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Participantsvelte: but consider why he was being arrested/harassed by the cops in the first place. Reason was supposedly him selling loose cigarettes (thus evading about $7 of tax). No evidence of him possessing black-market cigarettes was ever found.
It seemed awfully like “walking while black” to me, and maybe the cops should have left him alone. I hope that Pantaleo doesn’t get a single moment of peace, and they he’s hounded into at least resigning, if not leaving the city for life or jumping under a speeding subway train.
Use of force should never have been initiated.
ParticipantBecause you’re dealing with fairly well-run countries with incomes and levels of corruption broadly comparable to the US.
ParticipantAN … wrong.
Northern European jobless rates are broadly comparable to the US, some lower, some higher, but not dramatically different.
US: 5.9%Switzerland: 3.1%
Norway: 3.7%
Denmark: 4.0%
Germany: 4.9%
Sweden: 7.2%
Netherlands: 8.0%
Belgium: 8.6%
France: 10.2%And at least they have a decent welfare system to support the unemployed, as well as an inexpensive or free university system to allow them educational opportunities.
ParticipantThey would consume a lot more if they could.
Ah. But not at the expense of working like Americans. Witness the near riots whenever someone tries to institute American-type labor “reforms.”
ParticipantSadly, I had the great misfortune of being born in the US. Fortunately, I’m a dual citizen so this will be corrected next year.
I don’t need drugs. I need a one-way plane ticket, an apartment lease in Berlin or Prague for a half year. Every day spent outside of the US is like a breath of fresh air.
Most Americans have never stuck their noses outside of North America — only something like 35% even hold passports, so they don’t know what they’re missing being stuck here.
ParticipantIt’s not only Europe. People in most well-run developed countries work less than people in the US. And they sure don’t fucking brag about working five years without time off like it’s some sort of badge of honor versus a sign of being an exploited sheep.
The sex industry exists and is thriving everywhere. At least the Germans and the Czechs have the decency to regulate and allow it, rather than making it the underground domain of violent pimps and crank skanks, where sex workers are afraid to seek the help of the police if something goes wrong.
ParticipantI’ve never owned a fucking SUV and if someone gave me one, I’d part it out with a chain saw and send them pictures.
Then take a trip to Prague on the money gained from EBay sales while laughing all the way.
And don’t confuse editorials in op-ed pages with the feelings of the average employee in a given country. People who I know in northern Europe are quite grateful NOT to be Americans.
ParticipantCompanies are bought and sold all of the time. Dumberican working hours and vacation time didn’t save IBM’s PC business from going to the Chinese either.
ParticipantFrance averages $0.1939/kWh. If you use like an average French person, your cost is $0.17/kWh. So, no, France doesn’t have cheaper electricity than SoCal.
Average residential electric cost in SoCal is quoted as 22-23 cents per kWh. Where are you getting 17 cents?
ParticipantI think the world would still survive without search. The algorithms used are pretty well-known and would be replicated in months.
ParticipantYou never go outside in summer, then? What’s the fun of living in CA if you go from air-conditioned bubble to bubble?
ParticipantLoL, Wolfram Alpha is headquartered in Illinois. Yandex, really?
AFAIK, Wolfram has more employees outside the US than within.
ParticipantForget about air-conditioning in the summer.
Average summer temps and humidity levels in much of Europe don’t require it. Any more than it’s required in coastal SD County.
BTW – would it surprise you that electricity is actually cheaper in France than in Southern California? Using 90% nuke and hydropower has its advantages 🙂
ParticipantIf you go that far back, tell me, where would the world be if Microsoft, Apple, Google, the whole world would come to a screeching halt. People would have no idea where to go to find information. They would have no PC, smartphones, search engines, etc.
The hardware would still be there and is a commodity. Produced mostly by the Chinese. As well as the French (Alcatel network switches). The software would also keep on running, and development would just be taken over.
The only people who lose data are those rock-dumb enough not to use local storage.
Search engine design isn’t even unique at this point. Wolfram Alpha (heavy European presence) and Yandex would likely take over soon enough.
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