The difference between me and you is that I would like them *both* to go away. I am fine with Soros, Koch, unions, and any other group losing their massive money lobbyist operations as long as it means it brings power back to constituents and away from government by bid.
The point went whizzing over your head, apparently.
There have been legislatures that have attempted to pass bills that would have legally set the definition of pi to a set number (or at least implied it). This happened in Indiana in the late 1800s.
I don't think I would get myself frozen, but to take the opposite point of view for a second, no one has any idea what is going to be developed in the medical field. If somehow we can eventually get cells to regenerate themselves and recreate a human body, who really knows what amount we will need replace. Maybe the freezing process will slow the decomp. ENOUGH.
The start of personhood is a philosophical debate. It has no scientific answer, but in red states a definition of when cells become a person is going to be shoved down our throats. I don't rightly know if that embryo is a person or not, but I think we should agree we don't really know.
Trying to legislate that, in my humble opinion, is legislation of the same ilk as defining the legal definition of pi.
Ok.. I read this..
"To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."
And I think.. what the fuck is wrong with this country???
Your anecdote may well be true, but it's just that, an anecdote.
Well, this is precisely why society shouldn't be catering to corporate whim. Eventually it hurts everyone involved. This includes the corporate sector itself since it is so unable to look past the next quarter when making any decisions.
The college system isn't broken. It's just not "job training," which is what corporate types want.
They want to offload all that "develop the workforce" crap off on the government and other education institutions. They don't care about education. When the job training is obsolete they simply throw away the disposable workers and get the next batch.
Go look how many times this claim has been made, how many times it has been refuted (including a good refutation in the VERY STORY you post here), and then tell me that the pro-RFRA folks are being intellectual honest.
Never mind, by even parroting this claim you have proven you have not trouble with lying at all.
Is there any corporate malfeasance that someone won't try to explain away. How about if Comcast came out and shot the guy? Would you say that was his fault?
Basically the rule says to not use equipment to arbitrarily slow speeds down for competitive reasons. It says do nothing. That doesn't seem to be a very onerous requirement at all.
> To all liberals, more government regulation is uniformly good.
Bullcrap. Sane liberalism says that the government puts in only the regulation that is *needed* and put on the people that can do the most harm. I know of NO liberal that wants regulation for the sake of regulation.
Your portrayal of conservatives is wrong as well. Most conservatives seem to be fine with regulation as long it is on people they don't like and want to punish. They seem to want the people who can do the most harm have the least regulation (for money purposes) and tend to NOT care about regulation on individuals and small business, the very people who can do the LEAST harm.
The fact you are parroting these political stereotypes means you listen to a very limited group of people.
That's the false dilemma. Why the hell do you have to get rid of all fossil fuels? Why does using one mean you can't use the other?
This remind me of "sun sets, wind dies" billboards that get placed in coal mining towns. Only affective if you choose not believe in things like batteries and/or you have pushed the argument to full false dilemma status.
> I have no love for big banks, but at least in the United States, the FDIC and NCUA do a good job of regulating the banks and credit unions such that the bank cannot simply steal your money wholesale and get away with it.
Holy shit. There isn't one statement you could have made that would better totally destroy your credibility than THAT.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
