Quite possibly the easiest way to do that would be to adopt China's approach of selectively implementing trade barriers in the name of domestic self-interest. Everything made of cloth or plastic should get a 200% tariff on it; and those barriers should only be relaxed when we've 'drained the swamp' at home.
This, and cutting all passive welfare to the able-bodied.
At the end of the day, not everyone is smart enough to go to college. Thick people need jobs, money and dignity too.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to our naive neoliberal overlords, whose world-view never went beyond Econ 101.
That is AWESOME. They've managed to take the piss out of every annoying Web fad invented in the last 5 years.
Incidentally, it does demonstrate the herd mentality of web designers in general... and how when one person used Bootstrap or material design in a website, then a billion other web hipsters will do the same. Result, an Internet where a third of the websites look identical.
... how about charging those rural parasites fair market value for the water they use, reflecting the scarce/non-renewable nature of fossil water??
Asking greedy/short-sighted primary producers to take some of that personal responsibility they vote for and foist onto the urban poor is only fair. If the shoe fits, wear it.
Why would the Chinese government have them attacking their enemies in such an obvious and easily attributable way?
Are they just at the point where they now think they're so big and strong, that they can just steamroll anybody in the world IRL and online without long-term consequences?
It could just be Third World 'peasant mentality'. Or are people, who are ostensibly rational enough to take control of a nation of 1+ billion people, really this stupid?
This is the failure of the neoconservatives. These fools believed that you could bake bread out of shit by giving violent, culturally-backwards literates the right to vote. That they could be trusted with "freedom".
Ignorant barbarians don't deserve the vote, and can't be trusted with the vote.
That way lies Gaza.
"Freedom" isn't universal, and not all people can be trusted to exercise it responsibly.
He's a Conservative. There's probably some angle in there, where either him or his friends stand to benefit.
The man is obviously suffering from right-wing brain canker, where the entire world is filtered through the notion of individual greed and self-interest, and the only value worth preserving is corporate profit and fat dividends for Tory-supported old people.
He has drunk far too much of the copyright cartel's Kool-Aid. In what reality does copyright infringment result in JAIL TIME? In a world where custodial sentences are increasingly being reserved only for violent offences? Maybe this tory crook thinks that copyright infringement is a violent assault against the oversized profits of buggy-whip makers?
The notion that businesses with bad or obsolete business models should have the right to claim that newer and better businesses should prop up their businesses for them is scandalous, and a terrible precedent to set.
Next thing you know, he'll be demanding that buggy-whip makers will be entitled to tell car makers how they must support buggy-whip makers, etc etc.
It reflects the arrogance and studied cluelessness of his conservative milieu. Outrageous.
... and I'll wager that the loans get structured into collateralized debt obligations, and then tranches sold to gullible (sorry, "unsophisticated") German pension funds. The problem then becomes finding enough shitty loans to repackage.
Far too many people are doing law too. There is a massive glut of lawyers, and countless people are learning the hard way, that the hundred grand of student debt they wasted getting their piece of paper ended up being worthless.
Our worthless idiot leaders thought it would be a good idea to send 50% of the population to college, despite higher-education being a complete and utter waste for many people, and many jobs.
It is a colossal waste of resources, enabled by parents' insecurities, and the overpaid fat cats who run the "education-industrial complex" who fatten themselves on misplaced aspiration.
A dark side of overly technical education, is how many violent Muslim extremists and Christian young-Earth creationists come from engineering, applied maths and medical backgrounds. If we instill in an entire generation, an aspie world-view where everything is reduced to clean-cut formalisms and educate-out the ability to handle nuance and uncertainty, then we may be locking in a nasty future for ourselves.
This thread was all right until it got invaded by Putinbots.
I imagine their bizarro reality to be a bit like the raving Republican Right right before the Iraq War. A crazy, demented, sad place, full of crazy demented, sad people.
Sputnik News/RT is Russia's answer to Fox News.
And Putin and his entourage are basically the Slavic equivalents of US Republicunts, but with a bit more intelligence and rat-cunning.
