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What Does it Mean to be a Materialist: Thoughts After Spinoza after Marx
Of all of the zoom events, conferences, and presentations that I have attended (zoomed?) this year the one dedicated to Spinoza after Marx was the most engaging, the one most capable of breaking through the zoom screen that makes everything feel further away even as it is so close, inches away even. This is in part because of the participants, but it was also due to the work of the organizers who, in an interesting variation on organizing around a common theme, presented a common set of theses that were discussed and debated over the course of the three days. Of course as great as this was as an online event it is hard not to think about how those conversations would have continued over dinner, at bars, and coffee shops. The event did create a collective act of thought, of thinking in common, but as Spinoza and Marx both know there is no thinking together, thinking in common, without acting and feeling in common.
This idea of bodies affecting minds, or, put simply "materialism" turned out to be one of the debated points of the conference. Materialism was not named directly in the circulated set of theses, although there were a few that touched on it, remarking on Marx and Spinoza's commitment to immanence and the primacy of practice to consciousness. (With respect to later that is partly what I talked about in my keynote, my paper has subsequently been published at Crisis and Critique, along with other stuff by Jaquet, Macherey, Morifino, Montag, Sharp, etc.) The question of materialism was raised by Gil Morejon. I believe that video of his presentation is available for patreon supporters of What's Left of Philosophy? (and you should be one) or you can listen to the recent episode on Spinoza.
I am not going to respond to his remarks directly here, but will get to one of the most important questions he raises at the end of the post. Instead I would like to begin with Pascal Sévérac's answer to the question in a short book titled Qu'y a-t-il de matérialiste chez Spinoza? Sévérac is the author of one of the most influential books on Spinoza in recent years, Le Devenir Actif Chez Spinoza, as well as the author and editor of other books dedicated to Spinoza. However this recent book is part of HDiffusion's Permanent University series, a series dedicated to popular education aimed a political action and social transformation. That Spinoza appears in such a series along with Lenin and a book on the French Revolution (to name a few of the only titles that have appeared so far) shows to what extent the radical Spinoza has taken hold in at least certain sectors of French intellectual life.
Sévérac begins with the question, that many in the Anglo-American philosophical world would dismiss out of hand: is Spinoza a materialist? It is difficult to simply answer this question in the affirmative to reconcile a philosophy that starts from contemplating god sub specie aeternitas with the idea of materialism as it is generally conceived. Sévérac responds to this difficulty by changing the question asking what does Spinoza's philosophy offer in terms of a reconsideration of materialism, or, how does it break with what has generally been considered materialism in order to redefine it?
Sévérac answers this question by looking at three senses in which Spinoza's thought could be considered materialist: empirical, ontological, and methodological. In answering the first Sévérac turns to Spinoza's own account of his experience of coming to philosopohy in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. In that text Spinoza famously opens with the assertion that "After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile…" Philosophy emerges from experience, it is a search for a "greatest good…capable of communicating itself" brought about by the failures of the goods conventionally pursued in individual and collective life. Sévérac argues that this search makes it clear that philosophy is not only grounded on experience, on a search for truth that is also grounded in desire, but that it is ultimately a process of individual and collective transformation in a search for a different way of living. As Sévérac writes, "It is necessary to understand that for Spinoza the individual is a being collectively constituted, both organically and social, the affective and cognitive point of view—and these two dimensions, affective and cognitive are indissociable."Sévérac does not see the turn away from such goods as pleasure, money, and status and towards philosophy as a turn away from the worldly material things, but rather a transformation of material life, of desire itself. Philosophy is not an attempt to get outside of the world, but a different way of living in the world.
This empirical materialism is followed by an ontological materialism grounded on the refusal of any such division between this world and its beyond. Deus sive Natura as Spinoza writes, there is only one reality, a reality that we comprehend in terms of ideas and things. As Sévérac writes, "Nature is not therefore entirely material, but could only be apprehended in part through its material dimension." It is at this point where Spinoza most definitely breaks with a reduction of the ideal to the material, in which there are only bodies, or, to take on a different materialism, only material conditions, ideas are also another, ultimately different way of grasping this reality. Spinoza works against two reductions. Against the idealist reduction of the body, of matter, to something fallen or just passive, Spinoza insists on its power and causality: against the materialist reduction of ideas to epiphenomenon of material forces Spinoza insists on the their causality and efficacy. As much as this intervention cuts against both positions, at least in their crude variant. Ontologically things and ideas are equal, but our perspective on this reality is shaped more by bodies than minds. Our ideas, our primarily formed through our bodily encounters and relations. There is no possible understanding of thought, of the activity of the mind without understanding the imagination and the affects, which is to say the encounters of the body.
As Sévérac writes, "If Spinoza is not therefore a reductive materialist in the sense that he reduces thought to an emenation of matter, and the mind to a function of the body, he nevertheless proposes a consistent materialism in the sense that for him one must always take consideration of bodies and its powers in order to know what the mind is capable of, to grasp the cognitive and affective capabilities." This consistency can be found in the third aspect of materialism that Sévérac identifies, that of method, Spinoza refuses to treat, ideas, or the mental life, as anything other than another thing, with its own causal relations in the world. As Sévérac argues "Spinoza's grand idea is that psychic interiority does not any less than material exteriority the necessity of precise laws understood as causal relations."
Does this make Spinoza a materialist? or more to the point how does this transform materialism? Here it might be useful to return to EIIP7, which in its own dialectical manner is both the strongest testament of Spinoza's materialism and its internal limitation. It is materialist in that it asserts the identity of things and ideas, as two different ways of grasping the same thing, as well as the same order and connection, the same causality, but it is in some sense anti-materialist in the assertion that only and idea can determine and idea and a body a body. Thus, to refer back to the discussion at the conference, the often asserted idea that material conditions shape and determine ideas, that "life determines consciousness," an idea that is central to materialism of a Marxist variety, would be seem to be an impossibility for Spinoza. The emphasis would have to be on seem since Spinoza's entire ethical project is in part dependent on the premise that there must be some way that minds and bodies act on, or at least influence each other, some way that our thinking can alter how we live As Spinoza asserts, "we have the power of ordering and connecting the affections of the body according to the order of the intellect."(EVP10). However, Spinoza tends to consider this "logic of alternation" (to use Jaquet's term, see the first link in this paragraph) working primarily in one direction, it is primarily a matter of organizing our thoughts in such a way to reorganize our affects, which is what makes it an ethical materialism to use Tosel's term. To the extent that Spinoza thinks in terms of the other direction, bodies, affects, and so on shaping ideas and influencing ideas, it is primarily in his political writings, must notably in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, where he discusses how habits and rituals shape thought to the point that for "men so habituated to it obedience must have appeared no longer as bondage, but freedom."
