You didn't find it shocking that private security firms hired by the US forces procured underage boys as male prostitutes for some Afghan police recruits?
The question is, what was the consequence to the private security firm for their poor judgment before the wikileaks release? What is the consequence now after the release? ditto for the ambassador and how he handled the situation.
When stuff like this gets routinely swept under the rug its like a slow rot that corrupts the whole nation.
People have to know that bad behavior can and will be exposed to full day light. Its the only way to reverse the rot.
Vancouver Canada has had a program in place for over a decade called "Air Care". Car insurance is mandatory in British Columbia and if your insured address is in the city limits then your vehicle must be tested every time you renew your insurance. If it doesn't pass the test, no insurance, so no driving.
I didn't RTFM but based on the summary its the same idea. btw: Despite initial bitching the program has runs pretty much without incident.
I believe the understanding of the importance of sanitation tracked the industrial revolution but was not dependent on it. So if we ran that chart without fossil fuel feed industrialization, we may have seen vertical movement moving up the average lifespan without a corresponding increase to wealth.
Although, I suppose an argument could be made that without industrialization large scale sewage works could not have been possible and we would not have reaped the benefits of sanitation.
Ok so I am not a US citizen but is it not true that many states require vehicle owners to purchase insurance for their cars? Why is that not ruled unconstitutional?
OK So I agree with you about Palin not deserving her website smashed. And I also agree that MC, PayPal etc don't deserve to have their sites smashed either.
However, Doesn't the US have some sort of anti-discrimination laws? Can PayPal refuse you service because your Black? Can MasterCard cancel your service because your gay? How about if your a Democrat? or what about if your a journalist?
Would an ISP get in trouble with the law if they refused to forward packets to/from NPR for political reasons?
There are some interesting jurisdictional issues that are involved but on the whole the actions of MC, PayPal or reprehensible and they should suffer not just consumer wrath, but potentially some lawsuits for discrimination.
Oh your talking about the "we made the mess so we have to clean it up provisions". Actually I listened the a day long panel discussion the ethics of "converge and contract" and it all seemed pretty fair to me.
"Converge and contract" just means that the industrialized west has to restrict its emissions at a slightly faster rate then some of the developing world. But we all end up at the same place by the end of the program.
So I guess what your complaining about is having to clean up your own mess and somehow red baiting by calling it wealth redistribution.
Sorry but I find that a pathetic, weak, unjust, and irresponsible position.
I think you are missing the point. The point to me is that any R&D we put into making these ships greener will have a huge return on investment. Maybe we get them to burn the fuel better, maybe we install sequestering tech at the funnel. But whatever we do to one ship could be the same as say turning 50 million cars into hybrids.
The original "Liberal Revolutions" that hit Europe a century and a bit ago were all about assigning sovereignty to the individual rather then to church or king.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill)
I believe at some point in the English parliamentary tradition, to be a conservative meant you were in favor of using monetary policy instead of fiscal policy to administer the economy.
In any case the fact that even the democrats consider the label "Liberal" to be a bad word is seriously disappointing. The Dem's have to grew a pair and stop caving in to Republican propaganda. The USA was the model for western liberalism and now its a dirty words? WTF?
The Conservatives in Canada have floated the idea of private prisons in Canada. I will do everything lawful and in my power to stop such a stupid idea. I beleive in the power of markets which is why I find it perverse to use them for prisons.
I read an article in the economist recently that said that 1 in 100 adult Americans are in prison. If you add in those people on parole or probation the number under court supervision rises to 1 in 39.
1 in 39 Really? Holy Hell! America, you are very very broken and you really need to fix yourself.
Embrace the concepts of harm reduction, un-privatize your prisons, stop mandatory sentencing, scale back your war on drugs. And please, please stop lecturing others on freedom because I don't think it means what you think it means.
Ok the citation is the entire GWB white house. It was a relentless assault on reason in favor of faith based initiatives and an overall anti-science attitude:
Agreed religious people are no more violent then any other flavor of Utopians. Utopians are most often involved in mass violence. It doesn't matter if the Utopian is religious, nationalistic, Ethnic or Corporatist. Anyone who believes in some sort of final perfect state of affairs in the future will commit horrendous acts in the present with a rock solid belief in their promised land as a perfect justification.
The fact that many (but not all) religions involve some sort of kingdom of heaven, means that they are thick with Utopians and the ensuing violence.
I train my kids to spot Utopians and also how to recognize dehumanizing language. Dehumanizing language is tricky, it can be very stealthy sometimes.
