I'm not so optimistic. Sure we'd be fine if somehow the president just decided to turn around and enact dictatorship. But that is an unlikely event. More likely is there will be a gradual growth in federal power. Then small groups of dissidents will be demonized and everyone will be content getting rid of them. Continuing until there are no dissidents left.
I would never work for a company that would discriminate based on what I choose to do outside of work hours. However, I am able to realize that not everyone is in as good a position as I am and that my current lifestyle is not just a product of my hard work but also some fortunate circumstance. So I would hate for anyone who needs to get a job to feed their family to be discriminated against based on their outside of work activities. Why should they have less personal freedom than I?
The point GP was making is that some people are not in a position to be picky about their employer. So this acceptance of social media background checks hurts them the most. Selling your soul is one thing, but not having a soul and being indifferent to the plight of those less fortunate than you is much worse.
Come on, at least acknowledge the complete hypocrisy in this situation. Imagine I came along a year afterwards and started selling an app called Wireless Sync with an almost identical logo and the same functionality. You don't think Apple would try to sue me if my app was successful? These are the same people who are suing Amazon for the use of "Appstore"
Interesting you feel FFXII had too many characters when your favorite games are VII and VI, off the top of my head:
VI: Terra, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Celes, Seltzer, Mog, Shadow, Umaro, Girl that draws, Gau, Cyan, Gogo
VII: Cloud, Tifa, Barrett, Red XIII, Yuffie, Vincent, Aeris, Cid, Cait Sith
Having the loser always pay will also decentivize legitimate lawsuits. Imagine you work for 'megacorporation' and you lose a limb / are discriminated against / etc. Now if you want to sue, not only do you need to fund your own litigation, you may be responsible for the large legal expense of the corporation (they'll spend more the more legitimate and dangerous your case is) if the court decides the corporation is not to blame. Having the loser always pay would be an overall net loss for individuals.
Yeah I'm not sure why Timothy felt the need to tack that on the end. The magnetic poles and rotational poles are separate entities. Conflating the two is usually just done by 2012 doomsday people who want to show the moving magnetic poles as a possible indicator of the apocalypse in our future
I left it out because the meaning is still the same. Yes, I think everyone is well aware of the effect Domino Theory had on shaping U.S. actions at the time. We need to stop the spread of communism. But if you believe the primary reason for our intervention in the area was for the benefit of the locals, it is a naive belief at best.
The last paragraph in your 2nd link is perfectly clear. Eisenhower's conclusion curiously fails to mention anything about helping the people, but rather mentions the need for the money to be spent to help the U.S. As someone who has traveled through the region, the anti-West sentiment there speaks for itself. You can see plenty of examples of the terrible effects U.S. and Soviet intervention had on the region. The easiest example to pick is the Khmer Rouge. The secret U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia helped provide the conditions that allowed the brutal and genocidal regime to take power. Once this regime came into power the U.S. and the West did nothing to take stop the genocide. It only came to an end once Cambodia decided to attack Vietnam, which lead the Communist Vietnamese backed by the Soviet Union went in and took them out.
So if we were in the region to help the locals and stop communism, why did we support the French in what was essentially a revolutionary war in Vietnam, yet do nothing to help the Cambodians being slaughtered by a Communist Regime? The evils of the Soviet Union do not absolve the U.S. of their own misdoings.
President Eisenhower's quote for why we aided the French in their war with Vietnam:
"Now let us assume that we lose Indochina. If Indochina goes, several things happen right away. The Malayan peninsula, the last little bit of the end hanging on down there, would be scarcely defensible--and tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming... So, when the United States votes $400 million to help that war, we are not voting for a giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest way that we can to prevent the occurrence of something that would be of the most terrible significance for the United States of America--our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory, and from southeast Asia." - Quote from the Pentagon Papers
Tribes, a great game, a bit ahead of its time and probably the first well made team oriented game. But it seems to be lost in the history of team games, where all you hear about is Counter Strike and Battlefield
The issue is that there is little incentive to take proper precautions in protecting personal data. Yes, reputation might affect customer decisions a little, but the problem is so broad what are you going to do.. change your bank? I had a former employer send me a letter once that my personal data may have been exposed as they moved office buildings, what option did I have then? The only real answer I can think of is to have some legislation that penalizes a company if such a breach of personal data occurs. Of course that may provide the incentive for companies to just not report when such a breach occurs, which would probably be worse for the consumer.
