Also that average is strongly skewed upward due to a very small minority of people in the US being obscenely rich. If you'd perform some statistical cleanup of those outliers, you'd probably get closer to an average US income of ordinary citizens of around 44k.
I haven't been seriously ill since I started working out, on average three times per week, which I've been doing for about four years now. Haven't reported sick at my job since then. Sometimes I get a mild irritation in the throat or nose area, but then it heals away before it gets any worse. I've never had a flu vaccine. In contrast, some of my colleagues who did get the vaccine still got a bad cold. But I understand the vaccines always target a few strains that are most likely to proliferate. Sometimes you get unlucky and the dominant strain of the year wasn't covered by the vaccine.
So I realize it can all come down to luck as well. Or where you live. The four years I didn't get sick also coincides with moving out from the city to a more quiet town. I guess less people means less chances for infections. However I do get these irritations that my immune system defeats before they get any worse, so I do like to think most of it comes down to a good immune system thanks to a healthy lifestyle.
The German green hype machine is â" typical of German propaganda â" highly effective.
Pray tell, what "typical" German propaganda are you referring to? Because without elaborating what you mean by that, your flat allegation makes you sound like someone who simply doesn't like Germany very much, which renders any argument you might have comparing France to Germany moot.
Yes, I know... CNN is liberal fake news and NASA has also been infiltrated by liberals, as has been the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration... or any scientific organization for that matter.
Rest assured. These polls are not known to the average European citizen. Only lobby groups check them, or mobilize others to check them. At no point was there a referendum or something like that.
80% of the votes where from Germany, probably because the main German public news website actually bothered to publish a story on this poll and provided links to the EU website. This is how I learned of it and why I participated.
If I hadn't read the article in the news, I would have had no idea.
Wait, are you saying McCain was given cancer because he stood up to this bullshit!?! That makes so much sense!!!
No, what I'm saying is, that if, figuratively speaking, traditional conservative values were an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, John McCain was the last of the Mohicans.
That would be the problem with people at the political extremes. They are so far to their own side that everything else looks far left or far right by comparison.
I think that these people tend to be the noisiest as well, which makes those extremes appear far larger or more important than they really are.
That is indeed a huge issue nobody in the US except a very few seem to acknowledge. Conservatism and traditional values in the US have gone to shit. The US had a conservative president who embodied traditional values. He was a married, religious family man from the middle-class with a spotless political career and social engagement, he reached out to the opposition party to move forward on bipartisan issues... but conservatives hated him because he was a Democrat and he was black.
Now the US has a "conservative" president who was divorced two times, he did not serve in the military or a political career, has had various affairs with porn stars and models, grew up as an entitled rich-kid, frequently disrespects women with sexually charged commentary and is so self-centered that he spends most of his days checking what people are saying about him on the news... but conservatives love him because.... I don't know. He's as morally depraved as they are?
There was time of real Republican conservatism as embodied by the likes of senator John McCain. This conservatism cared about the middle-class and lower incomes, about traditional family values and also about international alliances, fairness towards partners, the rule of law, honoring treaties and also listening to facts and reason.
That Republican party is no more. It has been hijacked by the right-wing populists who push agendas and fake news (all the while accusing their opponents of doing exactly that in attempt to muddle the minds by pulling everyone else to their low standards). It has solemnly sacrificed logic, reason and the traditional values for some kind of modern, right-wing dadaism that rejects all social norms and values. The current president and his favorite news channel (Fox) embodies this state that conservatism has morphed into, perfectly.
What I don't understand is, why nobody in conservative America is standing up to all of this bullshit. John McCain was, and now he's dead.
"Very few outside the US think US conservative media outlets are reputable"
And one significant reason for this is the relentless and universal portrayal of US conservative media outlets as disreputable by the US Leftist media.
Sorry, but no. By European standards, Fox News is a conspiracy theorist right-wing tabloid. Pretty much every Fox News opinion host is perceived as a populist, fear-mongering, right-wing extremist. We form this opinion based on our own cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills - no "leftist media" required.
Yes, dimwit, so there is a gun that has metal in it so that it can be legal. This doesn't mean you can't 3D print illegal, working plastic guns without the metal component. Jesus, you really made me spell it out for you..
Again, something wrong with your reading comprehension as well?
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns
Ammunition is a problem at the moment, but diligent minds are at work. It won't be long until someone comes up with a material and design that is sturdy enough.
