Your post is wrong top to bottom. There has been testimony in many courts regarding the literally hundreds of thousands of felonies that were committed by all levels of the financial industry, including in the boardrooms of the TBTF banks. None of the schemes were new, they were basically the same things that happened during the S&L crisis, just on a much bigger scale. The difference is that back then people actually got prosecuted and went to jail. Now we just pretend it was an accident.
You can blow bankers all day long, but you really have no idea what you're talking about.
Wow, dude. That sucks. If she's starting making up abuse you probably just need to get the hell out and worry about getting the house back after the lawyers are done. You're probably screwed there anyway, but at least you won't be in jail.
We are rapidly approaching the reverse of the above where those whom are wholly reliant upon the government for their subsistence will continue to vote to retain (and in fact, increase) that subsidy without regard for the financial feesibility of such a vote.
We passed that point a long time ago. Medicare Part D proved that if nothing else.
We also have lots of oil coming in domestically...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
The US has not produced a surplus of oil since 1958. The US imports well over half its daily oil consumption.
For a brief time earlier this year some parts of the US increased exports of some refined product, which was in turn mostly made from imported oil. That's the entire basis of this misrepresentation. Please stop repeating it where other people might become equally misinformed.
Legal or not, the reality in the US now is that if you refuse you'll at a minimum get beaten up, maybe shot, and nothing whatsoever will happen to the cops. The rights are gone.
Well that's just not true. You don't get to be the biggest country in the world by being on the defensive. And the Soviets most certainly did want to turn the whole world into a worker's paradise, whether that was to be ruled directly from Moscow or not.
You probably still think Stalin was just a nice guy who didn't really starve millions of his own subjects, too.
As I recall, the US engineered the rebellion that saw Panama separate from Colombia. They had a deal in place with the resulting local bigshots to get rights to the canal right-of-way afterwards, and then finished the construction begun by the French.
No, the only way they can do that is to host the data (and their staff and business operations) outside the US.
The US government and its police forces don't give a flying eff what the law allows them to do or not. And all recent legislation is aimed at removing any remaining restrictions of due process.
Your argument is just stupid. In a free country government is the means by which we organize to protect ourselves against other people, and get other things done that make sense to do collectively. Just because you call it government doesn't make it automatically evil. Protecting property rights is an essential basic bedrock means of creating a free country in the first place.
If we didn't have government we'd have security companies with so many subscribers that they would essentially be governments, only we wouldn't be able to vote for who runs them. The last time we tried that on a large scale we called it the Middle Ages. Turns out the security companies found it amusing to constantly make war on other security companies, and kill a lot of their subscribers in the process. And they weren't big on the voluntary part of signing up. No more than government is today, of course.
I'd like to see federal and state(/provincial) governments do a LOT less, but the things that municipal governments tend to be good at still need to get done, and it makes a lot more sense to do it in a non-profit everyone-contributes kind of way than through other mechanisms.
As for copyright... it used to make sense. For a limited time, to genuinely encourage the creation of new works, it makes sense. To pass to giant corporations and be extended forever, definitely not. I really don't think Disney would stop making movies if they only had copyright on the works for 10 or 20 years. Their payback period is much less. And gaining the power to arbitrarily shut down Internet sites without due process will just break a lot of things, not stop the theft anyway. So it's all stupid.
The publishers do it. The teachers require new editions because students can't buy the old ones and they can't realistically teach to 10 different versions.
There's a really good argument to be made for open-source textbooks and e-readers, at least for subjects that don't change much.
School teachers here make way more than an average salary and public education isn't all that hot, either. Although way better than most of the US.
Public education went downhill because parents don't care about their kids education. They show up with no breakfast and a terrible attitude. Half of them are on behaviour-modification drugs. A good portion of them have brain damage from their mothers drinking or doing drugs during pregnancy. It only takes a few of those in any classroom to make teaching a full-time babysitting job, at which point no one else learns anything, either.
I'm not a fan of teachers or teacher's unions, but you put a roomful of hard-working Korean kids in almost any of those classrooms and they'd do just fine. The problem isn't the schools.
NF is a "have" province but they got oil revenues excluded from the calculations. So Alberta still sends them money. Not nearly as much as Quebec gets, though.
The tar sands is a tiny part of our emissions. Our emissions come from the same places everyone else's does - power generation (coal and NG), and transportation. You may have noticed that Canada is cold. And big. And relatively empty. So our power and transportation costs (per-capita) are high. You may also have noticed that no one really wants to build new nuclear power plants (for good reason, I guess, since apparently no one can actually run one responsibly).
Signing Kyoto was stupid. There was never a chance we were going to live up to it. Yeah Harper will get slammed for dumping it, but at least we're being honest now.
We don't embargo them for running over their own citizens with tanks, invading their neighboring countries, and working off child slave labor. Like we're really going to start with carbon emissions.
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Your post is wrong top to bottom. There has been testimony in many courts regarding the literally hundreds of thousands of felonies that were committed by all levels of the financial industry, including in the boardrooms of the TBTF banks. None of the schemes were new, they were basically the same things that happened during the S&L crisis, just on a much bigger scale. The difference is that back then people actually got prosecuted and went to jail. Now we just pretend it was an accident.
You can blow bankers all day long, but you really have no idea what you're talking about.
