Holy crap. That is way more then most people will ever get in their lives. The guy who earns "only" 40.000 has to work 225 years to get that and not spend a penny.
Sure, there will always be some people who have more then you have. Yes, there is a difference between rich and super rich.
The words you use until you try to live off it as one of the idle rich explain a lot. You also make a difference between rich and idle rich.
So please stop the rhetoric of saying that somebody with a $300k/year isn't rich, because somebody is even richer. It seriously sounds like the whining of "I want more."
And all this because if you were/are against these "powerful fuckers you were/are labeled a socialist and somehow that is a very bad thing to be called.
4. Whose god? any specific one? Zeus? Allah? Odin? Jehova? Vishnu? Paladine?
It is not about the God, it is about the religion. Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God. And even within each of those religions there are huge differences in opinion on almost all matters of life.
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
For marketeers is is NOT a tool that will be used. Say you are on 2 technical sites and one social one, the marketeers won't say "We will send him technical ads." The will say "We will send him technical ads, social ads and some unrelated ones just to be sure."
Just like saying "NO" to a marketeer means to him that he has not explained it well or often enough and if you say YES, it means it will work again.
But I think we must also realize there are legitimate real-world problems that they have to contend with - for example, terrorism threats
Yeah, it worked. You are afraid. Step one of becoming a model citizen is done. Being afraid is good. Sorry that we had to focus from communism to drugs to terrorism. Uh, I mean, we have always been at war with terrorism.
All these restrictions remind me when wanted to see a movie when I was younger. I was not allowed, do I bought the book and read it instead.
Many years later when I saw the movie, I realized that the book was way more explicit and specific then the movie. Several pages at the 'level' of Penthouse letters vs not even a nipple in the movie.
Compare that with Hamburg to Munich 482 miles/775km 7 hours by car and 5:38 by train LA to SF 382miles/615km 6:18 minutes by car and 12 hours by train This is not including traffic.
Huge advantage with trains is that they are from city-center to city, whereas airplanes seldom land in a city center. Add to that the check in and check out times, trains are very often the better option. Trains should compete with airplanes, not with cars.
Short distance: car Medium distance: train Long distance: flying
So IF (and that is a big if) there would be a fast train between LA and SF, the travel time could be around 4.5 hours. In the US it could even be faster as there probably won't be as many stops. Hamburg-Munich has 8 stops.
Mind you: many people would still drive, just as many people still drive from Hamburg to Munich and for various reasons.
We already convinced them and the media that illegal aliens are terrorists. (TSA and such) Now all we need to do is convince them they are coming from Mars. We are at the eve of war.
With the government you nowadays have to think if that is ALL they want. It is the same one that is looking at the Internet Kill Switch. For all I know, they do it as some sort of test.
And not in the way that you are the cause of unemployment for many of "your" people.
I have lived most of my live and worked all of it in a country that is not "mine". My parents, my sister and myself have 4 different nationalities and live now in 3 different countries. From all this what I have learned is that borders are artificial.
Assuming you are American, would it be ethical to take away jobs from people in NY and give it to people in Alaska? What if jobs move from Niagara Falls USA to Niagara Falls, CDN? Mexico? What if the jobs go from Japan to the USA?
So it is all YOUR perception of how much you believe borders are important and location of the job is a given right. I believe neither, so for me there would be and is no reason I would hesitate on the ground of ethical reasons, although there probably would be many others.
If pay AND living conditions are good, I would take the job. However living conditions are not always good (although they might be luxurious).
Remove the Region part and the rest of the world could also see it without the need of piracy or other 'illegal' methods. Or is there any reason to exclude e.g. Australia?
Many copyright infringements are due to these region codes.
They do not want to save it in the cloud. They want to own the data and this is the best spin Marketing could come up with.
The next step will be that you won't be able to get to it if you did whatever it was they do not like and the step after that will be paying to access "your" data, while they are able to sell the info on to third parties.
And still people think that they actually have a choice, just like when the Corleone family offers protection, you have an option to say no.
It seems to me that you confuse evolution with social behavior.
Evolution does not happen in "a few generations". Social behavior however does. It could be that over many generations social behavior gets into our genes, IF there is a reason to do that.
However social circumstances are so much different even from generation to generation that that is extremely unlikely. "Living in a city" 200 years ago was something completely different then now or 500 years ago.
So it is not evolution that makes people easily adopt to western civilization. It is what they learned. It is the social structure.
For everyone who loves the toll collectors, I bet there are hundreds who hate them.
Why? What have they done. Or is it because they are the minions of the people who put the rules in place? In that case, is it OK to hate the military people for doing the same?
Because then I am confused, because I admire what they do but hat why they do it.
Because I might have offended some people whom I have never spoken to in 20 years, never bothered to look up and even then hardly knew and I have nothing in common with.Also they did not bother in the least to find me, except click on a button on facebook.
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There never were any communist governments. They were totalitarian systems which labeled themselves communists. That does not mean they were.
Perhaps the closest would be socialist countries, like most of Europe (compared to the USofA)
And even then you need to define 'best'. European countries have other different priorities.
