And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to suppress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to supress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to suppress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
Would you rather make $100,000 and have to pay $2000 a month in rent or Make $50,000 and pay $1000 a month in rent?
What you gain vs what you pay is where your decision lies. Cost of living is high, but compensation for the work tends to be disproportionately higher. Take home $38k or take home $76k after paying your rent....
I have been contracting for a long time, and I get insane offers from big Gov contract holders.
Needed- Systems Admin. Must have (insert 20 major certifications in systems, networking, security, programming, and for some odd reason, bicycle design) minimum experience 10+ years. $10/hr.
Most of Congress does not care. At all. Bring up spying on Americans, they roll their eyes and go to lunch.
however, point out that they are *GASP* spying on Congress, and all the sudden that 3 martini lunch on top of your latest intern last week is a burning concern, and the NSA must be stopped!
There is a difference between prosecuting crime properly and taking a cut.
make $2B in fraud, fined $300M for it... that's taking a cut.
Fined $2.3B for it, as well as prosecuting every case? THAT'S justice as well as deterrence. So long as the profit exceeds the fines, the law will be merely calculated as a business cost and ignored.
Actually, your premise is false. Evolution does not require nor exclude a creator. It merely observes what is.
The majority (vast majority if you look worldwide) of Christians also believe evolution. Because they are willing to learn what it really is, rather than swallow the latest load from money hungry charlatans like Ham, Hovind, Gish, etc.
This guy appears to be an Old Earth Creationist. This is an entirely different sort of animal than Ken Ham and his 6,000 year old universe.
many Christian and Muslim scientists are Old Earth/Old Universe Creationists. They do not argue against the findings and facts of science, only the conclusions where a god can be presupposed instead of "we don't know yet".
I believe they were comparing common hindsight outcry, not severity or type of event. Tons of people look at the one report on 9/11 that was ignored and cry foul- disregarding the thousands of equally plausible reports in the pile it came out of for that day.
I happen to agree that for the number of analysts the three-letter agencies employ that the totality of reports pertinent to this should have set off alarms... but you cannot ignore the sheer volume of data they had to sift through. Hindsight makes the buried seem obvious because you know what to look for now.
Prepaid credit cards are great for such things. main debit card is in the pocket, prepaid/gift Visa is loaded with a small amount for things like this. Pre-loaded ahead of time for large purchases.
AmEx had(has?) a system where you could be issued a single use card number for a specific transation. That was handy until I ditched my AmEx a few years ago.
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As user braeldiil said above:
And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to suppress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
people will point out all the evil shit you do. how rude!
To quote another poster:
And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to supress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
And this is a perfect example of how, if you repeat your false story enough times, people will believe it. The IRS office in question flagged groups from all over the political spectrum to determine if they were engaging in political activities that would prevent them from being tax exempt charities. Yes, they used "Tea Party" as a flag for further investigation, but they also used "Occupy". They were attempting to enforce the law passed by Congress, albeit in a very bad, possibly illegal way. For the record, they started these investigations after specific requests from Congress to make sure these nonprofits weren't breaking the law. But the House very carefully tailored their requests to make it appear that only conservative groups were targeted, and attempted to suppress testimony that demonstrated groups from all over the spectrum were affected. Once the full testimony transcripts were released, the press realized there wasn't really much of a story and mostly dropped it. But low-information voters like you never bothered to follow the story to its end.
It boils down to what you gain vs what you lose.
Would you rather make $100,000 and have to pay $2000 a month in rent
or
Make $50,000 and pay $1000 a month in rent?
What you gain vs what you pay is where your decision lies. Cost of living is high, but compensation for the work tends to be disproportionately higher. Take home $38k or take home $76k after paying your rent....
Taxes are about 40% of the total of the government's income.
I have been contracting for a long time, and I get insane offers from big Gov contract holders.
Needed- Systems Admin. Must have (insert 20 major certifications in systems, networking, security, programming, and for some odd reason, bicycle design)
minimum experience 10+ years. $10/hr.
nothing new here. This is the default position for large contractors.
Most of Congress does not care. At all. Bring up spying on Americans, they roll their eyes and go to lunch.
however, point out that they are *GASP* spying on Congress, and all the sudden that 3 martini lunch on top of your latest intern last week is a burning concern, and the NSA must be stopped!
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I just tried this and all my money was transferred to a different account.
If it's not Scottish, it's crap!
The same reason they put freak. because they wanted to. What has that got to do with piracy?
I assume you ARE aware of the massive non-piracy use for torrents, right? Including almost every game patch mechanism in use today.
There is a difference between prosecuting crime properly and taking a cut.
make $2B in fraud, fined $300M for it... that's taking a cut.
Fined $2.3B for it, as well as prosecuting every case? THAT'S justice as well as deterrence. So long as the profit exceeds the fines, the law will be merely calculated as a business cost and ignored.
Actually, your premise is false. Evolution does not require nor exclude a creator. It merely observes what is.
The majority (vast majority if you look worldwide) of Christians also believe evolution. Because they are willing to learn what it really is, rather than swallow the latest load from money hungry charlatans like Ham, Hovind, Gish, etc.
Not many atheists go to warlord controlled countries to delivery medical supplies while unarmed and unprotected.
Many do, and those atheists don't tell people in AIDS epidemics that condoms cause AIDS.....
the same way that Hayden Christensen appears as Anakin in Return of the Jedi.
We do not discuss such blasphemy in polite society.
This guy appears to be an Old Earth Creationist. This is an entirely different sort of animal than Ken Ham and his 6,000 year old universe.
many Christian and Muslim scientists are Old Earth/Old Universe Creationists. They do not argue against the findings and facts of science, only the conclusions where a god can be presupposed instead of "we don't know yet".
We will be doing old school cyphers soon.
Anyone else have a copy of "Where The Red Fern Grows"?
First word: P7,line7, word 3.
Second word....
Not today. He was caught mass-modding people who disagree with him last night. All associated accounts were stripped of mod ability forever.
He will just make more, but he's dead in the water for a bit.
Theres no such thing as the contry club type *for the poor*.
There most certainly are much softer and pleasant prisons. And if you can afford the right lawyers, you will go here instead of Lompoc.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-04-23/news/mn-1771_1_club-fed-eglin-federal-prison-camp-higher-security-prison
Change you can believe in.
I believe they were comparing common hindsight outcry, not severity or type of event.
Tons of people look at the one report on 9/11 that was ignored and cry foul- disregarding the thousands of equally plausible reports in the pile it came out of for that day.
I happen to agree that for the number of analysts the three-letter agencies employ that the totality of reports pertinent to this should have set off alarms... but you cannot ignore the sheer volume of data they had to sift through. Hindsight makes the buried seem obvious because you know what to look for now.
Probably thses:
http://www.techhive.com/article/122590/article.html
I have seen them on fast food drive throughs and some vending machines. It seems to be spreading. Your phone is becoming your Shadowrun Credstick...
Prepaid credit cards are great for such things. main debit card is in the pocket, prepaid/gift Visa is loaded with a small amount for things like this. Pre-loaded ahead of time for large purchases.
AmEx had(has?) a system where you could be issued a single use card number for a specific transation. That was handy until I ditched my AmEx a few years ago.