Capital, being resources or work, is finite: There's only so much stuff on the Earth or, indeed, in the universe. What happens when it's all turned to capital?
Cats are even better at this. They don't just know if someone is there, they also know who it is, even if the person is still half a mile away. Just from the faint sound of footsteps or a car engine. Cats really know these things... they just fucking don't care a bit.
Many moons ago, we had neighbours who had a cat (of the felis domesticus kind)
who always stayed in a high chair near the rear door in the kitchen.
Well, if you weren't accompanied by someone in the house,
you just POSITIVELY did not get inside the house. Period.
Just make sure your legislator aren't bought by
big croporations in the first place.
This involves watching public affairs and politics
closely, however, not an easy thing to do now that
croporations have managed to make democracy look
bad during the last 20-25 years...
Unionization is the first class ticket to non-competitiveness. Literally all unionized industries in the US have become obsolete. Companies that are forced to accept unions are on the verge of bankruptcy. Lets look at some of the industries shall we...
What a fucking bunch of crock that post is.
Telecommunications - Unions have pretty much locked us into a system that is totally obsolete. While Japan and other countries are implementing state-of-the-art telecommunications systems, our system is relegated to 1940's technology.
Never mind that the Bell System was gutted when it was exploded to satisfy a whimsical theory that monopolies cannot be good, even though that Theodore Vail managed to build what would become the best telephone network through the judicious use of a enlightened monopoly, that is, enlightened in order to assure universal service.The resulting pieces eventually fell prey to a bunch of self-satisfied entrepreneur who gluttonly fed upon their equity while raising local phone rates and aggressively cutting back employment so that the service reached a nadir that is only equalled in the most squalid turd-world countries, thanks to a diseffected workforce who no matter how hard they bust their arses, get shafted in the long run.Whatever capital that could have been available to raise the technology above 1940's levels was instead squandered in dubious ventures and quest
Well, thanks to global trade agreements that give free entry to substandard goods produced by slave-labour. Again, you're putting the blame on the workforce where the clear culprit is distributors and stores whose only interest is the fattest bottom-line.
Automotive - The UAW has pretty much killed the industry that America invented.
Have you actually seen the utter CRAP that was built by the US automotive industry in the 1970s??? Oversized, gas-guzzling cars who broke down in a blink built by an industrial complex that was so sure of the superiority it assumed thanks to incredibly fat bottom-lines, yet was, like a dinosaur, too stupid to notice the swifter-moving oriental car manufacturers who produced exactly what the sacro-sanct market wanted: economic cars that did not break down every two weeks. It is not the automotive workers who decided to build what the public did not want, but the executives.
Airline - The pilots union has caused many of a carrier to declare bankruptcy. Even now, 3 major US carries are about to go down this path.
Bullshit again. When the aviation industry was deregulated 25 years ago, the USA airlines had together the youngest airliner fleet of the earth. After 25 years of senseless cut-throat competition (and quiet cartels), the USA have the oldest airliner fleet of the earth, thanks to money spent on buying other companies instead of newer airplanes.
Oh, so sorry, I'm stupid. It's the pilots unions (and let's not forget the machinists, too) and not management who decided NOT to buy better airplanes instead of other airline companies.
Teachers - The teachers union has been the sole reason why the K-12 schools in the US are so bad. Where the teachers union doesn't have any influence (universities), US schools are a cut above the rest.
You're talking out of your arse. It's not the teachers unions who have deciced to cut back school funding so the big fat arses who send their offspring to private schools not only pay less taxes, but don't see their children out-competed by children of poorer families. After all, the p
The destruction of that airfield was fully illegal. It was done with bulldozers in the middle of the night. It was done in the name of "Homeland Security".
He was right! When Microsoft Flight Simulator first came out,
some 20 odd-years ago, I used to take-off from Meighs Field and
fly into the John Hancock tower just for kicks...
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Cars aren't built to take massive damage from behind because it almost never happens (aside from police cars parked on the side of the highway). Besides, there is a trunk between the passengers and rear bumper to provide a crumple zone. This isn't a flaw, it's a design choice.
So this explains why the Pinto exploded: it had no trunk...
When one uses "in fact" one does not disingenuously twist the meaning of the statement. Ah, forget it. I am tired of getting karma-whacked for having an unpopular viewpoint.
This is slashdot, where you better love Amerika, or else...
"Sounds like a pretty crappy design decision to me."
You don't understand Engineering do you?
This is not engineering, but accounting/marketing interference with Engineering at it's best. Some bean-counter along with a marketoid came along and told the engineering team to reuse the old crap because they didn't have the budget (accounting) and time (marketing) to do a good job in the first place.
Public transit, of course, costs money. Are you willing to pay the taxes to have these systems built? Since you called the parent poster a "socialist," you strike me as the sort who appreciates having these services available but bitches about having to pay the taxes that make such things possible.
Those types who bitch the loudest about paying taxes for public transit always vanish quietly whenever one talks about privatizing roads...
