___ For example, if American Airlines cuts pilot pay, then United and Southwest know that they can do the same thing.
Not if there isn't a greater supply than demand for pilots, they can't, or American Airlines will quickly find it's best pilots have accepted offers from United and Southwest. That's got nothing to do with an oligopoly, that's merely a reflection of the fact that there's less demand for pilots now that less people are flying. We call that "the law of supply and demand". You may have heard of that one.
The pilots are on a seniority system at each airline. Any captain going to a rival airline will be at the bottom of the pay scale. Couple that with the CEO's taking their money from the bucket first, and the pilots get screwed.
Delta's pilots are the highest paid of the domestic airlines. If they accept a cut, dropping them to second highest paid, the newly highest paying will use that as a reason to cut their pilot's pay.
I grant that that's an entirely possible outcome, but it isn't necessarily a forgone conclusion. I heard the same kind of bitching and moaning under Reagan, and within 12 years Democrats were crying about how Clinton left us a budget surplus (which actually never materialized, it was merely projected). Note that I've never said I was a fan of the Bush administration.
It also isn't necessarily a forgone conclusion that we're going to keep paying out social security payments for the next decade or two, but that's an entirely possibe outcome. However, we have to plan budgets and spending as though we are. Figuring WWIII or another event will free us of paying 7 trillion dollars and the constant interest is as irresponsible as not setting aside money for SS. Of course that's currently happening. We still need to start with the assumption we will pay back the debt, with that assumption all deficit spending will eventually hurt us.
Bad example since your relatives can sue the bus company. If a deer runs in front of your car and there was nothing you could do, I wouldn't be opposed to there being some sort of government assistance. I don't think government or myself should pay the entire bill, but some part of it to ease your family's burden.
What currently happens when a family in a ghetto or living out of a car is too broke to pay for a funeral? What happens to the body? Does the city, county, or state pay for cremation and disposal at a landfill?
Besides, there is no way for the dead (have-nots, live-nots) to become alive (haves). So do you still want the unlucky haves-to-have-nots to be SOL if you or other haves chose not to help?
I have no idea how much demand there is for loans. If demand were only 50% of assets they could potentially keep 50% right? Is this at all related to the national debt? As in, if the US had 7 trillion more dollars locally, would demand for loans still be such a large percentage?
So do you admit that the haves can become have-nots by misfortune and no fault of their own? To help have-nots improve their lives I support many of the social programs government funds.
Also, by fortune/luck have-nots can become haves. It can also help haves do even better. So using some wealth from the haves to help the have-nots seems reasonable instead of leaving the fallen to suffer.
I'll tell you what's wrong with that: what you're saying is that if I make good decisions, such as pursuing a lucrative career, you want to share in my success without having to make the sacrifices I made to pursue that success. If we're going to be re-distributing the consequences of my decisions and actions, why don't we be a little more equitable about it?
What about the CS grads who started in 1997 when the market was heating up? Their senior year, the bubble has burst, and they can't get a job. The people who graduated a year or three before them got a little experience and were among the first to lose jobs. What jobs are available go to those with 10 years, then 5, 3, 2, even a year of experience. The new grads are just screwed because of bad luck?
Sometimes good decisions, even outside of IT, get trumped by bad luck. See 9/11 and how it effected promising careers in the airlines. See anyone who couldn't find a job in cities where airline layoffs sent thousands competing in the non-airline markets.
While minimizing the decrease in happiness to some, we should increase the happiness of as many people as possible.
Your slavery example doesn't work here.
As for charging a flat fee, would the poor and middle class approve that? I think not because they'd want their money going to more important things. The wealthy who can pay more can pay to cover the breasts. The have-not's certainly won't approve their taxes going up to 30% to make up for the wealthy dropping from 36%. The result is all kinds of federal programs being cut. Funding for National Parks, transportation projects, arts, space, education. That'll be a fast way to send the country into the toilet. Only the wealthy living in Malibu, the Hamptons, and other expensive towns will have the property tax base to make up the difference.
You're right, and like you say it's not 2x. As far as I know the banks in this country are in solid financial shape and have plenty of money to lend out. It's not like they're running out of money to lend out and need another $500, 500,000, or 5,000,000. Maybe 5,000,000,000 for a mid-small bank. So how much the 500 in a savings account really helps the economy probably pales compared to spending it at the local bakery. Of course spending it at WalMart doesn't help as much. The store pays minimum wage to the workers, local and state taxes, then the profit goes to Arkansas instead of staying in the state.
