Don't let the fact that wikileaks has published things from various countries in the past get in the way of your ranting.
Or that Assange basically threatened Russia that he's got some stuff on them - asking to be murdered according to the wisdom here (heck even if he has nothing, the mere threat should be enough to see him offed).
Obviously the US is going to be over represented:
* It's a huge country in terms of what it is involved in and the data it collects. * It's a Democratic Republic with ideals of freedom, and hence an American is far more likely to leak something than a Russian. * Wikileaks receives data from others, it isn't a spy agency that intercepts it itself, some of wikileaks sources can be expected to be have your huge "coward" label, so you'll get more data from US sources. * The US is the "good guys". That "good guys" do "bad things" is interesting, that "bad guys" do "bad things" is boring.
If long slim round packages fall more often they are going to be picked up more often than long slim non-round packages. Even though both are picked up more often than non-long slim packages.
You can point to a country which defaulted on its sovereign debt and didn't recover in a decade or so, right?
After all we can point to Argentina for a recent example of a sovereign default that worked out just fine. Far better then cripling the country to repay the debt would have.
That is why I figure the USA will default in 5 years, 10 tops.
This keeps getting repeated and it keeps being wrong. The US CAN'T default on it's debt. Our debt is denominated in US dollars, which means the US government can always make payments, either through raising taxes or inflating the currency.
Just because they can print the money to pay off their debt doesn't mean they have to. They can also say "we aren't paying you back" or "we are only paying back 25c on the dollar). Of course politically that would be much more damaging and so even though it's likely less economically damaging, politicians aren't going to choose it.
It's not impossible though.
The only thing really keeping us afloat is the Fed printing money as fast as the presses will run and using it to buy our debt, basically making the money worthless.
So then, there must be rampant inflation then correct? According to economic indicators our currency has been strengthening recently, and inflation has been low to non-existent. In fact it has been too low which has worried some that we would enter a deflationary period.
There is rampant inflation. Sure it's mostly restricited to commodities (though food and energy are commodities so that isn't all good news), because it's essentially being exported to China (who have pretty large inflation numbers) via the Chinese psuedo-pegging their currency to the dollar.
The US can basically inflate as much as they want without inflation taking off domestically because the Chinese are nice enough to inflate to match and move the price inflation to their side of the world. One day they'll stop though.
Then figure in the retiring boomers...
Yeah, who will be taking their SS money and dumping it back into the economy. Sure it will stress the SS program but that money isn't evaporating into thin air. It will be re-entering the system.
Their money is held in treasuries by SS. Which means (when payouts exceed incomings) to pay them SS has to redeem some treasuries. Which means the Government has to pay them back - but the government is already running a deficit so that means the government has to borrow more money from elsewhere (or print) or reduce spending. Sicne they won't reduce spending that means more inflation since that is what borrowing or printing does.
huge masses of working poor that are only kept afloat by social programs
Mainly because we don't have a real education system in place for people to gain new skill sets. There's a reason why we rank far below other developed nations in education.
That's part of it. There's also that production has moved offshore and with it those jobs. Now working in a factory isn't exactly the greatest job on Earth, however, there are a lot of people who are never going to be white collar workers but would be fine with those jobs.
and the cost of two endless wars?
No argument there. The money that was spent on those two conflicts alone could have done much more good here in the US.
Yeah I give it a decade tops. Enjoy it while you can folks, because from the looks of it another worldwide great depression will soon be upon us.
You're a little late to the party on that one. So far it has mainly been a recession. The US is in a recovery, albeit a slow one.
Sure maybe. I suspect a US currency collapse is more likely - which won't produce a global depression, just a sucky decade for the US.
The only question is whether we will learn from our mistakes and put heavy regulations on the banks like we did during the last one, or if those that believe in the free market fairy will win out. Without control free markets quickly end up corrupted when too much end
Defaulting is the best of a set of bad choices. Bailing out the banks was a stupid choice in the first place but they're stuck with that now.
Why would tech companies leave because Ireland defaulted on some debt?
From a moral point of view default is the correct choice - the owners of and those who loaned money to the banks that lost it all are the ones who should take the hit, not the government and hence people of Ireland.
