Comment Re:American fear mongering (Score 1) 162
The Economist magazine refers to this sort of thing as "State Capitalism" in order to try and distance from Socialism.
It's like those people who say Hillary committed a crime (email server) yet all those lawyers and agents at the FBI said otherwise.
That's not the job of the agents and lawyers and that's why Comey's actions were so wrong.
A friend of mine who is a retired FBI agent explained this to me several years ago. After an investigation is ordered, the job of the agents involved is to investigate and then provide their report to a grand jury that subsequently determines whether or not an actual crime has been committed.
The agents don't decide anything. If the grand jury decides a crime was committed, they pass that along to the prosecutor in the appropriate jurisdiction to determine if a prosecution can reasonably be expected to succeed. Federal prosecutors simply will not proceed if they don't think they will win regardless if a crime was actually committed. They will never willingly take on a case they aren't confident of winning.
Comey clearly interfered in the process for political reasons. Twice. If the standard process had been followed and had the grand jury determined that no crime had been committed, it would have ended there. Legally and according to the constitution. The only reason for the Obama administration to get involved twice was the fear of an unfavorable grand jury decision.
Recycling paper in particular takes so much water and chemicals that it makes no sense. All you're saving is trash pines, etc., that might be better just buried thereby sequestering some of the carbon.
A friend of mine worked on the Oak Ridge Summit super computer that brought online last year. The power requirements for running the thing are astonishing in and of themselves. More or less a small city's worth of electricity.
The correct response to this is to end tuition and just let anyone who passes their exams go to college. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace.
Yeah, OPM is always just a drop in the bucket.
I wonder if commercial kitchens have any air quality standards. Those people are in there all day.
Indeed they do. Not just hoods but active replacement air expressly rated for the hoods.
A friend of mine recently opened a restaurant and the inspector determined that the HVAC contractor had insufficiently sized the replacement air system for the range hoods. He wouldn't allow the restaurant to open until that was fixed.
I see places all the time offer a ~2% cash discount but what you can't do is add on a 2% credit card fee.
Several restaurants in my area offer a 10% cash discount. They aren't chains and all happen to be Oriental but the discount is common.
Actually, with healthcare, the patient has virtually no way to know the cost of the services they receive. There were recent articles about how, when hospitals released the fees, the obtuse wording and jargon in the price lists made it almost impossible to know what a visit was going to cost.
Before ObamaCrap made an even bigger hash of the already government infected healthcare system, I went to an all cash doctor group. Every common procedure the did was posted right in the waiting room and online. They explained how ObamaCrap forced them out of business.
They could still charge cash for their services but the forced buy in of the medical records system along with the increase in costs of their auxiliary services such as lab work, etc., got much more expensive because of the consolidation of the industry that resulted from ObamaCrap. The primary intent of the legislation had nothing AT ALL to do with actual healthcare but rather the elimination of independent small practices by consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. I had three separate primary care practices go out of business in a couple of years.
I've seen multiple reviewers say that this movie would be worth watching in 3D. It is unusual that a movie is enhanced by 3D in reality, and not the opposite.
Foster's Law states "If 3D makes your movie better, your movie sucks". Except surfing movies. A 3D surfing movie would be cool!
We'll have robots replacing long haul truck drivers and lumberjacks well before we get rid of all the elementary school teachers. (In no small part because groups of kids will always require constant hands-on supervision)
Pff, a T-800 Model 101 can handle the kids easily.
Maybe this civilization takes a long view.
So they have not invented Quarterly Results and Agile? That IS advanced.
A truly advanced race if they have outgrown or avoided inventing MBA's.
I wish to subscribe to their newsletter. (As long as it's not focused on dinner prep)
What makes intestines any more disgusting than muscles?
Um, the contents?
By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.
And the "progressive" nut jobs on CommonDreams.org are blaming fossil fuel use for the explosion, because, you know, fossil fuel is evil.
I'm not saying that squirrels did it but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is very strange that the USA has the best constitution concerning rights and the worst record of actually providing them.
Really? The worst? In the world?
What are you smoking?
This all starts from the "every zygote is sacred" mentality -- when you prevent abortion, someone has to pay for all the costs of supporting the resulting child. The more children, the more jobs are needed. That pushes more people to the bottom wages and increases living costs as more have to share. These decisions are causing future problems -- and guess what? The future is now. It has been for many years.
Who is preventing abortions in America? Sure there are heated debates, but where is abortion banned in America? And for many years?
Just asking for a friend.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."
