Millions of jobs have been eliminated over the past few years, what work exactly are people supposed to find? Cost of living means no American can compete with an immigrant sending money back to the third world.
Where's this power going to? Is there a transmission grid in place to take it to a populated area that could use an extra 600MW? Orkney's in the middle of ^*$&ing nowhere.
No, they're just going to fire the electricity into the air. They have no plans to actually deliver and sell it. You see, people who invest in this sort of thing simply hate money.
If any American corporation is doing something you don't like in your country, it is YOUR government's fault for allowing it, and ultimately YOURS for letting them stay in power.
Does this apply to governments installed by America in the first place?
Free market capitalism, or economics in general, is not a natural law of the universe like physics or maths. Economics is just a completely arbitrary, man-made system of resource allocation.
Europe decides to allocate its resources to communications infrastructure, America decides to allocate its resources to a few rich people to do with as they wish. By the way, there's no such thing as a free market, capitalism can't exist without strong government intervention in damn near everything.
When I think of progress I think of North Korea, China, Cuba, and Venezuela socalism has made them great at adapting
An interesting comparison would be comparing Cuba to its Latin American neighbours which have had US-style hyper-capitalism forced upon them. I suppose Haiti was first-world before the quake...
I've found that's because most Atheists or Agnostics have better BS detectors and critical thinking skills. In short, we are skeptics, meaning we question most anything that doesn't have hard evidence to support it.
Really, I thought it was because most atheists think they're way cleverer than they really are, simply because they don't have a religion.
The bulk of Islam may be peaceful, but the people in their lands who control the power are not, and never have been. They have been a nuisance for the West for at least 200 years.
And the West has been a nuisance to Islam since the Crusades. Most of the modern trouble the US has with the middle-east originates from American imperialism and terrorism. You can only overthrow so many democratic governments, and murder so many innocent people, before they start hitting back.
I'm surprised by there isn't more terrorism from Latin America, they have more reason than anyone to hate the US.
So, net result is we're bringing the war to them using technology we have and they don't. Now our fighter planes don't need to have the fighter pilot on-board. They might own the ground in the war zone, but we own the air.
Interesting. Just don't complain when they hit back by flying planes into your skyscrapers.
Have someone throw the microwave at you so fast that the blue shift turns the microwaves into visible light. By observing the colour, and using the speed of the microwave, you can calculate the frequency.
That's what I'm challenging: why the individual is blamed, and why being fat is assumed to be bad. Doesn't it make more sense to ask airlines to make a few seats a little larger so that everyone can be comfortable?
The individual is blamed for making himself fat through poor lifestyle choices. He chose to make his body too big to fit in a seat. It's his fault.
No it doesn't make more sense to make the seats bigger as then they'd be more expensive and all the non-obese would switch to another airline.
Actually workers in rich countries are speaking: here in the UK the difference in commitment and work ethics from East European people in menial jobs is now well cemented. The locals can't be bothered to takes those jobs and seem to be quite happy what several people here are mocking as no-jobs or "shitty" service jobs, like if the pseudo-manly sweaty nature of a jobs was directly proportional to its usefulness and satisfaction potential.
Funny, when there are vacancies for even temp positions in factory jobs around here they are always massively over-subscribed by locals. Of course employers like Eastern Europeans, they live ten to a caravan and send their money home where it goes several times further, and so will work every hour god gives for sub-minimum wage.
I'm not sure middle-class patronisation really helps anyone.
Airlines have overcrammed more seats into each plane than the original designers would have believed possible. When people complain, they respond with "You're freakishly tall," or "You're mbidly obese," when the real answer is "The airlines are so greedy they're cramming so many people into their cargo hold it would make a slave trader of old boggle."
It's not that the airlines are greedy, they're just giving the customers what they want: tickets that are as cheap as possible, which can only be achieved by packing them in like sardines.
How about this for an answer? Let's make airline seats the same size and legroom as movie theater seats and see if the problem goes away.
The problem will go away as airlines go out of business when passengers won't pay the newly increased prices.
I thought genetics took thousands of years to change, yet obesity has exploded over a few decades. Are people in Somalia that genetically different to Americans?
Yeah sure, all fat people are fat by choice, and, with a little elbow grease, could lose weight and be normal like everyone else. Goodness, and you probably call yourself a scientist. What's next in your view: black people can just scrub a little harder and get white? Oh wait, but being fat is a choice, right? Like being gay?
You're saying that a hundred pounds of excess blubber deposited through years of over-eating is equivalent to being born with a different skin colour? Now I've heard everything...
Seriously, stop making excuses for people's poor lifestyle choices. I'm with Southwest on this one.
It is reasonably foreseeable that many North American passengers will be of a size that is too large for the average plane seat. Does this mean those people must pay for two seats? Or, does it mean that airlines should make a few extra-large sized seats? Or has the US become a nation where it's OK to assume everyone looks the same, and one where those who deviate from the norm (in many cases through no fault of their own) should pay an extra price to access the same services?
A fat person is not accessing the same services, they're taking up two seats and therefore twice the services. Why should healthy people be crushed or financially penalised because some fat bastard won't put down the cake? Maybe it's foreseeable that Americans will just have to pay more to fly than the rest of the world.
This crap would never go down in Canada. Thank God we have Human Rights legislation to prevent others from profiting from discriminatory practices.
Thank God I don't live in Canada, so don't have to pay extra so some salad-dodger can get an extra seat for free. For the record, I'm overweight but fit in plane seats just fine. This Kevin Smith fellow must be a real land whale.
