White Nationalist is someone who believes there should be a White ethnostate. No immigration except from "correct" countries and definitely no importing or mixing of cultures.
You are correct that there is such country, but these people want to MAKE such a country. In recognition that there is no unclaimed land in the world currently, the only remaining option to make such a country is to remove any non white person.
The only country that could really pull this off is... Russia.
No, it has always been an economic union. Europe has experienced the longest running peace in centuries because of it. They've had wars on the Continent almost every 40 years prior to that.
While this is true, a fair number of people are also uncomfortable with state powers since currently we see 2 manifestations where it goes beyond state borders
1) State economic power leading to defacto regional or even national standards. California is a great example of this. Ostensibly, they set their own emissions standards, and their own standards for textbooks. But in practices, their rules cover the bulk of the market, so many simply adhere to those rules universally, effectively making them the rules/standards for everyone else (Textbooks are basically run by California, Texas (and I think either New York or Florida), 3 largest public school systems). Similar is casino/gaming rules. Each state has their own regulations and gaming commissions, but in practice, Nevada and New Jersey basically set the rules for everyone else.
2) Regional alignment and lobbying. ALEC is well known for lobbying at the state level, and writing carbon copy rules for each state under their sway to implement. As a result, there are whole regions where the state laws in some matters are indistinguishable from each other, since none of the states actually wrote those laws, ALEC did for them.
Furthermore, the entire argument of "Move if you don't like it" seems to hold little water with most people. People say it all the time, but the data bears out that we are at an all time low for movement for living. Once people settle down, they are unlikely to ever move. Inertia and family ties and cultural ties to an area hold enormous sway. You have liberals who live in states they don't like, because the city they do live in is nice. Conservatives have the same deal, living in rural areas that suck economically, but family is there, so why move?
Also, there are multiple examples of where people are not thrilled with state powers since they seem to (as they have since the beginning of the US) abuse them. Hence this story, the various state bans on municipal internet, the various religious laws (anti-abortion or in the extreme cases, borderline endorsement of state religion).
Same, reputable normal LASIK goes for 2k (per eye), with wavefront guided LASIK in the 2.5-3k range. I'm evaluating it right now. There is some ways to get discounts, but the only way I see 200 is if your flying to some other country maybe?
Many people don't realize that dozens of different brands and things they buy are all under the same corporate structure. Johnson and Johnson and 3M make a TON of different things, but you have to look to realize it is one of them making it, and not an actually different company. Food is another one. You buy Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut, or KFC? Congrats, you are actually paying the same company, Yum! Kroger is another with their hands in many many places. Or let us examine tech, how many people willingly participate in Google or Facebook ads? Turns out, not a ton, but they are everywhere so "boycotting" them turns out to be trickier then just not visiting Google.com or Facebook.com
And any and all of the first amendment can be removed via due process. The SEC went through due process, found Musk had violated the law and instead of criminally prosecuting and jailing him, they offered a settlement, which he agreed to. He has now violated that settlement and now can face charges for it.
It is no different then being put under house arrest or under gag order or restraining order.
Except most states enforce non competes, so no, workers can not be hired on merit. And no, you can't run the business how you want, startups are somewhat of a pain if your former employer can lawsuit you out of existence.
And no state has the university system California has. California has 5 different university systems to pull graduates from: Community Colleges, Cal State, UC, private (Stanford, Cal Tech, USC), and private systems (Claremont Colleges, which includes Harvey Mudd). We have more universities and colleges then most of the western US combined.
Also, and here is the real kicker: No you can't say low power bills and clean streets when the streets are getting baked into oblivion by heat, or getting iced over 2-3 months of the year and having to get plowed/salted, and you have to run AC or heaters pretty heavily for anywhere from 2 to 6 months a year, depending on heat and humidity or extreme cold.
Then since that child is your responsibility, you bear ALL liability for the child's actions. So should that child contract a disease that can be vaccinated against and spread it to others, and they die, you get to be on the hook for homicide and all medical costs. Enjoy jail and bankruptcy, and your kid gets to see you behind a window during visiting hours.
Actually, the AI is restricted to the viewport, it is using an interface into the game, so no it doesn't have maphack, like a normal scripted AI would.
With Deepmind, they are using an interface into SC2, not directly inside the game as a script. The AI is also APM capped. So no, it can't simply out multitask the human.
Ironically, in their pursuit of it, they are now not getting paid. More over, the people who REALLY stop lots of smuggling (the Coast Guard) are also not getting paid either.
In any case, to have that wall will require either martial law being declared, in order to seize the land (Trump is working on this, under the guise of National Emergency), or an insane amount of money spent just slugging out the legal hassles with landowners.
