Except for the fact that Jews weren't actually raping women and otherwise controlling and terrorizing the German public.
I'm sure, if you looked long enough back then, or even nowadays, you could find a Jew who did any given bad thing you could imagine. Just like you can do with Muslims, Germans, Britons, or any large group of people. After you have found the odd psychopath, all you have to do is pretend they're a typical membr of said group rather than a psychopath who also happens to be Muslim/Jew/whatever, and then you can act like a racist asshole all the while pretending you're a decent person.
But you're not a decent person. You're a racist asshole. You simply happen to be a gutless coward, too.
Trying to equate the Muslim invasion of Europe with Jews in 1930's Germany is obvious antisemitism.
And a century from now your successors will claim their demonization of the boogeymen of their day is completely different from the shameful anti-Muslim hysteria of their ancestors. Because assholes... Assholes never change.
They can apply for membership. But, given all the things your own post listed, why would we let them in again? Let's focus on solving EU's problems now that the Imperial Remnant is out of the way and let the special snowflakes fend for themselves.
If you doubt me, look to Colorado and the legalization of pot. Federal law still makes it highly illegal to grow and sell. It is illegal to prescribe as medication to. But states have rights and as long as they do not venture into areas of their sovereignty surrenders to the federal government, there isn't shit that can be done about it.
...Why do you have federal laws about subjects the Federal government doesn't have actual authority - de jure nor de facto - to make laws about?
The problem is in who gets to tell others what to do. The further removed they are, the more people being ordered around want to say fuck you in reply. This idea of global unification is crazy when you cannot even get people to stop killing others over religious beliefs let alone geopolitical beliefs.
The tribe you identity with gets to tell you what to do. That has, in the course of history, gone from families to actual tribes to city-states to nations, some of them continent-spanning. Why do you think the process of unification would stop here? Especially when economy continues to globalize and communications infrastructure is already strong enough to create virtual communities not tied to a geological location.
Voters rightfully want to control their country's own destiny without having to cater to some international rule-making body a thousand miles away.
Everyone wants to control their own destiny, but nobody does because they can't control all the factors which influence it. Building an ordered society which regulates interaction between members to prevent or at least discourage coercion as well as compensates for bad luck has been the closest we've ever come to realising the dream of control, but it has a price: you need to play by the rules made by a rule-making body a thousand miles away, which will take your opinion into account but also those of others.
The alternative is living in a Hobbesian jungle where whoever happens to have the biggest stick makes the rules. I think UK is about to learn that's not them anymore.
True, voters are not always rational (Iraq cough), but people naturally want control and would rather make their own mistakes than let some world body far away make them instead.
And I would rather stay home and eat potato chips all day rather than go to work.
Because one thing is certain, the EU will not tolerate easily the exit of a vassal.
EU member states are not vassals. Who would be their overlord? EU doesn't exist aside from said member states.
They will do their worst to punish the Brits for this act of high treason,
Why? With the Brits gone maybe the rest of us can continue the project of European unification that has been going on since the Roman Empire fell. Maybe our leaders will even put the brakes on expansion and focus on integration - as this whole event showed, we need an European identity to go along with the Union to stabilize it.
Besides, UK is too small to make it on its own in today's world, even if it doesn't splinter (Scotland is already making noises about leaving UK for EU). It either gets sucked into being someone's - most likely US's - satellite or remain in EU's periphery, only now without any formal position or say in the Union's policies. So why would the EU, even in the case it wanted revenge, do anything but watch?
All in all, Britexit means a lot of challenges but also solves some longstanding issues and opens new possibilities in the EU. Better focus on those and let Mr. Hobbes take care of punishing stupidity, least we end up in need of some lessons ourselves.
Now you actually DO want Trump to become US President, because he'll be biased towards the UK over the EU, vs Hillary who will be the reverse...
I very much doubt either Trump, Hillary or any other US President will put up with British delusions of grandieur to the extent EU did. After all, UK was a member of the EU, but not of the US.
But hey: all yours. Enjoy having the special little snowflakes.
Australia should welcome trade with China. Australia has lots of resources. China needs resources and has stuff to offer in return. Trading with a country like China is better than fighting a war with them.
The word for a country which exports raw materials and imports industrial goods under the threat of invasion is "colony".
I think this is a good opprtunity to show that this is not the US, we're not going to start a civil war if you want to secede. This is not the Soviet Union where tanks will roll in your streets to occupy you.
