the problem with centrally planned price ceilings is that they tend to ignore economic reality and if they happen to be too low in at least some areas, you can expect shortages of things affected by them. The Hippocratic oath takes you only so far when the doctor has $200k to repay.
Lol, insurance used to be very affordable before the govt included health care in tax deductions for employers but not for employees. That alone killed the transparency because there is no market for individuals. That means nobody in the whole system gives a fuck how much things cost. Healthcare user, as long as he has one, doesn't care because he doesn't see the bills, employer doesn't care because it's not his health, hospitals don't care either as it's in their best interest to inflate the costs, so who is supposed to put a downward pressure on prices? Any 3rd party payment system based on spending someone else's money is prone to suffer from overuse and cost inflation. Yes, in theory it's employee's money because it's his compensation but the difference stems from the fact that the employee doesn't have to kiss the dollars in his possession goodbye. Out of sight, out of mind. If it all happens beyond the curtain, he doesn't feel the money was ever his.
Also insurance is about risk management, but in the current form it's far from that. Huge chunk of the cost is about trivial 'maintenance', yearly checkups, flu, etc. These things should be paid out of pocket and you insurance in the meaning of the word should cover only disasters. Recurring costs 100% certain to happen have nothing to do with risk management. Yes, for that reason insurance is a lousy model in case of preexisting conditions but trying to fit a square peg into a round hole as the ACA tries to do won't work and expect to see increases in prices across the board.
if your right is dependent on taxes then it's not a right. If you land on a uninhabited island and there is no state, your 'right' to a tax funded food disappears but you still have your self-ownership, right to speech, right to be happy, right to provide yourself with means of survival. What about natural disasters? same deal - people cut off from the rest of the world, no food on the store shelves, no water in taps... Suddenly the right to food goes poof. Call these things perks of civilization or whatever but don't mistake them for true rights which don't go away if you are alone and when the weather is bad.
and if you asked a guy before invention of the computer, what would he reply to this? Subsistence agriculture --> Organized agriculture --> Mechanized agriculture --> Industrial revolution --> Assembly-line factories --> Corporate paper pushing jobs -->... ?
and if you asked someone from before the age of coal and oil, what he would reply to this? Subsistence agriculture --> Organized agriculture -->... ?
The point is the future is generally unknown but it happens anyway.
Not quite, the real issue is human beings are becoming superfluous to the economy.
no they don't because they are involved on both sides of equation. The economy is still about fulfilling human needs, automation for the sake of it doesn't make any sense. Either way the automation that decreases the value of human labor has a theoretical cap imposed by the absolute minimum cost of living. Behind every automation there is a profit motive and there is 0 return to the capital investment when people have 0 disposable income per capita. Yes, the job market will change, but there always has to be somebody that generates net purchasing power - in other words it's impossible to automate all jobs and in reality automation will stop being introduced long before that point because real world inefficiencies and friction.
Minimum wage way above the clearing price of labor is what accelerates the process, because the deal is simple: automation and labor compete, by increasing the price of labor you are doing automation a favor.
There are also negative effects to the scale past some optimal point and i'd argue many incumbent companies are already there. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Economies_of_scale.PNG/330px-Economies_of_scale.PNG Big companies require more levels of hierarchy which means more loss of information and more delay when data and orders travel back and forth between the lowest and the highest one. Small player being closer to the customers can recognize an untapped niche that will go entirely unnoticed by big players, or maybe considered too small to bother. Also huge companies are like Titanic, too clumsy and too inert to avoid hitting the iceberg. And look at nature, there are big animals and there are small ones. And when there is a huge shift in conditions, it's the big ones that are more likely to go the way of the dinosaurs.
The US having a strong economy built by a thriving middle class isn't "privilege" and the ten sods elsewhere only got the jobs because of labor arbitrage with the US. If the US didn't have a strong economy in the first place, those ten sods would be in the exact same position they were before globalization.
American exceptionalism at its finest. That privilege was built in big part by the WW2 leveling other industrial powers, the US being the architect of the world order as the winner after that, the Bretton Woods system and by countless sweetheart deals with puppet dictators mounted by the CIA around the world and ripping the native populace off. I have no doubt having a substantial headstart and sucking up majority of world resources for your own use can create a thriving middle class... but that was nothing more than a fluke. And who gives a shit why and how their jobs are created, free trade is all about arbitrage and competitive advantage. If cheap labor is their advantage, so be it.
