The USA had spent the last 12 years trying to become a abject failure like Mexico. It is not for lack of trying, but the mission is really hard after having all the spoils of the XX century, that rightfully is called the American Century.
Why in the hell is parent modded informative? He doesn't provide any specific example of what he is claiming. For the marketing campaign, there are whole countries without a single billboard or TV commercial from Apple that still get good sales of Apple products. It would be interesting to see a comparison in the marketing expenses of Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft to see wich one has the mayor expenses in marketing.
Not necessarily. I'm based my observation in a just and democratic republic, as defined by Montesquieu. Also, world peace becomes attainable under such system when there is only one state, since every state, even under a democratic government will try to expand its influence to the maximum, and, if a state becomes global the need for expansion of influence is gone.
A tyranny is a rotten form of government by definition. The main virtue of democracy is not that the voice of majority is heard, but that it gives voice to a minority. I presume that your cinysm comes from the current state of affairs in modern USA and most of the western world, but this state is not the best achievable under the democratic republic system. The main disease currently affecting the modern states is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, since their wealth enables them to setup a propaganda system that manipulates the public and when that is not enough, they can coerce or outright buy the votes of the poor. Believe me, I know that, this is just what happened in my country, Mexico last july, this is the main reason for the mass demonstrations against the "victory" of the candidate of PRI, Enrique Peña Nieto.
So this is the system we have, but that doesn't mean we as citizens can't improve it.
I grant you that, but as a non-American I'd like to add: Truly a human icon.
Mod parent up. Gagarin and Armstrong regardless of their home country were, and maybe still are a great inspiration for millions of kids. Rest in peace.
USA's system is only best of breed for the ones that can afford to pay for it. The average health care in Mexico is way cheaper than the same care in USA, even if you adjust for purchasing power, and is easier and cheaper here with private insurance to get a very good service in a private hospital. A good american friend was amazed how cheap were medical services here versus a similar service in her natal Wisconsin. A 30 times difference in the price for a routine checkout with the gynecologist is absolutely insane.
Normally drugs are cheap here. But I would say that the report is extremely self serving by Julio Frenk, it is akin to a report by Dick Cheney saying that waterboarding works and WMD had been found in Iraq, or the large banks reporting that deregulation is good in 2008. The reality is that both programs, "Seguro Popular" and "Oportunidades" became the mexican conservative's party attempt at building a vote-buying scheme for their own in the same way that the old single party dictatorship of PRI used the "Desarrollo Integral de la Familia", "Integral Development for Families" DIF goverment program to buy votes from the poor and put a mask of democracy over their de facto dictatorship in the second half of XX century.
The "Seguro Popular" increased the coverage, mostly on paper only, since the sudden increase in demand was not matched by a increase in the availability of healthcare services. The already stretched public health system now have to deal with 2 times more customers than what it used to do, and the coverage of "Seguro Popular" only covered a handful of diseases initially versus full coverage from the normal social security services, just to not make a full lie their claims of increased coverage.
Still, there was a windows of oportunity to Samsung to copy the iPhone design since they are suppliers of Apple. Still, the F700 could and should be fairly safe of any claims by Apple, but not the following models, there is a clear imitation of Samsung of Apple designs even from the packaging style and the design of the interface.
Parent comment is not interesting, is insane. We have witnessed hundreds of times that the UN is absolutely unable to twist even a little tiny bit USA's arm, even when doing so would be in USA middle long term self interest.
From Proceso Magazine, citing a report of the ATF, the percentage is around 70%. From 99,000, around 68,000 were manufactured or imported legally in USA.
Naturally, the numbers are suspiciously round, but the source is the ATF itself, I doubt they are including in that percentage the stupid mistakes of operations "Fast and Furious" and "Gunrunner".
I guess that there is more fear in the people that need a gun to feel safer than in the ones that want proper regulation in said guns. We in Mexico have guns in a significant percentage of households, but that doesn't have helped to reduce the criminal violence. That said, in the remote case that are in USA places as dangerous as Central and northern Mexico, I would find perfectly reasonable the need to own a gun, but I doubt that.
You guys really need to go to Tokyo to see what is to live in a civilized, safe city; in this city are not an uncommon sight to see 4 year old girls going alone to the school, and police have a well deserved respect. I find pointless to live in the most prosperous country in the world if the price is perpetual fear. You americans can and have done better.
"What is it that the NRA want to ban in law, exactly?"
The right not to get shot by some idiot who we think needs a license to own a dog, but not a firearm.
