The confederation: each member state keeps all its sovereignty, and they cooperate on project they choose to enter or left. Democracy works inside the member states, and you will have trade barriers (which IMO is a good thing, now that we have three decade of experience in removing trade barriers).
The federation: you remove sovereignty from member states and transfer it to the Union. This is what we are doing now. That requires a democracy at the EU level, which does not exists. And that require EU to be a nation, where a minority accepts the decision of the majority, and the rich region accepts to pay for the poorer. This is not the case, and attempting to push the project by force through our throats will not make it happen.
My opinion is that if we want to go the federation way, we need to build a EU nation, and that could be done through the confederation way *if* people choose to do so. If they do not, let us forget about EU federalism, as IMO people sovereignty is more important.
I thought school's first mission was to teach children how to read, write and count. If I understand the idea correctly, this is a method to make them consume information without having to read. If that is the goal, then it belongs to leisure activity rather than school, IMO.
There is no straightforward path to democracy. For instance, it took France more than 80 years of instability to move from monarchy (1789) to the stable third republic (1871). In between there have been numerous revolutions, 2 republics, 3 kings, and 2 emperors.
I think the sentence makes more sense if you substitute "autonomy" with "democracy", or "people sovereignty". The European Union objective for a few decades has been to destroy that. And now that unelected leader are obviously incompetent at running the continent, it may explain why a majority of EU citizen reject the EU project. It does not work and citizen cannot fix it, therefore our best option left is to get rid of it.
They gave $5000 to Twitter account merchants. It doesn't seem to me that was the smartest thing to do with the money if you actually want to discourage this kind of activity.
I had the same idea, but now I wonder how much they managed to raise autogenerated twitter account price. 5000 USD could be seen as an investment
Guillotine was actually a huge improvement over previous methods: Noble's heads were axed (and the neck may be missed on first hit...), and other people were hung. Guillotine was both reliable and instantaneous, removing some unnecessary pain for the person executed.
But that is history, as France suppressed death penalty in 1981
But the EU is not a democracy. The elected parliament has little power: it cannot start a directive draft. it cannot have the last word on amendments. It can reject a directive, that is its only real power, but that only apply to a limited range of matters for which the parliament is involved. For many matters, it happens at the European Commission, the European Council, or between both of them.
The horror show continues: the executive powers of member states act as a legislative power at the EU level, since the European Council is some kind of upper house... except that the debates there are not public. You never know if your government betrayed its promises or not. On the justice side, European Court of Justice's judges are appointed by the executive power for a renewable term, which means they are not likely to upset the executive power.
Many policies are carved in the marble of treaties, and cannot be changed even if a majority of European citizen want so. When France and Netherland's people said they had enough in 2005, their votes were just ignored.
I came to the conclusion that there is nothing to save in the EU. The sooner it collapse, the better. That will allow us European people to start over some continental cooperation with the respect of people sovereignty in mind.
Missing outlook is the reason why the tablet did not sold? IMO in order to derive such a conclusion, one really needs to be a high ranking manager not involved in any real work beside exchanging e-mails.
You can model the stock market based on statistical algorithms if everyone in the market behaves rationally. Then a bubble starts to bubble up, then a crash happen, and then everyone panics.
IMO investors are never behave rationally. To do so they would need to have good information on the businesses they invest in, and this is just not the case. Is there anything worth saving in neoclassic economy theory?
First slashdot summary tells about financial markets, TFA talks about businesses. I understand that businesses are dwarfs in financial markets, that vast majority of transactions being financial products non based on real economy.
Second, financial markets are more like lemmings than bacterias. They have nasty group behavior that cause all actors to jump into the sea at the same time. Surprisingly, bacterias look to fit neoclassic economy models better than humans, as their decisions seem more rationals.
It is worth noting that this topic is among the "codecision" matters for which the EU parliament has a word to say. But even in that case it is still long away from being a real parliament. The European Commission proposed the initial draft, and it can strip the amendment voted by the parliament (it already happened). Moreover the parliament will have to agree with the European council, which is made of member states' government representative, and acts as a upper house in the EU framework.
Well, you look at what happened to Edward Snowden or Bradley Mannings, and you see it personally costs a lot to prove anything, which is why we will not often have proofs.
I agree with you on NSA role, but I think that the solution is more political than technical. US citizen now have to regain control over their government, and put and end to this massive surveillance state. Such intrusive setup benefit/cost analysis advocates to get it dismantled, as we see other countries that manage to thwart terrorism without storing everyone's life in databases.
