In Canada there are legal limits on using coinage as legal tender such as with pennies, they are only legal tender up to 25 cents (may have changed lately as pennies are no more here), I believe there are similar limits for most coinage. I'd imagine most countries are the same. Of course stores are always free to accept more and banks do have to accept them.
Why the hell would the banks pass on the negative interest? There is no profit in that. Meanwhile forcing everyone to give up cash means more profits for the banks who can take a cut of every transaction and then sell your financial history to the marketing companies who will buy ad space on the card readers (and soon the cards themselves). The banks will continue to grow and influence government to do their will rather then the peoples will.
It's not the government that has been pushing the cash free economy, it's the banks. who feel it is their right to take a cut of every transaction that is done, and then to sell the logs of what you bought to the marketers. I don't mind paying taxes in general but I really do hate paying corporations for services that I don't want or need. At least with government, at least in democracies, we have some control while the goal of corporations is to give no choice or at best a choice between Coke or Pepsi, with water being illegal.
I have a W126 300SD, which is all-mechanical down to a vacuum shutoff on the engine.
Sounds like a major point of failure, vacuum tube leaks, vacuum pump or belt (I assume vacuum pump is driven by belt) failure and your vehicle is dead. I'd advise buying a choke kit and hooking it up to the fuel pumps kill point. Makes it fun watching mechanics and such trying to figure out how to turn the engine off. But yes, I loved having a purely mechanical Nissan diesel truck. Given a hill to start it, didn't even need a battery though it would have been nice if it had a generator instead of an alternator so to have had lights. As a kid, our first car, a '37 Morris was so simple that we drove it for 6 months without a battery (too expensive). No hydraulics or even a water pump, so that much less to go wrong though you did have to regularly rebuild the spark plugs, which could be done on the side of the road.
The point is that rights do not exist in a vacuum, nor preexist, excepting the right of the strong to do what they like to the weak. Rights are something that have to be claimed and defended, whether from the government or your neighbours and a government of, and for the people should be defending those rights, not just staying out of the way so that people can repress each other.
I'm sure the members of Congress can put aside their differences and cooperate to screw the average person by giving the big corporations more powers and allowing them to socialize the enforcement.
That's so true. The government couldn't interfere with you tar and feathering your neighbour for his speech, or in the case of Mr Lynch, hanging them. The government couldn't interfere with your right to buy people and infringe on their rights. The government would actually help you steal other peoples property as those savages weren't actually people so you had a right to their stuff. Obviously for the entitled, rights pre-existed, including the right to infringe on others rights, but only as private citizens instead of the traditional aristocracy.
Cyrus the Great 539 BC. Magna Carta 1215 AD Petition of Right 1628 AD Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789 AD US Bill of Rights 1791 AD
Americans are very, very good at steal...... sorry, "appropriating" other peoples ideas and then re-writing history to claim them as their own.
Still, seeing as the American educational system is so deficient it's hardly surprising most Americans only have a Hollywood view of history.
I wonder if they ever ponder why outsiders seem to know more about their history than they do ?
Read some history. Those revolutionaries were pissed that the King wanted to give rights to the natives and the Catholics. Then they terrorized the right wingers, driving them out of the 13 colonies to a large degree, often using letters of attainment to steal their personal property. Then they wrote their declaration and went home to trample on the rights of their slaves. People had a very narrow definition at the time, white, rich, protestant and liberal. Americans never had respect for the rights of most people and still don't. Even funnier is that they've turned liberal, a word meaning free, into an insult. America, the land of the most successful propaganda campaign ever.
Actually some of the basic premises of astrology have been proven correct. Premise number one is that you can use the stars as a calendar, I doubt that anyone would deny that now. Premise number two, that the time of birth affects someones success in life. Originally the idea that someone born in times of plenty (varies in region and livelihood) will have more success then someone born in times of famine such as late winter. Not sure of studies on this but it seems reasonable and worth studying. Presently there has been studies that show that children born closer to the beginning of the school year have more success then those born towards the end of the school year. So time of birth does affect success in life. Premise number three, that the stars are causative in the success in life department. This is where astrology fails but the premise was worth following given numbers 1 and 2 above. There was also the predicting the movements of planets that astrology got good at and predicting the future which was mostly a failure though the calendar part did allow some climate predictions such as colder in winter type of predictions. So mostly astrology failed due to mixing up causation and correlation.
