There is no evidence that "the weak" are being saved by the vacines in preference to those "more fit". The risk of death due these types of infections are largely luck based - "fit" kid might be having a bad week and croak, while "weakling" kid might make it through. And for the most part, most people don't die from these illnesses, only a few percent, so it probably would have little effect on breeding rates, but has huge effects on medical costs and family pain and suffering.
Evolutionary pressures cannot be avoided, but our enviornment is no longer, and likely never again, "living in the wild". Our environment is now much more "other people", and those who can't get along in that environment are the ones who are going to be bred out of existance. Societies that widely vaccinate are likely "more fit" than those that do not - so the evolutionary argument could go the other way.
Chicken pox is not a concern for children. No one had a vaccine for it when I was a kid and everyone caught it and it was sort of normal. Chicken pox is mostly a concern for adults where the symptoms are much worse.
When people mention vaccines and how they help children, it's about the SERIOUS diseases! Ie, measles can be fatal. Bringing up the minor stuff just puts you into the anti-vaxx hysteria camp.
Just because you don't know any kids who died of chicken pox doesn't mean it is super rare.
"Chickenpox used to be very common in the United States. In the early 1990s, an average of 4 million people got varicella, 10,500 to 13,000 were hospitalized (range, 8,000 to 18,000), and 100 to 150 died each year. In the 1990s, the highest rate of varicella was reported in preschool-aged children.
Chickenpox vaccine became available in the United States in 1995. In 2014, 91% of children 19 to 35 months old in the United States had received one dose of varicella vaccine, varying from 83% to 95% by state. Among adolescents 13 to 17 years of age without a prior history of disease, 95% had received 1 dose of varicella vaccine, and 81% had received 2 doses of the vaccine. Eighty-five percent of adolescents had either a history of varicella disease or received 2 doses of varicella vaccine.
Each year, more than 3.5 million cases of varicella, 9,000 hospitalizations, and 100 deaths are prevented by varicella vaccination in the United States."
I don't know how much the hospitalizations and deaths should be priced at in comparison the the "costs" of varicella vaccination, but similar arguments to your could be made for seatbelts - nobody I know died because of lack of seatbelts before they were mandated.
But why not adults too? There are more vaccinated adults than children
Honestly.... I don't know or remember all of what I was ever vaccinated against, Or how long each vaccine lasts. It's not like you get an annual ticket reminding you what your vaccines are or when they expire.
Every state I have been in has a little yellow booklet they give you to keep track of vaccinations - I think my wife has one with some sort of internation logo on it (WHO?). You are supposed to keep track in that booklet and keep it with your "important papers".
I just had a friend who might be the first case of diphtheria in the country this year. If you haven't had a DTP booster shot in the last ten years, maybe it is worth while doing so. Tetanus still kills a few people in the US every year.
The list isn't very long, and there is little danger in getting "overimunized" so if you don't know what you've been imunized against it isn't so tough to just get them all.
They can tweet on their own accounts. They don't have to respond to his. That Trump won't read them is perfectly fine, both legally and otherwise.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Your letter addressed to the president will not be delivered, but you are still allowed to write it and put it into the mailbox, or post it on your front door."?
I certainly understand that the POTUS is not required to read your letters, but certainly a policy of preventing the delivery of mail from certain US citizens does seem problematical.
Of course, there are fairly strong arguments that Twitter is not similar enough to the mail system for this to be an appropriate analogy, but there are also fairly strong arugments that it is similar enough. I guess that's what the courts are going to have to decide.
I didn't do an exhaustive search but the bits I saw seemed to all be "this is an idea being floated" types of things, and the "official" tobacco restrictions lists for Tasmania did not mention it.
I have always been a proponent of enacting legislation that creeps its way to the places I would like it to get: Maybe every two years increase the smoking age by one year. Every five or ten years add another statutory holiday. Every five years reduce the standard working week by an hour.
Similarly we should peg the minimum wage to be some fraction of the legislators' salary, or set a company's minimum salary to some fraction of the maximum compensation recieved by the executives.
Nominal sizes are indeed standardized in the US and Canada, so this case is without merit.
I don't know. If, as alledged in the lawsuit, HD uses different dimensions online and in-store, and are inconsistent in their labeling of nonimal and actual dimensions, and in some cases in-store do not provide any indications what dimensions being advertised, it doesn't seem like a totally frivolous case.