Tanks? Civil war? We're talking about terminating the privileges UK had as an EU member, such as access to EU's internal market or input into EU's decisions.
you can join but if we find out this was a bad idea we can in practice never leave
We're not stopping you, but we're also not helping you.
That's pride. Backing all of that ahead of travel convenience, economic certainty, stability; that's integrity. You might want to give that a go.
Pride is not integrity but a mortal sin. I guess it's UK's turn to learn that first hand. It's off to a great start too, seeing how leaving the EU puts the UK into the strategic position straight out of its nightmares: unified mainland Europe and the UK outside of it.
You don't help a drug addict by giving them more money for the next hit.
A drug addict is physically unable to take hits at arbitrarily short intervals. After they have enough "next hits" on store they'll start spending on their next meal, clothes, housing, medicine, etc. So it helps them to have greater income, just like it helps everyone else. The real issue is whether you think they're worthy of help, and if not, whether you're willing to admit that outright. Most people answer "no" to both questions, thus we have sayings like yours.
It's rather hard to interpret this as anything else than "but they deserved it." Which is probably at least partly true, but doesn't make making things worse through punitive measures any less stupid, especially with all the other problems going on and Russia trying to establish a sphere of vassals right next to us. And that matters because EU is sufficiently democratic that there's power to gain by following popular opinion, so us Joe Averages have a responsibility to actually think our opinions through, and will suffer the consequences of resulting stupid decisions if we won't.
After all, the EU just lost one of its major funding sources, they're going to be panicking right now in Brussels.
On the other hand, we also got rid of a former empire's delusions of grandeur and the constant push for special snowflake status they resulted in. EU has been focusing too much on growing in size rather than deepening the integration anyway. Maybe, if the current migrant crisis prunes less committed members, we can finally get on with building it into a proper federation needed to guard our continent from Russia and have a sufficiently large economy to compete or cooperate with China on a somewhat equal level.
India has no right to ruin space for everyone by putting a ridiculous amount of satellites in orbit.
20 satellites is hardly a "ridiculous amount", now is it? But that made me wonder if all those junk satellites on orbit, made of highly refined materials and often having perfectly functional components, might serve as a harvestable resource for an orbital. It would require an orbit-only craft with maybe ion engines or solar sail to capture and some kind of workshop to disassemble them.
There was an agreement to not expand NATO (which is a us initiative) eastwards for Russia's agreement to allow reunification of Germany besides other agreements and NATO is currently no more than 1000 km from Moscow.
If you don't want nations bordering you to join NATO, maybe you should stop invading them. It's nobody's fault but your own that you keep electing one corrupt asshole after another who then loots the coffers without even trying to improve the country and starts wars of conquest to serve as distraction. Get your shit together rather than act like you've been grievously wronged when others refuse to passively wait for your predations.
Themselves, of course. Actual labor doesn't go away just because there is automation.
No, but wages do go down, because there's less demand for labour. A minimum-wage service sector worker isn't going to be buying much of anything - and, ultimately, even the minimum-wage jobs are going to be automated. Then who's your customer?
Rather than throwing yet another layer of disincentive on employment (after all, automation is the primary tool by which we make human labor more valuable rather than less),
Automation is the primary tool by which demand for labour is reduced. That, by law of supply and demand, makes labour less valuable.
we should be looking at ways to encourage existing and new employers to hire people - even if that means we would need to reduce for a few decades the living standards and powers of developed world labor.
Hire people to do what, exactly speaking? Manufacture products and services you can't actually sell because everyone's busy trying to minimize their consumption (which is what "reducing their living standards" means in practice)?
How about we instead drastically reduce the proportion of income going to the 1% and redistribute it to everyone else? That should increase the demand for consumer products a lot, thus pulling the economy back up to speed. It also means nobody needs to live in the gutter.
I like how you completely ignored the "Illegal" part of the sentence and focused on the other parts.
In the context of copyright law, "illegal activity" means "activity someone with money doesn't like". Fear can be forced through draconian punishments but respect must be earned, and an utterly corrupt institute simply isn't worth any.
Scalpers will only do that if the price is below market equilibrium, because otherwise there's no profit to be made.
There is if you corner the market - which, of course, is what scalpers do: buy all the tickets to every event so your options are to pay whatever they care to ask, or resign to never attend any.
So root cause of demand exceeding supply is the low, below-market-equilibrium price.
Root cause is the myth that "greed is good", which justifies any behaviour as long as it leads to profit.
