Many areas use whoever had the first claim to the local water supply for a given area as the basis for who gets that water. Not what does the greatest good, not what makes the most economic sense, but merely the first to file. Then this right is locked in. The radio spectrum is similar however unlike water which is a local problem this causes problems for much of the globe. Think of the convenience of having most of the globe use 2.4GHz. Make a device once, use it anywhere. How grand. However things could be *much* better if more bandwidth was available globally. That's why I liken it to water rights - another archaic system but one that people more often understand. Here's a chart that shows how spectrum is allocated in the US for those who are curious:
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files...
To translate that to Clinton you only need a couple of changes:
Nothing honest about her. She'll lie to your face if it'll improve her polls. She's a politician, and certainly non-stop scandals are entertaining. Her relationship with the truth is tenuous as best, if not entirely accidental.
Knowing several working moms the general sentiment is that they would prefer to be home even if it meant being barefoot. Most have lamented not being able to stay home until the youngest was at least in grade school. This is also found in the research where women will take more time for family in exchange for reduced pay on average.
Now that I find hard to believe. All magazines have their "heroes and villains" however Salon hates white people first and men second, with the ever popular punching bag of white males as the top of the villain hierarchy. Not unlike a melodrama where the boo and hiss whenever the "bad guy" comes on screen. Salon is the magazine for people who at best are passive aggressive against white people and at worst just about ready for white only concentration camps. Along the same lines, at best passive aggressive against men and at worst ready to lock them all up. I have no doubt that the $.78 is a myth. However you need to find a better source. Here's a couple to help out:
http://time.com/3222543/5-femi...http://www.wsj.com/articles/th...http://www.washingtonexaminer....
Google "gender pay gap myth" and you can find dozens more. Heck, I'd love to see a study that included the child support that the average woman gets as most seem to. That subsidy ought to put them over the top since it's tax free.
Because everyone knows that the US is the only country that spies on people;-) Surely those good EU countries would never stoop to things like this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
... Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen!...
In a sense they hedged their bets by shifting from "global warming" to "climate change". Now any and all weather that isn't average can and will be used as evidence for climate change. As noted below, average isn't as common as one might think:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
And as I've had to explain to many people, adapting doesn't men that you and your family change. It means you and your family and 99 percent of everyone dies, and the rest are left to reproduce.
99%? Do you always use hyperbole in your explanations?
That is the entire reason for your nice situation. In the US we somehow look down on you EU types getting 6+ weeks vacation. My colleagues in the EU all work for the same company yet somehow it's OK for them to get double the vacation. I don't want to spoil your situation, I just wish that the US would quit mocking it as if it's a bad thing and instead give us all 6+ weeks.
I prefer to think it's a case of we sane people don't think anything on the phone is worth giving the government the ability to distribute unlimited malware. There is such a thing as weighing the costs. If you want to be the Land of the free and the home of the brave you don't cower at every shadow and give up your rights so easily. Put another way: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Ben Franklin
Finding people who could sleep at night after doing this is the trouble.
I so wish that were true. There are *hordes* of people who are well intentioned idiots and would do whatever people in authority tell them. Very few people have a true backbone as shown here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So you're advocating two wrongs make a right? I fully agree that banks are a scam but unless you're ready for a revolution I don't think this will get far. As for the native Americans, are you pushing the noble savage theory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To get their money out of China and out of reach of the Chinese government. Sounds odd since the ROI isn't great for an empty house but if you view it through the lens of park it abroad or lose it then it makes more sense.
I think you misunderstand that many conservatives and independents would like to see anyone who engages in that go to jail. I long for a country where there's one set of rules for everyone. No exceptions. If that means both D and R go to jail I'm fine with it because I'm confident if I did it then I'd be behind bars now.
I see that economists in general as well as you tout free trade as self defeating however I haven't seen anything put forward that would advance prosperity in general. Indeed an economist would suggest that increases in productivity bring wealth to all. I agree that increased productivity brings good things but as has been charted many times wealth to all is not one of them. While productivity has increased wages and life in general for employees has not. We've tried free trade and found that the arguments that it will bring increases to all are unfounded while the arguments that it's a race to the bottom seem quite accurate. When I think about the pace of work today vs the 50's that you cited, I'd take the 50's. Your thoughts?
sources:
http://www.epi.org/publication...http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
for many more Google "wages vs productivity graph"
"stopping immigration"
Unless you're a Native American, shut the fuck up.
