For some strange reason, many reasonable and successful adults still have a playground mentality when it comes to sharing the ball, even when it's someone else's ball. The only difference is that the fights happen inside the courtroom instead of behind the equipment shed.
If more people voted for obama than mccain, then would it not follow that "average" media would also show a preference for obama? also, how do you measure "bias" in specific percentages?
As far as believing what you see on French or Russian news, France and Russia are even MORE messed up politically. Russia is currently a de facto dictatorship, because everyone over the age of 20 is just accustomed to the idea that they have no rights and no voice, and France is slowly headed in the same direction.
If all your news comes from proto-facist countries, no wonder left-wing news seems extreme to you. It's kinda like how normal daylight would seem excessively bright to someone used to living in the dark
Seems pretty clear to me. He is a member of the government. He was either elected directly, or he was appointed by someone else who was elected, and all elected officials get where they are by pandering to powerful and wealthy interests, therefore they are all corrupt, by definition.
Honest people don't become politicians because they aren't capable of backstabbing and scheming their way to the top, and dishonest politicians don't appoint honest judges (they don't want run the risk of being a defendant in a honest trial)
Having actually had my brakes fail before (leaking line bled out all the fluid) I can tell you that handle sitting there is a parking brake, not an emergency brake, it took a good 30-40 feet to stop at 25mph. I'm just glad I was in the country and not in traffic
I strongly support you and your efforts to create a new center for libertarian and anti-government ideals, but for the complete opposite reason you might expect.
I truly believe that we are headed for a civil war in the US, and centering all the libertarian ideals in the northeast makes it much easier for the rest of the country, who don't agree with you, to declare war on you and form 2 new countries from the former-USA
So you go right ahead and create your tax-free "ferengi" society, where absolutely everything you do (using the road, using the library, educating your kids, going to the park, talking to a politician) will cost at least some amount of cash, meanwhile the rest of us will create a system where the advances of technology and mass production we have gained in the last 100 years will benefit everyone instead of just upper management and shareholders.
After that we just seal the border, and wait 10 years until everyone in "Freedomville" New Hampshire dies of whopping cough, polio, and smallpox.
What happens when you unknowingly end up with a doctor who is strongly biased against vaccines for personal reasons and not valid medical reasons?
Or in my case, I ended up with a child psychologist who was anti-medication, and believed that severe adhd could be treated purely with therapy and nothing else.
if apple is one of foxconn's biggest customers, does that not make apple at least partially responsible for creating working conditions so poor that people killed themselves to change it?
If people are going to blame drug users for the drug problem, shouldn't we blame labor users for the labor problem?
A leech that swims by and says "hey, did you know you are bleeding?" isn't much of a leech. Other than a bit more fame, what does dr web gain from this, it's not like they are extorting apple.
I'm curious were you picked up the idea that security researchers and fake-av sellers were somehow related?
Do you also assume that anyone yelling "fire" in a crowded building is just trying to make everyone scared? if so, I hope you are in a building fire some day so you can ignore the warning, safe in your fire-proof pants
no, but that doesn't mean you give up on the idea of government entirely, If you don't have a government-based system, you will end up with a corporate-based system. At least the government PRETENDS to be beholden to the voters, corporations don't even pretend, they are already quite used to telling their customers what to buy, how to dress, and how to think. There isn't even a FRAMEWORK for enforcing corporate responsibility, at least with politicians you can recall them and have a new election.
What do you think will happen when the guy who owns all the highways (and you know someone will own them all eventually) decides he doesn't like you? sue him in a court that doesn't exist?
Are you referring to the current US government, or are you one of those people who think "all governments are evil, therefore we should get rid of the idea of government" and we should change to some variation of Anarchy (Anarcho-capitalism, Anarcho-syndicalism, etc)?
Sounds to me like that would be a GOOD thing. What would be the value of a COPY of a piece of art, if everyone is allowed to sell them?
The value stops being in the actual item (cd, dvd, painting-copy etc) and starts being more about the actual experience, like seeing a band in concert, or owning an original art piece from an artist that is actually still alive. This in contrast to the current system, where every penny you spend on media goes towards buying yet another yacht or vacation home for the great-grandson of the con-artist who cheated the original artist out of the rights to his work, while the original artist ends up dying penny-less in an unmarked grave.
Gas stations raise thier prices in tandem because THEY HAVE TO BY LAW, seriously, It's called mandatory minimum pricing. In states that have it, every station MUST change their pump price every day to the current daily price from their supplier (called a gas terminal), regardless of when the gas was actually purchased.
Some gas stations will go out of their way to get gas from a more distant terminal (sometimes more than 100 miles father away) just to get on a different price scale and undercut the other stations by 3 cents
Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
The only way we can fix American families is to DRASTICALLY reduce the cost of living or increase individual wages to the point where a single salary can support an entire family, instead of the current situation of both parents working full time (and ignoring the kids) just to pay the bills. Ironically, it's rich republicans (who praise family values) that have destroyed the american family in the pursuit of profit.
