So, nudity == pornography? This only shows how puritan the American mind is.
Nudity is pretty common in arts here in Europe. Also, there are statues of naked people in every corner in every city. A boob shown on TV doesn't cause outrage like in the US, and children don't grow to be serial killers or mass rapists because of it.
I assume Microsoft will ban sculptures like the "Manneken Pis" or "O Desterrado", and images like "The French Republic", because they show inappropriate body parts. how retarded is that?
Dude, spin it anyway you like. The main figure is this one: The USA, the richest country in the worldcan't afford a better place in the world ranking than #38???
Ironically behind Cuba, a third world country that you've been fucking in the ass for centuries? Is it possible that you don't feel ashamed by this and even try to spin it around?
Oh, those evil nanny-state abortionist lesbian tree-hugging pot-smoking liberals. How dare they legislate to interfere with The Holy Market? Everybody knows The Markets are perfect!
actually would be feasible, if you could generate enough bits, to simply store a mass of bits on the card itself to use as a OTP for transaction data.
Surely, the barriers to building a real cryptographic card are very low and falling even still. My guess is that the banks are simply too large and the management has too many aging MBAs who spend all their time at the golf course "networking" that simply aren't even aware of what their options are. Let alone smart enough to start a project to implement one of them.
What do you mean? Credit and debit cards with chip (EMV cards) are the standard here in Europe.
Never had any problem. Most people I know do the same thing.
I have never seen a clothes washer with no power plug. Before being so swift on calling bullshit on others, please realise the world is a lot bigger than your backyard.
Simple, I use a tariff that is a lot cheaper at night. So, I run my washing machines after 11 PM, when I'm asleep. There are these gizmos called timers, haven't you heard?
You and others keep saying that proponents of AGW are fighting some battle against media conspiracy and underhand tactics. The reality is that anyone publically skeptical of AGW gets viciously hammered.
Maybe it's because they're just plain wrong, and that's it.
Acceptance of AGW is pretty much commonplace in all the world, only in the USA there is this "debate" going on. Like creationism, which is considered absolutely ridiculous outside the USA and some retarded Muslim-fundamentalist countries.
California can't afford to declare jack or shit right now. They're hardly the model of the right way to do things. Few states are as fucked up as California is.
That's why I believe Obama won't make it to the second mandate. USA is too good to have stuff that is the standard in every developed country for decades, like socialised healthcare, public transportation, environment regulations, social assistance, etc.
Sarah Palin will win the next elections and lead your country straight back to the Middle Ages.
California will declare the independence but the rest of the country won't notice. They'll be too busy burning abortionists, gays, brown people and scientists. Oh, and books. Many, many, many books.
Wow, I'm amazed you put up so much work to produce this puffed-up, arrogant, piece of bullshit. The most amazing is that you managed to obsessively focus your hole post solely on trains. Now that's what I call trainspotting!
Do you work for the marketing department of some oil or car company?
It amazes me how such an obvious troll is modded insightful. Did you even care to go to Europe or you just made up everything, right there in your momma's basement in a shithole town in Kansas?
I agree. That's why the policies of the last decades, centred exclusively around personal responsibility are wrong and dangerous. The world's economy is more and more deregulated based on religious dogmas that the markets are efficient and rational. They're not.The markets are herds of dangerous animals that can cause a stampede at any time. To you, my religious fundamentalist friends, no, I'm not against personal responsibility. I'm just saying it's not the only thing that matters, like current economic theories dictate.
You can't attack systemic problems like global warming, the scarcity of oil, income imbalance or public debt with market-based approaches. Let's give an example, trains are more efficient means of transportation than roads in almost any aspect you can imagine. But if you leave it to the market to decide, the train loses. Everybody will make an individual choice. The people will choose to pay the premium for gas and cars for more individual convenience. The enterprises will stay away from train because it has huge initial costs. Without a public policy to invest in train transportation and discourage the use of the car, the sum of all the individual choices gives us the absurd stupidity of modern life transportation. And it feeds itself because people won't use the train because it sucks and that reduces the incentive to invest in trains even more.
The same with public debts. Without rational policies to manage the situation, the markets will only make it worse, because every individual will only try to increase its own gains. Summing all these (perfectly natural) individual greeds together gives the incredible stupidity where whole countries can be sucked dry overnight for no reason. You can't appeal to the individuals to stop doing what they do because they will all tell you: "If I don't do it, my neighbour will!". The solution is having regulations that allow for the public powers to protect the general interest.
