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Are multiple failures of a system proof of a good system?

I don't think there has ever been a system that is even just 10% failure proof.
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Everybody knows the deal is rotten

Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton

For your ribbons and bows

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Are multiple failures of a system proof of a good system?

I don't think there has ever been a system that is even just 10% failure proof.
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That was exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you for pointing out the obvious :p
you’re welcome :p

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Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton

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Are multiple failures of a system proof of a good system?

I don't think there has ever been a system that is even just 10% failure proof.
Fixed that
That was exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you for pointing out the obvious :p
you’re welcome :p
'Fixed it for you' is usually done in good humor and I don't feel like you're doing it that way here at this moment, so cut it out will you.

 

Edit: Gfted1, your image isn't showing up for me, not even a broken image image.

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I am sure the information that the hunt helps the species won't be bought.

 

I have a real personal problem with hunting for reasons other than consumption. But that's me. These hunts take place in other countries in accordance with their laws. It is not the US governments business to tell citizens they can't go to a place they are welcome to do an activity that is legal. And this ban was yet another example of an intrusive nanny state sticking it's nose where it does not belong. If you want the hunts banned you really should be talking to the governments that not only allow but encourage them.

 

As distasteful as I find the activity, free people should be left alone to pursue their interests as long as they are legal where they pursue them.

The ban was only on bringing back trophies though, right? We never stopped them from getting their rocks off by killing the animals.

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Are multiple failures of a system proof of a good system?

I don't think there has ever been a system that is even just 10% failure proof.
Fixed that
That was exactly the point I was trying to make, thank you for pointing out the obvious :p
you’re welcome :p
'Fixed it for you' is usually done in good humor and I don't feel like you're doing it that way here at this moment, so cut it out will you.

 

Edit: Gfted1, your image isn't showing up for me, not even a broken image image.

sorry if I offended you, that wasn’t my intention. I was attempting to “cover” my mistakes with re-editing what has been said to a point where it doesn’t have to do anything with the actual course of events.

 

All in good socialist tradition, you know...

 

 

Seriously though, it was never my intention to offend you. Sorry if it came across like that.

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Apology accepted, it was just being done in a way that felt like putting words in my mouth than to be funny or ironic.

I assumed I perverted what was being said enough to mark it as a joke. Paradoxically, I think that made it worse.

 

Anyway, won’t happen again :)

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I'm not sure if it is the end of Al Franken, although it wouldn't surprise me. I think it is important to distinguish that his behavior was a terrible attempt at humor, rather than sexual gratification. But that may not really matter if the end result is the same.

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I meant whether he does get expelled or resign remains to be seen, not whether it took place, I know the incident was straight up photographed.

 

@hurlshot: Yeah, he was trying to be funny and instead did something dumb.

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Ben, what makes a sales transaction not a robbery? Consent. What makes sex not a rape? Consent. What makes employment not slavery? Consent. If the employee feels he's getting a bad deal from the employer then the employee is free to go sell his labor to someone else. He's also free to organize with the other employees and bargain collectively with the employer. If I can't find enough miners to dig up my coal for the wages I'm offering then I have two choices: offer higher wages or pick up a shovel. Employment is an agreement both sides enter into freely and can leave freely.

 

Buy the way, you were not free to quit or even choose your job or place of employment in the places where real communism was practiced.

 

 

What is so hard to understand about the fact that jobs demand is strongly inelastic?

It doesn't jive with ideology.

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“Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.”
 
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"The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."

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Ben, what makes a sales transaction not a robbery? Consent. What makes sex not a rape? Consent. What makes employment not slavery? Consent. If the employee feels he's getting a bad deal from the employer then the employee is free to go sell his labor to someone else. He's also free to organize with the other employees and bargain collectively with the employer. If I can't find enough miners to dig up my coal for the wages I'm offering then I have two choices: offer higher wages or pick up a shovel. Employment is an agreement both sides enter into freely and can leave freely.

 

Buy the way, you were not free to quit or even choose your job or place of employment in the places where real communism was practiced.

What is so hard to understand about the fact that jobs demand is strongly inelastic? You cannot survive without income, and if you have no capital, you cannot have an income without work. So you're not "free" to choose whether to sell your labor or not. You must sell it, at whatever price the market is willing to pay for it.

Or live off the grid.

You only MUST sell and pay the price IF your wanting what they are selling.

Don't wanna pay for power? Go off grid and adapt to not using power.

Want to pay for your toys? Get a job or realize you don't NEED those toys.

Want food? Grow ur own and hunt, trade for food.

 

You don't HAVE to sell yourself at all, your perfectly capable of living without doing so. BUT if u want things that u did not make nor have the knowledge of making, then don't bitch when u gotta sell ur soul and time for modern COMFORTS.

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Ben, what makes a sales transaction not a robbery? Consent. What makes sex not a rape? Consent. What makes employment not slavery? Consent. If the employee feels he's getting a bad deal from the employer then the employee is free to go sell his labor to someone else. He's also free to organize with the other employees and bargain collectively with the employer. If I can't find enough miners to dig up my coal for the wages I'm offering then I have two choices: offer higher wages or pick up a shovel. Employment is an agreement both sides enter into freely and can leave freely.

 

Buy the way, you were not free to quit or even choose your job or place of employment in the places where real communism was practiced.

What is so hard to understand about the fact that jobs demand is strongly inelastic? You cannot survive without income, and if you have no capital, you cannot have an income without work. So you're not "free" to choose whether to sell your labor or not. You must sell it, at whatever price the market is willing to pay for it.

 

Or live off the grid.

You only MUST sell and pay the price IF your wanting what they are selling.

Don't wanna pay for power? Go off grid and adapt to not using power.

Want to pay for your toys? Get a job or realize you don't NEED those toys.

Want food? Grow ur own and hunt, trade for food.

 

You don't HAVE to sell yourself at all, your perfectly capable of living without doing so. BUT if u want things that u did not make nor have the knowledge of making, then don't bitch when u gotta sell ur soul and time for modern COMFORTS.

 

The vast majority of people could not live off grid, even if discounting skills or equipment needed because there is simply not enough public land to do so. Sure going off grid and living like a woodsman would be nice, but if you get thrown off where you try to settle it's not a viable option. So to realistically live off grid as you suggest, you have to labor enough to afford to purchase property, which brings us back to the numbersman's point that if you do not own capital you have to work or you will starve. This is indisputable, which brings us to the issue of choice.

 

The choice is ultimately an illusion because of economies of scale. As hinted by our elite friend, demand for jobs is inelastic which means as much as I wish I could land a sweet union gig in manufacturing there's a limited amount of them. I can not wish myself a position there by choice, so to eat I must seek work elsewhere and go down the ladder to whatever I end up on. If it ends in a job I can always quit, but then it's back down the ladder to a likely worse job or unemployment. Now while in this job I have the choice of learning new skills which simply lands me on a better ladder assuming the skills I learned weren't learned en masse and my competition is largely the same, in which case I blew a lot of money and time for nothing. The other choice is to work for years, take out some loans, and start my own business, which if it works is great(technically it did work for me), but in the likely event it doesn't work I'm out a good amount of money and back on the old employment ladder. Last I looked about 96% of businesses fail within 10 years, and while a 4% success rate is fine and dandy to some I'd call a situation where failure is 24x more likely than success to be regarded with some suspicion. If this is truly the best of all systems that have been tried, than something new should be tried.

 

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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Keystone pipeline, 210,000 gallons.

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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