Going to go full disagreement with you on this one.
And you'd be wrong. One of the good things about living in the UK is the fact that the most dangerous thing a criminal can threaten me with is a knife but most wont even have one of those. Our criminals are cowards and we have a much lower rate of violent crime as a result.
The problem with the US is, and you are part of that problem, that it refuses to admit it's society has a problem. America with Guns is like an alcoholic with a bottle of scotch, they don't believe they have an issue even when they're dying of renal failure and will use any excuse in the book not to change.
Now introducing gun control wont fix the issue, gun control will come as a natural consequence of fixing the issue of fixing the broken ideas in your society. This has to happen at every level from the top down. The first part is admitting that the American attitude towards firearms is foolhardy and dangerous and that gun owners need to take more responsibility. The same will be true of licensing and registration of firearms, it will be a natural consequence of a more sensible and mature attitude around firearms.
Gun control has worked in Australia and the UK because gun owners saw it as the right thing to do after the Port Arthur massacre in Australia and the Dunblane shootings in the UK. Gun owners in these countries are responsible (yes, contrary to what the NRA would have you believe, you can own a gun in Australia or the UK) and irresponsible gun owners have their firearms taken away. Until the US changes its attitudes, innocent people will continue to be gunned down needlessly and senselessly.
Stop driving behind people when they are backing up.
Here's another novel idea... Learn how to drive.
Or more specifically, the rules around driving. When you're reversing you are responsible to ensure that no-one else is in your path. It is not the responsibility of everyone else to make sure they are out of your way. If you hit someone whilst reversing it is in almost all cases, your fault.
I've read and re-read all of Banks' "Culture" books. It's one of the few where you get to know extremely powerful AIs as characters. They play a real role in the books, sometimes even more so than the meatbags.
Have you read any of Neil Asher's novels, if you liked that about Banks' novels, you'll enjoy Neil Asher
Riiiight...you never hear of GameCopyWorld? Takes less than 15 seconds to crack any Steam game, Steam is to DRM what "pick the pictures with cars in them" is to security, its a joke designed to give someone a bit of security theater, nothing more. In fact if you go download a pirated game in 2018? Its almost always the Steam version because its so easy to crack.
Most steam games can be started without steam by simply going to the executable.
Steam's DRM was designed from the word go to be unobtrusive... that means it's weak, it was designed to tick a box for publishers, not to actually stop piracy.
Billboards in the UK are allowed in towns and cities but are illegal on high speed Motorways (highways) and dual carriageways for obvious reasons. They are also banned in green countryside areas in the UK too as they are classed as an eyesore.
This is one of the many reasons why driving in the UK is such a pleasure compared to driving in the US or Australia. You aren't constantly bombarded with advertising blocking the scenery.
Funny, but Google's been doing the payment thing far longer than Apple - Google Wallet's been around since Android's been around and Google's been doing NFC payments before NFC hit the iPhone (at least for years before).
This... The problem that both google and Apple have is that it's a solution to a problem no-one has.
Both Google and Apple are doing this the lazy way. In order to avoid being called a bank and having to comply with the myriad of banking regulations the world over, both "products" are just wrappers for another financial service provider's product (its just a wrapper for a credit card from a bank).
Neither service offers any features that a credit card doesn't have but introduces additional risk and complexity.
In order to offer a benefit over simply using my credit card or cash, Apple or Google would need to either store my money or offer me a line of credit and at that point in most countries, they become a bank and subject to all the rules and regulations that come with it. This is also why banks can dictate a maximum transaction limit... because ultimately they control the transaction.
As I said, it's a solution without a problem. Google will eventually just give up on it as they've got an issue with throwing good money after bad, Apple will keep offering a service no-one uses.
Apple is a hardware company. Google is an advertising company. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is by default more trustworthy of holding onto data.
Apple is a marketing company, they don't produce hardware. Samsung, TSCM and Foxconn produce hardware. Apple owns a brand.
Meanwhile, most high budget movies have been big disappointments over the last 5 years.
I agree with the TV shows bit, but that has always been the norm for the film industry. Sturgeons law is very conservative in that context (80% of everything is crap), I'd say 95%+ of everything the film industry produces is dross and it's paid for by the less than 5% of stuff that isn't. The difference is that hollywood cant control the internet as it used to control movie reviews, so average people are able to find out a film is crap before seeing it.
