That's because the IMF and the Austrian school do never recommend austerity by itself, but in conjunction with external financing. So you should cut down what the state spends and shrink it, knowing you won't have enough money to maintain what's left, and then go pledge the IMF for a loan to pay for the austerity policies, which will lead to new tax cuts, and a new loan... It's a vicious circle. The only winners are the speculative capitals. I know it first hand, my country has finally got off the IMF's deadly hug.
Tell that to Miss Dominique Lagarde and her entourage... Every time a third-world economy raises, they hold the holy triad of tax cuts for the rich/fiscal shrinking/devaluation as a way to "bring confidence to achieve foreign financing". As the comment below by SilentCoder states, devaluation means lower buying power for the masses, and lower (human) costs for the manufacturer (which are majorly trans-national capital anyway). Plus, have you seen the revised pronostics from the IMF? Those guys NEVER hit the nail in the head. NEVER. Yet, their recipe is always the same: fiscal austerity, finance the state with external debt, and devaluation.
I wonder how much of a chance there is those times come back...
The ultimate step to controlling reality is to erase all evidence of a reality that contradicts the one you desire, to the point where even those harmed by the changes you promulgate will prefer your version to a conflicting one.
I think it's common knowledge by now that industry can buy legislation. The new low is that the actual text of the bill is being kept under lock and key.
It's the natural evolution of Democratic legislation - remember how the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed? While the 2,500 page text was available, supporters and even the sponsors of the bill openly mocked anyone that tried to get politicians to actually READ the bill. Once they made it 'cool' to ignore the actual text of a bill, the next step was to see if they could get away with not even bothering to release the text of the bill.
Let's not forget Java is the one to point a finger at when talking about performance and lazy programming. Most of the Java garbage out there simply needs way too many resources to do stuff at least in a mediocre way. When an app owner releases a new version of their shit, we know they will be requesting more memory and CPU just a week after, because their users are complaining about "poor performance".
On a related issue, I still hold my position: In a near future, (and perhaps because of this stupid IOT thing) all the Java based appliances will start to work together and bring Skynet to life. Prepare yourselves to run away from hordes of Java-powered T1000s!!!
I for one welcome our CPU and memory hungry robotic overlords.
No, there's more! Like all those people running around in spandex with TI scientific calculators, feeling bad about vapourizing a planet after struggling with their mixed feelings regarding the "do not interfere" stupid federation rule... Let's say it, ST is boring as looking at a snail go through your backyard's deck if anything./SARCASM
If you think about it a bit more, ST is kind of a metaphor for US interventionism, AKA the Monroe Doctrine: Let's all look as if we were doing something on behalf of every living being, while making profit at it and don't ever think of all the sentient beings we've killed in between.
I encourage you to read some of the verses by Pedro Bonifacio, better known as Almafuerte:
Dios adusto, Dios frío, Dios con libro
de entrada y salida como un carcelero, Dios que necesita del dolor,
Dios que invento las lágrimas... Vete a tu olimpo...!
Dour God, cold God, God who books
entries and exits as a jailer, God who needs pain,
God who invented tears...... Go to your Olympus!
While I concur and support your arguments, I ask you to please, please do away with the monospace font. It really makes the text hard to read, even more when coming from the rest of the comments.
There's nothing "natural" in any cultural act. As such, you cannot categorize religion as a "natural reaction". Religions came out as a way to exploit some ancient fears, I could give you that. Your arguments call for a hiatus in evolution, and could be categorized as postmodern and right-wing oriented. Remember, those who are in power (and who have certainly used religion among many other things to subjugate and control the populace) don't want anything to change.
Mind you, this doesn't speak for the third world (where firewood for heat and cooking is an actual thing, farming is a growth industry, not to mention the exotic hardwood cutting), and definitely doesn't speak for Europe and Asia (where the former has few forests left, and the latter is largely ignored and therefore unregulated for the most part).
The Third World doesn't burn the wood for cooking/heat. It's cut and processed either to expand the agricultural frontier so more soybean can be grown and exported to the First World or to make paper in factories the First World bans and get relocated here.
I dare you to demonstrate how that outdated piece of garbage is better than my Quantum Entanglement Cables, specifically designed to work on Quantum Computer Music NAS Systems. Imagine it, the sound gets distortionless, since the information travels through just TWO electrons* through the whole length of the cable!!!
*Note: even when the information uses just two quantum-entangled electrons, it also visits all of its quantum states, so you might end up listening to Abba when you selected Led Zeppelin...
It did. Last Wednesday we heard a lot of folks at USA got kicked off. Even my SDM got nervous about it. And down here we got some layoffs to sing along the main tune.
We still have to find a cheap, commercial way to produce graphene, so until that happens, the mean life of it it's close to zero.
Seriously, I'm tired of all these promises of graphene going from curing cancer and HIV to building everlasting batteries out of it to transmitting petabytes of information over a carbon-thick wire... Producing just a small amount of this "miracle material" costs a lot, can't be used out of a lab-controlled environment and it's polluting as hell. Until all of that gets reversed, it's unusable.
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Does Quaker sell any diesel bran in the US? Which other brands do?
That's because the IMF and the Austrian school do never recommend austerity by itself, but in conjunction with external financing. So you should cut down what the state spends and shrink it, knowing you won't have enough money to maintain what's left, and then go pledge the IMF for a loan to pay for the austerity policies, which will lead to new tax cuts, and a new loan... It's a vicious circle. The only winners are the speculative capitals. I know it first hand, my country has finally got off the IMF's deadly hug.
