Also if you voted brexit, you gave these clowns a ton more power. Way to go.
To be fair, given their success with blocking bit torrent, I'd say people who want to see unconventional porn have nothing to worry about even if this does pass parliament.
Realistically, I don't feel the need to have a weapon to feel safe in the UK. Most people don't and that is a good thing. But even if you did use a weapon in self defence you'll likely get off (the Rozzers will ask "Did you use reasonable force" and nod their heads slowly... the response should be obvious).
That being said, I know a bit of Krav Maga, so I'm not worried about being attacked by a knife wielding chav in as much.
They should also warn about the dangers of meeting people at bars, parties, friend's homes, outdoor areas, malls, indoor areas, businesses, parks, playgrounds, movie theaters, civic centers, post offices, forests, etc etc etc.
First off, this is just the UK Police. They're just putting out a public service announcement after a few cases have been reported even though it's just stating the bleeding obvious. Its their way of showing everyone they're Doing Something(TM).
Secondly, its difficult for a predator who looks rats to get a girl into their home from a bar, parties, outdoor areas, supermarkets, B&Q's and what not. You do have to admit that the internet, especially hook up applications like Tinder have made it easier for them especially with fake profiles and what not. As the UK Police don't govern legal activities like hooking up, they've just released a bleeding obvious PSA hoping that people will look after themselves a bit better.
I don't think the number of cases has risen that significantly, neither do the UK police and courts, which is why they've only put out a warning (and not even a stern warning at that).
Ebay - Point out which laws and regulations they've violated? Ebay isn't a holding company like Sotheby's, it's more like a swap meet. Ebay do not in any way handle, represent or sell the merchandise, only facilitate the transaction.
Paypal - Already done. Many governments have already said they're a bank and have to abide by banking rules.
Uber isn't running a new form of disruptive technology. They're running an old fashioned black market cab company. This may be legal in some areas (I.E. in the UK) but that doesn't mean they get to ignore local laws. If I started a brothel and called it "body sharing" and only took bookings via an app, I don't get to skirt laws on the sex trade or operate where the sex trade is illegal. Same as if I started selling beer on a street corner and called it "beverage sharing", I cant use an app to get around the fact I'm operating an unlicensed bar.
Besides this, with the rate Uber is losing money they wont be around much longer anyway.
This is not a free speech restriction. According to right-wingers, companies should have great freedom in deciding what commercial transactions they would engage in. This is nothing more than one company deciding not to engage in a commercial transaction with another company.
This, private company decides they'd rather not do business with organisations that could tarnish their reputation.
Frankly, I'd say if you trust the ingredients list "at face value" for almost any product, you're likely to be deceived.
Where I live, the ingredients list is legally required to contain the ingredients listed on the packet... in order of quantity, largest to smallest.
Yes, companies have been fined before for ignoring this law, in fact there are government organisations set up for the express purpose of finding companies who are lying on their packaging. This is how we found the Tesco horse meat scandal.
If the situation is different in your country, that's your problem to deal with.
Sorry to be the cynic here, but it wouldn't surprise me if many "natural" products are slightly diluted versions of the same chemical crap sold for a much different price,
Here I agree.
However not much can be done as it's not dangerous or even that deceptive. The same as "Organic". Because natural and organic have very vague definitions, there are no requirements for government certification with these labels. "Organic" is any product containing organic molecules, likewise in Australia, for products, the legal definition of "natural" is any product made using natural processes (yes, the definition of the word references itself). As it's not dangerous, it's not really any of the governments business though.
So absolutely terms like "natural" and "organic" are abused to market more expensive products, absolutely are many of these "natural" and "organic" products are the same as their unbranded counterparts and absolutely the only difference is that the "natural" one costs a few $ more...
But it's an exercise of caveat emptor, not under-regulation.
False advertising is a crime, it does not need additional regulation.
They've already got that one covered.
They never claimed the product contained aloe vera, it was just called Aloe Vera(TM). As aloe vera is a common term, there's no issue against using it for a product. I.E. there are no real windows in Microsoft Windows, not are there required to be.
