To the creature that is the angry wife, the ONLY justification for not being home, catering to her every wish, unloading the dishwasher, and cleaning the garage, because you're lucky to have her to cook shitty potatoes for you
Hey, I don't even get potatoes unless I cook them myself, you insensitive clod!
Speak for yourself. You must be in a piss-poor qualification job. For several times, people that were working with me left for other jobs and it costed me an arm and a leg to replace them. A stable, qualified, trained team is an invaluable thing. Bosses who think otherwise are as greedy as they are stupid. Unless the job is flipping burgers, of course. And even in those shit jobs replacing a hard-working, responsible employee is very hard.
I'm sorry but your argument is quite retarded, for a number of reasons.
the federal gov't didn't have the responsibilities of healthcare or education for the first 100~ years.
Ah, the good ole times of generalised illiteracy and high mortality. How I miss them.
it's always had the responsibility of protecting our country from foreign threats.
If the troops are supposed to protect your country, what are they doing on the other side of the world fighting illiterate peasants that live in caves and bear 30 year old AK47s?
I can buy myself cough medicine and pay for a visit to my doctor.
You can, how good for you. Many can't. What about cancer treatment? Can you afford it?
I can buy a book or search the internets to educate myself.
You can, how good for you. Many can't.
I cannot buy myself a warplane or a warship to defend against a foreign gov'ts army, or to fight and destroy terrorists overseas.
You're comparing completely disproportionate things. If you can afford the doctor, why can't you afford a gun? If you can afford a hospital, why can't you afford an army?
What to say about Portugal and Greece? They're small, have ancient homogeneous populations, and they're ruled by crooks. Even worse, how about rampaging corruption typical of island nations? You can't find smaller, more homogeneous populations...
Of course, are you really saying that the Scandinavian governments are more powerful than the U.S. government?
Scandinavian governments have more power over their own countries than the US government has over the US.
Where government is weak, private corporations are strong,...
Please give an example of this. Every place I know of, where government is strong, private corporations are also strong. In particular, my observation of history notes that as government has gotten more powerful, corporations have used that to increase their own power.
Easy. Just compare the USA to Scandinavian countries. In the US, most of the economy is dominated by corporations and politicians are nothing but puppets. In Scandinavia, the governments control the strategic sectors of the economy. That makes them the countries with the highest standards of living in the world. Of course this wouldn't be possible without populations with a very high degree of political awareness and participation.
I have never recycled a light bulb in my life. You know, when I said "special trip to the recycling center", I realize that I misspoke because it is actually a toxic waste disposal site. There are not enough of any particular thing in a light bulb to make recycling them efficient (it takes more energy, resources and effort to extract the various resources from a light bulb than it does to obtain than from their natural state).
So you claim it's cheaper to bore the underground, grind thousands of tons of rock to extract the materials and then separate them, as opposed to simply grind the lamps and separate the materials??? Do you have any numbers to support that bold claim of yours?
Yes, that's right. Those "uneducated" people don't know what's best for them, so the government has to tell them.
In many cases, yes. That's why there are many specialists in government organisations. To make decisions that the common mortal doesn't have the qualifications to make. Of course, some decisions can be made by politicians and bureaucrats instead of specialists. That's why every government needs to be closely watched all the time. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be any. Where government is weak, private corporations are strong, and they're orders of magnitude more dangerous and tyrannical.
Maybe it is more important to them that they not introduce mercury into the environment than that they reduce their "carbon footprint"
I can assure you these people don't give a flying fuck about mercury in the environment. Most of them don't even know what mercury is. People I know that can spell "mercury" use CFLs.
(you know the way that Al Gore has more important priorities than reducing his carbon footprint),
Who the fuck is Al Gore and why are you bringing him into this argument?
Are you sure that CFLs are really cheaper in the end? Once you factor in the special trip to the recycling center with them once they stop working? What other costs are associated with CFLs that are hidden?
I don't know which backwards 3rd world country you live in, but in mine all lamps are recycled, so your argument is moot.
The environment appears to be "free" for most people and businesses.
Which would explain why people began cleaning up rivers and lakes even before the Clean Water Act was passed.