Once the US economy has tanked, those people will be back where they started. Their jobs are fueled entirely by US consumption, not egalitarian righteousness.
while the global economy would tank a bit, dream on. They were in the business of subsistence farming, now they have productive capacity of real stuff (you on the other hand not so much) and generate substantial internal demand. If the US was the absolute center of the world, american companies wouldn't try to get a foothold in China markets one after another.
The privilege seems to fall more to the sods who expect other countries to disassemble their economies so that they can have jobs instead of building their own economy from within.
I doubt lowly peons in those countries expect anything, YOU will continue to do it yourselves in the name of profits and cheaper shit while complaining about it.
good luck with that. If you think job market is shitty now, just wait to see what happens when automation of minimum wage jobs really takes off. Machines are in direct competition with organic labor, by drastically increasing minimum wage so it becomes 'livable' you only incentivize more automation even faster and even more unemployment on the low end. I don't think this was the goal of your wishful thinking.
shipping jobs overseas was inevitable. In any given industry it takes one competitor to drastically reduce costs to make others follow, if they don't do that they are done as they lose all their market share. You could say the consumers were equally guilty - instead of 'better' or 'american' they voted with their dollars for 'cheaper'.
Trade exists because of imbalance, you make profit by tapping into inequality and making it work for you, just like you tap into the difference of electric potential to make the lightbulb do its thing. Globalization removed the friction of doing business with the other side of the globe. Sorry that it popped the bubble of privilege the US enjoyed for so long but one job shipped abroad has given jobs to 10 poor sods elsewhere, rising the global standard of living. You still have your consolation prize of being the only nation in the world that is able to export its inflation abroad because petrodollar.
ftfy It's amazing so many people have problem with these simple words. Here is how you can easily get it: affect/effect = input/output, and in both cases words are in alphabetical order!
No, they are not expected to learn more, at least not when you compare curriculum to the one that was there 20-30 years ago. In recent years there was plenty of cuts justified by 'nobody deals with it in real life' and 'we have calculators for that' and other nonsense. Most 20year olds today are clueless and borderline retarded. FFS, illustrated cash registers had to be invented because your average teen after a decade spent in school can't handle basic arithmetic, doesn't grasp the concept behind paying $10.12 for $7.62 worth of groceries and has to have pictures of coins.
Last highlight wins. Nobody took away ctrl+c, ctrl+v, you are able to highlight to replace just fine.
Highlight middleclick is a cute little feature for simple cases of "i want this thing here pasted there" without reaching to keyboard to spam ctrl+c/ctrl+v combo, nonetheless indispensable once you get used to it. If you try to come up with complex scenarios for that feature, most likely you are doing it wrong.
i did learn that xsel, xclip, xprop, xdotool and other x* cli utilities exist by reading ubuntuforums and stumbling upon threads like "how can I script copy-paste feature to paste my custom stuff". People were coming up with ways to programmatically find the correct window if that was one of requirements, load stuff into proper buffer and then trigger paste by emulating clicks/hotkeys. I played with them a bit to check them out and added them to my toolbox.
Does it suck that a lot of the arcane knowledge is spread among the masses with a relevant black-on-white documentation hard to track? Sure, but for the ordinary noob it's the same deal with windows, the only difference is there are way more people who know nifty shit about windows hacks, who can tell the noob things.
my point about android was not about middleclick paste but about 'different GUI philosophy is different'. It's like a win user complaining how hard it is to install stuff manually in linux, while the reality is that as a nooblet user you don't install things manually, there are repos for that. Repos are clearly superior but someone stuck in his old ways won't see that.
What are the rules for "current selection"? Does it include any echo of most recently, but not now highlighted? Highlighted in a windows that is the the active window?
rules: In general any selectable text in any window is good (though there are very very few exceptions and they annoy the fuck out of you when they don't work. Code::blocks, I'm looking at you). Source must exist when middleclick-paste takes place, so you can't deselect (i think) or close before pasting somewhere else. Clipboard managers modify default behavior and add more persistence to the copied content. Voila.
