What you are really saying is, in other words, is that money can never be really accurate, and it follows that the trend towards globalization and consolidation of currencies is a mistake. This makes some intuitive sense. If Japanese cars are better than American cars, then why do they cost more in America?
Because he forgets a bazillion things that matter. It's almost like this book is really more about how to lock in some ideas by surrounding them with logical sounding puffery, rather than any of the rules that it says.
I mean, "I consider the protectionist to be worse than a creationist", seems to me a loaded statement. A political writer like me should have no problem saying that free traders should all be tortured to death and executed, but a professor? I think not.
The free market only has problems when: 1) People are allowed to do unethical things 2) Monopolies or oligopolies are created 3) There's a moral hazard
So, does this mean that the government never does unethical things, has no problem with being a monopoly of power, and has no moral hazards?
Like, I guess the question is that, socialists never really answer is, how does having a big government suddenly make people ethical. Seems to me that if you created a big government as the source of all power then every unethical person would immediately seek out a job within it. Indeed, that is exactly what has happened and in fact will always happen.
Re:Socialism does the same things.
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Exactly. That's why when all those investment banks gambled massively, and lost, the whole nation shrugged it's shoulders and life went on.
Well, the socialists deliberately derailed the economy so that they can get elected, and it worked. Kudos to you for a job well done!
Let's map it out. You will bring down the free market economy. We will bring down the government, to even the score, and the anarchists will win.
There's nothing wrong with killing people.
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I think the whole "religious war" charge by the left wing is a bunch of crap. If you look at nearly every war that has ever been, religion at best was used as an excuse but the real reasons were always about money, and about preserving one's way of life, and those are plenty good reasons to fight a war.
I mean, the irony of things is that if there is no God, what's really the moral crime of invading another nation and taking it over. What's the difference between killing a fetus that I can't see or dropping a cluster bomb on a house from 50,000 feet. Either way, I'm just blowing people away without even giving a shit. In fact, what if I enjoy killing fetuses or dropping cluster bombs... what if I'm really good at walking a woman through an abortion so that I can make her feel good about giving me a couple of hundred bucks, or just guiding my aircraft to right on target so that I can waste some fricking muzzies.
Why on earth should I care? When I'm dead, I'm going to be dirt. The end, that's it. So there's no fricking point. As long as someone doesn't kill me, its ok... but I can do whatever I want, so long as I can get away with it.
Socialism does the same things.
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The free market generally only looks at short term gain and always exclusively for those in control of conditions. Calling "Free Market" as a refrain more often than not ignores many valid and important factors that aught not to be ignored.
Socialism does the same thing, except that it does it for the whole economy. In the free market, some owners do look ahead, do think things through, do take bets on the future, and that's how you have things like cars, airplanes, personal computers, and more.
The difference between socialism and the free market is not one of perspective, but risk management. If socialism makes a mistake, the whole nation suffers. If a company makes a mistake in the free market, life goes on. In socialism, the nation gambles with its own wealth, whereas, in the free market system, the nation can gamble with the peoples. It's a sturdier system and every time you dole out more power to the government, you make it weaker.
Can someone please mod this clown "-1 throwing random bullshit at the wall until something sticks"
No random b.s. at all. Just cutting through all of your whining.
I work in a biomedical research lab. We're very good at what we do,
My point is to look at the total outlays and build to consumers, the university system is much, much more expensive than it was decades ago. You are getting a lot more money, overall. NIH is funding way more research, overall. You have more property rights and vehicles to monetize your research, overall. If you are getting your lab cut, go bitch to the university, not to the American people. Academic research is a fiscal priority of a bankrupt country and so anything you are seeing is felt far worse before it even gets to you. Be grateful because you do not know how bad it is elsewhere.
Tuition has nothing to do with research funding.
I'm writing a check to the university. It writes a check to you. So obviously, there is a connection, and you've bought into an overcomplicated story designed to make things easier for university administrators when they chop you. The university has a budget, and its taking a giant amount of money from students. How it pays that money is its decision, alone.
Sure, if you consider "losing 30% of their total worth" to be "doing fairly well".
That's better than most households are doing. The company I work for does not have an endowment, doesn't own a ton of land, and has no little local rents and other monopolies to exploit.
