Have you seen the replacement rates in Europe (both eastern and western)? They are well below the replacement rate (approx. 2.1 children/fertile woman), resulting in exponential population decay. By most projections, the muslim to non-muslim demographics in France are expected to flip within less than 50 years (and that's a conservative estimate). Terrorists don't need to do anything to prevent Europeans (and Canadians, Australians, etc.) from breeding; they are doing a very good job by themselves without any help.
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Terrorism is about threat, and continously emphasising that threat is only helping the terrorists.
Do you have any idea of how much financial loss occurred on 9/11 and the days following it? Do you have any idea what the worst case economic outcome could have been after 9/11? America is currently the engine of the world economy. Do you have any idea how much worse my life (and yours) would have become if the American economy had been hurt considerably? (By the way, I don't live in the US.)
This isn't about 3000+ New Yorkers being murdered in cold blood, this isn't even about the possibility of a million more Americans (a small percentage of the total population) being murdered in a similar fashion; this is about something far more important.
Coincidentally, the US' trade deficit continues to rise. Not surprising considering the only things still made in the US that other people want are shitty movies and software. With most of the software being replaced by open source software, and shitty American movies (and software) being openly pirated, you guys will have no source of revenue. You'll be stuck giving each other massages, suing each other, and selling houses to each other, all the while, allowing foreign nationals to amass large reserves of your currency. The idea of a service only economy (no manufacturing) combined with disdain for intellectual property rights, really doesn't leave you guys with anything to export.
As the saying goes, you've made your bed; I hope you enjoy sleeping in it.
I believe that is called giving consumers what they want (which, by the way, is how people tend to become rich). Politicians do the same thing, to a far more damaging extent.
Evolution and progress are hardly the same thing. Evolution is change that occurs due to selective pressures, resulting in individuals/creatures which are better suited to the environment in which they find themselves. Depending on the metric which you use, evolution may or may not result in "progress" e.g. when civilization crumbles, selective pressures will shift toward individuals who are able to survive under those conditions, which while progress in one way, probably means that the anorexic/obese computer nerd will no longer exist (probably not progress from another perspective).
Tell me, which America do you miss? Do you miss the America of the 17th century? The America of the 18th century? 19th century? 20th century? Or the America that existed for the brief period of time when Carter and Clinton were in office? Tell me which America you miss, I truly am interested.
By the way, America was Jesusland for longer than it was whatever it is you desire. To refer to America as Jesusland and to say that you miss "America" indicates very little knowledge of America (historic or otherwise.)
When was the last time you saw something pro-Bush or pro-Iraq on CNN? How much did the networks spend on Cindy? How much time did they spend trying to implicate Karl Rove in the CIA leak? How much time have they spent on New Orleans, and with what slant? When was the last time you heard the virtues of capitalism, individual freedoms, or individual responsibility extolled on TV?
Your political views are the way they are due to the input you receive from your media, etc. I doubt you just stumbled onto a book in the library one day and all of a sudden realized that America really is the great satan in-spite of everything you had seen or heard on TV. No, your view of the world was probably build up gradually.
The TV is a propaganda box; however, it does not carry the type of propaganda you think it does (which of course is the mark of truly great propagandists.)
If the consumer buys a product that has DRM in it, they get what they bought. The consumer always has the choice to not buy the DRM product (TV shows are not required to live). Similarly, they have the choice to only buy non-DRM products (if there is enough of a demand for these, someone will supply them). Basically, DRM gives the creator more control over whatever they create. The creator is not forced to use DRM in their product if they choose.
You are opposing giving content creators more choice in their distribution methods (and consumers as well, I suppose). I, on the other hand, am pro-choice.
Furthermore, if you do have such a problem with selfishness, I suggest giving up all those resources you are no doubt hoarding for yourself e.g. computer, TV, clothing, basically everything beside some clothing and the smallest amount of food required to keep yourself alive. Anything else (and I would like to see someone debate this) is pure selfishness (unless you have children, but even they are selfish objects born out of your selfish desire for sexual gratification and genetic propagation).