India, Nigeria and China which are now bigger industries than the American film industry, have at least compensated for this by making cheaper movies.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
Things that Fascists believe in:
1. Nationalism.
2. Totalitarianism (police enforced single party state).
3. Enforcement of political doctrines (violence is acceptable).
4. Age and gender roles (also enforced).
Just by being a hard right christian fundamentalist, he's ticked most of the boxes.
More courts need to step in line or get out of the way via impeachment if necessary.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Fortunately, the US military command has said they wont automatically follow any nuclear launch order... And I've got more faith in a career military officer that must have at least done something to earn their position to do the right thing than any president or prime minister.
Besides, it's 2018, Trump will have finished his term and sunk the Republicans chance for a reelection by the time an impeachment could occur. It took 2.5 years to get Nixon.
I wonder *WHY* he thinks ASUS is "untrustworthy", and why he cannot get some sort of restore disk from them.
Asus would just direct him at Microsoft as they don't have the license to distribute recovery media, just pre-installed OS's.
Also, as the license code was upgraded, it no longer allows Win 7 installs to be activated. So it's definitely nothing Asus can fix.
Probably also illegal. Just because someone has done something illegal, doesn't give you the right to do something illegal yourself in response.
I think the best anti-piracy measure that I've heard
Is to try to turn them customers. DRM ultimately doesn't work, stealing passwords ultimately gets you sued out of existence (how do we know they aren't stealing passwords of paying customers) and it's been demonstrated time and time again that piracy fuels sales rather than taking them away.
The problem FlighSimLabs has is that they're charging $100 for something that isn't worth it.
Putin can't have witnesses. I'm betting we're about to see some dead Russians.
If you were one of the 13 indicted Russians, would you be more afraid of the US Department of Justice or Vladimir Putin?
I don't think Putin will do anything. This says that Putin was able to fuck around with the US and nothing can be done about it, that does more to cement his power than the assassinations of some would be, low-level agents. the damage has already been done and Putin's aims have already been served (what Putin wants are a weak US and weak EU).
As a n example, look at aircraft - in the early days of flight there were many improvements constantly appearing and aircraft got better and better, until we reached the 747 and Concorde (2 planes that performed different tasks - one efficient, one fast) and that's pretty much where the state of the art stopped.
I'm sorry, but you know very little about modern aircraft. A modern 747 is no more similar to the 1970 model, than an iPhone X is similar to the original iPhone.
Sorry, but that's a terrible analogy. A 747-8 is a very different aircraft to the earlier two generations (the 1970's 747 and the 747-400 from the late 80's). There were great improvements in engines, materials, electronics, construction techniques although a lot of them were simply evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Airliners are a very mature market so changes happen over decades, not months. New designs are tested years before production. Most of the details of the A350 and B787 were known years before prototypes existed.
An Iphone on the other hand is the same bollocks year in, year out with a bit of fancy marketing to fool people into buying one.
People use adblockers because they have no trust in websites to not abuse their computers, eg. by installation of malware through the served ads. Websites so far have refused any kind of responsibility for what happens to your computer as a direct result if visiting them without an adblocker installed.
This.
Its gotten so bad that a script blocker like Ghostery is now also a requirement.
A lot of embedded systems will behave strangely if you feed them a lot of characters like this
This is a good point but IOS and MacOS are general purpose OS's, not embedded systems. They should be expected to gracefully handle unexpected input. Even Windows can manage that, and has been managing it for well over a decade (almost 15 years, when was XP SP2 released).
Most all those users have all been taken away already, by Apple.
Sure, theirs is also a walled garden, but at least the experience is user-friendly and not user-hostile.
Ahh, never used an Apple product then.
If there is a company that is more user-hostile than Microsoft, it's Apple. With Windows you can get shit done, it may not be pretty, but it gets done. With Apple you cant, especially if it violates Apple's idea of a perfect user. With Apple products, you're fighting Apple to get stuff done when Apple has not expressly permitted you to do it and they dont permit you to do much.
In its three biggest losing years, Amazon suffered losses of $0.7 billion in 1999, $1.1 billion in 2000, and $0.6 billion in 2001.
Amazon was creating an entirely new industry, they had to create a lot of things from the ground up, logistics chains, warehousing systems, stock tracking and management that didn't exist before Amazon did it. Amazon moved into a market that didn't exist when they started... Uber is just an illegal taxi company. They aren't even remotely comparable.
Further more, Amazon had a plan for profitability, Uber doesn't.
Because FedEx sends across borders, and a passport is a very useful international ID.
