Money is *not* printed. That's the issue. In the US the federal government subsidizes bankrupt red states by borrowing and printing more money and giving it to those states to help them balance their books. The Eurozone isn't doing that for its less productive economies. Instead they're just letting Greece suffer a massive depression that has spiraled out of control.
You're right I shouldn't have started off abusively. Sorry about that.
1. Your analysis is incorrect. None of the economies in the EU are doing well. Certainly the ones that have done Austerity aren't doing any better. I know you're talking about Ireland, but that's very misleading. In reality Ireland hasn't even reached their pre-crisis GDP. That's 10 years of lost growth. Meanwhile Iceland recovered within a couple years. Greece's borrowing wouldn't be a problem if they were on their own currency. Japan's is at 300% of its GDP and they still have rock bottom interest rates.
2. Greece has a current account surplus right now. They *are* living within their means. The problem is they're in a huge recession with 25% unemployment. Their government revenue is necessarily much lower than it could potentially be because their tax base is shot. The EU is abusing their position by refusing to help Greece get its economy back on track and forcing them to repay debt "Now!" without thought to the consequences.
If Greece had their own currency none of this would be an issue. They could easily inflate their way out of this situation, increasing their exports.
3. Not being part of the EU would absolutely not cause its currency to implode. That's nonsense. They were fine while on the Drachma. They're not like Venezuela which relies entirely on oil and pegs its currency to the dollar. Their issue right now is that they're in a massive depression. Can you imagine 25% unemployment in the US? There would be riots.
As long as their currency is sovereign and not denominated in another currency they can print however much money they need to inflate their way out of debt.
The euro is a zero sum game. If one country runs a surplus, another runs a deficit. It happens in the US, but the federal government heavily subsidizes the perennially bankrupt red states.
4. Greece *should* exit the Euro. That's how their current administration, which is heavily left leaning, got elected as the previous conservative government just kept enacting austerity which exacerbated their huge economic issues. If the current group doesn't do what they were elected though, there's a nazi-like fascist group called the Golden Dawn waiting in the wing.
The Greek government is actually running a current account surplus.
What will mostly likely happen is Greece exits the Euro and defaults on their loans. They'll face high interest rates for a few years but taking Iceland as an example they'll be in *much* better shape no longer having their accounts drained by Euro debt. They'll finally be able to address their massive unemployment.
They *are* productive. Do you understand that the Euro is zero sum? If Germany runs a surplus, someone else in the Euro has to run a deficit. It's literally impossible for Greece to run an annual surplus unless they become more productive than Germany, which would then put Germany in a deficit.
Uh no. Germany has been riding on everyone else's back. They have argued against economic stimulus for years even as the Eurozone economy crashed around them. They demanded interest rates be kept high even as deflation loomed. They fought against QE even as the stock markets crashed. Their exports have been artificially boosted by the Euro. If they were running their own independent currency their exports would be much more expensive.
You're a freaking idiot. Greece is nothing like Venezuela. They've been severely hampered by the Euro, unable to enact proper monetary or fiscal stimuli to deal with their recession and 25% unemployment. Even running an account surplus the last few years they've been drained by these nonstop debt repayments, all while their export prices are artificially inflated by a strong Euro.
You don't know anything. Germany has benefited tremendously from the Euro. Having the same currency as Greece has allowed German exports to remain disproportionately cheap, and Greece's exports disproportionately expensive. Greece has actually had a major account surplus for the last few years, but it's all bring drained into paying off impossible debts. They cut into their programs to pay off debt, which leads to more unemployment, which lowers government revenue, which forces more cuts, and on and on.
It amazes me how nutty people get over "terrorists" when the roads are like a civilized version of Mad Max. People constantly die every day. Tens of thousands of lives unnecessarily lost every year just to automobile accidents. I feel like I'm the only rational person when I experience a certain apprehension every time I get behind a wheel, knowing that while racing through space in a multi ton coffin, even a small mistake could send me careening to my death.
There are a lot of things that can be done to reform prisoners and help them avoid recidivism. For that to happen however you have to actually want to help them rebuild their lives. American "justice" is more about getting revenge and punishing criminals Puritan style. No one really cares what happens afterwards.
The article says 4 hours is a lot longer than other drones out there... but how much are we talking about? How long can a lithium ion powered drone stay in the air?
Honestly this is a trend in all of TV, and to a certain extent it's really silly.
Show writers desperately want to put women in positions of power and control, essentially switching the male and female roles. Take "The 100", where literally every military (and thus population) leader of the Grounders is a female. Except... that doesn't even make sense. In what universe have women ever aspired to be military leaders? You have some native american tribes for example, where the female "healer" or "shaman" might be a clan's spiritual leader, but they put women in positions that are so diametrically opposed to how women behave in real life, it becomes a laughably unrealistic scenario.
