This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while.
Are you telling me scientists should have no way to determine what science policy should be?
If the politicians aren't listening to teachers about what education policy should be, then how do politicians have an informed opinion on such things? Oh yes, that's what lobbyists are for.
Why should public sector be any different from private sector?
What is more democratic than voting for something to change?
So many of your current entitlements (by which I mean safe working conditions, 8 hour days as opposed to 14 hour days, paid vacation) was won by unions. You should take a history lesson my friend!
Oh, so that's why homosexuals can get married in any state in the US? Or that abortion clinics are allowed to conduct their perfectly legal business without harassment.
Whilst religions have adapted in other western countries, the US is alone in it's Christian fundamentalism.
I do occasionally click on the ads, but usually find things are way more expensive than advertised because the shipping costs and import duty is way higher than I originally figured.
At the same time, what guarantee do advertisers give users that their ads are not a potential attack vector, or what standard do they follow that their ads are not intrusive and degrade the performance of a users machine or overly distract and irritate the users? How invasive do their ads and data collection get to be?
So all adverts then.
I have ad-blocking on by default. There are only a couple of sites where I specifically allow them to be shown, because as you point out some sites can't exist without them. I don't like adverts, and I go out of my way to avoid buying anything that is "advertised". If I want something, I'll go looking for it, research it, and the buy it.
I don't take calls from cold callers either - I think they are as distracting, irritating and privacy invading as adverts on websites.
Please, how is this patent any different from real world bargaining?
For bargaining to occur, you need to be able to negotiate with the other party. Bargaining doesn't occur in the 1st world, often because the attitude of the people doing the selling is often "if you don't like the price, go buy it somewhere else".
Joking aside for a moment, wouldn't the can explode if you took it into an unpressurised environment like space? Even if you did, wouldn't the propellant immediately evaporate the moment it left the nozzle?
The ad contracts are decided before broadcast, but the rates are based on the projected number of people watching a given program. If the projected number of people watching is significantly lower than expected, because everyone's gone off to watch it on the internet, when it comes to renewing those contracts, the TV producers won't make as much money.
1) People outside the UK had access to the content. They did not pay a TV license and haven't contributed to that cost 2) You're assuming that everyone in the UK downloading have paid for the licence 3) The licence only pays for content produced by the BBC. Other TV companies have to make their money with adverts, but I would bet the UK Nova "producers" didn't leave the ads in.
Having seen first hand quite a few master pieces in many museums in Europe, I can assure you that a digital replica is in no way a replacement for the original. They are a pale shadow by comparison.
Yes they do teach their children to speak properly and certainly better than any American I've heard - and they teach their children to spell entitlement too.
You seem to believe that the entitlement culture is what is making the debt go up. That certainly seems to be the case, but it's from a sense of entitlement to cheap gas prices. Which is why American spends more in its military than any other nation in history.
Your rich certainly have a sense of entitlement - that they should not have to pay anything into the public purse. Your corporations are no better - how much tax did Exxon Mobile pay last year (hint: none, yet they are one of the most profitable in history)
You also seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that poor people are lazy. They are not. The people working minimum wage work a damn site harder than any Wall Street thief - and probably harder than you or I.
So yes - get rid of the sense of entitlement that the rich have. Make them pay the levels of tax they are supposed to be paying.
Maybe Atlas will Shrug. Who cares. Do you really think the rich will want to stop making more money than god?
That's only because they aren't willing to sell large chunks of their country to foreign powers - like America does every time it increases it's national debt. Sort your own fucking problems out before pointing the finger elsewhere!
If they let people take off from work (with pay) every time they're sick, then what's to keep everyone from calling in "sick" all the time?
This is what has happened in every job I was in the UK (where we have significantly more annual leave/vacation time than the US. 21 days is standard - 27 if you work for the National Health Service!). The answer is - they break company policy by taking too much time off, and they get fired. It's pretty easy to document people's time off for sickness, once you hit a limit, it's P45 time. No one in the jobs I was in took the piss with it. Generally people don't try to game the system.
If you were on extended leave of absence (more than 3 days was usual) due to illness, you needed a note from your doctor to explain why you weren't going to be in, and when you were likely to be returning to work. And of course, having a socialized healthcare system meant you could always go see a doctor, and didn't have to pay for it.
I don't recall anyone getting fired for being sick - which I understand is a regular occurrence in the US. Occasionally you read in the papers of people suing companies for being fired due to sickness - and often winning a lot of money as a result.
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The recall is the first recall in history where the incumbent won. It's a surprising result, so as a strategy it wasn't a bad idea.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a while.
Are you telling me scientists should have no way to determine what science policy should be?
If the politicians aren't listening to teachers about what education policy should be, then how do politicians have an informed opinion on such things? Oh yes, that's what lobbyists are for.
Why should public sector be any different from private sector?
What is more democratic than voting for something to change?
So many of your current entitlements (by which I mean safe working conditions, 8 hour days as opposed to 14 hour days, paid vacation) was won by unions. You should take a history lesson my friend!
