Really old parenting skills: Teach the child to read, write, and use logic and give them access to a public library. Learn how to yell at kid for reading in the dark or under the covers after bedtime using a flashlight. If parents are illiterate and don't believe that reading and writing are useful skills, remind them that getting a civil service job requires a written test as does a driver's license. Really really old parenting skills: Turn child over to tutor and nanny (if you're rich) and send child into apprenticeship when he is five or six (if you don't have money, but have some contacts) or teaching him how to look pitiful and beg. Or just keep having more children so the older ones have to care for the younger ones and/or work in the fields. Really, really, really old parenting skills: send the kids to Grandma and the great aunts. Run off with handsome stranger.
I've also finally figured out what the acronyms stand for: DNS = Depressed Nodal Syndrome IP = Ischemic Priority Urether-Renal Prolapse
But now it all makes even less sense than it did before. My CC needs caffeine.
The original reason was false? So Al Quada wasn't hiding in Afganistan and using it as a sanctuary?
Al Quaida is a metastisized cancer. The supposed head guy of Al Quaida is either in Afghanistan or Pakistan or on the border between the two OR in Saudi Arabia from whence he came OR anywhere else in the world. No one knows for sure where HE is. Al Quaida, on the other hand, seems to be represented in just about every country in the middle east, and large parts of India, Turkey, Eastern Europe and possibly France, Germany, and Britain. Getting the top guy shouldn't take deployment of troops. The intelligence services of many nations have the capability of finding him and, if necessary, killing him. That won't stop the movement, however. Nor will wiping out Al Quaida stop terrorism. Relieving terrible living conditions and giving the ordinary man in the street some sense of security, stability, and freedom from fear and want takes care of most terrorist movements. These terrorist ideologies can take hold and flourish only where there is great economic and legal injustice. When everything is hunky-dorey, people don't want to shake up their lives.
Umm, Afghanistan != Iraq. You do remember why we are over there, right?
Gosh! My world atlas shows Afghanistan and Iraq to be separate countries with entirely different terrain, resources, cultures, government, and histories. I really MUST update my world atlas to match yours.
Oh, and as to why we are over there - that's a very good question. Now that the original reason given has been shown to be false, no one really does know why we went there. But we do know that it will be very hard to get out. Sort of like a, what's the word?, "quagmire."
I'm pretty ignorant on this subject, and not a US national, but wouldn't this be a rather good way to eliminate redundancy in similar projects across both agencies at a time when the US needs to rationalise expenditure?
It is obvious you have never worked for a government agency or any bureaucracy. Territoriality even between two offices of the same agency in the same city results in redundancy - always. Let us say, for example, the a lobby for red balloons gets funding for red balloons tucked into a multicolored balloon bill. Suddenly every agency dealing with balloons will stop producing blue, yellow, green, and white balloons and will say that they are best equipped to produce red balloons. They will all submit grant requests for money to make red balloons and most of them will get it even though their programs result in an over-abundance of red balloons and a critical shortage of balloons of other colors. That is just the way bureaucracies are.
The Libertarian central concept is quite simple and doesn't require a great deal of knowledge or concern with many aspects of society. Since some say nerds are highly functional autists, one can assume that being very very good at one thing (and earning good money from this trait)would make a simplistic political framework very attractive.
Re. your analogy of the mill and the wheat growers. It's a fairly good analogy, but it breaks down on one very important point. The river. Presumably, the river flowing through your property doesn't begin and end on your property. It most probably also flows through the property of others as well as yourself. Now let's say you begin making rules about who can use the mill and what kind of wheat they must grow in order to use it and the like. This might cause them to make a decision that your mill is becoming, well, overweaning. The wheat growers can do three things: 1)build their own coopertive mill on another part of the river 2)go back to grinding their wheat by hand until you go broke and can't afford to buy wheat or 3)rise up against you, take away your property, your mill, and your use of the river and probably for good measure make sure you are kept in a dark dungeon without wheat for the rest of your shortened lifespan. The reality is that you may be technically in the right, but that doesn't matter in the REAl world.
In the real world there are billions of people who consider the benefits of science and technology to belong to the world and not just to the funding sources and creators. Things like penicillin, great works of literature and art, new medical techniques that save lives, and transistors are generally expected to be shared with the world and not controlled by the inventor or financier. In fact, most people would agree with this. Now the US may consider itself a super-power, but it really is no longer that. A super-power needs to be financial independent for one thing. The US is the largest debtor nation on the planet and most of its manufacturing, agricultural production, petroleum, and now "brain power" has been shipped overseas. Once gone, it is not a simple matter to get back. The US military has trapped itself in the Q word and cannot really respond to emergencies and take-overs of U.S. assets around the globe. Space-based lasers are really neato and cool, but they can't win the kinds of wars that the U.S. will need to fight. Things have changed in the last 200 years, but the U.S. govenment policy has not changed accordingly.
So, when you cannot protect your mill from your angry neighbors or control who builds what on other parts of the river, you really shouldn't be trying to act the school yard bully.
