The low fat craze created the obesity epidemic. Food with fat removed tastes terrible, so producers responded by upping the sugar. Sugar is terrible for you, but wasn't too bad when the only place it existed was in the sugar bowl on your table. Now it is everywhere. Fructose (which is 50% of sugar) can only be digested in the liver, and contributes to belly fat. Good job, government busybodies, and your "suggestions" for good food. You've screwed up an entire generation.
Are you kidding? Charge a 12-year-old with murder? For teasing someone? Have you lost your mind?
There is a reason we don't treat kids like adults. They are severely lacking in judgement and morals. You know, the things parents are supposed to teach them. Locking them will not deter them or others from the behaviour, and will likely only mess up their lives.
Kids need to develop coping skill to deal with bullies. The simplest is to have a lot of friends. Criminalizing teasing is not going to help this situation at all. You can't judge the severity of the bullying based on an outcome. Some kids are already dealing with problems, so might be quicker to choose suicide than others.
Wait, are you serious? So at the end of Call of Duty, we have a interactive trial where the US soldiers are tried for war crimes? Are you nuts? Or when you violate a war crime, you get docked 100 points? What in Gods name are you talking about?
So if there was one legitimate target in the World Trade Center, everyone else "sitting next to the guy" were just unfortunate collateral damage? Your dangerous thinking is used all the time, by your enemies. The point is to be better than them.
We have not paid for newspaper news for something like 100 years. Ads pay the reporters salaries. The money you pay for a paper is miniscule, and maybe covers its printing and delivery. These newspapers are rewriting history, trying to convince us that we used to pay for papers, and should continue to do so. This is simply not true.
Newspapers have always been about bringing eyeballs to advertisers.
This isn't a device problem, it is a telco problem. They require that data coming in from the mobile phone must be monitored and provided to CSIS.
This can't be device issue. Think about it, the only reason the telco knows its you making a call is the SIM card in your phone. You can move the SIM card to another phone and make a call.
This issue has nothing to do with Samsung, Apple, etc.
Maybe another myth can die. That exercise is useful for weight loss. Exercise is weakly (and sometimes inversely) correlated with weight loss, yet this is the first suggestion out of peoples mouths. Exercise is great for general health, though.
I know it is fashionable to dump on companies, but lets be clear about who the bad guy is in this situation: the US government. The government needs to be shrunk and its powers neutered. Sure, it would be nice if phone companies stuck up for people, but they are at the mercy of the government. They have a government granted monopoly. Of course they aren't going to rock the boat.
I think people have to break their "occupy" mindset to realize the government is the enemy in this, not corporations, who are victims like us.
You do understand that the NSA is a government organization, right? What do you mean, "tech companies got caught"? Got caught obeying the insane US laws? They are probably relieved that this came to light so they aren't (by penalty of law) forced to lie to everyone.
"extremely powerful, extremely wealthy people at the very top"
What the hell are you talking about? You think that business has anything to do with this? Sorry, but this story doesn't fit into your 1% nonsense. This is government corruption, pure and simple. And the solution is reducing the size of government.
This should explain exactly why people are libertarians. "Public and open oversight" is a great idea in theory, but these guys just hide in plain sight. Most people don't have the time or inclination to research these issues.
No, the solution is to not give governments the power in the first place. Mad that the government spent a trillion dollars bailing out the banks? The solution is not oversight, the solution is to not give the government so much money and power in the first place.
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I'm an engineer, and saying 1/4 of 100 C is 25 C is just plain ridiculous. You have to move to an absolute scale.
Think about it, in your world, you'll get different answers depending on whether you start with Fahrenheit or Celsius, which is crazy. You have to convert to Rankine or Kelvin and then do the calculation.
Using the Kelvin scale (or Rankine for USA) is the only thing that makes sense when talking about changes in temperature. Otherwise, your results will be different depending on your units, which is crazy.
Is there no way? Couldn't I encrypt my emails before I send them, so even if they hack my account, all they find is gibberish? Then I could create a trust list so those people could read my emails?
Hell can't logically be "eternal torment". There is no crime, no matter how heinous, that is justified by an eternity of punishment, no matter how lenient.
You blame the people who called the police? You can't be serious. If I hear what I think is a gunshot or an assault and call the police, am I responsible if the police over react when they investigate?
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There is a reason we don't treat kids like adults. They are severely lacking in judgement and morals. You know, the things parents are supposed to teach them. Locking them will not deter them or others from the behaviour, and will likely only mess up their lives.
Kids need to develop coping skill to deal with bullies. The simplest is to have a lot of friends. Criminalizing teasing is not going to help this situation at all. You can't judge the severity of the bullying based on an outcome. Some kids are already dealing with problems, so might be quicker to choose suicide than others.
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Newspapers have always been about bringing eyeballs to advertisers.
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This can't be device issue. Think about it, the only reason the telco knows its you making a call is the SIM card in your phone. You can move the SIM card to another phone and make a call.
This issue has nothing to do with Samsung, Apple, etc.
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I know it is fashionable to dump on companies, but lets be clear about who the bad guy is in this situation: the US government. The government needs to be shrunk and its powers neutered. Sure, it would be nice if phone companies stuck up for people, but they are at the mercy of the government. They have a government granted monopoly. Of course they aren't going to rock the boat.
I think people have to break their "occupy" mindset to realize the government is the enemy in this, not corporations, who are victims like us.
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What the hell are you talking about? You think that business has anything to do with this? Sorry, but this story doesn't fit into your 1% nonsense. This is government corruption, pure and simple. And the solution is reducing the size of government.
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No, the solution is to not give governments the power in the first place. Mad that the government spent a trillion dollars bailing out the banks? The solution is not oversight, the solution is to not give the government so much money and power in the first place.
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Think about it, in your world, you'll get different answers depending on whether you start with Fahrenheit or Celsius, which is crazy. You have to convert to Rankine or Kelvin and then do the calculation.
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