The current negative savings rates in the US, propped up by incredible debt levels made worse by low interest rates and the housing bubble (allowing people who can't really afford it to have millions in cheap debt), could possibly spell the beginning of an economic holocaust the likes of which the US has never seen.
Large scale societal dynamics are the things which shape history, not so much the politics of the day. Politics in a vacuum looks very impressive, but you look closer, and you'll often find that it is a mirror which reflects what's actually happening in the world.
The aboriginal people are self governed, and they are not by any means underfunded. Their problems are entirely self-inflicted, and the productive natives should be up in arms over the disgusting behaviour of their bretheren.
Billions are already spent on providing what SHOULD be excellent living conditions for a virtual handful of people. Instead, their corrupt self-government combines with the pitiful behaviour of people on reserves, leaving taxpayers with the cheque -- The Prime Minister just allocated 5 billion dollars to prevent suicides in native communities, which have pitifully reached epidemic levels.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Until the native populations in canada grow up and start actually taking some responsibility for their actions(And some of them are atrocities -- My mother lived in the North, in a small mining community past Thompson Manitoba, and she has told me stories of natives feeding their kids drano to send them to the hospital because they don't want to get a babysitter while they went out drinking for the night) and their own self-government, they have absolutely no business blaming anyone but themselves for their situation. Rational natives should be extremely vocal in critisizing the unfortunate majority which is enforcing stereotypes and in so doing causing even natives who want to be productive in society untold grief.
That's what it all boils down to, I'm afraid. The folks who want 'their' people in power will moan and complain about how things are so bad, not neccessarily because they are so bad.
The problem is that the baby boom is over, and it's going to be quite a while until the echo boomers are ready to take over those positions. In the meantime, everyone wants to be a doctor or a lawyer or some other job they see glamourized on TV, so nobody wants to be a tradesman anymore -- the median age of tradespeople is aggregating towards 55 now, which means that there is a vacuum. Lots of jobless people with IT skills, but nobody who can turn a wrench.
This is great news for people with a bit of vision, because they can get into trades and make a bundle right now.
That said, this problem has everything to do with shifting demographics and nothing to do with socialism. The US has the exact same problem. Nobody wants to do any real work any more.
Ontario must, since they've got several apprenticeship programs in place for IT. While I was working to pay for college, I spent some time as an apprentice helptesk support analyst.
It was good honest work, but after studying a trade whose roots are in the tangible physical world for two years, it doesn't have the same allure to me.
Preference Utilitarianism is a bad thing to use here. Your existance is decedant -- your life is fueled by enough resources to save hundreds of people from slow wasting death. Therefore, using it to justify torture is a non-sequitor.
I see, you've been to the middle east, so you're an authoritative source on torture, eh?
I guess, living in Canada, that makes me an authoritative source on baby seal farming, doesn't it?
Well, I've got to tell you, I don't see what those liberal half-wits have a problem with! All you do is plant the baby seals in the ground, water them for six to eight months, and then whack 'em with a club to get them off the vine.
All life is inherently illogical. All morals and ethics are essentially senseless and meaningless. All virtue is essentially self-congratulatory rubbish.
Me too. I figured that actually laying out a long-winded portrayal of the true nature of soviet russia, in contrast to the predictable one-liners, would be rather amusing. Indeed, I found it to be so.
Oh yeah, in Soviet Russia, The workers theoretically own the means of production as is common in the marxist/communist system of government, but actually are repressed by a unique republican/totalitarian system of government in which the government has the final say about the fate of everything -- including human lives. This means that in reality the workers own nothing, not even their own lives, and are thus repressed moreso than in the capitalistic system of government due to fundamental differences between focused totalitarianism and simply nihilistic capitalism.
Frankly, when people such as yourself bring up this idea, I find it to be sick and callous. There are hundreds of thousands of people dying every month of this disease around the world, and this one guy is apparantly cured and it's God? Only if God is one sick fucker. Otherwise, I'm going to have to believe that God just doesn't give a fuck anymore, and just like he didn't save the Americans from the Saudi/Afganis, and just like he didn't save the Iraqis from the Americans, he didn't save this gay guy from his AIDS.
None of those other things exist. It's all just nihilistic hedonism.
Love: You find someone's life to be aesthetically pleasing. Values: You find a certain set of behaviours to be aesthetically pleasing Culture: You find some collective body of the past aesthetically pleasing Morals: You don't want people to do something bad to you, so you follow arbitrary rules in a hedonistic attempt to keep others from doing you wrong wisdom: You believe you know something, and feel you are superior for it. courtesy: See Morals.
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Da french are superior, tabarnac!
We can't pronounce 'th', but we are superior!
(Yeah, I live in Winnipeg. I haven't learned french for the same reason you haven't learned Russian.)
In any other country on the face of the earth, Seperatists would be hanged as traitors. Here, we're just fed up with listening to their bitching.
The current negative savings rates in the US, propped up by incredible debt levels made worse by low interest rates and the housing bubble (allowing people who can't really afford it to have millions in cheap debt), could possibly spell the beginning of an economic holocaust the likes of which the US has never seen.
Large scale societal dynamics are the things which shape history, not so much the politics of the day. Politics in a vacuum looks very impressive, but you look closer, and you'll often find that it is a mirror which reflects what's actually happening in the world.
The aboriginal people are self governed, and they are not by any means underfunded. Their problems are entirely self-inflicted, and the productive natives should be up in arms over the disgusting behaviour of their bretheren.
