Cash isn't that hard, unless you're used to charging everything and living on debt. That's the hardest (and best) part about paying cash for everything: If you don't have the money, you can't afford to buy it. It's better for cutting spending as well. It's much harder, psychologically, to spend $100 cash than it is to swipe your card.
Socialized costs are often less obvious, and hidden under layers of bureaucracy. Here is a personal example: I was at the bank the other day, and a guy walks in, asking the teller if she had a good holiday. He then proceeds to tell her how his department received two weeks off, paid, for the Christmas/New Years holiday. How nice his bosses are, how often they get this, how surprised everyone was. She asked him where he worked, and his answer: "The city of Los Angeles". There's obviously no accountability to this, and that's where it hides in socialized systems. Invariably, next year, the city will ask for increased tax revenue that's desperately needed: and ignore his free two weeks.s someone who worked over that holiday. As someone who worked over that time, subsidizing his two week vacation is infuriating.
I disagree. I think we are currently going through a revolutionary change, being fueled by automation, and we need to learn how to deal with it. What will a non-creative 95 point IQ person do if there are no longer any manufacturing/lower end jobs that have been automated away?
"Coke has long been controlled by Republicans so they do not care about quality or service." WTF? So Pepsi is decidedly Democrat? Are you really suggesting the soda wars are partisan?
Thanks for the voice of reason, AC. I'm hoping you're just an angsty teen. If not, I'm hoping you're just a juvenile angsty adult. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I have a British friend who once traveled through Korea, stayed one day, and left. My friend had bought a lot of deodorant, since she was living Japan, and couldn't get any there that she liked there. When going through Korean customs, she actually had the customs agent tell her, in English, that she was confiscating all her deodorant because she wanted it. She then went on to explain that if she complained, she would miss her flight and possibly be put in jail.
"as an American, you get a little extra priority getting through border controls". I call bullshit on that. I'm an American, I travel internationally at least once a year.EVERY time I've hit customs in the US, the lines have been seriously longer for US citizens than visiting foreign citizens.Probably because that's the largest group of people passing through US border control. I contrast this to the countries in Asia I usually visit, where what you state is completely true. Especially Japan. Just last year, flying to Canada: Into Canada, Canadian line shorter, "other" line longer. Flying back to US: US line longer, "Other" line super short. I get jacked on both ends.
Or, possibly, we see our privacy slowly eroding, and people wearing glass as the modern equivalent of or the cheerleaders for this movement. I view it as a stepping stone to more loss of rights, and you as their willing accomplice masking it as innovation and modernity.
To make the analogy: you're the sailor working on a slave ship wondering why people hate sailing.
For a small, wearable device. Whenever it detects someone filming/recording you with Google Glass, or the equivalent, it saturates the sensor of it with IR/UV/microwaves/EMP blast/bullets/whatever. Sort of an anti-glass.
I guess it's good that the serious threat of International Communism is so far off you can make that statement, and concentrate on fixing the flaws in International Capitalism...
I completely agree with you on the Propaganda aspects. The noble savage thing seems to generally be when someone talks about culture other than their own, and for whatever reason tend to view them better than their own, possibly because we're all more aware of our own failings. It's like the flip side of the guy saying "My culture is ALWAYS right". I tend to have a (pessimistic) viewpoint that most cultures are equally brutal, they just may not have had the opportunity to show it. So maybe I"m pushing "We all suck equally" rather than "They suck more than us".
And you know what? They should get over it. Seriously. GET OVER IT. Look at the Serbs and Albanians, carrying around that crap for , what, five hundred damn years? What good has it done?
Please don't trot out that "noble savage" nonsense about violence being "alien". The Chinese were just as busy murdering their own dissenters way back when. The difference is: they're not around to bitch about it, as they were wiped out completely. You know, I lived in Thailand. Land of smiles, everyone always seems happy, they're not violent, right? Wrong. They just present differently.
I have. They said that they regretted the atomic bombing, it was a sad and terrible thing, and regretted how their city had to pay the price for the country's militarism. They were also quite proud of the city's post WW2 peace influences, wished that nobody would have to go through that again, and hoped to influence the United States to reduce and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons.
The moment you said "spraying", you lost the argument. The only people who say spraying, as if guns were garden hoses, are those who have never fired a gun. Old antique weapons are surprisingly deadly. I have a cousin who regularly shoots a replica black power pistol, and similar weapons killed many people in the old west.
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So this , even though it's from an AC, gets score:0, while "libertarians want to murder millions" gets +5.
Sad.Partisan sad, actually.
Cash isn't that hard, unless you're used to charging everything and living on debt.
That's the hardest (and best) part about paying cash for everything: If you don't have the money, you can't afford to buy it.
It's better for cutting spending as well. It's much harder, psychologically, to spend $100 cash than it is to swipe your card.
