He was making a clever play on the Streisand effect and you somehow turn it into a raging diatribe about conservative thought? Where the hell did that come from?
Fair enough. I tend to have a knee jerk reaction when people blame Chinese manipulation of currency for everything that's wrong with America, especially given that some economists think floating the currency at this point would make things much worse. Re-reading your post, you didn't make any claims like that. My bad.
Maybe we should stop trading with them until they let their currency reach the actual market value instead of what the Chinese Govn't pegs it as. RMB (now pegged against a basket of other currencies instead of just the $)
If you read the link you posted, you would see that Chinese evaluation of the RMB is more of a convenient scapegoat than an actual cause of manufacturing job loss.
The trade may be free, but it's sure as hell not fair:
China has no environmental or labor standards. It's not fair to expect our domestic industries to compete against theirs when we have to clean up after ourselves. Here, we have elections. There, if you complain about the local river turning green and your kids' hair falling out, you get disappeared.
China has been manipulating its currency, the renminbi, to subsidize its exports and cost us millions of jobs.
Third, the unmitigated, unregulated, and unabashed greed exhibited by Chinese manufacturers and their American partners has not only poisoned our economy with a cavalcade of cheap crap, but put the lives and well-being of our pets, our children, and ourselves in danger.
It's time to place heavy tariffs on Chinese imports until they play by the same rules as the rest of the civilized world. We shouldn't do business with Dickenonsian nightmare states.
This may be (and I think probably is) all true, but doesn't change the fact that China has us by the balls financially and there's nothing we can do about it without addressing the deficit.
Americans generally can't get to Europe or Asia without flying over Canada. So does Canada get your name, address, phone number and drivers license number when you go to Europe? Great!
Actually, yeah. That's implicit in what I said. It's not like there's a different rule for the US. Just seems like in general you have to go by a country's rules if you want to enter that country.
Not a huge fan of those either lol. Just speaking as an American here, but it seems like most 'international' treaties tend to screw America for the benefit of other countries.
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"'will no longer be a fully mobile robot,' and has instead designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform."
This is the funniest thing I've read this year (not hyperbole...yet).
What the hell?
He was making a clever play on the Streisand effect and you somehow turn it into a raging diatribe about conservative thought? Where the hell did that come from?
I didn't realize that there's actually a "zookeeper's dilemma." I was trying to riff off "prisoner's dilemma."
if one sides loose both sides loose.
Also known as "the zookeeper's dilemma."
Like "Porn Industry Vigorously Enters 3D Video Market"
Or maybe timothy has a foot fetish?
Isn't that what his whole industry is based on?
(Read 'market' as a verb).
Fair enough. I tend to have a knee jerk reaction when people blame Chinese manipulation of currency for everything that's wrong with America, especially given that some economists think floating the currency at this point would make things much worse. Re-reading your post, you didn't make any claims like that. My bad.
Maybe we should stop trading with them until they let their currency reach the actual market value instead of what the Chinese Govn't pegs it as. RMB (now pegged against a basket of other currencies instead of just the $)
If you read the link you posted, you would see that Chinese evaluation of the RMB is more of a convenient scapegoat than an actual cause of manufacturing job loss.
Someone is trying to hard to be 'relevant'.
The trade may be free, but it's sure as hell not fair:
It's time to place heavy tariffs on Chinese imports until they play by the same rules as the rest of the civilized world. We shouldn't do business with Dickenonsian nightmare states.
This may be (and I think probably is) all true, but doesn't change the fact that China has us by the balls financially and there's nothing we can do about it without addressing the deficit.
We shouldn't do business with Dickenonsian nightmare states.
Koothrappali: “I thought we would be gentle with him.”
Wolowitz: “That’s why I added the ‘enonsian.’
This is short sited.
Meaning it's built on the shortest site or it's the shortest thing built on the site?
It really annoys me that people are too cheap to pay an extra percent or two to support local businesses
More like an extra 30-50% in my experience.
And no, I am not willing to consume 30%+ less food/entertainment to get a warm fuzzy feeling from not shopping at Walmart.
Now we will have pirates with non obvious wooden legs. I will call them Ninja Pirates.
I'm worried that the universe will explode when the first such abomination is created.
Drinking lattes reduces your risk of Parkinson's disease
It's the Y Chromosome
If they died honorably rescuing people or something, yeah. Jumping in a creek after a freaking moped, not so much.
Americans generally can't get to Europe or Asia without flying over Canada. So does Canada get your name, address, phone number and drivers license number when you go to Europe? Great!
Actually, yeah. That's implicit in what I said. It's not like there's a different rule for the US. Just seems like in general you have to go by a country's rules if you want to enter that country.
Not a huge fan of those either lol. Just speaking as an American here, but it seems like most 'international' treaties tend to screw America for the benefit of other countries.
No one on /. has been able to find it either.
I'm not a huge fan of the TSA's retarded procedures, but if you want to fly over our airspace, you play by our rules. That's pretty intuitive.
Good to hear from you too, Mr. Powner.
I am a girl.
*dives for cover as a herd of moderators rushes to mod up*
It seems to me that we have special places to put people who rape their daughters.
Or special things to put in the special places of people who rape their daughters?