Billions are already spent on providing what SHOULD be excellent living conditions for a virtual handful of people. Instead, their corrupt self-government combines with the pitiful behaviour of people on reserves, leaving taxpayers with the cheque -- The Prime Minister just allocated 5 billion dollars to prevent suicides in native communities, which have pitifully reached epidemic levels.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Until the native populations in canada grow up and start actually taking some responsibility for their actions(And some of them are atrocities -- My mother lived in the North, in a small mining community past Thompson Manitoba, and she has told me stories of natives feeding their kids drano to send them to the hospital because they don't want to get a babysitter while they went out drinking for the night) and their own self-government, they have absolutely no business blaming anyone but themselves for their situation. Rational natives should be extremely vocal in critisizing the unfortunate majority which is enforcing stereotypes and in so doing causing even natives who want to be productive in society untold grief.
Almost all things nerdy somehow had something to do with a canadian.
Sad but true.
That's what it all boils down to, I'm afraid. The folks who want 'their' people in power will moan and complain about how things are so bad, not neccessarily because they are so bad.
I hate to break the news to you, but have you seen the budget of your country lately?
It doesn't matter which one it is. Canada is the ONLY country in the Group of Seven nations to have a balanced budget for seven consecutive years.
In your country, you wouldn't be paying for it. Your kids would. Maybe.
One statistic to shatter your arguement without bothering with your details:
Half of personal bankruptcies are caused by medical bills
Your arguements are therefore rendered moot by reality.
Sadly, you're still and ignorant sod.
The problem is that the baby boom is over, and it's going to be quite a while until the echo boomers are ready to take over those positions. In the meantime, everyone wants to be a doctor or a lawyer or some other job they see glamourized on TV, so nobody wants to be a tradesman anymore -- the median age of tradespeople is aggregating towards 55 now, which means that there is a vacuum. Lots of jobless people with IT skills, but nobody who can turn a wrench.
This is great news for people with a bit of vision, because they can get into trades and make a bundle right now.
That said, this problem has everything to do with shifting demographics and nothing to do with socialism. The US has the exact same problem. Nobody wants to do any real work any more.
Ontario must, since they've got several apprenticeship programs in place for IT. While I was working to pay for college, I spent some time as an apprentice helptesk support analyst.
It was good honest work, but after studying a trade whose roots are in the tangible physical world for two years, it doesn't have the same allure to me.
Preference Utilitarianism is a bad thing to use here. Your existance is decedant -- your life is fueled by enough resources to save hundreds of people from slow wasting death. Therefore, using it to justify torture is a non-sequitor.
So you don't actually get a reference to the thing you were just referring to?
Perhaps the retarded dog here is not who it first appears to be?
I bet if you beat the dog with a broom handle then sodomized it with it, you'd get a better response to your efforts.
I see, you've been to the middle east, so you're an authoritative source on torture, eh?
I guess, living in Canada, that makes me an authoritative source on baby seal farming, doesn't it?
Well, I've got to tell you, I don't see what those liberal half-wits have a problem with! All you do is plant the baby seals in the ground, water them for six to eight months, and then whack 'em with a club to get them off the vine.
You know, Syria exists for a reason -- for assholes like you to go move there and feel safe from terrorists. Go ahead -- we're watching!
Throw in an orgasmic robot, and you've got yourself a deal!
All life is inherently illogical. All morals and ethics are essentially senseless and meaningless. All virtue is essentially self-congratulatory rubbish.
And it's all somehow Microsofts fault.
Discuss.
Me too. I figured that actually laying out a long-winded portrayal of the true nature of soviet russia, in contrast to the predictable one-liners, would be rather amusing. Indeed, I found it to be so.
Oh yeah, in Soviet Russia, The workers theoretically own the means of production as is common in the marxist/communist system of government, but actually are repressed by a unique republican/totalitarian system of government in which the government has the final say about the fate of everything -- including human lives. This means that in reality the workers own nothing, not even their own lives, and are thus repressed moreso than in the capitalistic system of government due to fundamental differences between focused totalitarianism and simply nihilistic capitalism.
In Soviet Russia...
When did this cease to be "News for Nerds: Stuff that matters" and when did it become "News for MBAs: Shit that nobody cares about"?
Why would God cure this man?
Frankly, when people such as yourself bring up this idea, I find it to be sick and callous. There are hundreds of thousands of people dying every month of this disease around the world, and this one guy is apparantly cured and it's God? Only if God is one sick fucker. Otherwise, I'm going to have to believe that God just doesn't give a fuck anymore, and just like he didn't save the Americans from the Saudi/Afganis, and just like he didn't save the Iraqis from the Americans, he didn't save this gay guy from his AIDS.
My theory is that the aids were cured by the aliens who wanted to protect his zombie hybrid alien baby.
And that zombie hybrid alien baby? Salma Hayek.
"Give me money now or go fuck yourself"
Seems like the true spirit of christmas to me. What's the problem?
None of those other things exist. It's all just nihilistic hedonism.
Love: You find someone's life to be aesthetically pleasing.
Values: You find a certain set of behaviours to be aesthetically pleasing
Culture: You find some collective body of the past aesthetically pleasing
Morals: You don't want people to do something bad to you, so you follow arbitrary rules in a hedonistic attempt to keep others from doing you wrong
wisdom: You believe you know something, and feel you are superior for it.
courtesy: See Morals.
Don't whine about your moderation. It's the best, fastest way to get modded down.