Actually, if you count it as a percentage of bombs and missiles fired then the track record is pretty good.
If you take into account that the vast majority of those "bombs and missiles" shouldn't ever have been fired or even built, no track record can be good.
My point is that maybe you guys should invest your money on improving people's lives instead of inventing new sophisticated ways of killing people and destroying stuff. The world desperately needs a lot of new things, but new weapons are not in that list.
The military doesn't build these things. Companies do. So it's not like the money is put into a pile and lit on fire. It circulates; which is key to a health economy.
What prevents my family to get together and perform the ritual? The only difference between a cremation and a funeral is that the box goes into an oven and not a grave.
So if my religion doesn't allow for routine autopsies, for whatever reason that you clearly don't understand, how about leaving it alone? You may feel free to instruct your heirs to handle your remains as you see fit, and the rest of us might appreciate the same courtesy in return.
I have to leave it alone, unfortunately. That doesn't make it less retarded.
You're right. Not doing an autopsy because it might reveal the fuckups of some doctor is not only stupid, it's evil.
What also makes me uncomfortable is seeing something as retarded as "religious objections" as a growing reason for not doing an autopsy. In the Middle Ages, scientists had to buy bodies illegally to make their studies, risking to be burned at the stake for that "horrible crime". Haven't people learned anything yet? What the fuck does their god of choice care if someone cuts open a dead body? He refuses to welcome the deceased guy in Heaven, or Valhalla or whatever?
After I die, take me to medical college and study me for as long as you like. It may make someone's life better, or even save lives. Then burn me to ashes so I don't go occupying precious real estate. What the fuck do I care? I'll be dead.
I live in one of those "other countries". As far as I'm concerned, we don't need any of your "defence spending", so feel free to cut it as much as you want. I'm pretty sure a few billion people agree with me.
The only thing your "defence spending" is defending is the big pockets of the military-industrial complex.
What happened to the Doom-Gates icon? I mean, maybe it was outdated, but Slashdot could have replaced it with something funnier that just the company's lettering!
What's happening to you, Slashdot? Going politically correct? If so, how can you be PC and still be Slashdot? What comes next, no swearing in the comments? Fuck you.
Creationism is laughed at here in Europe. Most people never even heard about that stupid shit.
The very conservative Roman Catholic Church officially supports the theory of evolution. Creationism is mostly an issue among some American fundamentalist Protestants and in a few Muslim countries where fundamentalists have a strong influence.
And the said managers can fuck up as much as they want that they'll never be made accountable for anything, whether they did it in a public office or private one. You just have to reach a particular level in the hierarchy and you're basically inimputable
Not necessarily:
* If a fuck-up angered shareholders or really hurt the company's public image, the private manager can be fired as fast as the requisite electrons can hurl themselves at the screen displaying such a demand from the Board of Directors, majority shareholder(s), etc.
* Removing a judge's fuck-up requires a lot of procedure, time, appeals, and burden of proof.
Oh, man. There's sooo many ways things can be going the other way. The board may all be with the hand in the same cookie jar. As an example, it happened at more than one big private bank over here. The fuck ups were so bad they required State intervention to get rid of the parasites.
Usually, when a normal guy fucks up he is fired. When a guy at the top fucks up, he faces what is called "crossing the desert". It means taking a (pretty well paid) secondary job and wait a few years out of the spotlights before coming back at full strength. Some of them already made so much money and connections that they can peacefully retire. Others are too greedy or too vain to be quiet for too long.
I don't know how things happen in the USA, but in my country top managers swing from public to private jobs as they see fit. It's not unusual that they seat at some public position, decide to privatise some public service and then sell it to a company they'll be managing after some time. And the said service always becomes worse and more expensive, even when it already sucked before. And the said managers can fuck up as much as they want that they'll never be made accountable for anything, whether they did it in a public office or private one. You just have to reach a particular level in the hierarchy and you're basically inimputable. As far as I know, it happens in the US, too.
half-deranged government bureau is a hell of a lot more dangerous to individual rights and freedoms than a completely apeshit company.
We don't need to create a specific law to forbid employers to ask enterviewees for social network passwords. That's silly. I can imagine a bunch of laws being broken by that request, laws that already existed decades before social networks were even dreamed of. And I guess it shouldn't be much different in the US.
Do you have a law specifically forbiding employers to ass-fuck prospective employees in enterviews? You better look that one up before attending an enterview. One can never know...
I find it strange to be attacked so violently by you and others because of my posts. Did I hit a nerve?
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Actually, if you count it as a percentage of bombs and missiles fired then the track record is pretty good.
If you take into account that the vast majority of those "bombs and missiles" shouldn't ever have been fired or even built, no track record can be good.
My point is that maybe you guys should invest your money on improving people's lives instead of inventing new sophisticated ways of killing people and destroying stuff. The world desperately needs a lot of new things, but new weapons are not in that list.
The military doesn't build these things. Companies do. So it's not like the money is put into a pile and lit on fire. It circulates; which is key to a health economy.
You're wrong. Read this.
And it's focused, so they can avoid planes and hospitals.
