You're an ass, and likely a wannabe tyrant. And BTW, Re: your sig, "regulated" in 18th century American English meant "well ordered." Furthermore if you bothered to read the Militia Act of 1792, signed into law by George Washington, you'd know that the militia was to consist of everybody who could vote under the age of 45. Gun ownership was mandatory for this group, not owning a gun was, in fact, a crime. Lastly, the 'keep and bear arms clause' is NOT dependent on the 'militia clause,' even if it weren't obvious from the legal and social framework of the time that the whole electorate was the militia anyway.
The only difference between a "rough service lamp" and "traditional bulbs" is that the filament is more robust and is supported by more framework within the bulb.
Where did the "radioactive components" (fucking bananas are radioactive so just saying that scary word doesn't work on people with an education) come from? Underground, perhaps? But putting them back is a problem? Yawn. I bet you'd have signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
You dismissed out of hand real conditions in China, which I addressed, because they're like, you know, the fucking topic.
YOU brought up the topic of movie production being included in GDP. I addressed it because YOU brought it up, asshole.
I brought up specifics vs. aggregates because YOU started talking about the steel industry for no reason.
I addressed YOUR points, which often were off the original topic, and you fault ME for addressing YOU?
Then you foe me. Wow. That's special. Consider it mutual, you ignorant, time-wasting shithead.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, the realities of economics in China as experienced by actual Chinese citizens. I tell you people are being taxed years in advance, and you say "So what?" Yeah, you really understand and care about what's happening in China. Hell, you'd fit right into the Chengguan, which you probably don't even know anything about without looking it up.
GDP should contain movie production costs. Do you even know what GDP is? What makes you think making a movie and selling it is ultimately any different from making a John Deere tractor and selling it? It's the economy, stupid. Even if US GDP is fudged slightly (which could be said of practically any economic metric), the PRC's is drastic. At least 5%, and when you're talking about the second largest economy on Earth, that's hundreds of billions of dollars.
What point is there on zooming in on x or y industry? Sure there are growth sectors in any country, but we're talking about aggregates. I mentioned that the growth in usage of electricity in China doesn't match GDP because, most economists agree, electricity is one of those things that goes up in demand commensurate to the growth in all other sectors, because basically everything needs energy to run. As for specific economists, I'm not paid to be your research bitch. I've spent a lot of years following news and events in China, and if you really want to learn something do your own reading. The first several articles all deal with this issue.
"the most responsibly run economy on the planet right now"
BWAaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, you're serious?
Do you have any idea what the debt load is of the provincial governments? Do you even know that provinces and other lower levels of the Chinese government are taxing their constituents months, sometimes yearsin advance to try to maintain solvency?
Do you know that the statistics on things like the expansion of electrical power usage do not line up in any even remotely sane way with the CCP's claims of GDP growth and many economists believe that their rate of growth is now the same as the stagnant West?
Do you know anything about the economic reality in China at any level above shit you make up to promote your pet theories?
I'm not sure how that's supposed to mean anything... you do realize that the USN makes the PLAN look like a handful of plastic boats in a kid's bathtub right? Compare fleet compositions someday. We have so many carriers we can't even field them all, and the PLAN just barely manages to field one, which has never even seen combat.
The PLA and PLAAF are sizable, formidable forces, and a land war with China would be a nightmare, but the PLAN is a joke, at least to the US. To the small navies of its neighbors, it's serious business, but then they all ultimately depend on US intervention for defense anyway. SEATO4EVAR
As a historian, I listen to a lot of music as a matter of curiosity, and I have some real Nazi music (as in actual propaganda songs from the 1930s) in the same folder as other jingoistic things like Soviet propaganda songs from the same period and various national anthems including Hatikvah. So this makes me the world's first Zionist Nazi Communist.
Europeans' English is always so amusing. "Operating theatre" like everybody is having their spleen taken out in an old timey lecture hall surrounded by tiers of murmuring onlookers at a university. The 19th century called and they want their conventions back.
What you're failing to see is that if you spend decades adapting to a world of sounds, having that yanked away will fuck you up. Most deafness is either congenital or progressive, so it's either all you know or something you adapted to. If you look at cases of people who are suddenly deaf, you'll find similar problems adapting.
