I don't use apple products and would not even if I got them as gifts. I know of what I speak, I asked people explicitly never to gift me iphones or apple computers, they were kind enough to ask me first.... That said - a yacht is expensive because of all the materials and manual labour that goes into its production.
If a feature of a phone could only be done manually then I can see how that would add to the price tag. Let's say you wanted a blood boy to be part of the device. If he came as part of the package from Bangladesh for example I would only expect the feature to be available to those with deep enough pockets to cover the price of two or three regular I phones....
This is a bullshit report with bullshit ideas and bullshit conclusion.
A company that provides you with fuel for your car does not actually produce the emissions, your car produces the emissions, you are the one driving it. You are the one eating the food that is produced due to oil companies supplying energy and chemicals, you are the one living in a building heated and lit by whatever energy source that allows you to survive.
Etc.etc.etc.
To say that some companies that allow you to live on this planet by providing you with everything you need to live are producing the waste that is actually the result of you existing and consuming all this stuff is propaganda and nothing more. It is aimed at stealing profits from companies that are actually largely responsible for you being alive in the first place.
Dummy, I bet you believe that people used to pay silly income taxes at 94% marginal rates too. USA developed large industries just to get around paying taxes, that's what used to make America actually great before 1913 - USA was a free country where your income and wealth belonged to you and to nobody else. Well, you couldn't keep the Republic thus you have this.... whatever it is, and the economy is gone with it.
No, people shouldn't be provided equality of outcomes, that's what is being recommended by the GP. If you are too poor to drive a car in a city where driving costs a lot of money you are not going to become more productive if your expenses increase for you to maintain a car as well. Figure out how to become more productive first, then eventually (maybe) you can afford a car.
AFAIC if you are a successful businessman you obviously need a car much more than if you are an employee somewhere, that's because you actually have more responsibilities. Money and responsibilities go hand in hand. Somebody running a factory has responsibilities that are much above somebody working for a factory.
I want to hear the left talk about 'justice' for all. Let me know when you decide that you actually want justice, justice would be equal treatment under law, not equal treatment unless you are wealthy and then the laws change and you owe money to the mob so that they won't come and murder you (that's what they promise).
I think what this will do is simply cause people to show less than 250K worth of income in Seattle, that's about it.
I would rather take and use Singapore's ideas than yours, at least they are a successful economy precisely because they don't follow your types of ideas. A system should be biased against those who cannot produce enough to pay for use of resources. This is a system voting with money for the best use of resources, the poor are not productive enough to be able to command more use of resources.
Privatize all infrastructure and get rid of government policing traffic in the first place completely.
Let the free market find solutions. While I like the idea of flying everywhere the energy requirements are more expensive than most can afford. The private sector may find solutions such as multistory parallel bridges, trains ferrying people and cars, dirigibles, tunnels, monorails, moving buildings, spinning cities, who knows what people will invent if they can earn a good living inventing and implementing it. The society will punish failure and reward success in the free market, while the government involvement does the opposite - it punishes success with taxes and regulations and it rewards failures with bailouts and never ending government contracts.
Currently Navalny is in jail for 25 days from the 12th of June (8 days after his birthday) until the 7th of July for being popular enough that people listened to him and came out to protest corruption on the 12th of June across Russia.
Rand's philosophy is very well rounded, as to wealthy people acting and doing myopic things, she absolutely acknowledges it in her writings, the fact that you are so unaware of it shows that you have no information on the topic, thus talking out of your ass.
Alan Greenspan is a disgrace by the way, he is a very large link in the chain of destruction that plagued America over the last 40 years. If one thing can be said about the current economic crisis it is that Greenspan's lack of spine in the face of government pressures to monetize US Treasury debt cost America its economy. Certainly if he actually followed the principles of objectivism that he gave up when he became Fed's chairman USA would not have suffered the multiple bubbles and crisis that followed his policy of throwing money from helicopters and bailing out failures.
Just uninstalled this garbage from my Android. Went to APKMirror, downloaded an older version, sideloaded it (Settings -> Security -> Unknown sources needs to be on for this.)
Skype is back to normal.
