Sometimes, there simply is no replacement for meeting face to face. Yeah, phone calls work for things like talking through a problem, but there is no replacement for being there in the flesh, with all the innuendo, sideways glances, winks, and hand-gestures that webcams approximate but ultimately fail to deliver.
What business exactly requires innuendo and winks? People travel for business because they think they require it, not because they actually need it. Your suit analogy is perfect: people spend thousands of fancy suits that don't make fuck all difference than to pander to people's outdated preconceptions of what business is supposed to be.
Of course, businessmen will always travel as long as they get a holiday on expenses.
Easier to follow the normal method: don't bother distracting the camera, commit the crime anyway in full view, give the finger to the camera operator, then walk off to remain unpunished forever. Of course if on the odd chance you are arrested by the single remaining policeman who isn't filling in paperwork or persecuting motorists, you won't get any time anyway as the prisons are full. Welcome to Britain.
Then maybe if steel gets high enough, your dad might stop pointlessly giving away an endless supply of free hangers that end up in the trash. A principle of consuming only what you need, rather than all you possibly can. But then this sort of thing is well overdue.
So, do you think the workers who made your car are as well compensated as they were, say, in the US back in the 60s? You know, when corporations still believed in decency? Now, almost all the extra value created in society goes to a few rich people, who's real income has skyrocketed while the real income of the middle class and poor has been stagnant for decades.
I'm sorry, you're saying that the UAW car workers are underpaid? Compared to how much is made by equally semi/unskilled jobs such as fruit picking, burger-flipping and supermarket shelf-stacking, I can assure you that car factory workers are very very well compensated.
Polluting is evil.
Does that include the car workers who profit by making polluting machines?
Decimating labor unions is evil.
What if those unions conspire to abuse employment laws to artifically inflate the price of labour. As in, basically acting like the mafia to get their workers paid far more than they're worth. Consider the truckers who've recently been striking in the UK. They get paid the equivalent of way over $60k for driving tankers up and down motorways, a job for which there are 50 applications for every opening, a job that requires very little training, yet they're striking because they want a 14% payrise. How would it be evil to crush such a union, or to crush someone like Bob Crow?
In Britain, poverty is defined as earning 60% less than the median wage. As you can see this is completely arbitrary and ridiculous, as someone on that money can still afford a roof over their head, food to eat, water, sanitation, and has free healthcare, education, and so on.
I thought America was the land of opportunity? In which case, segregated schools allow bright kids from shit backgrounds a chance to succeed, which is pretty 'American'.
In Britain we used to have grammar schools, which were free, academically-selective schools that allowed anyone clever enough to get a great education. Then they abolished them and replaced them with one size fits all 'comprehensive' schools, and since then social mobility has ground to a halt.
And what would happen if minorities mostly went to the stupid school?
Actually, it may be the case that a lot of minority kids end up in the good schools, where they won't be dragged down by their peers.
In fact, I might say if all that keeps one to a job is money, then there's something wrong.
All that keeps most people in a job is money. Maybe a minority of jobs like working for Apple or Google or whoever give extra benefits, but over 90% of jobs in this world are shitty and worthless.
The only way they'd bury the competition is if they sold it below the current price, and could meet demand. But why do that when they're selling every drop they drill at current prices?
Although I agree that live would probably be more exciting... but does even 1% of racing gamers actually KNOW precicely the days and times of each race start around the world?
I'd suggest the opposite problem: the people who would be most interested in this, would be actually watching the race rather than playing games.
Whatever intelligence there is in South Park, and can't say it's hidden, it's in fact very blatant, obvious and simple. Usually with some sophomoric libertarian slant.
Unless I'm missing the deep, satirical subtleties in 'Manbearpig'.
As for Family Guy, if you think that's small-minded, remember that time when
Take out the main Chinese cities, and all you're left with is a billion or so illiterate farmers and sweatshop workers. Most of them probably wouldn't even realise that the rest of their country had been bombed.
Except it's not unwritten. All of what's considered part of UK constitutional law is written in the form of acts, treaties and to a very limited extent precedent.
Those aren't a constitution though, they're just laws that can be removed by any government without any opposition. It's not like the US where there are many parties who all have to agree to change it, Brown can pretty much make whatever constitutional changes he likes and no-one can stop him.
Ah yes, our fine tradition of having decisions by the people we elect overturned by a bunch of unelected lords.
Who is this 'we'? At my last count, only 35% of the country voted for these fuckers in power now. If the lords overturned every single law they passed, it would improve British democracy.
Nope, nothing wrong with our system at all.
There is plenty wrong with our system. The government-appointed lords blocking the tyrannical laws of a minority government isn't one of them.
Yes. Everyone has a right to property they freely acquired from other freely-acting individual.