One could restore the primacy of matter, of bodies, of material conditions through such a way, but that seems to overlook Spinoza's peculiar materialism. It is one in which we are determined not just as a body, not just in terms of material conditions, but also as mind, as a spiritual automaton. Or, maybe, materialism is not the right word. Perhaps it is more a matter of naturalism or even determinism. With respect to the former I am influenced by Fischbach's La Production des hommes: Marx avec Spinoza, where he writes:
What exactly does this affirmation of man as a being of nature, as a part of nature, mean for Marx, because, after all, he could or could not give these formulations a literal spinozist sense. It means first of all that man is "an objective being, natural, sensible" that is to say a finite mode amongst an infinity of other such modes. The determination of humanity as a objective being would be reconsidered by Marx up to Capital, where he writes that, "the human being itself, considered as a pure existence of labor power, is a natural object, a thing, certainly living and conscious of itself, but a thing—and work properly speaking is a reification of this force." Adopting the point of view according to which the human being is first of all a being in nature, a thing in the world, is exactly to adopt the spinozist point of view according to which humans must first be grasped as a finite mode: to start, as does Spinoza, from the double fact, to know that on one hand that "man thinks" and, on the other, that "we feel that a certain body is affected in many ways," it being understood that these two traits are at the same level and of equal importance, the fact that we find ourselves to be thinking our thoughts accompanies the fact that we are aware of our body being affected by other things since " the object of the idea constituting a human mind is body, nothing can happen in that body which is not perceived by the mind." In the same way that the affection of the body, thought is a fact of nature, it is part of the natural being of humanity:thought does not found the exceptional character of humanity in the sense of being something outside of nature.
(If that seems like a really long passage to translate for a blogpost it is because it is--it is a draft from the translation I am preparing of Fischbach's book)
In other words, and this is something that Hasana Sharp does a great idea of developing, as finite beings that are both minds and bodies, feeling and thinking, we are doubly determined, inserted in relation to practices, bodies, and relations, but also ideas, concepts, and imagination. I am not sure if we could call this materialism, at least in the conventional sense, but I am sure that it is not idealism. In fact it is further from conventional idealism than classical idealism. The idea that ideas have causes, are determined, that thought is not a free faculty, is more opposed to idealism than the conventional materialism, the assertion of the priority of bodies. The latter can always be reincorporated into idealism, no pun intended, through the primacy of representation. As long as matter is an object of thought, something contemplated or represented, we are closer to idealism than we think. This is in part the hidden idealism that Marx wrote about in the Theses of Feuerbach. Or, more to the point, the idea that we are determined by both material conditions and the conditions of thought, by the order and connection of ideas and bodies, might be a Spinoza that is closer to Marx, to Marx's own "materialism without matter," as Balibar put it in The Philosophy of Marx, than any putative materialism that is restricted to bodies and material conditions. Not to be too reductive but in some sense the most important concepts of Marx's thought from ideology to fetishism to even the emphasis on form in the sense of value form are in some sense concepts of the materiality of the ideal, or, if that is too much, do not fit in materialism conventionally understood as the primacy of bodies to minds, matter to ideas. In the end, and to conclude, perhaps the relation between Marx and Spinoza is not a matter of their shared materialism, but of their intersecting challenges to materialism--the way they expand materialism to go beyond the thing, the body, to encompass ideas and social relations.
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Significa piuttosto che non si ha la più pallida idea di cosa sia questo gioco
La verità non va cercata al di fuori delle opere, come sostengono i critici dell'ideologia, ma dentro di esse, solo che bisogna saperla vedere: perché niente, nei libri, è come sembra. C'è una pagina di David Remnick su Philip Roth che immortala l'idiozia di queste letture 'profonde' nel loro ambiente d'elezione, l'università [32]. Roth è ospite di un seminario a lui dedicato, e ascolta le domande dei dottorandi,
forbite domande nel più puro stile derridiano, con giochi di parole eruditi e osservazioni per lui incomprensibili. Roth, che si è formato a Brucknell e alla Università di Chicago mezzo secolo fa, non ha saputo rispondere agli interrogativi pressanti sul significato dei nomi dei suoi personaggi: Seymour (Swede) Levov, significa 'amore'? Lev? Lion? E Seymour, vuol forse dire see more, che ci vede meglio? […]. E che ci dice di Merry? Si tratta forse di Maria? Della Maria di Cristo? Alcune domande hanno chiamato in causa la numerologia, per esempio per la 'natura tripartita' di Pastorale americana, che è divisa in tre parti, narra di tre generazioni e introduce una famiglia di tre personaggi.
Poi i dottorandi tirano in ballo il Talmud e la filologia ebraica. Roth, che ignora l'uno e l'altro, si permette di dire che forse «le loro sottigliezze erano fuori luogo», e li invita invece a leggere Pastorale americana
come un romanzo che non ha a che fare con il simbolismo dei nomi, bensì con le ripercussioni di un periodo rivoluzionario della società americana, con «la natura incontrollabile della realtà» e l'incapacità di dare un senso agli eventi casuali e alle catastrofi che possono distruggere la vita di un uomo onesto.
Tornati dal seminario, Remnick chiede a Roth la sua opinione «su queste nuove tendenze della critica letteraria», e lui le paragona a uno spettatore di una partita di baseball che anziché guardare il campo di gioco fissi per tutto il tempo il tabellone del punteggio. «Si tratta forse di una lettura politica, oppure di una nuova teoria del baseball? Non direi, significa piuttosto che non si ha la più pallida idea di cosa sia questo gioco».
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Today's half day tour takes you to visit the world famous Cu Chi Tunnels. The incredible underground tunnel network was constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters (Viet Cong) during their long struggle for independence.
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Today's the ride is predominantly downhill through pine forests ,villages and tea plantations as we descend nearly 1500m from Dalat to the Po Klong Galai Cham Tower, near the coastal town of Phan Rang. These four brick towers a among someof the best-preserved in Vietnam; they were built in the 13thcentury,during the regiem of the Cham monorch Java Simhavarman III ,as Shiva temples(Hindu).Aftervisitingthe temples we drive to Nha Trang in the afternoon. overnight in Nha Trang.
Avoiding cycling on H1 we drive in the morning to the HON GOM penisular,some 80km north of Nha Trang.Unloading the bikes we ride a short way past shrimp farms out along the penisular.Board a 15minutes boat to Whale island,an eco resort owned by a Frenchman and his Vietnamese wife.The island is small but there are plenty of optional activities to do such as catamaran sailing,snorkeling.relaxing,hikingthe short nature trail around the island,and diving.The food is a fusion of French and Viet cuisine.Overnight in simple but very comfortable bungalows of Whale island.
After a leisurely morning on the island,return to the main road and drive northwards a short distance to a void the main traffice,Cycl back roads to the coastal town of QuiNhon.meeting friendly people along the journey.Overnight in QuiNhon.
