rkbabang

Indeed, Trump was very slow to transition from primary election mode to general election mode. He seems to be getting it now.

I happen to think Clinton is more likely to provoke Russia or China into nuclear war than Trump is, but they are clearly both dangerous. As is Obama. He is trying to provoke a psychopath into starting a nuclear war right now as we speak. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/u-s-bombers-send-china-russia-north-korea-message-n647616 EDIT: Maybe this guy has a point and Trump is more dangerous now.

There's actually a relatively active subreddit dedicated to these sorts of paths: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesirePath/ I find it strangely compelling. It makes me think that, when building anything new, they shouldn't bother paving for a year. Then, they should just pave anywhere there's a path. (And, to add a political element to the post, you don't actually see that many paths like this in the real world. I guess that means that rkbabang thinks centrally planning mostly works.... :) ) I think for the most part the pavement you see is put where the paths already were. So nothing was really planned. When planners try to change what people already want to do, like in the photo, it doesn't work. Even in a new development it is fairly safe to just pave the shortest route between two points, it doesn't take much planning genius. As far as write ins go. Three of the four candidates on this above poll have 50 state + DC ballot access this year, where Stein is not on the ballot in 6 states. It is possible that people in those 6 states could write her in. Also it is theoretically possible that 3 days before the election, it is found out that Hillary goes into a coma, Trump is charged with tax evasion, Johnson is accused of being a child molester and Stein is hit by a bus. It would be too late to get anyone else on ballot, so there would be a bunch of people running last minute write in campaigns. EDIT: I probably should have said: Hillary drops dead from the heat on a 70 degree day, Trump is killed when a wall falls on him, Johnson is poisoned after eating at an unregulated restaurant, and Stein gets brain cancer from her WIFI router.

Options. http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/wp-content/uploads/central-planning--565x422.jpg

You forgot the ever popular "Nobody". After all Nobody is honest, Nobody will do what he says, Nobody can really change things for the better, Nobody will make a difference, Nobody listens, and Nobody cares. Remember Nobody deserves your vote!

Why I Don't Vote: The Honest Truth Bryan Caplan http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/09/why_i_dont_vote.html "My honest answer begins with extreme disgust. When I look at voters, I see human beings at their hysterical, innumerate worst. When I look at politicians, I see mendacious, callous bullies.... If I had a 5% chance of tipping an electoral outcome, I might hold my nose, scrupulously compare the leading candidates, and vote for the Lesser Evil. Indeed, if, like von Stauffenberg, I had a 50/50 shot of saving millions of innocent lives by putting my own in grave danger, I'd consider it. But I refuse to traumatize myself for a one-in-a-million chance of moderately improving the quality of American governance. And one-in-a-million is grossly optimistic... consorting with bad people hurts you deep inside... The only way I know to escape this darkness is to focus on the tiny corner of the world in my control and make it beautiful and pure. Call me anti-social if you must. Unlike your candidates, at least I'm honest."

Either way it will be a hoot. I don't know what will be better, seeing the shock on the conservatives faces if Hillary wins or the utter disbelief on the liberals' faces if Trump wins? I can't wait for November.

Seattle is controlled by the extreme left. I am feeling bad. They first legalized marijuana and now they are pushing for heroin. I was not interested in elections in the past but now I've felt that the leftists have gone too far and they are going to endanger the society. I'd rather them be legalized completely and sold by the pound in grocery stores (maybe in the coffee aisle), but Portugal's policy is a good start and would be a huge improvement over what the US has now. 14 Years After Decriminalizing All Drugs, Here's What Portugal Looks Like https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.QKowGG6Ez

Scott Adams this morning: "The election is over." He was talking about her health back in December that was long before anyone else as far as I know. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/150284922631/checking-my-predictions-about-clintons-health

According to Scott Adams it has. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/150264994381/the-race-for-president-is-probably-over

I think that just goes without saying. By the way when I posted the link to the Penn Jillette interview here http://www.cornerofberkshireandfairfax.ca/forum/general-discussion/if-american-who-will-you-vote-for/msg273773/#msg273773 and said that his analysis was correct, I was implicitly saying that Trump is a moron. If you listen to the interview he basically states (in so many words) that Trump is a stupid moron and Hilary is an evil and dangerous war monger and lier.

I'll tell you what. Say what you want about Scott Adams, but he has been 100% correct about how this campaign would turn out so far. He was saying that Trump was going to win the nomination and then the presidency (and his reasoning was spot on. HINT: he doesn't support Trump) way back in August of 2015 when almost everyone thought even his run for the nomination was a joke. He was also talking about Hillary's health long before even the Republican press. It is almost like someone gave him an advance copy of how this whole election show was going to play out.

To me, it's not funny to expose an innocent child to an infectious disease. Nice try. If you can't respond to the message, attack the messenger. Is it not worth it to die knowing you've met Hillary? Hillary must think so anyway.

This election is great. Future generations will have to read about the decline and fall of the US in their history books, but we will all get to live through it and witness it first hand. May you live in interesting times.

