Unless the language of the interviewee is obfuscated, I would say that either:
A: the guy is for real, but some kind of idiot-savant. I know the type -- I've met people who are barely literate and can't even string a sentence together, but would blitz an electronic engineering degree.
or B: just a bona-fide wannabe idiot
Judging by the language alone, I can't actually tell.
I'm amused at the anti-Obama hate by the usual suspects here. This puerile, frankly stupid stunt is an extension of Obama Derangement Syndrome we see in the less-intelligent on the Left, the Right and from the looney-tarian lunar fringe.
I'm no leftie, nor a John Bircher, nor a libertarian. Which is probably why I have a lot of respect for the man.
You rarely get people who can show that sort of nous, effectiveness, ruthlessness and pragmatism in one individual, and I bet very few people would survive, let alone thrive with the sort of irrational, hateful opposition that man sees. Remember, we're in the midst of a once-in-a-century global economic crisis, and the West is fighting wars on two separate fronts, and Cold Wars on others.
We're not getting "HOPE", as it were. What the West is getting, is the tough, pragmatic leader it needs.
I'd wager that if he wasn't mixed-race or a Democrat, we'd be reading stories on CNN about how Obama would be considered of the greatest presidents ever.
The solution is easy. Remove the profit motive, and base all medical research and treatment on clinical need, not profit.
Isn't it interesting that "statist" national healthcare systems, pharmaceutical patent busting, publicly-funded medical research etc, has was, WAY better outcomes than the joke privatized hell that passes for a healthcare system in America?
What you get in America, is expensive gold-plated crap for the Worried Well, and dick pills and statins for rich old men too irresponsible to look after themselves. Meanwhile, half the developing world is dying of preventable disease, because Big Pharma and their warped priorities don't see any profit in it.
Putin is a pragmatist. He no doubt has some very good reasons for wanting him to shut up. If they harbour him, then everyone's ire will be turned on the Russians. Russia wants to be seen as a big, serious player, not as a rogue state.
And Snowden himself doesn't seem to have the brains to not shit in his own nest.
The right to asylum has been under attack for quite a while now; this is hardly news.
I'm happy to be explained the difference between 1) seeking asylum fleeing politically-motivated charges, versus 2) fleeing criminal charges, albeit, for offences committed with a political motivation.
And the rest of London is still as expensive as hell, but full of grim run-down government housing full of the dumbest, most uncivilized motherfuckers on Earth.
ANYBODY with anything going for them leaves London at the first opportunity, and just commutes in. People who live here just accept that if they want to live like civilized humans, they have huge commutes.
Amen. Taking somebody's life judicially is very, very serious business, and I feel, appropriate for the absolute worst cases, e.g. genocide and waging war against your own country (and I don't mean this Mickey Mouse shit, where a couple of disaffected and misguided young men let off pipe bombs which kill a few passers-by, I'm speaking serious existential threats to our way of life and moral order).
OTOH, when you open a newspaper here, and read about the huge number of people being put to death for serious, albeit not devastatingly terrible crimes, one has to wonder if it's always the case that punishment genuinely fits the crime. And interestingly in states where conservative moral values hold sway, and with lots of people of the ostensibly "pro life" POV, where a woman taking RU486 is a terrible thing, but in the same breath, are sending hordes of poor urban blacks to death row at great expense, presumably 'for the lulz'. Texas is about to rack up 500 executions since 1974. To my untrained ear, that sounds like a lot.
Imposing the death penalty isn't cheap nor should it be cheap.
The burden of proof for capital cases also needs to be extremely high. Miscarriages of justice do happen, and it's very hard to apologise and pay compensation to somebody who's dead...
The death penalty is anything but cheap, if you factor in the huge fixed costs of actually having one, not to mention endless chains of appeals. Ditto, supermax.
Besides, death is exactly what these asshats want. Locking scum up, like this Chechan piece of shit, in supermax without even means to kill himself, is an appropriate punishment.
However, I'm sure that with dashcam, it's less worse than before. Apparently, it's quite hard to get an insurance claim paid out without concrete evidence that one wasn't responsible.
For those of you playing along outside the UK, calling somebody a "Daily Mail reader", is a common slur thrown at people who disagree with the sort of people who read left-wing newspapers like the Guardian.
Blaming Whitey for any and all anti-social behaviour from people who happen to hail from an ethnic minority is also quite common amongst those of a "liberal" persuasion here. It's an insidious form of reverse racism.
