Comment Re:1.3 billion (Score 1) 139
Sure, but there are much less children in LA than the number I used, which is the whole population.
"Ukraine is ours. Deal with it."
It is more like "Crimea is ours. Deal with it". Obviously Russia never intended to take over Ukraine, as their army could be in Kiev in less than a week if they wanted to perform a real invasion. We talk about Ukraine, a failed state, versus Russia, a major nuclear power.
But of course, invading western Ukraine, where a lot of people hate russians, would mean dealing with a fierce resistance after the military victory. This is probably the reason why they did not do it. Invading Crimea, which mostly contained russians, made sense, invading Ukraine does not.
And bluntly, whether you think your politicians are greedy, selfish idiots with zero qualification for their job and no well being in their mind aside of their own, or whether you think your boss is like this, where exactly is the difference between public and private sector?
There are huge parts of public sector that operate far enough from unqualified politicians to maintain the ability to actually work. But I guess the situation depends on the countries.
You forgot to take into account the private sector efficiency, which is usually obtained through negative externalities: crushing workers, polluting...
Of course someone will tell me that public sector pollute as much because laws allow it, and has lazy and unproductive workers...
Sumarry says:
Russia is doing all the taxi work — for a steep price
How much is it more expensive than private industry? Boeing and SpaceX are not philanthropists, they will do the job for profit.
I am surprised lobbies had not already obtained such a measure in Australia.
It looks outdated now that similar laws are dying in other countries. In France the law was voted but it seems the government is not willing to enforce it. Perhaps it is related to the ruling that considered Internet access is human right.
But on a smart card, asymmetric cryptography can be used. The private key is generated by the chip on user request. It is not supposed to leak outside of the device.
As I understand, this SIM debacle is only possible because the cryptography used here is symmetric, which means the telephone operator must have a copy of the SIM key.
First you deregulate trade, and you use that to pressure your suppliers to have the lowest possible cost. In order to achieve this, the suppliers must crush workers in remote countries and fuck the environment... and suddently you discover that there is only one single ecosystem and that pollution affects you.
It is nice to see a US government that acknowledges there is general interest linked to environment. What will come next? They should push international environmental regulations that trump trade deregulation. I wonder if I will live long enough to see that.
TFS tells about "global intellectual property rights regime", which is a nonsense: there is no international patents, as a patent is only granted within a national juridiction (EU is the exception). And even huge corporations do not fill in 180 countries, they do it only where they intend to make money.
Even with latest knowledge that makes cholesterol innocent for heart diseases, what you eat still have a great importance and therefore you are still responsible of your health. Omega 3 / omega 6 fat ratio seems to play a major role, so does trans fats and refined carbs.
In other words, no need to throw egg yolks because of the cholesterol they contain, but junk food is still bad for your health.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
