Er... sure. Next time you travel would you please step into your travel bag and have yourself shipped off with the electrical components, chairs and dog food intended for your destination.
It's not us. It's Mr. Putin who is being a dick all across the world because he's butthurt that Russia is not playing with the big boys anymore.
He wants to feel important and be feared and respected like your teenage neighbourhood bully. He hasn't gotten over the collapse of the Soviet Union which was of course the most glorious nation to ever have smiled upon the world.
Most humans are basically lazy, and will do minimal work for maximum pay.
That's a very cynical attitude to humanity I greatly disagree with. Most humans want to be accomplished and do something meaningful and enjoyable that they can relate to. If many humans are perceived like that, it's probably because many companies force their employees to work under bad conditions for shit pay. You get what you pay for. Or perhaps you are projecting your own attitude towards life on all others.
Don't paint the German government as the bad guy with your populist straw man argument. The German government claims that facebook is abusing it's market position to force people into terms of use that they wouldn't accept otherwise. This is no different than, say a cable or energy company, abusing a dominant market position to drive prices unreasonably high. Basically it's a monopoly situation and should be scrutinized and penalized as such.
In contrast, before exercising some weak attempts at Euro-bashing you should consider that your American megacorps like facebook pay next to nothing in taxes in the US, because they prefer to be headquartered in Ireland. Something that the European Union is also fighting against.
The "laissez faire" capitalism that is so popular in the US, especially among Republicans promotes small government and power to the corporations. It will not protect the rights of ordinary citizens. Be glad that at least in some parts of the world the government still serves the people.
The most successful and most widely used (programming) language on the planet is a disaster? In what world do you live?
Java is the most widely supported and used language in the world, you can even get a well-paying job with it *gasp*, so it's too mainstream for the cool kids.
If you want to keep up appearances of being an 1337 haxxor and gain Slashdot cred you need to show contempt for Java and either support some new, cutting edge shit or some incredibly old, outdated shit nobody uses anymore, like Fortran.
There are historical times when it has been much higher than it is now.
This is a real red herring argument. It doesn't matter if it was higher twenty million years ago when dinosaurs were roaming the earth. The important thing is how fast it is changing and if life on this planet has the time to adapt or not. The current speed of CO2 and warming increase is unprecedented. Changes that usually take thousands of years or longer are happening in decades.
If you want to lower CO2 levels plant more plants to breathe it in and quit polluting the oceans
Easier said than done. 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. This does not include other types of forest that are also being destroyed.
I disagree. Democracy and liberty need to defend themselves against disinformation, lies, hate speech and propaganda that attempts to destabilize and ultimately abolish it.
Free speech doesn't mean we need to listen and tolerate it if someone shouts "death to all Jews" or "kill all the infidels".
They didn't hack the election in technical terms by hacking voting machines or some such. They hacked the minds of the american people by digging for and releasing dirt on Hillary Clinton. A completely overblown email server affair that pales in comparison to the mountain of lies, conflicts of interest, shenangians and just sheer incompetency of Donald Trump, but what can I say. A large portion of the American public are stupid, unfortunately. And conservative media giants like Fox News and their commentators are very effective at distortion and spreading FUD.
Yeah, as soon as I heard there would be yet another superweapon, even bigger and badder than the ones before, I knew the film was going to be shit. Original cast was also a sign they were going for fan service instead of actually making a good movie that stands on its own merits. The introduction of Luke Skywalker in the end... like some senile old guy that has gotten lost in the mountains, such a let down. I seriously hate JJ Abrams now. Such a unique opportunity to make a great, real sequel, and we get such a rehashed piece of shit film with baby-faced bad guys and predictable death of Han Solo.
Oh, and did you notice how in the end, they blow up 4 inhabited planets at once, possibly killing tens of billions of people, yet everyone is celebrating like they won? WTF piece of shit film.
Rogue One on the other hand is a great Star Wars movie, finally. Not only is it a good movie on its own, it also polishes up the Star Wars saga by putting the "war" into Star Wars and providing a plausible explanation for the exhaust port thing. And the ending, epic. After such a long wait, finally another worthy Star Wars film.