Which brings up an interesting point......even with such a small training set, a human can easily understand the traits of the different houses, and often recognize which house a new character is in before being told. Thus we see that humans can learn from a much, much smaller training set than a neural network.
Except, of course, the reason we can recognize where the character is destined is that the houses fit our pre-existing stereotypes for school and fantasy dramas: Slytherins are smug snakes/villains/demons, Ravenclaw are nerds/wizards, Hufflepuff are The Shire, and Gryffindor are a Standard Fantasy Hero home base. We're simply learning new names for things we're already familiar with.
There's plenty to complain about with regards to the current living presidential candidates without dredging up dirt against the dead.
Without commenting on Reagan one way or another... the dead should be held accountable to their actions, just like the living. We might not be able to punish them, but humans are social creatures and the judgement of your peers acts both as a deterrent to other would-be villains and consolation, however slight, for the victims, or in the other extreme inspiration for future heroes.
Also, for relatively recent leaders like Reagan, their influence is still with us. It would be hard to condemn - or praise - policies initiated by Reagan without commenting on the man himself. He might be dead, but his spirit still lingers, and one way or another we have to decide whether we want it to become a permanent part of our world, or seek to exorcise it.
Sorry, no design pattern will save you, because if even a single thread writes to a variable, then all threads have to implement read-locks to make sure they don't get an access during a write (race condition).
That sound like a problem the immutable object pattern was designed to solve.
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Why do you hate freedom so much, Anon?
I'm sure, if you looked long enough back then, or even nowadays, you could find a Jew who did any given bad thing you could imagine. Just like you can do with Muslims, Germans, Britons, or any large group of people. After you have found the odd psychopath, all you have to do is pretend they're a typical membr of said group rather than a psychopath who also happens to be Muslim/Jew/whatever, and then you can act like a racist asshole all the while pretending you're a decent person.
But you're not a decent person. You're a racist asshole. You simply happen to be a gutless coward, too.
And a century from now your successors will claim their demonization of the boogeymen of their day is completely different from the shameful anti-Muslim hysteria of their ancestors. Because assholes... Assholes never change.
They can apply for membership. But, given all the things your own post listed, why would we let them in again? Let's focus on solving EU's problems now that the Imperial Remnant is out of the way and let the special snowflakes fend for themselves.
So basically, not even you believe that "Mohammedist Brutes" are a credible enough boogeyman without tapping into the remnants of the Cold War.
Because if there's one thing Marxism is known for, it's its love and tolerance of (other) religions.
...Why do you have federal laws about subjects the Federal government doesn't have actual authority - de jure nor de facto - to make laws about?
The tribe you identity with gets to tell you what to do. That has, in the course of history, gone from families to actual tribes to city-states to nations, some of them continent-spanning. Why do you think the process of unification would stop here? Especially when economy continues to globalize and communications infrastructure is already strong enough to create virtual communities not tied to a geological location.
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Everyone wants to control their own destiny, but nobody does because they can't control all the factors which influence it. Building an ordered society which regulates interaction between members to prevent or at least discourage coercion as well as compensates for bad luck has been the closest we've ever come to realising the dream of control, but it has a price: you need to play by the rules made by a rule-making body a thousand miles away, which will take your opinion into account but also those of others.
The alternative is living in a Hobbesian jungle where whoever happens to have the biggest stick makes the rules. I think UK is about to learn that's not them anymore.
And I would rather stay home and eat potato chips all day rather than go to work.
EU member states are not vassals. Who would be their overlord? EU doesn't exist aside from said member states.
Why? With the Brits gone maybe the rest of us can continue the project of European unification that has been going on since the Roman Empire fell. Maybe our leaders will even put the brakes on expansion and focus on integration - as this whole event showed, we need an European identity to go along with the Union to stabilize it.
Besides, UK is too small to make it on its own in today's world, even if it doesn't splinter (Scotland is already making noises about leaving UK for EU). It either gets sucked into being someone's - most likely US's - satellite or remain in EU's periphery, only now without any formal position or say in the Union's policies. So why would the EU, even in the case it wanted revenge, do anything but watch?
All in all, Britexit means a lot of challenges but also solves some longstanding issues and opens new possibilities in the EU. Better focus on those and let Mr. Hobbes take care of punishing stupidity, least we end up in need of some lessons ourselves.
I very much doubt either Trump, Hillary or any other US President will put up with British delusions of grandieur to the extent EU did. After all, UK was a member of the EU, but not of the US.
But hey: all yours. Enjoy having the special little snowflakes.