Went to Google App Store -> Settings -> Auto-update apps and turned it off.
Unless they change Skype back to normal this is the last version I will use and if it becomes unusable I will use a different app.
What happened to you? Why did you have this moment of clarity in your mind that is normally clouded with collectivist ideology? Google is a giant corporation that has money, so obviously it has to be raided for money by governments, everything else is an excuse.
When you work and produce something and become successful there will be all sorts of people who are looking your success and getting really jealous and irritated that seemingly you have everything and they should be able to help themselves to your income and savings.
AFAIC Google and Apple and every corporation need to join forces and remove politicians that are stealing from them and when I say remove I truly do not only mean 'remove from the office'. These are thieves, highway robbers with guns and so called 'legal' authority to use those guns, they need to be removed permanently.
That's a silly ad hominem attack. Ayn Rand's views are rational and nuanced, she understood and described the collectivist ideology to such a fine degree that it makes it impossible for them to attack her ideas, they can only attack her personally.
This is yet another non issue a politician want to use to make his name on. Of course people should be able to buy child looking dolls to stick their cocks into (and whatever women would do with them), they are pieces of metal, rubber, silicone, they are not children, nor are they human nor are they alive. If a guy puts a picture of a kid on a plastic vagina and fucks the plastic does he belong in prison? In a circus maybe, but certainly not in prison. This society has no perspective. Personally I believe that government officials should be castrated and imprisoned, but I suppose some people disagree but I can really make a good case for it (it is my sincere belief that government is inherently and intrinsically evil). So at least that s would limit the evil. A guy fucking a doll?????? That is just lonely but not evil.
It is my sincere belief that Apple should not pay a cent but instead hire mercenaries to deal with this theft at as a personal level as this is, and it is personal.
You are simply completely and irreparably wrong in your so called 'understanding' of economics as well as of the great depression. I wrote on this topic more times than I really should have, there is no point in explaining things like this to people so ignorant.
Supply side is economics, there is no such thing as 'demand driven economy', there is only somebody deciding to save and invest and build a productive business, only then can the results of all that work be consumed.
Also you are 100% ignorant on the reasons for the great depression ending. The war never helped anything (you fucking leftist psycho), war is destruction and nothing else, it is destruction and rebuilding after destruction subtracts from the economy, it is better not to have to rebuild no matter how much you listen to maniacs like Krugman. Now *ending* the war did boost the economy as 65% of government spending and 35% of taxes were cut.
Ad to Keynes, well, the world should have never been subjected to that idiot and yet here we are, but even he did not advocate never ending inflation, he preached for tightening during 'good times' even that moronic nincompoop understood the value of rebuilding savings.
Bye bye, I hope to never again to be subjected to stupidity similar to the comment I am responding to right now.
A government is not your fucking mother and you are not a fucking toddler.
It is curious to see all this heated conversations about minimum wage, no less on this site of all places. Nobody is making a minimum wage working for a software or hardware developer and yet everybody needs to tell all those minimum wage earners here how they need to be coddled as toddlers.
A government is an evil drunk fucking step uncle, who believes himself to be the authority on how you should live your life while constantly pillaging your bank account, and if you disagree with him, he has a dark closet for you, he can beat you with a club and promises to shoot you if you decide to fight back. Oh, and he is a favourite cousin of the local mob boss and he has the local cops in his pocket as well.
Oh my god! No, people are not working because there aren't enough jobs available to them and that is happening because there are no savings in the system, the savings are systematically destroyed by the collectivist activity, by government, by taxation, by regulations, by inflation (money printing, interest rate manipulation by the central banks for the purposes of supporting the power of government).
There is no manufacturing sector, the other sectors are automating and laying off and offshoring, etc., and there are oinly so many lobbyist positions available (and those young people are not fit to be in them anyway).
It's the economy, stupid, it's not the videogames.
Supply-side, Chicago School and Austrian School are not economic theory - they have both been utterly debunked.
- quite the opposite, it is the collectivist 'economics', 'economics' based on various fairness arguments that have been utterly debunked time and again by reality debunking it.