If you want to understand how these buffers work, install xsel and use xsel -po/-so/-bo to print out contents of primary/secondary/clipboard buffer while toying with highlight-middleclick paste and/or ctrl C/ctrl V (ctrl+shift+C/ctrl+shift+V in case of terminal). You can even put your own things there with xsel -pi/-si/-bi which allows for nifty hacks like 'i want to press a hotkey and have it automagically load a contents of a given text file to the buffer so i can paste shit left and right'. With xdotool you can achieve automagical paste too, eg send paste signal to the system with xdotool key ctrl+v or xdotool click 2.
1. It's not rocket science to figure out and it's very convenient so stop whining and harness the power of this feature 2. Somehow windows users have no problem with different GUI when poking their android smartphones so why do their switch their flexibility muscle off when seeing desktop linux?
dude, did you really give Chernobyl as an example of corporate screwup? I mean really? And do you really think that in state owned coal mines in the Soviet block there were no accidents ever? By that logic deadly accidents in military are unheard of and I am pretty sure that's not the case.
the key difference is laptops are big, heavy and unwieldy and nobody likes to lug them around for the sake of it. Since you are going to have a smartphone with you at all times either way, why not give it even more utility? Most people don't have elaborate needs that require full blown PC monster, but would love to have access to all their shit wherever they go. If the phone can provide that, great.
not going to argue for or against, but your comparison is wrong. If you consider wind and sun free, then you should also consider coal and oil free. Just like you have to extract the fossil fuels, you need to spend energy and resources to tap into the wind and solar sources to make any use of them. Don't you have to mine for all these rare earths to make panels and use a shitload of concrete to litter the landscape with towers?
And since college-educated people earn more money and thus pay more taxes, you're entirely right: tax-funded education is not free, it's a net earner.
citation needed. College attendance at record levels didn't improve the world economy that much. Never in history of the world there were so many students and we are in the middle of a downturn of epic proportions with unprecedented unemployment among the young. Apparently higher ed is not a silver bullet you think it is.
The reality is there are severe diminishing returns to education. There are only so many jobs that truly require a degree. Huge chunk of graduates don't work in their fields, which pretty much means they didn't really need their degree in the first place, except for getting though the HR. That's a bit expensive solution to the signaling problem. Most people study only to party for few years, star in CollegeGirlsGoneWind 'documentaries' and are as emptyheaded after as they were before. If you are a retard after the high school, after 12 years of schooling, no amount of university classes will change that, it's too late for you.
If their governments pay for college out of tax money it's because the citizens who pay said taxes are okay with it.
democracy is a tyranny of majority so it's not all roses. 49% have no say how their money will be spent if 51% says so. Also in reality democracy works for 1 day in 4 years, for the remaining 4*365.25-1 govt does whatever it wants. If the US govt spends a lot of money on spying on its own citizens and on blowing up brown people around the world, are the citizens totally cool with it?
it wouldn't create any congestion. On roads congestion happens because every single human driver with his pathetic reflexes adds 1s delay. If the cars are comp controlled and programmed for the same V(x), interval between cars would be constant for each x.
This is good health policy. "There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%." - WHO (http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/)
bull-fucking-shit. The study 'proving' that is widely criticized for being botched, eg people who got circumsized were also taught some sex ed, while uncircumsized guys were left to their devices. Besides, all the benefits vanish if people fuck twice as much and don't bother with rubber because they think they are safe. Hell, down there they still think rubber is not necessary if you can find a virgin or 2.
