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He pointed out where the product is made. How is that xenophobe? Fuck you and your 'xenophobe' bullshit. I will talk about the state and behavior of other nations, and you can shove your 'xenophobe' crap back up your ass.
Does Samsung have some sort of mass key-logger analysis software that can correlate keystrokes with arbitrary activity? How else would they make use of thousands or potentially millions of key-logger streams? If so, from whom did they get it? The most plausible source of a key-logger analysis system is either a criminal outfit or an "intelligence" organization (assuming you draw distinction between the two.)
Is it possible that the tech support guy just made up this 'monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used' stuff because they routinely use that excuse for other things, it sounds plausible and might seem to him to be less heinous than 'we shipped an infected operating system'?
Units 5 and 6 can potentially be restarted, but it's doubtful that they will be.
The history of nuclear power accidents does not support this. Three Mile Island No.1 reactor is still in operation in Pennsylvania. Chernobyl No.1, 2 and 3 reactors were operated for up to 14 years after No.4 blew up and contaminated Europe, and there are 11 other RBMK reactors still in operation elsewhere. The power reactor at the Windscale site was operated for 46 years after the graphite fire in the weapons reactor.
Nuclear reactors represent astonishing capital investments by their builders, and by that I mean the companies, governments and citizens. Japan is dealing with rolling blackouts. This is intolerable in a nation that relies on meeting the demands of the export market. The No.5 and No.6 reactors represent about 2GW of generation capacity they desperately need.
Increasing fuel efficiency standards are reducing fuel tax revenue per mile. Solution; tax actual miles. Does this mean Prius drivers aren't `paying their fair share?' Does this not reduce the incentive to utilize more efficient vehicles?
Tell you what; DON'T exempt the "poor," old, non-white, etc. and I'm for it. If you have the political temerity to apply this without exempting every political constituency with an AARP size lobby then it's fine with me. BTW, we have odometers; there's no need for any elaborate GPS solution; if odometers aren't sufficient for any reason then forget it because location tracking is politically infeasible.
Anyhow, whomever is `contemplating' this is pissing in the wind. The '10 election results guaranteed there will be no further federal tax `innovation' for a while.
At some point in the not too distant future China is going to resume testing warheads. It will violate the CTBT (which it has never ratified) and then engage in whatever rationalization it must at the UN who, while engaging in the obligatory public histrionics, will be only too happy to accept China's renewed nuclear credentials as a bi-polar counter to the US.
On that day this nuclear navel-gazing will be quietly returned to the dusty silhouette on the shelf from which it fell. So don't spend a lot of time on it.
Paypal's business model doesn't function when its cut is subject to individual negotiation with every tom, dick and harry that whats to participate; thus the automatic debit requirement. The Paypal model you wish to leverage depends on this.
Reasonable people have no difficulty understanding this so Paypal thrives with lots of participants. The folks involved with this case are, however, not reasonable people. They are malcontents and they demand special treatment. Any failure to accommodate their demands is 'unethical' and evidence of 'moral bankruptcy.'
Oh, and Paypal doesn't need a 'legal obligation' to justify shutting you down. Paypal isn't a right.
1.) Workers pay a tax. ('contribution' is a euphemism.) 2.) The money is used to buy treasury notes. 3.) SSA pays dependents according to a legislated schedule.
There is no actual connection between 1 and 3; workers pay whatever percentage Congress legislates and SSA pays whatever Congress legislates. 2 means there is no actual money anywhere, just treasury notes in a ledger. Until 2010 the amount coming in (1) was greater than the amount going out (3). In 2010, 1 became greater than 3 for the first time, ever. That means 3 is now contributing to annual deficits and is expected to grow rapidly, just like every conservative said it would since inception.
Government (at all levels) takes 44% of GDP today. It was 22% immediately after WW2. Not sure why you think it has remained 'nearly equal'.
about the same level of workforce participation
The labor force participation rate increased from 59% to 67% from the end of WW2 to ~2000. Not sure why you think it has been 'about the same.' At 67% you've pretty much tapped out the work-capable reserve. This reflects putting the wife to work to make up for shortfalls in real earnings; competing with third-world labor ended real wage growth and employee leverage as evidenced by the annihilation of industrial unions.
What has changed fundamentally that it's impossible now?
