Some quotes that sum up your inverted priorities and empathy, starting with the daily terror French peasants lived in before the revolution:
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror', if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors of the... momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves." - Mark Twain
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." - MLK Jr.
For the bourgeois living in their bubbles, the tragedy of the French and Russian revolutions isn't that 90% of the people were crushed for hundreds of years under the boot heel of aristocracy, it's that the rich and upper class got the shit end of the stick for once, instead of the poor. Because, as MLK laid out, your priority is order, justice can go to the back of the bus.
When everyone is starting over at zero, you'd have a time convincing everyone that a tiny percentage of the population should make more money than the rest, combined. That takes time. That takes.....capitalism.
Economist Laurence Kotlikoff estimates that when the unfunded future liabilities (minus future revenues) in SS & Medicare are accounted for, the USA national debt is close to $200 trillion.
And if you believe that 3rd rate corporatist propaganda, I've got some great oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you at a cheap rate. Just talk to my agent...he used to be a prince in Nigeria, did you know?
What part of "the consumer market doesn't give a shit about battery swapability" do you not understand? The number of people who need to ever be able to swap batteries in their phones because they cannot charge at home, work or school is comparable to the number of people who need a hidden gun in every room of their house for home defense. All that wasted space can be used to make the phone smaller/cheaper/more sturdy/have a larger battery, or some combination thereof.
Millions of people thrown into prison for drug use were acting perfectly civilly at the time of their arrest. So too were various political prisoners, namely minority activists.
Like....carrying around a lot of extra shit that is 1) expensive and 2) easy to lose. If you want a device with a replaceable battery - then buy what you want that does what you want. But don't pretend your religious fanaticism applies to the rest of the consumer market, who said it simply does. not. give. a. shit. about swappability. Fifteen years ago, with the iPod, long before smartphones became popular.
Blackberry transfers employees to sham company. Sham company (Blackberry) fires workers.
You're repeating the summary with different words. Tomato, Blackberry is trying to cheat their way out of paying severance benefits, tomahtoe, Blackberry is trying to cheat their way out of paying severance benefits.
. In order to stop the Republican majority from pushing through even worse versions of the bills.
Horseshit. Republicans didn't have the votes to override a Clinton veto. But it's not the first time this line of sophistry has been raised to defend the Clinton's right wing record - too bad you guys have to deal with NAFTA, which Clinton rammed through when Dems still had control of Congress in the 90's. Kinda like how Obama rammed Romneycare through Congress, followed by making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent.
Reality has a well known anti-liberal, pro-leftist bias.
Except he's not. Look, this isn't hard: Mike Bloomberg is a registered Republican. Mike Bloomberg supports abortion rights and gun control. Is it therefore fair to say that gun control and abortion are bipartisan issues? Of course not.
So, I say again, any more dumb questions, or are we done here?
The Religion of Peace [bigotedislamophobicshitbags.com]:
What a trustworthy source you have, my dear!
Attacks 195 Killed 1386
America killed 4 million people between Vietnam and Iraq alone. All the Muslim violence you can name are mere drops in lakes of blood shed by western imperialist shitbags.
Iran and state-sponsored terrorism
Laughable. Iran hasn't attacked another country since the War of 1812 - which was started by the United States. Is Iran bombing Mexico with robot planes the way you are bombing most of the Middle East? Nope.
What two "democracies" would those be?
Honduras and Ukraine. In other news, 1 + 1 = 2.
Congratulations, you got one, but let's not pretend Saddam didn't help dig his own grave blah blah blah
Saddam was installed in a CIA coup, and helped gas Iranians with U.S. provided intelligence. That's why this entire subject is a losing one for you American Exceptionalist Dumbfucks: all the Muslim violence you can whine about is invariably:
1) Directly sponsored by the United States (Al Nursa in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Reagan arming the Taliban)
2) Direct backlash to western imperialism (Al Qaeda and ISIS had no presence in Iraq/Libya/Syria until you dumbfuckers targeted those countries for regime change)
that's a local fenomenon. you could build something to transmit power a few thousand K's in any direction.
Yes, that's something I point out to concern trolls on wind and solar power - we already move coal and nuclear power hundreds of miles via power lines. So space out your wind and solar farms across the same distance, as you aren't going to have an entire region go without any wind.
So colonialism fucked the place up, things are _generally_ getting better since then, but it's still going to take awhile (and more hard work.)