I mentioned this in another thread, but other shows like "The Flash" depicts every single fracking woman as a supersmart, unmatched computer or mechanical engineer, programmer, physics whiz, etc. What universe does this show even take place? When was the last time you saw more than a tiny fraction of women showing interest or excelling in something like engineering or computer programming? Heck in "The 100" the best mechanic to grace the Sky People in 52 years is a young woman named Raven. Really??? My university had something like 95% male engineers, 5% female. And the brightest were always guys. It's almost laugh out loud funny how out of place these actors seem in their roles. Well it might just be the bad acting, but that's also magnified by bad casting.
In general in BG the men were incompetent emotionally unstable and violent fools while the women were the rational and stable ones who got the job done.
One of the issues is how out of place the females look in their roles. In Flash for example all the female scientists and engineers look completely out of their league. You can tell how strange the role is for them. It makes for terrible acting performances. Actually one of the coproducers is gay and has publicly stated it's his goal to include more gay characters and actors. Eddie Thawne's actor is actually a very flamboyant gay person in real life (just watch an interview), which may explain why he looks so stiff and awkward playing the role of police jock/boyfriend to hot girl.
I haven't seen this movie, but you can see a rather annoying pattern in network TV. Take the Flash, where every single woman is a super smart engineer, computer programmer, or tough as nails military soldier or policeman. How many women do you see in the hard sciences? Their personalities also suck. They're entitled spoiled brats with no empathy or understanding. Take Battlestar Galactica, where Apollo, a male in the original series, was replaced with a very masculine female in the Sy Fy version. She's a real pain in the neck. In reality very few would bother with a long term relationship with someone so irrationally short tempered and whiney. Or Fringe, where the male and female roles were essentially switched, but the personalities weren't, leading to a very awkward situation where the guy acts like the passive sidekick and states he wants to "stay by her side", referring to the female protagonist. Or Dexter, where a policewoman character has the personality of an extremely douchey guy.
None of these character really fit into their roles well. I can't imagine the actors feel all that comfortable. The audience can't relate well because the personalities are so different from what we encounter in our own lives. On the other hand there's a show like Daredevil, where the female is unashamedly a secretary, and emotionally is an understanding girl who tries to keep her guy friends together. Oh and she asked a married guy out for a drink because she really liked him (women are attracted to married men like bees to honey). Her character reflects what women are like today. And it doesn't stop her from having her own scene where she saves her own life.
I don't know much about OS's, but I feel that iOS's UI thread priority system was pretty revolutionary. It lets you run an extremely responsive OS on very underpowered hardware.
Oh please. Charter schools and vouchers are by any objective analysis a means of creating a two tiered school system, one for the rich and one for the poor.
Are you going to ignore the conservative push in states like Texas to teach Intelligent Design instead of evolution? Or the massive anti-intellectualism of the Republican party platform?
I can't believe you were modded +5 informative. So many conservatives who live in cognitive dissonance.
Based on what I hear of my friend's dating experiences I really don't think you can attribute it to lack of compatibility. More like systemic personality issues among females.
their fashion and sentiment is dangerously lesbian and the ubiquitous anime style projects a world view where menfolk are completely redundant
This is a really bizarre fear I've only ever encountered in Caucasians. Let's put it this way. In Singapore there's a law that says women can do stuff together and even make out but men can't. It's an old law that no one really follows anymore. The point is that Asian society doesn't look down on and even encourages girls to be extremely close. They believe women are beautiful and their closeness doesn't somehow interfere or detract from relationships with men (and certainly it hasn't historically). In media such as anime or movies you'll often see love triangles involving 2 girls and 1 guy.
In Western society it's literally the opposite. Dating back to Ancient Greeks there's a deep trend of male homosexuality, where males are considered "beautiful" and girls are secondary. Every form of media for example depicts love triangles as 2 males 1 female. It's okay for guys to bond ("man crush" is an oft used term) but females can't be too close. In modern politics gay marriage is a huge social issue, but if you poll various ethnic groups the only ones who care about it are caucasians, and media depictions are inevitably about 2 males. It's like a Greek descended undercurrent of sentiment is attempting to rise to the surface.
I guess we now have to teach kids that men have feeling too.
This would actually help a lot. Right now society teaches everyone men are emotionless robot monsters that oppress and abuse women at every step of life.
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Money is *not* printed. That's the issue. In the US the federal government subsidizes bankrupt red states by borrowing and printing more money and giving it to those states to help them balance their books. The Eurozone isn't doing that for its less productive economies. Instead they're just letting Greece suffer a massive depression that has spiraled out of control.