The complain, which we have all read I am sure, goes into some detail about the size differences between "nominal" and "dressed" measurements, and makes what seems like a pretty reasonable case to me that since HD gives both measurements in some instances, they should give them in all instances. They should AT THE VERY LEAST indicate what the measurements they do state actually measure. If you are going to say that something is 2"x4"x6' as your ONLY indication of its size, then the plain meaning of 2"x4"x6' is not an unreasonable interpretation of the meaning.
OK, so I went ahead and downloaded that lawsuit against Home Depot as linked above. It's actually somewhat interesting. The guy actually spends the first half of the lawsuit explaining "nominal" vs "dressed" lumber. He points out that Home Depot's online store will show you both dimensions for lumber if they are different, but that in their brick-and-mortar stores Home Depot gives you only one set of dimensions and doesn't tell you which one it is giving you. And then he shows that Home Depot sells a 4x4 piece of lumber from a brand that offers it in 3.5x3.5 and 4x4 sizes, but Home Depot doesn't tell you which one it is. You have to measure on your own or you wouldn't know.
There are some places that do give some control to the utility for AC and electric water heaters - when demand spikes the utility turns off any of these systems for a short time and perhaps when demand is low they turn them on and get the temp to shift a few degrees and use up the "cheap" electrical oversupply.
I recall a story a while back about big industrial freezer users partnering with utilities to effectively "store" electricity by chilling their warehouses a few degrees lower than normal at "off peak" times and then not cooling durring "on peak" times, thus reducing the max electrical load on the system.
It is perfectly valid for a society to decide to use the tool of taxation to ensure that externatities (such as polution) are properly captured by the pricing system used by businesses.
To not have price reflect the cost sounds like some form of communism. We certainly wouldn't want that.
I'm not in the US and safety regulations don't allow convertible car seats like that. All of ours are fairly big and bulky. This leads me to believe your convertible ones were less save than they could have been in the event of an accident.
I would be suprised if there were huge differences in safety between the various designs. The vast majority of protection comes from keeping the body flying around - the difference between seatbelts and child-seats is remarkably small:
What's the problem? Oh you know, little things, like using taxpayer dollars to fund companies that have connections to the powers that be - you know, little f**king things like that.
I find it amusing that I don't know if GLMDesigns is complaining about "big oil" connection to the "powers that be" or "big solar" connections to the "powers that be". Maybe it is both?
In the cargo hold, the attacker cannot control the location of a bomb in a laptop.
Right, because an attacker would never have someone working as part of the ground crew for the aircraft.
And of course if part of the ground crew was working at it, they could probably just bring the bomb in by themselves - the ground crew is minimally screened.
There is "redistribution" of existing wealth, but there is also "distribution" of future wealth gains and thinking about how society does that is probably something that we should do more of.
One way to "fund" this type of "UBI" that I came across in a Heinlein novel years ago is through some sort of "Social Credit" type of arrangement. As I have understood some of the philosophy: since a functional society is a neccessary pre-condition for most forms of ecconomic activity, ALL of the members of society should have at least SOME benifit when the total wealth of the society increases or when "the government" sells or leases various assets to others. Thus things like "sovereign funds" can be created (Alaska Permanent Fund for example) to distribute money to everyone, or more complicated systems where each year some fraction of the country's increase in GDP is distributed equally to everyone, and is used to fund governmental operations, and currency control is used to keep inflation from going crazy.
It certainly does seem that past increases in western society's overall wealth and productivity could have been distributed more broadly. Looking at productivity gains since 1900 - we should all be able to be working ten hour weeks with full employment and a fairly high standard of living. The way things worked out historically are only one way that they could have been done. Looking towards future productivity gains, we should be able to all have lives of mostly leasure - if we figured out a way to effectivley spread our wealth around.
Of course, the devil is in the details. Finding ways to fairly spread future wealth gains while continuing to provide incentives for people to be productive without being overly authoritarian or too open to gaming the system is not trivial. Put me in absoulte control and I am willing to make the hard decisions. I promise to be fair. Really. Trust me.
I use an iPhone 2G as my daily phone. It doens't have the original iOS firmware on it. I installed Whited00r on it and now it hass all up to date apps and works better than my brother's iPhone 7+. That has 256GB of storage and that is slow. My iPhone 2G boots up 32x faster than that crappy iPhone 7+. I still have warranty on my iPhone 2G so if anything goes wrong I can just take it right back to apple and they can give me a new one
I had never heard of an "iPhone 2G", so when I looked for it I found it is an unofficial name for the first generation iPhone; I guess since the following iphone was called the "iPhone 3G"
Anyhow, it was discontinued in the middle of 2009, almost eight years ago. As extended Apple warranty coverage lasts only 3 years, it seems very unlikely that any would still be covered.
