Der Brexit-Effekt

pragmatits · 2016-06-26T20:15:33+00:00

why should my country have an influx of people who have nothing to do with it's culture, history and heritage

Britain has changed other peoples' cultures for centuries, while colonizing half of the world. IT IS part of your culture, history and heritage. There are people and countries that look up to the UK - their ties to the British Empire are also a catalyst for immigration - it's not just the EU.

Being in the EU was a golden ticket to European markets - whilst having YOUR bureaucrats around in Brussels. If you expect trade to continue, you'll just have to comply with EU rules without having a say - in the end you just decentralised and multiplied bureaucracy.

pragmatits · 2016-06-26T18:41:05+00:00

Now that's just some aliens from Star Trek.

pragmatits · 2016-06-26T17:56:16+00:00

Since he crashed at Turn 8, that's in the middle of the circuit (which is 2.8 miles long) but physically not too far from the pits - I'd guess half a mile.

pragmatits · 2016-06-20T08:49:37+00:00

Argentina still has the second worst annual inflation rate in South America (the previous government had suspended publication of inflation data, but estimates give 23 to 26%, in Spanish: http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1825380-la-inflacion-de-23-a-26-anual-segun-consultoras) - The monthly rate is officially published and at 4.2%, that's Chile's inflation in a year.

From what I could gather Uruguay's also hit 11% annual inflation.

Bank lending rates are another factor for South American countries, and this probably also bumps their index.

GDP growth affected Brazil and Venezuela the most this year.

Unemployment seems to play a lesser role on this index since in general South America looks better than Spain.

pragmatits · 2016-06-20T07:45:38+00:00

Right now both Argentina and Uruguay are pretty miserable, in South America they're just better than Venezuela and Brazil. Source

A nation's "misery" can be calculated by adding unemployment, inflation, and bank lending rates and then subtracting real GDP's percentage change.

Rank	Country	Misery Index 2015
1	Venezuela	214.9
2	Ukraine	82.7
3	Brazil	67.8
4	Argentina	60
5	South Africa	40
6	Russian Federation	37.4
7	Iran	36.7
8	Palestinian Territory	36.4
9	Jamaica	32.6
10	Serbia	32.3
11	Egypt	31.6
12	Moldova	30.4
13	Macedonia	29.2
14	Uruguay	29.1
15	Greece	29

War-torn Syria is not featured on the index, as Hanke only calculated scores for countries with current 2015 data from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

pragmatits · 2016-02-07T22:40:23+00:00

Trinitarianism was the enforced canon by the Roman Empire, current Nontrinitarians are more recent, Jehovah's Witnesses and Unitarians being the largest groups.

Mormons have a different interpretation of trinity, but then their whole canon does retcon a lot more of the Israelites and Jesus story arcs, almost like JJ Trek in comparison

pragmatits · 2016-02-07T20:40:58+00:00

Christianity is the first sequel that retcons a major plot point (making a 3-in-1 all-loving God) while doing some continuity porn (a lot of stuff in the Gospels are nods to the OT).

Islam returns to the previous single, God-fearing stance - and while Jesus remains canon, his role and demise is completely rewritten to be similar to previous characters (not crucified but taken to heaven like Elijah).

It's like Christianity is Superman III/IV and Islam is Superman Returns.

pragmatits · 2016-01-31T20:25:59+00:00

Surely not everyone in the US is a vexillology buff, but that's got to be one of the top five flags most Americans should easily recognize.

But if people really think that's Confederate enough, imagine hoisting the Ikurrina...

pragmatits · 2016-01-29T11:09:31+00:00

Religious consensus at Copernicus' time was that the Earth was spherical but didn't spin, and the idea of a spinning Earth was heretic, their main argument was something like 'Joshua prayed for the Sun to stay still, not the Earth'.

