Military is not about war making, it is about protecting our liberty. You can be cynical about it all you want but it is true. Without military to protect us, out interests and our allies around the world, science funding wouldn't matter all that much. You can argue about the appropriate amounts of each but with China already approaching a 3rd of the US spending just in official figures (which is a joke compared to the actual spending), and the fact that the same amount goes a lot further in China than in the US, I can't say with equal confidence as many people do that we spend too much on the military.
What monopoly? Just buy an Android phone, or for that matter a Windows phone. I have and not only is it better than iPhone but it is a much more effective way to make a company behave than any EU regulations.
No, but I've been there and its basically a shithole in more ways than you can imagine.
Where should one go according to you? The US?
Depends on who/what is one running from. If you are a dissident escaping from a tyranny like N. Korea or Cuba, then, yes, the US is the place to go. If you are running from the law in Sweden, then the US is the wrong place as you will likely get extradited.
Between defeating the Communist block, rebuilding the western Europe, including Germany, as well as Japan after the WWII and then protecting them militarily (as well as many other countries, S. Korea, Israel, etc etc) for over 50 years, thwarting countless dictators and having an instrumental and unique role (unfortunately without much help from Europeans) in transforming the world from the one in which majority of people lived under dictatorships, only a few decades back, to the current world in which majority of people live in freedom, the US has benefited the world in more ways than any single country in history. Not to mention providing a shining example of 250 years of unbroken stable, free, democratic government, while various European countries lurched from absolute monarchies, to fascism (in Spain and Greece into the 1970s) and communism (in half of Europe into the 1990s). You and the other psychotically anti-US Europeans are a bunch of ungrateful cunts even if you are too ignorant too realize it.
Kickstarter projects have to tell you VERY clearly what you're getting for your money. Its right there next to the radio button you have to click when you decide what amount to contribute. So what is this BS about "slick salesmen" and "information asymmetry"?
So no it is not just one "mistranslated" statement. And no, mentioning it has nothing to do with "spreading anti-Arab/Iranian hate speech and racism". Where the hell did you get that from?
Don't want to use a product that invades your privacy in some way? Don't use a product that does that, or use it but turn off that "feature", or firewall it.
No need to go from there to 'Don't go to a doctor'.
This is my body. This means I have the right to be free, and not a serf (unpaid work).
I don't think anybody truly believes that as long as you accept things like safety net or free emergency care (which even most libertarians do), never mind all the other welfare programs that liberals can dream up. We all happily accept to work up to half of our working hours for the benefit of someone else.
The principle is the same. Ok, forget about the 'commercial scale' whatever that means. Replace big corporation with an individual, and million dollars with say $300. The point is that the damages can easily be more than $10 and that picking such a simple number as ten times the price does not work.
The damages are there not because he downloaded the song, but because he distributed the song. His motivation is his business. The damages to the copyright owner in terms of lost sales are the same whether he did it for profit or not.
1) The level of damages should not exceed 10 times the value of the product/song
And where did you get that number from? So, if you are a music artist and you sell your song for $1 from your small, low traffic website, I, as a big corporation can take your song and distribute it from my big high traffic website for free and sell a million dollars worth of advertising. And the most you can sue me for is $10?
It's about distributing, leading to loss of sales. Since the true damages are impossible to establish, the congress allows for default statutory damages withing a certain range, in this case $22,500 per work. It may be too high, but he could have challenged the amount and got off with paying very little. Instead, on bad advice of some activist glory seeking lawyers he decided to challenge the constitutionality of the Copyright Act and continues to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole.
In order to steal music that I would rather stab myself in the balls with an ice pick than listen, the idiot ruined his life. Why didn't he just pay $30?
Rightly or wrongly, most Brits see health care as a right, not a privilege.
Wrongly, as obviously, in a free society, you can not have a right to force other people to pay your healthcare bills any more than you can have a right to own slaves.
Also, the study seems to ignore cultural differences between children from different parts of the world. A good plugin would take that into account when emailing recommendations to parents:
USA: "Your 6 year old has been emailing santaclaus@northpole.com heavily and therefore seems depressed. Hide your guns and ammo immediately!"
South Korea: "Your child used an online chatroom for a total of 23 minutes last week. Perhaps 16 hours of studying per day is not enough."
Saudi Arabia: "Your daughter has accessed the Internet! Kill the whore now before she dishonors your family."
Speaking as a naturalized American who spent 20 years living abroad, mostly in western Europe, there is nothing better than traveling abroad to convince even the most anti-American American (yes there are many, mostly of the 'grass is always greener on the other side' type) just how great the USA really is.