The capital that funded growth in the workforce and kept people employed and credit worthy has evacuated to Asia. It isn't just the 9%-10% unemployment or 18% 'underemployment'; the people with work have no leverage and are seeing no wage increases because there is another 700 million Chinese in reserve and a business friendly government one freighter trip across the Pacific.
Government spending, meanwhile, grows unabated, thus giant deficits that crowd out lower priority spending in order of political feasibility (i.e. entitlements, defense last.) This nonsense will keep spinning until the debt gets past 150% or so of GDP (5-6 years) and the creditors walk away. Then the fed prints money to keep the bennies flowing. Then the currency collapses.
That is the only politically feasible future we have.
A few people suffer from the delusion that increasing the number of women will somehow magically make Wikipedia better.
It isn't a delusion. For the people you have in mind balancing the ratio will improve Wikipedia regardless of any actual consequence for Wikipedia and its content. The consequences will be portrayed as positive in any case.
Failing to understand this demonstrates the naivety of typical western misogynist bigots; having never suffered discrimination, subtle or overt, it doesn't occur to you that 'others' live with a carefully nurtured chip on their shoulder and quantify everything in terms of gender, race, wealth, sexual orientation, etc.
Its a long list of criteria. Your objective 'better' is way down near the bottom.
We don't 'need' to but it is fun. We're members of the most staggeringly wealthy class of people in the history of our species and have solved most of the actual problems suffered by our ancestors. As such, we must invent new 'problems' to indulge.
As for why Wikipedia doesn't attract women, the reason is obvious when you take off the rose-color glasses through which we've decided to view all things Wikipedia. Wikipedia is competitive and its participants are highly critical, even hostile. Fewer women than men gravitate towards such an environment.
There are several other 'why's here, but those are the most relevant.
And by the by, if you want to increase manufacturing jobs in the US, you are going to need to increase the [already high] worker productivity given the rather high labor cost in the US. This is a form pf innovation. Just saying.
We could hope for some heretofore unimagined order of magnitude productivity increase. For that to actually work China will have to not tap their 700+ million reserve peasants to match our productivity by continuing to supply endless cheap, expendable, risk-free labor that precludes the necessary investments. Good luck with that.
Or we could just do what prosperous nations do and protect out domestic industry with tariffs and regulations that drive up the cost of foreign labor.
Finally, and most probable since our president failed to even mention industry during his show last night, we could continue as we are, allowing our industry to evacuate with no consequences. It's what US businesses want. It's what Obama's nimb^h^h^h^h environmental constituency wants as well (that and 'low low' walmart prices.) Thus we have an opportunity for bi-partisanship; just do nothing and everyone that actually matters is happy.
Isn't this more an indiciation (sic) of a widening income gap between working class and middle class backgrounds? There are a lot of not-so-smart people with degrees.
The 'gap' has widened. Not because the educated have seen substantial income growth; aside from doctors and lawyers most haven't. The gap appeared when we placed our labor class in competition with third world subsistence workers; people dying from silicosis in mines to maintain those 'low low' walmart prices that shiny 'educated' households find so wonderful.
This development has ruined industrial unions; you can't negotiate when one party can evacuate to one Asian hell hole or another with no consequence. The only strong unions left are in government and the 'service' industry because we haven't figured out how to outsource that labor, yet.
Dealing with any of this would involve taking the sort of hard look at ourselves that we have long since decided we would rather not. Instead, we'll indulge more mental masturbation about 'education.' You'll see that on full display tonight during the 'state of the union' show. Trade won't be mentioned. Only 'education' funding. Not cost; never bring up 'education' cost.
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I think sailboats should be way down your list if you're making a catalog of climate-hostile consumption.
The coasts and inland lakes of every wealthy nation are littered with harbors filled with composite and hardwood sailboats and yachts. You dismiss concern over the climate impact of these because....?
If there is a more effective way to foster resistance to climate regulation than exempting the toys of the wealthy I'll need some help from the audience, because nothing comes to mind.
Reading the various compare() implementations definitely leaves room for doubt about correctness. The compareStrictly() code is a lovely illustration of the ambiguity that exists in the world of phone numbers. The comparison implementation mentioned above is found in compareLoosely() and is characterized in comments as "similar() not equals()", meaning collisions are possible. Which of compairStrictly/Loosely is actually use is subject to configuration; the caller can't know which is used without examining configuration resources.
