An update: I might have been mistaken. That video wasn't from Prince's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was actually during George Harrison's posthumous induction, I think. That's means they got together with Harrison's son Dhani and Harrison's bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys and put together a tribute to George Harrison, using one of the best songs for a rock guitarist to solo over, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (the chord progression and the turnaround are perfect for dramatic soloing).
When it was time to decide who to get to do the big solo part, these guys came up with Prince. That in itself is a hell of a tribute to him.
In other words, a platform dominated by faggots and libshits who can't handle real debate with people who actually fundamentally disagree with their bullshit.
OK, then. I'll just put you down as a "No" on the "healthy and positive communities" thing. Thank you for your feedback.
Who cares if they are in agreement. Only one of their opinion matters.
Have you published peer-reviewed papers on whose opinion matters? No? Then by your argument, your opinion does not matter.
In the realm of public discourse, your expertise matters less than your ability to make a cogent argument. Neither Bill Nye nor Michio Kaku are climate scientists.
It is completely true. You will never get hired at a real orchestra without an 8 year music degree.
Here is a list of members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. If you do a little googling (as I just have) you will find that there are quite a few players (including principal players) who do not have PhDs in music.
I don't know where you got the idea that you need a PhD to play in a symphony orchestra, but it's just wrong. I have first-hand knowledge of this (friends who play in Chicago's Civic Opera orchestra who do not have PhDs).
The base mechanism for individual freedom was systematically destroyed for the last 107 years, since Sherman Act destroyed property rights in the USA. Since then the money has been corrupted by the Fed, property stolen via the IRS, the government turned free people into slaves while the mob was cheering for more theft and redistribution. Which part of it is capitalism?
Those are all the inevitable result of Stage 4 Capitalism (except the Sherman Act, of course, which you're simply wrong about). When capital is sufficiently consolidated, all that corruption and slavery and theft and loss of freedom is absolutely inevitable.
Consolidation of capital can not be trusted to do anything good.
Capitalism is turning China into the most powerful county on this planet
And also one of the most corrupt and economically concentrated. It will make the lives of average Chinese better for a little while, and then destroy their lives, taking away freedom and putting them into serfdom. Capitalism eventually produces economic tyranny. It follows like night follows day.
I wonder if they focus-group tested the new name? Now if they could only figure out a way to make swastika neck tattoos and incest more socially acceptable.
The problem is, candidates don't win or lose by "popular vote".
I didn't mention "popular vote". I'm talking about the OP's assertion that "the average American" loves Donald Trump. I'm talking about the fact that twice as many people view Donald Trump unfavorably than anyone who has ever won the presidency.
Think about this: Donald Trump actually has higher unfavorability ratings than Hillary Clinton. It's hard to believe, but it's not even close. He's just a little more popular than venereal disease. There just aren't enough racist yahoos to elect Donald Trump president, even on a state-by-state, electoral college basis.
There is a reason why the average country in Europe has a lower crime rate than the US.
That's right. There's also a reason why the average country in Europe has a greater level of economic liberty than the US and why the average European has a greater level of economic & social mobility than Americans.
So if society collapses because the base-mechanisms of capitalism fail, that is fine with you?
The base mechanisms of capitalism have been failing since the 1980s. We've passed a boundary condition and what's passed for capitalism in the US since then is no longer viable.
Nye is more like Michio Kaku---except for all of that PhD. science degree baggage. At least Kaku published papers in peer-review journals. Nye is just a poser.
Just so you know, Michio Kaku and Bill Nye are in agreement regarding climate change.
You would never be able to get an orchestra job without a doctor of music degree.
That is simply not true. Even the most prestigious orchestras, like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, hold open auditions and do not require a degree. It's all about whether you can play.
And Bill Nye is a perfect media person on science topics, because he makes tea party jackoffs and neo-reactionaries crap their pants in fury.
Bill Nye is to climate change deniers what the Amazing Randi was to faith healers.
Maybe he doesn't have the support of the Republican elite, but the average people of America absolutely love him.
Donald Trump, as of a March 29th poll, has a 62 percent UN-favorability rating. That means, by definition, that the "average people of America" do not absolutely love him. In fact, the average people of American see him about the way they see the stuff that collects under their refrigerator.
The best favorability poll for Donald Trump ever taken, by the most pro-Trump polling company, only has him at about 32% favorability.
And pensions are for people who are in unions. You think companies just all of a sudden decided to give retiring workers money? Pensions were something that were fought for through labor organizing.
You can thank Ronald Reagan and trickle-down economics for pensions where people can live with dignity in old age to 401k plans (if they're lucky) that are nothing but piggy banks for Wall Street to play with.
There's a reason it's the "highest suicide rate in three decades". It's most definitely thanks to Reaganomics and the trickle-down legacy, where the futures of middle and working class people trickled right down the drain.
The decline of labor unions meant that working people had less power in the meta-transaction of labor v capital. After decades of the middle and working classes gaining power, suddenly watching that power being taken away by orange-haired frauds like Ronald Reagan has taken the heart out of those people. They're working as hard as ever, and watching as the pensions of their parents turn into their own 401k bucket of nothing.
