Don't the Japanese have problems getting rid of all the meat they harvest? From what I've read there isn't much of a market for it, so they have to give it away to schools which can force their pupils to eat it.
But why didn't they charge reasonable interest? If the banks just needed a few short term loans, they can get them. At 1000% interest let's say. If the bank is as solid as you say it can survive that. Sure a few bonuses might have to be cut but why should the taxpayers not profit?
I'm sure the private sector can supply all the military power we want if we just pay them enough, and it will surely be a lot lower then the $650 billion being spent now. After all, the private sector is much more efficient then the crappy government.
Wait, why don't we let each state choose their own private military firm. After all, federal government is bad!
Ok, the government spent all of the SS money. But why do the politicians now blame the SS for everything? Why not blame the parts of the government that spent the money?
Let's say defense spent 50% of the money borrowed from SS. Then why not make defense pay back SS, and if they can't afford it while maintaining needed programs then raise taxes to pay for DEFENSE.
To use your analogy : You save 50$ each month and put it in the bank. After a few decades you get old and want to retire and live from your savings, but the bank tells you they don't want to give you your money, since some of their employees have racked up quite a few debts gambling with your money. Is that suddenly your fault? Should it suddenly become your responsibility to again start earning enough to support yourself, or should it be the banks?
Have you ever heard of poisonous plants? They are poisonous because some of their genes contain instructions that either cause poisons to be made in the plant or stockpiled from the environment.
Airplanes are so predictable because pilots follow the rules. There is nothing stopping a plane from flying anywhere it chooses, it's just against the rule - kind of like cars changing lanes or turning without signaling.
And most of those problems with cars could be solved by having AI drivers in all cars.
The problem is that the internet is not limited to just one country. So what gives a US judge the right to block a site hosted and registered in another country?
And what chance do the owners have to object if the complaint is unfounded? Do they have to spend thousands of dollars getting a lawyer in a country they don't even live in?
A batter question would be what would happen if a person studying to be a priest decided there was no god, and skipped 99% of his classes. Would they still be allowed to become a priest?
Knowledge of evolution will help a doctor resist demands from patients for antibiotics they don't need, since he'll know that overuse of antibiotics will lead to the evolution of resistant bacteria.
I'd prefer 'after-elections'. 4 years or so after your term of office ends there is an election where people vote if they were satisfied with what you achieved in office. If they are not, you're sent to prison for low level positions, and executed for anything high up.
Those disease rates are so low because of vaccination. If everyone decides not to get their kids vaccinated, those numbers will go up to millions. So why not keep vaccinating kids for a few more generations, any maybe those diseases will be wiped out forever.
There need to be some laws for our society to function.
Think of it this way - should there be laws to prevent people from carrying assault rifles in their hands wherever they go? I mean, who are they harming - sure there might be a few accidents from teenagers showing off, a few elderly people might shoot the neighborhood kids when they walk on their lawns and of course there will be the odd hilarious death when people shoot someone ringing their doorbell while they were watching a scary movie. But it's a small price to pay for a free society! Especially when you consider all of those wild animal attacks that will be prevented.
In a way, vaccination is a victim of it's own success. If polio and smallpox were still wide spread, people wouldn't complain about things that protect their children against them.
Immunization does not work for everyone, and some immunizations get weaker with age. So it's important to immunize a large enough % of the population to achieve herd immunity.
Think of it this way: a) There is a school where 99% of the kids are vaccinated. One of the non-immunized kids somehow contracts a disease the others are immunized against. He/she goes to class, likely does not come in contact with anyone at risk and gets symptomatic after a few days, stays at home and lives/dies, no1 really cares.
b) There is a school where just 50% of the kids have been vaccinated. That same one infected kid would infect most of her class, and those kids would go on to infect up to 50% of the school. With so many germs flying around, even some of those kids that were vaccinated would likely get sick, as well as many partens whose vaccinations have failed with time. Now all those people not just get sick but they all continue spreading the disease to the rest of the community. Pretty soon you have a pretty massive death toll, and people demonstrating about how the government failed them by not protecting them.
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Don't the Japanese have problems getting rid of all the meat they harvest? From what I've read there isn't much of a market for it, so they have to give it away to schools which can force their pupils to eat it.
Don't the anti-whalers have the right to fly drones around in international waters?
If the whalers start shooting them, what is to stop the anti-whalers from sinking the whaling ships?
Is the absence of chargebacks a completely good thing?
What if you decided to empty all of your user's accounts one day? Would they have any way of getting their money back?
But why didn't they charge reasonable interest? If the banks just needed a few short term loans, they can get them. At 1000% interest let's say. If the bank is as solid as you say it can survive that. Sure a few bonuses might have to be cut but why should the taxpayers not profit?
How would that differ from the debt that was piled on to bail out the banks?
Why not outsource it?