For the Mac software, it looks like from a Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" installation, only GarageBand can be purchased, as the latest version of the other applications require macOS 10.12 Sierra.
If you make the purchase on "Sierra" so that the software is listed as "purchased" in your account, you can probably download versions that will work on earlier OS versions - at least that is how "purchased" software typically works in my experience.
For the iOS software, making the purchase from within iTunes gets the software added to your list of purchased apps. Probably if you attempt to download it to a less-than-current version of iOS you'll be able to get an older version of the software, at least that is how I have accessed older versions of iOS software in the past.
But can I update them without providing a credit card number and creating an Apple account?
There's a reason I use LibreOffice daily and don't touch Pages....
I really don't want to see some huge charge on my credit card 'cause the kids were playing with the computer....
If your only fear is your kids, then you don't need to give them your AppleID password and they won't be able to run up the charges.
If you want to avoid a CC on file with Apple, you can set up an AppleID with "none" for payment information, and just fund it with gift cards if needed. Zero cost purchases work fine with no payment info, however to set up "family sharing" with linked accounts to share purchases and kids needing approval before they can make purchases on their kid accounts, I think a CC on file for one of the "parents" is required (at least it was a few months back when I last checked.
That's not a review of the film, that's a review of the overall Star Wars story. The film itself, as a standalone, is good. Good acting, good effects, decent story, decent writing. I dock points for some cliches and weak storytelling moments, but overall it's well-made and entertaining. What you're reviewing is Disney's decisions about how Star Wars should be proceeding, not the film itself. If you did a literal copy and paste of "The Godfather" and called it "The Godfather" it would still be a good movie. I hate JJ Abrams as much as the next guy, and I hate that they copied elements from previous films too, but that's a critique of the "meta-film" and corporate decisions, not the actual film.
That's an interesting point, but to remove a film from its historical context is also an error in my opinion. If a significan number of people have seen "The Godfather", and further have seen later films infleuenced by the ideas, methods, and techniques used in "The Godfather", then a literal copy/paste of "The Godfather" released today would be rightly criticised to be dated and derrivative (assuming nobody noticed it was the same:-).
Great films of yesteryear would likely not be great films of today. When new viewers are exposed to those great films, unless the viewer is prepared to inerpret the film as historically significant, they are understandably not as impressed as those who first viewed the films when originally released.
The art not only reflects the vision and intent of the artist, it also is a function of the experience and history of the viewer.
The difference is Germany lost a war and the victor's version of history was forced down the throats of the next generation. Turkey won its war of inependence and threw the Italian,French and Greek invaders out so Turkey could teach its children its version of history. History is written by the winners. e.g. Churchill starved 14 million Bengalis to death during WW2, Hitler starved 6 million Jews to death. Can you guess who won the war from how much is written about the Holocaust and how much is written about the Bengal Famine?
My quick look indicates the famine lead to the death of 3 million. That might not play as well into the "Churchill was as bad at Hitler", but you wouldn't want to be acused of making the whole thing up.
It's just like when the Hostess union destroyed the company.
Looks more like management continually screwed up by not moving the company with the times. Maybe better labour relations from the beginning would have helped a lot.
Interesting. I haven't read up on Canadian healthcare since 2006, so it's possible I received an incorrect secondary interpretation. I doubt the system's changed that dramatically.
No dramatic changes in the past few decades at least. Lots of tweaking, and many challenges. There is huge room for improvement, but with such a disfunctional system right next door, it looks amazingly good in comparison.
Your main point of "we don't learn from others" seems very spot on. Unfortunately it is a human tendancy worldwide and can be seen in any number of places, not just the USA. We also don't seem to learn from the past or even from ouselves very well.
If you exclude the corrupt liberal magnet sanctuary cities, Trump is widely supported.
That's why Hillary lost.
If you exclude the people that did not vote for "A", then "A" is widely supported. This is not very insightful, even if you label those people as "corrupt", or insinuate that the places where people live somehow makes their opinions less valid.
And the recipe for financial security is simple: high taxes on the rich and low government corruption with a focus on providing socioeconomic security for ordinary people in the country.
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There is no evidence that "the weak" are being saved by the vacines in preference to those "more fit". The risk of death due these types of infections are largely luck based - "fit" kid might be having a bad week and croak, while "weakling" kid might make it through. And for the most part, most people don't die from these illnesses, only a few percent, so it probably would have little effect on breeding rates, but has huge effects on medical costs and family pain and suffering.