Haven't yet seen evidence that this is the cause of the problem folks are having; does the SMS code rely on this? The comments claim the compareLoosely() method is "identical enough for caller ID purposes." One could imagine that when the user hits 'reply' on a message the code might hunt through the phone book using compareLoosely and stop on the first "match", which may be incorrect due to a collision. There seems to be some correlation between reports of this phenomenon and the 'threaded' 'conversation' stuff in Android, which could mean people are relying on 'reply' and getting wrong results.
Who knows. Bugs will happen and phones aren't trivial. The real problem in my mind is that this one has been on the books for a looong time now (six months, approximately) and it's not getting the attention it clearly deserves.
Failure to acknowledge the implied consequence of your position does not provide you with immunity from criticism. The standards of public debate are far lower than a court, a place where you may be convicted despite a lack of confession.
We know what is going on here. You have a received hate for 'unfairness' as you have been taught to perceive it. Fairness is your priority. When liberties are picked off to lower the cost of your fairness you'll look the other way. When thousands of physicians abandon their practice as a result of your fairness then so be it. When billions in investment vanish because your fairness has a poor return, that's fine. As options and choices are removed from unequal and unfair menus to accommodate your universal fairness you will minimize the demur. As your demands eradicate private practice to the benefit of easily regulated commercial hospitals you will rationalize this as a necessary consequence of fairness, if you bother to acknowledge it at all.
At least the remnant that survives will be 'fair' according to you. The charge that you are indifferent to what is lost to your 'fairness' is equally fair, if incorrect; you are actually rather sensitive to any mention of or argument based on these consequences and you would rather we all just shut up about them.
The fact that the Blame America First types have been resorting to various conspiracy theories to explain the lack of Earth shattering revelation in these leaks is evidence that there isn't much in there worthy of outrage. One theory they've come up with is that the leaks are white washed and then intentionally exposed to Assange for release. This means Assange is either a dup of the US government or a conspirator. Under the bus with you, Assange!
Attributing this failure to deception, they've now turned to the next big leak; Bank of America. That will blow the lid off everything for sure. The government is just a pawn of the banks anyhow. Wait till we see the REAL stuff!
When this leak also turns out to be a dud they'll claim it's more deception; the real stuff has been withheld. The possibility that the US and its businesses aren't as corrupted as they need to believe to justify their world view will never be considered.
How about one where the US bribes a smaller country to do some of its dirty work?
Turned out to be the other way around didn't it? Saudi Arabia wants the US bombing Iran. Yemen wants the US hellfires cratering its atavists. Some decidedly non-leftist voices have pointed out that, ginned up outrage to the contrary, the RoW is actually fine with the US doing the necessary dirty work.
BTW, kudos to Yemen and the Saudis; there may be hope for the middle-east after all.
I guess I was hoping for a little more out of these things.
It's hard letting go of preconceptions. All part of growing up.
Pressure is mounting on the UN's International Maritime Organization
China knows how to put the kibosh on that sort of thing.
following the decision by the US government last week to impose a strict 230-mile buffer zone along the entire US coast
Countdown to WTO injunction on the US government's new 'anti-competitive' shipping regulations:
5..4..3..
Western manufacturers and workers can't compete with unregulated totalitarian regimes and third-world workers that willingly tolerate "crazy bad" contamination. When you choose to indulge yet more environmental regulation please consider what might be done to prevent your noble intentions from simply evacuating more industry out of the West. International NIMBYism isn't morally admirable.
Your strategy is doomed! Surface light time from NY to London is 0.0186ms while it's 0.0212ms to the center of the Earth from either point. A tunnel bored directly between London and New York would be even faster and require less cooling. Only two points intersecting the center would be competitive with my Earth Chord Trading Tunnels!
why is it that at economic peaks we always end up with the same 4% unemployment rate
The published unemployment rates don't mean much. The rate can fall while employing fewer people, due to workers abandoning the workforce or accepting 'underemployment.' That phenomenon is keeping contemporary unemployment figures lower than they probably should be according to this non-Murdoch source.
There is a more meaningful measure called the Labor force participation rate. It is a general measure of the state of the workforce; a simple ratio of workers to jobs. Since 1970 exposure to foreign labor has reduced the earning power of US workers. As a result the US household has put to wife to work to cover the shortfall and the Labor Participation Rate has grown rapidly. Today most households require two working adults.
