Why do you see this as only a "flaw of democracy"? Don't any other forms of governments rely on experts who are putting their own self interests first, having conflicts of interest?
What makes you think your elected officials are any better informed? It's a rarity for any of them to even know wtf is in the bills that they're voting on.
Let's hope California cuts itself off from social media. Would make the Internet a much nicer places without all that SF-based outrage over everything.
Marketing companies existed long before the kind of demographic data collection we see now. There's no reason they can't still do their jobs, it just doesn't need to be with private personal information.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.
I started reading the article with interest, and got down to where he defined Goons,
The most obvious example of this are national armed forces. Countries need armies only because other countries have armies
Call the military goons if you like, but the logic behind calling it a bullshit job is, well, bullshit. It's like saying that we wouldn't need programmers if there weren't computers. Or, we wouldn't need police if there was no crime.
Yes it was, right above my first statement to which I replied very clearly..."WWII is what made America the most successful country in the history of the planet"
Slavery was part of the economy, you can't just pretend it didn't exist.
I never said such a thing...another reading comprehension failure.
Nobody alive in the US was a slave, nor was anyone a slave owner.
Oh right so there's no problem then...
I didn't say there was no problem, please try to stop putting words in my mouth.
As for reparations, there's plenty of "affirmative action". My own company has for many years promoted and given larger pay increases to "persons of color".
And how is that working out? All problems fixed? People of colour no longer over-represented in health, employment or crime statistics?
If there's still problems, it means your solution isn't good enough.
My solution? It wasn't my problem. I grew up poor in downtown Detroit, to a single 19 yr old mother, but I'm sure that because I became successful, you somehow see that as white privilege. It amazes me that poor people from around the globe have immigrated and become much successful...what are they doing different than the black population...were those people privileged as well? Health, employment and crime statistics are bad for everyone in most urban areas, but that's where the majority of the black population resides, and yes, it sucks to be born into a crappy situation. Some of us learn to play with the cards we're dealt and other complain that the deck is stacked.
The discussion was about WWII, and was pretty obvious if you bothered to read it, so your "question" was moot.
To argue that the US was built "mostly on slave labour" is a total lie, and shows your lack of knowledge of the industrial revolution.
Nobody alive in the US was a slave, nor was anyone a slave owner. As for reparations, there's plenty of "affirmative action". My own company has for many years promoted and given larger pay increases to "persons of color".
One would hope that any Capt. worth his salt would be steering into the wind to compensate, and still follow a straight line. At least that's what I learned about "crabbing" into the wind when you're landing a Cessna.
And yet you're unable to supply a reference? I'm sorry, but I believe that 42 years in the industry, and real world experience in Korea for many of those, affords me a little more knowledge than the average bloke spouting off on/.
Really? They had the massive assembly lines like that of the American automotive industry? I'm not here to argue your other point about war being bad, just that I'm doubting that anyone had anywhere close to the production capacity that America had pre-war.
Reminds me of when I daughter arrived for her freshman year of college, and we went to the book store to purchase what she required. The friggin' Calculus text was around $100. I guess Calculus must have changed over the years, so we have to get this brand new book. The college was actually pushing students to buy these...probably someone on the faculty was getting a kick back or knew the author.
That's a bunch of crap. More has been spent for decades prior to any vouchers becoming available. There's a huge amount of wasted money in our education system. I live in one of the best areas (Fairfax Co., VA) in my state. We have some of the highest property taxes to pay for top level public education. What I observed as my kid when through the system was that some of it was good, and some of it was shit, and that the teachers were, for the most part, just trying to do their jobs, but that they weren't given enough supplies in spite of some of the highest per student budget in the nation. Lots of money gets wasted on things that are no value added to actual education...my kid's elementary school office had beautiful wooden desks that I'm certain cost thousands of dollars each, and those were for the secretaries. Other countries provide much better education on lower cost per student basis. The problem isn't a lack of funds, but part of the problem is misdirected funds.
"Worse, many people's introduction to CD was in a bundle with crap (cheap) amps and speakers; this sounded not good compared to (Grand) Dad's audiophile setups with massive class AB amps and speakers the size of iceboxes."
My own "introduction" was when I added a $500 Sony CD player to my ~$2k stereo system back around 1983. The first thing I noticed was that some CDs sounded great while others were crap. After a while someone pointed out that almost all the CDs were being produced in either Japan or Germany, and it turned out that the German ones mostly sucked...though I'm not sure why.
I'm fully aware that the war isn't officially over...I've been to the DMZ a couple times. I lived there for six years as a defense contractor in the 80s and early 90s. You act as if a 1.2M troop standing army with a huge array of artillery pointed at Seoul isn't a deterrent. You act as if words are actions, and if so, then there have been plenty of aggressive words used on both sides dating back decades. You act as if NK hasn't taken unprovoked aggressive military actions in the past, and you're sadly mistaken.
NK's history of breaking agreements, negotiated in good faith, is testament to the fact that they only recognize them as signs of weakness.
You clearly couldn't answer the question I posed, because you know damned well that we've never threatened a first strike.
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"...it would also be free to tell those debt holders to pound sand."
Yeah, that wouldn't affect their ability to borrow money at all, right? Go read a book and fucking learn something.
Why do you see this as only a "flaw of democracy"? Don't any other forms of governments rely on experts who are putting their own self interests first, having conflicts of interest?
What makes you think your elected officials are any better informed? It's a rarity for any of them to even know wtf is in the bills that they're voting on.
Let's hope California cuts itself off from social media. Would make the Internet a much nicer places without all that SF-based outrage over everything.
Careful, they might take offense.
Marketing companies existed long before the kind of demographic data collection we see now. There's no reason they can't still do their jobs, it just doesn't need to be with private personal information.