Supply side is the only actual economics, an economy is production. Consumption is a trivial consequence of production. All market participants must produce in order to exchange the goods and services among each other. Without production all you can do is borrow or print money (you can tax those, who are still producing, so also theft).
Without production your 'economy' is reduced to theft (taxes), borrowing (if somebody lends you still) and inflation (printing). Those are your choices in a so called 'economy' driven by demand that is not backed by production.
If you have 100 people, with 99 demanding and not producing anything and with 1 person producing everything, then that 1 person can produce and live off of his/her production, the 99 cannot give *anything* to the 1 person for his products/services. They have all that demand and yet there is nothing (except for theft) that they can do to take the one productive person's stuff.
Wages have been stagnant and declining for most people in the West since Nixon took USA off the gold standard and defaulted on the promise to pay gold for the debts that USA incurred up until then. That started the stagflation of the 70s, which was stopped by Paul Volcker who set the short term interest rate at 21.5% in 1981, which crashed the markets but reset the stagflation. However the machinery was set in motion to move businesses out of the high inflation and no-value money zone (which allowed the government growth to continue and to accelerate while the economy was getting destroyed by the inflation created by the central government and banking).
No, I don't believe that the answer to the problems created by the government is more government, that's because I don't believe that government is at all capable of solving this because the solution to these problems are in slashing all government spending (and all spending, not just government spending), restructuring debts, allowing bad debts to wipe out companies that are bankrupt and cannot survive, allowing the market to clear, prices to reset (prices for labour especially) and to start over.
The problem that is here cannot be solved by any government, the problem is government, presence of government, existence of government, spending anything at all on government (and on other things as well).
You are right, corporations do write this laws. I am against them writing the laws. I am also against all forms of populism, I just as much do not want to have my income and savings stolen from me by the collectivist mob as I do not want corporations giving themselves a monopoly by writing laws.
Unless you have a special agenda you will see the common theme to these issues - government power that can be bought by moneyed interests or by votes. The government power allocated to the politicians is what needs to be limited (or removed) to stop these attack vectors against individual freedoms.
Is it your hypothesis that Comcast (or anything at all) is outside of market forces? Do you bother to account for the effect of the powers that pressure markets from outside of normal market interactions? I am talking about price and wage controls, taxation, regulations, money and interest rate manipulation by the central and local governments into your thinking?
Do you know what a tax or a law can do to any market situation? How about imminent domain cases? Interstate commerce law applications? Bonds that allow government to grow beyond the ability and desire of the system to sustain government growth? Federal reserve bank buying Treasury debt? Interest rate manipulation? Decoupling currency from any concept of hard money? Government declaring something (a service/product) to be of 'strategic importance' and thus destroying competition in that sector for decades... No, for over a century?
You cannot point at something like Comcast and close your eyes pretending that government did not cause the current situation with communications, transportation, energy infrastructure. Health care, insurance, education, you name it.
Markets do self regulate and these outside forces are a large part of the total equation in that self regulation of prices. Markets balance out the imbalances, and where there is a heavy hand of government on one side of the scale the imbalances are still balanced out. The scale is in balance, but the absolute value of that balance is not at all where it would be without these powerful external forces.
Correct, any two people must be able to come to a mutual agreement on voluntarily exchanging/trading labour and money. It is nobody's business if a restaurant or a shop or an office or a factory or a mine, etc., posts a job offer at 1cent per day. It is only a question of whether someone out there wants to start working in that industry (or in any industry) at any pay at all so they could progress in their carrier as opposed to having no opportunities at all.
Market *does* regulate itself. It is a constant self adjusting price feedback loop. When YOU say 'regulate', what meaning do you assign to that word? There is only one meaning: price adjustment. Not 'feel good, social justice crapola', but *price* adjustment as a result of the totality of decisions by all market participants.
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I don't use apple products and would not even if I got them as gifts. I know of what I speak, I asked people explicitly never to gift me iphones or apple computers, they were kind enough to ask me first.... That said - a yacht is expensive because of all the materials and manual labour that goes into its production.