Now, all the religious fundamentalists will jump on me calling me "commie" and "enemy of liberty" and all that shit. The fact is, the current world's policies are based on assumptions that are extremely flawed, absurd and dangerous. If nobody has the brains and the balls to make a U-turn the wreck is inevitable.
I wonder how someone who can read and write and is not a millionaire can be a Republican. But nevermind, it's the same here in Europe.
The most fervent right-wingers I know are from the working class. They can go through unbelievable mental contortions to rationalise being against themselves.
To us the Europeans, the USA have only two parties, and both are right-wing. One resembles our traditional right-wing parties, the other is full of mouth-foaming, rabid bible-thumpers that should be in a madhouse.
I guess the rest of the (democratic) world thinks pretty much the same.
It's a money making scheme - if you look at the "fees" one has to shell out for certificates - has absolutely nothing to do with effort necessary to provide a certificate.
So, the cost of something has to be derived from the effort needed to produce that something? Oh, my god, are you an evil communist? Why oh why do you hate America? Why do you hate freedom?
Last time I checked, we were discussing the US' foreign policy, not slavery or women suffrage. You need to get your focus straight.
You should be running for the Strawman Award, because you're shooting arguments in all directions, replying to them yourself like I did it, and then attacking me for it.
I didn't support GWB, I think he's a retard and I hate his guts. It's you the Americans that elected that twat twice (!?!?!). And now are failing to support your current president to make the changes you elected him for, because the bullshit right-wing propaganda appeals better to your basic, selfish instincts.
And don't go using childish insults on me, it only shows how week your argumentation is.
Since when do the USA have the right of removing evil dictators outside their national territory? And who gave the USA the right of deciding who is "evil" or not?
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So, nudity == pornography? This only shows how puritan the American mind is.
Nudity is pretty common in arts here in Europe. Also, there are statues of naked people in every corner in every city. A boob shown on TV doesn't cause outrage like in the US, and children don't grow to be serial killers or mass rapists because of it.
I assume Microsoft will ban sculptures like the "Manneken Pis" or "O Desterrado", and images like "The French Republic", because they show inappropriate body parts. how retarded is that?
Thanks, I don't smoke. I'm trying to save my nanny state some health care money.
Dude, spin it anyway you like. The main figure is this one: The USA, the richest country in the world can't afford a better place in the world ranking than #38??? Ironically behind Cuba, a third world country that you've been fucking in the ass for centuries? Is it possible that you don't feel ashamed by this and even try to spin it around?
Oh, those evil nanny-state abortionist lesbian tree-hugging pot-smoking liberals. How dare they legislate to interfere with The Holy Market? Everybody knows The Markets are perfect!
actually would be feasible, if you could generate enough bits, to simply store a mass of bits on the card itself to use as a OTP for transaction data.
Surely, the barriers to building a real cryptographic card are very low and falling even still. My guess is that the banks are simply too large and the management has too many aging MBAs who spend all their time at the golf course "networking" that simply aren't even aware of what their options are. Let alone smart enough to start a project to implement one of them.
What do you mean? Credit and debit cards with chip (EMV cards) are the standard here in Europe.
Never had any problem. Most people I know do the same thing.
I have never seen a clothes washer with no power plug. Before being so swift on calling bullshit on others, please realise the world is a lot bigger than your backyard.
Simple, I use a tariff that is a lot cheaper at night. So, I run my washing machines after 11 PM, when I'm asleep. There are these gizmos called timers, haven't you heard?
You and others keep saying that proponents of AGW are fighting some battle against media conspiracy and underhand tactics. The reality is that anyone publically skeptical of AGW gets viciously hammered.
Maybe it's because they're just plain wrong, and that's it.
Acceptance of AGW is pretty much commonplace in all the world, only in the USA there is this "debate" going on. Like creationism, which is considered absolutely ridiculous outside the USA and some retarded Muslim-fundamentalist countries.
Albert Einstein was a genius, which is something that appears only once in a while. Are those two dickheads geniuses? I don't think so.
California can't afford to declare jack or shit right now. They're hardly the model of the right way to do things. Few states are as fucked up as California is.
Whoooooooosh
Glenn Beck, is that you?
