Ok, outside the copyright debate, am I the only one that is extremely skeptical when someone is the "czar" of something? What the hell does that actually mean, and what can they actually do?
Establish a secret police to rout all revolutionaries and anti-royalists. Establish a serfdom and enforce it with an iron fist. Confiscate the property of radicals and starve them and their families. Get lined up against a wall and shot when the revolution comes.
High wages and lower wealth concentration make for a strong middle class; which leads to lower crime, better education, and better economic diversification.
That thar sounds like Commernist talk to me! You wanna be lynched like one o' them thar Commernists? If you don't like it, leave!
Or stay in Pakistan, selling nuclear technologies to North Korea, Iran, and anyone else with the cash. This isn't a racist jibe, it recent technological history.
There is a big flaw in your reasoning. H-1B workers are NOT "immigrants". They are "guest workers". Thus, your founder examples are misleading. If they were made immigrants, maybe companies would not treat them like indentured servants.
Very true. My friends from China who actually try to *stay* in America tend to get about the same wages that Americans do. It's the H-1B visa holders that are treated like disposable commodities.
Its called inflation and is a godsend for a debtor nation like the US. With household debt at 100% of GDP and over $10 trillion on national debt, the policies of this government will inevitably be geared towards inflation. The need to keep inflation numbers low for now is simply to sucker people into lending us money at a low interest rate. At some point in the future, the US will inflate its way out of its debt. (Do you really think we'll ever actually pay back what we've borrowed?)
While it may make debts easier to pay, it ultimately makes the money worthless. Inflation by printing more money to pay off obligations is what the Weimar Republic did, and we all know how well *that* worked out. With Obama looking like he can win the Presidency, the fringe lunatic end of the Republican Party is showing its vile, racist hatred (*). I only hope we in the U.S. don't wind up having to go to the grocery store with our money in wheelbarrows and simply having it weighed to determine if it is enough to pay, along with outlawing the possession of Euros and other stable currencies.
(*) Yes, I realize plenty of Republicans are not racists, but there is a lunatic fringe of Republicans who are both racist and violent. If they think they have nothing to lose, who knows what could happen.
It's hard to have a reasonable discussion of Fair Use when the copyright industry gets to cast itself as the little old lady.
Of course, this little old lady is the kind that has a telescope to look at you through your windows so she can call the police when she sees you having sex or looking at a porno mag. After all, she can see you, so you must be doing it in view of the public. Also, she never chains up her dog so he runs everywhere and crashes through your screen door, and then she sues you when you kill the dog and blames you for causing it to run loose. That, and she screeches obscenities at you every time you leave the house. This is a little old lady that needs to die.
But in modern America, the people who call themselves "conservative" are mostly radical reformers who want to replace the centuries-old culture of individual freedom with an authoritarian religious system.
Of course, the authoritarian religious system is only for the proles. The "haves and have mores" will still have their bacchanalia and their Bohemian Clubs and so on while pretending to be pure as they let a few crumbs "trickle down" to the proles.
It's fairly clear that much of the problems with good science/math education in the US comes from outside, in the form of the religious objections to certain parts of the subject matter. This affects not just biology teachers, but all science teachers, as science in general is suspect to "people of faith".
The problem is that the Fundamentalists have such power in the US, and there are so many of them. You don't usually get this sort of problem with Jews, Catholics and Lutherans (among others). You get it from the Pat Robertson-style nutjobs, who used to routinely refer to Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and many others as having the "spirit of the Anti-Christ" or something similar. For example, they keep quoting the notion that increased education leads to decreased faith (which is actually not true, it simply leads to decreased fundamentalism). They don't want kids learning science, math and so on. They want kids to shut up, absorb, and obey. Unfortunately, they are the ones who have lots of money and tend to get the media attention since they are loud and obnoxious.
That isn't capitalism of any form. It is legalized theft.
Well, when people talk about "capitalism" now, they are usually referring to corporate mercantilism. We don't really have capitalism. What we have is similar to the system foisted on the world by monarchs hundreds of years ago so they could enslave other people and plunder their resources.
You do realize that the Theory of Evolution is, well, still just a theory?
