Then it is my opinion that you think you're a pretty pretty princess and that your entire position is that everyone should have a magical tea party inside your own ass.
Sorry, chump...the "its just an opinion" ploy is bullshit when you're using it to say what I believe or what I have said.
If I accept that, then it lets you misrepresent anything I say as anything you want under the guise of "its just an opinion".
No. Its strawmanning, shithead. Textbook strawmanning.
... Poland will be building more coal power plants to export more electricty to western europe so that idiot evironementalists can be duped by corrupt politicians into thinking that CO2 consumption has been reduced when all that happened was they started importing electricity instead of directly producing it themselves.
The same thing is going on all over europe and it is very common in the US as well. California for example has dramatically lowered their statistical carbon foot print by shutting down power plants in the state and then importing the power from Arizona and I think even mexico. I'm not sure about mexico... I vaguely remember something about that but I'm not sure.
Point is the whole carbon thing is supposed to be global so where it is actually emitted is not relevant. And thus they really need to do proper third party accounting on the carbon emissions of imported electricity.
The germans have some statistics on that but they're not third party and thus given all the gaslighting and obfuscation on the issue its not credible to accept the statistics from the people that are already on record cooking the books.
... the company servers if you give a shit about security.
The whole BYOD argument has been debated to death. Point is there are two camps here.
Camp 1 says "No, because security" and Camp 2 says "Yes, because I'm lazy and like my toys."
Did I strawman camp 2? Sure. They'll actually say stuff like "we can secure our systems. But there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. And if you ask them why they don't want to use the company provided blackberries or something they'll say "well I don't want to bring two phones" or "I can't install my apple shit on this thing" or whatever. Which means the security is being compromised for convenience and toys.
Now is there some hidden agenda in Camp 1? I mean, I just talked a lot of shit about camp 2... is there something off with camp 1? I can't see it. I'm a fully paid up card carrying member of camp 1. So maybe I just can't see it because I'm too close to it. You tell me. But I don't think there is a hidden agenda with camp 1. Camp 1 says "we cannot secure your private shit phone and thus giving it access to the VPN etc is a stupid idea and we're not doing it."
So the stupid watches for the BYOD phones are an additional security vulnerability? Okay.
Who's problem is that? Not camp 1's problem because they're not going to let you use that shit with the company phone anyway. Problem fucking solved. *brushes rhetorical dirt off hands and goes off to lunch*
Camp 2 however has more problems to deal with and it is never going to stop. And the thing is that no organization either can or will even choose to try to keep up with all this shit. They'll make efforts to close the most glaring issues but that's about it. Which means those systems will be what they've always been... wide fucking open. And that predates the whole BYOD thing. Some organizations do what is required to secure the systems and some basically jerk off into their coffee and call it cream.
Here is what "I" need for the stupid watches to be acceptable. I need to be able to control the encryption between the phone and the watch. And then I need to be able to lock those parameters into the phone so that they can't be changed by the user or some fucking program you install from the marketplace/appstore that says in the long list of permissions "oh yeah, fuck your security". And then I need to be able to control what is passed between the phone and the watch. Apparently these things are set up to pass EVERYTHING. And that's adorable and stuff but clearly that has to be scaled back to something less deranged.
There are so many problems with this stuff. I appreciate the makers are pushing this for idiot consumers and that they are going for looks and functionality etc and security isn't even on the radar.
And that is FINE... for a toy. But any company that lets that crap have access to their servers deserves what ever happens.
I was tempted to insult you but there's little point anymore. Any further comments along those lines would be redundant.
I'll just point out that you didn't answer my question or show any deeper thinking. So your comment is not actually a response and thus is not constructive to the discussion.
If you want to have a discussion then you have to be prepared to actually answer questions and demonstrate good faith to the extent that you are legitimately trying to give reasonable responses. You're demonstrably not doing that. So yet again this behavior from you leads no where profitable.
These discussions would be vastly more interesting for BOTH of us if you made an effort to make a constructive contribution to them. You don't have to agree with me. But you do have to try to make sense. And you don't.
You keep your comments as vague and non-falsifiable as possible so that it is impossible to even figure out exactly what you're saying much less prove any of it right or wrong. You don't address what anyone is telling you but instead strawman them endlessly. And none of your ideas are your own. Its all patient talking points that a political chat bot could output. And from this you presume superiority?
Feel about yourself or me whatever you like... I don't really care... but it is deeply depressing that you think THIS constitutes any kind of discussion.
You realize that by making trollish AC comments you validate my position. And you're doing little more than making laugh at you because you're so obviously butthurt about how I won't engage with you anymore.