First, a constitutional republic IS a representative democracy. They're two names for the same thing, though the former is more accurate because it describes how the government is set up better (like having a constitution for one); "representative democracy" is more general but distinguishes it from direct democracies.
Actually they're not the same thing. You could have a constitutional republic with a one party system or even where the President is appointed by his predecessor. As long as it is a republic and has a constitution such as the USSR, it is a constitutional republic. You can also have a representative democracy without a proper constitution though like the UK there is usually traditions that are similar and often are called an unwritten constitution.
As for the situation in Great Britain in the late 18th century, as the other poster said, Parliament was Supreme and had been since the Glorious Revolution when they fired the King though the King was more involved in government then the current Queen.
Hogs watch of course. From back in the time when a hog would be sacrificed in celebration of the solstice and everyone wanting a good bacon breakfast as well as pork pies.
SeaMonkey can be built without mail/news and there are Firefox 3.x look alike themes. You get a lean browser with better performance then FF, all the security fixes etc and the familiar FF 3.x UI
Depends on what else they might be doing. Personally I'd think that lots of things may stimulate the mind more then TV, things such as being outside playing.
America has successfully been pushing for other countries to make breaking DRM illegal. Here in Canada the US claimed we were worse then China for pirating and pressured the government to make breaking any DRM (excepting VHS tapes) illegal, not even the exceptions you guys get. All the trade treaties in the pipeline also include various ways to make IP stronger, copyrights longer and other BS. American companies are well served by their government, much better then the voters/taxpayers.
Nuclear is not zero emissions, though it is very low. The Uranium has to be dug up, processed and shipped with the digging up part having killed a few people and producing some pretty toxic by-products. Only saving grace is that so little is needed compared to coal. Nuclear plants also use a lot of concrete which emits CO2 while curing. Nuclear is part of the equation and in many ways is superiour to most of the alternatives but there is too much BS put out by the fan-boys. It does have emissions, though less then most all alternatives and it does kill people, though not many yet unless you include the first tests of nuclear power which involved destroying whole cities.
Thunderbird hasn't been EOL, rather Mozilla isn't happy about the.001% of developer time that Thunderbird (and SeaMonkey) take of their developers time so TB and SM are sorta being cut loose. The latest plan seems to be to clone mozilla-central (repository where FF etc lives) into comm-central (repository where TB, SM and IM live) and continue development with periodic rebasings to keep the code close to in sync. SeaMonkey and Thunderbird share enough code that they'll probably always be together in one repository and the frequency of releases will probably slow down, at least for SM, which has been having a hard enough time keeping up due to too few developers, too little hardware for testing and the fast pace that Firefox is trying to destroy itself. Bug #787208 seems to be where this is happening.
Lots of shade tolerant plants on Earth that would be quite happy with the 48% sunlight on Mars. Light is the least of the problems with growing plants on Mars.
Many hunter gather groups used that philosophy. In a small tribal situation it works fairly well as everyone knows everyone and when someone is an asshole and takes more then his share, he'd get shamed into not doing it or leaving the tribe. Still works present day in small groups such as families and some communes. Of course once you get more then about a hundred people it breaks down as everyone can't know everyone else anymore.
Around here (BC and the rest of Canada) much has been coming out about how crappy the cops would treat victims that were minorities (mostly native) and prostitutes and such, to the point that reporting a rape to the cops would be an invitation for the cops to rape them. It is easy to believe that a 3rd more women are actually successfully reporting forcible rape and it makes more sense then most types of crime dropping except forcible rape going up by a 3rd.
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In Canada there are legal limits on using coinage as legal tender such as with pennies, they are only legal tender up to 25 cents (may have changed lately as pennies are no more here), I believe there are similar limits for most coinage. I'd imagine most countries are the same. Of course stores are always free to accept more and banks do have to accept them.
