Except for that its legal in portland to be naked, and oregon recognized nudity as a form of political speech, i should know seeing as how I organize the 10000 person world naked bike ride in portland. http://pdxwnbr.org/
However what he claims is that her job was "unsatisfactory", and that it had to be finished by someone else. So what likely happened was that his footage looks like shit, and no amount or post production was ever going to change that. However he stole the footage that she had edited and sent for review, and maybe made some last minute tweaks to it, and never paid the complete balance for the work. I've had similar things happen to me before, where I would explain that you just cant convert an image 4:3 to a 3:4 and have it look right, and try to explain that a webpage isnt the same as a pdf
I suspect he is a complete liar here are the paintings he claims are up to $60,000 a piece (what a joke) http://www.kooriweb.org/bell/art.html http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artwork/her-thous-shalt-not I've had way better pieces custom made (oil on canvas portraits) for a fraction of the price here are his real market prices http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices.asp?keyword=113297 And then he claims in one website to have spent $80k on legal services, the court found he only spent $23k on lawyer fees at a rate of $500/hr
His 'evidence' consisted of sworn statements of his buddies, and the presumption that he would have sold more paintings. Furthermore the Australian court case said that she hadn't pursued it in court, however she actually filed a lawsuit in NYC, who knows if she or he actually served each other however.
there is a fundamental limit to technological progress, like how do you increase efficiency above 100%? its called ENTROPY. even if we went completely solar, which currently require post peak minerals, you'd still have a problem with food. Thats because peak phosphorus , and natural gas which produces nitrogen.
The autocracy was a result of constant existential threats, much like what occurred in the USA.
I have a saying "terrorists need tyrants, like tyrants need terrorists", but it generally applies to the relationship fear and control.
His centralized planning also led to the industrialization of the country, but there was a chicken and the egg problem where you have to move people from farming, and you dont have anything to sell but agriculture to build factories. Many non communist countries have had this same exact problem, even countries that recieve IMF development (often capitalist dictators), but we like to use it as fodder against the communists.
its not as if our dictators are less dispicable than theirs (chile and iran come to mind), or that our development from agriculture to industry was less worse (irish famine) ( US slavery) (germ warfare).
Does that mean that R&D ceases without war? or that we have wars because we need R&D?
R&D is a process whereby you try to reduce your capital and labor costs, wars require enormous amounts of these costs to be spent (and ultimately wasted).
If you want more R&D, then advocate spending more on R&D, not on trying to start wars to prevent hedonism.
Here is a good explanation of the concepts of "socially necessary labor time", which is generally the source of profits (not value or utility) for companies, as it takes less labor to produce a good the prices and margins go down.
This is an accurate assessment of how modern capitalism operates, but i think the comprehension problem is that he skipped over alot of the labor theory of value, which is where alot of left/right disagreements occur and makes it hard to understand. I'll see if i can conjure up a better explanation.
The situation in the USSR had less to do with motivation, and more to do with geo politics than anything else.
The USSR was trying to become an industrialized nation during WW2, and they didn't want anything to do with the war originally, that is until Germany decided to invade them anyways. It was the USSR who actually won WW2 and took the heaviest losses, but to survive they had to move from light manufacturing to heavy manufacturing for war time purposes, and then had trouble moving back to light manufacturing afterwards. This was compounded by the fact that the american elite was mostly greedy business, as they had already proven by neo-colonialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and dating back to even the compromises made by the founding fathers in the constitution. To them the USSR was a threat to their economic interests, as they had a completely different world view, that of sustainability and equality. USA and UK created "operation unthinkable" which was a strategic analysis for the invasion and nuclear bombing of russia, and instead decided they wanted to fight an ideological battle and focus on containment. Russia became paranoid and autocratic as a defensive measure, and since it was less developed had to spend more per GDP on defense, and became gradually marginalized as its trade policy advantages dwindled from the containment.
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Me Thinks Doth protest too much, must have hit a nerve there, so how much co2 per year do you emit?
Except for that its legal in portland to be naked, and oregon recognized nudity as a form of political speech, i should know seeing as how I organize the 10000 person world naked bike ride in portland. http://pdxwnbr.org/
You mean like Iran-Contra? Except actually getting shut down this time?