By the same token, people who were deaf who through new surgical methods are made to be able to hear, actually have a very hard time adapting to it. We who can hear take for granted the period in infancy when we develop the mental capacity to reflexively filter out background noises and such. People who were deaf lack the automatic mental controls, and in a sense, can't stop hearing, which makes it hard for them to focus on specific sounds (and hard to sleep). It's so bad that some even have the surgery reversed and voluntarily go back to being deaf because to them it's better than a sense of hearing that they can't control.
You have a lot less to fear from the yuppie with Google Glass than the lech with a secret pen camera, or button-hole camera, or shoe camera, or whatever they sell these days.
You can get STDs for free, and human trafficking occurs plenty regardless of prostitution laws. There would be lot less beating (and to a lesser degree, trafficking) if prostitution weren't illegal such that its practitioners are unable to report real crimes committed against them to the police.
To paraphrase George Carlin, it's nonsense that something is illegal to sell that you can legally give away for free.
You couldn't syllogize your way out of a wet paper bag. The funny thing is you're so dumb you don't even realize you're digging yourself a deeper hole and making yourself look even dumber. I don't often make this claim because it's way over-used and usually without good cause, but christ, you're one of the best examples of Dunning-Kruger I've seen in months.
There are many people with who I will respectfully disagree and indeed will not 'foe'. However, disrespect for honest work of any kind is an unforgivable conceit in my mind, and I cannot respect anybody who does such a thing.
Predictions have been made in every generation about the human population collapsing under its own weight, and those predictions have always been wrong.
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I visualized that as badly captioned tumblr pr0n and was highly amused.
You're an ass, and likely a wannabe tyrant. And BTW, Re: your sig, "regulated" in 18th century American English meant "well ordered." Furthermore if you bothered to read the Militia Act of 1792, signed into law by George Washington, you'd know that the militia was to consist of everybody who could vote under the age of 45. Gun ownership was mandatory for this group, not owning a gun was, in fact, a crime. Lastly, the 'keep and bear arms clause' is NOT dependent on the 'militia clause,' even if it weren't obvious from the legal and social framework of the time that the whole electorate was the militia anyway.
Oblig.
1910s, huh?
You're a troll.
The only difference between a "rough service lamp" and "traditional bulbs" is that the filament is more robust and is supported by more framework within the bulb.
Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?
Where did the "radioactive components" (fucking bananas are radioactive so just saying that scary word doesn't work on people with an education) come from? Underground, perhaps? But putting them back is a problem? Yawn. I bet you'd have signed the petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
Sorry, I misplaced all my caps and my wife's hair isn't big enough. Besides which, I have a hard time digging the music scene down there.
-_-
You dismissed out of hand real conditions in China, which I addressed, because they're like, you know, the fucking topic.
YOU brought up the topic of movie production being included in GDP. I addressed it because YOU brought it up, asshole.
I brought up specifics vs. aggregates because YOU started talking about the steel industry for no reason.
I addressed YOUR points, which often were off the original topic, and you fault ME for addressing YOU?
Then you foe me. Wow. That's special. Consider it mutual, you ignorant, time-wasting shithead.
As a native son of native sons, let me underscore this. Keep the bastards out!
Signed, Emmett Watson
P.S. If you really want to understand Seattle, you better start watching reruns of Almost Live.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, the realities of economics in China as experienced by actual Chinese citizens. I tell you people are being taxed years in advance, and you say "So what?" Yeah, you really understand and care about what's happening in China. Hell, you'd fit right into the Chengguan, which you probably don't even know anything about without looking it up.
GDP should contain movie production costs. Do you even know what GDP is? What makes you think making a movie and selling it is ultimately any different from making a John Deere tractor and selling it? It's the economy, stupid. Even if US GDP is fudged slightly (which could be said of practically any economic metric), the PRC's is drastic. At least 5%, and when you're talking about the second largest economy on Earth, that's hundreds of billions of dollars.