Perhaps you can. One that will blow up in the average handyman's face. Also you would be using METAL pipes for that. Not some sturdy plastic used by 3D printers that would be untraceable by metal detectors. Something wrong with your reading comprehension?
[NRA Logic] The problem is that nobody in the audience and none of the gamers were armed. If the gamers or somebody in the audience had also possessed a weapon, they could have shot back at the attacker and thereby defended those innocent people. Probably no lives would have been lost. Everybody visiting such a venue should arm himself for self-protection and things like this wouldn't happen. [/NRA Logic]
Trump pulling the US out of a non-binding, undoable accord was a signal that it didn't mean anything, and being non-binding and unaccomplishable is why it doesn't mean anything. The entire accord was virtue signalling at it's finest, and someone finally said "the emperor has no clothes."
I wish you were right since that would mean that Trump pulling out was a thoughtful and morally weighted decision because he intelligently concluded that the Paris agreement didn't go far enough and was vapor due to being non-binding.
I wouldn't agree with that assessment either, since even a non-binding agreement is better than none at all, since it means that the world is at least acknowledging the problem. But at least his reasoning would be sound.
Unfortunately those were not his motivations. His reasons where that he claimed it would hurt US industry and he doesn't believe in climate change, famously labeling it a "hoax".
Isn't increase already 2C(compared to pre-industrial!!!) and 3,5C is just new threshold?
The current increase is already 1C. In the Paris climate agreement nations (except Trump's USA of course) have agreed to limit it to 2C. Since that is a non-binding agreement and nobody will give a shit, the projected increase is probably going to be 3.5C. From that point on self-enforcing feedback mechanisms like melting permafrost and disappearing icesheets are going to have a domino-like effect and push it to 5C or beyond, which is nothing short of catastrophic.
Last time I tried I was able to run Steam using Wine, and able to launch Skyrim from there. I was extremely impressed because I didn't expect it to work, I didn't expect it to be so easy to setup, and I especially didn't expect to be able to run a game as complex as Skyrim from there and having it actually start up in Linux. But it ran like shit, something like 20 FPS, which is why I'm still using Windows.
Right now, however, the environment is so warm that adding the waste heat would push temperatures above acceptable levels, killing the local ecosystem.
Please stop this childish bickering about who is the real boogeyman. Truth is, this is a global problem and it needs a global solution. Everybody has to start working together to fix civilization, or the planet will break us.
Yes, it's not about saving the planet, it's about saving human civilization. The planet doesn't care and will recover. Hundreds of thousands or millions of years aren't much in astronomical scales. Evolution will do it's thing, life will go on, but it will happen without us because we are not destroying the planet - we are destroying the environment that made it possible for humans to thrive.
US emissions are down whilst EU - and China, and India - emissions are up. I'm sure this will get down-modded since it doesn't pay homage to the proper models, but facts are facts: and when facts and beliefs/models collide - facts win.
Just some stupid number crunching, nothing to see here.
Performing some analysis of our footprint on the planet by "crunching numbers" is better than having no idea or perspective of where we're at at all, don't you think?
It's better to have a plan and be prepared than to have no plan at all, even if the plan is not perfect and based on incomplete information.
Linking an image without any source is meaningless. Almost anyone can Photoshop something like that.
Citing Julian Assange, the man that singles out leaks about the US while giving dictators and authoritarian regimes a free pass... because that would not be outrageous enough and engranden his own persona. Assange is waging a war against the West and our democratic institutions, just like Trump is. Discrediting investigative and independent news sources is just one small piece of that.
Considering how eager both Assange and Trump are playing into the Russian grand strategy of dismantling the West and NATO, I wouldn't be surprised if Putin has dirt on both of them.
It is political if you have a president that is calling climate change a hoax and intends to withdraw the US of a globally mediated agreement to control and fight it. Republican politicians and lobbyists have a history of climate change denial, so how can this not be political?
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Also that average is strongly skewed upward due to a very small minority of people in the US being obscenely rich. If you'd perform some statistical cleanup of those outliers, you'd probably get closer to an average US income of ordinary citizens of around 44k.
I haven't been seriously ill since I started working out, on average three times per week, which I've been doing for about four years now. Haven't reported sick at my job since then.
