obama.
This used to be the case, before the DMCA was passed, attaching criminal sentencing to infringement, and more draconian measures (criminalizing education on the circumvention of copy protection). One could argue fair use as a defense, but I don't think that has been very successful in the last 18 years, on the rare occasion one can afford to plead innocent.
I mean, sure, a russian oligarch gave Trump 50 million profit for a house ($13 million more than it was worth) , that he has never had inspected or stepped foot in, and is now to be demolished, but it was totally Clinton that was the one that was in Russia's pocket.
It's only smart if what you "wanted him to do" is actually in your best interests. Otherwise we are back to gullibility.
And the people DO elect their Electors. Even though it looks like you are voting for a single person, you are actually selecting the group of Electors who will vote for that person if they go to the Electoral Collage.
No, if I was voting for electors, I would have a choice, for instance, between Bob and Larry, both pledged to vote for Trump. Maybe I like Larry because I think he is honest, and not Bob, because Bob raped my dog. Larry would get my vote and represent my desire to vote for Trump if we win.
What I vote for now, is a candidate, for example, Trump. Then Trump's party sends some shadowy and unknown elector, probably a donor of some kind, to cast a vote for Trump, but that unvetted and unelected person has the power, in most states, to cast a vote for whoever he wants, including write in candidates, though he may incur a small fine.
Those are not the same things.
And POTUS, not being a lifetime appointment, is totally meant to be answerable to the people, not just the senate.
There are about 130,000,000 tax payers in the US. The tax cut is projected to add an extra 1.3 trillion to the national debt. Split evenly, that means that every single one of us is on the hook for $10,000 of extra debt. You might try looking up your projected tax relief. I did, and it doesn't come out even until around the $250,000 mark.
For me, the consequence of this tax cut is that I was forced to take a loan with a really shitty interest rate. And if you make less than $250,000, so were you.
By this standard, how could anyone anywhere ever be diagnosed unstable?
I know, we could look at what he says and does! Like arguing that photographic evidence is somehow inaccurate. Or holding that he never said things for which there is video of him saying them.
One is left with 2 conclusions from which to draw. Either he has a very tenuous grasp on reality, or he is telling the worlds most obvious lies and thinks that YOU are dumb enough to believe them.
At the very least it seems obvious that he holds you with far less respect than you do him.
I know I am feeding the troll here, but I just can't help myself.
"We don't like the middle class lefties looking down on us, so we are going to vote for the rich guy who thinks so little of us, he claims he could shoot someone in public and not loose our vote!"
It is worth noting that there is another aspect to the electoral college that those who benefit from it fail to acknowledge. It is totally possible and legal for an elector sworn to vote for a candidate that wins their state to vote for a different candidate. It is entirely possible to win the majority of electoral seats, and the popular vote, and still lose the election because enough electors decided to vote contrary to their pledge. These are known as faithless electors. And before you say it would never happen, it has before, in 1836 .
Over the years there have been more than 150 faithless electors. Not super common, but also not unheard of.
Now, you might be fine with a small cabal of unelected, unaccountable people deciding your leaders, but I'm not. I find a lot of people who really support the electoral college don't really understand how it functions.
It is true that the system hasn't been exploited very effectively... yet. But, considering there are so many other forms of fairly electing candidates we could transition to, which don't involve more than half of the population feeling as if they aren't being represented, I can't think of a good reason to keep it around.
Actually, no. The overturned verdict rates are below:
6th Circuit - 87 percent;
11th Circuit - 85 percent;
9th Circuit - 79 percent;
3rd Circuit - 78 percent;
2nd Circuit and Federal Circuit - 68 percent;
8th Circuit - 67 percent;
5th Circuit - 66 percent;
7th Circuit - 48 percent;
DC Circuit - 45 percent;
1st Circuit and 4th Circuit - 43 percent;
10th Circuit - 42 percent.
That's because a pirated copy does not equal a lost sale. Most people turn to piracy because of a lack of funds, or "principle" which would prevent them from purchasing a copy anyway. Anecdotally I have seen people pirate a game of dubious quality rather than risk the funds, but I would argue that would often just be a sale and return, rather than a lost sale.