Whether this is a good thing or not and what effect this has on the notion of 'family' and child-rearing is an exercise left to the reader. I note poor scholastic performance of US students, despite huge education budgets.
At one time a father could earn enough to support a household. A student could fund an education without debt. 12% of the US wasn't being fed by the Federal Government. This ended when the container ships from Asia started appearing.
That happens because there are tariffs on assembled cars that are avoided by assembling cars in the US. One of the few places that the US has chosen to protect its labor force is auto manufacturing. Without those tariffs the foreign auto manufacturers would fill cargo ships with completed cars and pay no one in the US for labor.
The result is a large number of foreign assembly plants here in the US. Those workers have health plans, they have not collected 99 weeks of unemployment, had their houses foreclosed, or joined the ranks of 40 million American citizens collecting food stamps. Most of them did not incur 10+ years of education debt to achieve all of the above.
It is possible to protect your labor force. You may not wish to because it means industry messing up the 'environment' (in the US instead of Asia) or more expensive stuff (hindering the rapid growth of income disparity) but you can not claim it doesn't work.
mediocre solution that they have to glue it onto the CPU
The mediocre solution (GMA HD) they are gluing to the CPU is a derivative of the solution they shipped 140,000,000 of last year (GMA* in 90%+ of every laptop manufactured.) That's pretty hilarious. It will be downright hysterical when, integrated into the CPUs, another 100,000,000 displace most of the discrete desktop graphics cards.
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xenophobe
He pointed out where the product is made. How is that xenophobe? Fuck you and your 'xenophobe' bullshit. I will talk about the state and behavior of other nations, and you can shove your 'xenophobe' crap back up your ass.
I'll try.
Does Samsung have some sort of mass key-logger analysis software that can correlate keystrokes with arbitrary activity? How else would they make use of thousands or potentially millions of key-logger streams? If so, from whom did they get it? The most plausible source of a key-logger analysis system is either a criminal outfit or an "intelligence" organization (assuming you draw distinction between the two.)
Is it possible that the tech support guy just made up this 'monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used' stuff because they routinely use that excuse for other things, it sounds plausible and might seem to him to be less heinous than 'we shipped an infected operating system'?
Given Sony you have to discount the latter.
Great post. One issue with it:
Units 5 and 6 can potentially be restarted, but it's doubtful that they will be.
The history of nuclear power accidents does not support this. Three Mile Island No.1 reactor is still in operation in Pennsylvania. Chernobyl No.1, 2 and 3 reactors were operated for up to 14 years after No.4 blew up and contaminated Europe, and there are 11 other RBMK reactors still in operation elsewhere. The power reactor at the Windscale site was operated for 46 years after the graphite fire in the weapons reactor.
Nuclear reactors represent astonishing capital investments by their builders, and by that I mean the companies, governments and citizens. Japan is dealing with rolling blackouts. This is intolerable in a nation that relies on meeting the demands of the export market. The No.5 and No.6 reactors represent about 2GW of generation capacity they desperately need.
They'll bring those reactors up at some point.
I'll double the price due to cost
Promise?
Increasing fuel efficiency standards are reducing fuel tax revenue per mile. Solution; tax actual miles. Does this mean Prius drivers aren't `paying their fair share?' Does this not reduce the incentive to utilize more efficient vehicles?
Tell you what; DON'T exempt the "poor," old, non-white, etc. and I'm for it. If you have the political temerity to apply this without exempting every political constituency with an AARP size lobby then it's fine with me. BTW, we have odometers; there's no need for any elaborate GPS solution; if odometers aren't sufficient for any reason then forget it because location tracking is politically infeasible.
Anyhow, whomever is `contemplating' this is pissing in the wind. The '10 election results guaranteed there will be no further federal tax `innovation' for a while.
At some point in the not too distant future China is going to resume testing warheads. It will violate the CTBT (which it has never ratified) and then engage in whatever rationalization it must at the UN who, while engaging in the obligatory public histrionics, will be only too happy to accept China's renewed nuclear credentials as a bi-polar counter to the US.
On that day this nuclear navel-gazing will be quietly returned to the dusty silhouette on the shelf from which it fell. So don't spend a lot of time on it.
