That article is just more of what your first post's article had in it. And neither one is very meaningful until the laws are actually made.
Ah, good. Now we're getting to it. Read the summary for the article we're talking about. It's also just a "proposed" law, but it apparently has caused much consternation among the commenters.
Don't you think we should also hold our fire on this new bill until the "law is actually made"?
Or are you suggesting that when a Democratic state legislator proposes a bill it should be held to a different standard than when Republican legislators do it?
I am currently in a state (Texas) where state legislators are famous for proposing bills that are so stupid it would make your head spin. Their laws are overturned by the US Supreme Court as unconstitutional more often than just about any other state in the union.
I should be aloud to move and hit you in order to save my own life/property.
The 18 state legislatures pushing these bills are less concerned about your car being blocked than people showing up demanding answers.
All of the bills would allow states to sue protesters for the cost of policing. Do you believe we should be able to sue gun manufacturers for the cost of policing, too?
Both speech and gun ownership are supposedly constitutional rights.
There's a difference between preventing peaceful protest and preventing people from blocking highways that are used for emergency vehicles.
I was hoping someone would try to make this argument. These bills have nothing at all to do with "blocking highways", and everything to do with blocking speech.
File this under, "no shit, Sherlock". I mean, has anyone gotten a load of the White House staff lately? We had a registered agent of a foreign government receiving national security briefings and holding the post of National Security Advisor before he was thrown to the wolves for being too obvious.
The president just signed a license deal to use his name on a string of Chinese brothels. I mean, what the fuck? I miss the days when the worst thing a president did was get a blowjob from a 20 year old and lie about it.
Artificial popcorn butter is a mix of flavorings. They may be of natural origin, or they may be synthesized. (usually the latter, it's cheaper these days). You can find the same "chemicals" in real natural butter, good old diacetyl, acetylpropionyl and acetoin. (with diacetyl being the famous one)
It's not the artificial butter flavoring that I object to so much as the stuff they put in that makes it smell like buttered popcorn.
First, it doesn't really smell like buttered popcorn at all and second, when I was a kid I worked a couple of summers in a lab that made food scents and flavorings. I can tell you for sure that the stuff they put in food to make it smell like what it's supposed to be does NOT occur in that food naturally. And all you have to do is a simple A-B comparison of the two to learn that it doesn't really even smell like the real thing either.
Real fresh popcorn has a pleasant smell which dissipates naturally in about a half-hour. Microwave popcorn smell lingers like a fart in church.
One of the most contradictory aspects of leftist ideologies
You know how there are always complaints in these comments sections about how stories are not "tech" enough? Well, here's a story about a fucking rocket to Mars, and this is what's showing up in the comments section.
I've just realized that it's not the Slashdot editors or the stories they select that don't have enough tech in them, it's many of the commenters.
Microwave popcorn is surely one of the signs of the Apocalypse and an abomination before the Lord.
Quick story:
So, my wife loves popcorn. She grew up in a Soviet satellite state and they didn't really have good popcorn, so when she got here and was at university finishing her PhD, she really glommed onto it, and microwave popcorn was such a novelty that she and our daughter used to eat it all the time. It made the house smell like a chemical plant burning down and really tasted bad.
About a year ago, I was taking the stove top pressure cooker out of the dishwasher and dropped it, breaking the important valves and bits. Now this was a decent stainless steel pressure cooker with the thick bottom for heat distribution and hating to throw it out, I stuck it in the back of the pantry and bought a new one. So one day, I'm at the farmer's market and some guy's selling popping corn from his farm. I had a memory of making popcorn in a big iron pot when I was a kid, and shaking the pot over the stove and then having to pick out the unpopped kernels, and I bought a couple of pounds of this guys popping corn.
When I got home, I pulled out the broken pressure cooker, put a spoon of coconut oil in and fired it up. Put in a half-cup of popping corn. The phone rang, and I walked away from the stove and lost track of a couple of minutes. When I came back, I was afraid I had burnt the whole thing, but when I opened the top, there was a full 6 quarts of perfectly-popped popcorn without a single unpopped kernal. I didn't have to shake the pot over the flame at all. It was simpler than microwave popcorn and absolutely delicious. We put all kinds of good stuff on our homemade fresh popcorn now. My favorite is cayenne pepper. With the coconut oil, you don't really need butter and we've now tried everything from turmeric to carmel and melted dark chocolate. Or just eat it plain because it's so good.
So I guess what I'm trying to say to all of you is, leave the microwave popcorn alone. They put chemicals that have nothing to do with popcorn or butter on it just to make it smell like something that smells a bit like buttered popcorn if you've forgotten what real buttered popcorn smells like. Don't eat that shit. It probably will give you cancer. Make your own goddamn popcorn. It's easy. You can thank me later.
Here's the problem with that, though: Who gets to decide what the difference really is? Consider this scenario:
Gee, if we only had some sort of official organization for determining injurious intent. Maybe it could be called a "court" and the people presiding would be called, "judges". Yeah, someone should totally invent that.
