When I say that, though, keep in mind that I'm not necessarily being "anti-European". I think both the USA and the EU should have their own manufacturing base, and their own IT industries. Diversity is the spice of life and globalism undermines it. I rather like the European-ness of KDE, for example, and I would rather Windows become, well, more American.
For my web site, I'm working on a plan to cut the US Federal budget to 1 trillion dollars, abolish the income tax for both individuals and corporations, and fund it entirely with increased tariffs and something like a VAT.
But hey, I guess it's only bad if the EU enforces its own laws, eh?
The laws are usually enforced to the detriment of American products. That's fine by me. Frankly, I think free trade is a fraud and I would prefer if the Europeans had their own products for their own markets and kept their crap out of the USA.
It's just excuses. If Microsoft were a European company, there would be no fine. Of that, there is no doubt. You guys just want European PC makers that are selling Windows to bundle them with European browsers. It's just protectionism to benefit Opera.
One has to wonder how it is that a Republican Party that complains so often about the media and the arts world should bend over backwards so much to defend them. Do we Republicans really think that Barbara Streisand is going to cry in love for us if suddenly we help her collect more royalties from the 1970s movies she made? I'd say, cut her off, and cut off copyrights.
Once again the EU rears its protectionist head. Free trade? A joke to them. They can't help but skewer a successful American company in some way, either by subsidizing the development of their own competition, or, using their maze of regulations to try and screw them.
It's time to raise tariffs on the EU, and put to bed this foolish free trade thing once and for all.
because Python is interpreted and FORTRAN is compiled. And honestly, lets admit it, the whole object oriented thing has pretty much failed and its time to pack it up and get procedural again.
Uhm. The US doesn't have a free trade agreement with China. All imported goods are taxed, except for those within the NAFTA area, which doesn't include China. Obama and Clinton even suggested raising the import tariffs from China.
If President Obama were to raise tariffs on Chinese products, I would support him 100%. I am not one of those conservatives that think that everything he does is wrong because he is a democrat. On my site I give the President credit for when I think he has been successful and I defend him from others when I think he is right.
1) As a rule the USA has generally low tariffs and is essentially unilaterally free trade towards every one. When the USA does a free trade agreement, it really tends to be more about opening up the counterparty to more investment from the USA
2) China has permanent MFN and that confers certain trade benefits
3) China and the USA are both members of the WTO, and that regulates the extent to which tariffs may be applied
Oh, the thought just dawned on me that you didn't see my OP as the sarcasm that it was. I'm not anti-poor as much as I was mocking our consumer sentiment that tends to value goodies more than people. I mean, if I read one more time about how plastic dashes are so fricking terrible that we can throw three million of our own fellow citizens out of work...
sigh. I respond below:
The trade imbalance, however large, is not even close to our total economic output.
The trade imbalance is actually much larger when you consider how much of our exports are either food, raw materials, or products of an upper class, like aircraft or computers.
Second, it's quite rich to claim the poor would just subsidize China when, really, the reason places like Wal-Mart exist is that middle class incomes haven't increased in 30 years. With a robust middle class, our trade wouldn't be in such dire straits
I would say that if we had manufacturing jobs, we would have still have a middle class, and not nearly as many poor people! I mean, we have lots of people that can't do a tech economy but could be fine on an assembly line. Now they are on welfare. It's just a tragedy that we place a consumer good so much more above the welfare of our fellow citizens.
I'm one of those christian right wingers that happen to think that Jesus would have us lift up the poor and the citizens around us. Kinda thought that having a concern about the well being of our nation as a whole was a conservative, but I guess that's just me.
The poor spend it, and actually spend more of their income than any other demographic. In fact, giving money to the poor is one of the best ways for a government to boost economic activity and help everyone.
You would be right if we did not have free trade. But right now giving money to the poor right now is just a big subsidy for China.
Let's see, in 1965, we instituted Medicare and Medicaid, and that's an easy 500 billion a year
then, in 1972 we expanded SSI Disability and that's now 150 billion bucks a year
in the 1980s Reagan expanded coverage to include pregnant women
and lately we just added Medicare Part D...