What is funnier one top of that is that you're also admitting that despite not talking to you for ages you're still e-stalking me.
Here's a question... are you a just an AC troll? Or are you a sock puppet of an existing account that is AC trolling?
Just curious.:D
You people are so stupid... why are you so bad at this?
Anyone that deals with complex computer programs knows they make really really really dumb mistakes all the time. Here someone will say "but they only do what the programmer told them to do"... yes... exactly what the programmer told them to do. And that means they have no sense of judgement. Every little thing has to be explained in complete detail or the fucking thing fucks it up eventually.
And that's fine. You just have to understand that's how it works. Too often people look at computers as these mad little demon geniuses in a bottle that can do calculation magic. Forgetting that computers are actually extremely fucking stupid and will fuck the pooch in the ass at the drop of a hat if the program directs that behavior in some unusual circumstance.
point is, you can't just trust these lists the computers kick out. You need to have someone eyeball these things. Failing to filter out localhost? Fuck you. That's just incompetence.
My comment was in reference to this statement: "I'd likely strike Hindi from that list, since like Portuguese, Bengali, French, Malay, German and Japanese (7-12) it has no significant tendency to spread beyond its current native regions."
To which I said: "Mandarin is not much different from hindi really."
The point being that I was saying Mandarin is unlikely to spread either much less become a global language. We were talking about language roots. We were talking about the propensity for languages to spread and become dominant.
The mistake you always make is in thinking I am stupid. I am not even remotely stupid. Learn. If you keep making this mistake at some point it will become obvious that YOU are the stupid one.
Gainsaying the US military support you get is not in your interest if you are a first world power. The Europeans especially are fucking themselves in the long run. They're so fat and so happy and so f'ing helpless. They don't even know how wide open they are if the US walks.
There is no way the west is speaking Russian so we can strike that off.
Arabic... lolz no.
Spanish not really.
then english... which is already the defacto trade language of the planet.
THe only thing that would make any of those other languages credible would be the systemic and sustained collapse of the english speaking world. I wouldn't hold my breath for that happening any time soon.
That said, I don't believe regional languages will go away. I think this tech will just make it irrelevant what language is spoken. However, it will deepen penetration of english into cultures normally closed to the international world because the language is uncommon and few english speakers know it.
That is what this tech will ultimately do... permit the breaching of the few tough nuts that remain and exposing them to modern western culture.
Some don't like that and some do... I'm not saying it is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm saying that is what is going to happen.
anything new is going to have people hurting themselves. how many old ladies stuck their cats in microwaves trying to quickly dry them out. This was something you might do with an oven... you set it to a low temp, maybe leave the door open, and it works. Its a terrible idea regardless but the point is that old ladies have microwaved a LOT of cats trying to dry them off quickly.
I wouldn't ban microwaves.
I'd laugh at the old ladies and their microwaved cats!:P Seriously, you just have to be patient with people.
The first thing the person that discovered fire said was "OUCH"... That's how this goes.
And again, you really can't ban this... I mean any hobbyst can rig a hobby servo to a trigger.
So what are you doing? Throwing people screwing around in jail or fining them? Okay... but that isn't going to stop the criminals from taking that same tech and making it into a legit weapon.
I think there are a lot of people that see this tech and are uncomfortable with it and so they basically want to put the genie back into the bottle. Just ban it and then you don't have to worry about it. Only that solves nothing. Don't fight the future.
Things are going to get a lot weirder in our life times. Cybernetics is moving along very quickly. We've already figured out how to send two way signals along human nerves in forms the body inteprets as natural. We have cocular implants which allow people to hear without ears... sound being transmitted directly into the brain from a little microphone which could be on the other side of the planet for all your brain knows. And then we have eye implants that can interface directly with the optic nerve. So your eye could be GONE or never have worked in the first place or maybe you were born without eyes... whatever. The implant transmits video directly into the optic nerve.
And we have interfaces for everything else really since those are more complicated than most of the other signals.
Long story short, cyborgs are happening and in the not too distant future.
We're also seeing the cultured or grown industrial materials become a bigger thing. Spider silk grown in tanks of genetically modified yeast or beef tissue cultured in a dish.
And then massive automation... The entire fast food industry is about to be automated. There is a company out of california selling a burger making machine that can make 300 burgers an hour... CUSTOM made... custom ground meat... so you can choose the ratio of different types of meat etc. Custom grilled... etc. And the machine costs 80 grand. Do the math. Those things are going to be everywhere about as quickly as they can build them.
Then you have the maker movement which currently people don't take very seriously but it could actually flip the entire industrial model on its head.
