When discussing the media law here in Hungary there was mentioned that the Britain has the Ofcom, which is similar to the Hungarian media authority, and it has ties to the British government as well, since its members are elected by the secretary of state.
More work, fewer immigrants, less crime, eliminating abuse of social services.
On the immigration issue: there aren't many immigrants in Hungary, as the wages are rather low; they usually tend to drift to western countries, after all, it's quite easy to move once you crossed the Schengen borders. In 2004 however there's was a vote about wether to give back the Hungarian citizenship to the people who were stripped of it after WW1 due to the Trianon treaty, and the socialsts were the ones opposing it. (They thought FIDESZ is more popular among the Hungarians living abroad.)
In Hungary left and right wing means completely the opposite than in the US. It was actually the socialist party which promotes the small government, free trade agenda.
They made a lot of wild promises, painted the liberals as pansies and the socialists as communists
No, the socialists called FIDESZ communist because it was against the privatization of the healthcare system (we have a one-payer system at the moment), and against tuition fees in higher education in state universities. And I think that was the reason FIDESZ won. The socialist party turned to libertarian in the autumn of 2006, after they won the elections in spring, which they won by similar blanket campaign promises*. That was the reason of all the rioting (Speech of Öszöd).
* to be more precise, they explicitely promised to not to do the things, that they started to implement next year, in the televised argument between the candidates
1, Well, Hungary still doesn't have an Internet filter like Australia (and there's no plan about making one), so you just put your server abroad. The already banned neo-nazi Kurucinfo e.g. hosts its portal in Hong Kong.
2, This law is quite unpopular even here in Hungary. At the moment it seems unlikely for the governing party (FIDESZ) to win next election.
3, There's still the possibility to appeal to court. FIDESZ doesn't really have influence there.
4, The only really problematic part of the law is the requirement of balancedness. We'll see how that will play out, but I don't think the courts will be biased in FIDESZ' support in this regard.
Most dinosaurs were cold blooded. It's a pretty big disadvantage in a decades long winter. Some of them still survived. Think of all the lizards, snakes, crocodiles. (I think birds evolved from warm blooded ones.)
"pretty sure refusing to work the job the government told you to work in communist russia resulted in a bullet to the brain."
What I meant that people were cheating production quantity norms, not that they flat out refused to do the job. Even CEOs used to fake their statistics to seem better. Much of the economics statistics in these countries were totally unreliable.
You got the details wrong. It was the Mayan system that killed lazy people. The Russian one didn't deport the lazy. It deported 1, political dissenters 2, those who were rich in the previous system 3, your political rivals ( see Laszlo Rajk, or Trotskij )
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Yeah, you have to pay to keep it free *rolls eyes*
Sanger also created Citizendum, which is an alternative to Wikipedia, but it didn't have as much media exposure as Wikipedia.
Even the old law sanctions against swearing and whatnot in certain time slots.
Well, we don't whether the Hungarian media authority can or cannot. The problem is the vagueness of the law. We will see how it will be applied.
Ex-post facto laws are supposed to be unconstitutional, and ditto suppression of speech, press, and expression.
The governing party has 2/3 majority. They make the constitution.
When discussing the media law here in Hungary there was mentioned that the Britain has the Ofcom, which is similar to the Hungarian media authority, and it has ties to the British government as well, since its members are elected by the secretary of state.
More work, fewer immigrants, less crime, eliminating abuse of social services.
On the immigration issue: there aren't many immigrants in Hungary, as the wages are rather low; they usually tend to drift to western countries, after all, it's quite easy to move once you crossed the Schengen borders.
In 2004 however there's was a vote about wether to give back the Hungarian citizenship to the people who were stripped of it after WW1 due to the Trianon treaty, and the socialsts were the ones opposing it. (They thought FIDESZ is more popular among the Hungarians living abroad.)
In Hungary left and right wing means completely the opposite than in the US. It was actually the socialist party which promotes the small government, free trade agenda.
They made a lot of wild promises, painted the liberals as pansies and the socialists as communists
No, the socialists called FIDESZ communist because it was against the privatization of the healthcare system (we have a one-payer system at the moment), and against tuition fees in higher education in state universities.
And I think that was the reason FIDESZ won. The socialist party turned to libertarian in the autumn of 2006, after they won the elections in spring, which they won by similar blanket campaign promises*. That was the reason of all the rioting (Speech of Öszöd).
* to be more precise, they explicitely promised to not to do the things, that they started to implement next year, in the televised argument between the candidates
1, Well, Hungary still doesn't have an Internet filter like Australia (and there's no plan about making one), so you just put your server abroad. The already banned neo-nazi Kurucinfo e.g. hosts its portal in Hong Kong.
2, This law is quite unpopular even here in Hungary. At the moment it seems unlikely for the governing party (FIDESZ) to win next election.
3, There's still the possibility to appeal to court. FIDESZ doesn't really have influence there.
4, The only really problematic part of the law is the requirement of balancedness. We'll see how that will play out, but I don't think the courts will be biased in FIDESZ' support in this regard.
Most dinosaurs were cold blooded. It's a pretty big disadvantage in a decades long winter.
Some of them still survived. Think of all the lizards, snakes, crocodiles. (I think birds evolved from warm blooded ones.)
They might not have porn but they can still get screwed by the government.
It's not porn if it's the government doing it to you ;)
Sounds like a movie title by Ed Wood.
Well, they sometimes play some racing game/ retro fps/ flash game, that can be pretty much distracting.
Most European cities have a trolleybus network.
Such a simple change: require the truck license to drive the truck.
Or at least make them learn to use manual transmission ;)
Mutually ensured destruction ... WITH CARS!!! ;)
There's a reason French are so fond of nuclear energy
I would mod you up, if had points.
They can still program (RISC) microcontrollers in C/assembly. It's much nicer than x86. You can get one for $25 (AVR Butterfly).
Since when is China a developed nation?
"pretty sure refusing to work the job the government told you to work in communist russia resulted in a bullet to the brain."
What I meant that people were cheating production quantity norms, not that they flat out refused to do the job. Even CEOs used to fake their statistics to seem better. Much of the economics statistics in these countries were totally unreliable.
Well, I've got advertisement in youtube and other videosharing sites, but at least the cable channels don't buffer.
You got the details wrong. It was the Mayan system that killed lazy people. The Russian one didn't deport the lazy. It deported
1, political dissenters
2, those who were rich in the previous system
3, your political rivals ( see Laszlo Rajk, or Trotskij )