I take no responsibility for things before my time. I will say that the current Indians in my neck of the woods are all silly rich due to casinos. They did quite well in the end.
"Educating and feeding millions of people who shouldn't be here"
Who are you talking about? The Mexicans? Care to provide a source?
There are millions of "citizens" who arguable shouldn't be here. Source:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
On a more personal note around 40% of the local elementary school is ESL (English Second Language) so dollars to donuts they are all born to illegals or illegal themselves. That means that the school could improve the student to teacher ratio by 40% if we only looked at legit citizens. To those who say it doesn't impact me - you're wrong.
This. As I watched the middle class decline I became somewhat of a two issue voter - stopping "free trade" first and stopping immigration second. To support our own citizens first and foremost is the point of these two positions. Free trade is a scam for most people (great for the 1% though) and illegal immigration decimates our schools and other public funds. Educating and feeding millions of people who shouldn't be here is obviously expensive and every dollar spent on that is a dollar less spend on the citizens who should be getting it. Such logic is always decried as racist however I think that the racism wolf has been cried so often that it has no effect anymore.
... we also had one homosexual guy that would make a speech at the kickoff meeting each time about how United Way was basically evil and we shouldn't give them a dime. The reasoning was that the United Way funded the boy scouts and the boy scouts didn't allow gay members.
I wonder if he changed his opinion when the Scouts decided to allow gays or if he still hates them and looked for other new targets to hate on. The trouble with SJW in my opinion is that they only destroy, they never create. For example they want to destroy the Scouts but they won't create another organization that did the good the Scouts did. They instead move on to destroy the next group that offends them. Like locusts.
Democrats try to work together for progress republicans try to destroy.
In this simplistic world that you live in do the Democrats all get white hats while the evil Republican's twist their mustache ends while wearing black hats? I rail against free trade because it undermines the middle class. Both parties are undermining the middle class. Do the Republicans grant tax breaks to the richest people? Yes - and it's wrong. Do the Democrats pander to the non-working poor while the working middle class dies - also yes and it's also wrong. Do both parties support free trade optimized to screw over Americans? Yes. An easy example is not being allowed to buy cheaper drugs from Canada, something that free trade should allow if it was really free. As we speak the president didn't get your white hat memo and is trying his level best to screw us over with TPP. Or did you consider that trying to work for progress and let's make it work?
If you are really opposed to NAFTA, TPP, GATT and FISA, then I think you are in the wrong party.
Please don't spread the misinformation that these "free trade" agreements are either D or R. Both parties support selling out the middle class. To try and position it as only one or the other party is just wrong. Take NAFTA as an example. Initially started under Bush #1, then signed into law by Clinton. See, both parties. TPP is on Obama's agenda, nobody on Main St. is asking for it but as a corporate shill he is pushing it as hard as he can. Would Romney have been any different on the TPP? I doubt it very much. Both party establishments will happily sell out the middle class for their corporate benefactors.
start ups need people of different backgrounds to work together. in a lot of places people hate anyone of a different color, name, nationality, who they have sex with, etc. only a small number of people are "normal".
so all the mutants left to the cities to make money
Did you start your day with diversity training;-) I'd love to see the citations behind your reasoning
The mythical lazy person who doesn't want to do any work just doesn't exist.
Except that I've known some. It may seem odd to you, if you are hardwired or were raised with the notion of "be productive". However I can assure you that I personally know people who do exactly zero and are quite fine with it. If you are volunteering then I think you are helping the world at large, you have something to show for yourself. Automation and such will bring changes that mean that people should work less. Ideally that would mean all work less, not some work a bunch and others work none like we have now.
I'm not sure I agree with your premise. I know that some people will always work. Myself and my mom for example. My two sisters probably wouldn't. My ex wife, a childhood friend, and a few others I know all avoid work as much as possible. Fun experiment, ask a lazy person do help you and see how fast they are busy that day. I am not against the citizen dividend as long as the citizens have to something other than breathe to get it. Work and pay taxes, great you qualify. If you're retired or not working a paying job then you have to do something else. I like what Maine has done with regards to people who want free stuff, where you have to volunteer a certain number of hours to qualify. Everyone I know on disability is doing a big fat nothing to help the world that helps them. This is wrong. I'm not against helping people, however money for nothing is a bad idea.
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Although I travel often I am against the pre-check because it seems like a scam to have to pay $85 to be treated like a citizen again.
