That's a very sad story. I don't hear many things like that here as I am very sheltered in my English speaking community. I do hope he has a better resolve. I do know that it takes forever to resolve things here too! Way too much socialist red tape!
Excesses of any ideology are bad, really bad. I am not at all surprised. But in fairness, the excesses of our government both past and present are pretty awful too. This example is no proof that social democratic nations have a worse track record when it comes to excesses. Besides, our country is not the opposite of socialized democracy. We too have many social programs. We as a people are not truly interested in the tenets of libertarianism and libertarianism is much more the opposite of socialism than current conservatism. Voting records amply demonstrate our collective disinterest in libertarianism.
I agree and I don't like the complete laissez-faire approach to government. If Libertarianism is a 1 and Socialism is a 10, I would be about a 3 on such a scale.
Now that is indeed an interesting comment. I would need to think a bit about where I would be on the scale, but a knee-jerk reaction subject to revision would be about a 7 or 8. Naturally, are we talking French/Belgian Socialism or still developing and still developing American Socialism? For some on the right, Socialism is a half step away from Communism it seems.
Next up: Now Translating: Method and Device for Manufacturing Electro-optical Device Translated: Hydrodynamic Bearing Device, Spindle Motor, and Information Device (a fancy name for a hard disk drive) Motorcycle Film Formation Method, Method for Manufacturing Electro-optical Device, Electro-optical Device, and Electronic Apparatus (worth about 23,000 words) Fluid Discharge Method and Fluid Discharge Device (worth about 23,000 words) Method for Manufacturing Printed-circuit Board Source Driver of Display Panel and Drive Control Method Method for Manufacturing Molded Article, and Membrane Element Device for Removal of Intermaxillary Fixation (Something about unbinding a jaw that has been wired shut) Semiconductor Device, Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Device, and Method for Manufacturing Semiconductor Package (A method for making semiconductor chips even smaller) Engine Generator (yet a different job, same title) Method for Manufacturing Film Formation Member
Mini Diary
8/12/2009 Final testing today at BYU. I will be glad to finish this annual intensive course that I teach. It's stressful for teacher and students alike. I have a hard time dieting during such courses and I have come to the conclusion that I eat more when under stress. Now that the course is essentially done, I can rededicate myself to losing weight (I think I have rededicated myself several times already this summer!).
8/5/2009 Swamped is not the word for it. I have work coming out of my ears. In the fall semester beginning in September, I have been assigned a new class, Japanese 321 Readings in Modern Document Styles. It is right up my alley. We will read various newspaper articles, magazine articles, technical documents, and so forth. I probably won't be able to keep the class permanently because so much shuffling of faculty assignments goes on every semester.
Notable Picture of the Day, Week, Month, Year (or whenever I update it)
I am a teacher and a translator. I enjoy the former most, but I do the latter the most. In fact, if I am not sleeping or teaching, I am translating. I mostly live a sedentary life at my desk typing into the wee hours of the morning. I am trying to exercise more, but alas, the next project is due and ...
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That's a very sad story. I don't hear many things like that here as I am very sheltered in my English speaking community. I do hope he has a better resolve. I do know that it takes forever to resolve things here too! Way too much socialist red tape!
Excesses of any ideology are bad, really bad. I am not at all surprised. But in fairness, the excesses of our government both past and present are pretty awful too. This example is no proof that social democratic nations have a worse track record when it comes to excesses. Besides, our country is not the opposite of socialized democracy. We too have many social programs. We as a people are not truly interested in the tenets of libertarianism and libertarianism is much more the opposite of socialism than current conservatism. Voting records amply demonstrate our collective disinterest in libertarianism.
I agree and I don't like the complete laissez-faire approach to government.
If Libertarianism is a 1 and Socialism is a 10, I would be about a 3 on such a scale.
Now that is indeed an interesting comment. I would need to think a bit about where I would be on the scale, but a knee-jerk reaction subject to revision would be about a 7 or 8. Naturally, are we talking French/Belgian Socialism or still developing and still developing American Socialism? For some on the right, Socialism is a half step away from Communism it seems.
The socialism I am referring to is European socialism.
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