You're right I shouldn't have started off abusively. Sorry about that.
1. Your analysis is incorrect. None of the economies in the EU are doing well. Certainly the ones that have done Austerity aren't doing any better. I know you're talking about Ireland, but that's very misleading. In reality Ireland hasn't even reached their pre-crisis GDP. That's 10 years of lost growth. Meanwhile Iceland recovered within a couple years. Greece's borrowing wouldn't be a problem if they were on their own currency. Japan's is at 300% of its GDP and they still have rock bottom interest rates.
2. Greece has a current account surplus right now. They *are* living within their means. The problem is they're in a huge recession with 25% unemployment. Their government revenue is necessarily much lower than it could potentially be because their tax base is shot. The EU is abusing their position by refusing to help Greece get its economy back on track and forcing them to repay debt "Now!" without thought to the consequences.
If Greece had their own currency none of this would be an issue. They could easily inflate their way out of this situation, increasing their exports.
3. Not being part of the EU would absolutely not cause its currency to implode. That's nonsense. They were fine while on the Drachma. They're not like Venezuela which relies entirely on oil and pegs its currency to the dollar. Their issue right now is that they're in a massive depression. Can you imagine 25% unemployment in the US? There would be riots.
As long as their currency is sovereign and not denominated in another currency they can print however much money they need to inflate their way out of debt.
The euro is a zero sum game. If one country runs a surplus, another runs a deficit. It happens in the US, but the federal government heavily subsidizes the perennially bankrupt red states.
4. Greece *should* exit the Euro. That's how their current administration, which is heavily left leaning, got elected as the previous conservative government just kept enacting austerity which exacerbated their huge economic issues. If the current group doesn't do what they were elected though, there's a nazi-like fascist group called the Golden Dawn waiting in the wing.
Greece is nothing like Venezuela. Slashdotters are so fracking economically ignorant.
The Greek government is actually running a current account surplus.
What will mostly likely happen is Greece exits the Euro and defaults on their loans. They'll face high interest rates for a few years but taking Iceland as an example they'll be in *much* better shape no longer having their accounts drained by Euro debt. They'll finally be able to address their massive unemployment.
They *are* productive. Do you understand that the Euro is zero sum? If Germany runs a surplus, someone else in the Euro has to run a deficit. It's literally impossible for Greece to run an annual surplus unless they become more productive than Germany, which would then put Germany in a deficit.
Uh no. Germany has been riding on everyone else's back. They have argued against economic stimulus for years even as the Eurozone economy crashed around them. They demanded interest rates be kept high even as deflation loomed. They fought against QE even as the stock markets crashed. Their exports have been artificially boosted by the Euro. If they were running their own independent currency their exports would be much more expensive.
You're a freaking idiot. Greece is nothing like Venezuela. They've been severely hampered by the Euro, unable to enact proper monetary or fiscal stimuli to deal with their recession and 25% unemployment. Even running an account surplus the last few years they've been drained by these nonstop debt repayments, all while their export prices are artificially inflated by a strong Euro.
You don't know anything. Germany has benefited tremendously from the Euro. Having the same currency as Greece has allowed German exports to remain disproportionately cheap, and Greece's exports disproportionately expensive. Greece has actually had a major account surplus for the last few years, but it's all bring drained into paying off impossible debts. They cut into their programs to pay off debt, which leads to more unemployment, which lowers government revenue, which forces more cuts, and on and on.
It amazes me how nutty people get over "terrorists" when the roads are like a civilized version of Mad Max. People constantly die every day. Tens of thousands of lives unnecessarily lost every year just to automobile accidents. I feel like I'm the only rational person when I experience a certain apprehension every time I get behind a wheel, knowing that while racing through space in a multi ton coffin, even a small mistake could send me careening to my death.
There are a lot of things that can be done to reform prisoners and help them avoid recidivism. For that to happen however you have to actually want to help them rebuild their lives. American "justice" is more about getting revenge and punishing criminals Puritan style. No one really cares what happens afterwards.
The article says 4 hours is a lot longer than other drones out there... but how much are we talking about? How long can a lithium ion powered drone stay in the air?
Honestly this is a trend in all of TV, and to a certain extent it's really silly.
Show writers desperately want to put women in positions of power and control, essentially switching the male and female roles. Take "The 100", where literally every military (and thus population) leader of the Grounders is a female. Except... that doesn't even make sense. In what universe have women ever aspired to be military leaders? You have some native american tribes for example, where the female "healer" or "shaman" might be a clan's spiritual leader, but they put women in positions that are so diametrically opposed to how women behave in real life, it becomes a laughably unrealistic scenario.