Impressive. Within a post consisting of only one word (no punctuation) and one url, you have managed to include two argumentum ad hominem: one against myself, and one against the source which I cited. Anyone familiar with logic and debate is well aware that ad hominem attacks are a logical fallacy.
Furthermore, the implication that TCS has a bias is blatantly self-evident. Bias can be measured on a cartesian plane ranging from unintentional to intentional on one axis and blatant to subtle on the other. The idea that large bodies of work lacking bias exist is a fairy tale, as all works will be placed somewhere on that cartesian plane of bias. TCS itself makes no dishonest attempt to hide their bias: their slogan clearly indicated that they are both pro-free market and pro-technology. If you doubt the existence of the "methane to markets" program, feel free to do a google search for that string; you will find many government websites and so forth validating its existence (of course, no amount of information can cure paranoia, so I cannot help you in that respect).
Anyways, if you truly believe that your parents, your kindergarten teachers, your high school teachers, mainstream media conglomerates, "bloggers," or any other information providers lack any bias, I dare say I pity you.
Feel free to come back when you have any logically sound arguments corroborated by empirical or scientific evidence.
We are rapidly approaching that point where the atmospheric CO2 levels are 100% HIGHER than the prior maximums over this time period. Levels of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, are approaching 1000% higher than any previous peak on record.
Sorry for another reply, but I forgot to make a point. When the Western economy implodes because the Western worker is uncompetitive, the West has no comparative advantage, and the Chinese can do everything better, faster, and cheaper, and Western socialism implodes, the environment is going to change rapidly to something far closer to "the natural way" and almost all of population is not going to be well adapted (much like the Dinosaurs) because of our reliance on high tech medicine. Evolution will correct this of course, but I certainly don't want to be around when that happens.
I live in Canada. I listen to the state owned TV station, state owned radio station, pay exorbitant taxes, go get my healthcare at public institutions because private ones are illegal (that's right), watch CNN because anything slightly to the right of it (e.g. Fox News I take it) was banned by our media overlords until last year, and will probably be banned again, read the Toronto Star, live under the Liberal Party (ultra-socialists), the NDP (ultra-ultra-socialists), the Bloc (regional ultra-socialists), and the Conservative Party (socialists), talk almost exclusively to rabid socialists, used to be a socialist myself (because I never heard an alternative viewpoint), etc.
Before coming to Canada, I used to live in a Socialist Republic in Eastern Europe. Anyways, sufficed to say, my life has always been dominated by socialists, and it's a constant chip on my shoulder.
Your story is very inspirational. Unfortunately, your kind are not well received here as you provide anecdotal evidence against the "capitalism makes baby Jesus cry" school of economic thought. Just a friendly warning. Keep up the good work though.
Sorry, I just noticed this: There is no welfare involved here. All parents mentioned here work and support themselves and their children (to the best of my knowledge).
Perhaps that is so (though I find it a bit dubious that no welfare was ever involved); however, they still probably benefit from Medicare, Medicaid (or whatever you guys have), not to mention minimum wage, not having to worry about saving for retirement because the government will do it for you (social security), goverment payments for having children, government payments for being single mothers, etc. The government has its grubby little fingers in everything, and just as it skews the free market, it also skews the gene pool.
Um... socialism keeps your janitor neighbour's 9 kids (raised by single mothers) alive. Without socialism, a lot of them would die, or they wouldn't even be born to begin with (the female body does not get pregnant if it does not have a certain level of nurishment). Without socialism, those successful or caring enough to care for their children would have their children survive, and those like your neighbour would have no children left.
Doesn't it seem kind of sick to you that the biggest selective pressure nowadays is being too stupid to know how to put a condom on, too insensitive to care, or too lazy to actually do it?