The rather absurd idea that brown people can't control themselves and are being provoked by British intervention in the middle east (as opposed to criminality, warped political ideology, indoctrination by extremists, etc), is very common amongst the far Left here.
As others have mentioned, they've had ANPRs in the UK for quite a while.
The cops sit on the side of the road, and they check all passing cars for registration and tax. Then, some basic computation is done: if a plate is seen in two places, which is clearly impossible (e.g. the same plates popping up in distant towns five minutes apart), the plates are flagged as bad, and the police go and chase them.
The idea being, people who break little laws, also tend to break big ones. E.g. a bunch of "poor and misunderstood Asians" who were on route to blow up an EDL rally only got caught, because they had a bad tax disc. The alternative doesn't really bear thinking about (large-scale civil disorder) -- and I'm glad they got caught.
I'm sure the civil-liberties obsessives here would hate the idea of ubiquitous ANPR, but the practicality of the situation is that it works.
I suppose the publisher-cartel justification for this is that the physical cost of printing is extremely low compared to the overall costs of bringing a book to market.
So if this is the case, then I'm sure the publishes wouldn't mind at all, if I traded in my bulky, heavy dead-wood books for e-reader equivalents...
Give it time. They're so overwhelmingly dominant in online retail, that people will be calling them the Standard Oil of the 21st century, if they aren't already.
The power of wishful thinking in action. The same thought of defective cargo-cult thinking behind the Laffer Curve, actually.
Libertarians will believe any old bunkum that'll reinforce their beliefs, and justify greed and selfishness. This Tabarrok Curve bollocks is just an extrapolation of that.
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Unless the language of the interviewee is obfuscated, I would say that either:
A: the guy is for real, but some kind of idiot-savant. I know the type -- I've met people who are barely literate and can't even string a sentence together, but would blitz an electronic engineering degree.
or B: just a bona-fide wannabe idiot
Judging by the language alone, I can't actually tell.
Changing requirements from fickle customer will do that every time.
That story is told over, and over and over again. Why is this ever news?
Judging by the mention of Israel, the GP probably has the sort of brain-damage you get from banging your head on the floor 5 times a day...
It's ALL about the ego.
This whole Assange/Snowden thing is one enormous, gigantic wankfest.
"Look at me! Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEE!"
It's all about self-aggrandizment, notoriety and ego.
... that some parasite would come along and try and 'monetize' the MOOC craze.
I would expect nothing less from a morally bankrupt old c**t like Rupert Murdoch.
I hope he loses more money, like he did on that stupid social network and those paywalls.
I'm amused at the anti-Obama hate by the usual suspects here. This puerile, frankly stupid stunt is an extension of Obama Derangement Syndrome we see in the less-intelligent on the Left, the Right and from the looney-tarian lunar fringe.
I'm no leftie, nor a John Bircher, nor a libertarian. Which is probably why I have a lot of respect for the man.
You rarely get people who can show that sort of nous, effectiveness, ruthlessness and pragmatism in one individual, and I bet very few people would survive, let alone thrive with the sort of irrational, hateful opposition that man sees. Remember, we're in the midst of a once-in-a-century global economic crisis, and the West is fighting wars on two separate fronts, and Cold Wars on others.
We're not getting "HOPE", as it were. What the West is getting, is the tough, pragmatic leader it needs.
I'd wager that if he wasn't mixed-race or a Democrat, we'd be reading stories on CNN about how Obama would be considered of the greatest presidents ever.
The solution is easy. Remove the profit motive, and base all medical research and treatment on clinical need, not profit.
Isn't it interesting that "statist" national healthcare systems, pharmaceutical patent busting, publicly-funded medical research etc, has was, WAY better outcomes than the joke privatized hell that passes for a healthcare system in America?
What you get in America, is expensive gold-plated crap for the Worried Well, and dick pills and statins for rich old men too irresponsible to look after themselves. Meanwhile, half the developing world is dying of preventable disease, because Big Pharma and their warped priorities don't see any profit in it.
Putin is a pragmatist. He no doubt has some very good reasons for wanting him to shut up. If they harbour him, then everyone's ire will be turned on the Russians. Russia wants to be seen as a big, serious player, not as a rogue state.
And Snowden himself doesn't seem to have the brains to not shit in his own nest.
It's the same kind of severe lack of perspective you see of some the the extreme libertarians you see in these comment threads too...
The right to asylum has been under attack for quite a while now; this is hardly news.
I'm happy to be explained the difference between 1) seeking asylum fleeing politically-motivated charges, versus 2) fleeing criminal charges, albeit, for offences committed with a political motivation.
