For no apparent reason, the demand for welder type masks has increased sharply in the regions of Somalia, though no new construction has been reported.
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Seriously. Lasers? I hope they put them on sharks, at least that may scare some pirates off.
No. What you do is you arm the ships with real weapons - large caliber machine guns and some heat seeking missiles and you kill the pirates. Always kill them.
clearly the people armed with whatever hand weapons they can get are not going to be able to stand against the modern army, however I would like to point out that in most cases when revolutions happened, the army (or at least part of it) was actively involved.
By the way, I disagree that the Constitution of USA is outdated at all, and also there were a number of changes to the document over the years, all to the detriment of the intent, because in reality there should be no amendments, all things that are not specifically stated in the constitution are prohibited to the government and there is no reason to have any specific rights of people outlined there either, as people have all the rights, regardless of amendments by default.
I mean, early last century, the Constitution was changed to prohibit production and sale of alcohol, talk about a bad idea. Also the entire fiasco of collecting the income taxes, thus denying individuals the right and ability to save money to start businesses that could compete with the established government monopolies.
Also, although the establishment of the Federal reserve has nothing to do with the Constitution, it was one main step taken by the government together with most powerful people not in government (Rockefeller and JP Morgan) that eventually lead to the economic crisis of 1920, 1929 and eventually the current one, all because gov't granted itself ability to have limitless funding and buy votes with it as well as grow immensely, thus eventually destroying the economy by complete mis-allocation of private resources.
The entire Constitution needs to be reinforced in a very basic way: the government must be specifically prohibited from printing money as well as from being involved in any commerce decisions at all.
I agree that the gov't and the financial and other industries are ALL together on everything.
Of-course they are, that's what happened - Rockefeller and JP Morgan started the Federal bank in 1913 in order to create their monopolies and to rob everybody blind.
The gov't was usurped in 1913 when the Fed was created so that gov't could grow in unstoppable manner and also the IRS was created to collect income taxes, also to make gov't grow, but this one was done mainly to prevent competition from arising - if you have no savings are are living paycheck to paycheck, you cannot form competition to any large institution.
So the gov't has been corrupted and it needs a huge overhaul, all of the special interests must be kicked out and gov't must return to its direct obligations - protecting Freedoms of the people as well as providing a working Justice system.
People however, have been duped with all the bread and circuses and debt and will not rise.
I completely agree that there is no competitive market in Canada in communications/health/energy/utilities/food/military/financial industries.
Yes, I am completely against government. That's why after 15 years of working in Canada after I moved there from Israel, where I lived for a year after moving there from the former USSR, I am now in Asia/Europe, working on my own business. It's because I see more opportunities for uninhibited business in Asia than in North America. But Germany is also making some sense, though they have to choose - to pull this dying horse of the Euro-zone and eventually to collapse as well or to get moving.
Where do you SEE Free Market in Canada? It would be funny maybe if somebody was PRETENDING that there was Free Market Capitalism in Canada, but nobody is pretending even, so again, why the fuck is your stupid comment moderated insightful?
Well I know why, it's/. and for some reason I cannot fathom so many people here are liberals to the point of no intellect at all.
You know what WOULD be a FUNNY joke in THIS case? If you said:
Well, it's socialism, so you can always depend on your government to control the market in such a way, that is best for consumers. That's what Socialism says. Government will never allow its preferred monopolies to screw consumers over. Socialism will always help the people to have better everything.
Now THAT WOULD BE FUCKING FUNNY when talking about Canada and its government invested into monopolies.
- Here is what I can tell you: government take over business ends up DESTROYING markets not helping them BECAUSE governments PREFER monopolies.
Guns are not there to protect you against robbers.
Guns are not there for your personal amusement.
Guns are there to take down oppressive governments, actually what is interesting in this case is that the gun in question was used for its direct purpose as it is stated in the Constitution of US of A.
Well now, the question whether shooting this Congresswoman will do anything to take down any oppressive government can be legitimately raised. Personally I think it will only make the already oppressive government of US of A MORE oppressive as it didn't achieve any useful goal.
Now, if MANY people decided that they are fed up with the system and took their guns and went to the White House and Congress/Senate and escorted the government officials out of the premises (hopefully without too much shooting) then that would be the ULTIMATE GOOD USE of guns, as the Constitution clearly provides, because that would mean that people DID exercise their rights and judgment and decided that this government must be stopped.
