Hurlshort Posted August 4, 2017 Posted August 4, 2017 That really isn't how the system works, or at least is not supposed to work. The government is not supposed to have the power to make things legal or illegal on a whim. You have ballot measures and representatives of the people that are supposed to make those decisions. Now you can argue that there are too many interefering factors at play (lobbyists, courts, etc.) But pot is hardly becoming legal on a whim. It has been a slow climb through local and state legislation to get anywhere near being legal, and it still has to overcome federal hurdles. It is an interesting change to watch, probably the most fascinating shift since prohibition. 1
Raithe Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 So, with Kayleigh McEnany doing Trump News, and Donald's name splashed across the wall behind her as she gives that "this is the real news"... is this what's going to replace the White House daily press briefing? "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
redneckdevil Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 So, with Kayleigh McEnany doing Trump News, and Donald's name splashed across the wall behind her as she gives that "this is the real news"... is this what's going to replace the White House daily press briefing? Sigh, from one extreme media to another
Malcador Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 So, with Kayleigh McEnany doing Trump News, and Donald's name splashed across the wall behind her as she gives that "this is the real news"... is this what's going to replace the White House daily press briefing? Her dogged defense of all things Trump on CNN was funny. But I guess she's gotta do something to get paid Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Wrath of Dagon Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 The GULAG archipelago. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
injurai Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 Look at those low Trump numbers in Michigan, and Clinton just snubbed that entire state. I'm really going to have to read her book.
ShadySands Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 Sittin on the dock of the (Denver) bay Free games updated 3/4/21
Agiel Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) Number of Americans living in towns of under 25,000 is about 30 million, equivalent to 10% of the US population and the combined total population of metropolitan New York and Philadelphia. Now should there be more discourse between those segments of the population? Absolutely, but all this nonsense about the "metro-elite bubble" sounds to me like fetishising a way of life that's been atypical since the 1930's. Edited August 7, 2017 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
redneckdevil Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 That's about the population of our top 25 cities. New York is only 8ish million and next is 3ish million.
HoonDing Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 Hillbillies vote Republican, news at 11 The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Agiel Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) That's about the population of our top 25 cities. New York is only 8ish million and next is 3ish million. It would also include the number of people who live in surrounding suburbs since while the majority of Americans work in cities real estate actually within them is restrictively expensive. Those living in suburbs surrounding the big cities are usually of the white collar professional class (dad works 9-5 cubicle farm job commuting to the city, mom is homeowner who takes kids to soccer games in SUV, or as is increasingly the case working herself, and kids with aspirations for university or a professional job). Edited August 7, 2017 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
redneckdevil Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 Hillbillies vote Republican, news at 11 Fake news, I voted Johnson 2
Gromnir Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 nice maps. if dirt and rocks could vote, then perhaps trump woulda' managed to win the popular vote. unfortunately, more o' the people in the US live in urban areas than in the desert south o' salt lake city, or in the appalachians or the rockies... or michigan . go figure. Hillbillies vote Republican, news at 11 watched ozark and learned hillbilly is a pejorative for redneck. who knew? HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
smjjames Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 -image snip- The GULAG archipelago. That's certainly an interesting way of visualizing it. Though it only goes by percentage of votes, not number of votes. If 1 mil equals 1,000 feet, New York City would tower over Mount Everest. Though you'd lose the fine details on that scale, perhaps if 250,000 equals 1,000 feet. *shrug*
redneckdevil Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 (edited) nice maps. if dirt and rocks could vote, then perhaps trump woulda' managed to win the popular vote. unfortunately, more o' the people in the US live in urban areas than in the desert south o' salt lake city, or in the appalachians or the rockies... or michigan . go figure. Hillbillies vote Republican, news at 11watched ozark and learned hillbilly is a pejorative for redneck. who knew? HA! Good Fun! Bah, people who use it in a derogative way hasn't sat down at the table and break bread with a family of hillbillies. So far the only place I've seen southern hospitality is up in those beautiful mountains. Edited August 7, 2017 by redneckdevil
