Greece didn't make a lot of mistakes, the problem is they are STILL making a lot of mistakes, hence the draconian conditions.
No. The demands of the Troika do NOTHING to improve the situation in Greece, they are simply punitive measures. Spain also has the same problem, except that in their case it was not even caused by the government missteps.
Of course regular people (i.e. not macroeconomics nerds) don't say: "We're leaving because EU doesn't have mechanism to provide Keynesian stimulus in case of problems". They just see that the EU is useless for many countries - life in Greece, Spain and Italy has not become any better after years in EU. So why keep on doing it?
But of course, migrant crisis hasn't helped at all.
Austerity does NOT help Greece, it's purely a punitive measure. And you might argue that Greece might have "deserved" it, but Spain had fiscal surpluses and its crisis was purely driven by private investors. Yet it still has to suffer.
Not really. It was pretty clear that exit from Euro was considered a high treason.
And again, it's immaterial. EU has shown that if your government makes a mistake (or even if it doesn't - see "Spain") and you fall on hard times, then instead of getting help you will be beaten into a pulp and left to be picked up by vultures.
No, it wasn't. It was restructured for a longer payoff and is still unsustainable. During the last year's standoff, the Troika dangled a carrot of 20% write-off - it failed to materialize, even though Greece imposed austerity on the level that has not been seen in a peacetime in Europe.
By insisting on Greece paying debts at a rate that is insurmountable and not providing any form of relief. Had Greece been out of the EU, they could have devalued their currency and/or defaulted on their debts. After a couple of years of turmoil they could have achieved sustainable growth.
I suggest reading: https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ if you care about it.
So back to my statement - it was clear that Greece had made a lot of mistakes. Should it have been raped for them? What's they purpose of the union, then?
So the EU is supposed to serve several purposes: common market, free labor movement and mutual support for countries. But it turned out that free labor movement doesn't provide a lot of benefits to Britain and everybody remembers well how Germany raped Greece instead of helping it.
The question of free trade still remains, Britain will have to secure trade deals with lots of countries.
Cancer is basically a result of faulty DNA copying - it happens when multiple anti-cancer systems fail in a cell. That's it. Ascribing it some kind of a purpose is pure teleological fallacy. Stuff doesn't need to happen "for a reason".
No, you can't do it with bank cards. They actually do challenge-response authentication with the bank with the secret key sealed inside the cheap, so simply listening or getting public info gets you nothing. You _might_ be able to clone insecure RFID access cards as used by turnstiles at various locations, but that's it.
There are several possibilities:
1) This device simply initiates up to 15 purchases per second from nearby cards. Totally possible but mostly harmless.
2) It's a scam.
The latter is most likely.
So you support rounding up all the people who might fight back against an oppressive government and sending them off to die for profit?
"Fight back"? LOL.
And yes, I'm totally in support of the 2nd Amendment as it was originally written. While you hate the Constitution and probably the United States, wallowing in your sense of entitlement.
Good plan, sport. Guess what? Conscription is slavery.
Nope. Conscription is authorized by the Constitution and is not slavery - it's the service in the name of the country for protection of freedom. You know, people have to risk lives to support your sense of self-entitlement.
If they're not willing to die for their country because there is something wrong with it, and you would force them anyway, you're pro-slavery. Scum.
And you know who you are? A child murderer. Scum. You probably even eat children.
Correct. And so Founding Fathers were proposing mandatory military training and distribution of standardized weapons to all able-bodied men.
And actually, I'm all for it. Want to carry a gun? Then you must attend periodic military training and be ready to be drafted in case of a conflict. I'm even totally OK with government providing weapons to store at home for that purpose.
Uhm... Why are they incorrect? It's not a total disaster - nothing is compromised except the email addresses. You know, the ones that are attached to any emails that you send out.
It's a remote possibility that somebody used a unique email that encodes some important information in the address. But such people are their own enemies.
My product had our (once) portable init script broken in RHEL7.2 by a systemd change that now declares that the init.d script cannot be a symlink to the product installation area.
Most recent on slashdot was breaking the backgrounding of processes.
Which is disabled by a simple option in the config file. Which Debian has done, btw.
My product had our (once) portable init script broken in RHEL7.2 by a systemd change that now declares that the init.d script cannot be a symlink to the product installation area
Really? Are you sure? I just tried that and it works.
. Yet somehow leftists are against allowing them to freely contract with an employer to have a job at a mutually beneficial hourly rate of their choice
I.e. "selling themselves into slavery", because it's what it is.
Moreover, people working the minimal wage jobs often ARE the most hard-working employees. Yet somehow conservative are against minimal wage increases...
Well, yes. I took reliable statistical data while you have unreliable anecdotes. And let's see: http://www.springhillsfarm.com... - prices concur with my statistics. And this is the price from an actual farm, not some abstract trading.