I don't think Americans are there yet, and BTW, it looks to me like the US government is very good at destructing the people from what's really happening by starting the current class war - accuse all of the 'rich' people and banks etc. of the economic collapse, which is in reality clearly the doing of the government.
The root problem is that Bell and Rogers are heavily invested into by the governments of Canada/Ontario/Toronto. They are government monopolies, just like Ontario Hydro, just like the entire Health Care fiasco in Canada, just like energy sector, just like education system, just like food industry, etc.etc.
Canada is not exactly a bastion of Free Market Capitalism, so BLAMING Free Market Capitalism for these problems in CANADA of all places? Give a fucking break, this is political nonsense.
Instead of fucking forcing an existing CROWN corporation to do anything, how about the gov't stops subsidizing it (and Rogers, you are not seriously suggesting they are a bastion of Free Market Capitalism, do you?)
The choices are not there because the gov't is heavily invested into those 2 fucking companies.
As a person, who spent 15 years in Canada and WORKED for Bell Mobility and BellTV as well as for Rogers, I can right now tell you that there is NOTHING THERE EVEN CLOSE to Free Market!
Now, you are saying "Capitalism", maybe you do not mean to say "Free Market", but it looks like that's what you do mean.
There is no free market capitalism in Canada when it concerns these industries: Communications, Utilities, Military, Health, Food, Energy, Banking.
There is NOTHING there that's free market in those areas.
Now, in RESTAURANT business there is HUGE free market in Canada! That's right, even with all the government regulations, all the licenses etc. That's why the restaurant industry is really competitive, the food in Toronto for example is really great, you have plenty of choices.
I don't see you saying: in Canada there is great choice of restaurants and thank god for Free Market Capitalism.
No. You are choosing a clearly monopolized industry. I mean Bell and Rogers? Do you even KNOW who Ted Rogers was? He wasn't a free market anything. I mean, FFS, the guy was able to buy the freaking SkyDome in the center of Toronto for 20 Million from the gov't of Canada, Ontario and Toront when the thing actually cost near a BILLION, even that little trick required plenty of gov't preference giving.
I was so upset with USA when its armies have crossed into Iraq and Afghanistan early last decade, this was so tragic. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions are dead.
Did it solve anything? Well, it sure helped some people to line up their pockets.
You know what the problem is? That the right winners WILL SHOOT. Is there some point, at which there will be shots fired back?
Yes, there is a good reason why USA has the 2nd amendment. It is becoming obvious that there is a good reason for it. The reason is coming closer and closer.
I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. While it's true that a vast majority of people do not like their jobs, it's also quite true that there exist people who love their jobs so much they would do it for free if they didn't have to worry about things like food and shelter.
- if you have your job being your hobby, that's a different story.
But if you do not have to do it for money and are doing it for pleasure, that's exactly what I am talking about.
If on the other hand you have no choice but to work for money, then sure, it better be a job you like.
I'd rather work the rest of my life doing something that I actually enjoy than spend less time working for more money just so I can have the hope of retiring sooner. Why should I wait until I retire to do what I want if I'm fortunate enough to be able to do it right now, and still make enough that I'm not so stressed out about how my needs are going to be met that I'm actually free to really enjoy it?
- yeah, yeah, yeah, cut to the chase.
If you could have a job that you could do for a day, get paid once and never work for living again, you wouldn't choose that over whatever job you may have? I would.
Then I could do anything, whatever, some people may even regard whatever I may do as work, but the point is that it would not be a JOB.
If you are in applied math, then you are not an artist, you are a 'by-the-number' painter.
Sure, you can apply math to whatever, but that's not what Math is about ultimately. It is there ultimately only for the personal satisfaction of being able to answer completely hypothetical questions that arise from completely imaginary situations.
What does this tell you about the real world:
"is it possible to have a shape, which can be turned into another shape without cutting it into pieces and purely by manipulating the shape in any number of dimensions, and if it is possible, what are the limits of doing it? Are there limits of turning one shape into another without cutting it?"