If we all had our grandparents move back in and die in some quiet room upstairs, put disabled people out on the street with those old alms cups to beg for change, had pregnant women just have babies themselves or have more abortions, we'd have a lot more money for cool stuff.
I have a right wing web site and find that Republican condemnation of the GM bailout is self serving and utterly hypocritical.
1) Northern manufacturing states are being hammered by the effects of free trade. Red states, primarily agricultural, are utterly protectionist. Farmers have gotten at least 300 billion dollars in bailouts during the course of the Bush administration alone, and perhaps near a trillion dollars in bailouts over the last few years, through direct federal subsidies, and on top of that the USA is famously good at using "food safety and plant safety" as excuses to keep our foreign produce.
2) Red state Republicans constantly complain about Amtrak in the Northeast, but when do we hear so much as a peep about ending the various regulations that in effect, demand that the post office deliver, highways are paved to, phone and electric service to low population density areas. All of that infrastructure, is, in essence, an enormous subsidy on living in the middle of nowhere.
3) Layoff some of the bankrupt blue states. We have too many right wingers complaining about California, New Jersey and other blue states with severe budget problems... but keep in mind that those states are paying far more out in Federal taxes than they receive in federal aid. California and New Jersey can't pay their bills because they support the likes of Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa and more.
4) I'm researching SSI disability claims per capita by state. I think everyone knows that SSI disability is just rampant with fraud and so I think we could use it as a barometer as to who the laziest workers really are. Whose going to come out as lazier, blue or red state? By the way, if anyone's got a good link on this, let me know...
Bottom line is, red states are first in the welfare trough and are heavily subsidized. If you are going to talk about fleecing the taxpayers, you'd better not be doing it yourself! Free trade of the sort red states never have bothered to practice for themselves did GM in far more than any union conspiracy did, and bad management only made the problems worse. Red states bitching about GM is like bitching about someone stealing too many pennies from the give a penny take a penny after you've shot the clerk in the head and looted the register.
Maybe I'm just a RhINO Republican, a Nationalist Yankee in a liberal court, but it seems like my redneck party comrades down south need to get their own shit together and quit dragging the rest of the country down with it.
I mean, this guy goes around promoting himself as the next big thing for making a web site that no one's really heard of, and, as Microsoft's "internet genius", he's pretty much sucked. The company is running around in circles, has kinda blown its client. I mean Bill Gates's Active Desktop had more, well originality than anything that's come out of MS since then. At least it was an interesting concept, even if it couldn't quite work. What do we have now? Stuff that's not even really interesting.
On the human side, there is the B-52 pilot that banked his aircraft too tightly, and slide it sideways into the ground, killing all four on board at an airshow.
I'm not exactly a big Euro loving kinda guy, but I think you can give Airbus a bit of slack here. Yes, we have had one amazing pilot bringing down an aircraft safely and saving all the passengers, but a quick listen to many cockpit voice recorders has pilots making mistakes that wind up being pretty deadly.
I'm not a big lover of Visual Studio for C++ development - my preferred environment was KDevelop before it was broken in the rush to KDE 4.0, so, I would love to agree with you about Eclipse being good for C++. I just wasn't all that impressed. Right now, a pretty good pair is Visual C++ and a plug-in that Microsoft lets you download that works pretty well.
My wife and I do the "we don't need a land line any more"... but then there's always some goofy situation where we do... usually because of either a hole in cell phone billing plan or some cell went into the washer catastrophe.
kinda hard to cry oppression when you can pop back a cold one and watch a bunch schmoes battle it out on a cheesy singing contest on hdtv, then fire up the xbox 360 for some video games.. write whatever we want on slashdot... what is it that we were revolting over again? oh, Obama might take my guns away but lucky high powered lasers are getting pretty affordable. why would I want an assault rifle when I can cut a stadium full of people in half from 500 miles away.
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When I say that, though, keep in mind that I'm not necessarily being "anti-European". I think both the USA and the EU should have their own manufacturing base, and their own IT industries. Diversity is the spice of life and globalism undermines it. I rather like the European-ness of KDE, for example, and I would rather Windows become, well, more American.