Then maybe we shouldn't bother defending Google or Amazon IP, nor their properties overseas, nor defend them in our courts, or even in our country. Since they evade so much, they can self fund their own legal system, their own currency, and their own military.
I love morons who suggest closing the Department of Energy. Do you have any idea what they actually manage? Hint, it is NOT something you want turned over to a university, EVER.
And no, most of those departments exist to handle when shit crosses state lines. Because guess what, the Constitution EXPLICITLY forbids states from doing interstate economic agreements, it was a major reason it was created at all.
Interstate Highway system and National parks asays Transportation and Interior stay. Maybe can get rid of education. Commerce? Forget it, that's one that is again explicitly ceded to the Feds.
It took the Nazis 10 years to round up and murder 6-8 million people. They had the full force of the Gestapo and local police to enforce their will. They didn't have to bother with courts or any such rule of law nonsense.They also had the help of government records, in both Germany and in the lands they conquered/annexed. And yet it still took them 10 years.
What you are proposing eclipses that in scope of people and area. So good luck, you will need to turn American into the Fourth Reich to achieve it and it will still take you over a decade.
"How about this. If a business demands plastic, then if it can be found that their systems are hacked and your information is lifted thanks to their insistence on using plastic, they should incur 100% of the costs you suffer going forward."
That already is the case with credit cards, the merchant agreements with the card issues are very onesided. If there is a chargeback ever, the merchant eats the cost.
Yes, if you work more then 8 hours in a day or more then 40 hours in a week. So if you worked 8 hours M-W, then 4 hours on Thursday, followed by 10 hours on Friday, you would get 2 hours of overtime. This obviously only applied if nonexempt.
Paradise is expensive. And no, you can't stop them, not as long as California property values stay high. Until California real estate crashes (and I mean a real crash, ie drops below previous peaks), then Californian's will continue to sell their properties, and go to any other state and buy out the locals. Ironically, the anti tax nature of a lot of places means they have no way to dissuade this, short of raising property taxes, and we know how well that will go over with the locals.
Pretty much anyone who bought a house in the 70's, 80's or 90's. My grandfather bought his in the early 70's for 75k. It is now worth 12 times that. He could easily sell it, pay the sales taxes and what not, and be left with 400-500k. In most states, you can just buy a damm near mansion with acreage outright with cash, for that amount.
Multiple states bitch about Californians doing this, cashing out of California and setting themselves up for retirement as virtual kings (Oregon, Washington, Colorado, parts of Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee all have happen).
Capitalism at its finest. People want to be left alone and stay in their quiet rural/suburban place, but tell me, would you, in a 1000 years, turn down someone offering you an awesome bonus because you have something they want? Would you turn down a job that was a 200% raise because someone felt your skills were perfect for what they need?
Capitalism demands you improve or die. Steady state is another word for stagnation and sooner or later someone passes you by. Nothing wrong with this, just it leads to those "idiots" moving in their best interest.
NIMBYism is quite bipartisan. My hometown in California is very conservative (largely a byproduct of many of them coming from the defense industry and working for Hughes, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.). These people have very nice houses, some are retired, and they very much vote against any new housing.
And as long as people can leverage their house for money, this is going to be a problem. You can see it here in these very comments, people who want to use houses as investment vehicles (flipping, asset store, HELOC for anything really). Usually those who can afford a house in the first place are financially aware enough to use these leveraging methods, but the only way to do so is for prices to go up, up, up, up. And the most reliable way to drive the price of something up, limit the supply.
Slight correction. It is a limit on the increase in assessment of value of the property for tax purposes by 2%. Which in effect means 2% increase in taxes, but the subtle difference comes into play when you sell, the new owner gets to pay the taxes on the full assessed value, the benefit of the tax limiting is NOT portable, one of the chief complaints about it. Seniors now do get some portability.
No problem. Those people also reserve the right to ignore any civic responsibilities, and are automatically exempted from the military, civil judgments, or jury duty, since they can't vote and don't get any benefit from the above. Maybe then we will stop sending our people to die when it is only the rich who can be sent off to war. Also, since they can't vote, they are not bound by any law passed by those who did vote. So no taxes can be levied against them, and also they are exempt from any civil crimes (ie they can pollute at will). Then maybe you can understand why we gave everyone the franchise to begin with. You take away voting, you take away the only skin people have in the game, and so YOU become free game.
Maybe conservatives should have thought of that before pushing both at will and right to work laws, that put you a position where such a thing is easy as hell.
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White Nationalist is someone who believes there should be a White ethnostate. No immigration except from "correct" countries and definitely no importing or mixing of cultures.