And you can thank the same western powers that screwed them over in the first place for the slow recovery. Enforcing debts accumulated under colonialist rule, IMF "bailouts" that force the sale of public assets to foreign "investors", being forced to rely on international monetary markets. Libya might have been able to help with some of that, as Gaddafi had plans for a gold-backed African currency, so naturally he was targeted for regime change.
Ask Africa: has kicking out the Europeans helped? Who, among the Africans, has benefited from their departure? There seems to be no lack of savages in the continent. Cf. Congo. Or Rwanda. Or Nigeria. Or SA. All of which are various levels of fucked-up disaster. Best you can get is, maybe, Kenya, where there are still beggars everywhere (in the midst of an incredibly fertile land) and gates blocking the entry to the driveways of hotels in Nairobi - and that was before the mall catastrophe.
Do you also pretend that Iraq is in shambles because the U.S. (nominally) ended its occupation of the country, rather than the Iraq War that overthrew the government and destabilized the region? Every place you just mentioned is a mess because of European powers who went there in the first place, not because those European powers (nominally) ended rule over the continent. You willfully ignorant Western Exceptionalist, you.
And I say "nominally" because western powers still dominate Africa, only now under the banners of the International Monetary Fund, rather than England or France. If you get too uppity, you get your country overthrown - just ask Zombie Gaddafi, after he tried to start a gold-backed African currency to compete with the Franc.
Yeah, they might miss out on the sophistry of complaining about the previous sentence in the article...when the actual previous sentence was on Churchill wanting to use exploding shells containing diphenylaminechloroarsine to pacify areas of India under British rule.
He quite clearly said poisoned gas. You yourself quoted it.
Including the previous sentence
The previous sentence is "He also wanted to use M Devices against the rebellious tribes of northern India." What's that? "An exploding shell containing a highly toxic gas called diphenylaminechloroarsine."
Given that this point of yours turned out to be social-justice nonsense
If documented facts are "social-justice nonsense", then you just might be a dishonest, willfully blind American Exceptionalist.
The western, romanticized image of Churchill is of the stoic rock that beat the Nazis in WWII, bravely leading the British people to oppose fascism while America dithered.
The rest of his bio is rounded out by his fond nostalgia for shooting "savages" in Africa - i.e. blacks not yet subjugated by European colonialism. And the post WWII crushing of Kenya's rebellion against British rule, where you'd have a hard time looking at the treatment of prisoners and thinking you weren't hearing descriptions of a Nazi concentration camp. Shit like shoving sand in anuses with metal rods, crushing men's testicles and shoving glass into women's vaginas. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" was a real knee-slapper, too.
Churchill wasn't opposed to barbarous tranny, as long as it was coming from his own country.
All renewables will struggle with high energy power requirements, industry, commercial and high density residential.
Err, not so much. You simply build your generating capacity to meet expected demands - no different than you would for coal or nuclear power, only in less time for less money. Most of the overwrought concerns over wind and solar power may be answered by simple technology from the '70s. The 1870's.
There are water towers and hydroelectric dams functioning today that were constructed more than a century ago. For an up front investment - which is required by coal and nuclear power to a Biblical degree - you can build water reservoir batteries to store excess energy to be used when needed, by releasing water to move a turbine. And before you dismiss that idea, the whole point of a $10 billion nuclear power plant is to heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
Here is an example of a coal plant that can ramp in less then days.
Irrelevant. The whole point of the Baseline Power Canard is that wind and solar cannot bridge the power gap on a dark, windless night. Do tell how a coal power plant ramping up generation "less than days later" manages to fill that overnight hole.
If you're not negotiating for your prices, then you're not much of a contractor: a person who produces results for a fee.
Can't drive whatever car they want. Nope...you need to have a tool that meets a modicum of professionalism. Yes, you're a contractor...but when you go to meetings you are required to dress appropriately...or you lose the privilege of being a contractor.
What you're describing is an employee, not a contractor. If your employer is setting conditions on what tools you may use to produce the results and a dress code, you're an employee.
Isn't all that secondary to the fact that they can work any hours you want, at any location they want, they provide your own tools, and they can turn down customers?
No.
I disagree with your assessment that they cannot turn down too many customers. They can turn down as many customers as they want by not signing in to the app.
Laughable.
But that's just being an jerk
No. That's you being a corporatist bootlicker, for a corporation that DGAF about you.
