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Dumb question - Nobody "needs" to have children.
Yes - Financial sacrafice is a given when starting a family, but money is almost universally a minor consideration in the decision. Your ignorance of that fact tells me you're not a parent.
No, but I can recall numerous modern day ads where a woman kicking or punching a guy in the nuts is condidered humor. I don't mind the ads, some are actually funny, but I do find the hypocricy somewhat offensive.
Very glad to hear you're driving in a different country to me and my adult kids. Having said that, your attitude was the norm here in Oz when I started driving in the 70's, the police were very lenient and often just gave a warning and allowed you to continue on your journey (happened to me twice). The world leading program to get drunks of our roads and change society attitudes has worked a treat and cut the road toll down to a 1/4 of what it was 40yrs ago, despite the fact there are nearly 10X the number of cars on the road.
Sales tax in Oz has been run by the Feds for a couple of decades now, in the past it was like the US, a state based labyrinth of rules as to how much tax was owed on what item. Now it's a flat 10% everywhere and it is the business owner who is responsible for ensuring it is paid. It's a very simple system, both government and business have benefited by getting rid of all the paperwork involved in the old system. The same tax applies to internet sales, the fly in the ointment is there is no way to collect the tax from internet businesses that are based overseas (eg: Amazon).
Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency?
Your living in a bit of a bubble on that one, sure I personally have a years worth of salary in my rainy day account but I'm in my 50's and have been earning good money for the last 20yrs. My daughter is married with 3 kids, they are a typical middle class couple, her hubby is a qualified mechanic and has a decent job with plenty of overtime. Like millions of other families just like them they live for the next paycheck, they have no other choice, they simply cannot afford the luxury of a 3 week cash buffer, let alone 3 months. And all this is in Australia which has a much better social "safety net" than the US.
Unless you are either extraordinarily lucky or talented, it will take you a good 10-15yrs after leaving school before you have more assets than debts, especially if you decide to have children while your still young enough to enjoy them. Some people never get there, others experience some disaster that puts them back to square one after a lifetime of hard work. I personally know more than a few people over 40 who through no fault of their own are still living from paycheck to paycheck.
You and I are lucky to be in our current financial situations, I know this because I started my working life as a HS drop out and for a few months in my 20's found myself homeless while at the same time being employed full time on a fishing trawler working the southern ocean. Your post is lacking the requisite humility and empathy for the vast majority of people who are in a less comfortable financial position, many of whom have worked themselves to a level of physical and mental exhaustion that, judging by your comments, I very much doubt you have ever experienced.
I don't think Blix had the power to prevent the war but he did give it a good try. He didn't have that power because it wasn't about WMD's, it was about getting rid of Saddam. The WMD's were a convenient excuse and most world leaders knew that at the time. The media failed in it's role as a government watchdog, it failed most significantly in the US, the ABC/SBS here in Oz shot massive holes through Powell's slide show, it was quite clear that the presentation was at best an exaggeration ("sexed up" as the BBC would say). At the end of the day Powell failed to convince the UN that WMD's were reason enough to go to war, Bush responded by spitting the dummy and going ahead anyway.
I'm old enough to remember watching despots such as Mao and Pol Pot on the evening news. I don't believe the end justified the means but the Bush apologists do have a salient point, the world really is a better place without Saddam in it.
Your "thesis" is based on the false assumption quoted above, the only people on the planet who believe Obama is a socialist are a minority of American right-wing partisans who quite frankly make Genghis Khan look like a "bleeding heart liberal". What's worse, neither the assumption or the thesis are "yours", they are both standard elements of Tea Party dogma.
Sadly several Queensland councils here in Australia have recently bowed to the bullshit and stopped putting it in their water, some are even proudly telling the world how much money they have saved. The same people also appear to prefer cholera in their drinking water, rather than chlorine.
It seems a lot of American's have been conned into thinking "free market" means a market that is free from government oversight, it's not hard to work out that this mis-information is pushed by some corporations. What I can't work out is why so many people defend the premise.
What the "free" in free market actually means is "everyone is free to participate", excluding corporations would by definition make it a restricted market. Also an economic "market" is not a mall or an auction room, it's a set of rules governing trade, for example a market cannot exist without property rights. If government does not define and enforce those rules, then who will?
As to the OP, yes, one possible solution to the "tragedy of the commons" would be to privatize the commons, the problem with that is even if it worked ( in an environmental sense), the people would still lose their commons.
