As a small-government fiscal conservative who doesn't give a rat's ass about social conservative issues (e.g. a libertarian), I know I, and many like me, are waiting for the old/religious right/social conservatives to die off. I think that when that happens, there will be a big influx of non-socialist Democrat voters to our side.
I assumed he was talking about monetary seignorage, which is the benefit the first entities which are granted newly created monies gain by using that money before the general price level increases. I didn't think anybody really cared about the cost of currency creation these days. So...I'd like clarification from spiritplumber.
I don't understand how cashlessness prohibits the benefits of seignorage. It would seem to me the beneficiaries of seignorage in the US economy are already doing well with that mechanism without cash. Can you please elaborate?
Lacking any salient basis for accusing me of succeeding through patronage, but having leveled the accusation anyway, what you've just done is prejudged me. Based on my gender.
But that's the whole *point* of the narrative. That's literally the point - to prejudge you, with pseudo-intellectual horseshit to back it up - to discount your voice by branding you as "privileged".
My dad (and mom, to a lesser extent) exposed me to many kinds of music. I've also developed an ear for opera, which my parents played in the house, and which I didn't like as a kid.
The funny thing is one day I heard John Coltrane on the radio, and it hit me like a lightning bolt. And you know what? Coltrane got interested in all kinds of foreign (to him) music when he got exposed to it. But no one else in my family was into it.
I can barely stand to listen to highly-processed music. It's like Chef Boyardee - mostly corn syrup. That "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles is a good song, but if you listen to it, it's so computer-processed, it hurts the ears. Why did she do that? To sell. I get it. But it's sad.
The best concerts I can remember attending were largely small-venue events at a local botanical gardens. Savion Glover (amazing jazz dancer/full body instrumentalist), Eileen Ivers (irish fiddler playing with NYC r&b backing band), Back of the Moon (Scots new folk), Chris Norman (Scots new folk). A mind-blowing concert of Aruna Sairam (Indian carnatic singer) at Royal Albert Hall was one of the most amazing things I've witnessed.
I studied Western classical music formally for years on clarinet, and have been studying piano for 7 years now. I thought I "knew" classical music, but as a clarinet player I only knew a small repertoire of chamber music and orchestral music. Now, learning piano, there's a whole new world of compositions I never knew existed. And that's *just* the classical - my teacher put me through that as a prerequisite to my jazz studies!
As a jazz player, I intuitively recognize the similarities in the various flavors of "hot" music specific to cultures. Greek and Indian music is particularly spicy!
My dad had an old "Anatolian Feast" LP of Greek folk music - bouzouki stuff, odd meters, etc., that I couldn't take as a little kid, but I have some similar stuff I listen to now. Middle-eastern and Mediterranean music is superb. As is a lot of authentic folk music from almost anywhere in the world. Textured and interesting.
Sure, no problem. Here's just one easily found Google result:
"New York state’s bureau of labor statistics anticipated the need for 2,800 elementary teachers in 2011-12. The state prepared more than twice that many, or about 6,500 “childhood education” specialists in 2009-10, the state’s most recent Title II data show."
There are lots of young unemployed people with education degrees, looking for an opportunity to teach. They just don't want to work in schools where they'll be shot by students or parents with a negative attitude towards education.
It seems like there's a convincing conspiracy theory to peddle there. That this is a leftist feminist plan to eradicate masculinity. Except without the fun that comes from video games and porn.
When you correct those stats for socioeconomic status, they're nowhere near the 3x rate. I need to try to find some genuinely meaningful citations for this, but when you're poor, you're much more likely to have a negative interaction with police. And in the USA, if you're black, you're much more likely to be poor. So whether that 3x is more an indicator of cop racism or the effects of poverty isn't totally clear (it's probably a combination).
The poor are amongst themselves, and teacher unions insist on a virtual monopoly on students and laws require schools to attempt to teach the most difficult pre-incarcerated cases. Just let these schools expel the bad kids and teach those who aren't 100% opposed to bettering themselves through education.