Its the same with vitamin supplements, they are under no obligation to demonstrate any health benefits in order to say "If you take BrandX(R) Snake Oil Multi-Vitamins you'll feel better" because "feel" is too ambiguous to infer anything. It explains why multi-vitamins are worth as much to pharma companies as dick pills.
Sorry for stating the obvious, but Trump is... in it for himself.
All else is secondary.
He's already started moving his friends and family into positions of power, same as he would if he just took over a business. The problem is governments do not run like businesses. Nepotism always results in poor government... Hey, but that's your problem.
For years up to a week ago: TPP is an abomination love child between Hitler and Satan and needs to die.
Now that Trump doesn't want it: This will ruin the nation and will only benefit China. TPP Must Go Forward!
The odd thing is, as a follower of the TPP abomination for some time, the US was the only nation to benefit from it. They get to use it to foist lopsided trade deals that favour US exports and protect US industries from competing exports as well as enforcing US laws over local laws and empowering US corporations to act outside locals laws.
As an Australian, its a good thing for my nation that he wants to kill it. We were going to get the sharp, shitty end of the TPP stick shoved right up our collective arses.
However for the US, it was a killer deal. This is why it's obvious that Trump is killing it because it wasn't a Republican idea. I will not be surprised if something similar is not back under a different name in a year or two. The backers of the TPP support both "teams" in politics.
That's the point.
Teach logic to preschoolers, I say.
Good luck with that. There are kids in their 20s in college who can't budget, can't cook, and if it isn't on Facebook it doesn't exist.
Remember that these are the same people who in the most basic maths classes always said "when are we ever going to use this in real life". The truth is they never will use algebra in real life, but the smart kids use it every day (ever figured out how many litres of petrol you'd get for $20... you've used algebra).
You cant eliminate dumb, all you can do is teach and hope that most of the students learn (they do).
Also, I know someone with two PHD's who couldn't make a sandwich to save his life. Some people are simply not able to grasp certain concepts and this does not make them dumb, crocheting is a basic skill but it's one I wouldn't have the foggiest how to do.
This study is just way, way too small to have the conclusion it claims to have.
There's just no pleasing the Slashdot crowd. Every time a study comes up people complain about the sample size. I mean they used a whole four people for this. What more could you want. These studies don't come cheap you know!
Especially when you have to change the study to get the results you want.
On the surface, like most leftist arguments I believe most people agree that sexual assault is a crime. That said, the definition of sexual assault has been expanded to include telling someone they are attractive, kissing them on the cheek, and in extreme cases women who regret their decision the next day.
Hate to tell you this buddy, but you are guilty of sexual assault too. Your partners have not yet decided to press charges, but you are absolutely guilty due to the broad definitions placed on the term.
Sorry but this is absolute bollocks. The legal definition of sexual assault has not changed.
Your beleifs are the result of fake news. My favourite example is the old "you cant call it a gingerbread man any more, it's a gingerbread person" trope here in the UK. Nothing showed this to be bollocks more than when I was in Morrisons one day and found these. Supermarket chains get it in the arse for almost anything, so how can one be brazenly selling Gingerbread Men... Oh my word.
I'll tell you how political correctness and SJW's happen.
Deep within the bowels of the Daily Mail, there is a man named Steve. It's Steve's job to write articles. Because Steve is not a good journalist he makes up bullshit that gets people angry and riled up. Now down the hall from Steve is another man named Steve. It's Steve's job to sell advertisements. Steve likes it when Steve writes articles that get people angry for no reason because that makes people more susceptible to bad advertising.
Now Steve has made it clear to Steve that if the advertisements stop selling, Steve will be fired. There's no solidarity amongst Steves.
The problem Steve has is that Bullshit is like a bad drug. The more bullshit you take, the greater the resistance you develop to it. So Steve needs to create more and more incredulous bullshit to the people who read the Daily Mail eating it. So he starts writing about rumours, innuendos, taking things a 5 year old misunderstood completely out of context. It eventually gets to the point where the strength of the bullshit needed cannot be found in reality, so they start fabricating it completely.