The tea party is a group of people, some crazy and some not, who are united by a desire for a sound fiscal policy. They are not happy with the Bush era policies
Whenever I hear people complain about America's dwindling manufacturing base, I always wonder, do these people WANT to work in a factory? I mean, it's great to have steel mills in your country, but they aren't very pleasant places to work. I am fine with the idea of building our manufacturing back up if that's what we want to do, but I'm sure not going to help build it up by working there.
You say that from the perspective of someone with a comfortable office job. I'd imagine there are millions of people either unemployed or stuck burger flipping who would very much like the sort of factory job their parents had that gave a lifetime of secure, well-paid employment. At least, before the destruction of the unions which lead to factories full of minimum-wage temp jobs.
Factories may be unpleasant places, but I'd imagine that for a male breadwinner, an honest shift of hard labour in a steel mill or a mine gives them much more self-respect that wearing a uniform putting baked beans on the shelves of a supermarket.
The idea that you only have rights at the whim of the majority is probably one of the most despicable ideas of the left.
Please explain how you can own land without the majority drawing a map with lines on it giving you a monopoly over its use.
The idea that private ownership of natural resources is some sort of inherent right rather than an artificial creation of society is one of the most despicable ideas of the right.
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Yeah, you can easily cross borders between rich European countries. It's not like the EU's thrown open its borders to Africa.
Millions of jobs have been eliminated over the past few years, what work exactly are people supposed to find? Cost of living means no American can compete with an immigrant sending money back to the third world.
How would it display obstructions on the road?
No, they're just going to fire the electricity into the air. They have no plans to actually deliver and sell it. You see, people who invest in this sort of thing simply hate money.
Does this apply to governments installed by America in the first place?
"I can't have it? Well, I didn't want it anyway."
I suppose you can solve all problems by simply denying they exist.
Free market capitalism, or economics in general, is not a natural law of the universe like physics or maths. Economics is just a completely arbitrary, man-made system of resource allocation.
Europe decides to allocate its resources to communications infrastructure, America decides to allocate its resources to a few rich people to do with as they wish. By the way, there's no such thing as a free market, capitalism can't exist without strong government intervention in damn near everything.
I'd be more interested in a patch so that Portal actually runs without crashing on start-up, so I can play the game I paid for.
An interesting comparison would be comparing Cuba to its Latin American neighbours which have had US-style hyper-capitalism forced upon them. I suppose Haiti was first-world before the quake...
Actually you'll find that suburbanites have the most materialistic lifestyles.
Really, I thought it was because most atheists think they're way cleverer than they really are, simply because they don't have a religion.
And the West has been a nuisance to Islam since the Crusades. Most of the modern trouble the US has with the middle-east originates from American imperialism and terrorism. You can only overthrow so many democratic governments, and murder so many innocent people, before they start hitting back.
I'm surprised by there isn't more terrorism from Latin America, they have more reason than anyone to hate the US.
Interesting. Just don't complain when they hit back by flying planes into your skyscrapers.
Have someone throw the microwave at you so fast that the blue shift turns the microwaves into visible light. By observing the colour, and using the speed of the microwave, you can calculate the frequency.
What about when you include the externalities of the propane emissions?
The individual is blamed for making himself fat through poor lifestyle choices. He chose to make his body too big to fit in a seat. It's his fault.
No it doesn't make more sense to make the seats bigger as then they'd be more expensive and all the non-obese would switch to another airline.
Funny, when there are vacancies for even temp positions in factory jobs around here they are always massively over-subscribed by locals. Of course employers like Eastern Europeans, they live ten to a caravan and send their money home where it goes several times further, and so will work every hour god gives for sub-minimum wage.
I'm not sure middle-class patronisation really helps anyone.
It's not that the airlines are greedy, they're just giving the customers what they want: tickets that are as cheap as possible, which can only be achieved by packing them in like sardines.
The problem will go away as airlines go out of business when passengers won't pay the newly increased prices.
I thought genetics took thousands of years to change, yet obesity has exploded over a few decades. Are people in Somalia that genetically different to Americans?
You're saying that a hundred pounds of excess blubber deposited through years of over-eating is equivalent to being born with a different skin colour? Now I've heard everything...
Seriously, stop making excuses for people's poor lifestyle choices. I'm with Southwest on this one.
A fat person is not accessing the same services, they're taking up two seats and therefore twice the services. Why should healthy people be crushed or financially penalised because some fat bastard won't put down the cake? Maybe it's foreseeable that Americans will just have to pay more to fly than the rest of the world.
Thank God I don't live in Canada, so don't have to pay extra so some salad-dodger can get an extra seat for free. For the record, I'm overweight but fit in plane seats just fine. This Kevin Smith fellow must be a real land whale.
I'm not really interested.
Then where were they during the Bush era?
You say that from the perspective of someone with a comfortable office job. I'd imagine there are millions of people either unemployed or stuck burger flipping who would very much like the sort of factory job their parents had that gave a lifetime of secure, well-paid employment. At least, before the destruction of the unions which lead to factories full of minimum-wage temp jobs.
Factories may be unpleasant places, but I'd imagine that for a male breadwinner, an honest shift of hard labour in a steel mill or a mine gives them much more self-respect that wearing a uniform putting baked beans on the shelves of a supermarket.
Please explain how you can own land without the majority drawing a map with lines on it giving you a monopoly over its use.
The idea that private ownership of natural resources is some sort of inherent right rather than an artificial creation of society is one of the most despicable ideas of the right.