kids in FPS games razz me for speaking too formally.
Don't worry about that one. It's one of the few cases where the children are in fact wrong.
Which conversions? Most metric conversions are drastically simpler than their imperial counterparts.
Add in the $12 billion, and everyone now gets $140. Still not going to help them.
Go after the banks for some actual shitty things they do. A money lender telling people to spend responsibly is the opposite of the things we should be going after them for.
So across all consumers and small businesses, Chase has 86 million customers. If the CEO distributed all his pay, everyone gets $0.14. That's not going to solve anyone being poor, and not going to help you if you have shitty spending habits.
For all the shitty things banks do, knocking them for actually advocating someone good for once seems counter-productive.
Exactly. More specifically, I'm not afraid of how people vote, I'm afraid of people choosing not to.
Wait, is that a random number, or the actual scale of the power draw we're talking about?
'Cause that's fuck-all when we're talking about industrial level power draw.
Well now this really makes for a trio of facts that paint a horrifying picture:
- Private, for profit prisons exist
- Prison slave labour is legal
- Homelessness can now be made illegal
Guess I should buy some stocks in companies that use prison labour.
Checks out, what with the current state of the Christian-right in the US.
Not important enough to me at this point to spend the time changing over. Windows 10 does what I need it to and still gets security updates. When one of those two factors changed, then it will be worth my time to change over.
Microsoft has made the choice very easy for me. I still have an i7-7700k that works just fine. But that's "too old", so when Windows 10 hits end of life, I'll be switching over to Linux.
the ads are minimally intrusive — that is, highly relevant and engaging — they should not detract from the overall user experience
In what universe do ads, no matter how "relevant and engaging", ever not detract from the overall experience?
Lol, as if their Wal Mart rifles are going to help them against reaper drones.
Oh I'm not concerned about the safety and quality aspect. GM, Ford et al have put out plenty of unsafe shitboxes in the past. I'm talking about the fact the outside companies are flat out not allowed to operate in China without forming a partnership with a Chinese company. It's a simple rule that fuckd things up royally once all the ramifications of that play out.
Canada's political scene is more complex than that, owing to the fact that there's one or two more (depending on where you live) semi-viable parties to vote for. Not all ridings have the Conservatives and Liberals in the first/second place polling positions.
For me, first and foremost is the fact that Chinese companies don't have to operate by the same rules here as North American companies have to operate by in China. Until that's fixed, I have no interest in letting them into our market. And that's before we get into issues like some of the more valid arguments for a limited amount of protectionism.
Post economic system
I'm not even sure what this would mean. Are you talking about everyone having a replicator and no one trades goods and services anymore? An "economic system" is just the umbrella term for whatever method people use to exchange goods and services.
Huh. Maybe if there weren't profit sucking leeches built into the entire healthcare system, prices wouldn't be so high and Medicare wouldn't be at risk of becoming insolvent.