Ahhh, but they're not multiple Gods at war or conflict, they are at some level at harmony e.g. they were all by a more Godly God, like more senior Gods and less senior Gods, but at some level they are connected. Challenge for you: Name a religion with more than one God where all the Gods are completely unrelated at all levels.
His book included a listing of the various nations' automobile engine production, as a fraction of the total world output. Guderian considered that to be a major indicator of a nation's ability to prosecute modern (read: mechanized) warfare. He thought that Germany could be a Player, because their engine production was comparable to the UK, France, and the Soviet Union (~4% each). Interestingly, in his table, the USA was listed at 80%
Statisitcs are always trash. The US always goes over the top with overproduction and then gets shafted when the market is saturated. Same as the dot-com hype. If company growth rate (both automobile and dot com) was controlled these problems wouldn't occur.
Back then the Detroit factories were running at full whack. After they saturated the market, well we've seen what Detroit and Buffalo are now - Bladerunner style ghost cities. When I caught a connecting flight there a couple years ago I saw even the baggage handlers had guns. Also consider the transport of these tanks, in Europe there was Russia, Germany and "The West" adversarial zones connected by land. Last time I checked the US has no Magineux line at its border with Mexico.
I think Tie'lk sums it up best when he said in Stargate SG-1, "The war with Canada?" in reply to a draft-dodging question. Nice. The US at that time would have found it extremely difficult to transport a massive tank force across the Pacific. During WW2 whilst invading the Japanese islands the US preferred naval assault followed by amphibious troop assault. I bet they would have loved to have some tanks available.
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Here in the UK that is Yankee Doodle doo.
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To be honest, if I could haul my ass to Louisiana tomorrow, I would.. but unfortunately your visa system wouldn't let me in
Alternative: Emmigrate to Canada and then get a T-1 visa to move to the US. Secret: The majority of people that immigrate to Canada then immigrate to the US, many Canadians are too stupid to notice this.
This is a rather socialist idea, and one of the reasons we pay so much tax. My pride kinda stops me from looking at this option. I'm a capitalist
Shut up, what if I'm a rasta and I smoke ganja in the street, I'm still gonna get arrested, you have to live by the rules of the country you're in, and in the UK you're supposed to get a council flat. All the illegal immigrants don't have a problem with getting one, why shouldn't you when you're the type of person the system was designed for? People exist that have too much pride to withdraw money from the Bank because they "gave it to them fair and square" but they have no problem robbing it because the Bank will claim back from theft insurance.
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Ever hear of a fixed rate mortgage?
Banks only offer fixed rate mortgages when the interest rate > 8%. Otherwise the Banks know they're gonna lose money when he interest rate inevitably rises.
And a really bad job it's doing right now, all that America has now is Voice of America which is some army training dropout Arnold Schwarzenegger wannabe.
I think I'll go off and join a Buddhist monastery or become a homeless guy or something
A good start friend, directory enquiries will be able to recommend a good monastery in your area.
Christian: Thou shalt not covet the possessions of thy neighbour It's no secret that when you become rich your neighbours change.
Hindu: Material attractions corrupt the soul and are an impediment to a good reincarnation. Quoting from here,
All religions speak of an entity called God and teach man to efface his ego or 'I' feeling
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So your rationale is.. some people will always be lazy, so let the tax of hard working decent people pay their way to keep them out of trouble?
Yipee, I'll earn 25% more money, but then as soon as I walk out of work 50 people will mug me, muggers will stand around cash machines. Worse the insurance companies will red-light the whole of the UK, nobody in the UK will get car insurance or home insurance because the probability of making a claim is close to 100%. Already several London streets are blacklisted with car insurance companies because so many cars get stolen from there.
I'm a racist, please realize that there are Canadians, right now, pure 100% blood Canadians, of every race and religion, and these are the people who I think should have a reasonable ability to have children and live good lives
<Flamejacket> Should we kill the ones that speak French or English? </Flamejacket>
I guarantee you that the most prolific breeders are those lower on either scale
Ahhhhh but who is truly fit? Perhaps you have been brainwashed by American consumerist culture
Here's a thought: Maybe the fittest don't participate in the fiscal system. Who the hell equated intelligence with higher probability of survival, I put it to you that a clever Einstein-fish thinking of formulae all the time will get eaten by a predator and thus is very "unfit".