How the hell is human evolution slow compared to human lifetimes? If an epidemic spreads that has a 100% mortality rate unless you have the rare mutation that makes you immune to it, all the people without the mutation die instantly, leaving only those with what was previously a rare random mutation. Sure, other selective pressures may be a bit less apparent, but "survival of the fittest" is never slow. Each generation, only those properly adapted to their environment survive and go on to procreate. What exactly is slow about that?
If you can procreate and don't, you are an evolutionary dead end. It doesn't matter how good your own genes are; not procreating is the equivalent of being born completely sterile (so that even the best of modern medicine cannot help you get it on). In other words, you failed life (from a Darwinian perspective) because you never passed on your genes. Evolution is about the propagation of genes that are best suited to the current environment. No propagation, no evolution. If you have 1 child, and you take very good care of it and it survives to procreate, you and your child have succeded. If some other guy has 10 children, but they all die because he's a 'tard, you are more successful than he is; however, if you don't have any children, you are exactly as successful as he is (from a Darwinian perspective).
Take human A, living in a culture that prohibts birth control, who is also a lousy farmer. Loaded with testerstron, he soon has 10 kids. Because he sucks so bad at farming one year his harvest failes.
Then, liberals and international socialists in your goverment hear about this, use the money that they have aquired solely through the threat of force (taxation) from those who are skilled and motivated enough to generatate capital, and ship it pronto over there. All of human A's children survive, and he lives to have 10 more. Human B still has 1 kid because of the same reason as before, and he doesn't benefit from all the aid at all. Now, the population of this country is best suited to the environment you have created (taking handouts from the West) in accordance with the rules of Darwinism; however, now the West has to constantly feed these people because only 1/21 people can actually do anything besides live on Western welfare. When China kicks the economic feces out of the West and the West is no longer able to keep these people on life support, 20/21 of them would die; however, they will probably riot, kill the 1/21 of them who actually knows how to farm (the offspring of human B), and redistribute his wealth. Since they killed him and took all his wealth, he is no longer able to generate any more wealth, and the economy now becomes a zero sum game because it consists solely of parasites.
Sad but probably true. It always amazes me that liberals and socialists are so passionate about having evolution taught in the public indoctrination centers (schools) but then never bother to apply the principles of evolution to anything. Knowledge which is never applied is useless. (Much like good genes that are never passed on.)
Currently it looks like rescuers and relief workers couldn't reach the city because they were being SHOT at! We need to revisit our quarantine-and-forget method of dealing with the poor. I bet that there is a sociologist somewhere nodding his head knowingly as he watches the events unfold on TV.
If someone owns (whether through purchase or theft) a firearm and ammunition for it, they are not poor. The actual poor don't have weapons with which to hurt people and don't attack other people (especially those trying to help) anyways because they are too busy dieing from starvation.
Anyways, the best way to deal with "the poor" is to give them access to "free" (subsidized) education, and teach them that they were provided with everything that they needed to be successful and if they aren't, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Instead, you keep giving them fish, but never teaching them how to get their own bloody fish (to use a cliche). You blame all their problems on yourself, and create a culture of hatred and blame instead of one of self-reliance, self-determination, and emancipation.
They will be a force to be reckoned with, sure, but won't be too interested in anything beyond their thousands-of-years-old sphere of influence.
This is allegedly a speech given by Chi Haotian, "China's Minister of Defense and vice-chairman of China's Central Military Commission." I suggest you read it. Choice quotes are:
"Specifically, the following are the fundamental causes for the defeat of Germany and Japan: First, they had too many enemies all at once, as they did not adhere to the principle of eliminating enemies one at a time; second, they were too impetuous, lacking the patience and perseverance required for great accomplishments; third, when the time came for them to be ruthless, they turned out to be too soft, therefore leaving troubles that resurfaced later on."
"Our Chinese people are wiser than the Germans because, fundamentally, our race is superior to theirs."
"The first issue is living space. This is the biggest focus of the revitalization of the Chinese race."
"Our economic development is all about preparing for the need of war! Publicly we still emphasize economic development as our center, but in reality, economic development has war as its center! We have made a tremendous effort to construct "The Great Wall Project" to build up, along our coastal and land frontiers as well as around large and medium-sized cities, a solid underground "Great Wall" that can withstand a nuclear war."
"Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space? First, if the United States is firm in blocking us, it is hard for us to do anything significant to Taiwan and some other countries! Second, even if we could snatch some land from Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or even Japan, how much more living space can we get? Very trivial! Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization.Therefore, solving the "issue of America" is the key to solving all other issues. First, this makes it possible for us to have many people migrate there and even establish another China under the same leadership of the CCP. America was originally discovered by the ancestors of the yellow race, but Columbus gave credit to the white race. We the descendents of the Chinese nation are entitled to the possession of the land! It is said that the residents of the yellow race have a very low social status in United States. We need to liberate them.Second, after solving the "issue of America," the western countries in Europe would bow to us, not to mention to Taiwan, Japan and other small countries. Therefore, solving the "issue of America" is the mission assigned to CCP members by history."
"Only by using special means to "clean up" America will we be able to lead the Chinese people there. This is the only choice left for us."
"When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us, the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity to make the right decision not to develop aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on developing lethal weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy country. "
"We must prepare ourselves for two scenarios. If our biological weapons succeed in the surprise attack [on the United States, the Chinese people will be able to keep their losses at a minimum in the fight against the United States."
"It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the world."
"Now, when I am about to finish my speech, you probably understand why we conducted this online survey. Simply put, through conducting this online survey we wanted to know whether the people would rise against us if one day we secretly adopt resolute means to "clean up" America. Would more people support us o
"why is it that people perceive the Japanese as more efficient than Americans?"
Here's an article that describes the situation.
A good quote:
"The paradox was that in the 90s stories on the front pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist were all about how the Japanese manufacturing industries through trade were driving US manufacturing industries into the ground and virtually wiping them out. And of course that did happen in consumer electronics -- the US basically got out entirely in the consumer electronics business. And the steel industry and the automobile industry came very close to being bankrupt, although not all companies in those industries were in that shape. But the industries themselves as a whole were in very bad shape because of, in large part, competition from Japan, which was able to deliver high quality products at lower costs -- yet the GDP per capita numbers at purchasing power parity exchange rates show that GDP per capita in Japan was roughly 30 percent below the US. So how could this be? And the only way to understand that is to look at the productivity of individual industries in Japan.
What we found is that Japan has a dual economy. Yes, it does have some selected manufacturing industries that have high productivity, much higher than the corresponding US industries and in fact they have the highest productivity in their industries of any country in the world.
And yet, the traded part of an economy is always a tiny fraction of the total GDP. A rule of thumb is that it's roughly at most 15 percent of the GDP.
So what that says is that the standard of living is determined because the productivity of the country is determined by what happens outside these traded goods. Productivity of a country in total -- the average productivity -- is the average productivity of every single worker. So in that sense, every worker is equally important. If you have low productivity in the non traded parts of manufacturing and in the huge domestic service industry -- such as retailing and housing construction and so on -- you are going to have low average productivity even though you may have a handful of industries like automotive and machine tools and steel where you have the highest productivity in the world."
Japan had a population roughly equal to half that of the US. In order for Japan to surpass the US, the average Japanese citizen would have to be twice as efficient as the average US citizen.
China has a population roughly equal to four times that of the US. In order for China to surpass the US, the average Chinese citizen would have to be one quarter as efficient as the average US citizen.
Now, do you have any reason to believe that the average Chinese citizen cannot be one quarter as efficient as the average American? Now imagine what will happen when the average Chinese citizen is as efficient as the average American. Then, imagine what will happen if/when the average Chinese citizen becomes as efficient as the average Japanese.
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Plus evil.google.com would probably be in beta for a very long time.
Have you seen the replacement rates in Europe (both eastern and western)? They are well below the replacement rate (approx. 2.1 children/fertile woman), resulting in exponential population decay. By most projections, the muslim to non-muslim demographics in France are expected to flip within less than 50 years (and that's a conservative estimate). Terrorists don't need to do anything to prevent Europeans (and Canadians, Australians, etc.) from breeding; they are doing a very good job by themselves without any help.
