It used to be you bought a stock, and held onto it. If they were profitable they might pay dividends. Over time, the stock could go up.
Um, this is still how it works. I have several stocks that I have held for a long time, I have no plans to sell them, and they pay me a steady stream of dividends from their profits. The stocks have slowly risen over the years.
Now you could buy and sell your stocks every few minutes/hours/days hoping to make a buck, but the 'market' itself doesn't require you to do this. It is an individual investor's choice...
One more reason why having the federal government run everything is such a bad idea. If Facebook had wasted this much money and had such a poorly functioning website, people would move on to some other social website and they would be out of business. Amount of my money wasted: zero dollars. Sometimes the market really does work.
In the case of Healthcare.gov, it will never get shut down or go out of business...ever. hundreds of millions of dollars of our money will continue to be thrown down this rat hole, year after year after year.
But the people that are most likely to use this website (low income) don't pay federal income taxes anyways, and they get subsidized stuff from it, so what do they care? Keep voting for more federal government involvement! Free shit for all!
it is also over $500 million above what the original estimate was: $93.7 million.
A government project has gone several times over it's original budget? Shocking!
I envision a system where buy into a company in the hopes that they do well, and make your profit when they do (or take the loss when they don't).
This pretty well describes the stock market. I buy a piece of the company, and if they make profits they give dividends (or the price increases and I can sell some or all of my stock to make money as well).
people are buying things whos only purpose (barring dividends) is resale for the same purpose.
I'm unsure how this is different from the system you envisioned in the previous quote?
...they could only redeem their "pay" for items available at company-owned stores and separate company-owned town businesses.
Sorry, but that's SLAVERY without the technical legal "property" aspect.
So, the workers received goods (through the company store) for their work, and were free to leave at any time... and you consider that slavery? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
...but in most other respects, they could be bound to serve their master.
What kept the worker from simply leaving the company town? If they weren't physically stopped from leaving, then it is by no means slavery. You could argue that minimum wage workers today make so little money that after they spend on necessities, they have no savings. Are they slaves, too?
Cars catch on fire after accidents all the time. Cars (Electric or Gas) are hauling around a lot of stored energy, and an accident can cause that energy to be released in a rather sudden and violent way (fire). Until there is some more info on this fire (and what caused it), I don't see what the big fuss is.
Most people have no idea what ACA even is. And Obama had to pretty much bribe his own party members to get it to pass. And Obama is handing out waivers to his own law like he's handing out candy at Halloween.
Me thinks this guy has way too much free time on his hands. Next time the leaders of Gwinnett County whine and bitch about needing to raise taxes because there isn't enough money, maybe someone should bring this guy to their attention...
Court documents actually just list a link? With no copy/printout of what it links to? Really? If ever there was a doubt about how stupid and clueless judges are, it's that fact they allow shit like this to exist in official court documents.
What next? Someone puts in their court document to "Google it"? Seems that would probably be better than a permanent link.
Success! The timing of holding the home button seems to be very critical. I start double-clicking right as soon as I hit the CANCEL button, and hold the 2nd click for about three seconds before releasing. Even after my successful try, I still have trouble doing it consistently.
On a side note, nearly every app was still locked to me. I was able to get the camera and pics open, but that was it.
"I learned the line workers' jobs in about one day."
no you didn't.
Yes, I did. Do you think those cars assembled themselves?
Just to explain it to you a little more clearly, the summer line job was only for three month during the summer. It was put in place to help fill the gaps in manpower while a lot of workers went on summer vacation. It was usually filled by the high-school and college aged kids of the workers. Yes, that's right, the line workers had such incredible skill and talent that they could easily be filled by teenagers and young 20 somethings without missing a beat.
...Demand...
Strangely missing from your post was the other side of the equation... supply. I've already carefully explained that the line workers' jobs could be filled by literally anybody. So there was a ton of supply of workers. The only thing that kept the salaries of the line workers so artificially high was the union. Of course the salaries are all now zero since the plant shut down.