I put it to you that the fittest subconsciously see through the capitalist methodology and procreate more, manipulating the feelings of the gullible capitalism-participators (pity, sympathy) into changing laws to support them and provide medicare etc. Same as the cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests. These procreators are fitter because they manipulate the people that are stupid enough to be drawn into the "artificial free market game created by the Government". Maybe we are less fit. Perhaps the criminals are the higher life form because they see banks as "prey" and rob them.
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The stereotype of Glasgow is that it's a drug ridden crime filled hellhole. How true is this?
That's the whole of the UK mate, except Staines maybe but Ali G keeps dissin' it so it'll be a cesspit soon too.
That's what I can't believe about this country. No one ever saves any goddamn money
Dude, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Save your own money and let those stupid people get screwed. When all the people in the country save money you get deflation which kills the economy by slowing spending, the velocity of money slows as it gets tied up with the people that hog it. Look at Japan, all the baby boomers hogging the money for their retirements tanking the economy. Old guys get a good retirement but screw up their kids jobs and lives, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
Well, I've been through periods where I've been fairly well off (earning aroun $100k) and times when I've been pretty darn poor ($17k and living in low income housing). I can say without any doubt that I'm happier now because of my money
But if you'd never been on a low income, if you'd been earning $100k all your life, wouldn't you simply just be bitchin' about the different stuff that rich people bitch about?
It looks like 'cos your income was high then low then high you put a lot of money in the bank instead of going out and buying imported $10,000 caviar plus $1,000 caviar for your dog like other rich people do. Your low income times kept you grounded. I betcha you don't have a Beverley Hills accent "Yeah I was like sooooo strung up about the way ??? looked at me, I think he hates me." like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless.
True, plus their oil supply was cut off. I sill believe though that if America looked strong then Pearl wouldn't have been attacked. Admiral Yamamoto's famous quote, "I fear we have woken a seeping giant". Quite an afterthought.
Isolationist policies=Deep sleep Active policies=oppressive warlord.
America must choose the middle ground
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I've employed some of those lazy assholes you mention under the Government's new deal scheme. Trust me, most of them are out of the workforce for a good reason. I don't think you've ever had to lock yourself into your office for 1 hour until the police arrive to cart the abusive employee away. When I lost my job I signed onto welfare and wrote freeware, does that make me a lazy asshole?
And why bitch at America? The USA is currently the most wealthy country in the world, and the majority of its citizens are amongst the most affluent people to have ever lived. If you're going to stay that the British system is better, you're speaking out of your arse
Go see the the projects in Atlanta in the US. If you back alive, you would have at least changed your mind. Bladerunner doesn't even come close to the working conditions there, if you can find a job. In these places the business plan is simple - spend $100 to buy a gun, go up to 10 people a day an say "Gimme your money or I kill ya", income is $1000 a day. That's a return on investment by a factor of 10 in one day. Not bad. This is what happens when you don't have a strong welfare system. If you force lazy people off welfare, they'll just go and rob banks.
Pull out troops from "strategic" positions. Send the carriers to the states. Protect the "homeland" ONLY. The American military breeds ill-will every where it goes
An excellent reply. I dispute Point 3 In WW2 America *was* minding it's own business, this was interpreted as a sign of weakness and America got blown up in Pearl. Isolationist policies breed resentment among allies (read NATO and G8) and so is an enemy of globalisation. The US implements isolationist policies because it's lazy and appeals to selfish voters, creating resentment among the allies of the US (especially during WW2). Then as a reactionary measure America goes overboard creating resentment with allies at the US being late, and resentment in neutral and enemy countries because a disproportionate amount of force was used showing the US to be a loose cannon with no concern for the mess they leave in surrounding countries. How many Taliban fled into
Pakistan? How is that going to affect Pakistan? Why has Musharraf received so many death threats? The US is like C++, powerful but with a trashy garbage collector. Sure no geek likes searching for double free() but leaving them in your code is something that's just not done.