I got a wage freeze just like the professors and other staff who are funded from endowments or income. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
WHINE WHINE WHINE! By some statistics nearly 20% of the United States is unemployed. I just watched a GM plant shutdown and that's thousands of people now do not have a job at all, because people chose to buy foreign cars. Those guys don't have a Phd to fall back on like you do...but they are paying taxes for your university to get gov't grants.
If you are driving a Toyota, I'd say you should shut up about your funding. Maybe if you bought American cars the middle class would have more money to support your research.
a) Proponents say that free trade has never been tried enough, just like socialism. b) Proponents say that once we get past all the economic disasters from free trade, everyone will be happy, just like socialism. c) Proponents say that free trade is an international thing and there will be no countries any more, just like socialists. d) Proponents say that old cultures will get altered, just like socialists. e) At the end, you'll lose your job, have to work more, to get less, just like socialism. f) Entire communities will shut down and people will stay in permapoverty, just like socialist communities. g) Nobody will want to work because, it will almost be pointless, just like socialism. h) Free trade requires everyone to be totally honest and decent, just like socialism. i) Except they aren't, just like socialism. j) Free trade, totally sucks, just like socialism.
This is just not true. Many researchers at universities are having to cut back severally both in personnel and equipment
How on earth can universities possibly be cutting back on anything? Increases in federal funding for research have been automatic starting with Clinton, through W, and certainly O is going to jack that up. Tuition is probably the only thing skyrocketing faster than medical expenses and its certainly going up faster than energy, and you've got the Feds willing to bankroll loans to essentially subsidize that as well. If you look at endowments, they tend to be doing fairly well, and then, finally, universities get all the IP from any research they do, read, patents, and that licensing money...
And you are saying you don't have enough money? WTF? Where is all this money in the university system going? It doesn't make any sense!!!
And, I'm not saying that just because I happen to be a Republican...
I'm saying that, as, a practical matter of bringing about world peace, its awfully hard to hate the Germans when they've done such a wonderful job through the years with KDE and KDevelop. There's a world peace argument to be made for that. How many hundreds of thousands of people use KDE?
Everyone seems to think that we can just throw more money at this or that disease and we would have a cure, but, we can't. There are only so many scientists, so much equipment today. If you threw more money at it, you'd probably just be buying the original researchers PostDocs a new car apiece, and maybe funding a Phd or two. If you want more scientists today, start by changing culture 20 years ago.
The very essence of Google is to be a service that uses information it gathers about you to connect you to the people that you want. If you don't want that service, then don't use Google. How's that? The reason I say that is, many of us don't really care about the collection of personal data, and making Google jump through hoops to do what you want undermines the services that we want.
whether or not people agree with your theory - you theory is NOT why things are they way they are. your theory is merely your personal argument to maintain the status quo in this case.
No, not at all. I'm merely wondering why people in Europe trust their governments. It's a funny thing, really, is that, if you are leftist, you have to trust the government. It's the essence of what you do, and is really almost a cultural thing. On the right, its more of a rebellion, and any institution of power is distrusted, and from my neck of the woods, the kind of faith you need to have to trust government requires almost magical thinking.
Free trade hasn't been tried. The current situation is anything but free trade. T
This is just like how they say socialism hasn't really been tried. Thing is, we've tried free trade and we've tried socialism enough. Both failed because they rely on people having a utopian vision. Free trade can't work, and won't work, because, no trade agreement will ever allow the free flow of goods, because, cultural differences make the value of goods impossible to map, and, finally, and most importantly, money is inadequate to the task of comparing value in goods.
Name one American car made in the 1990s that can come up against my Subaru. Name one in the 1980s which is even vaguely close to what a '82 MBZ 300SD is.
I'm not saying that the Suburu isn't a good car. In fact, my point, is, let's say the Suburu is five times the car that the American car is. If so, why doesn't it cost 5 times as much? Before you go on about labor costs, consider this. An ounce of gold costs the same, regardless of how it is mined or extracted. The cost to make something has absolutely no relationship to its price, so if you take that off the table, it says that the money itself is screwed up.
But what boggles my mind is that you think it's smart to buy an inferior product just because it's made in your own country
It is, by far, because you create a capability in your people to make things. I've written about this a little bit and researched it. Compare the north and the south pre-civil war. The north was protectionist and built up its manufacturing. The south was free trade and relied on imported goods and comparative advantage. Who won the civil war? The north did, because southerners were too stupid to make their own cannon.