Dowsett et al. urged caution over using circumcision as a HIV prevention strategy saying that there were still questions that needed to be answered: "We need to investigate the effects of those other social and contextual factors that will be in play in real world settings – because the effectiveness of male circumcision will not be generated by the efficacy of the surgery alone." He contrasts the preventative effect of circumcision taken from the RCT's (55%) with the preventative effect of condoms (80-90%). He criticises the fact that the trials were not double-blinded - the participants knew their circumcision status and so this could have affected how the men responded behaviourally, psychologically and sexually. He criticised the randomisation measures used in the trial: sexual practices (number of partners, condom use) and sexual health measures (presence of STIs), saying that "Effective measures were not used, and differences related to sexual subjectivity, such as sexual network participation, pleasure preferences, body image, sexual history effects (e.g. abuse), partner preferences (younger, older, peers, groups) and so on were never assessed or analysed." He also asks how the extensive counselling and education might have influenced the participants' sexual activity. He adds that "all participants were subject to regular monitoring (e.g. behaviour surveys, clinical check-ups), which clearly might have enhanced compliance with suggested safety regimes and lowered risk-taking during the follow-up period. Such compliance cannot be guaranteed in real world settings." He also said the trials were subject to the Hawthorne effect.[23]
not to mention that if you found by chance that circumcision of females cures cancer and solves the problem of world hunger you'd still get feminists and UN screaming bloody murder and how women have a right to bodily autonomy. Cutting dicks by millions? No problem.
how do you define 3rd party? different domain? NoScript has an option to allow by default: - http://www.currentwebsite.com/ - www.currentwebsite.com - currentwebsite.com
you will still have to whitelist shit, some websites don't work at all without 5 different 3rd party domains.
these vocal minorities apparently vote (which is how you get the shit done in democratic countries) which can't be said about the enlightened rest. If it's the word you are so attached to I hope you are fine with the fact that the word alone slows the progress 50% because you are wasting time over a fucking definition.
All i am saying is that it doesn't matter that marriage existed in dozen different forms in 50 'pagan' cultures. The West is Christian for 2 thousand years, all other forms were extinguished and what the state finally recognized for its non-religious purposes was the only existing form of marriage, the Christian one. Common folk hearing 'marriage' think 'i now announce you husband and wife' marriage in church, before God and shit and many of them vote along these lines. If you had 100% socially liberal society there would be no problem but the reality on the planet Earth is that to change things you have to route around hardcore traditionalists who vote en masse.
There is that thing called continuity. If you can convince all the religious hardcores to discard all the existing laws we got a deal. But that is much harder than coming up with a parallel form with another name.
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the problem with centrally planned price ceilings is that they tend to ignore economic reality and if they happen to be too low in at least some areas, you can expect shortages of things affected by them. The Hippocratic oath takes you only so far when the doctor has $200k to repay.
Lol, insurance used to be very affordable before the govt included health care in tax deductions for employers but not for employees. That alone killed the transparency because there is no market for individuals. That means nobody in the whole system gives a fuck how much things cost. Healthcare user, as long as he has one, doesn't care because he doesn't see the bills, employer doesn't care because it's not his health, hospitals don't care either as it's in their best interest to inflate the costs, so who is supposed to put a downward pressure on prices?
Any 3rd party payment system based on spending someone else's money is prone to suffer from overuse and cost inflation. Yes, in theory it's employee's money because it's his compensation but the difference stems from the fact that the employee doesn't have to kiss the dollars in his possession goodbye. Out of sight, out of mind. If it all happens beyond the curtain, he doesn't feel the money was ever his.
Also insurance is about risk management, but in the current form it's far from that. Huge chunk of the cost is about trivial 'maintenance', yearly checkups, flu, etc. These things should be paid out of pocket and you insurance in the meaning of the word should cover only disasters. Recurring costs 100% certain to happen have nothing to do with risk management. Yes, for that reason insurance is a lousy model in case of preexisting conditions but trying to fit a square peg into a round hole as the ACA tries to do won't work and expect to see increases in prices across the board.
if your right is dependent on taxes then it's not a right. If you land on a uninhabited island and there is no state, your 'right' to a tax funded food disappears but you still have your self-ownership, right to speech, right to be happy, right to provide yourself with means of survival. What about natural disasters? same deal - people cut off from the rest of the world, no food on the store shelves, no water in taps... Suddenly the right to food goes poof. Call these things perks of civilization or whatever but don't mistake them for true rights which don't go away if you are alone and when the weather is bad.
and if you asked a guy before invention of the computer, what would he reply to this? ... ?
Subsistence agriculture --> Organized agriculture --> Mechanized agriculture --> Industrial revolution --> Assembly-line factories --> Corporate paper pushing jobs -->
and if you asked someone from before the age of coal and oil, what he would reply to this? ... ?
Subsistence agriculture --> Organized agriculture -->
The point is the future is generally unknown but it happens anyway.