However what he claims is that her job was "unsatisfactory", and that it had to be finished by someone else. So what likely happened was that his footage looks like shit, and no amount or post production was ever going to change that. However he stole the footage that she had edited and sent for review, and maybe made some last minute tweaks to it, and never paid the complete balance for the work. I've had similar things happen to me before, where I would explain that you just cant convert an image 4:3 to a 3:4 and have it look right, and try to explain that a webpage isnt the same as a pdf
I suspect he is a complete liar /hr
here are the paintings he claims are up to $60,000 a piece (what a joke)
http://www.kooriweb.org/bell/art.html
http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artwork/her-thous-shalt-not
I've had way better pieces custom made (oil on canvas portraits) for a fraction of the price
here are his real market prices
http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices.asp?keyword=113297
And then he claims in one website to have spent $80k on legal services, the court found he only spent $23k on lawyer fees at a rate of $500
Actually its not!
His 'evidence' consisted of sworn statements of his buddies, and the presumption that he would have sold more paintings. Furthermore the Australian court case said that she hadn't pursued it in court, however she actually filed a lawsuit in NYC, who knows if she or he actually served each other however.
There are only two types of people in the world, those who separate the world into two groups, and those who do not.
what does it matter when were already above carrying capacity, and even most developed countries have stable or growing populations?
there is a fundamental limit to technological progress, like how do you increase efficiency above 100%? its called ENTROPY. even if we went completely solar, which currently require post peak minerals, you'd still have a problem with food. Thats because peak phosphorus , and natural gas which produces nitrogen.
they have all been derived from data, differential equations to be exact, did you even read the paper itself?
except for that the price of food is directly tied to oil, both for machinery and a source of fertilizer.
your so full of shit
you mean milton "the free market magic wand" friedman?
"The overall political or political object is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire...."
Not really, considering were already above carrying capacity, oil is just the temporary source of cheap energy and biomass.
The autocracy was a result of constant existential threats, much like what occurred in the USA.
I have a saying "terrorists need tyrants, like tyrants need terrorists", but it generally applies to the relationship fear and control.
His centralized planning also led to the industrialization of the country, but there was a chicken and the egg problem where you have to move people from farming, and you dont have anything to sell but agriculture to build factories. Many non communist countries have had this same exact problem, even countries that recieve IMF development (often capitalist dictators), but we like to use it as fodder against the communists.
its not as if our dictators are less dispicable than theirs (chile and iran come to mind), or that our development from agriculture to industry was less worse (irish famine) ( US slavery) (germ warfare).
Germany invaded Poland first, and the russians beat back the polish, and ended up in control of it as a result.
Does that mean that R&D ceases without war? or that we have wars because we need R&D?
R&D is a process whereby you try to reduce your capital and labor costs, wars require enormous amounts of these costs to be spent (and ultimately wasted).
If you want more R&D, then advocate spending more on R&D, not on trying to start wars to prevent hedonism.
I agree with this statement, but would include better economic measuring tools, like consumer surplus and ecological economics.
except for that its not subjective, its the socially unnecessary labor time which sets price, and that's the whole point!
just thought of a funny thought:
Protester: CORPORATIONS ARE MONSTERS!
Mitt Romney: Monsters are people too my friend.
Because there the Ipad3 now has a retina display! I hear that riding a harley davidson gets you laid!
Here is a good explanation of the concepts of "socially necessary labor time", which is generally the source of profits (not value or utility) for companies, as it takes less labor to produce a good the prices and margins go down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSP-crYjeoE
This is an accurate assessment of how modern capitalism operates, but i think the comprehension problem is that he skipped over alot of the labor theory of value, which is where alot of left/right disagreements occur and makes it hard to understand. I'll see if i can conjure up a better explanation.
The situation in the USSR had less to do with motivation, and more to do with geo politics than anything else.
The USSR was trying to become an industrialized nation during WW2, and they didn't want anything to do with the war originally, that is until Germany decided to invade them anyways. It was the USSR who actually won WW2 and took the heaviest losses, but to survive they had to move from light manufacturing to heavy manufacturing for war time purposes, and then had trouble moving back to light manufacturing afterwards. This was compounded by the fact that the american elite was mostly greedy business, as they had already proven by neo-colonialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and dating back to even the compromises made by the founding fathers in the constitution. To them the USSR was a threat to their economic interests, as they had a completely different world view, that of sustainability and equality. USA and UK created "operation unthinkable" which was a strategic analysis for the invasion and nuclear bombing of russia, and instead decided they wanted to fight an ideological battle and focus on containment. Russia became paranoid and autocratic as a defensive measure, and since it was less developed had to spend more per GDP on defense, and became gradually marginalized as its trade policy advantages dwindled from the containment.