Precisely. After 3 close encounters to meeting the end of my days at the hands of idiots with guns, a sane middle ground in which law abiding citizens have the right to own firearms after an easy, fast and accurate registration process, but not sold to any moron over the counter or anonymously on the net. You guys love to have your second amendment in USA, but the lack of proper controls are making ridiculously easy to the Mexican Mafia to buy thousands of weapons in USA for their private armies, even without the help of the ATF. Your right to own firearms ends when its lack of limits puts innocents life's at risk.
Because they don't work in a capitalist, consumption driven economy. People need to have disposable income to impulse consumption to keep the economy working around. When you have enormous amounts of wealth in the hands of very few people and a shrinking middle the works of the economic and political systems get broken. Even the super rich have a limit of what they have to consume and with their extreme wealth, they can buy votes easily not only from the elected officers, they can buy the votes from the miserable populace, like it have happened in Mexico just a few weeks ago.
The "tricke-down economics" is what we have had in Mexico from 1982 onwards. We became a poster child of neoliberal policies in the 1980's, they got more or less accepted by the people in the face of hyper-inflation, but by 1993 it was clear that they didn't work. We keep those policies stupidly despite the fact that countries that didn't followed them like South Korea or China are now far better of than us. Trickle-down economics have the same standing on reality as the miracles described in the holly books of any religion or the wonders in fairy tales.
would be that iOS have less piracy because more users value the programs they use and with a sane pricing scheme that keep honest people honest only assholes will pirate. I work in a Data Center and admin around 150-200 servers running Windows, Solaris, Linux and AIX, but I don't pirate despite I have the knowhow because I value my job, and value the job of the developers that make the apps that I enjoy.
I will delete any game from them from all my devices and advice my friends to do the same and avoid buying new stuff from them again. They could bribe their way out of taxes here in Mexico and they can even get funds from the taxpayer in exchange of nothing. It would be fun if they set up shop in Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad Juárez, so they could see what difference those taxes make. That, if they can keep their heads attached to their body for a long enough time.
I wasn't clear. Certainly, HR wants to avoid to make bad hires, but after that, in my experience the main problem are the managers that are more focused on being "the boss" than managing their team and getting the work well done.
True story, when I pointed out that some comm equipment had their redundant PSU's to the same power strip, I was basically told "what do you know? You don't have a degree and don't touch this" Murphy's law kicks in two months later and my manager gets pissed off because we went offline in the peak hour. I'm the college drop out, my manager supposedly have a Masters in data center management.
Me too, the hard part for your friend is to get past the guys at human resources, after that, it will be easier for him to go up, specially if your managers are not sociopaths.
We can thank the ATF for sending and losing track of thousands of weapons for that, the School of Americas for training the Zetas gang and the schizoid drug control policies of USA that make the business work. For the gun dealership part, you can buy them in most army's quarters, you don't need to go to Mexico City to buy a gun.
They will have the same legal framework about guns we have in "democratic" Mexico, but with the added benefit that Venezuela doesn't share the border with the USA. Most people here forget that in the underworld guns together with drugs are used as currency. As long gun ownership is made easy enough for law abiding citizens, regardless of their political leaning this law will not be a problem.
And for the support for this morons in modern times, I can only say that the current president of Mexico is the son of a cristero courier founder of a political party that in WWII was close to Nazi Germany, and also supported by a catholic extremist organization called "El Yunque", "The Anvil" with strong presence in Mexico and Spain. Their predecessors under the MURO banner made several terrorist attacks in Mexico in the late 1960's and 1970's. The movie "La Cristiada", "For Greater Glory" is only a propaganda piece that whitewashes the crimes and murders that these bastards made in 1920's with the explicit support of the Pope. Now it is used for stupid statements like this: CRISTIADA - Film on the Brutal Liberal-Masonic Persecution Against the Faith of the Mexican People
On reality, the Cristero war had a strong religious basis but it had also a very strong economic component since it was a landowner's war against land reform, and used the ignorant masses as pawns to protect their economic interests. In their ignorance Cristero's killed protestants and jews for the crime of not being catholic and murdered or mutilated thousands of teachers and burned dozens of schools. The increasing power of the heirs of these loons in Mexico is what made me to stop attending Mass and stop calling myself a catholic.
Well, a pair of attacks that have left more than 300 casualties in a country with 12 times less population than the USA that already have had several times more war dead in the last 12 years than the USA in 9/11, certainly it does make it comparable to 9/11 up to a point, but the best USA's analogy in my opinion is to compare this versus the Columbine massacre that was rightfully covered in Slashdot.
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The USA had spent the last 12 years trying to become a abject failure like Mexico. It is not for lack of trying, but the mission is really hard after having all the spoils of the XX century, that rightfully is called the American Century.