If a feature of a phone could only be done manually then I can see how that would add to the price tag. Let's say you wanted a blood boy to be part of the device. If he came as part of the package from Bangladesh for example I would only expect the feature to be available to those with deep enough pockets to cover the price of two or three regular I phones....
This is a bullshit report with bullshit ideas and bullshit conclusion.
A company that provides you with fuel for your car does not actually produce the emissions, your car produces the emissions, you are the one driving it. You are the one eating the food that is produced due to oil companies supplying energy and chemicals, you are the one living in a building heated and lit by whatever energy source that allows you to survive.
Etc.etc.etc.
To say that some companies that allow you to live on this planet by providing you with everything you need to live are producing the waste that is actually the result of you existing and consuming all this stuff is propaganda and nothing more. It is aimed at stealing profits from companies that are actually largely responsible for you being alive in the first place.
Dummy, I bet you believe that people used to pay silly income taxes at 94% marginal rates too. USA developed large industries just to get around paying taxes, that's what used to make America actually great before 1913 - USA was a free country where your income and wealth belonged to you and to nobody else. Well, you couldn't keep the Republic thus you have this.... whatever it is, and the economy is gone with it.
No, people shouldn't be provided equality of outcomes, that's what is being recommended by the GP. If you are too poor to drive a car in a city where driving costs a lot of money you are not going to become more productive if your expenses increase for you to maintain a car as well. Figure out how to become more productive first, then eventually (maybe) you can afford a car.
AFAIC if you are a successful businessman you obviously need a car much more than if you are an employee somewhere, that's because you actually have more responsibilities. Money and responsibilities go hand in hand. Somebody running a factory has responsibilities that are much above somebody working for a factory.
OMG, so funny :)))))
I want to hear the left talk about 'justice' for all. Let me know when you decide that you actually want justice, justice would be equal treatment under law, not equal treatment unless you are wealthy and then the laws change and you owe money to the mob so that they won't come and murder you (that's what they promise).
I think what this will do is simply cause people to show less than 250K worth of income in Seattle, that's about it.
I would rather take and use Singapore's ideas than yours, at least they are a successful economy precisely because they don't follow your types of ideas. A system should be biased against those who cannot produce enough to pay for use of resources. This is a system voting with money for the best use of resources, the poor are not productive enough to be able to command more use of resources.
Privatize all infrastructure and get rid of government policing traffic in the first place completely.
Let the free market find solutions. While I like the idea of flying everywhere the energy requirements are more expensive than most can afford. The private sector may find solutions such as multistory parallel bridges, trains ferrying people and cars, dirigibles, tunnels, monorails, moving buildings, spinning cities, who knows what people will invent if they can earn a good living inventing and implementing it. The society will punish failure and reward success in the free market, while the government involvement does the opposite - it punishes success with taxes and regulations and it rewards failures with bailouts and never ending government contracts.
Because the next time you decide to buy a huge retailer you will be able to refer to this story..
He may or may not be part of any opposition party but when he broke into Medvedev's email the information that came out provided the opposition with enough evidence to start a large investigation (which ended up posted as a video) into corruption that made Medvedev a billionaire.
Currently Navalny is in jail for 25 days from the 12th of June (8 days after his birthday) until the 7th of July for being popular enough that people listened to him and came out to protest corruption on the 12th of June across Russia.
Navalny and his team put together 'He is not a Dimon for you' (with English subtitles)
Rand's philosophy is very well rounded, as to wealthy people acting and doing myopic things, she absolutely acknowledges it in her writings, the fact that you are so unaware of it shows that you have no information on the topic, thus talking out of your ass.
Alan Greenspan is a disgrace by the way, he is a very large link in the chain of destruction that plagued America over the last 40 years. If one thing can be said about the current economic crisis it is that Greenspan's lack of spine in the face of government pressures to monetize US Treasury debt cost America its economy. Certainly if he actually followed the principles of objectivism that he gave up when he became Fed's chairman USA would not have suffered the multiple bubbles and crisis that followed his policy of throwing money from helicopters and bailing out failures.
Just uninstalled this garbage from my Android. Went to APKMirror, downloaded an older version, sideloaded it (Settings -> Security -> Unknown sources needs to be on for this.)