Terrorism is about threat, and continously emphasising that threat is only helping the terrorists.
Do you have any idea of how much financial loss occurred on 9/11 and the days following it? Do you have any idea what the worst case economic outcome could have been after 9/11? America is currently the engine of the world economy. Do you have any idea how much worse my life (and yours) would have become if the American economy had been hurt considerably? (By the way, I don't live in the US.)
This isn't about 3000+ New Yorkers being murdered in cold blood, this isn't even about the possibility of a million more Americans (a small percentage of the total population) being murdered in a similar fashion; this is about something far more important.
Coincidentally, the US' trade deficit continues to rise. Not surprising considering the only things still made in the US that other people want are shitty movies and software. With most of the software being replaced by open source software, and shitty American movies (and software) being openly pirated, you guys will have no source of revenue. You'll be stuck giving each other massages, suing each other, and selling houses to each other, all the while, allowing foreign nationals to amass large reserves of your currency. The idea of a service only economy (no manufacturing) combined with disdain for intellectual property rights, really doesn't leave you guys with anything to export.
As the saying goes, you've made your bed; I hope you enjoy sleeping in it.
pander to the idiotic mainstream thinking
I believe that is called giving consumers what they want (which, by the way, is how people tend to become rich). Politicians do the same thing, to a far more damaging extent.
prevent evolution (read: progress)
Evolution and progress are hardly the same thing. Evolution is change that occurs due to selective pressures, resulting in individuals/creatures which are better suited to the environment in which they find themselves. Depending on the metric which you use, evolution may or may not result in "progress" e.g. when civilization crumbles, selective pressures will shift toward individuals who are able to survive under those conditions, which while progress in one way, probably means that the anorexic/obese computer nerd will no longer exist (probably not progress from another perspective).
Tell me, which America do you miss? Do you miss the America of the 17th century? The America of the 18th century? 19th century? 20th century? Or the America that existed for the brief period of time when Carter and Clinton were in office? Tell me which America you miss, I truly am interested.
By the way, America was Jesusland for longer than it was whatever it is you desire. To refer to America as Jesusland and to say that you miss "America" indicates very little knowledge of America (historic or otherwise.)
When was the last time you saw something pro-Bush or pro-Iraq on CNN? How much did the networks spend on Cindy? How much time did they spend trying to implicate Karl Rove in the CIA leak? How much time have they spent on New Orleans, and with what slant? When was the last time you heard the virtues of capitalism, individual freedoms, or individual responsibility extolled on TV?
Your political views are the way they are due to the input you receive from your media, etc. I doubt you just stumbled onto a book in the library one day and all of a sudden realized that America really is the great satan in-spite of everything you had seen or heard on TV. No, your view of the world was probably build up gradually.
The TV is a propaganda box; however, it does not carry the type of propaganda you think it does (which of course is the mark of truly great propagandists.)
If the consumer buys a product that has DRM in it, they get what they bought. The consumer always has the choice to not buy the DRM product (TV shows are not required to live). Similarly, they have the choice to only buy non-DRM products (if there is enough of a demand for these, someone will supply them). Basically, DRM gives the creator more control over whatever they create. The creator is not forced to use DRM in their product if they choose.
You are opposing giving content creators more choice in their distribution methods (and consumers as well, I suppose). I, on the other hand, am pro-choice.
Furthermore, if you do have such a problem with selfishness, I suggest giving up all those resources you are no doubt hoarding for yourself e.g. computer, TV, clothing, basically everything beside some clothing and the smallest amount of food required to keep yourself alive. Anything else (and I would like to see someone debate this) is pure selfishness (unless you have children, but even they are selfish objects born out of your selfish desire for sexual gratification and genetic propagation).
Impressive. Within a post consisting of only one word (no punctuation) and one url, you have managed to include two argumentum ad hominem: one against myself, and one against the source which I cited. Anyone familiar with logic and debate is well aware that ad hominem attacks are a logical fallacy.
