Eh all of that stuff you'll pick up when you move out whether or not you physically go to college. Even learning how to work within a system is something you've been doing all your life.
The idea behind a spy agency is to catch em before they do wrong. Really all alliances and agreements in international politics are matters of convenience, not moral obligation.
If it makes me feel like I should be turning in my neighbours to earn extra food stamps or favours from the local Kommissar, maybe even the use of a People's Trabant to impress the other comrades, it's brutalism to me.
Whatever about hipsters I'm certainly no fan of modern glass, concrete and steel spiderweb homogeneity. I mean you could take a building off the streets of just about any modern city and transplant it into another without anyone raising an eyebrow. Even the iconic ones are rarely that interesting, just more elaborate variations on the theme. Go back in time a little and enormous cultural variations can be found in architectural design, producing some marvellous and unique urbanscapes.
Still I suppose, at least it's not brutalism. *shudders*
No they just need to refine the algorithms, I've been working on a predictive preferences model for the last while which may or may not come to anything, mostly for fun, but it's turning out quite nicely so far. Ratings aren't much use in this day and age and reviews are almost as suspect.
Better still, let's not tax income or property. Since all money in the economy is eventually spent, let's simply tax consumption and fund our society that way. Everyone consumes - those that consume less will pay less tax.
That might increase the cost of some goods or services beyond the benefit provided by the removal of income tax though. Let's say you're earning 300 euros a week, and being taxed 50 of those. You're fifty euros better off, but the overall doubling or tripling of sales taxes (whatever the different in income tax versus sales tax revenues are) has likely increased your expenditure far more than that. It disproportionately targets the poor while providing huge benefits to the likes of landowners who are renting out their properties, leading to a tremendous concentration of wealth, ie a landowning aristocracy. Plus, taxing consumption retards consumption, and the economy needs consumption.
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and death, mothers will immolate their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.
In absolute terms, yes, it's seen generation after generation experience an improved quality of life. That computer you're typing on and the vast information networks you're able to access are in no uncertain terms the result of capitalism. That's not to say that laissez faire capitalism is a good thing, it's not. But let's not make false equivalencies here.
This. And the temptation to get rich quick on the part of random citizens would swiftly lead to a degradation of society to an unacceptable level. Pass our proposal, we'll put you on the board for life.
No, egalitarian is not mutually exclusive with meritocratic. Equality of opportunity is one thing, equality of outcome is something very different (and considerably worse). This is a key fact that pretty much all of modern progressivism seems to miss - provide for and protect the weak, encourage and reward the strong, and it'll all work out.
All varieties of feminism without exception are based on patriarchy theory, which holds men as the eternal oppressors and women as the forever oppressed. No amount of twisting or turning or excuses or circular logic will ever change that fact, which is why feminism uniformly wreaks havoc on men, women and children when feminists try to apply it to the real world. It's flat out wrong. So wrong a child clutching crayons could see how wrong it is. Feminism is the embodiment of the phrase "it takes brains to be this stupid". The nearest thing to equity feminists would be the likes of Paglia and Sommers, who merely use it as a flag of convenience as far as I can see, which I'd expect them to drop before too long.
Call yourself a humanitarian or something that doesn't have any ideological millstones attached instead, would be my advice.
If feminism beans people having equal rights ad responsibilities, regardless of gender then I'm a feminist.
It doesn't. And for pity's sake don't direct me towards a dictionary, go look up the Duluth and Swedish models, the Title IX abuses in universities, "enthusiastic consent", Baroness Corsten's farcical judicial order, Professor Sheehy's "men can be murdered with impunity" concepts and about two hundred other offences against equality, small and large.
However, "mangina"? Are you assuming the person you replied to is a man? Isn't that a bit of sexism right there?
Hardly, it's a tip of the hat to true equality. I mean if a woman can have a vagina why can't a man? Check your privilege!;)
Yes, that's the link they were laughing at you imbecile, it's linked within the "piece" as well. It beats me how anyone could self identify as a feminist in this day and age, what a disgraceful faux pas.
If there is a conceivable way to twist and distort what is said so that it can be labeled racist, they will do it.
You don't have to be PC police-y to find this stuff highly suspect. Societies and cultures have different emergent properties based on a wide variety of really complicated influences, external and internal. I mean was a Germanic tribesman shaking a bronze tipped spear any different, genetically, to a modern day Berlin banker? Not really. Therefore there must be a great deal more to it than genetics.
Indeed, it's not as though cultures of European stock have been uniformly ahead of the curve. There's just so much that can randomly happen, for example a strong case could be made that if the social changes wrought by the black death hadn't taken place, Europe might still be languishing at a near medieval level of technology. Or say the Minoans, they had indoor plumbing, air and light control, aqueducts and sophisticated codes of law what, four thousand years ago, then their island exploded.
Is he seriously taking a snapshot of modern US culture and trying to explain it mostly by genetics?
Yes, with increased automation we seem to be turning into a post-industrial culture, as in the majority of blue collar jobs in factories will cease to exist (and not a few white collar jobs as well). Perhaps an increased focus on microindustries, cottage industries, a diverse range of marginally profitable talents might help people to cope with these economic changes, rather than focusing on a "career" as such.
If the global temperature dropped that much crop failures would be the least of peoples' worries. The sudden reappearance of 10km thick glaciers over much of the northern hemisphere would be a little more pressing.
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Eh all of that stuff you'll pick up when you move out whether or not you physically go to college. Even learning how to work within a system is something you've been doing all your life.
The idea behind a spy agency is to catch em before they do wrong. Really all alliances and agreements in international politics are matters of convenience, not moral obligation.
You have been noted. Enjoy!