Choose US if you are ambitious and good at what you do. There is no country on Earth that will offer you the same opportunity to succeed and the same liberty to pursue your goals without excessive interference from the government, while at the same time offering strong rule of law and minimum corruption. Ignore the impression you might have from Hollywood movies. Apart from some inner city ghettos, the quality of life in the US is amazing. Chose Canada or Scandinavia if you are insecure about your ability to maintain employment, have no ambition to start a business and need the reassurance of a strong safety net. China and India are still third world countries with extreme poverty and an enormous amount of corruption. Australia may be a good middle ground between the collectivist nanny states of Europe or Canada, with zero energy and innovation, and the US. Also, as far as I know, the immigration policy is relatively welcoming (like in Canada) compared to the US and Europe.
What is it with this idea that everyone has an obligation to vote and that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing? I think it is immoral to vote when you don't understand the first thing about the candidates or the issues involved, and if you don't have time to get educated about it, then you should sit it out. At least picking a representative has the advantage that any candidate who gets as far as a major election has by then been at least somewhat vetted by the party organization, media etc and should in theory have more of a clue than the 'average' voter. Having EVERYBODY vote on whether the "2011 US bilateral investment treaty with Uruguay" should be signed or not, what percentage of the mortgage insurance premiums should be deductible from the tax return, and every other one of the million issues that come up to the legislators every year, would make great comedy but horrible governance.
Creating a better life for 67 million people, not to mention a a safer world for the rest of us, was actually more important than taking pictures of dirt on Mars.
I would like to see some evidence that the TSA is doing a horrible job and that the people who think otherwise are obviously deluded fools as the summary suggests.
Not saying that it's not, but I'm just a little bit suspicious that such hostility towards the TSA comes from the anecdotal evidence of few unnecessary searches of grannies and such and personal experiences of relatively minor inconvenience and not from a thorough and impartial analysis of the security procedures based on deep knowledge of what it takes to secure airports.
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Military is not about war making, it is about protecting our liberty. You can be cynical about it all you want but it is true. Without military to protect us, out interests and our allies around the world, science funding wouldn't matter all that much. You can argue about the appropriate amounts of each but with China already approaching a 3rd of the US spending just in official figures (which is a joke compared to the actual spending), and the fact that the same amount goes a lot further in China than in the US, I can't say with equal confidence as many people do that we spend too much on the military.
What monopoly? Just buy an Android phone, or for that matter a Windows phone. I have and not only is it better than iPhone but it is a much more effective way to make a company behave than any EU regulations.
Why not? Have you ever lived there?
No, but I've been there and its basically a shithole in more ways than you can imagine.
Where should one go according to you? The US?
Depends on who/what is one running from. If you are a dissident escaping from a tyranny like N. Korea or Cuba, then, yes, the US is the place to go. If you are running from the law in Sweden, then the US is the wrong place as you will likely get extradited.
Between defeating the Communist block, rebuilding the western Europe, including Germany, as well as Japan after the WWII and then protecting them militarily (as well as many other countries, S. Korea, Israel, etc etc) for over 50 years, thwarting countless dictators and having an instrumental and unique role (unfortunately without much help from Europeans) in transforming the world from the one in which majority of people lived under dictatorships, only a few decades back, to the current world in which majority of people live in freedom, the US has benefited the world in more ways than any single country in history. Not to mention providing a shining example of 250 years of unbroken stable, free, democratic government, while various European countries lurched from absolute monarchies, to fascism (in Spain and Greece into the 1970s) and communism (in half of Europe into the 1990s). You and the other psychotically anti-US Europeans are a bunch of ungrateful cunts even if you are too ignorant too realize it.
alve the US military budget and spend it on NASA and then computer geeks and nerds the world over will sing your praises.
I hope that's not what the computer geeks and nerds want, but then, going by the evidence of slashdot, maybe they really are that stupid after all.
There is a large group of hard working people working for each of Apple's competitors too.
Kickstarter projects have to tell you VERY clearly what you're getting for your money. Its right there next to the radio button you have to click when you decide what amount to contribute. So what is this BS about "slick salesmen" and "information asymmetry"?
Ahmadinejad has made too many anti-Semitic remarks to mention here so here is a handy list by year: http://www.adl.org/main_International_Affairs/ahmadinejad_words.htm
So no it is not just one "mistranslated" statement. And no, mentioning it has nothing to do with "spreading anti-Arab/Iranian hate speech and racism". Where the hell did you get that from?
Hello Mr. Strawman.
Don't want to use a product that invades your privacy in some way? Don't use a product that does that, or use it but turn off that "feature", or firewall it.
No need to go from there to 'Don't go to a doctor'.
This is my body.
