Posts by Fungus Bob 1347 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2014
Because the whole idea of UBI is to solve the problem of what to do with all the permanently displaced workers when they are replaced by robots. Whether or not this will be an actual problem is a matter of some debate but this is a case of technology and politics colliding.
"Voting to fire the head of an international organisation is likely to result in a lot of shenanigans in terms of who gets to replace the fired person"
Since he's French, why not let them decide. The worst they could do is replace him with their favorite comic genius - Jerry Lewis.
"The Electoral College system exists because the individual states fiercely protect their own rights and small states fear their opinion would count for less in a popular vote system.
And there's the issue than comes up every four years."
The Electoral College does one other thing that no one has mentioned yet - it provides a clear, definite result and saves us from months of tedious recounts and legal challenges like we had in Minnesota when Norm Coleman and Al Franken each got 40% of the vote for the US Senate. After 4 months of recounts and legal crap proving both candidates were shit, the real winner was Norm Coleman who got to fade into obscurity while Al Franken got a job where 60% of the voting public did not like him.
"Let's leave it to the "enlightened" supporters of stone-age superstitions to tell us once again that every natural, and unnatural disaster was caused by sinners, gays, and children who don't go to bed when their parents tell them to."
Because they're wrong. Just plain wrong. Everyone knows the real reason for every natural and unnatural disaster is not enough virgins to throw into the volcanoes!
"> You've told people not to use jargon, but I have no idea whatsoever what 'top-up the jets' means*.
I'd hazard a guess he's American and means topping up the screenwash, but it is only a guess."
I'm an American and I, too, have no idea what 'top up the jets' means. Perhaps he's Canadian...
"votes siphoned off by the third party candidates"
What a ludicrous statement! Votes are never siphoned off by third party candidates because:
1. If the third party candidates did not exist, there is no reason to think that those who voted for them would have voted for the two big party candidates as they may have decided to abstain.
2. No candidate is entitled to votes. Therefore, it is impossible to "steal" votes from them. If anything, Clinton and Trump owe the world an apology.
"The Chinese are so much better than those lazy Westerners. They can even run the company in to the dirt quicker."
They can even make critical infrastructure collapse quicker. It takes them mere months to make a bridge collapse while it took nearly 40 years for the I35 bridge to collapse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/world/asia/collapse-of-new-bridge-underscores-chinas-infrastructure-concerns.html
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