So you claim that the US is inept in a way no other country on Earth is? Because all developed countries have health care roughly as good as ours or better, and they all spend a lot less. I'm not talking about Denmark here. I'm talking abut the UK and Japan and Switzerland and Germany and....
Why do you think I'd be in favor of taxing for infrastructure projects that don't happen? I've been against ones that did. In reality, some municipalities have set up reasonably efficient and very useful networks, which is getting value for one's money.
Anti-science typically means anti-science-that-doesn't-involve-killing-people-and-breaking-stuff. Declining empires tend to hang on to military capability for a long time.
Speaking as an amateur grammar pedant, one meaning of "intensive" is "closely focused". It is therefore impossible for something to be for all intensive purposes, since large numbers of tightly focused purposes don't overlap.
The only people who watch the FBI warnings are those who have acquired the content legitimately. This sort of crap means that what I pay for is of inferior quality to what I (hypthetically) torrent from pirate sites.
I'm willing to pay money to watch TV without ads, or if I don't want to pay, or am not allowed, I'll do something else with my leisure time. I can't take it anymore. There's enough on Amazon Prime without ads that I can watch all I want.
Considering how many people they entertain, professional sports stars make reasonable amounts of money. Back when I paid attention to it, maybe twenty years ago, the cost of salaries in Major League Baseball was surprisingly low, about 50%.
To the extent that baseball games have mandatory minimum inning breaks, and the length of a game has increased considerably since, say, the 1940s without more happening. The fan at the stadium suffers from the commercials through a slower game.
Municipal broadband has gotten lots of people decent access, and has pushed private ISPs to do better. They're pretty much the same as municipal roads, sewers, water, gas, electricity, and telephone service, which are usually performed by the municipality or a private company under supervision. I assume you consider these to be handouts to special interest groups, public sector unions, construction companies, and privilege and wealthy residents.
I'm fine with you having to negotiate with all your neighbors to be able to drive off your property, get electricity, and especially connect to the internet.
I'm OK with the Danegeld if they make it legal for a bunch of us to put on helmets and pick up swords and attack the corporate offices. That's the traditional way to deal with Danegeld.
Trump does seem to be strongly in favor of government by the corporations for the corporations, particularly his corporations. He's working on dismantling things that corporations find annoying, like environmental regulation.
It's more a matter of looking reasonably young than being young. I found that dying my hair to get the white out improved my offer-to-interview ratio tremendously.
If your employer figures on a 40-hour work week, salary works very well. It leaves you open to exploitation, but if you don't actually get exploited that's not a big deal. I make lots of commitments that could blow up on me if things went really bad.
You can measure the contributions of top actors and top sports players. If they tank, they get fired and lose their income once all their contracts run out.
CEOs can and do take companies down, often being allowed to stay when they're doing badly or given large amounts of money to leave, and many of them find other jobs as executives for lots of money.
A good CEO is very valuable and worth lots of compensation. I've seen enough companies tank where I figured I could do as good a job of running it into the ground, and I'd be cheaper.
Even borrowing on a 0% car loan is just a bad habit, best avoided.
Right now, I'm making significantly over 0% on my investments. I could get enough cash to cover my car purchase easily, but then it wouldn't earn anything, and would cost me maybe $1.5K. And here everyone keeps telling me to get good habits to have more money, not bad habits.
What people who talk like that have to offer is literally every goddam health care plan for every goddam developed country except the US. Any of them. People complain about the F-35 program, maybe a trillion and a half over ten years. Reducing per capita health care costs to the second most expensive in the world would save more than the entire F-35 program in two years (2014 figures). Our health statistics are mediocre, and our costs are outrageous.
If you're absolutely, positively, sure that you'll never suffer a noticeable illness or injury, you may be able to do better under the US "system" than some others. (Of course, government spending on health care is comparable to total health care costs in some countries that aren't doing that badly, so maybe not.)
If they're much poorer, they may be in a position where savings are going to be wiped out somehow, so it may make sense to spend it while they have it, as long as they can manage to deal with the odd hiccup.
Not that I agree that having children is a good idea....there are plenty enough to go around already.
If everyone takes your advice, there won't be. Your lifestyle in your old age depends vitally on people having sufficient children now, and US birth rates are under replacement level. Nothing wrong with not having kids if you don't want, but at least recognize that you will depend on other people having them.
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So you claim that the US is inept in a way no other country on Earth is? Because all developed countries have health care roughly as good as ours or better, and they all spend a lot less. I'm not talking about Denmark here. I'm talking abut the UK and Japan and Switzerland and Germany and....
What part of what I said was a lie?