People who believe in things like "PC", "SJW", "Nanny State/Statism" and "Righty/Lefty" who are the core of the Daily Mail's readership are the ones who swallow the most bullshit. That ladies and gentlemen are how SJW's work
When is the last time the British Navy fired an anti-ship missile from a ship? Almost 40 years? Seriously.
Or better yet, what potential enemies in the UK's sphere of influence will require anti-ship missiles?
The only one I can think of is Russia, even then their navy is antiquated and would be facing every modern NATO navy. Almost all the opponents the UK has to deal with wont be able to defend against, let alone oppose a 4.5" QF cannon.
The gist I got was that the UK is simply not buying any new ship to ship missiles. We've still got a stockpile of Harpoons, we're just not buying new ones. The anti-ship strategy has shifted to either air to ship missiles or submarines. Besides this, the new helicopter based missiles are being introduced in 2020, so we're only talking about a gap of 2 years.
Maybe, you are hanging out with a healthier crowd. Canadians certainly do cross the Southern border for healthcare.
That article is complete bollocks in the way you're using it. Canadians are crossing the border for elective surgery that isn't covered by their universal health care... meaning people getting nose and boob jobs. Its the same as saying that Australians are fleeing to Thailand for medical care when in reality they're only going there to get their tits done at half the cost... Or Americans fleeing to the Philippines for dental care... Which is 100% true although out of context. A lot of Americans get non-emergency dental work done in the Phils.
You haven't found a critical flaw in the Canadian system, you found an article about medical tourism.
Meanwhile, unlike the Canadians, there are people in the US going without emergency care because your health care system is profit oriented, not service oriented.
And while you complain about sabotage of government-provided services, American healthcare system is an example of government's sabotage of private industry.
Now you're completely off your tree.
The private health care industry is a complete failure and the government is sabotaging itself by opposing measures to fix it (namely the Republicans trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act).
I live in the UK, I pay into National Insurance which covers all forms of social security. My yearly National Insurance payments cost less than health insurance for a single American. National Insurance does not just cover the NHS (health care) but also pensions, benefits and care for the sick... And it costs less than what you pay for medical insurance. Why... because the NHS is service oriented and does not need to make ever increasing profits. A UK doctor will not send you for unnecessary tests to bump up the profit margin, they wont prescribe unnecessary medicines to get a kick back from the pharmaceutical company. A UK doctors only concern is getting you back to health, if this means bed rest or a change in lifestyle, then that is what they'll prescribe.
Hell, your own article points out that the UK is the best nation on earth for health care. As for calling people names, it demonstrates two things. 1) you know your point is wrong and 2) have no idea what those words actually mean (this is evident because you use them out of context). It only makes you sound desperate and afraid.
Ironically, that is more the US system than the UK system.
Sure, one player owns all the copper, but the government sets the rate at which that copper is sold. So the actual infrastructure is a single entity akin to a public utility but the service level is an open market. This is how small ISP's can compete against megacorps like Virgin or BT, they cant be locked out of the infrastructure. It also has the knock on effect of keeping the big boys honest.
Unlike the US where telco's are given local monopolies and people are told to go fuck themselves if they dont like AT&T's shitty service.
Dunno about you, but I like my 100mbit fibre with unlimited downloads at just 32 GBP a month. If that is the cost of socialism, bring it on Comrade.
No. The One Percenters who will ride those planes simply don't care about you shitfolk.
One Percenters can afford to own their own planes (although the lease/rent them for the most part). They dont land at London Heathrow with the rest of the peasantry, they land at Farnborough and have a limo to take them into central London.
For this to be viable it needs to be affordable for the upper middle business traveller. The C level execs of smaller companies or the regional directors of larger ones.
Protectionism is not a "new idea". It has been tried many, many times throughout history. It has never worked out well, and it won't this time either.
This. Protectionism by taxes, duties and tariffs only hurts the market, manufacturers and consumers.
Thailand is a good example, all non Thai built cars attract a stupid amount of tax (over 100% in some cases). This is why a Thai built Toyota Camry costs 1,399,000 THB (near enough to US$40,000) for the 2L base model where as the US variant costs US$23,000 for a 2.5L model.