After breakfast continue the journey along Vietnam's only coastal road,to our next biking spot,near the Quang Ngai town.Here we unload at the comfortable hotel and take lunch before a wonderful afternoon ride again on quiet country roads,The ride starts with a short steady 2 km climb to the top of Thien An Mountain where we enjoy the panaromic view of the surrounding countryside and visit an ancient working pagoda.From here we continue on quiet roads to the beach for a chance to swim and relax,then continue looping round through fishing villages back to the hotel.overnight in Quang ngai.
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Five kilometers from the centre of the town is Cua Dai beach,popular with both locals and visitors alike for its sandy beach,warm sea seafood stalls.Hoi An isknown throughout Vietnam for its excellent seafood and it also boasts its own unique dishes such as Cao Lau,a delicious combination of noodles,port bean sprouts,mint and croutons.
The day is at leisure.alternatively take a bike ride to My Son Cham Tower located 70km from Hoi An or charter a local boatout to the beautiful Cham island set in spristine seas and with a gorgeous deserted beach..few tourists have yet visited this gem!
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Widely regarded as one of the top boxers of the late 19th century, George Dixon was renowned for his stamina, speed, and defence and was the first Black athlete and first Canadian to win a world title. Born in Africville, Halifax, and competing primarily out of the boxing hub of Boston as a bantamweight and featherweight, he became the first fighter to win world titles at multiple weight classes and the first to have multiple reigns with a world title. Credited with inventing shadowboxing, his innovative training techniques improved in-ring performance. Dixon's technical approach was widely adopted among pugilists of his era and remains central to training regimens of modern boxers. He confronted racial prejudice throughout his life and career, using his platform as world champion to create opportunities for Black boxers and Black boxing fans and regularly used his in-ring earnings to contribute to causes combating discrimination.
Dixon started his boxing training after moving with his family to Boston, Massachusetts. Those around him noticed his natural skill, which included fast feet, a remarkable ability to bob and weave, and incredibly quick hands, all of which made him a very effective defensive fighter. Not the most physically-imposing boxer-he was 5'4" and weighed between 87 and 115 pounds while an active fighter-he used these skills to launch his career.
His first official fight was in 1886 in Halifax, where he knocked out Young Johnson. After fighting exclusively in Boston for the next four years, he travelled to England in 1890 where he knocked out Nunc Wallace in the 18th round to win the undisputed world bantamweight title. With the victory, he became the first Black boxer to win a world title in any weight class. Dixon, who competed primarily in the United States, confronted racism throughout his career, but used his popularity to challenge discrimination. For instance, he regularly got promoters of his fights to reserve seats for Black fans, a practice which was unheard of at the time.
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Africa is already connected, NOT by Facebook and Google
By Opinion on November 23, 2020 Africa, Industry and Trade
Cross section underwater subsea optic fibre cable connection. The Exchange
In the midst of the pandemic, Facebook[1] (and partners) announced 2Africa[2] a new subsea cable. About the same time last year, Google also announced a subsea cable called Equaino[3]. Both cables have been presented as (better) connecting Africa to the world – that is factually inaccurate. The diagrams below by Steve Song[4] under the auspices of Many Possibilities[5] gives you a historical account of Africa been connected to the world by subsea cables since 2001 through SAT3[6] – a consortium of majority Africa owned telecom operators[7]. As per the second diagram Google and Facebook are building the 19th and 20th cables which would be live in Q4 2021 and Q4 2023 respectively. Hence Facebook and Google cannot be connecting Africa to the world in 2020 – at best their two new cables could serve as redundancy to the existing ones as well as provide capacity in the future.
In 2001, SAT3 and all other subsea cables were built through a club consortium which meant if you did not belong to the club you could not play. The club consortiums then set a high price tag for their fiber because they had a monopoly in the markets. In 2004 I started a movement under the auspices of the Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA)[1] and Africa Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) both of which I co-founded to dismantle these consortiums and monopolies with the intent to drive down the price of connectivity to make broadband more accessible and affordable.[2] Our first victory was in November 2004 when GISPA signed an agreement with Ghana Telecom to reduce the cost of SAT3 by 1/3.[3] GISPA then led the establishment of the Ghana Internet eXchange (GIX[4]) to keep local Internet traffic in Ghana. AfrISPA members followed the GISPA lead and started negotiating for cheaper prices as well as building their local internet exchanges to keep Internet traffic with their countries.
In 2005, Russell Southwood, Anders Comstedt and I wrote "Open Access Models: Options for Improving backbone access in developing countries" for the WorldBank in which we presented an alternative approach to club consortiums and monopolies for the development of fiber networks.[5] I followed this up in 2006 by writing one[6] of two[7] missives that made the case for "Open Access" communications infrastructure in Africa. Come 2007 I got invited by Dr. Bitange Ndemo[8] to join the founding team that launch The East Africa Marine System (TEAMS[9]) based on the open access model we had developed – a first in East Africa with Kenya as the nexus.[10] 2009 saw the arrivals of the TEAMS and SEACOM[11] cables – by 2013 ten more subsea cables went live. According to Paul Hamilton of African Bandwidth Maps[12], Africa's total subsea design capacity at 2018 was 226.461 Tbps with the sold international bandwidth at 10.962 Tbps, including subsea capacity at 10.470 Tbps and terrestrial cross-border capacity to submarine cables at 479 Gbps.[13] As per the map above we have 18 cables with Google building the 19th and Facebook the 20th so the economic impact of subsea cables which Facebook funded[14]RTI International to undertake[15] should be attributing the impact to the existing cables and not the ones that are not yet in existence.
Gillian Marcelle, PhD, Managing Member of Resilience Capital Ventures LLC who has had several decades of facilitating and mobilizing capital for the digital economy has this to say: "tackling connectivity across the continent and mobilizing positive economic and social outcomes must draw on indigenous expertise. The days for us Africans waiting for a savior are LONG gone."
Based on her extensive investigations of African telecoms and tech industries, she went on to admonish recent efforts that render African knowledge and expertise invisible. She further added that there is considerable global and regional scholarly work that already goes much further than simple correlations between GDP, economic output, and investments in connectivity enhancing projects. When asked about her key recommendations, Dr Marcelle offered this view: "Many advocates including those active in the global caucuses and multistakeholder partnerships have established conclusively that it is necessary to understand patterns of inequity and exclusion that arise from bottlenecks and blind spots. What is required now are smart and authentic partnerships that build on the foundation laid to produce tremendous positive outcomes. In Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa there are ecosystems with components and actors to make good on this promise."