Exactly. I call myself a software engineer because in addition to writing code, I establish environments, tools, and processes to support the development and delivery of software from requirements to production. That means everything from the source control system and branching methodology to the unit testing and deployment systems, and a hundred other incidentals. Anybody can code. Engineers apply known technique and craft to the development process to deliver quality results.
Steve Jobs was faced with an emotionally and physically traumatizing ordeal. This lady's a liar. There's no comparison, and you're picking on a cancer victim for being scared. That's less morally offensive than convincing them not to get good treatment, but it's still a crappy thing to do.
In that case, we can't trust people to take the medication in the first place, even with a prescription.
No, we can't, not fully. Drug addicts and ignorant folk who don't finish their antibiotic course because they "feel better" on day 6 of 10 are part (yes, part, not all) of the reason we have resistant bacteria.
But since we do, we can at least establish that they're generally more prepared than the non-consenting animals, right?
Not really, no. My friend's college buddy died because he ignored the "only do one trial at a time" mandate and the drugs interacted, fatally. As it turns out, people who get paid to take experimental drugs are more risk-tolerant, to the point of danger, than most people. They're not more prepared, rather more desperate for money.
Pearson is one of the profitable companies that makes large amounts of money by influencing educational standards at the state and federal level to essentially require their curriculum products. Even though I know people who worked and might still work there, I'd love to see it destroyed.
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As a small-government fiscal conservative who doesn't give a rat's ass about social conservative issues (e.g. a libertarian), I know I, and many like me, are waiting for the old/religious right/social conservatives to die off. I think that when that happens, there will be a big influx of non-socialist Democrat voters to our side.
It's not because you're male. It's because you disagree with them.
Seignorage is used with multiple definitions. Several have been bandied about here without any being exactly wrong.
I assumed he was talking about monetary seignorage, which is the benefit the first entities which are granted newly created monies gain by using that money before the general price level increases. I didn't think anybody really cared about the cost of currency creation these days. So...I'd like clarification from spiritplumber.
I don't understand how cashlessness prohibits the benefits of seignorage. It would seem to me the beneficiaries of seignorage in the US economy are already doing well with that mechanism without cash. Can you please elaborate?
Lacking any salient basis for accusing me of succeeding through patronage, but having leveled the accusation anyway, what you've just done is prejudged me. Based on my gender.
But that's the whole *point* of the narrative. That's literally the point - to prejudge you, with pseudo-intellectual horseshit to back it up - to discount your voice by branding you as "privileged".
My dad (and mom, to a lesser extent) exposed me to many kinds of music. I've also developed an ear for opera, which my parents played in the house, and which I didn't like as a kid.
The funny thing is one day I heard John Coltrane on the radio, and it hit me like a lightning bolt. And you know what? Coltrane got interested in all kinds of foreign (to him) music when he got exposed to it. But no one else in my family was into it.
I can barely stand to listen to highly-processed music. It's like Chef Boyardee - mostly corn syrup. That "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles is a good song, but if you listen to it, it's so computer-processed, it hurts the ears. Why did she do that? To sell. I get it. But it's sad.
The best concerts I can remember attending were largely small-venue events at a local botanical gardens. Savion Glover (amazing jazz dancer/full body instrumentalist), Eileen Ivers (irish fiddler playing with NYC r&b backing band), Back of the Moon (Scots new folk), Chris Norman (Scots new folk). A mind-blowing concert of Aruna Sairam (Indian carnatic singer) at Royal Albert Hall was one of the most amazing things I've witnessed.
I studied Western classical music formally for years on clarinet, and have been studying piano for 7 years now. I thought I "knew" classical music, but as a clarinet player I only knew a small repertoire of chamber music and orchestral music. Now, learning piano, there's a whole new world of compositions I never knew existed. And that's *just* the classical - my teacher put me through that as a prerequisite to my jazz studies!
As a jazz player, I intuitively recognize the similarities in the various flavors of "hot" music specific to cultures. Greek and Indian music is particularly spicy!