When manufacturers are given a captive market they dont need to be competitive. Trying to force people to buy local only results in poorer quality products sold at higher prices. All protectionism does is make things more expensive, this means fewer sales of new items, people will keep old models for longer, buy second hand, so on and so forth. The knock on effects are that stores will close down or shrink, as will factories and less sales taxes are generated. Everyone gets hurt by it.
Wow... This would actually drive manufacturing back to the United States or other areas if there is fear of state withholding shipments. This could be a very big benefit not a detriment.
1. Force Apple to bring profits back
2. Create manufacturing centers here which are robot/automated
3. Hire middle class to manage and maintain robots/design line
4. Stamp made in america
It's a win, win , win for everyone.
FTFY
1.5: Apple simply relocates to another country.
1.6: Apple passes on extra taxes to consumers.
1.7: Trump becomes the most unpopular president in history.
No need to complete steps 2, 3 and 4.
Because he will extract concessions. That's what you can do when you have a persistent trade deficit. The Chinese only understand force.
I strongly doubt it.
Same with immigration, Trump is all bluster. If he tries to make the likes of Apple, Dell, HP, GM et al. to move manufacturing to the US they're going to fold their arms and tell him to fuck off. He might be able to put a tariff on their products but I would expect that to be blocked by the House and Senate.
If by some chance he gets the tariff through, he'll face a media shit storm the likes of which has never been seen before. Apple is the worlds most prolific marketing company, all they have to do is pass on the tariff visibly on their receipt and let their legion of fanboys do the rest.
The Chinese are actually quite astute businessmen, contrary to your assertion, but the US wont end up in a trade war with China because all but the most dim-witted rednecks realise that would be cutting off their nose to spite their face.
The only question I want answered is "did it pass the test as written by the government?". If yes, what's the problem. If you don't like the results, fix the test.
Its not the test.
Imagine if you had someone else sit an exam in your place. Would you be worthy of holding the certification after that? Because that is essentially what VW is doing with cheat devices.
The Euro and US tests have flaws, but the problem here is that manufacturers are employing cheat devices to pass them.
If the Tories want to keep their jobs and not get swept out by UKIP, they're still going to have to pass Brexit.
LoL, UKIP have had 3 different leaders in the last month and a very public punch up at a party meeting with one leadership candidate ending up in hospital.
UKIP are a complete joke. With Labor also being a complete Joke (and I say this as a traditional Labor supporter, Corbin needs to go or a lot of Labor supporters will keep voting Tory) all May has to do after not voting to enact Article 50 to keep her job is not screw up.
Unless they don't come the conclusion that we want them to, then it's OK to just ignore what they say.
I'm sure that literally every poster who thinks this is wonderful would have also been OK with an elite ruling counsel deciding to overturn.. oh I dunno... Obama's election to be president. Or maybe Obamacare.
You see the thing is, in the UK a referendum isn't binding like an election.
A great many Britons will be very happy if parliament ignores this vote including more than a few that voted out in protest thinking that it'd never win.
If parliament chooses not to enact Article 50, the voters can make their displeasure known at an election, which is binding by voting out the candidate that didn't vote to enact Article 50.
However most people like the UK having a functional economy and UKIP are a dysfunctional mess.
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
Let me correct that for you:
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
- posted using my iPhone on I-97
I dare say a UK insurer wont care if you're on the I-97.
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
Well the first thing they'll notice is that you're not English by saying "fastening" and calling it a "safety belt". You could have probably gotten away with "movies" instead of "cinema" and "friends" instead of "mates" if not for that extremely basic mistake.
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Also if you voted brexit, you gave these clowns a ton more power. Way to go.
To be fair, given their success with blocking bit torrent, I'd say people who want to see unconventional porn have nothing to worry about even if this does pass parliament.
Perhaps he should start reading the post he's responding to instead? Didn't see any mention of weapons in Jason Levine(196982)'s post.
Yes, the AC was sarcasm. But it wasn't very good sarcasm so it's ended up at -1 where it belongs.