You are correct that there is such country, but these people want to MAKE such a country. In recognition that there is no unclaimed land in the world currently, the only remaining option to make such a country is to remove any non white person.
The only country that could really pull this off is... Russia.
No, it has always been an economic union. Europe has experienced the longest running peace in centuries because of it. They've had wars on the Continent almost every 40 years prior to that.
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While this is true, a fair number of people are also uncomfortable with state powers since currently we see 2 manifestations where it goes beyond state borders
1) State economic power leading to defacto regional or even national standards. California is a great example of this. Ostensibly, they set their own emissions standards, and their own standards for textbooks. But in practices, their rules cover the bulk of the market, so many simply adhere to those rules universally, effectively making them the rules/standards for everyone else (Textbooks are basically run by California, Texas (and I think either New York or Florida), 3 largest public school systems). Similar is casino/gaming rules. Each state has their own regulations and gaming commissions, but in practice, Nevada and New Jersey basically set the rules for everyone else.
2) Regional alignment and lobbying. ALEC is well known for lobbying at the state level, and writing carbon copy rules for each state under their sway to implement. As a result, there are whole regions where the state laws in some matters are indistinguishable from each other, since none of the states actually wrote those laws, ALEC did for them.
Furthermore, the entire argument of "Move if you don't like it" seems to hold little water with most people. People say it all the time, but the data bears out that we are at an all time low for movement for living. Once people settle down, they are unlikely to ever move. Inertia and family ties and cultural ties to an area hold enormous sway. You have liberals who live in states they don't like, because the city they do live in is nice. Conservatives have the same deal, living in rural areas that suck economically, but family is there, so why move?
Also, there are multiple examples of where people are not thrilled with state powers since they seem to (as they have since the beginning of the US) abuse them. Hence this story, the various state bans on municipal internet, the various religious laws (anti-abortion or in the extreme cases, borderline endorsement of state religion).
Same, reputable normal LASIK goes for 2k (per eye), with wavefront guided LASIK in the 2.5-3k range. I'm evaluating it right now. There is some ways to get discounts, but the only way I see 200 is if your flying to some other country maybe?
Many people don't realize that dozens of different brands and things they buy are all under the same corporate structure. Johnson and Johnson and 3M make a TON of different things, but you have to look to realize it is one of them making it, and not an actually different company. Food is another one. You buy Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut, or KFC? Congrats, you are actually paying the same company, Yum! Kroger is another with their hands in many many places. Or let us examine tech, how many people willingly participate in Google or Facebook ads? Turns out, not a ton, but they are everywhere so "boycotting" them turns out to be trickier then just not visiting Google.com or Facebook.com
And any and all of the first amendment can be removed via due process. The SEC went through due process, found Musk had violated the law and instead of criminally prosecuting and jailing him, they offered a settlement, which he agreed to. He has now violated that settlement and now can face charges for it. It is no different then being put under house arrest or under gag order or restraining order.
Except most states enforce non competes, so no, workers can not be hired on merit. And no, you can't run the business how you want, startups are somewhat of a pain if your former employer can lawsuit you out of existence.
And no state has the university system California has. California has 5 different university systems to pull graduates from: Community Colleges, Cal State, UC, private (Stanford, Cal Tech, USC), and private systems (Claremont Colleges, which includes Harvey Mudd). We have more universities and colleges then most of the western US combined.
Also, and here is the real kicker: No you can't say low power bills and clean streets when the streets are getting baked into oblivion by heat, or getting iced over 2-3 months of the year and having to get plowed/salted, and you have to run AC or heaters pretty heavily for anywhere from 2 to 6 months a year, depending on heat and humidity or extreme cold.
Then since that child is your responsibility, you bear ALL liability for the child's actions. So should that child contract a disease that can be vaccinated against and spread it to others, and they die, you get to be on the hook for homicide and all medical costs. Enjoy jail and bankruptcy, and your kid gets to see you behind a window during visiting hours.
Actually, the AI is restricted to the viewport, it is using an interface into the game, so no it doesn't have maphack, like a normal scripted AI would.
With Deepmind, they are using an interface into SC2, not directly inside the game as a script. The AI is also APM capped. So no, it can't simply out multitask the human.
Ironically, in their pursuit of it, they are now not getting paid. More over, the people who REALLY stop lots of smuggling (the Coast Guard) are also not getting paid either.
In any case, to have that wall will require either martial law being declared, in order to seize the land (Trump is working on this, under the guise of National Emergency), or an insane amount of money spent just slugging out the legal hassles with landowners.
