As a US citizen, you should be aware that what Netflix is doing is simply driven by customer demand, and their customers are all over the world. Also, you are getting all pissy over something that is considered normality anywhere else but the US.
By natural selection of the fittest, like other species. Yes, higher intelligence gave Homo Sapiens advantages over other Homo species, including the capacity of having culture-driven intelligence instead of genetic intelligence (which would have taken a much longer time to evolve us to where we stand now). Now, considering that we're all Homo Sapiens now, and we possess equal biological capacity for intelligence, one must reckon that what we call lack of intelligence is almost universally a lack of education, within the parameters of the human culture one individuals grows in. Therefore the progeny of uneducated individuals are still perfectly capable of being intelligent, if they receive a proper education. So suppressing the possibility to reproduce of "unintelligent" people is not only useless, but potentially damaging to the species at large, as it inevitably restricts the genetic pool. Of course, one might be tempted to embrace the easy eugenetical solution (which solves nothing) as tackling the issues that lead to certain individuals (usually poor) to be also uneducated is a much bigger task. One obvious example of those who embraced this theory is the Nazis, but it manages to sneak in even in left-leaning thought circles, take the movie Idiocracy as an example.
Intelligence is inheritable? Please prove that. Also, please tell us how you measure intelligence. Then, and only then, your eugenetic drivel will be taken under consideration.
Sorry, but you're mistaken. I know for certain that large-scale landlords purposefully leave certain lots vacant to drive rent prices up by shrinking offer. The profits far outweight taxation.
Someone else already brought up Land Value Tax, so I won't repeat it here, but yes, it's pretty much the only form of taxation that conservatives support and it comes straight from the Austrian school. Being conservative doesn't mean "I can do what the fuck I want", that's just selfishness. And ignorance.
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As a US citizen, you should be aware that what Netflix is doing is simply driven by customer demand, and their customers are all over the world.
Also, you are getting all pissy over something that is considered normality anywhere else but the US.
Oh look, an American realizing he's no longer the center of the world...
Stop eating crayons.
By natural selection of the fittest, like other species.
Yes, higher intelligence gave Homo Sapiens advantages over other Homo species, including the capacity of having culture-driven intelligence instead of genetic intelligence (which would have taken a much longer time to evolve us to where we stand now).
Now, considering that we're all Homo Sapiens now, and we possess equal biological capacity for intelligence, one must reckon that what we call lack of intelligence is almost universally a lack of education, within the parameters of the human culture one individuals grows in. Therefore the progeny of uneducated individuals are still perfectly capable of being intelligent, if they receive a proper education. So suppressing the possibility to reproduce of "unintelligent" people is not only useless, but potentially damaging to the species at large, as it inevitably restricts the genetic pool.
Of course, one might be tempted to embrace the easy eugenetical solution (which solves nothing) as tackling the issues that lead to certain individuals (usually poor) to be also uneducated is a much bigger task. One obvious example of those who embraced this theory is the Nazis, but it manages to sneak in even in left-leaning thought circles, take the movie Idiocracy as an example.
Intelligence is inheritable? Please prove that. Also, please tell us how you measure intelligence.
Then, and only then, your eugenetic drivel will be taken under consideration.
For the record, I strongly support vaccinations.
Stop eating crayons.
Yeah, but only if they can get a man on the moon by the end of his term, which is ludicrous.
Or, you know, just use Firefox.
Made in China. Sold in the US.
Customers are leaving in droves, so punish those who stay.
"not monitoring for core failures on your CPU"
And this is what went wrong.
Because it takes a patent troll to scam a Nigerian prince.
Sorry, but you're mistaken. I know for certain that large-scale landlords purposefully leave certain lots vacant to drive rent prices up by shrinking offer. The profits far outweight taxation.
Someone else already brought up Land Value Tax, so I won't repeat it here, but yes, it's pretty much the only form of taxation that conservatives support and it comes straight from the Austrian school.
Being conservative doesn't mean "I can do what the fuck I want", that's just selfishness. And ignorance.
You must really be alienated from society, if you think that families would move in mass to a different state just to find more lax gun regulation.
To be honest, taxing inefficiency should be something even the conservative crowd should embrace, and vacant housing is inefficient.
There isn't a single aspect of cryptos that isn't a scam.
Just do it, seriously. As long as you don't post a torrent somewhere, nobody's gonna bother you.
Nonsense, the patches are already upstreamed in the kernel code, any distro can distribute them.
Where will I get my Bitcoin investment tips now?
If you think that Flash has a better reputation than your software, what you're doing is not a tradeoff, it's a race to the bottom.
You know you're desperate when you disguise yourself as Flash.
I got myself a 6-months-old Sapphire RX580 Nitro+ Special Edition for 180€ on eBay a month ago. Some French dude was selling like 50 of them.
Maybe all those obnoxious "Youtube economists" will crawl back to their mom's basements...
Which means they probably handled it better than any of us.