Minimum wage ($7.25/h) at 40 hours a week ($1256/month) is barely enough to support 1 person, yet entire families are somehow expected to live off a single walmart paycheck so that the mother (or father) can properly raise the kids.
"These patents also don't stifle competition, on the basis that there are other (similarly non-trivial) ways of getting similar results, which competitors are free to invent."
Sometimes there is no other way of getting results, other times you don't find out about the patent until the code has been in your product for many years, which would be fine if people sued in a regular court, but now these patent trolls are taking cases directly to the import/export courts, to get importing banned immediately.
Corporations are NOT groups of people, they are the singular manifestation of rampant shareholder and executive greed, with no tempering sense of morality or ethics whatsoever. The groups of people working at the company are just doing whatever the greed tells them to do.
spoken like a true 1-percenter: "if you don't like being a slave, get some slaves of your own"
You need to solve the problem, not become part of the problem.
We can't ALL be self-employed, there are very few business that can be operated by a single person with no employees. (there are other business types beyond plumbing and tax accounting after all). For example, any restaurant more complicated than a coffee house or greasy spoon is going to need at least 1 waitress, because you can't wait tables, and run the register, and cook the food, all at the same time (and especially not for the 70 hours a week that many restaurants are open)
"... managed to build a killer resume just by never ever saying "No" to anything." so you just went along and half-assed the project even though you didn't know what you were doing?
Somebody somewhere has to pay for the college, that much is obvious, but if you make it the same price to go to college vs. not go, then a lot more people are going go to college, which is a normally a good thing. (unless you make your living by manipulating people, in which case your goal should be the elimination of public education all together, both primary and secondary)
There is so much wrong with this statement.
If you buy stock and join the 1% (as if that was actually possible, they are the 1% for a reason) you would just be making the problem worse. We need more people with money to spend, not more shareholders.
The purpose of a producer WAS (past tense) to produce a product that people want, at a price they wanted to pay. Nowdays producers just make whatever they can, for as cheap as they can, then spend all the remaining money on brainwashing people into wanting it, at whatever price the producer wants.
When the advertising budget vastly exceeds the manufacturing budget, something is broken (Coke and Pepsi are great examples of this)
It's extremely shortsighted to think that it's not a producer's jobs to employ people. After all, if nobody has a job, who will buy your products?
they would still have to put the shoplifting charge on the employment form, at least for the first 5 years, especially if the job is in any sort of retail or cash-handling position
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For some strange reason, many reasonable and successful adults still have a playground mentality when it comes to sharing the ball, even when it's someone else's ball. The only difference is that the fights happen inside the courtroom instead of behind the equipment shed.
visit http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ for examples if you don't want to leave the house or you live outside the tentacle range of wal-mart.
If more people voted for obama than mccain, then would it not follow that "average" media would also show a preference for obama?
also, how do you measure "bias" in specific percentages?
As far as believing what you see on French or Russian news, France and Russia are even MORE messed up politically. Russia is currently a de facto dictatorship, because everyone over the age of 20 is just accustomed to the idea that they have no rights and no voice, and France is slowly headed in the same direction.
If all your news comes from proto-facist countries, no wonder left-wing news seems extreme to you. It's kinda like how normal daylight would seem excessively bright to someone used to living in the dark
So what evidence do you have for this hypothesis?
Seems pretty clear to me. He is a member of the government. He was either elected directly, or he was appointed by someone else who was elected, and all elected officials get where they are by pandering to powerful and wealthy interests, therefore they are all corrupt, by definition.
Honest people don't become politicians because they aren't capable of backstabbing and scheming their way to the top, and dishonest politicians don't appoint honest judges (they don't want run the risk of being a defendant in a honest trial)
Having actually had my brakes fail before (leaking line bled out all the fluid) I can tell you that handle sitting there is a parking brake, not an emergency brake, it took a good 30-40 feet to stop at 25mph. I'm just glad I was in the country and not in traffic
I strongly support you and your efforts to create a new center for libertarian and anti-government ideals, but for the complete opposite reason you might expect.
I truly believe that we are headed for a civil war in the US, and centering all the libertarian ideals in the northeast makes it much easier for the rest of the country, who don't agree with you, to declare war on you and form 2 new countries from the former-USA
So you go right ahead and create your tax-free "ferengi" society, where absolutely everything you do (using the road, using the library, educating your kids, going to the park, talking to a politician) will cost at least some amount of cash, meanwhile the rest of us will create a system where the advances of technology and mass production we have gained in the last 100 years will benefit everyone instead of just upper management and shareholders.
After that we just seal the border, and wait 10 years until everyone in "Freedomville" New Hampshire dies of whopping cough, polio, and smallpox.
What happens when you unknowingly end up with a doctor who is strongly biased against vaccines for personal reasons and not valid medical reasons?
Or in my case, I ended up with a child psychologist who was anti-medication, and believed that severe adhd could be treated purely with therapy and nothing else.
if apple is one of foxconn's biggest customers, does that not make apple at least partially responsible for creating working conditions so poor that people killed themselves to change it?