And the rest of London is still as expensive as hell, but full of grim run-down government housing full of the dumbest, most uncivilized motherfuckers on Earth.
ANYBODY with anything going for them leaves London at the first opportunity, and just commutes in. People who live here just accept that if they want to live like civilized humans, they have huge commutes.
Amen. Taking somebody's life judicially is very, very serious business, and I feel, appropriate for the absolute worst cases, e.g. genocide and waging war against your own country (and I don't mean this Mickey Mouse shit, where a couple of disaffected and misguided young men let off pipe bombs which kill a few passers-by, I'm speaking serious existential threats to our way of life and moral order).
OTOH, when you open a newspaper here, and read about the huge number of people being put to death for serious, albeit not devastatingly terrible crimes, one has to wonder if it's always the case that punishment genuinely fits the crime. And interestingly in states where conservative moral values hold sway, and with lots of people of the ostensibly "pro life" POV, where a woman taking RU486 is a terrible thing, but in the same breath, are sending hordes of poor urban blacks to death row at great expense, presumably 'for the lulz'. Texas is about to rack up 500 executions since 1974. To my untrained ear, that sounds like a lot.
Imposing the death penalty isn't cheap nor should it be cheap.
The burden of proof for capital cases also needs to be extremely high. Miscarriages of justice do happen, and it's very hard to apologise and pay compensation to somebody who's dead...
Should've been moderated "Insightful", rather than "Funny".
The death penalty is anything but cheap, if you factor in the huge fixed costs of actually having one, not to mention endless chains of appeals. Ditto, supermax.
Besides, death is exactly what these asshats want. Locking scum up, like this Chechan piece of shit, in supermax without even means to kill himself, is an appropriate punishment.
I doubt Russia is a safer place.
However, I'm sure that with dashcam, it's less worse than before. Apparently, it's quite hard to get an insurance claim paid out without concrete evidence that one wasn't responsible.
For those of you playing along outside the UK, calling somebody a "Daily Mail reader", is a common slur thrown at people who disagree with the sort of people who read left-wing newspapers like the Guardian.
Blaming Whitey for any and all anti-social behaviour from people who happen to hail from an ethnic minority is also quite common amongst those of a "liberal" persuasion here. It's an insidious form of reverse racism.
The rather absurd idea that brown people can't control themselves and are being provoked by British intervention in the middle east (as opposed to criminality, warped political ideology, indoctrination by extremists, etc), is very common amongst the far Left here.
Seriously, get a dashcam. Every man and his dog in Russia has one, and they stick the videos up on YouTube.
As others have mentioned, they've had ANPRs in the UK for quite a while.
The cops sit on the side of the road, and they check all passing cars for registration and tax. Then, some basic computation is done: if a plate is seen in two places, which is clearly impossible (e.g. the same plates popping up in distant towns five minutes apart), the plates are flagged as bad, and the police go and chase them.
The idea being, people who break little laws, also tend to break big ones. E.g. a bunch of "poor and misunderstood Asians" who were on route to blow up an EDL rally only got caught, because they had a bad tax disc. The alternative doesn't really bear thinking about (large-scale civil disorder) -- and I'm glad they got caught.
I'm sure the civil-liberties obsessives here would hate the idea of ubiquitous ANPR, but the practicality of the situation is that it works.
That's interesting.
I suppose the publisher-cartel justification for this is that the physical cost of printing is extremely low compared to the overall costs of bringing a book to market.
So if this is the case, then I'm sure the publishes wouldn't mind at all, if I traded in my bulky, heavy dead-wood books for e-reader equivalents...
(But then who am I kidding??)
'Amazon' and 'antitrust'.
Give it time. They're so overwhelmingly dominant in online retail, that people will be calling them the Standard Oil of the 21st century, if they aren't already.
Consumption taxes weigh particularly heavily on people with little money.
Edward Snowden is a terrible, narcissistic, uneducated individual. He has done so much damage, its unbelievable.
If I were American and weren't of the nutjub libertarian persuasion, I'd be baying for his blood. He has well and truly stabbed America in the back.
The power of wishful thinking in action. The same thought of defective cargo-cult thinking behind the Laffer Curve, actually.
Libertarians will believe any old bunkum that'll reinforce their beliefs, and justify greed and selfishness. This Tabarrok Curve bollocks is just an extrapolation of that.
Corporate espionage is the one thing they're not allowed to do.
If that where the case, the US would have an unbelievable business and trade-negotiating advantage everywhere, and it would be obvious.
Okay, Internet Tough Guy.
You first.