Tell that to Miss Dominique Lagarde and her entourage... Every time a third-world economy raises, they hold the holy triad of tax cuts for the rich/fiscal shrinking/devaluation as a way to "bring confidence to achieve foreign financing". As the comment below by SilentCoder states, devaluation means lower buying power for the masses, and lower (human) costs for the manufacturer (which are majorly trans-national capital anyway). Plus, have you seen the revised pronostics from the IMF? Those guys NEVER hit the nail in the head. NEVER. Yet, their recipe is always the same: fiscal austerity, finance the state with external debt, and devaluation.
the second communications satellite built in Argentina!!!
just an abandoned rumaki shack
FTFY
Another reason not to store your important data in the cloud.
Arrrgh, somebody please mod this up!!! You made me snort my coffee.
That certainly gives "bendgate" a new perspective...
I wonder how much of a chance there is those times come back...
The ultimate step to controlling reality is to erase all evidence of a reality that contradicts the one you desire, to the point where even those harmed by the changes you promulgate will prefer your version to a conflicting one.
I don't know what you mean... we've always been at war with Eastasia...
It's the natural evolution of Democratic legislation - remember how the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed? While the 2,500 page text was available, supporters and even the sponsors of the bill openly mocked anyone that tried to get politicians to actually READ the bill. Once they made it 'cool' to ignore the actual text of a bill, the next step was to see if they could get away with not even bothering to release the text of the bill.
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Let's not forget Java is the one to point a finger at when talking about performance and lazy programming. Most of the Java garbage out there simply needs way too many resources to do stuff at least in a mediocre way. When an app owner releases a new version of their shit, we know they will be requesting more memory and CPU just a week after, because their users are complaining about "poor performance". On a related issue, I still hold my position: In a near future, (and perhaps because of this stupid IOT thing) all the Java based appliances will start to work together and bring Skynet to life. Prepare yourselves to run away from hordes of Java-powered T1000s!!! I for one welcome our CPU and memory hungry robotic overlords.
So you're saying it's not global warming melting the ice, but drooling morons flooding us all?
No, there's more! Like all those people running around in spandex with TI scientific calculators, feeling bad about vapourizing a planet after struggling with their mixed feelings regarding the "do not interfere" stupid federation rule... Let's say it, ST is boring as looking at a snail go through your backyard's deck if anything. /SARCASM
If you think about it a bit more, ST is kind of a metaphor for US interventionism, AKA the Monroe Doctrine: Let's all look as if we were doing something on behalf of every living being, while making profit at it and don't ever think of all the sentient beings we've killed in between.
Would you rather have it based on the militaristic approach of Star Trek, disguised as a perfect/harmonic society?
I encourage you to read some of the verses by Pedro Bonifacio, better known as Almafuerte: Dios adusto, Dios frío, Dios con libro de entrada y salida como un carcelero, Dios que necesita del dolor, Dios que invento las lágrimas... Vete a tu olimpo...! Dour God, cold God, God who books entries and exits as a jailer, God who needs pain, God who invented tears ... ... Go to your Olympus!
What if he's color blind, you insensitive clod?
While I concur and support your arguments, I ask you to please, please do away with the monospace font. It really makes the text hard to read, even more when coming from the rest of the comments.
There's nothing "natural" in any cultural act. As such, you cannot categorize religion as a "natural reaction". Religions came out as a way to exploit some ancient fears, I could give you that. Your arguments call for a hiatus in evolution, and could be categorized as postmodern and right-wing oriented. Remember, those who are in power (and who have certainly used religion among many other things to subjugate and control the populace) don't want anything to change.
Mind you, this doesn't speak for the third world (where firewood for heat and cooking is an actual thing, farming is a growth industry, not to mention the exotic hardwood cutting), and definitely doesn't speak for Europe and Asia (where the former has few forests left, and the latter is largely ignored and therefore unregulated for the most part).
The Third World doesn't burn the wood for cooking/heat. It's cut and processed either to expand the agricultural frontier so more soybean can be grown and exported to the First World or to make paper in factories the First World bans and get relocated here.
The "Panda Virus", contracted by Bart when a mosquito trapped in a Krustysaur stings him.
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Back to the Sartre reference a few comments above yours ;-).
I dare you to demonstrate how that outdated piece of garbage is better than my Quantum Entanglement Cables, specifically designed to work on Quantum Computer Music NAS Systems. Imagine it, the sound gets distortionless, since the information travels through just TWO electrons* through the whole length of the cable!!!
*Note: even when the information uses just two quantum-entangled electrons, it also visits all of its quantum states, so you might end up listening to Abba when you selected Led Zeppelin...
It did. Last Wednesday we heard a lot of folks at USA got kicked off. Even my SDM got nervous about it. And down here we got some layoffs to sing along the main tune.
We still have to find a cheap, commercial way to produce graphene, so until that happens, the mean life of it it's close to zero.
Seriously, I'm tired of all these promises of graphene going from curing cancer and HIV to building everlasting batteries out of it to transmitting petabytes of information over a carbon-thick wire... Producing just a small amount of this "miracle material" costs a lot, can't be used out of a lab-controlled environment and it's polluting as hell. Until all of that gets reversed, it's unusable.
Looks like those building raids the police carried on on Minority Report and other Sci-Fi stories are closer and closer to come true...