Which was why he labelled it the worst ->except for all the others-. It only takes a few seconds of listening to the horror stories of people who lived under the communist oppression to figure out why. Stories that start with "My uncle/father/brother was taken from us one night for criticizing". You'd certainly profit from the experience of listening to people to whom it has happened. Your juvenile comment on the Reps being retarded displays your shallowness.
People are insufficiently altruistic? Amazing that nobody ever thought of that, huh? Or, just maybe, some have & instead of trying to found a society on motivations that collapse due to their being insufficiently present, found them on principles which are: democracy & enlightened self interest.
Are they perfect? no. but paraphrasing Winston Churchill, they work better than all the others.
Lol, so communism would be perfect if they could only find a way to kick out the malcontents? Quick! Somebody hook a generator up to Marx's tomb, it's spinning hard & fast enough to replace every other source of electricity in europe!
Communism claims to be a global system replacing all other social systems with something more "just": From each in function of his abilities. To each in function of his needs, etc. It is this aspiration to being the one truly just system which has always made communist regimes tend to imprison anyone who questions them.
In addition to which any system you dream up to designate & exclude these "malcontents" to will make it something else, moryathism or whatever.
If only the lower castes would accept their status... If only the workers would would & stop complaining...
If only people would stop trying to claim that there are simple answers to complex problems!
People who point to areas with low population density & ready access to Hydro power as being a path to the future are much akin to rich people who tell the poor living hand to mouth that they should stop eating so that they can accumulate capitol & live off the interests in 20 years.
Yes, you may be able to live off the interest/use only renewable energy because you were fortunate enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth/live in an region with plentiful renewables and low population. We do not and "let them eat cake" only shows that you do not understand the problem for others not in your privileged situation.
Yes, if you can, wean yourself off of Fossil & Nuclear. Recognize however that others cannot.
Again with the assumption that because you hold an opinion on something that it has any relevance. Bluntly, not caring about the side effects of coal generation like miners deaths, the coal ash pond that washed out into the Danube, the massive amounts of CO2 & nucleotides released is dumb as dirt.
The Austrian village that got washed out by the ash pond killed more people than Fukashima & may yet turn out to be uninhabitable for a longer term than the 10km around Fukashima as most of the contamination there has been limited to the site itself or is Iodine which will have dissipated to background levels within 2 months.
Screaming about a reactor for weeks which has major problems but that has yet to kill anyone while ignoring the 16K odd deaths of the tsunami or reminding people that other generation technologies have their problems is also dumb as dirt. Stupidity on this level is less common among geeks but you prove it exists.
No, I just got tired of you thinking that your opinion defines reality. In multiple comments in this thread you baldly contradict people who clearly have a much deeper insight on the impracticality of replacing nuclear/fossil by wind/solar for baseband electrical generation with "i don't think so". Your opinion carries no weight.
While common in the german press (who are deluding themselves), on this side of the Rhine we recognize that the Germans, by deciding to decommission their nuclear plants have decided to export the problem. Parallels have been drawn to California of a few years back who through NIMBY refused to provision enough new generation capacity for their own needs. While this worked for California for a number of years because the neighboring states had sufficient excess capacity to take up their slack, it eventually led to brownouts & embarrassment.
It's funny that just as Germany started making plans to eliminate their nuclear plants, they began asking for a better integration of European electrical transport networks. Not that we mind, there are few more enthusiastic about a German abandonment of their Nuclear program than the guys I've talked to at EDF. Sure, go ahead & cripple your baseband generation, France will be there to sell you the electricity you need at a minor markup. When, due to rare favorable conditions and low demand, you have excess because it is windy/sunny (ha), sorry we have enough already. It'll be the best thing ever to balance our economies.
As for my perception of how well I was taught in school, I appear to have done better than you as I learned how to read widely & eliminate the junk.
Ah? If Wind/Solar can be used for baseline Power Someone/Somewhere must be using it, right? Except that this is not the case.
Just because your uncle Joe's cabin can does not mean that the electrical needs of a municipality can. Either furnish references of municipal level reliance on wind/solar for baseband or stop posting nonsense.
The relative mortality rates of power generation technologies have EVERYTHING to do with their acceptance by the general public.
To address you minor point, uranium mining is by and large much safer than coal mining as every U mine to my knowledge is open pit whereas much of the coal mining going on today has transited to seam mining with the resultant risks of cave-ins & methane explosions.
I fail to see how the it is a problem for the members of PF to be paid more per song than the miserable amount the record labels were prepared to give them.
By suing & winning in court, they forced the record label to have to pay more for the privilege of selling by the song.
It's scandalous that record labels are paying artists much less for digital downloads than they are for the same songs delivered on a physical medium.
More power to them IMO.
I'm saying that you need reading lessons as you misunderstood my analogy to mean the opposite of what everyone else does. ISPs should cut off clients that are actively spamming/distributing malware, & not claim to be uninvolved.
