or so you think. I would make more money providing private services if there were no taxes collected at all. It is all up to you how you spend your own time in life.
and that's where you are grossly mistaken. you think the infrastructure is there by any magic? nope. all paid by taxpayers. private enterprises would provide some infrastructure but only as much as they can afford (which is lot of less than there is now) and as much as they would bother (which is only their nearest neighbourhood). they would also charge you as much as the market can bear (as much as the top dogs can bear, actually) so in the end you'll pay lot of more.
you are absolutely mistaken, lack of taxes had nothing to do with any of those problems. The major problem was and still is illegal (in my opinion) wealth redistribution.
illegal wealth redistribution is exactly what the bandits did. they get your money and give you no service for that. and they could do it only because noone paid enough taxes to provide sufficient funds to militia which is the reason why all good officers left and the rest was corrupt to the bone.
Obviously a capitalist society provides an individual with more choices than a so called communist society ever could.
it is not as obvious as you think. all the taxes, worker rights and unions and health insurances and safety nets and so on we have got today come for a reason and people fought and died for them. there was a time of "goes anything" capitalism started in the second half of the 19th century. it was good for some and bad for most. nowadays the common standard of living has raised a lot, more people have the possibility to earn money, also more money (compare the count of billionaires back then to now).
you contribute to your wealth with it, not to the society. your firefox extension is imho a bigger contribution to the society than anything you do for living. anyway, taxes are just cost of doing business, providing you with the possibility to earn more money than you would do without taxes. a big part of problems in russia is that noone paid taxes for more than a decade. that's why the roads there are so bad, that's why the healthcare there sucks and that's why it was much easier to earn money being a bandit for such a long time.
most societies where people actually don't mind that much to pay taxes have a high standard of living and while the cost of doing business is higher, doing business is much safer. also, people start spending money when they feel sure that they are safe and have got enough to eat. it is a basic fact.
born in the ussr, lived in estonia, moved to germany.
you whine that some people contribute to the society nothing except the alcohol tax. according to your discription you haven't contributed to the society much more than the people you whine about. all the work you have done was for yourself only. major props on the "mad skillz" you possess, though. they are surely something you can proudly brag about.
easy actually. either make a hole in the lid or use the knife as a lever under the lid, apply little force until pressure equalises. when you're lucky a bottle opener will do even better.
well, take saiga 12 for example. it is a semiautomatic gas-operated shotgun. you won't feel the whole recoil at once with that design. no muzzle brake (or flash suppressor which can work as a muzzle brake or compensator) for a shotgun possible, though (except when you use shotgun slugs exclusively).
still, in my opinion shotguns generate a quite heavy (and painful) push, but then again i am not a very expirienced (or tough) shooter.
sorry, but that book isn't exactly a good source. it is ok for people with a certain mindset who read it and do themselves an amount of shoulder patting and saying: "the communists were so evil, we nazis were the good guys for combatting them".
as i already mentioned, it is time to stop the cold war propaganda. the ukrainian famine was not intentional (stupidity, not malignity) and the number of 7 to 10 millions is way overblown (10 millions would be 40% of the total ukrainian population at that time). my grandparents lived in the ukraine at that time, they remember it all well enough.
but anyway, maybe you should read the wikipedia article yourself: "Therefore, direct deaths as the result of the 1932-33 famine were somewhere below 2.5 million."
yeah, i know, some weird sources write about 60 millions but with the ussr population of about 110 millions at that time and 20 million losses in the second world war ussr would be nearly empty after that time.
i am definitely not a friend of stalin&co but the cold war propaganda has to stop at last.
there are four bands. gsm 900 and gsm 1800 are used in europe, gsm 850 and gsm 1900 are used in americas (because 900 mhz and 1800 mhz were already used in usa that time).
the main problem with the reluctance would be the language barrier. many german doctors go to uk for better wages, some go to spain for better weather. my mother had thought about it, but has given the thought up because it is not easy to learn another language at the age of 54.
2) many modern guns are made the way the shooter won't expirience the whole recoil at once but over time, thus lowering the effects. this starts with the gun automatics and ends with the muzzle brake.
dentists can pretty well be outsourced - it happens all the time in the eu. for example germans often make vacation in spain and also go to the dentist there. and the best thing about it is that the european insurance companies often pay a part of the cost.
yep, that is right. especially interesting is the transmeta crusoe cpu which can load different instruction sets and translate them into its native code.
but the thing is, as far as i remember, back at those days when transmeta crusoe was just near the release, linus said something like "i compiled the linux kernel to the native crusoe vliw instructions and it was actually slower than the x86 code"
read up about biodiversity and also ask you a question: what good are you? i mean, i don't need you, and i am pretty sure that pretty much 100% of the world population doesn't need you either.