Then you have genetically engineered foods. There is a strong cultural and political bias against genetically engineered stuff but if you've ever tried to grow something... imagine a plant that doesn't need pesticide to keep the bugs off it. Don't get mold or fungus... is highly climate tolerant... and is super productive. Actually being a successful home gardener is currently difficult and frequently expensive just because you're going to make a lot of mistakes and that will raise you failure rate which will increase the cost per yield.
Its hard to go through all the big changes we're seeing here. Huge changes in medicine. We could be looking at practical designer babies in the not too distant future.
Point is that banning stuff is not going to make any of this go away. People need to deal with it. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
... and as cited in the link... you can't directly compare the numbers because they're not calculated the same way.
Yes... lower numbers tend to mean things are better in that country and higher numbers tend to mean things are worse. HOWEVER... that only tells you what is going on in gross terms. That is if the numbers are really really different then that indicates there might be a problem. However if they're not that different then you have to look at various factors that are different between the way the two countries calculate these numbers. That allows you to make a more precise comparison.
If you did that, US infant mortality numbers would have to go down.
What you keep pathetically trying to gloss over is the fact that US numbers are higher than they would be if they were calculated the same way that France or Canada counts them.
Your entire position at this point out patiently and obviously dishonest. What is sad is that you don't realize how fucking stupid you sound at this point.
Loaning the US government doesn't give you leverage over the US. It gives the US leverage over you.
How do you not know this?
1. The US repays the loans in US dollars. The US dollar is a fiat currency which means if we want more dollar we can just print more. The currency is backed by nothing but the US Federal Reserve's intention to keep inflation manageable.
2. US bonds are not demand loans. That is, you can't demand that the US repay a loan suddenly. The repayment terms are hardwired into the bond itself. Thus, repayment occurs after 10 years or 5 years or 1 year. But not before. So whomever you sell it to or buy it from... it doesn't matter to us because either way we're going to repay that bond when it matures and not before.
3. Holding US debt means the value of your investment is dependent on the value of the US dollar. If the value of the dollar goes down for some reason then the value of your bonds goes down as well. Thus it is in your interest if you own US debt to not undermine the US economy or the US Federal Reserve will print dollars to cover any shortfall required to pay off debt.
4. US bond interest rates are currently set BELOW projected US inflation. Thus other countries are basically paying the United States to loan the United States money. That is... after the bond has matured and we've paid it back, we've made a profit on the loan... not the person that loaned us the money. This is not always true. There are only a few countries in the world that can sell bonds with such a low interest rate. The US and Germany are two of them. It would actually make more sense if we funded our entire government with debt at these interest rates and then just used the taxes to pay off the loans when they come due. That is because again... the interest rates are very very low.
5. This low interest rate is a reflection of demand for US debt. That means, if you don't buy US debt then someone else will and we won't care. Which means... the Chinese for example can't hurt us if they decide to not buy our debt. Worst case, our interest rate will go up slightly to attract more buyers. Which generally won't matter to us.
6. The Chinese economy is having serious problems right now and they are in no position to be causing problems. The US can do just fine without Chinese manufacturing. At most they lower what we pay for certain consumer and industrial goods. However, China cannot survive without the US market to sell to.
7. The US remains the global Reserve currency. We've been that since WW2 and nothing has really changed. This nonsense in Europe with Greece as well as economic turmoil in China and other assorted nonsense makes people worried about the stability of the global market. That worry translates into conservative economic practices which means people squirrel money away in the American economy. The Chinese people for example are buying up US assets. US land, US housing, US... stuff. And the reason for that is that it is a hedge against problems in China. So wealthy chinese people feel safer putting a significant amount of their net worth in the US than keeping it all in China. Americans feel no such anxiety. we are not squirreling our money away in China. We are keeping it in the US. Which means there is a net transfer of wealth from China to the US. When the chinese buy something in the US, they give us money and get in return ownership of something in the US. But the value of that thing in the US is subject to US markets. So if they buy some land their investment only holds value if the US real estate market holds stable. We saw similar things from the Japanese in the 1980s. They were running all over the US buying stuff because people in their economy knew the wheels were about to come off.
Long story short... no one has us on a leash. Rather, we profit from the entire situation.
The funny thing is the US is being paid... but what you do
You think if the US just stayed in the Americas you'd have stayed free of Japanese domination? Are you THAT naive?
I have no doubt you fought small probing incursions by the japanese all by yourself. And nothing I have said is to suggest your people were without honor, valor, or duty.
However.. you lacked the numbers, the ships, the logistics, and the technology to repel the Japanese.
You did not have a heavy military industrial complex in Australia.
How many war ships did your country build?
How many tanks?
How many battalions did you field?
How many heavy bombers?
How many fighters?
How many close support bombers?