Furthermore, the implication that TCS has a bias is blatantly self-evident. Bias can be measured on a cartesian plane ranging from unintentional to intentional on one axis and blatant to subtle on the other. The idea that large bodies of work lacking bias exist is a fairy tale, as all works will be placed somewhere on that cartesian plane of bias. TCS itself makes no dishonest attempt to hide their bias: their slogan clearly indicated that they are both pro-free market and pro-technology. If you doubt the existence of the "methane to markets" program, feel free to do a google search for that string; you will find many government websites and so forth validating its existence (of course, no amount of information can cure paranoia, so I cannot help you in that respect).
Anyways, if you truly believe that your parents, your kindergarten teachers, your high school teachers, mainstream media conglomerates, "bloggers," or any other information providers lack any bias, I dare say I pity you.
Feel free to come back when you have any logically sound arguments corroborated by empirical or scientific evidence.
We are rapidly approaching that point where the atmospheric CO2 levels are 100% HIGHER than the prior maximums over this time period.
Levels of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, are approaching 1000% higher than any previous peak on record.
Oh, well in that case, it's a good thing the Bush administration has a plan to significantly reduce the amount of methane being released into the atmosphere.
What's that you say? You haven't heard about this on the BBC, CBC, NPR, CNN or even FOX News? How interesting.
Sorry for another reply, but I forgot to make a point. When the Western economy implodes because the Western worker is uncompetitive, the West has no comparative advantage, and the Chinese can do everything better, faster, and cheaper, and Western socialism implodes, the environment is going to change rapidly to something far closer to "the natural way" and almost all of population is not going to be well adapted (much like the Dinosaurs) because of our reliance on high tech medicine. Evolution will correct this of course, but I certainly don't want to be around when that happens.
I live in Canada. I listen to the state owned TV station, state owned radio station, pay exorbitant taxes, go get my healthcare at public institutions because private ones are illegal (that's right), watch CNN because anything slightly to the right of it (e.g. Fox News I take it) was banned by our media overlords until last year, and will probably be banned again, read the Toronto Star, live under the Liberal Party (ultra-socialists), the NDP (ultra-ultra-socialists), the Bloc (regional ultra-socialists), and the Conservative Party (socialists), talk almost exclusively to rabid socialists, used to be a socialist myself (because I never heard an alternative viewpoint), etc.
Before coming to Canada, I used to live in a Socialist Republic in Eastern Europe. Anyways, sufficed to say, my life has always been dominated by socialists, and it's a constant chip on my shoulder.
Your story is very inspirational. Unfortunately, your kind are not well received here as you provide anecdotal evidence against the "capitalism makes baby Jesus cry" school of economic thought. Just a friendly warning. Keep up the good work though.
Sorry, I just noticed this:
There is no welfare involved here. All parents mentioned here work and support themselves and their children (to the best of my knowledge).
Perhaps that is so (though I find it a bit dubious that no welfare was ever involved); however, they still probably benefit from Medicare, Medicaid (or whatever you guys have), not to mention minimum wage, not having to worry about saving for retirement because the government will do it for you (social security), goverment payments for having children, government payments for being single mothers, etc. The government has its grubby little fingers in everything, and just as it skews the free market, it also skews the gene pool.
Um... socialism keeps your janitor neighbour's 9 kids (raised by single mothers) alive. Without socialism, a lot of them would die, or they wouldn't even be born to begin with (the female body does not get pregnant if it does not have a certain level of nurishment). Without socialism, those successful or caring enough to care for their children would have their children survive, and those like your neighbour would have no children left.
Doesn't it seem kind of sick to you that the biggest selective pressure nowadays is being too stupid to know how to put a condom on, too insensitive to care, or too lazy to actually do it?