For my web site, I'm working on a plan to cut the US Federal budget to 1 trillion dollars, abolish the income tax for both individuals and corporations, and fund it entirely with increased tariffs and something like a VAT.
But hey, I guess it's only bad if the EU enforces its own laws, eh?
The laws are usually enforced to the detriment of American products. That's fine by me. Frankly, I think free trade is a fraud and I would prefer if the Europeans had their own products for their own markets and kept their crap out of the USA.
It's just excuses. If Microsoft were a European company, there would be no fine. Of that, there is no doubt. You guys just want European PC makers that are selling Windows to bundle them with European browsers. It's just protectionism to benefit Opera.
One has to wonder how it is that a Republican Party that complains so often about the media and the arts world should bend over backwards so much to defend them. Do we Republicans really think that Barbara Streisand is going to cry in love for us if suddenly we help her collect more royalties from the 1970s movies she made? I'd say, cut her off, and cut off copyrights.
Not even in the US....
That's very true. Our agricultural protectionism is something my right wing friends tend to overlook as they ballyhoo free trade.
Once again the EU rears its protectionist head. Free trade? A joke to them. They can't help but skewer a successful American company in some way, either by subsidizing the development of their own competition, or, using their maze of regulations to try and screw them.
It's time to raise tariffs on the EU, and put to bed this foolish free trade thing once and for all.
There is no such thing as free trade.
because Python is interpreted and FORTRAN is compiled. And honestly, lets admit it, the whole object oriented thing has pretty much failed and its time to pack it up and get procedural again.
Uhm. The US doesn't have a free trade agreement with China. All imported goods are taxed, except for those within the NAFTA area, which doesn't include China. Obama and Clinton even suggested raising the import tariffs from China.
If President Obama were to raise tariffs on Chinese products, I would support him 100%. I am not one of those conservatives that think that everything he does is wrong because he is a democrat. On my site I give the President credit for when I think he has been successful and I defend him from others when I think he is right.
1) As a rule the USA has generally low tariffs and is essentially unilaterally free trade towards every one. When the USA does a free trade agreement, it really tends to be more about opening up the counterparty to more investment from the USA
2) China has permanent MFN and that confers certain trade benefits
3) China and the USA are both members of the WTO, and that regulates the extent to which tariffs may be applied
Oh, the thought just dawned on me that you didn't see my OP as the sarcasm that it was. I'm not anti-poor as much as I was mocking our consumer sentiment that tends to value goodies more than people. I mean, if I read one more time about how plastic dashes are so fricking terrible that we can throw three million of our own fellow citizens out of work...
sigh. I respond below:
The trade imbalance, however large, is not even close to our total economic output.
The trade imbalance is actually much larger when you consider how much of our exports are either food, raw materials, or products of an upper class, like aircraft or computers.
Second, it's quite rich to claim the poor would just subsidize China when, really, the reason places like Wal-Mart exist is that middle class incomes haven't increased in 30 years. With a robust middle class, our trade wouldn't be in such dire straits
I would say that if we had manufacturing jobs, we would have still have a middle class, and not nearly as many poor people! I mean, we have lots of people that can't do a tech economy but could be fine on an assembly line. Now they are on welfare. It's just a tragedy that we place a consumer good so much more above the welfare of our fellow citizens.
I'm one of those christian right wingers that happen to think that Jesus would have us lift up the poor and the citizens around us. Kinda thought that having a concern about the well being of our nation as a whole was a conservative, but I guess that's just me.
The poor spend it, and actually spend more of their income than any other demographic. In fact, giving money to the poor is one of the best ways for a government to boost economic activity and help everyone.
You would be right if we did not have free trade. But right now giving money to the poor right now is just a big subsidy for China.
Let's see, in 1965, we instituted Medicare and Medicaid, and that's an easy 500 billion a year
then, in 1972 we expanded SSI Disability and that's now 150 billion bucks a year
in the 1980s Reagan expanded coverage to include pregnant women
and lately we just added Medicare Part D...
If we all had our grandparents move back in and die in some quiet room upstairs, put disabled people out on the street with those old alms cups to beg for change, had pregnant women just have babies themselves or have more abortions, we'd have a lot more money for cool stuff.