Paypal's business model doesn't function when its cut is subject to individual negotiation with every tom, dick and harry that whats to participate; thus the automatic debit requirement. The Paypal model you wish to leverage depends on this.
Reasonable people have no difficulty understanding this so Paypal thrives with lots of participants. The folks involved with this case are, however, not reasonable people. They are malcontents and they demand special treatment. Any failure to accommodate their demands is 'unethical' and evidence of 'moral bankruptcy.'
Oh, and Paypal doesn't need a 'legal obligation' to justify shutting you down. Paypal isn't a right.
"1 became greater than 3" should be "3 became greater than 1", obviously.
how does the system actually work?
1.) Workers pay a tax. ('contribution' is a euphemism.)
2.) The money is used to buy treasury notes.
3.) SSA pays dependents according to a legislated schedule.
There is no actual connection between 1 and 3; workers pay whatever percentage Congress legislates and SSA pays whatever Congress legislates. 2 means there is no actual money anywhere, just treasury notes in a ledger. Until 2010 the amount coming in (1) was greater than the amount going out (3). In 2010, 1 became greater than 3 for the first time, ever. That means 3 is now contributing to annual deficits and is expected to grow rapidly, just like every conservative said it would since inception.
a nearly equal government budget to GDP ratio
Government (at all levels) takes 44% of GDP today. It was 22% immediately after WW2. Not sure why you think it has remained 'nearly equal'.
about the same level of workforce participation
The labor force participation rate increased from 59% to 67% from the end of WW2 to ~2000. Not sure why you think it has been 'about the same.' At 67% you've pretty much tapped out the work-capable reserve. This reflects putting the wife to work to make up for shortfalls in real earnings; competing with third-world labor ended real wage growth and employee leverage as evidenced by the annihilation of industrial unions.
What has changed fundamentally that it's impossible now?
The capital that funded growth in the workforce and kept people employed and credit worthy has evacuated to Asia. It isn't just the 9%-10% unemployment or 18% 'underemployment'; the people with work have no leverage and are seeing no wage increases because there is another 700 million Chinese in reserve and a business friendly government one freighter trip across the Pacific.
Government spending, meanwhile, grows unabated, thus giant deficits that crowd out lower priority spending in order of political feasibility (i.e. entitlements, defense last.) This nonsense will keep spinning until the debt gets past 150% or so of GDP (5-6 years) and the creditors walk away. Then the fed prints money to keep the bennies flowing. Then the currency collapses.
That is the only politically feasible future we have.
A few people suffer from the delusion that increasing the number of women will somehow magically make Wikipedia better.
It isn't a delusion. For the people you have in mind balancing the ratio will improve Wikipedia regardless of any actual consequence for Wikipedia and its content. The consequences will be portrayed as positive in any case.
Failing to understand this demonstrates the naivety of typical western misogynist bigots; having never suffered discrimination, subtle or overt, it doesn't occur to you that 'others' live with a carefully nurtured chip on their shoulder and quantify everything in terms of gender, race, wealth, sexual orientation, etc.
Its a long list of criteria. Your objective 'better' is way down near the bottom.
Why do we need to care about a gender gap?
We don't 'need' to but it is fun. We're members of the most staggeringly wealthy class of people in the history of our species and have solved most of the actual problems suffered by our ancestors. As such, we must invent new 'problems' to indulge.
As for why Wikipedia doesn't attract women, the reason is obvious when you take off the rose-color glasses through which we've decided to view all things Wikipedia. Wikipedia is competitive and its participants are highly critical, even hostile. Fewer women than men gravitate towards such an environment.
There are several other 'why's here, but those are the most relevant.
And by the by, if you want to increase manufacturing jobs in the US, you are going to need to increase the [already high] worker productivity given the rather high labor cost in the US. This is a form pf innovation. Just saying.
We could hope for some heretofore unimagined order of magnitude productivity increase. For that to actually work China will have to not tap their 700+ million reserve peasants to match our productivity by continuing to supply endless cheap, expendable, risk-free labor that precludes the necessary investments. Good luck with that.
Or we could just do what prosperous nations do and protect out domestic industry with tariffs and regulations that drive up the cost of foreign labor.