Funny that there's a treaty between the US and Germany for that specific purpose
http://www.mcnabbassociates.co...
Try to get some facts once in a while.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show that, as of 2013, there were 133,000 state and federal prisoners housed in privately owned prisons in the U.S., constituting 8.4% of the overall U.S. prison population.
I started reading the article with interest, and got down to where he defined Goons,
The most obvious example of this are national armed forces. Countries need armies only because other countries have armies
Call the military goons if you like, but the logic behind calling it a bullshit job is, well, bullshit. It's like saying that we wouldn't need programmers if there weren't computers. Or, we wouldn't need police if there was no crime.
The discussion was about WWII,
No it wasn't.
Yes it was, right above my first statement to which I replied very clearly..."WWII is what made America the most successful country in the history of the planet"
Slavery was part of the economy, you can't just pretend it didn't exist.
I never said such a thing...another reading comprehension failure.
Nobody alive in the US was a slave, nor was anyone a slave owner.
Oh right so there's no problem then...
I didn't say there was no problem, please try to stop putting words in my mouth.
As for reparations, there's plenty of "affirmative action". My own company has for many years promoted and given larger pay increases to "persons of color".
And how is that working out? All problems fixed? People of colour no longer over-represented in health, employment or crime statistics?
If there's still problems, it means your solution isn't good enough.
My solution? It wasn't my problem. I grew up poor in downtown Detroit, to a single 19 yr old mother, but I'm sure that because I became successful, you somehow see that as white privilege. It amazes me that poor people from around the globe have immigrated and become much successful...what are they doing different than the black population...were those people privileged as well? Health, employment and crime statistics are bad for everyone in most urban areas, but that's where the majority of the black population resides, and yes, it sucks to be born into a crappy situation. Some of us learn to play with the cards we're dealt and other complain that the deck is stacked.
The discussion was about WWII, and was pretty obvious if you bothered to read it, so your "question" was moot.
To argue that the US was built "mostly on slave labour" is a total lie, and shows your lack of knowledge of the industrial revolution.
Nobody alive in the US was a slave, nor was anyone a slave owner. As for reparations, there's plenty of "affirmative action". My own company has for many years promoted and given larger pay increases to "persons of color".
One would hope that any Capt. worth his salt would be steering into the wind to compensate, and still follow a straight line. At least that's what I learned about "crabbing" into the wind when you're landing a Cessna.
You completely missed the point. Those forces WERE in place when the nation reunited. The question wasn't about what's going on today....sheesh.
Who had the production capacity that the US had prior to the war???
Before or after they had slaves?
Nice. You are aware that slavery was not unique to the US, right?
I'm not here to quibble about their antecedents, but the recognized starting dates...
"Founded in the Northern states in 1854..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And yet you're unable to supply a reference? I'm sorry, but I believe that 42 years in the industry, and real world experience in Korea for many of those, affords me a little more knowledge than the average bloke spouting off on /.
Really? They had the massive assembly lines like that of the American automotive industry? I'm not here to argue your other point about war being bad, just that I'm doubting that anyone had anywhere close to the production capacity that America had pre-war.
You don't know squat about me or where I get my economic education, and yet claim that you do. Clearly, you're the moron.
You're funny. Economic predictions are about as good as those of a typical meteorologist...fifty years ago.
Who had the production capacity that the US had prior to the war???
Reminds me of when I daughter arrived for her freshman year of college, and we went to the book store to purchase what she required. The friggin' Calculus text was around $100. I guess Calculus must have changed over the years, so we have to get this brand new book. The college was actually pushing students to buy these...probably someone on the faculty was getting a kick back or knew the author.
That's a bunch of crap. More has been spent for decades prior to any vouchers becoming available. There's a huge amount of wasted money in our education system. I live in one of the best areas (Fairfax Co., VA) in my state. We have some of the highest property taxes to pay for top level public education. What I observed as my kid when through the system was that some of it was good, and some of it was shit, and that the teachers were, for the most part, just trying to do their jobs, but that they weren't given enough supplies in spite of some of the highest per student budget in the nation. Lots of money gets wasted on things that are no value added to actual education...my kid's elementary school office had beautiful wooden desks that I'm certain cost thousands of dollars each, and those were for the secretaries. Other countries provide much better education on lower cost per student basis. The problem isn't a lack of funds, but part of the problem is misdirected funds.
"Worse, many people's introduction to CD was in a bundle with crap (cheap) amps and speakers; this sounded not good compared to (Grand) Dad's audiophile setups with massive class AB amps and speakers the size of iceboxes."
My own "introduction" was when I added a $500 Sony CD player to my ~$2k stereo system back around 1983. The first thing I noticed was that some CDs sounded great while others were crap. After a while someone pointed out that almost all the CDs were being produced in either Japan or Germany, and it turned out that the German ones mostly sucked...though I'm not sure why.
"Now get off my lawn etc."
I'm older than the dirt under your lawn sonny.
"What could he do, place a lien of the French embassy in Washington? It's extra-territorial so US law does not apply."
It's not simple, but can be done...
http://harvardpolitics.com/wor...
What about expanding TLDs to...
France.fries
France.maids
France.kiss
France.tickler
I'm fully aware that the war isn't officially over...I've been to the DMZ a couple times. I lived there for six years as a defense contractor in the 80s and early 90s. You act as if a 1.2M troop standing army with a huge array of artillery pointed at Seoul isn't a deterrent. You act as if words are actions, and if so, then there have been plenty of aggressive words used on both sides dating back decades. You act as if NK hasn't taken unprovoked aggressive military actions in the past, and you're sadly mistaken.
NK's history of breaking agreements, negotiated in good faith, is testament to the fact that they only recognize them as signs of weakness.
You clearly couldn't answer the question I posed, because you know damned well that we've never threatened a first strike.