Typically this kind of defense of the USSR includes the "... and the trains always ran on time." While that may be a pleasantry the soviets enjoyed... trains running on time didn't feed the 6 million Ukrainians who died of starvation.
More broadly, why do you think Stalin pursued the New Economic Policy (NEP)? The premise of it was to allow more free market principles into the system.
Were the Soviets just not Communist enough? Or did they not recognize the amazing leaps forward they had made? Or what exactly?
Because to me the whole thing smells like a spectacular failure.
If you can't spend the money you earn the way you want (e.g. on your kids) why bother?
If the kids don't have the competence to earn it, they will lose it. The lottery is an excellent example of poverty happening due to lack of self control and NOT access to capital.
I'll bite on this. People think net neutrality will enable them to watch and pirate more Game of Thrones. That right there explains 30% of the content on.\
Ordinary people don't care about net neutrality because they aren't draining the world's bandwidth... but they should because they are paying for it as if they were.
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Don't they pop into existence out of non-particle energy?
Imagine a homicide detective discovers a dead man with a knife in his back.
What is so wrong about the view that the carcass was always there with a knife in its back?
I can see David Hume giving someone a big high-five over that conclusion.
Yeah, and if I found a valentines day card in my mail box. It was always there!
See! SCIENCE!
Needs are wants in disguise.
The USSR determined 6 million Ukrainians didn't *need* to eat.
Typically this kind of defense of the USSR includes the "... and the trains always ran on time." While that may be a pleasantry the soviets enjoyed ... trains running on time didn't feed the 6 million Ukrainians who died of starvation.
More broadly, why do you think Stalin pursued the New Economic Policy (NEP)? The premise of it was to allow more free market principles into the system.
Were the Soviets just not Communist enough? Or did they not recognize the amazing leaps forward they had made? Or what exactly?
Because to me the whole thing smells like a spectacular failure.
Question: does "austerity" mean any European nations have reduced their annual spending?
Answer: "No."
So what exactly are you discontent with?
Tiers? Sounds like a net neutrality violation.
Ah, I forgot slashdot was only for people to promote downloading GoT.
Societies don't make decisions.
... don't ask a crowd. Make the decision.
The Public doesn't make decisions.
If you want a decision
Seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
And now the internet is full of big brother.
There's a large number of athiests/secular homeschoolers out there.
When public schools try to "make their children realize" anything they should be shut down.
Life is more about choosing your perspective than it is getting spoon fed dogmas from the "elite".
Medicare and social security are supposed to HELP the elderly, but you are using these programs as a justification to KILL them!
Why should someone else get to define what big bucks are?
It's insanity because it encourages jobs to leave the US.
Jobs leave because the companies (being penalized for staying) leave.
Once the companies leave the US, the government still can't collect taxes *and* many jobs are gone.
The same thing with the Berlin Wall: if you punish people for leaving, no one will want to live there!
The US economy did extremely well during the Raegan years.
In the only way that really matters, girls and boys are the same (qualitatively and IMHO).
But that doesn't mean there aren't superficial differences.
Handing out different roles to different demographics doesn't increase or diminsh their value.
Why not put it to paying off the $18 TRILLION debt before investors loose all confidence in our ability to repay our debts?
Languages don't dominate and oppress.
People do that.
If you can't spend the money you earn the way you want (e.g. on your kids) why bother?
If the kids don't have the competence to earn it, they will lose it. The lottery is an excellent example of poverty happening due to lack of self control and NOT access to capital.
Republicans are more likely to have university degrees (cf. Wikipedia article on GOP), but university profs are more likely to be Dems.
America's military is protecting you via NATO from Putin while Germany's taxes put you in college.
You don't get it. You are paying for it out your back pocket via taxes.
Even if you don't go to college yourself.
Opposite. Adam Smith called his strategy "hands off" and "laissez faire" has been a household term since.
Regulatory intervention is the opposite of hands off.
I'll bite on this. People think net neutrality will enable them to watch and pirate more Game of Thrones. That right there explains 30% of the content on .\
... but they should because they are paying for it as if they were.
Ordinary people don't care about net neutrality because they aren't draining the world's bandwidth
Who said anything about communication? Quantum effects travel instantaneously. That's (part of what) spooked Einstein.
I would expect quantum and gravitational effects to travel at the same speed viz. Ockham's razor.
A more complex explanation could model it, but something more would be needed to persuade me.
I don't buy it.
It takes about 8 minutes for the gravity from the sun to reach the earth, but quantum phenomena would travel instantaneously.
Different things.
That's a little anecdotal, but all truth is on some level.
What's your take on the recent claim that WMD's were found, but W hid the discovery because they were manufactured in the US? It was on \.
I'm not sure what to make of that. I'm wondering if you either don't buy it or haven't heard that one.