Finally, and most probable since our president failed to even mention industry during his show last night, we could continue as we are, allowing our industry to evacuate with no consequences. It's what US businesses want. It's what Obama's nimb^h^h^h^h environmental constituency wants as well (that and 'low low' walmart prices.) Thus we have an opportunity for bi-partisanship; just do nothing and everyone that actually matters is happy.
How many guesses will you need?
Isn't this more an indiciation (sic) of a widening income gap between working class and middle class backgrounds? There are a lot of not-so-smart people with degrees.
The 'gap' has widened. Not because the educated have seen substantial income growth; aside from doctors and lawyers most haven't. The gap appeared when we placed our labor class in competition with third world subsistence workers; people dying from silicosis in mines to maintain those 'low low' walmart prices that shiny 'educated' households find so wonderful.
This development has ruined industrial unions; you can't negotiate when one party can evacuate to one Asian hell hole or another with no consequence. The only strong unions left are in government and the 'service' industry because we haven't figured out how to outsource that labor, yet.
Dealing with any of this would involve taking the sort of hard look at ourselves that we have long since decided we would rather not. Instead, we'll indulge more mental masturbation about 'education.' You'll see that on full display tonight during the 'state of the union' show. Trade won't be mentioned. Only 'education' funding. Not cost; never bring up 'education' cost.
I think sailboats should be way down your list if you're making a catalog of climate-hostile consumption.
Why?
http://galenfrysinger.name/eh61/harbor02.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Monterey_CA_harbor_p1070194.jpg
http://www.pictureninja.com/pages/new-zealand/north-island/auckland-harbor-sailboats.jpg
http://www.harborsailboats.com/images/mainpage.jpg
http://www.gdanmitchell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/SouthBeachHarborMornFogSF20090701.jpg
http://reve.ed.shizuoka.ac.jp/photos/Honolulu02.jpg
http://thetriton.com/directory/userlogo/21736-5724_b.jpg
http://www.boatharborslocator.com/ca%20marin%20county/ca_marin_ar_lowrie_yacht_harbor.jpg
The coasts and inland lakes of every wealthy nation are littered with harbors filled with composite and hardwood sailboats and yachts. You dismiss concern over the climate impact of these because....?
If there is a more effective way to foster resistance to climate regulation than exempting the toys of the wealthy I'll need some help from the audience, because nothing comes to mind.
The actual code is here.
Reading the various compare() implementations definitely leaves room for doubt about correctness. The compareStrictly() code is a lovely illustration of the ambiguity that exists in the world of phone numbers. The comparison implementation mentioned above is found in compareLoosely() and is characterized in comments as "similar() not equals()", meaning collisions are possible. Which of compairStrictly/Loosely is actually use is subject to configuration; the caller can't know which is used without examining configuration resources.
Haven't yet seen evidence that this is the cause of the problem folks are having; does the SMS code rely on this? The comments claim the compareLoosely() method is "identical enough for caller ID purposes." One could imagine that when the user hits 'reply' on a message the code might hunt through the phone book using compareLoosely and stop on the first "match", which may be incorrect due to a collision. There seems to be some correlation between reports of this phenomenon and the 'threaded' 'conversation' stuff in Android, which could mean people are relying on 'reply' and getting wrong results.
Who knows. Bugs will happen and phones aren't trivial. The real problem in my mind is that this one has been on the books for a looong time now (six months, approximately) and it's not getting the attention it clearly deserves.
OP...Democrats...Nobody said...
Failure to acknowledge the implied consequence of your position does not provide you with immunity from criticism. The standards of public debate are far lower than a court, a place where you may be convicted despite a lack of confession.
We know what is going on here. You have a received hate for 'unfairness' as you have been taught to perceive it. Fairness is your priority. When liberties are picked off to lower the cost of your fairness you'll look the other way. When thousands of physicians abandon their practice as a result of your fairness then so be it. When billions in investment vanish because your fairness has a poor return, that's fine. As options and choices are removed from unequal and unfair menus to accommodate your universal fairness you will minimize the demur. As your demands eradicate private practice to the benefit of easily regulated commercial hospitals you will rationalize this as a necessary consequence of fairness, if you bother to acknowledge it at all.
At least the remnant that survives will be 'fair' according to you. The charge that you are indifferent to what is lost to your 'fairness' is equally fair, if incorrect; you are actually rather sensitive to any mention of or argument based on these consequences and you would rather we all just shut up about them.
