The real purpose of a company is whatever the company and society agree on. For a long time corporate charters were not about profit, but rather supplying some benefit to society with profit a side benefit, and we still have that to a degree in the form of non-profits, whose real purpose usually does not involve profit. This idea of the only purpose in a company is profit is fairly recent and mostly applies to public companies. You can have a private company whose main purpose is to go to Mars and profit is just a means to an end.
Now if only the wages were going up instead of staying stagnant while inflation increases, at least on necessities. Food, heat, shelter all going up faster then wages while luxuries come down to keep the official inflation rates low.
The far side of the Moon is quite different from the near side, few maria, lots of craters, thicker crust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and geologists have wanted a closer look for a long time. After Apollo, the Moon was just not high priority compared to the rest of the solar system and that's why America never went back until recently, not because it was uninteresting.
Many Canadians have two vehicles. An electric is an excellent 2nd vehicle, wish I could get the wife one. It would get a lot of use and we'd still have the truck for longer trips, including going into the bush and even getting into town when there's been a dump of snow.
Leftist, support for the common people. Rightist, support for the aristocracy. That's pretty simple. There's also the independent totalitarianism axis.
Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
And the free dictionary has similar as its second definition. A lot of it is probably cultural, Americans are religious, as you can tell by their pious, devout leader whereas I'm Canadian. I just don't think about faith as religious as to me. To me faith needs some proof or at least agreement, so trust. Religion fails on both those points so is more of a hallucination then faith whereas my faith in the Sun coming up is based on prior behaviour and believe in the model of the solar system.
When you combine socialism with democracy, there is pressure from the electorate to preserve jobs in declining industries. This leads to Lemon Socialism [wikipedia.org], where public funds are used to prop up losers rather than backing winners.
Isn't that what trump is doing with coal?
Trumps economics are pretty far left. Protectionism, propping up failing industries, making promises to support labour are all left policies. Probably why he was a democrat. It's interesting how the tribalism of the right sees them grabbing leftist policies due to their leader pushing them.
Most things are taken on faith. Never been to Australia, yet I have faith it exists based on what evidence I have. Never been to the Moon but I have faith that it is mostly as described rather then a balloon launched by the evil Liberals to spy on god fearing Americans. Never seen an atom or even an atom bomb, but have faith they exist based on various things that collaborate there existence. I even have faith that things fall towards the center of the Earth in Australia even though it's below me. This is life, we have to have faith as we can't check everything out, whether it is geography or science. When there is consensus that Australia exists or the Sun burns by nuclear reactions or electricity works by electrons or that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing and CO2 is a greenhouse gas, most everyone has to take things on faith. Both geography and science generally get more accurate with time and it would be stupid to deny everything we can't personally check out. Shit, even flying to Australia wouldn't prove it exists as perhaps the plane made a subtle turn and landed somewhere else where everyone pretends it is Australia.
The repressive totalitarian regime can be trusted to act like a repressive totalitarian regime. Democratically elected governments change course regularly, one day you're their friend, the next they're putting tariffs on you for national security reasons while being all chummy with some of those repressive totalitarian governments.
Hemp doesn't replace either of those, as it's uses are primarily as a textile and isn't useful as food for people or animals.
Hemp seed makes excellent food. One of the few plant products with complete proteins, it also has most of the essential oils. Throw in some greens and you could live a long time on a hemp seed diet. Hemp seed oil is also useful for other products, tons used to be used in the paint industry for example. Then there is the blas (sp?) that is left over after extracting the fiber from the stems, can be used to make plastics and quite a few other uses. There's a reason that hemp was made illegal, and it wasn't that it made people stoned, though that was a convenient excuse to get the busybodies on side. hemp illegalization was mostly a Hearst initiative to remove hemp as a competitor to his new pulp paper industry. DuPont and similar companies were onboard as well.
It isn’t just them— some people like to use cash for certain things because that is how they manage their spending. There are plenty of good reasons to prefer cash over cards, especially for transactions under $100.
Studies, namely observing peoples brain activity, show that using cash has close to equal parts of disgust and pleasure whereas using plastic gets rid of the disgust part of the equation. For the average person, using cash automatically makes it easier to manage their money. They see it going and feel disgust. For the average business, it is the opposite, they want you to spend money without disgust by using plastic as you're more likely to spend.
The angle I find interesting is that coins seem to be refusable to settle large debts. I think we've all seen stories of disgruntled people paying tickets and fines with wheelbarrows of pennies or nickels, and the discussion that follows, that some (usually government agencies) refuse to accept payment in small coin. I suspect this is due to coins technically not being quite the "legal tender" that bills are?
Don't know about America, but here in Canada, coins are only legal tender up to some set amounts, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
$40 if the denomination is $2 or greater but does not exceed $10;
$25 if the denomination is $1;
$10 if the denomination is 10 or greater but less than $1;
$5 if the denomination is 5;
25 if the denomination is 1.
