The automakers, yea they should have bailed them out, the got screwed because the banks screwed with their borrowing money.
The banks, well too big to fail is just full of fail.
No, the automakers are kind of strategic assets and the domino effect from their failure would have pushed the US and the industrialized world into a depression.
We did have those in the US. The Wire showed the press, police, gangs, education and drug dealing without any pretense or spin to the factions.
The Shield showed renegade LAPD set in a fictionalized version of the Rampart Division doing the sorts of things LAPD Rampart Division.
Southland is pretty good at showing the grey area big city police (again, LADP) operate in without glamorizing the department, but just show the people who work there.
Although 24 wasn't about police, it CTU was a Federal counter-terror unit, part FBI and part NSA. Federal Law Enforcement are not police.
I don't trust the police, but I don't think they are "unelected, abusive, thugs" by any means. I've had my run-ins with the police (tribal and state) and actually been arrested for things I didn't do, the "abuse" I got if I did suffer abuse was at the hands of the judiciary, not the police.
I absolutely do not want any form of "bailout" for the newspaper industry, they didn't change their business models to adjust to the changes over the last 15 years so they should fail.
Having done alot of chemo and hospital over the years and having a number of doctors in my immediate family (1 heart, 1 gastro, 1 family practice, 1 abdominal) and a doctor turned administrator, I bet the doctors have been jackasses and the hospital administrators pushed this down the throats of the doctors because they'd treated the lab folks like cattle.
I bet there were a ton of meetings about how to balance out increased workload with less staffing and the administrator's solution was "please".
There are groups of different wealth levels in the United States, but you can move between them.
Look at me for instance, I'm from a lower-middle-class family (wheat farmers/Indian Reservation, trailer houses), I'm marrying a "rich girl" whose parents are wealthy, not super-rich but lower-upper-class (multi-million dollar homes, boats, vacation houses, etc).
So here it is very possible to move from class to class, in your example of how there was social mobility in Russia, that mobility depended on the good graces of the royalty, in the US you don't need a by-your-leave from anyone, good fortune and the right things happening.
And by what mechanism do you intend to enforce that?
UN? China will veto it. NATO? Any catholic or Muslim country (Italy, Poland, Turkey, Greece*, Spain) will block it
Enforce it with a military? Have European governments tell the US, France, UK and Australians go in and take that population tax by force?
You'd back economic sanctions against the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Afghanistan, Guatemala and the rest of the Third World? How about on the People's Republic of China, India, or Pakistan? You know...nuclear powers.
Really this is a tax on Africa, south Asian, Chinese, catholics and Muslims.
*- Greece isn't Roman Catholic but still considered to be catholic - The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches believe that their churches are catholic in the sense that they are in continuity with the original universal church founded by the Apostles
Yes, the USPS is a great model. No data on Sundays, or national holidays. No app downloads if they can't get ahold of you and you have to go to a brick and mortar location for it. Now we are changing your terms of service and no data on Saturdays. If you live in a small town, no brick and mortar locations at all, well they used to be there but we are closing them, enjoy your drive.
I thought so too, we talked about this last night so I checked my data usage on my iPhone (I'm in urban Alaska so I don't do near as much highway iPhone as I did a year ago), I figured I'd easily break 2GB a month. 31.6MB this month and 1.8GB total since the last OS patch reset my stats on February 2 2010.
So yea I'll save month on this, actually a good thing.
Well, the Dalton Highway isn't open highway and with the clearance that thing has, well I wouldn't do it in my Monte Carlo and it has at least twice the clearance the car in the Wired photos has.
"There are only three towns along the route: Coldfoot (population 13) at Mile 175, Wiseman (population 22) at Mile 188, and Deadhorse (25 permanent residents, 3,500-5,000 or more seasonal residents depending on oil production) at the end of the highway at Mile 414.Gas is available at the Yukon River bridge (Mile 56), as well as Coldfoot and Deadhorse."
I see a gap of 239 miles and a 4700 foot pass, no way you can get maximum milage on a pass
According to that there is no tracking of it so we don't know if thats why they were killed.
"The annual FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report documents assaults motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and disability. Yet, it does not track murders based on victim's gender identity or expression. If it did, the murders in this category would outweigh every other category except race."
How do they know that if it's not tracked that way?
Besides, I doubt theres a lynching in there which is the focus of this discussion.
