Which does seem to include flattering you.
Has Assad improved his behaviour one little bit?
The problem with Trump isn't that he's a bully - the problem is that he doesn't know enough to be an effective bully, and won't listen the the people who are trying to tell him how to be more effective.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
More diagnostic evidence.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
They *could* have, though - if Bill Sloman was compiling the data!
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I'm picky about the kinds of jobs I take, and compiling literacy data is not a job for which I happen to be qualified.
As a trained scientist I would ask question like "how are we testing for literacy?" and "how reliable are these tests?".
This wouldn't go down well in places like North Korea, so I'd definitely avoid working there.
Cursitor Doom is less discriminating, and imagines that the rest of the world is just as incompetent as he is.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
cmon/ elementary schools are present everywhere.
(not 100% sure about haiti)
If they could, most would.
NT
On Monday, 15 January 2018 02:32:48 UTC, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: JL:
of course they're not. Honestly.
NT
And if you won't let girls attend the elementary schools that do exist, you won't even get to 50% literacy.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
British WW1 statistics showed that production hit a maximum when working hours were between 48 and 60 hours per week.
Somebody who is working eighty hours per week isn't going to be producing twice as much as somebody working forty hours per week, and the quality of what they produce isn't going to be as good.
Only in the diseased imaginations of right-wing lunatics. Socialists think more in terms of over-time to discourage employers from over-exploiting their work-force.
James Arthur can't tell the difference between socialism and communism, and doesn't know enough about either to realise that he doesn't know enough to have an opinion worth publishing.
"The Spirit Level" doesn't object to inequality as such. It just points out that too much inequality damages society in a variety of ways.
The US has quite enough inequality to illustrate the point, and there is enough difference in inequality between US states to allow them to illustrate the point within the US.
Adding in the rest of the advanced industrial world allows the authors to point out that even the relatively low levels of inequality in places like Scandinavia aren't low enough to demotivate anybody, and the relatively high (but lower than the US) level of inequality within the UK is making the UK a less attractive place to live than its continental neighbours.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
I just have to ask who/what is JT
-- I look forward to the day when a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.
RT is Russia Today - a Russian government propaganda outlet, that Cursitor Doom trusts almost absolutely (despite his claim of moderate scepticism about them).
JT would probably be Jim Thompson, who is no more reliable, but represents other interests (not that Jim is aware that he's representing them).
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
So far he hasn't been very effective at changing Assad's behaviour or Kim's behaviour.
He has been full of bluster, though.
He's come out of his playground and found himself amongst the grownups that have decades of experience with bullies.
As for being your, bully, that's true. Unfortunately for the US it makes the US /look/ less effective and less virtuous that it used to appear during, say, the cold war.
Long term that's bad for the US, and good for China especially.
Shame.
Sorry; RT is Russia Today. Many regard it as having "strong ties" to Putin.
It might be useful to listen to RT to see some stories that aren't being widely reported in the western media. However regarding RT as as described above indicates either a lack of judgement or of a hidden agenda.
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in this thread alone. Can't you find something new?
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600
That finding seems to have been swallowed whole for some reason. I'm not su re why, I know when I've done 80+ hour weeks I achieved much more than doin g 48 or 60. Try telling people in the 3rd world that they'll do more work i n 48 hours than 80, you'll only get laughed at, and with good reason. They have direct experience of what happens when they can only get 48 hours done .
You know how it goes...
48-60 achieves more than 80 40 achieves more than 48 35 achieves more than 40 Soon 1 achieves more than 2 etc, and nothing gets done.NT
I've seen RT get real when no other news outlet would, but mostly their articles are trash.
NT
Wrong. When was the last gas attack? Kim is talking about the Olympics. It seems he's done more than any Democrat who have done precisely nothing with the possible exception of Rodman. Though it wouldn't be surprising if Dennis was the smartest Democrat.
Yeah, Clinton had a lot of experience with such bullies. That's worked out really well. Another would, at least, sell off more of the country.
Bullshit. Obviously you're a kid.
Sitting on one's hands has gotten us exactly here. It's time to change tactics. At least he's recognized that. Too bad you don't get a vote. Otherwise, perhaps your breath wouldn't be wasted.
And by what logic is that Trump's doing? You can't just give him credit when there is some minor progress in a difficult situation. It turns out that the conflicts come and go, and situations change, even with that blind bull stomping around the china shop.
Kim is all about bluster and show - because that's how he stays in power. He is not stupid or crazy, and does not want a war with the west
- he knows fine that if things get serious, he will lose badly. And he is no martyr that is willing to risk his life or his power in order to harm the USA. But provoking the USA is great for his popularity and home, and Trump is so incredibly easy to provoke. Kim "wins" by making Trump look stupid - or, rather, by giving him opportunities to make himself look stupid. And Trump takes every chance he gets to look like a clueless angry little kid - with the rest of the world laughing at him while nervous about what catastrophic mistake he might make.
Kim has always been an obsessive sports fan - and sports is an arena where NK can safely compete and show the world that they are best. The Olympics is the perfect chance for him to play nice and friendly, tone down the war rhetoric, and talk with SK while making himself look good. Trump has /nothing/ to do with NK going to the Olympics - Trump is just an unwitting pawn in Kim's games.
The US has never had a president that is less popular and disrespected throughout the world. The US reputation as "the world's police", "land of the free", "beacon of democracy", "upholders of justice", etc., took a massive hit with Bush the younger and his wars. Obama repaired it somewhat, and certainly gave us hope, but the world was disappointed with how much he failed to achieve. Trump made us laugh, then cry. Even the UK, which has supported the US in almost everything for the past hundred years or so, at least in public statements, is openly against him. I just think it's a shame the Brexit vote came before Trump's election - there would never have been a vote to leave the EU if people had known what was coming on the other side of the Atlantic.
He took out 20% of the Syrian air force after a gas attack. They did the math on that.
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Looking around the world, the obvious correlation is between well-being and British colonization.
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I recently saw a survey (can one trust a survey?) that increasing numbers of black Americans approve of Trump's economic policies.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if the classic Dem minorities started liking theD?
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