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Re: OT politics, was [Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI]

From Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm>
Newsgroups alt.os.development
Subject Re: OT politics, was [Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI]
Date 2016-03-05 20:11 -0500
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 06:09:00 +0000
James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/2016 02:50, Rod Pemberton wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:49:12 +0000
> > James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:  
> 

...

> The right-wing party (the Conservative Party) are good for the
> economy but, especially if in power for too long, increase the
> inequalities in society. Some of them who are used to a life of
> privilege can be incredibly out of touch, though that's not true of
> all of them.

Inequality is an inevitable outcome of capitalism.  You cannot have
people working to be rewarded, become wealthy, without actually
rewarding them.  If there are no rewards, who is going to outperform?
Who is going to allocate capital more efficiently?  Without an
incentive, there is no incentive.  We'd have lousy financial services,
under-performing workers creating products of poor quality, and no
one with an incentive to truly work or do anything.  I'm really
confused by the "basic income" movement in Europe and Canada.  This
would seem to not be workable economically.

> >> We had Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair who were both remarkable
> >> PMs.  
> >
> > I don't know many of your politicians past or present
> > by name.  The media here only seems to love some of
> > them.  I also know of Charles and Princess Diana, and
> > the Queen.  
> 
> Had you heard of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair?

Yes.  That's about it.  Um, if I think about, others may come
up, slowly, e.g., Winston Churchill.

> It seems to me a little strange that so many Americans know about the 
> British royals. Power now is vested in Parliament but don't the
> royals at least *represent* to you Britain's hated imperialist past?

...

> >> By contrast, I cannot see anyone either here or there at the moment
> >> who appears to be of similar stature.  
> >
> > There are two words in the English language which describe
> > every _elected_ U.S President in my lifetime, even ones I
> > was too young to vote for.  From those two words, you can
> > determine which candidate will be elected, Republican or
> > Democrat, at least so far.  Obviously, I can't do a regression
> > test on earlier Presidents since I didn't live through their
> > campaigns.  I'm not going to tell you what those two words are.  
> 
> (Puzzled.) Why would the two words be a secret? Do you mean they
> would give away your voting intention and you would rather keep that
> to yourself? Or are you sparing my feelings by not pouring out
> cursewords about the politicians? ;-)

No, no, curse words.  One of them is also the name of a Disney
character, if that helps.  I'm keeping them secret.  I don't
want people to know my system.  :-)

> > They are not measurable metrics but highly subjective.  I will
> > tell you some words they are not: male, white, winner, President,
> > politician, intelligent, popular, competent, honest, ...
> > Currently, there is only one candidate which fits both words,
> > IMO.  So, I suspect this candidate will become President.
> > You (and everyone else for that matter) are unlikely to ever
> > guess either of them.  Although, the liberal media here does
> > use one of the words to describe candidates from time to time,
> > but they only apply it to the Republicans ...  I've never heard
> > the other word applied to any candidate.  
> 
> Very mysterious, Rod! I have no idea why. What's the big secret
> over a couple of words?

Well, for one, they could be useful for someone or some agency
in power, e.g., manipulation of who is elected or derailment.
Two, I can't continue to confirm they work, if someone else
knows them.

They're subjective anyway.  I.e., others may not see the two
words as applying to candidates that I apply them to, in the
manner I apply them.  So, they might be worthless without my
personal perspective on the elections.

Why would someone in England need them anyway?  Do they allow
you to bet on U.S. elections?


Rod Pemberton

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  Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Bernhard Schornak <schornak@web.de> - 2015-10-02 20:43 +0200
    Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 15:23 +0100
      Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Bernhard Schornak <schornak@web.de> - 2015-10-05 17:38 +0200
  Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-10-02 17:17 -0400
    Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 16:36 +0100
      Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-10-04 21:27 -0400
        Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 15:01 +0100
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                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-16 03:29 -0500
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                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-16 12:55 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 19:55 +0000
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                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 17:43 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-01-23 13:17 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 13:42 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 09:14 +0100
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 09:56 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-14 09:11 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 15:58 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-15 05:55 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 15:57 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-16 05:33 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 06:16 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-24 18:03 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 06:25 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 00:21 -0800
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 08:45 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-28 20:40 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 14:49 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-02 21:50 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-05 06:09 +0000
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                Re: OT politics was Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-05 20:11 -0500
                Re: OT politics, was [Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI] Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-05 20:11 -0500
                Re: OT politics, was [Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI] James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 16:35 +0000
                Re: OT politics, was [Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI] Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-17 21:02 -0400
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-24 20:09 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-25 14:55 +0000
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 03:56 -0800
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-17 04:21 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-02-24 02:12 -0800
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-02-24 18:03 -0500
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 02:53 -0800
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                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-03-28 18:23 -0400
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2016-03-27 21:10 -0700
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                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 15:10 +0000
        Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 15:39 +0100
  Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-10-03 12:48 +0200
    Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 17:00 +0100
      Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-10-04 23:32 +0200
        Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 14:05 +0100
          Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 15:17 +0100
            Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-10-06 10:35 +0200
              Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 16:28 +0100
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-10-06 19:14 +0200
                Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 20:02 +0100
          Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-10-06 10:46 +0200
            Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-10-07 01:16 -0400
            Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-27 12:50 +0000
              Re: Flow of keystroke messages in a UI "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2015-12-27 23:22 +0100

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