Skype is back to normal.
Went to Google App Store -> Settings -> Auto-update apps and turned it off.
Unless they change Skype back to normal this is the last version I will use and if it becomes unusable I will use a different app.
What happened to you? Why did you have this moment of clarity in your mind that is normally clouded with collectivist ideology? Google is a giant corporation that has money, so obviously it has to be raided for money by governments, everything else is an excuse.
When you work and produce something and become successful there will be all sorts of people who are looking your success and getting really jealous and irritated that seemingly you have everything and they should be able to help themselves to your income and savings.
AFAIC Google and Apple and every corporation need to join forces and remove politicians that are stealing from them and when I say remove I truly do not only mean 'remove from the office'. These are thieves, highway robbers with guns and so called 'legal' authority to use those guns, they need to be removed permanently.
What is the percentage of security problems that systemd bugs (or are those 'features'?) are responsible for?
That's a silly ad hominem attack. Ayn Rand's views are rational and nuanced, she understood and described the collectivist ideology to such a fine degree that it makes it impossible for them to attack her ideas, they can only attack her personally.
This is yet another non issue a politician want to use to make his name on. Of course people should be able to buy child looking dolls to stick their cocks into (and whatever women would do with them), they are pieces of metal, rubber, silicone, they are not children, nor are they human nor are they alive. If a guy puts a picture of a kid on a plastic vagina and fucks the plastic does he belong in prison? In a circus maybe, but certainly not in prison. This society has no perspective. Personally I believe that government officials should be castrated and imprisoned, but I suppose some people disagree but I can really make a good case for it (it is my sincere belief that government is inherently and intrinsically evil). So at least that s would limit the evil. A guy fucking a doll?????? That is just lonely but not evil.
It is my sincere belief that Apple should not pay a cent but instead hire mercenaries to deal with this theft at as a personal level as this is, and it is personal.
You are simply completely and irreparably wrong in your so called 'understanding' of economics as well as of the great depression. I wrote on this topic more times than I really should have, there is no point in explaining things like this to people so ignorant.
Instead of writing (uncomfortably on this phone) I will simply link to one of my posts on this tired topic from 6 years ago, why not, here is my comment, with some numbers as well, I am sure all of it will be lost on you.
Supply side is economics, there is no such thing as 'demand driven economy', there is only somebody deciding to save and invest and build a productive business, only then can the results of all that work be consumed.
Also you are 100% ignorant on the reasons for the great depression ending. The war never helped anything (you fucking leftist psycho), war is destruction and nothing else, it is destruction and rebuilding after destruction subtracts from the economy, it is better not to have to rebuild no matter how much you listen to maniacs like Krugman. Now *ending* the war did boost the economy as 65% of government spending and 35% of taxes were cut.
Ad to Keynes, well, the world should have never been subjected to that idiot and yet here we are, but even he did not advocate never ending inflation, he preached for tightening during 'good times' even that moronic nincompoop understood the value of rebuilding savings.
Bye bye, I hope to never again to be subjected to stupidity similar to the comment I am responding to right now.
A government is not your fucking mother and you are not a fucking toddler.
It is curious to see all this heated conversations about minimum wage, no less on this site of all places. Nobody is making a minimum wage working for a software or hardware developer and yet everybody needs to tell all those minimum wage earners here how they need to be coddled as toddlers.
A government is an evil drunk fucking step uncle, who believes himself to be the authority on how you should live your life while constantly pillaging your bank account, and if you disagree with him, he has a dark closet for you, he can beat you with a club and promises to shoot you if you decide to fight back. Oh, and he is a favourite cousin of the local mob boss and he has the local cops in his pocket as well.
Oh my god! No, people are not working because there aren't enough jobs available to them and that is happening because there are no savings in the system, the savings are systematically destroyed by the collectivist activity, by government, by taxation, by regulations, by inflation (money printing, interest rate manipulation by the central banks for the purposes of supporting the power of government).
There is no manufacturing sector, the other sectors are automating and laying off and offshoring, etc., and there are oinly so many lobbyist positions available (and those young people are not fit to be in them anyway).