Because polluted rivers stink. River pollution is pretty visible, annoying and has immediate effects. Otherwise, the common Joe wouldn't give a fuck.
Most uneducated people I know don't use CFLs because they're more expensive upfront. They can't be bothered to make a simple calculation and find CFLs are a lot cheaper in the end. Educated people understand this. Guess what the educated/uneducated ratio is?
The environment appears to be "free" for most people and businesses. If regulation doesn't correct for this misperception, we'll just happily destroy our environment and, in the end, our economy.
What about the cure for cancer? Nobody should ever do anything in the world until we find the cure for cancer. What am I doing here programming? I must run for the cancer research lab and offer to help.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Unsuccessful? My whole apartment is lit with CFLs and a few halogens. I'm looking forward to replace the halogens with LED when the price becomes practicable.
You can never think about social issues at the individual scale. Preventative, holistic health care has worked very well increasing the well-being and life-span of people in developed countries. It just moves slow because a whole society has a lot of inertia.
As an example, I've been reading alarming stuff about the obesity epidemics for decades. My generation was raised on TV, fast food, sweets, soda and beer. Things are starting to turn around. There's an increasing number of people making exercise and we're slowly returning to our traditional food based on olive oil, fish, tomato, red wine. It will probably take a few decades more, and a fair percentage of people will still be stupid and lazy lard asses. But the obesity epidemics will eventually stop.
Ah, nothing like judging tens of millions of people on the other side of the world while sitting one's fat ass on a comfortable couch, munching a cheeseburger, watching sports on a giant LCD HD TV and feeling the sweet breeze of air conditioning.
Slashdot Mirror
Wrong. You need books to teach/learn those skills, with the exception of rock stars and executives, of course.
If you burn all the books, in a few decades ALL labour in the US will be AWESOMELY cheap!
To the creature that is the angry wife, the ONLY justification for not being home, catering to her every wish, unloading the dishwasher, and cleaning the garage, because you're lucky to have her to cook shitty potatoes for you
Hey, I don't even get potatoes unless I cook them myself, you insensitive clod!
Speak for yourself. You must be in a piss-poor qualification job. For several times, people that were working with me left for other jobs and it costed me an arm and a leg to replace them. A stable, qualified, trained team is an invaluable thing. Bosses who think otherwise are as greedy as they are stupid. Unless the job is flipping burgers, of course. And even in those shit jobs replacing a hard-working, responsible employee is very hard.
the federal gov't didn't have the responsibilities of healthcare or education for the first 100~ years.
Ah, the good ole times of generalised illiteracy and high mortality. How I miss them.
it's always had the responsibility of protecting our country from foreign threats.
If the troops are supposed to protect your country, what are they doing on the other side of the world fighting illiterate peasants that live in caves and bear 30 year old AK47s?
I can buy myself cough medicine and pay for a visit to my doctor.
You can, how good for you. Many can't. What about cancer treatment? Can you afford it?
I can buy a book or search the internets to educate myself.
You can, how good for you. Many can't.
I cannot buy myself a warplane or a warship to defend against a foreign gov'ts army, or to fight and destroy terrorists overseas.
You're comparing completely disproportionate things. If you can afford the doctor, why can't you afford a gun? If you can afford a hospital, why can't you afford an army?
No problem, cut the education and health care budgets to finance this. Things that matter should go first!
And homogeneity and small populations.
What to say about Portugal and Greece? They're small, have ancient homogeneous populations, and they're ruled by crooks. Even worse, how about rampaging corruption typical of island nations? You can't find smaller, more homogeneous populations...
Of course, are you really saying that the Scandinavian governments are more powerful than the U.S. government?
Scandinavian governments have more power over their own countries than the US government has over the US.
Where government is weak, private corporations are strong,...
Please give an example of this. Every place I know of, where government is strong, private corporations are also strong. In particular, my observation of history notes that as government has gotten more powerful, corporations have used that to increase their own power.
Easy. Just compare the USA to Scandinavian countries. In the US, most of the economy is dominated by corporations and politicians are nothing but puppets. In Scandinavia, the governments control the strategic sectors of the economy. That makes them the countries with the highest standards of living in the world. Of course this wouldn't be possible without populations with a very high degree of political awareness and participation.
