Copyrights and patents must be abolished, they are part of the death of economies, just like governments regulations, taxes, subsidies, wars, corporate involvement, corruption, stimulus borrowing/printing/spending and bailouts.
All of the above things are killing the economies, these things are making industrialized world uncompetitive and jobs are leaving and no amount of cash can be spent to make the industrialized world competitive again ever because the reason cannot be simply removed by spending.
The reason of the underlying structural breakage of economy is lack of useful production/manufacturing jobs, whose loss has resulted from lack of competitiveness. Competition is the only correct solution to this problem, and copyrights, patents, regulations, wage laws, taxes, subsidies, bailouts, stimulus, wars, corporate corruption are all tied to one main entity: government.
Government is the ultimate force with the power to compel people to do what they do not want to do, and it does so because it craves power, through people who join the government because they crave power, and for them gov't is the ultimate way to get power and money by sharing with corporate friends.
Government involvement in economy must be removed completely and that is the only way to remove incentives to corrupt the government, spending all the money in the world on buying the gov't should NOT buy you a free ride and destruction and structural removal of any competition.
This comment is the actual answer to the question: what the fuck happened to the economy?
well, it's always a pleasure to know that a random comment I make can inspire somebody actually to do something. Once I figure out how to inspire people to do something that is actually useful, I'll have the solution to the failing economy thing, I'll start charging for my comments!
ha ha ha, it's the quickest and the easiest and the best way of making the most money (or taking the most resources), and it stays the best, the easiest and the quickest way forever.
A virus or a bacteria uses your body to survive, if they are not deadly, you survive and let them survive in you, that's one way to use you. Beating people up and taking their stuff is the quickest way of becoming much richer than the rest, around you, that's what governments are based on - they take your stuff that they didn't earn and they have authority and power over you and they live better than you, a clown like this one in the story is small potatoes compared to what a government does to you.
Killing you to take your resources is perfectly natural, the only question is this: is it smart? If you are dead the resources you produce can only be taken once. If you are kept alive because only a part of your resources you produced are taken from you, you'll continue being a useful source of said resources, that's why gov't doesn't kill you, and it's against a clown like this killing you - you are a natural resource for the gov't.
How does anybody like that sleep at night? With a big smile, on expensive sheets, on an expensive bed, in an expensive house with sla... assistants and cooks, and cleaners working around to keep all things up.
It actually is quite rewarding for some people, because they want everything and they are vane, so they literally do not care and they literally could kill you in cold blood (but not necessarily by their own pretty hand) if it became more profitable than letting you live. That's life.
Sharon Angle is something, ain't she? She's crazy.
However this here:
Eliminating the IRS (like, actually eliminating it, not just grumbling at tax time)
- everybody should want that.
AFAIC the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started to steal money and redistribute that money to contractors - military and civilian alike. Politicians saw the SS money and needed to take it.
Why pay income taxes at all, if you against wars? That's first.
Then there is the entire issue of Freedom. The gov't is telling you: we own you. We own your wages and we'll give you what we decide out of the money you earn. That is unconstitutional and it is immoral.
Third: economy. Economy is suffering due to government taxing/regulating/subsidizing/creating moral hazards/creating monopolies and killing competition to small businesses/bailing out monopolies it creats.
Government is always spending, it is never shrinking and it spent even during the burst of the credit bubble in 2008. Government is printing and borrowing money, it never reduces its consumption, even though anybody as a person or a business (that is not subsidized) has to either find more income or reduce expenses during tough times. Government only spends, which gives a short boost, like an alcoholic drinking more after a binge because it's easier than to stop drinking and face the consequences. Government is the entity that takes in income taxes, prints and lends t-bills all the time - moves debt from one credit card to another, prints cash - dilutes value of everybody's dollars.
Government is the reason why prices always go up, prices skyrocket for everything, for the gov't subsidized through guaranteed mortgages houses, gov't subsidized health care prices went up thousands of times since Nixon fucked it up, gov't subsidized food industry and gov't fixing food prices caused obesity epidemic in US, UK and other places due to fructose used by companies to lower cost and to force people to buy and eat/drink more because they had to figure out a way to lower down costs instead of just having fluctuating prices all that while corn is subsidized. Government causes the tuition prices to go up by giving out loans on public money. Etc.etc., I can type all day long.
