Oh I agree, but the libertarian movement as a whole is overrun with Rothbard type loonies... I never quite understand why sane people want to identify with them, the name is tainted.
(**) Other than the privilege of land ownership of course. (If for a moment we assume that with libertarians you mean Rothbard style libertarians and not Geolibertarians.)
With free school choice I don't see what the problem is with standardized testing, the testing just sets a minimum standard... if the tests and benchmarks are well designed I don't see a problem with standardized testing (poor performing schools should get extra funding to start with and help to get up to scratch, and their benchmarks should be weighted based on the academic aptitude of entering students etc). Let the parents decide what they want on top of the minimum.
Even teaching to the test is not a problem with well written test, if the best way to do well on an unknown test is to know the curriculum then teaching to the test is simply teaching the curriculum...
Unions can only accomplish what the political and judicial system allows them to accomplish. You're confusing a symptom with the disease, which is a government fucked up by money and a court system fucked up by lawyers.
Unless we turn the clock back on technology the market will never generate those jobs again, they are gone and never coming back... not even if we stop importing everything from China.
Exactly, old textbooks do fine for lower/middle school... and in college professors should for the most part write their teaching material and photocopy it.
When I was in college teacher written materials (dictates) were being phased out in favour of hard cover books... and without exception the courses became worse for it!
The information isn't necessarily available for purchase, if it's on paper right of first sale allows you to pass it on... but if it's an electronic document it could very well come with a license which doesn't allow you to transfer ownership... at which point you're kinda stuck. RAND is the exception, not the rule... the rule is "whatever the market will bear, unless not granting a license at all has competitive advantage"
Of course the same is true for patents, so it's hard to feel any sympathy.
IMO if you can't parse the GPL you shouldn't be programming, in and of itself it's not complex. Once you start looking for loopholes you can bicker over what constitutes a derivative work, but at that point I'd rather you not use the code any way.
The GPL is perfectly clear, and companies SHOULD be nervous about it... even when developing software for internal use. Distribution to a different legal entity by an employee can put you in hot water very easily. The GPL isn't designed to be easy for companies, the fact that it isn't is hardly a detraction IMO.
If you spend 2 months with someone else's code without bothering to read the license it's on your own head... be glad for the GPL to teach you a valuable lesson in life.
Ah, but this means that obviousness is a judgement call by a skilled practitioner. Such a purely subjective metric is something lawyers will NEVER accept... because it shows just how stupid patents really are when you need a jury of highly paid engineers to even be able to judge the validity of a patent. Every lawyer devised test for obviousness has boiled down to prior art, they will not stop trying to redefine the word obvious.
The amount of losses caused by government enforced loans to minorities are an infinitesimal part of the mortgage losses, most bad performing mortgages were granted because they could be sold on for short term gain with credit rating agency collusion, not because of government force. Unless you like hockeystick theories, blaming the MBS's fiasco on government is insane.
Your first example of good regulation is actually micromanaging. It acknowledges that the incentives for "banks" (rather bankers) are to incorrectly judge risk, but tries to fix it by micromanaging their credit rating methods. Which is doomed to failure... they will find other ways to take on bad risk for short term gain.
Designed to fail foreign investment (ie. the dot com bubble) allowed the US to pay down some debt during the Clinton years, nothing more... if you tried to do the same thing now without massive inflows of money into failing investments but through tax increases and spending cuts you would get deflation.
The debt can't be repaid... the moment you try is the moment just before you default.
China's middle class is in the median of masses subsistence farming and a small elite... or in other words, their middle isn't really that relevant as a consumer compared to the US middle class (as long as the US middle class has no problems getting loans).
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Oh I agree, but the libertarian movement as a whole is overrun with Rothbard type loonies ... I never quite understand why sane people want to identify with them, the name is tainted.
(**) Other than the privilege of land ownership of course. (If for a moment we assume that with libertarians you mean Rothbard style libertarians and not Geolibertarians.)
Nanotube forests can provide high current density cold cathode emitters, dunno about the costs.
With free school choice I don't see what the problem is with standardized testing, the testing just sets a minimum standard ... if the tests and benchmarks are well designed I don't see a problem with standardized testing (poor performing schools should get extra funding to start with and help to get up to scratch, and their benchmarks should be weighted based on the academic aptitude of entering students etc). Let the parents decide what they want on top of the minimum.