In Oz, there's no fine, they can only sue for provable damages. Most cases would not even pass the $50 minimum damages claim required for it to be heard by the small claims tribunal. MAFIAA lawyers can not harrass people with extortion notices (they have tried and been shot down before they could even lick the stamps). In short they have two choices, sue for provable damages, or shut the fuck up. Neither of which achieve their aims of sacring people into compliance with their bussiness model, consequently no individual has ever been fined or sued by an Australian court for file sharing.
In other words the Aussie justice system lives up to the Aussie cultural value of a "fair go", (at least as far as file sharing is concerned;).
When you're a single mum, $25K might as well be $25 billion. We don't get this crap in Oz since they can only sue for proven damages, they can't just pull numbers out of their arse and add or subtract zeros at their convienience.
The whole thing sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy to me, find a bunch of enterprising but poor graduates, take some financial pressure of one of them for 10yrs, bingo that person is "successful", and you own a chunk of their "success". Don't get me wrong, I think investing in young people is a GoodThing(TM) but this is not a prediction, it's an informed choice.
Predatory mammals are normally territorial, both with their own and competing species eg: Lions and Hyenas, humans and Neanderthals would have fought over the best hunting and foraging ground, although there is some evidence Neanderthals preferred to live in the gullys near running water while humans preferred the high ground, as they still do today (judging by real estate prices). Also it's a natural tendency for humans to see their own tribe as the only "real" humans, for example tribes that live near chimps traditionally considered chimps to be just another funny looking tribe that could be easily dominated, similar behavior can be seen in modern day regions who claim to be the "chosen ones".
Exactly how we out competed Neanderthals is speculation, there are a million plausible stories but at the end of the day there's no hard evidence that intelligence was the key factor (as this eyeball idea assumes). From history it's plain to see that humans were probably just as ruthless with other human tribes as they were with Neanderthal tribes. Maybe it was as simple as our choice of real estate or something seemingly irrelevant such as possessing sweat glands or small eyes.
My own guess is that there was no single factor in their demise, they were simply easier to dominate than other human tribes. The American Indian and the Australian Aborigine are modern day examples of what I think happened to the Neanderthals, those races are no less intelligent or ruthless than Europeans, yet both were quickly dominated and came close to being wiped off the planet altogether.
The key word in your post is "standard". Agree the sequence is not stored in memory, however all psuedo-random generators will repeat the same sequence if given the same seed, I believe ( but cannot prove ) that this was a problem here in Oz about 20yrs ago with one particular type of machine (ie: it was a software bug). Yes, the generator will create random numbers but the utility of them lies in the fact that you can program the statistical distribution of those numbers to be whatever you want it to be. This makes it possible for the law to force Crown to take no more that 15% from the punters via poker machines. The equation you select for the generator can also cause problems, if not done carefully the generator can end up with a very short cycle length that a human can work out by observation.
A casino game can be way over or under the theoretical payout percentage
Yes, with one machine the payout can vary wildly from day to day but with a large casino such as crown (2500 machines, 24hrs a day) the daily variance from 15% will be pretty close to zero.
I'm a divorced grandfather of three, I'm in a steady relationship, "getting laid" is not a high priority these days, that monkey has normally fallen off a man's back by the time he is my age. I sense you're having trouble with that monkey and thus you're a little bit sensitive and defensive. Have you considered developing a sense of humor? - I promise you, once you have made a woman laugh their panties off, you won't want to go back to drunken desperation sex.
Yep, an experiment that fails can be just as informative as the one that works. Personally I think the summary of TFS of TFA is stating the obvious, "all paths must lead to results of some form" - without results it's not a Phd, it's not even a paper, it's just an opinion.
A friend of mine's mildly retarded brother went missing nearly a decade ago, they found his car abandoned in bushland not far from his home but he (or his body) has never been located. There are literally millions of cases like that in the western world, I very much doubt they are all living in N.Korea.
authenticate whether a phone call actually originated from a specific phone
Would it surprise you to learn there are bad guys, perverts, and pranksters working at telco companies? - (aside from the white collar variety that hang around board rooms). Although I have some sympathy with the claim that SWAT teams are overused in the US, you cannot simply sit on your hands and wait for perfect information. In this case the cops appear to have done everything right because at the end of the day, looking foolish on the internet is preferable to looking negligent in front of a coroner.
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Yes
Dumb question - Nobody "needs" to have children.