Why the hell would the banks pass on the negative interest? There is no profit in that. Meanwhile forcing everyone to give up cash means more profits for the banks who can take a cut of every transaction and then sell your financial history to the marketing companies who will buy ad space on the card readers (and soon the cards themselves).
The banks will continue to grow and influence government to do their will rather then the peoples will.
It's not the government that has been pushing the cash free economy, it's the banks. who feel it is their right to take a cut of every transaction that is done, and then to sell the logs of what you bought to the marketers.
I don't mind paying taxes in general but I really do hate paying corporations for services that I don't want or need. At least with government, at least in democracies, we have some control while the goal of corporations is to give no choice or at best a choice between Coke or Pepsi, with water being illegal.
I have a W126 300SD, which is all-mechanical down to a vacuum shutoff on the engine.
Sounds like a major point of failure, vacuum tube leaks, vacuum pump or belt (I assume vacuum pump is driven by belt) failure and your vehicle is dead. I'd advise buying a choke kit and hooking it up to the fuel pumps kill point. Makes it fun watching mechanics and such trying to figure out how to turn the engine off.
But yes, I loved having a purely mechanical Nissan diesel truck. Given a hill to start it, didn't even need a battery though it would have been nice if it had a generator instead of an alternator so to have had lights. As a kid, our first car, a '37 Morris was so simple that we drove it for 6 months without a battery (too expensive). No hydraulics or even a water pump, so that much less to go wrong though you did have to regularly rebuild the spark plugs, which could be done on the side of the road.
The point is that rights do not exist in a vacuum, nor preexist, excepting the right of the strong to do what they like to the weak.
Rights are something that have to be claimed and defended, whether from the government or your neighbours and a government of, and for the people should be defending those rights, not just staying out of the way so that people can repress each other.
I'm sure the members of Congress can put aside their differences and cooperate to screw the average person by giving the big corporations more powers and allowing them to socialize the enforcement.
That's so true. The government couldn't interfere with you tar and feathering your neighbour for his speech, or in the case of Mr Lynch, hanging them. The government couldn't interfere with your right to buy people and infringe on their rights. The government would actually help you steal other peoples property as those savages weren't actually people so you had a right to their stuff.
Obviously for the entitled, rights pre-existed, including the right to infringe on others rights, but only as private citizens instead of the traditional aristocracy.
Cyrus the Great 539 BC.
Magna Carta 1215 AD
Petition of Right 1628 AD
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 1789 AD
US Bill of Rights 1791 AD
Americans are very, very good at steal...... sorry, "appropriating" other peoples ideas and then re-writing history to claim them as their own.
Still, seeing as the American educational system is so deficient it's hardly surprising most Americans only have a Hollywood view of history.
I wonder if they ever ponder why outsiders seem to know more about their history than they do ?
Nahhh.......
Left out the 1689 Bill of Rights.
Read some history. Those revolutionaries were pissed that the King wanted to give rights to the natives and the Catholics. Then they terrorized the right wingers, driving them out of the 13 colonies to a large degree, often using letters of attainment to steal their personal property. Then they wrote their declaration and went home to trample on the rights of their slaves.
People had a very narrow definition at the time, white, rich, protestant and liberal. Americans never had respect for the rights of most people and still don't. Even funnier is that they've turned liberal, a word meaning free, into an insult.
America, the land of the most successful propaganda campaign ever.
Actually some of the basic premises of astrology have been proven correct.
Premise number one is that you can use the stars as a calendar, I doubt that anyone would deny that now.
Premise number two, that the time of birth affects someones success in life. Originally the idea that someone born in times of plenty (varies in region and livelihood) will have more success then someone born in times of famine such as late winter. Not sure of studies on this but it seems reasonable and worth studying. Presently there has been studies that show that children born closer to the beginning of the school year have more success then those born towards the end of the school year. So time of birth does affect success in life.
Premise number three, that the stars are causative in the success in life department. This is where astrology fails but the premise was worth following given numbers 1 and 2 above.