You think Australia during WW2 would have stood a chance against the Imperial Japanese military? With WHAT?
The US was having trouble with the Japanese for the first couple years of the war and our economic, industrial, population, and tech base so completely dwarfed anything Australia had then or now that it isn't worth citing numbers.
And to take things into the 21st century... Why does China need to care about Australia's opinion about anything? You and what army? The US pulls out of east asia and Japan is going to rapidly rearm, the other allies in the region are going to start to fracture their alliances because they all trust the US more than they trust each other. Everyone hates the Japanese for historical reasons even though its a stupid position to take in the 21st century. The South Koreans will probably cut a deal with the Chinese in return for the Chinese putting pressure on the North Koreans to behave themselves which is the entire point of the North Koreans even existing as a nation in so far as China is concerned.
Taiwan will get blockaded and forced to surrender to the Chinese. The Chinese don't even need to invade. Blockade Taiwan and they'll probably start to starve. A lot of island countries are net food importers. The UK is the same way. You blockade England and they have to surrender or starve.
Will the Chinese invade Australia? I doubt it. However they will dictate to you the policy in the region and they could very well make you pay tribute which you'd have no option but to pay. That would of course go for New Zealand etc.
China would form closer contacts with Russia and collectively they'd dominate asia with the exception of a few pockets of resistance. India has some stones. They could probably force other powers to leave them alone. The whole situation would likely cause unpredictable things to happen in the islamic countries. They are inclined to unite into a largely unitary empire. They all remember the glory days of the Ottomans and seem to want that to come back... this time with nukes and suicide bombers.
So anyway... welcome to your new glorious multipolar world. Have fun. I'm going to be over here in the US giggling.
As to genetically encourage to only do ONE thing... no. genetics is not an absolute. Its tendencies.
Some of our ancestors were rapists. Most of them were not. Some of our ancestors were pedophiles that literally begot you by knocking up a 12 year old.
For these reason you see some men that are inclined to rape or pedophilia. You even see homosexuality which has no genetic value at all so far as anyone can figure out and is just an odd and strangly common mutation considering its lack of value to reproduction.
Regardless... your position is moronic. Anger, fear, lust, laughter, etc are all evolutionary.
It is beyond dispute that the core of our emotional being is evolutionarily deterministic. And as such suggesting that our psycology is not heavily influenced by evolution is idiotic.
What do you think built your brain you stupid little monkey? Evolution built it.
Go join the christian right or the islamists if you want to deny evolution. Fucking stupid marxists.
Where do you think FEAR comes from? Where do you think sexual attraction comes from? Where do you think ANGER comes from? Where do you think every single fucking human emotion we've ever had has come from?
Think that's all culture?
Or is it evolution?
And if evolution is strongly influencing all of those things then it plays a major role in our psychology.
That's self evident. Can culture play a role in all this? Obviously. Its foolish to be an absolutist. However, evolution clearly influences our psychology. And we can debate as to the extent it does that but that it does is not disputable.
Now I'm done with you. You're too fucking stupid to have this conversation. You're out of your depth. Fuck off.
its not a drone and I don't see why you'd make it illegal. I mean... I could kill you with a number 2 pencil. OR a nice big fertilizer bomb. Or any of a million things that any semi intelligent person could do if they were determined and could look up the plans on the internet.
The notion of banning things to protect people is pointless. Criminals don't obey those laws and banning stuff doesn't stop people from getting stuff which is why I can snort cocaine and back a hooker whenever I please.
Explain why your ban on the armed remote controlled helicopters changes anything?
its entirely undeniable... are you pretending that your psychology is not influenced by psychology?
Fear? Anger? Love?
Think that all comes from culture?
Evolution. That doesn't mean culture doesn't have a role but if you think evolution isn't playing a huge role in the way you think then you're basically denying evolution and I'm talking to creationists.
Which is generally speaking what marxists are in the first place which is one of the reasons I have such contempt for them.
They're like creationists that some how have academic credibility for no reason.
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Then it is my opinion that you think you're a pretty pretty princess and that your entire position is that everyone should have a magical tea party inside your own ass.
Sorry, chump.. .the "its just an opinion" ploy is bullshit when you're using it to say what I believe or what I have said.
If I accept that, then it lets you misrepresent anything I say as anything you want under the guise of "its just an opinion".
No. Its strawmanning, shithead. Textbook strawmanning.
... Poland will be building more coal power plants to export more electricty to western europe so that idiot evironementalists can be duped by corrupt politicians into thinking that CO2 consumption has been reduced when all that happened was they started importing electricity instead of directly producing it themselves.
