Climate is not usually measured in periods of less than 30 years, so either you haven't got a clue, or are trying to create a reality which simply doesn't exist. You do this every time, though, so it's not surprising. You frequently get confused between sea ice and ice on the land, and use the extent of the sea ice as some sort of argument that the land ice is doing fine, when in fact the opposite is usually the case.
BTW I think you are entirely correct. People are people - one person's relationship to another doesn't magically imbue either party with some magic quality, or even if one were to assume it does, that would then apply to everyone else, rendering the "magic quality" moot. It might not be the most comforting thought in the world for some, but the logic behind it is undeniable.
You are assuming minorities are criminal because they're minorities, and not because of anything else. If you look past peoples' ethnicities, you'd notice that the poor are far more represented in prison populations than rich people, and US minorities are far more likely to be poor than white folks. Finland's low prison population has more to do with its better social protection and smaller wealth gap than the racial make-up of its populace.
So yes, the US has screwed over its poor people, and this is the consequence - more of them feel the need (whether rightly or wrongly) to break the law to get by.
The longer people like you scream "minorities! brown people! scum!" the longer these problems will go unfixed. Of course it's easy to just point the finger at some obvious visual difference (especially one that resonates with racists and other less thoughtful people, such as yourself) than it is to delve deeper and realise that some fundamental aspects of US society are responsible for this ridiculous crime level. Throw in the pathetic war on drugs and now you have a much better - but still incomplete - understanding of the reasons behind the US's embarrassing level of incarceration compared to first world countries.
You really haven't got the grip of the "correlation does not imply causation" thing, have you? Or is it just when brown people crop up that your logic goes out the window?
No, it's a matter of knowing what words mean, and not simply making up alternate translations to win an argument... When a country is occupied, the occupying forces control the laws and institutions of the land. Clearly that is not the case in Germany, so you are clearly either completely ignorant of the concept of occupation, or are lying... Your choice.
I agree to drive you to the airport and although I don't know you personally my friend introduced us and I trust him, and you agree to reimburse me and pay me a profit for the journey.
That's where it becomes illegal. Right there. That precise line. The one you conveniently missed out. Weird, huh?
In the US, maybe. In Western Europe, no way. The worst taxis I've taken were in the US, and the best were in the EU. I wish Uber all the luck in the world in the US, and absolutely none in Europe.
I think you're forgetting something rather important: the DLR was constructed with driverless trains in mind, specifically things like track/train visibility/access from the platform, escape routes, and communication between the platforms and the control centre, and so on. Some of the old lines on the underground were designed for steam trains, and most of the newer ones were designed for trains with drivers. Automated trains are wonderful, but in the event of an emergency, the software can't lead passengers out the rear door and down the dark track to the nearest exit, or slam on the brakes when some unfortunate person winds up on the tracks... The latter is easy enough to fix, but the former not as much.
Lego are actively researching alternative materials from which to make their blocks, so your criticism is merely illustrating your lack of knowledge of the subject, and not a well-thought-out attack on Lego.
You do realise "split second" is like a lifetime to a computer, right? You also realise that your hardware was developed to run around in the jungle swinging from trees and running away from tigers, and not to drive 80,000 pound trucks at 65mph... Once automated trucks are developed, they will be inherently safer than the humans who operate them today - they have specifically-designed sensor packages, computing power far greater than your brain, and far more accurate input from the vehicle and road. It's just a matter of time - driving trucks isn't magic, and while it might be difficult, a well-designed computer will be far more suited to the task than any human, glitches and all. Your comment about planes is a bit weird as the vast majority of air travel is conducted by computer, including a fair number of landings. Automated taxiing and take-offs are also possible, and will be coming to an airline near you if they are not already.
Just because Boeing and Airbus are not removing human pilots at the moment doesn't mean to say they won't be in the future. Their lack of action on this part is not an implicit agreement with your temporal short-sightedness...
Flash is not a language. The language it uses - ActionScript - is an ECMA compliant scripting language, meaning it's essentially syntactically JavaScript.
No, because English is, ironically, the Lingua Franca of the world. It's higher in the tech/engineering sector as those people are better educated, and the better educated someone is the more likely they'll speak English.
You can stop trying to make yourself look awesome by trying to make the country you were born in sound better. It only works on children.
1. It's larger than many US states (which have higher population densities and far worse internet connectivity) 2. It's not a late adopter - it has been continually updating its infrastructure, instead of giving money to corporations to do the same (who just keep large amounts of it)
1. Then by your logic all US cities have excellent internet. What, they don't? 2. The economic benefits of everyone having internet are staggering. Buying/selling goods, government services (requiring less money spent on buildings and public-facing staff), improved telecommunications, and so on. The list is massive.
The Swedes can indeed keep their higher taxes, which buy them things that you'd have to pay even more for, and the security which comes from that. You are fooling yourself if you think Sweden is somehow worse off than the US in this regard.