'It would be like forcing car manufacturers to take responsibility for bad drivers.'"
No. It would be like forcing toll road operators to refuse access to cars that are actively spraying oil all over the road surface that have been causing accidents.
The wierd thing is that all the people that are screaming "I REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO BACKSCATTER BECAUSE IT USES X-RAYS & X-RAYS ARE DANGEROUS" that gives less than a tenth of the exposition a typical Xray does is that they all ignore the fact that flying at high altitude for 7 hours already gives you a dose equivalent to a typical X-ray. OK, so frequent fliers have a credible reason to avoid the scanners, but not the infrequent fliers that seem to be doing most of the screaming.
These dates would be to which publications? OED is paywalled & mere dates are neither very informative nor permit us to determine whether the dates are for this definition of the word pirate or for another. Note that thanks to Mikkeles I was able to track down the reference to 1703.
No not hilarious, pitiful.
Your external link gave no more information than your post. It had as much backing as me using goatse.cx to support claiming that you are a dilated rectum. It's also pitiful that you referenced the very post where I furnished the answer to the question you were to lazy/ignorant to look for. Had you admitted earlier that your reference was poor instead of challenging me to do better (which I did), I wouldn't be noticing the similarities between you & goatse.
Perhaps in your circle etmyonline is well known/thought of but it's the first time I've ever seen it. If Etymonline would give references to it's claims it's reputation would be safe from criticism but it doesn't. It's funny that you use Snopes as a reference, the reason Snopes has become a reference of it's own is because they give references! Be aghast all you want but unless Etymonline starts justifying their claims then many like me will consider it to be a hobbyist site & look elsewhere when in need of a serious reference.
Sure, because we all have the time to correct unsupported claims on the internet, right? That's the reason only idiots bother with giving references, we all just throw stuff out there... Except that it's the opposite.
Fortunately, Mikkeles was intelligent enough to furnish enough info that I was able to find the reference you were too lazy to look for: Daniel Dafoe's 1703 preface to "The True-Born Englishman".
Note that the reference is 1703, not 1701 as your link claimed.
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The best example for working communism that I know of are the kibbutzim & even they are having serious problems a few generations down the line.
no-one who had seriously researched the history of the M-16 would have posted the superficial anti-military rant
Which was why he labelled it the worst ->except for all the others-. It only takes a few seconds of listening to the horror stories of people who lived under the communist oppression to figure out why. Stories that start with "My uncle/father/brother was taken from us one night for criticizing". You'd certainly profit from the experience of listening to people to whom it has happened. Your juvenile comment on the Reps being retarded displays your shallowness.
People are insufficiently altruistic? Amazing that nobody ever thought of that, huh? Or, just maybe, some have & instead of trying to found a society on motivations that collapse due to their being insufficiently present, found them on principles which are: democracy & enlightened self interest.
Are they perfect? no. but paraphrasing Winston Churchill, they work better than all the others.
Why go ruin a superficial anti-military rant with facts?
Lol, so communism would be perfect if they could only find a way to kick out the malcontents? Quick! Somebody hook a generator up to Marx's tomb, it's spinning hard & fast enough to replace every other source of electricity in europe!
Communism claims to be a global system replacing all other social systems with something more "just": From each in function of his abilities. To each in function of his needs, etc. It is this aspiration to being the one truly just system which has always made communist regimes tend to imprison anyone who questions them.
In addition to which any system you dream up to designate & exclude these "malcontents" to will make it something else, moryathism or whatever.
If only the lower castes would accept their status... If only the workers would would & stop complaining...
If only people would stop trying to claim that there are simple answers to complex problems!
People who point to areas with low population density & ready access to Hydro power as being a path to the future are much akin to rich people who tell the poor living hand to mouth that they should stop eating so that they can accumulate capitol & live off the interests in 20 years.
Yes, you may be able to live off the interest/use only renewable energy because you were fortunate enough to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth/live in an region with plentiful renewables and low population. We do not and "let them eat cake" only shows that you do not understand the problem for others not in your privileged situation.
Yes, if you can, wean yourself off of Fossil & Nuclear. Recognize however that others cannot.
PJ deserves a thank you for everything she has done for us all. Show her that her efforts have been appreciated before it is too late!
Again with the assumption that because you hold an opinion on something that it has any relevance.
Bluntly, not caring about the side effects of coal generation like miners deaths, the coal ash pond that washed out into the Danube, the massive amounts of CO2 & nucleotides released is dumb as dirt.
The Austrian village that got washed out by the ash pond killed more people than Fukashima & may yet turn out to be uninhabitable for a longer term than the 10km around Fukashima as most of the contamination there has been limited to the site itself or is Iodine which will have dissipated to background levels within 2 months.
Screaming about a reactor for weeks which has major problems but that has yet to kill anyone while ignoring the 16K odd deaths of the tsunami or reminding people that other generation technologies have their problems is also dumb as dirt. Stupidity on this level is less common among geeks but you prove it exists.