The same thing is going on all over europe and it is very common in the US as well. California for example has dramatically lowered their statistical carbon foot print by shutting down power plants in the state and then importing the power from Arizona and I think even mexico. I'm not sure about mexico... I vaguely remember something about that but I'm not sure.
Point is the whole carbon thing is supposed to be global so where it is actually emitted is not relevant. And thus they really need to do proper third party accounting on the carbon emissions of imported electricity.
The germans have some statistics on that but they're not third party and thus given all the gaslighting and obfuscation on the issue its not credible to accept the statistics from the people that are already on record cooking the books.
... the company servers if you give a shit about security.
The whole BYOD argument has been debated to death. Point is there are two camps here.
Camp 1 says "No, because security" and Camp 2 says "Yes, because I'm lazy and like my toys."
Did I strawman camp 2? Sure. They'll actually say stuff like "we can secure our systems. But there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. And if you ask them why they don't want to use the company provided blackberries or something they'll say "well I don't want to bring two phones" or "I can't install my apple shit on this thing" or whatever. Which means the security is being compromised for convenience and toys.
Now is there some hidden agenda in Camp 1? I mean, I just talked a lot of shit about camp 2... is there something off with camp 1? I can't see it. I'm a fully paid up card carrying member of camp 1. So maybe I just can't see it because I'm too close to it. You tell me. But I don't think there is a hidden agenda with camp 1. Camp 1 says "we cannot secure your private shit phone and thus giving it access to the VPN etc is a stupid idea and we're not doing it."
So the stupid watches for the BYOD phones are an additional security vulnerability? Okay.
Who's problem is that? Not camp 1's problem because they're not going to let you use that shit with the company phone anyway. Problem fucking solved. *brushes rhetorical dirt off hands and goes off to lunch*
Camp 2 however has more problems to deal with and it is never going to stop. And the thing is that no organization either can or will even choose to try to keep up with all this shit. They'll make efforts to close the most glaring issues but that's about it. Which means those systems will be what they've always been... wide fucking open. And that predates the whole BYOD thing. Some organizations do what is required to secure the systems and some basically jerk off into their coffee and call it cream.
Here is what "I" need for the stupid watches to be acceptable. I need to be able to control the encryption between the phone and the watch. And then I need to be able to lock those parameters into the phone so that they can't be changed by the user or some fucking program you install from the marketplace/appstore that says in the long list of permissions "oh yeah, fuck your security". And then I need to be able to control what is passed between the phone and the watch. Apparently these things are set up to pass EVERYTHING. And that's adorable and stuff but clearly that has to be scaled back to something less deranged.
There are so many problems with this stuff. I appreciate the makers are pushing this for idiot consumers and that they are going for looks and functionality etc and security isn't even on the radar.
And that is FINE... for a toy. But any company that lets that crap have access to their servers deserves what ever happens.
No pity.
I was tempted to insult you but there's little point anymore. Any further comments along those lines would be redundant.
I'll just point out that you didn't answer my question or show any deeper thinking. So your comment is not actually a response and thus is not constructive to the discussion.
If you want to have a discussion then you have to be prepared to actually answer questions and demonstrate good faith to the extent that you are legitimately trying to give reasonable responses. You're demonstrably not doing that. So yet again this behavior from you leads no where profitable.
These discussions would be vastly more interesting for BOTH of us if you made an effort to make a constructive contribution to them. You don't have to agree with me. But you do have to try to make sense. And you don't.
You keep your comments as vague and non-falsifiable as possible so that it is impossible to even figure out exactly what you're saying much less prove any of it right or wrong. You don't address what anyone is telling you but instead strawman them endlessly. And none of your ideas are your own. Its all patient talking points that a political chat bot could output. And from this you presume superiority?
Feel about yourself or me whatever you like... I don't really care... but it is deeply depressing that you think THIS constitutes any kind of discussion.
... I didn't lie. You are defending the socialized systems and saying they're better.
Either cite the country you're representing or I can pick any of the socialized countries at will for you.
You can't blame me if your own vagueness makes it impossible to know what you're talking about half the time.
You realize that by making trollish AC comments you validate my position. And you're doing little more than making laugh at you because you're so obviously butthurt about how I won't engage with you anymore.
What is funnier one top of that is that you're also admitting that despite not talking to you for ages you're still e-stalking me.
Here's a question... are you a just an AC troll? Or are you a sock puppet of an existing account that is AC trolling?
Just curious. :D
You people are so stupid... why are you so bad at this?
Surely the problem is too many thin skinned people... possibly we should send all the thin skinned people to the center of the earth... worth a try.
