While the increased risks are a bit alarming the key word is Commonsense. Meet at public locations, during day time hours, and let many people know you are meeting for a Craigslist exchange. If possible bring someone with you. And so on.
Something that really irritates me with our local elections is the absolute lack of information about the candidates. Only three or four candidates have a website or social profile with any information about their views, political stance, etc...
How many people are going to do research beyond what's available on the internet? I plan on calling one of the mayoral candidates because he doesn't have a website and after speaking with a local lady with one of his shirts on she provided me with his number to call him.
It really is inexcusable to not have a website when your running for office. Come on Madisonville...Monroe county.
We really need to be careful what we wish for. I know a lot of you big and small business haters are jumping for joy at the very thought of the government stepping in to regulate Google but aside from most of you having no experience running a business or the slightest clue of how much work goes into turning something small into something medium or large your happiness makes me sick with disgust.
We need to get out of this state of mind that we're okay with government intervention as long as it doesn't negatively impact us individually. I know of some people who loved President Obama up until he decided to tax services that affected their business (health care bill) because us Americans are too stoopid (Yes I know I misspelled that) to know what's good and bad for our health. What happened to personal freedom and choice? You have(had) every right to abuse your body but you had to suffer the financial burden of the health care costs that were incurred from your poor choices.
I don't like cigarettes and I don't like smokers but smoking is not illegal and I'm strongly against taxing the hell out of people for something they willingly do to themselves when that something is legal. However, they're health care should be their burden alone; not a redistributed transfer of cost from one group or person to the other. If they can't pay they don't receive; what is so difficult to understand about that? As a VERY hard working tax payer I'm sick and tired of being financially burdened for the lazy and unfortunate alike. We all have hard times but it's not the governments job to protect everyone from failure. Failure is a natural part of life, business, and economics; pretending otherwise is very dangerous. I'm fed up.
"Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic. When Google engineers tweak its supersecret algorithm — as they do hundreds of times a year — they can break the business of a Web site that is pushed down the rankings.
When Google was a pure search engine, it was easy to appear agnostic about search results, with no reason to play favorites with one Web site or another. But as Google has branched out into online services from maps and videos to comparison shopping, it has acquired pecuniary incentives to favor its own over rivals.
Google argues that its behavior is kept in check by competitors like Yahoo or Bing. But Google has become the default search engine for many Internet users. Competitors are a click away, but a case is building for some sort of oversight of the gatekeeper of the Internet..."
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15thu3.html?_r=2
Avatar was amazing although I was disappointed with dvd/bluray release. No extra features and the picture quality of the bluray fell very short of my expectations. Still love the movie though.
why should people vote without even knowing what they're voting for? That's part of what gets this country into so much trouble.
"Oh, this candidate is in my party, let's vote for him/her"
"But... they said they would start a 3rd world war and exterminate all who disagree with them"
"So, it's my party and I'm sticking with it. besides, I haven't heard anything about that!"
The average kindergarten-aged child wouldn't even completely comprehend what they would be taught. If parents want their kids to know about sex at that young of an age, let them be the ones to teach it to them. Otherwise, leave it be until it's necessary to let the cat out of the bag.
While the Mona Lisa is more widely known and loved than the Statue of David, I appreciate the craftsmanship and artistry it took for Michelangelo to sculpt David over Da Vinci's art. It has nothing to do with the fact that I can see his junk, either.
Voting down party lines or for candidates you know nothing about is unacceptable. I'm guilty of doing both in the past and will never be an ignorant voter again. If you don't care enough to learn about who and what you are voting for please stay home.
How many people are going to do research beyond what's available on the internet? I plan on calling one of the mayoral candidates because he doesn't have a website and after speaking with a local lady with one of his shirts on she provided me with his number to call him.
It really is inexcusable to not have a website when your running for office. Come on Madisonville...Monroe county.
We need to get out of this state of mind that we're okay with government intervention as long as it doesn't negatively impact us individually. I know of some people who loved President Obama up until he decided to tax services that affected their business (health care bill) because us Americans are too stoopid (Yes I know I misspelled that) to know what's good and bad for our health. What happened to personal freedom and choice? You have(had) every right to abuse your body but you had to suffer the financial burden of the health care costs that were incurred from your poor choices.
I don't like cigarettes and I don't like smokers but smoking is not illegal and I'm strongly against taxing the hell out of people for something they willingly do to themselves when that something is legal. However, they're health care should be their burden alone; not a redistributed transfer of cost from one group or person to the other. If they can't pay they don't receive; what is so difficult to understand about that? As a VERY hard working tax payer I'm sick and tired of being financially burdened for the lazy and unfortunate alike. We all have hard times but it's not the governments job to protect everyone from failure. Failure is a natural part of life, business, and economics; pretending otherwise is very dangerous. I'm fed up.
When Google was a pure search engine, it was easy to appear agnostic about search results, with no reason to play favorites with one Web site or another. But as Google has branched out into online services from maps and videos to comparison shopping, it has acquired pecuniary incentives to favor its own over rivals.
Google argues that its behavior is kept in check by competitors like Yahoo or Bing. But Google has become the default search engine for many Internet users. Competitors are a click away, but a case is building for some sort of oversight of the gatekeeper of the Internet..."
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15thu3.html?_r=2
"Oh, this candidate is in my party, let's vote for him/her"
"But... they said they would start a 3rd world war and exterminate all who disagree with them"
"So, it's my party and I'm sticking with it. besides, I haven't heard anything about that!"
Thank you, uninformed voter, you started WWIII.