This is a purely hypothetical, totally imagined question and the answer to it can be derived with Mathematics because Mathematics is not a science about anything. Ultimately it is just an ability to think and it is done to satisfy personal need to answer such questions. All Math discussed in this topic is totally applied and is not interesting.
The best job is the kind of job that you do one time and it pays for everything you do after that, so you never have to do it ever again, thus giving you the time and resources to do whatever you actually want to do.
There is no job in the WORLD, not any single one job in the entire universe that's worse doing it more than once if you get paid enough for it so you never have to work again.
A job is a job for a reason. You are not there to have fun, you are there so you can make money.
To your point - yes, everybody should be so lucky to have a job that if at least it doesn't pay enough to be only done once, that it at least is not terrible and satisfactory in some other manner, but cut to the point - any job is misery in the long run.
I would rather do anything I want, anything I like than HAVING to work for living.
and if you reread my posts, you may notice (though I doubt at this point) that I was surreptitiously going for a sarcastic remark of humorous nature, but you are welcome to go ahead and read too much into this entire thread, be my guest.
I have done it for 16 years now, at this point working on becoming my own management, creating my own product line. There is a very big difference between doing it this way and just working on a contract (as I used to) or in permanent positions.
It is so much more stressful doing it this way specifically because I am not getting paid for already almost a year, living on the savings and trust me, when you don't see that check coming in every month (and I am used to getting very good checks) it takes a bigger toll yet, even though nobody is setting any deadlines for me, just life is doing it. Time is short, that's how it is.
The best job is a kind of a job where you do it once and make enough money never to do it again, so you can be free to do other things that you won't consider to be a job.
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Why? I am a vegetarian for reasons that I believe it's better for my health!
So instead it really was:
*shrug*Makes me even happier that I am a vegetarian*shrug*
Makes me even happier that I am a vegetarian.
For no apparent reason, the demand for welder type masks has increased sharply in the regions of Somalia, though no new construction has been reported.
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Seriously. Lasers? I hope they put them on sharks, at least that may scare some pirates off.
No. What you do is you arm the ships with real weapons - large caliber machine guns and some heat seeking missiles and you kill the pirates. Always kill them.
The most ironic thing is rain on your wedding day, clearly.
False sense of security? That's funny. There is no security when you feel you have to use guns.
Sure, the military is powerful. But in most cases military or at least part of it takes sides when revolutions happen.
But to say that Constitution is absurd clearly shows what the problem with the society is today.
If the Constitution is absurd, then stop pretending you are living in a Constitutional state.
I like to ramble. What's your problem?
clearly the people armed with whatever hand weapons they can get are not going to be able to stand against the modern army, however I would like to point out that in most cases when revolutions happened, the army (or at least part of it) was actively involved.
By the way, I disagree that the Constitution of USA is outdated at all, and also there were a number of changes to the document over the years, all to the detriment of the intent, because in reality there should be no amendments, all things that are not specifically stated in the constitution are prohibited to the government and there is no reason to have any specific rights of people outlined there either, as people have all the rights, regardless of amendments by default.
I mean, early last century, the Constitution was changed to prohibit production and sale of alcohol, talk about a bad idea. Also the entire fiasco of collecting the income taxes, thus denying individuals the right and ability to save money to start businesses that could compete with the established government monopolies.
Also, although the establishment of the Federal reserve has nothing to do with the Constitution, it was one main step taken by the government together with most powerful people not in government (Rockefeller and JP Morgan) that eventually lead to the economic crisis of 1920, 1929 and eventually the current one, all because gov't granted itself ability to have limitless funding and buy votes with it as well as grow immensely, thus eventually destroying the economy by complete mis-allocation of private resources.
The entire Constitution needs to be reinforced in a very basic way: the government must be specifically prohibited from printing money as well as from being involved in any commerce decisions at all.
I agree that the gov't and the financial and other industries are ALL together on everything.
Of-course they are, that's what happened - Rockefeller and JP Morgan started the Federal bank in 1913 in order to create their monopolies and to rob everybody blind.
The gov't was usurped in 1913 when the Fed was created so that gov't could grow in unstoppable manner and also the IRS was created to collect income taxes, also to make gov't grow, but this one was done mainly to prevent competition from arising - if you have no savings are are living paycheck to paycheck, you cannot form competition to any large institution.