It's like the case when an 11 yo with a 20 dollar a week allowance who downloads 1000 songs. Did the record companies loose 1000 dollars? No. At most they would have lost 20 dollars a week, but more than likely, those dollars would have went elsewhere.
Ironically, I have seen people pirate a cracked version of a game because they didn't like the DRM scheme (out of spite), but that is anecdotal as well, and no basis for policy.
That's right, there is a huge multinational conspiracy of life long academics with tenure all hell bent on oppressing you by forcing more fuel efficient vehicles on you! And you saw through it all! Keep it up QAnon, you are doing God's work!
Also, know how I know you watch fox news? Climategate.
Buddy, I'm a full blown socialist. I was just challenging gp to provide examples of his assertions that the US's problems are because of it social programs.
I think any definition of "better off" that doesn't include the social welfare of it people would be very interesting to see.
Just out of curiosity, could you kindly provide examples of countries that are MORE capitalist than the united states and also "better off" than the worlds largest economy?
Not trying to pull an Al Gore here, but if it were not for my 7th grade computer literacy teacher, and our brief introduction to BASIC on a trs-80, I am not sure what my life would be like today. I came from a food insecure household, and rarely owned more than 3 pairs of pants and 3 shirts at a time. A family computer was just out of the question. Even back then, in the mid 80s, I was keenly interested in video games, and decided I wanted to learn how to program them, so I took that first class.
I was instantly hooked. I owe a lifelong debt to my teacher, who let me stay after school messing around writing programs while I waited on the bus (city, not school, we were using a fake residence to keep me out of the school in the bad part of town.) I decided right then and there that I needed to have one. So I scrimped and saved every penny I could get my hands on, hid them from my mom, and after 2 years I had 150 dollars, which I used to buy a used commodore 64 from a college kid without my mom's knowledge. Except for the few times it got pawned by my mom, I was on it constantly, taught myself the hardware and ml, and eventually started a career as a programmer.
I know it's not sharing a family computer, but when I look back on it, that Jr. high class was the most important thing I ever did in my life, and I still think of that c64, which I still own, as probably my fondest possession.
Anyway, obligatory shout out to Code.org , which hopefully is reaching kids like me every day.
Am I missing something? The book you are citing is a work of FICTION, correct? How can that be informative for this issue?
Anyone with half a brain realized that comment was about the candidates popularity, and not the electoral college. But by all means, keep dropping your "wisdom."
I know! People were so mad at the left last time that they lost by negative 3 million votes!
I think you are missing the point. The idea was to discover if a disaster thousands of miles away could become part of a land based ecosystem at that distance. You are assuming this is about safety of wine, it isn't. And it is valuable to know if, for some reason, someone proposes to build 100 fukushima type plants (with all the poor choices that would entail).
I for one am looking forward to the new Note. I'm 6' 3" and over 40. The bigger screen size is much more comfortable for both typing and reading. My thumbs take up a quarter of the screen for my s7. Though I wouldn't mind a price drop.
Sick burn dude.
First of all, you are damn right i think what he tweets is important. He is the face of us diplomacy. You should care more as well.
Secondly, what exact about the us/ Canadian.steel and aluminum trade was so unfair? I'm sure, like him, you don't know. Why are you ok with him using a power only granted to him for the purpose of national defence on our allies? Or does Papa know best and it doesn't matter what he does, because you just know, deep down, he is a good guy.
The reason we get upset is because you folks, after years of manufactured outrage over Obama, refuse to hold his feet to the fire about absolutely anything he does. Just as long as he gives you a little smug upturned smile and calls all his ideas the best, you praise him. No matter how badly he fucks with the deficit. No matter how many dictators he snuggles up to. No matter how many times he publicly flaunts that he is a vile, mean little man. As he said, in his words, he could shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and not lose any voters. That's how little he respects you. But still you worship him.
The man is a joke, and you are the punchline.
I'm guessing you missed his "Trade wars are good and easy to win" tweet. It's ok, try hard and you can rationalize it. Or just choose your eyes and ignore reality. Seems to have worked for you so far.