There is less evidence than that that the Roman empire ever existed, and there is evidence that scientific theories are wrong.
I was trying to understand your angle, until I read the above. And realised you're completely bat shit crazy.
I think you need to learn what the word "theory" actually means, rather than what you think it means.
We've "adapted" the religion to fit the times.
Oh, so that's why homosexuals can get married in any state in the US?
Or that abortion clinics are allowed to conduct their perfectly legal business without harassment.
Whilst religions have adapted in other western countries, the US is alone in it's Christian fundamentalism.
I do occasionally click on the ads, but usually find things are way more expensive than advertised because the shipping costs and import duty is way higher than I originally figured.
At the same time, what guarantee do advertisers give users that their ads are not a potential attack vector, or what standard do they follow that their ads are not intrusive and degrade the performance of a users machine or overly distract and irritate the users? How invasive do their ads and data collection get to be?
So all adverts then.
I have ad-blocking on by default. There are only a couple of sites where I specifically allow them to be shown, because as you point out some sites can't exist without them. I don't like adverts, and I go out of my way to avoid buying anything that is "advertised". If I want something, I'll go looking for it, research it, and the buy it.
I don't take calls from cold callers either - I think they are as distracting, irritating and privacy invading as adverts on websites.
Ad-block FTW
Please, how is this patent any different from real world bargaining?
For bargaining to occur, you need to be able to negotiate with the other party. Bargaining doesn't occur in the 1st world, often because the attitude of the people doing the selling is often "if you don't like the price, go buy it somewhere else".
Joking aside for a moment, wouldn't the can explode if you took it into an unpressurised environment like space? Even if you did, wouldn't the propellant immediately evaporate the moment it left the nozzle?
I agree - there's a difference between innovation and incremental improvements.
The ad contracts are decided before broadcast, but the rates are based on the projected number of people watching a given program. If the projected number of people watching is significantly lower than expected, because everyone's gone off to watch it on the internet, when it comes to renewing those contracts, the TV producers won't make as much money.
Or even find a dis-reputable company that will produce 'fake' plates for a fee/bottle of whiskey
The trouble with this argument is three fold:
1) People outside the UK had access to the content. They did not pay a TV license and haven't contributed to that cost
2) You're assuming that everyone in the UK downloading have paid for the licence
3) The licence only pays for content produced by the BBC. Other TV companies have to make their money with adverts, but I would bet the UK Nova "producers" didn't leave the ads in.
Having seen first hand quite a few master pieces in many museums in Europe, I can assure you that a digital replica is in no way a replacement for the original. They are a pale shadow by comparison.
PS I assume you mean confusing, not confessing.
Yes they do teach their children to speak properly and certainly better than any American I've heard - and they teach their children to spell entitlement too.
You seem to believe that the entitlement culture is what is making the debt go up. That certainly seems to be the case, but it's from a sense of entitlement to cheap gas prices. Which is why American spends more in its military than any other nation in history.
Your rich certainly have a sense of entitlement - that they should not have to pay anything into the public purse. Your corporations are no better - how much tax did Exxon Mobile pay last year (hint: none, yet they are one of the most profitable in history)
You also seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that poor people are lazy. They are not. The people working minimum wage work a damn site harder than any Wall Street thief - and probably harder than you or I.
So yes - get rid of the sense of entitlement that the rich have. Make them pay the levels of tax they are supposed to be paying.
Maybe Atlas will Shrug. Who cares. Do you really think the rich will want to stop making more money than god?
The cameras aren't there for ordinary criminals to get caught /tinfoilhat
That's only because they aren't willing to sell large chunks of their country to foreign powers - like America does every time it increases it's national debt. Sort your own fucking problems out before pointing the finger elsewhere!
Which explains why America's army (run by it's Government) just dumps all over the rest of the world, and American's don't give a shit?
If we stopped fighting the wars America starts, then we'd have plenty of money to pay down our national debts.
It doesn't matter to the majority of Europeans. These days in Europe racism is largely looked upon as socially unacceptable.
You just described America. The only difference is they started with slaves and have moved onto oil instead.
I wonder what will happen when the oil runs out?
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If they let people take off from work (with pay) every time they're sick, then what's to keep everyone from calling in "sick" all the time?
This is what has happened in every job I was in the UK (where we have significantly more annual leave/vacation time than the US. 21 days is standard - 27 if you work for the National Health Service!). The answer is - they break company policy by taking too much time off, and they get fired. It's pretty easy to document people's time off for sickness, once you hit a limit, it's P45 time. No one in the jobs I was in took the piss with it. Generally people don't try to game the system.
If you were on extended leave of absence (more than 3 days was usual) due to illness, you needed a note from your doctor to explain why you weren't going to be in, and when you were likely to be returning to work. And of course, having a socialized healthcare system meant you could always go see a doctor, and didn't have to pay for it.
I don't recall anyone getting fired for being sick - which I understand is a regular occurrence in the US. Occasionally you read in the papers of people suing companies for being fired due to sickness - and often winning a lot of money as a result.