Wow, are you ever a puppet of the leftist press. Various Arab groups have been lobbing explosives into Israel on a daily basis for over a generation, and when the Israelis fight back, they're the bad guys? Take off your blinders.
It takes 2 sides to have a war, and in most cases it is started by one side. Starting the war is usually the vile act, the other side is faced with the alternatives of fighting back or being [killed, pillaged, raped, enslaved, etc.]. To equate initiating conflict with defending oneself, as you are doing, is a foul and vicious act.
Where I live, new roads (limited access highways excepted) are put in by developers and may eventually be turned over to the town for maintenance and snow plowing. Historically, except for the post roads, roads were just paths between towns and farms, that towns and counties improved as traffic increased. The idea that roads generally were built by governments is a fantasy from people who weren't there when it happened and can't imagine anything but government building roads.
Just as for centuries it has been the policy of the Roman Catholic church to promote free speech when they are not in power and to oppose free speech when it rules, it was the policy of the left to promote free speech in the 1960s when they did not yet quite control most universities and to oppose free speech now that they have an iron grip on most schools.
If the freedom to make non-intrusive political speech is not absolute, it does not exist.
During the last 6 months I've heard numerous cases where mainstream broadcast media not only took statements out of context, but deliberately did tight editing to remove words and phrases that completely changed the meaning of sentences. Without exception, these edits were done to slander Republicans and conservatives.
The US gov't should be heavily taxing food this unhealthy or subsidizing food that is healthy. Neither of these is happening, and it's fucking ridiculous.
Fascism: a political and economic system in which property is privately owned in name only, but is controlled by the government.
People like treats occasionally, and Hostess had the recipe. Hostess cupcakes are a delight. The most recognizable competitor where I live is "Little Debbie", whose cupcakes are piles of chocolate goo.
The Hostess snacks can only be considered unhealthy if eaten in excess. It is not the case that their products were concentrated poison. Someone would have noticed the corpses.
If you are worth much more than you're being paid and your employer refuses to pay you what you want, you either take what you're offered or get work elsewhere. If you're an honest man, you do not join a gang of thugs and shut the company down.
I believe the legal term is that each side in a contract must receive a "valuable consideration". There is no legal prohibition on unreasonable or "unfair" contracts. An executive is providing the value of his leadership.
If you want to examine contracts with no valuable consideration, you might look into Michelle Obama's no-show hospital job, although it could be argued she was providing political pull.
A competent person would take the job without the parachute, and that's the only sort of person the Board of Directors should hire. The BoD and the hedge funds that own Hostess were self-destructive in their failure to do that. Almost as self-destructive as a union.
There are company leaders who refuse raises (Peter Drucker) and employees, myself included, who have told their employer "I'm earning enough, I don't need a raise like this."
401Ks are a vastly superior alternative. Pensions are dependent upon a company's success, and unless the pension is completely out of the control of the company (and it never is), the pensioner is completely dependent on the company not folding or raiding the pension fund. Pensions are an anachronism. Most 401Ks have options that allow at least some employee control of the account, which allows the account owner to steer money away from obviously defective investments.
We're not too far away from the ultimate limit of smallness on all semiconductor technologies: single atom scale. Flash will stop improving then. More importantly, flash has two important defects: slow write time and an inherent wearout mechanism. So the ultimate (i.e.30 year) question is "can magnetic RAM cells be economically made about the same size as flash?" If the answer is yes, flash becomes obsolete.
Bright people, if they think things through, don't destroy less intelligent folks who can make the lives of the brighter folk better. If America is surpassed by a country with a superior system and more intelligent people, who loses? (Ans: nobody). There's no rational reason, in that case, why America should "fall".
There are at least two reasons why your "20 hour work week" puerile fantasy can't come about, and it's not "the leaching plutocratic class."
About 40% of the people who can work don't, by choice more often than not. Their failure to produce means that others must work harder just to survive. Goodies don't just miraculously fall out of the sky, people have to work to make them.
More importantly, people like myself think their lives are worth much more than to spend a mere 20 hours a week working. We recognize that "life is what you make it", that you get out what you put in, and we intend to get a lot. And the person who comes along and says of the results of my productive effort "you shouldn't have that, you plutocrat" deserves a bullet through his skull.
In the United States, you do not "control of others' labor". If you think someone who works as a janitor is in the same "socio-economic class" as "a person doing engineering or medicine for $100k salary" -- well, the sentence is self-contradictory because you're not thinking. Manual labor bears very little relation to mental production.
To the extent that "socio-economic class" is a valid concept in the US, it is determined by the long-term ability to spend money. The source of the money, as long as it is not immoral (e.g. Mafia hit man) is irrelevant. In particular, anyone who has saved money and put it into an interest-bearing account (or invested it) starts to earn money from property, and that includes most people.
All things in human experience have causes, including the outliers. Discovering and identifying the causes makes it easier to increase the number of valuable outliers, and to show that the trend is not a trap. It is your sort of negative thinking that condemns millions of Americans to poverty.
The shame is that the two successes mentioned in this thread are a rapist and a Fascist.
Everything exists in a context. Your refusal to recognize that makes it really easy for you to smear things you don't like. You're going to have a lot of bitterness in your life if you don't develop a more realistic attitude.
That's because people learn their mental attitudes from their parents much more thoroughly than is ever acknowledged. Guilt as a mental attitude, addictive behavior, perseverance, honesty, irritating personality quirks, all sorts of factors that spell out failure or success can serve as invisible factors in a person's life. These factors seldom show up in measures of "merit", but many of them can directly affect a person's ability to succeed.
electricity companies bill you on the number of Volt-Amps * Time used
WRONG. Electric companies bill on watt-hours or other equivalent units of energy. Although large users of electricity may be charged penalties if the power factor is bad (V*A>>W), the basis is energy, not volt-amps*time.