For those in the UK who would actually like to know about the reality of self defence in the UK, I strongly recommend parting with 2 squid for this e-book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Defence-Law-Practical-Understanding-Defending-ebook/dp/B00V44TZ2U
50 pages that explains the self defence laws in very simple language.
Realistically, I don't feel the need to have a weapon to feel safe in the UK. Most people don't and that is a good thing. But even if you did use a weapon in self defence you'll likely get off (the Rozzers will ask "Did you use reasonable force" and nod their heads slowly... the response should be obvious).
That being said, I know a bit of Krav Maga, so I'm not worried about being attacked by a knife wielding chav in as much.
They should also warn about the dangers of meeting people at bars, parties, friend's homes, outdoor areas, malls, indoor areas, businesses, parks, playgrounds, movie theaters, civic centers, post offices, forests, etc etc etc.
First off, this is just the UK Police. They're just putting out a public service announcement after a few cases have been reported even though it's just stating the bleeding obvious. Its their way of showing everyone they're Doing Something(TM).
Secondly, its difficult for a predator who looks rats to get a girl into their home from a bar, parties, outdoor areas, supermarkets, B&Q's and what not. You do have to admit that the internet, especially hook up applications like Tinder have made it easier for them especially with fake profiles and what not. As the UK Police don't govern legal activities like hooking up, they've just released a bleeding obvious PSA hoping that people will look after themselves a bit better.
I don't think the number of cases has risen that significantly, neither do the UK police and courts, which is why they've only put out a warning (and not even a stern warning at that).
Ebay - Point out which laws and regulations they've violated? Ebay isn't a holding company like Sotheby's, it's more like a swap meet. Ebay do not in any way handle, represent or sell the merchandise, only facilitate the transaction.
Paypal - Already done. Many governments have already said they're a bank and have to abide by banking rules.
Uber isn't running a new form of disruptive technology. They're running an old fashioned black market cab company. This may be legal in some areas (I.E. in the UK) but that doesn't mean they get to ignore local laws. If I started a brothel and called it "body sharing" and only took bookings via an app, I don't get to skirt laws on the sex trade or operate where the sex trade is illegal. Same as if I started selling beer on a street corner and called it "beverage sharing", I cant use an app to get around the fact I'm operating an unlicensed bar.
Besides this, with the rate Uber is losing money they wont be around much longer anyway.
This is not a free speech restriction. According to right-wingers, companies should have great freedom in deciding what commercial transactions they would engage in. This is nothing more than one company deciding not to engage in a commercial transaction with another company.
This, private company decides they'd rather not do business with organisations that could tarnish their reputation.
Other news not for extremists at 11.
Frankly, I'd say if you trust the ingredients list "at face value" for almost any product, you're likely to be deceived.
Where I live, the ingredients list is legally required to contain the ingredients listed on the packet... in order of quantity, largest to smallest.
Yes, companies have been fined before for ignoring this law, in fact there are government organisations set up for the express purpose of finding companies who are lying on their packaging. This is how we found the Tesco horse meat scandal.
If the situation is different in your country, that's your problem to deal with.
Sorry to be the cynic here, but it wouldn't surprise me if many "natural" products are slightly diluted versions of the same chemical crap sold for a much different price,
Here I agree.
However not much can be done as it's not dangerous or even that deceptive. The same as "Organic". Because natural and organic have very vague definitions, there are no requirements for government certification with these labels. "Organic" is any product containing organic molecules, likewise in Australia, for products, the legal definition of "natural" is any product made using natural processes (yes, the definition of the word references itself). As it's not dangerous, it's not really any of the governments business though.
So absolutely terms like "natural" and "organic" are abused to market more expensive products, absolutely are many of these "natural" and "organic" products are the same as their unbranded counterparts and absolutely the only difference is that the "natural" one costs a few $ more...
But it's an exercise of caveat emptor, not under-regulation.
Check out this segment from an Australian show called The Checkout
False advertising is a crime, it does not need additional regulation.
They've already got that one covered.
