Also, if the Republicans had this great lockstep mentality you mention, the term RINO wouldn't exist.
Exactly. They'd all be good Southern Democrats^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B Real Republicans (TM)!! Bengazi!!!!1!!!
Now you can keep your spam and we'll go solve the mysteries of the universe while you post hate speech at each other over meaningless twaddle.
And yet the mystery of irony remains as mysterious as ever . .
While not a consummate prepper, I can still lose cable, internet, and even electrical service... and bide the disaster with a semblance of civilized entertainment.
Actually the first hour of a power outage is the best time to watch that new-fangled streaming video here. I've got a generator, but most of the neighbors are offline till the power comes back on. So none of that annoying buffering and glitching. But the honeymoon is over all too soon. After the first hour, the cable internet service goes dark. I assume they've got switching/routing equipment at the neighborhood level that has a battery backup for short blackouts.
Having money is the one thing corporations are good at, and they're really, really good at it. If your strategy hinges on using money as influence, you're always going to lose, because they are FAR better and more practiced at that game than you are.
Then think like a corporation. Hire their best lobbyists and strategists away with better offers.
What you fail to realize is that the wealthy are not dragons that sit on their piles of money. Money has no value until it is trading hands. The "wealthy" do 2 things: 1) Spend their money 2) Invest their money to... MAKE MOAR MONEY!
Both these actions create jobs and spur the creation of businesses to produce things to be acquired and or consumed, and pay employees to produce or for services. Employees make money, investors try to invest wisely to make a positive return on the money invested, everyone wins with ZOMG! TRICKLE DOWN!
Money hidden under the mattress does no any good.
I agree that money only has value when it moves. But making more money does not necessarily create jobs. It might. Or it might not. One might make more money by doubling widget production capacity with twice the factories, twice the labor, etc. Or one might make more money by finding a way to make the same number of widgets with less labor, thus increasing profit. Maybe it's some of both. Money does not care how it is made. Capitalism means getting a return on capital. Sometimes the side effects of returning value to investors benefit those without the capital, too.
Do they have any legal recourse against candidates who are elected with their funding, only to split from them after the election?
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought." -- U.S. Senator Simon Cameron (1799-1889)
Here's another dick move, sleeping with your friends wife/girlfriend. Would you defend that as well and claim someone is taking it personal when they point out it's a dick move?
Sorry. I didn't realize you two had a history.
If the sentence was, "Apple CEO Tim Cook said during his keynote that...," would you still use commas? If not, why should we need them here?
Okay, you could reorder the sentence instead of setting off the prepositional phrase with commas. Which way you do it is a matter of taste, I suppose. But more importantly, I probably should have elided the beginning of the sentence entirely to not distract from the real parsing problem in the direct quote at the end. My bad.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook during his keynote said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months states, "Many of these customers were switchers from Android," he said.
Perhaps this means:
Apple CEO Tim Cook, during his keynote, said that around 130 million customers have purchased their first Apple device in the last twelve months. 'Many of these customers were switchers from Android,' he said.
"Cold Weather Package: Stay warmer as the weather gets colder with new heated second-row seats, heater windshield wiper nozzles & cowl, improved defrost grill, and an upgraded battery coolant heater to improve vehicle performance and range in cold climates."
Sounds fancy. Even the cars I've had with heated seats (not a fan - I wear pants anyway) haven't had rear seat heaters. This may be a competitive item in the luxury car class. If you're bringing your kids to school and it's actually cold out they're wearing snow pants, but for those kids in Florida when it his 45*F, I guess.
It could be an attractive option for someone with a non-zero chance of having more than one adult passenger in their car. I'm in 'Merca, so I guess that might be the one guy at the rest home that still has his license and shuttles the neighbors to bingo or the grocery store. The ones that don't yet need to take the wheelchair-lift van, that is. Okay, so it's a niche market.
I honestly don't understand the fear.
Then put YOUR ass on the line and do what you suggest. Suggesting other people put their asses on the line for your benefit just means you're a dick.
You seem to be taking this rather personally. Why? vux984 can't make you or me or anyone else do what they don't want to do, even if he does suggest it would be okay to do so. The "dick" accusation is a petty way to state your disagreement.
Unfortunately, I work in the ad industry, though my firm's clients are premium brands that specifically avoid the undesirable ad types (banners only, no pop unders or bullshit. Those types of ads actually hurt brand value more than anything else). That being said, by far the worst ads are the ones that have been compromised to deliver malware. That really blows the other options out of the water.
Of course, if anyone's ads are annoying -- or worse, deliver malware -- the user would be foolish to let any through that he could possibly block. Does anyone really have enough time to vet and whitelist harmless but interesting ads amongst the deluge of drivel and danger? And how would one even do that vetting and verification even given the time necessary?
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