Maybe?!?!? I can tell you've never worked a production line. I worked along side union members as an engineering intern and also had a chance to work on the line for a summer at the NUMMI plant in California (now building Teslas).
We constantly joked how the skilled engineers drove worse cars than the unskilled line workers because they had higher union salaries.
I went to college for five years to get an engineering degree.
I learned the line workers' jobs in about one day.
Why exactly should a job that requires roughly 1/1,000 of the learning time earn more money?
The title of this was "How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas". Yet no where in the summary, link or video didn't it exactly explain how. It hints at not being able to bypass the car dealership laws, but then one of the dealers says that Tesla was looking for an exception to the car dealership laws.
Well, which is it? Was a new law passed banning Tesla from selling directly, or were the no-direct-sell laws already in place and Tesla wanted them changed? Because those are two VERY different things.
That particular polls means dick. People think that their members of congress are just peachy (they keep re-electing them over and over). It's all those other congressional members from those other states that are the problem.
Hasn't the government just told the entire world that polygraph tests don't work? They threw a guy in jail for teaching people how to beat their test, so they acknowledge that the test isn't fool-proof.
Seems kind of silly for them to even keep using the lie-detector test if it is possible to learn how to beat it. Just imagine if there was some way to make this information readily available to, I don't know, the entire world?
that the 60 percent increase observed in Arctic ice is "technically true, [but] also largely irrelevant."
Well, then why the hell should I have cared that 2012 was such a 'low ice' year?
This is where the whole global warming debate gets me frustrated. One year the ice is melting, and all of the global warming scientist wave their hands and scream about how the end is near. Yet the next year we get the opposite (ice rebounds), and it doesn't matter because of 'long-term trends". Well, if long-term trends are the only thing that matter, STOP YELLING ABOUT ONE YEAR ANOMALIES!!!
If I am a third party witness, what is my motivation to testify? I'm sure lots of people would be willing to testify voluntarily, but I'm sure that anybody that thought there was even a chance of retaliation from the accused would refuse to testify. Since there will be no punishment from the government, the safest course of action would always be to not testify.
And once the bad guys realized that witness could decline to testify with no penalty from the government, it would be open season on threatening witnesses.
Your local school stinks and you do send your child there? I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.
Too bad there isn't much 'power' for parents. Your child has a really crappy teacher that has no idea how to teach? Tough. The teacher's union won't dare let that teacher be fired.
Hell, in our county a school tried to trim back teaching staff by not bringing back new teachers that had less than two years of seniority. Perfectly legal and completely within the school's rights. THEIR UNION STILL RAISED HOLY HELL AND FOUGHT TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK!
Until parents and administrators have some say over who gets the right to teach our children, this ladies 'manifesto' is a bunch of crap.
Currently they are promising to be auditable by 2017...
And when they aren't auditable by that deadline, absolutely nothing will happen. What are they going to do, shut down the military? Fire federal workers in charge of this mess? Ha!
Snowden used his sysadmin privileges to assume the user profiles of top NSA officials...
'Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was...
This qualifies as "Brilliant"? Seriously?
While working at a small company, I got tired of waiting days for our one IT guy (responsible for three sites around the country, and had locked down every damn thing) to get around to fixing my computer issues. So I pulled a similar 'brilliant' move to give myself admin access to everything,and I'm not even an IT professional. And I didn't even have sysadmin privileges to start with.
Man, if people in the government think the shit Snowden pulled was that incredible, I'm going to go put in my resume right now and get one of those cushy, high-paying contractor jobs.
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It used to be you bought a stock, and held onto it. If they were profitable they might pay dividends. Over time, the stock could go up.
Um, this is still how it works. I have several stocks that I have held for a long time, I have no plans to sell them, and they pay me a steady stream of dividends from their profits. The stocks have slowly risen over the years.
