Maybe you consider the other guy to be a child molestor. Maybe you consider the other guy to be a bigger thief. Maybe you consider the other guy to be equally thiefy and this guy better in other aspects.
Maybe you don't think being thief is such a bad thing in the first place?
Yes, Britain kept slavery in some places when it initially banned slavery everywhere else. But it banned it in those places *before* America passed the 13th Amendment.
Segregation is a different issue entirely, though the US wasn't exactly on the cutting edge of getting rid of that either:)
You have no idea what would have happened, but you "know for a fact" that slavery could not have ended a day sooner if the British had stayed in power?
Yes he claimed that the British would have liked to keep the colonies - and I'm pretty sure no one is going to argue against that claim, they did fight a war over them after all.
Yes he claimed that some people would have been better off under British rule in the 19th century - the truth of that is far more debatable, but the truth or falsehood is irrelevant anyway.
But you can't take those two claims and come up with "the motivation for the British to keep the colonies was because the natives and the blacks and the poor to be better off". There was no claim that one was the motivation for the other.
That winners tend to write history is also not exactly and earth shattering claim. And of course the US whitewashes their revolution and ignores the parts that don't fit the narrative they want. Nothing wrong with that, everyone does it. It doesn't have anything to do with the motivations of the British anyway, and more to do with whether the American Revolution was just another power switch from one set of rich white guys to another set of rich white guys or something greater.
Personally, I'm going with greater. The Great American Expirement has been wonderful for the entire world. Sure people complain about their crappy movies and love for violence and hatred of sexuality. But their contribution to liberty really can't be understated, and that the US itseld has moved backwards on it doesn't reduce the contribution itself.
Saying that some group would have been better off if X happened. Does not make any claim that the reason for doing X was to make that group better off. It doesn't even imply such a thing.
It's just a side effect with absolutely nothing to do with motivations.
No one has claimed that salvery had anything to do with britain wanting to keep some colonies. You are just building a straw man
Pollution of common resources - the factory that pours toxic smoke into the air with no market repercussions since they are an exporter and hence their customers are far away and don't know or care. Externalities in general really.
And said schmuck only bought them because the Fed held interest rates at ridiculously low levels forcing larger risks to be taken to get any any worthwhile return. And at the same time had a wink-wink promise to bail everything out via the Greenspan put if things went south.
The claim that "the British empire wanted to keep the 13 colonies in oder to improve the lives of poor, Blacks, and Native Americans" was never made, so ascribing it to someone else seems just a little ridiculous.
Britain abolished slavery decades before the United States, so clearly there's one group who would have been better off under British rule.
An "unbricking" feature could have that as a side effect though - if the new OS didn't do whatever the "unbricker" is looking for to indicate it booted ok.
Though any such implementation that doesn't involve pushing a physical "reset device" button while turning it on (and having that button be one of those PITA to press watch setting style things) is playing with fire.
I'm not saying the US is going to cease to exist. Germany is still an economic powerhouse even after it's inflationary woes between the wars. Argentina is doing fine after it's more recent inflationary woes. The Netherlands still exists, sure it isn't exactly a world economic power anymore, but it's people have a great standard of living. Same with France.
The government debt levels of the US aren't really the issue anyway, that just puts the US at more risk of external factors. Japan was (and is) in a very different situation, they're high domestic savings rate makes a big difference.
The problem for the US is that you can't sustain an economy on debt fueled consumption forever. At some point you have to pay back those debts, which means producing and saving instead of consuming. The US has the benefit that those debts are in US dollars which they can issue as much of as they like, so they can print their way out. But for the people in the US that "solution" is possibly worse than defaulting...
Yes the US can get out of this reasonably easily, the politicians just need to let the debt unwind and the standard of living plummet for a time. But that doesn't win them the next election so that seems an unlikely choice. They can keep kicking the can down the road so the next guy gets to have the problem, but at some point you reach a tipping point and can't delay it any further (for the US that happens if foreigners get spooked enough to get out of treasuries for whatever stupid trigger reason).
They have been doing the exact opposite recently, actively trying to stop debt from being reduced. And that tipping point has to be getting close. Of course I'm *really* bad at picking such points - I expected the US housing bubble to crash in 04 since it was clearly at ridiculous levels, but it was only half way done inflating...
SS and Medicare are a different issue, since that is internal debt. But there's no way the government can ever meet the payments on those in the future. Either they cut back those benefits or they have to run up yet more huge foreign debts (or print of course).
