What exactly do you think the current administration is supposed to do with the people there, ship them to Antarctica? What country is going to take them, after the previous administration hyped up how dangerous the inmates are?
They do have home countries which they are citizens of, right? Otherwise I would expect the country that captured them in the first place to be responsible for them, but do so under both international law and the laws of that country.
Verizon Wireless reported $49.332 billion in revenue in 2008. The median annual household income in the US in 2006 was $50,233. The $25M settlement for Verizon is equivalent to Joe Average paying a $25 fine. (Note that I don't count the rest, as it was just the return of stolen money)
Question #1: Is this what the average person expected to be hit with after defrauding millions of people for over 2 years? Question #2: Will that fee affect the income of Verizon executives in any way? Question #3: Where will the money come from?
Correct answers: 1. No 2. No 3. From the public, by raising fees and prices.
After reading many of the comments on this thread, I have one suggestion to make: Do not confuse "conservative" with "Conservative", nor "liberal" with "Liberal".
Unions brought you the 40-hour work week, the weekend, workplace safety laws, and non-exploitative wages. People fought and died in the streets against huge moneyed interests for all that and other little things, like keeping your 6 year old kid from working six 16-hour days a week down a methane-poisoned coal mine.
What part of that don't you like?
Isaias Afewerki brought independence to Eritrea. Robert Mugabe brought independence to Zimbabwe. Meles Zenawi was instrumental in riding Ethiopia of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Paul Kagame effectively ended the Rwandan genocide.
Let's take you up on that idea. Suppose I vote for Green Party. Oops, since I didn't vote for the Democrat, the Republican got more votes and won.
1. Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil. 2. The Ds are not any more or less evil than the Rs, they may be evil in different ways, but usually they just take turns. 3. For every useful idiot on the D side, there is an equal and opposite one on the R side. They do cancel each other out, and will continue to do so if both get an epiphany and vote Green/Pirate/Independent instead. If that is brought to its logical conclusions, the only people left to vote D or R will be those that truly believe in what these parties do.
If Obama wasn't such a coward, Guantanamo Bay would be closed, habeas corpus would be restored, our former president his vice president, and a few other select members of his cabinet would be behind bars, and the people responsible for the economic meltdown would either be up on fraud charges, no longer running their companies, or the heads of bankrupt companies.
Obama isn't a coward. He just has a different agenda than the one you think he has.
Speaking of Google maps, in January they removed the extremely useful "saved locations" feature in order to force people to turn on "web history". There are 6 pages worth of complaints from over 200 people on the Google Maps help forum and not a single positive feedback.
Study? Did they grant super powers to a set of people and observe the results?
We (as a society) already granted "super powers" (and uniforms, usually blue) to groups of people in many different settings and observed the results. Over an over again. Let's just say that TFA has nothing new to show us.
You might as well say "it's always the doctors who win." After all, everybody gets sick eventually, and there are the doctors, just waiting to get their cut, profiting off of the suffering of others.
I'm Canadian. The state recognizes my need for a decent(*) health-care and provides me with one in exchange for a chunk of my taxes.
However, when I need justice, it's a whole different ballgame...
(*) Yes, it has its warts and it can be improved but overall it works.
I doubt they would had win the case without a lawyer, don't you think?
And that's the problem - justice should not depend on the ability (or even willingness) to pay. Yet it does, and the lawyers (including those that moved on to be judges, politicians, etc.) perpetuate the system.
C# 4.0 - dynamic types (and crap like extension methods) is weakening the language. Now, you can slap code together like a scripting language, and most code will have just the same amount of quality to it as a lot of script has.
As a C++ developer, let me state my opinion that multi-paradigm is good.
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They do have home countries which they are citizens of, right?
Otherwise I would expect the country that captured them in the first place to be responsible for them, but do so under both international law and the laws of that country.
I thought that was the only certificate you couldn't fail to get.
Live and learn...
Verizon Wireless reported $49.332 billion in revenue in 2008.
The median annual household income in the US in 2006 was $50,233.
The $25M settlement for Verizon is equivalent to Joe Average paying a $25 fine.
(Note that I don't count the rest, as it was just the return of stolen money)
Question #1: Is this what the average person expected to be hit with after defrauding millions of people for over 2 years?
Question #2: Will that fee affect the income of Verizon executives in any way?
Question #3: Where will the money come from?
Correct answers:
1. No
2. No
3. From the public, by raising fees and prices.
After reading many of the comments on this thread, I have one suggestion to make:
Do not confuse "conservative" with "Conservative", nor "liberal" with "Liberal".
Thank you.
Gaa... s/riding/ridding/
Sorry.
Isaias Afewerki brought independence to Eritrea.
Robert Mugabe brought independence to Zimbabwe.
Meles Zenawi was instrumental in riding Ethiopia of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Paul Kagame effectively ended the Rwandan genocide.
What part of that don't you like?
The pages are now "password protected"
Entering a password got me an "Error establishing a database connection" error.
Not in the movie. The "present" you arrives at a "past" location.
Maybe because the planet "travels forward through time" at the same "speed" and "direction" that we do?
All of them are.
1. Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.
2. The Ds are not any more or less evil than the Rs, they may be evil in different ways, but usually they just take turns.
3. For every useful idiot on the D side, there is an equal and opposite one on the R side. They do cancel each other out, and will continue to do so if both get an epiphany and vote Green/Pirate/Independent instead. If that is brought to its logical conclusions, the only people left to vote D or R will be those that truly believe in what these parties do.
Obama isn't a coward. He just has a different agenda than the one you think he has.
People that support any of the major parties in an effective duopoly are either useful idiots or hope to get a piece of the spoils.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
... and nothing of value was lost.
sometimes it's even mandated by an international standards organization.
Does it matter? A $4M fine for him is something like a $100 fine for me.
Does it really matter when your only option is whether to vote for Kang or for Kodos?
Speaking of Google maps, in January they removed the extremely useful "saved locations" feature in order to force people to turn on "web history". There are 6 pages worth of complaints from over 200 people on the Google Maps help forum and not a single positive feedback.
Does Google give a shit?
And if I'm in Canada, what options do I have?
We (as a society) already granted "super powers" (and uniforms, usually blue) to groups of people in many different settings and observed the results. Over an over again. Let's just say that TFA has nothing new to show us.
I'm Canadian. The state recognizes my need for a decent(*) health-care and provides me with one in exchange for a chunk of my taxes.
However, when I need justice, it's a whole different ballgame...
(*) Yes, it has its warts and it can be improved but overall it works.
And that's the problem - justice should not depend on the ability (or even willingness) to pay. Yet it does, and the lawyers (including those that moved on to be judges, politicians, etc.) perpetuate the system.
For all practical purposes it does not matter as long as they consistently *behave* the way we envision them.
As a C++ developer, let me state my opinion that multi-paradigm is good.