Even teaching to the test is not a problem with well written test, if the best way to do well on an unknown test is to know the curriculum then teaching to the test is simply teaching the curriculum ...
Unions can only accomplish what the political and judicial system allows them to accomplish. You're confusing a symptom with the disease, which is a government fucked up by money and a court system fucked up by lawyers.
Unless we turn the clock back on technology the market will never generate those jobs again, they are gone and never coming back ... not even if we stop importing everything from China.
You need to turn your bullshit filter on ... what they say there is a lack of workers, what they mean is they don't really want to pay 20$ an hour.
Conspiring to break the law is legal for Apple ... they are like Microsoft++, just as evil but without any trouble from government.
Exactly, old textbooks do fine for lower/middle school ... and in college professors should for the most part write their teaching material and photocopy it.
When I was in college teacher written materials (dictates) were being phased out in favour of hard cover books ... and without exception the courses became worse for it!
Summary is accurate ... the plaintiffs argument is just semantic circle jerking.
The information isn't necessarily available for purchase, if it's on paper right of first sale allows you to pass it on ... but if it's an electronic document it could very well come with a license which doesn't allow you to transfer ownership ... at which point you're kinda stuck. RAND is the exception, not the rule ... the rule is "whatever the market will bear, unless not granting a license at all has competitive advantage"
Of course the same is true for patents, so it's hard to feel any sympathy.
IMO if you can't parse the GPL you shouldn't be programming, in and of itself it's not complex. Once you start looking for loopholes you can bicker over what constitutes a derivative work, but at that point I'd rather you not use the code any way.
The GPL is perfectly clear, and companies SHOULD be nervous about it ... even when developing software for internal use. Distribution to a different legal entity by an employee can put you in hot water very easily. The GPL isn't designed to be easy for companies, the fact that it isn't is hardly a detraction IMO.
If you spend 2 months with someone else's code without bothering to read the license it's on your own head ... be glad for the GPL to teach you a valuable lesson in life.
The fact that corporate fraud divisions are structurally understaffed? At least that's true where I'm from.
Ah, but this means that obviousness is a judgement call by a skilled practitioner. Such a purely subjective metric is something lawyers will NEVER accept ... because it shows just how stupid patents really are when you need a jury of highly paid engineers to even be able to judge the validity of a patent. Every lawyer devised test for obviousness has boiled down to prior art, they will not stop trying to redefine the word obvious.
If you had a daughter, where would you rather she grow up ... Saudi Arabia or the US?
If you say Saudi Arabia please kill yourself.
They underwrote a lot of the mortgages ... but they didn't underwrite the majority. With TARP you could have bailed them out whole.
The amount of losses caused by government enforced loans to minorities are an infinitesimal part of the mortgage losses, most bad performing mortgages were granted because they could be sold on for short term gain with credit rating agency collusion, not because of government force. Unless you like hockeystick theories, blaming the MBS's fiasco on government is insane.
Your first example of good regulation is actually micromanaging. It acknowledges that the incentives for "banks" (rather bankers) are to incorrectly judge risk, but tries to fix it by micromanaging their credit rating methods. Which is doomed to failure ... they will find other ways to take on bad risk for short term gain.
Except that they are locked into cluster fuck which is known as free trade by the constitution Ron Paul loves so much.
Designed to fail foreign investment (ie. the dot com bubble) allowed the US to pay down some debt during the Clinton years, nothing more ... if you tried to do the same thing now without massive inflows of money into failing investments but through tax increases and spending cuts you would get deflation.
The debt can't be repaid ... the moment you try is the moment just before you default.
Where would the money for the buyouts come from exactly? Social security is pay as you go (there is a fund, but it's just meant as a small buffer).
So what is to stop the states from going into a race to the bottom competition due to the beauty of free trade?
Internal consumption isn't all that useful when it's fueled by foreign oil.
China's middle class is in the median of masses subsistence farming and a small elite ... or in other words, their middle isn't really that relevant as a consumer compared to the US middle class (as long as the US middle class has no problems getting loans).
"If that were true, then every dollar donated by every person or organization is always bribery. Which is ridiculous."
I don't think it is ridiculous at all.