We lecture other nations about free trade, but fucking Canada is freer than the US for some farm goods and other stuff.

And don't even get Australia started. For that matter, our sugar is 2-3x world price inside the US because, umm, you know, we love free trade. It's been pointed out Congress is holding 310 million Americans hostage to about 7000 farmers.

It's the one with 76 trombone players.

Oh, wait. That still doesn't narrow it down.

That's the theory. If only it had been tested. Oh wait, it has, in France, and it helped keep unemployment there high.

They kept the rule long after its economic claim was proven wrong, because people liked time off. See also forcing reduced work weeks of 37 1-2 or even 35 hour work weeks.

You are a memebaby.

Working longer hours for no pay may suck, but it benefits the economy by increasing productivity in a dollars per unit work completed. That is why more people get hired, the opposite of your theory.

When you are an oppressed society like this, or communist in general, it is in your interest, and the benefit of your family, to work hard to make Dear Leader's country look good on an international stage.

The Eastern Bloc countries and the Soviet Union used to let Olympic athletes keep goodies from the West, like radios and blue jeans. If they brought home gold, especially in premier events like women's figure skating or pairs, that meant massively upgraded family apartments assigned to you, or even a resort dachau, like the higher ups get.

Can you imagine the hellish pressure on such young people?

This was a perverse aping of capitalism, but without any real economcic freedom.

There is a lot more to freedom than freedom of speech, if concern for the general welfare is your shining ideal. Give up on command and control.

"The fish kept moving rapidly around, but the robots, undaunted and with infinite solar energy, kept effortlessly apace, following the fish. Sadly, within 2 days, every so-tracked fish died. Biologists are conducting autopsies, but it looks like exhaustion, cause unknown."

Keeping people from starving was 80% of the budget ago.

Is my understanding correct, that quantum computing is fast, but isn't the magic oracle to factor numbers? It neither exceeds a Turing machine while remaining finite, nor is infinite in that context?

Exactly. One of the benefits of a cash is anonymous transactions, one of the rights people reserve unto themselves.

Making everything electronic so government can track it is just another sad cog in the panopticon the government is building, a precursor to a 1984-like dictatorship.

Well, not really. I was looking to see what might be causing the government concern. I started at the top of my decision analysis tree with the first node, "Remember: Government just wants your money." If yes, done.

So, done.

Barbie showed her drawing to Skipper. "Isn't that a pretty Christmas tree light pattern? The arrows show how it'll go!"

"Oooooih! That's pretty! I can't wait to see it!" squealed Skipper!

"Hmmmm," thought Barbie. "Now all I need is one of the boys to program it for me!"
(3 pages skipped)
"And programming...done! Switch it on! Oh, here, like this [switches it on]", said the boy.

"And our national winner of best Christmas tree programmer is Barbie Mattel!" The president grinned and shook her hand. "What an excellent programmer!"

"I know!" exclamatederionoed Barbie!

There's very little the SC puts up with nowadays.

"The Obama administration says requiring proof that a speaker intended to be threatening would undermine the law's protective purpose."

And Obama is supposedly a "constitutional law professor". Well, yes, Obama, that statement is technically true. And that has what to do with its constitutionality?

Oh, you were talking about its meme value as a political. populist narrative power vector.

He's talking needing energies that would make Doctor Who's Tardis, powered by an exploding supernova, gasp in disbelief.

I'm all for breakthroughs, but geeze.

Does it actually help people with, say, burning stinging diabetic feet?

Valls said taxation would have to orient citizens towards more ecological choices, notably the 2015 state budget measures to reduce the tax advantage of diesel fuel versus gas.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess they will be raising diesel tax slowly and not lowering gas tax at all.

It's the only turbo that slows something down.

Or maybe they transcribed tai-bo lasers wrong.