But doesn't federal funding only account for about 3% of Meals on Wheels' budget?
You're right. For that pittance of money, only about 70,000 seniors will not have meals, and about 20,000 of them are veterans. Useless eaters, right?
I wonder how many illegal immigrants Meals on Wheels feeds?
You really care if a 90 year-old illegal immigrant gets a meal that you subsidize to the tune of 3%? You must be one of those "Christian conservatives" I keep hearing about.
Trump's attack on Yemen in his first few weeks in office, which cost civilian and American military lives, is not a good indication he will discontinue the Obama policy. Trump is too worried about "looking weak".
you can have your NEA amount of $148M/year.... IF...... it's funded with money we actually have. Otherwise you are a debt spending cunt
And you can spend $183 million taxpayer dollars a year keeping Melania in Trump Tower because she doesn't want to be anywhere near her husband...IF...it's funded with money we actually have. Otherwise you are a debt spending cunt.
I'm sorry, I had a number wrong. Meals on Wheels actually feeds 500,000 senior citizen veterans every year.
Trump is a piece of shit. If he skipped a few golf weekends at Mar-A-Lago, we could fund a lot of basic research, or food for the elderly, or maybe basic education so we don't get a completely useless asshole like him in the White House ever again.
But yes there will be plenty of money, because in fact this new budget looks a lot like the old one, except some pet programs get cut.
Yes, the new budget cuts federal funding for Meals on Wheels, which brings meals to seniors (and over 100,000 veterans).
If Melania Trump moved to the White House for ten fucking days, it would provide the federal funding for Meals on Wheels for a year.
Well there was plenty of money to drone and bomb children in Yemen when Obama was President. But you said nothing. Even though he targeted US citizens with extrajudicial killings and also murdered civilians. Your silence then was deafening.
If you looked at my comments back then, you would see that I was not silent about those things, but screamed and hollered about them all the time.
The difference is, when Trump sends a SEAL team into Yemen, the whole thing gets cocked up and Americans die. If you're going to spend money to do these sorts of invasions, then at least be halfway competent about it. And don't do it just to make yourself look "tough" during your first month in office.
Well, it's not like the US has a monopoly on psychos. We got's us some darn good ones though.
We've got the best psychos. Classy, beautiful psychos, believe me. Not loser psychos like they've got in Europe, which by the way has terrible ratings.
Although the term "psychopath" typically has negative connotations, some of the attributes associated with the disorder can be advantageous in a business setting.
Speaking of vaccines, Donald Trump's Secretary of Health & Human Services believes vaccines should be "up to the states", because apparently diseases respect state boundaries. Apparently, insurance companies should cross state lines, but vaccines should not.
He's also a member of some organization of anti-vaccine knuckleheads.
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Ah, good. Now we're getting to it. Read the summary for the article we're talking about. It's also just a "proposed" law, but it apparently has caused much consternation among the commenters.
Don't you think we should also hold our fire on this new bill until the "law is actually made"?
Or are you suggesting that when a Democratic state legislator proposes a bill it should be held to a different standard than when Republican legislators do it?
I am currently in a state (Texas) where state legislators are famous for proposing bills that are so stupid it would make your head spin. Their laws are overturned by the US Supreme Court as unconstitutional more often than just about any other state in the union.
The 18 state legislatures pushing these bills are less concerned about your car being blocked than people showing up demanding answers.
All of the bills would allow states to sue protesters for the cost of policing. Do you believe we should be able to sue gun manufacturers for the cost of policing, too?
Both speech and gun ownership are supposedly constitutional rights.
I was hoping someone would try to make this argument. These bills have nothing at all to do with "blocking highways", and everything to do with blocking speech.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/J...
Oops.
https://theintercept.com/2017/...
File this under, "no shit, Sherlock". I mean, has anyone gotten a load of the White House staff lately? We had a registered agent of a foreign government receiving national security briefings and holding the post of National Security Advisor before he was thrown to the wolves for being too obvious.
The president just signed a license deal to use his name on a string of Chinese brothels. I mean, what the fuck? I miss the days when the worst thing a president did was get a blowjob from a 20 year old and lie about it.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/07...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
You're a killjoy.
It's not the artificial butter flavoring that I object to so much as the stuff they put in that makes it smell like buttered popcorn.
First, it doesn't really smell like buttered popcorn at all and second, when I was a kid I worked a couple of summers in a lab that made food scents and flavorings. I can tell you for sure that the stuff they put in food to make it smell like what it's supposed to be does NOT occur in that food naturally. And all you have to do is a simple A-B comparison of the two to learn that it doesn't really even smell like the real thing either.
Real fresh popcorn has a pleasant smell which dissipates naturally in about a half-hour. Microwave popcorn smell lingers like a fart in church.
You know how there are always complaints in these comments sections about how stories are not "tech" enough? Well, here's a story about a fucking rocket to Mars, and this is what's showing up in the comments section.
I've just realized that it's not the Slashdot editors or the stories they select that don't have enough tech in them, it's many of the commenters.