I mentioned this in another thread, but other shows like "The Flash" depicts every single fracking woman as a supersmart, unmatched computer or mechanical engineer, programmer, physics whiz, etc. What universe does this show even take place? When was the last time you saw more than a tiny fraction of women showing interest or excelling in something like engineering or computer programming? Heck in "The 100" the best mechanic to grace the Sky People in 52 years is a young woman named Raven. Really??? My university had something like 95% male engineers, 5% female. And the brightest were always guys. It's almost laugh out loud funny how out of place these actors seem in their roles. Well it might just be the bad acting, but that's also magnified by bad casting.
Oh right lol Starbuck.
In general in BG the men were incompetent emotionally unstable and violent fools while the women were the rational and stable ones who got the job done.
One of the issues is how out of place the females look in their roles. In Flash for example all the female scientists and engineers look completely out of their league. You can tell how strange the role is for them. It makes for terrible acting performances. Actually one of the coproducers is gay and has publicly stated it's his goal to include more gay characters and actors. Eddie Thawne's actor is actually a very flamboyant gay person in real life (just watch an interview), which may explain why he looks so stiff and awkward playing the role of police jock/boyfriend to hot girl.
I haven't seen this movie, but you can see a rather annoying pattern in network TV. Take the Flash, where every single woman is a super smart engineer, computer programmer, or tough as nails military soldier or policeman. How many women do you see in the hard sciences? Their personalities also suck. They're entitled spoiled brats with no empathy or understanding. Take Battlestar Galactica, where Apollo, a male in the original series, was replaced with a very masculine female in the Sy Fy version. She's a real pain in the neck. In reality very few would bother with a long term relationship with someone so irrationally short tempered and whiney. Or Fringe, where the male and female roles were essentially switched, but the personalities weren't, leading to a very awkward situation where the guy acts like the passive sidekick and states he wants to "stay by her side", referring to the female protagonist. Or Dexter, where a policewoman character has the personality of an extremely douchey guy.
None of these character really fit into their roles well. I can't imagine the actors feel all that comfortable. The audience can't relate well because the personalities are so different from what we encounter in our own lives. On the other hand there's a show like Daredevil, where the female is unashamedly a secretary, and emotionally is an understanding girl who tries to keep her guy friends together. Oh and she asked a married guy out for a drink because she really liked him (women are attracted to married men like bees to honey). Her character reflects what women are like today. And it doesn't stop her from having her own scene where she saves her own life.
I don't know much about OS's, but I feel that iOS's UI thread priority system was pretty revolutionary. It lets you run an extremely responsive OS on very underpowered hardware.
*raises hand* I still like pop. I don't have super varied tastes.
I have a dislike for many SJW causes... I feel it's a disservice to associate what he's doing, which I think is a good cause, with the SJW tag.
The IPCC's estimate of action was like .1% of GDP/year, or about $10 billion for the US.
Oh please. Charter schools and vouchers are by any objective analysis a means of creating a two tiered school system, one for the rich and one for the poor.
Are you going to ignore the conservative push in states like Texas to teach Intelligent Design instead of evolution? Or the massive anti-intellectualism of the Republican party platform?
I can't believe you were modded +5 informative. So many conservatives who live in cognitive dissonance.
Based on what I hear of my friend's dating experiences I really don't think you can attribute it to lack of compatibility. More like systemic personality issues among females.
their fashion and sentiment is dangerously lesbian and the ubiquitous anime style projects a world view where menfolk are completely redundant
This is a really bizarre fear I've only ever encountered in Caucasians. Let's put it this way. In Singapore there's a law that says women can do stuff together and even make out but men can't. It's an old law that no one really follows anymore. The point is that Asian society doesn't look down on and even encourages girls to be extremely close. They believe women are beautiful and their closeness doesn't somehow interfere or detract from relationships with men (and certainly it hasn't historically). In media such as anime or movies you'll often see love triangles involving 2 girls and 1 guy.
In Western society it's literally the opposite. Dating back to Ancient Greeks there's a deep trend of male homosexuality, where males are considered "beautiful" and girls are secondary. Every form of media for example depicts love triangles as 2 males 1 female. It's okay for guys to bond ("man crush" is an oft used term) but females can't be too close. In modern politics gay marriage is a huge social issue, but if you poll various ethnic groups the only ones who care about it are caucasians, and media depictions are inevitably about 2 males. It's like a Greek descended undercurrent of sentiment is attempting to rise to the surface.
American culture has affected American women. It's not misogyny to point out the obvious.
False equivalence.
I guess we now have to teach kids that men have feeling too.
This would actually help a lot. Right now society teaches everyone men are emotionless robot monsters that oppress and abuse women at every step of life.
Because the respect isn't mutual?