ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS BUY A LOT OF IPHONES AT FULL PRICE! (BTW they're the same price in China).
No; they cost a lot more in China. The official retail price might be the same but they're like tickets to a sold out concert: the street price is way higher.
I see a great market opportunity here; a system whereby if your keychain dongle isn't inserted into the usb port, the laptop battery goes critical on bootup.
Yes, again, the inflation to which you refer was a product of the merchantile system, not of a metal standard per se. There is an excellent analysis of merchantilism and its associated inflation in the chapters titled "Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System" and "Of Restraints upon the Importation" in Smith's Wealth of Nations.
You either don't understand the first thing about unions, or are deliberately misrepresenting them. Unions don't exist to keep anybody from working, they exist to let workers bargain collectively.
Sorry, this is an acceptance of unions' stated purpose while ignoring their practical purpose. For practical purposes unions exist to keep non-members from working. There is an excellent analysis of this behavior in the chapter titled "Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock" in Smith's Wealth of Nations. Back then unions were called "guilds" but it's the same thing.
WTF... Did you just call unions "worker-friendly"? Unions are only friendly to unionized workers. They exist to keep non members from working. Union strikes are effective only because people who would be happy to work are kept out by laws preventing them from being hired. Laws requiring union membership are the equivalent of Jim Crow laws.
So these ones will run, what? $8000 to offset Union Labor costs?
You have to pay the longshoremen's union to take it off the container ships whether the parts are assembled in the USA or China. And it doesn't say which state has the assembly facility; there ARE non-union states, actually. Anyway, the biggest reason computer parts are manufactured overseas (China) is the absolutely horrible pollution.
But by shipping the parts to the USA to be assembled by some robots, people can get a warm fuzzy feeling for having bought a domestic made product.
The great European empires had problems because of monetary policy, not because of a gold standard. Look up problems associated with the mercantile system.
Really, subject says it all. I sometimes get cash out of the ATM, just because I like to have some on hand. The great thing about cash is that if you end up in a bad position, anyone anywhere will accept it.
Well that's great and all but rather off topic. Cash for in case of a bad position comes in the form of a 20 or larger, not a stack of singles. And the topic at hand is dollar *coins* which are much better for privacy if you stop to think about it since unlke dollar bills, dollar coins don't even have serial numbers.
Plus if a new source of very large amounts of gold were to be discovered, then it would endanger the economy.
While there are legitimate concerns with gold backed currency, this is not one of them. The danger to a gold based economy of a new gold deposit is nothing at all compared with the ability of the government to inflate fiat currency with short term self serving monetary policy.
I give my daughter her allowance in dollar coins (the gold colored presidential series and sacageweas); she has absolutely no problem at all putting them into circulation...
The senators are not self endorsed and self elected. People vote for them
There's the problem. Making senators popularly elected instead of by state legislatures turned them into what they are now. They're no longer there to represent their states; now they just want to pander for your vote via special interest campaign donations.
This is curious though. Europe does have a much stronger tradition of personal privacy, at least in the sense of things like stronger data protection laws. I wonder if this legal protection means they're less likely to have concerns about this.
Sure there's higher tradition of personal privacy *when companies are involved*.
THIS is important. Basically, Congress is making the USPS prepay pensions so many years out, that the beneficiaries of it haven't even started working for the USPS yet!
Of course they're doing badly, no other company on earth is required by government to do that
That's what you MUST do when you have a defined benefits program! Where have you been not tp notice all the other outfits that are in serious trouble because of their non-funded defined benefits??? GM and Chrysler? The State of California? Greece? These are all perfect examples of what happens when you DON'T pre-pay defined benefits and here you are saying that's a bad idea? Oh yeah, let the post office also run unfunded. It'll snowball on top of all the other unfunded liabilities but since it's your grandchildren's problem, who cares?
Keep dreaming; labor costs are a pretty small part of the problem with manufacturing moving overseas. Chinese factories staffed by robots will still spew untreated toxic waste into their rivers and skies. Until everyone there either dies of exposure or they clean up their act, they'll have a huge price advantage.
A+ is one the most useless certifications out there. Can you plug in a mouse? Then your A+ certified!
It's worse than that. I looked at A+ some years ago and the first question on the sample test was "Which of these devices are input only..." I didn't select "keyboard", it dinged me, and I went elsewhere. (If you don't know why keyboard shouldn't be considered as input only, especially on a certification for computer support, A+ might be right up your alley.)
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ALL SHE WANTED TO DO WAS BUY A LOT OF IPHONES AT FULL PRICE! (BTW they're the same price in China).
No; they cost a lot more in China. The official retail price might be the same but they're like tickets to a sold out concert: the street price is way higher.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Heck with that, Next time I'm in Rome, I'm going to do as the Visigoths did.
Do any slashdotters know of a situation where an update-able view would be handy/ideal?
Teradata is usually set up so that every basic DML operation (insert, update, delete) is done via views.
I most certainly do not welcome any new Cyborg overlords.
Speak for yourself; if they all look like Summer Glau, I can't wait!