AFAIC nobody should want IRS to collect income taxes, it's immoral, it causes wars and steals money that people could use to invest into their own future, money they won't see again, it kills economy.
But of-course it's NOT JUST IRS, it's the Fed, it's gov't in economy in principle, it's ability of gov't to guarantee outcomes and thus providing reasons to corrupt gov't, and at the end that is what gov't is for - it wants to be corrupted because it has the power to help those, who corrupt it. It dangles that carrot and says: here here, rabbit, here, come and seduce me, come and corrupt me, I'll give you what you want - your monopoly, but you'll give me some of that money back.
Gov't in economy is the actual root cause of economy dying, it's more than IRS.
I am waiting for a robot maid to put dishes into a dishwasher, to clean up surfaces, take out garbage and to be able to sort the recyclables out, to put clothes into a washer, move the from washer to dryer, to iron what has to be ironed, to fold the stuff and put it onto the right shelves, to vacuum clean and to wash floors, to shine shoes and to be able to cook, to go to stores, and pick up what's needed, to walk the dog and to satisfy me sexually.
What I am going to get:
a silly looking thing, that'll put the garbage in the dishwasher, recycle the washer, take out the surfaces, move the right shelves into the dryer, then take them out, iron and fold them, vacuum clean the fridge, place the dirty clothes into it, shine the dog, then cook it, and drive the car through a store.
But you know what? As long as it satisfies me sexually I don't really mind that much.
you wouldn't start with citric acid and some simple metal, like iron or copper, you'd have to use something more serious. I imagine AsO(OH)3 (arsenic acid) mixed in some proportion with Strontium and Tin. I think that's how you get Beck.
Mmmmm, Mr. Bore, we have to talk. Have you seen the new cover for the TPS reports? I will need you to come to work on Saturday. Oh, and I will need you to go ahead and come to work on Sunday as well.
and scientists finger the White house as the culprit of obesity: Sugar - the bitter truth. An explanation on why people are obese.
Short version:
1. Nixon pushed to stabilize food prices to help him in elections, he succeeded in doing that to food. 2. Various gov't programs included providing 'juices' to the poor. 3. Fixed food prices caused corporations to start looking for other ways of taking care of price fluctuations, namely using cheaper and more cost effective ingredients.
The food that causes obesity is...
fructose.
The video above explains that fructose is a form of alcohol without the buzz and how it does damage by not allowing the body to understand that it doesn't need to consume more food, while causing obesity, liver damage, and various other illnesses normally associated with alcoholism.
BTW FDA doesn't control substances that even though harmful to you, do not cause acute poisoning, and fructose does not cause acute poisoning, it makes you sick over time.
people eat too much because government pushed the agenda of stabilizing food prices during Nixon actually and it carried on, and due to prices being fixed, the ingredients became worse and worse for human consumption, including the gov't not even mentioning that fiber needs to be in the food 'pyramid'. Watch this Sugar - the bitter truth. An explanation on why people are obese.
The answer is fructose, which is a form of alcohol without the buzz, and which is not regulated by the FDA because its bad effects are not immediate and happen over time.
Yes, let's have a government investigating an on-line search engine, who clearly charges too much for its services, and clearly the market is suffering from such an outrage.
Yes, there is no other competition to Google, no Yahoos, no Microsofts, no Altavistas, no region specific services like Yandex, no Mamma search, etc.
Yes, the barrier to entry into search engine field is stifled by Google clearly, clearly it is impossible to write your own crawler/spider to index the web and then to rank your findings in any way your prefer.
Clearly the government is spending more money to be very productive, obviously, as Krugman said a couple of days ago on a radio program: we need to have the government hiring people to dig ditches and hiring people to fill those ditches as well, that is the engine of economic recovery, the government spending and regulations, and all other ways government battles the private sector and redirects resources from private sector to public by (as an example) artificially setting very low interest rates, so that the banks borrow from the gov't at low rates and then lend back to the gov't by buying t-bills to make the spread.