Yeah, because the US have such a great track record on focusing on the right target.
What prevents my family to get together and perform the ritual? The only difference between a cremation and a funeral is that the box goes into an oven and not a grave.
So if my religion doesn't allow for routine autopsies, for whatever reason that you clearly don't understand, how about leaving it alone? You may feel free to instruct your heirs to handle your remains as you see fit, and the rest of us might appreciate the same courtesy in return.
I have to leave it alone, unfortunately. That doesn't make it less retarded.
You're right. Not doing an autopsy because it might reveal the fuckups of some doctor is not only stupid, it's evil.
What also makes me uncomfortable is seeing something as retarded as "religious objections" as a growing reason for not doing an autopsy. In the Middle Ages, scientists had to buy bodies illegally to make their studies, risking to be burned at the stake for that "horrible crime". Haven't people learned anything yet? What the fuck does their god of choice care if someone cuts open a dead body? He refuses to welcome the deceased guy in Heaven, or Valhalla or whatever?
After I die, take me to medical college and study me for as long as you like. It may make someone's life better, or even save lives. Then burn me to ashes so I don't go occupying precious real estate. What the fuck do I care? I'll be dead.
In a Socialist society you have your basic needs covered, so the whores offer their bodies to The People just for fun.
I guess there is nobody left in Russia right now, since the Communists murdered everybody. Only Putin survived. And he feels lonely.
So, what's so different from the USA?
The limit is estimated between 9 and 12 billion. I fail to see how this is "doubling" a 7 billion population.
You whole post assumes we can't get energy from any other sources but fossil, nor increase energy efficiency.
I live in one of those "other countries". As far as I'm concerned, we don't need any of your "defence spending", so feel free to cut it as much as you want. I'm pretty sure a few billion people agree with me.
The only thing your "defence spending" is defending is the big pockets of the military-industrial complex.
Sorry 'bout that. Be it the Gates-Borg, then.
What happened to the Doom-Gates icon? I mean, maybe it was outdated, but Slashdot could have replaced it with something funnier that just the company's lettering!
What's happening to you, Slashdot? Going politically correct? If so, how can you be PC and still be Slashdot? What comes next, no swearing in the comments? Fuck you.
There won't be any advertising, or brands. People will consume only white-label products and be perfectly happy about it.
How good for you!
Ignorance is definitely bliss.
Creationism is laughed at here in Europe. Most people never even heard about that stupid shit.
The very conservative Roman Catholic Church officially supports the theory of evolution. Creationism is mostly an issue among some American fundamentalist Protestants and in a few Muslim countries where fundamentalists have a strong influence.
I'm not so sure if the campaigns have any ability (or even intention) of informing anyone.
I AM the Internet. Who are you calling rude? Fuck you!
And the said managers can fuck up as much as they want that they'll never be made accountable for anything, whether they did it in a public office or private one. You just have to reach a particular level in the hierarchy and you're basically inimputable
Not necessarily:
* If a fuck-up angered shareholders or really hurt the company's public image, the private manager can be fired as fast as the requisite electrons can hurl themselves at the screen displaying such a demand from the Board of Directors, majority shareholder(s), etc.
* Removing a judge's fuck-up requires a lot of procedure, time, appeals, and burden of proof.
Oh, man. There's sooo many ways things can be going the other way. The board may all be with the hand in the same cookie jar. As an example, it happened at more than one big private bank over here. The fuck ups were so bad they required State intervention to get rid of the parasites.
Usually, when a normal guy fucks up he is fired. When a guy at the top fucks up, he faces what is called "crossing the desert". It means taking a (pretty well paid) secondary job and wait a few years out of the spotlights before coming back at full strength. Some of them already made so much money and connections that they can peacefully retire. Others are too greedy or too vain to be quiet for too long.
I don't know how things happen in the USA, but in my country top managers swing from public to private jobs as they see fit. It's not unusual that they seat at some public position, decide to privatise some public service and then sell it to a company they'll be managing after some time. And the said service always becomes worse and more expensive, even when it already sucked before. And the said managers can fuck up as much as they want that they'll never be made accountable for anything, whether they did it in a public office or private one. You just have to reach a particular level in the hierarchy and you're basically inimputable. As far as I know, it happens in the US, too.
half-deranged government bureau is a hell of a lot more dangerous to individual rights and freedoms than a completely apeshit company.
I guess that one you just completely made up.
Portugal is a great country to live in, if you're rich. If you live from a salary and you're not an executive, forget it.
I have already read that, so no, I'm not too lazy to educate myself. It's you who seems to be too lazy to read my post and try to understand it.
We don't need to create a specific law to forbid employers to ask enterviewees for social network passwords. That's silly. I can imagine a bunch of laws being broken by that request, laws that already existed decades before social networks were even dreamed of. And I guess it shouldn't be much different in the US.
Do you have a law specifically forbiding employers to ass-fuck prospective employees in enterviews? You better look that one up before attending an enterview. One can never know...
I find it strange to be attacked so violently by you and others because of my posts. Did I hit a nerve?
No. We have fundamental rights that already cover this possibility.