At least Europe is going to get something now - not my personal favorite (if there is anything interesting there, which we don't actually know, it's buried way too deep for us to get at it for a long, long time).
If you're really that curious about what's in Europe, why don't you just visit the next time you take a vacation?
Drill a small hole into a fire-resistant safe...
That deserves a "+5 Funny"!
If it ends up being Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush,
Who would move the US more to the right: Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush?
My current thinking is that Hillary would.
I'm going to vote for Hillary because....she isn't overly corrupt and she's not bat shit crazy.
That's quite a ringing endorsement.
That happened with this one as well. It doesn't show the previous action which led up to the officer and the suspect being out in the middle of the grass after a traffic stop. It doesn't show where the officer and the suspect were involved in a tussle as claimed by the officer, during which the suspect reportedly took the officer's stun gun.
NOTHING justifies shooting an unarmed fleeing man in the back when he's already 10 yards away.
I know what the groupthink around here is, but "...now, because of videos, we are seeing just how systemic and widespread it is" is an expression of a preconceived notion, not a valid inference from data.
It is systemic and widespread, but also locally varying, not ubiquitous. That is to say, there are many departments like Ferguson where it is accepted, even promoted, by those in charge and thus systemic and widespread. And there are many many departments where it is absolutely not. Speaking as someone who's lived in a number of different areas of the country, I've lived in areas where the cops were awful, and even a white male would be wise to dread any contact with them, and I've lived in areas where they were highly professional.
Then we can either fuck it, eat it...
You do realize, that never in our history, have those two choices been exclusive?
Seems like Apple did invent everything before Android makers did
I have no idea what you're talking about, and it seems I will remain clueless, since you didn't bother to make sure the link was correct
I do not know, I think we should try an experiment involving high pressure hoses and insertion to see if they do in fact get bigger.
Count me in. I'd be glad to be in charge of not applying lube
This is billionaire douchebags saying they could become even bigger billionaire douchebags of only they could get more cheap labor from overseas.
While I sympathize with your sentiment, you are absolutely wrong. There is simply no way for Zuckerfuck and Ballmer to become bigger doucebags.
When you wrote: "Paul believed no one at all should have sex, ever again." you completely lost it. First, CITE the PARAGRAPH where Paul in-context said this (Paul wrote in paragraphs, the sentence (verse) numbers were inserted later by scholars to aid in navigating the text). You cannot, of course, because he said no such thing.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none... He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband... But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better."
I leave it to you to look up the verse yourself, smartass.
By YOUR reckoning, the church would have died-out immediately with nobody able to lead a church.
Paul and his contemporaries believed that Christ would return during their lifetimes, thus that not only was there no point in further procreation, but that such things were a waste of the very limited time they had left in which to spread the message of salvation.
He's gay and claims to be a Christian. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me (or Moses or Jesus or the Apostle Paul).
Moses was not a Christian.
Jesus said nothing on this subject.
Paul believed no one at all should have sex, ever again.
From what I see in this thread and from the objections to the law in the news, the intention is that a christian pastor could be forced to marry 2 people against his personal convictions...
Absolutely not. No law, nowhere, ever, has been passed (or even proposed) which would require this.
...and that a shopkeep could be forced to serve customers whose actions he disapproves of.
Absolutely. You're open to the public selling a product, you sell to everybody. Where are the gay store owners declaring that they would like to not sell to right-wing bigots? Oh, right, there are none, because normal people do not question the sexual orientation of members of the public who come into a store to purchase goods.
Yet, the intention here is that the business not have the same rights...
Absolutely. Businesses are not actually people and do not have all the same rights as people.
People need to understand that there is a difference between bigotry and disapproving of an ethos or behavior.
Well, no shit sherlock. Disapprove all you want. But, generally, if your business is open to the public, then it's open to all the public.
Those who give students their grades should not be the same people that give the students their education.
It is important to note that the Atlanta Public Schools' cheating happened *after* the tests were administered. After the tests were collected and the teachers who administered the tests went home, some other "educators" had erasing parties, where they got together and changed incorrect answers. So, to me, racketeering was the appropriate charge -- those "educators" ran a racket when they got together, circumvented test-security protocols and changed official state records (the exams).
My partner is the Principal of a public elementary school in Georgia.... the school is not part of the Atlanta Public School system, but is in a school district next-door to Atlanta. My partner's school has a very strict testing security protocol. When tests arrive in the school, the materials are locked in a safe inside a locked room that only the "testing administrator" controls. (This "testing administrator" is usually an Assistant Principal.) Anyone who goes into that room while the tests are in the school has to sign a log posted outside the room. The school's security system has a camera pointed at the room's door and that footage from that camera is saved; someone in the school system's main office apparently spot-checks the log against the footage. When the seals on the packets of test booklets are broken (in order to pass out the tests), two teachers must sign a paper saying that they witnessed the seals being broken. Any "testing abnormality" (the air-conditioning went out, loud noises or other distractions happened, etc.) has to be documented and a written explanation submitted with the tests.
My understanding is that the Atlanta Public Schools had a similar testing security protocol... so the "educators" who cheated really went out of their way to cheat. According to newspaper reports, one Atlanta "educator" even wore gloves so that her fingerprints would not be on tests.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford
