We know it well enough, since USSR participated in the Pacific Theatre
Declaring war on Japan in August 1945? The USSR "participated" by showing up for the yearbook photo. Typical Stalinist land grab. And quite frankly, it's hard to celebrate the Soviet contribution to the European front when Russia was originally so happy to indulge and assist Hitler. You let a wild dog off the chain, you deserve to get bitten.
Hi, I'm from a country currently called the United States of America, and I'd like to remind yet another citizen of the former Soviet Union that WWII wasn't fought only in Europe.
I would be comforted to hear reasoned arguments that the situation currently bears no resemblance to the past.
Clever. So unless I conclusively show that the current era has absolutely no similarities to your vaguely-defined "past," I'm wrong. That's a lot easier for you than having to support your use of the term "fascism"... but then, you've already admitted that you're using it imprecisely, to say the least.
At this point, the people who railed at me for supporting Nader, for daring to call Obama an opportunist tool of the status quo, can now officially kiss my ass. Those who simply couldn't be bothered to check his Senate voting record but who insisted on wearing that Maoist "Hope" portrait at all times, I say to you today: I told you so.
And as for the EFF, please use well the money I just sent you, and keep up the good fight.
Generally speaking, this kind of objection to capital punishment is circular - essentially, "the death penalty is wrong because it's barbaric, and barbaric things are wrong." It's begging the question and adds nothing to the debate.
If people modded your post as a troll simply because they disagreed with you, I sympathize with you - that would make Slashdot no better than (shudder) Digg.
However, if people modded you down because the quality of your post was poor, which it was, then more power to them.
Sorry, I don't have access to the super-secret ultimate-insider's econometrics that you do, so I can't really evaluate those statements. And while gold has gone up, gold isn't exactly in the typical consumer's basket, is it? And for good reason - it's a speculative commodity. If not for that, gold would cost the same as copper. Speaking of which, have you seen the price of copper lately?
Wow. Just.. wow. Your post is rife with inconsistencies and evasions. Let's look at just a few:
Because they planned to turn the 100 widgets into 150 yuan so after the.03 point deflation, they are still making.47 yuan per unit, and to replace the raw materials will now only cost 0.97 yuan because of the deflation.
The instantaneous cost of the commodity isn't what's at hand here, only the price obtained for the finished good relative to the commodity when it was purchased. The raw materials only cost 0.97 now? That's fantastic, until you realize that deflation still exists. Deflation is a trap for the producer that cuts into earnings. Also, I doubt many Chinese manufacturers are making a 47% margin.
The reason the previous poster called you a 'brainwashed sheep' is because you clearly believe that deflation and taking a loss on every every unit sold are synonymous.
I never said they were synonymous. In China's current manufacturing climate, though, deflation will erase any profits from many manufacturing concerns.
The 'same fundamental observations of economics' always seem to not notice the benefits of deflation like lower raw material costs for equal quality materials as well lower wages for an equal quality of life for their employees.
Again, you're focusing on the instantaneous cost of the raw materials, which is, well, immaterial. Lower material costs are good for producers only if they are lower relative to the price of the finished goods. Why is that so hard to understand?
In fact, if the factory continues to pay their employees the same amount, it will have the real effect of having given their employees a raise.
... and increasing the manufacturer's labor costs, reinforcing my point.
Every time that deflation comes up, someone does what you did. They make up a very specifically crafted scenario that would be bad in a deflation economy, and then call it a 'fundamental observation of economics.'
... which you countered with very specifically crafted and rather unrealistic scenario. I remain unconvinced.
They completely ignore the fact that inflation is exactly what has cause our current financial problems.
You are the very first person I've ever heard attribute the current financial crisis to monetary inflation. At best, you could ascribe it to asset inflation, i.e. the housing crisis, but even that is a proximate cause. Inflation has been quite low over the past decade. A more immediate problem is the insane leveraging of financial institutions coupled with a serious lack of regulation.
Let's say you're a Chinese manufacturer. You buy 100 yuan of raw materials, and you plan to turn them into 100 widgets and sell them in a month for 110 yuan. In the meanwhile, deflation is gripping your country, so while you're running your assembly line, the market price for widgets drops from 1.1 yuan to 0.98 yuan. So now, you have to take a loss on your manufacturing operation. Why would a company even bother in that kind of environment? Answer: they wouldn't - they shut down instead.
This is a pretty fundamental observation of economics, but if you can refute it with something besides "you're a brainwashed sheep," I'd be interested to hear your argument.
Nonetheless, it's interesting to speculate about what might have happened in the end-stages of the Cold War if the Soviets had gained control of the high ground in this fashion.
If quality control was so low that they couldn't even rotate it correctly, it probably wasn't anything to worry about. Besides, it had a well-known small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port...
Actually, China has been hit worse that most countries, especially the US, and it's just going to keep getting worse. The Chinese government announced that over 7% of all domestic companies went out of business over the last year, and that China is now experiencing deflation. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, deflation is very, very bad, espeicially for a manufacturing-based economy.
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We know it well enough, since USSR participated in the Pacific Theatre
Declaring war on Japan in August 1945? The USSR "participated" by showing up for the yearbook photo. Typical Stalinist land grab. And quite frankly, it's hard to celebrate the Soviet contribution to the European front when Russia was originally so happy to indulge and assist Hitler. You let a wild dog off the chain, you deserve to get bitten.
Hi, I'm from a country currently called the United States of America, and I'd like to remind yet another citizen of the former Soviet Union that WWII wasn't fought only in Europe.
Hate speech laws.
I'm making a note here: "huge success."
I would be comforted to hear reasoned arguments that the situation currently bears no resemblance to the past.
Clever. So unless I conclusively show that the current era has absolutely no similarities to your vaguely-defined "past," I'm wrong. That's a lot easier for you than having to support your use of the term "fascism"... but then, you've already admitted that you're using it imprecisely, to say the least.
At this point, the people who railed at me for supporting Nader, for daring to call Obama an opportunist tool of the status quo, can now officially kiss my ass. Those who simply couldn't be bothered to check his Senate voting record but who insisted on wearing that Maoist "Hope" portrait at all times, I say to you today: I told you so.
And as for the EFF, please use well the money I just sent you, and keep up the good fight.
If you're going to sling the word "fascist" around, you should first be able to (a) spell it, and (b) understand its meaning.
Generally speaking, this kind of objection to capital punishment is circular - essentially, "the death penalty is wrong because it's barbaric, and barbaric things are wrong." It's begging the question and adds nothing to the debate.
Reading TFA, it looks like a scalable servlet container. No J2EE as far as I can tell.
Of course I did. Even attended protests. And by the way, I voted for Nader.
I am too old to learn a new [programming] language. The languages I know will suffice for now.
Understood - and incidentally, I would like fries with that, Grandpa.
Wow, Demi Moore? Really? Now that's an influential user!
Warrantless wiretapping isn't a "conservative" thing to do. We should bash Obama because what he's doing is un-American.
Holy crap. You are now formally and officially my hero. I hope I'm that resilient when I'm 48.
If people modded your post as a troll simply because they disagreed with you, I sympathize with you - that would make Slashdot no better than (shudder) Digg.
However, if people modded you down because the quality of your post was poor, which it was, then more power to them.
I am 100% confident that in the coming years most people will WISH they had gold and quite a bit of it in their basket.
Oh... you're one of those.
Sorry, I don't have access to the super-secret ultimate-insider's econometrics that you do, so I can't really evaluate those statements. And while gold has gone up, gold isn't exactly in the typical consumer's basket, is it? And for good reason - it's a speculative commodity. If not for that, gold would cost the same as copper. Speaking of which, have you seen the price of copper lately?
Because they planned to turn the 100 widgets into 150 yuan so after the .03 point deflation, they are still making .47 yuan per unit, and to replace the raw materials will now only cost 0.97 yuan because of the deflation.
The instantaneous cost of the commodity isn't what's at hand here, only the price obtained for the finished good relative to the commodity when it was purchased. The raw materials only cost 0.97 now? That's fantastic, until you realize that deflation still exists. Deflation is a trap for the producer that cuts into earnings. Also, I doubt many Chinese manufacturers are making a 47% margin.
The reason the previous poster called you a 'brainwashed sheep' is because you clearly believe that deflation and taking a loss on every every unit sold are synonymous.
I never said they were synonymous. In China's current manufacturing climate, though, deflation will erase any profits from many manufacturing concerns.
The 'same fundamental observations of economics' always seem to not notice the benefits of deflation like lower raw material costs for equal quality materials as well lower wages for an equal quality of life for their employees.
Again, you're focusing on the instantaneous cost of the raw materials, which is, well, immaterial. Lower material costs are good for producers only if they are lower relative to the price of the finished goods. Why is that so hard to understand?
In fact, if the factory continues to pay their employees the same amount, it will have the real effect of having given their employees a raise.
... and increasing the manufacturer's labor costs, reinforcing my point.
Every time that deflation comes up, someone does what you did. They make up a very specifically crafted scenario that would be bad in a deflation economy, and then call it a 'fundamental observation of economics.'
... which you countered with very specifically crafted and rather unrealistic scenario. I remain unconvinced.
They completely ignore the fact that inflation is exactly what has cause our current financial problems.
You are the very first person I've ever heard attribute the current financial crisis to monetary inflation. At best, you could ascribe it to asset inflation, i.e. the housing crisis, but even that is a proximate cause. Inflation has been quite low over the past decade. A more immediate problem is the insane leveraging of financial institutions coupled with a serious lack of regulation.
Surely you're not suggesting that manned spaceflight is a... a... waste of money?
Let's say you're a Chinese manufacturer. You buy 100 yuan of raw materials, and you plan to turn them into 100 widgets and sell them in a month for 110 yuan. In the meanwhile, deflation is gripping your country, so while you're running your assembly line, the market price for widgets drops from 1.1 yuan to 0.98 yuan. So now, you have to take a loss on your manufacturing operation. Why would a company even bother in that kind of environment? Answer: they wouldn't - they shut down instead.
This is a pretty fundamental observation of economics, but if you can refute it with something besides "you're a brainwashed sheep," I'd be interested to hear your argument.
Nonetheless, it's interesting to speculate about what might have happened in the end-stages of the Cold War if the Soviets had gained control of the high ground in this fashion.
If quality control was so low that they couldn't even rotate it correctly, it probably wasn't anything to worry about. Besides, it had a well-known small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port...
Actually, China has been hit worse that most countries, especially the US, and it's just going to keep getting worse. The Chinese government announced that over 7% of all domestic companies went out of business over the last year, and that China is now experiencing deflation. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, deflation is very, very bad, espeicially for a manufacturing-based economy.