Nor does brain size particularly correlate with intelligence, or we wouldn't have the big, stupid oaf stereotype.
I do find it entirely plausible, however, the idiots have short attention spans, and flit from distraction to distraction constantly.
From my experience, CDC estimates should be taken with a grain of salt, as they often seem dubious at best.
They're not the least bit dubious, or hard to understand. CDC estimates, like all their actions, are designed o get them more tax dollars to play with. They're reasonably good at it, and never ones to miss an opportunity to profit from public hysteria.
More people die in Africa every month from dysentery than have died from ebola ever. But there's no public hysteria, and thus no tax dollars, in that.
They're assuming cases are underreported by a factor of "give us more money."
As you note, the US has some experience with corrupt government embezzling aid money. Once bitten, twice shy, and all.
p>I don't care how justified you think you are, but right now you're getting up there with "voting national socialist in 1935" levels of awful.
And I don't care how you think Americans should spend their money, especially when you resort to namecalling and are too ignorant to recognize Godwin's Law, even when it's humping your pantleg.
Maybe we should contact the government of Nigeria and offer them millions in aid, but we need a little seed money to free it up from the bank account it's currently in.
The distinction, as I recall, was privately owned, not size. Hobby Lobby is not publicly traded.
Believe it or not, Italian food is actually served in other countries.
I believe their plan is to deliberately violate Yelp's terms of service - by paying for reviews - to force Yelp to enforce said terms by removing the listing entirely. Which is what the restaurant wants - to not be listed at all.
It's a very clever plan. At best, they get everything they want, and at worst, "real" bad reviews get buried in amongst the snarky ones.
That sounds great until there is a conflict between the laws of different countries, like the Microsoft/Irish data center case. When a company can't obey the laws of one country without breaking the laws of the other, it's not a legal issue involving the company, it's a political issue between two governments.
And if it comes to One World Government taking precedence over all others, it won't be Canada deciding what international law is.
Canada only has jurisdiction over what is can enforce its orders on. If Netflix has no employees or assets in Canada, Canada has no jurisdiction over Netflix.
And Canada doesn't?
a lot of niche content will no longer get funded, so choice might actually be lessened
If not enough people are watching it to get it funded in an al a carte environment, then it's not worth funding in the first place.
The Supreme Court has ruled that civil forfeiture laws are, in fact, subject to the restrictions on excessive fines. Very specifically, and as I recall, on a case that involved seizure of money at the border.
Nobody knows about this, and a foreign tourist won't have any inclination to come back to the US - in a year or two, when it comes to trial - and spend more on legal fees than what was stolen.
The only way to stop this is to criminally prosecute corrupt cops. Which happens from time to time, but not nearly enough.
If you've got the resources to pursue a class action suit at all, such a restriction can already be challenged as unconscionable.
Indeed. Those are already inadequately covered by existing law.
It applies to restrictions on consumer - end customer - reviews, specifically. An NDA on consumer goods is not a common thing; most NDAs apply to employees. And this bill doesn't address that sort of thing at all. Read literally, however, yeah, it does seem to prohibit an NDA that restricts a consumer's right to talk trash about bad services or products. How it gets enforced is anybody's guess. California courts can get pretty stupid sometimes (and remarkably sensible at others).
I got no problem with it, though. If you can't stay in business if your customers talk about your products and services honestly, then you've got far bigger problems than this law.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
