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Yeah. Same true for America. You cannot eat Cadbury made in USA - every time I try, I throw the damn bar into the garbage. Taste like corn syrup.

After I switched to vegetarian diet I have not noticed _any_ difference in brain/personality/iq, I ve just lost extra weight. And have less allergies. Aside from that - nothing.

Tomorrow they'll prohibit 1984, Animal Farm and will remove Hitler from history course. A day after that they'll put cameras in you apartment, as a required part of lease.

Welcome to brave new USA.

If we continue the analogy of "losers", I'd claim that you become loser, as soon as you are told "congratulations, you are hired". The quickest way to get on the top of business/corporate ladder is to become a business owner.

Great way to create many, many enemies.

Anyway, I suspect, sooner or later he'll show other negative traits.

Yeah, Jeri Ellsworth has her own Wikipedia entry by the way. Very prolific engineer, with sometimes odd sense of humor.

And we'll see rise of new empire... Which will be named - United Provinces of Canada...

To be serious, I suspect that the fall is going to be much bigger, think whole civilized world, Western and developed parts of Eastern world. The failure of civilization, so to speak...

Generally,almost all the last (last 5-10 years) movies made in USA is completely dumbed down garbage. I realize, that american culture as a whole is (and has always been) somewhat infantile, but, still let's say, Terminator and Back to the Future were excellent movies. The more country get deindustrialized, the more people move to "service economy and real estate" the more they become disconnected from reality, and less you need to entertain their minds.

My major concern with Avatar - why in the hell everybody are american in this movie? Does Cameron beleive that USA will still be the "power" in 100 years? Or without stripe/stars flags everywhere nobody would watch the movie?

Yeah, that is true. Nonetheless, USA still have plenty high-tech spots, and many of them are rather cheap (Boulder?). BTW rent in Russia is also expensive.

it is very difficult to compete with USA in the area of computer technologies. America has a long tradition in the area. It is like competing with Japanese or Germans in car-making.

So, why American cab service is worse than that of many "developing" countries??? "Fedex fast"? no way. The secret of success is slowly make service cheaper and worse, but maintain appearance by making every once in a while things slightly better.

but, poorly lit nordic countries are a lot less corrupt then well-lit southern countries.

Well there another well known problem of stock options = upper management, when granted buckets of options starts seeking short-term way to pump-up the value of their options, and they do not really care about long-term consequences. So Canada as usual, boring but prudent.

They forgot to say which group more educated people belong to. I am almost sure more educated are egalitarians/communaries. The opinion of more educated people is more important, obviously.

I believe the article is about american public? Well... American public has always been skeptical about science. I doubt Europeans' faith in science has anyhow changed, at least because faith in science and trust to scientists is not same thing.

That was surprising relationship. If it will keep going for awhile, fast food can never recover due to very low quality of food at first place.

yes. definitely. You can use javascript for decryption on th client side btw

All I can say. 1984.

There is a remedy against these vampires-recruiters: mainly: Contact the HR departments of companies directly, apply the resume on the websites and such.

One of the most interesting (for me) facts is that the scientists put this organism into separate family, and in fact, the cells themselves behave more like amoeba, but genetically way different from them,

the logo looks like amazon's.

... and he told almost nothing new.

Thanks got it. Still the name is funny.

By the way Ginkgo biloba is an interesting planto - a living fossil (270*10^6 years old specie). Worth looking in wikipedia.

Agree totally. Piracetam worked, but made my restless. Gingko - did not make change.

The most important for me is decent sleep = 7+-1 hours; wake up at 8, no later.

I am wondering, why Australian machine was called SILLIAC

I advised to abandon PPP not because that I think that is a bad meausure, but just to show that Europeans are _not_ making less money. And the reason for higher prices for stuff patially that are paid better salaries., so to produce things you need to spend more money. And also Europe produce more stuff for its own consumption, that makes goods more expensive.

Now it is you who is cherry-picking.

About unemployment: Even if take EU average, we see that it is not higher than American average 10%. It is at _worst_ equal. Now USA often uses creative ways (unemployed but not seeking and all he other odd ways of meausuring) to meausure unemployment, If you read alternative sources, you can often see 17% of real unemployment in USA.

No it is not making meaningfully different picture.

This guy is delusional. Big time. First of all - what that means?: [level of living standards in United States is still a lot higher.] I never heard about this expression - "level of living standards".Where it is derived from?

Now if we abandon PPP adjusted GDP we'll see that US is not that super-rich country - average GDP per capita places USA on 17th place, far behind many european countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom... Even Canada (that has been long time a laughstock of USA), in fact has a tiny little difference in nominal GDP with USA - 1-2k$. So why nominal GDP of Canada is 2000$ less than American, but adjusted 8000$ less?. Because Canada is a lot more equal society: GINI (inequality) in Canada = 34 (little higher than european) GINI in USA = 45 (average for African countries). To maintain equality you need more taxes. So less left in pockets of consumers.

Now, let's move to hallucinations: "European unemployment rate is higher than American": USA=10% Norway=3.6% Netherlands = 3.6% Denmark=4.40% Austria=4.8%

You want me continue?? What about obesity: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/obesity And social mobility?: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/social-mobility Infant death: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/physical-health Child well-being: http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/child-well-bein...

Yes, but USA for some reason is rapidly becoming more poor an unequal.

I think that explanation is simple: The end of age discrimination in science.