How the hell is human evolution slow compared to human lifetimes? If an epidemic spreads that has a 100% mortality rate unless you have the rare mutation that makes you immune to it, all the people without the mutation die instantly, leaving only those with what was previously a rare random mutation. Sure, other selective pressures may be a bit less apparent, but "survival of the fittest" is never slow. Each generation, only those properly adapted to their environment survive and go on to procreate. What exactly is slow about that?
If you can procreate and don't, you are an evolutionary dead end. It doesn't matter how good your own genes are; not procreating is the equivalent of being born completely sterile (so that even the best of modern medicine cannot help you get it on). In other words, you failed life (from a Darwinian perspective) because you never passed on your genes. Evolution is about the propagation of genes that are best suited to the current environment. No propagation, no evolution. If you have 1 child, and you take very good care of it and it survives to procreate, you and your child have succeded. If some other guy has 10 children, but they all die because he's a 'tard, you are more successful than he is; however, if you don't have any children, you are exactly as successful as he is (from a Darwinian perspective).
Take human A, living in a culture that prohibts birth control, who is also a lousy farmer. Loaded with testerstron, he soon has 10 kids. Because he sucks so bad at farming one year his harvest failes.
Then, liberals and international socialists in your goverment hear about this, use the money that they have aquired solely through the threat of force (taxation) from those who are skilled and motivated enough to generatate capital, and ship it pronto over there. All of human A's children survive, and he lives to have 10 more. Human B still has 1 kid because of the same reason as before, and he doesn't benefit from all the aid at all. Now, the population of this country is best suited to the environment you have created (taking handouts from the West) in accordance with the rules of Darwinism; however, now the West has to constantly feed these people because only 1/21 people can actually do anything besides live on Western welfare. When China kicks the economic feces out of the West and the West is no longer able to keep these people on life support, 20/21 of them would die; however, they will probably riot, kill the 1/21 of them who actually knows how to farm (the offspring of human B), and redistribute his wealth. Since they killed him and took all his wealth, he is no longer able to generate any more wealth, and the economy now becomes a zero sum game because it consists solely of parasites.
Sad but probably true. It always amazes me that liberals and socialists are so passionate about having evolution taught in the public indoctrination centers (schools) but then never bother to apply the principles of evolution to anything. Knowledge which is never applied is useless. (Much like good genes that are never passed on.)
Only if you think a Mac Shuffle will be released before it.
Currently it looks like rescuers and relief workers couldn't reach the city because they were being SHOT at! We need to revisit our quarantine-and-forget method of dealing with the poor. I bet that there is a sociologist somewhere nodding his head knowingly as he watches the events unfold on TV.
If someone owns (whether through purchase or theft) a firearm and ammunition for it, they are not poor. The actual poor don't have weapons with which to hurt people and don't attack other people (especially those trying to help) anyways because they are too busy dieing from starvation.
Anyways, the best way to deal with "the poor" is to give them access to "free" (subsidized) education, and teach them that they were provided with everything that they needed to be successful and if they aren't, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Instead, you keep giving them fish, but never teaching them how to get their own bloody fish (to use a cliche). You blame all their problems on yourself, and create a culture of hatred and blame instead of one of self-reliance, self-determination, and emancipation.
They will be a force to be reckoned with, sure, but won't be too interested in anything beyond their thousands-of-years-old sphere of influence.
This is allegedly a speech given by Chi Haotian, "China's Minister of Defense and vice-chairman of China's Central Military Commission." I suggest you read it. Choice quotes are:
"Specifically, the following are the fundamental causes for the defeat of Germany and Japan: First, they had too many enemies all at once, as they did not adhere to the principle of eliminating enemies one at a time; second, they were too impetuous, lacking the patience and perseverance required for great accomplishments; third, when the time came for them to be ruthless, they turned out to be too soft, therefore leaving troubles that resurfaced later on."
"Our Chinese people are wiser than the Germans because, fundamentally, our race is superior to theirs."
"The first issue is living space. This is the biggest focus of the revitalization of the Chinese race."