They never claimed the product contained aloe vera, it was just called Aloe Vera(TM). As aloe vera is a common term, there's no issue against using it for a product. I.E. there are no real windows in Microsoft Windows, not are there required to be.
Its the same with vitamin supplements, they are under no obligation to demonstrate any health benefits in order to say "If you take BrandX(R) Snake Oil Multi-Vitamins you'll feel better" because "feel" is too ambiguous to infer anything. It explains why multi-vitamins are worth as much to pharma companies as dick pills.
Whatever Trump is.
Sorry for stating the obvious, but Trump is... in it for himself.
All else is secondary.
He's already started moving his friends and family into positions of power, same as he would if he just took over a business. The problem is governments do not run like businesses. Nepotism always results in poor government... Hey, but that's your problem.
For years up to a week ago: TPP is an abomination love child between Hitler and Satan and needs to die.
Now that Trump doesn't want it: This will ruin the nation and will only benefit China. TPP Must Go Forward!
The odd thing is, as a follower of the TPP abomination for some time, the US was the only nation to benefit from it. They get to use it to foist lopsided trade deals that favour US exports and protect US industries from competing exports as well as enforcing US laws over local laws and empowering US corporations to act outside locals laws.
As an Australian, its a good thing for my nation that he wants to kill it. We were going to get the sharp, shitty end of the TPP stick shoved right up our collective arses.
However for the US, it was a killer deal. This is why it's obvious that Trump is killing it because it wasn't a Republican idea. I will not be surprised if something similar is not back under a different name in a year or two. The backers of the TPP support both "teams" in politics.
That's the point. Teach logic to preschoolers, I say.
Good luck with that. There are kids in their 20s in college who can't budget, can't cook, and if it isn't on Facebook it doesn't exist.
Remember that these are the same people who in the most basic maths classes always said "when are we ever going to use this in real life". The truth is they never will use algebra in real life, but the smart kids use it every day (ever figured out how many litres of petrol you'd get for $20... you've used algebra).
You cant eliminate dumb, all you can do is teach and hope that most of the students learn (they do).
Also, I know someone with two PHD's who couldn't make a sandwich to save his life. Some people are simply not able to grasp certain concepts and this does not make them dumb, crocheting is a basic skill but it's one I wouldn't have the foggiest how to do.
This study is just way, way too small to have the conclusion it claims to have.
There's just no pleasing the Slashdot crowd. Every time a study comes up people complain about the sample size. I mean they used a whole four people for this. What more could you want. These studies don't come cheap you know!
Especially when you have to change the study to get the results you want.
Well, as they say, truth has a liberal bias,
It isn't that reality has a liberal bias, it's just that ultra-right wingers dont live in reality, so it just looks that way
On the surface, like most leftist arguments I believe most people agree that sexual assault is a crime. That said, the definition of sexual assault has been expanded to include telling someone they are attractive, kissing them on the cheek, and in extreme cases women who regret their decision the next day.
Hate to tell you this buddy, but you are guilty of sexual assault too. Your partners have not yet decided to press charges, but you are absolutely guilty due to the broad definitions placed on the term.
Sorry but this is absolute bollocks. The legal definition of sexual assault has not changed.
Your beleifs are the result of fake news. My favourite example is the old "you cant call it a gingerbread man any more, it's a gingerbread person" trope here in the UK. Nothing showed this to be bollocks more than when I was in Morrisons one day and found these. Supermarket chains get it in the arse for almost anything, so how can one be brazenly selling Gingerbread Men... Oh my word.
I'll tell you how political correctness and SJW's happen.
Deep within the bowels of the Daily Mail, there is a man named Steve. It's Steve's job to write articles. Because Steve is not a good journalist he makes up bullshit that gets people angry and riled up. Now down the hall from Steve is another man named Steve. It's Steve's job to sell advertisements. Steve likes it when Steve writes articles that get people angry for no reason because that makes people more susceptible to bad advertising.
Now Steve has made it clear to Steve that if the advertisements stop selling, Steve will be fired. There's no solidarity amongst Steves.