I have a right wing web site and find that Republican condemnation of the GM bailout is self serving and utterly hypocritical.
1) Northern manufacturing states are being hammered by the effects of free trade. Red states, primarily agricultural, are utterly protectionist. Farmers have gotten at least 300 billion dollars in bailouts during the course of the Bush administration alone, and perhaps near a trillion dollars in bailouts over the last few years, through direct federal subsidies, and on top of that the USA is famously good at using "food safety and plant safety" as excuses to keep our foreign produce.
2) Red state Republicans constantly complain about Amtrak in the Northeast, but when do we hear so much as a peep about ending the various regulations that in effect, demand that the post office deliver, highways are paved to, phone and electric service to low population density areas. All of that infrastructure, is, in essence, an enormous subsidy on living in the middle of nowhere.
3) Layoff some of the bankrupt blue states. We have too many right wingers complaining about California, New Jersey and other blue states with severe budget problems... but keep in mind that those states are paying far more out in Federal taxes than they receive in federal aid. California and New Jersey can't pay their bills because they support the likes of Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa and more.
4) I'm researching SSI disability claims per capita by state. I think everyone knows that SSI disability is just rampant with fraud and so I think we could use it as a barometer as to who the laziest workers really are. Whose going to come out as lazier, blue or red state? By the way, if anyone's got a good link on this, let me know...
Bottom line is, red states are first in the welfare trough and are heavily subsidized. If you are going to talk about fleecing the taxpayers, you'd better not be doing it yourself! Free trade of the sort red states never have bothered to practice for themselves did GM in far more than any union conspiracy did, and bad management only made the problems worse. Red states bitching about GM is like bitching about someone stealing too many pennies from the give a penny take a penny after you've shot the clerk in the head and looted the register.
Maybe I'm just a RhINO Republican, a Nationalist Yankee in a liberal court, but it seems like my redneck party comrades down south need to get their own shit together and quit dragging the rest of the country down with it.
I mean, this guy goes around promoting himself as the next big thing for making a web site that no one's really heard of, and, as Microsoft's "internet genius", he's pretty much sucked. The company is running around in circles, has kinda blown its client. I mean Bill Gates's Active Desktop had more, well originality than anything that's come out of MS since then. At least it was an interesting concept, even if it couldn't quite work. What do we have now? Stuff that's not even really interesting.
On the human side, there is the B-52 pilot that banked his aircraft too tightly, and slide it sideways into the ground, killing all four on board at an airshow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVaAVN94sTs
I'm not exactly a big Euro loving kinda guy, but I think you can give Airbus a bit of slack here. Yes, we have had one amazing pilot bringing down an aircraft safely and saving all the passengers, but a quick listen to many cockpit voice recorders has pilots making mistakes that wind up being pretty deadly.
It's DevExpress Refactor! for C++. The link is there:
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/RefactorCPP/
It's a free download and it works pretty well, I have to say.
WPF being in .NET essentially means that native development on Windows is dead.
I'm not a big lover of Visual Studio for C++ development - my preferred environment was KDevelop before it was broken in the rush to KDE 4.0, so, I would love to agree with you about Eclipse being good for C++. I just wasn't all that impressed. Right now, a pretty good pair is Visual C++ and a plug-in that Microsoft lets you download that works pretty well.
Here's a question, does the beta function include all skewed gaussians -- in the mathematical proved sense.
AT some point, you may want to go back..
My wife and I do the "we don't need a land line any more"... but then there's always some goofy situation where we do... usually because of either a hole in cell phone billing plan or some cell went into the washer catastrophe.
But do you think this analog technology might explain or predict why Bing is pointless?
kinda hard to cry oppression when you can pop back a cold one and watch a bunch schmoes battle it out on a cheesy singing contest on hdtv, then fire up the xbox 360 for some video games.. write whatever we want on slashdot... what is it that we were revolting over again? oh, Obama might take my guns away but lucky high powered lasers are getting pretty affordable. why would I want an assault rifle when I can cut a stadium full of people in half from 500 miles away.
Thanks... and the thing is Neuromancer actually had a happy ending.
I tried Bing for about ten seconds and saw no immediate reason to switch from Google.
Yawn.