Wow, dude. That sucks. If she's starting making up abuse you probably just need to get the hell out and worry about getting the house back after the lawyers are done. You're probably screwed there anyway, but at least you won't be in jail.
Unlike, say, everyone reading this?
That said, I'd be pissed if my government managed the tax money I put in as poorly as the Greek government did
Then you should be pissed. At least the Greeks get health care for their money. And the US is more in debt than Greece is.
And in the public systems, the prison employee unions lobby for the same crap. It's all downhill.
We are rapidly approaching the reverse of the above where those whom are wholly reliant upon the government for their subsistence will continue to vote to retain (and in fact, increase) that subsidy without regard for the financial feesibility of such a vote.
We passed that point a long time ago. Medicare Part D proved that if nothing else.
We also have lots of oil coming in domestically...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
The US has not produced a surplus of oil since 1958. The US imports well over half its daily oil consumption.
For a brief time earlier this year some parts of the US increased exports of some refined product, which was in turn mostly made from imported oil. That's the entire basis of this misrepresentation. Please stop repeating it where other people might become equally misinformed.
Legal or not, the reality in the US now is that if you refuse you'll at a minimum get beaten up, maybe shot, and nothing whatsoever will happen to the cops. The rights are gone.
You'd probably have to choose. Kids, or immortality. The earth can't fit both.
Life is too short to work with Windows all day. I'd quit, too.
If you refuse, they'll grope your genitals repeatedly until you give in.
Monopolize public education and then fail to teach anything.
True enough. And even Lepanto was in 1571 I guess. I need to remember how bad my memory is before posting. Thanks.
Seriously, the Otttomans? The Turks hadn't been a real threat to Europe since the 1400s. That's as bad as the Arabs still bitching about the Crusades.
Well that's just not true. You don't get to be the biggest country in the world by being on the defensive. And the Soviets most certainly did want to turn the whole world into a worker's paradise, whether that was to be ruled directly from Moscow or not.
You probably still think Stalin was just a nice guy who didn't really starve millions of his own subjects, too.
As I recall, the US engineered the rebellion that saw Panama separate from Colombia. They had a deal in place with the resulting local bigshots to get rights to the canal right-of-way afterwards, and then finished the construction begun by the French.
No, the only way they can do that is to host the data (and their staff and business operations) outside the US.
The US government and its police forces don't give a flying eff what the law allows them to do or not. And all recent legislation is aimed at removing any remaining restrictions of due process.
Your argument is just stupid. In a free country government is the means by which we organize to protect ourselves against other people, and get other things done that make sense to do collectively. Just because you call it government doesn't make it automatically evil. Protecting property rights is an essential basic bedrock means of creating a free country in the first place.
If we didn't have government we'd have security companies with so many subscribers that they would essentially be governments, only we wouldn't be able to vote for who runs them. The last time we tried that on a large scale we called it the Middle Ages. Turns out the security companies found it amusing to constantly make war on other security companies, and kill a lot of their subscribers in the process. And they weren't big on the voluntary part of signing up. No more than government is today, of course.
I'd like to see federal and state(/provincial) governments do a LOT less, but the things that municipal governments tend to be good at still need to get done, and it makes a lot more sense to do it in a non-profit everyone-contributes kind of way than through other mechanisms.
As for copyright ... it used to make sense. For a limited time, to genuinely encourage the creation of new works, it makes sense. To pass to giant corporations and be extended forever, definitely not. I really don't think Disney would stop making movies if they only had copyright on the works for 10 or 20 years. Their payback period is much less. And gaining the power to arbitrarily shut down Internet sites without due process will just break a lot of things, not stop the theft anyway. So it's all stupid.
The publishers do it. The teachers require new editions because students can't buy the old ones and they can't realistically teach to 10 different versions.
There's a really good argument to be made for open-source textbooks and e-readers, at least for subjects that don't change much.
There are lots. Sadly they go to the schools that also can't afford to buy computers.
School teachers here make way more than an average salary and public education isn't all that hot, either. Although way better than most of the US.
Public education went downhill because parents don't care about their kids education. They show up with no breakfast and a terrible attitude. Half of them are on behaviour-modification drugs. A good portion of them have brain damage from their mothers drinking or doing drugs during pregnancy. It only takes a few of those in any classroom to make teaching a full-time babysitting job, at which point no one else learns anything, either.
I'm not a fan of teachers or teacher's unions, but you put a roomful of hard-working Korean kids in almost any of those classrooms and they'd do just fine. The problem isn't the schools.
The US hasn't declared war since WWII.
NF is a "have" province but they got oil revenues excluded from the calculations. So Alberta still sends them money. Not nearly as much as Quebec gets, though.
The tar sands is a tiny part of our emissions. Our emissions come from the same places everyone else's does - power generation (coal and NG), and transportation. You may have noticed that Canada is cold. And big. And relatively empty. So our power and transportation costs (per-capita) are high. You may also have noticed that no one really wants to build new nuclear power plants (for good reason, I guess, since apparently no one can actually run one responsibly).
Signing Kyoto was stupid. There was never a chance we were going to live up to it. Yeah Harper will get slammed for dumping it, but at least we're being honest now.
We don't embargo them for running over their own citizens with tanks, invading their neighboring countries, and working off child slave labor. Like we're really going to start with carbon emissions.