And as the summary says, FedEx technically isn't to blame as all the data was gathered two years before they bought the company that gathered it.
I have sent literally tonnes of stuff overseas (I mean literally, most of it commercial goods) and not once have I been asked for a passport, let alone my passport, to send goods. This to and from Europe, Australia, the UK, Colombia and the Philippines amongst others.
FedEx should not be storing passports... in fact it would be illegal to do so under Australian or UK data protection laws.
I wouldn't mind paying someone like Amazon or Google $10/month for access to every meaningful newspaper in America (with Google dividing it up among the papers I read that month)
Papers make most of their money from advertising, same with magazines. Advertising revenues for online sites just dont make as much and aren't as effective.
Of course advertising is why I haven't picked up a paper in decades.
The entire industry needs to change, right now Murdoch cant stop complaining about the ABC (Australia) or BBC stealing his business by providing well written articles based on facts whilst his publishing empire goes down the toilet. I reckon in 20 years all we'll have left are the Beeb (and their Australian and Canadian equivalents), Al Jazeera (maybe), RT and Fox News from the current crop of news conglomerates. Fox news will only be around because rednecks love to pay to be lied to because it makes them feel good (basically they're too poor to afford a decent escort).
Vinyl is dead. The technology hasn't advanced since we learned how to read a record with a laser, and that was ages ago. Records aren't improving, and record players aren't improving. Vinyl is dead as a doornail. That DJs and hipsters still consume it doesn't change that; nobody else is interested, and even DJs are using it less and less.
This, and it's less about the tech and more about the fact that it's just a bunch of hipsters talking nonsense keeping it from being completely dead. There is no discernible difference in quality between vinyl and digital, the standard histories are fabrications.
There is a discernible increase in quality for from the 60's, 70's and 80's... but that was because it was before the age of Autotune.
Everyone hates it, everyone thinks it has adverse effects, and yet we still have it. Is someone making a buck off it? Is the Little League lobby running the country? Do the lizardmen who've infiltrated all the world's governments like it?
What's the deal here?
I fucking love DST.
It means the sun isn't up at 4:30 in the fucking morning... and I mean completely up, not just peeking over the horizion, I mean up and robbing you of sleep.
I live in the UK at the moment, during BST (British Summer Time) it stays light until 9 or 10 at night... fantastic if you want to do something after work like most people like doing in the summer when the weather is good. It also means that the sun isn't up until after 5 AM and usually isn't completely light until 6 so most of us can get our beauty sleep.
I used to live in Western Australia which rejected daylight saving time because and I shit you not, these were the actual excuses, "the curtains would fade" and "the cows would not know what time to get milked". Lets ignore that the sun was completely up by 4:30 so by 6:30 in the peak of summer it was already over 35 C by the time I got to my car to drive to work and the sun went down at 8 PM Fuck going back to that.
Trimming the fat would be getting rid of the managers. Getting rid of forecasters is fucking moronic. The real fat we need to get rid of is surrounding Trump's body like seal blubber.
Fixed that for you.
However you're right where this is just a politically motivated which hunt.
US is nowhere near a 3rd world nation, and a proposed plan (that will probably not pass) to fire a bunch of weathermen doesn't portend its slide into 3rd world status.
US has the world's largest economy, 9 out of the 10 best universities in the world, the world's largest entertainment & cultural industry, the world's largest companies, half the world's Nobel Prizes last year, we've won the World Series for like 23 years straight....
Erm... Times Higher Education rankings puts Oxford and Cambridge (I'll point out those are in the UK as you probably didn't know) are the top two ranking universities in the world... so you cant possibly have 9 out of 10. Bollywood overtook Hollywood many years ago. I believe you are now third behind China with Nigeria nipping at your heals (Nollywood produces far more than any other film industry) and well... the world series? It's a competition that no-one else competes in.
I'm not even going to point out the flaw with cultural exports... with the US having an extremely vacuous and vain culture, we get better quality out of Liechtenstein... who has more companies than citizens.
This is why the US is sliding down the toilet. You believe too much of your own nonsense.
Someone needs to mod the parent as funny. I assume it has to be a joke
That's a bad assumption to make... much as many Americans believe that milk comes from a supermarket many believe that weather is forecast by the TV channels and apps they use. Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
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Going to go full disagreement with you on this one.
And you'd be wrong. One of the good things about living in the UK is the fact that the most dangerous thing a criminal can threaten me with is a knife but most wont even have one of those. Our criminals are cowards and we have a much lower rate of violent crime as a result.