The price of beef has tripled in the last 10 years. Better yet, just go to the grocery store and look at the prices. You can't find tri tip for less than $4.99 lb anymore. It was regularly $2.99 lb a couple years ago (which is supported in the link I provided).
No, it wasn't. Your memory is going.
Don't like beef? Let's look at wheat: $4.40 per bushel down from $5.50 in 2006. But it's a part of the conspiracy too? Perhaps potatoes? $6.05 per 100 pounds down from $6.12 in 2006. Drat. I guess Idaho is also on the conspiracy.
Personally I don't spend more on groceries than 5 years ago with inflation taken into account.
Let me give you some help: You've seen food, energy, general goods all increase.
Average gasoline price in 2006: $2.36
Average gasoline price in 2016: $2.21
In inflation adjusted dollars the 2016 price would be $1.80. But of course, we have a Depression so that price is an Illuminati conspiracy.
No, I'm not saying it. You're projecting. I'm saying that the actual food prices haven't gone up significantly.
You make the statement that this is simply due to inflation, as a reminder inflation isn't calculated against all items in an economy(hint: most of those data sets are using the "core inflation number").
You can check the general inflation. It's called "headline inflation" and is tracked separately by BLS: http://www.advisorperspectives... - same result.
And have you read Les Miserable in French? You need it know it by heart to talk about food! And that's a hard requirement.
Please, provide the data and not anecdotes that show that the food prices are rising significantly faster than the official inflation figures.
You can not. There's no such data. And it looks like you're the prime reason for the article - it's just another step for the cognitive dissonance to become unbearable and cause a suicide.
Why do I need to understand them? I looked up the wholesale prices from 2006 and 2016 and I've shown that they've inflated at roughly the official inflation rate, thus validating it. I then double-checked it by comparing the average ground meat price from the BPP (Billion Prices Project) database - they matched.
But sure, if Teh Government hides the truth then you should easily be able to demonstrate 3x price inflation. Nobody can hide this, after all.
And of course, BLS never double-checks the validity of CPI goods and services basket because they are concentrated on hiding The Truth from unsuspecting people.
A three years ago I could buy a Porsche Cayenne for $15 and these days it's $90000. Top that out with 94m people not in the labor force, you've got a recipe for people popping themselves off. Past trends show that as well regardless of what the government says the unemployment rate is, especially unemployment rates where you simply fall off after several years.
I'm still paying pretty much the same amount that I was paying back in 2010 for food products. Just avoid Whole Foods scam.
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Greece didn't make a lot of mistakes, the problem is they are STILL making a lot of mistakes, hence the draconian conditions.
No. The demands of the Troika do NOTHING to improve the situation in Greece, they are simply punitive measures. Spain also has the same problem, except that in their case it was not even caused by the government missteps.
Of course regular people (i.e. not macroeconomics nerds) don't say: "We're leaving because EU doesn't have mechanism to provide Keynesian stimulus in case of problems". They just see that the EU is useless for many countries - life in Greece, Spain and Italy has not become any better after years in EU. So why keep on doing it?
But of course, migrant crisis hasn't helped at all.
Again, IT DOESN'T MATTER!
Austerity does NOT help Greece, it's purely a punitive measure. And you might argue that Greece might have "deserved" it, but Spain had fiscal surpluses and its crisis was purely driven by private investors. Yet it still has to suffer.
Not really. It was pretty clear that exit from Euro was considered a high treason.
And again, it's immaterial. EU has shown that if your government makes a mistake (or even if it doesn't - see "Spain") and you fall on hard times, then instead of getting help you will be beaten into a pulp and left to be picked up by vultures.
No, it wasn't. It was restructured for a longer payoff and is still unsustainable. During the last year's standoff, the Troika dangled a carrot of 20% write-off - it failed to materialize, even though Greece imposed austerity on the level that has not been seen in a peacetime in Europe.
By insisting on Greece paying debts at a rate that is insurmountable and not providing any form of relief. Had Greece been out of the EU, they could have devalued their currency and/or defaulted on their debts. After a couple of years of turmoil they could have achieved sustainable growth. I suggest reading: https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ if you care about it.
So back to my statement - it was clear that Greece had made a lot of mistakes. Should it have been raped for them? What's they purpose of the union, then?
So the EU is supposed to serve several purposes: common market, free labor movement and mutual support for countries. But it turned out that free labor movement doesn't provide a lot of benefits to Britain and everybody remembers well how Germany raped Greece instead of helping it.
The question of free trade still remains, Britain will have to secure trade deals with lots of countries.
Cancer is basically a result of faulty DNA copying - it happens when multiple anti-cancer systems fail in a cell. That's it. Ascribing it some kind of a purpose is pure teleological fallacy. Stuff doesn't need to happen "for a reason".
He's calling iMessage a superior messaging platform. Is heroine legal in his state? Simple medical pot won't explain this.