How about investigating the GOVERNMENT for actually ILLEGALLY DESTROYING COMPETITION BY SETTING INSANELY LOW INTEREST RATES WHEN MARKET CLEARLY WOULD PRICE THEM MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER?
Yeah, but that would require actual ability to think and to understand basic economics and to realize that government spending and stimulus and bailouts and printing and borrowing and taxing and regulating and subsidizing while can lead to a short term gain in GDP numbers, actually in reality DESTROYS the market by displacing resources that instead could be used productively by private companies, LIKE GOOGLE to create new ideas, businesses and opportunities that ACTUALLY HELP ECONOMY.
I fucking hate the governments and everything that they stand for because they are the reason economy is failing and everybody's quality of life suffers because of their 'work'.
with private companies the rules for access should not be dictated by any gov't.
Gov't is a monopoly, the individual companies are at least in competition with each other. You don't like the terms of service of RIM, don't buy a blackberry, get something else.
Don't forget, any response from Anonymous Coward to my thread, automatically grants me +10^6mF, while the AC himself get's a thick, long one up his ass from a syphilitic goat herder.
that's not a very likely possibility, mine are not going straight from point A to point B, they are more like a cloud of mosquitoes, just buzzing around. I think you'll have to borrow some from Amtrak, it's not going to be pretty or fast or efficient, but the price is about right.
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This has to be drilled into everybody's heads.
Copyrights and patents must be abolished, they are part of the death of economies, just like governments regulations, taxes, subsidies, wars, corporate involvement, corruption, stimulus borrowing/printing/spending and bailouts.
All of the above things are killing the economies, these things are making industrialized world uncompetitive and jobs are leaving and no amount of cash can be spent to make the industrialized world competitive again ever because the reason cannot be simply removed by spending.
The reason of the underlying structural breakage of economy is lack of useful production/manufacturing jobs, whose loss has resulted from lack of competitiveness. Competition is the only correct solution to this problem, and copyrights, patents, regulations, wage laws, taxes, subsidies, bailouts, stimulus, wars, corporate corruption are all tied to one main entity: government.
Government is the ultimate force with the power to compel people to do what they do not want to do, and it does so because it craves power, through people who join the government because they crave power, and for them gov't is the ultimate way to get power and money by sharing with corporate friends.
Government involvement in economy must be removed completely and that is the only way to remove incentives to corrupt the government, spending all the money in the world on buying the gov't should NOT buy you a free ride and destruction and structural removal of any competition.
This comment is the actual answer to the question: what the fuck happened to the economy?
well, it's always a pleasure to know that a random comment I make can inspire somebody actually to do something. Once I figure out how to inspire people to do something that is actually useful, I'll have the solution to the failing economy thing, I'll start charging for my comments!
ha ha ha, it's the quickest and the easiest and the best way of making the most money (or taking the most resources), and it stays the best, the easiest and the quickest way forever.
A virus or a bacteria uses your body to survive, if they are not deadly, you survive and let them survive in you, that's one way to use you. Beating people up and taking their stuff is the quickest way of becoming much richer than the rest, around you, that's what governments are based on - they take your stuff that they didn't earn and they have authority and power over you and they live better than you, a clown like this one in the story is small potatoes compared to what a government does to you.
Killing you to take your resources is perfectly natural, the only question is this: is it smart? If you are dead the resources you produce can only be taken once. If you are kept alive because only a part of your resources you produced are taken from you, you'll continue being a useful source of said resources, that's why gov't doesn't kill you, and it's against a clown like this killing you - you are a natural resource for the gov't.
How does anybody like that sleep at night? With a big smile, on expensive sheets, on an expensive bed, in an expensive house with sla... assistants and cooks, and cleaners working around to keep all things up.
It actually is quite rewarding for some people, because they want everything and they are vane, so they literally do not care and they literally could kill you in cold blood (but not necessarily by their own pretty hand) if it became more profitable than letting you live. That's life.
