More PC rubbish. Soon we'll all have to wear brown paper bags over our heads and speak through a gender-neutral, computer generated microphone voice lest someone gets upset or gets an "unfair" advantage.
The article didn't suggest that people with more "desirable" faces do anything to prevent an unfair advantage. It merely brought to attention a universal prejudice, with a suggestion that people, especially those making decisions wrt employment, be aware of the prejudices, so that they don't unfairly disadvantage candidates, and so that they don't dismiss someone who might be a better candidate solely on the basis of their looks.
Sure it did. How about here:
“The question is, do we want to spend government money protecting bad looking people when – it’s my personal view – other groups merit more attention?”
Thats as much of a hint on government regulation as it can be.
Summary: "I've defended big oil interests halfway across the world in a war started on a false pretext, please worship me". I get it, you're a veteran and you're proud of that, and maybe you even did everything as a worthy human being, but tone down on the ego.
All this spending was basically German and French money recycling through Greece, where previous German loans were paid with new ones. Default like Argentina and Iceland did, and start of a fresh slate, keeping this bloodsucking parasite called Brussels on the body of Greece is a travesty - 5 years of ruined lives already.
It would actually be a great experiment to create a new libertarian nation which could let in everybody who is willing to contribute (work/business experience/bank account statement as proof) and see how that turns out. Something like a new US/Singapore started from a fresh slate.
Honduras tried (is trying?) a libertarian city in special development regions. The article I remember reading is actually from December 2011; I didn't think it was that long ago and I haven't read anything new. Here's the article that might be a good starting point for you though:
To take this suggestion a step further, it would be great if this new nation was run as a Futarchy [1]. The basic idea is we use prediction markets to determine if certain policies would raise GDP, and those that do become law. Projects like Augur [2] are trying to make ubiquitous prediction markets possible by relying on Blockchain-like decentralization.
I don't know, maybe you could build it under the sea. You could give it some neat biblical-sounding name too...Apocalypta? Nah, too doomsday. How about...Rapture?
The possibility of Kaspersky being a "stooge" for Putin is much less than the possibility of Symantec, Norton et all being stooges for US Government (well its a certainty actually) + all the arms of the octopus. This is why I use Kaspersky @ my home PC, at least I know if there are any backdoors, it would be very difficult for anyone in the west to get Russia to provide any useful data on me. While for Symantec - it would take one call and the backup keys to unencrypt your drive/snoop on you is in the hands of people who painted you a target.
You're 100% right, nothing is free.
However, same quality education might be significantly cheaper in some places - e.g. medium-tier uni I went to in Canada charged ~$7000/year in tuition (back in 07).
"You either increase production, or you reduce demand. You reduce consumption by eating lower on the food chain and of course the big question of course is how much we can reduce our population or limit population growth between now and the time when the food really starts to get scarce."
Another doom and gloom piece pushing population reduction. I wonder whose behind NPR...
"The DNA samples allowed the scientists to factor out the influence of genetic heritage and look more closely at how socioeconomic status affects a growing brain."