There was also the predicting the movements of planets that astrology got good at and predicting the future which was mostly a failure though the calendar part did allow some climate predictions such as colder in winter type of predictions.
So mostly astrology failed due to mixing up causation and correlation.
The thread was about kids getting gunned down, not about arrest statistics and derailing the conversation is a troll.
First, a constitutional republic IS a representative democracy. They're two names for the same thing, though the former is more accurate because it describes how the government is set up better (like having a constitution for one); "representative democracy" is more general but distinguishes it from direct democracies.
Actually they're not the same thing. You could have a constitutional republic with a one party system or even where the President is appointed by his predecessor. As long as it is a republic and has a constitution such as the USSR, it is a constitutional republic. You can also have a representative democracy without a proper constitution though like the UK there is usually traditions that are similar and often are called an unwritten constitution.
As for the situation in Great Britain in the late 18th century, as the other poster said, Parliament was Supreme and had been since the Glorious Revolution when they fired the King though the King was more involved in government then the current Queen.
Hogs watch of course. From back in the time when a hog would be sacrificed in celebration of the solstice and everyone wanting a good bacon breakfast as well as pork pies.
Tyranny of the majority
Versus the current tyranny of the minority?
SeaMonkey can be built without mail/news and there are Firefox 3.x look alike themes. You get a lean browser with better performance then FF, all the security fixes etc and the familiar FF 3.x UI
Some of us still celebrate Hogswatch.
elf slave
Arctican-American, please.
They're Arctican-Canadian, look at the postal code, H0H 0H0
Depends on what else they might be doing. Personally I'd think that lots of things may stimulate the mind more then TV, things such as being outside playing.
America has successfully been pushing for other countries to make breaking DRM illegal. Here in Canada the US claimed we were worse then China for pirating and pressured the government to make breaking any DRM (excepting VHS tapes) illegal, not even the exceptions you guys get. All the trade treaties in the pipeline also include various ways to make IP stronger, copyrights longer and other BS.
American companies are well served by their government, much better then the voters/taxpayers.
We're talking about a guy who made his fortune with PayPal.
Nuclear is not zero emissions, though it is very low. The Uranium has to be dug up, processed and shipped with the digging up part having killed a few people and producing some pretty toxic by-products. Only saving grace is that so little is needed compared to coal. Nuclear plants also use a lot of concrete which emits CO2 while curing.
Nuclear is part of the equation and in many ways is superiour to most of the alternatives but there is too much BS put out by the fan-boys. It does have emissions, though less then most all alternatives and it does kill people, though not many yet unless you include the first tests of nuclear power which involved destroying whole cities.
Thunderbird hasn't been EOL, rather Mozilla isn't happy about the .001% of developer time that Thunderbird (and SeaMonkey) take of their developers time so TB and SM are sorta being cut loose.
The latest plan seems to be to clone mozilla-central (repository where FF etc lives) into comm-central (repository where TB, SM and IM live) and continue development with periodic rebasings to keep the code close to in sync.
SeaMonkey and Thunderbird share enough code that they'll probably always be together in one repository and the frequency of releases will probably slow down, at least for SM, which has been having a hard enough time keeping up due to too few developers, too little hardware for testing and the fast pace that Firefox is trying to destroy itself.
Bug #787208 seems to be where this is happening.
Lots of shade tolerant plants on Earth that would be quite happy with the 48% sunlight on Mars. Light is the least of the problems with growing plants on Mars.
Many hunter gather groups used that philosophy. In a small tribal situation it works fairly well as everyone knows everyone and when someone is an asshole and takes more then his share, he'd get shamed into not doing it or leaving the tribe.
Still works present day in small groups such as families and some communes. Of course once you get more then about a hundred people it breaks down as everyone can't know everyone else anymore.
Around here (BC and the rest of Canada) much has been coming out about how crappy the cops would treat victims that were minorities (mostly native) and prostitutes and such, to the point that reporting a rape to the cops would be an invitation for the cops to rape them. It is easy to believe that a 3rd more women are actually successfully reporting forcible rape and it makes more sense then most types of crime dropping except forcible rape going up by a 3rd.