Generally, at least when I went to university, grades where running from 1 (excellent) to 6 (failed in every way imaginable and then some). Grading used to differ greatly between different fields of study. In biochemistry, my field, 2.3 would have been respectable. Good work, not brilliant, though.
And never significantly adopted, because, in the end, they were thought up as witticisms not as a prescriptive change of language. As it goes with fringe wingnuts, some on the extreme fringe of feminism and some on the extreme fringe of misogynistic wingnuttery couldn't recognize a witticism if it bit them in the arse, and for that alone, we are still discussing this.
And yet, the current levels of debt are not without precedent. What is without precedent is that a certain political group is gabbling "DEBT OMG DEBT DEBT!!!", spreading the FUD and at the same time refusing to raise taxes. Well, well, well... The strategy seems to work.
A deadlock in Congress was broken when Senator Ellison D. Smith from South Carolina sponsored the National Defense Act of 1916 that directed "the Secretary of Agriculture to manufacture nitrates for fertilizers in peace and munitions in war at water power sites designated by the President". This was presented by the news media as "guns and butter".
I'm not directly citing Marx, but he clearly set out the baseline. His analysis was mostly sound, his call to action less so. If you are interested, have a look at the works of Schumpeter - a German economist of the mid 20th century. Certainly influenced by Marx, but not ideologically bound to him. He set out a lot of the theory that was the foundation for European social democracy in the last century, before the bastards sold out...
To avoid the douchebag-y look, just wear a proper hat, no? Linen clothes, light panama hat - instant style. In addition or as alternative to the buttermilk, I'd suggest some mint tea, the kind they drink in the Maghreb. Here we go - weathering the heat without looking like an idiot.
Are you seriously suggesting that the excesses of capitalism could be avoided by deregulation to your fabled "true free market"? Cthulhu almighty, I met Muslim Fundamentalists with less severe religious hallucinations.
Capital can and will accumulate to the 0,1% with or without legal personhood - that's the whole point of Marx, in the end. What's the difference if that 0,1% are organized as corporations or as owner-led robber baronies? You are pointing at an inherent flaw of capitalism, not an inherent flaw of a sanely implemented construct of legal persons.
Yes, and I am demonstrating how to implement a working legal construct. I am perfectly aware that this construct has been eroded into an unrecognizable state in the US by now. I am pointing out that this might not be a good idea...
Any member of that corporation, as a natural person, has free speech rights. The corporation as such, as a legal person, has none. What the fuck is so hard about that? That's set legal doctrine throughout Europe for something like 150 years.
I'm sorry, guys, I generally do like you - but you have to leave it to the US to take a perfectly fine idea, choose the worst possible implementation and then declare the whole concept unworkable.
Legal personhood for corporations is perfectly fine. It is a tool that allows signing of contracts in the name of the corporation instead of the name of the CEO. That's basically all it is there for, in a sane system.
A sane system, however, recognizes the difference between legal and natural persons. Only the latter can have citizen's and human rights like free speech. Around here, in ebil socialist Europe, my country's courts wouldn't even take a case that debates something like free speech rights for corporations as such. It's a wholly different legal construct.
Why not both.... 95% of driving is crap. Get/rent/order a self-steering car for the commute, get/rent/order a minimalistic rear- or middle-engine stickshift for those 5% when you really take a fun driving tour along that mountain road.
We do have houses with a significantly higher thermal mass here in Germany, though - compare a normal brick construction, or even an old limestone building to a wood-framed construction like you see them all over the US.
Dude, your infrastructure is not shitty because you do not get bombed, it sucks arse because no one gives a flying fuck about it, at long as the profit next quarter is good.
Despite not being bombed, we quite constantly upgraded our infrastructure during the last 60 years.
And yet, here in Germany, we bury our powerlines, I have 30 days paid vacation, a bunch of public holiday, as many sick days as the doc says I need, not only perceived wealth, public transport so decent that I actually sold my car, and so on, and so on.
Regarding windstorms, we get a lot. Last weekend's thunderstorms took out several rail lines for hours and killed a couple of people by lighting strike and falling trees. Not unusual for the summer. In the late autumn, the low pressure zones from the Atlantic will start to drift in, bringing quite severe storms with them. I'd expect significant outage if we'd use more above ground cables.
The only time I had a house with above ground powerlines in Germany was when I lived in a literal one-horse town at the arse end of nowhere. Well, at least, each year I knew when the wheat harvesting season began, because, predictably, the farmer across the street would sever the powerline with his damn combine harvester, then they would string it up again at the same bloody height two days later. Until next year. Anyway, in urban environments, cables get buried. Everything else is nuts.
While it is true that different types of salt differ in texture, I'd wager a guess that particularly fleur de sel might also differ in composition, being an early fraction of a fractionated crystallization process. Any way, the difference is strikingly obvious to the palate.
Your body does build Anandamide, however, which triggers the same receptor as THC - so, instead of a THC microfab in your body, just find something to trigger anandamide release. Or, more easily, smoke a spliff...;)
Ilk. Really. Think about the historical context of his sig and what he advocates with it. Read what he continually posts. He wouldn't recognize ethics if they bit him in the arse. By traditional western values, I gather, you mean the freedom to bash gays, to get them uppity niggers back where they belong and get them goddamn bitches back in the kitchen, yes? Oh and the highest freedom of them all, the freedom to watch the poor starve in the streets, because taxes are theft, right? At least that seems to be his standpoint. If you want to associate yourself with that, feel free.
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Generally, at least when I went to university, grades where running from 1 (excellent) to 6 (failed in every way imaginable and then some). Grading used to differ greatly between different fields of study. In biochemistry, my field, 2.3 would have been respectable. Good work, not brilliant, though.
