UK? Don't make me laugh! with hundreds of thousands living off benefits, people being jailed for criticizing Islam, citizens being told "they should simply get used to terrorism", crazy "positive-discrimination" laws, etc. Very right-wing, yes.
But I will concede that perhaps Denmark is a bit of an exception to the norm. Although it's a small country with very little weight in the EU.
I agree with most of what you say, with just a few comments:
- Franco was a real socialist from an economic point of view: Spanish workers never had so many rights and protection as during his rule, and all the governments that came after his death have slowly destroyed all those rights.
- Hitler and Mussolini were also kind of socialists in that aspect, with a slightly different approach
- Many old people whom I have talked to who lived in Spain during Franco's regime say that there was actually more freedom than today (excepting politics, of course). "Democracy" is actually breaking down on all kinds of freedoms, and Spain also has similar laws to the one that allowed the crackdown in Germany.
What I mean to say is that things are neither black nor white. It is possible to be a socialist from an economical perspective but utterly right-wing from a social view, and viceversa.
Which (western) European country is currently ruled by a right-wing party? Don't tell me that the Spanish, British or German governments are "right wing" (even if the radical left likes to call them "fascists") when they are spending like crazy on social benefits, welcoming and blowing rapefugees, imposing a dictatorship of political correctness, pushing agendas of gender ideology, etc.
Completely agree. It's the same "male privilege" arguments that feminists use to justify passing more and more misandric laws. Nowadays being a straight white male puts you in the lowest rung (unless you're rich of course) as you can't use the "racism", "sexism" or "homophobia" cards in your defense.
A guy in a Spanish forum wanted to troll the vote and proposed the name "Blas de Lezo", who was an Admiral of the Spanish army that managed several victories against the British navy despite counting with considerably less resources.
The proposal got viral and for a short period of time it was the most voted option, but then the option was removed and further attempts to reenter the name into the competition were banned.
So much panic has been created by the media coverage of big pedophilia scandals... which would be understandeable if this coverage wasn't so one-sided (showing only male agressors, as if there weren't also women with these tendences).
In general, education as a whole has become tremendously feminized, and any "masculine" behaviour which boys have engaged in for centuries (such as fighting, playing physical contact sports, etc) is now frowned upon and instead they tend to encourage boys to have fun in a "girl" way which is utterly unnatural.
The consequences of this, and the patent male discrimination that these boys will have to face as they grow up (their life being ripped to pieces if they ever marry and face a divorce), are here to see: a constantly decreasing birth rate, increasing presence of MGTOW and similar movements, and globally a (not so) slow decadence of the western civilization in favour of other cultures that still have other values.
...after the taxi mafias started demonstrating, shutting down roads and even physically attacking Uber Drivers.
Why do I say they are a mafia? Well, for a start, not a single new licence has been issued by the authorities in the last 30 years (more or less). If you want a license, you have to buy one from a current Driver at an astronomical price. In Madrid some people have paid more than 300.000€ for a taxi license, often going heavily into debt. These drivers then have to work extremely long hours without taking any Holidays to pay off their debt, while a few families have dozens of licenses in their hands, not having to work at all as they prefer to have 3 guys driving around 8 hours a day each for a minimum wage pocketing enormous profits. When they die, licenses are automatically inherited by their children, thus perpetuating the monopoly.
Of course, this is all starting to backfire on them as it adds to decades of overpricing, regular passenger-scamming and rude behaviour (which they could allow themselves thanks to the lack of competition). People have given a great welcome to Uber and after the mafia has shown ist true face les and less people are using taxis.
...that has to be recharged every day (or couple of days; I have actually no clue about how long the battery will last but for sure no longer that 3-4 days)?
I feel like this single detail is already a giant step backwards. It's already quite a big bother to have to recharge the battery of my smartphone every day, I don't need this additional inconvenience. And all for what? For having a watch that can do a fraction of the things my smartphone can do but with a smaller screen and a higher price?
And of course, a high-end watch like a Rolex is for a lifetime and when your children inherit it it will still have a high value if it was well maintained. The iWatch will be just as obsolete as the first iPod is today and have practically no value.
Honestly, I don't see this a big threat for the Swiss watch industry. Just like they survived after Casio started mass-producing digital watches, this will be no more than a niche for Apple-fanboys.
This has happened before. Copyright infringement trolling is a very lucrative business in Germany. There have been cases of lawyers sending out thousands of letters demanding payments of over a thousand euros, of which about 75% consisted in legal fees. At the end virtually noboby was taken to court for this, but if only 10% of the recipients pays up (I'm guessing the number was higher though) it already means a very high ROI for simply doing a mass-mailing.
It's also very lucrative for VPN providers, as their market in Germany is constantly increasing.
I live in Germany and I can only say good things about the health care system. True, taxes are high but you do get something in exchange and salaries are high enough too so you have a good paycheck at the end of the month.
If I wanted I could switch to private healthcare and step out of the public system for about 300 euros a month; I doubt that will cost you less in the states.
