Oz has AV, and a government as hell bent on domestic control as the UK. The reality is that we are in the death throes of the Body Boomers, with a very old voting majority that will over-turn anything, and sell any amount of others permanent liberty for their own temporary security. The major parties offer different brands, but security is what an gerontocracy wants.
Cracking down on copyvio downloads works about as well as cracking down on underage smoking, the real problem with smoking isn't who does it, it is the product itself and the society that people live in. Smoking and capital culture are both ways of making unhappy lives slightly less unbearable for the duration of consumption.
There's something called the 14th Amendment which established a new relationship between citizen and states and citizen and Federal Government. One of the reasons that libertarians are going nowhere is because it doesn't take too long to hear the "Lincoln was a war criminal" meme, and along with several other phrases which were very popular among say, Dixiecrats, in 1972. States do not have monetary policy and their economies are not large enough to stabilize at our current level of trade. Left to their own devices states such as Florida and Rhode Island would do to their economies what Ireland and Spain did: throw open the doors to financial speculation, and then fall when it collapses, or what Italy and California have already done: create large untaxed economies and still insist on having horizontal transfers of wealth.
There is a reason for the victory of muscular federalism between 1855 and 1945, not just in the United States, but globally. That reason is that markets, not borders, define a state interest. This is a reality that many people in the present – while most visibly on the far left and far right, just as pervasively in the suburbanite middle – do not want to grasp. If the national economy fails, then all of the small carve outs that people grab for their locality are unsustainable and unaffordable.
Sorry the truth bothers so many people around here. 1936 was the hottest summer on record, as well as the most active atlantic tropical season until 2005. However, it was one of the coldest winters. Rather than being like this year, that has had record or near record months, one right after another.
Nice to see that you are a sock puppet as well as a dishonorable cheat for moderating with another account while trolling as an AC. I hope you are getting paid well for the amount of negative karma you are racking up.
Sorry, "Fuck That, Fuck You" is not an answer. I note that you don't supply any links, because then everyone could see that your source for your allegation is commieblaster and other denialist sites.
40 years ago they would have been throwing the "n" word around just to prove that they don't pay attention to any of that liberal science that says that we are all human.
The fall of the Akkadian period is directly related to a global period of cooling and a shift from wetter to drier conditions. The Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to the Persians, there was no agrarian collapse. As for agriculture, there are still people's living in the reed swamps near the Persian gulf using an agricultural system largely untouched for the last 5000 years.
As for static and predictable: human civilization is the gift of one of the longest stable climate periods in the last million years, screwing that up would be an event of, quite literally, biblical proportions.
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Thank you for your patriotic pre-support of pre-crime legislation citizen. There will be an extra pillow in your cell!
Many people are laughing all the way to the morgue.
Oz has AV, and a government as hell bent on domestic control as the UK. The reality is that we are in the death throes of the Body Boomers, with a very old voting majority that will over-turn anything, and sell any amount of others permanent liberty for their own temporary security. The major parties offer different brands, but security is what an gerontocracy wants.
is getting it into orbit for that little.
as well as attack ads and other campaigning that can be best summed up by "my opponent will destroy this country,"
It is the one thing that both camps can say that is probably true.
are, of course, pathetic.
All the fast news is recuperating after being in the olympics.
If you aren't paying the natural cost of the thing, you aren't the customer, you are the product. This insight occurred to Carlo Lorenzini in 1883.
Cracking down on copyvio downloads works about as well as cracking down on underage smoking, the real problem with smoking isn't who does it, it is the product itself and the society that people live in. Smoking and capital culture are both ways of making unhappy lives slightly less unbearable for the duration of consumption.
You don't know what's actually in the free beer, and by the time you get it, you can't take the mouse droppings out.
The minimum distance to Mars is ~55 million km and the maximum distance to Mars is ~400 million km.
There is a reason for the victory of muscular federalism between 1855 and 1945, not just in the United States, but globally. That reason is that markets, not borders, define a state interest. This is a reality that many people in the present – while most visibly on the far left and far right, just as pervasively in the suburbanite middle – do not want to grasp. If the national economy fails, then all of the small carve outs that people grab for their locality are unsustainable and unaffordable.
approve of torturing those that do. Only about 1/3 of Americans fly each year. Many of the people who "approve" of the TSA don't deal with them.
Nice to see that you are a sock puppet as well as a dishonorable cheat for moderating with another account while trolling as an AC. I hope you are getting paid well for the amount of negative karma you are racking up.
Voting is consuming politics, not producing it.
Yeah that's about the personal ideology of the body boomers: redemption through apathy.
If you are a consumer of politics, you get to choose what is put on the shelf for you.
You're pathetic.
If you think the stories are bad, read the links.
The future is fucked, there are plenty of people doing quite well making the death bet.
40 years ago they would have been throwing the "n" word around just to prove that they don't pay attention to any of that liberal science that says that we are all human.
As for static and predictable: human civilization is the gift of one of the longest stable climate periods in the last million years, screwing that up would be an event of, quite literally, biblical proportions.
Well, you are earning your username.
Because as we all know, people you don't like couldn't possibly have any insight into the statistical thermodynamics of gases.
Just because life will go on, doesn't mean your life will go on.