We rule the seas, nearly from pole to pole, and we enforce free passage of commerce almost everywhere.
When Rome collapsed, global trade went into the shitter within a generation or two. Ruins in England show top quality pottery, nearly as good as anything you could buy today, buried under stuff much closer in quality to the ashtray your kid brings home from kindergarten art class.
Trump thinks we should get some payment from the rest of the world for providing that service, or at least some appreciation. Hillary thinks she should get some payment for it. But in the end, there simply isn't anyone else we can trust with it. Do you see a line of countries keen to behave responsibly with their own neighborhood, much less global trade?
Do you have some citations for this alleged violence perpetrated by the Catholic church for merely having bad ideas?
Because the Spanish Inquisition was about finding Muslims in Spain pretending to be Christian to avoid expulsion, and who were often covertly conducting Jihad, pretty much like today.
And the broader Inquisition was about finding people teaching heresy, which could lead the innocent into eternal damnation. Such people were generally invited to defend their teachings if their claims were novel, and ordered to cease if they either refused or failed to do so, with execution reserved for the most dangerous or unrepentant.
Jesus did indeed teach that final judgment of sin was to be left to God alone, but he did not at all teach that we should stand idly by while the potentially-faithful were led astray, nor when the faithful were attacked and oppressed.
P.S. I was raised Lutheran and I'm no fan of the Catholic church.
It is an open secret that the Jihadis are finding the informants and forcing them to "redeem" themselves by carrying out attacks. Death by Jihad cleanses you of all past sins and restores your family's honor. I don't put much stock in early reports while wild rumors are still swirling around, but it is starting to sound like the truck driver was in this category. He was "known to police", which is often code for "was an informant", and he disgraced himself during Ramadan.
Traditionally, deportation was done by taking the deportee to the nearest port and putting them on the next ship scheduled to leave for any foreign port. A much newer, and less polite, tradition (popularized in South America and we should all pray that it doesn't ever spread north) is to deport them via helicopter to a point several hundred feet above international waters.
And you are incorrect in just about everything you said about Sharia. It is not merely a matter of additional rules, dietary or otherwise. It is a complete code of laws that is not compatible with our system or traditions, at all - only one or the other can apply. There are no-go zones in the US where US law only exists in a theoretical sense. And while there haven't been any bills to actually replace any state's laws with Sharia, the data shows that a LOT of muslims are willing to admit to a stranger that they would support such a change.
Islam is both a religion and an ideology, and they don't seem divisible. No one gives a shit what demon muslims pray to, what direction they face when they do it, or what foods they won't eat, but a lot of us care a great deal that they wish to destroy our culture and either rule or replace our nations.
Why would we need martial law for that? The Democrats set the precedent back in the 40s, and the Democrat-appointed Supreme Court Justices affirmed that it is perfectly legal.
After Reconquista, a state-sponsored pork industry was used to weed out the semi-stealth Muslims, and to prevent the fully-stealth Muslims from spreading their ideology to future generations. It was fantastically successful.
H-1B is sold as snatching up Einstein fleeing from the Nazis. H-1B in reality is Haroum taking your 1st level helpdesk job.
Everyone is in favor of picking up exceptional people, but the media tried to pretend that the question had been about the H-1B program. Trump gets tripped up by trick questions like that sometimes because he wasn't raised from birth to be a politician.
He has, however, been totally consistent about putting Americans first for at least 25 years, based on interviews he's done in that time. (Head over to youtube if you want to watch them.) I trust his principles and his instincts.
FACT - absolute fact - from the official statistics cross-checked from the EU: we pay £55 million a day as a contribution. Some of that is the rebate which doesn't go but our gross contribution is £55 million a day.
We should spend that money here, in our own country, on our own people,
Do you know what I'd like to do with the £10 billion? I'd like that £10 billion to be spent helping the communities in Britain that [the] Government damaged so badly by opening up the doors to former communist countries. What people need is schools, hospitals, and GPs. That's what they need.
Hmm. 10,000,000,000 / 365 = 27,397,260. 27 == 50?
Sounds like he understands gross vs. net, but you don't. Also sounds like he isn't promising it all to NHS.
Note that I didn't play Javascript-roulette for long enough to figure out which of the 57 scripts was going to make the video play, so if the quotes in the article aren't from the video, I'm wasting my time.
P.S. Sorry about the £. I cleaned up the dumbquotes and the dashes, but can do nothing for this one.
I like to use the weak nuclear analogy for unions. When the workers organize to protect their own interests is time zero, and the union they form is 100% for their benefit. At some point in the future, the union is 100% run for the benefit of the union's "leadership", and not at all for the workers that formed it, contributed to it, etc.