Because you pay for it whether they die in the streets, default on treatment they can't afford, or get free healthcare. You don't live in a vacuum, regardless of what you might think - everyone around you is economically tied to you, and everything they do has an effect on you, and vice versa. It's cheaper for everyone to pay a little bit of money to get healthcare and ensure everyone's covered. In sane countries this is achieved by having a single payer system, which allows ridiculously cheap prices (compared to the US) for medicine, treatment, training, facilities, equipment, etc. as everything is bought in bulk, and economies of scale come in to play. Private healthcare is still available if you want, but most don't need it.
So yeah, it's civil to sit down, evaluate the costs and the moral benefits, and decide that as a society they want to save money and treat everyone with respect by ensuring that everyone has healthcare. The US system is so ridiculously fucked it's not even funny. You're right to complain about it, but apparently you might have your reasons confused.
Then why does broadband suck in most US cities? If what you say was true, US cities would have some of the best internet in the world, which is patently not true. You making excuses for the sorry state of internet connectivity in the US is only making matters worse.
Sweden != Norway. You do realise you're the stereotypical "bad geography" American, right? Such a shame.
Sweden's population density is lower, and the US's GDP is larger. If what you say is true, internet in large US cities should be fantastic, when it isn't.
Get a grip - you're hurting the US with that attitude, not to mention making yourself look foolish confusing two countries.
Just as capitalism can be horrid... Just accept that sometimes socialist endeavours can benefit everyone, and stop looking like a battered housewife trying to protect her husband from prosecution. Your attitude is what's causing this nonsense, and you don't seem to realise it, or are so self-absorbed that you don't even see it as a problem...
I know it makes you sad on the inside to admit that the US isn't the best at everything, but at least try to use logic. For your point to be valid, all US cities should have wonderful internet, and only those sparse areas between should have terrible internet. As it is, most US cities can't even get good, cheap internet to their population. You do realise the longer people like you chime in with "but we're so BIIIG!" the longer it will take to fix this embarrassing issue? Pathetic.
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Climate is not usually measured in periods of less than 30 years, so either you haven't got a clue, or are trying to create a reality which simply doesn't exist. You do this every time, though, so it's not surprising. You frequently get confused between sea ice and ice on the land, and use the extent of the sea ice as some sort of argument that the land ice is doing fine, when in fact the opposite is usually the case.
Please grow up.
The silence is deafening :)
BTW I think you are entirely correct. People are people - one person's relationship to another doesn't magically imbue either party with some magic quality, or even if one were to assume it does, that would then apply to everyone else, rendering the "magic quality" moot. It might not be the most comforting thought in the world for some, but the logic behind it is undeniable.
You are assuming minorities are criminal because they're minorities, and not because of anything else. If you look past peoples' ethnicities, you'd notice that the poor are far more represented in prison populations than rich people, and US minorities are far more likely to be poor than white folks. Finland's low prison population has more to do with its better social protection and smaller wealth gap than the racial make-up of its populace.
So yes, the US has screwed over its poor people, and this is the consequence - more of them feel the need (whether rightly or wrongly) to break the law to get by.
The longer people like you scream "minorities! brown people! scum!" the longer these problems will go unfixed. Of course it's easy to just point the finger at some obvious visual difference (especially one that resonates with racists and other less thoughtful people, such as yourself) than it is to delve deeper and realise that some fundamental aspects of US society are responsible for this ridiculous crime level. Throw in the pathetic war on drugs and now you have a much better - but still incomplete - understanding of the reasons behind the US's embarrassing level of incarceration compared to first world countries.
You really haven't got the grip of the "correlation does not imply causation" thing, have you? Or is it just when brown people crop up that your logic goes out the window?
You think units should be difficult to convert between, and that English is somehow American. You're not too bright, are you?
I hope that was a joke, as "Antwort" is feminine, meaning die is correct...
No, it's a matter of knowing what words mean, and not simply making up alternate translations to win an argument... When a country is occupied, the occupying forces control the laws and institutions of the land. Clearly that is not the case in Germany, so you are clearly either completely ignorant of the concept of occupation, or are lying... Your choice.
You don't see the difference between:
A driver and his car, going from A to Z, stops on the way to pick someone up who's going from F to X, who reimburses them fuel money
and
A driver is requested by a person to pick them up at F and drive them to X, where a fee including a profit is demanded.
It's not just money.
You missed the last one:
I agree to drive you to the airport and although I don't know you personally my friend introduced us and I trust him, and you agree to reimburse me and pay me a profit for the journey.
That's where it becomes illegal. Right there. That precise line. The one you conveniently missed out. Weird, huh?
In the US, maybe. In Western Europe, no way. The worst taxis I've taken were in the US, and the best were in the EU. I wish Uber all the luck in the world in the US, and absolutely none in Europe.
Nonsense. I was in Amsterdam two weeks ago, and you can get paper tickets for the face value, no extra top-up required.