Evolutionary pressures cannot be avoided, but our enviornment is no longer, and likely never again, "living in the wild". Our environment is now much more "other people", and those who can't get along in that environment are the ones who are going to be bred out of existance. Societies that widely vaccinate are likely "more fit" than those that do not - so the evolutionary argument could go the other way.
Chicken pox is not a concern for children. No one had a vaccine for it when I was a kid and everyone caught it and it was sort of normal. Chicken pox is mostly a concern for adults where the symptoms are much worse.
When people mention vaccines and how they help children, it's about the SERIOUS diseases! Ie, measles can be fatal. Bringing up the minor stuff just puts you into the anti-vaxx hysteria camp.
Just because you don't know any kids who died of chicken pox doesn't mean it is super rare.
https://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox...
"Chickenpox used to be very common in the United States. In the early 1990s, an average of 4 million people got varicella, 10,500 to 13,000 were hospitalized (range, 8,000 to 18,000), and 100 to 150 died each year. In the 1990s, the highest rate of varicella was reported in preschool-aged children.
Chickenpox vaccine became available in the United States in 1995. In 2014, 91% of children 19 to 35 months old in the United States had received one dose of varicella vaccine, varying from 83% to 95% by state. Among adolescents 13 to 17 years of age without a prior history of disease, 95% had received 1 dose of varicella vaccine, and 81% had received 2 doses of the vaccine. Eighty-five percent of adolescents had either a history of varicella disease or received 2 doses of varicella vaccine.
Each year, more than 3.5 million cases of varicella, 9,000 hospitalizations, and 100 deaths are prevented by varicella vaccination in the United States."
I don't know how much the hospitalizations and deaths should be priced at in comparison the the "costs" of varicella vaccination, but similar arguments to your could be made for seatbelts - nobody I know died because of lack of seatbelts before they were mandated.
But why not adults too? There are more vaccinated adults than children
Honestly.... I don't know or remember all of what I was ever vaccinated against, Or how long each vaccine lasts.
It's not like you get an annual ticket reminding you what your vaccines are or when they expire.
Every state I have been in has a little yellow booklet they give you to keep track of vaccinations - I think my wife has one with some sort of internation logo on it (WHO?). You are supposed to keep track in that booklet and keep it with your "important papers".
I just had a friend who might be the first case of diphtheria in the country this year. If you haven't had a DTP booster shot in the last ten years, maybe it is worth while doing so. Tetanus still kills a few people in the US every year.
http://apps.who.int/immunizati...
The list isn't very long, and there is little danger in getting "overimunized" so if you don't know what you've been imunized against it isn't so tough to just get them all.
They can tweet on their own accounts. They don't have to respond to his. That Trump won't read them is perfectly fine, both legally and otherwise.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Your letter addressed to the president will not be delivered, but you are still allowed to write it and put it into the mailbox, or post it on your front door."?
I certainly understand that the POTUS is not required to read your letters, but certainly a policy of preventing the delivery of mail from certain US citizens does seem problematical.
Of course, there are fairly strong arguments that Twitter is not similar enough to the mail system for this to be an appropriate analogy, but there are also fairly strong arugments that it is similar enough. I guess that's what the courts are going to have to decide.
I didn't do an exhaustive search but the bits I saw seemed to all be "this is an idea being floated" types of things, and the "official" tobacco restrictions lists for Tasmania did not mention it.
It looks like it has not been passed: http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
I have always been a proponent of enacting legislation that creeps its way to the places I would like it to get: Maybe every two years increase the smoking age by one year. Every five or ten years add another statutory holiday. Every five years reduce the standard working week by an hour.
Similarly we should peg the minimum wage to be some fraction of the legislators' salary, or set a company's minimum salary to some fraction of the maximum compensation recieved by the executives.
Nominal sizes are indeed standardized in the US and Canada, so this case is without merit.
I don't know. If, as alledged in the lawsuit, HD uses different dimensions online and in-store, and are inconsistent in their labeling of nonimal and actual dimensions, and in some cases in-store do not provide any indications what dimensions being advertised, it doesn't seem like a totally frivolous case.
The complain, which we have all read I am sure, goes into some detail about the size differences between "nominal" and "dressed" measurements, and makes what seems like a pretty reasonable case to me that since HD gives both measurements in some instances, they should give them in all instances. They should AT THE VERY LEAST indicate what the measurements they do state actually measure. If you are going to say that something is 2"x4"x6' as your ONLY indication of its size, then the plain meaning of 2"x4"x6' is not an unreasonable interpretation of the meaning.