The problem Steve has is that Bullshit is like a bad drug. The more bullshit you take, the greater the resistance you develop to it. So Steve needs to create more and more incredulous bullshit to the people who read the Daily Mail eating it. So he starts writing about rumours, innuendos, taking things a 5 year old misunderstood completely out of context. It eventually gets to the point where the strength of the bullshit needed cannot be found in reality, so they start fabricating it completely.
People who believe in things like "PC", "SJW", "Nanny State/Statism" and "Righty/Lefty" who are the core of the Daily Mail's readership are the ones who swallow the most bullshit. That ladies and gentlemen are how SJW's work
When is the last time the British Navy fired an anti-ship missile from a ship? Almost 40 years? Seriously.
Or better yet, what potential enemies in the UK's sphere of influence will require anti-ship missiles?
The only one I can think of is Russia, even then their navy is antiquated and would be facing every modern NATO navy. Almost all the opponents the UK has to deal with wont be able to defend against, let alone oppose a 4.5" QF cannon.
The gist I got was that the UK is simply not buying any new ship to ship missiles. We've still got a stockpile of Harpoons, we're just not buying new ones. The anti-ship strategy has shifted to either air to ship missiles or submarines. Besides this, the new helicopter based missiles are being introduced in 2020, so we're only talking about a gap of 2 years.
That article is complete bollocks in the way you're using it. Canadians are crossing the border for elective surgery that isn't covered by their universal health care... meaning people getting nose and boob jobs. Its the same as saying that Australians are fleeing to Thailand for medical care when in reality they're only going there to get their tits done at half the cost... Or Americans fleeing to the Philippines for dental care... Which is 100% true although out of context. A lot of Americans get non-emergency dental work done in the Phils.
You haven't found a critical flaw in the Canadian system, you found an article about medical tourism.
Meanwhile, unlike the Canadians, there are people in the US going without emergency care because your health care system is profit oriented, not service oriented.
And while you complain about sabotage of government-provided services, American healthcare system is an example of government's sabotage of private industry.
Now you're completely off your tree.
The private health care industry is a complete failure and the government is sabotaging itself by opposing measures to fix it (namely the Republicans trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act).
I live in the UK, I pay into National Insurance which covers all forms of social security. My yearly National Insurance payments cost less than health insurance for a single American. National Insurance does not just cover the NHS (health care) but also pensions, benefits and care for the sick... And it costs less than what you pay for medical insurance. Why... because the NHS is service oriented and does not need to make ever increasing profits. A UK doctor will not send you for unnecessary tests to bump up the profit margin, they wont prescribe unnecessary medicines to get a kick back from the pharmaceutical company. A UK doctors only concern is getting you back to health, if this means bed rest or a change in lifestyle, then that is what they'll prescribe.
Hell, your own article points out that the UK is the best nation on earth for health care. As for calling people names, it demonstrates two things. 1) you know your point is wrong and 2) have no idea what those words actually mean (this is evident because you use them out of context). It only makes you sound desperate and afraid.
Ironically, that is more the US system than the UK system. Sure, one player owns all the copper, but the government sets the rate at which that copper is sold. So the actual infrastructure is a single entity akin to a public utility but the service level is an open market. This is how small ISP's can compete against megacorps like Virgin or BT, they cant be locked out of the infrastructure. It also has the knock on effect of keeping the big boys honest. Unlike the US where telco's are given local monopolies and people are told to go fuck themselves if they dont like AT&T's shitty service.
Dunno about you, but I like my 100mbit fibre with unlimited downloads at just 32 GBP a month. If that is the cost of socialism, bring it on Comrade.
No. The One Percenters who will ride those planes simply don't care about you shitfolk.
One Percenters can afford to own their own planes (although the lease/rent them for the most part). They dont land at London Heathrow with the rest of the peasantry, they land at Farnborough and have a limo to take them into central London.
For this to be viable it needs to be affordable for the upper middle business traveller. The C level execs of smaller companies or the regional directors of larger ones.
Protectionism is not a "new idea". It has been tried many, many times throughout history. It has never worked out well, and it won't this time either.
