But - if you don't understand or misunderstand the actual process of the healing, you won't have much success in improving it, or estimating its side effects, or understanding where it will and where it won't work.
And accupuncture works quite fine, no idea why americans are so anti to thousands of years old proven working technologies, that basically cost nothing und rarely have side effects.
Replace "americans" with "rational people" and you will get an answer.
"date rape" is an american term. Most Europeans won't know what it means. Preying on teenagers - the main culprit is the catholic church. Everyone else agrees that such people need to be locked up. The laws about non-consensual sex are more strict in most European nations than anywhere else in the world. That is how they silences Assange - because in Sweden (which is in Europe, for my geographically challenged american friends) these laws are especially strong and even if you fucked two hours ago consensually, you can't assume the consensus still exists.
I always wonder why sex is named in the same context as guns, drugs and illegal materials.
Drugs and guns you can argue are dangerous things. Illegal stuff is harmful to someone (the person you stole it from, for example).
For some reason, we are still in the middle ages where sex is thrown in with these things, not for rational reasons, but because stuff-up moral preachers want to give it a bad taste.
Will humanity ever grow up? We've been waiting since the Enlightenment.
According to the very first Google hit, manufacturing output per head is $5,800 in the US, while it is $8,300 in Japan and $8,600 in Germany. South Korea beats you with $7,400. But hey, you beat Italy ($4,400). Let me think of some industrial products manufactured in Italy... wait... I'm getting there... just one minute... almost there... shitty cars, yes! They're even called "Fiat" because faith is the only thing keeping them in one piece.
And while it may have trippled as your source says, the % of national output dropped from 24% in the 70s to 21% in the 80s, 18% in the 90s to 12% now. So in % of the economy, it fell to half of what it was.
Japan has addresses, they just aren't street addresses. But they work and are unique, and unless you are a web form developer who thinks the whole world has middle names, states and zip codes, no problem that needs solving exists. They just have a different system.
Many countries have their own variations of systems. Whether street numbers are sequential or even/odd divided upon the two sides. If different entrances to the same building get different numbers, or an entrance designator (e.g. in Vienna you very often get a street address like Somestreet 5/2 where the/2 indicates the 2nd entrance).
This system and its competitors were invented to address your second situation - where no streets exist. That could be geographical (villages clustered around a central point but without streets per se) or circumstancial (slums with no official streets existing) or for any other kind of reason (that old castle on the mountain which is now a Hotel).
I honestly have no idea why they invented a system for that. We already can give the coordinates of any point on Earth with any amount of precision that you need. Sure, VXX7+39 might be slightly shorter than 38.8973,-77.0364 - but it doesn't give me information, for example how far away QXW5+38 is. 38.8039,-77.022 does.
But all that is besides the point. Cities are not just their geography. Many large buildings, for example, have one official entrance for the public to use. The geography of the building doesn't tell you that. The street address does. And many buildings have their doors close to the next buildings entrance, I know several examples where they can both easily fall within the same 3x3m square. Street address makes it clear.
A street address also tells me (if I know the numbering system) which end of a street I need to start at. Here in Vienna, for example,6CJ8+QV and 7FGH+6M are on the same street. The Plus codes gives you no useful information whatsoever. With the street address you can take one look at the nearest building and understand which direction and about how far away each of these destinations is if you are somewhere on that street.
So as a real-life navigation system, zero usefulness. As a coordinate system, weaker than the ones we already have. Plus (pun intended) you need access to Google Maps to figure out your current location in Plus Code. But every smartphone will tell you your GPS coordinates, doesn't even need a working network.
Even after checking their Benefits page I still fail to see any advantage whatsoever.
what3words at least has the benefit of memorability.
They would never do such a thing! The new TLDs are all for the purpose of users and convenience and helpful to Internet users. That is why we got.aero as one of the first ones...
The real sad part is that nobody stopped them. The good part is that the new TLDs are largely ignored. There was a short period where you would see people advertising their.biz addresses, then it stopped and went back to normal.
So the world was telling ICANN to go and fuck themselves. Allowing Unicode and the entire attacks possible with it was their spiteful revenge.
Stopping a mob at a strategic location is not escalation, it's sound tactics.
Except that it wasn't a mob. It was a registered and permitted demonstration with about 12,000 people (police estimates, not organizer estimates).