Yes - Financial sacrafice is a given when starting a family, but money is almost universally a minor consideration in the decision. Your ignorance of that fact tells me you're not a parent.
No, but I can recall numerous modern day ads where a woman kicking or punching a guy in the nuts is condidered humor. I don't mind the ads, some are actually funny, but I do find the hypocricy somewhat offensive.
Very glad to hear you're driving in a different country to me and my adult kids. Having said that, your attitude was the norm here in Oz when I started driving in the 70's, the police were very lenient and often just gave a warning and allowed you to continue on your journey (happened to me twice). The world leading program to get drunks of our roads and change society attitudes has worked a treat and cut the road toll down to a 1/4 of what it was 40yrs ago, despite the fact there are nearly 10X the number of cars on the road.
Sales tax in Oz has been run by the Feds for a couple of decades now, in the past it was like the US, a state based labyrinth of rules as to how much tax was owed on what item. Now it's a flat 10% everywhere and it is the business owner who is responsible for ensuring it is paid. It's a very simple system, both government and business have benefited by getting rid of all the paperwork involved in the old system. The same tax applies to internet sales, the fly in the ointment is there is no way to collect the tax from internet businesses that are based overseas (eg: Amazon).
Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency?
Your living in a bit of a bubble on that one, sure I personally have a years worth of salary in my rainy day account but I'm in my 50's and have been earning good money for the last 20yrs. My daughter is married with 3 kids, they are a typical middle class couple, her hubby is a qualified mechanic and has a decent job with plenty of overtime. Like millions of other families just like them they live for the next paycheck, they have no other choice, they simply cannot afford the luxury of a 3 week cash buffer, let alone 3 months. And all this is in Australia which has a much better social "safety net" than the US.
Unless you are either extraordinarily lucky or talented, it will take you a good 10-15yrs after leaving school before you have more assets than debts, especially if you decide to have children while your still young enough to enjoy them. Some people never get there, others experience some disaster that puts them back to square one after a lifetime of hard work. I personally know more than a few people over 40 who through no fault of their own are still living from paycheck to paycheck.
You and I are lucky to be in our current financial situations, I know this because I started my working life as a HS drop out and for a few months in my 20's found myself homeless while at the same time being employed full time on a fishing trawler working the southern ocean. Your post is lacking the requisite humility and empathy for the vast majority of people who are in a less comfortable financial position, many of whom have worked themselves to a level of physical and mental exhaustion that, judging by your comments, I very much doubt you have ever experienced.
I don't think Blix had the power to prevent the war but he did give it a good try. He didn't have that power because it wasn't about WMD's, it was about getting rid of Saddam. The WMD's were a convenient excuse and most world leaders knew that at the time. The media failed in it's role as a government watchdog, it failed most significantly in the US, the ABC/SBS here in Oz shot massive holes through Powell's slide show, it was quite clear that the presentation was at best an exaggeration ("sexed up" as the BBC would say). At the end of the day Powell failed to convince the UN that WMD's were reason enough to go to war, Bush responded by spitting the dummy and going ahead anyway.
I'm old enough to remember watching despots such as Mao and Pol Pot on the evening news. I don't believe the end justified the means but the Bush apologists do have a salient point, the world really is a better place without Saddam in it.
Obama is a big government socialist
Your "thesis" is based on the false assumption quoted above, the only people on the planet who believe Obama is a socialist are a minority of American right-wing partisans who quite frankly make Genghis Khan look like a "bleeding heart liberal". What's worse, neither the assumption or the thesis are "yours", they are both standard elements of Tea Party dogma.
Sadly several Queensland councils here in Australia have recently bowed to the bullshit and stopped putting it in their water, some are even proudly telling the world how much money they have saved. The same people also appear to prefer cholera in their drinking water, rather than chlorine.
It seems a lot of American's have been conned into thinking "free market" means a market that is free from government oversight, it's not hard to work out that this mis-information is pushed by some corporations. What I can't work out is why so many people defend the premise.
What the "free" in free market actually means is "everyone is free to participate", excluding corporations would by definition make it a restricted market. Also an economic "market" is not a mall or an auction room, it's a set of rules governing trade, for example a market cannot exist without property rights. If government does not define and enforce those rules, then who will?
As to the OP, yes, one possible solution to the "tragedy of the commons" would be to privatize the commons, the problem with that is even if it worked ( in an environmental sense), the people would still lose their commons.