The space environment puts incredible wear on hardware. Remember that in LEO, it gets extremely hot, then extremely cold every 90 minutes (orbital period), and this puts a lot of fatigue on the hardware. It's unlikely that they'll keep the hardware around after the ISS hits end-of-life.
OTOH, it'll be exciting to see what the US can do, with the availability of a 100 ton-class super heavy lift rocket. Maybe something with huge, pre-fitted Skylab-like modules? I'm sure they'll be looking for something with 1) may more capability, 2) way cheaper to build and launch and 3) way cheaper to maintain, as the current station requires huge amounts of work to keep running.
I think we all have a lot to learn from each other. Elements of Confucianism have a lot going for them, e.g. filial piety and respect for elders.
But like all cultures, there will be assclowns who will selectively appropriate ideas for their own ends, e.g. the CCP notion of 'state as family', which inevitably leads to 'father knows best, you'll do what you're told' -- and naturally, conveniently ignore the fact filial piety also involves a duty to tell it like it is when your "betters" are screwing up.
One element of Western culture I do think the world can learn from, is the deep understanding that power can be, and usually gets abused -- learnt from centuries of war, conflict and change in the West. Democracy doesn't so much come from the notion that "letting the people decide" (which, if you understand just how fucking stupid and easily influenced the average person actually is, is a REALLY bad idea), but rather, "if there are going to be revolutions, make them smooth and orderly". Thus, we have the Western model of representative democracy, which at its essence, is about smoothly getting rid of bad leaders. This is a piece of "ancient Western wisdom" that the Chinese will eventually learn the hard way.
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Quite possibly the easiest way to do that would be to adopt China's approach of selectively implementing trade barriers in the name of domestic self-interest. Everything made of cloth or plastic should get a 200% tariff on it; and those barriers should only be relaxed when we've 'drained the swamp' at home.
This, and cutting all passive welfare to the able-bodied.
At the end of the day, not everyone is smart enough to go to college. Thick people need jobs, money and dignity too.
Unfortunately, this is anathema to our naive neoliberal overlords, whose world-view never went beyond Econ 101.
I'm keen to see how the techn-libertarian crackpots that infest this board are going to explain THIS away...
You forgot "SHEEPLE"
That is AWESOME. They've managed to take the piss out of every annoying Web fad invented in the last 5 years.
Incidentally, it does demonstrate the herd mentality of web designers in general... and how when one person used Bootstrap or material design in a website, then a billion other web hipsters will do the same. Result, an Internet where a third of the websites look identical.
... how about charging those rural parasites fair market value for the water they use, reflecting the scarce/non-renewable nature of fossil water??
Asking greedy/short-sighted primary producers to take some of that personal responsibility they vote for and foist onto the urban poor is only fair. If the shoe fits, wear it.
Waiting for some gullible brainwashed libertoon to say now that "there's no such thing as market failure".
I've had idiot college conservatives actually tell that to me with a straight face, in this day and age.
... at the term "Future Banned User" (FBU).
Isn't that just a nice way of saying "somebody our algorithm flags as a complete asshat"
Why would the Chinese government have them attacking their enemies in such an obvious and easily attributable way?
Are they just at the point where they now think they're so big and strong, that they can just steamroll anybody in the world IRL and online without long-term consequences?
It could just be Third World 'peasant mentality'. Or are people, who are ostensibly rational enough to take control of a nation of 1+ billion people, really this stupid?
What, there's no law against having a conflict-of-interest?
Hah America, the cradle of democracy can't get THIS right.
You drunk the libertool Kool-aid too? My sympathies.
This is the failure of the neoconservatives. These fools believed that you could bake bread out of shit by giving violent, culturally-backwards literates the right to vote. That they could be trusted with "freedom".
Ignorant barbarians don't deserve the vote, and can't be trusted with the vote.
That way lies Gaza.
"Freedom" isn't universal, and not all people can be trusted to exercise it responsibly.
Gotta love "intellectual property" accounting rules.
He's a Conservative. There's probably some angle in there, where either him or his friends stand to benefit.
The man is obviously suffering from right-wing brain canker, where the entire world is filtered through the notion of individual greed and self-interest, and the only value worth preserving is corporate profit and fat dividends for Tory-supported old people.