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it is sad truth that most people prefer feeling safe to actually being safe.
idiot, whales are mammals, not fishes.
had nothing to do with the second bomb but rather with the soviet invasion in manchukuo.
and that's where you are grossly mistaken. you think the infrastructure is there by any magic? nope. all paid by taxpayers. private enterprises would provide some infrastructure but only as much as they can afford (which is lot of less than there is now) and as much as they would bother (which is only their nearest neighbourhood). they would also charge you as much as the market can bear (as much as the top dogs can bear, actually) so in the end you'll pay lot of more.
illegal wealth redistribution is exactly what the bandits did. they get your money and give you no service for that. and they could do it only because noone paid enough taxes to provide sufficient funds to militia which is the reason why all good officers left and the rest was corrupt to the bone.
it is not as obvious as you think. all the taxes, worker rights and unions and health insurances and safety nets and so on we have got today come for a reason and people fought and died for them. there was a time of "goes anything" capitalism started in the second half of the 19th century. it was good for some and bad for most. nowadays the common standard of living has raised a lot, more people have the possibility to earn money, also more money (compare the count of billionaires back then to now).
you contribute to your wealth with it, not to the society. your firefox extension is imho a bigger contribution to the society than anything you do for living.
anyway, taxes are just cost of doing business, providing you with the possibility to earn more money than you would do without taxes.
a big part of problems in russia is that noone paid taxes for more than a decade. that's why the roads there are so bad, that's why the healthcare there sucks and that's why it was much easier to earn money being a bandit for such a long time.
most societies where people actually don't mind that much to pay taxes have a high standard of living and while the cost of doing business is higher, doing business is much safer. also, people start spending money when they feel sure that they are safe and have got enough to eat. it is a basic fact.
born in the ussr, lived in estonia, moved to germany.
you whine that some people contribute to the society nothing except the alcohol tax. according to your discription you haven't contributed to the society much more than the people you whine about. all the work you have done was for yourself only. major props on the "mad skillz" you possess, though. they are surely something you can proudly brag about.
easy actually. either make a hole in the lid or use the knife as a lever under the lid, apply little force until pressure equalises.
when you're lucky a bottle opener will do even better.
well, take saiga 12 for example. it is a semiautomatic gas-operated shotgun. you won't feel the whole recoil at once with that design. no muzzle brake (or flash suppressor which can work as a muzzle brake or compensator) for a shotgun possible, though (except when you use shotgun slugs exclusively).
still, in my opinion shotguns generate a quite heavy (and painful) push, but then again i am not a very expirienced (or tough) shooter.
still true because pocket pc is defined as a pda with wm.
opera is the best browser for a wm phone/pocket pc.
sorry, but that book isn't exactly a good source. it is ok for people with a certain mindset who read it and do themselves an amount of shoulder patting and saying: "the communists were so evil, we nazis were the good guys for combatting them".
as i already mentioned, it is time to stop the cold war propaganda.
the ukrainian famine was not intentional (stupidity, not malignity) and the number of 7 to 10 millions is way overblown (10 millions would be 40% of the total ukrainian population at that time). my grandparents lived in the ukraine at that time, they remember it all well enough.
but anyway, maybe you should read the wikipedia article yourself:
"Therefore, direct deaths as the result of the 1932-33 famine were somewhere below 2.5 million."
it was pretty well accounted for, old nkvd archives are open now.
come on, it's what obi-wan kenobi mutters when he sees the death star the first time.
in what european country do you live currently?
because, you see, i am pretty much fed up with germany and its corrupt and crazy politicians.
what's so difficult about imagining 1.4 millions?
yeah, i know, some weird sources write about 60 millions but with the ussr population of about 110 millions at that time and 20 million losses in the second world war ussr would be nearly empty after that time.
i am definitely not a friend of stalin&co but the cold war propaganda has to stop at last.
there are four bands. gsm 900 and gsm 1800 are used in europe, gsm 850 and gsm 1900 are used in americas (because 900 mhz and 1800 mhz were already used in usa that time).
quad bands gsm cell phones work everywhere.
the main problem with the reluctance would be the language barrier. many german doctors go to uk for better wages, some go to spain for better weather. my mother had thought about it, but has given the thought up because it is not easy to learn another language at the age of 54.
they are ;-)
eu citizens are free to live and work in the whole eu.
you actually forget a couple of things:
1) the shooter normally has a very stable stance. if he doesn't, he actually can be pushed back hard enough to fall over.
2) many modern guns are made the way the shooter won't expirience the whole recoil at once but over time, thus lowering the effects. this starts with the gun automatics and ends with the muzzle brake.
dentists can pretty well be outsourced - it happens all the time in the eu. for example germans often make vacation in spain and also go to the dentist there.
and the best thing about it is that the european insurance companies often pay a part of the cost.
yep, that is right.
especially interesting is the transmeta crusoe cpu which can load different instruction sets and translate them into its native code.
but the thing is, as far as i remember, back at those days when transmeta crusoe was just near the release, linus said something like "i compiled the linux kernel to the native crusoe vliw instructions and it was actually slower than the x86 code"
read up about biodiversity and also ask you a question:
what good are you? i mean, i don't need you, and i am pretty sure that pretty much 100% of the world population doesn't need you either.
actually the most wanted tag is the irony tag.
while that guy may be right, he uses cheap propaganda like "nissan motor's french connection" and u.s. flags everywhere he can put them.