I might be wrong on all of that of course, smarter people than me disagree with me after all. But I really think we are at the "could crash suddenly and completely overnight" point with respects to the US economy - though we could stay on that edge for 20 years of course. And I don't see the politicians doing anything to turn around. I am still in the US so clearly I don't expect the end of civilization as we know it or anything. Just a Russian style collapse - which is simple enough to recover from, but very unpleasant for the people living through it.
Whomever has control of the thing likely has the biggest gun, which also counts as a factor.
But it seems obvious you would build multiple smaller ones so the US can have their own as can Europe. Building one huge thing generating more power than all of humanity needs at the moment (though I promise if you supply a billion times more energy than we currently use, we will use it all very quickly).
In the exact same way that solar power is considered renewable, and hyrdo power is considered renewable, and wood burning power is considered renewable.
Yes when the sun comes to the end of its life all of those stop. But there are bigger issues at that point...
It's what happens when you have an offense that is easy to commit huge numbers of times. Such as sending spam, or serving files.
If I jaywalked in Las Vegas 31 times the maximum penalty would be larger than the maximum penalty for battery with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm.
That says nothing about how many jaywalks are considered equivalent to beating someone with a crowbar, it's just what happens when you multiply. When you can commit the millions of times then clearly the penalties are going to reach insane levels.
So what do you think the fine for a single spam email should be? If it's $0.003 then sending as many as this guy did will give you a higher fine than the one for the battery/deadly weapon/substantial bodily harm I mentioned (though that's ignoring the jail time option and just taking the maximum fine).
What idiots where making jokes about Canadian dollars being worth more than US dollars when the US dollar was at its all time high against the Canadian dollar?
Given the 180,000 year estimate you have 179,977 years to work on the tech for 0.92c travel and still get there faster than launching with current tech now...
Games using dx10 are a niche, and gamers likely upgrade more often than the average anyway.
64 bits is meaningless. We are talking about running a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a web browser. The user doesn't care how many bits are used for addressing.
As I said in another post I like Windows 7 - I use it on my new laptop and my new PC. Those improvements aren't significant enough to get me to upgrade existing machines though.
US debt is popular because international trade is done in US dollars and you might as well earn some interest on the holdings you have to have in order to play that game. And a US treasury is exactly equivalent to a US dollar since the US would print money to pay off those debts before they defaulted - hence no additional risk.
Yes US treasuries are considered the safest debt in the world, but these things move slowly and the world hasn't woken up to the fact that the US can't possibly pay back all that debt without nuking its economy.
It's a self fulfilling cycle, US debt is trusted and hence a country that wants to be able to borrow money, etc will make sure to keep US treasuries/dollars in its foriegn reserves. That in turn pushes up the perceived value of those items. But that works in reverse once things start going south. And the US dollar isn't exactly worth what it used to be....
Sure it's safe as long as someone else buys the next rollover issue. There's a name for such a setup, where the only way to pay back current holders is by bringing in additional holders.
debt-to-GDP is irrelevant, because GDP counts things which are not "P" - and the US has a whole bunch of those.
And no it doesn't matter that you have the world's biggest economy, the most manufacturing, most R&D, and so on. The UK was in the boat not that long ago. The USSR was a super power even more recently. Things change. Sure right now the US is King, but the topic isn't about right now.
I'm also assuming the US isn't evil enough to use it's military to hold the rest of the world hostage. That would obviously change things, but I don't think the US people are built that way.
If the debt fueled currency manipulation system collapses tomorrow. China is far better off that the US - it would suck for both of them.
What is the difference to China in any of the following:
* Ship goods to the US in exchange for dollars which are converted to. The government then prints some local currency and buys treasuries with it to keep the exchange rate where they want it.
* The government prints some local currency and exchanges that directly fore the goods, which are then dumped in the ocean.
* The local consumers consume the produts of the factories.
Yes the Russian economic collapse really sucked for the holders of Russian bonds. But it sucked more for Russians.
China knows that US debt is garbage, they just can't see an easy way off the merry-go-round yet. Note that while the US is the main destination of Chinese exports, it's not the only one. It accounts for 25% of Chinese exports, and while that's a mighty big chunk China is still fine right now after seeing a 16% decline in exports last year.
Their ads are hilarious. "With the price of gold rising we won't be able to offer this deal for long" - when said $100 coin has $0.50 of gold plating on it...
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Maybe you consider the other guy to be a child molestor. Maybe you consider the other guy to be a bigger thief. Maybe you consider the other guy to be equally thiefy and this guy better in other aspects.
Maybe you don't think being thief is such a bad thing in the first place?
Give it a few years, you'll be wishing for that deflationary death spiral.