In the future, there ARE not stores.
Think Wal-e
"nurses are not paid high wages"...
Wha? Most of the nurses I know are very well paid.
Socialized costs are often less obvious, and hidden under layers of bureaucracy.
Here is a personal example: I was at the bank the other day, and a guy walks in, asking the teller if she had a good holiday.
He then proceeds to tell her how his department received two weeks off, paid, for the Christmas/New Years holiday. How nice his bosses are, how often they get this, how surprised everyone was.
She asked him where he worked, and his answer: "The city of Los Angeles".
There's obviously no accountability to this, and that's where it hides in socialized systems.
Invariably, next year, the city will ask for increased tax revenue that's desperately needed: and ignore his free two weeks.s someone who worked over that holiday. As someone who worked over that time, subsidizing his two week vacation is infuriating.
I disagree.
I think we are currently going through a revolutionary change, being fueled by automation, and we need to learn how to deal with it.
What will a non-creative 95 point IQ person do if there are no longer any manufacturing/lower end jobs that have been automated away?
But all OSs are Taco Bell!
"Coke has long been controlled by Republicans so they do not care about quality or service."
WTF?
So Pepsi is decidedly Democrat?
Are you really suggesting the soda wars are partisan?
What is gormless? Seriously, I have no idea.
Thanks for the voice of reason, AC. I'm hoping you're just an angsty teen. If not, I'm hoping you're just a juvenile angsty adult.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
I have a British friend who once traveled through Korea, stayed one day, and left. My friend had bought a lot of deodorant, since she was living Japan, and couldn't get any there that she liked there.
When going through Korean customs, she actually had the customs agent tell her, in English, that she was confiscating all her deodorant because she wanted it. She then went on to explain that if she complained, she would miss her flight and possibly be put in jail.
"as an American, you get a little extra priority getting through border controls".
I call bullshit on that.
I'm an American, I travel internationally at least once a year.EVERY time I've hit customs in the US, the lines have been seriously longer for US citizens than visiting foreign citizens.Probably because that's the largest group of people passing through US border control.
I contrast this to the countries in Asia I usually visit, where what you state is completely true. Especially Japan.
Just last year, flying to Canada: Into Canada, Canadian line shorter, "other" line longer.
Flying back to US: US line longer, "Other" line super short. I get jacked on both ends.
Or, possibly, we see our privacy slowly eroding, and people wearing glass as the modern equivalent of or the cheerleaders for this movement.
I view it as a stepping stone to more loss of rights, and you as their willing accomplice masking it as innovation and modernity.
To make the analogy: you're the sailor working on a slave ship wondering why people hate sailing.
For a small, wearable device. Whenever it detects someone filming/recording you with Google Glass, or the equivalent, it saturates the sensor of it with IR/UV/microwaves/EMP blast/bullets/whatever.
Sort of an anti-glass.
I agree, and to back up my belief, here is an alien book titled "To Serve Man".
Nothing bad can come of that!
The Japanese too. They have a sound that's sort of a L/R put together
I guess it's good that the serious threat of International Communism is so far off you can make that statement, and concentrate on fixing the flaws in International Capitalism...
I would pay to play this.
I completely agree with you on the Propaganda aspects.
The noble savage thing seems to generally be when someone talks about culture other than their own, and for whatever reason tend to view them better than their own, possibly because we're all more aware of our own failings. It's like the flip side of the guy saying "My culture is ALWAYS right". I tend to have a (pessimistic) viewpoint that most cultures are equally brutal, they just may not have had the opportunity to show it. So maybe I"m pushing "We all suck equally" rather than "They suck more than us".
And you know what? They should get over it. Seriously. GET OVER IT.
Look at the Serbs and Albanians, carrying around that crap for , what, five hundred damn years? What good has it done?
Please don't trot out that "noble savage" nonsense about violence being "alien".
The Chinese were just as busy murdering their own dissenters way back when. The difference is: they're not around to bitch about it, as they were wiped out completely.
You know, I lived in Thailand. Land of smiles, everyone always seems happy, they're not violent, right? Wrong. They just present differently.
I didn't give netflix any of my money.
I have. They said that they regretted the atomic bombing, it was a sad and terrible thing, and regretted how their city had to pay the price for the country's militarism.
They were also quite proud of the city's post WW2 peace influences, wished that nobody would have to go through that again, and hoped to influence the United States to reduce and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons.
The moment you said "spraying", you lost the argument. The only people who say spraying, as if guns were garden hoses, are those who have never fired a gun.
Old antique weapons are surprisingly deadly. I have a cousin who regularly shoots a replica black power pistol, and similar weapons killed many people in the old west.
This.
The two are connected. Rather closely, I'd say. Just because you give them different labels doesn't make it otherwise.