Call me Mr. Conspiracy Theory
The fact that the Blame America First types have been resorting to various conspiracy theories to explain the lack of Earth shattering revelation in these leaks is evidence that there isn't much in there worthy of outrage. One theory they've come up with is that the leaks are white washed and then intentionally exposed to Assange for release. This means Assange is either a dup of the US government or a conspirator. Under the bus with you, Assange!
Attributing this failure to deception, they've now turned to the next big leak; Bank of America. That will blow the lid off everything for sure. The government is just a pawn of the banks anyhow. Wait till we see the REAL stuff!
When this leak also turns out to be a dud they'll claim it's more deception; the real stuff has been withheld. The possibility that the US and its businesses aren't as corrupted as they need to believe to justify their world view will never be considered.
How about one where the US bribes a smaller country to do some of its dirty work?
Turned out to be the other way around didn't it? Saudi Arabia wants the US bombing Iran. Yemen wants the US hellfires cratering its atavists. Some decidedly non-leftist voices have pointed out that, ginned up outrage to the contrary, the RoW is actually fine with the US doing the necessary dirty work.
BTW, kudos to Yemen and the Saudis; there may be hope for the middle-east after all.
I guess I was hoping for a little more out of these things.
It's hard letting go of preconceptions. All part of growing up.
Pressure is mounting on the UN's International Maritime Organization
China knows how to put the kibosh on that sort of thing.
following the decision by the US government last week to impose a strict 230-mile buffer zone along the entire US coast
Countdown to WTO injunction on the US government's new 'anti-competitive' shipping regulations:
5..4..3..
Western manufacturers and workers can't compete with unregulated totalitarian regimes and third-world workers that willingly tolerate "crazy bad" contamination. When you choose to indulge yet more environmental regulation please consider what might be done to prevent your noble intentions from simply evacuating more industry out of the West. International NIMBYism isn't morally admirable.
Think carefully
Your strategy is doomed! Surface light time from NY to London is 0.0186ms while it's 0.0212ms to the center of the Earth from either point. A tunnel bored directly between London and New York would be even faster and require less cooling. Only two points intersecting the center would be competitive with my Earth Chord Trading Tunnels!
why is it that at economic peaks we always end up with the same 4% unemployment rate
The published unemployment rates don't mean much. The rate can fall while employing fewer people, due to workers abandoning the workforce or accepting 'underemployment.' That phenomenon is keeping contemporary unemployment figures lower than they probably should be according to this non-Murdoch source.
There is a more meaningful measure called the Labor force participation rate. It is a general measure of the state of the workforce; a simple ratio of workers to jobs. Since 1970 exposure to foreign labor has reduced the earning power of US workers. As a result the US household has put to wife to work to cover the shortfall and the Labor Participation Rate has grown rapidly. Today most households require two working adults.
Whether this is a good thing or not and what effect this has on the notion of 'family' and child-rearing is an exercise left to the reader. I note poor scholastic performance of US students, despite huge education budgets.
At one time a father could earn enough to support a household. A student could fund an education without debt. 12% of the US wasn't being fed by the Federal Government. This ended when the container ships from Asia started appearing.
Your 4% misses a few things.
And Toyota and Honda assemble cars in the U.S
That happens because there are tariffs on assembled cars that are avoided by assembling cars in the US. One of the few places that the US has chosen to protect its labor force is auto manufacturing. Without those tariffs the foreign auto manufacturers would fill cargo ships with completed cars and pay no one in the US for labor.
The result is a large number of foreign assembly plants here in the US. Those workers have health plans, they have not collected 99 weeks of unemployment, had their houses foreclosed, or joined the ranks of 40 million American citizens collecting food stamps. Most of them did not incur 10+ years of education debt to achieve all of the above.
It is possible to protect your labor force. You may not wish to because it means industry messing up the 'environment' (in the US instead of Asia) or more expensive stuff (hindering the rapid growth of income disparity) but you can not claim it doesn't work.
mediocre solution that they have to glue it onto the CPU
The mediocre solution (GMA HD) they are gluing to the CPU is a derivative of the solution they shipped 140,000,000 of last year (GMA* in 90%+ of every laptop manufactured.) That's pretty hilarious. It will be downright hysterical when, integrated into the CPUs, another 100,000,000 displace most of the discrete desktop graphics cards.
Do not bet against integration.