Had the police started beating the shit out of them unprovoked that would be a different story.
Of course they are not stupid enough to do that. They boxed them in, didn't let them move, neither forward nor backward, and simply waited until some idiot does something stupid. I don't know about your city, but here in Hamburg that is a well-known police strategy. In fact, they had used the exact same approach about a year before, with the exact same result.
If you think that preventing 12,000 people from excercising the right to have a demonstration because about 50 people refuse to remove their sunglasses (on a sunny day), you can probably somehow argue that the police didn't do their share.
As I said: There were people on both sides who wanted that it ends in riots, and they got what they wanted. A different story was possible.
I'm a German. 65 million of us beat out a billion-plus Chinese in the export game for decades. The US isn't even on our list of competitors. Not after you downed your own car industry, then outsourced your electronics industry to Japan (who happily buy the machines to build those electronics from Germany to this day). All of that was 30 years ago, but you still didn't learn. Military is the only industry left in the US, isn't it? Aside from industry, you have Internet companies and Hollywood.
Meanwhile, we continue to build the machines that build the cheap plastic shit that you spend your dollars on. And Europe went down the crapper because we needed more poor countries to export stuff and outsource cheap labor to.
Oh, reality check: There is no communist party in any parliament in Germany. There is a communist party, but I think it gets something like 0.1% of the votes. But yes, complaining is a favorite past-time in Germany. We just are like that, don't take it too serious.
The bottom line is, you Americans think you are so superior, but actually almost nothing was invented in your backwater shithole. You wouldn't have gone to the Moon if it weren't for the rocket scientists you took from the Nazis. Even the first computer was invented in Germany (Z3, by Konrad Zuse, 1941).
I suggest you crawl back into your trailer and pick your fights more carefully.
Judging by your response you're German, so your economic policies/politics are already far more "socialist" than a country like the USA.
Actually, after reunification Germany moved fast to become more like the USA and is still moving in that direction. Both Merkel and her predecessor have proudly boasted in public about their contribution to creating a minimum-wage sector in Germany.
You also don't see our local news, I guess. Yes, communists and marxists have always taken to the streets. But lately, say the last 10 or so years, a lot of other people have joined them.
These two are the developments I am talking about.
Right. Protests and riots erupt nearly every time the G20 meets, in whichever country, almost always spearheaded by hard-line communists and anarchists who publicly advocate revolutions,...
Yes, that is exactly why I said they were predictable and expected. But you forgot that this is my home city. I know almost every corner that you could see in the news reports. I shopped in some of the shops that were plundered. I watched the entire one hour of footage from the first demonstration that escalated. This first escalation was very clearly provoked. Both the location and the behaviour of the police point to that. If you know the street, you know that there is only one spot on it where demonstrators would be boxed in from all sides, and that is exactly where they stopped them.
Also, the guy who was put in charge of the entire police operations during G20 was a known hardliner who has a long history of somehow always being involved in violent clashes.
I have no sympathy for either side. IMHO this is one of those stories where there are no good guys.
But I know the "script". Two years ago, barricades were burning in the street I lived in, not far from where the G20 riots happened. That night, it was clear who the assholes were and when a policemen was hit by a stone right under my window, I called the police and stepped up as a witness. Didn't see much, no face unfortunately, but I hope the caught that fucker (short distance, clearly no self-defense or police provocation, I fucking saw the policeman going down).
G20 was different. I have no evidence to offer except having lived all my life there, and more than 10 years within walking distance of both the first escalation and the later riots. From that background knowledge, and from everything I saw and heard during and after the G20, to me it is crystal clear that both sides planned these riots to happen, these escalations to happen, and were probably surprised by their own success in making them happen.
I'm with the many that responds to it by never plugging it in in the first place.
This.
Why would I want my computer to listen to me all the time? I might theoretically do that if the code behind it were Open Source and peer reviewed, and I knew at least one person who had actually looked at that code. And if the processing would be done not in the cloud. If "my" computer listening to me really were my computer. As it is, I barely use Siri on my iPhone and never enabled it on my Macs. If I want a spy microphone in my house, at least give me the pleasure of installing it myself.
I like Occam's Razor, and it gives a better answer than the conspiracy theories.