OK, so I went ahead and downloaded that lawsuit against Home Depot as linked above. It's actually somewhat interesting. The guy actually spends the first half of the lawsuit explaining "nominal" vs "dressed" lumber. He points out that Home Depot's online store will show you both dimensions for lumber if they are different, but that in their brick-and-mortar stores Home Depot gives you only one set of dimensions and doesn't tell you which one it is giving you. And then he shows that Home Depot sells a 4x4 piece of lumber from a brand that offers it in 3.5x3.5 and 4x4 sizes, but Home Depot doesn't tell you which one it is. You have to measure on your own or you wouldn't know.
Seems reasonable to require actual dimensions.
There are some places that do give some control to the utility for AC and electric water heaters - when demand spikes the utility turns off any of these systems for a short time and perhaps when demand is low they turn them on and get the temp to shift a few degrees and use up the "cheap" electrical oversupply.
I recall a story a while back about big industrial freezer users partnering with utilities to effectively "store" electricity by chilling their warehouses a few degrees lower than normal at "off peak" times and then not cooling durring "on peak" times, thus reducing the max electrical load on the system.
It is perfectly valid for a society to decide to use the tool of taxation to ensure that externatities (such as polution) are properly captured by the pricing system used by businesses.
To not have price reflect the cost sounds like some form of communism. We certainly wouldn't want that.
The Screwtape Letters is also very good, if you get anything out of Christian apologetia. Or should that be apologetics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm not in the US and safety regulations don't allow convertible car seats like that. All of ours are fairly big and bulky. This leads me to believe your convertible ones were less save than they could have been in the event of an accident.
I would be suprised if there were huge differences in safety between the various designs. The vast majority of protection comes from keeping the body flying around - the difference between seatbelts and child-seats is remarkably small:
http://freakonomics.com/2005/0...
With that said, even a 1% difference in crash outcomes can seem like a huge deal, even if we are talking about a rare event.
What's the problem? Oh you know, little things, like using taxpayer dollars to fund companies that have connections to the powers that be - you know, little f**king things like that.
I find it amusing that I don't know if GLMDesigns is complaining about "big oil" connection to the "powers that be" or "big solar" connections to the "powers that be". Maybe it is both?
In the cargo hold, the attacker cannot control the location of a bomb in a laptop.
Right, because an attacker would never have someone working as part of the ground crew for the aircraft.
And of course if part of the ground crew was working at it, they could probably just bring the bomb in by themselves - the ground crew is minimally screened.
Additionally, one should reduce the investment income by the income tax rate. Decreased expenses are equivalent to tax-free income.
There is "redistribution" of existing wealth, but there is also "distribution" of future wealth gains and thinking about how society does that is probably something that we should do more of.
One way to "fund" this type of "UBI" that I came across in a Heinlein novel years ago is through some sort of "Social Credit" type of arrangement. As I have understood some of the philosophy: since a functional society is a neccessary pre-condition for most forms of ecconomic activity, ALL of the members of society should have at least SOME benifit when the total wealth of the society increases or when "the government" sells or leases various assets to others. Thus things like "sovereign funds" can be created (Alaska Permanent Fund for example) to distribute money to everyone, or more complicated systems where each year some fraction of the country's increase in GDP is distributed equally to everyone, and is used to fund governmental operations, and currency control is used to keep inflation from going crazy.
Heinlein story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Social Credit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sovereign wealth fund - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It certainly does seem that past increases in western society's overall wealth and productivity could have been distributed more broadly. Looking at productivity gains since 1900 - we should all be able to be working ten hour weeks with full employment and a fairly high standard of living. The way things worked out historically are only one way that they could have been done. Looking towards future productivity gains, we should be able to all have lives of mostly leasure - if we figured out a way to effectivley spread our wealth around.
Of course, the devil is in the details. Finding ways to fairly spread future wealth gains while continuing to provide incentives for people to be productive without being overly authoritarian or too open to gaming the system is not trivial. Put me in absoulte control and I am willing to make the hard decisions. I promise to be fair. Really. Trust me.
I use an iPhone 2G as my daily phone. It doens't have the original iOS firmware on it. I installed Whited00r on it and now it hass all up to date apps and works better than my brother's iPhone 7+. That has 256GB of storage and that is slow. My iPhone 2G boots up 32x faster than that crappy iPhone 7+. I still have warranty on my iPhone 2G so if anything goes wrong I can just take it right back to apple and they can give me a new one
I had never heard of an "iPhone 2G", so when I looked for it I found it is an unofficial name for the first generation iPhone; I guess since the following iphone was called the "iPhone 3G"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyhow, it was discontinued in the middle of 2009, almost eight years ago. As extended Apple warranty coverage lasts only 3 years, it seems very unlikely that any would still be covered.
