Don't necessarily have to punish poor people in net. The revenue from such a fossil-fuel tax could be either redistributed directly to everyone (the so-called "revenue-neutral" carbon tax) or the revenue could be used by the government to provide services to the poor.
The more important question you comment skips over is: should people (poor or not) be commuting significant distances using fossil fuels in the first place? Such a tax on fossil-fuels will naturally cause employees & employers to be physically closer.
Regardless of whether our nations are corrupt, it makes no sense to consider NK "rational" with all the... executing an official with an anti-aircraft gun because he fell asleep, the cult of personality... Un is volatile.
But yeah, the sanctions are useless and just make everything worse. We should've already learned from WW2. Sanctions only helped the Nazi regime succeed.
People who try to defend such harmful behavior may be trying to fight identity politics and radical feminism, but it's very counterproductive towards that. They're just confirming that what feminists say is true.
I don't think that I am trying to fight any politics, but rather just trying to understand the circumstances of the situation here.
I have had some experiences with women where things seemed to be going fine and then I was abruptly blocked or ignored, and it was very frustrating at the time because I had poor social skills and I didn't have a good understanding of what had happened or why. Now I understand that dating is often asymmetrical and one person just may have many more options than the other, or just decide they are not interested, and that's OK.
This seems like it could be a very extreme case which got way out of hand and the guy went off the deep end, but I think it is best to at least try to have some understanding of and maybe some empathy for both sides.
I think the same thing can happen to women who are pursuing men, and it can also become extreme, like the woman who broke into David Letterman's house. Should you just call her a creep and throw her in prison, or should you feel empathy for her mental illness and try to treat it? It seems to me like the best solution is to determine and treat the actual cause of the behavior.
That doesn't mean that there isn't room for improvement, or that it has to be a certain level of bad to become an actual problem. That guy's behavior was very annoying. Even that sort of spoofing/identity fraud is pretty scummish.. maybe a few times it's not really an issue worthy of law enforcement, but constantly for years and years?
It's 2017. It's about time we had a better, well designed language (ie Rust, but I'm not sure if it's well designed enough, depends on what you want it for, too). There have been many advances in language research since the 70's that could be very useful for the kind of work C is used for. Saying we should stick to C because it's well established is like saying we should stick to assembly if it was well established. Except it's not portable, but close enough.
I've noticed that C and C++ have pretty fanatical and very narrow-minded fanbase. And I am talking about people of ages 50+ as well -- I was acquainted with several of them (in the real physical world) as well.
So IMO it's absolutely pointless trying to argue with them in the first place. They are set in their ways and while a good chunk of them are pretty strict and excellent in what they do, they are not open to any changes.
I would be the first to agree that Go and Rust aren't ready to start replacing drivers but IMO people should start trying! (Or invest in LLVM some more?)
C/C++'s faults aren't ever going away. They're too convenient in their target area. I am against the overly-used "disruption" term -- I happen to believe the USA tech blogosphere bastardized the term long ago -- but IMO the systems programming area is very, VERY overdue for disruption.
My parents referred to it as such. Meh, most people think it's crap anyway, so of course I'm going to be uncomfortable playing music around other people. Probably not that big of a deal anyway..
How is it "self righteous"?
I had listened to black metal for years, and avoid all of it with racist messages yet I even have listened to Burzum (mostly Filosofem), which doesn't itself have any racist messages I am aware of. Not like I listen for the lyrics. But it can be a "danger" since I did read into some of the shit Varg has written.. but the great majority of the music has no racist messages.
I was really into Darkthrone and still think they're okay, and I have nothing against any race or ethnicity.
Just one that I am aware of, and they apologized later, was their comment about "Jewish behavior".
Also, this:
Den Norrøne Rase må Slakte den andre
når blåmenn dunker for tungt på vår dør
Other than that, I don't know of anything else.
Being concerned over it sounds like wanting to ban violent videogames, overprotective. Like hardcore Christian parents against their children listening to rock music, but maybe not as much since black metal is basically how those kinds of hardcore Christians see normal rock music.
