You think that the government would be less bloated? We are talking about the government. They created the concept of ineffectual bloat and then expanded, enhanced and perfected it. The government home of the $50,000 hammer.
No, private industry with a profit motive will always be more efficient than government bureaucrats with no motive at all for efficiency and service.
Take a look at the deadly mess that is the VA and tell me single payer is better.
Are you talking about the bloat private companies invented to charge to the gov because they can get away with it? It's always going to be cheaper and better to have public services, if for nothing else no one is looking to profit off it and any extra money made goes back into the service or others. It's in private industry with a profit motive it's all but encouraged to cut service and increase price. If you truly think that's better you're deluded. I don't know about your VA but I'd be willing to bet most of it's problems will be caused by subcontracting to private companies.
To be fair, while there may be a huge amount of criticism over Apple's successive generations of laptops, battery life is not one of them.
Non-upgradable memory, storage, an annoying keyboard, and forcing you to buy a shitton of dongles due to a complete lack of every single most important port still in use today, on the other hand...
Battery life is very much a complaint. Maybe not out of the box but before too long that non removable battery is going to hold a fraction of the charge it used to and you're going have to pay up or just flat out get a new one to fix it. Frankly the only things apple really have going for them is they're pretty.
"The has slashed police numbers"
So? Crime goes down, then police numbers should also go down, I'm sick of the inane chant that we should have move police.
The idea that May cut police numbers because crime was falling is frankly laughable.
If it goes on longer, the locals that are smart enough, will miss the foreigners.
I don't know, maybe we could turn Fisherman's Wharf into a nice park where you can see sealions.
Yeah, you're going to need something to do when a whole bunch of your bars, hotels and restaurants have shut down because there's fuck all business for them.
Good, we don't want you faggots here anyway. We don't need the rest of the world, and it fucking feels good!
The rest of the world where all your shit gets built on the cheap then flogged back to you suckers for premium price because you can't possibly afford to build shit yourselves these days? I think you'll find it's the rest of the world that doesn't need you.
if/when it becomes a nightmare to travel to and from the U.S.
What do you mean if/when? This happened already. From what I understand even traveling within the states is a nightmare. Before, I used to think I couldn't care less about visiting America, but it turns out I could.
Because Chernobyl or Fukushima Daiichi never happened, right? Marcoule in France, or the recent blast in Flamaville station?
And that's just a few of the accidents out of a long list of accidents on nuclear facilities, don't get me started on leaks incidents in waste storage facilities...
Because coal/oil/gas plants never explode and any associated spillage is fine right? How many millions of barrels of oil are dumped in the sea through carelessness or accident again? How much extra co2 is in the air trapping extra heat in the atmosphere? Nope, totally no polluting at all and let's all run away from big bad nuclear, ohhh its so scary I'll run and hide in my filth where it's safer.
What in the holy fuck do you think is going on in bathrooms?
Every once in a while females getraped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.
For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively
Implying that rape and sexual assault being illegal is not enough you also have to mandate who uses what toilet?
I think months is a bit of an exaggeration, and how long is it going to last as long? Either way it's not so much if it's a problem or not it's just a poor decision for the sake of aesthetics I guess. Can't think of any other reason it wouldn't be in a place that would let it double as a wired mouse if needs be. I don't even use a the mac, someone else in the office has it, but still.
Apple paying Creative hundreds of millions of dollars for ripping off their UI kind of says the iPod was nothing more than a prettier Creative media player... oh, but with one important difference: it locked everything down via iTunes rather than as a simple 'drag and drop' music player.
I used to love my creative zen's. I wish they'd make a decent phone/music player these days.
These laws are not a good thing. Once you censor one thing it becomes easier to censor other things.
That aside, these laws are a bad thing because what is it that makes the holocaust special amongst genocides that it gets its own laws and day and everything? It didn't have the highest body count, it wasn't the most recent, it wasn't the most violent or brutal it wasn't the most anything. It might have a hat in the ring for most efficient but that's about it, best name maybe? No one will argue, genocide is a terrible, terrible thing regardless but why is the holocaust special among them. No doubt I'll get accused of anti-semitism for even daring to ask, maybe I just answered my own question, because on top of that why is anti-semitism its own thing compared to just regular racism?
Exactly, for all intents and purposes May and Blair were not British and did more damage to this country than a thousand nutters with bombs could even dream of.
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You think that the government would be less bloated? We are talking about the government. They created the concept of ineffectual bloat and then expanded, enhanced and perfected it. The government home of the $50,000 hammer. No, private industry with a profit motive will always be more efficient than government bureaucrats with no motive at all for efficiency and service. Take a look at the deadly mess that is the VA and tell me single payer is better.
Are you talking about the bloat private companies invented to charge to the gov because they can get away with it? It's always going to be cheaper and better to have public services, if for nothing else no one is looking to profit off it and any extra money made goes back into the service or others. It's in private industry with a profit motive it's all but encouraged to cut service and increase price. If you truly think that's better you're deluded. I don't know about your VA but I'd be willing to bet most of it's problems will be caused by subcontracting to private companies.
There's only one industry that's even more corrupt and self-serving than the financial industry -- and that's health care.
Because in the good ol' US of A good health is a privilege, not a right.