Why in the hell is parent modded informative? He doesn't provide any specific example of what he is claiming. For the marketing campaign, there are whole countries without a single billboard or TV commercial from Apple that still get good sales of Apple products. It would be interesting to see a comparison in the marketing expenses of Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft to see wich one has the mayor expenses in marketing.
I submit parent post to the Slashdot Hall of fame. If I hadn't been reading this on the iPad I would have had to buya new keyboard tomorrow.
Not necessarily. I'm based my observation in a just and democratic republic, as defined by Montesquieu. Also, world peace becomes attainable under such system when there is only one state, since every state, even under a democratic government will try to expand its influence to the maximum, and, if a state becomes global the need for expansion of influence is gone.
A tyranny is a rotten form of government by definition. The main virtue of democracy is not that the voice of majority is heard, but that it gives voice to a minority. I presume that your cinysm comes from the current state of affairs in modern USA and most of the western world, but this state is not the best achievable under the democratic republic system. The main disease currently affecting the modern states is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, since their wealth enables them to setup a propaganda system that manipulates the public and when that is not enough, they can coerce or outright buy the votes of the poor. Believe me, I know that, this is just what happened in my country, Mexico last july, this is the main reason for the mass demonstrations against the "victory" of the candidate of PRI, Enrique Peña Nieto.
So this is the system we have, but that doesn't mean we as citizens can't improve it.
As long as there isn't a just, democratic world wide government there will be war.
Truly an American icon.
I grant you that, but as a non-American I'd like to add: Truly a human icon.
Mod parent up. Gagarin and Armstrong regardless of their home country were, and maybe still are a great inspiration for millions of kids. Rest in peace.
USA's system is only best of breed for the ones that can afford to pay for it. The average health care in Mexico is way cheaper than the same care in USA, even if you adjust for purchasing power, and is easier and cheaper here with private insurance to get a very good service in a private hospital. A good american friend was amazed how cheap were medical services here versus a similar service in her natal Wisconsin. A 30 times difference in the price for a routine checkout with the gynecologist is absolutely insane.
Normally drugs are cheap here. But I would say that the report is extremely self serving by Julio Frenk, it is akin to a report by Dick Cheney saying that waterboarding works and WMD had been found in Iraq, or the large banks reporting that deregulation is good in 2008. The reality is that both programs, "Seguro Popular" and "Oportunidades" became the mexican conservative's party attempt at building a vote-buying scheme for their own in the same way that the old single party dictatorship of PRI used the "Desarrollo Integral de la Familia", "Integral Development for Families" DIF goverment program to buy votes from the poor and put a mask of democracy over their de facto dictatorship in the second half of XX century.
The "Seguro Popular" increased the coverage, mostly on paper only, since the sudden increase in demand was not matched by a increase in the availability of healthcare services. The already stretched public health system now have to deal with 2 times more customers than what it used to do, and the coverage of "Seguro Popular" only covered a handful of diseases initially versus full coverage from the normal social security services, just to not make a full lie their claims of increased coverage.
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Still, there was a windows of oportunity to Samsung to copy the iPhone design since they are suppliers of Apple. Still, the F700 could and should be fairly safe of any claims by Apple, but not the following models, there is a clear imitation of Samsung of Apple designs even from the packaging style and the design of the interface.
Parent comment is not interesting, is insane. We have witnessed hundreds of times that the UN is absolutely unable to twist even a little tiny bit USA's arm, even when doing so would be in USA middle long term self interest.
From Proceso Magazine, citing a report of the ATF, the percentage is around 70%. From 99,000, around 68,000 were manufactured or imported legally in USA.
http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=305526
Naturally, the numbers are suspiciously round, but the source is the ATF itself, I doubt they are including in that percentage the stupid mistakes of operations "Fast and Furious" and "Gunrunner".
I guess that there is more fear in the people that need a gun to feel safer than in the ones that want proper regulation in said guns. We in Mexico have guns in a significant percentage of households, but that doesn't have helped to reduce the criminal violence. That said, in the remote case that are in USA places as dangerous as Central and northern Mexico, I would find perfectly reasonable the need to own a gun, but I doubt that.
You guys really need to go to Tokyo to see what is to live in a civilized, safe city; in this city are not an uncommon sight to see 4 year old girls going alone to the school, and police have a well deserved respect. I find pointless to live in the most prosperous country in the world if the price is perpetual fear. You americans can and have done better.
"What is it that the NRA want to ban in law, exactly?"
The right not to get shot by some idiot who we think needs a license to own a dog, but not a firearm.