There have only been three racial lynchings in the US since 1968 and what, one gay lynching?
So really don't expect a lynching in the US ever.
Lynchings are more common in the Palestinian Authority with hate crimes on homosexuals and "collaborators" than Israel. In Jerusalem the danger is rock throwing groups for violators of the sabbath.
Of course I eat. And as a former wheat farmer (north-central Great Plains, T. aestivum - Bearded spring wheat and T. hybernum - Beardless winter wheat) I know that the sinister effect that GMO has on the consumer is zero, zilch.
"In the United States the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports on the total area of GMO varieties planted. According to National Agricultural Statistics Service, the states published in these tables represent 81–86 percent of all corn planted area, 88–90 percent of all soybean planted area, and 81–93 percent of all upland cotton planted area (depending on the year)."
Is agribusiness in ruins? Well it always kind of is... Are farmers in prison for violating the patents? Nope Have there been mass killings from "frankenfood" entering our food and clothing chain? Nope.
In short none of the terrible things people have been whining about for the last 12-13 years has happened.
So...let me be clear and not evade. What ADM/Monsanto are doing have zero effect on my life at this juncture. Zero.
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The automakers, yea they should have bailed them out, the got screwed because the banks screwed with their borrowing money.
The banks, well too big to fail is just full of fail.
No, the automakers are kind of strategic assets and the domino effect from their failure would have pushed the US and the industrialized world into a depression.
Offtopic.
Self defense by the Israelis.
We did have those in the US. The Wire showed the press, police, gangs, education and drug dealing without any pretense or spin to the factions.
The Shield showed renegade LAPD set in a fictionalized version of the Rampart Division doing the sorts of things LAPD Rampart Division.
Southland is pretty good at showing the grey area big city police (again, LADP) operate in without glamorizing the department, but just show the people who work there.
Although 24 wasn't about police, it CTU was a Federal counter-terror unit, part FBI and part NSA. Federal Law Enforcement are not police.
I don't trust the police, but I don't think they are "unelected, abusive, thugs" by any means. I've had my run-ins with the police (tribal and state) and actually been arrested for things I didn't do, the "abuse" I got if I did suffer abuse was at the hands of the judiciary, not the police.
I absolutely do not want any form of "bailout" for the newspaper industry, they didn't change their business models to adjust to the changes over the last 15 years so they should fail.
Let them die.
Having done alot of chemo and hospital over the years and having a number of doctors in my immediate family (1 heart, 1 gastro, 1 family practice, 1 abdominal) and a doctor turned administrator, I bet the doctors have been jackasses and the hospital administrators pushed this down the throats of the doctors because they'd treated the lab folks like cattle.
I bet there were a ton of meetings about how to balance out increased workload with less staffing and the administrator's solution was "please".
A plague? What are you G-d from the Torah? Hemorrhoids aren't going to lower the birth rate.
Or are you talking about bioweapons? Because we are back to the enforcement mechanism, who is deploying these and deciding when to do this?
This is still a punishment on blacks, asians, catholics and muslims. Its a Stormfront wet dream.
There are groups of different wealth levels in the United States, but you can move between them.
Look at me for instance, I'm from a lower-middle-class family (wheat farmers/Indian Reservation, trailer houses), I'm marrying a "rich girl" whose parents are wealthy, not super-rich but lower-upper-class (multi-million dollar homes, boats, vacation houses, etc).
So here it is very possible to move from class to class, in your example of how there was social mobility in Russia, that mobility depended on the good graces of the royalty, in the US you don't need a by-your-leave from anyone, good fortune and the right things happening.
And by what mechanism do you intend to enforce that?
UN? China will veto it.
NATO? Any catholic or Muslim country (Italy, Poland, Turkey, Greece*, Spain) will block it
Enforce it with a military? Have European governments tell the US, France, UK and Australians go in and take that population tax by force?
You'd back economic sanctions against the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, Afghanistan, Guatemala and the rest of the Third World? How about on the People's Republic of China, India, or Pakistan? You know...nuclear powers.
Really this is a tax on Africa, south Asian, Chinese, catholics and Muslims.