The problem with the US is, and you are part of that problem, that it refuses to admit it's society has a problem. America with Guns is like an alcoholic with a bottle of scotch, they don't believe they have an issue even when they're dying of renal failure and will use any excuse in the book not to change.
Now introducing gun control wont fix the issue, gun control will come as a natural consequence of fixing the issue of fixing the broken ideas in your society. This has to happen at every level from the top down. The first part is admitting that the American attitude towards firearms is foolhardy and dangerous and that gun owners need to take more responsibility. The same will be true of licensing and registration of firearms, it will be a natural consequence of a more sensible and mature attitude around firearms.
Gun control has worked in Australia and the UK because gun owners saw it as the right thing to do after the Port Arthur massacre in Australia and the Dunblane shootings in the UK. Gun owners in these countries are responsible (yes, contrary to what the NRA would have you believe, you can own a gun in Australia or the UK) and irresponsible gun owners have their firearms taken away. Until the US changes its attitudes, innocent people will continue to be gunned down needlessly and senselessly.
Stop driving behind people when they are backing up.
Here's another novel idea... Learn how to drive.
Or more specifically, the rules around driving. When you're reversing you are responsible to ensure that no-one else is in your path. It is not the responsibility of everyone else to make sure they are out of your way. If you hit someone whilst reversing it is in almost all cases, your fault.
I've read and re-read all of Banks' "Culture" books. It's one of the few where you get to know extremely powerful AIs as characters. They play a real role in the books, sometimes even more so than the meatbags.
Have you read any of Neil Asher's novels, if you liked that about Banks' novels, you'll enjoy Neil Asher
Riiiight...you never hear of GameCopyWorld? Takes less than 15 seconds to crack any Steam game, Steam is to DRM what "pick the pictures with cars in them" is to security, its a joke designed to give someone a bit of security theater, nothing more. In fact if you go download a pirated game in 2018? Its almost always the Steam version because its so easy to crack.
Most steam games can be started without steam by simply going to the executable. Steam's DRM was designed from the word go to be unobtrusive... that means it's weak, it was designed to tick a box for publishers, not to actually stop piracy.
Billboards in the UK are allowed in towns and cities but are illegal on high speed Motorways (highways) and dual carriageways for obvious reasons. They are also banned in green countryside areas in the UK too as they are classed as an eyesore.
This is one of the many reasons why driving in the UK is such a pleasure compared to driving in the US or Australia. You aren't constantly bombarded with advertising blocking the scenery.
Funny, but Google's been doing the payment thing far longer than Apple - Google Wallet's been around since Android's been around and Google's been doing NFC payments before NFC hit the iPhone (at least for years before).
This... The problem that both google and Apple have is that it's a solution to a problem no-one has.
Both Google and Apple are doing this the lazy way. In order to avoid being called a bank and having to comply with the myriad of banking regulations the world over, both "products" are just wrappers for another financial service provider's product (its just a wrapper for a credit card from a bank).
Neither service offers any features that a credit card doesn't have but introduces additional risk and complexity.
In order to offer a benefit over simply using my credit card or cash, Apple or Google would need to either store my money or offer me a line of credit and at that point in most countries, they become a bank and subject to all the rules and regulations that come with it. This is also why banks can dictate a maximum transaction limit... because ultimately they control the transaction.
As I said, it's a solution without a problem. Google will eventually just give up on it as they've got an issue with throwing good money after bad, Apple will keep offering a service no-one uses.
Apple is a hardware company. Google is an advertising company. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is by default more trustworthy of holding onto data.
Apple is a marketing company, they don't produce hardware. Samsung, TSCM and Foxconn produce hardware. Apple owns a brand.
Meanwhile, most high budget movies have been big disappointments over the last 5 years.
I agree with the TV shows bit, but that has always been the norm for the film industry. Sturgeons law is very conservative in that context (80% of everything is crap), I'd say 95%+ of everything the film industry produces is dross and it's paid for by the less than 5% of stuff that isn't. The difference is that hollywood cant control the internet as it used to control movie reviews, so average people are able to find out a film is crap before seeing it. India, Nigeria and China which are now bigger industries than the American film industry, have at least compensated for this by making cheaper movies.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Look, I'm no fan at all of Mike Pence (or anyone else in the Trump administration.) However, I'm not sure on all of your claims.
Right wing? Check. Fundamentalist Christian? Most definitely. But fascist? Citation please.