What point is there on zooming in on x or y industry? Sure there are growth sectors in any country, but we're talking about aggregates. I mentioned that the growth in usage of electricity in China doesn't match GDP because, most economists agree, electricity is one of those things that goes up in demand commensurate to the growth in all other sectors, because basically everything needs energy to run. As for specific economists, I'm not paid to be your research bitch. I've spent a lot of years following news and events in China, and if you really want to learn something do your own reading. The first several articles all deal with this issue.
"the most responsibly run economy on the planet right now"
BWAaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, you're serious?
Do you have any idea what the debt load is of the provincial governments? Do you even know that provinces and other lower levels of the Chinese government are taxing their constituents months, sometimes years in advance to try to maintain solvency?
Do you know that the statistics on things like the expansion of electrical power usage do not line up in any even remotely sane way with the CCP's claims of GDP growth and many economists believe that their rate of growth is now the same as the stagnant West?
Do you know anything about the economic reality in China at any level above shit you make up to promote your pet theories?
I'm not sure how that's supposed to mean anything... you do realize that the USN makes the PLAN look like a handful of plastic boats in a kid's bathtub right? Compare fleet compositions someday. We have so many carriers we can't even field them all, and the PLAN just barely manages to field one, which has never even seen combat.
The PLA and PLAAF are sizable, formidable forces, and a land war with China would be a nightmare, but the PLAN is a joke, at least to the US. To the small navies of its neighbors, it's serious business, but then they all ultimately depend on US intervention for defense anyway. SEATO4EVAR
As a historian, I listen to a lot of music as a matter of curiosity, and I have some real Nazi music (as in actual propaganda songs from the 1930s) in the same folder as other jingoistic things like Soviet propaganda songs from the same period and various national anthems including Hatikvah. So this makes me the world's first Zionist Nazi Communist.
You sound like the kind of person for whom the Google Glass is always half empty.
Europeans' English is always so amusing. "Operating theatre" like everybody is having their spleen taken out in an old timey lecture hall surrounded by tiers of murmuring onlookers at a university. The 19th century called and they want their conventions back.
What you're failing to see is that if you spend decades adapting to a world of sounds, having that yanked away will fuck you up. Most deafness is either congenital or progressive, so it's either all you know or something you adapted to. If you look at cases of people who are suddenly deaf, you'll find similar problems adapting.
By the same token, people who were deaf who through new surgical methods are made to be able to hear, actually have a very hard time adapting to it. We who can hear take for granted the period in infancy when we develop the mental capacity to reflexively filter out background noises and such. People who were deaf lack the automatic mental controls, and in a sense, can't stop hearing, which makes it hard for them to focus on specific sounds (and hard to sleep). It's so bad that some even have the surgery reversed and voluntarily go back to being deaf because to them it's better than a sense of hearing that they can't control.
You have a lot less to fear from the yuppie with Google Glass than the lech with a secret pen camera, or button-hole camera, or shoe camera, or whatever they sell these days.
That's hypocritical as fuck for a place that actually encourages people to instagram their food.
You can get STDs for free, and human trafficking occurs plenty regardless of prostitution laws. There would be lot less beating (and to a lesser degree, trafficking) if prostitution weren't illegal such that its practitioners are unable to report real crimes committed against them to the police.
To paraphrase George Carlin, it's nonsense that something is illegal to sell that you can legally give away for free.
See the flaw there is that you probably won't be capable of handling all those hookers at that age.
You couldn't syllogize your way out of a wet paper bag. The funny thing is you're so dumb you don't even realize you're digging yourself a deeper hole and making yourself look even dumber. I don't often make this claim because it's way over-used and usually without good cause, but christ, you're one of the best examples of Dunning-Kruger I've seen in months.
There are many people with who I will respectfully disagree and indeed will not 'foe'. However, disrespect for honest work of any kind is an unforgivable conceit in my mind, and I cannot respect anybody who does such a thing.
...
Foe'd
Also, FOAD.
Lastly, somebody who can make a ton of money off of drawing a few cartoons a week is smarter than you. Sorry.
Predictions have been made in every generation about the human population collapsing under its own weight, and those predictions have always been wrong.