Then maybe we shouldn't bother defending Google or Amazon IP, nor their properties overseas, nor defend them in our courts, or even in our country. Since they evade so much, they can self fund their own legal system, their own currency, and their own military.
I love morons who suggest closing the Department of Energy. Do you have any idea what they actually manage? Hint, it is NOT something you want turned over to a university, EVER.
And no, most of those departments exist to handle when shit crosses state lines. Because guess what, the Constitution EXPLICITLY forbids states from doing interstate economic agreements, it was a major reason it was created at all.
Interstate Highway system and National parks asays Transportation and Interior stay. Maybe can get rid of education. Commerce? Forget it, that's one that is again explicitly ceded to the Feds.
Here's food for thought:
It took the Nazis 10 years to round up and murder 6-8 million people. They had the full force of the Gestapo and local police to enforce their will. They didn't have to bother with courts or any such rule of law nonsense.They also had the help of government records, in both Germany and in the lands they conquered/annexed. And yet it still took them 10 years.
What you are proposing eclipses that in scope of people and area. So good luck, you will need to turn American into the Fourth Reich to achieve it and it will still take you over a decade.
"How about this. If a business demands plastic, then if it can be found that their systems are hacked and your information is lifted thanks to their insistence on using plastic, they should incur 100% of the costs you suffer going forward." That already is the case with credit cards, the merchant agreements with the card issues are very onesided. If there is a chargeback ever, the merchant eats the cost.
Yes, if you work more then 8 hours in a day or more then 40 hours in a week. So if you worked 8 hours M-W, then 4 hours on Thursday, followed by 10 hours on Friday, you would get 2 hours of overtime. This obviously only applied if nonexempt.
See https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/how-to-guides/pages/californiahowtocalculatedailyandweeklyovertimeincalifornia.aspx for examples
Paradise is expensive. And no, you can't stop them, not as long as California property values stay high. Until California real estate crashes (and I mean a real crash, ie drops below previous peaks), then Californian's will continue to sell their properties, and go to any other state and buy out the locals. Ironically, the anti tax nature of a lot of places means they have no way to dissuade this, short of raising property taxes, and we know how well that will go over with the locals.
Read John Nash. Many real world systems can be modeled as games.
Pretty much anyone who bought a house in the 70's, 80's or 90's. My grandfather bought his in the early 70's for 75k. It is now worth 12 times that. He could easily sell it, pay the sales taxes and what not, and be left with 400-500k. In most states, you can just buy a damm near mansion with acreage outright with cash, for that amount.
Multiple states bitch about Californians doing this, cashing out of California and setting themselves up for retirement as virtual kings (Oregon, Washington, Colorado, parts of Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee all have happen).
Capitalism at its finest. People want to be left alone and stay in their quiet rural/suburban place, but tell me, would you, in a 1000 years, turn down someone offering you an awesome bonus because you have something they want? Would you turn down a job that was a 200% raise because someone felt your skills were perfect for what they need?
Capitalism demands you improve or die. Steady state is another word for stagnation and sooner or later someone passes you by. Nothing wrong with this, just it leads to those "idiots" moving in their best interest.
Well, what do you think mandatory arbitration is?
NIMBYism is quite bipartisan. My hometown in California is very conservative (largely a byproduct of many of them coming from the defense industry and working for Hughes, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.). These people have very nice houses, some are retired, and they very much vote against any new housing.
And as long as people can leverage their house for money, this is going to be a problem. You can see it here in these very comments, people who want to use houses as investment vehicles (flipping, asset store, HELOC for anything really). Usually those who can afford a house in the first place are financially aware enough to use these leveraging methods, but the only way to do so is for prices to go up, up, up, up. And the most reliable way to drive the price of something up, limit the supply.
Slight correction. It is a limit on the increase in assessment of value of the property for tax purposes by 2%. Which in effect means 2% increase in taxes, but the subtle difference comes into play when you sell, the new owner gets to pay the taxes on the full assessed value, the benefit of the tax limiting is NOT portable, one of the chief complaints about it. Seniors now do get some portability.
No problem. Those people also reserve the right to ignore any civic responsibilities, and are automatically exempted from the military, civil judgments, or jury duty, since they can't vote and don't get any benefit from the above. Maybe then we will stop sending our people to die when it is only the rich who can be sent off to war. Also, since they can't vote, they are not bound by any law passed by those who did vote. So no taxes can be levied against them, and also they are exempt from any civil crimes (ie they can pollute at will). Then maybe you can understand why we gave everyone the franchise to begin with. You take away voting, you take away the only skin people have in the game, and so YOU become free game.
Maybe conservatives should have thought of that before pushing both at will and right to work laws, that put you a position where such a thing is easy as hell.