Harder to find info on American coinage but this site, https://coinsite.com/are-all-u... argues that no current coins are legal tender, but rather tokens.
If someone gave you enough money to barely feed your kids, would you quit working? As far as I know, the basic income is just barely enough to survive, not survive well, so people keep working. Even you, I'm sure you like to do more for your kids then just feed them enough to survive. New clothes and shoes, cosmetic dental stuff like braces, toys, especially educational toys as well as other educational stuff like computers. Perhaps sports related stuff, in Canada, hockey is big and expensive and even playing soccer needs support. Most people want to do more then barely survive.
Or perhaps due to the plan not bringing in much money, people decided to keep working rather then sitting around bored. Unluckily there wasn't enough follow through studies and the experiment was cut short so we'll never know. Personally, unless I became very wealthy, I'd prefer to work, though perhaps a bit less. Others seem to prefer sitting around with just enough to eat and pay the rent and only work due to force rather then the urge to do something productive.
It was tried in Dauphin, Manitoba with pretty good results. Most everyone kept working, the exceptions were young mothers spending more time raising their children and young people staying in school to get a better education rather then quitting to help support their family. Funny enough, this seems like results that right wingers would like, more family friendly and people trying to lift themselves up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Really, though, I don't get why Mark even gives a fuck. He could almost certainly extract out a substantial portion of his supposed worth from Facebook and retire on his own personal island.
Islands with suitable lava flows and a good supply of piranhas are in short supply. At least there's lots of white persian cats.
I was on dial up until last year, noticed every phone outage pretty quick. Always copper thieves that took it out and they're stupid enough that they'll probably cut the new fiber going to the new cell tower which will have the same affect, no phone, no cell and no internet.
Phone lines are stretchier then power lines, many a power failure here where a tree took out the power lines with the phone lines touching the ground and continuing to work. Now they also have fiber and I'd assume it is similar, a big enough problem and it might break, just like a copper wire, taking out the one cell tower in the process. What has taken out the landline are copper thieves, which is why we finally got a cell tower. Those thieves are likely stupid enough to cut the fiber thinking it is copper, which will cause the same problems.
The scariest thing about Trump is the next one might truly be evil. As you say, Trump seems to be mostly amoral but he has shown how to con the population enough to get quite a bit of power.
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The real purpose of a company is whatever the company and society agree on. For a long time corporate charters were not about profit, but rather supplying some benefit to society with profit a side benefit, and we still have that to a degree in the form of non-profits, whose real purpose usually does not involve profit.
This idea of the only purpose in a company is profit is fairly recent and mostly applies to public companies. You can have a private company whose main purpose is to go to Mars and profit is just a means to an end.
Now if only the wages were going up instead of staying stagnant while inflation increases, at least on necessities. Food, heat, shelter all going up faster then wages while luxuries come down to keep the official inflation rates low.
I was talking about commuting vehicle and the need to get to work reliably
And if Kennedy had not been shot, there's a good chance the Moon program would have been canceled before success.
The far side of the Moon is quite different from the near side, few maria, lots of craters, thicker crust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and geologists have wanted a closer look for a long time.
After Apollo, the Moon was just not high priority compared to the rest of the solar system and that's why America never went back until recently, not because it was uninteresting.
Interesting statistic. Probably depends on what that second vehicle is used for with more spent when a job depends on it.
Many Canadians have two vehicles. An electric is an excellent 2nd vehicle, wish I could get the wife one. It would get a lot of use and we'd still have the truck for longer trips, including going into the bush and even getting into town when there's been a dump of snow.
You do know that without any greenhouse gases, the average temperature of the Earth would be about -20C currently and in the past the Sun was cooler?
Well there's pulling out and there's retreating. Trump's actions seem more like a retreat then a pullout.
Leftist, support for the common people. Rightist, support for the aristocracy. That's pretty simple. There's also the independent totalitarianism axis.
Yea, that's why I used Australia as an example, hard to believe such a place exists so takes faith.
Well, quickly DDGing, 2 out of 3 dictionaries basically have this as the first definition, from https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
Or from https://en.oxforddictionaries....
And the free dictionary has similar as its second definition.
A lot of it is probably cultural, Americans are religious, as you can tell by their pious, devout leader whereas I'm Canadian. I just don't think about faith as religious as to me. To me faith needs some proof or at least agreement, so trust. Religion fails on both those points so is more of a hallucination then faith whereas my faith in the Sun coming up is based on prior behaviour and believe in the model of the solar system.
When you combine socialism with democracy, there is pressure from the electorate to preserve jobs in declining industries. This leads to Lemon Socialism [wikipedia.org], where public funds are used to prop up losers rather than backing winners.
Isn't that what trump is doing with coal?
Trumps economics are pretty far left. Protectionism, propping up failing industries, making promises to support labour are all left policies. Probably why he was a democrat.
It's interesting how the tribalism of the right sees them grabbing leftist policies due to their leader pushing them.