American style capitalism says everything gets cheaper, better, more efficient through privatization.
Except when it doesn't.
Maybe it time you shook off your irrational fear of "socialism" and let the government take care of a few things that make sense to be handled by the government.
I know it's called Edinburgh, I looked it up on Wikipedia a short time ago because I wanted to check out the history behind the castle. No idea what drove me to refer to it as "Edinborough":-/
Every country has corruption in some way or form. This doesn't diminish the fact that Germany is one of the least corrupt countries in the world, place 10 with a score of 81/100. Vs Greece, place 69 with a score of 44/100.
Practically no country in Europe has maintained the 3% deficit rule all the time. But I think it is not hypocritical to demand this of new applicants, it's just common sense. After all, if you can't even follow the rules at the beginning at least, as a special effort in order to join the bloc, what does this spell for the future? It's the same logic as a job interview. You will go nicely dressed, shaved with clean shoes and fresh breaths, this doesn't mean you will go like this to work every day, but at least upon joining you should be at your best, no? Not to mention that Germany had to go through the extra effort of assimilating former east block GDR. Suddenly one third of Germany was a developing country. Greece didn't have this special circumstances.
About the forced WW2 loan. First of all, you are mixing topics, I guess in an effort to show how unfairly Greece is being treated, since this has nothing to do with corruption levels or faking of statistics. And second, I don't know where you got that argument about today's Germany not being united. The real reason for Germany refusing to pay that I'm aware of is explained in this BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Berlin paid 115m Deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation. It was a fraction of the Greek demand but was made with the agreement there would be no more claims.
If Greece is a country that is highly corrupt on practically all levels of society and government, and the statistical department of Greece has been repeatedly accused of faking statistics, which among other things made it possible for Greece to join the EU... Whereas Germany is for the most part a highly uncorrupt, transparent country that would generate a shitstorm of epic proportions in society if the government was caught faking statistics... How is Germany's criticism towards Greece hypocritical and frivolous?
Yeah, I'm thinking along those same lines. If Google offered me a job but told me I would have to move to their new HQ in London, for me it would be far less attractive than less crowded, less expensive cities. If you want to be in GB, why not Edinborough or Oxford? If you want the tech vibes, why not Berlin or Stockholm? Why not move to a completely "new" town in an attractive location, and found a new tech scene there? Like a beautiful town in Italy or Spain?
London of all places would be pretty low on my list of great places to work. But I guess Google must have their good reasons.
Yeah, fuck the future! Fuck the planet! Fuck humanity! Our industrial corporate overlords need moar profits now! Management level and the politicians sucking up to them can build their bunkers with drugs and hookers to be safe in while the rest of the world goes to shit!
Kind regards, the GOP, represented by the Donald who just Trumped your ass.
The unraveling of the denials begins. This is the exact same process Putin used when Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine
And it's still the official line concerning the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. According to Putin, the fighters there are "private Russian citizens on vacation". He can't tell them how to spend their free time, and if they choose to spend it by waging a guerilla war in the Ukraine that just so happens to prevent the country from ever joining NATO (because NATO won't accept countries that are already at war), well, neato.
Well, if you want to be nitpicky, for one thing, Germany is not building new plants, it is building a new plant. All others are speculative.
But the deeper point is that the parent post creates the impression that Germany is in some kind of Coal Power Rollout strategy, whereas in truth, if you consider the facts that a country like Germany has about 200 power plants total and they are building 1 new coal plant whereas another 4 are disputed, it is more indicative that coal power is actually in the process of being phased out.
One of the main arguments of the court which is not mentioned in the summary, is that granting her parents access would violate the privacy of all the people the daughter had contact with. They chatted together under the assumption it was "for her eyes only" and with no way to know it could be read by her parents in the future.
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People are just one form of cargo
Er... sure. Next time you travel would you please step into your travel bag and have yourself shipped off with the electrical components, chairs and dog food intended for your destination.
It's not us. It's Mr. Putin who is being a dick all across the world because he's butthurt that Russia is not playing with the big boys anymore.
