Your understanding of bringing less obvious metrics (i.e. the ones that really matter) into consideration hits the nail on the head.
Toward the end you almost sound like you are in favor of replacing one age discrimination with another. While I disagree with that, I am sympathetic given your experiences.
King Leonidas showed what professional soldiers can do, but the US military has little it can do to respond to conventional war tactics. The DoD is oriented against "asymetric" (i.e. nuclear, stealth, cluster-bomb, etc technology), but couldn't do anything in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Most of the staff in the DoD are paid to push papers around, but its biggest problem (as an infantryman in the army told me) is the mothers of America who insist on wimpy training.
Yes, he was a devoutly committed Christian and accused a lot of his church leadership of being fake Christians. To Kierkegaard Christianity presented a radical "lifeview" that only an individual could agree to and live by. Camus noted Kierkegaard was different from all the other existential writers in that he not only presented radical views, he also lived by them. Kierkegaard's writings were mostly remembered by athiests (Nietchze, Sartre, etc), Barthe excepting.
Your response sounds like a commissar -judging other people's choices "politically".
They declared food and medical services to be a human "right", but then they decided large swaths of the population didn't "need" them (whatever that means). And they don't need air conditioning or televisions or quality at all.
F/OSS (especially OpenOffice) has so many bugs people shouldn't even use it. Ever. I sent out an OpenOffice resume once and it hid the section that showed my experience! Google Docs failed similarly. If you ever send out a resume you should buy Office.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to make your choices politically...
This is the same "resource problem" Karl Marx melodramatic about.
I only know 1 person who starved to death, and of his own choosing. If people in Africa lived like they do in the US, they wouldn't be starving over there either. It has *nothing* to do with resources.
This is how the US got its start. A lot of people from different countries wanting limited government starting in an extremely rural, undeveloped place.
Other countries could learn something there... but their governments won't relinquish power to individuals.
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And the government is earning this money in someway?
This has been going on for a long time, and it has never offered anything meaningful to the ordinary guy.
What they're really doing is ejecting our paychecks into space.
Once again you have to be grossly mistaken to get modded up on /.
You can use the html paragraph break: br/
(put it inside angled brackets i.e. less than greater than)
I am relieved to hear you want to keep the government out, but persecution is completely open to interpretation.
If someone was fired because they wouldn't sell an abortion pill (a murder pill to me), I would call that persecution.
The Disney employee who was a muslim and wouldn't remove her headgear was a controversy. No clear call on that one.
I would rather the government just dropped protected classes altogether.
society is the illusion of individuals blurred together
Value is categorically subjective.
The fact that gold is priced so astronomically high means actual people do not value the dollar very much right now.
Your understanding of bringing less obvious metrics (i.e. the ones that really matter) into consideration hits the nail on the head.
Toward the end you almost sound like you are in favor of replacing one age discrimination with another. While I disagree with that, I am sympathetic given your experiences.
The real "business world" heavily weighs candidates based on non-obsolete skills.
Glad I didn't have that guy.
King Leonidas showed what professional soldiers can do, but the US military has little it can do to respond to conventional war tactics. The DoD is oriented against "asymetric" (i.e. nuclear, stealth, cluster-bomb, etc technology), but couldn't do anything in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Most of the staff in the DoD are paid to push papers around, but its biggest problem (as an infantryman in the army told me) is the mothers of America who insist on wimpy training.
You might be compassionate, sure, but more compassionate than Obama?
So shouldn't Obama really be the one who decides when you can use it?
Yes, he was a devoutly committed Christian and accused a lot of his church leadership of being fake Christians. To Kierkegaard Christianity presented a radical "lifeview" that only an individual could agree to and live by. Camus noted Kierkegaard was different from all the other existential writers in that he not only presented radical views, he also lived by them. Kierkegaard's writings were mostly remembered by athiests (Nietchze, Sartre, etc), Barthe excepting.
So what you're saying is government should regulate what religions are good.
Nevermind the fact that government types (and slashdotters) hate religion.
How strange to see such a Kierkegaardian sentiment, although I fully agree.
I'll pass on Europe's unemployment numbers, economy, etc.
The only masters there are the wealthy government class.
This invisibly pushes a lot of brain capital out of DoD. Glad I'm out of that world, and the entire public sector for that matter.
Your response sounds like a commissar -judging other people's choices "politically".
...
They declared food and medical services to be a human "right", but then they decided large swaths of the population didn't "need" them (whatever that means). And they don't need air conditioning or televisions or quality at all.
F/OSS (especially OpenOffice) has so many bugs people shouldn't even use it. Ever. I sent out an OpenOffice resume once and it hid the section that showed my experience! Google Docs failed similarly. If you ever send out a resume you should buy Office.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to make your choices politically
Using technology and the government to solve imaginary problems ineffectively once again ...
Why do people on /. have such a hard time with:
moral freedom = moral culpability
?
This is the same "resource problem" Karl Marx melodramatic about.
I only know 1 person who starved to death, and of his own choosing. If people in Africa lived like they do in the US, they wouldn't be starving over there either. It has *nothing* to do with resources.
Republicans want us to be scared of the bad guys.
Democrats want us to depend on the government.
Everyone wins (except for the individuals).
Are you talking about returning to polytheism or worshiping superficiality?
Or is that the same thing?
Did the government earn everything in space?
...
If not, then why is it laying claim to everything?
The war on being an individual continues
It's not profitable for small business because ordinary consumers don't want to pay for it.
This is how the US got its start. A lot of people from different countries wanting limited government starting in an extremely rural, undeveloped place.
... but their governments won't relinquish power to individuals.
Other countries could learn something there