I've done a bit of forensics, and I write a little. I can imagine how much information about a person you could get from the contents of their smartphone. For a criminal investigation, if I were in that position and I had a choice to search a persons home or their smartphone but not both, I would pick the smartphone.
The job of the FBI is to investigate crimes, and having access to a suspects smartphone would do a ton of good towards this purpose. That is why they request it. No conspiracy theory needed.
That said, I don't want them to. Even if it makes their job easier. I don't want them to because one day I could be a suspect, innocent but a suspect, and I don't want my privacy violated in such a way. Just the number of accounts on which I'd have to change my password afterwards would take me a day or two.
But can we please shelve the conspiracy theories how all of this is some part of some big plan?
The second thing that actually worked is universal health care and pension systems.
For the poor, children are who will shelter and feed you when you are old. Unless you address that incentive to have many children, birth control alone will have a limited impact because people still want several kids.
The last G20 happened in my home city, so don't think I have any sympathy for those looters and assholes whatsoever.
That said, there is more to it than just riot tourism. Politics in the west have shifted so far to the neo-liberal model that we are basically back to debating how many angels can dance on a pin-head instead of which religion is better or if religion at all is good. The entire economical debates in politics of the past decade are running in circles around a tiny area of the total field of discourse. Unless you are a strict neo-liberalist, your views on wealth distribution, social justice and fair economic systems are not only not represented in politics anymore, nobody is even close enough to them to be an acceptable compromise.
That leaves only the street. And yes, it is rarely the poor who protest, because they don't have the money or time to organize, travel somewhere to join a group or demonstration - they are busy surviving.
The G20 riots specifically were stupid, counter-productive and very, very predictable. So much so that I'm with the conspiracy theorists that the riots were not only expected but provoked (actions in the days before) and maybe even "helped along" by agent provocateurs. So that the many, many peaceful protests didn't get media attention. Things probably got quite a bit out of hand in a "the spirits that I called" manner, if you guys are familiar with German poetry.
So under the media image of Hamburg burning, there was a lot of effort to have an actual impact. It just didn't get much screen time.
It used to be very much not normal in Europe, and how shameful it is depends on how normal it is.
When I grew up, I wasn't aware of a single unemployed person in my social circles. No parent or friend of parents or relative, not one. People who didn't work were either too young or too old.
The older I get, the more unemployed people show up. Several of my friends are now unemployed. This is an intentional political shift to put pressure on people to accept low-paying jobs.
When the movie "Falling Down" came out in 1993, I understood immediately why the protagonist is hiding that he lost his job, no explanation was necessary. I don't think you could show the movie to todays audiences without explaining that point.
We don't need another crusade. We just need to stop thinking that religiously fanatical mass-murderers are humans like us and deep inside they just want a hug. They are completely different humans and they actually do want to kill us.
We also know that censorship and jailing of the opposition is the first resort of tyranny. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Some terrorists, however, are simply terrorists. Just because all chickens are birds doesn't mean all birds are chickens.
I love they way that every time something bad happens it's the U.S. fault. If we intervene the disaster is our fault. If we fail to intervene the disaster is our fault.
In this war actually Europe has a debt to the US. It was you guys who had enough of the Barbary Coast slave trade and piracy and put and end to it. A thousand years of Jihad against Europe ended then and there. That we forgot about that and thus don't realize the same Jihad has started up again is a very sad comment on history.
I pay a lot of attention to the news. While there is a certain phobia running rampant, even the most right-wing new parties are a long shot from actual fascists. The SA was instrumental in lifting the NSDAP into power, and the street wars between them and the communists are a vital part of the history there.
There is a shift towards right-wing ideas in Europe, but from my perspective it seems to be a counter-reaction to the mostly liberal, leftist politics of the last decades. Which were a cover for the actual neo-liberal sell-out but that's another topic.
It's time we stop pretending what this is all about. "Terorrism" my ass. Terrorism is a method. You cannot be at war with a method. This whole "war on terror" and "terrorism propaganda" is a big bullshit drawn over our eyes because those in charge are too timid to call a piece of coal black. Sorry, should I have said "rock of color"?
There is a group of people out there who believe it is right to murder us. In their eyes, our crime is simply to be not like them. In their eyes, they are just and right because their religion says so. Terrorism is just one way in which they realize their hatred of everything different. If we by some magic managed to eliminate terrorism, they would find another way. In fact, they did in the past.
