I don't see where the "ethical dilemmas" are supposed to be with cloning. A clone is pretty much like an identical twin, nothing more. The only ethical dilemma I see is that cloning may predispose the clone to some additional risk and genetic disorders, but that's something we can presumably get under control (in other primates) and it's something we routinely accept for other reproductive technologies.
"The industry" was working together just fine; there weren't actually that many lawsuits between companies like Palm, Nokia, and Microsoft.
Apple, however, came in as a newbie, took everybody else's ideas, put them in a nice shiny box, and started patenting and suing everybody.
I agree it's wrong, but it won't change as long as people don't even know it's happening or erroneously assume that it's still better than elsewhere. You just did it again when you said "even Europe".
There are lots of European countries that have some kind of public financing of churches through taxes, that's not the issue. For some of them, you may also have to declare what you want to happen to the money.
What's unique to Germany AFAIK is that you have to declare your actual religion both to the government and to your employer.
This sort of thing is done in many many EU member states
Really? Which ones? Because, AFAIK, Merkel had to go back to the EU and ask for the EU regulations to be changed specifically so that the German practice remained legal.
There was a similar conflict when the German government wanted to collect information about everybody's religion and communicate that to their employers and churches (ostensibly for taxation purposes). If that isn't a grave violation of privacy in a country that murdered millions because of their religious affiliation, I don't know what is. There was a lawsuit over it. The outcome? The EU declared it legal. Logic apparently goes out the window when European governments or large special interests themselves want to collect data on their citizens.
How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much
That article is an incompetent hack job. First of all, you need to compare PPP after taxes and benefits, not hourly dollar amounts; that erases much of the difference. German and US car workers also do different jobs, German manufacturers primarily make luxury vehicles, and the same German car sells for much more in Germany than in the US, effectively having the rest of Germany subsidize German auto workers.
American autoworkers are constantly told that high-wage work is an unsustainable relic in the face of a hyper-competitive, globalized marketplace.
Oh, a few politically powerful unions can do wonders for the wages of their members. But that money comes out of the pockets of everybody else one way or another, and you can't make everybody better off that way. Overall, German workers are still worse off than American workers.
Yeah, I just provided one example; I figured you'd realize how ludicrous your statement was and are capable of looking up some of the other countries yourself (e.g., France, Italy, Poland, Greece, UK).
You appear to be from Portugal. I don't know about your country, but you aren't qualified to speak for "most of Europe" and I believe you are wrong.
In Germany, for example, Christian churches teach classes in school, participate in curriculum design for the entire curriculum, and have reserved professorships for history, philosophy, and theology at public universities. Many German classrooms display Christian crosses, and in some parts of Germany, that is a government rule. The church is also very powerful, and has special privileges, in other European nations.
Big German companies don't need "lobbyists" because they are consulted directly by the government, and/or the government may be a shareholder. Money may not influence German politics much, but the way political power works in Germany is even more nebulous and insidious than the way politics and money are intertwined in the US. Incidentally, Merkel used to be a propagandist for the East German Communist party. It seems weird that people think of her as being particularly honest.
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I don't see where the "ethical dilemmas" are supposed to be with cloning. A clone is pretty much like an identical twin, nothing more. The only ethical dilemma I see is that cloning may predispose the clone to some additional risk and genetic disorders, but that's something we can presumably get under control (in other primates) and it's something we routinely accept for other reproductive technologies.
I liked my Palm Treo. Apple's iPhone was an inferior copy as far as I was concerned.
Oh, there have been a lot of misbehaving companies like that. I'm just saying that Apple started this in mobile.
How did he piss off the police department that they are going after him like this?
"The industry" was working together just fine; there weren't actually that many lawsuits between companies like Palm, Nokia, and Microsoft. Apple, however, came in as a newbie, took everybody else's ideas, put them in a nice shiny box, and started patenting and suing everybody.
I agree it's wrong, but it won't change as long as people don't even know it's happening or erroneously assume that it's still better than elsewhere. You just did it again when you said "even Europe".
There are lots of European countries that have some kind of public financing of churches through taxes, that's not the issue. For some of them, you may also have to declare what you want to happen to the money. What's unique to Germany AFAIK is that you have to declare your actual religion both to the government and to your employer.
Really? Which ones? Because, AFAIK, Merkel had to go back to the EU and ask for the EU regulations to be changed specifically so that the German practice remained legal.
That verdict was overturned in 2011 under pressure from the Italian government (and various churches): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8391092/Crucifixes-can-be-displayed-in-EU-schools.html
There was a similar conflict when the German government wanted to collect information about everybody's religion and communicate that to their employers and churches (ostensibly for taxation purposes). If that isn't a grave violation of privacy in a country that murdered millions because of their religious affiliation, I don't know what is. There was a lawsuit over it. The outcome? The EU declared it legal. Logic apparently goes out the window when European governments or large special interests themselves want to collect data on their citizens.
That article is an incompetent hack job. First of all, you need to compare PPP after taxes and benefits, not hourly dollar amounts; that erases much of the difference. German and US car workers also do different jobs, German manufacturers primarily make luxury vehicles, and the same German car sells for much more in Germany than in the US, effectively having the rest of Germany subsidize German auto workers.
Oh, a few politically powerful unions can do wonders for the wages of their members. But that money comes out of the pockets of everybody else one way or another, and you can't make everybody better off that way. Overall, German workers are still worse off than American workers.
Citation, or is that just your wishful thinking?
Yeah, I just provided one example; I figured you'd realize how ludicrous your statement was and are capable of looking up some of the other countries yourself (e.g., France, Italy, Poland, Greece, UK).
Actually, German workers, while doing quite well relative to the rest of Europe, are economically worse off than US workers.
You appear to be from Portugal. I don't know about your country, but you aren't qualified to speak for "most of Europe" and I believe you are wrong. In Germany, for example, Christian churches teach classes in school, participate in curriculum design for the entire curriculum, and have reserved professorships for history, philosophy, and theology at public universities. Many German classrooms display Christian crosses, and in some parts of Germany, that is a government rule. The church is also very powerful, and has special privileges, in other European nations.
Big German companies don't need "lobbyists" because they are consulted directly by the government, and/or the government may be a shareholder. Money may not influence German politics much, but the way political power works in Germany is even more nebulous and insidious than the way politics and money are intertwined in the US. Incidentally, Merkel used to be a propagandist for the East German Communist party. It seems weird that people think of her as being particularly honest.