To be fair, while there may be a huge amount of criticism over Apple's successive generations of laptops, battery life is not one of them.
Non-upgradable memory, storage, an annoying keyboard, and forcing you to buy a shitton of dongles due to a complete lack of every single most important port still in use today, on the other hand...
Battery life is very much a complaint. Maybe not out of the box but before too long that non removable battery is going to hold a fraction of the charge it used to and you're going have to pay up or just flat out get a new one to fix it. Frankly the only things apple really have going for them is they're pretty.
It's a PRIVATE university admitting POTENTIAL ALUMNI. If they are NAZI FAGGOTS they are OPTING-OUT of POLITE EDUCATED SOCIETY. Go suck a DICK.
You need to opt out of capitalisation.
1. Terrorist attack.
2. Call for increased surveillance, overreach.
3. Learn more about the terrorists, but don't arrest the right ones in time.
4. Rinse, repeat.
You forgot:
5. Let even more unvetted migrants into the country. Goto 1.
Any money says, turns out these guys were british, just like manchester guy was.
"The has slashed police numbers" So? Crime goes down, then police numbers should also go down, I'm sick of the inane chant that we should have move police.
The idea that May cut police numbers because crime was falling is frankly laughable.
May has properly fucked the job. Her problem was actual reality didn't match the reality the daily fail and s*n et al were trying to push.
Your write.
If it goes on longer, the locals that are smart enough, will miss the foreigners.
I don't know, maybe we could turn Fisherman's Wharf into a nice park where you can see sealions.
Yeah, you're going to need something to do when a whole bunch of your bars, hotels and restaurants have shut down because there's fuck all business for them.
I on the other hand am now looking at the USA as a holiday destination again now that an actual adult that cares about security is in charge.
Security theatre is a totally different thing.
Good, we don't want you faggots here anyway. We don't need the rest of the world, and it fucking feels good!
The rest of the world where all your shit gets built on the cheap then flogged back to you suckers for premium price because you can't possibly afford to build shit yourselves these days? I think you'll find it's the rest of the world that doesn't need you.
if/when it becomes a nightmare to travel to and from the U.S.
What do you mean if/when? This happened already. From what I understand even traveling within the states is a nightmare. Before, I used to think I couldn't care less about visiting America, but it turns out I could.
It'll be their problem when people stop paying for the premium pipe to them.
I'd just prefer to have neither one in my backyard...
Perfectly happy sucking up the power from either though, right?
Because Chernobyl or Fukushima Daiichi never happened, right? Marcoule in France, or the recent blast in Flamaville station?
And that's just a few of the accidents out of a long list of accidents on nuclear facilities, don't get me started on leaks incidents in waste storage facilities...
Because coal/oil/gas plants never explode and any associated spillage is fine right? How many millions of barrels of oil are dumped in the sea through carelessness or accident again? How much extra co2 is in the air trapping extra heat in the atmosphere? Nope, totally no polluting at all and let's all run away from big bad nuclear, ohhh its so scary I'll run and hide in my filth where it's safer.
Every once in a while females get raped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.
For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively
Implying that rape and sexual assault being illegal is not enough you also have to mandate who uses what toilet?
I think months is a bit of an exaggeration, and how long is it going to last as long? Either way it's not so much if it's a problem or not it's just a poor decision for the sake of aesthetics I guess. Can't think of any other reason it wouldn't be in a place that would let it double as a wired mouse if needs be. I don't even use a the mac, someone else in the office has it, but still.
You sure that isn't patented?
Damn, you're right, Apple already beat them to that genius design of usability. Oh well, back to the drawing board...
Apple paying Creative hundreds of millions of dollars for ripping off their UI kind of says the iPod was nothing more than a prettier Creative media player... oh, but with one important difference: it locked everything down via iTunes rather than as a simple 'drag and drop' music player.
I used to love my creative zen's. I wish they'd make a decent phone/music player these days.
How were the iPods or iPhones any iteration of what came before?
Oh please, The iPhone is an iteration of the iPod and as you say the iPod was just another music player that looked slick and did mp3.
Once he introduced the iPods and later, the iPhones & iPads,
You mean once they made the ipod, then put a phone in it, and then made it a bit bigger.
After all they got successful by selling mice with just one button for three times the price.
Better yet, make it wireless with the charge port on the bottom.
These laws are not a good thing. Once you censor one thing it becomes easier to censor other things.
That aside, these laws are a bad thing because what is it that makes the holocaust special amongst genocides that it gets its own laws and day and everything? It didn't have the highest body count, it wasn't the most recent, it wasn't the most violent or brutal it wasn't the most anything. It might have a hat in the ring for most efficient but that's about it, best name maybe? No one will argue, genocide is a terrible, terrible thing regardless but why is the holocaust special among them. No doubt I'll get accused of anti-semitism for even daring to ask, maybe I just answered my own question, because on top of that why is anti-semitism its own thing compared to just regular racism?
So essentially you're going to force another country to take someone who isn't one of their citizens? And what if they don't want said person?
> He was as British as Theresa May or Tony Blair.
This is what you ACTUALLY BELIEVE
Exactly, for all intents and purposes May and Blair were not British and did more damage to this country than a thousand nutters with bombs could even dream of.