In ten years, we're going to see that generation (and the next) reach old age with nothing but their social security checks to live on. That's when we're either going to see the suicide rate skyrocket or we'll come to learn as a society that we've allowed stage 4 capitalism to run us off the rails.
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An update: I might have been mistaken. That video wasn't from Prince's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was actually during George Harrison's posthumous induction, I think. That's means they got together with Harrison's son Dhani and Harrison's bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys and put together a tribute to George Harrison, using one of the best songs for a rock guitarist to solo over, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (the chord progression and the turnaround are perfect for dramatic soloing).
When it was time to decide who to get to do the big solo part, these guys came up with Prince. That in itself is a hell of a tribute to him.
OK, then. I'll just put you down as a "No" on the "healthy and positive communities" thing. Thank you for your feedback.
I predict that Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot will not approve of this new site one little bit. No sirree.
What exactly are we paying for? Who's looking to invade Europe?
Have you published peer-reviewed papers on whose opinion matters? No? Then by your argument, your opinion does not matter.
In the realm of public discourse, your expertise matters less than your ability to make a cogent argument. Neither Bill Nye nor Michio Kaku are climate scientists.
Here is a list of members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. If you do a little googling (as I just have) you will find that there are quite a few players (including principal players) who do not have PhDs in music.
I don't know where you got the idea that you need a PhD to play in a symphony orchestra, but it's just wrong. I have first-hand knowledge of this (friends who play in Chicago's Civic Opera orchestra who do not have PhDs).
Those are all the inevitable result of Stage 4 Capitalism (except the Sherman Act, of course, which you're simply wrong about). When capital is sufficiently consolidated, all that corruption and slavery and theft and loss of freedom is absolutely inevitable.
Consolidation of capital can not be trusted to do anything good.
And also one of the most corrupt and economically concentrated. It will make the lives of average Chinese better for a little while, and then destroy their lives, taking away freedom and putting them into serfdom. Capitalism eventually produces economic tyranny. It follows like night follows day.
Hey look! They've rebranded "racist neo-nazi scumbags" as "Ethno Nationalists". Cool.
I wonder if they focus-group tested the new name? Now if they could only figure out a way to make swastika neck tattoos and incest more socially acceptable.
That's just one proposal, for the United States, from libertarian Charles Murray.
And you couldn't even read that correctly, judging from the errors in your second paragraph.
98% of the 28% who end up voting, yes.
But it's still a popularity contest. And one is more popular than the other. In this case, toenail fungus is more popular than venereal disease.
It's a good thing that there are more than just the two choices then, right?
I didn't mention "popular vote". I'm talking about the OP's assertion that "the average American" loves Donald Trump. I'm talking about the fact that twice as many people view Donald Trump unfavorably than anyone who has ever won the presidency.
Think about this: Donald Trump actually has higher unfavorability ratings than Hillary Clinton. It's hard to believe, but it's not even close. He's just a little more popular than venereal disease. There just aren't enough racist yahoos to elect Donald Trump president, even on a state-by-state, electoral college basis.
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Why?
That's right. There's also a reason why the average country in Europe has a greater level of economic liberty than the US and why the average European has a greater level of economic & social mobility than Americans.
The base mechanisms of capitalism have been failing since the 1980s. We've passed a boundary condition and what's passed for capitalism in the US since then is no longer viable.
He's able to simplify concepts so third-graders can understand. That's why he's effective countering the Fox News spin.
Just so you know, Michio Kaku and Bill Nye are in agreement regarding climate change.
Which over-qualifies him to debate climate change deniers and flim flam artists like Sarah Palin.
That is simply not true. Even the most prestigious orchestras, like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, hold open auditions and do not require a degree. It's all about whether you can play.
And Bill Nye is a perfect media person on science topics, because he makes tea party jackoffs and neo-reactionaries crap their pants in fury.
Bill Nye is to climate change deniers what the Amazing Randi was to faith healers.
Donald Trump, as of a March 29th poll, has a 62 percent UN-favorability rating. That means, by definition, that the "average people of America" do not absolutely love him. In fact, the average people of American see him about the way they see the stuff that collects under their refrigerator.
The best favorability poll for Donald Trump ever taken, by the most pro-Trump polling company, only has him at about 32% favorability.
Like this one?
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And pensions are for people who are in unions. You think companies just all of a sudden decided to give retiring workers money? Pensions were something that were fought for through labor organizing.
You can thank Ronald Reagan and trickle-down economics for pensions where people can live with dignity in old age to 401k plans (if they're lucky) that are nothing but piggy banks for Wall Street to play with.
Not economists. Economics is more of a pseudoscience than parapsychology.
There's a reason it's the "highest suicide rate in three decades". It's most definitely thanks to Reaganomics and the trickle-down legacy, where the futures of middle and working class people trickled right down the drain.
The decline of labor unions meant that working people had less power in the meta-transaction of labor v capital. After decades of the middle and working classes gaining power, suddenly watching that power being taken away by orange-haired frauds like Ronald Reagan has taken the heart out of those people. They're working as hard as ever, and watching as the pensions of their parents turn into their own 401k bucket of nothing.
In ten years, we're going to see that generation (and the next) reach old age with nothing but their social security checks to live on. That's when we're either going to see the suicide rate skyrocket or we'll come to learn as a society that we've allowed stage 4 capitalism to run us off the rails.