Many areas use whoever had the first claim to the local water supply for a given area as the basis for who gets that water. Not what does the greatest good, not what makes the most economic sense, but merely the first to file. Then this right is locked in. The radio spectrum is similar however unlike water which is a local problem this causes problems for much of the globe. Think of the convenience of having most of the globe use 2.4GHz. Make a device once, use it anywhere. How grand. However things could be *much* better if more bandwidth was available globally. That's why I liken it to water rights - another archaic system but one that people more often understand. Here's a chart that shows how spectrum is allocated in the US for those who are curious: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files...
To translate that to Clinton you only need a couple of changes: Nothing honest about her. She'll lie to your face if it'll improve her polls. She's a politician, and certainly non-stop scandals are entertaining. Her relationship with the truth is tenuous as best, if not entirely accidental.
Knowing several working moms the general sentiment is that they would prefer to be home even if it meant being barefoot. Most have lamented not being able to stay home until the youngest was at least in grade school. This is also found in the research where women will take more time for family in exchange for reduced pay on average.
There's a great Salon article
Now that I find hard to believe. All magazines have their "heroes and villains" however Salon hates white people first and men second, with the ever popular punching bag of white males as the top of the villain hierarchy. Not unlike a melodrama where the boo and hiss whenever the "bad guy" comes on screen. Salon is the magazine for people who at best are passive aggressive against white people and at worst just about ready for white only concentration camps. Along the same lines, at best passive aggressive against men and at worst ready to lock them all up. I have no doubt that the $.78 is a myth. However you need to find a better source. Here's a couple to help out: http://time.com/3222543/5-femi... http://www.wsj.com/articles/th... http://www.washingtonexaminer.... Google "gender pay gap myth" and you can find dozens more. Heck, I'd love to see a study that included the child support that the average woman gets as most seem to. That subsidy ought to put them over the top since it's tax free.
Because everyone knows that the US is the only country that spies on people ;-) Surely those good EU countries would never stoop to things like this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
... Hell, even better: Those kook whackjob Christians who predict the end of the world on a precise date at least admit they were wrong when it doesn't happen!...
In a sense they hedged their bets by shifting from "global warming" to "climate change". Now any and all weather that isn't average can and will be used as evidence for climate change. As noted below, average isn't as common as one might think: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
I know that you're kidding but at the same time it really highlights for me how some groups are more equal than others.
And as I've had to explain to many people, adapting doesn't men that you and your family change. It means you and your family and 99 percent of everyone dies, and the rest are left to reproduce.
99%? Do you always use hyperbole in your explanations?
And I live in Europe...
That is the entire reason for your nice situation. In the US we somehow look down on you EU types getting 6+ weeks vacation. My colleagues in the EU all work for the same company yet somehow it's OK for them to get double the vacation. I don't want to spoil your situation, I just wish that the US would quit mocking it as if it's a bad thing and instead give us all 6+ weeks.
I prefer to think it's a case of we sane people don't think anything on the phone is worth giving the government the ability to distribute unlimited malware. There is such a thing as weighing the costs. If you want to be the Land of the free and the home of the brave you don't cower at every shadow and give up your rights so easily. Put another way: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Ben Franklin
Finding people who could sleep at night after doing this is the trouble.
I so wish that were true. There are *hordes* of people who are well intentioned idiots and would do whatever people in authority tell them. Very few people have a true backbone as shown here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So you're advocating two wrongs make a right? I fully agree that banks are a scam but unless you're ready for a revolution I don't think this will get far. As for the native Americans, are you pushing the noble savage theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To get their money out of China and out of reach of the Chinese government. Sounds odd since the ROI isn't great for an empty house but if you view it through the lens of park it abroad or lose it then it makes more sense.
I think you misunderstand that many conservatives and independents would like to see anyone who engages in that go to jail. I long for a country where there's one set of rules for everyone. No exceptions. If that means both D and R go to jail I'm fine with it because I'm confident if I did it then I'd be behind bars now.
The original term of copyright. One of the *many* things that the founding fathers got right that has since been changed for the worse.
I see that economists in general as well as you tout free trade as self defeating however I haven't seen anything put forward that would advance prosperity in general. Indeed an economist would suggest that increases in productivity bring wealth to all. I agree that increased productivity brings good things but as has been charted many times wealth to all is not one of them. While productivity has increased wages and life in general for employees has not. We've tried free trade and found that the arguments that it will bring increases to all are unfounded while the arguments that it's a race to the bottom seem quite accurate. When I think about the pace of work today vs the 50's that you cited, I'd take the 50's. Your thoughts? sources: http://www.epi.org/publication... http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... for many more Google "wages vs productivity graph"
"stopping immigration" Unless you're a Native American, shut the fuck up.