It is as much of a "theory" as gravity. Theory, in science, does not mean something someone thought up one night while drunk.
To teach that science has all the answers when any good scientist will tell you that there is no final answer is just as equally "abusive."
No one says science has all the answers. But there are some ideas, like the world was created 6000 years ago, that are so completely wrong, and have been proven so, that they are no longer worth consideration. Or perhaps you think we should teach that demons cause disease as a balance to teaching Germ Theory (which is, as you would say, just a theory).
If you are on my foes list it doesn't mean I don't like you - it means you're an idiot.
Folk who learn other languages bust their nuts on noun gender and verb forms.
There are many languages (Non-European mostly) that don't have noun gender and verb forms to worry about. Indonesian and Chinese (in fact, most Asian languages) come to mind.
The ACLU couldn't have picked a worse poster child in this case.
He could have been found with terrorist propaganda and child porn in his car. A fair number of people actually do have sympathy for his kind of case. A lot of people think drug laws are absurd and some people either don't believe in gun control or at least think it has gotten out of hand.
Or: "It was an honest mistake when I accidentally pulled out the pin on my grenade and lobbed it into the RIAA lawyers' office. And when I emptied a full clip from my AK into the surviving lawyers fleeing in panic, it was a simple misunderstanding!"
Maybe so, but a New Jersey judge has no authority to do so. Article I Section 4 and Article II Section 1 of the US Constitution give ultimate authority over the time of elections to Congress. The Congressional and Presidential elections must occur the Tuesday after the first Monday in November according to 2 USC 1, 2 USC 7 and 3 USC 1 (3 USC 2 seems to give a little wriggle room, but only for Electors).
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamn piece of paper!" - George W. Bush
Only on/. can you get modded +5 Insightful for pulling a No True Scotsman
How is that a "No True Scotsman" fallacy? Couchslug claimed that Jack Thompson and Fox News are representative of all but a few fringe Christians. I replied that, if you look at the actual data, especially worldwide, those Christians that like Jack Thompson and Fox News are actually very much in the minority. Do you even understand what the "No True Scotsman" fallacy is? Or, Mr. AC, are you Couchslug and you simply can't admit that you don't know what you are talking about?
If what Fox News wasn't popular with Christians and therefore reflective of modern Christian belief they wouldn't be popular or influential. Jack Thompson and people like him represent modern Christianity even if a few fringe Christians disapprove.
American fundamentalists != modern Christianity
The rest of the Christian world != a few fringe Christians
I guess by your type of assessment, Catholicism is a fringe Christian group and Eastern Orthodoxy doesn't even exist. There is a whole world outside of the U.S. In some parts of it, they even speak languages other than English.
Maybe now we won't have to hear about him all the damn time.
Sadly, no. According the last link in the summary, he has filed a federal suit against the Florida Bar, the Florida Supreme Court, and all seven of its justices. He won't shut up until he keels over from a heart attack while masturbating to the gay porn he submitted to a judge.
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Said the geek who has rarely left his mother's basement, let alone the USA.
Establish a secret police to rout all revolutionaries and anti-royalists. Establish a serfdom and enforce it with an iron fist. Confiscate the property of radicals and starve them and their families. Get lined up against a wall and shot when the revolution comes.
You would force cricket on a population by force? That's not cricket, old boy!
That thar sounds like Commernist talk to me! You wanna be lynched like one o' them thar Commernists? If you don't like it, leave!
KKKHHHAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!
Very true. My friends from China who actually try to *stay* in America tend to get about the same wages that Americans do. It's the H-1B visa holders that are treated like disposable commodities.
While it may make debts easier to pay, it ultimately makes the money worthless. Inflation by printing more money to pay off obligations is what the Weimar Republic did, and we all know how well *that* worked out. With Obama looking like he can win the Presidency, the fringe lunatic end of the Republican Party is showing its vile, racist hatred (*). I only hope we in the U.S. don't wind up having to go to the grocery store with our money in wheelbarrows and simply having it weighed to determine if it is enough to pay, along with outlawing the possession of Euros and other stable currencies.