Why do you think I'd be in favor of taxing for infrastructure projects that don't happen? I've been against ones that did. In reality, some municipalities have set up reasonably efficient and very useful networks, which is getting value for one's money.
I think the next big discovery is a lot less likely to come from the US than it was a few years ago.
So, as long as something is sleazy, it gets to break the rules? I'd think that we'd have to hold such enterprises to the rules more strictly.
You're blaming the victim.
Anti-science typically means anti-science-that-doesn't-involve-killing-people-and-breaking-stuff. Declining empires tend to hang on to military capability for a long time.
Speaking as an amateur grammar pedant, one meaning of "intensive" is "closely focused". It is therefore impossible for something to be for all intensive purposes, since large numbers of tightly focused purposes don't overlap.
Should I consider going pro?
The only people who watch the FBI warnings are those who have acquired the content legitimately. This sort of crap means that what I pay for is of inferior quality to what I (hypthetically) torrent from pirate sites.
I'm willing to pay money to watch TV without ads, or if I don't want to pay, or am not allowed, I'll do something else with my leisure time. I can't take it anymore. There's enough on Amazon Prime without ads that I can watch all I want.
Considering how many people they entertain, professional sports stars make reasonable amounts of money. Back when I paid attention to it, maybe twenty years ago, the cost of salaries in Major League Baseball was surprisingly low, about 50%.
To the extent that baseball games have mandatory minimum inning breaks, and the length of a game has increased considerably since, say, the 1940s without more happening. The fan at the stadium suffers from the commercials through a slower game.
Municipal broadband has gotten lots of people decent access, and has pushed private ISPs to do better. They're pretty much the same as municipal roads, sewers, water, gas, electricity, and telephone service, which are usually performed by the municipality or a private company under supervision. I assume you consider these to be handouts to special interest groups, public sector unions, construction companies, and privilege and wealthy residents.
I'm fine with you having to negotiate with all your neighbors to be able to drive off your property, get electricity, and especially connect to the internet.
I'm OK with the Danegeld if they make it legal for a bunch of us to put on helmets and pick up swords and attack the corporate offices. That's the traditional way to deal with Danegeld.
Trump does seem to be strongly in favor of government by the corporations for the corporations, particularly his corporations. He's working on dismantling things that corporations find annoying, like environmental regulation.
One of life's ironies: it's often hard to actually work at your workspace during working hours. This wouldn't happen in a rational world.
It's more a matter of looking reasonably young than being young. I found that dying my hair to get the white out improved my offer-to-interview ratio tremendously.
It's not necessarily a matter of crack-the-whip. Having separate physical environments for work and non-work is useful in keeping the two straight.
I can keep focused on work for one day at home, no problem. It gets to be an effort on the second day, and I haven't tried three days straight. YMMV.
We found it useful to have a designated periodic time when we needed to straighten up.
If your employer figures on a 40-hour work week, salary works very well. It leaves you open to exploitation, but if you don't actually get exploited that's not a big deal. I make lots of commitments that could blow up on me if things went really bad.
You can measure the contributions of top actors and top sports players. If they tank, they get fired and lose their income once all their contracts run out.
CEOs can and do take companies down, often being allowed to stay when they're doing badly or given large amounts of money to leave, and many of them find other jobs as executives for lots of money.
A good CEO is very valuable and worth lots of compensation. I've seen enough companies tank where I figured I could do as good a job of running it into the ground, and I'd be cheaper.
Right now, I'm making significantly over 0% on my investments. I could get enough cash to cover my car purchase easily, but then it wouldn't earn anything, and would cost me maybe $1.5K. And here everyone keeps telling me to get good habits to have more money, not bad habits.
What people who talk like that have to offer is literally every goddam health care plan for every goddam developed country except the US. Any of them. People complain about the F-35 program, maybe a trillion and a half over ten years. Reducing per capita health care costs to the second most expensive in the world would save more than the entire F-35 program in two years (2014 figures). Our health statistics are mediocre, and our costs are outrageous.
If you're absolutely, positively, sure that you'll never suffer a noticeable illness or injury, you may be able to do better under the US "system" than some others. (Of course, government spending on health care is comparable to total health care costs in some countries that aren't doing that badly, so maybe not.)
To put a geek spin on this, it's like making sure to profile before optimizing software.
If they're much poorer, they may be in a position where savings are going to be wiped out somehow, so it may make sense to spend it while they have it, as long as they can manage to deal with the odd hiccup.
If everyone takes your advice, there won't be. Your lifestyle in your old age depends vitally on people having sufficient children now, and US birth rates are under replacement level. Nothing wrong with not having kids if you don't want, but at least recognize that you will depend on other people having them.