Not quite, the real issue is human beings are becoming superfluous to the economy.
no they don't because they are involved on both sides of equation. The economy is still about fulfilling human needs, automation for the sake of it doesn't make any sense.
Either way the automation that decreases the value of human labor has a theoretical cap imposed by the absolute minimum cost of living. Behind every automation there is a profit motive and there is 0 return to the capital investment when people have 0 disposable income per capita. Yes, the job market will change, but there always has to be somebody that generates net purchasing power - in other words it's impossible to automate all jobs and in reality automation will stop being introduced long before that point because real world inefficiencies and friction.
Minimum wage way above the clearing price of labor is what accelerates the process, because the deal is simple: automation and labor compete, by increasing the price of labor you are doing automation a favor.
There are also negative effects to the scale past some optimal point and i'd argue many incumbent companies are already there.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Economies_of_scale.PNG/330px-Economies_of_scale.PNG
Big companies require more levels of hierarchy which means more loss of information and more delay when data and orders travel back and forth between the lowest and the highest one. Small player being closer to the customers can recognize an untapped niche that will go entirely unnoticed by big players, or maybe considered too small to bother. Also huge companies are like Titanic, too clumsy and too inert to avoid hitting the iceberg.
And look at nature, there are big animals and there are small ones. And when there is a huge shift in conditions, it's the big ones that are more likely to go the way of the dinosaurs.
The US having a strong economy built by a thriving middle class isn't "privilege" and the ten sods elsewhere only got the jobs because of labor arbitrage with the US. If the US didn't have a strong economy in the first place, those ten sods would be in the exact same position they were before globalization.
American exceptionalism at its finest.
That privilege was built in big part by the WW2 leveling other industrial powers, the US being the architect of the world order as the winner after that, the Bretton Woods system and by countless sweetheart deals with puppet dictators mounted by the CIA around the world and ripping the native populace off. I have no doubt having a substantial headstart and sucking up majority of world resources for your own use can create a thriving middle class... but that was nothing more than a fluke.
And who gives a shit why and how their jobs are created, free trade is all about arbitrage and competitive advantage. If cheap labor is their advantage, so be it.
Once the US economy has tanked, those people will be back where they started. Their jobs are fueled entirely by US consumption, not egalitarian righteousness.
while the global economy would tank a bit, dream on. They were in the business of subsistence farming, now they have productive capacity of real stuff (you on the other hand not so much) and generate substantial internal demand.
If the US was the absolute center of the world, american companies wouldn't try to get a foothold in China markets one after another.
The privilege seems to fall more to the sods who expect other countries to disassemble their economies so that they can have jobs instead of building their own economy from within.
I doubt lowly peons in those countries expect anything, YOU will continue to do it yourselves in the name of profits and cheaper shit while complaining about it.
good luck with that.
If you think job market is shitty now, just wait to see what happens when automation of minimum wage jobs really takes off. Machines are in direct competition with organic labor, by drastically increasing minimum wage so it becomes 'livable' you only incentivize more automation even faster and even more unemployment on the low end. I don't think this was the goal of your wishful thinking.
shipping jobs overseas was inevitable. In any given industry it takes one competitor to drastically reduce costs to make others follow, if they don't do that they are done as they lose all their market share. You could say the consumers were equally guilty - instead of 'better' or 'american' they voted with their dollars for 'cheaper'.
Trade exists because of imbalance, you make profit by tapping into inequality and making it work for you, just like you tap into the difference of electric potential to make the lightbulb do its thing. Globalization removed the friction of doing business with the other side of the globe. Sorry that it popped the bubble of privilege the US enjoyed for so long but one job shipped abroad has given jobs to 10 poor sods elsewhere, rising the global standard of living. You still have your consolation prize of being the only nation in the world that is able to export its inflation abroad because petrodollar.
they can affect worker productivity.
ftfy
It's amazing so many people have problem with these simple words. Here is how you can easily get it:
affect/effect = input/output, and in both cases words are in alphabetical order!