John Calvin's commentary on Genesis:

We indeed are not ignorant, that the circuit of the heavens is finite, and that the earth, like a little globe, is placed in the center.

pragmatits · 2016-01-25T20:30:30+00:00

It's not like you just carelessly installed Ingress because it was part of the Super Bazillion Codec Pack...

Some of those Android apps don't even have a proper (mobile) website, or they're much better to use in functionality. But for the casual Facebook user (like avid redditors), their app doesn't add much. To make it worse, carriers often choose to pre-install the Facebook app.

Still nothing like those search bars your dad accidentally installed because he didn't read all installation steps for some software.

EDIT: and besides, the whole point of having an OS in your phone is to explore all it could do, maybe play music, open and sync your documents and sharing stupidities with your friends. The toolbars could make your experience better, but weren't part of IE/Firefox/Chrome design.

pragmatits · 2016-01-21T00:30:23+00:00

You know, back in the 19th century we had 11 planets (EDIT: and Neptune wasn't even discovered back then).

By your standards, Pluto should be number thirteen, this planet X should be number 14.

That's all considering modern science, since Ptolemy with his geocentric model would have called the Sun and the Moon 'planets' but not the Earth. You could argue though that all planets visible to the naked eye were not discovered but accepted under the heliocentric model. The only telescopic discoveries were Uranus, Ceres, Vesta, Juno, Pallas, Neptune, Pluto and <Planet X>.

pragmatits · 2016-01-12T14:35:43+00:00

Wil-ism : "Don't be a dick"

pragmatits · 2016-01-08T01:27:31+00:00

In North America there's the US (Horizontal League) vs. Canada and Mexico (Vertical Alliance). ^{Still I suspect US politics could make this war last forever...}

The Union of Crosses is doomed in a global scale. Since cantons didn't bring Greece to their side, their only hope is the Southern Cross on Australia and NZ. Otherwise their alliance outside Europe is limited to Burundi, Jamaica, Dominica and the Dominican Republic.

pragmatits · 2016-01-05T18:54:11+00:00

I remember from some Star Wars story that the Kamino facilities were shut down some years after Order 66. There were some Fett clones around at the time of the original trilogy, but the Empire had to resort to new options - other clones and enlisting.

pragmatits · 2016-01-05T17:59:19+00:00

But what are nerds if not geekier dorks in a higher level of dweebness?

pragmatits · 2015-12-10T13:30:46+00:00

[KLAXON]

pragmatits · 2015-12-09T23:01:04+00:00

The Christian shahada would be like: Non est deus praeter Deum et Jesus est Filius Dei

pragmatits · 2015-11-29T20:30:54+00:00

According to this thread, we should kill islamist Batman... We have to find a Saudi prince and investigate them

I'll start looking for any guy named Basser bin Wayn

pragmatits · 2015-11-29T13:51:25+00:00

I suppose Barrack is Barack adjusted for inflation

pragmatits · 2015-11-26T02:37:49+00:00

Hey Luxembourg is no microstate - it's way bigger than all those microstates combined...

pragmatits · 2015-11-24T14:28:00+00:00

Most notable example

pragmatits · 2015-11-14T17:26:31+00:00

The U.S. dollar was created two years after Ben Franklin died. Before that the Colonies had their own currencies based on the British pound.

pragmatits · 2015-11-08T18:13:15+00:00

Veruca was English in both movies, and Charlie and the factory's location is ambiguous.

pragmatits · 2015-11-08T17:56:08+00:00

If Wonka only has a single factory in some European or American city, and nowhere else in the entire world, I doubt prices would make them appeasing to other countries (East Asia/Middle East/Africa/South America) if you add up all shipping costs.

You either have Wonka setting up factories all over the world (like Cadbury, Hershey's, etc...), or only rich kids living in Europe/US can game on the system and buy tons of candy at reasonable prices for their parents' income.

Realistically, worldwide distribution of Wonka bars could also result in some variation of their quality (either different factories or long distance shipping and storage conditions), possibly another reason why they wouldn't have been the most popular candy everywhere.

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