..who "wants" to be a drone pilot, should not be a drone pilot.
In Oz, there's no fine, they can only sue for provable damages. Most cases would not even pass the $50 minimum damages claim required for it to be heard by the small claims tribunal. MAFIAA lawyers can not harrass people with extortion notices (they have tried and been shot down before they could even lick the stamps). In short they have two choices, sue for provable damages, or shut the fuck up. Neither of which achieve their aims of sacring people into compliance with their bussiness model, consequently no individual has ever been fined or sued by an Australian court for file sharing.
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In other words the Aussie justice system lives up to the Aussie cultural value of a "fair go", (at least as far as file sharing is concerned
When you're a single mum, $25K might as well be $25 billion. We don't get this crap in Oz since they can only sue for proven damages, they can't just pull numbers out of their arse and add or subtract zeros at their convienience.
The whole thing sounds like a self-fulfilling prophesy to me, find a bunch of enterprising but poor graduates, take some financial pressure of one of them for 10yrs, bingo that person is "successful", and you own a chunk of their "success". Don't get me wrong, I think investing in young people is a GoodThing(TM) but this is not a prediction, it's an informed choice.
Predatory mammals are normally territorial, both with their own and competing species eg: Lions and Hyenas, humans and Neanderthals would have fought over the best hunting and foraging ground, although there is some evidence Neanderthals preferred to live in the gullys near running water while humans preferred the high ground, as they still do today (judging by real estate prices). Also it's a natural tendency for humans to see their own tribe as the only "real" humans, for example tribes that live near chimps traditionally considered chimps to be just another funny looking tribe that could be easily dominated, similar behavior can be seen in modern day regions who claim to be the "chosen ones".
Exactly how we out competed Neanderthals is speculation, there are a million plausible stories but at the end of the day there's no hard evidence that intelligence was the key factor (as this eyeball idea assumes). From history it's plain to see that humans were probably just as ruthless with other human tribes as they were with Neanderthal tribes. Maybe it was as simple as our choice of real estate or something seemingly irrelevant such as possessing sweat glands or small eyes.
My own guess is that there was no single factor in their demise, they were simply easier to dominate than other human tribes. The American Indian and the Australian Aborigine are modern day examples of what I think happened to the Neanderthals, those races are no less intelligent or ruthless than Europeans, yet both were quickly dominated and came close to being wiped off the planet altogether.
Not really, take a look at the fine print on your own policy, most (if not all) insurance companies won't cover you for nuclear contamination
Mate, it can be difficult to locate my dick these days, let alone wave it around.
A casino game can be way over or under the theoretical payout percentage
Yes, with one machine the payout can vary wildly from day to day but with a large casino such as crown (2500 machines, 24hrs a day) the daily variance from 15% will be pretty close to zero.
It was the same in Europe until relatively recently, the Mayflower landed where it did because it had run out of beer and needed to find clean water.
I'm a divorced grandfather of three, I'm in a steady relationship, "getting laid" is not a high priority these days, that monkey has normally fallen off a man's back by the time he is my age. I sense you're having trouble with that monkey and thus you're a little bit sensitive and defensive. Have you considered developing a sense of humor? - I promise you, once you have made a woman laugh their panties off, you won't want to go back to drunken desperation sex.
Yep, an experiment that fails can be just as informative as the one that works. Personally I think the summary of TFS of TFA is stating the obvious, "all paths must lead to results of some form" - without results it's not a Phd, it's not even a paper, it's just an opinion.
Jebus, and they say women are high maintenance, little wonder nerds have difficulty finding a girlfriend.
"Fuck off" also works well.
A friend of mine's mildly retarded brother went missing nearly a decade ago, they found his car abandoned in bushland not far from his home but he (or his body) has never been located. There are literally millions of cases like that in the western world, I very much doubt they are all living in N.Korea.
authenticate whether a phone call actually originated from a specific phone
Would it surprise you to learn there are bad guys, perverts, and pranksters working at telco companies? - (aside from the white collar variety that hang around board rooms). Although I have some sympathy with the claim that SWAT teams are overused in the US, you cannot simply sit on your hands and wait for perfect information. In this case the cops appear to have done everything right because at the end of the day, looking foolish on the internet is preferable to looking negligent in front of a coroner.
It wasn't that long ago that the US had a similar legal attitude to the "high precision" GPS that is now available in consumer products.