Sharon Angle is something, ain't she? She's crazy.
However this here:
Eliminating the IRS (like, actually eliminating it, not just grumbling at tax time)
- everybody should want that.
AFAIC the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started to steal money and redistribute that money to contractors - military and civilian alike. Politicians saw the SS money and needed to take it.
Why pay income taxes at all, if you against wars? That's first.
Then there is the entire issue of Freedom. The gov't is telling you: we own you. We own your wages and we'll give you what we decide out of the money you earn. That is unconstitutional and it is immoral.
Third: economy. Economy is suffering due to government taxing/regulating/subsidizing/creating moral hazards/creating monopolies and killing competition to small businesses/bailing out monopolies it creats.
Government is always spending, it is never shrinking and it spent even during the burst of the credit bubble in 2008. Government is printing and borrowing money, it never reduces its consumption, even though anybody as a person or a business (that is not subsidized) has to either find more income or reduce expenses during tough times. Government only spends, which gives a short boost, like an alcoholic drinking more after a binge because it's easier than to stop drinking and face the consequences. Government is the entity that takes in income taxes, prints and lends t-bills all the time - moves debt from one credit card to another, prints cash - dilutes value of everybody's dollars.
Government is the reason why prices always go up, prices skyrocket for everything, for the gov't subsidized through guaranteed mortgages houses, gov't subsidized health care prices went up thousands of times since Nixon fucked it up, gov't subsidized food industry and gov't fixing food prices caused obesity epidemic in US, UK and other places due to fructose used by companies to lower cost and to force people to buy and eat/drink more because they had to figure out a way to lower down costs instead of just having fluctuating prices all that while corn is subsidized. Government causes the tuition prices to go up by giving out loans on public money. Etc.etc., I can type all day long.
AFAIC nobody should want IRS to collect income taxes, it's immoral, it causes wars and steals money that people could use to invest into their own future, money they won't see again, it kills economy.
But of-course it's NOT JUST IRS, it's the Fed, it's gov't in economy in principle, it's ability of gov't to guarantee outcomes and thus providing reasons to corrupt gov't, and at the end that is what gov't is for - it wants to be corrupted because it has the power to help those, who corrupt it. It dangles that carrot and says: here here, rabbit, here, come and seduce me, come and corrupt me, I'll give you what you want - your monopoly, but you'll give me some of that money back.
Gov't in economy is the actual root cause of economy dying, it's more than IRS.
I am waiting for a robot maid to put dishes into a dishwasher, to clean up surfaces, take out garbage and to be able to sort the recyclables out, to put clothes into a washer, move the from washer to dryer, to iron what has to be ironed, to fold the stuff and put it onto the right shelves, to vacuum clean and to wash floors, to shine shoes and to be able to cook, to go to stores, and pick up what's needed, to walk the dog and to satisfy me sexually.
What I am going to get:
a silly looking thing, that'll put the garbage in the dishwasher, recycle the washer, take out the surfaces, move the right shelves into the dryer, then take them out, iron and fold them, vacuum clean the fridge, place the dirty clothes into it, shine the dog, then cook it, and drive the car through a store.
But you know what? As long as it satisfies me sexually I don't really mind that much.
too late for that, but you can watch the cloud of poisonous gas spreading during his Fox segment
you wouldn't start with citric acid and some simple metal, like iron or copper, you'd have to use something more serious. I imagine AsO(OH)3 (arsenic acid) mixed in some proportion with Strontium and Tin. I think that's how you get Beck.
Mmmmm, Mr. Bore, we have to talk. Have you seen the new cover for the TPS reports? I will need you to come to work on Saturday. Oh, and I will need you to go ahead and come to work on Sunday as well.
I see copyrights and patents as impediment to economy, they all must be abolished and I am a developer.
aaah, the usual circletimessquare, trolling some more.
Flame on, circletimes, flame on.
you are ignorant of the facts, you may want to watch the video in question.
it's in the link, you may to watch it.
they eat less fructose and also some people metabolize alcohol better than others.