Anyone that deals with complex computer programs knows they make really really really dumb mistakes all the time. Here someone will say "but they only do what the programmer told them to do"... yes... exactly what the programmer told them to do. And that means they have no sense of judgement. Every little thing has to be explained in complete detail or the fucking thing fucks it up eventually.
And that's fine. You just have to understand that's how it works. Too often people look at computers as these mad little demon geniuses in a bottle that can do calculation magic. Forgetting that computers are actually extremely fucking stupid and will fuck the pooch in the ass at the drop of a hat if the program directs that behavior in some unusual circumstance.
and because its funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
point is, you can't just trust these lists the computers kick out. You need to have someone eyeball these things. Failing to filter out localhost? Fuck you. That's just incompetence.
Login and we'll see, troll. Stay in lurk mode and I'm going to waste my time with you.
I wasn't presuming to comment on eternity... merely the foreseeable future.
Fuck off. You've never made an intelligent comment so far as anyone has seen. You're of no value.
My comment was in reference to this statement:
"I'd likely strike Hindi from that list, since like Portuguese, Bengali, French, Malay, German and Japanese (7-12) it has no significant tendency to spread beyond its current native regions."
To which I said:
"Mandarin is not much different from hindi really."
The point being that I was saying Mandarin is unlikely to spread either much less become a global language. We were talking about language roots. We were talking about the propensity for languages to spread and become dominant.
The mistake you always make is in thinking I am stupid. I am not even remotely stupid. Learn. If you keep making this mistake at some point it will become obvious that YOU are the stupid one.
Also perhaps of interest to you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gainsaying the US military support you get is not in your interest if you are a first world power. The Europeans especially are fucking themselves in the long run. They're so fat and so happy and so f'ing helpless. They don't even know how wide open they are if the US walks.
Mandarin is not much different from hindi really.
There is no way the west is speaking Russian so we can strike that off.
Arabic... lolz no.
Spanish not really.
then english... which is already the defacto trade language of the planet.
THe only thing that would make any of those other languages credible would be the systemic and sustained collapse of the english speaking world. I wouldn't hold my breath for that happening any time soon.
That said, I don't believe regional languages will go away. I think this tech will just make it irrelevant what language is spoken. However, it will deepen penetration of english into cultures normally closed to the international world because the language is uncommon and few english speakers know it.
That is what this tech will ultimately do... permit the breaching of the few tough nuts that remain and exposing them to modern western culture.
Some don't like that and some do... I'm not saying it is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm saying that is what is going to happen.
A fish we can do... a babelfish... not so much.
anything new is going to have people hurting themselves. how many old ladies stuck their cats in microwaves trying to quickly dry them out. This was something you might do with an oven... you set it to a low temp, maybe leave the door open, and it works. Its a terrible idea regardless but the point is that old ladies have microwaved a LOT of cats trying to dry them off quickly.
I wouldn't ban microwaves.
I'd laugh at the old ladies and their microwaved cats! :P Seriously, you just have to be patient with people.
The first thing the person that discovered fire said was "OUCH"... That's how this goes.
And again, you really can't ban this... I mean any hobbyst can rig a hobby servo to a trigger.
So what are you doing? Throwing people screwing around in jail or fining them? Okay... but that isn't going to stop the criminals from taking that same tech and making it into a legit weapon.
I think there are a lot of people that see this tech and are uncomfortable with it and so they basically want to put the genie back into the bottle. Just ban it and then you don't have to worry about it. Only that solves nothing. Don't fight the future.
Things are going to get a lot weirder in our life times. Cybernetics is moving along very quickly. We've already figured out how to send two way signals along human nerves in forms the body inteprets as natural. We have cocular implants which allow people to hear without ears... sound being transmitted directly into the brain from a little microphone which could be on the other side of the planet for all your brain knows. And then we have eye implants that can interface directly with the optic nerve. So your eye could be GONE or never have worked in the first place or maybe you were born without eyes... whatever. The implant transmits video directly into the optic nerve.
And we have interfaces for everything else really since those are more complicated than most of the other signals.
Long story short, cyborgs are happening and in the not too distant future.
We're also seeing the cultured or grown industrial materials become a bigger thing. Spider silk grown in tanks of genetically modified yeast or beef tissue cultured in a dish.
And then massive automation... The entire fast food industry is about to be automated. There is a company out of california selling a burger making machine that can make 300 burgers an hour... CUSTOM made... custom ground meat... so you can choose the ratio of different types of meat etc. Custom grilled... etc. And the machine costs 80 grand. Do the math. Those things are going to be everywhere about as quickly as they can build them.
Then you have the maker movement which currently people don't take very seriously but it could actually flip the entire industrial model on its head.