Precisely. After 3 close encounters to meeting the end of my days at the hands of idiots with guns, a sane middle ground in which law abiding citizens have the right to own firearms after an easy, fast and accurate registration process, but not sold to any moron over the counter or anonymously on the net. You guys love to have your second amendment in USA, but the lack of proper controls are making ridiculously easy to the Mexican Mafia to buy thousands of weapons in USA for their private armies, even without the help of the ATF. Your right to own firearms ends when its lack of limits puts innocents life's at risk.
Because they don't work in a capitalist, consumption driven economy. People need to have disposable income to impulse consumption to keep the economy working around. When you have enormous amounts of wealth in the hands of very few people and a shrinking middle the works of the economic and political systems get broken. Even the super rich have a limit of what they have to consume and with their extreme wealth, they can buy votes easily not only from the elected officers, they can buy the votes from the miserable populace, like it have happened in Mexico just a few weeks ago.
The "tricke-down economics" is what we have had in Mexico from 1982 onwards. We became a poster child of neoliberal policies in the 1980's, they got more or less accepted by the people in the face of hyper-inflation, but by 1993 it was clear that they didn't work. We keep those policies stupidly despite the fact that countries that didn't followed them like South Korea or China are now far better of than us. Trickle-down economics have the same standing on reality as the miracles described in the holly books of any religion or the wonders in fairy tales.
would be that iOS have less piracy because more users value the programs they use and with a sane pricing scheme that keep honest people honest only assholes will pirate. I work in a Data Center and admin around 150-200 servers running Windows, Solaris, Linux and AIX, but I don't pirate despite I have the knowhow because I value my job, and value the job of the developers that make the apps that I enjoy.
I will delete any game from them from all my devices and advice my friends to do the same and avoid buying new stuff from them again. They could bribe their way out of taxes here in Mexico and they can even get funds from the taxpayer in exchange of nothing. It would be fun if they set up shop in Nuevo Laredo or Ciudad Juárez, so they could see what difference those taxes make. That, if they can keep their heads attached to their body for a long enough time.
I wasn't clear. Certainly, HR wants to avoid to make bad hires, but after that, in my experience the main problem are the managers that are more focused on being "the boss" than managing their team and getting the work well done.
True story, when I pointed out that some comm equipment had their redundant PSU's to the same power strip, I was basically told "what do you know? You don't have a degree and don't touch this" Murphy's law kicks in two months later and my manager gets pissed off because we went offline in the peak hour. I'm the college drop out, my manager supposedly have a Masters in data center management.
Me too, the hard part for your friend is to get past the guys at human resources, after that, it will be easier for him to go up, specially if your managers are not sociopaths.
But your mouse remains safe, as predicted.
Yes, indeed.
You owe me a new keyboard.
We can thank the ATF for sending and losing track of thousands of weapons for that, the School of Americas for training the Zetas gang and the schizoid drug control policies of USA that make the business work. For the gun dealership part, you can buy them in most army's quarters, you don't need to go to Mexico City to buy a gun.
They will have the same legal framework about guns we have in "democratic" Mexico, but with the added benefit that Venezuela doesn't share the border with the USA. Most people here forget that in the underworld guns together with drugs are used as currency. As long gun ownership is made easy enough for law abiding citizens, regardless of their political leaning this law will not be a problem.
1.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War
2.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain
3.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army
4.- http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations/northern-ireland-loyalist-paramilitaries-uk-extremists/p9274
And for the support for this morons in modern times, I can only say that the current president of Mexico is the son of a cristero courier founder of a political party that in WWII was close to Nazi Germany, and also supported by a catholic extremist organization called "El Yunque", "The Anvil" with strong presence in Mexico and Spain. Their predecessors under the MURO banner made several terrorist attacks in Mexico in the late 1960's and 1970's. The movie "La Cristiada", "For Greater Glory" is only a propaganda piece that whitewashes the crimes and murders that these bastards made in 1920's with the explicit support of the Pope. Now it is used for stupid statements like this:
CRISTIADA - Film on the Brutal Liberal-Masonic Persecution Against the Faith of the Mexican People
On reality, the Cristero war had a strong religious basis but it had also a very strong economic component since it was a landowner's war against land reform, and used the ignorant masses as pawns to protect their economic interests. In their ignorance Cristero's killed protestants and jews for the crime of not being catholic and murdered or mutilated thousands of teachers and burned dozens of schools. The increasing power of the heirs of these loons in Mexico is what made me to stop attending Mass and stop calling myself a catholic.
Well, a pair of attacks that have left more than 300 casualties in a country with 12 times less population than the USA that already have had several times more war dead in the last 12 years than the USA in 9/11, certainly it does make it comparable to 9/11 up to a point, but the best USA's analogy in my opinion is to compare this versus the Columbine massacre that was rightfully covered in Slashdot.