So... lower corporate tax rates to the point where it's not worth the bother of jumping through these hoops.
This is the free market in action. Would you rather the White House block the sale?
I'd rather the White House not give them $250M in taxpayer money in the first place. How exactly was that free market in action?
"the liftoff thrust of the Falcon Heavy equals fifteen Boeing 747 aircraft at full power."
So, I just need to figure out how to mount 60 engines on a 747.
Why flee to Guatemala? Does he have relatives there? A fat secret bank account?
I see a great market opportunity here; a system whereby if your keychain dongle isn't inserted into the usb port, the laptop battery goes critical on bootup.
Yes, again, the inflation to which you refer was a product of the merchantile system, not of a metal standard per se. There is an excellent analysis of merchantilism and its associated inflation in the chapters titled "Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System" and "Of Restraints upon the Importation" in Smith's Wealth of Nations.
You either don't understand the first thing about unions, or are deliberately misrepresenting them. Unions don't exist to keep anybody from working, they exist to let workers bargain collectively.
Sorry, this is an acceptance of unions' stated purpose while ignoring their practical purpose. For practical purposes unions exist to keep non-members from working. There is an excellent analysis of this behavior in the chapter titled "Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock" in Smith's Wealth of Nations. Back then unions were called "guilds" but it's the same thing.
WTF... Did you just call unions "worker-friendly"? Unions are only friendly to unionized workers. They exist to keep non members from working. Union strikes are effective only because people who would be happy to work are kept out by laws preventing them from being hired. Laws requiring union membership are the equivalent of Jim Crow laws.
So these ones will run, what? $8000 to offset Union Labor costs?
You have to pay the longshoremen's union to take it off the container ships whether the parts are assembled in the USA or China. And it doesn't say which state has the assembly facility; there ARE non-union states, actually. Anyway, the biggest reason computer parts are manufactured overseas (China) is the absolutely horrible pollution.
But by shipping the parts to the USA to be assembled by some robots, people can get a warm fuzzy feeling for having bought a domestic made product.
True, it's illegal to melt this "ore" down right now
Several other comments above are along the same lines. This is just a rumor. There's nothing illegal about either melting coins or destroying notes.
The great European empires had problems because of monetary policy, not because of a gold standard. Look up problems associated with the mercantile system.
Really, subject says it all. I sometimes get cash out of the ATM, just because I like to have some on hand. The great thing about cash is that if you end up in a bad position, anyone anywhere will accept it.
Well that's great and all but rather off topic. Cash for in case of a bad position comes in the form of a 20 or larger, not a stack of singles. And the topic at hand is dollar *coins* which are much better for privacy if you stop to think about it since unlke dollar bills, dollar coins don't even have serial numbers.
Plus if a new source of very large amounts of gold were to be discovered, then it would endanger the economy.
While there are legitimate concerns with gold backed currency, this is not one of them. The danger to a gold based economy of a new gold deposit is nothing at all compared with the ability of the government to inflate fiat currency with short term self serving monetary policy.
I give my daughter her allowance in dollar coins (the gold colored presidential series and sacageweas); she has absolutely no problem at all putting them into circulation...
How sure is that 90% hit rate? I wonder what it is about the other 10% that lets them through?
Wow; you didn't even read the summary, never mind the article, The system lets through missiles that are headed towards unpopulated areas on purpose.
The senators are not self endorsed and self elected.
People vote for them
There's the problem. Making senators popularly elected instead of by state legislatures turned them into what they are now. They're no longer there to represent their states; now they just want to pander for your vote via special interest campaign donations.
This is curious though. Europe does have a much stronger tradition of personal privacy, at least in the sense of things like stronger data protection laws. I wonder if this legal protection means they're less likely to have concerns about this.
Sure there's higher tradition of personal privacy *when companies are involved*.
THIS is important. Basically, Congress is making the USPS prepay pensions so many years out, that the beneficiaries of it haven't even started working for the USPS yet!
Of course they're doing badly, no other company on earth is required by government to do that
That's what you MUST do when you have a defined benefits program! Where have you been not tp notice all the other outfits that are in serious trouble because of their non-funded defined benefits??? GM and Chrysler? The State of California? Greece? These are all perfect examples of what happens when you DON'T pre-pay defined benefits and here you are saying that's a bad idea? Oh yeah, let the post office also run unfunded. It'll snowball on top of all the other unfunded liabilities but since it's your grandchildren's problem, who cares?
Keep dreaming; labor costs are a pretty small part of the problem with manufacturing moving overseas. Chinese factories staffed by robots will still spew untreated toxic waste into their rivers and skies. Until everyone there either dies of exposure or they clean up their act, they'll have a huge price advantage.
Do they no longer give away slashcode?
A+ is one the most useless certifications out there. Can you plug in a mouse? Then your A+ certified!
It's worse than that. I looked at A+ some years ago and the first question on the sample test was "Which of these devices are input only..." I didn't select "keyboard", it dinged me, and I went elsewhere. (If you don't know why keyboard shouldn't be considered as input only, especially on a certification for computer support, A+ might be right up your alley.)