From an economic point of view default is the correct choice - flush bad debts out of the system, those that invested poorly lose their capital since clearly they are inneficient allocators of it.
Good for you. Feel free not to accept any life lengthening treatments (anti-biotics for your next infection, for example).
The idea of counteracting aging is that you don't reach the "old and suffering" stage, since you don't get old. And everybody else doesn't as well so you don't watch all your friends and family age and die around you.
It seems very likely (given our current understanding of thermodynamics) that the Universe will effectively "die" at some point so you'll get to "complete the totality of your existance" anyway, likely much sooner than that given the planet, the solar system, and the galaxy will probably have some issues before then.
A cylinder will be used as a bat more often, since it will it's ability to roll will cause it to get stuck or fall off things more often. Which then requires a person to pick it up providing an opportunity for bat like usage.
Most of us would prefer the pollution be far away around the power plant than in and around our houses. And no CO2 is not the pollution of which I speak.
Also it'swhat happens when it's the middle of summer and 100F. Does your generator still run at 100% considering that any heat it generates now requires cooling.
How exactly is someone who was born in the United States and never renounced their citizenship not a *bonafide official US citizen*?
They deported a US citizen to a country he had no connection to at all, it's a simple fact.
And yes he was mentally disturbed and hence easily manipulated and his protests were easily ignored. That doesn't change that a US citizen was deported by ICE.
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Given he's an elected member of Congress that's clearly false.
1. Hopefully something fundamental in teh unexplained design.
2. router's don't know or care about DNS.
Yes, welcome to English.
Because the case you stated was the one the explicitely excluded so either you didn't review it or you are just trying to confuse things on purpose.
Why no try looking at the study before jumping to your conclusion?
No it doesn't sound like a bozo official since that style of pdf was specifically excluded from the user study they ran.
You could of course skim the report and know that, but I guess that would mean you couldn't launch into meaningless rants.
Of ocurse if you did that you'd know the report is available in PDF format which I guess would just launch you on a different meaningless rant.
Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23
Don't let the fact that wikileaks has published things from various countries in the past get in the way of your ranting.
Or that Assange basically threatened Russia that he's got some stuff on them - asking to be murdered according to the wisdom here (heck even if he has nothing, the mere threat should be enough to see him offed).
Obviously the US is going to be over represented:
* It's a huge country in terms of what it is involved in and the data it collects.
* It's a Democratic Republic with ideals of freedom, and hence an American is far more likely to leak something than a Russian.
* Wikileaks receives data from others, it isn't a spy agency that intercepts it itself, some of wikileaks sources can be expected to be have your huge "coward" label, so you'll get more data from US sources.
* The US is the "good guys". That "good guys" do "bad things" is interesting, that "bad guys" do "bad things" is boring.
freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of the press.
Killing lots of Nazis is clearly good for the world in the long run.
Sure the Bible says that in one place, but in another place it says:
He took a different biblical quote and used it as is, is he only allowed to read the parts of the bible you agree with?
"Hey Billy, you know that Bob told me he doesn't like you at all and would like for me to punch you in the nose."
"Hey Billy, did you know that Bob is having some family issues right now and there's no way he'd be able to stop you occuping his back yard."
Their model says enough water will be produced to account for the water, removing the need for other sources.
The alternative is calling in a mortar strike, which is a less accurate and bigger bang...
So you're an idiot then?
If long slim round packages fall more often they are going to be picked up more often than long slim non-round packages. Even though both are picked up more often than non-long slim packages.
Seriously you don't understand the idea of a package being picked up more often than average?
I don't give a shit about UPS did or did not think about. But no I wouldn't expect them to do anything to a package other than slap a sticker on it.
You can point to a country which defaulted on its sovereign debt and didn't recover in a decade or so, right?
After all we can point to Argentina for a recent example of a sovereign default that worked out just fine. Far better then cripling the country to repay the debt would have.
do no evil != do good.
The US doesn't mind economic migrants. The Irish have white skin, right? Yeah, they won't be an issue at all.
That is why I figure the USA will default in 5 years, 10 tops.
This keeps getting repeated and it keeps being wrong. The US CAN'T default on it's debt. Our debt is denominated in US dollars, which means the US government can always make payments, either through raising taxes or inflating the currency.
