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Would a 1.9m blond bloke find a role or would be considered too foreign? Few gigs would help with travel budget.


Very possibly the opposite! Companies will hire westerners to pose (like, literally stand and smile and nothing else) as C-level execs because having foreign execs correlates with a successful international business and thus looks good to potential partners and the like.


I thought that was more common in mainland China than in Japan. Rent-a-gweilo executive impersonation services.


The more laws available - the easier it is to find a loophole or create a scheme for evasion. Look at tons of tax lawyers and firms thriving on difficult and ever growing laws. Full tax rate is only for loosers who can't hire tax evasion lawyers.

The only way froward is to cut regulation - to be understandable and as equally applied as possible.


Some EU countries banned agro chemicals for general public. Now it's only for license bearers - farmers mostly.


I would love to see Catalunya getting independence. Then as fresh country should make agreements with NATO and EU. So while without NATO umbrella Russia would attack and establish Novobarcelonia to protect it's oligarchs down there :D


Usually it's a salvation to be occupied by US compared to Russia - they just kill, steal and trash territory making it doomed (Transnistria, Osetia, Ukraine teritories, Kuril islands) - a true Mordor.


So .. where is all that good ol' American-supported living in .. Libya?

Syria?

Iraq?

Afghanistan?

Cambodia?

Pakistan?

Yemen?

Nigeria?


Japan

Germany

South Korea

Every Western nation supported by the Marshall plan

You're right, but it goes both ways and not 100% one way or the other


Yeah, the USA did do some good for the world. 80 years ago.

But what it is doing today is a terrible, atrocious tragedy, and its far beyond the point where the means justify the ends.

I mean that as someone who follows closely the cost of American warfare, and as someone who refuses to ignore the human tragedy it is bringing to current generations of people who really, really do not deserve to have had their infrastructure utterly destroyed, their lives ruined, their children left in rubble, on a daily basis, because some smart American decided it had to be so.


The problem is, we wanted to do Iraq and Afghanistan and get out. If we had done a Marshall Plan in Iraq, we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade, but it would have been stable when we left.


The problem is, you thought it was acceptable to be there in the first place.

Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must.


> we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade

The US has had north of 100k troops in Iraq for 7 years, then about 50k for 3 more years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/...


The U.S. doesn't leave. Pretty much any where we send troops, we tend to set up bases there and remain indefinitely.

Just look at Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, ...


The most intolerant wins. Society is sinking. "We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world." https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...


Let's just name it straight: all this brainwashing about values and being part of company is a con game by HR's. These con artists are not your friends, never.


Better windmills :D This green energy hoax barely sustains communities on earth, why would sane someone risk on Mars? Mission needs reliability - we have nuclear power sources reliably working for decades, powering bigger things than calculator.


Can you explain what you mean by "green energy hoax [that] barely sustains communities on earth"?

Renewables are part of having a diverse power grid and because of the investment needed they are situated in areas with consistent/reliable wind/solar radiation.

I drive past the massive wind farms of Minnesota and he Dakota's regularly - they are almost always generating electricity. My understanding is that the US has significant potential renewable energy reserves.

Edit. Wikipedia suggests that about 14% of the US grid is currently renewables (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Unit...) - that seems far from "barely sustaining".

The map of potential for wind alone suggests great potential - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wind_power_potential_ma...


Hold on buddy, just 8 yrs left


Skin in the game. You can't expect fair play if one does not put and risk his share.


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