Things that Fascists believe in:
1. Nationalism.
2. Totalitarianism (police enforced single party state).
3. Enforcement of political doctrines (violence is acceptable).
4. Age and gender roles (also enforced).
Just by being a hard right christian fundamentalist, he's ticked most of the boxes.
More courts need to step in line or get out of the way via impeachment if necessary.
The one best reason not to impeach Trump is named Mike Pence. Last person you want as president is a right-wing fundamentalist fascist Christian controlling all of the nukes.
Fortunately, the US military command has said they wont automatically follow any nuclear launch order... And I've got more faith in a career military officer that must have at least done something to earn their position to do the right thing than any president or prime minister.
Besides, it's 2018, Trump will have finished his term and sunk the Republicans chance for a reelection by the time an impeachment could occur. It took 2.5 years to get Nixon.
I wonder *WHY* he thinks ASUS is "untrustworthy", and why he cannot get some sort of restore disk from them.
Asus would just direct him at Microsoft as they don't have the license to distribute recovery media, just pre-installed OS's. Also, as the license code was upgraded, it no longer allows Win 7 installs to be activated. So it's definitely nothing Asus can fix.
Probably also illegal. Just because someone has done something illegal, doesn't give you the right to do something illegal yourself in response.
I think the best anti-piracy measure that I've heard
Is to try to turn them customers. DRM ultimately doesn't work, stealing passwords ultimately gets you sued out of existence (how do we know they aren't stealing passwords of paying customers) and it's been demonstrated time and time again that piracy fuels sales rather than taking them away.
The problem FlighSimLabs has is that they're charging $100 for something that isn't worth it.
Putin can't have witnesses. I'm betting we're about to see some dead Russians.
If you were one of the 13 indicted Russians, would you be more afraid of the US Department of Justice or Vladimir Putin?
I don't think Putin will do anything. This says that Putin was able to fuck around with the US and nothing can be done about it, that does more to cement his power than the assassinations of some would be, low-level agents. the damage has already been done and Putin's aims have already been served (what Putin wants are a weak US and weak EU).
As a n example, look at aircraft - in the early days of flight there were many improvements constantly appearing and aircraft got better and better, until we reached the 747 and Concorde (2 planes that performed different tasks - one efficient, one fast) and that's pretty much where the state of the art stopped.
I'm sorry, but you know very little about modern aircraft. A modern 747 is no more similar to the 1970 model, than an iPhone X is similar to the original iPhone.
Sorry, but that's a terrible analogy. A 747-8 is a very different aircraft to the earlier two generations (the 1970's 747 and the 747-400 from the late 80's). There were great improvements in engines, materials, electronics, construction techniques although a lot of them were simply evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Airliners are a very mature market so changes happen over decades, not months. New designs are tested years before production. Most of the details of the A350 and B787 were known years before prototypes existed.
An Iphone on the other hand is the same bollocks year in, year out with a bit of fancy marketing to fool people into buying one.
People use adblockers because they have no trust in websites to not abuse their computers, eg. by installation of malware through the served ads. Websites so far have refused any kind of responsibility for what happens to your computer as a direct result if visiting them without an adblocker installed.
This.
Its gotten so bad that a script blocker like Ghostery is now also a requirement.
A lot of embedded systems will behave strangely if you feed them a lot of characters like this
This is a good point but IOS and MacOS are general purpose OS's, not embedded systems. They should be expected to gracefully handle unexpected input. Even Windows can manage that, and has been managing it for well over a decade (almost 15 years, when was XP SP2 released).
Most all those users have all been taken away already, by Apple.
Sure, theirs is also a walled garden, but at least the experience is user-friendly and not user-hostile.
Ahh, never used an Apple product then.
If there is a company that is more user-hostile than Microsoft, it's Apple. With Windows you can get shit done, it may not be pretty, but it gets done. With Apple you cant, especially if it violates Apple's idea of a perfect user. With Apple products, you're fighting Apple to get stuff done when Apple has not expressly permitted you to do it and they dont permit you to do much.
In its three biggest losing years, Amazon suffered losses of $0.7 billion in 1999, $1.1 billion in 2000, and $0.6 billion in 2001.
Amazon was creating an entirely new industry, they had to create a lot of things from the ground up, logistics chains, warehousing systems, stock tracking and management that didn't exist before Amazon did it. Amazon moved into a market that didn't exist when they started... Uber is just an illegal taxi company. They aren't even remotely comparable.
