Chernobyl is in Ukraine, a fact that should makes everyone think twice before pushing a civil war. And by everyone, I also mean US and EU. Nobody should have supported a revolutionary government with an agenda beyond making a new constitution and new elections
In other words, democracy, which is the process where the People decide for the general interest, is broken.
There is no surprise here and we know where the problem is. Democracy requires citizen to get informed enough to make a rational opinion. This means they should be first correctly educated (how much does it cost? Is everyone able to afford it?), and then that the media should provide them good information. On the second point there is a big failure since medias are owned and manipulated by private interests
And then there are the rotten institutions, where politicians rely more on private interests who fund them than on their voters. But that one is probably a consequence of the citizen inability to perform democracy.
Teaching economics may come with a hidden political agenda. If this is about telling students that There Is No Alternative, I would prefer them to not be brain washed by that doctrine.
How will they manage satellite "meant to be refueled". If there is no accessible opening to inject fuel, that seems difficult. Are they going to unscrew or unbolt parts?
Everyone know thay are also negociating the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) with EU at the same time? The talks are so secret that even members of EU parliament do not know what is discussed.
After all, it seems the only advantage of nuclear energy was to avoid emitting greenhouse gas (which is a big advantage). It is not cheap, and as usual, the cost overhead will not be payed by the one that benefited from selling it once.
I am a low level programmer, and found this paper quite hard to grasp. In my opinion it terribly fails on the vulgarization front.
I gave up after I understood the problem to fight was that there were state in objects. I understand removing state makes the program simpler (and easier to mathematically prove), but I suspect this brings false assumptions, since the underlying environment (OS, computer, network) is full of hidden states. For instance a memory allocator may succeed or fail regardless of the parameter it was called with.
Sure current situation is not good, but you have to look at its source.
Between 1945 and 1973, France's state deficit is covered by debt owned by nationals, and money creation by the Banque de France. The debt remain low despite an important public spending.
After 1973, money must be borrowed on international markets. The debt increases since that time, and no public spending reduction managed to fix that. And ironically, the whole debt today is roughly the sum of debt interests since 1973.
Do we need references to claim that austerity never works? Do we have examples where it was a success?
My understanding of the phenomenon is that common people understand it as a wise measure they adopt when they have budget problems: less expenses, more income. But that thinking miss the point that a state is not an individual, and has several special capabilities which can help here: creating money, increasing income, and refusing to pay the debt without seeing its belongings seized.
But what about the politicians that enforce austerity and the media that support it? They are economically educated, they know what they are doing/supporting will only make their People poorer.
We have a good figure to start with: the share of GDP that goes to capital or labor. It moved a lot from the later to the former. Should we go back to 1980 values in France, workers (who cannot escape taxes as megacorporations can) would globally get a 195 billion euros bonus each year.
After the french government committed to economic suicide with austerity policies (latest plan is to remove 50 billions euros from the economy), what is a little missing billion?
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Chernobyl is in Ukraine, a fact that should makes everyone think twice before pushing a civil war. And by everyone, I also mean US and EU. Nobody should have supported a revolutionary government with an agenda beyond making a new constitution and new elections
In other words, democracy, which is the process where the People decide for the general interest, is broken.
There is no surprise here and we know where the problem is. Democracy requires citizen to get informed enough to make a rational opinion. This means they should be first correctly educated (how much does it cost? Is everyone able to afford it?), and then that the media should provide them good information. On the second point there is a big failure since medias are owned and manipulated by private interests
And then there are the rotten institutions, where politicians rely more on private interests who fund them than on their voters. But that one is probably a consequence of the citizen inability to perform democracy.
Removing high risk activities? They should close banks!
Teaching economics may come with a hidden political agenda. If this is about telling students that There Is No Alternative, I would prefer them to not be brain washed by that doctrine.
Who is teaching real economics and not Keynesian crap?
By "real economics", you mean the current mess that brings a global crisis every 3 years?
How will they manage satellite "meant to be refueled". If there is no accessible opening to inject fuel, that seems difficult. Are they going to unscrew or unbolt parts?
Heretic? When they also want to preach about unprovable and untestable extra dimensions or multiverses?
Well, the church enforced some kind of monopoly on any abstract knowledge at that time. Remember University was only about Theology at that time.
Everyone know thay are also negociating the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) with EU at the same time? The talks are so secret that even members of EU parliament do not know what is discussed.
It is weird the church failed to burn him as heretic. I guess they missed his work?
After all, it seems the only advantage of nuclear energy was to avoid emitting greenhouse gas (which is a big advantage). It is not cheap, and as usual, the cost overhead will not be payed by the one that benefited from selling it once.
While I am satisfied US did not merge its ICBM control network with the Internet of Things, I hope the other nuclear powers did the same.
Share the keys with the new sysadmin, but retain your own access.
You know how to fix things, just keep that possibility, it may be useful
That looks nice, but what problem does it solves?
Why use GM? The goal is to produce sterile males, can't we just irradiate them?
But what are you going to do with it? Saving on the long term has become difficult, as global capitalism now has a crisis every few years.
Perhaps the one that laid mines could financially help the effort?
I am a low level programmer, and found this paper quite hard to grasp. In my opinion it terribly fails on the vulgarization front.
I gave up after I understood the problem to fight was that there were state in objects. I understand removing state makes the program simpler (and easier to mathematically prove), but I suspect this brings false assumptions, since the underlying environment (OS, computer, network) is full of hidden states. For instance a memory allocator may succeed or fail regardless of the parameter it was called with.
What do personal tax rates have to do with a corporation paying corporate taxes? There are no "75%" corporate taxes in France?
No, there is not. Do not believe anything François Hollande says.
Sure current situation is not good, but you have to look at its source.
Between 1945 and 1973, France's state deficit is covered by debt owned by nationals, and money creation by the Banque de France. The debt remain low despite an important public spending.
After 1973, money must be borrowed on international markets. The debt increases since that time, and no public spending reduction managed to fix that. And ironically, the whole debt today is roughly the sum of debt interests since 1973.
No problem, just buy 1/50 of french public debt and you will have your billion every year.
Do we need references to claim that austerity never works? Do we have examples where it was a success?
My understanding of the phenomenon is that common people understand it as a wise measure they adopt when they have budget problems: less expenses, more income. But that thinking miss the point that a state is not an individual, and has several special capabilities which can help here: creating money, increasing income, and refusing to pay the debt without seeing its belongings seized.
But what about the politicians that enforce austerity and the media that support it? They are economically educated, they know what they are doing/supporting will only make their People poorer.
I wonder why I have been modded down troll and flamebait. Is there anyone here that still believe austerity can benefit a country?
Though I did not play it for 20 years, I perfectly recall Gradius plot that was in the booklet: "you must destroy the Korg empire" (nothing more!)
We have a good figure to start with: the share of GDP that goes to capital or labor. It moved a lot from the later to the former. Should we go back to 1980 values in France, workers (who cannot escape taxes as megacorporations can) would globally get a 195 billion euros bonus each year.
After the french government committed to economic suicide with austerity policies (latest plan is to remove 50 billions euros from the economy), what is a little missing billion?