I take no responsibility for things before my time. I will say that the current Indians in my neck of the woods are all silly rich due to casinos. They did quite well in the end.
"Educating and feeding millions of people who shouldn't be here" Who are you talking about? The Mexicans? Care to provide a source?
There are millions of "citizens" who arguable shouldn't be here. Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac... On a more personal note around 40% of the local elementary school is ESL (English Second Language) so dollars to donuts they are all born to illegals or illegal themselves. That means that the school could improve the student to teacher ratio by 40% if we only looked at legit citizens. To those who say it doesn't impact me - you're wrong.
This. As I watched the middle class decline I became somewhat of a two issue voter - stopping "free trade" first and stopping immigration second. To support our own citizens first and foremost is the point of these two positions. Free trade is a scam for most people (great for the 1% though) and illegal immigration decimates our schools and other public funds. Educating and feeding millions of people who shouldn't be here is obviously expensive and every dollar spent on that is a dollar less spend on the citizens who should be getting it. Such logic is always decried as racist however I think that the racism wolf has been cried so often that it has no effect anymore.
... we also had one homosexual guy that would make a speech at the kickoff meeting each time about how United Way was basically evil and we shouldn't give them a dime. The reasoning was that the United Way funded the boy scouts and the boy scouts didn't allow gay members.
I wonder if he changed his opinion when the Scouts decided to allow gays or if he still hates them and looked for other new targets to hate on. The trouble with SJW in my opinion is that they only destroy, they never create. For example they want to destroy the Scouts but they won't create another organization that did the good the Scouts did. They instead move on to destroy the next group that offends them. Like locusts.
Democrats try to work together for progress republicans try to destroy.
In this simplistic world that you live in do the Democrats all get white hats while the evil Republican's twist their mustache ends while wearing black hats? I rail against free trade because it undermines the middle class. Both parties are undermining the middle class. Do the Republicans grant tax breaks to the richest people? Yes - and it's wrong. Do the Democrats pander to the non-working poor while the working middle class dies - also yes and it's also wrong. Do both parties support free trade optimized to screw over Americans? Yes. An easy example is not being allowed to buy cheaper drugs from Canada, something that free trade should allow if it was really free. As we speak the president didn't get your white hat memo and is trying his level best to screw us over with TPP. Or did you consider that trying to work for progress and let's make it work?
If you are really opposed to NAFTA, TPP, GATT and FISA, then I think you are in the wrong party.
Please don't spread the misinformation that these "free trade" agreements are either D or R. Both parties support selling out the middle class. To try and position it as only one or the other party is just wrong. Take NAFTA as an example. Initially started under Bush #1, then signed into law by Clinton. See, both parties. TPP is on Obama's agenda, nobody on Main St. is asking for it but as a corporate shill he is pushing it as hard as he can. Would Romney have been any different on the TPP? I doubt it very much. Both party establishments will happily sell out the middle class for their corporate benefactors.
start ups need people of different backgrounds to work together. in a lot of places people hate anyone of a different color, name, nationality, who they have sex with, etc. only a small number of people are "normal". so all the mutants left to the cities to make money
Did you start your day with diversity training ;-) I'd love to see the citations behind your reasoning
The mythical lazy person who doesn't want to do any work just doesn't exist.
Except that I've known some. It may seem odd to you, if you are hardwired or were raised with the notion of "be productive". However I can assure you that I personally know people who do exactly zero and are quite fine with it. If you are volunteering then I think you are helping the world at large, you have something to show for yourself. Automation and such will bring changes that mean that people should work less. Ideally that would mean all work less, not some work a bunch and others work none like we have now.
People will work; it's in our natures.
I'm not sure I agree with your premise. I know that some people will always work. Myself and my mom for example. My two sisters probably wouldn't. My ex wife, a childhood friend, and a few others I know all avoid work as much as possible. Fun experiment, ask a lazy person do help you and see how fast they are busy that day. I am not against the citizen dividend as long as the citizens have to something other than breathe to get it. Work and pay taxes, great you qualify. If you're retired or not working a paying job then you have to do something else. I like what Maine has done with regards to people who want free stuff, where you have to volunteer a certain number of hours to qualify. Everyone I know on disability is doing a big fat nothing to help the world that helps them. This is wrong. I'm not against helping people, however money for nothing is a bad idea.