Also they may be wizards.
There are more and more obese and fewer and fewer thin people in US, UK etc.
it's harder when all preprocessed and prepackaged food, including breads and juices contain fructose. It's very hard indeed.
and scientists finger the White house as the culprit of obesity: Sugar - the bitter truth. An explanation on why people are obese.
Short version:
1. Nixon pushed to stabilize food prices to help him in elections, he succeeded in doing that to food.
2. Various gov't programs included providing 'juices' to the poor.
3. Fixed food prices caused corporations to start looking for other ways of taking care of price fluctuations, namely using cheaper and more cost effective ingredients.
The food that causes obesity is...
fructose.
The video above explains that fructose is a form of alcohol without the buzz and how it does damage by not allowing the body to understand that it doesn't need to consume more food, while causing obesity, liver damage, and various other illnesses normally associated with alcoholism.
BTW FDA doesn't control substances that even though harmful to you, do not cause acute poisoning, and fructose does not cause acute poisoning, it makes you sick over time.
White house is the culprit.
people eat too much because government pushed the agenda of stabilizing food prices during Nixon actually and it carried on, and due to prices being fixed, the ingredients became worse and worse for human consumption, including the gov't not even mentioning that fiber needs to be in the food 'pyramid'. Watch this Sugar - the bitter truth. An explanation on why people are obese.
The answer is fructose, which is a form of alcohol without the buzz, and which is not regulated by the FDA because its bad effects are not immediate and happen over time.
Yes, let's have a government investigating an on-line search engine, who clearly charges too much for its services, and clearly the market is suffering from such an outrage.
Yes, there is no other competition to Google, no Yahoos, no Microsofts, no Altavistas, no region specific services like Yandex, no Mamma search, etc.
Yes, the barrier to entry into search engine field is stifled by Google clearly, clearly it is impossible to write your own crawler/spider to index the web and then to rank your findings in any way your prefer.
Clearly the government is spending more money to be very productive, obviously, as Krugman said a couple of days ago on a radio program: we need to have the government hiring people to dig ditches and hiring people to fill those ditches as well, that is the engine of economic recovery, the government spending and regulations, and all other ways government battles the private sector and redirects resources from private sector to public by (as an example) artificially setting very low interest rates, so that the banks borrow from the gov't at low rates and then lend back to the gov't by buying t-bills to make the spread.
How about investigating the GOVERNMENT for actually ILLEGALLY DESTROYING COMPETITION BY SETTING INSANELY LOW INTEREST RATES WHEN MARKET CLEARLY WOULD PRICE THEM MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER?
Yeah, but that would require actual ability to think and to understand basic economics and to realize that government spending and stimulus and bailouts and printing and borrowing and taxing and regulating and subsidizing while can lead to a short term gain in GDP numbers, actually in reality DESTROYS the market by displacing resources that instead could be used productively by private companies, LIKE GOOGLE to create new ideas, businesses and opportunities that ACTUALLY HELP ECONOMY.
I fucking hate the governments and everything that they stand for because they are the reason economy is failing and everybody's quality of life suffers because of their 'work'.
so did they catch the really really dumb homeboy?
C'est la guerre!
Ca c'est la revolution!
with private companies the rules for access should not be dictated by any gov't.
Gov't is a monopoly, the individual companies are at least in competition with each other. You don't like the terms of service of RIM, don't buy a blackberry, get something else.
Don't forget, any response from Anonymous Coward to my thread, automatically grants me +10^6mF, while the AC himself get's a thick, long one up his ass from a syphilitic goat herder.
I suppose if you do not count Israel being hit by some hidden weapon and suffering heavy casualties a problem, then you are correct.
Obviously. A train truck is just not designed to deliver any messages to a cloud of mosquitoes.
that's not a very likely possibility, mine are not going straight from point A to point B, they are more like a cloud of mosquitoes, just buzzing around. I think you'll have to borrow some from Amtrak, it's not going to be pretty or fast or efficient, but the price is about right.