"Our economic development is all about preparing for the need of war! Publicly we still emphasize economic development as our center, but in reality, economic development has war as its center! We have made a tremendous effort to construct "The Great Wall Project" to build up, along our coastal and land frontiers as well as around large and medium-sized cities, a solid underground "Great Wall" that can withstand a nuclear war."
"Would the United States allow us to go out to gain new living space? First, if the United States is firm in blocking us, it is hard for us to do anything significant to Taiwan and some other countries! Second, even if we could snatch some land from Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or even Japan, how much more living space can we get? Very trivial! Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization. Therefore, solving the "issue of America" is the key to solving all other issues. First, this makes it possible for us to have many people migrate there and even establish another China under the same leadership of the CCP. America was originally discovered by the ancestors of the yellow race, but Columbus gave credit to the white race. We the descendents of the Chinese nation are entitled to the possession of the land! It is said that the residents of the yellow race have a very low social status in United States. We need to liberate them. Second, after solving the "issue of America," the western countries in Europe would bow to us, not to mention to Taiwan, Japan and other small countries. Therefore, solving the "issue of America" is the mission assigned to CCP members by history."
"Only by using special means to "clean up" America will we be able to lead the Chinese people there. This is the only choice left for us."
"When Comrade Xiaoping was still with us, the Party Central Committee had the perspicacity to make the right decision not to develop aircraft carrier groups and focus instead on developing lethal weapons that can eliminate mass populations of the enemy country. "
"We must prepare ourselves for two scenarios. If our biological weapons succeed in the surprise attack [on the United States, the Chinese people will be able to keep their losses at a minimum in the fight against the United States."
"It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the world."
"Now, when I am about to finish my speech, you probably understand why we conducted this online survey. Simply put, through conducting this online survey we wanted to know whether the people would rise against us if one day we secretly adopt resolute means to "clean up" America. Would more people support us o
Apparently someone skipped their English homework.
Perhaps it was administered to them in the form of video games.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
"why is it that people perceive the Japanese as more efficient than Americans?"
Here's an article that describes the situation.
A good quote:
"The paradox was that in the 90s stories on the front pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist were all about how the Japanese manufacturing industries through trade were driving US manufacturing industries into the ground and virtually wiping them out. And of course that did happen in consumer electronics -- the US basically got out entirely in the consumer electronics business. And the steel industry and the automobile industry came very close to being bankrupt, although not all companies in those industries were in that shape. But the industries themselves as a whole were in very bad shape because of, in large part, competition from Japan, which was able to deliver high quality products at lower costs -- yet the GDP per capita numbers at purchasing power parity exchange rates show that GDP per capita in Japan was roughly 30 percent below the US. So how could this be? And the only way to understand that is to look at the productivity of individual industries in Japan. What we found is that Japan has a dual economy. Yes, it does have some selected manufacturing industries that have high productivity, much higher than the corresponding US industries and in fact they have the highest productivity in their industries of any country in the world. And yet, the traded part of an economy is always a tiny fraction of the total GDP. A rule of thumb is that it's roughly at most 15 percent of the GDP. So what that says is that the standard of living is determined because the productivity of the country is determined by what happens outside these traded goods. Productivity of a country in total -- the average productivity -- is the average productivity of every single worker. So in that sense, every worker is equally important. If you have low productivity in the non traded parts of manufacturing and in the huge domestic service industry -- such as retailing and housing construction and so on -- you are going to have low average productivity even though you may have a handful of industries like automotive and machine tools and steel where you have the highest productivity in the world."
Read the whole thing.
Japan had a population roughly equal to half that of the US. In order for Japan to surpass the US, the average Japanese citizen would have to be twice as efficient as the average US citizen.
China has a population roughly equal to four times that of the US. In order for China to surpass the US, the average Chinese citizen would have to be one quarter as efficient as the average US citizen.
Now, do you have any reason to believe that the average Chinese citizen cannot be one quarter as efficient as the average American? Now imagine what will happen when the average Chinese citizen is as efficient as the average American. Then, imagine what will happen if/when the average Chinese citizen becomes as efficient as the average Japanese.