Nowadays though, look at where the manufacturing is in the USA, increasingly. It's the South, and you know why? a) they've built up great engineering schools as a regional priority, and b) they've made themselves more competitive in wages... even the japanese in the usa predominantly build themselves in the south.
BTW, you are pretty wrong on the steel in Japanese cars.. the rigidity of the car has nothing to do with the steel. It's the unibody design that does that for you. American cars pre-1980s were actually made of a higher grade steel than their japanese counterparts and were and are very strong cars. But they are body on frame and frames flex. So, the American car tended to not feel as stiff, but, if it ever ran into a Japanese car (as my Olds vs Honda experiment illustrated), the Japanese car would be destroyed. Nowadays the only way you get body on frame with a decent steel is in a truck, an SUV... its like, my next car is going to wind up being a used Mercury Marauder, if I can find one.
It only seems like it failed. Then, any minute now, the earth is going to roar to life as a giant burp of magma rises from the core to underneath north america. yellowstone traps, missouri mega-earthquake, the end is nigh. If you knew geology, and lived in America, you'd be a preacher too. Doom is before us! Repent!
Why does the world still have this bizarre belief that taxes are for what they say. Call me cynical, but as soon as the gov't gets its hands on a stack of loot, its going to spend it as it pleases. The rationale for raising taxes is usually an excuse.
Mandriva's not even run by the guy that founded Mandrake. So everyone that remembers the old Mandrake should remember that this is just somebody else with sorta the same name doing the distro now.
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What you are really saying is, in other words, is that money can never be really accurate, and it follows that the trend towards globalization and consolidation of currencies is a mistake. This makes some intuitive sense. If Japanese cars are better than American cars, then why do they cost more in America?
Because he forgets a bazillion things that matter. It's almost like this book is really more about how to lock in some ideas by surrounding them with logical sounding puffery, rather than any of the rules that it says.
I mean, "I consider the protectionist to be worse than a creationist", seems to me a loaded statement. A political writer like me should have no problem saying that free traders should all be tortured to death and executed, but a professor? I think not.
Most American generators use natural gas, which exists in great supply in the USA, and we do not need to import anything to run our grid.
gine the public transport (rail, roads,etc), health care, the U.S. could have had with that 680 billion. or even just a fraction of it...
You could say the same with health care for the uninsured.
So, Spain has almost made the advance of electrical power to where GE got it over 100 years ago.
In this case, the free market should do fine.
The free market only has problems when:
1) People are allowed to do unethical things
2) Monopolies or oligopolies are created
3) There's a moral hazard
So, does this mean that the government never does unethical things, has no problem with being a monopoly of power, and has no moral hazards?
Like, I guess the question is that, socialists never really answer is, how does having a big government suddenly make people ethical. Seems to me that if you created a big government as the source of all power then every unethical person would immediately seek out a job within it. Indeed, that is exactly what has happened and in fact will always happen.
Exactly. That's why when all those investment banks gambled massively, and lost, the whole nation shrugged it's shoulders and life went on.
Well, the socialists deliberately derailed the economy so that they can get elected, and it worked. Kudos to you for a job well done!
Let's map it out. You will bring down the free market economy. We will bring down the government, to even the score, and the anarchists will win.
I think the whole "religious war" charge by the left wing is a bunch of crap. If you look at nearly every war that has ever been, religion at best was used as an excuse but the real reasons were always about money, and about preserving one's way of life, and those are plenty good reasons to fight a war.
I mean, the irony of things is that if there is no God, what's really the moral crime of invading another nation and taking it over. What's the difference between killing a fetus that I can't see or dropping a cluster bomb on a house from 50,000 feet. Either way, I'm just blowing people away without even giving a shit. In fact, what if I enjoy killing fetuses or dropping cluster bombs... what if I'm really good at walking a woman through an abortion so that I can make her feel good about giving me a couple of hundred bucks, or just guiding my aircraft to right on target so that I can waste some fricking muzzies.
Why on earth should I care? When I'm dead, I'm going to be dirt. The end, that's it. So there's no fricking point. As long as someone doesn't kill me, its ok... but I can do whatever I want, so long as I can get away with it.