The true name for "war on terror" is Jihad. We are just on the other side of it, the side that is being attacked. But since the concept of Jihad is so deeply embedded in Islam, we are afraid to call it by its true name, because we could offend the billion or so muslims who do not murder unbelievers.
So we invent all this bullshit and talk about "terrorism" and "hate speech". But naturally that runs into our freedoms. If I hate people with green hair, I can say so. That is freedom of speech. Rounding them up and murdering them isn't. So where did we forget that before Hitler mass-murdered Jews, there was this idea called Appeasement. Remind me, how well did that work out?
We need to defend our values and civilisation against Jihad - a concept of an eternal war whose purpose is the complete elimination of everything that is different. We need to step up and make it clear that we don't want to be taken back to the Dark Ages.
Russia never applied and never will. Turkey is doing badly, and if it weren't for one senile woman, would be entirely out of the race already.
On the other hand, the exact fact that tens of millions were killed is what made us understand that freedom needs defenses. Hitler came to power exactly because nobody stopped him excercising his right to free speech. If he tried today, his party would be dissolved and he put in jail. That is what is called lessons from history. Americans can't possibly understand that, you don't even have a history. There are cow sheds in Europe that are older than your country.
You don't understand the nature of the Internet - a network of networks. EU already has created its own part of the Internet, i.e. the european backbones and interchanges. It just happens that the Internet is the part that connects all these networks together. That, exactly, is the beauty and the secret to success of the Internet. That is why it bested out the hundred or so segregated networks that existed before it.
Except that you failed in inciting any hatred. You made a political suggestation that can be discussed, with pro and contra arguments. Nowhere do you attack a person for something that they cannot change (e.g. their skin color). In fact, you make the argument in a much more calm and rational way than many of the politicians who make similar arguments make theirs.
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Yes and no.
Some help is better than no help.
But - if you don't understand or misunderstand the actual process of the healing, you won't have much success in improving it, or estimating its side effects, or understanding where it will and where it won't work.
And accupuncture works quite fine, no idea why americans are so anti to thousands of years old proven working technologies, that basically cost nothing und rarely have side effects.
Replace "americans" with "rational people" and you will get an answer.
For example, you will learn that the whole
"thousands of years" is bullshit.
Oops.
Let me guess, you are American?
"date rape" is an american term. Most Europeans won't know what it means.
Preying on teenagers - the main culprit is the catholic church. Everyone else agrees that such people need to be locked up.
The laws about non-consensual sex are more strict in most European nations than anywhere else in the world. That is how they silences Assange - because in Sweden (which is in Europe, for my geographically challenged american friends) these laws are especially strong and even if you fucked two hours ago consensually, you can't assume the consensus still exists.
I always wonder why sex is named in the same context as guns, drugs and illegal materials.
Drugs and guns you can argue are dangerous things.
Illegal stuff is harmful to someone (the person you stole it from, for example).
For some reason, we are still in the middle ages where sex is thrown in with these things, not for rational reasons, but because stuff-up moral preachers want to give it a bad taste.
Will humanity ever grow up? We've been waiting since the Enlightenment.
According to the very first Google hit, manufacturing output per head is $5,800 in the US, while it is $8,300 in Japan and $8,600 in Germany. South Korea beats you with $7,400. But hey, you beat Italy ($4,400). Let me think of some industrial products manufactured in Italy... wait... I'm getting there... just one minute... almost there... shitty cars, yes! They're even called "Fiat" because faith is the only thing keeping them in one piece.
And while it may have trippled as your source says, the % of national output dropped from 24% in the 70s to 21% in the 80s, 18% in the 90s to 12% now. So in % of the economy, it fell to half of what it was.
Japan has addresses, they just aren't street addresses. But they work and are unique, and unless you are a web form developer who thinks the whole world has middle names, states and zip codes, no problem that needs solving exists. They just have a different system.
Many countries have their own variations of systems. Whether street numbers are sequential or even/odd divided upon the two sides. If different entrances to the same building get different numbers, or an entrance designator (e.g. in Vienna you very often get a street address like Somestreet 5/2 where the /2 indicates the 2nd entrance).