I'm sure the private sector can supply all the military power we want if we just pay them enough, and it will surely be a lot lower then the $650 billion being spent now. After all, the private sector is much more efficient then the crappy government.
Wait, why don't we let each state choose their own private military firm. After all, federal government is bad!
Ok, the government spent all of the SS money. But why do the politicians now blame the SS for everything? Why not blame the parts of the government that spent the money?
Let's say defense spent 50% of the money borrowed from SS. Then why not make defense pay back SS, and if they can't afford it while maintaining needed programs then raise taxes to pay for DEFENSE.
To use your analogy : You save 50$ each month and put it in the bank. After a few decades you get old and want to retire and live from your savings, but the bank tells you they don't want to give you your money, since some of their employees have racked up quite a few debts gambling with your money. Is that suddenly your fault? Should it suddenly become your responsibility to again start earning enough to support yourself, or should it be the banks?
Have you ever heard of poisonous plants? They are poisonous because some of their genes contain instructions that either cause poisons to be made in the plant or stockpiled from the environment.
So yes, a few genes can make a plant dangerous.
It seems someone used the computer after it was zero-filled, then 'deleted' some files.
Airplanes are so predictable because pilots follow the rules. There is nothing stopping a plane from flying anywhere it chooses, it's just against the rule - kind of like cars changing lanes or turning without signaling.
And most of those problems with cars could be solved by having AI drivers in all cars.
Just keep telling yourself that.
So if the law says it's ok, then it's not stealing. So you can no longer equate software piracy and stealing in Switzerland.
Someone built and extra door into all of the houses in the neighborhood. Let's keep it quiet and hope no one notices.
We bet on the wrong stocks and lost a lot of money, the government should bail me out.
I stole a lot of money and people want to kill me, the police should stop them!
I got a lot of money by exploiting other people and someone robbed me, someone should go out and find them.
The government gave me some rights when I bribed them, and now people are infringing on them - they should all be put in jail.
I want to preach my religion to other people and they keep beating me up. People should be forced to listen to me.
Foreigners want to move into my country - we should just shoot them at the border.
All diseases are easily prevented. Just stop people from having children and all humans will be perfectly healthy in a hundred years or so.
The problem is that the internet is not limited to just one country. So what gives a US judge the right to block a site hosted and registered in another country?
And what chance do the owners have to object if the complaint is unfounded? Do they have to spend thousands of dollars getting a lawyer in a country they don't even live in?
A batter question would be what would happen if a person studying to be a priest decided there was no god, and skipped 99% of his classes. Would they still be allowed to become a priest?
Knowledge of evolution will help a doctor resist demands from patients for antibiotics they don't need, since he'll know that overuse of antibiotics will lead to the evolution of resistant bacteria.
I'd prefer 'after-elections'. 4 years or so after your term of office ends there is an election where people vote if they were satisfied with what you achieved in office. If they are not, you're sent to prison for low level positions, and executed for anything high up.
Why not extend that to presidents? They can just not get elected if they don't want to be assasinated.
Those disease rates are so low because of vaccination. If everyone decides not to get their kids vaccinated, those numbers will go up to millions. So why not keep vaccinating kids for a few more generations, any maybe those diseases will be wiped out forever.
There need to be some laws for our society to function.
Think of it this way - should there be laws to prevent people from carrying assault rifles in their hands wherever they go? I mean, who are they harming - sure there might be a few accidents from teenagers showing off, a few elderly people might shoot the neighborhood kids when they walk on their lawns and of course there will be the odd hilarious death when people shoot someone ringing their doorbell while they were watching a scary movie. But it's a small price to pay for a free society! Especially when you consider all of those wild animal attacks that will be prevented.
In a way, vaccination is a victim of it's own success. If polio and smallpox were still wide spread, people wouldn't complain about things that protect their children against them.
Think of it like car insurance. You have to get it so other people don't suffer because of you.
Some people can't get vaccinated, for some the vaccination might not work, and for some the vaccination wears off over the years.
Immunization does not work for everyone, and some immunizations get weaker with age. So it's important to immunize a large enough % of the population to achieve herd immunity.
Think of it this way:
a) There is a school where 99% of the kids are vaccinated. One of the non-immunized kids somehow contracts a disease the others are immunized against. He/she goes to class, likely does not come in contact with anyone at risk and gets symptomatic after a few days, stays at home and lives/dies, no1 really cares.
b) There is a school where just 50% of the kids have been vaccinated. That same one infected kid would infect most of her class, and those kids would go on to infect up to 50% of the school. With so many germs flying around, even some of those kids that were vaccinated would likely get sick, as well as many partens whose vaccinations have failed with time. Now all those people not just get sick but they all continue spreading the disease to the rest of the community. Pretty soon you have a pretty massive death toll, and people demonstrating about how the government failed them by not protecting them.