The word for a country which exports raw materials and imports industrial goods under the threat of invasion is "colony".
Tanks? Civil war? We're talking about terminating the privileges UK had as an EU member, such as access to EU's internal market or input into EU's decisions.
We're not stopping you, but we're also not helping you.
Pride is not integrity but a mortal sin. I guess it's UK's turn to learn that first hand. It's off to a great start too, seeing how leaving the EU puts the UK into the strategic position straight out of its nightmares: unified mainland Europe and the UK outside of it.
People, as opposed to what - the magic 8-ball?
A drug addict is physically unable to take hits at arbitrarily short intervals. After they have enough "next hits" on store they'll start spending on their next meal, clothes, housing, medicine, etc. So it helps them to have greater income, just like it helps everyone else. The real issue is whether you think they're worthy of help, and if not, whether you're willing to admit that outright. Most people answer "no" to both questions, thus we have sayings like yours.
You said:
It's rather hard to interpret this as anything else than "but they deserved it." Which is probably at least partly true, but doesn't make making things worse through punitive measures any less stupid, especially with all the other problems going on and Russia trying to establish a sphere of vassals right next to us. And that matters because EU is sufficiently democratic that there's power to gain by following popular opinion, so us Joe Averages have a responsibility to actually think our opinions through, and will suffer the consequences of resulting stupid decisions if we won't.
On the other hand, we also got rid of a former empire's delusions of grandeur and the constant push for special snowflake status they resulted in. EU has been focusing too much on growing in size rather than deepening the integration anyway. Maybe, if the current migrant crisis prunes less committed members, we can finally get on with building it into a proper federation needed to guard our continent from Russia and have a sufficiently large economy to compete or cooperate with China on a somewhat equal level.
20 satellites is hardly a "ridiculous amount", now is it? But that made me wonder if all those junk satellites on orbit, made of highly refined materials and often having perfectly functional components, might serve as a harvestable resource for an orbital. It would require an orbit-only craft with maybe ion engines or solar sail to capture and some kind of workshop to disassemble them.
If you don't want nations bordering you to join NATO, maybe you should stop invading them. It's nobody's fault but your own that you keep electing one corrupt asshole after another who then loots the coffers without even trying to improve the country and starts wars of conquest to serve as distraction. Get your shit together rather than act like you've been grievously wronged when others refuse to passively wait for your predations.
No, but wages do go down, because there's less demand for labour. A minimum-wage service sector worker isn't going to be buying much of anything - and, ultimately, even the minimum-wage jobs are going to be automated. Then who's your customer?
Automation is the primary tool by which demand for labour is reduced. That, by law of supply and demand, makes labour less valuable.
Hire people to do what, exactly speaking? Manufacture products and services you can't actually sell because everyone's busy trying to minimize their consumption (which is what "reducing their living standards" means in practice)?
How about we instead drastically reduce the proportion of income going to the 1% and redistribute it to everyone else? That should increase the demand for consumer products a lot, thus pulling the economy back up to speed. It also means nobody needs to live in the gutter.
In the context of copyright law, "illegal activity" means "activity someone with money doesn't like". Fear can be forced through draconian punishments but respect must be earned, and an utterly corrupt institute simply isn't worth any.
There is if you corner the market - which, of course, is what scalpers do: buy all the tickets to every event so your options are to pay whatever they care to ask, or resign to never attend any.
Root cause is the myth that "greed is good", which justifies any behaviour as long as it leads to profit.
Any idea when this UI which reads your thoughts and can figure out what you mean is available for civilian use?
Except, of course, the reason we can recognize where the character is destined is that the houses fit our pre-existing stereotypes for school and fantasy dramas: Slytherins are smug snakes/villains/demons, Ravenclaw are nerds/wizards, Hufflepuff are The Shire, and Gryffindor are a Standard Fantasy Hero home base. We're simply learning new names for things we're already familiar with.
Without commenting on Reagan one way or another... the dead should be held accountable to their actions, just like the living. We might not be able to punish them, but humans are social creatures and the judgement of your peers acts both as a deterrent to other would-be villains and consolation, however slight, for the victims, or in the other extreme inspiration for future heroes.
Also, for relatively recent leaders like Reagan, their influence is still with us. It would be hard to condemn - or praise - policies initiated by Reagan without commenting on the man himself. He might be dead, but his spirit still lingers, and one way or another we have to decide whether we want it to become a permanent part of our world, or seek to exorcise it.
That sound like a problem the immutable object pattern was designed to solve.