This system and its competitors were invented to address your second situation - where no streets exist. That could be geographical (villages clustered around a central point but without streets per se) or circumstancial (slums with no official streets existing) or for any other kind of reason (that old castle on the mountain which is now a Hotel).
I honestly have no idea why they invented a system for that. We already can give the coordinates of any point on Earth with any amount of precision that you need. Sure, VXX7+39 might be slightly shorter than 38.8973,-77.0364 - but it doesn't give me information, for example how far away QXW5+38 is. 38.8039,-77.022 does.
But all that is besides the point. Cities are not just their geography. Many large buildings, for example, have one official entrance for the public to use. The geography of the building doesn't tell you that. The street address does. And many buildings have their doors close to the next buildings entrance, I know several examples where they can both easily fall within the same 3x3m square. Street address makes it clear.
A street address also tells me (if I know the numbering system) which end of a street I need to start at. Here in Vienna, for example,6CJ8+QV and 7FGH+6M are on the same street. The Plus codes gives you no useful information whatsoever. With the street address you can take one look at the nearest building and understand which direction and about how far away each of these destinations is if you are somewhere on that street.
So as a real-life navigation system, zero usefulness.
As a coordinate system, weaker than the ones we already have.
Plus (pun intended) you need access to Google Maps to figure out your current location in Plus Code. But every smartphone will tell you your GPS coordinates, doesn't even need a working network.
Even after checking their Benefits page I still fail to see any advantage whatsoever.
what3words at least has the benefit of memorability.
They would never do such a thing! The new TLDs are all for the purpose of users and convenience and helpful to Internet users. That is why we got .aero as one of the first ones...
The real sad part is that nobody stopped them. The good part is that the new TLDs are largely ignored. There was a short period where you would see people advertising their .biz addresses, then it stopped and went back to normal.
So the world was telling ICANN to go and fuck themselves. Allowing Unicode and the entire attacks possible with it was their spiteful revenge.
Stopping a mob at a strategic location is not escalation, it's sound tactics.
Except that it wasn't a mob. It was a registered and permitted demonstration with about 12,000 people (police estimates, not organizer estimates).
Had the police started beating the shit out of them unprovoked that would be a different story.
Of course they are not stupid enough to do that. They boxed them in, didn't let them move, neither forward nor backward, and simply waited until some idiot does something stupid. I don't know about your city, but here in Hamburg that is a well-known police strategy. In fact, they had used the exact same approach about a year before, with the exact same result.
If you think that preventing 12,000 people from excercising the right to have a demonstration because about 50 people refuse to remove their sunglasses (on a sunny day), you can probably somehow argue that the police didn't do their share.
As I said: There were people on both sides who wanted that it ends in riots, and they got what they wanted. A different story was possible.
I'm a German. 65 million of us beat out a billion-plus Chinese in the export game for decades. The US isn't even on our list of competitors. Not after you downed your own car industry, then outsourced your electronics industry to Japan (who happily buy the machines to build those electronics from Germany to this day). All of that was 30 years ago, but you still didn't learn. Military is the only industry left in the US, isn't it? Aside from industry, you have Internet companies and Hollywood.
Meanwhile, we continue to build the machines that build the cheap plastic shit that you spend your dollars on. And Europe went down the crapper because we needed more poor countries to export stuff and outsource cheap labor to.
Oh, reality check: There is no communist party in any parliament in Germany. There is a communist party, but I think it gets something like 0.1% of the votes. But yes, complaining is a favorite past-time in Germany. We just are like that, don't take it too serious.
The bottom line is, you Americans think you are so superior, but actually almost nothing was invented in your backwater shithole. You wouldn't have gone to the Moon if it weren't for the rocket scientists you took from the Nazis. Even the first computer was invented in Germany (Z3, by Konrad Zuse, 1941).
I suggest you crawl back into your trailer and pick your fights more carefully.
Judging by your response you're German, so your economic policies/politics are already far more "socialist" than a country like the USA.
Actually, after reunification Germany moved fast to become more like the USA and is still moving in that direction. Both Merkel and her predecessor have proudly boasted in public about their contribution to creating a minimum-wage sector in Germany.
You also don't see our local news, I guess. Yes, communists and marxists have always taken to the streets. But lately, say the last 10 or so years, a lot of other people have joined them.