It isn't as accurate as the real nuclear analogy, but the progression between these two states seems, very roughly, to follow a fixed curve, and we can calculate the half-life of a union from it. For some unions, the half-life seems to be milliseconds. For others, years. If we had a better theory of the discrete units of benefit that unions first provide and then take, we might be able to estimate the half-life in advance. For now, all we can do is lament the unstoppable march.
Personally, I'm still waiting for a group of workers to organize to collectively negotiate a better racket from their union.
Bernie had a message for all of the people that supported him; all of the people that ran up their credit cards so they could donate to his campaign; all of the people that ate ramen so they could donate their food budget to his campaign; all of the people that risked eviction by donating to his campaign instead of paying their rent:
That "ancient book of sacred texts" guided western civilization. Western civilization, so guided, invented science and developed it to the point that we are finding planets orbiting distant stars and probing the stuff that makes up the stuff that makes up matter. Western civilization, so guided, came within a hair of eradicating slavery, an institution older than history itself, from the face of the planet. Western civilization, so guided, created the most beautiful works of art and music that humanity has ever known. Western civilization, so guided, has landed men on the moon and returned them to walk among us, and is currently in communication with a dizzying array of robots strewn throughout the solar system. Western civilization, so guided, has built a communication system that allows almost the poorest person on the planet to talk to someone on the opposite side. Western civilization, so guided, has invented forms of transportation that can get a parcel (or a man) anywhere in the world in half a day for a few bucks a pound.
What has the civilization based on your book given to the world? Men in the girls' bathroom?
I think I've found a hole in your theory. London is located where it is, on the River Thames, because of... Trade. But surely this cannot be, since Trade was introduced to the British Isles in 1973, and London is much older than that.
It would be amusing to look at the internet posts of people now insisting on mark-to-market. A few of them are decent folks, some even scholarly, but many of them blow with the wind and insist that whatever they need to be true today is, even if they insisted that the opposite was true yesterday, when that was more useful.
How about you, AmiMoJo? Were you pushing mark-to-market 8 years ago, when that would have triggered the bankruptcy and ruin of millions of homeowners?
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Chip, chip, chip...
Universal Basic Income has three words. You've chipped two of them away already, and you end up with basically what we have now.
We rule the seas, nearly from pole to pole, and we enforce free passage of commerce almost everywhere.
When Rome collapsed, global trade went into the shitter within a generation or two. Ruins in England show top quality pottery, nearly as good as anything you could buy today, buried under stuff much closer in quality to the ashtray your kid brings home from kindergarten art class.
Trump thinks we should get some payment from the rest of the world for providing that service, or at least some appreciation. Hillary thinks she should get some payment for it. But in the end, there simply isn't anyone else we can trust with it. Do you see a line of countries keen to behave responsibly with their own neighborhood, much less global trade?
Were you under the impression that I'm British?
Egypt too, at least the most recent one.
Are you familiar with the term chickenhawk?
Do you have some citations for this alleged violence perpetrated by the Catholic church for merely having bad ideas?
Because the Spanish Inquisition was about finding Muslims in Spain pretending to be Christian to avoid expulsion, and who were often covertly conducting Jihad, pretty much like today.
And the broader Inquisition was about finding people teaching heresy, which could lead the innocent into eternal damnation. Such people were generally invited to defend their teachings if their claims were novel, and ordered to cease if they either refused or failed to do so, with execution reserved for the most dangerous or unrepentant.
Jesus did indeed teach that final judgment of sin was to be left to God alone, but he did not at all teach that we should stand idly by while the potentially-faithful were led astray, nor when the faithful were attacked and oppressed.
P.S. I was raised Lutheran and I'm no fan of the Catholic church.
It is an open secret that the Jihadis are finding the informants and forcing them to "redeem" themselves by carrying out attacks. Death by Jihad cleanses you of all past sins and restores your family's honor. I don't put much stock in early reports while wild rumors are still swirling around, but it is starting to sound like the truck driver was in this category. He was "known to police", which is often code for "was an informant", and he disgraced himself during Ramadan.
Traditionally, deportation was done by taking the deportee to the nearest port and putting them on the next ship scheduled to leave for any foreign port. A much newer, and less polite, tradition (popularized in South America and we should all pray that it doesn't ever spread north) is to deport them via helicopter to a point several hundred feet above international waters.
And you are incorrect in just about everything you said about Sharia. It is not merely a matter of additional rules, dietary or otherwise. It is a complete code of laws that is not compatible with our system or traditions, at all - only one or the other can apply. There are no-go zones in the US where US law only exists in a theoretical sense. And while there haven't been any bills to actually replace any state's laws with Sharia, the data shows that a LOT of muslims are willing to admit to a stranger that they would support such a change.