My balls it is. The only place I've ever seen it as such is on slashdot, and here twice.
If it makes me feel like I should be turning in my neighbours to earn extra food stamps or favours from the local Kommissar, maybe even the use of a People's Trabant to impress the other comrades, it's brutalism to me.
Whatever about hipsters I'm certainly no fan of modern glass, concrete and steel spiderweb homogeneity. I mean you could take a building off the streets of just about any modern city and transplant it into another without anyone raising an eyebrow. Even the iconic ones are rarely that interesting, just more elaborate variations on the theme. Go back in time a little and enormous cultural variations can be found in architectural design, producing some marvellous and unique urbanscapes.
Still I suppose, at least it's not brutalism. *shudders*
No they just need to refine the algorithms, I've been working on a predictive preferences model for the last while which may or may not come to anything, mostly for fun, but it's turning out quite nicely so far. Ratings aren't much use in this day and age and reviews are almost as suspect.
Better still, let's not tax income or property. Since all money in the economy is eventually spent, let's simply tax consumption and fund our society that way. Everyone consumes - those that consume less will pay less tax.
That might increase the cost of some goods or services beyond the benefit provided by the removal of income tax though. Let's say you're earning 300 euros a week, and being taxed 50 of those. You're fifty euros better off, but the overall doubling or tripling of sales taxes (whatever the different in income tax versus sales tax revenues are) has likely increased your expenditure far more than that. It disproportionately targets the poor while providing huge benefits to the likes of landowners who are renting out their properties, leading to a tremendous concentration of wealth, ie a landowning aristocracy. Plus, taxing consumption retards consumption, and the economy needs consumption.
Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio saepe, tempore quaeque suo qui facit, ille sapit.
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and death, mothers will immolate their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.
~Henry George
Primum non nocere.
Under communism, you wait for bread. Under capitalism, bread waits for you.
So, nonsense.
I suppose that Capitalism is a step up then
In absolute terms, yes, it's seen generation after generation experience an improved quality of life. That computer you're typing on and the vast information networks you're able to access are in no uncertain terms the result of capitalism. That's not to say that laissez faire capitalism is a good thing, it's not. But let's not make false equivalencies here.
This. And the temptation to get rich quick on the part of random citizens would swiftly lead to a degradation of society to an unacceptable level. Pass our proposal, we'll put you on the board for life.
No, egalitarian is not mutually exclusive with meritocratic. Equality of opportunity is one thing, equality of outcome is something very different (and considerably worse). This is a key fact that pretty much all of modern progressivism seems to miss - provide for and protect the weak, encourage and reward the strong, and it'll all work out.
All varieties of feminism without exception are based on patriarchy theory, which holds men as the eternal oppressors and women as the forever oppressed. No amount of twisting or turning or excuses or circular logic will ever change that fact, which is why feminism uniformly wreaks havoc on men, women and children when feminists try to apply it to the real world. It's flat out wrong. So wrong a child clutching crayons could see how wrong it is. Feminism is the embodiment of the phrase "it takes brains to be this stupid". The nearest thing to equity feminists would be the likes of Paglia and Sommers, who merely use it as a flag of convenience as far as I can see, which I'd expect them to drop before too long.
Call yourself a humanitarian or something that doesn't have any ideological millstones attached instead, would be my advice.
If feminism beans people having equal rights ad responsibilities, regardless of gender then I'm a feminist.
It doesn't. And for pity's sake don't direct me towards a dictionary, go look up the Duluth and Swedish models, the Title IX abuses in universities, "enthusiastic consent", Baroness Corsten's farcical judicial order, Professor Sheehy's "men can be murdered with impunity" concepts and about two hundred other offences against equality, small and large.
However, "mangina"? Are you assuming the person you replied to is a man? Isn't that a bit of sexism right there?
Hardly, it's a tip of the hat to true equality. I mean if a woman can have a vagina why can't a man? Check your privilege! ;)
Yes, that's the link they were laughing at you imbecile, it's linked within the "piece" as well. It beats me how anyone could self identify as a feminist in this day and age, what a disgraceful faux pas.
Oh please, put your mangina back in your bloomers and explain this shit to me: http://jezebel.com/294383/have...
Muh soggy knees!
If there is a conceivable way to twist and distort what is said so that it can be labeled racist, they will do it.
You don't have to be PC police-y to find this stuff highly suspect. Societies and cultures have different emergent properties based on a wide variety of really complicated influences, external and internal. I mean was a Germanic tribesman shaking a bronze tipped spear any different, genetically, to a modern day Berlin banker? Not really. Therefore there must be a great deal more to it than genetics.
Indeed, it's not as though cultures of European stock have been uniformly ahead of the curve. There's just so much that can randomly happen, for example a strong case could be made that if the social changes wrought by the black death hadn't taken place, Europe might still be languishing at a near medieval level of technology. Or say the Minoans, they had indoor plumbing, air and light control, aqueducts and sophisticated codes of law what, four thousand years ago, then their island exploded.
Is he seriously taking a snapshot of modern US culture and trying to explain it mostly by genetics?
Yes, with increased automation we seem to be turning into a post-industrial culture, as in the majority of blue collar jobs in factories will cease to exist (and not a few white collar jobs as well). Perhaps an increased focus on microindustries, cottage industries, a diverse range of marginally profitable talents might help people to cope with these economic changes, rather than focusing on a "career" as such.
Not just your opinion, and everyone can calm down, they've been doing it for a while -> http://www.scmagazine.com/nsa-...
If the global temperature dropped that much crop failures would be the least of peoples' worries. The sudden reappearance of 10km thick glaciers over much of the northern hemisphere would be a little more pressing.
If you seriously believe China is communist you just busted my retardometer.