You flew off the handle when I hinted you might have schizophrenia, that I was no doctor and had absolutely no right to do such a thing, and yet here you are doing the exact same thing to someone else. I just thought I'd remind you, so you don't make the same mistake in the future.
There you go again - letting your rampant fear and xenophobia drag you into besmirching over 1.6 billion people, publicly, with absolutely no thought behind it what so ever. Considering there have been more bombs planted in London by Christians than Muslims, you are simply explaining that you don't know your history or religion, yet are so sure in your intrinsic awesomeness that you don't need silly things like facts to make a disgusting, ignorant assertion.
You really are pathetic. I thought you were getting better, but apparently not - thinking is too difficult, hate is too easy, and ignorance is bliss.
The "UK surveillance state" nonsense was just that - a guess of the number of CCTV cameras around the UK by extrapolating based on a single street in a city. The number of CCTV cameras is far less than you think, and the number in private hands dwarfs the number controlled by the government. So to answer your question - the data stays with the owner of the CCTV, which for most cameras is a shop or private residence.
Sagging belts is a fashion statement, nothing else. You are reading way too much into this, which is hardly surprising for someone skirting so close to all-out racism...
Each crop has a different CO2 sweet-spot. Some crops (such as the grains humanity depends on) lose nutrition yield at higher CO2 levels, meaning more is needed to be grown in order to sustain the same amount of people. Also, with increased CO2, the areas suitable for farming move towards the poles, where the ground and supporting infrastructure simply can't cope with farming it.
So no. It's nowhere near as simple as you seem to think it is, which kind of destroys your argument. If you are so clueless about the topic, why on Earth do you think you are qualified to spout off about it?
How is that like a mainframe? If your mainframe had a problem, you couldn't magically spin up another one. If your traffic increased, you couldn't spin up a handful for a couple of hours.
Your name seems rather fitting. You sound like the cliched old man shouting at the TV because the programs confuse and scare him. It's OK you don't understand the benefits cloud providers offer. The rest of us will continue to use them to enrich your life, even if you have no idea.
It really isn't. We are talking about cloud infrastructure, not a little VPS or email. If you rented time on a mainframe and then decided you need 16 more mainframes in the next half hour, would that be possible in the old days? Unless you had a very peculiar (or expensive) provider, that wouldn't be possible. Cloud infrastructure scales remarkably well, for anyone who wishes to use it, and can scale up and down very quickly, depending on requirements.
Squinting until it all looks the same so you can make a sagely comment isn't doing you any great service.
Using the term "republic" to mean "representative democracy" is not a good idea, as to most people "republic" simply means a country without a dynastic leader. It might be a dictatorship, it might be a direct democracy, or it might be a representative democracy, or anything else.
1. Roads are engineered for specific maximum top speeds. Who's being protected? The driver, and the tax payers (by not having their money wasted scraping some idiot off a tree, and all the necessary repairs to the road surface/surrounding environment) 2. Drivers are not prescient - an empty road might suddenly become not empty without the driver being warned.
If the framework is fucked there is no guarantee anyone will understand anything. Your framework is intrinsically fucked, as it is indistinguishable from one created by someone with untreated mental issues. That's not to say you have untreated mental issues, just that you argue like someone with said issues.
You painted a picture of the East/West German divide using only one colour - politics - and painted it very poorly indeed. For anyone to gain any insight into anything (beyond the workings of your brain) would take a miracle, as you left out the vast majority of the reasons for the wall, and the reasons for those who left the East, doing a great disservice to those who fought the despotic regime in the East, and those who sought to build a better Germany in the West.
It seems that you identify as "conservative right", and had a knee-jerk reaction to that being painted negatively. You then did your best (without actually doing any work) to come up with an argument, and decided to shit it over the internet for everyone to bask in the immaturity of your logical prowess.
Pegida and their imitators do not have a rational basis. They are complaining about things that don't happen, living in a world where any external information is from the "lying press" and safe to be ignored (ensuring their screwed-up ideology remains screwed up and free from any tempering by actual evidence), and pandering to the scared right-wingers who lap up the scare stories spewed by other scared right-wingers.
You sound just like them, actually. No wonder you'd defend them.
Trotting out that "why work when you get paid" canard is just telling everyone "I wouldn't work if I was paid", which reflects rather poorly on you. Most people have no problem doing what others consider "work" even if they already have some money in the bank. If your life is so desolate you can't understand that, well, then you might want to take care of yourself before condemning this scheme.
They get this 800 Euros anyway. By giving it to everyone, the state saves money as they get to do away with the overhead of deciding whether each applicant is allowed it or not. Why would you want the government to pay even more money? You haven't thought this through, have you.
The US spends far more of its GDP (as a percent) on healthcare than most Western countries, and gets less for it. US healthcare is expensive and the outcomes simply do not justify it. There is simply no justification for the US system - it's expensive and bad. Yaaay.
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You flew off the handle when I hinted you might have schizophrenia, that I was no doctor and had absolutely no right to do such a thing, and yet here you are doing the exact same thing to someone else. I just thought I'd remind you, so you don't make the same mistake in the future.
You really have no idea. It's amazing that you think that, and even more amazing that you'd post it for the whole world to see.