He wants to feel important and be feared and respected like your teenage neighbourhood bully. He hasn't gotten over the collapse of the Soviet Union which was of course the most glorious nation to ever have smiled upon the world.
Most humans are basically lazy, and will do minimal work for maximum pay.
That's a very cynical attitude to humanity I greatly disagree with.
Most humans want to be accomplished and do something meaningful and enjoyable that they can relate to.
If many humans are perceived like that, it's probably because many companies force their employees to work under bad conditions for shit pay. You get what you pay for.
Or perhaps you are projecting your own attitude towards life on all others.
Don't paint the German government as the bad guy with your populist straw man argument. The German government claims that facebook is abusing it's market position to force people into terms of use that they wouldn't accept otherwise. This is no different than, say a cable or energy company, abusing a dominant market position to drive prices unreasonably high. Basically it's a monopoly situation and should be scrutinized and penalized as such.
In contrast, before exercising some weak attempts at Euro-bashing you should consider that your American megacorps like facebook pay next to nothing in taxes in the US, because they prefer to be headquartered in Ireland. Something that the European Union is also fighting against.
The "laissez faire" capitalism that is so popular in the US, especially among Republicans promotes small government and power to the corporations. It will not protect the rights of ordinary citizens. Be glad that at least in some parts of the world the government still serves the people.
I wish I was working a bit less and had more time to play videogames.
The most successful and most widely used (programming) language on the planet is a disaster?
In what world do you live?
Java is the most widely supported and used language in the world, you can even get a well-paying job with it *gasp*, so it's too mainstream for the cool kids.
If you want to keep up appearances of being an 1337 haxxor and gain Slashdot cred you need to show contempt for Java and either support some new, cutting edge shit or some incredibly old, outdated shit nobody uses anymore, like Fortran.
I love America, which is why I hate Trump.
There are historical times when it has been much higher than it is now.
This is a real red herring argument. It doesn't matter if it was higher twenty million years ago when dinosaurs were roaming the earth. The important thing is how fast it is changing and if life on this planet has the time to adapt or not.
The current speed of CO2 and warming increase is unprecedented. Changes that usually take thousands of years or longer are happening in decades.
If you want to lower CO2 levels plant more plants to breathe it in and quit polluting the oceans
Easier said than done. 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. This does not include other types of forest that are also being destroyed.
There should be no such thing as illegal speech.
I disagree. Democracy and liberty need to defend themselves against disinformation, lies, hate speech and propaganda that attempts to destabilize and ultimately abolish it.
Free speech doesn't mean we need to listen and tolerate it if someone shouts "death to all Jews" or "kill all the infidels".
They didn't hack the election in technical terms by hacking voting machines or some such. They hacked the minds of the american people by digging for and releasing dirt on Hillary Clinton. A completely overblown email server affair that pales in comparison to the mountain of lies, conflicts of interest, shenangians and just sheer incompetency of Donald Trump, but what can I say.
A large portion of the American public are stupid, unfortunately. And conservative media giants like Fox News and their commentators are very effective at distortion and spreading FUD.
Obama's action was a response to Russian meddling you dumb fuck.Too stupid to read or just one of those disinformants on Putin's or Trump's payroll?
Yeah, as soon as I heard there would be yet another superweapon, even bigger and badder than the ones before, I knew the film was going to be shit.
Original cast was also a sign they were going for fan service instead of actually making a good movie that stands on its own merits.
The introduction of Luke Skywalker in the end... like some senile old guy that has gotten lost in the mountains, such a let down.
I seriously hate JJ Abrams now. Such a unique opportunity to make a great, real sequel, and we get such a rehashed piece of shit film with baby-faced bad guys and predictable death of Han Solo.
Oh, and did you notice how in the end, they blow up 4 inhabited planets at once, possibly killing tens of billions of people, yet everyone is celebrating like they won? WTF piece of shit film.
Rogue One on the other hand is a great Star Wars movie, finally. Not only is it a good movie on its own, it also polishes up the Star Wars saga by putting the "war" into Star Wars and providing a plausible explanation for the exhaust port thing. And the ending, epic. After such a long wait, finally another worthy Star Wars film.
Can't tell if you're a troll, idiot or a Trump follower of alternative facts.