*- Greece isn't Roman Catholic but still considered to be catholic - The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches believe that their churches are catholic in the sense that they are in continuity with the original universal church founded by the Apostles
Yes, the USPS is a great model. No data on Sundays, or national holidays. No app downloads if they can't get ahold of you and you have to go to a brick and mortar location for it. Now we are changing your terms of service and no data on Saturdays. If you live in a small town, no brick and mortar locations at all, well they used to be there but we are closing them, enjoy your drive.
Dude you really are an idiot aren't you?
I thought so too, we talked about this last night so I checked my data usage on my iPhone (I'm in urban Alaska so I don't do near as much highway iPhone as I did a year ago), I figured I'd easily break 2GB a month. 31.6MB this month and 1.8GB total since the last OS patch reset my stats on February 2 2010.
So yea I'll save month on this, actually a good thing.
Learn to spell Cisco.
Some 12% grades on it.
Most I've driven were 10-11% on the Alaska Highway.
Well, the Dalton Highway isn't open highway and with the clearance that thing has, well I wouldn't do it in my Monte Carlo and it has at least twice the clearance the car in the Wired photos has.
Where are they going to recharge?
"There are only three towns along the route: Coldfoot (population 13) at Mile 175, Wiseman (population 22) at Mile 188, and Deadhorse (25 permanent residents, 3,500-5,000 or more seasonal residents depending on oil production) at the end of the highway at Mile 414.Gas is available at the Yukon River bridge (Mile 56), as well as Coldfoot and Deadhorse."
I see a gap of 239 miles and a 4700 foot pass, no way you can get maximum milage on a pass
According to that there is no tracking of it so we don't know if thats why they were killed.
"The annual FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report documents assaults motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and disability. Yet, it does not track murders based on victim's gender identity or expression. If it did, the murders in this category would outweigh every other category except race."
How do they know that if it's not tracked that way?
Besides, I doubt theres a lynching in there which is the focus of this discussion.
The folks that do the stoning are ultra-orthodox, I'm not sure how they justify it under Jewish Law, I don't run in those circles.
Thats because there have been no religious lynchings in the United States or Israel in the modern era.
Sure there have been some abortion killings, but those weren't lynchings and the victim set is small (abortion doctors).
Race and religion were intertwined in the pre-Civil Rights era lynchings, but the main motivator was race.
There have only been three racial lynchings in the US since 1968 and what, one gay lynching?
So really don't expect a lynching in the US ever.
Lynchings are more common in the Palestinian Authority with hate crimes on homosexuals and "collaborators" than Israel. In Jerusalem the danger is rock throwing groups for violators of the sabbath.
I've had poison and not gotten hurt.
It was called Chemotherapy.
Slashdot has covered the leak a number of times, most recently yesterday.
I'm good on the book, thanks, my reading interests are more geology and middle eastern history and politics.
I appreciate the thought though!
Of course I eat. And as a former wheat farmer (north-central Great Plains, T. aestivum - Bearded spring wheat and T. hybernum - Beardless winter wheat) I know that the sinister effect that GMO has on the consumer is zero, zilch.
"In the United States the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports on the total area of GMO varieties planted. According to National Agricultural Statistics Service, the states published in these tables represent 81–86 percent of all corn planted area, 88–90 percent of all soybean planted area, and 81–93 percent of all upland cotton planted area (depending on the year)."
Is agribusiness in ruins? Well it always kind of is...
Are farmers in prison for violating the patents? Nope
Have there been mass killings from "frankenfood" entering our food and clothing chain? Nope.
In short none of the terrible things people have been whining about for the last 12-13 years has happened.
So...let me be clear and not evade. What ADM/Monsanto are doing have zero effect on my life at this juncture. Zero.
I'm no longer a farmer so what ADM/Monsanto are doing have zero effect on my life at this juncture. Zero.
Software patents, EULAs don't try to "enslave" anyone, using that word shows ignorance about slavery and frankly it's pretty damned stupid.
How about ELUAs are like a holocaust? Or Reign of Terror and food patients are Dekulakization?
Yes because there aren't already natural things out there that are poisonous or people might be allergic to while other people aren't.
Like peanuts for example. Or potatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Toxicity
Googling "deaths from GMO potato" doesn't really bring up anything and your link is an ad for a book.
I really dislike luddites when it comes to GM crops.
Well, once they lost their coal, aluminum and oil tiles it was all over.
Not to mention they only had one uranium tile and they kept losing it to the Chinese Nationalist civilization.