Now you could buy and sell your stocks every few minutes/hours/days hoping to make a buck, but the 'market' itself doesn't require you to do this. It is an individual investor's choice...
One more reason why having the federal government run everything is such a bad idea. If Facebook had wasted this much money and had such a poorly functioning website, people would move on to some other social website and they would be out of business. Amount of my money wasted: zero dollars. Sometimes the market really does work.
In the case of Healthcare.gov, it will never get shut down or go out of business...ever. hundreds of millions of dollars of our money will continue to be thrown down this rat hole, year after year after year.
But the people that are most likely to use this website (low income) don't pay federal income taxes anyways, and they get subsidized stuff from it, so what do they care? Keep voting for more federal government involvement! Free shit for all!
it is also over $500 million above what the original estimate was: $93.7 million.
A government project has gone several times over it's original budget? Shocking!
I envision a system where buy into a company in the hopes that they do well, and make your profit when they do (or take the loss when they don't).
This pretty well describes the stock market. I buy a piece of the company, and if they make profits they give dividends (or the price increases and I can sell some or all of my stock to make money as well).
people are buying things whos only purpose (barring dividends) is resale for the same purpose.
I'm unsure how this is different from the system you envisioned in the previous quote?
Wage Slavery is not the same as Slavery. That's sort of the reason there is a completely different term for it...
...they could only redeem their "pay" for items available at company-owned stores and separate company-owned town businesses.
Sorry, but that's SLAVERY without the technical legal "property" aspect.
So, the workers received goods (through the company store) for their work, and were free to leave at any time... and you consider that slavery? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
...but in most other respects, they could be bound to serve their master.
What kept the worker from simply leaving the company town? If they weren't physically stopped from leaving, then it is by no means slavery. You could argue that minimum wage workers today make so little money that after they spend on necessities, they have no savings. Are they slaves, too?
Cars catch on fire after accidents all the time. Cars (Electric or Gas) are hauling around a lot of stored energy, and an accident can cause that energy to be released in a rather sudden and violent way (fire). Until there is some more info on this fire (and what caused it), I don't see what the big fuss is.
Just reverse the polarity, and all should be well.
Shit always worked on Star Trek...
...it's been tested...the people want it
Most people have no idea what ACA even is. And Obama had to pretty much bribe his own party members to get it to pass. And Obama is handing out waivers to his own law like he's handing out candy at Halloween.
Me thinks this guy has way too much free time on his hands. Next time the leaders of Gwinnett County whine and bitch about needing to raise taxes because there isn't enough money, maybe someone should bring this guy to their attention...
Court documents actually just list a link? With no copy/printout of what it links to? Really? If ever there was a doubt about how stupid and clueless judges are, it's that fact they allow shit like this to exist in official court documents.
What next? Someone puts in their court document to "Google it"? Seems that would probably be better than a permanent link.
Success! The timing of holding the home button seems to be very critical. I start double-clicking right as soon as I hit the CANCEL button, and hold the 2nd click for about three seconds before releasing. Even after my successful try, I still have trouble doing it consistently.
On a side note, nearly every app was still locked to me. I was able to get the camera and pics open, but that was it.
Just tried it on my iPhone 4 several times. It never went past the locked screens. I even watched the video to be sure I was doing it right.
"I learned the line workers' jobs in about one day." no you didn't.
Yes, I did. Do you think those cars assembled themselves?
Just to explain it to you a little more clearly, the summer line job was only for three month during the summer. It was put in place to help fill the gaps in manpower while a lot of workers went on summer vacation. It was usually filled by the high-school and college aged kids of the workers. Yes, that's right, the line workers had such incredible skill and talent that they could easily be filled by teenagers and young 20 somethings without missing a beat.
...Demand...
Strangely missing from your post was the other side of the equation... supply. I've already carefully explained that the line workers' jobs could be filled by literally anybody. So there was a ton of supply of workers. The only thing that kept the salaries of the line workers so artificially high was the union. Of course the salaries are all now zero since the plant shut down.
