Money and wealth are NOT the same thing. Take the square footage of available land and divide that by 7bn and you might start to make sense in my topic.
I'm a socialist in the sense that I hold that finite natural resources should serve to the benefit of all beings that occupy earth; and that no invention, like money, can be used to manipulate such resources into the control and exploit of the few. I'm not saying you owe me half of your iphone if you've got one and I don't... that's petty trash like most products. But we all deserve an equal share of the resources upon which we live, and the immoral sequestering of those resources that preceded our lives should be dismantled.
You can have your mansion. You can have your bentley. Ethically, nobody gives a fuck about your silly concepts of prestige and class. I still deserve 1/7billionth of the water, land, and air available, and if you take some from me to do something else, compensation is due. This is not just my own perspective but that of Thomas Jefferson in his writings as well. At no point should our nationally held lands have been privatized and capitalized; WE THE PEOPLE have yet to receive fair compensation for the privatized exploit that has been drawn from such sources of absolute wealth.
In a libertarian fantasy of competition and survival, I'd put a bullet in you.
Real wealth lies in finite resources like oil and land. True wealth is held this way, and the pie is finite. Everything else is piss, and the value you place on it is only personal.
On a more general note; isn't it curious how your mathematical projections predict the monopolistic and unethical practices of corporations, given that the basic fundamental principle is to consistently increase profits?
This system is doomed. Not that it isn't already obvious when the people transferring funds are drawing more profit/income than those who exert the purposes of those funds (the actual production/activity/work to the benefit of others such as products, building, engineering, etc).
Economic administration, by way of banking or incorporated investment, should not be the primary beneficiary of the system by which people exert work for their fellows. In simple terms, the finance department shouldn't be making more money than the engineering and labor departments. Seen as a whole, the bias and exploit we see within our systems comes from the self-interest and reciprocating wealth and power gains that our financial administrations have taken through manipulative coup.
So I tell my wife on Monday "this sucks, I'm going down to the courts for some jury selection process... I hope I'm not selected".
On Friday, she says "have a good day at work", to her I reply "oh, I'm not going to work, but I can't talk about what I'm doing." Concerned, she inquires more deeply about what I'm up to.
Unfortunately, because of a mention of the quality of coffee, and mere presence at a jury leading to cases being overturned, I am now legally obliged not to tell her anything at all.
Two weeks go by, my workplace is inquiring about where I've been. I would like to be paid during the time I serve jury duty, as some laws have supported, but I can't even tell them. trials have been overturned for a simple mention of being on jury duty.... there is too much at stake for anyone to know where I am.
After a few weeks my wife files paperwork for divorce and I receive termination letters from my employer! If only it was permitted to say where I was going! I'm doomed! I just can't break the Dimas precedent!
Youre lucky that you probably won't be sued for libel in your bullshit guess at the truth about Issa. Get some facts. You sound like an idiot regurgitating foxnews lines.
Naive popularity will drag horrid ideas like this along for the ride as the future consolidates application control and computing into the "cloud" elements that can crap all over you if you are not getting along.
Don't buy into the hype, so we can prolong the inevitable...but in the end, dumb people will drag us off the cliff and we won't find open alternatives that function in society. boy do I loathe the thoughtless nature of many...and how it affects my options.
In many ways I agree with you, but what if the discovery of X, then considered to be applied to system Y, with Z modifications is the case.... at that point it isn't the discovery, but the creative and inventive application of the discovery for novel purposes... that should be patentable.
Jack Thompson patented the "human embryonic stem cell", and he didn't even dscover it! Its ridiculous, and his patent does not pertain to any specific utility, just the cells... that's bullshit.
On the other hand, my boss invented the method to produce stemcells from terminal adult cell types (fibroblast), by defined factors. Now that's patentable.
Patents in biology, in my opinion, should not be granted simply on discovery unless the discovery itself required engineering (aka its not natural).
I'm glad to read, in the face of a 2+ trillion dollar trade deficit, that someone here agrees we need protective tariffs! Every economy that its still solvent has them.
Thank you. This fsckmnky guy is so naive its laughable and yet scary to think someone would speak so strongly about a field they clearly have no understanding of.
No, slashdot or cspan, with wikipedia, does not a professional make
You made that all up. Recon, imint, humint, etc, are all necessary and effective in pre-war times. Your little assumptions about what we are capable of are naive and also foolish.
I think we can sum it up to "you can't fit 11 turds in a 10 turd bucket". No matter how they try to trick th system, the issue is bandwidth.... clearly, buffers are supposed to be for extremely rare unexpected peaks... the reality being that they are being used as bandaids on a much bigger problem.
Now if we could just back off the military spending, even just a little, we could upgrade infrastructure in the US. But military spending feeds campaigns more than citizens do...... and here we are.
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Money and wealth are NOT the same thing. Take the square footage of available land and divide that by 7bn and you might start to make sense in my topic.
The mexican cartels gotta innovate. Thousands of micro trains hauling micrograms of coke across the border in microtunnels!
you can't stop what people want.
I'm a socialist in the sense that I hold that finite natural resources should serve to the benefit of all beings that occupy earth; and that no invention, like money, can be used to manipulate such resources into the control and exploit of the few. I'm not saying you owe me half of your iphone if you've got one and I don't... that's petty trash like most products. But we all deserve an equal share of the resources upon which we live, and the immoral sequestering of those resources that preceded our lives should be dismantled.