This is the problem – we have way too much capacity on the beach and not enough inland to connect to the wireless and cellphone networks to drive broadband to the masses. What Africa NEEDS today is terrestrial fiber to drive the existing subsea cable capacity inland to improve the broadband capacity of the wireless and cellphone networks. Liquid Telecom which is part of the Econet Group owned by Strive Masiyiwa has been in the forefront of building terrestrial cross-border fiber networks across the continent – they have the most extensive network from Cape Town to Cairo but yet to cover West Africa as per the map below.[16] We need three or four more of such networks to not only increase the capacity but provide competition to drive down the price of cross-border bandwidth. CSquared which counts Google as one of its investors is building metro fibers in Ghana, Liberia, and Uganda. Others like Wannachi Group in Kenya, DFA in South Africa, Smartnet in Zambia, Spectrum Fiber in Ghana, Phase3 Telecom in Nigeria, etc and in some cases the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are also building metro and national fiber networks.
We are also seeing the growth of data centers to host the applications being developed by digital innovators that drive consumption of the bandwidth being built. The African Internet eXchange System (AXIS) which was founded by AfrISPA and implemented by the AU is growing the Internet fabric by increasing the routing of local traffic on the continent.[17] In Ghana the Internet Clearing House (ICH) by Afriwave Telecom[18] is created the framework for deploying local value-added services that the government and other institutions can take advantage of – this would drive the growth of local content. As we know "content is king" so as we develop more localized African content that is hosted in the data centers and networks on the continent, we would need less and less international bandwidth. Hence my argument that Africa does not need additional subsea cables but rather more terrestrial fiber to improve the existing capacity whiles driving prices down to offer an amazing broadband experience.
Eric Osiakwan is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. He Co-Founded Angel Africa List, Angel Fair Africa and currently serves on the board of Farmerline, Hubtel, Forhey, Teranga Solutions, Hotel Online, Wala, Amp.it, SameLogic, Wanjo Foods, Airshop, Rapid Expense, NestSquare, Data Integrated, Ghana Cyber City and WABco – some of which are his investments.
He authored "The KINGS of Africa's Digital Economy", co-authored the "Open Access Model", adopted globally by the telecommunications industry, "Negotiating the Net" – the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa and "The Internet in Ghana" with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa. Eric is a Harvard, Stanford, MIT and TED fellow.
[1] www.gispa.org.gh
[2] https://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/telecoms-en/8356/ghanas-gispa-agrees-conditions-with-ghana-telecom-and-moves-on-to-price
[3] https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/GISPA-Signs-Agreement-With-GT-For-New-Low-Prices-On-Sat-3-69800
[4] www.gixa.org.gh
[5] http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154331468005135945/Open-Access-Models-Options-for-Improving-backbone-access-in-developing-countries-with-a-focus-on-Sub-Saharan-Africa
[6] https://www.apc.org/sites/default/files/APC_SAT3Ghana_20080516.pdf
[7] https://www.apc.org/sites/default/files/APC_SAT3Briefing_20080515.pdf
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitange_Ndemo
[9] www.teams.co.ke
[10] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-57878-5_11#Sec10
[11] https://seacom.com
[12] http://www.africabandwidthmaps.com
[13] http://www.africabandwidthmaps.com/?p=6158
[14] https://engineering.fb.com/2020/11/19/connectivity/subsea-cables/
[15] https://www.rti.org/publication/economic-impact-2africa
[16] https://www.liquidtelecom.com/about-us/our_network
[17] https://au.int/en/african-internet-exchange-system-axis-project-overview
[18] https://www.afriwavetelecom.com/faq.html
[1] https://engineering.fb.com/connectivity/2africa/
[2] https://www.2africacable.com
[3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/introducing-equiano-a-subsea-cable-from-portugal-to-south-africa
[4] https://manypossibilities.net/about/
[5] https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables-a-history/
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT-3/WASC
[7] http://www.fiberatlantic.com/system/BB6ZN
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Sarah Ferguson Can't Wait to Be a Grandmother
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Says She'll Make an 'Excellent' Grandmother
Her daughter Princess Eugenie is getting married later this fall.
By Caroline Hallemann Published: Aug 6, 2018
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Queen Elizabeth already has seven great-grandchildren, including little Prince Louis and the newborn Lena Tindall, but if it were up to Sarah Ferguson, the monarch would have eight in the near future.
Fergie's daughter Princess Eugenie isn't even getting married until later this fall, but the Duchess of York is already thinking about grandchildren. In a rare interview with the BBC about her work with the Children in Crisis charity, Fergie was asked if she would make a good grandmother. She reportedly replied, "Excellent—I used to write children's books, and I am a child, I haven't grown up."
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"Eugenie is very controlled—she is so sorted. She knows exactly what she wants," Ferguson reportedly said in the BBC interview. "Jack and Eugenie are very contemporary, they are very inclusive, and they are all about love, and they want this wedding to be about that—to include everybody and to really absorb the love they have for each other with everybody else."
While Eugenie has shared that she's "not stressed at all" about the big day, Fergie is anticipating that it could be emotional.
"I do understand why mothers cry at weddings now. All my life I thought, 'Oh, what's she crying for?' It's lovely, it's a great day."
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6DOF Reviews· November 22, 2019
It's not even Christmas yet, and Quest owners are having a fantastic time! First, the long-awaited Oculus Link went into Public Beta, and then The Under Presents got released, and now, the long-awaited stealth game, Espire 1: VR Operative just got released! We'll try to catch you up!
Released last week, a lot of Quest owners spent this week installing the Oculus PC software, finding a Link-compatible cable, and finally trying out PCVR games like Stormland and Asgard's Wrath. Oculus came through on their OC6 promise, releasing a working Link in November. We put up a quick guide to doing all this, and then got busy testing out Link, just like everybody else!
Coming straight to us from developer Tender Claws, the creators of the mind-warping Virtual Virtual Reality, The Under Presents was released so fast that our review isn't ready yet, but it's coming along. Until then, we can tell you that we're having a fantastic time with its unique premise, its multiplayer mystique, its multi-layered storyline, and wild playfulness. Do we sound impressed? Well, we are, but hey – that doesn't mean you shouldn't read our review when it's ready since we also recognize that it's not a game for everyone. In fact, one user that we ran into felt that it was a game about 'conjuring onions'. Such is life 🙂
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Justice Neil Gorsuch
April 7, 2017 PatentDennis Crouch
Neil Gorsuch has now been confirmed by the Senate and will swear-in next week as one of the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court. I expect Justice Gorsuch to support strong patent rights, but primarily focus on statutory language and historic precedent. I.e., do not expect Gorsuch to see patents as a fundamental right, but rather a policy tool that can be fully regulated by Congress.
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Charles Szmanda says:
I am not a fan of Justice Gorsuch or his philosophy. That said, I can appreciate his clarity of thought and insistence on precision in language.
If he were to bring some clarity of thought and language to the body of cases from Benson to Alice, he would do the inventing community a great service.
Should an eligible "process" or "method" require a machine or transformation (to a "different state or thing")? What is an "abstract idea?" When is a sequence of steps NOT an eligible process? When is it permissible to blend 102 novelty or 103 non-obviousness requirements with 101 eligibility issues, if ever?
