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I think it would be good, just because of all the tech jobs and opportunities it would bring to Columbus. Other than that, I don't buy from Amazon. Their website is kinda shit, Alexa, firestick and prime is overrated. AWS is pretty slick though.

So there are 100s, 1000s+ little things that make you who you are today. Most of it I'd argue is genetics. You're privileged enough to be a homosapien, and then it all just snowballed down from millions of years ago to where you are today. Everyone chooses their own path (there are exceptions of course -- slavery, etc.), who they reproduce with...it's what they choose to do with what they were dealt. That is life though, things are the way they are. Discriminating against people for anything other than character and ability is wrong, and most people believe it's wrong. Murder is wrong, but some people will still do it, and we will punish those who do. So that's kinda what I mean. Where does opportunity end? In this country any child can get an education. School, transport, food will all be provided if they cannot afford it, right? If they are smart enough, athletic enough and work hard enough, they can go to college. What else do you need?

I'd like to know where you draw the line at "handout" or "privilege". If someone works his ass off to start a business, no matter how big or small it turns out, and then passes it and the money earned from it on to their children...you automatically think of those children as privileged assholes. So where does privilege start? Is it a parent making $30k a year? $60k? $100k? It sounds to me like you want equal outcome for everyone.

Most people seem to go this way, must be because you get wiser with age. Yup, except you can become a legal resident/citizen without ever doing anything illegal. If someone is willing to break the law once, what other laws are they willing to break?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/1-in-3-fail-us-citizenship-test-just-19-for-americans-45-and-younger classic

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html Some more news showing that Trump is a crook and a big fat phony.

This seems like a bigger issue to me than whether or not someone flashed their wiener in high school. Guess it just doesn't translate into a very interesting made for Lifetime movie.

No he wasn't. When someone told me about that I quickly went to YouTube because I couldn't wait to see it. Turns out, no one was laughing until he made the little joke at the end. Actually watch the video.

Burden of proof is on her. He's not making accusations, she is. I don't support him, nor do I support people who use sexual assault as a political tool. If I wanted to change his mind, I'd try to put reasonable doubt in his mind. If I can't, then I either went about this whole thing the wrong way, Kavanaugh is innocent of this accusation, or Old Dude is the one that doesn't belong in the position he's in if he can't make a fair, unbiased choice. The last being a whole different conversation. I've never voted Republican.

Yes. Fair is fair, whether it's on trial or for a job application. Relying on eyewitnesses alone is fine, but like I sort of mentioned in an earlier post, people have different motives as to why they might be making up a bullshit story. Weigh the motives, and see what makes more sense. In this case, the bullshit is heavier on my scale. Whether I was part of a jury, or the guy making the decision whether or not Kavanaugh should be accepted on the SC, this is the process I would go through. I don't understand that you can say that you don't find it convincing beyond a reasonable doubt, yet think the accuser is right and he shouldn't be SC justice. I'm not too thrilled about his views on Roe v Wade and abortions, but the conservatives were voted in power, it's their turn to nominate. And if democrats want to ever have their turn again, they need to stop this behavior that has put me, and I'm sure many others off of wanting to vote for them again. https://townhall.com/columnists/justinhaskins/2018/09/24/dear-moderate-democrats-your-party-has-completely-abandoned-you-n2521802

https://i.imgur.com/bUX6uU9.gifv Not really LOL, I thought it was interesting but didn't want to start a whole thread about it.

I didn't mean burden of proof in the law (trial) sense, but the "philosophical" sense, I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

Right, well it's very coincidental that things are only now coming out, 30+ years later, things that happened in high school, now that he's been nominated by Trumpy. I understand that yeah, rape and racism is bad and you certainly don't want anyone on the SCOTUS that can be accused of those things. But if it's truly in the name of justice, than where were you 35 years ago? (I understand it's a hard thing to come out and speak about -- still very coincidental timing). Good thing there's burden of proof. Prove it and then everyone will know he's a scumbag.

The only reoccurring theme I see here is democrats screaming rape and racism to get their way every chance they get. Al Franken should not have stepped down, and Kavanaugh isn't going anywhere until he's been proven guilty of wrongdoing. The witnesses can't even remember this party happening...so it's her word against 3 people now? https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-09-24%20Kavanaugh%20to%20Grassley%20-%20Kavanaugh%20Nomination.pdf

What he said.

To me it kinda sounds like he got fucked over with the whole age thing. If you ask me, prostitution should be legal to begin with, and this bitch lied about her age not only when she signed up to the site, but never mentioned to him that she's underage.

Ok, so if I'm assuming everyone on there is and adult, you're assuming that everyone on there is an adult...why wouldn't he?

Hmmm... I'm going to assume that sugardaddymeet.com is for 18+

Alex Jones got banned for "targeted harassment". Is this the video? https://www.infowars.com/best-of-alex-jones-riffs-on-cnn-reporter-oliver-darcy/ "Targeted harassment" sure seems similar to criticism. I don't think I've ever heard people criticizing Fox News reporters on Twitter, because if they did, I'm sure they would get permabanned too, right? I agree that it is pretty aggressive and not how a normal person should behave.

You mean stuff that requires lots of processing power? There are chromebooks that have decent CPUs. The Pixelbook has an i5, but I'll admit, for the price you are better off getting a Windows PC. If CPU power isn't the issue, then I don't know what else you need other than a keyboard and Excel.

That is the point of a Chromebook, but I do have an SD card in mine that I used to store things locally...can be done.

Honestly sounds like a Chromebook would work perfectly for her if all she works with are word documents and spreadsheets. I used one for a while as my main work computer (our development environment was in the cloud so it was perfect). It's not a full blown PC, and you have to realize that, but it comes with the Google Store so if there's an Android app for what you need, you can install it on there. It also doesn't have the "ooooh look at me, I paid too much money for an Apple product" feature, so that could be a check in the cons column for some. Which to be honest, sounds like your wife wants one because it's trendy or her friends/coworkers have them...so you might be screwed I have an HP Chromebook G5, it's an older one that I think I paid $250 for new at Best Buy 2 years ago. It was one of the better built ones at the time, similarly priced ones felt very plasticy, but the new ones are much nicer. My current work provided laptop is a Dell Latitude and it's been reliable over the last year...it just doesn't have a cool factor though.

A revealing excerpt...

Source This is something we discussed a few pages back. I'm glad to see that something is being done about actual racism for once.