Have you not noticed the USD making a record low against one currency or another on a daily basis?
Yes, Britain kept slavery in some places when it initially banned slavery everywhere else. But it banned it in those places *before* America passed the 13th Amendment.
Segregation is a different issue entirely, though the US wasn't exactly on the cutting edge of getting rid of that either :)
You have no idea what would have happened, but you "know for a fact" that slavery could not have ended a day sooner if the British had stayed in power?
That seems just a tad contradictory.
Yes he claimed that the British would have liked to keep the colonies - and I'm pretty sure no one is going to argue against that claim, they did fight a war over them after all.
Yes he claimed that some people would have been better off under British rule in the 19th century - the truth of that is far more debatable, but the truth or falsehood is irrelevant anyway.
But you can't take those two claims and come up with "the motivation for the British to keep the colonies was because the natives and the blacks and the poor to be better off". There was no claim that one was the motivation for the other.
That winners tend to write history is also not exactly and earth shattering claim. And of course the US whitewashes their revolution and ignores the parts that don't fit the narrative they want. Nothing wrong with that, everyone does it. It doesn't have anything to do with the motivations of the British anyway, and more to do with whether the American Revolution was just another power switch from one set of rich white guys to another set of rich white guys or something greater.
Personally, I'm going with greater. The Great American Expirement has been wonderful for the entire world. Sure people complain about their crappy movies and love for violence and hatred of sexuality. But their contribution to liberty really can't be understated, and that the US itseld has moved backwards on it doesn't reduce the contribution itself.
So you know for a fact that without the American Revolution salvery would not have been abolished in America a day sooner?
Do you happen to know the winning lottery numbers for next week as well?
Saying that some group would have been better off if X happened. Does not make any claim that the reason for doing X was to make that group better off. It doesn't even imply such a thing.
It's just a side effect with absolutely nothing to do with motivations.
No one has claimed that salvery had anything to do with britain wanting to keep some colonies. You are just building a straw man
Pollution of common resources - the factory that pours toxic smoke into the air with no market repercussions since they are an exporter and hence their customers are far away and don't know or care. Externalities in general really.
And said schmuck only bought them because the Fed held interest rates at ridiculously low levels forcing larger risks to be taken to get any any worthwhile return. And at the same time had a wink-wink promise to bail everything out via the Greenspan put if things went south.
The claim that "the British empire wanted to keep the 13 colonies in oder to improve the lives of poor, Blacks, and Native Americans" was never made, so ascribing it to someone else seems just a little ridiculous.
Britain abolished slavery decades before the United States, so clearly there's one group who would have been better off under British rule.
and please don't ever try and teach a medical class
Or your local throttles torrents.
Or you want to set it to download something on a slow torrent that will take a day or two, and then download it to your local in 2 hours later.
Or you don't want your local IP in getting seen doing the downloading.
An "unbricking" feature could have that as a side effect though - if the new OS didn't do whatever the "unbricker" is looking for to indicate it booted ok.
Though any such implementation that doesn't involve pushing a physical "reset device" button while turning it on (and having that button be one of those PITA to press watch setting style things) is playing with fire.
I'm not saying the US is going to cease to exist. Germany is still an economic powerhouse even after it's inflationary woes between the wars. Argentina is doing fine after it's more recent inflationary woes. The Netherlands still exists, sure it isn't exactly a world economic power anymore, but it's people have a great standard of living. Same with France.
The government debt levels of the US aren't really the issue anyway, that just puts the US at more risk of external factors. Japan was (and is) in a very different situation, they're high domestic savings rate makes a big difference.
The problem for the US is that you can't sustain an economy on debt fueled consumption forever. At some point you have to pay back those debts, which means producing and saving instead of consuming. The US has the benefit that those debts are in US dollars which they can issue as much of as they like, so they can print their way out. But for the people in the US that "solution" is possibly worse than defaulting...
Yes the US can get out of this reasonably easily, the politicians just need to let the debt unwind and the standard of living plummet for a time. But that doesn't win them the next election so that seems an unlikely choice. They can keep kicking the can down the road so the next guy gets to have the problem, but at some point you reach a tipping point and can't delay it any further (for the US that happens if foreigners get spooked enough to get out of treasuries for whatever stupid trigger reason).
They have been doing the exact opposite recently, actively trying to stop debt from being reduced. And that tipping point has to be getting close. Of course I'm *really* bad at picking such points - I expected the US housing bubble to crash in 04 since it was clearly at ridiculous levels, but it was only half way done inflating...
