No, you're have a conversation, discussion, whatever about things which do have labels, but about which the other poster claimed would be impossible to have a conversation, discussion, whatever without those labels.
You're killing american jobs, you know that, right?
You have advocated ideas in the past that kill jobs. So that is a valid point to make when appropriate and probably why you have heard it in the past.
*vomits a little in her mouth*
That is a stupid meme. Please stop doing it.
That world starts by saying: I own what I create with my own hands, what I think with my own mind, and nobody can ever take it away.
But you can trade it away. Which is your primary value in a modern economy. All these actions are voluntary. If you don't like such a contract, then don't agree to it.
Now for a nice piping hot cup of reality: Those jobs will be shipped overseas regardless of what laws are (or aren't) passed. Rich people have no loyalty to their country, or their workforce, and neither should you. Fuck them over for every penny they're worth. Leave with zero days notice if you get a better job. Let them drink the free market koolaid too. And when it comes to copyright law... patent law... all of that, business exists in parts of the world where this doesn't, and in fact a lot of those jobs going overseas are going there precisely because they don't have the very laws they're lobbying for here.
On other subjects, even the Middle East (outside Qatar), they are not even that biased, certainly nowhere near as much as what their strangely negative reputation in the U.S. would lead you to believe.
Supposedly their Arabic language news has more biases than their English language news. I haven't heard much about it recently so maybe that has changed or wasn't true in the first place.
Please stop. You have no idea. Hundreds of millions of people are doing something remarkable. Pay attention. I'm not at all denying that the powers of the world have a stake in the Arab Spring. What I am denying is that the huge political changes of the Middle East are due to the intrigues of these powers.
You could also just move to a proper country, like one in Europe.
It's interesting how people take European countries so seriously. Most of their policies and even governments haven't been tested on a time scale past the Second World War. Will they even be viable in another sixty years? The US's political system has at least been kicking around for more than two centuries. That makes it a well tested democracy compared to what's out there, especially when compared with most governments in Europe.
Sounds more like you are wanting to blame the teachers for your shortcomings. You don't hold your politicians accountable, so you grumble at anyone receiving any benefit from their actions. It's your fault you don't hold your politicians accountable.
When systems are corrupt, burning out the people and businesses who profit greatly is a great approach to cleaning things up. Destroy enough of the political merchants so that playing politics becomes more expensive than honest work, then you greatly weaken the whole system of corruption.
So yes, harming those who benefit from the actions of corrupt politicians has its strategic advantages.
You're still not getting it. These are proxy wars over which superpower has the most influence. If we don't make the deal, the Russians and Chinese will move in. They have nothing to do with "democracy". Fall off your high horse, and count the money.
This Arab Spring thing is lot bigger than some arms trading turf fight or a superpower scuffle. Things like arms trade, oil, and the superpower games give very powerful outsiders a big stake in what happens. But it didn't start or spread just because someone wanted some more fighter jet sales or a bigger share of the oil market.
There's no such thing as a non-touch screen around young kids. Your TV is a touch screen. A wall is a touch screen. The dining room table. See where I'm going with that?
You just can't help but dig that hole deeper, can you? I point out the obvious historical parallel and you're doing the teenager, "whatevar" act.
My take on this is that peaceful revolts that tend to result in more democratic governments are bad for the arms trade. Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, etc have overturned their old governments without generating a lot of arms sales.
The menace of the unicorns lethal with grace
We seek finality, an end to this terrible race
Only weapons terrible and potent
Shall crush this feared menace
Shall it be a hail of bullets?
Or poisoned, sweet millet?
Rainbows sparkle showers?
Or a rain of nuclear power?
The unicorn's horn is proof against those things of Earth,
The locale of its supernatural birth
The mightiest weapons of our lands are impure
no better than firing peas from a pod
That is why to be sure
One must send teapots from God.
Pointing out through example? The "Arab Spring" has interesting historical parallels to the European revolutions of 1848 (Wikipedia notes that they came with similar names such as "Spring of Nations", "Springtime of the People"). In the historical example, one saw both good and bad outcomes from that event over the past century and a half, including the eventual spread of democracy throughout all of Europe.
Sure, the Arab Spring may end up being "tragic farce" just as much of the European version did (particularly, the advent of Communism). But I doubt anyone will be able to "recognize" that within a year of the start. I do believe however that there are a bunch of idiots eager to put their particular spin on current events and that you are one of those idiots, based on your posts so far in this thread.
How about you think rather than just sounding like some two-dimensional caricature from a Hollywood movie?
Wow, you're really pouting over that barb. I guess that's evidence for some sort of mental activity. Congrats for your promotion to "thoughtless cynic"! May you go far.
And at the same time the population might also be fooled - not because they are stupid, but because they've been bombarded with such 'official statements' their entire lives.
Or because people who don't believe, tend to die badly.
The USSR took the Eastern Bloc entirely with the blessing of the US and the UK, ignoramus
A completely irrelevant observation. Let us also not forget that the US and UK overlooked a hell of a lot of USSR sins during this time (such as being one of the instigators of the Second World War).
The USSR was not in position to start any wars post-WWII mostly because of the price in human lives it paid for defeating Hitler.