To answer a simple question with another, would you be okay with alcoholics who have lost their license half a dozen times offering taxi rides on Craigslist, when they're driving a car with no license and no insurance? Would you expect minimum professional standards from a taxi service, or expect Joe Blow Consumer to do a full background check on Billy Bob for DUI's before getting into his car for a ride to the airport, least it be Joe's own damn fault for the ensuing car accident?
Contractors are often required to use specific tools to perform their tasks as set out by their client. Go to any office where software contractors are brought in to help in projects and you'd be hard pressed to find a place that allows them to use whatever they want to complete that project.
Not seeing a distinction between that and the parents "produce results for a fee" statement. If the contracted results are a document in Microsoft Word, then naturally that would require Microsoft Word to ensure compatibility. Whether the contractor is using a standard keyboard layout or DVORAK (to compare to the DeWalt tools example) would be beside the point - unless the worker is an employee, rather than a contractor.
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When you have the richest country in the history of the world yet half the people living in poverty, that is a failed system. Period.
Some quotes that sum up your inverted priorities and empathy, starting with the daily terror French peasants lived in before the revolution:
For the bourgeois living in their bubbles, the tragedy of the French and Russian revolutions isn't that 90% of the people were crushed for hundreds of years under the boot heel of aristocracy, it's that the rich and upper class got the shit end of the stick for once, instead of the poor. Because, as MLK laid out, your priority is order, justice can go to the back of the bus.
It's the same sense of priorities that may make you tut tut when you read about cops literally beating people to death in the street for no goddamn reason and getting away with it, but are outraged when a protestor breaks a window or makes you ten minutes late on your morning commute. One more quote to sum it up:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK
When everyone is starting over at zero, you'd have a time convincing everyone that a tiny percentage of the population should make more money than the rest, combined. That takes time. That takes.....capitalism.
And if you believe that 3rd rate corporatist propaganda, I've got some great oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you at a cheap rate. Just talk to my agent...he used to be a prince in Nigeria, did you know?
What part of "the consumer market doesn't give a shit about battery swapability" do you not understand? The number of people who need to ever be able to swap batteries in their phones because they cannot charge at home, work or school is comparable to the number of people who need a hidden gun in every room of their house for home defense. All that wasted space can be used to make the phone smaller/cheaper/more sturdy/have a larger battery, or some combination thereof.
Millions of people thrown into prison for drug use were acting perfectly civilly at the time of their arrest. So too were various political prisoners, namely minority activists.
Like....carrying around a lot of extra shit that is 1) expensive and 2) easy to lose. If you want a device with a replaceable battery - then buy what you want that does what you want. But don't pretend your religious fanaticism applies to the rest of the consumer market, who said it simply does. not. give. a. shit. about swappability. Fifteen years ago, with the iPod, long before smartphones became popular.
You're repeating the summary with different words. Tomato, Blackberry is trying to cheat their way out of paying severance benefits, tomahtoe, Blackberry is trying to cheat their way out of paying severance benefits.
Horseshit. Republicans didn't have the votes to override a Clinton veto. But it's not the first time this line of sophistry has been raised to defend the Clinton's right wing record - too bad you guys have to deal with NAFTA, which Clinton rammed through when Dems still had control of Congress in the 90's. Kinda like how Obama rammed Romneycare through Congress, followed by making the Bush Tax Cuts permanent.
Reality has a well known anti-liberal, pro-leftist bias.
Except he's not. Look, this isn't hard: Mike Bloomberg is a registered Republican. Mike Bloomberg supports abortion rights and gun control. Is it therefore fair to say that gun control and abortion are bipartisan issues? Of course not.
So, I say again, any more dumb questions, or are we done here?
I see you went for the trifecta of a non-response, a non sequitur, and a red herring.
What a trustworthy source you have, my dear!
America killed 4 million people between Vietnam and Iraq alone. All the Muslim violence you can name are mere drops in lakes of blood shed by western imperialist shitbags.
Laughable. Iran hasn't attacked another country since the War of 1812 - which was started by the United States. Is Iran bombing Mexico with robot planes the way you are bombing most of the Middle East? Nope.
Honduras and Ukraine. In other news, 1 + 1 = 2.
Saddam was installed in a CIA coup, and helped gas Iranians with U.S. provided intelligence. That's why this entire subject is a losing one for you American Exceptionalist Dumbfucks: all the Muslim violence you can whine about is invariably:
1) Directly sponsored by the United States (Al Nursa in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Reagan arming the Taliban)
2) Direct backlash to western imperialism (Al Qaeda and ISIS had no presence in Iraq/Libya/Syria until you dumbfuckers targeted those countries for regime change)
Dumb.