You must have misread something.
No, I just got tired of you thinking that your opinion defines reality. In multiple comments in this thread you baldly contradict people who clearly have a much deeper insight on the impracticality of replacing nuclear/fossil by wind/solar for baseband electrical generation with "i don't think so". Your opinion carries no weight.
While common in the german press (who are deluding themselves), on this side of the Rhine we recognize that the Germans, by deciding to decommission their nuclear plants have decided to export the problem. Parallels have been drawn to California of a few years back who through NIMBY refused to provision enough new generation capacity for their own needs. While this worked for California for a number of years because the neighboring states had sufficient excess capacity to take up their slack, it eventually led to brownouts & embarrassment.
It's funny that just as Germany started making plans to eliminate their nuclear plants, they began asking for a better integration of European electrical transport networks. Not that we mind, there are few more enthusiastic about a German abandonment of their Nuclear program than the guys I've talked to at EDF. Sure, go ahead & cripple your baseband generation, France will be there to sell you the electricity you need at a minor markup. When, due to rare favorable conditions and low demand, you have excess because it is windy/sunny (ha), sorry we have enough already. It'll be the best thing ever to balance our economies.
As for my perception of how well I was taught in school, I appear to have done better than you as I learned how to read widely & eliminate the junk.
Ah? If Wind/Solar can be used for baseline Power Someone/Somewhere must be using it, right? Except that this is not the case.
Just because your uncle Joe's cabin can does not mean that the electrical needs of a municipality can. Either furnish references of municipal level reliance on wind/solar for baseband or stop posting nonsense.
The relative mortality rates of power generation technologies have EVERYTHING to do with their acceptance by the general public.
To address you minor point, uranium mining is by and large much safer than coal mining as every U mine to my knowledge is open pit whereas much of the coal mining going on today has transited to seam mining with the resultant risks of cave-ins & methane explosions.
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Va péter plus loin, tu pues...
Try "l'App Store"...
I fail to see how the it is a problem for the members of PF to be paid more per song than the miserable amount the record labels were prepared to give them. By suing & winning in court, they forced the record label to have to pay more for the privilege of selling by the song. It's scandalous that record labels are paying artists much less for digital downloads than they are for the same songs delivered on a physical medium. More power to them IMO.
The first hour was OK, It wasn't until Mommy came into the picture that it went down the tubes. As for the ending, I try to blot it out of my mind...
So the peacock wallet is a little like a loincloth where the more "assets" you have the more it "puts your assets on “display” for potential mates"?
A wallet that buzzes when a transaction is processed. Now I wonder where a spouse searching for stimulation could put that...
I'm saying that you need reading lessons as you misunderstood my analogy to mean the opposite of what everyone else does. ISPs should cut off clients that are actively spamming/distributing malware, & not claim to be uninvolved.
No. It would be like forcing toll road operators to refuse access to cars that are actively spraying oil all over the road surface that have been causing accidents.
The wierd thing is that all the people that are screaming "I REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO BACKSCATTER BECAUSE IT USES X-RAYS & X-RAYS ARE DANGEROUS" that gives less than a tenth of the exposition a typical Xray does is that they all ignore the fact that flying at high altitude for 7 hours already gives you a dose equivalent to a typical X-ray. OK, so frequent fliers have a credible reason to avoid the scanners, but not the infrequent fliers that seem to be doing most of the screaming.
These dates would be to which publications? OED is paywalled & mere dates are neither very informative nor permit us to determine whether the dates are for this definition of the word pirate or for another. Note that thanks to Mikkeles I was able to track down the reference to 1703.
No not hilarious, pitiful.
Your external link gave no more information than your post. It had as much backing as me using goatse.cx to support claiming that you are a dilated rectum. It's also pitiful that you referenced the very post where I furnished the answer to the question you were to lazy/ignorant to look for. Had you admitted earlier that your reference was poor instead of challenging me to do better (which I did), I wouldn't be noticing the similarities between you & goatse.
Perhaps in your circle etmyonline is well known/thought of but it's the first time I've ever seen it. If Etymonline would give references to it's claims it's reputation would be safe from criticism but it doesn't. It's funny that you use Snopes as a reference, the reason Snopes has become a reference of it's own is because they give references! Be aghast all you want but unless Etymonline starts justifying their claims then many like me will consider it to be a hobbyist site & look elsewhere when in need of a serious reference.
Sure, because we all have the time to correct unsupported claims on the internet, right? That's the reason only idiots bother with giving references, we all just throw stuff out there... Except that it's the opposite.
Fortunately, Mikkeles was intelligent enough to furnish enough info that I was able to find the reference you were too lazy to look for: Daniel Dafoe's 1703 preface to "The True-Born Englishman".
Note that the reference is 1703, not 1701 as your link claimed.