> The complaint also alleges that the four involved in the plot were not attempting to kill people, and if they saw anyone in the area of their bombs, they would try and warn them.
No, they also manipulate these people and convince them into doing terror attacks they otherwise wouldn't. Essentially, the FBI radicalizes them, encourages them to do terror attacks, and gives them the means, then "stops them". It's a disgusting pattern of behavior. Had the FBI not been involved, they would not be dangerous.
Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)
Is it too much to ask to first spend money on teachers and basic supplies, and only if money is left over after that, spend it on extras, new tech, experiments, and administration?
"_*Permanent liability*_"
Are you insane?
You have the cash in-hand. The customer has made an interest-free loan to you.
You're ACTIVELY trying to *DISCOURAGE* positive cashflow!?!?!?!?!?!
You should execute the exact opposite pricing scheme:
provide discounts to your most loyal customers who are willing to provide you cashflow long in advance of your incurring an expense to provide services to them in order finance your operation.
I'm just trying to set explicit limits on liabilities. The alternative as I see it is to accept money to provide a service indefinitely, but have terms clauses that any purchased credits may be forfeited for any reason. Perhaps if that clause reads after more than 2 years from purchase then maybe that's fine. I'll think about it, thanks for the feedback.
I'm actually curious though, do many online platforms allow you to buy credits that never expire? The stock photography websites were one of my inspirations for the pricing scheme, and their credits certainly expire in a year or so.
It just feels wrong to perpetually owe many people with very little benefit for accepting that burden. I don't think there's much practical difference between forever and 2 years for a purchase like this, but for the business the difference is huge.
The point of static hosting is to simplify things, not feed into developer fever dreams of complex systems.
Plus,
Wordpress is established, mature ecosystem that can provide almost any mainstream feature you could imagine.
I went to them after losing a weekend trying to stand-up my company's website after some ill-advised changes to my Wordpress instance (bad plugins caused Wordpress server to crash).
I haven't looked back since. Wordpress-based static hosting Just Works + makes sense
ps
HardyPress was a similar alternative I evaluated. It had an issue failing to render some of my webpages to static....but maybe it's become better
It seems that it's a matter of interpretation. I thought (but I could be wrong) that the supreme court decided that donating money is "speech" and therefore protected. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with that, just that the supreme court seems to have already weighed in on the matter.
You’re both right, the Citizens United ruling said cash was speech according to the 1st amendment if it was an “independent expenditure” ie Super PACs etc. You can’t donate unlimited amounts directly to a candidate, but you can to “independent entities”.
IANAL so I’m not sure why you can’t just donate it all directly to a candidate, perhaps a different section of the constitution?
It can also be amended to separate money and speech. A constitutional amendment is the way to rectify poor Supreme Court rulings, the way the 14th amendment was brought in specifically to overturn Dred Scott.
How is money not speech? Jeff Bezos is able to buy the Washington Post (or multiple TV stations if he wanted) and can say anything he wants under the guise of free speech.
I don’t have Jeff Bezos’ resources, but if I buy a single television ad to advocate for my position I should be regulated?
I don’t see a difference between media companies publishing material and overt partisans buying advertisements.
Money isn’t speech it’s volume. Anyone can speak, the one with more money yells loudest. The constitution doesn’t guarantee the right to free screaming.
Thank you for sharing Shifter. I’ll check this out. I work on a lot of Wordpress and GatsbyJS so a simpler path to static sites from a WP admin is something I’ve been looking for.
#1 was great. This is a joke right?
You do know the US Treasury is the safest financial instrument in the known universe, right? I'm sure you also know that French debt is denominated in Euros a currency which may or may not exist in 10 years...
Also, even if it does exist they don't fully control the currency.....you know what? this isn't worth debating. This is like a comic performance.
A long time ago, the French decided that quality of life, and taking an easier path was simply more important than the economic, military, and to a lesser extent cultural dominance of the US. As a result, French people live generally better quality of life, but the very ambitious don't get as rewarded as in the US. You will find French of all stripes in the US who seek to live in the US because they can be rewarded more than in France.
It is a cultural choice. But let's not deny the effect.
In France you have 35 hour work-week, siesta, lots of vacations, health care, bloated government. But there is very little entrepreneur ism. The French fell in love with the large corporation and large government.
