Happened to me a few years ago. Some technicians were installing our telematics unit into a Mercedes Econic and wired something wrong, so engine wouldn't halt when ignition switched off. Pulling fuses wouldn't help either so they actually had to wait for several hours until the fuel tank was empty.
You're saying I'm violating his rights if I put him in the ground?
Of course, because vigilantism is domestic terrorism.
And as for the government taking a life, in a civilised country nobody has a right to take a life, except in self defense, and even then only if there is no other way. Barbarian governments kill. And if you, as you mentioned, would have no qualms over killing people, this speaks a lot about you. Then again, you have explicitly mentioned that you want to indulge in a power fantasy, which both makes you a mentally unstable person I wouldn't want to have around.
First off, private property means I have a right to decide who walks on my land and who doesn't. I'm not letting any bozo just wander on to my land whenever he wants.
And this is why I say that you live in an unfree country. And on a stolen property, by the way.
This right you're referring to sounds like bullshit.
Sounds like bullshit to you, because you are accustomed to living in an unfree country and don't know any better.
I looked into this and it seems in other countries it mostly applies to coasts and being able to walk around on the beach.
Far more than that. Forests, fields, even orchards. As long as I don't damage anything I can walk there. This is my right to travel, it is inalienable and the most important right one can have, because not allowing a person to roam makes a country an open air prison.
But to be honest, if you are typical for your kind of people, please stay where you are - in your open air prison an ocean away from here.
Death penalty it is. Even Russia doesn't execute. And yes, here in Germany, there is right to roam. I am allowed to walk and cycle even through private forests and field paths. In Nordic countries, for example, the right to roam is even much more extensive.
Public parks, ha! A country where I cannot wander around as I want is an unfree country which I won't ever visit on my spare time (also I don't want to be arrested for walking, like it happened to Bob Dylan).
Inferior? Seriously? USA has neither a right to life, nor a right to roam. These two are most important rights, everything else is secondary. And with your mindset (wishing to be a menace) other countries don't want to have you anyway.
From my experience, in Tallinn the routes of public transport were mostly useful and the time tables were good - around the city center. Lasnamae or Mustamae - where most people live - aren't as well connected, even though it is manageable, and all public transport is pretty old. All trams and many trolleybuses are still from Soviet times (Czech made, though, same trams as still used in Prague and trolleys like in Brno). The buses were mostly very old Swedish ones, all in all everything not very pleasant to use. Then again it has been 7 or 8 years since the last time I was there, so it might have changed.
The problem in Tallinn is that it is not built for the amount of cars there are now and it appears that owning a car is a matter of pride and status there, and also many people own a small house outside of town where they go on weekends.
We were more or less forced to adopt Euro. This was the price for France allowing reunification. Switzerland does just fine with their own currency, Germany would be able to do so just as well.
You forget one important thing: Germany itself exists as a nation only since 1871, and, in fact, consists of several ethnicities which used to live in separate countries before that unification and even now, over a century later, may speak languages that are barely mutually intelligible. Same goes for France (Franks, Normans, breton Celts, Basques, Germans) and so on.
You really underestimate ethnical diversity in Europe.
Eh what? 12% of German population doesn't have a German citizenship, they are different ethnicities by definition. Same for France. Third generation immigrants usually have citizenships and count as Germans. 13% of German population have Polish surnames for fuck's sake.
Bullshit yourself. They have increased their primary budget surplus purely due to borrowed money. It was a one time thing and won't happen again if they get no further funds from EU. Their shipowners still pay no taxes - read it up, it is even in Greek constitution. Neither do the land owners, business owners and so on. They have promised a lot and implemented bugger all.
Germany has the same number of civil servants, but 7 times the population. And military doesn't count as civil servants because they are military, not civil. Greek bureaucracy is the largest and most inefficient in Europe.
And your "read Krugman" is called "appeal to authority fallacy" by the way.