(*) Yes, I realize plenty of Republicans are not racists, but there is a lunatic fringe of Republicans who are both racist and violent. If they think they have nothing to lose, who knows what could happen.
Of course, this little old lady is the kind that has a telescope to look at you through your windows so she can call the police when she sees you having sex or looking at a porno mag. After all, she can see you, so you must be doing it in view of the public. Also, she never chains up her dog so he runs everywhere and crashes through your screen door, and then she sues you when you kill the dog and blames you for causing it to run loose. That, and she screeches obscenities at you every time you leave the house. This is a little old lady that needs to die.
So, basically, they are like wives.
Of course, the authoritarian religious system is only for the proles. The "haves and have mores" will still have their bacchanalia and their Bohemian Clubs and so on while pretending to be pure as they let a few crumbs "trickle down" to the proles.
The problem is that the Fundamentalists have such power in the US, and there are so many of them. You don't usually get this sort of problem with Jews, Catholics and Lutherans (among others). You get it from the Pat Robertson-style nutjobs, who used to routinely refer to Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and many others as having the "spirit of the Anti-Christ" or something similar. For example, they keep quoting the notion that increased education leads to decreased faith (which is actually not true, it simply leads to decreased fundamentalism). They don't want kids learning science, math and so on. They want kids to shut up, absorb, and obey. Unfortunately, they are the ones who have lots of money and tend to get the media attention since they are loud and obnoxious.
Well, when people talk about "capitalism" now, they are usually referring to corporate mercantilism. We don't really have capitalism. What we have is similar to the system foisted on the world by monarchs hundreds of years ago so they could enslave other people and plunder their resources.
It is as much of a "theory" as gravity. Theory, in science, does not mean something someone thought up one night while drunk.
No one says science has all the answers. But there are some ideas, like the world was created 6000 years ago, that are so completely wrong, and have been proven so, that they are no longer worth consideration. Or perhaps you think we should teach that demons cause disease as a balance to teaching Germ Theory (which is, as you would say, just a theory).
So, you put yourself on your foes list?
There are many languages (Non-European mostly) that don't have noun gender and verb forms to worry about. Indonesian and Chinese (in fact, most Asian languages) come to mind.
He'll probably tell us all that our asteroid problem can be solved by taking more vitamins.
He could have been found with terrorist propaganda and child porn in his car. A fair number of people actually do have sympathy for his kind of case. A lot of people think drug laws are absurd and some people either don't believe in gun control or at least think it has gotten out of hand.
Well, I don't know about Reid, but I seriously doubt this is the first time Nancy "Impeachment is off the table" Pelosi has been called a Bushtard.
Or: "It was an honest mistake when I accidentally pulled out the pin on my grenade and lobbed it into the RIAA lawyers' office. And when I emptied a full clip from my AK into the surviving lawyers fleeing in panic, it was a simple misunderstanding!"
Ich habe gefallen und ich kann nicht aufstanden!
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face! It's just a goddamn piece of paper!" - George W. Bush
Well, the SCO lawsuits are pretty much dead now. We have to have *something* to fill the void! ^_^
When it comes to the supreme court (florida or otherwise), 1.5 years *is* sudden.
How is that a "No True Scotsman" fallacy? Couchslug claimed that Jack Thompson and Fox News are representative of all but a few fringe Christians. I replied that, if you look at the actual data, especially worldwide, those Christians that like Jack Thompson and Fox News are actually very much in the minority. Do you even understand what the "No True Scotsman" fallacy is? Or, Mr. AC, are you Couchslug and you simply can't admit that you don't know what you are talking about?
American fundamentalists != modern Christianity
The rest of the Christian world != a few fringe Christians
I guess by your type of assessment, Catholicism is a fringe Christian group and Eastern Orthodoxy doesn't even exist. There is a whole world outside of the U.S. In some parts of it, they even speak languages other than English.
Sadly, no. According the last link in the summary, he has filed a federal suit against the Florida Bar, the Florida Supreme Court, and all seven of its justices. He won't shut up until he keels over from a heart attack while masturbating to the gay porn he submitted to a judge.