Sometimes I get a mild irritation in the throat or nose area, but then it heals away before it gets any worse. I've never had a flu vaccine. In contrast, some of my colleagues who did get the vaccine still got a bad cold. But I understand the vaccines always target a few strains that are most likely to proliferate. Sometimes you get unlucky and the dominant strain of the year wasn't covered by the vaccine.
So I realize it can all come down to luck as well. Or where you live. The four years I didn't get sick also coincides with moving out from the city to a more quiet town. I guess less people means less chances for infections.
However I do get these irritations that my immune system defeats before they get any worse, so I do like to think most of it comes down to a good immune system thanks to a healthy lifestyle.
Yep. You certainly did.
Like what? The only really meaningful choice was what ending you chose.
Life is Strange has been sitting in my Steam library for years, waiting to be played - which I hopefully will at some point.
I want to take a moment and thank you, fellow Slashdot user, for the considerate manner in which you chose to keep this little argument spoiler free.
Sometimes, people should just stop and say thanks, to make the Internet a better place.
The German green hype machine is â" typical of German propaganda â" highly effective.
Pray tell, what "typical" German propaganda are you referring to?
Because without elaborating what you mean by that, your flat allegation makes you sound like someone who simply doesn't like Germany very much, which renders any argument you might have comparing France to Germany moot.
and the temperatures have dropped dramatically since then.
What?
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/...
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...
http://www.climatecentral.org/...
https://www.co2.earth/global-w...
Yes, I know... CNN is liberal fake news and NASA has also been infiltrated by liberals, as has been the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration... or any scientific organization for that matter.
Rest assured. These polls are not known to the average European citizen. Only lobby groups check them, or mobilize others to check them. At no point was there a referendum or something like that.
80% of the votes where from Germany, probably because the main German public news website actually bothered to publish a story on this poll and provided links to the EU website. This is how I learned of it and why I participated.
If I hadn't read the article in the news, I would have had no idea.
Obama ... caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs...
Not according to fact check:
https://www.factcheck.org/2017...
Wait, are you saying McCain was given cancer because he stood up to this bullshit!?! That makes so much sense!!!
No, what I'm saying is, that if, figuratively speaking, traditional conservative values were an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe, John McCain was the last of the Mohicans.
That would be the problem with people at the political extremes. They are so far to their own side that everything else looks far left or far right by comparison.
I think that these people tend to be the noisiest as well, which makes those extremes appear far larger or more important than they really are.
That is indeed a huge issue nobody in the US except a very few seem to acknowledge. Conservatism and traditional values in the US have gone to shit.
The US had a conservative president who embodied traditional values. He was a married, religious family man from the middle-class with a spotless political career and social engagement, he reached out to the opposition party to move forward on bipartisan issues... but conservatives hated him because he was a Democrat and he was black.
Now the US has a "conservative" president who was divorced two times, he did not serve in the military or a political career, has had various affairs with porn stars and models, grew up as an entitled rich-kid, frequently disrespects women with sexually charged commentary and is so self-centered that he spends most of his days checking what people are saying about him on the news... but conservatives love him because.... I don't know. He's as morally depraved as they are?
There was time of real Republican conservatism as embodied by the likes of senator John McCain. This conservatism cared about the middle-class and lower incomes, about traditional family values and also about international alliances, fairness towards partners, the rule of law, honoring treaties and also listening to facts and reason.
That Republican party is no more. It has been hijacked by the right-wing populists who push agendas and fake news (all the while accusing their opponents of doing exactly that in attempt to muddle the minds by pulling everyone else to their low standards). It has solemnly sacrificed logic, reason and the traditional values for some kind of modern, right-wing dadaism that rejects all social norms and values.
The current president and his favorite news channel (Fox) embodies this state that conservatism has morphed into, perfectly.
What I don't understand is, why nobody in conservative America is standing up to all of this bullshit. John McCain was, and now he's dead.
"Very few outside the US think US conservative media outlets are reputable"
And one significant reason for this is the relentless and universal portrayal of US conservative media outlets as disreputable by the US Leftist media.
Sorry, but no. By European standards, Fox News is a conspiracy theorist right-wing tabloid. Pretty much every Fox News opinion host is perceived as a populist, fear-mongering, right-wing extremist. We form this opinion based on our own cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills - no "leftist media" required.
Yes, dimwit, so there is a gun that has metal in it so that it can be legal. This doesn't mean you can't 3D print illegal, working plastic guns without the metal component. Jesus, you really made me spell it out for you..