Gromnir Posted August 7, 2017 Posted August 7, 2017 got little experience with the south. in the late 80s we did a kinda tour o' the US while on our football recruiting visits. the overt racism shocked us. sure, we had experienced racism in the dakotas and when we lived in chicago, but the south were... different. southern racial bigotry were kinda a smouldering, ubiquitous and accepted part o' daily life. shocked us a bit. have been back to the south (not often) in more recent years, but have never been able to shake our earliest impressions that the south ain't no place for an oglala and catholic kid with a big mouth and a chip on his shoulder. in the 80s, southern hospitality woulda' had us, best case scenario, beaten senseless and left for dead in a roadside ditch outside o' nashville or gainesville. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
213374U Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 Full manifesto Not "full" actually, because Gizmodo amputated links and charts from the document. another link Guy's been fired, btw. - When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
Malcador Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 Why you don't write such things at work, rather surprised he didn't know that. 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Hurlshort Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 The premise is that people are more concerned with diversity than work, so the guy writes a 10-page manifesto on that subject? Okey dokey. Talk about 1st world problems. Employees at Google get free meals. I don't mean like a lunch here and there. They have gourmet restaurants all over the campuses that serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner to any employees that want it. I'll sit through as many diversity trainings as they want for that perk. 2
Guard Dog Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 nice maps. if dirt and rocks could vote, then perhaps trump woulda' managed to win the popular vote. unfortunately, more o' the people in the US live in urban areas than in the desert south o' salt lake city, or in the appalachians or the rockies... or michigan . go figure. Hillbillies vote Republican, news at 11 watched ozark and learned hillbilly is a pejorative for redneck. who knew? HA! Good Fun! And all this time I thought it was the other way around. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Pidesco Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 Yeah, I read that sentence as "hillbilly is a pejorative for a pejorative." 1 "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Agiel Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 The premise is that people are more concerned with diversity than work, so the guy writes a 10-page manifesto on that subject? Okey dokey. Talk about 1st world problems. Employees at Google get free meals. I don't mean like a lunch here and there. They have gourmet restaurants all over the campuses that serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner to any employees that want it. I'll sit through as many diversity trainings as they want for that perk. We're not even asking you to like it. Does it offend your sensibilities? Just bring a notepad and a pen and doodle. occasionally raising your head to nod and smile. I find meetings the perfect time for me to knock out some thumbnail drawings at work. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Malcador Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 His essay isn't all that bad. Though if he's not high up it is a bit amusing to think he matters (but that is down to their culture). Advocating pair programming, though? Scumbag. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Leferd Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 *Oozing sarcasm* Sure, go ahead and privatize and outsource the US military. http://amp.usatoday.com/story/548004001/ Maybe Hamid Karzai can play the Enrico Chivaldori stand in role in the Hollywood adaptation. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle
Wrath of Dagon Posted August 8, 2017 Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) The premise is that people are more concerned with diversity than work, so the guy writes a 10-page manifesto on that subject? Okey dokey. Talk about 1st world problems. Employees at Google get free meals. I don't mean like a lunch here and there. They have gourmet restaurants all over the campuses that serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner to any employees that want it. I'll sit through as many diversity trainings as they want for that perk. You're the perfect candidate for the coming Soviet system. Well, except you won't get any gourmet lunches. I'm switching to DuckDuckGo btw, been sick of google politicking for quite some time now. Edit: *Oozing sarcasm* Sure, go ahead and privatize and outsource the US military. http://amp.usatoday.com/story/548004001/ Maybe Hamid Karzai can play the Enrico Chivaldori stand in role in the Hollywood adaptation. Sounds like an excellent idea to me, let people who want to take the risks, keep the military for the defense of the US. Kind of like the French Foreign Legion. Edited August 8, 2017 by Wrath of Dagon "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
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