They may have eaten puddings and greasy burgers, but how often? Today people eat sugary cereal every morning, have five cups of coffee with three sugars in, eat a giant greasy burger with a giant portion of fries for lunch, then a giant sugary greasy dinner and a giant sickly pudding. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Can't muster the self-discipline to keep yourself in shape and poison-free in a society filled with healthy alternatives, free information about the risks you take, and a gym around every corner? Get your genes outta the pool, bub.:)
You just have to look at the legions of obese parents dragging around obese kids down the chocolate aisle at the supermarket to realise that obesity is not an evolutionary disadvantage.
Who would have thought it given the current events of the world?
Yeah, today's IQs must be lower because of all these recent inventions like war and terrorism. People in the 60s were too smart to invade countries, and the early 40s were regarded as a time of world peace and harmony.
From one of the richest cash companies im the world who owns the Office? Yeah! Pinching pennies, are they?
Why pay to give something away when you can put on a charge to cover the costs? You don't become the richest company in the world by throwing away millions of dollars.
Consequently, when these same corporations suddenly decide to move thousands of jobs overseas, offices close down and entire communities can be devastated through unemployment.
The logical solution, therefore, should have been additional taxation on the corporations by government - very simply, each nation works out how much profit a company makes in their country (i.e. how much money it takes out) and compares it to how much money it spends on employing people in their country (i.e. how much money it puts back in). Then just subtract the second from the first and, if it's positive, tax the hell out of it.
So if an American company moves from California to Indonesia to save money, devastating a Californian community, they have to pay taxes. But if they move from California to Bumfuck Ohio to save money, devasting the Californian community just the same, they don't pay any taxes at all?
Your ideas are clearly arbitrary. Why country and not state? Why state and not town? Why town and not street? Why street and not continent? There's a shop down the road where I live that makes money, but they don't employ anyone on this road. Close them down, those evil capitalists!
Corporations *should* have a social responsibility and conscience.
Providing jobs to a poor country seems like social responsibility to me. I don't see how it would need more conscience to instead give the jobs to a rich country with benefits, social security, and countless employment opportunities.
A poor person in the West gets free housing, food vouchers, dole money, and jobs round every corner. A poor person in India starves to death. I applaud these companies for sending jobs to where they're needed the most.
330,000 articles at $3 each comes to $990,000, almost a million dollars for their data mining experiment. No wonder tuition costs are so high when this is what they're spending their money on!
Fantasy's a more romantic setting. It's a simpler, nicer looking world, no electricity, no power stations, no concrete jungles, no stock markets, no traffic.
We're surrounded by so much technology nowadays that immersing yourself for eight hours in even more technology in a sci-fi Mmorp seems completely overbearing, whereas a technology-free world is like an escape.
Why a regressive tax, surely a it would be better to add it to a progressive tax like income tax?
Oh wait the lefties always want to screw the poor. Like that congestion charge in London that forces all the peasants onto the filthy buses so the rich have more room to drive.
No, it's an unhealthily overweight woman. If being obese is considered normal and acceptable, then society really is going down the shitter. What happened to the days when people looked after their appearance and ate healthily, and exercised now and again?
If you consider states to be artificial divisions, you'd then have no objections to abolishing all countries and letting the Indians and Chinese decide the laws you live by?
If you've got money then you don't need to defer payment until a later date...
If you've got money, why wouldn't you want to make interest on it as long as possible. And why wouldn't you want to improve your credit rating?
If you've got the money in the bank, there's no reason to use a debit card over a credit card. You are more likey to be a victim of fraud, and you don't get any credit rating.
I don't think you really understand how credit cards work.
I wouldn't try to do this in America. Any group action that tries to make any sort of societal change is likely to be labelled as terrorism.
People who deliberately do things like in the grandparent post are just scum, maybe they deserve a trip to Guantanamo, it might teach them to act like civilised people.
If you don't like self-service checkouts, simply don't use them, go to another shop. If I was a minimum wage worker at a supermarket and someone did that, I'd lay them out.
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How big is a million compared to a light year?
They may have eaten puddings and greasy burgers, but how often? Today people eat sugary cereal every morning, have five cups of coffee with three sugars in, eat a giant greasy burger with a giant portion of fries for lunch, then a giant sugary greasy dinner and a giant sickly pudding. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
You just have to look at the legions of obese parents dragging around obese kids down the chocolate aisle at the supermarket to realise that obesity is not an evolutionary disadvantage.
How many people can even naema Mozart tune?
So if an American company moves from California to Indonesia to save money, devastating a Californian community, they have to pay taxes. But if they move from California to Bumfuck Ohio to save money, devasting the Californian community just the same, they don't pay any taxes at all?
Your ideas are clearly arbitrary. Why country and not state? Why state and not town? Why town and not street? Why street and not continent? There's a shop down the road where I live that makes money, but they don't employ anyone on this road. Close them down, those evil capitalists!
A poor person in the West gets free housing, food vouchers, dole money, and jobs round every corner. A poor person in India starves to death. I applaud these companies for sending jobs to where they're needed the most.
330,000 articles at $3 each comes to $990,000, almost a million dollars for their data mining experiment. No wonder tuition costs are so high when this is what they're spending their money on!
Fantasy's a more romantic setting. It's a simpler, nicer looking world, no electricity, no power stations, no concrete jungles, no stock markets, no traffic.
We're surrounded by so much technology nowadays that immersing yourself for eight hours in even more technology in a sci-fi Mmorp seems completely overbearing, whereas a technology-free world is like an escape.
Why a regressive tax, surely a it would be better to add it to a progressive tax like income tax?
Oh wait the lefties always want to screw the poor. Like that congestion charge in London that forces all the peasants onto the filthy buses so the rich have more room to drive.
People were much skinnier back then. Less food and harder work, not donuts and office jobs, but gruel and the workhouse.
I just love that rant about anorexia, as if it's somehow acceptable to be sit on your armchair all day eating cake, as long as you're not skinny.
You do realise that if there were no commercials, your subscriptions would double in cost? You can't have your cake and eat it.
Why would I need air conditioning during the day? I only need it to sleep, I don't need to be comfortable when I'm awake do I?
You don't need air conditioning during the day, it's when you're trying to sleep you need it.
If you consider states to be artificial divisions, you'd then have no objections to abolishing all countries and letting the Indians and Chinese decide the laws you live by?
If you've got the money in the bank, there's no reason to use a debit card over a credit card. You are more likey to be a victim of fraud, and you don't get any credit rating.
I don't think you really understand how credit cards work.
It might last a week, but it won't be fresh for a week.
After even half a day, bread is no longer fresh, it's not as spongy or warm. By the second day it's going dry and stiff.
OK then buy a fish or some prawns on Sunday and tell me how fresh it is on the following Saturday. Or a loaf of bread.
If you don't like self-service checkouts, simply don't use them, go to another shop. If I was a minimum wage worker at a supermarket and someone did that, I'd lay them out.