All world powers know that when the US has an isolationist President, a Pearl Harbour or WTC must occur, and when the US has a meddling President, the US must be restrained (as you pointed out in point 1) from supporting terrorists just because they oppose Russia or whatever. US foreign policy needs to find a middle ground between these 2 extremes. But it's already too late, many resent the US at this time.
Yes, I am in agreement with the rest of your comment. This extra money and having extra doors open won't necessarily increase your level of happiness. Some poor guy can blame his lack of stuff on a lack of money. A rich guy doesn't have this excuse, and has more to lose than the poor guy so he's not necessarily happier.
Your worries become more trivial the richer you get - if you keep your perspective!
My point exactly - so you have to have been poor to appreciate being rich (knowing that trivial problems are indeed trivial). A person who has been rich all his life wouldn't have this perspective, so these trivial problems would make them unhappy, and if they lose this money all their new problems of being poor would be added to and would outclass the trivial problems they are used to dealing with, overwhelming them. Plus a poor guy becoming rich may be able to keep his true friends and assist them, a rich guy becoming poor would be outcast by his rich friends, although some might try to help him.
Wow, a lecture from a Brit about how awful life in America is. Thanks, buddy. I'm sure you know much more than we do.
I watch your American TV buddy so don't diss me.
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money isn't as important in Europe as it used to be. This is a bad thing. People are lazy. I know people who just can't be bothered to work, and claim benefits perpetually.
WHAT??!!! So the system where a 15-year old has to work in Pizza Hut in 15 hour shifts just to pay the God damn rent while his friends out of frustration sell dope is a good system? WTF? Many people say that a hungry man stealing bread is not a crime - well we're gonna find out 'cos if money is too important these men will steal bread. If the bread costs money they'll burgle houses, rob people, hold up banks in order to feed themselves. Stealing to feed yourself is not a crime, otherwise the US Government can commit genocide against all of its citizens by raising prices.
Who the heck would write free software? You will destroy linux! Corporations want us to work until we drop, and then some (so they can save money on their pension plan). In your eyes, the GPL coders and Linus Torvals are lazy assholes because they don't screw people that buy linux for every $$$ they're worth same as Micro$oft.
And in the US these people that work 15 hour days and one fine morning get fired, what the heck is going to happen to their mortgage, their kids' education, etc. ? The greatest Governments such as the Greek one had philosophers at the top, getting fed grapes whilst in a reclining chair. American capitalistic culture is like rats running around in a maze, listen to what Maddona is saying.
Then you'll just buy a nicer house which'll need a mortgage. Your friends will suddenly expect gold cutlery, Russian caviar (not the cheap stuff), crystal chandeliers, 2 Ferrarris, one convertible (sunny days), one normal (rainy days), 2 Porsche Carrera-4 (not the cheapskate normal Porsche Carrera) and a GT3. You will start to discriminate between the supercars. Alternatively you can isolate yourself and live in the middle of the forest, but then you'll become lonely and unhappy.
What I'm saying is that even the stupidly rich will find some way to waste their money, here I saw a documentary I lost a million, I think you should watch it, it's very enlightening.
I wanted to bring attention to the repressive gambling companies there (relevant to the current article). I remember that cleaner who was fired for no reason, and they refused to let her keep the uniform so she climbed onto the top of the building to commit suicide. There's an American-style dream of the nice benevolent millionaire that shows compassion towards employees. This is just one of the many dreams shattered by the documentary.
You are correct. Add India to that list, especially poor manual workers such as rickshaw drivers (that bicycle with a couple of seats attached at the back that paying customers sit in). For pulling people 10 miles he gets Rs. 10.- which is 20 cents, but in India this buys 2 one-course meals. It's a simple living, so these workers are happy and make friends with everyone.