No they don't. There isn't a single country in the world where you have the right not to pay any taxes. Where exactly is this right spelt out in any official document?
Oh right, it's just typical college-student internet-warrior libertarian masturbation.
2. Competition among private services gives private companies an incentive to provide the best possible service at the lowest price. Because there is only one provider for a public service (and no competing providers are permitted to exist), there is no incentive for public services to provide the best service or the cheapest service.
OK then, so whilst my house is burning down, I can ring around for the cheapest quote, and when my family are being burnt alive, I can swipe my credit card to pay the deposit. Awesome. You've really thought this through. No, really.
I suppose half a dozen different companies are going to build competing sewage systems so I can choose. Of course, the road will collapse due to being undermined, but then there are ten roads outside my house due to competition anyway. Not to mention every field having ten power lines crossing it. And a dozen policemen fighting each other for the right to arrest a criminal.
By the way, property is not a natural right, it only exists because society defines it as yours. If you're not willing to pay taxes to society, then society has no reason to protect 'your' land.
Get over it, Ron Paul lost. Even the USA, the last bastion of unrestrained 'fuck you' capitalism, rejected libertarianism. You internet-forum nutjobs can go back into the closet.
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Until you realise that you're paying $75 for food and wine you don't want when you could be paying $50 for just the flight from Easyjet or whatever.
Of course, businessmen will always travel as long as they get a holiday on expenses.
Of course, because Communist Russia had the environment as their number one priority.
Easier to follow the normal method: don't bother distracting the camera, commit the crime anyway in full view, give the finger to the camera operator, then walk off to remain unpunished forever. Of course if on the odd chance you are arrested by the single remaining policeman who isn't filling in paperwork or persecuting motorists, you won't get any time anyway as the prisons are full. Welcome to Britain.
Then maybe if steel gets high enough, your dad might stop pointlessly giving away an endless supply of free hangers that end up in the trash. A principle of consuming only what you need, rather than all you possibly can. But then this sort of thing is well overdue.
Unless you're working 16 hours a day and have to get out of work to go shopping, time isn't an issue for most people.
It takes fifteen minutes to make some pasta or boil some veg, compared to a half-hour round trip to get some fast food.
In Britain, poverty is defined as earning 60% less than the median wage. As you can see this is completely arbitrary and ridiculous, as someone on that money can still afford a roof over their head, food to eat, water, sanitation, and has free healthcare, education, and so on.
In Britain we used to have grammar schools, which were free, academically-selective schools that allowed anyone clever enough to get a great education. Then they abolished them and replaced them with one size fits all 'comprehensive' schools, and since then social mobility has ground to a halt.Actually, it may be the case that a lot of minority kids end up in the good schools, where they won't be dragged down by their peers.
So what you're saying, is that if we all switch to nuclear, the costs of the fuel will shoot up like oil is doing now?
Iraq planned to invade Saudi Arabia during the gulf war, I doubt they shed many tears when Iraq was invaded.
The only way they'd bury the competition is if they sold it below the current price, and could meet demand. But why do that when they're selling every drop they drill at current prices?
Oil companies are not interested in competition.
Maybe they're building up to the ultimate pinball simulator?
And the best part is, under new legislation, mod-chip sellers can be held for 42 days without charge.
P.S. Lewis Hamilton, please stop crashing.
Whatever intelligence there is in South Park, and can't say it's hidden, it's in fact very blatant, obvious and simple. Usually with some sophomoric libertarian slant.
Unless I'm missing the deep, satirical subtleties in 'Manbearpig'.
As for Family Guy, if you think that's small-minded, remember that time when
Take out the main Chinese cities, and all you're left with is a billion or so illiterate farmers and sweatshop workers. Most of them probably wouldn't even realise that the rest of their country had been bombed.
Who can't farm on current farming land because it's now growing bio-fuels.
Oh right, it's just typical college-student internet-warrior libertarian masturbation.OK then, so whilst my house is burning down, I can ring around for the cheapest quote, and when my family are being burnt alive, I can swipe my credit card to pay the deposit. Awesome. You've really thought this through. No, really.
I suppose half a dozen different companies are going to build competing sewage systems so I can choose. Of course, the road will collapse due to being undermined, but then there are ten roads outside my house due to competition anyway. Not to mention every field having ten power lines crossing it. And a dozen policemen fighting each other for the right to arrest a criminal.
By the way, property is not a natural right, it only exists because society defines it as yours. If you're not willing to pay taxes to society, then society has no reason to protect 'your' land.
Get over it, Ron Paul lost. Even the USA, the last bastion of unrestrained 'fuck you' capitalism, rejected libertarianism. You internet-forum nutjobs can go back into the closet.
Fixed your post.