It didn't lose that many human lives. It had by far the largest army on the continent, a huge industrial and logistics system, and all its potential foes were either on the other side of a huge ocean or in rubble. Nuclear weapons changed all that, allowing a much weaker conventional force to destroy even Russia's vast armies.
Maybe you're unaware of this, but the US joined the war against Hitler with a minimum of man power for the first time in June 1944, at a time when it was already largely won on the Eastern front.
The US had been contributing forces in North Africa, Italy, and the defense of the UK well before this. And they had been supplying massive all the participants in the European war since about 1941 (1938 or so for the UK). So your statement is in error.
You can assert again, "ignorant bullshit". But I show I understand what was going on in the Second World War. You don't.
First, you aren't everyone. This change in currency wouldn't effect just you (assuming you ever spend US currency in the first place), but over 300 million people who have already shown a vast and profound preference for bills.
By comparison, an LG Nexus 4 weighs 139g, so how is 25g extra in coins a problem?
How about an extra 250 grams of coins in an already overloaded purse? How about a few extra eight kilogram boxes handled every day by people who aren't know for weight lifting?
Then again, except at fancy restaurants we don't have an entrenched tipping culture in Australia as the minimum wage is higher (built into the pricing) Is that part of the issue - carrying a wad of dollar bills to offload to each and every service worker one meets and that tipping with a coin wouldn't seem right?
I've tipped with dollar coins before so no, that's not it. Why is it so hard to understand that increasing the weight of the most commonly used currency by a factor of eight is a real problem?
I rarely have more than three dollars in ones at any given time.
Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone behaves like you. Not everyone carries just a couple extra dollar bills in their pocket. Consider also the people who as part of their job are going to be hauling these huge boxes of coins around.
It's also worth noting that apparently in the UK and Canada, it took something like 60% more coins to cover bill circulation (apparently people were putting those coins in jars rather than spending them).
Sure, it's nice from the point of view of the government to have all this money paid for and out of circulation. But not from the point of view of the people who actually use the coins.
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No, you're have a conversation, discussion, whatever about things which do have labels, but about which the other poster claimed would be impossible to have a conversation, discussion, whatever without those labels.
I imagine 100% of a bag of bread is chemicals just like 100% of a person's body is chemicals. It's a good fit.
You're killing american jobs, you know that, right?
You have advocated ideas in the past that kill jobs. So that is a valid point to make when appropriate and probably why you have heard it in the past.
*vomits a little in her mouth*
That is a stupid meme. Please stop doing it.
That world starts by saying: I own what I create with my own hands, what I think with my own mind, and nobody can ever take it away.
But you can trade it away. Which is your primary value in a modern economy. All these actions are voluntary. If you don't like such a contract, then don't agree to it.
Now for a nice piping hot cup of reality: Those jobs will be shipped overseas regardless of what laws are (or aren't) passed. Rich people have no loyalty to their country, or their workforce, and neither should you. Fuck them over for every penny they're worth. Leave with zero days notice if you get a better job. Let them drink the free market koolaid too. And when it comes to copyright law... patent law... all of that, business exists in parts of the world where this doesn't, and in fact a lot of those jobs going overseas are going there precisely because they don't have the very laws they're lobbying for here.
Go for it. However, you'll reap what you sow.
But it doesn't work that way now?
The US isn't trying it now. There is some danger from private organizations, but I think that danger can be met with a weaker central government.
On other subjects, even the Middle East (outside Qatar), they are not even that biased, certainly nowhere near as much as what their strangely negative reputation in the U.S. would lead you to believe.
Supposedly their Arabic language news has more biases than their English language news. I haven't heard much about it recently so maybe that has changed or wasn't true in the first place.
Please stop. You have no idea. Hundreds of millions of people are doing something remarkable. Pay attention. I'm not at all denying that the powers of the world have a stake in the Arab Spring. What I am denying is that the huge political changes of the Middle East are due to the intrigues of these powers.
You could also just move to a proper country, like one in Europe.
It's interesting how people take European countries so seriously. Most of their policies and even governments haven't been tested on a time scale past the Second World War. Will they even be viable in another sixty years? The US's political system has at least been kicking around for more than two centuries. That makes it a well tested democracy compared to what's out there, especially when compared with most governments in Europe.
Only an idiot would think that a weak national government would necessarily mean more personal liberty.
It worked that way in the past. And we see that a strong national government (in the US and elsewhere) doesn't result in more personal freedom.
Sounds more like you are wanting to blame the teachers for your shortcomings. You don't hold your politicians accountable, so you grumble at anyone receiving any benefit from their actions. It's your fault you don't hold your politicians accountable.
When systems are corrupt, burning out the people and businesses who profit greatly is a great approach to cleaning things up. Destroy enough of the political merchants so that playing politics becomes more expensive than honest work, then you greatly weaken the whole system of corruption.
So yes, harming those who benefit from the actions of corrupt politicians has its strategic advantages.
That you have/know crappy kids?
They come with a lot of crap. That sometimes ends up on the touch screens too.
