Domestic water use is less than 1% of total water use in the US, so cutting down on your shower time will not have any measurable impact even if everybody did it. But, if it makes you feel better, go for it.
That depends on your definition of "kicking our asses". The US economy is 36 times as productive per capita as Indian economy (US per capita GDP: $48,000, India's: $1,300).
Looking at the growth rate is misleading as you can't compare the growth rate in a developed economy (where the growth comes from marginal improvements in productivity) with a developing ones like India and China where the growth comes from moving population from medieval subsistence work which has no impact on GDP to a modern types of work that do. Both India's and China's economies are hideously inefficient compared to the US but they have a lot of people still to move from completely inefficient to only somewhat efficient work and that is where the growth comes from.
The proper comparison when it comes to GDP growth would be between India and China and China kicks India's ass very badly indeed. The reason, as roman_mir suggests, is the much quicker pace of adapting market capitalism by the Chinese government than by the Indian government.
Slashdot is a congregating place for conservative groupthink? I thought it was a congregating place for anti-IP groupthink and other than that didn't have a particular political bias (except that modding seems to favor left leaning comments).
How about a death penalty for anyone who holds a stock for less than 1 minute? That will do it too, congratulations you are a genius. Now you just have to explain who the fuck are you to decide what is the minimum amount of time that I have to hold my property before I am allowed to sell it?
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand. Those who understood it and those (such as yourself) who have not. Capitalism is the greatest example of voluntary human cooperation in history (remember the Freedman's story of the pencil - look it up on youtube). The difference is not between cooperation and no cooperation, but between voluntary and forced cooperation.
But the kitchen is my favorite place to relax and masturbate during the workday, and I prefer not having an audience, thank you very much. I like your solution, but it obviously still needs some work.
Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to move forward. The USA government for once is right to support the private space industry instead of throwing money at the old dinosaur. Anything NASA can do is peanuts compared to what competition will do once there is profit to be made in space. Just like with the Internet or anything else.
snake oil salesman kill people financially, and literally, by wasting their time
And FDA kills people financially and literally by delaying drugs by as much as a decade or more and making them MUCH more expensive. It's important to look at both sides of the equation. Letting people die while preventing them by law from trying promising and potentially life saving drugs because they have not gone thought the entire test cycle is criminal and yet it happens every day. Not to mention the issue of liberty. Its either my fucking body or its not, and it can't be mine when it comes to favorite liberal issues like contraception and abortion and not mine when it comes to a drug that I want to take and FDA won't let me.
And what exactly has he revealed? Only 6% of the leaked documents were classified as secret and usually for good reasons. Meanwhile Manning will be in jail probably for the rest of his life, and Assange will be made an example of sooner or later. Martyr?! That's a joke.
This is getting silly. Yes, I have to keep the "corporation's money" separate from my own but that is meaningless in relation to the issue we are talking about. That is so that for legal reason the assets of the corporation are known and can be separated from my own (for taxes, in case of a lawsuit or whatever). That does not negate the fact that when you tax the corporation in which I am the shareholder you are in fact taxing me. I, as a sole shareholder, can write myself a check for the entire contents of the corporation's bank account if I want to at any time. That is in fact my money. When you tax my corporation, that amount of money is getting smaller by the amount of tax, which means that my check will be less by that amount. I don't know how to explain it in any simpler way.
Corporation in its entirety is owned by its shareholders. That's why shares are called shares. I actually own a corporation as the sole shareholder and I write checks every day. If I was one of a million shareholders of course I would typically need to act through the board of directors which represent the shareholders and are elected by them. But if you setup a corporation you can set the bylaws however you want and if you want to let every shareholder full unlimited access to the company funds you are free to do so, it just wouldn't be very smart.
No, there is no such thing as corporation's money. It is the shareholders' money. They can take it out any time they want. Also it doesn't make any difference if a corporation is owned by another corporation, ultimately the owner is the shareholders of that other corporation.
On a separate issue of Citizens United, keep in mind that the same thing applies to unions, non-profits etc and it is a bit disingenuous to only focus on for-profit corporations.