So the gov't has been corrupted and it needs a huge overhaul, all of the special interests must be kicked out and gov't must return to its direct obligations - protecting Freedoms of the people as well as providing a working Justice system.
People however, have been duped with all the bread and circuses and debt and will not rise.
I completely agree that there is no competitive market in Canada in communications/health/energy/utilities/food/military/financial industries.
Yes, I am completely against government. That's why after 15 years of working in Canada after I moved there from Israel, where I lived for a year after moving there from the former USSR, I am now in Asia/Europe, working on my own business. It's because I see more opportunities for uninhibited business in Asia than in North America. But Germany is also making some sense, though they have to choose - to pull this dying horse of the Euro-zone and eventually to collapse as well or to get moving.
But what the fuck?
Where do you SEE Free Market in Canada? It would be funny maybe if somebody was PRETENDING that there was Free Market Capitalism in Canada, but nobody is pretending even, so again, why the fuck is your stupid comment moderated insightful?
Well I know why, it's /. and for some reason I cannot fathom so many people here are liberals to the point of no intellect at all.
You know what WOULD be a FUNNY joke in THIS case? If you said:
Well, it's socialism, so you can always depend on your government to control the market in such a way, that is best for consumers. That's what Socialism says. Government will never allow its preferred monopolies to screw consumers over. Socialism will always help the people to have better everything.
Now THAT WOULD BE FUCKING FUNNY when talking about Canada and its government invested into monopolies.
-
Here is what I can tell you: government take over business ends up DESTROYING markets not helping them BECAUSE governments PREFER monopolies.
Guns are not there to protect you against robbers.
Guns are not there for your personal amusement.
Guns are there to take down oppressive governments, actually what is interesting in this case is that the gun in question was used for its direct purpose as it is stated in the Constitution of US of A.
Well now, the question whether shooting this Congresswoman will do anything to take down any oppressive government can be legitimately raised. Personally I think it will only make the already oppressive government of US of A MORE oppressive as it didn't achieve any useful goal.
Now, if MANY people decided that they are fed up with the system and took their guns and went to the White House and Congress/Senate and escorted the government officials out of the premises (hopefully without too much shooting) then that would be the ULTIMATE GOOD USE of guns, as the Constitution clearly provides, because that would mean that people DID exercise their rights and judgment and decided that this government must be stopped.
I don't think Americans are there yet, and BTW, it looks to me like the US government is very good at destructing the people from what's really happening by starting the current class war - accuse all of the 'rich' people and banks etc. of the economic collapse, which is in reality clearly the doing of the government.
Well, that's just a symptom.
The root problem is that Bell and Rogers are heavily invested into by the governments of Canada/Ontario/Toronto. They are government monopolies, just like Ontario Hydro, just like the entire Health Care fiasco in Canada, just like energy sector, just like education system, just like food industry, etc.etc.
Canada is not exactly a bastion of Free Market Capitalism, so BLAMING Free Market Capitalism for these problems in CANADA of all places? Give a fucking break, this is political nonsense.
Instead of fucking forcing an existing CROWN corporation to do anything, how about the gov't stops subsidizing it (and Rogers, you are not seriously suggesting they are a bastion of Free Market Capitalism, do you?)
The choices are not there because the gov't is heavily invested into those 2 fucking companies.
WHY? WHY IS THAT INSIGHTFUL?
As a person, who spent 15 years in Canada and WORKED for Bell Mobility and BellTV as well as for Rogers, I can right now tell you that there is NOTHING THERE EVEN CLOSE to Free Market!
Now, you are saying "Capitalism", maybe you do not mean to say "Free Market", but it looks like that's what you do mean.
There is no free market capitalism in Canada when it concerns these industries: Communications, Utilities, Military, Health, Food, Energy, Banking.
There is NOTHING there that's free market in those areas.
Now, in RESTAURANT business there is HUGE free market in Canada! That's right, even with all the government regulations, all the licenses etc. That's why the restaurant industry is really competitive, the food in Toronto for example is really great, you have plenty of choices.
I don't see you saying: in Canada there is great choice of restaurants and thank god for Free Market Capitalism.