I think you're forgetting something rather important: the DLR was constructed with driverless trains in mind, specifically things like track/train visibility/access from the platform, escape routes, and communication between the platforms and the control centre, and so on. Some of the old lines on the underground were designed for steam trains, and most of the newer ones were designed for trains with drivers. Automated trains are wonderful, but in the event of an emergency, the software can't lead passengers out the rear door and down the dark track to the nearest exit, or slam on the brakes when some unfortunate person winds up on the tracks... The latter is easy enough to fix, but the former not as much.
Lego are actively researching alternative materials from which to make their blocks, so your criticism is merely illustrating your lack of knowledge of the subject, and not a well-thought-out attack on Lego.
You do realise "split second" is like a lifetime to a computer, right? You also realise that your hardware was developed to run around in the jungle swinging from trees and running away from tigers, and not to drive 80,000 pound trucks at 65mph... Once automated trucks are developed, they will be inherently safer than the humans who operate them today - they have specifically-designed sensor packages, computing power far greater than your brain, and far more accurate input from the vehicle and road. It's just a matter of time - driving trucks isn't magic, and while it might be difficult, a well-designed computer will be far more suited to the task than any human, glitches and all. Your comment about planes is a bit weird as the vast majority of air travel is conducted by computer, including a fair number of landings. Automated taxiing and take-offs are also possible, and will be coming to an airline near you if they are not already.
Just because Boeing and Airbus are not removing human pilots at the moment doesn't mean to say they won't be in the future. Their lack of action on this part is not an implicit agreement with your temporal short-sightedness...
Flash is not a language. The language it uses - ActionScript - is an ECMA compliant scripting language, meaning it's essentially syntactically JavaScript.
You honestly do sound like an angry neckbeard. You might want to get some therapy or something. That rage isn't helpful.
You are drinking the kool-aid. Just look at the wealth gap between rich and poor - clearly the dream is just that - a dream.
No, because English is, ironically, the Lingua Franca of the world. It's higher in the tech/engineering sector as those people are better educated, and the better educated someone is the more likely they'll speak English.
You can stop trying to make yourself look awesome by trying to make the country you were born in sound better. It only works on children.
1. It's larger than many US states (which have higher population densities and far worse internet connectivity)
2. It's not a late adopter - it has been continually updating its infrastructure, instead of giving money to corporations to do the same (who just keep large amounts of it)
1. Then by your logic all US cities have excellent internet. What, they don't?
2. The economic benefits of everyone having internet are staggering. Buying/selling goods, government services (requiring less money spent on buildings and public-facing staff), improved telecommunications, and so on. The list is massive.
The Swedes can indeed keep their higher taxes, which buy them things that you'd have to pay even more for, and the security which comes from that. You are fooling yourself if you think Sweden is somehow worse off than the US in this regard.
u jelly? ;) you sure sound it.
Because you pay for it whether they die in the streets, default on treatment they can't afford, or get free healthcare. You don't live in a vacuum, regardless of what you might think - everyone around you is economically tied to you, and everything they do has an effect on you, and vice versa. It's cheaper for everyone to pay a little bit of money to get healthcare and ensure everyone's covered. In sane countries this is achieved by having a single payer system, which allows ridiculously cheap prices (compared to the US) for medicine, treatment, training, facilities, equipment, etc. as everything is bought in bulk, and economies of scale come in to play. Private healthcare is still available if you want, but most don't need it.
So yeah, it's civil to sit down, evaluate the costs and the moral benefits, and decide that as a society they want to save money and treat everyone with respect by ensuring that everyone has healthcare. The US system is so ridiculously fucked it's not even funny. You're right to complain about it, but apparently you might have your reasons confused.
So weird, I know.
Then why does broadband suck in most US cities? If what you say was true, US cities would have some of the best internet in the world, which is patently not true. You making excuses for the sorry state of internet connectivity in the US is only making matters worse.
Your personal experiences do not match the actual situation in Sweden or the US, as the available evidence shows. Please get a grip.
Sweden != Norway. You do realise you're the stereotypical "bad geography" American, right? Such a shame.
Sweden's population density is lower, and the US's GDP is larger. If what you say is true, internet in large US cities should be fantastic, when it isn't.
Get a grip - you're hurting the US with that attitude, not to mention making yourself look foolish confusing two countries.
Just as capitalism can be horrid... Just accept that sometimes socialist endeavours can benefit everyone, and stop looking like a battered housewife trying to protect her husband from prosecution. Your attitude is what's causing this nonsense, and you don't seem to realise it, or are so self-absorbed that you don't even see it as a problem...
I know it makes you sad on the inside to admit that the US isn't the best at everything, but at least try to use logic. For your point to be valid, all US cities should have wonderful internet, and only those sparse areas between should have terrible internet. As it is, most US cities can't even get good, cheap internet to their population. You do realise the longer people like you chime in with "but we're so BIIIG!" the longer it will take to fix this embarrassing issue? Pathetic.