Its not really that close. China's total GDP is still less than half that of the USA. Per capita is less than a 9th. Not that we should be complacent or anything but we shouldn't learn the wrong lessons like the GGP poster did.
You obviously didn't read or understand my post. My point is that the commonly misused quote of "Corporations are people, my friend" which will become even more misused as election gets closer, has nothing to do with Citizen United or the legal rights of the corporations. He was making a point that when you tax corporations you are still ultimately taxing people. That's it. Shareholders, employees and, indirectly, customers are the ones who are paying the corporate taxes.
You mean one that is deliberately misrepresented and used to attack and intimidate the court by those with a political reason for doing so (POTUS) and an army of brainless tools at their disposal.
China is still a shithole in every imaginable way compared to the USA and you want us to be like them? I think that puts you among your "people without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies". Perhaps you can be their leader?
In a different context though. What he meant is that corporations are made out of people and so corporate taxes are also paid by people.
WaPo transcript of the exchange:
"Romney explained that one way to fulfill promises on entitlement programs is to 'raise taxes on people,' but before he could articulate his position on not raising taxes, someone interrupted.
'Corporations!' a protester shouted, apparently urging Romney to raise taxes on corporations, 'Corporations!'
'Corporations are people, my friend,' Romney said.
Some people in the front of the audience shouted, 'No, theyâ(TM)re not!'
'Of course they are,' Romney said. 'Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?'
And since they will be able to synthesize meat in a lab, just how horrified will they be to think that we slaughtered animals and ground them in machines on an industrial scale to get meat. Will some idiot writing on the 2300 equivalent of slashdot scream "Einstein?! That animal eating piece of shit! And he himself said it was wrong and he still did it!"?
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can't we just pump it into the air.
I think we should use it as food seasoning. Can I have extra uranium on my fries?
Obama dishonest: 6.7 million results
Romney dishonest: 2 million results
I call that proof that Obama is 3.35 times more dishonest.
Domestic water use is less than 1% of total water use in the US, so cutting down on your shower time will not have any measurable impact even if everybody did it. But, if it makes you feel better, go for it.
That depends on your definition of "kicking our asses". The US economy is 36 times as productive per capita as Indian economy (US per capita GDP: $48,000, India's: $1,300).
Looking at the growth rate is misleading as you can't compare the growth rate in a developed economy (where the growth comes from marginal improvements in productivity) with a developing ones like India and China where the growth comes from moving population from medieval subsistence work which has no impact on GDP to a modern types of work that do. Both India's and China's economies are hideously inefficient compared to the US but they have a lot of people still to move from completely inefficient to only somewhat efficient work and that is where the growth comes from.
The proper comparison when it comes to GDP growth would be between India and China and China kicks India's ass very badly indeed. The reason, as roman_mir suggests, is the much quicker pace of adapting market capitalism by the Chinese government than by the Indian government.
Slashdot is a congregating place for conservative groupthink? I thought it was a congregating place for anti-IP groupthink and other than that didn't have a particular political bias (except that modding seems to favor left leaning comments).
How about a death penalty for anyone who holds a stock for less than 1 minute? That will do it too, congratulations you are a genius. Now you just have to explain who the fuck are you to decide what is the minimum amount of time that I have to hold my property before I am allowed to sell it?
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand. Those who understood it and those (such as yourself) who have not. Capitalism is the greatest example of voluntary human cooperation in history (remember the Freedman's story of the pencil - look it up on youtube). The difference is not between cooperation and no cooperation, but between voluntary and forced cooperation.
But the kitchen is my favorite place to relax and masturbate during the workday, and I prefer not having an audience, thank you very much. I like your solution, but it obviously still needs some work.
Most of those guys are clueless about the outside world so they may be hard to motivate. Maybe sex will work. Hire some hookers.
Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to move forward. The USA government for once is right to support the private space industry instead of throwing money at the old dinosaur. Anything NASA can do is peanuts compared to what competition will do once there is profit to be made in space. Just like with the Internet or anything else.
snake oil salesman kill people financially, and literally, by wasting their time
And FDA kills people financially and literally by delaying drugs by as much as a decade or more and making them MUCH more expensive. It's important to look at both sides of the equation. Letting people die while preventing them by law from trying promising and potentially life saving drugs because they have not gone thought the entire test cycle is criminal and yet it happens every day. Not to mention the issue of liberty. Its either my fucking body or its not, and it can't be mine when it comes to favorite liberal issues like contraception and abortion and not mine when it comes to a drug that I want to take and FDA won't let me.
The FDA is there to make sure that the end product is safe and effective
It shouldn't care whether the product is effective either.
The only people for whom he will be a martyr are those for whom the message "we will get you" is being sent.
Such as the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir who used to be an activist working for Wikileaks, something you think an honest summary would mention.
That's an interesting alternative history of the fall of the Roman Empire. What science fiction book is it from?
And what exactly has he revealed? Only 6% of the leaked documents were classified as secret and usually for good reasons. Meanwhile Manning will be in jail probably for the rest of his life, and Assange will be made an example of sooner or later. Martyr?! That's a joke.
This is getting silly. Yes, I have to keep the "corporation's money" separate from my own but that is meaningless in relation to the issue we are talking about. That is so that for legal reason the assets of the corporation are known and can be separated from my own (for taxes, in case of a lawsuit or whatever). That does not negate the fact that when you tax the corporation in which I am the shareholder you are in fact taxing me. I, as a sole shareholder, can write myself a check for the entire contents of the corporation's bank account if I want to at any time. That is in fact my money. When you tax my corporation, that amount of money is getting smaller by the amount of tax, which means that my check will be less by that amount. I don't know how to explain it in any simpler way.
Corporation in its entirety is owned by its shareholders. That's why shares are called shares. I actually own a corporation as the sole shareholder and I write checks every day. If I was one of a million shareholders of course I would typically need to act through the board of directors which represent the shareholders and are elected by them. But if you setup a corporation you can set the bylaws however you want and if you want to let every shareholder full unlimited access to the company funds you are free to do so, it just wouldn't be very smart.
No, there is no such thing as corporation's money. It is the shareholders' money. They can take it out any time they want. Also it doesn't make any difference if a corporation is owned by another corporation, ultimately the owner is the shareholders of that other corporation.
On a separate issue of Citizens United, keep in mind that the same thing applies to unions, non-profits etc and it is a bit disingenuous to only focus on for-profit corporations.
Its not really that close. China's total GDP is still less than half that of the USA. Per capita is less than a 9th. Not that we should be complacent or anything but we shouldn't learn the wrong lessons like the GGP poster did.
You obviously didn't read or understand my post. My point is that the commonly misused quote of "Corporations are people, my friend" which will become even more misused as election gets closer, has nothing to do with Citizen United or the legal rights of the corporations. He was making a point that when you tax corporations you are still ultimately taxing people. That's it. Shareholders, employees and, indirectly, customers are the ones who are paying the corporate taxes.
You mean one that is deliberately misrepresented and used to attack and intimidate the court by those with a political reason for doing so (POTUS) and an army of brainless tools at their disposal.
What is your brain made of? Not something that is capable of reading comprehension, apparently.
China is still a shithole in every imaginable way compared to the USA and you want us to be like them? I think that puts you among your "people without common sense, dumb people, idiots, hillbillies". Perhaps you can be their leader?
In a different context though. What he meant is that corporations are made out of people and so corporate taxes are also paid by people.
WaPo transcript of the exchange:
"Romney explained that one way to fulfill promises on entitlement programs is to 'raise taxes on people,' but before he could articulate his position on not raising taxes, someone interrupted.
'Corporations!' a protester shouted, apparently urging Romney to raise taxes on corporations, 'Corporations!'
'Corporations are people, my friend,' Romney said.
Some people in the front of the audience shouted, 'No, theyâ(TM)re not!'
'Of course they are,' Romney said. 'Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?'
And since they will be able to synthesize meat in a lab, just how horrified will they be to think that we slaughtered animals and ground them in machines on an industrial scale to get meat. Will some idiot writing on the 2300 equivalent of slashdot scream "Einstein?! That animal eating piece of shit! And he himself said it was wrong and he still did it!"?