This means I have the right to be free, and not a serf (unpaid work).
I don't think anybody truly believes that as long as you accept things like safety net or free emergency care (which even most libertarians do), never mind all the other welfare programs that liberals can dream up. We all happily accept to work up to half of our working hours for the benefit of someone else.
The principle is the same. Ok, forget about the 'commercial scale' whatever that means. Replace big corporation with an individual, and million dollars with say $300. The point is that the damages can easily be more than $10 and that picking such a simple number as ten times the price does not work.
The damages are there not because he downloaded the song, but because he distributed the song. His motivation is his business. The damages to the copyright owner in terms of lost sales are the same whether he did it for profit or not.
I don't think you understand the role of courts. If you disagree with a law, it is congress (i.e. voters) you should blame, not the courts.
1) The level of damages should not exceed 10 times the value of the product/song
And where did you get that number from? So, if you are a music artist and you sell your song for $1 from your small, low traffic website, I, as a big corporation can take your song and distribute it from my big high traffic website for free and sell a million dollars worth of advertising. And the most you can sue me for is $10?
It's about distributing, leading to loss of sales. Since the true damages are impossible to establish, the congress allows for default statutory damages withing a certain range, in this case $22,500 per work. It may be too high, but he could have challenged the amount and got off with paying very little. Instead, on bad advice of some activist glory seeking lawyers he decided to challenge the constitutionality of the Copyright Act and continues to dig himself into a deeper and deeper hole.
In order to steal music that I would rather stab myself in the balls with an ice pick than listen, the idiot ruined his life. Why didn't he just pay $30?
Rightly or wrongly, most Brits see health care as a right, not a privilege.
Wrongly, as obviously, in a free society, you can not have a right to force other people to pay your healthcare bills any more than you can have a right to own slaves.
Also, the study seems to ignore cultural differences between children from different parts of the world. A good plugin would take that into account when emailing recommendations to parents:
USA: "Your 6 year old has been emailing santaclaus@northpole.com heavily and therefore seems depressed. Hide your guns and ammo immediately!"
South Korea: "Your child used an online chatroom for a total of 23 minutes last week. Perhaps 16 hours of studying per day is not enough."
Saudi Arabia: "Your daughter has accessed the Internet! Kill the whore now before she dishonors your family."
etc...
Speaking as a naturalized American who spent 20 years living abroad, mostly in western Europe, there is nothing better than traveling abroad to convince even the most anti-American American (yes there are many, mostly of the 'grass is always greener on the other side' type) just how great the USA really is.
Choose US if you are ambitious and good at what you do. There is no country on Earth that will offer you the same opportunity to succeed and the same liberty to pursue your goals without excessive interference from the government, while at the same time offering strong rule of law and minimum corruption. Ignore the impression you might have from Hollywood movies. Apart from some inner city ghettos, the quality of life in the US is amazing. Chose Canada or Scandinavia if you are insecure about your ability to maintain employment, have no ambition to start a business and need the reassurance of a strong safety net. China and India are still third world countries with extreme poverty and an enormous amount of corruption. Australia may be a good middle ground between the collectivist nanny states of Europe or Canada, with zero energy and innovation, and the US. Also, as far as I know, the immigration policy is relatively welcoming (like in Canada) compared to the US and Europe.
There is a line between whistle blowing and treason. I suggest you look it up.
What is it with this idea that everyone has an obligation to vote and that making voting as easy as possible is automatically a good thing? I think it is immoral to vote when you don't understand the first thing about the candidates or the issues involved, and if you don't have time to get educated about it, then you should sit it out. At least picking a representative has the advantage that any candidate who gets as far as a major election has by then been at least somewhat vetted by the party organization, media etc and should in theory have more of a clue than the 'average' voter. Having EVERYBODY vote on whether the "2011 US bilateral investment treaty with Uruguay" should be signed or not, what percentage of the mortgage insurance premiums should be deductible from the tax return, and every other one of the million issues that come up to the legislators every year, would make great comedy but horrible governance.
Creating a better life for 67 million people, not to mention a a safer world for the rest of us, was actually more important than taking pictures of dirt on Mars.
Marxism and Fascism are both on the left as far as economics go (state control). Free market capitalism is on the right.
I would like to see some evidence that the TSA is doing a horrible job and that the people who think otherwise are obviously deluded fools as the summary suggests.
Not saying that it's not, but I'm just a little bit suspicious that such hostility towards the TSA comes from the anecdotal evidence of few unnecessary searches of grannies and such and personal experiences of relatively minor inconvenience and not from a thorough and impartial analysis of the security procedures based on deep knowledge of what it takes to secure airports.