No. You are choosing a clearly monopolized industry. I mean Bell and Rogers? Do you even KNOW who Ted Rogers was? He wasn't a free market anything. I mean, FFS, the guy was able to buy the freaking SkyDome in the center of Toronto for 20 Million from the gov't of Canada, Ontario and Toront when the thing actually cost near a BILLION, even that little trick required plenty of gov't preference giving.
Really? Doesn't solve anything?
I was so upset with USA when its armies have crossed into Iraq and Afghanistan early last decade, this was so tragic. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions are dead.
Did it solve anything? Well, it sure helped some people to line up their pockets.
You know what the problem is? That the right winners WILL SHOOT. Is there some point, at which there will be shots fired back?
Yes, there is a good reason why USA has the 2nd amendment. It is becoming obvious that there is a good reason for it. The reason is coming closer and closer.
Ha ha ha. Out of cold dead hands, does that work for you?
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But you should use that logic for all those terrorist cases.
Why don't they ban all those explosives I wonder? Hmmmmm.
I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. While it's true that a vast majority of people do not like their jobs, it's also quite true that there exist people who love their jobs so much they would do it for free if they didn't have to worry about things like food and shelter.
- if you have your job being your hobby, that's a different story.
But if you do not have to do it for money and are doing it for pleasure, that's exactly what I am talking about.
If on the other hand you have no choice but to work for money, then sure, it better be a job you like.
I'd rather work the rest of my life doing something that I actually enjoy than spend less time working for more money just so I can have the hope of retiring sooner. Why should I wait until I retire to do what I want if I'm fortunate enough to be able to do it right now, and still make enough that I'm not so stressed out about how my needs are going to be met that I'm actually free to really enjoy it?
- yeah, yeah, yeah, cut to the chase.
If you could have a job that you could do for a day, get paid once and never work for living again, you wouldn't choose that over whatever job you may have? I would.
Then I could do anything, whatever, some people may even regard whatever I may do as work, but the point is that it would not be a JOB.
clearly
If you are in applied math, then you are not an artist, you are a 'by-the-number' painter.
Sure, you can apply math to whatever, but that's not what Math is about ultimately. It is there ultimately only for the personal satisfaction of being able to answer completely hypothetical questions that arise from completely imaginary situations.
What does this tell you about the real world:
"is it possible to have a shape, which can be turned into another shape without cutting it into pieces and purely by manipulating the shape in any number of dimensions, and if it is possible, what are the limits of doing it? Are there limits of turning one shape into another without cutting it?"
This is a purely hypothetical, totally imagined question and the answer to it can be derived with Mathematics because Mathematics is not a science about anything. Ultimately it is just an ability to think and it is done to satisfy personal need to answer such questions. All Math discussed in this topic is totally applied and is not interesting.
WHAT? What are you talking about?
The best job is the kind of job that you do one time and it pays for everything you do after that, so you never have to do it ever again, thus giving you the time and resources to do whatever you actually want to do.
There is no job in the WORLD, not any single one job in the entire universe that's worse doing it more than once if you get paid enough for it so you never have to work again.
A job is a job for a reason. You are not there to have fun, you are there so you can make money.
To your point - yes, everybody should be so lucky to have a job that if at least it doesn't pay enough to be only done once, that it at least is not terrible and satisfactory in some other manner, but cut to the point - any job is misery in the long run.
I would rather do anything I want, anything I like than HAVING to work for living.
and if you reread my posts, you may notice (though I doubt at this point) that I was surreptitiously going for a sarcastic remark of humorous nature, but you are welcome to go ahead and read too much into this entire thread, be my guest.
I have done it for 16 years now, at this point working on becoming my own management, creating my own product line. There is a very big difference between doing it this way and just working on a contract (as I used to) or in permanent positions.
It is so much more stressful doing it this way specifically because I am not getting paid for already almost a year, living on the savings and trust me, when you don't see that check coming in every month (and I am used to getting very good checks) it takes a bigger toll yet, even though nobody is setting any deadlines for me, just life is doing it. Time is short, that's how it is.
What's the difference between a mathematician and a large pizza?
- none. Large pizza is 1 and mathematician is 1. Same thing.
The best job is a kind of a job where you do it once and make enough money never to do it again, so you can be free to do other things that you won't consider to be a job.
Nice troll.