The free market generally only looks at short term gain and always exclusively for those in control of conditions. Calling "Free Market" as a refrain more often than not ignores many valid and important factors that aught not to be ignored.
Socialism does the same thing, except that it does it for the whole economy. In the free market, some owners do look ahead, do think things through, do take bets on the future, and that's how you have things like cars, airplanes, personal computers, and more.
The difference between socialism and the free market is not one of perspective, but risk management. If socialism makes a mistake, the whole nation suffers. If a company makes a mistake in the free market, life goes on. In socialism, the nation gambles with its own wealth, whereas, in the free market system, the nation can gamble with the peoples. It's a sturdier system and every time you dole out more power to the government, you make it weaker.
Socialists are just stupid, that's all.
Can someone please mod this clown "-1 throwing random bullshit at the wall until something sticks"
No random b.s. at all. Just cutting through all of your whining.
I work in a biomedical research lab. We're very good at what we do,
My point is to look at the total outlays and build to consumers, the university system is much, much more expensive than it was decades ago. You are getting a lot more money, overall. NIH is funding way more research, overall. You have more property rights and vehicles to monetize your research, overall. If you are getting your lab cut, go bitch to the university, not to the American people. Academic research is a fiscal priority of a bankrupt country and so anything you are seeing is felt far worse before it even gets to you. Be grateful because you do not know how bad it is elsewhere.
Tuition has nothing to do with research funding.
I'm writing a check to the university. It writes a check to you. So obviously, there is a connection, and you've bought into an overcomplicated story designed to make things easier for university administrators when they chop you. The university has a budget, and its taking a giant amount of money from students. How it pays that money is its decision, alone.
Sure, if you consider "losing 30% of their total worth" to be "doing fairly well".
That's better than most households are doing. The company I work for does not have an endowment, doesn't own a ton of land, and has no little local rents and other monopolies to exploit.
I got a wage freeze just like the professors and other staff who are funded from endowments or income. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
WHINE WHINE WHINE! By some statistics nearly 20% of the United States is unemployed. I just watched a GM plant shutdown and that's thousands of people now do not have a job at all, because people chose to buy foreign cars. Those guys don't have a Phd to fall back on like you do...but they are paying taxes for your university to get gov't grants.
If you are driving a Toyota, I'd say you should shut up about your funding. Maybe if you bought American cars the middle class would have more money to support your research.
Free trade is just like socialism:
a) Proponents say that free trade has never been tried enough, just like socialism.
b) Proponents say that once we get past all the economic disasters from free trade, everyone will be happy, just like socialism.
c) Proponents say that free trade is an international thing and there will be no countries any more, just like socialists.
d) Proponents say that old cultures will get altered, just like socialists.
e) At the end, you'll lose your job, have to work more, to get less, just like socialism.
f) Entire communities will shut down and people will stay in permapoverty, just like socialist communities.
g) Nobody will want to work because, it will almost be pointless, just like socialism.
h) Free trade requires everyone to be totally honest and decent, just like socialism.
i) Except they aren't, just like socialism.
j) Free trade, totally sucks, just like socialism.
This is just not true. Many researchers at universities are having to cut back severally both in personnel and equipment
How on earth can universities possibly be cutting back on anything? Increases in federal funding for research have been automatic starting with Clinton, through W, and certainly O is going to jack that up. Tuition is probably the only thing skyrocketing faster than medical expenses and its certainly going up faster than energy, and you've got the Feds willing to bankroll loans to essentially subsidize that as well. If you look at endowments, they tend to be doing fairly well, and then, finally, universities get all the IP from any research they do, read, patents, and that licensing money...
And you are saying you don't have enough money? WTF? Where is all this money in the university system going? It doesn't make any sense!!!
And, I'm not saying that just because I happen to be a Republican...
I'm saying that, as, a practical matter of bringing about world peace, its awfully hard to hate the Germans when they've done such a wonderful job through the years with KDE and KDevelop. There's a world peace argument to be made for that. How many hundreds of thousands of people use KDE?
Now, can they finish KDevelop 4, PLEASE. :-)
Dude, if you own stock, you ARE the corporation...