It's the economy, stupid, it's not the videogames.
Supply-side, Chicago School and Austrian School are not economic theory - they have both been utterly debunked.
- quite the opposite, it is the collectivist 'economics', 'economics' based on various fairness arguments that have been utterly debunked time and again by reality debunking it.
Supply side is the only actual economics, an economy is production. Consumption is a trivial consequence of production. All market participants must produce in order to exchange the goods and services among each other. Without production all you can do is borrow or print money (you can tax those, who are still producing, so also theft).
Without production your 'economy' is reduced to theft (taxes), borrowing (if somebody lends you still) and inflation (printing). Those are your choices in a so called 'economy' driven by demand that is not backed by production.
If you have 100 people, with 99 demanding and not producing anything and with 1 person producing everything, then that 1 person can produce and live off of his/her production, the 99 cannot give *anything* to the 1 person for his products/services. They have all that demand and yet there is nothing (except for theft) that they can do to take the one productive person's stuff.
Wages have been stagnant and declining for most people in the West since Nixon took USA off the gold standard and defaulted on the promise to pay gold for the debts that USA incurred up until then. That started the stagflation of the 70s, which was stopped by Paul Volcker who set the short term interest rate at 21.5% in 1981, which crashed the markets but reset the stagflation. However the machinery was set in motion to move businesses out of the high inflation and no-value money zone (which allowed the government growth to continue and to accelerate while the economy was getting destroyed by the inflation created by the central government and banking).
No, I don't believe that the answer to the problems created by the government is more government, that's because I don't believe that government is at all capable of solving this because the solution to these problems are in slashing all government spending (and all spending, not just government spending), restructuring debts, allowing bad debts to wipe out companies that are bankrupt and cannot survive, allowing the market to clear, prices to reset (prices for labour especially) and to start over.
The problem that is here cannot be solved by any government, the problem is government, presence of government, existence of government, spending anything at all on government (and on other things as well).
You are right, corporations do write this laws. I am against them writing the laws. I am also against all forms of populism, I just as much do not want to have my income and savings stolen from me by the collectivist mob as I do not want corporations giving themselves a monopoly by writing laws.
Unless you have a special agenda you will see the common theme to these issues - government power that can be bought by moneyed interests or by votes. The government power allocated to the politicians is what needs to be limited (or removed) to stop these attack vectors against individual freedoms.
Is it your hypothesis that Comcast (or anything at all) is outside of market forces? Do you bother to account for the effect of the powers that pressure markets from outside of normal market interactions? I am talking about price and wage controls, taxation, regulations, money and interest rate manipulation by the central and local governments into your thinking?
Do you know what a tax or a law can do to any market situation? How about imminent domain cases? Interstate commerce law applications? Bonds that allow government to grow beyond the ability and desire of the system to sustain government growth? Federal reserve bank buying Treasury debt? Interest rate manipulation? Decoupling currency from any concept of hard money? Government declaring something (a service/product) to be of 'strategic importance' and thus destroying competition in that sector for decades... No, for over a century?
You cannot point at something like Comcast and close your eyes pretending that government did not cause the current situation with communications, transportation, energy infrastructure. Health care, insurance, education, you name it.
Markets do self regulate and these outside forces are a large part of the total equation in that self regulation of prices. Markets balance out the imbalances, and where there is a heavy hand of government on one side of the scale the imbalances are still balanced out. The scale is in balance, but the absolute value of that balance is not at all where it would be without these powerful external forces.
Correct, any two people must be able to come to a mutual agreement on voluntarily exchanging/trading labour and money. It is nobody's business if a restaurant or a shop or an office or a factory or a mine, etc., posts a job offer at 1cent per day. It is only a question of whether someone out there wants to start working in that industry (or in any industry) at any pay at all so they could progress in their carrier as opposed to having no opportunities at all.
Market *does* regulate itself. It is a constant self adjusting price feedback loop. When YOU say 'regulate', what meaning do you assign to that word? There is only one meaning: price adjustment. Not 'feel good, social justice crapola', but *price* adjustment as a result of the totality of decisions by all market participants.