I remember taking bunches of old DD 3.5'' floppies and drilling a hole on the lower left side in order to later format them as HD (1.44 MB). Of course many of them were destroyed or ended up with lots of defective sectors in the process.
I have done a few jobs for them too; some of the topics are really quite interesting (contents of self-help websites, quite a few pages from ehow.com, caribbean resort guides, etc).
I don't think you would have any major problems to work in India being a US citizen, any more than viceversa. The only question is if you would be willing to work for an Indian salary. I think that is the reason why the migration flow is pretty much unidirectional.
What you said about Apple and lawsuits just reminded me of something that happened to a (small) company I worked for a few years ago.
This company was called "XXXXMAC", a name which it had since 1989, which it received because one of the founders was called Macario. Well, this didn't stop Apple from sueing them for a large amount of money just because the name of the company contained the word "MAC".
Eventually the company won the lawsuit and Apple had to reimburse the legal costs, but it did suppose an enormous pain in the ass for such a small company. I bet many others would have simply folded and changed the name just to avoid fighting against Apple.
The care you get isn't that much worse. I live in Germany and I have never had to wait more than a few days for any specialist appointment.
True, in some countries public health care isn't as efficient as here, but at least people who normally would not be able to afford that care can also get checked and/or treated. And people like you who have a decent salary and don't want to wait can always purchase a complimentary private health plan to speed things up and have more comfort.
And why does he have the exclusive responsibility of providing for the family (in this case only for her since they had no children)? Did it occur to the bitch to actually WORK to compensate for the money he wasn't making any more?
Yes, she IS a greedy whore. Now I only hope that the rich guy will dump her in a few years for an even younger girl leaving her with nothing.
I recently had to get rid of a really old iron bathtub in an appartment I bought and had redone. The flat is on a third floor without an elevator so it was a real problem to get it out to the street as I couldn't carry it alone.
Finally, one day while I was trashing some other junk a gypsy came to me and asked me if I had anything metallic to throw away. I told him that if he was able to get the bathtub out of the building I would give him some other old stuff too as a bonus. Needless to say, 5 minutes later he showed up with a buddy and together they carried the thing out.
I'm sure they must have made a few bucks selling it as scrap by the weight
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Not the Russia bullsh*t again, please.
UK? Don't make me laugh! with hundreds of thousands living off benefits, people being jailed for criticizing Islam, citizens being told "they should simply get used to terrorism", crazy "positive-discrimination" laws, etc. Very right-wing, yes.
But I will concede that perhaps Denmark is a bit of an exception to the norm. Although it's a small country with very little weight in the EU.
How do you know what I am? Can you answer my question and tell me which country in Europe is ruled by the right?
I agree with most of what you say, with just a few comments:
- Franco was a real socialist from an economic point of view: Spanish workers never had so many rights and protection as during his rule, and all the governments that came after his death have slowly destroyed all those rights.
- Hitler and Mussolini were also kind of socialists in that aspect, with a slightly different approach
- Many old people whom I have talked to who lived in Spain during Franco's regime say that there was actually more freedom than today (excepting politics, of course). "Democracy" is actually breaking down on all kinds of freedoms, and Spain also has similar laws to the one that allowed the crackdown in Germany.
What I mean to say is that things are neither black nor white. It is possible to be a socialist from an economical perspective but utterly right-wing from a social view, and viceversa.
Which (western) European country is currently ruled by a right-wing party? Don't tell me that the Spanish, British or German governments are "right wing" (even if the radical left likes to call them "fascists") when they are spending like crazy on social benefits, welcoming and blowing rapefugees, imposing a dictatorship of political correctness, pushing agendas of gender ideology, etc.
Completely agree. It's the same "male privilege" arguments that feminists use to justify passing more and more misandric laws. Nowadays being a straight white male puts you in the lowest rung (unless you're rich of course) as you can't use the "racism", "sexism" or "homophobia" cards in your defense.
It's really interesting to see Zuckerberg (jew) giving green light to this kind of speech.
I think the Swiss are doing pretty well and would disagree with what you say.
A guy in a Spanish forum wanted to troll the vote and proposed the name "Blas de Lezo", who was an Admiral of the Spanish army that managed several victories against the British navy despite counting with considerably less resources.
The proposal got viral and for a short period of time it was the most voted option, but then the option was removed and further attempts to reenter the name into the competition were banned.
http://m.forocoches.com/foro/s... (Link to the thread in the Spanish forum)
So much panic has been created by the media coverage of big pedophilia scandals... which would be understandeable if this coverage wasn't so one-sided (showing only male agressors, as if there weren't also women with these tendences).
In general, education as a whole has become tremendously feminized, and any "masculine" behaviour which boys have engaged in for centuries (such as fighting, playing physical contact sports, etc) is now frowned upon and instead they tend to encourage boys to have fun in a "girl" way which is utterly unnatural.
The consequences of this, and the patent male discrimination that these boys will have to face as they grow up (their life being ripped to pieces if they ever marry and face a divorce), are here to see: a constantly decreasing birth rate, increasing presence of MGTOW and similar movements, and globally a (not so) slow decadence of the western civilization in favour of other cultures that still have other values.