Are auto workers overpaid? Maybe.
Maybe?!?!? I can tell you've never worked a production line. I worked along side union members as an engineering intern and also had a chance to work on the line for a summer at the NUMMI plant in California (now building Teslas).
We constantly joked how the skilled engineers drove worse cars than the unskilled line workers because they had higher union salaries.
I went to college for five years to get an engineering degree.
I learned the line workers' jobs in about one day.
Why exactly should a job that requires roughly 1/1,000 of the learning time earn more money?
The title of this was "How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas". Yet no where in the summary, link or video didn't it exactly explain how. It hints at not being able to bypass the car dealership laws, but then one of the dealers says that Tesla was looking for an exception to the car dealership laws.
Well, which is it? Was a new law passed banning Tesla from selling directly, or were the no-direct-sell laws already in place and Tesla wanted them changed? Because those are two VERY different things.
They all show trust in Congress below 20%
That particular polls means dick. People think that their members of congress are just peachy (they keep re-electing them over and over). It's all those other congressional members from those other states that are the problem.
Oh yes, you welcome them. You welcome them LONG TIME!
Convince each of these 220k people to each donate $1mil to get a spaceship built...
Hasn't the government just told the entire world that polygraph tests don't work? They threw a guy in jail for teaching people how to beat their test, so they acknowledge that the test isn't fool-proof.
Seems kind of silly for them to even keep using the lie-detector test if it is possible to learn how to beat it. Just imagine if there was some way to make this information readily available to, I don't know, the entire world?
that the 60 percent increase observed in Arctic ice is "technically true, [but] also largely irrelevant."
Well, then why the hell should I have cared that 2012 was such a 'low ice' year?
This is where the whole global warming debate gets me frustrated. One year the ice is melting, and all of the global warming scientist wave their hands and scream about how the end is near. Yet the next year we get the opposite (ice rebounds), and it doesn't matter because of 'long-term trends". Well, if long-term trends are the only thing that matter, STOP YELLING ABOUT ONE YEAR ANOMALIES!!!
If I am a third party witness, what is my motivation to testify? I'm sure lots of people would be willing to testify voluntarily, but I'm sure that anybody that thought there was even a chance of retaliation from the accused would refuse to testify. Since there will be no punishment from the government, the safest course of action would always be to not testify.
And once the bad guys realized that witness could decline to testify with no penalty from the government, it would be open season on threatening witnesses.
Which brings up the point of a soldier is bound to carry out orders, not question them.
I thought soldiers weren't required to follow illegal orders?
Your local school stinks and you do send your child there? I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.
Too bad there isn't much 'power' for parents. Your child has a really crappy teacher that has no idea how to teach? Tough. The teacher's union won't dare let that teacher be fired.
Hell, in our county a school tried to trim back teaching staff by not bringing back new teachers that had less than two years of seniority. Perfectly legal and completely within the school's rights. THEIR UNION STILL RAISED HOLY HELL AND FOUGHT TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK!
Until parents and administrators have some say over who gets the right to teach our children, this ladies 'manifesto' is a bunch of crap.
Currently they are promising to be auditable by 2017...
And when they aren't auditable by that deadline, absolutely nothing will happen. What are they going to do, shut down the military? Fire federal workers in charge of this mess? Ha!
Snowden used his sysadmin privileges to assume the user profiles of top NSA officials...
'Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was...
This qualifies as "Brilliant"? Seriously?
While working at a small company, I got tired of waiting days for our one IT guy (responsible for three sites around the country, and had locked down every damn thing) to get around to fixing my computer issues. So I pulled a similar 'brilliant' move to give myself admin access to everything,and I'm not even an IT professional. And I didn't even have sysadmin privileges to start with.
Man, if people in the government think the shit Snowden pulled was that incredible, I'm going to go put in my resume right now and get one of those cushy, high-paying contractor jobs.