You're still not getting it. These are proxy wars over which superpower has the most influence. If we don't make the deal, the Russians and Chinese will move in. They have nothing to do with "democracy". Fall off your high horse, and count the money.
This Arab Spring thing is lot bigger than some arms trading turf fight or a superpower scuffle. Things like arms trade, oil, and the superpower games give very powerful outsiders a big stake in what happens. But it didn't start or spread just because someone wanted some more fighter jet sales or a bigger share of the oil market.
There's no such thing as a non-touch screen around young kids. Your TV is a touch screen. A wall is a touch screen. The dining room table. See where I'm going with that?
I just find it surprising what becomes a touch screen when there are young kids around. Especially young kids with permanent markers or paint.
Someone please kill that klaxon before my ears bleed. Disaster has been adverted.
You just can't help but dig that hole deeper, can you? I point out the obvious historical parallel and you're doing the teenager, "whatevar" act.
My take on this is that peaceful revolts that tend to result in more democratic governments are bad for the arms trade. Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, etc have overturned their old governments without generating a lot of arms sales.
The menace of the unicorns lethal with grace
We seek finality, an end to this terrible race
Only weapons terrible and potent
Shall crush this feared menace
Shall it be a hail of bullets?
Or poisoned, sweet millet?
Rainbows sparkle showers?
Or a rain of nuclear power?
The unicorn's horn is proof against those things of Earth,
The locale of its supernatural birth
The mightiest weapons of our lands are impure
no better than firing peas from a pod
That is why to be sure
One must send teapots from God.
Pointing out through example? The "Arab Spring" has interesting historical parallels to the European revolutions of 1848 (Wikipedia notes that they came with similar names such as "Spring of Nations", "Springtime of the People"). In the historical example, one saw both good and bad outcomes from that event over the past century and a half, including the eventual spread of democracy throughout all of Europe.
Sure, the Arab Spring may end up being "tragic farce" just as much of the European version did (particularly, the advent of Communism). But I doubt anyone will be able to "recognize" that within a year of the start. I do believe however that there are a bunch of idiots eager to put their particular spin on current events and that you are one of those idiots, based on your posts so far in this thread.
How about you think rather than just sounding like some two-dimensional caricature from a Hollywood movie?
Wow, you're really pouting over that barb. I guess that's evidence for some sort of mental activity. Congrats for your promotion to "thoughtless cynic"! May you go far.
And at the same time the population might also be fooled - not because they are stupid, but because they've been bombarded with such 'official statements' their entire lives.
Or because people who don't believe, tend to die badly.
Because you're always propping them up in the first place, while it suits your interests.
Not North Korea. If China hadn't gotten involved in North Korea's defense, North Korea would be a distant memory.
I'm not assuming everyone behaves like me.
Then why do you talk only about how little you are inconvenienced? And categorize everyone who doesn't behave like you as "unredeemable idiots"?
The USSR took the Eastern Bloc entirely with the blessing of the US and the UK, ignoramus
A completely irrelevant observation. Let us also not forget that the US and UK overlooked a hell of a lot of USSR sins during this time (such as being one of the instigators of the Second World War).
The USSR was not in position to start any wars post-WWII mostly because of the price in human lives it paid for defeating Hitler.
It didn't lose that many human lives. It had by far the largest army on the continent, a huge industrial and logistics system, and all its potential foes were either on the other side of a huge ocean or in rubble. Nuclear weapons changed all that, allowing a much weaker conventional force to destroy even Russia's vast armies.
Maybe you're unaware of this, but the US joined the war against Hitler with a minimum of man power for the first time in June 1944, at a time when it was already largely won on the Eastern front.
The US had been contributing forces in North Africa, Italy, and the defense of the UK well before this. And they had been supplying massive all the participants in the European war since about 1941 (1938 or so for the UK). So your statement is in error.
You can assert again, "ignorant bullshit". But I show I understand what was going on in the Second World War. You don't.
Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone behaves like you.
Please stop doing that.
Your end-of-the-world scenario seems far-fetched, to put it mildly.
And your hyperbole is tiresome.
By comparison, an LG Nexus 4 weighs 139g, so how is 25g extra in coins a problem?
How about an extra 250 grams of coins in an already overloaded purse? How about a few extra eight kilogram boxes handled every day by people who aren't know for weight lifting?
Then again, except at fancy restaurants we don't have an entrenched tipping culture in Australia as the minimum wage is higher (built into the pricing) Is that part of the issue - carrying a wad of dollar bills to offload to each and every service worker one meets and that tipping with a coin wouldn't seem right?
I've tipped with dollar coins before so no, that's not it. Why is it so hard to understand that increasing the weight of the most commonly used currency by a factor of eight is a real problem?
I rarely have more than three dollars in ones at any given time.
Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone behaves like you. Not everyone carries just a couple extra dollar bills in their pocket. Consider also the people who as part of their job are going to be hauling these huge boxes of coins around.
It's also worth noting that apparently in the UK and Canada, it took something like 60% more coins to cover bill circulation (apparently people were putting those coins in jars rather than spending them).
Sure, it's nice from the point of view of the government to have all this money paid for and out of circulation. But not from the point of view of the people who actually use the coins.