I dislike China for running concentration camps for Muslims, organ harvesting, social scores, no free speech, and having made Xi a dictator for life. I’m pretty sure Americans have a lot of other reasons like job losses, real estate money laundering, etc.
We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
It’s not just their enemies. We would have been happy to continue being a customer of Google if they hadn’t massively jacked up prices with little notice when they recognized their monopoly advantage in maps. So now we’re happy to be on board the anti-trust train.
Not the person you’re replying to, (and not a troll) but I just looked at my orders and I was at almost a 50% return/exchange rate for damaged/counterfeit/not-as-described items in the last year before I completely stopped ordering from Amazon. As someone who buys at least one item a day over the internet, that’s a lot of mistakes. At one point I talked to my local UPS shop doing one of my weekly mass Amazon return drop offs, and he said I wouldn’t believe how much of their business was amazon returns. On the other hand, I order a lot of items that I have a lot of knowledge about, so it’s not hard for me to spot a fake or find the damage almost immediately. However, I could see the average consumer just accepting an item without paying too much attention. Since then I’ve switched to specialty retailers, and Target and Walmart for everything else.
Shelters in LA have waiting lists, and Section 8 housing has 37,000 families on waiting lists. Sounds like it’s not a “lifestyle choice” for a lot of people.
Prop 13 was actually intended to make Howard Jarvis and his friends at the Apartment Owners Association even wealthier. He did a great job of selling a tax scam to the public. A property tax law designed to benefit low income families would only have lowered property taxes for primary residences, not for places like the Los Angeles Country Club that pays $200k a year in property taxes on 313 acres of prime land.
For people who need money in something besides a bank, but don’t want the hassle of being a landlord. So not really profit, but something they feel will appreciate in value.
Why are accessible websites higher quality? If someone spends a good portion of their time making their site more usable for non-blind users, wouldn’t it be more likely that the less accessible site would be higher quality?
It’s the government’s fault that the data isn’t easily accessed by citizens. No employee time would be necessary if data was accessible by everyone without having to go through a worker. I know this firsthand because there are places in the US that you have to submit requests and deal with government lawyers and slothful employees, while the exact same type of data can be directly downloaded from another municipality without any barriers or assistance.
Just because you own property doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want with it. The Ritz knew there would be conditions, and they chose to agree. They could have sold the property and built a hotel elsewhere if they didn’t like the conditions.
The surprise is that hospitals are allowed to act this way. Patient privacy is one thing, but this is attempting to suppress information to the public about deadly infections.
But China had started to take more control over Hong Kong well before any protectionist trends. Maybe they took the West’s blasé attitude as a signal that they could get away with anything, including concentration camps.
Here’s the page with the instructions:
https://www.justice.gov/atr/report-violations
In this case, I let them know that Google was using their position as the market-dominant browser company to make it more difficult for consumers to use alternative browsers by making captchas much harder to use on alternative browsers. I explained what a captcha was and how it affected me as a consumer using Firefox.
Why is that an absurd statement? If you can’t say something bad about a religion or religious group, you don’t have free speech. And there are multiple countries in Europe that have laws against criticizing certain groups.
The author really glossed over the reasons for the communications ban imposed on the terrorist prisoner - multiple people he spoke with ended up committing terrorist acts. Seems like a good enough reason to completely cut him off. In addition, the author really stretches when she complains that they brought in a gallon of liquid to feed him. If you’ve tried to feed a prisoner multiple times and you know they’re going to deliberately vomit it up, of course you’ll bring extra. There’s enough going on here where the author doesn’t need to add in things that actually seem logical, because now I’m questioning everything she wrote and how much of it was exaggerated.
EU may end up dealing with it, they need complaints first. You’d be amazed how few people fill out complaints with the government. I just filed a complaint about this with the US department of justice antitrust division, feel free to do so as well so they realize how abusive this is!
“Red flag” actual has a legal meaning in California. Several places have restrictions that come into effect on Red Flag fire days, including no parking areas where vehicles can be preemptively towed because they may impede the fire trucks.
“The findings in relation to knowledge acquisition were mixed. While an online study involving 604 adults (and using the more comprehensive measure of intellectual humility) found the aforementioned link between greater intellectual humility and superior general knowledge, another involving college students (and the briefer intellectual humility questionnaire) found that those higher in intellectual humility achieved poorer grades.”
That’s a good way to give the antitrust investigators even more evidence of wrongdoing. And I’m sure the ad companies will be more than happy to flood the DOJ and FTC with complaints.
American health care is in sad shape, but personally I only know of two Quest patients who were sent to collections, and both were due to incompetent communication between Quest and the insurer.
Well, except there’s a finite amount of educational slots, and so fewer people who would keep that education and knowledge in the US are able to get in.