It would be a lot easier if the right-wing wackos weren't screaming "OMG, COMMUNISM, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" everytime Obama scratches his nose.
That's why I believe Obama won't make it to the second mandate. USA is too good to have stuff that is the standard in every developed country for decades, like socialised healthcare, public transportation, environment regulations, social assistance, etc.
Sarah Palin will win the next elections and lead your country straight back to the Middle Ages. California will declare the independence but the rest of the country won't notice. They'll be too busy burning abortionists, gays, brown people and scientists. Oh, and books. Many, many, many books.
Don't do that. They'll drill the dungeon bottom and drown themselves in oil.
Thinking better, that doesn't sound so bad...
Wow, I'm amazed you put up so much work to produce this puffed-up, arrogant, piece of bullshit. The most amazing is that you managed to obsessively focus your hole post solely on trains. Now that's what I call trainspotting!
Do you work for the marketing department of some oil or car company?
It amazes me how such an obvious troll is modded insightful. Did you even care to go to Europe or you just made up everything, right there in your momma's basement in a shithole town in Kansas?
I agree. That's why the policies of the last decades, centred exclusively around personal responsibility are wrong and dangerous. The world's economy is more and more deregulated based on religious dogmas that the markets are efficient and rational. They're not.The markets are herds of dangerous animals that can cause a stampede at any time. To you, my religious fundamentalist friends, no, I'm not against personal responsibility. I'm just saying it's not the only thing that matters, like current economic theories dictate.
You can't attack systemic problems like global warming, the scarcity of oil, income imbalance or public debt with market-based approaches. Let's give an example, trains are more efficient means of transportation than roads in almost any aspect you can imagine. But if you leave it to the market to decide, the train loses. Everybody will make an individual choice. The people will choose to pay the premium for gas and cars for more individual convenience. The enterprises will stay away from train because it has huge initial costs. Without a public policy to invest in train transportation and discourage the use of the car, the sum of all the individual choices gives us the absurd stupidity of modern life transportation. And it feeds itself because people won't use the train because it sucks and that reduces the incentive to invest in trains even more.
The same with public debts. Without rational policies to manage the situation, the markets will only make it worse, because every individual will only try to increase its own gains. Summing all these (perfectly natural) individual greeds together gives the incredible stupidity where whole countries can be sucked dry overnight for no reason. You can't appeal to the individuals to stop doing what they do because they will all tell you: "If I don't do it, my neighbour will!". The solution is having regulations that allow for the public powers to protect the general interest.
Now, all the religious fundamentalists will jump on me calling me "commie" and "enemy of liberty" and all that shit. The fact is, the current world's policies are based on assumptions that are extremely flawed, absurd and dangerous. If nobody has the brains and the balls to make a U-turn the wreck is inevitable.
I wonder how someone who can read and write and is not a millionaire can be a Republican. But nevermind, it's the same here in Europe.
The most fervent right-wingers I know are from the working class. They can go through unbelievable mental contortions to rationalise being against themselves.
To us the Europeans, the USA have only two parties, and both are right-wing. One resembles our traditional right-wing parties, the other is full of mouth-foaming, rabid bible-thumpers that should be in a madhouse.
I guess the rest of the (democratic) world thinks pretty much the same.
intellectually bankrupt?
You can't go bankrupt on something you never had.
It's a money making scheme - if you look at the "fees" one has to shell out for certificates - has absolutely nothing to do with effort necessary to provide a certificate.
So, the cost of something has to be derived from the effort needed to produce that something? Oh, my god, are you an evil communist? Why oh why do you hate America? Why do you hate freedom?
Last time I checked, we were discussing the US' foreign policy, not slavery or women suffrage. You need to get your focus straight.
You should be running for the Strawman Award, because you're shooting arguments in all directions, replying to them yourself like I did it, and then attacking me for it.
I didn't support GWB, I think he's a retard and I hate his guts. It's you the Americans that elected that twat twice (!?!?!). And now are failing to support your current president to make the changes you elected him for, because the bullshit right-wing propaganda appeals better to your basic, selfish instincts.
And don't go using childish insults on me, it only shows how week your argumentation is.
Since when do the USA have the right of removing evil dictators outside their national territory? And who gave the USA the right of deciding who is "evil" or not?
What web ads? I haven't looked at a web ad in years. Except when I use IE, which I have done about 3 times over the last 5 years.
If you think anything changed, you're just plain naive.