My dad had an old "Anatolian Feast" LP of Greek folk music - bouzouki stuff, odd meters, etc., that I couldn't take as a little kid, but I have some similar stuff I listen to now. Middle-eastern and Mediterranean music is superb. As is a lot of authentic folk music from almost anywhere in the world. Textured and interesting.
My point here is that we already have ample evidence that we need to drain the swamp, not merely throw more money at it.
To start that, we need to get the grab-bag of tax money away from the educational publishing companies, who seem to drive a great deal of waste.
Another: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
Sure, no problem. Here's just one easily found Google result:
"New York state’s bureau of labor statistics anticipated the need for 2,800 elementary teachers in 2011-12. The state prepared more than twice that many, or about 6,500 “childhood education” specialists in 2009-10, the state’s most recent Title II data show."
http://hechingerreport.org/colleges-producing-too-many-elementary-teachers-data-says/
There are lots of young unemployed people with education degrees, looking for an opportunity to teach. They just don't want to work in schools where they'll be shot by students or parents with a negative attitude towards education.
does that change the fact that Watts receives funding from the oil industry and their front groups from true to false?
Where did I say that?
and why you people seem to think that if you can challenge the challengers, everything is even, and cancels out.
Where did I say that?
you dont get to ignore that watts is a paid shill because the group pointing out his bias has a bias of their own.
Where did I say that?
What I did point out is that the citation comes from a highly biased source, and that it's difficult to know who to believe.
You do know that Anthony Watts is paid to lie and spew half truths on that site, right?
I'm pretty sure your cited source could be described the same way. Sad. Who to believe. http://www.groupsnoop.org/Cent...
It seems like there's a convincing conspiracy theory to peddle there. That this is a leftist feminist plan to eradicate masculinity. Except without the fun that comes from video games and porn.
Given that this is already a concern in ordinary municipal supplies, it was the first thing I thought of. I'm glad I'm on a well.
GS would love to hire this guy.
When you correct those stats for socioeconomic status, they're nowhere near the 3x rate. I need to try to find some genuinely meaningful citations for this, but when you're poor, you're much more likely to have a negative interaction with police. And in the USA, if you're black, you're much more likely to be poor. So whether that 3x is more an indicator of cop racism or the effects of poverty isn't totally clear (it's probably a combination).
The poor are amongst themselves, and teacher unions insist on a virtual monopoly on students and laws require schools to attempt to teach the most difficult pre-incarcerated cases. Just let these schools expel the bad kids and teach those who aren't 100% opposed to bettering themselves through education.
Exactly. I call myself a software engineer because in addition to writing code, I establish environments, tools, and processes to support the development and delivery of software from requirements to production. That means everything from the source control system and branching methodology to the unit testing and deployment systems, and a hundred other incidentals. Anybody can code. Engineers apply known technique and craft to the development process to deliver quality results.
Oh I needed that laugh. A great unit of measure, as well.
Steve Jobs was faced with an emotionally and physically traumatizing ordeal. This lady's a liar. There's no comparison, and you're picking on a cancer victim for being scared. That's less morally offensive than convincing them not to get good treatment, but it's still a crappy thing to do.
In that case, we can't trust people to take the medication in the first place, even with a prescription.
No, we can't, not fully. Drug addicts and ignorant folk who don't finish their antibiotic course because they "feel better" on day 6 of 10 are part (yes, part, not all) of the reason we have resistant bacteria.
But since we do, we can at least establish that they're generally more prepared than the non-consenting animals, right?
Not really, no. My friend's college buddy died because he ignored the "only do one trial at a time" mandate and the drugs interacted, fatally. As it turns out, people who get paid to take experimental drugs are more risk-tolerant, to the point of danger, than most people. They're not more prepared, rather more desperate for money.
Did you know that's a retelling of Plato's Cave allegory?
Pearson is one of the profitable companies that makes large amounts of money by influencing educational standards at the state and federal level to essentially require their curriculum products. Even though I know people who worked and might still work there, I'd love to see it destroyed.