...after the taxi mafias started demonstrating, shutting down roads and even physically attacking Uber Drivers.
Why do I say they are a mafia? Well, for a start, not a single new licence has been issued by the authorities in the last 30 years (more or less). If you want a license, you have to buy one from a current Driver at an astronomical price. In Madrid some people have paid more than 300.000€ for a taxi license, often going heavily into debt. These drivers then have to work extremely long hours without taking any Holidays to pay off their debt, while a few families have dozens of licenses in their hands, not having to work at all as they prefer to have 3 guys driving around 8 hours a day each for a minimum wage pocketing enormous profits. When they die, licenses are automatically inherited by their children, thus perpetuating the monopoly.
Of course, this is all starting to backfire on them as it adds to decades of overpricing, regular passenger-scamming and rude behaviour (which they could allow themselves thanks to the lack of competition). People have given a great welcome to Uber and after the mafia has shown ist true face les and less people are using taxis.
...that has to be recharged every day (or couple of days; I have actually no clue about how long the battery will last but for sure no longer that 3-4 days)?
I feel like this single detail is already a giant step backwards. It's already quite a big bother to have to recharge the battery of my smartphone every day, I don't need this additional inconvenience. And all for what? For having a watch that can do a fraction of the things my smartphone can do but with a smaller screen and a higher price?
And of course, a high-end watch like a Rolex is for a lifetime and when your children inherit it it will still have a high value if it was well maintained. The iWatch will be just as obsolete as the first iPod is today and have practically no value.
Honestly, I don't see this a big threat for the Swiss watch industry. Just like they survived after Casio started mass-producing digital watches, this will be no more than a niche for Apple-fanboys.
This has happened before. Copyright infringement trolling is a very lucrative business in Germany. There have been cases of lawyers sending out thousands of letters demanding payments of over a thousand euros, of which about 75% consisted in legal fees. At the end virtually noboby was taken to court for this, but if only 10% of the recipients pays up (I'm guessing the number was higher though) it already means a very high ROI for simply doing a mass-mailing.
It's also very lucrative for VPN providers, as their market in Germany is constantly increasing.
Er... I don't see Qatar asking Israel for any help... nor Israel granting it
I'm surprised no one has suggested it yet...
I live in Germany and I can only say good things about the health care system. True, taxes are high but you do get something in exchange and salaries are high enough too so you have a good paycheck at the end of the month.
If I wanted I could switch to private healthcare and step out of the public system for about 300 euros a month; I doubt that will cost you less in the states.
I remember taking bunches of old DD 3.5'' floppies and drilling a hole on the lower left side in order to later format them as HD (1.44 MB). Of course many of them were destroyed or ended up with lots of defective sectors in the process.
Aaaaah, the good old days!
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I have done a few jobs for them too; some of the topics are really quite interesting (contents of self-help websites, quite a few pages from ehow.com, caribbean resort guides, etc).
I don't think you would have any major problems to work in India being a US citizen, any more than viceversa. The only question is if you would be willing to work for an Indian salary. I think that is the reason why the migration flow is pretty much unidirectional.
What you said about Apple and lawsuits just reminded me of something that happened to a (small) company I worked for a few years ago.
This company was called "XXXXMAC", a name which it had since 1989, which it received because one of the founders was called Macario. Well, this didn't stop Apple from sueing them for a large amount of money just because the name of the company contained the word "MAC".
Eventually the company won the lawsuit and Apple had to reimburse the legal costs, but it did suppose an enormous pain in the ass for such a small company. I bet many others would have simply folded and changed the name just to avoid fighting against Apple.
The care you get isn't that much worse. I live in Germany and I have never had to wait more than a few days for any specialist appointment.
True, in some countries public health care isn't as efficient as here, but at least people who normally would not be able to afford that care can also get checked and/or treated. And people like you who have a decent salary and don't want to wait can always purchase a complimentary private health plan to speed things up and have more comfort.
And why does he have the exclusive responsibility of providing for the family (in this case only for her since they had no children)? Did it occur to the bitch to actually WORK to compensate for the money he wasn't making any more? Yes, she IS a greedy whore. Now I only hope that the rich guy will dump her in a few years for an even younger girl leaving her with nothing.
It is pretty crappy, I know, but is it better anywhere else in the world (like US for example)?
Yes, that's why Switzerland (the only real direct democracy in the world) is suffering so much from poverty, unemployment, corruption, etc Oh... WAIT!
I recently had to get rid of a really old iron bathtub in an appartment I bought and had redone. The flat is on a third floor without an elevator so it was a real problem to get it out to the street as I couldn't carry it alone.
Finally, one day while I was trashing some other junk a gypsy came to me and asked me if I had anything metallic to throw away. I told him that if he was able to get the bathtub out of the building I would give him some other old stuff too as a bonus. Needless to say, 5 minutes later he showed up with a buddy and together they carried the thing out.
I'm sure they must have made a few bucks selling it as scrap by the weight