Government was also far, far more responsive. Your leaders weren't strangers you saw on TV, they were your neighbors, and people you ran into in the grocery store.
Sorry, but politicians during that time were just as corrupt if not MORE corrupt than today. To claim they were "more responsive" is fucking hilarious. Yes, they were "more responsive" to the party bosses who had a stranglehold on politics.
There was a reason that 17th amendment was passed and it wasn't because politicians were "more responsive" it was due to massive corruption.
Sure but you assume some linear style 1:1 relationship which doesn't exist. You're also conveniently ignoring inflation and plenty of other factors that have driven budget up as well.
Except that the 1990 budget was based on a country that had 50 million less people and wasn't facing the fact that there will be 10s of millions of baby boomers hitting retirement that will leave huge revenue shortfalls.
Well point us to an example where the private industry has built a system of roads even remotely matching the public highway system and you might have a case. Until then you have nothing but hypothetical claims.
And by "suck even worse" you mean that their was booming economic expansion, the debt to GDP ratio was plummeting, and real income was rising at a rate in one decade that hasn't been matched percentage wise even over the last 30 years? Then, yes, things really did "suck".
Hey cool, bonch is now claiming I'm a sockpuppet shilling for Google despite having been downmodded in the past for negative Google posts. I've also made positive Apple posts, too. I'm not a very good pro-Google shill, apparently.
Ignoring.info,.museum,.aero,.arpa,.asia,.coop,.jobs,.mobi,.name,.travel, etc, right? There is no rule that says domains are only 2 or 3 characters despite nerd protestations.
Really? I have plenty of downmodded posts where I've criticized Google. I've also never defended underage porn. Is trying to smear me the best you can do, bonchy?
Also, those Google-branded devices were made by HTC and Samsung. But don't let facts get in the way.
Did you look at their history? It's a shill account whose only posts have been in this thread to troll. Their very long first post shares the timestamp of the post hitting the front page. This is bonch's M.O.
No, reactive would be addressing things after they happened. Apple's annual reports show that they have maintained a proactive stance, instituting rules and inspections to prevent managerial abuses and other labor violations.
From Apple:
In the summer of 2006, we were concerned by reports in the press alleging poor working and living conditions at one of our iPod final assembly suppliers in China. In response, we conducted a thorough audit of the facility and worked closely with the supplier to correct any practices or incidents that did not conform to our Supplier Code of Conduct.
So they don't address things after they happened...yet Apple's own words clearly states they didn't do something until...after it already happened and came out in the press. You're a terrible shill, bonch. Apple should have fired you a while back.
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You are wrong. Just like how many parents want the government to raise their kids rather than having to bother with it themselves.
So are you going to rewrite the countless amount of code from the authors who can't be contacted or who don't want their code relicensed?
That's not insightful. Netflix uses DRM on all platforms. It's a requirement of the media companies.
If it was such a great thing, GM wouldn't be pulling out.
'Perfectly priced' at 110x earnings? Yeah, right...
And as GM discovered, and many others companies eventually will as well, those assets are worthless compared to how much they are spending.
You had me going to you posted this nonsense:
Government was also far, far more responsive. Your leaders weren't strangers you saw on TV, they were your neighbors, and people you ran into in the grocery store.
Sorry, but politicians during that time were just as corrupt if not MORE corrupt than today. To claim they were "more responsive" is fucking hilarious. Yes, they were "more responsive" to the party bosses who had a stranglehold on politics.
There was a reason that 17th amendment was passed and it wasn't because politicians were "more responsive" it was due to massive corruption.
Yes, but according to this guy Ron Paul is going to magically make inflation go away.
The inflation point is interesting.
And by "interesting" you mean destroys your entire argument, right?
Sure but you assume some linear style 1:1 relationship which doesn't exist. You're also conveniently ignoring inflation and plenty of other factors that have driven budget up as well.
Except that the 1990 budget was based on a country that had 50 million less people and wasn't facing the fact that there will be 10s of millions of baby boomers hitting retirement that will leave huge revenue shortfalls.
Well point us to an example where the private industry has built a system of roads even remotely matching the public highway system and you might have a case. Until then you have nothing but hypothetical claims.
And by "suck even worse" you mean that their was booming economic expansion, the debt to GDP ratio was plummeting, and real income was rising at a rate in one decade that hasn't been matched percentage wise even over the last 30 years? Then, yes, things really did "suck".
Sure we are bonch.
I can only wish I was Rui getting checks from Google. That'd be sweet.
Oh no, bonch has another sockpuppet that will be permanently -1 in about 5 minutes!
Hey cool, bonch is now claiming I'm a sockpuppet shilling for Google despite having been downmodded in the past for negative Google posts. I've also made positive Apple posts, too. I'm not a very good pro-Google shill, apparently.
Agreed with what? A comletely false statement? There are TLDs that have been around for years to over a decade that are more than 3 characters.
Ignoring .info, .museum, .aero, .arpa, .asia, .coop, .jobs, .mobi, .name, .travel, etc, right? There is no rule that says domains are only 2 or 3 characters despite nerd protestations.
It's cool. :-)
What's even more pathetic is when bonch tries to smear you by claiming you support pedo porn after pointing out his Google bashing is wrong.
Really? I have plenty of downmodded posts where I've criticized Google. I've also never defended underage porn. Is trying to smear me the best you can do, bonchy?
Also, those Google-branded devices were made by HTC and Samsung. But don't let facts get in the way.
Did you look at their history? It's a shill account whose only posts have been in this thread to troll. Their very long first post shares the timestamp of the post hitting the front page. This is bonch's M.O.
He wasn't responding to you. There's a bonch sockpuppet post at -1 between your posts.
From you:
No, reactive would be addressing things after they happened. Apple's annual reports show that they have maintained a proactive stance, instituting rules and inspections to prevent managerial abuses and other labor violations.
From Apple:
In the summer of 2006, we were concerned by reports in the press alleging poor working and living conditions at one of our iPod final assembly suppliers in China. In response, we conducted a thorough audit of the facility and worked closely with the supplier to correct any practices or incidents that did not conform to our Supplier Code of Conduct.
So they don't address things after they happened...yet Apple's own words clearly states they didn't do something until...after it already happened and came out in the press. You're a terrible shill, bonch. Apple should have fired you a while back.