I found your debt chart interesting. I mapped another chart onto it. A few weeks ago this chart of US oil production/imports came up in another thread.
Its open because I can download the apk file from the developers site and install it myself. Can you do that yet on the iPhone without jail breaking it?
Its open because I can connect to any of the other app stores that exist. Google runs one app store, not the ONLY app store.
Its open because I can say "hey cool idea" write my own version and install it on my phone without having to ask googles permission.
I am confused. When I was a kind I am sure I was taught that the basic measure of mass was a gram and that it was defined as 1 cubic centimeter of some sort of purified water at specific temperature.
"Survival of the fittest" does not square with the logic of natural selection. "Survival of the just fit enough to tap that" would be much more appropriate
Funny I thought that liberal meant you wanted to throw of the shackles of church and king and declare the sovereignty of the individual. I guess much has changed since 1848. Back then those that fought for freedom and liberty were called Liberals. One would think that this would be a good thing to be called in America.
OK I will take a stab at this. Might there be a way to P2P the piratebay website itself and make for easy for anyone to make an entry into this distributed p2p website without the site requiring anykind of fixed IP or domain?
I am not sure how the p2p networks that don't have a central server work, but it seems to me that with a little work this system could be used to host the piratebay website and database.
The magic would be figuring a way to query this distributed db.
Gee I was thinking that open warfare with China would be swift and quite. Chinese hackers would simply turn off Google and USA citizens would be wandering the streets dazed and confused being unable to remember how to perform simple daily routines.
What exactly did that women expect to accomplish with her bubble blowing other then what she got?
What was her exact beef with the summit? Did she have an issue? or was she there for the festival and to bait the cops?
I am no fan of heavy handed cops or bureaucratic corruption at any level, but come on. Standing in front of a cop blowing bubbles at them to see what they will do? I am glad the cop had the restraint that he had.
As for the woman, I have no time for her behavior at all. Any thoughts that she had that she was standing up the "the man" and saving the world are just delusions.
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Ya but we would probably sell out and vote for a merger for 100 electoral votes :)
You didn't find it shocking that private security firms hired by the US forces procured underage boys as male prostitutes for some Afghan police recruits?
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php
The question is, what was the consequence to the private security firm for their poor judgment before the wikileaks release? What is the consequence now after the release? ditto for the ambassador and how he handled the situation.
When stuff like this gets routinely swept under the rug its like a slow rot that corrupts the whole nation.
People have to know that bad behavior can and will be exposed to full day light. Its the only way to reverse the rot.
Vancouver Canada has had a program in place for over a decade called "Air Care". Car insurance is mandatory in British Columbia and if your insured address is in the city limits then your vehicle must be tested every time you renew your insurance. If it doesn't pass the test, no insurance, so no driving.
I didn't RTFM but based on the summary its the same idea. btw: Despite initial bitching the program has runs pretty much without incident.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
&mdash John Stuart Mill
Nicely paraphrased. Especially since your both talking about the same agenda on the one hand and the same voters/viewers on the other.
I believe the understanding of the importance of sanitation tracked the industrial revolution but was not dependent on it. So if we ran that chart without fossil fuel feed industrialization, we may have seen vertical movement moving up the average lifespan without a corresponding increase to wealth.
Although, I suppose an argument could be made that without industrialization large scale sewage works could not have been possible and we would not have reaped the benefits of sanitation.
Ok so I am not a US citizen but is it not true that many states require vehicle owners to purchase insurance for their cars? Why is that not ruled unconstitutional?
OK So I agree with you about Palin not deserving her website smashed. And I also agree that MC, PayPal etc don't deserve to have their sites smashed either.
However, Doesn't the US have some sort of anti-discrimination laws? Can PayPal refuse you service because your Black? Can MasterCard cancel your service because your gay? How about if your a Democrat? or what about if your a journalist?
Would an ISP get in trouble with the law if they refused to forward packets to/from NPR for political reasons?
There are some interesting jurisdictional issues that are involved but on the whole the actions of MC, PayPal or reprehensible and they should suffer not just consumer wrath, but potentially some lawsuits for discrimination.
Oh your talking about the "we made the mess so we have to clean it up provisions". Actually I listened the a day long panel discussion the ethics of "converge and contract" and it all seemed pretty fair to me.
"Converge and contract" just means that the industrialized west has to restrict its emissions at a slightly faster rate then some of the developing world. But we all end up at the same place by the end of the program.
So I guess what your complaining about is having to clean up your own mess and somehow red baiting by calling it wealth redistribution.