Give the poor $1000 and they'll spend it on food, clothing, and bills. Give $1000 to the wealthy and they might buy a watch or shoes with $500, and put the other $500 into their savings account. $500 in a savings account does nothing for the economy, so if the goal is economic stimulus, give the money to the poor.
The wealthy should be able to save. It's much easier for them too since even 50% taxes on $300,000 still leaves them with $150,000 to spend or save. A person earning $30,000 even without taxes is going to spend much of that on necessities like food, housing/utilities, health care, transportation.
I want metadata so I can mark some Billy Joel songs as both classic rock & ballad. I want mark a few songs by Cherry Poppin Daddies as swing & rock. That way I can search for songs that are "swing AND rock" so I don't see songs that are only one but not the other.
It is a logical hierarchical structure that allows for easy sorting & finding of documents **If they are stored in any type of sane manner**.
It fails though when I'm looking for Guns_N_Roses_-_Sweet_Child_O_Mine.mp3 but can't remember what genre it is. Did I file it under Rock, Hard Rock, Hair Rock? Did I file Fresh Prince music under Rap or Pop?
If I have folders by Artist and all I remember is part of an instrumental track, how am I going to find it unless I can search by genre?
I realize that. If all the states would give EVs proportionally, and 3rd parties could get some representatives in the House, it would be a start. Of course the system is broken since the House votes by State. Unless the 3rd party has more representatives in a state than either of the other parties, it is powerless.
This site says the House still needs 26 states to elect a President. Does that mean if the House votes 20, 10, 10, they have to keep voting until 6 switch to the 20 for a majority?
Doesn't more money available improve potential education? In the Bay Area, Piedmont is a small town in the hills, completely surrounded by Oakland. Most houses there are worth more than a million dollars. It's one of the only places here where the wealthy send their kids to the public schools. The property taxes and direct parent donations pay for new, clean facilities, books, the best teachers, sports, all kinds of electives including most every AP class. Meanwhile in Oakland the facilities, books, classes, electives offered, pale in comparison.
Is 270 simply more than half of the EVs? If a viable 3rd candidate gets 100 EVs, does the presidency still go to whoever gets the most EVs even if it isn't a majority?
The rapid shift of wealth threatens economies? Politics are for sale? Taxpayers subsidise nuclear power? USA developed new lethal viruses? Wal-Mart brings inequality and low prices to the world?
These are facts. You can say the stories are being spun to the left, but they are not false.
You sure grandma doesn't just keep all the files on her desktop? Or in a single folder on the desktop? If grandma can create and navigate a bunch of folders, and actually has enough files where searching is needed, search should work just fine. Why can't she use the sidebar to select "last modified in the past 1 days"? That way she just searched for taxes 2004 or even taxes. So what if her tax info from years past shows up? Turbotax's default file names include the year. If she looks for a photo of a blue bird and bird turns up too many pictures she'll have to search for "blue bird."
Can someone comment if the iPod is usable by touch and memory if I keep it in my jacket pocket and adjust it from the outside? I like my old CD player and newer mp3 player for having buttons and tactile feedback I can feel through the nylon without having to take them out and look.
you sure? Now because of Real Player 10 it goes from the BBC's site to Real's and it tried to get people to sign up some radio service. the only option is to go back to reals regular realplayer page, which probably has junk in it.
Then why is Apple working on their own Office suite? They've got half of it already. Finish that and they no longer need MS Office. That's competing directly with MS, but I figure MS will just leave the market. Then Apple gets more profit.
If you'd RTFA you'd know that Intel doesn't have anything faster than 3.6GHz planned until June 2005. Meanwhile AMD is likely to release their 4000+ rated chip this October. First quarter next year 4200+ running at 2.8 GHz is coming. If Intel can't counter, they will lose the high end of the market to AMD for as much as six months. This is worse for them than back when AMD reached 1.0GHz first and stayed 100MHz ahead of them for six months. Intel is really going to lag behind. In some benchmarks, the AMD 3700+ and 3800+ already beat the 3.6GHz.
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___ For example, if American Airlines cuts pilot pay, then United and Southwest know that they can do the same thing.
Not if there isn't a greater supply than demand for pilots, they can't, or American Airlines will quickly find it's best pilots have accepted offers from United and Southwest. That's got nothing to do with an oligopoly, that's merely a reflection of the fact that there's less demand for pilots now that less people are flying. We call that "the law of supply and demand". You may have heard of that one.
The pilots are on a seniority system at each airline. Any captain going to a rival airline will be at the bottom of the pay scale. Couple that with the CEO's taking their money from the bucket first, and the pilots get screwed.
Delta's pilots are the highest paid of the domestic airlines. If they accept a cut, dropping them to second highest paid, the newly highest paying will use that as a reason to cut their pilot's pay.
I grant that that's an entirely possible outcome, but it isn't necessarily a forgone conclusion. I heard the same kind of bitching and moaning under Reagan, and within 12 years Democrats were crying about how Clinton left us a budget surplus (which actually never materialized, it was merely projected). Note that I've never said I was a fan of the Bush administration.
It also isn't necessarily a forgone conclusion that we're going to keep paying out social security payments for the next decade or two, but that's an entirely possibe outcome. However, we have to plan budgets and spending as though we are. Figuring WWIII or another event will free us of paying 7 trillion dollars and the constant interest is as irresponsible as not setting aside money for SS. Of course that's currently happening. We still need to start with the assumption we will pay back the debt, with that assumption all deficit spending will eventually hurt us.
Bad example since your relatives can sue the bus company. If a deer runs in front of your car and there was nothing you could do, I wouldn't be opposed to there being some sort of government assistance. I don't think government or myself should pay the entire bill, but some part of it to ease your family's burden.
What currently happens when a family in a ghetto or living out of a car is too broke to pay for a funeral? What happens to the body? Does the city, county, or state pay for cremation and disposal at a landfill?
Besides, there is no way for the dead (have-nots, live-nots) to become alive (haves). So do you still want the unlucky haves-to-have-nots to be SOL if you or other haves chose not to help?
I have no idea how much demand there is for loans. If demand were only 50% of assets they could potentially keep 50% right? Is this at all related to the national debt? As in, if the US had 7 trillion more dollars locally, would demand for loans still be such a large percentage?
So do you admit that the haves can become have-nots by misfortune and no fault of their own? To help have-nots improve their lives I support many of the social programs government funds.
Also, by fortune/luck have-nots can become haves. It can also help haves do even better. So using some wealth from the haves to help the have-nots seems reasonable instead of leaving the fallen to suffer.
I'll tell you what's wrong with that: what you're saying is that if I make good decisions, such as pursuing a lucrative career, you want to share in my success without having to make the sacrifices I made to pursue that success. If we're going to be re-distributing the consequences of my decisions and actions, why don't we be a little more equitable about it?
What about the CS grads who started in 1997 when the market was heating up? Their senior year, the bubble has burst, and they can't get a job. The people who graduated a year or three before them got a little experience and were among the first to lose jobs. What jobs are available go to those with 10 years, then 5, 3, 2, even a year of experience. The new grads are just screwed because of bad luck?
Sometimes good decisions, even outside of IT, get trumped by bad luck. See 9/11 and how it effected promising careers in the airlines. See anyone who couldn't find a job in cities where airline layoffs sent thousands competing in the non-airline markets.
Whups, just read the long exchange you're having a few comments down. Don't bother replying to the last two sentences as I can guess your arguments.
I offer a different goal:
While minimizing the decrease in happiness to some, we should increase the happiness of as many people as possible.
Your slavery example doesn't work here.
As for charging a flat fee, would the poor and middle class approve that? I think not because they'd want their money going to more important things. The wealthy who can pay more can pay to cover the breasts. The have-not's certainly won't approve their taxes going up to 30% to make up for the wealthy dropping from 36%. The result is all kinds of federal programs being cut. Funding for National Parks, transportation projects, arts, space, education. That'll be a fast way to send the country into the toilet. Only the wealthy living in Malibu, the Hamptons, and other expensive towns will have the property tax base to make up the difference.
You're right, and like you say it's not 2x. As far as I know the banks in this country are in solid financial shape and have plenty of money to lend out. It's not like they're running out of money to lend out and need another $500, 500,000, or 5,000,000. Maybe 5,000,000,000 for a mid-small bank. So how much the 500 in a savings account really helps the economy probably pales compared to spending it at the local bakery. Of course spending it at WalMart doesn't help as much. The store pays minimum wage to the workers, local and state taxes, then the profit goes to Arkansas instead of staying in the state.
