my opinion on US coffeehouse chains like Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, etc. is that they have pretty good iced teas, pastries, sandwiches, milkshakes, lattes and "specialty beverages" and absolutely terrible coffee.
So long as you go for the former and not the latter you should be good. Starbucks green tea frappes are really nice, no coffee involved. Maybe they didn't get the memo.
That's what I tell I couple American right wing broads on a date when they expected me to pay for dinner they got mad. "But I just want what's best for you! And by you I mean me!"
Democrats want more poor immigrants because they assume that they will vote Democrat. They generally want more poor people. It's purely about power.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
You know Latin America is primarily devout Catholic, right? Catholics, the religion long known for its progressive views on social issues, yeah?
Republicans want more poor immigrants because they know that they will work for lower wages than the local work force. They generally want cheaper labour. It's purely about money.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
The only way to make a stopped clock that's right twice a day better is to buy 23 more stopped clocks for the rest of the hours in the day. Cover all the bases.
I think that would be 11 more.
Are you suggesting that he's right 24 times a day?
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Yes, that sounds right!
I've had my PCs set to numerical display 24 hour time so long dealing with any other type of clock feels annoying, I'm probably that millennial/Gen X who forgot how to read a wall clock the tabloid editorials talk about. Oh well...
I like analog clocks.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
He tweets enough nonsense that he could occasionally be right by accident.
But it's going to be strictly by accident.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
He learned how to read them when young, presumably after a titanic struggle, and is still proud of the achievement.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
He probably shouldn't, he'd resonate with a lot fewer Americans. Since most Americans have never performed any kind of act requiring actual bravery they conflate being an abusive whackoff with being "alpha."
Imagine being a Vietnam special forces vet with an enemy body count in the hundreds and getting called a pussy by some suburbanite who sat home and did nothing but occasionally park their car in the fire lane/handicapped spaces to feel hard. Unlike the fictional stories about what the anti-war Left did Trump resonates with these people because he spits on veterans, too.
I mean the casualties are completely obvious it's just that the way American-style capitalist economics re-frames its failures is that it has never failed or done any wrong, there are only lazy/stupid/evil/worthless individuals (most bent on destroying the "good" people, naturally.)
There are no poor people, only "bad" people.
Hard to say, I think a lot of Americans are perfectly happy to lick boots for nickels. I'm not into that kinky shit myself but some people just like being tied up and whipped and all that 50 Shades of Grey stuff there are a lot of men rich and poor who'll pay good money for that experience.
You really have a bad attitude. We work with some wonderful people in various industries, and don't work with jerks.
Failure is a feature of a free ("capitalist" to you) economy. Some experiments work and some don't. We don't have debitors prison, so people or companies that fail can try something else.
Socialist economies don't let things fail when they go wrong, they just double down. Venezuala has more than doubled down: more like 1e7 so far.
We don't much live in a capitalist economy any more; we never really did. The "means of production" isn't money or giant machines like Marx naiively thought; the means of production is ideas.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
into deficit take their toll.
ts, and it didn't deliver back them.
John Larkin's definition of a jerk is "somebody who doesn't flatter him non
-stop".
As you did. Failure isn't actually a virtue - it represents imperfect judge ment of what will work, mostly by people with an exaggerated idea of their own competence. Some 80% of new business start-ups fail in the first five y ears, which ought to be improved.
That's not peculiar to socialist economies - and in fact is more characteri stic of oligarchies, when some particular oligarch has a personal interest in some scheme or other.
Venezuala isn't "socialist" in any real sense - it's a failed state, where one of the failing administrations decided to call itself "socialist".
Sadly, it takes quite a lot of money to translate ideas into stuff you can produce and sell. Before Marx, wealth was land, and Marx noticed that the r ise of technology and machinery had changed the rules.
These days, if you have a brilliant idea, you still have to persuade a vent ure capitalist to put in the money to turn the idea into a profitable compa ny.
Even if the idea translates into an intangible product - like an app - you still need capital to set up the distribution system that gets money from t he eventual users back to you.
The distribution system doesn't look much like a dark satanic mill, but it' s doing the same job.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Ditto in the USA. I blame the internet. And academia.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
And a racist. And a wonderful writer.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
The latter was the reason she was popular. The former was probably par for the course back then.
From a distance it looks that way.
The far left and the far right are more or less equivalent, they both need each other, and they both crowd out the moderate majority.
I'd blame people that spread FUD, using the net or anything else.
I'd also blame people with minds that are so open that their brains fall out. Unfortunately over the past century we have had pretty reliable media, and many people have never needed to have their defences up w.r.t. believing what they see/hear/read.
The net has changed that not only with any dog being able to "narrowcast", but also relentlessly feeding people with whatever will capture their eyeballs for the adverts.
To misinterpret "academia", more academic rigour would probably help people to discern the crap they are seeing.
Well, I live in hope, anyway.
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