You can have your mansion. You can have your bentley. Ethically, nobody gives a fuck about your silly concepts of prestige and class. I still deserve 1/7billionth of the water, land, and air available, and if you take some from me to do something else, compensation is due. This is not just my own perspective but that of Thomas Jefferson in his writings as well. At no point should our nationally held lands have been privatized and capitalized; WE THE PEOPLE have yet to receive fair compensation for the privatized exploit that has been drawn from such sources of absolute wealth.
In a libertarian fantasy of competition and survival, I'd put a bullet in you.
Real wealth lies in finite resources like oil and land. True wealth is held this way, and the pie is finite. Everything else is piss, and the value you place on it is only personal.
You don't know about pie, clearly.
So they both are... Gotcha.
TFA is the citation. Source had tweeted "The coffee sucks here" and "Jury Day 5" (paraphrasing), which resulted in the trial being overturned.
On a more general note; isn't it curious how your mathematical projections predict the monopolistic and unethical practices of corporations, given that the basic fundamental principle is to consistently increase profits?
This system is doomed. Not that it isn't already obvious when the people transferring funds are drawing more profit/income than those who exert the purposes of those funds (the actual production/activity/work to the benefit of others such as products, building, engineering, etc).
Economic administration, by way of banking or incorporated investment, should not be the primary beneficiary of the system by which people exert work for their fellows. In simple terms, the finance department shouldn't be making more money than the engineering and labor departments. Seen as a whole, the bias and exploit we see within our systems comes from the self-interest and reciprocating wealth and power gains that our financial administrations have taken through manipulative coup.
If it's dickish or deceptive it is evil. The fact that it's allowed by the system doesn't magically make it non-evil.
Word-for-word almost exactly what I thought.
Renraku seems to defer the moral basis to the mere presence within a system. No. Relativism does not apply.
Sometimes, yes.
Welcome to reality. There are hardly any 'yes or no' answers.
So I tell my wife on Monday "this sucks, I'm going down to the courts for some jury selection process... I hope I'm not selected".
On Friday, she says "have a good day at work", to her I reply "oh, I'm not going to work, but I can't talk about what I'm doing." Concerned, she inquires more deeply about what I'm up to.
Unfortunately, because of a mention of the quality of coffee, and mere presence at a jury leading to cases being overturned, I am now legally obliged not to tell her anything at all.
Two weeks go by, my workplace is inquiring about where I've been. I would like to be paid during the time I serve jury duty, as some laws have supported, but I can't even tell them. trials have been overturned for a simple mention of being on jury duty.... there is too much at stake for anyone to know where I am.
After a few weeks my wife files paperwork for divorce and I receive termination letters from my employer! If only it was permitted to say where I was going! I'm doomed! I just can't break the Dimas precedent!
Youre lucky that you probably won't be sued for libel in your bullshit guess at the truth about Issa. Get some facts. You sound like an idiot regurgitating foxnews lines.
Republicans that have nothing of value to defend would argue that their taxes are being squandered on a system they don't use.... Shot down....
Naive popularity will drag horrid ideas like this along for the ride as the future consolidates application control and computing into the "cloud" elements that can crap all over you if you are not getting along.
Don't buy into the hype, so we can prolong the inevitable...but in the end, dumb people will drag us off the cliff and we won't find open alternatives that function in society.
boy do I loathe the thoughtless nature of many...and how it affects my options.
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
In many ways I agree with you, but what if the discovery of X, then considered to be applied to system Y, with Z modifications is the case.... at that point it isn't the discovery, but the creative and inventive application of the discovery for novel purposes... that should be patentable.
Jack Thompson patented the "human embryonic stem cell", and he didn't even dscover it! Its ridiculous, and his patent does not pertain to any specific utility, just the cells... that's bullshit.
On the other hand, my boss invented the method to produce stemcells from terminal adult cell types (fibroblast), by defined factors. Now that's patentable.
Patents in biology, in my opinion, should not be granted simply on discovery unless the discovery itself required engineering (aka its not natural).
I'm glad to read, in the face of a 2+ trillion dollar trade deficit, that someone here agrees we need protective tariffs! Every economy that its still solvent has them.
Boycott att. Now that the iphone doesn't force the necessary evil fire iphone fans, lets see a boycott!
Thank you. This fsckmnky guy is so naive its laughable and yet scary to think someone would speak so strongly about a field they clearly have no understanding of.
No, slashdot or cspan, with wikipedia, does not a professional make
You made that all up. Recon, imint, humint, etc, are all necessary and effective in pre-war times. Your little assumptions about what we are capable of are naive and also foolish.
Agreed. Nuclear weapons should never be discussed in any sense beyond very last resort.
Many potential enemies have the ability to strike on US soil. We don't want to be the first to make transglobal nuclear strikes seem sensible.
This is a link to the attorneys that are representing the national class action lawsuit.
http://www.hbsslaw.com/ciq/
Bu..bu...but the regulations... th...they make da money not happen... um. Wait. ... if we get rid of the rules, it will work the best. I promise.
[Sarcasm]
Libertarians mod me troll! Im still embarrasingly on point.
...below market loan? I would like the same opportunities to game financial markets and reap fast profits.
Oh, I'm just a stem cell scientist. I don't work hard (merit) enough to get rich this way (easy). [Sarcasm]
In some countries, scumbaggery like this ends with evisceration.
I think we can sum it up to "you can't fit 11 turds in a 10 turd bucket". No matter how they try to trick th system, the issue is bandwidth.... clearly, buffers are supposed to be for extremely rare unexpected peaks... the reality being that they are being used as bandaids on a much bigger problem.
Now if we could just back off the military spending, even just a little, we could upgrade infrastructure in the US. But military spending feeds campaigns more than citizens do...... and here we are.