My mother's Dell Vostro (2009) is still like new and my Thinkpad X200 (also 2009) is also doing fine, the only parts I have replaced were the HDD (still worked but I wanted a SSD) and the battery.
Greece hasn't really implemented the austerity measures they were asked to implement, that is why they fared worse. And that is why they don't get more money now. And if 20% of Greek workforce wouldn't work for the government, their unemployment would have been much, much larger.
Spain had a real estate bubble, but otherwise the country is much more solid than Greece and while somewhat corrupt, it is not nearly a kleptocracy. In 2008 the GDP per capita of Spain and Greece were comparable. After the crash Spain has implemented austerity measures and apparently they were successful - Spain is on the way to recovery and nowadays their GDP per capita is almost twice of Greece. It helps that Spain actually has an economy. Greece only exports olive oil and tax evaders.
Elementary, my dear Watson. Look at Greece GDP per capita, their public debt as their GDP percentage, their unemployment rates and compare them to any other European country which has or had a social democrat government. Then you'll see the difference.
I don't think the media has ever really used the socialist angle on Nazi Germany, at least not as an explanation for its evils.
Even a German politician used that - Edmund Stoiber, the former Bavarian prime minister once said that Nazis have been socialists first and foremost. He earned a lot of facepalms for that, but then again, everything he has ever said, was just as stupid.
Literally junk would be Greece. Russia has the same credit rating as Portugal, Croatia or Hungary (all three are EU countries by the way) and as soon as the Saudis stop their oil glut, oil will become more expensive again. And since Russia is accustomed to austerity, the recession would not be nearly as bitter as you think.
They have a lot of problems, but being broke hasn't been one of them for a decade.
Now look at that, we have found the one Greek who actually has paid his taxes. I think the reason why the state isn't punctual in paying back is that they are still stunned by the fact that somebody actually has paid his due.
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Happened to me a few years ago. Some technicians were installing our telematics unit into a Mercedes Econic and wired something wrong, so engine wouldn't halt when ignition switched off. Pulling fuses wouldn't help either so they actually had to wait for several hours until the fuel tank was empty.
Of course, because vigilantism is domestic terrorism.
And as for the government taking a life, in a civilised country nobody has a right to take a life, except in self defense, and even then only if there is no other way. Barbarian governments kill. And if you, as you mentioned, would have no qualms over killing people, this speaks a lot about you. Then again, you have explicitly mentioned that you want to indulge in a power fantasy, which both makes you a mentally unstable person I wouldn't want to have around.
And this is why I say that you live in an unfree country. And on a stolen property, by the way.
Sounds like bullshit to you, because you are accustomed to living in an unfree country and don't know any better.
Far more than that. Forests, fields, even orchards. As long as I don't damage anything I can walk there. This is my right to travel, it is inalienable and the most important right one can have, because not allowing a person to roam makes a country an open air prison.
But to be honest, if you are typical for your kind of people, please stay where you are - in your open air prison an ocean away from here.
Death penalty it is. Even Russia doesn't execute.
And yes, here in Germany, there is right to roam. I am allowed to walk and cycle even through private forests and field paths. In Nordic countries, for example, the right to roam is even much more extensive.
Public parks, ha! A country where I cannot wander around as I want is an unfree country which I won't ever visit on my spare time (also I don't want to be arrested for walking, like it happened to Bob Dylan).
Inferior? Seriously?
USA has neither a right to life, nor a right to roam. These two are most important rights, everything else is secondary.
And with your mindset (wishing to be a menace) other countries don't want to have you anyway.
Already happens.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/eur...
Raise? They have no taxes on cargo ships. It is even in their constitution. Crazy country.
From my experience, in Tallinn the routes of public transport were mostly useful and the time tables were good - around the city center. Lasnamae or Mustamae - where most people live - aren't as well connected, even though it is manageable, and all public transport is pretty old. All trams and many trolleybuses are still from Soviet times (Czech made, though, same trams as still used in Prague and trolleys like in Brno). The buses were mostly very old Swedish ones, all in all everything not very pleasant to use. Then again it has been 7 or 8 years since the last time I was there, so it might have changed.