Not only business methods inventions but also bioinformatics inventions will depend on that clarity.
Machine or Transformation was one of the 9-0 holdings of the Bilski decision – not sure why you think that that needs an answer…
As to any other "clarity" – one new Justice simply is not going to provide that.
Anon, indeed, all nine justices approved test as important, but not exclusive. Also, Mayo clarified that even of portions of the claimed process passed the test, that is not sufficient.
I believe that the claim as a whole must pass the test in that the claim be directed to a special machine or that the claim as a whole be directed to a new or improved process that passes the MOT.
I think that is the point of Mayo and Alice.
I agree with Ned. The court did not designate the MOT as a categorical test. It left the door open for future cases wherein different rules might arise based on the facts of a given case. The MOT was seen as a "clue" that might (or would) allow consideration of eligibility.
I do think there is a danger of blending eligibility and patentability requirements. also.
You "agreeing" with Ned does not reach the rest of your statement since while that rest of the statement recognizes the mere "clue" nature, Ned does NOT believe in that same mere "clue" nature.
His version dictates it as an actual requirement and a change to the statutory categories to pre-1952 (and NO USC 100 definition of the STATED expansion of process).
Machine or Transformation was one of the 9-0 holdings of the Bilski decision
Sure, that makes a whole lot of sense. Crystal clear!
You have a problem with that?
That said, I can appreciate his clarity of thought and insistence on precision in language.
Because persnicketiness is sooooooo unusual among legal types.
I didn't have time to follow the hearings blow by blow (I get turned off with the preening senators), but did the new justice get asked about the separation of powers? The expanse of the modern administrative state? If he holds true as an 'originalist' that would indicate (IMHO) at lean toward revoking PTAB.
Paul Cole says:
Having very briefly looked at the speech he made when he was nominated, it may just be that in nominating Neil Gorsuch, President Trump selected a really good bloke. So once again, forget all the whining and wish him the very best of fortune and wise opinions in IP and other matters.
Who is whining? He should not be in that seat. It's a travesty. His qualifications (or lack thereof) are immaterial.
PatentBob,
You are one of the whiners.
Remember, folks: "anon" is the only Truly Objective person in the room. Always. In his own mind, anyway.
Did you have a point to make?
Do you disagree with my comment?
– "Who is whining?"
– "He should not be in that seat. It's a travesty. "
Not asking about customary practice, but asking about actual rules of the Supreme Court of the United States.
What is there to stop the new Justice Gorsuch from participating in cases that have already been submitted (i.e., oral argument concluded), but not yet ruled upon?
I don't believe there is a rule, but simply a custom that need not be followed. Thus, Gorsuch could participate in the biggest patent case this term, TC Heartland, correct?
Newly appointed Justice Warren did so in Brown, but then they ended up re-arguing the case anyway (after he joined), so that's not quite the same.
I don't think anyone has since, despite there not being any "rule" about it.
I think the estimate is that Trump will end up appointing 1/3 of the judiciary in the next four years. Wow.
Let's be real. There is no way to read into the Constitution rights for gays. It really is just not there and all the history is the opposite. And, so what. They also had slaves and women who couldn't vote.
So, let's amend the Constitution to put in there equal right for gays, realistic restrictions on gun ownership, more privacy to account for changes in modern technology, etc.
What we have is each side claiming they can tell you the people in 1789 would have thought of something of today. Just rot.
each side
Tourbillon says:
What? Someone is Making America Great Again. And some people dislike the idea and fear it.
>the people in 1789 would have thought of something of today
As I'm sure you're aware, originalists are nutters.
And, moreover '…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,' was 1868…
True enough, but 1868 was not exactly the golden era of liberalism. And, technology and social norms have changed so much since 1868.
AAA JJ says:
orig4lyfe! Living breathers are the true nutters. You and I both know documents don't live or breath.
Is that like machines that have thoughts…?
You and I both know documents don't live or breath.
Deep, deep stuff here, folks.
Neil Gorsuch shares with Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and the present writer the distinction of being an alumnus of University College, Oxford.
His legal education was at Harvard and Oxford, where his PhD was supervised by the distinguished legal scholar John Finnis, and where he also had the good fortune to meet and marry and Englishwoman. Encouragingly, he has Episcopalian leanings.
His past history gives every sign of a deep and abiding interest in and concern for the law, and readers should join me in wishing him well in his new appointment.
Hear hear.
Bemused says:
Didn't this used to be a blog about patents?
Wow, self promotion, and political commentary all in the same post. You must be a lawyer Paul Cole.
I'll say it again: the way out of the mess we are in is to realize that the Constitution doesn't really provide an answer to things like abortion, modern guns, modern sexuality, equal rights for women, etc. We need to amend the Constitution so these issues are no longer political issues of the moment, but longer term issues that result in amendments to the Constitution.
Seriously, how could the people of the Constitution have imagined guns and bombs like we have now? Besides, I am not that interested in maintaining a Constitution without more amendments when the Constitution was written by many slave holders and people that did not even allow women to vote. We need to continue to amend the Constitution. It will end all this political nonsense and allow us to focus on important issues like sustainable living for the world.
"We need to amend the Constitution so these issues are no longer political issues of the moment, but longer term issues that result in amendments to the Constitution."
I agree, vote in a few more republicans so they have enough state houses to amend the constitution to end the debate. If people want an abortion, female supremacy, no guns, or whatever else, they can go to canada or mexico.
"Besides, I am not that interested in maintaining a Constitution without more amendments when the Constitution was written by many slave holders and people that did not even allow women to vote. "
See, that's what's wrong with the country. People not even interested in maintaining the well-font of their own lifestyle and prosperity. Literally just not even interested in it.
I wouldn't be surprised that NWPA is sworn in to protect (and maintain) the constitution as an officer of a court somewhere, but he doesn't care about things like that.
"It will end all this political nonsense"
Nah bro. All it would do if the republicans get to do it is increase MM's being upset with his buddies and they will whine forever. If lefties or progressives get to do it then there will be a revolution and the lefties will be kil led.
@ Night Writer
If you trouble to read my posting, I say nothing about the US constitution or US politics and my remarks about University College are simply to express confidence about the quality of the education taught there and the balanced outlook that is promoted. Interestingly from the US political standpoint its appeal is bipartisan, which is perhaps a good thing. I am therefore more than willing to give Neil Gorsuch the benefit of any doubt, and to wish him well in the difficult and demanding tasks that lie before him.
Paul Cole in the USA any endorsement or even good words towards Neil Gorsuch is considered political. Plus, you are characterizing him based not on his judicial decisions which is what people are so upset about.
But it is always fun dealing with the British and their arrogance towards the colonies.
That's funny Night Writer. But, heck , if the guy is proud of Oxford, well good on him and good on the institution that instilled some pride and esprit de corps. IMHO, it's something we could all use some more of these days, not Oxford mind you (they're like the Dutch!), but all of our institutions.