In the US you *have* a house, a car, etc. And if somebody burned down your house and stole your car, and the insurance company found a technicality e.g. Act of God to weasel out of paying, how would you pay $1million for the lawyers to contest it? If no win no fee then to get paid back for your house you have to pay a fee of >$50,000. Having stuff creates anxiety, if you look at the poor Cambodians, they sleep in the open and when they lose their jobs they go into the forest and eat leeches with noodles. If they're lucky they can catch soldier ants and eat them.
In our lives we *assume* our car will still be there, we *assume* our house wouldn't have burnt down, we *assume* our water tank hasn't burst soaking our hard drives, even linux cannot withstand an hard disk underwater. All these assumptions to maintain our normal lives is OK by our higher consciousness, but on a subconscious level we know these events can occur, causing a subconscious anxiety that our higher consciousness cannot understand, causing more unhappiness if you rely on more stuff.
I put it to you that when driving was for fun, you enjoyed it, but when you had to get to work by 9am, and so became dependent on your car, you suddenly stopped enjoying it making yourself less happy because it's out of your control.
No you won't be satisfied with more money because you'll buy a bigger house with a bigger mortgage, and your new friends would expect you to maintain this inflated wealth indefinitely, your lifestyle will also change to adapt, expensive foods, etc. Then when you again reach equilibrium, you'll look down and see that there is further that you can fall and much more that you can lose. This makes you more anxious and unhappy when earning more.
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Fact is, we spend more than most people in the world make.
Yeah, people are so stupid. House prices are rising here because the Feds cut interest rates so mortgages look cheap. These dumbasses don't realise that in 2 years when the Fed raises interest rates their mortgage payments are going to be so high that half of them are going to be in negative equity.
Maybe we should lie to homebuyers and say, "Yeah, with interest rates at 20% your mortgage payments will be yada yada" then we'll have a solid recovery instead of a credit card-induced recovery.
MESSAGE TO ALL AMERICANS - you are poor only if you have sold your only car, and have to buy discounted groceries from WalMart because the fresh stuff is too expensive. Just a reality check for you, this is how we live in the rest of the world.
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Ahhh, but they're not multiple Gods at war or conflict, they are at some level at harmony e.g. they were all by a more Godly God, like more senior Gods and less senior Gods, but at some level they are connected. Challenge for you: Name a religion with more than one God where all the Gods are completely unrelated at all levels.
Back then the Detroit factories were running at full whack. After they saturated the market, well we've seen what Detroit and Buffalo are now - Bladerunner style ghost cities. When I caught a connecting flight there a couple years ago I saw even the baggage handlers had guns. Also consider the transport of these tanks, in Europe there was Russia, Germany and "The West" adversarial zones connected by land. Last time I checked the US has no Magineux line at its border with Mexico.
I think Tie'lk sums it up best when he said in Stargate SG-1, "The war with Canada?" in reply to a draft-dodging question. Nice. The US at that time would have found it extremely difficult to transport a massive tank force across the Pacific. During WW2 whilst invading the Japanese islands the US preferred naval assault followed by amphibious troop assault. I bet they would have loved to have some tanks available.
Here in the UK that is Yankee Doodle doo.
BTW I am honoured to be the first person you swore at on /.
Christian: Thou shalt not covet the possessions of thy neighbour
It's no secret that when you become rich your neighbours change.
Hindu: Material attractions corrupt the soul and are an impediment to a good reincarnation. Quoting from here,
Here's a thought: Maybe the fittest don't participate in the fiscal system. Who the hell equated intelligence with higher probability of survival, I put it to you that a clever Einstein-fish thinking of formulae all the time will get eaten by a predator and thus is very "unfit".
I put it to you that the fittest subconsciously see through the capitalist methodology and procreate more, manipulating the feelings of the gullible capitalism-participators (pity, sympathy) into changing laws to support them and provide medicare etc. Same as the cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests. These procreators are fitter because they manipulate the people that are stupid enough to be drawn into the "artificial free market game created by the Government". Maybe we are less fit. Perhaps the criminals are the higher life form because they see banks as "prey" and rob them.
