California is equivalent to something like Germany being the 5th biggest economy in the World (if counted separately). Hence if these state level acto...
The Fulda Gap of today would be the Suwalki Gap or corridor, btw. The important issue here is that thanks to a brilliant spy master as head of state, ...
Yep. But actually you touch an interesting point, that is namely the states or districts, below the national level, and their role in international re...
Sounds similar to when we had the join EU debate in this country. The "Join" crowd painted a picture of the gates of paradise opening with EU membersh...
I'd like to see what happens when(if) the money runs out from the Department of Defence. Unfortunately that will happen only next fall as the Departme...
Ah yes, the mercantilist whining about a trade deficit. This is a Basic problem: people don't know or understand international trade and how beneficia...
Why so? How couldn't the rulers be oblivious to the fact that what they are proposing could go wrong? To think that fine, we have the support for EU m...
Having a degree from a highly respected university and being a rising star in the ranks of a political party doesn't mean you have a grasp of politica...
44% of all British exports (that is products and services) went to the EU. Of the imports the UK got over half of them from the EU. From one statistic...
Looking at the timid plea asking people to register, I'm not so sure how adamant the authorities have been of this with Britons as members of the EU. ...
The thing is that we, as a group, will never attain the status of being "critical thinkers", achieve a discourse where people are so informed, knowled...
Evangelicals are cynical hypocrites, what's new? At least the Mormons don't like Trump as much. (Of course that may be thanks to one Mormon Republican...
And this is a huge issue here. You see, Trump started with the dream any President would have, a Congress that his party dominated, which itself was t...
Probability theory is just a tool. What actually happens, happens with 100% probability (or with 1.0 probability). Is the World deterministic or not i...
Just how, really, is Trump a "proto-Hitler"? I don't find anything similar with Hitler when looking at Trump. Has Trump had any kind of ideology and e...
Tolerance isn't submission. In tolerance there is the part of resisting, to putting up with. Just like in engineering, tolerance is about the permissi...
People just love simple answers. And the media loves confrontational arguments. To say "on one hand there are bad aspects" yet then to continue "on th...
Yet the right-wing media didn't at first like Trump. Rupert Murdoch didn't like Trump and in the first moments of the elections you could see this wit...
The real threat isn't that AI would become somehow conscious (or whatever). The real threat is that we in our ignorance just let simple and pathetic a...
They have quite a time following their extremely insecure leader. Have just few right wing talking heads saying that he "chickened out" and "gave ever...
This is something relative to the UK, where the electoral system differs from ours. Here we use a proportional representation, namely the D'Hondt meth...
Well, you asked for critique, but I'm not so sure how willing you are to hear it... Is it incredible, really? You can see from many examples that vote...
Ah, the idea that the "sleeping party", those who don't vote, especially if it the biggest "party" makes a "clear" statement of dissatisfaction, hence...
Even if a bit off the topic, thanks for writing about reality about ranching in Arizona and the increasing urbanization. At least that ought to work w...
Here's a simple experiment, naiveman. Have your friend stand about 300 meters from you. Then have him phone you and with the phones open have him yell...
Hardly know where to start on the totally false statements here. Like the F-15 is a land based aircraft used by the USAF, not the USN. And that 450 nu...
Why on Earth would you call this German historian a Victorian man? German thinkers are typically quite positive about things German (that is, before c...
My bad, yazata. Yet I think it's telling that Trump's special envoy to the Middle East in the battle against ISIS resigned immediately (and Trump acte...
Perhaps because it's not exactly fascism. Fascism seems just to be a common swearword (just like marxism is for others), but fascist economy is a spec...
That I think is the correct term to describe it: a semi-civil (war) discourse. Meaning that Americans can hurl obscene insults and loathing across the...
When one organization emerges from another with same people in charge, be it an offshoot or not, there simply is a link. Period. Peculiar how you find...
Especially those people who come from the US, Canada, Australia, the U and New Zealand. Others not so. As unenlightened commented earlier, the French ...
And whom was the leader of ISIS? Wasn't it Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi? Formerly known as the leader of the Al Qaeda in Iraq? You see The Islamic State of Ir...
Send all the newcomers to Montana and Wyoming. There are only two persons per square kilometer in those states, hence a lot empty area for people to f...
Doesn't matter. As they are far more whites than blacks, povetry in general is a good statistic. Hence if your income is lower than mine, then you are...
Poor men make more thefts, burglaries and violent crimes than rich men (or women). Hence your friend should be against low income men. They obviously ...
How typical of the arrogant and ignorant hubris that is so usual. Let's see, how many times have Americans stated (and believed) that Al Qaeda/ISIS ha...
Great way of control for the modern police state! Especially when you combine your credit scores with your chat history. What better way to control wh...
Notice that this isn't the only way to read. With English, a foreign language to me, I do the same, but with text written in my own mother tongue I do...
Wrong, you simply have to take into account all of the expenses. Just as Tzeentch above comments. And here there are no tuitions for universities. Hen...
One interesting thing to notice is how Russia isn't actually very religious. Of course the Soviet Union was atheist, yet Ukraine too belonged to the u...
Are you sarcastic, Hanover? (What I was trying to say is that when things that charities try to help are taken care by the government and tax income, ...
Polarizing the electorate seems to be the new fad. And I think that the American voters aren't yet so tired of the partisanship and of loathing the ot...
Like the communists had done in the Saur-revolution? They surely wanted to "modernize" Afghanistan. What better way to bring "modernization" than to k...
This is the typical nonsense that a lot of people have when they think that the human brain functions like a computer and hence humans function like c...
The answer to the OP is easy. People don't actually have a clue what defines a Computer and how Computers and data processing machines operate. Hence ...
Some might argue if this is really charity. As there are far more people than cars (1 billion of them), the two car limit doesn't sound as a sacrifice...
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