It's immaterial. He occupies a stolen seat.
I agree. I was very disappointed in Obama for not pressing this more. He could have done a lot more.
How exactly – and legally – did this so-called "theft" occur?
Maybe you want to present a legal argument with your use of legal terms there PatentBob…
Oh lookie! It's very serious "anon" coming to the rescue of the Repukkkes again. Remember, folks: "anon" claims to be "above" all this partisan bickering. For him, Mango Hairpiece and Hillary were indistinguishable. After all, private email server (have we finished investigating it – LOL).
"anon" longs for the day when people have no memory of the recent past. Just how did Stolen Seat Neil manage to replace Scalia when Scalia died during Obama's presidency with over a year left in Obama's term? Stolen Seat Neil was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was literally bred up by fantastically wealthy people to be a power player. Did that have anything to do with his rise to the top and his appointment by the party of rich white men? Let's let "anon" explain it to everyone. He's a very serious person, after all.
No rescue at all, Malcolm.
Let's just use the legal terms correctly – and less of an emotionalISM ploy – that's all.
" born with a silver spoon in his mouth"
Name ONE Supreme Court Justice that does not have that "silver spoon" IVY LEAGUE taint….
Hey, Anon: you're right, everyone one of these nine attended law school at Harvard or Yale, and Malcolm is a hypocrite for only complaining about Gorsuch's pedigree. But why get into a pi$$ing match with him over that? I'm gloating at the fact that, for the next 25-30 years while Gorsuch is on the bench, Malcolm will be discomfited by the very fact of Gorsuch's appointment. Excuse me, that's JUSTICE Gorsuch.
gloating at the fact that, for the next 25-30 years while Gorsuch is on the bench, Malcolm will be discomfited
Spoken like a true Repukkke. Focus on the important stuff!
everyone one of these nine attended law school at Harvard or Yale, Malcolm is a hypocrite for only complaining about Gorsuch's pedigree
Going to Harvard or Yale isn't the issue, you depressingly dense p.o.s.
"born with a silver spoon in his mouth and was literally bred up by fantastically wealthy people to be a power player. Did that have anything to do with his rise to the top and his appointment by the party of rich white men? "
Seems like really a silly thing to say given Judge Garland was regarded as one of the wealthiest noms ever, and his net worth disclosure range completely blows Gorsuch out of the water.
And Garland's "old money", also, and very connected (link to dailymail.co.uk).
So, anon, how long can one delay voting on a Supreme Court justice? One year? Two years? Three years? Forever? I'm not republican or democrat, but I'm appalled at this stalling tactic.
I too was appalled – and I think that it did incredible damage to the "brand" of the Repukes.
But please, try to not let the emotionalism obscure the legal points.
"Theft" is simply not the correct legal label.
You need to take that up with Justice Ginsburg.
Paul, I do wish him well.
Also, he will be the only Protestant on the United States Supreme Court. Think about that for a second.
His past history gives every sign of a deep and abiding interest in and concern for the law
Did you hear the joke about the frozen trucker?
No, but I would absolutely love to hear it. So over to you!
OT but a Disney patent application is in the news. Apparently everyone involved was born yesterday. Try to believe this:
link to appft.uspto.gov
1. A robot for human interaction, comprising: a robot controller including a joint control module; a link comprising a rigid support element and a body segment coupled to the rigid support element, wherein the body segment includes an outer sidewall enclosing an interior space; a pressure sensor sensing pressure in the interior space of the link; and a joint coupled to the rigid support element, wherein the robot controller operates the joint based on the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor.
Sensors! They detect stuff. And something else responds. But this is all taking place in some new fangled thing called a "robot" and — get this — there's an inside and an outside. Wowee zowee!
Bluejay says:
But what is his view on the constitutionality of the PTAB?
When will Gorsuch realistically join the bench as an active Associate Justice?
Monday.
link to washingtonexaminer.com
MM said: "got my baseball bat and bricks set"
Ah yes. Not unexpected … from you and yours.
The instrument of "force" and the violation of rights, has always and will ever be the primary tool of yours and your kin.
No matter how "compassionate", "progressive", or "liberal" you and your friends like to say you are, your prerogative, your mantra, the very instrument built into your so called moral high-ground the initiation of force against those who have not initiated it, in opposition to their will, individual rights, and freedoms. This is no surprise because a free ride for some requires (according to you and yours) a forced ride for others… never questioning the premises that a free ride is a right or that force for it's sake is moral.
No doubt you will laugh, perhaps while stroking your bat or bricks… no doubt they are precious to you… you know that as destroyers, not creators, you and yours would be powerless without them.
I realize it is a waste of my time to continue writing this… sufficed to say I prefer freedom to you and your "bat and bricks". No offense.
Take away your rights? Which ones? The right to make money without taxes or giving back to the society that has provided the economy that gave the medium to make money in the first place? Please, there is no such natural right. Liberals are not the Bolsheviks you make them out to be.
Put away Ayn Rand and step into the real world.
Or he can just keep spouting platitudes about "freedom" while cheering for increased privatization and the accelerated concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. Extreme cognitive dissonance is just a fact of life for these Heritage/Federalist types. Sharing/collectivity is for weaklings, not "winners." And we all love "winners". Right? USA! USA!
You don't seem to understand the basics of the US patent system and the role of that system with disruptive innovation…
… much like your dichotomy of going after the form of innovation MOST accessible to the non-wealthy….
(I know: "Go figure Folks," hmm?)
Never underestimate the ability of a fake libertarian to speechify about "freedom", especially if it's the "freedom" of rich white guys to make life as cr@ppy as possible for everyone else.
The instrument of "force" … has always and will ever be the primary tool of yours and your kin.
Oh noes! I chucked your tea into the harbor. Boo hoo hoo.
As far as Gorsuch… we'll see. I have no reason to believe he is pro or anti intellectual property
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has now withdrawn its outrageous and unconstitutional order demanding Twitter give up user data related to an account frequently critical of the Trump administration. …
On Thursday, Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, the CBP, and others, arguing that the CPB's demand to provide possibly identifying user data on @ALT_uscis, one of many anonymous Twitter accounts critical of the Trump administration, violated the First Amendment of the Constitution. According to Twitter, the CPB bizarrely justified its order by citing a statue concerning imported merchandise.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just the usual narcissist authoritarians spreading that delicious "freedom" around. Nobody could have predicted any of this.
probably an illegal.
I think the best way to describe this comments is "unhinged."
Conservatives and faux-libertarians try to cloak themselves in the mantle of "freedom," but the freedoms the ascribe to are only the ones the reinforce their power and ability to concentrate wealth into their hands. The primary tool of the conservatives and faux-libertarians is violence. The violence may not be physical (though it may be through the use of unaccountable enforcement agencies, such as police, the FBI, the DEA, INS, etc.); but the violence the economic, social, and environmental. Polluting the waters causing harm to people just so they can amass more wealth.