What colour is the sky on this guy's planet??
He has drunk far too much of the copyright cartel's Kool-Aid. In what reality does copyright infringment result in JAIL TIME? In a world where custodial sentences are increasingly being reserved only for violent offences? Maybe this tory crook thinks that copyright infringement is a violent assault against the oversized profits of buggy-whip makers?
The notion that businesses with bad or obsolete business models should have the right to claim that newer and better businesses should prop up their businesses for them is scandalous, and a terrible precedent to set.
Next thing you know, he'll be demanding that buggy-whip makers will be entitled to tell car makers how they must support buggy-whip makers, etc etc.
It reflects the arrogance and studied cluelessness of his conservative milieu. Outrageous.
... and I'll wager that the loans get structured into collateralized debt obligations, and then tranches sold to gullible (sorry, "unsophisticated") German pension funds. The problem then becomes finding enough shitty loans to repackage.
It'll be like subprime all over again.
Gardening leave.
No ifs, no buts. Give him his shit in a cardboard box, revoke his pass, get security to escort him out. Pay him to serve out his notice at home.
Far too many people are doing law too. There is a massive glut of lawyers, and countless people are learning the hard way, that the hundred grand of student debt they wasted getting their piece of paper ended up being worthless.
"All must have prizes"
Our worthless idiot leaders thought it would be a good idea to send 50% of the population to college, despite higher-education being a complete and utter waste for many people, and many jobs.
It is a colossal waste of resources, enabled by parents' insecurities, and the overpaid fat cats who run the "education-industrial complex" who fatten themselves on misplaced aspiration.
A dark side of overly technical education, is how many violent Muslim extremists and Christian young-Earth creationists come from engineering, applied maths and medical backgrounds. If we instill in an entire generation, an aspie world-view where everything is reduced to clean-cut formalisms and educate-out the ability to handle nuance and uncertainty, then we may be locking in a nasty future for ourselves.
The NSA probably couldn't get a bead on the attackers, because they were wearing tin foil hats.
Is it getting a little warm in here?
This thread was all right until it got invaded by Putinbots.
I imagine their bizarro reality to be a bit like the raving Republican Right right before the Iraq War. A crazy, demented, sad place, full of crazy demented, sad people.
Sputnik News/RT is Russia's answer to Fox News.
And Putin and his entourage are basically the Slavic equivalents of US Republicunts, but with a bit more intelligence and rat-cunning.
What kind of radiation issues would you expect to see? Would that be anything like neutron embrittlement in nuclear reactors?
The space environment puts incredible wear on hardware. Remember that in LEO, it gets extremely hot, then extremely cold every 90 minutes (orbital period), and this puts a lot of fatigue on the hardware. It's unlikely that they'll keep the hardware around after the ISS hits end-of-life.
OTOH, it'll be exciting to see what the US can do, with the availability of a 100 ton-class super heavy lift rocket. Maybe something with huge, pre-fitted Skylab-like modules? I'm sure they'll be looking for something with 1) may more capability, 2) way cheaper to build and launch and 3) way cheaper to maintain, as the current station requires huge amounts of work to keep running.
I think we all have a lot to learn from each other. Elements of Confucianism have a lot going for them, e.g. filial piety and respect for elders.
But like all cultures, there will be assclowns who will selectively appropriate ideas for their own ends, e.g. the CCP notion of 'state as family', which inevitably leads to 'father knows best, you'll do what you're told' -- and naturally, conveniently ignore the fact filial piety also involves a duty to tell it like it is when your "betters" are screwing up.
One element of Western culture I do think the world can learn from, is the deep understanding that power can be, and usually gets abused -- learnt from centuries of war, conflict and change in the West. Democracy doesn't so much come from the notion that "letting the people decide" (which, if you understand just how fucking stupid and easily influenced the average person actually is, is a REALLY bad idea), but rather, "if there are going to be revolutions, make them smooth and orderly". Thus, we have the Western model of representative democracy, which at its essence, is about smoothly getting rid of bad leaders. This is a piece of "ancient Western wisdom" that the Chinese will eventually learn the hard way.