OK, so if an American company wanted to export to Europe, they'd have to accept 35 hour weeks, endless holidays, high minimum wages, paid overtime and huge corporation taxes?
Watching the odd youtube video is a common online activity. Downloading hours worth of full-quality TV every day isn't. Unless you want to pay $200 a month subscription.
If sol means sun, why use sol in the first place? I hope for the sake of consistency, that they use latin names for all the other words. Otherwise they'd just be pretentious.
Maybe to cover the costs, they should do what they do with TV and have an Internet Licence. So everyone in the UK with an Internet connection pays the BBC's bandwidth bills, even if they never use their content.
Actually, an even better way to prevent crime is to make sure everyone has a good job and a nice place to live and is content with life.
And how exactly do you do that? Most low level thieves aren't prepared to work hard at a job or education, so how would they get a good job or afford a nice place to live? They want to spend five minutes smashing a car window for the radio, then spend the rest of the day sitting about down the pub spending their 'earnings'.
Even if you made everyone better off, for example if you gave everyone a 40" TV, they'd just go out and steal a 60" TV. Give them a job on 30k and they'll go and rob from someone on 60k. And probably get fired for not bothering to turn up.
People tend not to commit as many crimes when things are going well and they have too much to loose.
In that case, why does someone living in the West, who has a roof over his heat, heating, TV, electricity, indoor plumbing, brand-name clothes, and enough food to be overweight, commit crime?
We do have basic education, but it takes a college degree to get any sort of decent job.
So what? No-one owes you a decent job. If you want an education and a good living, then you have to earn it. You don't have the right to steal or vandalise just because you flip burgers for a living.
Our freedom is incredibly restricted, one can't even smoke a joint without fearing prison.
Oh boo hoo hoo. Tell me a single country that doesn't restrict any substances. Many places have low crime even though you can't so much as drink.
And the political process only gives lip service to participation.
Quit making lame excuses for crime. People aren't going out stealing car radios because of the result of the last election or the latest bill in Congress.
Those same farmers that pump chemicals into the ground water, and feed their animals their own dead? Not to mention shooting people's dogs. And living off billions of subsidies to corrupt the free market and starve African farmers?
That thing would fall over in the first bend. If it so much as hit a curb or a pebble it would tip over. It would be easy to bounce.It takes hours to charge, you'd be sat at the charging station all day. The battery would run out on any long journey. Laughably slow, it wouldn't even be able to reach the limit on country roads, and would take an hour to accelerate. Does that thing even go up hills?
It'd be ideal for transporting three-legged chickens and national-anthem playing doorbells to the market though.
Then don't buy American cars. When they end up all going bust because everyone's buying foreign cars, then they might have to change their minds. How much money is Ford losing these days?
How the hell are you only managing 65mph on a motorbike? Maybe you meant moped. SUVs are generally driven incredibly slowly by middle-aged women, if you've got one of them catching up with you, then you must really be going slowly. Motorbikes should be overtaking everything.
Of course, we have it so hard these days, walking around a heated supermarket for a couple of hours a week, before eating it in our comfortable houses. I'd much rather have been a stone-age man, spending his entire life trecking across frozen continents just to find food to hunt, with a life expectancy of 20.
That's assuming that successful people are successful due to genetic advantages, rather than having a better upbringing and better connections.
If the rich stop having kids, then all the elite schools and Ivy League universities will just have to stoop to taking in some of those awful peasant kids who's dads aren't politicians, lawyers or stockbrokers, to make the numbers up. They'll probably even have to dip into their multi-billion dollar endowments to make ends meet.
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OK, so if an American company wanted to export to Europe, they'd have to accept 35 hour weeks, endless holidays, high minimum wages, paid overtime and huge corporation taxes?
The small shops can be on the map all they want. They'll still close at 4pm and refuse to take cards.
Watching the odd youtube video is a common online activity. Downloading hours worth of full-quality TV every day isn't. Unless you want to pay $200 a month subscription.
The same way people rob cash machines: with a digger.
If sol means sun, why use sol in the first place? I hope for the sake of consistency, that they use latin names for all the other words. Otherwise they'd just be pretentious.
Then why don't just they say 'Mars days', or even 'suns', so everyone knows what they're talking about?
If you want true unlimited access, then get a T1 in, and pay for it like everyone else who wants to saturate his connection 24/7.
Maybe to cover the costs, they should do what they do with TV and have an Internet Licence. So everyone in the UK with an Internet connection pays the BBC's bandwidth bills, even if they never use their content.
Even if you made everyone better off, for example if you gave everyone a 40" TV, they'd just go out and steal a 60" TV. Give them a job on 30k and they'll go and rob from someone on 60k. And probably get fired for not bothering to turn up.In that case, why does someone living in the West, who has a roof over his heat, heating, TV, electricity, indoor plumbing, brand-name clothes, and enough food to be overweight, commit crime?
We have all that in Britain, we still get endless stabbings, beatings, shootings and generally illegal behaviour.
Even if you taught that at school, by the time anyone would actually need to use it in the real world, they'd have forgotten it. So what's the point?
I did all sorts of calculus crap at A-level, now four years later I can't remember a single bit of it.
The worst part for them is when they re-enter, knowing that they're about to burn up at any minute. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes right now.
So what's wrong with record companies taking such a big cut if they're making the artists millions that they wouldn't be able to get by themselves?
I don't have satellite nor cable, and I don't see why I should lose them just so some geeks can have better Internet access.
Or maybe you have a vested interest in everyone being subject to cable/satellite corporate monopolies...
Those same farmers that pump chemicals into the ground water, and feed their animals their own dead? Not to mention shooting people's dogs. And living off billions of subsidies to corrupt the free market and starve African farmers?
It'd be ideal for transporting three-legged chickens and national-anthem playing doorbells to the market though.
Then don't buy American cars. When they end up all going bust because everyone's buying foreign cars, then they might have to change their minds. How much money is Ford losing these days?
How the hell are you only managing 65mph on a motorbike? Maybe you meant moped. SUVs are generally driven incredibly slowly by middle-aged women, if you've got one of them catching up with you, then you must really be going slowly. Motorbikes should be overtaking everything.
Well, if it's in an ancient play, then it must be right.
I think this thread is living proof as to why no-one listens to communists.
Of course, we have it so hard these days, walking around a heated supermarket for a couple of hours a week, before eating it in our comfortable houses. I'd much rather have been a stone-age man, spending his entire life trecking across frozen continents just to find food to hunt, with a life expectancy of 20.
That's assuming that successful people are successful due to genetic advantages, rather than having a better upbringing and better connections.
If the rich stop having kids, then all the elite schools and Ivy League universities will just have to stoop to taking in some of those awful peasant kids who's dads aren't politicians, lawyers or stockbrokers, to make the numbers up. They'll probably even have to dip into their multi-billion dollar endowments to make ends meet.
And if there are no asteroids, just direct the nukes to Argentina instead. Two birds with one stone.