Most things are taken on faith. Never been to Australia, yet I have faith it exists based on what evidence I have. Never been to the Moon but I have faith that it is mostly as described rather then a balloon launched by the evil Liberals to spy on god fearing Americans. Never seen an atom or even an atom bomb, but have faith they exist based on various things that collaborate there existence. I even have faith that things fall towards the center of the Earth in Australia even though it's below me.
This is life, we have to have faith as we can't check everything out, whether it is geography or science. When there is consensus that Australia exists or the Sun burns by nuclear reactions or electricity works by electrons or that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing and CO2 is a greenhouse gas, most everyone has to take things on faith.
Both geography and science generally get more accurate with time and it would be stupid to deny everything we can't personally check out. Shit, even flying to Australia wouldn't prove it exists as perhaps the plane made a subtle turn and landed somewhere else where everyone pretends it is Australia.
The repressive totalitarian regime can be trusted to act like a repressive totalitarian regime. Democratically elected governments change course regularly, one day you're their friend, the next they're putting tariffs on you for national security reasons while being all chummy with some of those repressive totalitarian governments.
Hemp doesn't replace either of those, as it's uses are primarily as a textile and isn't useful as food for people or animals.
Hemp seed makes excellent food. One of the few plant products with complete proteins, it also has most of the essential oils. Throw in some greens and you could live a long time on a hemp seed diet.
Hemp seed oil is also useful for other products, tons used to be used in the paint industry for example.
Then there is the blas (sp?) that is left over after extracting the fiber from the stems, can be used to make plastics and quite a few other uses.
There's a reason that hemp was made illegal, and it wasn't that it made people stoned, though that was a convenient excuse to get the busybodies on side. hemp illegalization was mostly a Hearst initiative to remove hemp as a competitor to his new pulp paper industry. DuPont and similar companies were onboard as well.
It isn’t just them— some people like to use cash for certain things because that is how they manage their spending. There are plenty of good reasons to prefer cash over cards, especially for transactions under $100.
Studies, namely observing peoples brain activity, show that using cash has close to equal parts of disgust and pleasure whereas using plastic gets rid of the disgust part of the equation.
For the average person, using cash automatically makes it easier to manage their money. They see it going and feel disgust.
For the average business, it is the opposite, they want you to spend money without disgust by using plastic as you're more likely to spend.
The angle I find interesting is that coins seem to be refusable to settle large debts. I think we've all seen stories of disgruntled people paying tickets and fines with wheelbarrows of pennies or nickels, and the discussion that follows, that some (usually government agencies) refuse to accept payment in small coin. I suspect this is due to coins technically not being quite the "legal tender" that bills are?
Don't know about America, but here in Canada, coins are only legal tender up to some set amounts, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Harder to find info on American coinage but this site, https://coinsite.com/are-all-u... argues that no current coins are legal tender, but rather tokens.
If someone gave you enough money to barely feed your kids, would you quit working? As far as I know, the basic income is just barely enough to survive, not survive well, so people keep working. Even you, I'm sure you like to do more for your kids then just feed them enough to survive. New clothes and shoes, cosmetic dental stuff like braces, toys, especially educational toys as well as other educational stuff like computers. Perhaps sports related stuff, in Canada, hockey is big and expensive and even playing soccer needs support.
Most people want to do more then barely survive.
Or perhaps due to the plan not bringing in much money, people decided to keep working rather then sitting around bored.
Unluckily there wasn't enough follow through studies and the experiment was cut short so we'll never know.
Personally, unless I became very wealthy, I'd prefer to work, though perhaps a bit less. Others seem to prefer sitting around with just enough to eat and pay the rent and only work due to force rather then the urge to do something productive.
It was tried in Dauphin, Manitoba with pretty good results. Most everyone kept working, the exceptions were young mothers spending more time raising their children and young people staying in school to get a better education rather then quitting to help support their family.
Funny enough, this seems like results that right wingers would like, more family friendly and people trying to lift themselves up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Really, though, I don't get why Mark even gives a fuck. He could almost certainly extract out a substantial portion of his supposed worth from Facebook and retire on his own personal island.
Islands with suitable lava flows and a good supply of piranhas are in short supply. At least there's lots of white persian cats.
I was on dial up until last year, noticed every phone outage pretty quick. Always copper thieves that took it out and they're stupid enough that they'll probably cut the new fiber going to the new cell tower which will have the same affect, no phone, no cell and no internet.
Phone lines are stretchier then power lines, many a power failure here where a tree took out the power lines with the phone lines touching the ground and continuing to work. Now they also have fiber and I'd assume it is similar, a big enough problem and it might break, just like a copper wire, taking out the one cell tower in the process.
What has taken out the landline are copper thieves, which is why we finally got a cell tower. Those thieves are likely stupid enough to cut the fiber thinking it is copper, which will cause the same problems.
The scariest thing about Trump is the next one might truly be evil. As you say, Trump seems to be mostly amoral but he has shown how to con the population enough to get quite a bit of power.