If people are going to blame drug users for the drug problem, shouldn't we blame labor users for the labor problem?
You only need one bubonic plague...
It doesn't matter how many mac viruses there are as long as apple continues to plug it's ears when it comes to mac viruses.
A leech that swims by and says "hey, did you know you are bleeding?" isn't much of a leech. Other than a bit more fame, what does dr web gain from this, it's not like they are extorting apple.
I'm curious were you picked up the idea that security researchers and fake-av sellers were somehow related?
Do you also assume that anyone yelling "fire" in a crowded building is just trying to make everyone scared? if so, I hope you are in a building fire some day so you can ignore the warning, safe in your fire-proof pants
no, but that doesn't mean you give up on the idea of government entirely, If you don't have a government-based system, you will end up with a corporate-based system. At least the government PRETENDS to be beholden to the voters, corporations don't even pretend, they are already quite used to telling their customers what to buy, how to dress, and how to think. There isn't even a FRAMEWORK for enforcing corporate responsibility, at least with politicians you can recall them and have a new election.
What do you think will happen when the guy who owns all the highways (and you know someone will own them all eventually) decides he doesn't like you? sue him in a court that doesn't exist?
The REAL drain on the system is GOVERNMENT.
Are you referring to the current US government, or are you one of those people who think "all governments are evil, therefore we should get rid of the idea of government" and we should change to some variation of Anarchy (Anarcho-capitalism, Anarcho-syndicalism, etc)?
The value stops being in the actual item (cd, dvd, painting-copy etc) and starts being more about the actual experience, like seeing a band in concert, or owning an original art piece from an artist that is actually still alive. This in contrast to the current system, where every penny you spend on media goes towards buying yet another yacht or vacation home for the great-grandson of the con-artist who cheated the original artist out of the rights to his work, while the original artist ends up dying penny-less in an unmarked grave.
Some gas stations will go out of their way to get gas from a more distant terminal (sometimes more than 100 miles father away) just to get on a different price scale and undercut the other stations by 3 cents
Fix the families. Restore family values. Education and all other aspects of life will follow.
The only way we can fix American families is to DRASTICALLY reduce the cost of living or increase individual wages to the point where a single salary can support an entire family, instead of the current situation of both parents working full time (and ignoring the kids) just to pay the bills. Ironically, it's rich republicans (who praise family values) that have destroyed the american family in the pursuit of profit.
Minimum wage ($7.25/h) at 40 hours a week ($1256/month) is barely enough to support 1 person, yet entire families are somehow expected to live off a single walmart paycheck so that the mother (or father) can properly raise the kids.
"These patents also don't stifle competition, on the basis that there are other (similarly non-trivial) ways of getting similar results, which competitors are free to invent." Sometimes there is no other way of getting results, other times you don't find out about the patent until the code has been in your product for many years, which would be fine if people sued in a regular court, but now these patent trolls are taking cases directly to the import/export courts, to get importing banned immediately.
Corporations are NOT groups of people, they are the singular manifestation of rampant shareholder and executive greed, with no tempering sense of morality or ethics whatsoever. The groups of people working at the company are just doing whatever the greed tells them to do.
Ironically, the LCD panels in those sony TVs were probably made by samsung
One of my friends uses the stack-of-drives method, he stores the spare HDs in their original packaging for protection
"...there's at least one company who gets it right." Until that company goes out of business....
spoken like a true 1-percenter: "if you don't like being a slave, get some slaves of your own" You need to solve the problem, not become part of the problem. We can't ALL be self-employed, there are very few business that can be operated by a single person with no employees. (there are other business types beyond plumbing and tax accounting after all). For example, any restaurant more complicated than a coffee house or greasy spoon is going to need at least 1 waitress, because you can't wait tables, and run the register, and cook the food, all at the same time (and especially not for the 70 hours a week that many restaurants are open)
"... managed to build a killer resume just by never ever saying "No" to anything." so you just went along and half-assed the project even though you didn't know what you were doing?
Somebody somewhere has to pay for the college, that much is obvious, but if you make it the same price to go to college vs. not go, then a lot more people are going go to college, which is a normally a good thing. (unless you make your living by manipulating people, in which case your goal should be the elimination of public education all together, both primary and secondary)
There is so much wrong with this statement. If you buy stock and join the 1% (as if that was actually possible, they are the 1% for a reason) you would just be making the problem worse. We need more people with money to spend, not more shareholders. The purpose of a producer WAS (past tense) to produce a product that people want, at a price they wanted to pay. Nowdays producers just make whatever they can, for as cheap as they can, then spend all the remaining money on brainwashing people into wanting it, at whatever price the producer wants. When the advertising budget vastly exceeds the manufacturing budget, something is broken (Coke and Pepsi are great examples of this) It's extremely shortsighted to think that it's not a producer's jobs to employ people. After all, if nobody has a job, who will buy your products?
they would still have to put the shoplifting charge on the employment form, at least for the first 5 years, especially if the job is in any sort of retail or cash-handling position