It's all the same anyway.
American style capitalism says everything gets cheaper, better, more efficient through privatization.
Except when it doesn't.
Maybe it time you shook off your irrational fear of "socialism" and let the government take care of a few things that make sense to be handled by the government.
Wow, I honestly had no idea Oxford is even more expensive than London.
I know it's called Edinburgh, I looked it up on Wikipedia a short time ago because I wanted to check out the history behind the castle. :-/
No idea what drove me to refer to it as "Edinborough"
Every country has corruption in some way or form. This doesn't diminish the fact that Germany is one of the least corrupt countries in the world, place 10 with a score of 81/100. Vs Greece, place 69 with a score of 44/100.
The BBC and the New York Times, to name just a few reputable sources, disagree with your assessment that Greece used rules accepted at the time and were only changed 4 years later:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09...
Practically no country in Europe has maintained the 3% deficit rule all the time. But I think it is not hypocritical to demand this of new applicants, it's just common sense. After all, if you can't even follow the rules at the beginning at least, as a special effort in order to join the bloc, what does this spell for the future?
It's the same logic as a job interview. You will go nicely dressed, shaved with clean shoes and fresh breaths, this doesn't mean you will go like this to work every day, but at least upon joining you should be at your best, no?
Not to mention that Germany had to go through the extra effort of assimilating former east block GDR. Suddenly one third of Germany was a developing country. Greece didn't have this special circumstances.
About the forced WW2 loan. First of all, you are mixing topics, I guess in an effort to show how unfairly Greece is being treated, since this has nothing to do with corruption levels or faking of statistics. And second, I don't know where you got that argument about today's Germany not being united. The real reason for Germany refusing to pay that I'm aware of is explained in this BBC article:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Berlin paid 115m Deutschmarks to Athens in 1960 in compensation. It was a fraction of the Greek demand but was made with the agreement there would be no more claims.
If Greece is a country that is highly corrupt on practically all levels of society and government, and the statistical department of Greece has been repeatedly accused of faking statistics, which among other things made it possible for Greece to join the EU...
Whereas Germany is for the most part a highly uncorrupt, transparent country that would generate a shitstorm of epic proportions in society if the government was caught faking statistics...
How is Germany's criticism towards Greece hypocritical and frivolous?
Yeah, I'm thinking along those same lines. If Google offered me a job but told me I would have to move to their new HQ in London, for me it would be far less attractive than less crowded, less expensive cities.
If you want to be in GB, why not Edinborough or Oxford? If you want the tech vibes, why not Berlin or Stockholm?
Why not move to a completely "new" town in an attractive location, and found a new tech scene there? Like a beautiful town in Italy or Spain?
London of all places would be pretty low on my list of great places to work. But I guess Google must have their good reasons.
Yeah, fuck the future! Fuck the planet! Fuck humanity! Our industrial corporate overlords need moar profits now! Management level and the politicians sucking up to them can build their bunkers with drugs and hookers to be safe in while the rest of the world goes to shit!
Kind regards,
the GOP, represented by the Donald who just Trumped your ass.
The unraveling of the denials begins. This is the exact same process Putin used when Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine
And it's still the official line concerning the pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
According to Putin, the fighters there are "private Russian citizens on vacation". He can't tell them how to spend their free time, and if they choose to spend it by waging a guerilla war in the Ukraine that just so happens to prevent the country from ever joining NATO (because NATO won't accept countries that are already at war), well, neato.
Well, if you want to be nitpicky, for one thing, Germany is not building new plants, it is building a new plant. All others are speculative.
But the deeper point is that the parent post creates the impression that Germany is in some kind of Coal Power Rollout strategy, whereas in truth, if you consider the facts that a country like Germany has about 200 power plants total and they are building 1 new coal plant whereas another 4 are disputed, it is more indicative that coal power is actually in the process of being phased out.
Drugs are bad.
Mkay?
One of the main arguments of the court which is not mentioned in the summary, is that granting her parents access would violate the privacy of all the people the daughter had contact with. They chatted together under the assumption it was "for her eyes only" and with no way to know it could be read by her parents in the future.