And you are surprised that a lot of people are extremely upset at those actions?
I would suggest everyone listen to the first couple of episodes of Seasons 4 and 6 of the Revolutions podcast. The parallels are striking.
Ordinary Squirrel, this post of yours is borderline In S Ane. All of it, pure leftist propaganda.
But of course, you seem to believe everything you say there to be true in fact, which is the pitty.
I don't advocate violence or overthrow of the government. All I want is sensible policy that will benefit everyone instead of the new age robber barons. You are blind, and likely live in an ivory tower, if you can't acknowledge the source of a lot of people's frustrations.
If I am not within my rights to defend myself when I am mugged on the street, why am I not within my rights to defend myself when a corporation is dumping chemicals into the water I drink or the air I breath?
Squirrel, if someone violates your rights, you can sue. If you are poor, there are a lot of public advocacy groups or rich people willing to back you.
I once had a case where the ACLU provided the attorneys, and a major league rich guy helped with the finances.
I am almost always on the side of the little guy. But I do not buy into the leftist point of view because I do not believe they are in fact on the side of the little guy. A recent study showed this. The socialist care more about punishing the rich and about control over everything, than they care about the little guy. The socialist will protect the owl of the forest over 30,000 good paying jobs. The socialist will stop the pipeline rather than provide the people with low-cost energy and jobs, job, jobs.
I am still aghast that the famous incident where Dow stopped, after years of trying, to get the necessary 100 permits to build in California a major chemical plant. The socialist environmentalists crowed about their victory while the people of California suffered.
Example after example can be had of this ilk. The interests of the little guy are swept aside in favor of punishing the big corporation.
Today, the socialist backs illegal and legal immigration that only lowers wage rates of Americans. The farm worker, the construction worker and the engineer/scientist are all suffering depressed wages because of too much immigration too fast.
Ordinary people get trampled, day in and day out, by socialist policies; but the rhetoric of envy continues as if that justified all the bad policies the socialist promotes.
Higher taxes on corporations — who then flee.
Higher regulations on corporations — who then flee.
More regulation, more taxes means fewer jobs, less prosperity for Americans.
There is a reason that the worker voted for Trump. Hopefully, he delivers on his promises. But the worker is best advised to never against vote left.
I can sue, yes. Or I can use some form of collective group action, say a government of some sort, to defend myself.
Your comments about immigration are empirically wrong. Immigration does not "take jobs" or "depress wages." That view ignores economics 101. (And your comments specifically about farm labor are really off the mark. Look into the history of farm labor in the US. Except for the great depression, for the last 150 years, farm labor has been largely done by immigrants.) Automation and productivity are the cause of job loss and suppressed wages. And guess what, unless Trump voters are going to start throwing wooden shoes into the gears, automation and productivity are here to stay, no matter what happens to immigration.
Global trade is a force for good. It makes the pie larger. The problem is that there are always going to be winners and losers when it comes to trade. But here is the key realization, the reason people are upset is that global trade is a form of wealth redistribution from the workers to owners. Programs to help the workers to lost to global trade (I am personally in favor of taxing the winners to give direct cash payments to the losers) is in fact anti-wealth redistribution. It is the winners realizing that their gains came at the expense of the losers, and then paying those losers back for their sacrifice.
As much as there is no reason to vote for the left, there is equally no reason to vote for the right. At least with the left, I can have civil liberties, a decent environment, and at least some privacy. All issues, I might add, that the right has be particularly terrible with in the last few months. The right has no solutions that will make the lives of the average worker better. We have seen this over and over again in the last several months. And the thing is, everybody knows this to be true. I bet you know this is true. To pretend otherwise is to be delusional. That is why there is so much political discontent.
As for Trump, he made no promises. He made statements that he thought would help his election chances. Anyone who is relying on what he has said is fooling themselves.
Hugo Chavez, himself, was against illegal immigration because he saw first hand how it undermined his attempt to organize farmworkers and bargain for higher wages and better working conditions. So where your econ 101 argument is flat.
What does this comment even mean? Like Hugo Chavez is someone to take economic advice from. Saying "Even Hugo Chavez said this about the economy…" is like saying you take econ. advice from a horse.
The Science of Immigration
"is like saying you take econ. advice from a horse."
Generalizing what happened in one little area, which is arguably one of the "best case scenarios for illegal immigration" to the overall general case for the country is also like saying you are a horse when it comes to your econ understanding.
The economic science has been "in" for quite some time on the situation as a whole. Immigration, especially illegal immigration of unskilled workers, shts on the native population's wages and sometimes working conditions as well. Though OVERALL it presents a net benefit (as in, rich people, middle class people and even poor people get way cheaper goods, and there are "more jobs" total because more people are hired cheaper etc. etc.) while shafting the lowest on the totem pole quite a bit.
And the "crime rate" is but one small tiny fraction of the social/societal issues that arise.
"Automation and productivity are the cause of job loss and suppressed wages"
That's literally not what nearly all economists are saying, though those things also suppress wages.
You're confusing "net benefit" (which means it benefits some people and hurts other people but overall the net is a positive when everything is taken into account) with "it benefits everyone".
"Global trade is a force for good."
Yes, while shi t ting on the poor.
"The problem is that there are always going to be winners and losers when it comes to trade."
Yes, and in the current paradigm the "losers" are nearly always the ones not doing so well already. And the "winners" are the ones already doing quite well.
"But here is the key realization, the reason people are upset is that global trade is a form of wealth redistribution from the workers to owners. "
Glad to hear you go ahead and cop to it.
"Programs to help the workers to lost to global trade (I am personally in favor of taxing the winners to give direct cash payments to the losers) is in fact anti-wealth redistribution."
In other words, a gigantic gubmit bureaucracy to try to offset the enormous negatives of a policy that, at best, is nothing but "icing". Of course, when this agency inevitably fails, you can always say that the republicans "kneecapped it" amirite?
"It is the winners realizing that their gains came at the expense of the losers, and then paying those losers back for their sacrifice."
LOLOLOLOL. Their MANDATORY sacrifice. How long do you think they'll continue to vote people in that are MANDATING they sacrifice? Hint: Donald Trump just showed you how long, it's precisely until someone comes along and says they'll stop oppressing them.
"The right has no solutions that will make the lives of the average worker better."
That's where you're wrong bucko. At least with Trump.
"As for Trump, he made no promises."
Um he made a literal contract, and he's gotten quite a few of the "promises" done.
link to donaldjtrump.com
Your comment is entirely substance free. Though, that is not unexpected with someone inducted into the cult of Trump. Give me a source where Trump is not tied to Trump, then I'll consider it. So far, he has not done anything to benefit anyone but himself.