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Really old parenting skills: Teach the child to read, write, and use logic and give them access to a public library. Learn how to yell at kid for reading in the dark or under the covers after bedtime using a flashlight. If parents are illiterate and don't believe that reading and writing are useful skills, remind them that getting a civil service job requires a written test as does a driver's license. Really really old parenting skills: Turn child over to tutor and nanny (if you're rich) and send child into apprenticeship when he is five or six (if you don't have money, but have some contacts) or teaching him how to look pitiful and beg. Or just keep having more children so the older ones have to care for the younger ones and/or work in the fields. Really, really, really old parenting skills: send the kids to Grandma and the great aunts. Run off with handsome stranger. I've also finally figured out what the acronyms stand for: DNS = Depressed Nodal Syndrome IP = Ischemic Priority Urether-Renal Prolapse But now it all makes even less sense than it did before. My CC needs caffeine.
The original reason was false? So Al Quada wasn't hiding in Afganistan and using it as a sanctuary?
Al Quaida is a metastisized cancer. The supposed head guy of Al Quaida is either in Afghanistan or Pakistan or on the border between the two OR in Saudi Arabia from whence he came OR anywhere else in the world. No one knows for sure where HE is. Al Quaida, on the other hand, seems to be represented in just about every country in the middle east, and large parts of India, Turkey, Eastern Europe and possibly France, Germany, and Britain. Getting the top guy shouldn't take deployment of troops. The intelligence services of many nations have the capability of finding him and, if necessary, killing him. That won't stop the movement, however. Nor will wiping out Al Quaida stop terrorism. Relieving terrible living conditions and giving the ordinary man in the street some sense of security, stability, and freedom from fear and want takes care of most terrorist movements. These terrorist ideologies can take hold and flourish only where there is great economic and legal injustice. When everything is hunky-dorey, people don't want to shake up their lives.
Umm, Afghanistan != Iraq. You do remember why we are over there, right? Gosh! My world atlas shows Afghanistan and Iraq to be separate countries with entirely different terrain, resources, cultures, government, and histories. I really MUST update my world atlas to match yours. Oh, and as to why we are over there - that's a very good question. Now that the original reason given has been shown to be false, no one really does know why we went there. But we do know that it will be very hard to get out. Sort of like a, what's the word?, "quagmire."
I'm pretty ignorant on this subject, and not a US national, but wouldn't this be a rather good way to eliminate redundancy in similar projects across both agencies at a time when the US needs to rationalise expenditure?
It is obvious you have never worked for a government agency or any bureaucracy. Territoriality even between two offices of the same agency in the same city results in redundancy - always. Let us say, for example, the a lobby for red balloons gets funding for red balloons tucked into a multicolored balloon bill. Suddenly every agency dealing with balloons will stop producing blue, yellow, green, and white balloons and will say that they are best equipped to produce red balloons. They will all submit grant requests for money to make red balloons and most of them will get it even though their programs result in an over-abundance of red balloons and a critical shortage of balloons of other colors. That is just the way bureaucracies are.
The Libertarian central concept is quite simple and doesn't require a great deal of knowledge or concern with many aspects of society. Since some say nerds are highly functional autists, one can assume that being very very good at one thing (and earning good money from this trait)would make a simplistic political framework very attractive.
Re. your analogy of the mill and the wheat growers. It's a fairly good analogy, but it breaks down on one very important point. The river. Presumably, the river flowing through your property doesn't begin and end on your property. It most probably also flows through the property of others as well as yourself. Now let's say you begin making rules about who can use the mill and what kind of wheat they must grow in order to use it and the like. This might cause them to make a decision that your mill is becoming, well, overweaning. The wheat growers can do three things: 1)build their own coopertive mill on another part of the river 2)go back to grinding their wheat by hand until you go broke and can't afford to buy wheat or 3)rise up against you, take away your property, your mill, and your use of the river and probably for good measure make sure you are kept in a dark dungeon without wheat for the rest of your shortened lifespan. The reality is that you may be technically in the right, but that doesn't matter in the REAl world.
In the real world there are billions of people who consider the benefits of science and technology to belong to the world and not just to the funding sources and creators. Things like penicillin, great works of literature and art, new medical techniques that save lives, and transistors are generally expected to be shared with the world and not controlled by the inventor or financier. In fact, most people would agree with this. Now the US may consider itself a super-power, but it really is no longer that. A super-power needs to be financial independent for one thing. The US is the largest debtor nation on the planet and most of its manufacturing, agricultural production, petroleum, and now "brain power" has been shipped overseas. Once gone, it is not a simple matter to get back. The US military has trapped itself in the Q word and cannot really respond to emergencies and take-overs of U.S. assets around the globe. Space-based lasers are really neato and cool, but they can't win the kinds of wars that the U.S. will need to fight. Things have changed in the last 200 years, but the U.S. govenment policy has not changed accordingly.
So, when you cannot protect your mill from your angry neighbors or control who builds what on other parts of the river, you really shouldn't be trying to act the school yard bully.