Exactly. This is why it is almost impossible to have a viable 3rd party in the U.S. Our voting system is winner takes all. So even if you want a 3rd party to win.. your vote really means nothing if that party doesn't win, thus you are better off voting for one of the two big parties that kind of match your interests. If we had a different system, like if you get 30% of the vote you get 30% of the congressional seats, our party system would look very different. Of course that system has its own set of problems.
And getting rid of political parties altogether is impossible. How do you stop people from wanting to associate and form groups? The best option would be to just not list the party a candidate belongs to on the ballot.
Ah but this program will create more jobs! Think of all the auditors that will need to be employed to make sure your odometer matches your GPS readings
Isn't this skirting the issue though? The solution to Mad Cow disease should be having regulations against having spinal meat being processed and sold to consumers. Granted being able to eradicate sick cows is a bonus, taking simple measures in how we process are meat solves the most serious problem.
Its slightly more complicated than that. They have have the capability to recognize what state they are shipping to but many consumption taxes are quite complicated. In addition to state taxes you have county taxes, and sometimes city taxes (sales tax is lower in some parts of cook county vs in the city of chicago). The tax rate on the type of good being purchased (non-discretionary goods are typically taxed lower than other goods). So it is not just 50 states they have to worry about but the 3,140 counties in the U.S. in addition to any other city taxes and then breakdowns based on good type. Granted this is not an impossible problem, but it is certainly one I would not like to be responsible for figuring out.
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I'm not so optimistic. Sure we'd be fine if somehow the president just decided to turn around and enact dictatorship. But that is an unlikely event. More likely is there will be a gradual growth in federal power. Then small groups of dissidents will be demonized and everyone will be content getting rid of them. Continuing until there are no dissidents left.
I would never work for a company that would discriminate based on what I choose to do outside of work hours. However, I am able to realize that not everyone is in as good a position as I am and that my current lifestyle is not just a product of my hard work but also some fortunate circumstance. So I would hate for anyone who needs to get a job to feed their family to be discriminated against based on their outside of work activities. Why should they have less personal freedom than I?
The point GP was making is that some people are not in a position to be picky about their employer. So this acceptance of social media background checks hurts them the most. Selling your soul is one thing, but not having a soul and being indifferent to the plight of those less fortunate than you is much worse.
Come on, at least acknowledge the complete hypocrisy in this situation. Imagine I came along a year afterwards and started selling an app called Wireless Sync with an almost identical logo and the same functionality. You don't think Apple would try to sue me if my app was successful? These are the same people who are suing Amazon for the use of "Appstore"
Interesting you feel FFXII had too many characters when your favorite games are VII and VI, off the top of my head: VI: Terra, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Celes, Seltzer, Mog, Shadow, Umaro, Girl that draws, Gau, Cyan, Gogo VII: Cloud, Tifa, Barrett, Red XIII, Yuffie, Vincent, Aeris, Cid, Cait Sith
Story developing: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110314/NEWS01/103140331/1005/Expanding-state-health-benefits-challenged/Woman-shot-dead-Lansing-bank-branch?odyssey=nav|head Shot by a police officer
Having the loser always pay will also decentivize legitimate lawsuits. Imagine you work for 'megacorporation' and you lose a limb / are discriminated against / etc. Now if you want to sue, not only do you need to fund your own litigation, you may be responsible for the large legal expense of the corporation (they'll spend more the more legitimate and dangerous your case is) if the court decides the corporation is not to blame. Having the loser always pay would be an overall net loss for individuals.
That amazon tribe was fake http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-grann/the-truth-about-the-lost_b_172910.html
The minimum investment requirement was $2 million dollars, so yes the small guy would have been left out unless a collective was formed
Yeah I'm not sure why Timothy felt the need to tack that on the end. The magnetic poles and rotational poles are separate entities. Conflating the two is usually just done by 2012 doomsday people who want to show the moving magnetic poles as a possible indicator of the apocalypse in our future
I left it out because the meaning is still the same. Yes, I think everyone is well aware of the effect Domino Theory had on shaping U.S. actions at the time. We need to stop the spread of communism. But if you believe the primary reason for our intervention in the area was for the benefit of the locals, it is a naive belief at best.
