Sure services can be sold as well but that equals someones time. Tell me the meaningful service the stock market provides and I'll listen, but I'm hard pressed to find the value in their service.
I'm not disputing the value of engineering as a service because its ultimate goal is a product that makes money. The problem with stocks is that the intermediate goal to making money isn't a product and it isn't sold time. Granted I understand how it ideally provides working capital (which is the service?), but I would like to understand is how companies can put more emphasis on getting people to buy shares so the company can look like its making money and put less importance on what is actually made...
Needless to say, If I ever start a company it will start private and stay private until I die or it folds.
Given the simple axiom of supply and demand, do you really think that the supply of dollars by the FED is outstripping the fall in demand caused by the economic downturn? Granted that graph is a reflection of what banks are holding onto, but what do you think is going to happen to the purchasing power of the individual using USD once it all hits the consumer market? The better term for this is Stagflation and there is still a large amount of doubt by this armchair economist if Keynesian Economics can do anything about it.
As for my personal solution, I'll continue to write and design software for a hard product that is designed and manufactured locally in the US and sold globally. And that's the best I can do to help cure stagflation.
I think we can look at it another way. The systemic fail we are looking at comes from the belief that lots of money can be made with out manufacturing anything. Sure services can be sold as well but that equals someones time. Tell me the meaningful service the stock market provides and I'll listen, but I'm hard pressed to find the value in their service. So... I agree they are lying, thieving, immoral, unethical, and greedy f'ing bastards. I just wish they would make something of value instead of distract us from the real economic problem, which is that the US doesn't produce as much value as it consumes.
Where I work the laptops are only filtered when on site. When at home, your business is your business. As long as you don't install pirated software, they don't really care. There is also a rolling software audit. I'm not sure how many they do a day, but I've been audited 3 times in two years. The first time, Gimp was un-installed, Second time they let it be.
USA doesn't over produce, it under produces at the expense of the rest of the world. This economic crisis is just a revaluation of how much the US is worth.
It never did change. "Virtual Memory" always meant a trick the kernel and CPU do to make programs think they are accessing a different memory address than they actually are. This trick is necessary in all multitasking operating systems.
I don't think that's true on multitasking operating systems that live on systems with less memory than is addressable by it's instruction size...
Just a question: Your problem is with idiots, guns, trucks, buzzcuts, or only the combination or all four? I've only got a problem with idiots combined with guns and/or trucks. However if you give it enough time and don't interfere, unless it's on your behalf, it becomes a self rectifying situation...
Idiots would never be able to breed fast enough if you just let them do their thing.
Laws preventing some one from doing something to you or to the general public and laws preventing your own moral peril are two different kind of laws. Or is there no individual now that there is no individual responsibility these days?
Government has no responsibility to protect a citizen from him or herself, only the responsibility to protect him or her from others, without infringing on the freedom of others while they do it. Society, meaning you and I, have a little bit more responsibility to protect someone you know from endangering themselves.
The most responsible thing a citizen can do is recognize that society and government are not synonymous.
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Sounds like gambling.
I'm not disputing the value of engineering as a service because its ultimate goal is a product that makes money. The problem with stocks is that the intermediate goal to making money isn't a product and it isn't sold time. Granted I understand how it ideally provides working capital (which is the service?), but I would like to understand is how companies can put more emphasis on getting people to buy shares so the company can look like its making money and put less importance on what is actually made...
Needless to say, If I ever start a company it will start private and stay private until I die or it folds.
Yea! New York and California are shining examples of successful economies working without the need of government handouts!
Thanks for reading my post and using your reading comprehension.
I saw a typo.
And nothing of value was actually lost?
Given the simple axiom of supply and demand, do you really think that the supply of dollars by the FED is outstripping the fall in demand caused by the economic downturn? Granted that graph is a reflection of what banks are holding onto, but what do you think is going to happen to the purchasing power of the individual using USD once it all hits the consumer market? The better term for this is Stagflation and there is still a large amount of doubt by this armchair economist if Keynesian Economics can do anything about it.
As for my personal solution, I'll continue to write and design software for a hard product that is designed and manufactured locally in the US and sold globally. And that's the best I can do to help cure stagflation.
I think we can look at it another way. The systemic fail we are looking at comes from the belief that lots of money can be made with out manufacturing anything. Sure services can be sold as well but that equals someones time. Tell me the meaningful service the stock market provides and I'll listen, but I'm hard pressed to find the value in their service. So... I agree they are lying, thieving, immoral, unethical, and greedy f'ing bastards. I just wish they would make something of value instead of distract us from the real economic problem, which is that the US doesn't produce as much value as it consumes.
There's always some moron who makes one line statements without backing it up with any facts or proof.
Where I work the laptops are only filtered when on site. When at home, your business is your business. As long as you don't install pirated software, they don't really care. There is also a rolling software audit. I'm not sure how many they do a day, but I've been audited 3 times in two years. The first time, Gimp was un-installed, Second time they let it be.
Emphasis on our not capitalist please.
All those facts and no links? You might get a +5 informative if you posted your references...
USA doesn't over produce, it under produces at the expense of the rest of the world.
This economic crisis is just a revaluation of how much the US is worth.
Welcome to the new socialism.
Well there are ways to die trying to stay warm...
Or Cliffhanger...
I don't think creating a 'sin tax' is a good move in terms of upholding individual liberty.
Which leads us to, why do we have legislated charity that wastes millions of dollars every year?
If it moves, tax it...
If it keeps moving, regulate it...
If it stops moving, subsidize it!
So where does that put us?
What about using doxygen
It never did change. "Virtual Memory" always meant a trick the kernel and CPU do to make programs think they are accessing a different memory address than they actually are. This trick is necessary in all multitasking operating systems.
I don't think that's true on multitasking operating systems that live on systems with less memory than is addressable by it's instruction size...
Just a question: Your problem is with idiots, guns, trucks, buzzcuts, or only the combination or all four? I've only got a problem with idiots combined with guns and/or trucks. However if you give it enough time and don't interfere, unless it's on your behalf, it becomes a self rectifying situation...
Idiots would never be able to breed fast enough if you just let them do their thing.
Laws preventing some one from doing something to you or to the general public and laws preventing your own moral peril are two different kind of laws. Or is there no individual now that there is no individual responsibility these days?
Government has no responsibility to protect a citizen from him or herself, only the responsibility to protect him or her from others, without infringing on the freedom of others while they do it. Society, meaning you and I, have a little bit more responsibility to protect someone you know from endangering themselves.
The most responsible thing a citizen can do is recognize that society and government are not synonymous.
Comon, don't leave out Eben Moglen by name, he's one of the most entertaining.
false dichotomy ftw!