So what you’re saying is that, in fact, all EV’s do have lithium batteries
Surely firefighters know better than to use water on a battery?
You don’t get “rejected”, they just hire someone who isn’t you.
You really do need to call someone for this, if this is a thermostat valve on a radiator you’re going to burn yourself
There's no reason for that to be a concern of US immigration policy. Better for us if it isn't, in fact.
Then I agree, it's a flawed program.
It provides no path to citizenship
Is it important that it does? Or maybe I don't understand what it means to not have a path to citizenship. Like you can't ever naturalize if you're here on H1b, ever?
The path to citizenship should be the same for everyone regardless of national origin, it seems to me, and it shoudn't be related to how you're in the country, or even if you are to start with. I think someone on a tourist entry should have the same path to citizenship, if they want it.
If they’re are that special and High skilled, we should have a visa that just lets them work for anyone.
I agree with this. I'd expand it - I think if you hold a passport from the US, Canada, the EU, Japan, or Australia you should be in a Shengen-like arrangement that allows you free movement and employability in any of those countries.
It's pretty standard in all countries for a work visa to be tied to your sponsorship by a particular employer, but you're right, it puts the employee in a terrible position. I'd like to see the US lead a movement to liberalize this visa category.
We don't agree on a lot but I'm forced to agree with you on this. The only weapons protected by the 2nd Amendment are the ones you would issue to the men and women you would muster in civil defense - AR-15's and the like.
The 2nd Amendment is an insurmountable obstacle to impactful, meaningful gun reform in the United States, regardless of your position on whether that reform should be carried out.
Immigration into the United States, especially for skilled people, should be easier than it is. It should also be easier for foreigners to enter temporarily to do seasonal unskilled work. And it should be a lot easier for citizens of the US to live and work throughout Europe, Japan, and Australia and vice-versa, simply on the strength of their passports. Conversely the asylum system is being abused and needs to be reformed, as well. (It's being abused by people who are left no other options for immigration into the United States.)
I largely think trying to secure a 2500-mile land border is a waste of money, the world's largest game of whack-a-mole, but if that's what conservatives want out of comprehensive immigration policy reform then I'd support it and it's good to see Fetterman, who's always been a reasonable guy, trying to lead the charge here.
It’s considered a no no to say Asperger’s anymore because he was a Nazi.
I don't care about that, and I disagree that Asperger's is on a spectrum with autism. They have totally different etiologies; Asperger's syndrome is clearly not just a "mild" form of autism.
I'm always struck by how Elon Musk, by virtue of being rich, gets literally zero space or allowance for his Asperger's syndrome.
Three failed marriages suggest it's pretty difficult to be married to him. But I'm not, so why would I care?
I'm happy for him to raise his 14 children and for me to raise my none.
There's 50 US states that each receive a different portion of their operating budgets from Federal grants. I'm not going to be able to comprehensively describe the distribution of grant funding in a single phrase in one sentence. If you're interested in this topic you're free to do your own homework.
Hardly propaganda to suggest that a gang of rapists is gang-raping
You've been at least reasonable in other comments. This one doesn't rise to that level.
then what did you mean by this statement? What do you call substantial ?
"More than insubstantial." Does plain English just puzzle you, or something?
Right, the "ban" that was no ban, as planes continued to arrive with passengers from China.
What state do you think operates primarily from grants?
Did I say "primarily"? You keep responding to points you're imagining.
I live in Oregon.
I mean, I'm not actually a frog.
Oscar Pistorius probably didn't murder his girlfriend
He's recently in the news for his early parole, but to my mind his conviction for murder was probably unjust.
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The prosecution was not able to rebut his testimony that he fired on what he thought was a burglar in his home. This was a reasonable fear - Pistorius is a double amputee despite his Olympic medals, and he lived in a neighborhood that was particularly attractive to break-in robberies due to the residents' wealth.
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The prosecution could not provide a motive for murder - the best they could speculate was that they had had an argument, but the prosecution could not provide details of any supposed argument, nor substantiate it from the testimony of any witnesses who actually would have been able to hear it.
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It probably was negligent and contributory to have fired on an "attacker" he could not see, but conversely, had he intended to murder his girlfriend during a spontaneous argument, there's no reason for him to have taken the risk of firing through a door in order to do so.
The traditional elements of the crime of murder are means, motive, and opportunity. Two of these are stipulated since, by the defense account, Pistorius fired the gun that killed Reeva Steenkamp The prosecution's argument for motive was specious speculation at best, and Pistorius' judicial conviction on appeal represents a miscarriage of justice since there was really no reason given to reject his defense. His original conviction of culpable homicide and reckless endangerment was correct and shouldn't have been appealed.