Sorry but I find that a pathetic, weak, unjust, and irresponsible position.
Redistribute wealth? how did that get in there? How exactly do efforts to price fossil fuels better result in wealth redistribution?
Any chance you can find a link to that paper? I would be very interested in it.
I think you are missing the point. The point to me is that any R&D we put into making these ships greener will have a huge return on investment. Maybe we get them to burn the fuel better, maybe we install sequestering tech at the funnel. But whatever we do to one ship could be the same as say turning 50 million cars into hybrids.
So lets do that TODAY!
The original "Liberal Revolutions" that hit Europe a century and a bit ago were all about assigning sovereignty to the individual rather then to church or king. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill)
I believe at some point in the English parliamentary tradition, to be a conservative meant you were in favor of using monetary policy instead of fiscal policy to administer the economy.
In any case the fact that even the democrats consider the label "Liberal" to be a bad word is seriously disappointing. The Dem's have to grew a pair and stop caving in to Republican propaganda. The USA was the model for western liberalism and now its a dirty words? WTF?
Private prisons can increase profits by:
Do we really want these kinds of incentives?
I read an article in the economist recently that said that 1 in 100 adult Americans are in prison. If you add in those people on parole or probation the number under court supervision rises to 1 in 39.
1 in 39 Really? Holy Hell! America, you are very very broken and you really need to fix yourself.
Embrace the concepts of harm reduction, un-privatize your prisons, stop mandatory sentencing, scale back your war on drugs. And please, please stop lecturing others on freedom because I don't think it means what you think it means.
Ok the citation is the entire GWB white house. It was a relentless assault on reason in favor of faith based initiatives and an overall anti-science attitude:
http://www.theocracywatch.org/bush2.htm#Anti-Science
Agreed religious people are no more violent then any other flavor of Utopians. Utopians are most often involved in mass violence. It doesn't matter if the Utopian is religious, nationalistic, Ethnic or Corporatist. Anyone who believes in some sort of final perfect state of affairs in the future will commit horrendous acts in the present with a rock solid belief in their promised land as a perfect justification.
The fact that many (but not all) religions involve some sort of kingdom of heaven, means that they are thick with Utopians and the ensuing violence.
I train my kids to spot Utopians and also how to recognize dehumanizing language. Dehumanizing language is tricky, it can be very stealthy sometimes.
I found your debt chart interesting. I mapped another chart onto it. A few weeks ago this chart of US oil production/imports came up in another thread.
So I did a crude (no pun intended) mash up of the two charts. Showing a relationship between domestic oil production, oil imports and debt level
Correlation?
Its open because I can download the apk file from the developers site and install it myself. Can you do that yet on the iPhone without jail breaking it?
Its open because I can connect to any of the other app stores that exist. Google runs one app store, not the ONLY app store.
Its open because I can say "hey cool idea" write my own version and install it on my phone without having to ask googles permission.
Does that answer your question?
I am confused. When I was a kind I am sure I was taught that the basic measure of mass was a gram and that it was defined as 1 cubic centimeter of some sort of purified water at specific temperature.
Was there any truth to that?
"Survival of the fittest" does not square with the logic of natural selection. "Survival of the just fit enough to tap that" would be much more appropriate
Funny I thought that liberal meant you wanted to throw of the shackles of church and king and declare the sovereignty of the individual. I guess much has changed since 1848. Back then those that fought for freedom and liberty were called Liberals. One would think that this would be a good thing to be called in America.
OK I will take a stab at this. Might there be a way to P2P the piratebay website itself and make for easy for anyone to make an entry into this distributed p2p website without the site requiring anykind of fixed IP or domain? I am not sure how the p2p networks that don't have a central server work, but it seems to me that with a little work this system could be used to host the piratebay website and database.
The magic would be figuring a way to query this distributed db.
Gee I was thinking that open warfare with China would be swift and quite. Chinese hackers would simply turn off Google and USA citizens would be wandering the streets dazed and confused being unable to remember how to perform simple daily routines.
What a giant waste of time and my money.
What exactly did that women expect to accomplish with her bubble blowing other then what she got?
What was her exact beef with the summit? Did she have an issue? or was she there for the festival and to bait the cops?
I am no fan of heavy handed cops or bureaucratic corruption at any level, but come on. Standing in front of a cop blowing bubbles at them to see what they will do? I am glad the cop had the restraint that he had.
As for the woman, I have no time for her behavior at all. Any thoughts that she had that she was standing up the "the man" and saving the world are just delusions.
Steve for Prez so that he can make the trains run on time.