There you go again - letting your rampant fear and xenophobia drag you into besmirching over 1.6 billion people, publicly, with absolutely no thought behind it what so ever. Considering there have been more bombs planted in London by Christians than Muslims, you are simply explaining that you don't know your history or religion, yet are so sure in your intrinsic awesomeness that you don't need silly things like facts to make a disgusting, ignorant assertion.
You really are pathetic. I thought you were getting better, but apparently not - thinking is too difficult, hate is too easy, and ignorance is bliss.
The "UK surveillance state" nonsense was just that - a guess of the number of CCTV cameras around the UK by extrapolating based on a single street in a city. The number of CCTV cameras is far less than you think, and the number in private hands dwarfs the number controlled by the government. So to answer your question - the data stays with the owner of the CCTV, which for most cameras is a shop or private residence.
You abject fucking child.
Considering it was intended to be updated every generation instead of worshiped like some immutable holy text, one can't really blame them.
Sagging belts is a fashion statement, nothing else. You are reading way too much into this, which is hardly surprising for someone skirting so close to all-out racism...
Each crop has a different CO2 sweet-spot. Some crops (such as the grains humanity depends on) lose nutrition yield at higher CO2 levels, meaning more is needed to be grown in order to sustain the same amount of people. Also, with increased CO2, the areas suitable for farming move towards the poles, where the ground and supporting infrastructure simply can't cope with farming it.
So no. It's nowhere near as simple as you seem to think it is, which kind of destroys your argument. If you are so clueless about the topic, why on Earth do you think you are qualified to spout off about it?
And 100% of those inventions relied on inventions from other countries. You are arguing like an 8-year-old.
How is that like a mainframe? If your mainframe had a problem, you couldn't magically spin up another one. If your traffic increased, you couldn't spin up a handful for a couple of hours.
Your name seems rather fitting. You sound like the cliched old man shouting at the TV because the programs confuse and scare him. It's OK you don't understand the benefits cloud providers offer. The rest of us will continue to use them to enrich your life, even if you have no idea.
It really isn't. We are talking about cloud infrastructure, not a little VPS or email. If you rented time on a mainframe and then decided you need 16 more mainframes in the next half hour, would that be possible in the old days? Unless you had a very peculiar (or expensive) provider, that wouldn't be possible. Cloud infrastructure scales remarkably well, for anyone who wishes to use it, and can scale up and down very quickly, depending on requirements.
Squinting until it all looks the same so you can make a sagely comment isn't doing you any great service.
Using the term "republic" to mean "representative democracy" is not a good idea, as to most people "republic" simply means a country without a dynastic leader. It might be a dictatorship, it might be a direct democracy, or it might be a representative democracy, or anything else.
Paranoid bullshit.
I prefer my stately homes to be late.
1. Roads are engineered for specific maximum top speeds. Who's being protected? The driver, and the tax payers (by not having their money wasted scraping some idiot off a tree, and all the necessary repairs to the road surface/surrounding environment)
2. Drivers are not prescient - an empty road might suddenly become not empty without the driver being warned.
If the framework is fucked there is no guarantee anyone will understand anything. Your framework is intrinsically fucked, as it is indistinguishable from one created by someone with untreated mental issues. That's not to say you have untreated mental issues, just that you argue like someone with said issues.
In the same way that libel is censoring speech, sure.
You painted a picture of the East/West German divide using only one colour - politics - and painted it very poorly indeed. For anyone to gain any insight into anything (beyond the workings of your brain) would take a miracle, as you left out the vast majority of the reasons for the wall, and the reasons for those who left the East, doing a great disservice to those who fought the despotic regime in the East, and those who sought to build a better Germany in the West.
It seems that you identify as "conservative right", and had a knee-jerk reaction to that being painted negatively. You then did your best (without actually doing any work) to come up with an argument, and decided to shit it over the internet for everyone to bask in the immaturity of your logical prowess.
Pegida and their imitators do not have a rational basis. They are complaining about things that don't happen, living in a world where any external information is from the "lying press" and safe to be ignored (ensuring their screwed-up ideology remains screwed up and free from any tempering by actual evidence), and pandering to the scared right-wingers who lap up the scare stories spewed by other scared right-wingers.
You sound just like them, actually. No wonder you'd defend them.
Trotting out that "why work when you get paid" canard is just telling everyone "I wouldn't work if I was paid", which reflects rather poorly on you. Most people have no problem doing what others consider "work" even if they already have some money in the bank. If your life is so desolate you can't understand that, well, then you might want to take care of yourself before condemning this scheme.
They get this 800 Euros anyway. By giving it to everyone, the state saves money as they get to do away with the overhead of deciding whether each applicant is allowed it or not. Why would you want the government to pay even more money? You haven't thought this through, have you.
The amount of overhead would be trivial, as the requirements to get the 800 Euro are rather simple: "Are you alive, and do you live in Finland?".
The US spends far more of its GDP (as a percent) on healthcare than most Western countries, and gets less for it. US healthcare is expensive and the outcomes simply do not justify it. There is simply no justification for the US system - it's expensive and bad. Yaaay.
The ol' "No True Socialist" fallacy. Gotcha.