Further more, Amazon had a plan for profitability, Uber doesn't.
But the sooner Uber dies, the better.
Because FedEx sends across borders, and a passport is a very useful international ID.
And as the summary says, FedEx technically isn't to blame as all the data was gathered two years before they bought the company that gathered it.
I have sent literally tonnes of stuff overseas (I mean literally, most of it commercial goods) and not once have I been asked for a passport, let alone my passport, to send goods. This to and from Europe, Australia, the UK, Colombia and the Philippines amongst others.
FedEx should not be storing passports... in fact it would be illegal to do so under Australian or UK data protection laws.
I wouldn't mind paying someone like Amazon or Google $10/month for access to every meaningful newspaper in America (with Google dividing it up among the papers I read that month)
Papers make most of their money from advertising, same with magazines. Advertising revenues for online sites just dont make as much and aren't as effective.
Of course advertising is why I haven't picked up a paper in decades.
The entire industry needs to change, right now Murdoch cant stop complaining about the ABC (Australia) or BBC stealing his business by providing well written articles based on facts whilst his publishing empire goes down the toilet. I reckon in 20 years all we'll have left are the Beeb (and their Australian and Canadian equivalents), Al Jazeera (maybe), RT and Fox News from the current crop of news conglomerates. Fox news will only be around because rednecks love to pay to be lied to because it makes them feel good (basically they're too poor to afford a decent escort).
Vinyl is dead. The technology hasn't advanced since we learned how to read a record with a laser, and that was ages ago. Records aren't improving, and record players aren't improving. Vinyl is dead as a doornail. That DJs and hipsters still consume it doesn't change that; nobody else is interested, and even DJs are using it less and less.
This, and it's less about the tech and more about the fact that it's just a bunch of hipsters talking nonsense keeping it from being completely dead. There is no discernible difference in quality between vinyl and digital, the standard histories are fabrications.
There is a discernible increase in quality for from the 60's, 70's and 80's... but that was because it was before the age of Autotune.
Everyone hates it, everyone thinks it has adverse effects, and yet we still have it. Is someone making a buck off it? Is the Little League lobby running the country? Do the lizardmen who've infiltrated all the world's governments like it?
What's the deal here?
I fucking love DST.
It means the sun isn't up at 4:30 in the fucking morning... and I mean completely up, not just peeking over the horizion, I mean up and robbing you of sleep.
I live in the UK at the moment, during BST (British Summer Time) it stays light until 9 or 10 at night... fantastic if you want to do something after work like most people like doing in the summer when the weather is good. It also means that the sun isn't up until after 5 AM and usually isn't completely light until 6 so most of us can get our beauty sleep.
I used to live in Western Australia which rejected daylight saving time because and I shit you not, these were the actual excuses, "the curtains would fade" and "the cows would not know what time to get milked". Lets ignore that the sun was completely up by 4:30 so by 6:30 in the peak of summer it was already over 35 C by the time I got to my car to drive to work and the sun went down at 8 PM Fuck going back to that.
Trimming the fat would be getting rid of the managers. Getting rid of forecasters is fucking moronic. The real fat we need to get rid of is surrounding Trump's body like seal blubber.
Fixed that for you.
However you're right where this is just a politically motivated which hunt.
US is nowhere near a 3rd world nation, and a proposed plan (that will probably not pass) to fire a bunch of weathermen doesn't portend its slide into 3rd world status.
US has the world's largest economy, 9 out of the 10 best universities in the world, the world's largest entertainment & cultural industry, the world's largest companies, half the world's Nobel Prizes last year, we've won the World Series for like 23 years straight....
Erm... Times Higher Education rankings puts Oxford and Cambridge (I'll point out those are in the UK as you probably didn't know) are the top two ranking universities in the world... so you cant possibly have 9 out of 10. Bollywood overtook Hollywood many years ago. I believe you are now third behind China with Nigeria nipping at your heals (Nollywood produces far more than any other film industry) and well... the world series? It's a competition that no-one else competes in.
I'm not even going to point out the flaw with cultural exports... with the US having an extremely vacuous and vain culture, we get better quality out of Liechtenstein... who has more companies than citizens.
This is why the US is sliding down the toilet. You believe too much of your own nonsense.
Someone needs to mod the parent as funny. I assume it has to be a joke
That's a bad assumption to make... much as many Americans believe that milk comes from a supermarket many believe that weather is forecast by the TV channels and apps they use. Never underestimate the power of stupidity.