I guess the Washington Post is now reporting conspiracy theories as if they are facts? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/11/hillary-clintons-health-just-became-a-real-issue-in-the-presidential-campaign/

While I tend to agree with you, I also tend to cut people some slack online. The friends you are talking about you probably know in person. It is much easier to get angry at text on a screen than it is to get angry at an actual human being standing in front of you. This is the same reason that if a person almost bumps into you while you are both walking you tend to be very nice and even laugh about it, but someone cuts you off in traffic you get pissed (or many people do anyway). It is much easier to get angry at an automobile than a live person standing in front of you.

Regulations (all regulations) are always created to benefit the corporations who own the politicians. This is how the system works. Liberals have never understood this and for all their anti-corporatist talk, they are the biggest pushers of corporatist/crony-capitalist policies. The liberal mind can be summed up as follows: Intentions matter more than results. Actually helping the sick and the poor doesn't matter at all as long as you intended to help them. Pushing policies that create a corporatist/crony-capitalist oligarchy is ok as long as you intended the opposite. Socialists of all stripes never learned where the road paved with good intentions leads. Yes...some regulations are required, but complicated rules do help large companies. See the pitch for TNET in VIC. https://www.valueinvestorsclub.com/idea/TRINET_GROUP_INC/137466 "Obamacare and other government involvement in US healthcare increase the complexity and bureaucracy of the system. Newly instituted penalties makes mistakes costly when rules are not followed. All of the above means more business for TNET. Over the last three years the numbers of worksite employees (industry jargon for employees under TNET’s care) it serves grew in the mid-teens." The regulations that are "required" (which is debatable, but may be true) should be specifically debated and voted on by congress, one at a time and passed into law and signed by the president. Just like congress gave up its power to declare war to the president, congress has given up its power to regulate to unconstitutional (IMHO) regulatory agencies which publish regulations by the 100s of thousands, are answerable to no one, and are completely in bed with large businesses at the direct expense of small business, would be entrepreneurs, and consumers.

Regulations (all regulations) are always created to benefit the corporations who own the politicians. This is how the system works. Liberals have never understood this and for all their anti-corporatist talk, they are the biggest pushers of corporatist/crony-capitalist policies. The liberal mind can be summed up as follows: Intentions matter more than results. Actually helping the sick and the poor doesn't matter at all as long as you intended to help them. Pushing policies that create a corporatist/crony-capitalist oligarchy is ok as long as you intended the opposite. Socialists of all stripes never learned where the road paved with good intentions leads.

Just one comment on the "Trump would do X" and "Hillary would do Y" type arguments. They are not running for dictator. What you mean is that they would sign those bills if congress chose to pass them and put them on their desk. It is a good think most of the time that the president can't do what they want to. The exception to this is the military, because congress has forfeited its power to declare war to the president and that has been a disaster.

But how about Angela Merkel's disastrous refugee policies that changed the lives of so many German people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany 1200 women were raped publicly on the street. Their lives were forever changed. And this is just one incident. Smaller crimes happen almost everyday in Germany now. Yes, the Bush/Obama war on terror has been a horrendous nightmare in so many ways.

Just a correction, Scott Adams is not pro-Trump. He predicted that Trump will win, but that isn't the same as being pro-Trump. I predict Hillary is going to win, but I am not pro-Hillary.

Here's a good interview with Penn Jillette. His analysis of Trump and Clinton are spot on 100%. It is a long interview, but they discuss politics first. They go on to talk about his weight loss, then Bob Dylan, and other topics after that.

This is an excellent article. I think cryptocurrencies or blockchain tech in general may be something that will fall into this category someday. Maybe SpaceX's reusable rockets? Google's autonomous cars? When You Change the World and No One Notices http://www.collaborativefund.com/assets/VG.png

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, an Iranian, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Syrian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Canadian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Canadian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, and 2 South Africans ... ... all walk into a fine upscale restaurant. "I'm sorry," says the maître d', after scrutinizing the group. "You can't come in here without a Thai."

"live downtown", which is why this is possible for you. You can't live in the suburbs (never mind rural areas) without owning a car. Even most small cities aren't as livable for the carless as the larger ones are. If I lived and worked in a large city I wouldn't own a car either. The thing about cities is that the easier the city is to live in without owning a car the more difficult, inconvenient, and expensive it is to actually own a car if you wanted to. If you lived in Manhattan it would be incredibly inconvenient and expensive to own a vehicle, never mind 2-4 of them as most suburbanites do. This is a good indication of what will happen when car ownership becomes rare everywhere. The fewer people who own their own vehicles in an area over time the more and more inconvenient and expensive continuing to own one yourself will become. Parking lots/garages will start getting smaller or disappearing as land is developed for its best marginal use, even in the suburbs you will see large shopping centers with very little parking capacity as acres of land dedicated for parking will just be a waste of money. City streets will have more space for pickup/drop off only stopping (5 min parking only) and less for leaving your car there for a long time. Development will proceed in a direction with the assumption that people don't own their own cars and need places to park them.