I have never recycled a light bulb in my life. You know, when I said "special trip to the recycling center", I realize that I misspoke because it is actually a toxic waste disposal site. There are not enough of any particular thing in a light bulb to make recycling them efficient (it takes more energy, resources and effort to extract the various resources from a light bulb than it does to obtain than from their natural state).
So you claim it's cheaper to bore the underground, grind thousands of tons of rock to extract the materials and then separate them, as opposed to simply grind the lamps and separate the materials??? Do you have any numbers to support that bold claim of yours?
Yes, that's right. Those "uneducated" people don't know what's best for them, so the government has to tell them.
In many cases, yes. That's why there are many specialists in government organisations. To make decisions that the common mortal doesn't have the qualifications to make. Of course, some decisions can be made by politicians and bureaucrats instead of specialists. That's why every government needs to be closely watched all the time. That doesn't mean there shouldn't be any. Where government is weak, private corporations are strong, and they're orders of magnitude more dangerous and tyrannical.
Maybe it is more important to them that they not introduce mercury into the environment than that they reduce their "carbon footprint"
I can assure you these people don't give a flying fuck about mercury in the environment. Most of them don't even know what mercury is. People I know that can spell "mercury" use CFLs.
(you know the way that Al Gore has more important priorities than reducing his carbon footprint),
Who the fuck is Al Gore and why are you bringing him into this argument?
Are you sure that CFLs are really cheaper in the end? Once you factor in the special trip to the recycling center with them once they stop working? What other costs are associated with CFLs that are hidden?
I don't know which backwards 3rd world country you live in, but in mine all lamps are recycled, so your argument is moot.
The environment appears to be "free" for most people and businesses.
Which would explain why people began cleaning up rivers and lakes even before the Clean Water Act was passed.
Because polluted rivers stink. River pollution is pretty visible, annoying and has immediate effects. Otherwise, the common Joe wouldn't give a fuck.
I tried it, but it keeps repeating the same sentence over and over:
"Don't run, we are your friends"
Microsoft, please translate this from Portuguese to English:
Ecrã Azul da Morte
Most uneducated people I know don't use CFLs because they're more expensive upfront. They can't be bothered to make a simple calculation and find CFLs are a lot cheaper in the end. Educated people understand this. Guess what the educated/uneducated ratio is?
The environment appears to be "free" for most people and businesses. If regulation doesn't correct for this misperception, we'll just happily destroy our environment and, in the end, our economy.
What about the cure for cancer? Nobody should ever do anything in the world until we find the cure for cancer. What am I doing here programming? I must run for the cancer research lab and offer to help.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Unsuccessful? My whole apartment is lit with CFLs and a few halogens. I'm looking forward to replace the halogens with LED when the price becomes practicable.
You can never think about social issues at the individual scale. Preventative, holistic health care has worked very well increasing the well-being and life-span of people in developed countries. It just moves slow because a whole society has a lot of inertia.
As an example, I've been reading alarming stuff about the obesity epidemics for decades. My generation was raised on TV, fast food, sweets, soda and beer. Things are starting to turn around. There's an increasing number of people making exercise and we're slowly returning to our traditional food based on olive oil, fish, tomato, red wine. It will probably take a few decades more, and a fair percentage of people will still be stupid and lazy lard asses. But the obesity epidemics will eventually stop.
Better yet, correlate the data with happiness.
Actually, it doesn't come from the NSA. The name resembles "Do cu", which is "from the ass" in Portuguese. There, now you know where it comes from.
Most EU countries wouldn't qualify, either.
Ah, nothing like judging tens of millions of people on the other side of the world while sitting one's fat ass on a comfortable couch, munching a cheeseburger, watching sports on a giant LCD HD TV and feeling the sweet breeze of air conditioning.
I live in a poor country in Europe. I've never seen so many homeless people in my life as when I was in the US.
To be a voting member, you'd need to adhere to certain thresholds for openness, corruption, and press freedom
Then the US wouldn't qualify.
Too Stupid Authority?
It's not like they don't try to move out, but the other countries have some issues with it. I wonder why...
Yeah, they would change, if you'd be so kind as to give them a room in your house.
But think positive. You have plenty of lawyers, bankers and preachers!