You're the idiot. There is no metal in this gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Again, something wrong with your reading comprehension as well?
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns
Ammunition is a problem at the moment, but diligent minds are at work. It won't be long until someone comes up with a material and design that is sturdy enough.
Perhaps you can. One that will blow up in the average handyman's face. Also you would be using METAL pipes for that. Not some sturdy plastic used by 3D printers that would be untraceable by metal detectors. Something wrong with your reading comprehension?
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
[NRA Logic]
The problem is that nobody in the audience and none of the gamers were armed. If the gamers or somebody in the audience had also possessed a weapon, they could have shot back at the attacker and thereby defended those innocent people. Probably no lives would have been lost. Everybody visiting such a venue should arm himself for self-protection and things like this wouldn't happen.
[/NRA Logic]
None of those have anything at all to do with Trump or his campaign though, especially nothing to do with The Russians!
LoL! You're a funny guy!
Trump pulling the US out of a non-binding, undoable accord was a signal that it didn't mean anything, and being non-binding and unaccomplishable is why it doesn't mean anything. The entire accord was virtue signalling at it's finest, and someone finally said "the emperor has no clothes."
I wish you were right since that would mean that Trump pulling out was a thoughtful and morally weighted decision because he intelligently concluded that the Paris agreement didn't go far enough and was vapor due to being non-binding.
I wouldn't agree with that assessment either, since even a non-binding agreement is better than none at all, since it means that the world is at least acknowledging the problem. But at least his reasoning would be sound.
Unfortunately those were not his motivations. His reasons where that he claimed it would hurt US industry and he doesn't believe in climate change, famously labeling it a "hoax".
Isn't increase already 2C(compared to pre-industrial!!!) and 3,5C is just new threshold?
The current increase is already 1C. In the Paris climate agreement nations (except Trump's USA of course) have agreed to limit it to 2C. Since that is a non-binding agreement and nobody will give a shit, the projected increase is probably going to be 3.5C. From that point on self-enforcing feedback mechanisms like melting permafrost and disappearing icesheets are going to have a domino-like effect and push it to 5C or beyond, which is nothing short of catastrophic.
Last time I tried I was able to run Steam using Wine, and able to launch Skyrim from there. I was extremely impressed because I didn't expect it to work, I didn't expect it to be so easy to setup, and I especially didn't expect to be able to run a game as complex as Skyrim from there and having it actually start up in Linux.
But it ran like shit, something like 20 FPS, which is why I'm still using Windows.
Right now, however, the environment is so warm that adding the waste heat would push temperatures above acceptable levels, killing the local ecosystem.
Something that is in fact already happening
Please stop this childish bickering about who is the real boogeyman. Truth is, this is a global problem and it needs a global solution. Everybody has to start working together to fix civilization, or the planet will break us.
Yes, it's not about saving the planet, it's about saving human civilization. The planet doesn't care and will recover. Hundreds of thousands or millions of years aren't much in astronomical scales. Evolution will do it's thing, life will go on, but it will happen without us because we are not destroying the planet - we are destroying the environment that made it possible for humans to thrive.
US emissions are down whilst EU - and China, and India - emissions are up. I'm sure this will get down-modded since it doesn't pay homage to the proper models, but facts are facts: and when facts and beliefs/models collide - facts win.
Congratulations to this +5 Informative troll.
Just some stupid number crunching, nothing to see here.
Performing some analysis of our footprint on the planet by "crunching numbers" is better than having no idea or perspective of where we're at at all, don't you think?
It's better to have a plan and be prepared than to have no plan at all, even if the plan is not perfect and based on incomplete information.
Linking an image without any source is meaningless. Almost anyone can Photoshop something like that.
Citing Julian Assange, the man that singles out leaks about the US while giving dictators and authoritarian regimes a free pass... because that would not be outrageous enough and engranden his own persona.
Assange is waging a war against the West and our democratic institutions, just like Trump is. Discrediting investigative and independent news sources is just one small piece of that.
Considering how eager both Assange and Trump are playing into the Russian grand strategy of dismantling the West and NATO, I wouldn't be surprised if Putin has dirt on both of them.
It is political if you have a president that is calling climate change a hoax and intends to withdraw the US of a globally mediated agreement to control and fight it. Republican politicians and lobbyists have a history of climate change denial, so how can this not be political?