No, they are not expected to learn more, at least not when you compare curriculum to the one that was there 20-30 years ago. In recent years there was plenty of cuts justified by 'nobody deals with it in real life' and 'we have calculators for that' and other nonsense. Most 20year olds today are clueless and borderline retarded. FFS, illustrated cash registers had to be invented because your average teen after a decade spent in school can't handle basic arithmetic, doesn't grasp the concept behind paying $10.12 for $7.62 worth of groceries and has to have pictures of coins.
Last highlight wins.
Nobody took away ctrl+c, ctrl+v, you are able to highlight to replace just fine.
Highlight middleclick is a cute little feature for simple cases of "i want this thing here pasted there" without reaching to keyboard to spam ctrl+c/ctrl+v combo, nonetheless indispensable once you get used to it. If you try to come up with complex scenarios for that feature, most likely you are doing it wrong.
i did learn that xsel, xclip, xprop, xdotool and other x* cli utilities exist by reading ubuntuforums and stumbling upon threads like "how can I script copy-paste feature to paste my custom stuff". People were coming up with ways to programmatically find the correct window if that was one of requirements, load stuff into proper buffer and then trigger paste by emulating clicks/hotkeys. I played with them a bit to check them out and added them to my toolbox.
Does it suck that a lot of the arcane knowledge is spread among the masses with a relevant black-on-white documentation hard to track? Sure, but for the ordinary noob it's the same deal with windows, the only difference is there are way more people who know nifty shit about windows hacks, who can tell the noob things.
my point about android was not about middleclick paste but about 'different GUI philosophy is different'. It's like a win user complaining how hard it is to install stuff manually in linux, while the reality is that as a nooblet user you don't install things manually, there are repos for that. Repos are clearly superior but someone stuck in his old ways won't see that.
What are the rules for "current selection"? Does it include any echo of most recently, but not now highlighted? Highlighted in a windows that is the the active window?
rules:
In general any selectable text in any window is good (though there are very very few exceptions and they annoy the fuck out of you when they don't work. Code::blocks, I'm looking at you).
Source must exist when middleclick-paste takes place, so you can't deselect (i think) or close before pasting somewhere else. Clipboard managers modify default behavior and add more persistence to the copied content.
Voila.
If you want to understand how these buffers work, install xsel and use xsel -po/-so/-bo to print out contents of primary/secondary/clipboard buffer while toying with highlight-middleclick paste and/or ctrl C/ctrl V (ctrl+shift+C/ctrl+shift+V in case of terminal).
You can even put your own things there with xsel -pi/-si/-bi which allows for nifty hacks like 'i want to press a hotkey and have it automagically load a contents of a given text file to the buffer so i can paste shit left and right'. With xdotool you can achieve automagical paste too, eg send paste signal to the system with xdotool key ctrl+v or xdotool click 2.
1. It's not rocket science to figure out and it's very convenient so stop whining and harness the power of this feature
2. Somehow windows users have no problem with different GUI when poking their android smartphones so why do their switch their flexibility muscle off when seeing desktop linux?
terminals also use ctrl+shift+c, ctrl+shift+v.
dude, did you really give Chernobyl as an example of corporate screwup? I mean really? And do you really think that in state owned coal mines in the Soviet block there were no accidents ever? By that logic deadly accidents in military are unheard of and I am pretty sure that's not the case.
the key difference is laptops are big, heavy and unwieldy and nobody likes to lug them around for the sake of it. Since you are going to have a smartphone with you at all times either way, why not give it even more utility? Most people don't have elaborate needs that require full blown PC monster, but would love to have access to all their shit wherever they go. If the phone can provide that, great.
not going to argue for or against, but your comparison is wrong. If you consider wind and sun free, then you should also consider coal and oil free. Just like you have to extract the fossil fuels, you need to spend energy and resources to tap into the wind and solar sources to make any use of them. Don't you have to mine for all these rare earths to make panels and use a shitload of concrete to litter the landscape with towers?
And since college-educated people earn more money and thus pay more taxes, you're entirely right: tax-funded education is not free, it's a net earner.
citation needed.
College attendance at record levels didn't improve the world economy that much. Never in history of the world there were so many students and we are in the middle of a downturn of epic proportions with unprecedented unemployment among the young. Apparently higher ed is not a silver bullet you think it is.