It gives them a legitimate reason to store [the customer's face], which would otherwise be illegal in most European countries.
It does not have to be illegal. As I understand the spirit of privacy laws that exist in EU, if (1) there is a legitimate reason, (2) user is made ware, and (3) you do not retain it after you do not need it anymore (the customer ceased to use the service), then it should be fine.
This is going toward the distributed microscopic actuators described in Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the sky. I cannot wait until someone hack that (which happens in the book when Pham Nuwen uses a forgotten backdoor to take control of all of them).
I was not aware of that exchange framework, it looks like an odd idea to me. Health is not something I want to put in the invisible hand of free market, there are too many externalities for it to handle the thing properly.
a group of entitled white rich men get together to conspire to keep the government bankrupt,
They do not. While bankrupt for a corporation means it is destroyed, it is different for a nation state, which still exists afterwards, and it is even in better shape since it does not have to pay debt interests anymore.. A state bankrupt is just a very bad news for whoever landed money to it.
The Brazilian government is showing much more anger in public than it is showing in private discussions with the U.S. government. All governments are doing this, even in Europe.
"especially in Europe" may have been more appropriate. The Evo Morales plane story shed light on how European governments are now US pets. Que se vayan todos.
That's an awfully particular question. Perhaps you should do your own research rather than ask random people on Slashdot?
Let me sum it up: I talk about social welfare, you say it does not work. I cite example of western Europe socialized insurance for health, unemployment and pensions, that has been working fine for 50 years, you say it does not work because of fraud. Since this is a recurrent FUD, I ask example, you tell me to find on my own.
I figure "income" is a near synonym for "wages".
Wage is payment for work form an employer to an employee. There are many forms of incomes that are not wages:
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The mouse heart had its cells replaced with human cells, offering the potential of growing custom replacement hearts
The mouse will have to be rather big...
Well, European stuff can work in two modes.
The confederation: each member state keeps all its sovereignty, and they cooperate on project they choose to enter or left. Democracy works inside the member states, and you will have trade barriers (which IMO is a good thing, now that we have three decade of experience in removing trade barriers).
The federation: you remove sovereignty from member states and transfer it to the Union. This is what we are doing now. That requires a democracy at the EU level, which does not exists. And that require EU to be a nation, where a minority accepts the decision of the majority, and the rich region accepts to pay for the poorer. This is not the case, and attempting to push the project by force through our throats will not make it happen.
My opinion is that if we want to go the federation way, we need to build a EU nation, and that could be done through the confederation way *if* people choose to do so. If they do not, let us forget about EU federalism, as IMO people sovereignty is more important.
I thought school's first mission was to teach children how to read, write and count. If I understand the idea correctly, this is a method to make them consume information without having to read. If that is the goal, then it belongs to leisure activity rather than school, IMO.
There is no straightforward path to democracy. For instance, it took France more than 80 years of instability to move from monarchy (1789) to the stable third republic (1871). In between there have been numerous revolutions, 2 republics, 3 kings, and 2 emperors.
I think the sentence makes more sense if you substitute "autonomy" with "democracy", or "people sovereignty". The European Union objective for a few decades has been to destroy that. And now that unelected leader are obviously incompetent at running the continent, it may explain why a majority of EU citizen reject the EU project. It does not work and citizen cannot fix it, therefore our best option left is to get rid of it.
They gave $5000 to Twitter account merchants. It doesn't seem to me that was the smartest thing to do with the money if you actually want to discourage this kind of activity.
I had the same idea, but now I wonder how much they managed to raise autogenerated twitter account price. 5000 USD could be seen as an investment
Guillotine was actually a huge improvement over previous methods: Noble's heads were axed (and the neck may be missed on first hit...), and other people were hung. Guillotine was both reliable and instantaneous, removing some unnecessary pain for the person executed.
But that is history, as France suppressed death penalty in 1981
Do not forget the policies carved into treaties, which are therefore moved outside the field of democracy.
But the EU is not a democracy. The elected parliament has little power: it cannot start a directive draft. it cannot have the last word on amendments. It can reject a directive, that is its only real power, but that only apply to a limited range of matters for which the parliament is involved. For many matters, it happens at the European Commission, the European Council, or between both of them.