And never significantly adopted, because, in the end, they were thought up as witticisms not as a prescriptive change of language. As it goes with fringe wingnuts, some on the extreme fringe of feminism and some on the extreme fringe of misogynistic wingnuttery couldn't recognize a witticism if it bit them in the arse, and for that alone, we are still discussing this.
And yet, the current levels of debt are not without precedent. What is without precedent is that a certain political group is gabbling "DEBT OMG DEBT DEBT!!!", spreading the FUD and at the same time refusing to raise taxes. Well, well, well... The strategy seems to work.
A deadlock in Congress was broken when Senator Ellison D. Smith from South Carolina sponsored the National Defense Act of 1916 that directed "the Secretary of Agriculture to manufacture nitrates for fertilizers in peace and munitions in war at water power sites designated by the President". This was presented by the news media as "guns and butter".
(Emphasis mine)
It is, after all...
I'm not directly citing Marx, but he clearly set out the baseline. His analysis was mostly sound, his call to action less so. If you are interested, have a look at the works of Schumpeter - a German economist of the mid 20th century. Certainly influenced by Marx, but not ideologically bound to him. He set out a lot of the theory that was the foundation for European social democracy in the last century, before the bastards sold out...
You are providing a textbook example of concern trolling, whether by intention or not.
To avoid the douchebag-y look, just wear a proper hat, no? Linen clothes, light panama hat - instant style. In addition or as alternative to the buttermilk, I'd suggest some mint tea, the kind they drink in the Maghreb. Here we go - weathering the heat without looking like an idiot.
Are you seriously suggesting that the excesses of capitalism could be avoided by deregulation to your fabled "true free market"? Cthulhu almighty, I met Muslim Fundamentalists with less severe religious hallucinations.
I am aware of that. That's where the insanity lies, isn't it?
Capital can and will accumulate to the 0,1% with or without legal personhood - that's the whole point of Marx, in the end. What's the difference if that 0,1% are organized as corporations or as owner-led robber baronies? You are pointing at an inherent flaw of capitalism, not an inherent flaw of a sanely implemented construct of legal persons.
Yes, and I am demonstrating how to implement a working legal construct. I am perfectly aware that this construct has been eroded into an unrecognizable state in the US by now. I am pointing out that this might not be a good idea...
Any member of that corporation, as a natural person, has free speech rights. The corporation as such, as a legal person, has none. What the fuck is so hard about that? That's set legal doctrine throughout Europe for something like 150 years.
I'm sorry, guys, I generally do like you - but you have to leave it to the US to take a perfectly fine idea, choose the worst possible implementation and then declare the whole concept unworkable.
Legal personhood for corporations is perfectly fine. It is a tool that allows signing of contracts in the name of the corporation instead of the name of the CEO. That's basically all it is there for, in a sane system.
A sane system, however, recognizes the difference between legal and natural persons. Only the latter can have citizen's and human rights like free speech. Around here, in ebil socialist Europe, my country's courts wouldn't even take a case that debates something like free speech rights for corporations as such. It's a wholly different legal construct.
Why not both.... 95% of driving is crap. Get/rent/order a self-steering car for the commute, get/rent/order a minimalistic rear- or middle-engine stickshift for those 5% when you really take a fun driving tour along that mountain road.
The monetary side of the EU, which I agree is hellishly mismanaged at the moment, has not too much to do with burying our cables, no?
We do have houses with a significantly higher thermal mass here in Germany, though - compare a normal brick construction, or even an old limestone building to a wood-framed construction like you see them all over the US.
Dude, your infrastructure is not shitty because you do not get bombed, it sucks arse because no one gives a flying fuck about it, at long as the profit next quarter is good.
Despite not being bombed, we quite constantly upgraded our infrastructure during the last 60 years.
And yet, here in Germany, we bury our powerlines, I have 30 days paid vacation, a bunch of public holiday, as many sick days as the doc says I need, not only perceived wealth, public transport so decent that I actually sold my car, and so on, and so on.
Regarding windstorms, we get a lot. Last weekend's thunderstorms took out several rail lines for hours and killed a couple of people by lighting strike and falling trees. Not unusual for the summer. In the late autumn, the low pressure zones from the Atlantic will start to drift in, bringing quite severe storms with them. I'd expect significant outage if we'd use more above ground cables.
The only time I had a house with above ground powerlines in Germany was when I lived in a literal one-horse town at the arse end of nowhere. Well, at least, each year I knew when the wheat harvesting season began, because, predictably, the farmer across the street would sever the powerline with his damn combine harvester, then they would string it up again at the same bloody height two days later. Until next year. Anyway, in urban environments, cables get buried. Everything else is nuts.
Ah. Enlightenment. I finally get it. roman_mir is a Sith. Only they deal in absolutes. Also, evil.
While it is true that different types of salt differ in texture, I'd wager a guess that particularly fleur de sel might also differ in composition, being an early fraction of a fractionated crystallization process. Any way, the difference is strikingly obvious to the palate.
Your body does build Anandamide, however, which triggers the same receptor as THC - so, instead of a THC microfab in your body, just find something to trigger anandamide release. Or, more easily, smoke a spliff... ;)
Ilk. Really. Think about the historical context of his sig and what he advocates with it. Read what he continually posts. He wouldn't recognize ethics if they bit him in the arse. By traditional western values, I gather, you mean the freedom to bash gays, to get them uppity niggers back where they belong and get them goddamn bitches back in the kitchen, yes? Oh and the highest freedom of them all, the freedom to watch the poor starve in the streets, because taxes are theft, right? At least that seems to be his standpoint. If you want to associate yourself with that, feel free.
The translation of "intolerant monoculture" is "WAAH they won't tolerate my bigotry. I am so oppressed!"
See, this exemplifies the sort of beliefs the GOP does not want to be challenged by teaching critical thinking.