Islam is both a religion and an ideology, and they don't seem divisible. No one gives a shit what demon muslims pray to, what direction they face when they do it, or what foods they won't eat, but a lot of us care a great deal that they wish to destroy our culture and either rule or replace our nations.
Why would we need martial law for that? The Democrats set the precedent back in the 40s, and the Democrat-appointed Supreme Court Justices affirmed that it is perfectly legal.
It is a long term strategy.
After Reconquista, a state-sponsored pork industry was used to weed out the semi-stealth Muslims, and to prevent the fully-stealth Muslims from spreading their ideology to future generations. It was fantastically successful.
H-1B is sold as snatching up Einstein fleeing from the Nazis. H-1B in reality is Haroum taking your 1st level helpdesk job.
Everyone is in favor of picking up exceptional people, but the media tried to pretend that the question had been about the H-1B program. Trump gets tripped up by trick questions like that sometimes because he wasn't raised from birth to be a politician.
He has, however, been totally consistent about putting Americans first for at least 25 years, based on interviews he's done in that time. (Head over to youtube if you want to watch them.) I trust his principles and his instincts.
I've seen a lot of MMO launches. Tell me the numbers in 6 months.
This joke went right over the heads of the 7+ digit UIDs in the thread. Well, probably over most of the 6s too, but you are a low 6.
Why do I have the urge to shout "First post!"
It is nothing more than Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy presented using a concrete example.
Hmm. 10,000,000,000 / 365 = 27,397,260. 27 == 50?
Sounds like he understands gross vs. net, but you don't. Also sounds like he isn't promising it all to NHS.
Note that I didn't play Javascript-roulette for long enough to figure out which of the 57 scripts was going to make the video play, so if the quotes in the article aren't from the video, I'm wasting my time.
P.S. Sorry about the £. I cleaned up the dumbquotes and the dashes, but can do nothing for this one.
I like to use the weak nuclear analogy for unions. When the workers organize to protect their own interests is time zero, and the union they form is 100% for their benefit. At some point in the future, the union is 100% run for the benefit of the union's "leadership", and not at all for the workers that formed it, contributed to it, etc.
It isn't as accurate as the real nuclear analogy, but the progression between these two states seems, very roughly, to follow a fixed curve, and we can calculate the half-life of a union from it. For some unions, the half-life seems to be milliseconds. For others, years. If we had a better theory of the discrete units of benefit that unions first provide and then take, we might be able to estimate the half-life in advance. For now, all we can do is lament the unstoppable march.
Personally, I'm still waiting for a group of workers to organize to collectively negotiate a better racket from their union.
Bernie had a message for all of the people that supported him; all of the people that ran up their credit cards so they could donate to his campaign; all of the people that ate ramen so they could donate their food budget to his campaign; all of the people that risked eviction by donating to his campaign instead of paying their rent:
NO REFUNDS
Squander?
That "ancient book of sacred texts" guided western civilization. Western civilization, so guided, invented science and developed it to the point that we are finding planets orbiting distant stars and probing the stuff that makes up the stuff that makes up matter. Western civilization, so guided, came within a hair of eradicating slavery, an institution older than history itself, from the face of the planet. Western civilization, so guided, created the most beautiful works of art and music that humanity has ever known. Western civilization, so guided, has landed men on the moon and returned them to walk among us, and is currently in communication with a dizzying array of robots strewn throughout the solar system. Western civilization, so guided, has built a communication system that allows almost the poorest person on the planet to talk to someone on the opposite side. Western civilization, so guided, has invented forms of transportation that can get a parcel (or a man) anywhere in the world in half a day for a few bucks a pound.
What has the civilization based on your book given to the world? Men in the girls' bathroom?
That makes no sense. If you've got the ability to set up a domain name and an email server, why don't you use that for your personal account too?
I think I've found a hole in your theory. London is located where it is, on the River Thames, because of... Trade. But surely this cannot be, since Trade was introduced to the British Isles in 1973, and London is much older than that.
Meh. Unrealized losses.
It would be amusing to look at the internet posts of people now insisting on mark-to-market. A few of them are decent folks, some even scholarly, but many of them blow with the wind and insist that whatever they need to be true today is, even if they insisted that the opposite was true yesterday, when that was more useful.
How about you, AmiMoJo? Were you pushing mark-to-market 8 years ago, when that would have triggered the bankruptcy and ruin of millions of homeowners?
The rule, as written, is simple and unambiguous. Literally integer division followed by a rightshifting.
What Star of David?
FYI, the Star of David is two letter "D"s above and below each other. You know, for DaviD.
What other religion fits this definition? Hell, what other religion is OK with killing people?