You can't stop global trade. It is a source of cheap goods. The people who are going to be affected by an increase in the price of goods and services are going to be to poor people in the red states.
And no, immigration is not a major contributor to wage suppression. If manufacturing come back to the US, it will be done with robots. The jobs that were lost of globalization will never return. To think otherwise is tilting at windmills. So, a higher cost of goods and not an influx of job…. hrm… sound like a winning recipe.
Additionally, studies have confirmed that immigrants, legal and illegal, commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born citizens. That is not is dispute anymore.
Again, on the wage issue. Science is not on your side. I posted a link to that talks about the scientific studies (studies not performed of commissioned by political campaigns) that supports that idea. Until you can do the same, you don't really have leg to stand on.
The red states, btw, that feed at the trough of the blue states. Kentucky and Mississippi are the top two leeches in the US. They receive way more federal benefits than they pay in taxes. I, for one, am welcome to cutting them off and stop this wealth shifting to those states.
"Give me a source where Trump is not tied to Trump, then I'll consider it. "
I'm not even sure what you're referring to.
"So far, he has not done anything to benefit anyone but himself."
That's because you only read lefty news. Here's even a piece of lefty news showing you what he's done.
link to news.sky.com
"legal and illegal, commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born citizens"
Yes but that's only if you keep our ahem, "diverse" members of our population in the data set. And especially if you leave out the legal immigrants with high skills/high class. Whitey themselves, living in high % white neighborhoods stands only to loss when it comes to crime rates going up or down with poor illegal immigrants (fun fact, even if those poor illegal immigrants are white). And whitey is still the majority. That's the full view on the data, and why whitey as a voting block will always oppose illegal immigration within your lifetime.
"You can't stop global trade."
Technically we as a country could, but nobody is planning or calling for that. What most developed nations DO have, which we don't, are ameliorating policies put on it.
"And no, immigration is not a major contributor to wage suppression"
It is for low wage jobs and always has been. This is undeniable on the facts when any sizeable group comes. It's literally the law of supply (of labor) and demand (for labor). Thems the facts and they're easy to look up. Even lefty pieces state them.
link to politico.com
"Until you can do the same, you don't really have leg to stand on"
Even lefties now concede that it's hurting the poor bro. Just because your one link thinks differently (which I will check when I'm home) doesn't mean much.
"The jobs that were lost of globalization will never return"
Maybe, maybe not. But we can stop trying to force ever more of them away.
"The red states, btw, that feed at the trough of the blue states"
Tis true, but irrelevant. Not all states develop equally over the years. They'd rather have jerbs than gibs. Just because dems are intent on giving gibs to maintain their vote plantation doesn't mean much to the red states.
No doubt you will laugh, perhaps while stroking your bat or bricks…
Remember, folks: this guy is undoubtedly all over the Internets defending the NRA like there's no tomorrow.
Bearded dudes who never graduated high school openly carrying automatic rifles while they cruise from the local bar to their klan meeting: best thing ever
Bearded dudes with Ph.D.s marching with bricks and bats to the courthouse: oh my, it's pearl clutching time
So much for civilized rational discourse.
Attempts at ad hominem attacks against one criticizing reference to and the initiation of force, while the fool who makes pronouncements about bats and bricks commands tacit approval.
So vary sad for western civilization.
Why are you surprised, Anon2?
11 years now. Unchanged.
I anxiously await you pointing to where you tried civilized rational discourse. It does not seem to appear in this thread.
anon2, the state of the left in the Western World today is abysmal. Virtually all of them are radicals of one kind or another.
So long as they stay so far away from the center, the less likely it is that they will hold onto power democratically. But it IS shocking just how much terror and fear they now spread. In Blue areas of the world, the moderate has to keep is mouth shut and his views hidden.
Like it is any better in the red areas of the world. Terror and fear are tools that both extremes aptly wield.
Horse sht. I can take you to a bazillion "red" area of the world. They're just going to glare at you.
Republicans use threats to terror to strip people of civil liberties all the time. See the Department of Homeland "Security."
"threats to terror"
I think you mean "threats of terror". And it most certainly isn't republican's "fault" that we've been massively importing populations of people with "terrorists" baked right in. Look up who passed the act of 65′. Fairly bi-partisan, but mostly dems. Because because because RAYYYYYYCYSM.
link to govtrack.us
"to strip people of civil liberties all the time."
I can agree with that. And I'm less than enthused at the TSA and the spying and all. But, again, it's both sides of the aisle that supported most of those things, look up the vote patterns.
If by "we've been massively importing populations of people with 'terrorists' baked right in" you mean white males, then yes, you are correct.
Um no, I mean people of the socio-political ideology "hardcore/radical islamist". You might remember the 19 hijackers. They kind of made a big splash in the news a decade or so ago by killing 1.5k people in one day. Probably a terrorist world record. But you can refer to them as white if you like.
link to en.wikipedia.org
The guy is an anarchist.
Just another massive credibility blow to the Supreme Court, as if Bush v. Gore weren't enough. We'll wait and see how things play out but I've already got my baseball bat and bricks set aside should Stolen Seat Neil and his fellow neanderthals decide that women are best thought of as sub-human breeding cannisters.
The j0ke that we call the Supreme Court is kind of a sideshow right now, of course.
Baseball bat and bricks — to go about and damage the property of others and inflict bodily harm on white folks and the police?
Why can't you even conceive of a peaceful, law-abiding protest?
Because it's illegal to open carry a baseball bat.
Sure, that makes sense.
Ask Colin Kaepernick that question.
If only we had law-abiding law enforcement agencies that people could trust.
It's because of his "muh decency!" lololololol. I literally cannot tell if you're joking. You can't understand the lefty mind control yet?
"got my baseball bat and bricks"
Our little radical wants to be the first one shot.
I have to give you MM, it's cute.
But first, looks like we might have a war to fry.
Now where is that bookmark to Malcolm's prediction…?
(As well as my explanation as to why the Dems would not succeed wherein the Repukes did…)
I don't really see much "success" here unless you're counting the steady slide of the US into the sewer of history, which is perhaps where it always belonged.
… "where is always belonged"…?
You do know that you don't have to stay here, right?
How does it feel to know that you helped make that happen MM?
"the US into the sewer of history, which is perhaps where it always belonged."
Arguably the greatest country the world has ever known, and MM is so mind controlled as to think it might should go into the sewer of history.
Thanks for revealing your true colors, "Malcolm". The USA gives you the right to spout inane junk in fora like this one, including junk that's critical of the government, and you say it's a crappy country? It enables you to make a living in a profession where you don't have to break your back or stay out in the sun all day, and you say it's a crappy country? Try living a s–thole like India. Or any Arab country. Or Russia or China, where criticism of the powers-that-be can be dangerous to one's health.
It ain't perfect, but it beats the pants off of most other countries. I'm with Anon: if you don't like it, haul off to another place. What an ingrate.