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Wow, are you ever a puppet of the leftist press. Various Arab groups have been lobbing explosives into Israel on a daily basis for over a generation, and when the Israelis fight back, they're the bad guys? Take off your blinders.
It takes 2 sides to have a war, and in most cases it is started by one side. Starting the war is usually the vile act, the other side is faced with the alternatives of fighting back or being [killed, pillaged, raped, enslaved, etc.]. To equate initiating conflict with defending oneself, as you are doing, is a foul and vicious act.
Where I live, new roads (limited access highways excepted) are put in by developers and may eventually be turned over to the town for maintenance and snow plowing. Historically, except for the post roads, roads were just paths between towns and farms, that towns and counties improved as traffic increased. The idea that roads generally were built by governments is a fantasy from people who weren't there when it happened and can't imagine anything but government building roads.
Call out the thought police, you are intentionally causing me emotional harm by charging me with intending to cause emotional harm.
Just as for centuries it has been the policy of the Roman Catholic church to promote free speech when they are not in power and to oppose free speech when it rules, it was the policy of the left to promote free speech in the 1960s when they did not yet quite control most universities and to oppose free speech now that they have an iron grip on most schools.
If the freedom to make non-intrusive political speech is not absolute, it does not exist.
During the last 6 months I've heard numerous cases where mainstream broadcast media not only took statements out of context, but deliberately did tight editing to remove words and phrases that completely changed the meaning of sentences. Without exception, these edits were done to slander Republicans and conservatives.
Need I remind you that on the scale of evil to good, good is an extreme?
Fascism: a political and economic system in which property is privately owned in name only, but is controlled by the government.
People like treats occasionally, and Hostess had the recipe. Hostess cupcakes are a delight. The most recognizable competitor where I live is "Little Debbie", whose cupcakes are piles of chocolate goo.
The Hostess snacks can only be considered unhealthy if eaten in excess. It is not the case that their products were concentrated poison. Someone would have noticed the corpses.
If you are worth much more than you're being paid and your employer refuses to pay you what you want, you either take what you're offered or get work elsewhere. If you're an honest man, you do not join a gang of thugs and shut the company down.
I believe the legal term is that each side in a contract must receive a "valuable consideration". There is no legal prohibition on unreasonable or "unfair" contracts. An executive is providing the value of his leadership.
If you want to examine contracts with no valuable consideration, you might look into Michelle Obama's no-show hospital job, although it could be argued she was providing political pull.
A competent person would take the job without the parachute, and that's the only sort of person the Board of Directors should hire. The BoD and the hedge funds that own Hostess were self-destructive in their failure to do that. Almost as self-destructive as a union.
There are company leaders who refuse raises (Peter Drucker) and employees, myself included, who have told their employer "I'm earning enough, I don't need a raise like this."
401Ks are a vastly superior alternative. Pensions are dependent upon a company's success, and unless the pension is completely out of the control of the company (and it never is), the pensioner is completely dependent on the company not folding or raiding the pension fund. Pensions are an anachronism. Most 401Ks have options that allow at least some employee control of the account, which allows the account owner to steer money away from obviously defective investments.
We're not too far away from the ultimate limit of smallness on all semiconductor technologies: single atom scale. Flash will stop improving then. More importantly, flash has two important defects: slow write time and an inherent wearout mechanism. So the ultimate (i.e.30 year) question is "can magnetic RAM cells be economically made about the same size as flash?" If the answer is yes, flash becomes obsolete.
Provide only half the result image. Student has to take whole source image and process it to create complete result image.
That's what inferior means in that context.
Bright people, if they think things through, don't destroy less intelligent folks who can make the lives of the brighter folk better. If America is surpassed by a country with a superior system and more intelligent people, who loses? (Ans: nobody). There's no rational reason, in that case, why America should "fall".
In the United States, you do not "control of others' labor". If you think someone who works as a janitor is in the same "socio-economic class" as "a person doing engineering or medicine for $100k salary" -- well, the sentence is self-contradictory because you're not thinking. Manual labor bears very little relation to mental production.
To the extent that "socio-economic class" is a valid concept in the US, it is determined by the long-term ability to spend money. The source of the money, as long as it is not immoral (e.g. Mafia hit man) is irrelevant. In particular, anyone who has saved money and put it into an interest-bearing account (or invested it) starts to earn money from property, and that includes most people.
All things in human experience have causes, including the outliers. Discovering and identifying the causes makes it easier to increase the number of valuable outliers, and to show that the trend is not a trap. It is your sort of negative thinking that condemns millions of Americans to poverty.
The shame is that the two successes mentioned in this thread are a rapist and a Fascist.
Everything exists in a context. Your refusal to recognize that makes it really easy for you to smear things you don't like. You're going to have a lot of bitterness in your life if you don't develop a more realistic attitude.
But not on his virtues.
That's because people learn their mental attitudes from their parents much more thoroughly than is ever acknowledged. Guilt as a mental attitude, addictive behavior, perseverance, honesty, irritating personality quirks, all sorts of factors that spell out failure or success can serve as invisible factors in a person's life. These factors seldom show up in measures of "merit", but many of them can directly affect a person's ability to succeed.
I'd like to buy a few cubic inches of gold from you.
WRONG. Electric companies bill on watt-hours or other equivalent units of energy. Although large users of electricity may be charged penalties if the power factor is bad (V*A>>W), the basis is energy, not volt-amps*time.