SS and Medicare are a different issue, since that is internal debt. But there's no way the government can ever meet the payments on those in the future. Either they cut back those benefits or they have to run up yet more huge foreign debts (or print of course).
I might be wrong on all of that of course, smarter people than me disagree with me after all. But I really think we are at the "could crash suddenly and completely overnight" point with respects to the US economy - though we could stay on that edge for 20 years of course. And I don't see the politicians doing anything to turn around. I am still in the US so clearly I don't expect the end of civilization as we know it or anything. Just a Russian style collapse - which is simple enough to recover from, but very unpleasant for the people living through it.
Whomever has control of the thing likely has the biggest gun, which also counts as a factor.
But it seems obvious you would build multiple smaller ones so the US can have their own as can Europe. Building one huge thing generating more power than all of humanity needs at the moment (though I promise if you supply a billion times more energy than we currently use, we will use it all very quickly).
In the exact same way that solar power is considered renewable, and hyrdo power is considered renewable, and wood burning power is considered renewable.
Yes when the sun comes to the end of its life all of those stop. But there are bigger issues at that point...
It's what happens when you have an offense that is easy to commit huge numbers of times. Such as sending spam, or serving files.
If I jaywalked in Las Vegas 31 times the maximum penalty would be larger than the maximum penalty for battery with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm.
That says nothing about how many jaywalks are considered equivalent to beating someone with a crowbar, it's just what happens when you multiply. When you can commit the millions of times then clearly the penalties are going to reach insane levels.
So what do you think the fine for a single spam email should be? If it's $0.003 then sending as many as this guy did will give you a higher fine than the one for the battery/deadly weapon/substantial bodily harm I mentioned (though that's ignoring the jail time option and just taking the maximum fine).
What idiots where making jokes about Canadian dollars being worth more than US dollars when the US dollar was at its all time high against the Canadian dollar?
Given the 180,000 year estimate you have 179,977 years to work on the tech for 0.92c travel and still get there faster than launching with current tech now...
Games using dx10 are a niche, and gamers likely upgrade more often than the average anyway.
64 bits is meaningless. We are talking about running a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a web browser. The user doesn't care how many bits are used for addressing.
As I said in another post I like Windows 7 - I use it on my new laptop and my new PC. Those improvements aren't significant enough to get me to upgrade existing machines though.
US debt is popular because international trade is done in US dollars and you might as well earn some interest on the holdings you have to have in order to play that game. And a US treasury is exactly equivalent to a US dollar since the US would print money to pay off those debts before they defaulted - hence no additional risk.
Yes US treasuries are considered the safest debt in the world, but these things move slowly and the world hasn't woken up to the fact that the US can't possibly pay back all that debt without nuking its economy.
It's a self fulfilling cycle, US debt is trusted and hence a country that wants to be able to borrow money, etc will make sure to keep US treasuries/dollars in its foriegn reserves. That in turn pushes up the perceived value of those items. But that works in reverse once things start going south. And the US dollar isn't exactly worth what it used to be....
Sure it's safe as long as someone else buys the next rollover issue. There's a name for such a setup, where the only way to pay back current holders is by bringing in additional holders.
debt-to-GDP is irrelevant, because GDP counts things which are not "P" - and the US has a whole bunch of those.
And no it doesn't matter that you have the world's biggest economy, the most manufacturing, most R&D, and so on. The UK was in the boat not that long ago. The USSR was a super power even more recently. Things change. Sure right now the US is King, but the topic isn't about right now.
I'm also assuming the US isn't evil enough to use it's military to hold the rest of the world hostage. That would obviously change things, but I don't think the US people are built that way.
Erythema ab igne.
If the debt fueled currency manipulation system collapses tomorrow. China is far better off that the US - it would suck for both of them.
What is the difference to China in any of the following:
* Ship goods to the US in exchange for dollars which are converted to. The government then prints some local currency and buys treasuries with it to keep the exchange rate where they want it.
* The government prints some local currency and exchanges that directly fore the goods, which are then dumped in the ocean.
* The local consumers consume the produts of the factories.
Yes the Russian economic collapse really sucked for the holders of Russian bonds. But it sucked more for Russians.
China knows that US debt is garbage, they just can't see an easy way off the merry-go-round yet. Note that while the US is the main destination of Chinese exports, it's not the only one. It accounts for 25% of Chinese exports, and while that's a mighty big chunk China is still fine right now after seeing a 16% decline in exports last year.
Now might be a good time to up those meds.
Their ads are hilarious. "With the price of gold rising we won't be able to offer this deal for long" - when said $100 coin has $0.50 of gold plating on it...