Everyone seems to think that we can just throw more money at this or that disease and we would have a cure, but, we can't. There are only so many scientists, so much equipment today. If you threw more money at it, you'd probably just be buying the original researchers PostDocs a new car apiece, and maybe funding a Phd or two. If you want more scientists today, start by changing culture 20 years ago.
If you think Javascript isn't very powerful and cannot see its advantages, particularly with dynamic types, then you obviously haven't used it.
The very essence of Google is to be a service that uses information it gathers about you to connect you to the people that you want. If you don't want that service, then don't use Google. How's that? The reason I say that is, many of us don't really care about the collection of personal data, and making Google jump through hoops to do what you want undermines the services that we want.
whether or not people agree with your theory - you theory is NOT why things are they way they are. your theory is merely your personal argument to maintain the status quo in this case.
No, not at all. I'm merely wondering why people in Europe trust their governments. It's a funny thing, really, is that, if you are leftist, you have to trust the government. It's the essence of what you do, and is really almost a cultural thing. On the right, its more of a rebellion, and any institution of power is distrusted, and from my neck of the woods, the kind of faith you need to have to trust government requires almost magical thinking.
This thing is going to blow up the world. I see "Big Mistake of 38" all over this one.
Free trade hasn't been tried. The current situation is anything but free trade. T
This is just like how they say socialism hasn't really been tried. Thing is, we've tried free trade and we've tried socialism enough. Both failed because they rely on people having a utopian vision. Free trade can't work, and won't work, because, no trade agreement will ever allow the free flow of goods, because, cultural differences make the value of goods impossible to map, and, finally, and most importantly, money is inadequate to the task of comparing value in goods.
Name one American car made in the 1990s that can come up against my Subaru. Name one in the 1980s which is even vaguely close to what a '82 MBZ 300SD is.
I'm not saying that the Suburu isn't a good car. In fact, my point, is, let's say the Suburu is five times the car that the American car is. If so, why doesn't it cost 5 times as much? Before you go on about labor costs, consider this. An ounce of gold costs the same, regardless of how it is mined or extracted. The cost to make something has absolutely no relationship to its price, so if you take that off the table, it says that the money itself is screwed up.
But what boggles my mind is that you think it's smart to buy an inferior product just because it's made in your own country
It is, by far, because you create a capability in your people to make things. I've written about this a little bit and researched it. Compare the north and the south pre-civil war. The north was protectionist and built up its manufacturing. The south was free trade and relied on imported goods and comparative advantage. Who won the civil war? The north did, because southerners were too stupid to make their own cannon.
Nowadays though, look at where the manufacturing is in the USA, increasingly. It's the South, and you know why? a) they've built up great engineering schools as a regional priority, and b) they've made themselves more competitive in wages... even the japanese in the usa predominantly build themselves in the south.
BTW, you are pretty wrong on the steel in Japanese cars.. the rigidity of the car has nothing to do with the steel. It's the unibody design that does that for you. American cars pre-1980s were actually made of a higher grade steel than their japanese counterparts and were and are very strong cars. But they are body on frame and frames flex. So, the American car tended to not feel as stiff, but, if it ever ran into a Japanese car (as my Olds vs Honda experiment illustrated), the Japanese car would be destroyed. Nowadays the only way you get body on frame with a decent steel is in a truck, an SUV... its like, my next car is going to wind up being a used Mercury Marauder, if I can find one.
So, when no more founders of Microsoft are employed by Microsoft, they should change their name, or their customers should consider switching?
Exactly. Bill Gates is gone. The company is not the same. Time to switch to Linux.
It only seems like it failed. Then, any minute now, the earth is going to roar to life as a giant burp of magma rises from the core to underneath north america. yellowstone traps, missouri mega-earthquake, the end is nigh. If you knew geology, and lived in America, you'd be a preacher too. Doom is before us! Repent!
Why does the world still have this bizarre belief that taxes are for what they say. Call me cynical, but as soon as the gov't gets its hands on a stack of loot, its going to spend it as it pleases. The rationale for raising taxes is usually an excuse.
Mandriva's not even run by the guy that founded Mandrake. So everyone that remembers the old Mandrake should remember that this is just somebody else with sorta the same name doing the distro now.
I remember when, for a time, Mandrake was -the- Linux to get. Now look at them, practically off the radar.