Give the poor $1000 and they'll spend it on food, clothing, and bills. Give $1000 to the wealthy and they might buy a watch or shoes with $500, and put the other $500 into their savings account. $500 in a savings account does nothing for the economy, so if the goal is economic stimulus, give the money to the poor.
The wealthy should be able to save. It's much easier for them too since even 50% taxes on $300,000 still leaves them with $150,000 to spend or save. A person earning $30,000 even without taxes is going to spend much of that on necessities like food, housing/utilities, health care, transportation.
I want metadata so I can mark some Billy Joel songs as both classic rock & ballad. I want mark a few songs by Cherry Poppin Daddies as swing & rock. That way I can search for songs that are "swing AND rock" so I don't see songs that are only one but not the other.
It is a logical hierarchical structure that allows for easy sorting & finding of documents **If they are stored in any type of sane manner**.
It fails though when I'm looking for Guns_N_Roses_-_Sweet_Child_O_Mine.mp3 but can't remember what genre it is. Did I file it under Rock, Hard Rock, Hair Rock? Did I file Fresh Prince music under Rap or Pop?
If I have folders by Artist and all I remember is part of an instrumental track, how am I going to find it unless I can search by genre?
I realize that. If all the states would give EVs proportionally, and 3rd parties could get some representatives in the House, it would be a start. Of course the system is broken since the House votes by State. Unless the 3rd party has more representatives in a state than either of the other parties, it is powerless.
This site says the House still needs 26 states to elect a President. Does that mean if the House votes 20, 10, 10, they have to keep voting until 6 switch to the 20 for a majority?
Doesn't more money available improve potential education? In the Bay Area, Piedmont is a small town in the hills, completely surrounded by Oakland. Most houses there are worth more than a million dollars. It's one of the only places here where the wealthy send their kids to the public schools. The property taxes and direct parent donations pay for new, clean facilities, books, the best teachers, sports, all kinds of electives including most every AP class. Meanwhile in Oakland the facilities, books, classes, electives offered, pale in comparison.
Of course it sucks that the police will continue to issue tickets until the law or their interpretation is changed.
Is 270 simply more than half of the EVs? If a viable 3rd candidate gets 100 EVs, does the presidency still go to whoever gets the most EVs even if it isn't a majority?
So you deny the following:
The rapid shift of wealth threatens economies?
Politics are for sale?
Taxpayers subsidise nuclear power?
USA developed new lethal viruses?
Wal-Mart brings inequality and low prices to the world?
These are facts. You can say the stories are being spun to the left, but they are not false.
You sure grandma doesn't just keep all the files on her desktop? Or in a single folder on the desktop? If grandma can create and navigate a bunch of folders, and actually has enough files where searching is needed, search should work just fine. Why can't she use the sidebar to select "last modified in the past 1 days"? That way she just searched for taxes 2004 or even taxes. So what if her tax info from years past shows up? Turbotax's default file names include the year. If she looks for a photo of a blue bird and bird turns up too many pictures she'll have to search for "blue bird."
Can someone comment if the iPod is usable by touch and memory if I keep it in my jacket pocket and adjust it from the outside? I like my old CD player and newer mp3 player for having buttons and tactile feedback I can feel through the nylon without having to take them out and look.
you sure? Now because of Real Player 10 it goes from the BBC's site to Real's and it tried to get people to sign up some radio service. the only option is to go back to reals regular realplayer page, which probably has junk in it.
It might've happened if it was at 3PM Eastern along with popular stories just showing up like SCO losing a case.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!~! You weren't even trying?! You rock.
Acting like a child and keeping the ten millionth post from others. I dedicate this post to $$$$$exyGal
Thank you for playing!
Then why is Apple working on their own Office suite? They've got half of it already. Finish that and they no longer need MS Office. That's competing directly with MS, but I figure MS will just leave the market. Then Apple gets more profit.
If you'd RTFA you'd know that Intel doesn't have anything faster than 3.6GHz planned until June 2005. Meanwhile AMD is likely to release their 4000+ rated chip this October. First quarter next year 4200+ running at 2.8 GHz is coming. If Intel can't counter, they will lose the high end of the market to AMD for as much as six months. This is worse for them than back when AMD reached 1.0GHz first and stayed 100MHz ahead of them for six months. Intel is really going to lag behind. In some benchmarks, the AMD 3700+ and 3800+ already beat the 3.6GHz.