No, you can't do it with bank cards. They actually do challenge-response authentication with the bank with the secret key sealed inside the cheap, so simply listening or getting public info gets you nothing. You _might_ be able to clone insecure RFID access cards as used by turnstiles at various locations, but that's it.
There are several possibilities:
1) This device simply initiates up to 15 purchases per second from nearby cards. Totally possible but mostly harmless.
2) It's a scam.
The latter is most likely.
So you support rounding up all the people who might fight back against an oppressive government and sending them off to die for profit?
"Fight back"? LOL.
And yes, I'm totally in support of the 2nd Amendment as it was originally written. While you hate the Constitution and probably the United States, wallowing in your sense of entitlement.
Good plan, sport. Guess what? Conscription is slavery.
Nope. Conscription is authorized by the Constitution and is not slavery - it's the service in the name of the country for protection of freedom. You know, people have to risk lives to support your sense of self-entitlement .
If they're not willing to die for their country because there is something wrong with it, and you would force them anyway, you're pro-slavery. Scum.
And you know who you are? A child murderer. Scum. You probably even eat children.
Worked for Shackleton: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.co...
I'm totally OK with conscription for those who want to own weapons.
Correct. And so Founding Fathers were proposing mandatory military training and distribution of standardized weapons to all able-bodied men.
And actually, I'm all for it. Want to carry a gun? Then you must attend periodic military training and be ready to be drafted in case of a conflict. I'm even totally OK with government providing weapons to store at home for that purpose.
Uhm... Why are they incorrect? It's not a total disaster - nothing is compromised except the email addresses. You know, the ones that are attached to any emails that you send out.
It's a remote possibility that somebody used a unique email that encodes some important information in the address. But such people are their own enemies.
My product had our (once) portable init script broken in RHEL7.2 by a systemd change that now declares that the init.d script cannot be a symlink to the product installation area.
This was a bug that had been fixed: https://github.com/systemd/sys...
Most recent on slashdot was breaking the backgrounding of processes.
Which is disabled by a simple option in the config file. Which Debian has done, btw.
My product had our (once) portable init script broken in RHEL7.2 by a systemd change that now declares that the init.d script cannot be a symlink to the product installation area
Really? Are you sure? I just tried that and it works.
. Yet somehow leftists are against allowing them to freely contract with an employer to have a job at a mutually beneficial hourly rate of their choice
I.e. "selling themselves into slavery", because it's what it is.
Moreover, people working the minimal wage jobs often ARE the most hard-working employees. Yet somehow conservative are against minimal wage increases...
The price of beef has tripled in the last 10 years. Better yet, just go to the grocery store and look at the prices. You can't find tri tip for less than $4.99 lb anymore. It was regularly $2.99 lb a couple years ago (which is supported in the link I provided).
No, it wasn't. Your memory is going.
Don't like beef? Let's look at wheat: $4.40 per bushel down from $5.50 in 2006. But it's a part of the conspiracy too? Perhaps potatoes? $6.05 per 100 pounds down from $6.12 in 2006. Drat. I guess Idaho is also on the conspiracy.
Personally I don't spend more on groceries than 5 years ago with inflation taken into account.
Let me give you some help: You've seen food, energy, general goods all increase.
Average gasoline price in 2006: $2.36
Average gasoline price in 2016: $2.21
In inflation adjusted dollars the 2016 price would be $1.80. But of course, we have a Depression so that price is an Illuminati conspiracy.
You make the statement that this is simply due to inflation, as a reminder inflation isn't calculated against all items in an economy(hint: most of those data sets are using the "core inflation number").
You can check the general inflation. It's called "headline inflation" and is tracked separately by BLS: http://www.advisorperspectives... - same result.
And have you read Les Miserable in French? You need it know it by heart to talk about food! And that's a hard requirement.
Please, provide the data and not anecdotes that show that the food prices are rising significantly faster than the official inflation figures.
You can not. There's no such data. And it looks like you're the prime reason for the article - it's just another step for the cognitive dissonance to become unbearable and cause a suicide.
Why do I need to understand them? I looked up the wholesale prices from 2006 and 2016 and I've shown that they've inflated at roughly the official inflation rate, thus validating it. I then double-checked it by comparing the average ground meat price from the BPP (Billion Prices Project) database - they matched.
But sure, if Teh Government hides the truth then you should easily be able to demonstrate 3x price inflation. Nobody can hide this, after all.
And of course, BLS never double-checks the validity of CPI goods and services basket because they are concentrated on hiding The Truth from unsuspecting people.
A three years ago I could buy a Porsche Cayenne for $15 and these days it's $90000. Top that out with 94m people not in the labor force, you've got a recipe for people popping themselves off. Past trends show that as well regardless of what the government says the unemployment rate is, especially unemployment rates where you simply fall off after several years.
I'm still paying pretty much the same amount that I was paying back in 2010 for food products. Just avoid Whole Foods scam.