The problem in Tallinn is that it is not built for the amount of cars there are now and it appears that owning a car is a matter of pride and status there, and also many people own a small house outside of town where they go on weekends.
We were more or less forced to adopt Euro. This was the price for France allowing reunification. Switzerland does just fine with their own currency, Germany would be able to do so just as well.
You forget one important thing: Germany itself exists as a nation only since 1871, and, in fact, consists of several ethnicities which used to live in separate countries before that unification and even now, over a century later, may speak languages that are barely mutually intelligible. Same goes for France (Franks, Normans, breton Celts, Basques, Germans) and so on.
You really underestimate ethnical diversity in Europe.
Eh what?
12% of German population doesn't have a German citizenship, they are different ethnicities by definition. Same for France. Third generation immigrants usually have citizenships and count as Germans. 13% of German population have Polish surnames for fuck's sake.
primary school biology lessons maybe?
can't name ten blacksmith techniques, but four or five - no problem.
Seriously? This ought to be common knowledge.
Bullshit yourself.
They have increased their primary budget surplus purely due to borrowed money. It was a one time thing and won't happen again if they get no further funds from EU. Their shipowners still pay no taxes - read it up, it is even in Greek constitution. Neither do the land owners, business owners and so on. They have promised a lot and implemented bugger all.
Germany has the same number of civil servants, but 7 times the population. And military doesn't count as civil servants because they are military, not civil. Greek bureaucracy is the largest and most inefficient in Europe.
And your "read Krugman" is called "appeal to authority fallacy" by the way.
Thank you. Now I feel old.
My mother's Dell Vostro (2009) is still like new and my Thinkpad X200 (also 2009) is also doing fine, the only parts I have replaced were the HDD (still worked but I wanted a SSD) and the battery.
Greece hasn't really implemented the austerity measures they were asked to implement, that is why they fared worse. And that is why they don't get more money now. And if 20% of Greek workforce wouldn't work for the government, their unemployment would have been much, much larger.
Spain had a real estate bubble, but otherwise the country is much more solid than Greece and while somewhat corrupt, it is not nearly a kleptocracy. In 2008 the GDP per capita of Spain and Greece were comparable. After the crash Spain has implemented austerity measures and apparently they were successful - Spain is on the way to recovery and nowadays their GDP per capita is almost twice of Greece. It helps that Spain actually has an economy. Greece only exports olive oil and tax evaders.
Elementary, my dear Watson. Look at Greece GDP per capita, their public debt as their GDP percentage, their unemployment rates and compare them to any other European country which has or had a social democrat government. Then you'll see the difference.
What Greece has is not socialism, it is kleptocracy.
Greece isn't fixable.
Here's why:
http://www.grreporter.info/en/...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
http://www.themalaysianinsider...
http://panteres.com/2015/05/07...
I don't think the media has ever really used the socialist angle on Nazi Germany, at least not as an explanation for its evils.
Even a German politician used that - Edmund Stoiber, the former Bavarian prime minister once said that Nazis have been socialists first and foremost. He earned a lot of facepalms for that, but then again, everything he has ever said, was just as stupid.
In worldwide comparison they are middle-ranking, thus far from being junk rated. And this was exactly my point.
Literally junk would be Greece. Russia has the same credit rating as Portugal, Croatia or Hungary (all three are EU countries by the way) and as soon as the Saudis stop their oil glut, oil will become more expensive again. And since Russia is accustomed to austerity, the recession would not be nearly as bitter as you think.
They have a lot of problems, but being broke hasn't been one of them for a decade.
Now look at that, we have found the one Greek who actually has paid his taxes. I think the reason why the state isn't punctual in paying back is that they are still stunned by the fact that somebody actually has paid his due.
I wish Germany would be as broke as Russia is - with a government debt of only 17% of their GDP and a shitload of resources.