These two are the developments I am talking about.
Right. Protests and riots erupt nearly every time the G20 meets, in whichever country, almost always spearheaded by hard-line communists and anarchists who publicly advocate revolutions, ...
Yes, that is exactly why I said they were predictable and expected. But you forgot that this is my home city. I know almost every corner that you could see in the news reports. I shopped in some of the shops that were plundered. I watched the entire one hour of footage from the first demonstration that escalated. This first escalation was very clearly provoked. Both the location and the behaviour of the police point to that. If you know the street, you know that there is only one spot on it where demonstrators would be boxed in from all sides, and that is exactly where they stopped them.
Also, the guy who was put in charge of the entire police operations during G20 was a known hardliner who has a long history of somehow always being involved in violent clashes.
I have no sympathy for either side. IMHO this is one of those stories where there are no good guys.
But I know the "script". Two years ago, barricades were burning in the street I lived in, not far from where the G20 riots happened. That night, it was clear who the assholes were and when a policemen was hit by a stone right under my window, I called the police and stepped up as a witness. Didn't see much, no face unfortunately, but I hope the caught that fucker (short distance, clearly no self-defense or police provocation, I fucking saw the policeman going down).
G20 was different. I have no evidence to offer except having lived all my life there, and more than 10 years within walking distance of both the first escalation and the later riots. From that background knowledge, and from everything I saw and heard during and after the G20, to me it is crystal clear that both sides planned these riots to happen, these escalations to happen, and were probably surprised by their own success in making them happen.
I don't think you correctly understand the meaning of the word Protagonist.
It also works the other way around. By constantly pointing out how crazy Trump is acting, you don't have to actually discuss his actual politics.
I'm with the many that responds to it by never plugging it in in the first place.
This.
Why would I want my computer to listen to me all the time? I might theoretically do that if the code behind it were Open Source and peer reviewed, and I knew at least one person who had actually looked at that code. And if the processing would be done not in the cloud. If "my" computer listening to me really were my computer. As it is, I barely use Siri on my iPhone and never enabled it on my Macs. If I want a spy microphone in my house, at least give me the pleasure of installing it myself.
I like Occam's Razor, and it gives a better answer than the conspiracy theories.
I've done a bit of forensics, and I write a little. I can imagine how much information about a person you could get from the contents of their smartphone. For a criminal investigation, if I were in that position and I had a choice to search a persons home or their smartphone but not both, I would pick the smartphone.
The job of the FBI is to investigate crimes, and having access to a suspects smartphone would do a ton of good towards this purpose. That is why they request it. No conspiracy theory needed.
That said, I don't want them to. Even if it makes their job easier. I don't want them to because one day I could be a suspect, innocent but a suspect, and I don't want my privacy violated in such a way. Just the number of accounts on which I'd have to change my password afterwards would take me a day or two.
But can we please shelve the conspiracy theories how all of this is some part of some big plan?
The second thing that actually worked is universal health care and pension systems.
For the poor, children are who will shelter and feed you when you are old. Unless you address that incentive to have many children, birth control alone will have a limited impact because people still want several kids.
The last G20 happened in my home city, so don't think I have any sympathy for those looters and assholes whatsoever.
That said, there is more to it than just riot tourism. Politics in the west have shifted so far to the neo-liberal model that we are basically back to debating how many angels can dance on a pin-head instead of which religion is better or if religion at all is good. The entire economical debates in politics of the past decade are running in circles around a tiny area of the total field of discourse. Unless you are a strict neo-liberalist, your views on wealth distribution, social justice and fair economic systems are not only not represented in politics anymore, nobody is even close enough to them to be an acceptable compromise.
That leaves only the street. And yes, it is rarely the poor who protest, because they don't have the money or time to organize, travel somewhere to join a group or demonstration - they are busy surviving.
The G20 riots specifically were stupid, counter-productive and very, very predictable. So much so that I'm with the conspiracy theorists that the riots were not only expected but provoked (actions in the days before) and maybe even "helped along" by agent provocateurs. So that the many, many peaceful protests didn't get media attention. Things probably got quite a bit out of hand in a "the spirits that I called" manner, if you guys are familiar with German poetry.
So under the media image of Hamburg burning, there was a lot of effort to have an actual impact. It just didn't get much screen time.