The reality is there are severe diminishing returns to education. There are only so many jobs that truly require a degree. Huge chunk of graduates don't work in their fields, which pretty much means they didn't really need their degree in the first place, except for getting though the HR. That's a bit expensive solution to the signaling problem. Most people study only to party for few years, star in CollegeGirlsGoneWind 'documentaries' and are as emptyheaded after as they were before.
If you are a retard after the high school, after 12 years of schooling, no amount of university classes will change that, it's too late for you.
If their governments pay for college out of tax money it's because the citizens who pay said taxes are okay with it.
democracy is a tyranny of majority so it's not all roses. 49% have no say how their money will be spent if 51% says so. Also in reality democracy works for 1 day in 4 years, for the remaining 4*365.25-1 govt does whatever it wants. If the US govt spends a lot of money on spying on its own citizens and on blowing up brown people around the world, are the citizens totally cool with it?
it wouldn't create any congestion. On roads congestion happens because every single human driver with his pathetic reflexes adds 1s delay.
If the cars are comp controlled and programmed for the same V(x), interval between cars would be constant for each x.
This is good health policy. "There is compelling evidence that male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men by approximately 60%." - WHO (http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/malecircumcision/en/)
bull-fucking-shit. The study 'proving' that is widely criticized for being botched, eg people who got circumsized were also taught some sex ed, while uncircumsized guys were left to their devices.
Besides, all the benefits vanish if people fuck twice as much and don't bother with rubber because they think they are safe. Hell, down there they still think rubber is not necessary if you can find a virgin or 2.
Dowsett et al. urged caution over using circumcision as a HIV prevention strategy saying that there were still questions that needed to be answered: "We need to investigate the effects of those other social and contextual factors that will be in play in real world settings – because the effectiveness of male circumcision will not be generated by the efficacy of the surgery alone." He contrasts the preventative effect of circumcision taken from the RCT's (55%) with the preventative effect of condoms (80-90%). He criticises the fact that the trials were not double-blinded - the participants knew their circumcision status and so this could have affected how the men responded behaviourally, psychologically and sexually. He criticised the randomisation measures used in the trial: sexual practices (number of partners, condom use) and sexual health measures (presence of STIs), saying that "Effective measures were not used, and differences related to sexual subjectivity, such as sexual network participation, pleasure preferences, body image, sexual history effects (e.g. abuse), partner preferences (younger, older, peers, groups) and so on were never assessed or analysed." He also asks how the extensive counselling and education might have influenced the participants' sexual activity. He adds that "all participants were subject to regular monitoring (e.g. behaviour surveys, clinical check-ups), which clearly might have enhanced compliance with suggested safety regimes and lowered risk-taking during the follow-up period. Such compliance cannot be guaranteed in real world settings." He also said the trials were subject to the Hawthorne effect.[23]
not to mention that if you found by chance that circumcision of females cures cancer and solves the problem of world hunger you'd still get feminists and UN screaming bloody murder and how women have a right to bodily autonomy. Cutting dicks by millions? No problem.
about:config > javascript.enabled
how do you define 3rd party? different domain?
NoScript has an option to allow by default:
- http://www.currentwebsite.com/
- www.currentwebsite.com
- currentwebsite.com
you will still have to whitelist shit, some websites don't work at all without 5 different 3rd party domains.
these vocal minorities apparently vote (which is how you get the shit done in democratic countries) which can't be said about the enlightened rest. If it's the word you are so attached to I hope you are fine with the fact that the word alone slows the progress 50% because you are wasting time over a fucking definition.
ask any Bible belt Christian what the definition of marriage is, because that's what he will defend and vote for, and where he got it from.
All i am saying is that it doesn't matter that marriage existed in dozen different forms in 50 'pagan' cultures. The West is Christian for 2 thousand years, all other forms were extinguished and what the state finally recognized for its non-religious purposes was the only existing form of marriage, the Christian one. Common folk hearing 'marriage' think 'i now announce you husband and wife' marriage in church, before God and shit and many of them vote along these lines.
If you had 100% socially liberal society there would be no problem but the reality on the planet Earth is that to change things you have to route around hardcore traditionalists who vote en masse.
There is that thing called continuity. If you can convince all the religious hardcores to discard all the existing laws we got a deal. But that is much harder than coming up with a parallel form with another name.