Save your own money and let those stupid people get screwed. When all the people in the country save money you get deflation which kills the economy by slowing spending, the velocity of money slows as it gets tied up with the people that hog it. Look at Japan, all the baby boomers hogging the money for their retirements tanking the economy. Old guys get a good retirement but screw up their kids jobs and lives, I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
It looks like 'cos your income was high then low then high you put a lot of money in the bank instead of going out and buying imported $10,000 caviar plus $1,000 caviar for your dog like other rich people do. Your low income times kept you grounded. I betcha you don't have a Beverley Hills accent "Yeah I was like sooooo strung up about the way ??? looked at me, I think he hates me." like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless.
Isolationist policies=Deep sleep
Active policies=oppressive warlord.
America must choose the middle ground
All world powers know that when the US has an isolationist President, a Pearl Harbour or WTC must occur, and when the US has a meddling President, the US must be restrained (as you pointed out in point 1) from supporting terrorists just because they oppose Russia or whatever. US foreign policy needs to find a middle ground between these 2 extremes. But it's already too late, many resent the US at this time.
Who the heck would write free software? You will destroy linux! Corporations want us to work until we drop, and then some (so they can save money on their pension plan). In your eyes, the GPL coders and Linus Torvals are lazy assholes because they don't screw people that buy linux for every $$$ they're worth same as Micro$oft.
And in the US these people that work 15 hour days and one fine morning get fired, what the heck is going to happen to their mortgage, their kids' education, etc. ? The greatest Governments such as the Greek one had philosophers at the top, getting fed grapes whilst in a reclining chair. American capitalistic culture is like rats running around in a maze, listen to what Maddona is saying.
What I'm saying is that even the stupidly rich will find some way to waste their money, here I saw a documentary I lost a million, I think you should watch it, it's very enlightening.
I wanted to bring attention to the repressive gambling companies there (relevant to the current article). I remember that cleaner who was fired for no reason, and they refused to let her keep the uniform so she climbed onto the top of the building to commit suicide. There's an American-style dream of the nice benevolent millionaire that shows compassion towards employees. This is just one of the many dreams shattered by the documentary.
In the US you *have* a house, a car, etc. And if somebody burned down your house and stole your car, and the insurance company found a technicality e.g. Act of God to weasel out of paying, how would you pay $1million for the lawyers to contest it? If no win no fee then to get paid back for your house you have to pay a fee of >$50,000. Having stuff creates anxiety, if you look at the poor Cambodians, they sleep in the open and when they lose their jobs they go into the forest and eat leeches with noodles. If they're lucky they can catch soldier ants and eat them.
In our lives we *assume* our car will still be there, we *assume* our house wouldn't have burnt down, we *assume* our water tank hasn't burst soaking our hard drives, even linux cannot withstand an hard disk underwater. All these assumptions to maintain our normal lives is OK by our higher consciousness, but on a subconscious level we know these events can occur, causing a subconscious anxiety that our higher consciousness cannot understand, causing more unhappiness if you rely on more stuff.
I put it to you that when driving was for fun, you enjoyed it, but when you had to get to work by 9am, and so became dependent on your car, you suddenly stopped enjoying it making yourself less happy because it's out of your control.
No you won't be satisfied with more money because you'll buy a bigger house with a bigger mortgage, and your new friends would expect you to maintain this inflated wealth indefinitely, your lifestyle will also change to adapt, expensive foods, etc. Then when you again reach equilibrium, you'll look down and see that there is further that you can fall and much more that you can lose. This makes you more anxious and unhappy when earning more.
Maybe we should lie to homebuyers and say, "Yeah, with interest rates at 20% your mortgage payments will be yada yada" then we'll have a solid recovery instead of a credit card-induced recovery.
MESSAGE TO ALL AMERICANS - you are poor only if you have sold your only car, and have to buy discounted groceries from WalMart because the fresh stuff is too expensive. Just a reality check for you, this is how we live in the rest of the world.