Dear idiot who went to Malaysia so you could live well working for for peanuts: You are fucking everyone else you left behind, by lowering their wages a bit, and if you come back you will find a much worse country. I assume you are working from Malaysia with US clients, of course, not Malaysian clients who wouldn't pay for $10/hour if that what it takes to live a king there. You are doing it backwards.
He's happy, therefore he's not doing it backwards. What, is he supposed to live some completely different lifestyle than he'd prefer just to please someone like you who calls him names?
I gather that this happens to Chinese people in a lot of places. Many people in Dominica, where I've lived, harbour mixed feelings about the Taiwanese who live there and tend to do well because they're frugal and work hard.
Came here to check this. It's the only thing about the pope worth caring about, is he still going to support bigotry and overpopulation (as in the creation of the very same starving kids he will later cry about) or not?
Aaaand the answer's yes:-(
Well, big yes on bigotry, but I've read he's slightly less regressive than the more recent guys when it comes to using contrceptive methods to prevent disease transmission.
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I heard this guy is the logical choice, since who better than an Argentinian to offer sanctuary to a German with human rights abuse issues?
It's permitted whenever it reads well. It's a myth that one cannot start a sentence with "and" or "but", just as it's a myth that split infinitives are categorically forbidden.
It's a fair observation that my single anecdote is not "data". But if we look at data, are we really going to see that these sorts of issues happen equally often between the two? Believe me, I don't want to defend closed source OSes, and this sort of thing obviously isn't a dealbreaker or else I'd have switched back. But it's a big problem, and not acknowledging it won't get us anywhere.
You may not like that they count stuff that tourists buy, but I think the article's use of "export" is pretty standard. Besides, such goods have to count as exports since they also count as imports when those retailers bring them in.
When you say "your", I don't know whose civil ideology you're talking about, but I don't accept the legitimacy of the multiple different information monopolies that get lumped together as "intellectual propery", so it's clearly not me. But we're not talking should and shouldn't, we're talking is and isn't, and besides, if you take a closer look at the charts in that article you'll see that the sum of royalties from such things wasn't the majority of the value of the services category anyway.
I love using linux, I've used it exclusively for three or four years now. I have my whole family using it, and when it works, it's a great experience. But everything you said here is the truth. Recently an Ubuntu update, one that should have been trivial, killed off my wifi in a way that took me hours to fix. Bullshit like that is unthinkable on Windows, and until it's just as unthinkable for us, the year of linux on the desktop will never, ever come.
you know...we really need to just stop...sweep EVERYONE out of Washington, no one in office can come back to it, and start over. Maybe then we'd have a chance going forward for a bit without all the crap that is currently entrenched in DC.
Or, sweep everyone out of office and don't replace them. Seriously, what really, truly needs to be done that can't possibly be done at the state level? I mean, even for those people who want government to do a lot, why does it have to happen centrally?
Just start over with a whole new crowd with no one having seniority, no power clicks...etc. It is too bad that there was no periodic "clean the house" type provision in the Constitution where every few decades...whoosh, everyone there is out and must be replaced.
That's like clearing all the weeds out of your yard and then planting more so that you just have to do it again next year. The solution isn't to replace those holding political power, the solution is for there to be less political power in the first place.
That's a fair question. On the face of it, one would think it best to discount anything that anyone who's ever been near an oil company has to say on the matter. But the counter argument is that there's an awful lot of grant money out there, and it doesn't go to those who don't support AGW as incontrovertable.
Another consideration is that in academia, the coin of the realm is the ability to publish. Those in this field know that if their research supports AGW, it's publishable, but if it doesn't, it's not. (I've spent ten years in academia, which is the main reason I find it so difficult to accept what academics say at face value, especially the louder they say it. This is true even when they say something with which my normal inclination would be to agree.)
So that takes me back to where I started: having good reason not to trust all of the noisy advocates for either side. But they say actions speak louder than words, and in that sense I'm in good shape, since as a vegan my carbon footprint is smaller than most of those who think I must be a shill for the Koch brothers just for asking these sorts of questions. I'm amazed how often some of the loudest people "for the environment!!!!1!" aren't willing to take those sorts of meaningful steps on its behalf. Oh well.
Do you seriously believe that all the people showing up to campaign "for the environment!" really understand the scientific arguments and aren't just faithfully following their own choice of experts? That's part of my problem here -- to me, both sides act very similarly.
This is why working from home can be challenging for those people whose family members think, "Oh, you're here anyway, so it's not a big deal if I ask you a quick question or ask you to do some quick task."
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Wait, you mean send engineer units in to clean up the polluted squares?
Dear idiot who went to Malaysia so you could live well working for for peanuts: You are fucking everyone else you left behind, by lowering their wages a bit, and if you come back you will find a much worse country. I assume you are working from Malaysia with US clients, of course, not Malaysian clients who wouldn't pay for $10/hour if that what it takes to live a king there. You are doing it backwards.
He's happy, therefore he's not doing it backwards. What, is he supposed to live some completely different lifestyle than he'd prefer just to please someone like you who calls him names?