Then you have genetically engineered foods. There is a strong cultural and political bias against genetically engineered stuff but if you've ever tried to grow something... imagine a plant that doesn't need pesticide to keep the bugs off it. Don't get mold or fungus... is highly climate tolerant... and is super productive. Actually being a successful home gardener is currently difficult and frequently expensive just because you're going to make a lot of mistakes and that will raise you failure rate which will increase the cost per yield.
Its hard to go through all the big changes we're seeing here. Huge changes in medicine. We could be looking at practical designer babies in the not too distant future.
Point is that banning stuff is not going to make any of this go away. People need to deal with it. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
... fix the bugs. The whole thing is awesome. Render the language barriers meaningless.
At some point people are going to put a little hearing aid into their ears and auto translate anything.
... and as cited in the link... you can't directly compare the numbers because they're not calculated the same way.
Yes... lower numbers tend to mean things are better in that country and higher numbers tend to mean things are worse. HOWEVER... that only tells you what is going on in gross terms. That is if the numbers are really really different then that indicates there might be a problem. However if they're not that different then you have to look at various factors that are different between the way the two countries calculate these numbers. That allows you to make a more precise comparison.
If you did that, US infant mortality numbers would have to go down.
What you keep pathetically trying to gloss over is the fact that US numbers are higher than they would be if they were calculated the same way that France or Canada counts them.
Your entire position at this point out patiently and obviously dishonest. What is sad is that you don't realize how fucking stupid you sound at this point.
You're naked and you don't even realize it.
You have that backwards.
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Loaning the US government doesn't give you leverage over the US. It gives the US leverage over you.
How do you not know this?
1. The US repays the loans in US dollars. The US dollar is a fiat currency which means if we want more dollar we can just print more. The currency is backed by nothing but the US Federal Reserve's intention to keep inflation manageable.
2. US bonds are not demand loans. That is, you can't demand that the US repay a loan suddenly. The repayment terms are hardwired into the bond itself. Thus, repayment occurs after 10 years or 5 years or 1 year. But not before. So whomever you sell it to or buy it from... it doesn't matter to us because either way we're going to repay that bond when it matures and not before.
3. Holding US debt means the value of your investment is dependent on the value of the US dollar. If the value of the dollar goes down for some reason then the value of your bonds goes down as well. Thus it is in your interest if you own US debt to not undermine the US economy or the US Federal Reserve will print dollars to cover any shortfall required to pay off debt.
4. US bond interest rates are currently set BELOW projected US inflation. Thus other countries are basically paying the United States to loan the United States money. That is... after the bond has matured and we've paid it back, we've made a profit on the loan... not the person that loaned us the money. This is not always true. There are only a few countries in the world that can sell bonds with such a low interest rate. The US and Germany are two of them. It would actually make more sense if we funded our entire government with debt at these interest rates and then just used the taxes to pay off the loans when they come due. That is because again... the interest rates are very very low.
5. This low interest rate is a reflection of demand for US debt. That means, if you don't buy US debt then someone else will and we won't care. Which means... the Chinese for example can't hurt us if they decide to not buy our debt. Worst case, our interest rate will go up slightly to attract more buyers. Which generally won't matter to us.
6. The Chinese economy is having serious problems right now and they are in no position to be causing problems. The US can do just fine without Chinese manufacturing. At most they lower what we pay for certain consumer and industrial goods. However, China cannot survive without the US market to sell to.
7. The US remains the global Reserve currency. We've been that since WW2 and nothing has really changed. This nonsense in Europe with Greece as well as economic turmoil in China and other assorted nonsense makes people worried about the stability of the global market. That worry translates into conservative economic practices which means people squirrel money away in the American economy. The Chinese people for example are buying up US assets. US land, US housing, US... stuff. And the reason for that is that it is a hedge against problems in China. So wealthy chinese people feel safer putting a significant amount of their net worth in the US than keeping it all in China. Americans feel no such anxiety. we are not squirreling our money away in China. We are keeping it in the US. Which means there is a net transfer of wealth from China to the US. When the chinese buy something in the US, they give us money and get in return ownership of something in the US. But the value of that thing in the US is subject to US markets. So if they buy some land their investment only holds value if the US real estate market holds stable. We saw similar things from the Japanese in the 1980s. They were running all over the US buying stuff because people in their economy knew the wheels were about to come off.
Long story short... no one has us on a leash. Rather, we profit from the entire situation.
The funny thing is the US is being paid... but what you do
Why would Obama have wanted to do that when the core architects of it wanted it to fail so that it would trigger a slide into single payer?
Obama isn't known for being 100 percent forthright. He is on record doing a lot of things that are ploys.
I don't mind that in foreign policy but I do mind it in domestic policy. And it does that a lot.