For the Mac software, it looks like from a Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" installation, only GarageBand can be purchased, as the latest version of the other applications require macOS 10.12 Sierra.
If you make the purchase on "Sierra" so that the software is listed as "purchased" in your account, you can probably download versions that will work on earlier OS versions - at least that is how "purchased" software typically works in my experience.
For the iOS software, making the purchase from within iTunes gets the software added to your list of purchased apps. Probably if you attempt to download it to a less-than-current version of iOS you'll be able to get an older version of the software, at least that is how I have accessed older versions of iOS software in the past.
But can I update them without providing a credit card number and creating an Apple account?
There's a reason I use LibreOffice daily and don't touch Pages....
I really don't want to see some huge charge on my credit card 'cause the kids were playing with the computer....
If your only fear is your kids, then you don't need to give them your AppleID password and they won't be able to run up the charges.
If you want to avoid a CC on file with Apple, you can set up an AppleID with "none" for payment information, and just fund it with gift cards if needed. Zero cost purchases work fine with no payment info, however to set up "family sharing" with linked accounts to share purchases and kids needing approval before they can make purchases on their kid accounts, I think a CC on file for one of the "parents" is required (at least it was a few months back when I last checked.
That's not a review of the film, that's a review of the overall Star Wars story. The film itself, as a standalone, is good. Good acting, good effects, decent story, decent writing. I dock points for some cliches and weak storytelling moments, but overall it's well-made and entertaining. What you're reviewing is Disney's decisions about how Star Wars should be proceeding, not the film itself. If you did a literal copy and paste of "The Godfather" and called it "The Godfather" it would still be a good movie. I hate JJ Abrams as much as the next guy, and I hate that they copied elements from previous films too, but that's a critique of the "meta-film" and corporate decisions, not the actual film.
That's an interesting point, but to remove a film from its historical context is also an error in my opinion. If a significan number of people have seen "The Godfather", and further have seen later films infleuenced by the ideas, methods, and techniques used in "The Godfather", then a literal copy/paste of "The Godfather" released today would be rightly criticised to be dated and derrivative (assuming nobody noticed it was the same :-).
Great films of yesteryear would likely not be great films of today. When new viewers are exposed to those great films, unless the viewer is prepared to inerpret the film as historically significant, they are understandably not as impressed as those who first viewed the films when originally released.
The art not only reflects the vision and intent of the artist, it also is a function of the experience and history of the viewer.
The difference is Germany lost a war and the victor's version of history was forced down the throats of the next generation. Turkey won its war of inependence and threw the Italian,French and Greek invaders out so Turkey could teach its children its version of history. History is written by the winners. e.g. Churchill starved 14 million Bengalis to death during WW2, Hitler starved 6 million Jews to death. Can you guess who won the war from how much is written about the Holocaust and how much is written about the Bengal Famine?
Not a proud moment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/the...
My quick look indicates the famine lead to the death of 3 million. That might not play as well into the "Churchill was as bad at Hitler", but you wouldn't want to be acused of making the whole thing up.
It's just like when the Hostess union destroyed the company.
Looks more like management continually screwed up by not moving the company with the times. Maybe better labour relations from the beginning would have helped a lot.
Interesting. I haven't read up on Canadian healthcare since 2006, so it's possible I received an incorrect secondary interpretation. I doubt the system's changed that dramatically.
No dramatic changes in the past few decades at least. Lots of tweaking, and many challenges. There is huge room for improvement, but with such a disfunctional system right next door, it looks amazingly good in comparison.
Your main point of "we don't learn from others" seems very spot on. Unfortunately it is a human tendancy worldwide and can be seen in any number of places, not just the USA. We also don't seem to learn from the past or even from ouselves very well.
If you exclude the corrupt liberal magnet sanctuary cities, Trump is widely supported.
That's why Hillary lost.
If you exclude the people that did not vote for "A", then "A" is widely supported. This is not very insightful, even if you label those people as "corrupt", or insinuate that the places where people live somehow makes their opinions less valid.
And the recipe for financial security is simple: high taxes on the rich and low government corruption with a focus on providing socioeconomic security for ordinary people in the country.
That's crazy talk!