Driving is a REVOKABLE PRIVILEGE, not an UNALIENABLE RIGHT;
therefore one can expect :
to have his actions while driving a motor-car scrutinized by public authorities,
to be subject to license revocation, thus no longer having the option of driving his own motor-car,
that the right to travel is perfectly exercised without the possession of a driver's licence.
Being done on PUBLIC SPACES, drivers should HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY whatsoever;
therefore :
it is perfectly permissible for ANYBODY to track the whereabouts of any given motor-car;
if PUBLIC SAFETY can be improved dramatically by the use of motor-car tracking and monitoring devices, it is perfectly fair to mandate the installation of such devices.
Funny. My finger's not tired, I use SpamBayes. Sure, I miss out on great messages touting... A great opportunity... New and spreading via the Internet in a very big way-It's FREE to join, and it promises a lot. Too good to be true?...but it makes it easier.
You may don't see the automatic pressing of the delete button, but you STILL pay for the disk space and bandwidth wasted by the spam, not to mention the ressources sucked by the spam filter (when I turned off my spam filter a year ago, the database had grown to 110 megabytes - whenever an e-mail came in, the machine had to plod through 110 megabytes to check whether it was a spam or not).
If you don't like that a movie screening costs $8, you don't have the right to go into the theater and watch it without paying.
If you sneak-in and watch without paying, the theater is NOT missing a copy/screening of the movie. I have a friend with which we always go watch 2-3 movies on one ticket without paying to see the other(s); this is our way of destroying that evil industry that would want to outlaw computers...
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They can masturbate, or have gay sex.
You should get your facts straight.
Cuba and China are republics, too, but unlike the USA, they don't have democracy.
A republic can be democratic, or not.
This involves watching public affairs and politics closely, however, not an easy thing to do now that croporations have managed to make democracy look bad during the last 20-25 years...
What a fucking bunch of crock that post is.
Never mind that the Bell System was gutted when it was exploded to satisfy a whimsical theory that monopolies cannot be good, even though that Theodore Vail managed to build what would become the best telephone network through the judicious use of a enlightened monopoly, that is, enlightened in order to assure universal service .The resulting pieces eventually fell prey to a bunch of self-satisfied entrepreneur who gluttonly fed upon their equity while raising local phone rates and aggressively cutting back employment so that the service reached a nadir that is only equalled in the most squalid turd-world countries, thanks to a diseffected workforce who no matter how hard they bust their arses, get shafted in the long run.Whatever capital that could have been available to raise the technology above 1940's levels was instead squandered in dubious ventures and quest
Well, thanks to global trade agreements that give free entry to substandard goods produced by slave-labour. Again, you're putting the blame on the workforce where the clear culprit is distributors and stores whose only interest is the fattest bottom-line.
Have you actually seen the utter CRAP that was built by the US automotive industry in the 1970s??? Oversized, gas-guzzling cars who broke down in a blink built by an industrial complex that was so sure of the superiority it assumed thanks to incredibly fat bottom-lines, yet was, like a dinosaur, too stupid to notice the swifter-moving oriental car manufacturers who produced exactly what the sacro-sanct market wanted: economic cars that did not break down every two weeks. It is not the automotive workers who decided to build what the public did not want, but the executives.
Bullshit again. When the aviation industry was deregulated 25 years ago, the USA airlines had together the youngest airliner fleet of the earth. After 25 years of senseless cut-throat competition (and quiet cartels), the USA have the oldest airliner fleet of the earth, thanks to money spent on buying other companies instead of newer airplanes.
Oh, so sorry, I'm stupid. It's the pilots unions (and let's not forget the machinists, too) and not management who decided NOT to buy better airplanes instead of other airline companies.
You're talking out of your arse. It's not the teachers unions who have deciced to cut back school funding so the big fat arses who send their offspring to private schools not only pay less taxes, but don't see their children out-competed by children of poorer families. After all, the p
WARNING! This is a link to GOATSE.CX !!!
Now, they gonna have WHOLE DEPARTMENTS simultaneously go belly up...
- Driving is a REVOKABLE PRIVILEGE, not an UNALIENABLE RIGHT;
- to have his actions while driving a motor-car scrutinized by public authorities,
- to be subject to license revocation, thus no longer having the option of driving his own motor-car,
- that the right to travel is perfectly exercised without the possession of a driver's licence.
- Being done on PUBLIC SPACES, drivers should HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY whatsoever;
- it is perfectly permissible for ANYBODY to track the whereabouts of any given motor-car;
- if PUBLIC SAFETY can be improved dramatically by the use of motor-car tracking and monitoring devices, it is perfectly fair to mandate the installation of such devices.
Thank-you for your attention.therefore one can expect :
therefore :
(Reposted a fourth time, thanks to terminal moderator assholiness who waste precious moderator points on such stupid affairs)...
Blame Canada! (Reposted, account extreme moderator assholiness)