This. Protectionism by taxes, duties and tariffs only hurts the market, manufacturers and consumers.
Thailand is a good example, all non Thai built cars attract a stupid amount of tax (over 100% in some cases). This is why a Thai built Toyota Camry costs 1,399,000 THB (near enough to US$40,000) for the 2L base model where as the US variant costs US$23,000 for a 2.5L model.
When manufacturers are given a captive market they dont need to be competitive. Trying to force people to buy local only results in poorer quality products sold at higher prices. All protectionism does is make things more expensive, this means fewer sales of new items, people will keep old models for longer, buy second hand, so on and so forth. The knock on effects are that stores will close down or shrink, as will factories and less sales taxes are generated. Everyone gets hurt by it.
Wow... This would actually drive manufacturing back to the United States or other areas if there is fear of state withholding shipments. This could be a very big benefit not a detriment.
1. Force Apple to bring profits back
2. Create manufacturing centers here which are robot/automated
3. Hire middle class to manage and maintain robots/design line
4. Stamp made in america
It's a win, win , win for everyone.
FTFY
1.5: Apple simply relocates to another country.
1.6: Apple passes on extra taxes to consumers.
1.7: Trump becomes the most unpopular president in history.
No need to complete steps 2, 3 and 4.
Because he will extract concessions. That's what you can do when you have a persistent trade deficit. The Chinese only understand force.
I strongly doubt it.
Same with immigration, Trump is all bluster. If he tries to make the likes of Apple, Dell, HP, GM et al. to move manufacturing to the US they're going to fold their arms and tell him to fuck off. He might be able to put a tariff on their products but I would expect that to be blocked by the House and Senate.
If by some chance he gets the tariff through, he'll face a media shit storm the likes of which has never been seen before. Apple is the worlds most prolific marketing company, all they have to do is pass on the tariff visibly on their receipt and let their legion of fanboys do the rest.
The Chinese are actually quite astute businessmen, contrary to your assertion, but the US wont end up in a trade war with China because all but the most dim-witted rednecks realise that would be cutting off their nose to spite their face.
The only question I want answered is "did it pass the test as written by the government?". If yes, what's the problem. If you don't like the results, fix the test.
Its not the test.
Imagine if you had someone else sit an exam in your place. Would you be worthy of holding the certification after that? Because that is essentially what VW is doing with cheat devices.
The Euro and US tests have flaws, but the problem here is that manufacturers are employing cheat devices to pass them.
If the Tories want to keep their jobs and not get swept out by UKIP, they're still going to have to pass Brexit.
LoL, UKIP have had 3 different leaders in the last month and a very public punch up at a party meeting with one leadership candidate ending up in hospital.
UKIP are a complete joke. With Labor also being a complete Joke (and I say this as a traditional Labor supporter, Corbin needs to go or a lot of Labor supporters will keep voting Tory) all May has to do after not voting to enact Article 50 to keep her job is not screw up.
Unless they don't come the conclusion that we want them to, then it's OK to just ignore what they say.
I'm sure that literally every poster who thinks this is wonderful would have also been OK with an elite ruling counsel deciding to overturn.. oh I dunno... Obama's election to be president. Or maybe Obamacare.
You see the thing is, in the UK a referendum isn't binding like an election.
A great many Britons will be very happy if parliament ignores this vote including more than a few that voted out in protest thinking that it'd never win.
If parliament chooses not to enact Article 50, the voters can make their displeasure known at an election, which is binding by voting out the candidate that didn't vote to enact Article 50.
However most people like the UK having a functional economy and UKIP are a dysfunctional mess.
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
Let me correct that for you:
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
- posted using my iPhone on I-97
I dare say a UK insurer wont care if you're on the I-97.
Ze M6 on the other hand...
Prepare for a flood of Facebook posts that read something like: "Fastening my safety belt and driving below the speed limit on my way to the movies with my friends"
Well the first thing they'll notice is that you're not English by saying "fastening" and calling it a "safety belt". You could have probably gotten away with "movies" instead of "cinema" and "friends" instead of "mates" if not for that extremely basic mistake.