I gather that this happens to Chinese people in a lot of places. Many people in Dominica, where I've lived, harbour mixed feelings about the Taiwanese who live there and tend to do well because they're frugal and work hard.
further, linguistic convergence argues for language being close to 100,000 years old,
Language at all, or the most recent language common to all those that survive?
I don't think he was disagreeing with any of that, other than that you seem to use "steal" to mean things that it doesn't actually mean.
Came here to check this. It's the only thing about the pope worth caring about, is he still going to support bigotry and overpopulation (as in the creation of the very same starving kids he will later cry about) or not?
Aaaand the answer's yes :-(
Well, big yes on bigotry, but I've read he's slightly less regressive than the more recent guys when it comes to using contrceptive methods to prevent disease transmission.
I heard this guy is the logical choice, since who better than an Argentinian to offer sanctuary to a German with human rights abuse issues?
Hell, I know someone who would get along fine if their computer did nothing but Facebook, let alone the rest of the web.
"Announcing... the Facebookbook!"
Those devious Minbari have thought of everything....
It'd be kind of ironic to be a bonehead when it isn't really bone....
It's permitted whenever it reads well. It's a myth that one cannot start a sentence with "and" or "but", just as it's a myth that split infinitives are categorically forbidden.
He's going for a Ph.D. Those are the kind of people that are good at making an impact.
Some, for sure. But having spent ten years on staff at various colleges and universities, I can't agree with this categorically.
Democracy is considered good, even in the Middle East, although elements of the local culture and religion can make that problematic.
If American policy makers actually believed this, they'd have recognised Somaliland sometime in the last decade or so.
It's a fair observation that my single anecdote is not "data". But if we look at data, are we really going to see that these sorts of issues happen equally often between the two? Believe me, I don't want to defend closed source OSes, and this sort of thing obviously isn't a dealbreaker or else I'd have switched back. But it's a big problem, and not acknowledging it won't get us anywhere.
You may not like that they count stuff that tourists buy, but I think the article's use of "export" is pretty standard. Besides, such goods have to count as exports since they also count as imports when those retailers bring them in.
When you say "your", I don't know whose civil ideology you're talking about, but I don't accept the legitimacy of the multiple different information monopolies that get lumped together as "intellectual propery", so it's clearly not me. But we're not talking should and shouldn't, we're talking is and isn't, and besides, if you take a closer look at the charts in that article you'll see that the sum of royalties from such things wasn't the majority of the value of the services category anyway.
What a obviously stupid thing to say. The U.S. exported over $2 trillion worth of goods and services last year.
I love using linux, I've used it exclusively for three or four years now. I have my whole family using it, and when it works, it's a great experience. But everything you said here is the truth. Recently an Ubuntu update, one that should have been trivial, killed off my wifi in a way that took me hours to fix. Bullshit like that is unthinkable on Windows, and until it's just as unthinkable for us, the year of linux on the desktop will never, ever come.
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Disagree with me all you want, I know mine is an unpopular position. But flamebait? Not so, and you know it.
you know...we really need to just stop...sweep EVERYONE out of Washington, no one in office can come back to it, and start over. Maybe then we'd have a chance going forward for a bit without all the crap that is currently entrenched in DC.
Or, sweep everyone out of office and don't replace them. Seriously, what really, truly needs to be done that can't possibly be done at the state level? I mean, even for those people who want government to do a lot, why does it have to happen centrally?
Just start over with a whole new crowd with no one having seniority, no power clicks...etc. It is too bad that there was no periodic "clean the house" type provision in the Constitution where every few decades...whoosh, everyone there is out and must be replaced.
That's like clearing all the weeds out of your yard and then planting more so that you just have to do it again next year. The solution isn't to replace those holding political power, the solution is for there to be less political power in the first place.
That's a fair question. On the face of it, one would think it best to discount anything that anyone who's ever been near an oil company has to say on the matter. But the counter argument is that there's an awful lot of grant money out there, and it doesn't go to those who don't support AGW as incontrovertable.
Another consideration is that in academia, the coin of the realm is the ability to publish. Those in this field know that if their research supports AGW, it's publishable, but if it doesn't, it's not. (I've spent ten years in academia, which is the main reason I find it so difficult to accept what academics say at face value, especially the louder they say it. This is true even when they say something with which my normal inclination would be to agree.)
So that takes me back to where I started: having good reason not to trust all of the noisy advocates for either side. But they say actions speak louder than words, and in that sense I'm in good shape, since as a vegan my carbon footprint is smaller than most of those who think I must be a shill for the Koch brothers just for asking these sorts of questions. I'm amazed how often some of the loudest people "for the environment!!!!1!" aren't willing to take those sorts of meaningful steps on its behalf. Oh well.
Do you seriously believe that all the people showing up to campaign "for the environment!" really understand the scientific arguments and aren't just faithfully following their own choice of experts? That's part of my problem here -- to me, both sides act very similarly.
Fair enough. My family units are clearly less well trained than yours.
This is why working from home can be challenging for those people whose family members think, "Oh, you're here anyway, so it's not a big deal if I ask you a quick question or ask you to do some quick task."
Just tell people you put the "sexy" in "dyslexia".
Sadly, no, we're not.
That is all.