Just because they can print the money to pay off their debt doesn't mean they have to. They can also say "we aren't paying you back" or "we are only paying back 25c on the dollar). Of course politically that would be much more damaging and so even though it's likely less economically damaging, politicians aren't going to choose it.
It's not impossible though.
The only thing really keeping us afloat is the Fed printing money as fast as the presses will run and using it to buy our debt, basically making the money worthless.
So then, there must be rampant inflation then correct? According to economic indicators our currency has been strengthening recently, and inflation has been low to non-existent. In fact it has been too low which has worried some that we would enter a deflationary period.
There is rampant inflation. Sure it's mostly restricited to commodities (though food and energy are commodities so that isn't all good news), because it's essentially being exported to China (who have pretty large inflation numbers) via the Chinese psuedo-pegging their currency to the dollar.
The US can basically inflate as much as they want without inflation taking off domestically because the Chinese are nice enough to inflate to match and move the price inflation to their side of the world. One day they'll stop though.
Then figure in the retiring boomers...
Yeah, who will be taking their SS money and dumping it back into the economy. Sure it will stress the SS program but that money isn't evaporating into thin air. It will be re-entering the system.
Their money is held in treasuries by SS. Which means (when payouts exceed incomings) to pay them SS has to redeem some treasuries. Which means the Government has to pay them back - but the government is already running a deficit so that means the government has to borrow more money from elsewhere (or print) or reduce spending. Sicne they won't reduce spending that means more inflation since that is what borrowing or printing does.
huge masses of working poor that are only kept afloat by social programs
Mainly because we don't have a real education system in place for people to gain new skill sets. There's a reason why we rank far below other developed nations in education.
That's part of it. There's also that production has moved offshore and with it those jobs. Now working in a factory isn't exactly the greatest job on Earth, however, there are a lot of people who are never going to be white collar workers but would be fine with those jobs.
and the cost of two endless wars?
No argument there. The money that was spent on those two conflicts alone could have done much more good here in the US.
Yeah I give it a decade tops. Enjoy it while you can folks, because from the looks of it another worldwide great depression will soon be upon us.
You're a little late to the party on that one. So far it has mainly been a recession. The US is in a recovery, albeit a slow one.
Sure maybe. I suspect a US currency collapse is more likely - which won't produce a global depression, just a sucky decade for the US.
The only question is whether we will learn from our mistakes and put heavy regulations on the banks like we did during the last one, or if those that believe in the free market fairy will win out. Without control free markets quickly end up corrupted when too much end
Defaulting is the best of a set of bad choices. Bailing out the banks was a stupid choice in the first place but they're stuck with that now.
Why would tech companies leave because Ireland defaulted on some debt?
From a moral point of view default is the correct choice - the owners of and those who loaned money to the banks that lost it all are the ones who should take the hit, not the government and hence people of Ireland.
From an economic point of view default is the correct choice - flush bad debts out of the system, those that invested poorly lose their capital since clearly they are inneficient allocators of it.
Good for you. Feel free not to accept any life lengthening treatments (anti-biotics for your next infection, for example).
The idea of counteracting aging is that you don't reach the "old and suffering" stage, since you don't get old. And everybody else doesn't as well so you don't watch all your friends and family age and die around you.
It seems very likely (given our current understanding of thermodynamics) that the Universe will effectively "die" at some point so you'll get to "complete the totality of your existance" anyway, likely much sooner than that given the planet, the solar system, and the galaxy will probably have some issues before then.
A cylinder will be used as a bat more often, since it will it's ability to roll will cause it to get stuck or fall off things more often. Which then requires a person to pick it up providing an opportunity for bat like usage.
Most of us would prefer the pollution be far away around the power plant than in and around our houses. And no CO2 is not the pollution of which I speak.
Also it'swhat happens when it's the middle of summer and 100F. Does your generator still run at 100% considering that any heat it generates now requires cooling.
How exactly is someone who was born in the United States and never renounced their citizenship not a *bonafide official US citizen*?
They deported a US citizen to a country he had no connection to at all, it's a simple fact.
And yes he was mentally disturbed and hence easily manipulated and his protests were easily ignored. That doesn't change that a US citizen was deported by ICE.