Holy crap. That is way more then most people will ever get in their lives. The guy who earns "only" 40.000 has to work 225 years to get that and not spend a penny.
Sure, there will always be some people who have more then you have. Yes, there is a difference between rich and super rich.
The words you use until you try to live off it as one of the idle rich explain a lot. You also make a difference between rich and idle rich.
So please stop the rhetoric of saying that somebody with a $300k/year isn't rich, because somebody is even richer. It seriously sounds like the whining of "I want more."
And all this because if you were/are against these "powerful fuckers you were/are labeled a socialist and somehow that is a very bad thing to be called.
Talk to the ventriloquist not to the puppet.
Also do not forget that left wing in the USA is still right wing in the rest of the world.
It is not about the God, it is about the religion. Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God. And even within each of those religions there are huge differences in opinion on almost all matters of life.
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship
a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe
anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Robert A. Heinlein, JOB: A Comedy of Justice
For marketeers is is NOT a tool that will be used. Say you are on 2 technical sites and one social one, the marketeers won't say "We will send him technical ads." The will say "We will send him technical ads, social ads and some unrelated ones just to be sure."
Just like saying "NO" to a marketeer means to him that he has not explained it well or often enough and if you say YES, it means it will work again.
Yesterday.
Kind regards,
The people of Egypt.
Yeah, it worked. You are afraid. Step one of becoming a model citizen is done.
Being afraid is good. Sorry that we had to focus from communism to drugs to terrorism. Uh, I mean, we have always been at war with terrorism.
All these restrictions remind me when wanted to see a movie when I was younger. I was not allowed, do I bought the book and read it instead.
Many years later when I saw the movie, I realized that the book was way more explicit and specific then the movie. Several pages at the 'level' of Penthouse letters vs not even a nipple in the movie.
Pretty interesting when you are 15.
Compare that with
Hamburg to Munich 482 miles/775km 7 hours by car and 5:38 by train
LA to SF 382miles/615km 6:18 minutes by car and 12 hours by train
This is not including traffic.
Huge advantage with trains is that they are from city-center to city, whereas airplanes seldom land in a city center. Add to that the check in and check out times, trains are very often the better option. Trains should compete with airplanes, not with cars.
Short distance: car
Medium distance: train
Long distance: flying
So IF (and that is a big if) there would be a fast train between LA and SF, the travel time could be around 4.5 hours. In the US it could even be faster as there probably won't be as many stops. Hamburg-Munich has 8 stops.
Mind you: many people would still drive, just as many people still drive from Hamburg to Munich and for various reasons.
People are and always have been more interested in other people then in events.
I'm pretty sure Apple assumes everything on any device of them is theirs.
We already convinced them and the media that illegal aliens are terrorists. (TSA and such) Now all we need to do is convince them they are coming from Mars. We are at the eve of war.
With the government you nowadays have to think if that is ALL they want. It is the same one that is looking at the Internet Kill Switch.
For all I know, they do it as some sort of test.
And not in the way that you are the cause of unemployment for many of "your" people.
I have lived most of my live and worked all of it in a country that is not "mine". My parents, my sister and myself have 4 different nationalities and live now in 3 different countries.
From all this what I have learned is that borders are artificial.
Assuming you are American, would it be ethical to take away jobs from people in NY and give it to people in Alaska? What if jobs move from Niagara Falls USA to Niagara Falls, CDN? Mexico?
What if the jobs go from Japan to the USA?
So it is all YOUR perception of how much you believe borders are important and location of the job is a given right. I believe neither, so for me there would be and is no reason I would hesitate on the ground of ethical reasons, although there probably would be many others.
If pay AND living conditions are good, I would take the job. However living conditions are not always good (although they might be luxurious).
Remove the Region part and the rest of the world could also see it without the need of piracy or other 'illegal' methods.
Or is there any reason to exclude e.g. Australia?
Many copyright infringements are due to these region codes.
http://www.woosk.com/2008/10/parah-salin.html
Some are hard, but about 73% isn't.
Perhaps not:
http://twitter.com/arabist/status/30786981814341632
They do not want to save it in the cloud. They want to own the data and this is the best spin Marketing could come up with.
The next step will be that you won't be able to get to it if you did whatever it was they do not like and the step after that will be paying to access "your" data, while they are able to sell the info on to third parties.
And still people think that they actually have a choice, just like when the Corleone family offers protection, you have an option to say no.
It seems to me that you confuse evolution with social behavior.
Evolution does not happen in "a few generations". Social behavior however does. It could be that over many generations social behavior gets into our genes, IF there is a reason to do that.
However social circumstances are so much different even from generation to generation that that is extremely unlikely. "Living in a city" 200 years ago was something completely different then now or 500 years ago.
So it is not evolution that makes people easily adopt to western civilization. It is what they learned. It is the social structure.
Why? What have they done. Or is it because they are the minions of the people who put the rules in place? In that case, is it OK to hate the military people for doing the same?
Because then I am confused, because I admire what they do but hat why they do it.
Because I might have offended some people whom I have never spoken to in 20 years, never bothered to look up and even then hardly knew and I have nothing in common with.Also they did not bother in the least to find me, except click on a button on facebook.