The horror show continues: the executive powers of member states act as a legislative power at the EU level, since the European Council is some kind of upper house... except that the debates there are not public. You never know if your government betrayed its promises or not. On the justice side, European Court of Justice's judges are appointed by the executive power for a renewable term, which means they are not likely to upset the executive power.
Many policies are carved in the marble of treaties, and cannot be changed even if a majority of European citizen want so. When France and Netherland's people said they had enough in 2005, their votes were just ignored.
I came to the conclusion that there is nothing to save in the EU. The sooner it collapse, the better. That will allow us European people to start over some continental cooperation with the respect of people sovereignty in mind.
Missing outlook is the reason why the tablet did not sold? IMO in order to derive such a conclusion, one really needs to be a high ranking manager not involved in any real work beside exchanging e-mails.
If the prez doesn't let Samsung off the hook as well you can expect the US to be taken to the WTO.
This are patents, which are national laws. However there is a WTO treaty for them; TRIPS. I agree things may turn quite bad at WTO for the US
You can model the stock market based on statistical algorithms if everyone in the market behaves rationally. Then a bubble starts to bubble up, then a crash happen, and then everyone panics.
IMO investors are never behave rationally. To do so they would need to have good information on the businesses they invest in, and this is just not the case. Is there anything worth saving in neoclassic economy theory?
Two points
First slashdot summary tells about financial markets, TFA talks about businesses. I understand that businesses are dwarfs in financial markets, that vast majority of transactions being financial products non based on real economy.
Second, financial markets are more like lemmings than bacterias. They have nasty group behavior that cause all actors to jump into the sea at the same time. Surprisingly, bacterias look to fit neoclassic economy models better than humans, as their decisions seem more rationals.
Are there screenshots of the thing anywhere, for the one that cannot or do not want to install that Unity player?
It is worth noting that this topic is among the "codecision" matters for which the EU parliament has a word to say. But even in that case it is still long away from being a real parliament. The European Commission proposed the initial draft, and it can strip the amendment voted by the parliament (it already happened). Moreover the parliament will have to agree with the European council, which is made of member states' government representative, and acts as a upper house in the EU framework.
Well, you look at what happened to Edward Snowden or Bradley Mannings, and you see it personally costs a lot to prove anything, which is why we will not often have proofs.
I agree with you on NSA role, but I think that the solution is more political than technical. US citizen now have to regain control over their government, and put and end to this massive surveillance state. Such intrusive setup benefit/cost analysis advocates to get it dismantled, as we see other countries that manage to thwart terrorism without storing everyone's life in databases.
Who cares? That data will end up in a NSA datacenter anyway.
It gives them a legitimate reason to store [the customer's face], which would otherwise be illegal in most European countries.
It does not have to be illegal. As I understand the spirit of privacy laws that exist in EU, if (1) there is a legitimate reason, (2) user is made ware, and (3) you do not retain it after you do not need it anymore (the customer ceased to use the service), then it should be fine.
Is it 60 trillions USD once, or on each year?
You want to raise cattle in Antartic once global warming will have melt it?
This is going toward the distributed microscopic actuators described in Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the sky. I cannot wait until someone hack that (which happens in the book when Pham Nuwen uses a forgotten backdoor to take control of all of them).
I was not aware of that exchange framework, it looks like an odd idea to me. Health is not something I want to put in the invisible hand of free market, there are too many externalities for it to handle the thing properly.
a group of entitled white rich men get together to conspire to keep the government bankrupt,
They do not. While bankrupt for a corporation means it is destroyed, it is different for a nation state, which still exists afterwards, and it is even in better shape since it does not have to pay debt interests anymore.. A state bankrupt is just a very bad news for whoever landed money to it.
The Brazilian government is showing much more anger in public than it is showing in private discussions with the U.S. government. All governments are doing this, even in Europe.
"especially in Europe" may have been more appropriate. The Evo Morales plane story shed light on how European governments are now US pets. Que se vayan todos.
That's an awfully particular question. Perhaps you should do your own research rather than ask random people on Slashdot?
Let me sum it up: I talk about social welfare, you say it does not work. I cite example of western Europe socialized insurance for health, unemployment and pensions, that has been working fine for 50 years, you say it does not work because of fraud. Since this is a recurrent FUD, I ask example, you tell me to find on my own.
I figure "income" is a near synonym for "wages".
Wage is payment for work form an employer to an employee. There are many forms of incomes that are not wages: