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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Sorry, Zendervai... but... it was tax season. And, most Western nations get tax season from the Romans. Although, theirs took a few more months than ours does, they did actually start in spring (the then-start-of-the-year) and usually ended at some time in summer.
And, that's expressly not Saturnalia time.
You mean Devali
? That's usually over come Yuletide, though. <confused> I love Devali food, though... when people can agree on the dates to have it on.
Ace of Spades said this is more appropriate here, so...
Looks like Congress is drafting another NASA authorization bill
. It feels like Congress is trying to squeeze NASA more. Batting my eyes on the six years term.
It is illegal in Orlando, Florida to feed the homeless.
(Brain instantly jumps to the Colorado fires and how those forests obviously needed a controlled burn years ago. And how the houses in the forest needed to be designed with fires in mind)
...anyone want to take up that tangent? There seems to be enough subjects being discussed here at the moment that I don't think we need to add "responsible preservation techniques" to it.
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!You guys realize that that video is two years old, right? None of them were actually charged with a crime
. And DG was right, they reason they were arrested in the first place was for violating an ordinance against feeding people in a public park without a permit — an ordinance passed by the city only after pressure from local citizens, who weren't particularly pleased with the group co-opting part of their park with an unofficial homeless kitchen.
On a more general note, respect to the guys running it for taking a stand and doing what they felt was right despite knowing they were going to be arrested — and then allowing themselves to be arrested without any drama, rather than resisting arrest or doing anything stupid. That's the way to do civil disobedience. On the other hand, the people observing and trying to provoke the cops? They're dicks.
edited 16th Jun '13 1:11:47 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Dick Cheney To Chris Wallace: ‘Traitor’ Snowden Possibly Had Chinese Connection Before Leaking Info
W.H. Chief of Staff Tells Schieffer: Obama ‘Does Not’ Believe He Has Violated Any American’s Privacy
Mc Donough still creeps me out.
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They weren't arresting people for feeding the homeless, they were arresting people for co-opting a public park for private use. Feeding the homeless is certainly a noble endeavor, but you can't just ignore the effect that your activities have one everyone else while you do it.
edited 16th Jun '13 2:46:46 PM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.And part of Louisiana blows up.
For the love of weeping Christ, if you let the members of America's corporate elite go unsupervised and unaccountable, they will kill people, either all at once in cave-ins or big boom-booms, or slowly, a little at a time, by poisoning the air and the water and the food. Thanks to "Bobby" Jindal — and, it must be said, almost everyone of his predecessors in both parties — Louisiana's poorest sections have been turned into an ecological zone of death for almost a century. Now part of it has blown up. And we get the second day stories about how nobody had inspected the joint in 20 years.
Consistent long-term profit should be the priority, especially if short-term profit can result in massive costs down the line. Being rich for five years is great, until you go bankrupt repaying everyone who you hurt or killed with your cost-cutting methods. I honestly don't get why sustainability is apparently such a bad word in the business world.
One is the knee-jerk, "those hippies are doing it, therefore it must be bad" reaction. About a month ago I saw a story about how conservatives are less likely to buy CFL bulbs if the packaging plays up the environmental benefits (I think we discussed that story in this thread, actually); a similar thought process may be going on here.
More pressing, though, is the Wall Street profit-now mentality. Everything I have heard about Wall Street investors is that they are viscous sharks that will panic if a company so much as thinks about doing something that hurts its quarterly profits; this is compounded by executives who artificially pump up the stock price to cash in on their stock options.
I actually have a relevant anecdote about that. I just started working for a large, privately-owned software company, but despite being huge, the company doesn't really have a large-company feel. The employees are paid well, the office buildings (and they are all offices; no cubicle farms in sight) each have a unique theme, such as New York City or Dungeons and Dragons, the cafeteria sells restaurant-quality meals for effectively the cost of the ingredients, etc. etc. I say all this because in today's business world, you can't do that as a public company. Investors would question why you're spending all this money on fancy office buildings and employee perks when there's profit to be made for the stockholders. Yet my company's corporate culture is arguably a big part of why it's been so successful, which just brings me back to my point: the Wall Street profit-now culture is antithetical to sustainability.

I like this reasoning.
"It's not a generic holiday. It's plural, holidays, because there are several of them."
Also, "under God" could be taken to mean disfavoring polytheistic religions, for what it's worth.
I take issue with it because it just has nothing to do with the rest of the pledge.