You think if the US just stayed in the Americas you'd have stayed free of Japanese domination? Are you THAT naive?
I have no doubt you fought small probing incursions by the japanese all by yourself. And nothing I have said is to suggest your people were without honor, valor, or duty.
However.. you lacked the numbers, the ships, the logistics, and the technology to repel the Japanese.
You did not have a heavy military industrial complex in Australia.
How many war ships did your country build?
How many tanks?
How many battalions did you field?
How many heavy bombers?
How many fighters?
How many close support bombers?
You think Australia during WW2 would have stood a chance against the Imperial Japanese military? With WHAT?
The US was having trouble with the Japanese for the first couple years of the war and our economic, industrial, population, and tech base so completely dwarfed anything Australia had then or now that it isn't worth citing numbers.
And to take things into the 21st century... Why does China need to care about Australia's opinion about anything? You and what army? The US pulls out of east asia and Japan is going to rapidly rearm, the other allies in the region are going to start to fracture their alliances because they all trust the US more than they trust each other. Everyone hates the Japanese for historical reasons even though its a stupid position to take in the 21st century. The South Koreans will probably cut a deal with the Chinese in return for the Chinese putting pressure on the North Koreans to behave themselves which is the entire point of the North Koreans even existing as a nation in so far as China is concerned.
Taiwan will get blockaded and forced to surrender to the Chinese. The Chinese don't even need to invade. Blockade Taiwan and they'll probably start to starve. A lot of island countries are net food importers. The UK is the same way. You blockade England and they have to surrender or starve.
Will the Chinese invade Australia? I doubt it. However they will dictate to you the policy in the region and they could very well make you pay tribute which you'd have no option but to pay. That would of course go for New Zealand etc.
China would form closer contacts with Russia and collectively they'd dominate asia with the exception of a few pockets of resistance. India has some stones. They could probably force other powers to leave them alone. The whole situation would likely cause unpredictable things to happen in the islamic countries. They are inclined to unite into a largely unitary empire. They all remember the glory days of the Ottomans and seem to want that to come back... this time with nukes and suicide bombers.
So anyway... welcome to your new glorious multipolar world. Have fun. I'm going to be over here in the US giggling.
Liar.
As to genetically encourage to only do ONE thing... no. genetics is not an absolute. Its tendencies.
Some of our ancestors were rapists. Most of them were not. Some of our ancestors were pedophiles that literally begot you by knocking up a 12 year old.
For these reason you see some men that are inclined to rape or pedophilia. You even see homosexuality which has no genetic value at all so far as anyone can figure out and is just an odd and strangly common mutation considering its lack of value to reproduction.
Regardless... your position is moronic. Anger, fear, lust, laughter, etc are all evolutionary.
It is beyond dispute that the core of our emotional being is evolutionarily deterministic. And as such suggesting that our psycology is not heavily influenced by evolution is idiotic.
What do you think built your brain you stupid little monkey? Evolution built it.
Go join the christian right or the islamists if you want to deny evolution. Fucking stupid marxists.
Go hop in a vat of soylent green.
talking to you is like talking to a creationist.
Where do you think FEAR comes from?
Where do you think sexual attraction comes from?
Where do you think ANGER comes from?
Where do you think every single fucking human emotion we've ever had has come from?
Think that's all culture?
Or is it evolution?
And if evolution is strongly influencing all of those things then it plays a major role in our psychology.
That's self evident. Can culture play a role in all this? Obviously. Its foolish to be an absolutist. However, evolution clearly influences our psychology. And we can debate as to the extent it does that but that it does is not disputable.
Now I'm done with you. You're too fucking stupid to have this conversation. You're out of your depth. Fuck off.
its not a drone and I don't see why you'd make it illegal. I mean... I could kill you with a number 2 pencil. OR a nice big fertilizer bomb. Or any of a million things that any semi intelligent person could do if they were determined and could look up the plans on the internet.
The notion of banning things to protect people is pointless. Criminals don't obey those laws and banning stuff doesn't stop people from getting stuff which is why I can snort cocaine and back a hooker whenever I please.
Explain why your ban on the armed remote controlled helicopters changes anything?
obviously I meant to say "are you pretending that your psychology is not influenced by evolution?"
its entirely undeniable... are you pretending that your psychology is not influenced by psychology?
Fear? Anger? Love?
Think that all comes from culture?
Evolution. That doesn't mean culture doesn't have a role but if you think evolution isn't playing a huge role in the way you think then you're basically denying evolution and I'm talking to creationists.
Which is generally speaking what marxists are in the first place which is one of the reasons I have such contempt for them.
They're like creationists that some how have academic credibility for no reason.