Quick story:
So, my wife loves popcorn. She grew up in a Soviet satellite state and they didn't really have good popcorn, so when she got here and was at university finishing her PhD, she really glommed onto it, and microwave popcorn was such a novelty that she and our daughter used to eat it all the time. It made the house smell like a chemical plant burning down and really tasted bad.
About a year ago, I was taking the stove top pressure cooker out of the dishwasher and dropped it, breaking the important valves and bits. Now this was a decent stainless steel pressure cooker with the thick bottom for heat distribution and hating to throw it out, I stuck it in the back of the pantry and bought a new one. So one day, I'm at the farmer's market and some guy's selling popping corn from his farm. I had a memory of making popcorn in a big iron pot when I was a kid, and shaking the pot over the stove and then having to pick out the unpopped kernels, and I bought a couple of pounds of this guys popping corn.
When I got home, I pulled out the broken pressure cooker, put a spoon of coconut oil in and fired it up. Put in a half-cup of popping corn. The phone rang, and I walked away from the stove and lost track of a couple of minutes. When I came back, I was afraid I had burnt the whole thing, but when I opened the top, there was a full 6 quarts of perfectly-popped popcorn without a single unpopped kernal. I didn't have to shake the pot over the flame at all. It was simpler than microwave popcorn and absolutely delicious. We put all kinds of good stuff on our homemade fresh popcorn now. My favorite is cayenne pepper. With the coconut oil, you don't really need butter and we've now tried everything from turmeric to carmel and melted dark chocolate. Or just eat it plain because it's so good.
So I guess what I'm trying to say to all of you is, leave the microwave popcorn alone. They put chemicals that have nothing to do with popcorn or butter on it just to make it smell like something that smells a bit like buttered popcorn if you've forgotten what real buttered popcorn smells like. Don't eat that shit. It probably will give you cancer. Make your own goddamn popcorn. It's easy. You can thank me later.
Gee, if we only had some sort of official organization for determining injurious intent. Maybe it could be called a "court" and the people presiding would be called, "judges". Yeah, someone should totally invent that.
Trump is on track to triple that.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, under Trumpcare, your health insurance will go up by a factor of eight.
You're right. For that pittance of money, only about 70,000 seniors will not have meals, and about 20,000 of them are veterans. Useless eaters, right?
You really care if a 90 year-old illegal immigrant gets a meal that you subsidize to the tune of 3%? You must be one of those "Christian conservatives" I keep hearing about.
Trump's attack on Yemen in his first few weeks in office, which cost civilian and American military lives, is not a good indication he will discontinue the Obama policy. Trump is too worried about "looking weak".
And you can spend $183 million taxpayer dollars a year keeping Melania in Trump Tower because she doesn't want to be anywhere near her husband...IF...it's funded with money we actually have. Otherwise you are a debt spending cunt.
I'm sorry, I had a number wrong. Meals on Wheels actually feeds 500,000 senior citizen veterans every year.
Trump is a piece of shit. If he skipped a few golf weekends at Mar-A-Lago, we could fund a lot of basic research, or food for the elderly, or maybe basic education so we don't get a completely useless asshole like him in the White House ever again.
Yes, the new budget cuts federal funding for Meals on Wheels, which brings meals to seniors (and over 100,000 veterans).
If Melania Trump moved to the White House for ten fucking days, it would provide the federal funding for Meals on Wheels for a year.
If you looked at my comments back then, you would see that I was not silent about those things, but screamed and hollered about them all the time.
The difference is, when Trump sends a SEAL team into Yemen, the whole thing gets cocked up and Americans die. If you're going to spend money to do these sorts of invasions, then at least be halfway competent about it. And don't do it just to make yourself look "tough" during your first month in office.
I'm glad we had this little talk.
Cost of security for Trump Tower: $183 million/year
Budget for National Endowment Arts/Humanities: $148 million/year
I hope he leaves in enough money so we can bomb children in Yemen, because that makes America great.
You think they can they make one of these for my mother-in-law's pacemaker?
https://youtu.be/6EN5eJf5h_k
We've got the best psychos. Classy, beautiful psychos, believe me. Not loser psychos like they've got in Europe, which by the way has terrible ratings.
What does this tell us about our economic system?
It wouldn't be much of an "economy" since robots don't spend money.
Which "people" were feeling the pain of high-cost labor? Certainly not the high-cost labor.
I guess there won't be any pain when the robots take all those peoples' jobs.
It's funny how some of the same people who decry immigration and H1-B visas think their lives will be made better when robots take their jobs.
Speaking of vaccines, Donald Trump's Secretary of Health & Human Services believes vaccines should be "up to the states", because apparently diseases respect state boundaries. Apparently, insurance companies should cross state lines, but vaccines should not.
He's also a member of some organization of anti-vaccine knuckleheads.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2...
And of course, Trump himself is an anti-vaxxer:
http://fortune.com/2017/02/16/...
I'm telling you, the current administration is made up of crisis actors.
"The Holocaust never happened," and "I'm not a puppet".