There is a lot of randomness and luck in life, starting with the mix of genes you get.
It's interesting that european governments tend to blame individuals for disasters, even accidents. Italy was going to prosecute a geologist for not predicting an earthquake, but somebody realized that was really over the top. That bridge failure will probably bring some people to criminal trial.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
You lefties really are as stupid as you sound.
Perhaps but it doesn't change the facts. No one else is keeping you down.
It's not like "Italians" (the mob) hasn't cut corners on concrete before. My bet is that for everyone in the private sector to blame for this, there are two in the government.
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did "The Bel Curve" correlation between life success, IQ score and social e nvironment right - treating where you grew up, how much money your parents had, and where you went to school as independent factors, while the "The Be ll Curve" lumped them all into one "socio-economic index" and found that th e four parameters taken together explained more than half of your economic success.
Genetics obviously comes into it, but didn't seem to be dominant. Being bo rn in the right suburb and school district would seem to be more important.
The bridge that fell down apparently had produced some advance warnings. Fi nding out who ignored them and why and publicising the investigation is a g reat way of motivating similar officials to pay closer attention.
American politicians are equally willing to look for scapegoats, and there have been some prosecutions over the Flint lead-in-the-drinking-water scand al.
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It might.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Superficially the bridge collapse seems like a consequence of one of the usual habits of public-private partnerships: the private management doesn't want to do anything about addressing problems for fear of losing revenue and the government doesn't want to insist for fear of the cost being passed on to the public and them losing their jobs.
Back and forth the buck passes until the bridge falls down, and dead people don't vote.
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Living in a country which is designed to let the richest 1% get richer at e verybody elses's expense means that only a few people are keeping the 99% d own, but they happen to be pretty effective at it.
This is a fact that krw appears to be unaware of (along with quite a few ot hers).
Krw would bet that way. He's convinced that government doesn't work - proba bly on the basis government was responsible for everything in the USSR and didn't run the country particularly well. Governments do differ, and the cl oser they come to a criminal conspiracy trying to enrich themselves the wor se they perform for the rest of the population.
Curiously, the Russian Communist Party membership had risen to 19 million - 10% of the whole population - by 1986, whereas the top 1% of the US income distribution are the group who are now enriching themselves at the expense of the rest of the US population.
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Krw uses the word "stupid" to mean "not agreeing with krw" which pretty muc h inverts it's usual meaning.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Most Usenet forums and unmoderated discussion groups have an abusive humorless kook they run all the same lines usually "idiot"-this or "stupid"-that in every post. Sometimes I wonder if it's all the same guy.
You insist on showing everyone just how stupid you are. Keep it up. I'm sure someone hasn't gotten the message yet. Hint: Bowing to Slowman doesn't raise your IQ.
If "stupidity" is defined as "disagreeing with krw" - not the usual definition, but it is the one that krw choses to use - keeping at it is more or less obligatory.
Why would it? Agreeing with me from time to time does illustrate that he isn't a krw-fellow-traveller, but that's scarcely necessary.
That particular political party has a membership of one.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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