You could create your own DNS server with its own routes and registrars.
If you got enough people to use your DNS network you could create your own registrars and your own rules.
Users would need to switch to your DNS, but otherwise there isn't anything about how the Internet works that requires you to use the big dog DNS
Who gets .gov? The US?
Other countries never used just .gov or just .com.
Vote manipulation definitely has a benefit, comments and posts are still voted, and public sentiment is still swayed by votes.
You keep posting this graph with no context, but the euro has also had very high inflation.
This is bad faith and you know it, that's why you aren't actually discussing it, just posting a misleading graph.
USD had 141% cumulative inflation since 1990
Euro has 115%
The pound has 143%
Brazil ( a member of brics) has nearly 1000% since 1994 (25 million percent from 1990 like the other countries.
China, arguably the biggest contender for stability in brics has 160% inflation.
Why aren't you including charts for all of these countries? And why are you using a chart showing inflation values from before USD was used as the international currency in 1944 with the bretton woods conference, without demonstrating why that is important and what it means? Given that this is in the context of global currencies.
Isn't the first graph just general inflation? What does purchasing comparing purchasing power mean in this scenario? And how does it compare to other currencies like the pound or the euro?
Also the conclusion of the second article you linked seems to indicate that no other large scale currencies are replacing the shares of the US dollar, instead things like gold and diversified currencies are taking up this space, those don't take the place for international trade.
Neither of these seem like a death knell for USD to me.
It's most likely a private school.
I think there are a lot of other factors in that case.
The biggest reason why it's rare to see regular cars get to a million miles is because they don't get driven as much. At the average of 14k miles per year it would take 71 years for someone to drive 1 million miles. Since it takes so long to get there, many non engine related issues start taking hold like rust and obsoletion.
Yes, I am registered as unaffiliated, because I don't see why the political party I support needs to be publicly accessible.
Good point and I missed that in the original post.
It does appear to be a similar situation with the UK though, only with pensions and other funds.
Damn, you just SLAMMED me.
You asked the question with specific emphasis that sets it up to be easy to argue against.
For example using the words 'perfectly fine' when you should very well understand from their previous statement that they don't think that to be the case, you exaggerated their stance in order to misrepresent it. This misrepresentation allows you to frame their position with a question that is easy to defeat instead of actually refuting their claim or answering their proposed question.
You also loaded the question, implying their position within your question and reducing their possible responses to extremes.
This is a high school debate club 101 straw man question, I was just letting you know, so hopefully in the future you can structure your arguments better.
For example, if I responded to you saying "so you think everyone who calls you out, just doesn't understand what a straw man is?"
It's exaggerating and purposefully misconstruing the point in order to ask a question that is easy to rebut.
And here's the definition: an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.
I think you may have missed my point.
.gov is not the same as .gov.us (in this example, .gov is not the tld, .us is) Tlds like .io belong to countries, there is no going back to .gov or .com because countries outside of the US never just used .gov or .com.
To add a bit of context:
https://www.parliament.uk/ https://www.parliament.lk/
How do you reconcile both of these websites having .gov? You can't, you either need second level domains (.gov.uk,.gov.ik) or you would need one of them to change their name (parliamentsrilanka.gov)
.gov needs to be differentiated, and you need all of these country TLDs for that.