allegedly killed CEO Brian Thompson. Let's not forget that rather important bit.
The world doesn't run on "probably". Nothing ever gets accomplished by assuming "it'll probably happen anyway."
Would it have defeated it if they hadn't performed their protest and maybe made a few other legislators rethink how unpopular of a bill it was? If they hadn't protested, would legislative complacency just allowed the bill to pass unremarked on.
The purpose of a protest is to draw attention to something so that other that have the power to do something about it might do something about it.
I'm not saying the bill failed specifically because of the protest, but to think the bill was guaranteed to have failed anyway even without it is naive thinking.
I agree. That's why it's called "having the courage of one's convictions". The people who are protesting are willing to accept the consequences of their actions in order to shake up the system.
But when the system makes up and applies consequences retroactively, it starts a very slippery dilemma where a person can't protest for fear of "hypothetical" repercussions.
You can't have the courage of your convictions if you don't know what the consequences of those convictions are going to be. And you can't know what the consequences of your actions will be if they're just made up ex post facto and applied punitively in order to stifle debate rather than following an already established protocol.
disrupts the parliamentary process
That's the entire point of a PROTEST though...
Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?
I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the "testing ground" for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.
Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our "manager's conference" was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a "tax writeoff" and then be drunk for the rest.
First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just...borrowing...one.
The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it's share of stories.
So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I've ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.
USS Bonespurs has a nice ring to it, actually.
Hello there. Nice to meet you. My name is Jerry...Jerry Mander.
The Shawshank Redemption. Morgan Freeman
I'm sure he only means it as "this is the shitty way the world actually works". Not that he personally believes it himself.
Any idea why post video thumbnails are showing in three distorted diagonal bars?
Once you open the video full screen it plays normally.
Seriously...shout-out to Krystian Zajdel. I was literally blown away when I rebooted my computer and saw that it had become the login splash screen. I immediately had to make it my main wallpaper too.
Most beautiful default wallpaper I've seen in a while.
Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.
So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn't see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry...
Read the room, Arc. Read the room.