The last paragraph in your 2nd link is perfectly clear. Eisenhower's conclusion curiously fails to mention anything about helping the people, but rather mentions the need for the money to be spent to help the U.S. As someone who has traveled through the region, the anti-West sentiment there speaks for itself. You can see plenty of examples of the terrible effects U.S. and Soviet intervention had on the region. The easiest example to pick is the Khmer Rouge. The secret U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia helped provide the conditions that allowed the brutal and genocidal regime to take power. Once this regime came into power the U.S. and the West did nothing to take stop the genocide. It only came to an end once Cambodia decided to attack Vietnam, which lead the Communist Vietnamese backed by the Soviet Union went in and took them out.
So if we were in the region to help the locals and stop communism, why did we support the French in what was essentially a revolutionary war in Vietnam, yet do nothing to help the Cambodians being slaughtered by a Communist Regime? The evils of the Soviet Union do not absolve the U.S. of their own misdoings.
President Eisenhower's quote for why we aided the French in their war with Vietnam:
... So, when the United States votes $400 million to help that war, we are not voting for a giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest way that we can to prevent the occurrence of something that would be of the most terrible significance for the United States of America--our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory, and from southeast Asia." - Quote from the Pentagon Papers
"Now let us assume that we lose Indochina. If Indochina goes, several things happen right away. The Malayan peninsula, the last little bit of the end hanging on down there, would be scarcely defensible--and tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming
So what were you trying to say again?
So you wish to replace one conspiracy theory with another conspiracy.. maybe?
Tribes, a great game, a bit ahead of its time and probably the first well made team oriented game. But it seems to be lost in the history of team games, where all you hear about is Counter Strike and Battlefield
I have a feeling if the average person watches two hours of tv.. its not of news and drama, but of mind numbing american idol
but in what other game could running out of mana kill you?
The issue is that there is little incentive to take proper precautions in protecting personal data. Yes, reputation might affect customer decisions a little, but the problem is so broad what are you going to do.. change your bank? I had a former employer send me a letter once that my personal data may have been exposed as they moved office buildings, what option did I have then? The only real answer I can think of is to have some legislation that penalizes a company if such a breach of personal data occurs. Of course that may provide the incentive for companies to just not report when such a breach occurs, which would probably be worse for the consumer.
Exactly. This is why it is almost impossible to have a viable 3rd party in the U.S. Our voting system is winner takes all. So even if you want a 3rd party to win.. your vote really means nothing if that party doesn't win, thus you are better off voting for one of the two big parties that kind of match your interests. If we had a different system, like if you get 30% of the vote you get 30% of the congressional seats, our party system would look very different. Of course that system has its own set of problems.
And getting rid of political parties altogether is impossible. How do you stop people from wanting to associate and form groups? The best option would be to just not list the party a candidate belongs to on the ballot.
Dammit, now i'll never be able to enjoy wing commander again
Can we dispel the myth that sex offenders are more likely to reoffend. I have never seen a study that states this. If you know of one, please share it. I will however link you to an article that disputes this common claim: http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-likely-are-sex-offenders-to-repeat-their-crimes-258/
both represent death
and all of this sits upon a tortoise? Amazing!
Ah but this program will create more jobs! Think of all the auditors that will need to be employed to make sure your odometer matches your GPS readings
Isn't this skirting the issue though? The solution to Mad Cow disease should be having regulations against having spinal meat being processed and sold to consumers. Granted being able to eradicate sick cows is a bonus, taking simple measures in how we process are meat solves the most serious problem.
Its slightly more complicated than that. They have have the capability to recognize what state they are shipping to but many consumption taxes are quite complicated. In addition to state taxes you have county taxes, and sometimes city taxes (sales tax is lower in some parts of cook county vs in the city of chicago). The tax rate on the type of good being purchased (non-discretionary goods are typically taxed lower than other goods). So it is not just 50 states they have to worry about but the 3,140 counties in the U.S. in addition to any other city taxes and then breakdowns based on good type. Granted this is not an impossible problem, but it is certainly one I would not like to be responsible for figuring out.