It used to be very much not normal in Europe, and how shameful it is depends on how normal it is.
When I grew up, I wasn't aware of a single unemployed person in my social circles. No parent or friend of parents or relative, not one. People who didn't work were either too young or too old.
The older I get, the more unemployed people show up. Several of my friends are now unemployed. This is an intentional political shift to put pressure on people to accept low-paying jobs.
When the movie "Falling Down" came out in 1993, I understood immediately why the protagonist is hiding that he lost his job, no explanation was necessary. I don't think you could show the movie to todays audiences without explaining that point.
We don't need another crusade. We just need to stop thinking that religiously fanatical mass-murderers are humans like us and deep inside they just want a hug. They are completely different humans and they actually do want to kill us.
We also know that censorship and jailing of the opposition is the first resort of tyranny. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Some terrorists, however, are simply terrorists. Just because all chickens are birds doesn't mean all birds are chickens.
I love they way that every time something bad happens it's the U.S. fault. If we intervene the disaster is our fault. If we fail to intervene the disaster is our fault.
In this war actually Europe has a debt to the US. It was you guys who had enough of the Barbary Coast slave trade and piracy and put and end to it. A thousand years of Jihad against Europe ended then and there. That we forgot about that and thus don't realize the same Jihad has started up again is a very sad comment on history.
I pay a lot of attention to the news. While there is a certain phobia running rampant, even the most right-wing new parties are a long shot from actual fascists. The SA was instrumental in lifting the NSDAP into power, and the street wars between them and the communists are a vital part of the history there.
There is a shift towards right-wing ideas in Europe, but from my perspective it seems to be a counter-reaction to the mostly liberal, leftist politics of the last decades. Which were a cover for the actual neo-liberal sell-out but that's another topic.
Maybe we should tie free speech to the ability to form coherent sentences?
It's time we stop pretending what this is all about. "Terorrism" my ass. Terrorism is a method. You cannot be at war with a method. This whole "war on terror" and "terrorism propaganda" is a big bullshit drawn over our eyes because those in charge are too timid to call a piece of coal black. Sorry, should I have said "rock of color"?
There is a group of people out there who believe it is right to murder us. In their eyes, our crime is simply to be not like them. In their eyes, they are just and right because their religion says so. Terrorism is just one way in which they realize their hatred of everything different. If we by some magic managed to eliminate terrorism, they would find another way. In fact, they did in the past.
The true name for "war on terror" is Jihad. We are just on the other side of it, the side that is being attacked. But since the concept of Jihad is so deeply embedded in Islam, we are afraid to call it by its true name, because we could offend the billion or so muslims who do not murder unbelievers.
So we invent all this bullshit and talk about "terrorism" and "hate speech". But naturally that runs into our freedoms. If I hate people with green hair, I can say so. That is freedom of speech. Rounding them up and murdering them isn't. So where did we forget that before Hitler mass-murdered Jews, there was this idea called Appeasement. Remind me, how well did that work out?
We need to defend our values and civilisation against Jihad - a concept of an eternal war whose purpose is the complete elimination of everything that is different. We need to step up and make it clear that we don't want to be taken back to the Dark Ages.
Russia never applied and never will. Turkey is doing badly, and if it weren't for one senile woman, would be entirely out of the race already.
On the other hand, the exact fact that tens of millions were killed is what made us understand that freedom needs defenses. Hitler came to power exactly because nobody stopped him excercising his right to free speech. If he tried today, his party would be dissolved and he put in jail. That is what is called lessons from history. Americans can't possibly understand that, you don't even have a history. There are cow sheds in Europe that are older than your country.
Perhaps the EU should create its own internet.
You don't understand the nature of the Internet - a network of networks. EU already has created its own part of the Internet, i.e. the european backbones and interchanges. It just happens that the Internet is the part that connects all these networks together. That, exactly, is the beauty and the secret to success of the Internet. That is why it bested out the hundred or so segregated networks that existed before it.
Except that you failed in inciting any hatred. You made a political suggestation that can be discussed, with pro and contra arguments. Nowhere do you attack a person for something that they cannot change (e.g. their skin color). In fact, you make the argument in a much more calm and rational way than many of the politicians who make similar arguments make theirs.
Nerds. Can't even incite hatred properly.