Fuck.
Er.
Eee.
Yes, that's something I point out to concern trolls on wind and solar power - we already move coal and nuclear power hundreds of miles via power lines. So space out your wind and solar farms across the same distance, as you aren't going to have an entire region go without any wind.
And you can thank the same western powers that screwed them over in the first place for the slow recovery. Enforcing debts accumulated under colonialist rule, IMF "bailouts" that force the sale of public assets to foreign "investors", being forced to rely on international monetary markets. Libya might have been able to help with some of that, as Gaddafi had plans for a gold-backed African currency, so naturally he was targeted for regime change.
Do you also pretend that Iraq is in shambles because the U.S. (nominally) ended its occupation of the country, rather than the Iraq War that overthrew the government and destabilized the region? Every place you just mentioned is a mess because of European powers who went there in the first place, not because those European powers (nominally) ended rule over the continent. You willfully ignorant Western Exceptionalist, you.
And I say "nominally" because western powers still dominate Africa, only now under the banners of the International Monetary Fund, rather than England or France. If you get too uppity, you get your country overthrown - just ask Zombie Gaddafi, after he tried to start a gold-backed African currency to compete with the Franc.
Yeah, they might miss out on the sophistry of complaining about the previous sentence in the article...when the actual previous sentence was on Churchill wanting to use exploding shells containing diphenylaminechloroarsine to pacify areas of India under British rule.
He quite clearly said poisoned gas. You yourself quoted it.
The previous sentence is "He also wanted to use M Devices against the rebellious tribes of northern India." What's that? "An exploding shell containing a highly toxic gas called diphenylaminechloroarsine."
If documented facts are "social-justice nonsense", then you just might be a dishonest, willfully blind American Exceptionalist.
The western, romanticized image of Churchill is of the stoic rock that beat the Nazis in WWII, bravely leading the British people to oppose fascism while America dithered.
The rest of his bio is rounded out by his fond nostalgia for shooting "savages" in Africa - i.e. blacks not yet subjugated by European colonialism. And the post WWII crushing of Kenya's rebellion against British rule, where you'd have a hard time looking at the treatment of prisoners and thinking you weren't hearing descriptions of a Nazi concentration camp. Shit like shoving sand in anuses with metal rods, crushing men's testicles and shoving glass into women's vaginas. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" was a real knee-slapper, too.
Churchill wasn't opposed to barbarous tranny, as long as it was coming from his own country.
Err, not so much. You simply build your generating capacity to meet expected demands - no different than you would for coal or nuclear power, only in less time for less money. Most of the overwrought concerns over wind and solar power may be answered by simple technology from the '70s. The 1870's.
There are water towers and hydroelectric dams functioning today that were constructed more than a century ago. For an up front investment - which is required by coal and nuclear power to a Biblical degree - you can build water reservoir batteries to store excess energy to be used when needed, by releasing water to move a turbine. And before you dismiss that idea, the whole point of a
$10 billion nuclear power plant is to heat water - to move a turbine to generate electricity.
Pedant fail.
Irrelevant. The whole point of the Baseline Power Canard is that wind and solar cannot bridge the power gap on a dark, windless night. Do tell how a coal power plant ramping up generation "less than days later" manages to fill that overnight hole.
If you're not negotiating for your prices, then you're not much of a contractor: a person who produces results for a fee.
What you're describing is an employee, not a contractor. If your employer is setting conditions on what tools you may use to produce the results and a dress code, you're an employee.
No.
Laughable.
No. That's you being a corporatist bootlicker, for a corporation that DGAF about you.
To answer a simple question with another, would you be okay with alcoholics who have lost their license half a dozen times offering taxi rides on Craigslist, when they're driving a car with no license and no insurance? Would you expect minimum professional standards from a taxi service, or expect Joe Blow Consumer to do a full background check on Billy Bob for DUI's before getting into his car for a ride to the airport, least it be Joe's own damn fault for the ensuing car accident?
Not seeing a distinction between that and the parents "produce results for a fee" statement. If the contracted results are a document in Microsoft Word, then naturally that would require Microsoft Word to ensure compatibility. Whether the contractor is using a standard keyboard layout or DVORAK (to compare to the DeWalt tools example) would be beside the point - unless the worker is an employee, rather than a contractor.