That's complete baloney spewed by a brainwashed peon of the media. Ad hominem? Yes. But the fact remains that teflon doesn't have some special armor-penetrating properties. It just reduced barrel-wear. Shocker what facts can do to your head!
I was under the impression that the great lakes were carved out by glaciers. The badlands in places like Idaho seem to support that theory, as the glaciers grinded away topsoil too.
The problem with this is that as you lower employment in the US and move money overseas, there is less of it in the US to support US prices. Eventually the standard of living in the countries you outsourced to will rise increasing your outsourced costs, and the standard of living in the US will lower decreasing your revenues.
Actually, if you sell dollars and buy foreign currency, the dollars will become lower in value relative to the foreign currency and the dollar prices will rise to equilibrium with other prices.
If your statement were true, then international trade would be the destoryer of worlds. Alas, tis not so. Outsourcing allows people with a compqrative advantage to produce what they produce best.
Woe to the persons who denied you a literate education. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Additional reading:
The term "Luddite fallacy" has become a concept in neoclassical economics reflecting the belief that labour-saving technologies (i.e., technologies that increase output-per-worker) increase unemployment by reducing demand for labour. The fallacy lies in assuming that employers will seek to keep production constant by employing a smaller, more productive workforce instead of allowing production to grow while keeping workforce size constant.[4] Wikipedia
Why would you want to have two persons doing the job one person can?
You must be the type of psychopatic Luddite who would destroy automatic elevators in the beginnig of the 20th century so elevator boys could keep their jobs.
The greatest part of this is that there's no limit to how big you can grow; from nothing, you can become a wealthy individual and walk among giants.
Contrast this with the entitlement mentality of socialists who think everyone, no matter their effort and talent, should be equal in where they end up.
In capitalism, we all start from the same starting line.
In socialism, we all end at the same finish line.
Combined with tax rates on short term investments which are and were far too low to discourage irresponsible short term trading.
You're saying that we should use taxes to control behavior. That is wrong. Taxes can be used to control behavior that causes negative externalities, like pollution.
Not only do short-term invesments not affect you in any negative way, but they increase market liquidity to allow a smaller spread between the bid and the ask. They also provide a market where businesses may seek capital and stay on the efficient curve. You, dear sir or madam, suck donkey c0ck at economics.
The hardest part in transporting mega-turbines is the ground part. The logistics of routing a shipment in a way that ensures that every overpass has the necessary clearance are immense and add greatly to the cost.
I don't like how much space these turbines take up and how little power they provide.
I agree. Private corporations can mess up just as easily. It's just that corporations have no power to tax people regardless of their results. People give them money voluntarily. Therefore, if they don't do a good job then they go out of business. But with the government, if they do a crappy job, they will just tax more to throw money at the problem. Alternatively, you can get a new government, but it's not as easy as just getting a new company with a proven track record to do the job.
Yes, infrastructure is the core of industralized society. Tolls on roads are just a cost of doing business. The cost is there regardless — whether paid for by tolls or by taxes.
Yes, i recognize there is interdependency, and that there are positive externalities of having public roads paid for by public tax dollars. The problem is how to distribute limited resouces. In Soviet Russia, under a command economy, you had power figures set prices for everything. That's why you had shortages (because some things were underpriced) or surpluses (because some things were overpriced). This is not operating on the efficiency curve.
By having the actual users allocate resources where they are most needed, we avoid paying for roads that no one uses and we make sure the most popular roads are tended to most tediously.
Yes, that probably means you have to pave your own driveway, and if your community is poor, the road from the highway to your community will probably be a gravel road. But that's life and if that community wants a paved road, then they can reallocate resources to pay for what they think is more important (paved road).
As a side note, perhaps paved roads are more durable and save money in the long run. OK, then you can issue municipal bonds (interest is tax-free to the holder) and have your community build those small roads. But it should all be decided on a local level. One should not have themselves impose costs on others in society.
If roads were privatized, that would be the best distribution of resouces. We wouldn't have extranneous roads, and the ones that are used the most would get the most resources. Where there is demand that can be monetized, there will be individuals and groups of individuals (companies) that will work to fill that need. The modern age is creating technologies that make paying tolls effortless.
People should only pay for what they use. They should not be forced to subsidize others, especially when they do not use those resources for which they pay.
There's no free lunch. Those roads will be paid for by someone. Who would you prefer to manage these roads, people who have no vested interest in the roads (public officials who get paid regardless) or private individuals whose livelihood depends on providing quality service?
The judges are charged with instructing the jury on the law. The jury's responsibility is to decide on matters of fact. The judge rules according to the facts decided and in accordance with the laws in effect. The problem is laws.
Why should there ever be a question about whether or not a minor gets tried as an adult?? The punishment should fit the crime whether they are a minor or an adult!!
Do you know what happens to a captain (or any pilot, for that matter) when they are terminated? They start at the bottom of any airline that hires them. Yes, seniority is only on a per-airline basis. The only thing that matters in seniority is how long you've been at THAT airline.
This is a non-event. The autopilot takes care of everything in a modern aircraft. In Airbus aircraft, it can even take off and land. The pilot-in-command is there for EMERGENCIES that cannot be handled reliably by autopilot. Almost all of the training of a commercial/airline pilot is related to emergencies.
As you can tell, with combined 30k hours of flight time between them, this is the STANDARD (albeit unofficial) procedure in any airline. Flying is very boring to the crew in the time between take-off and landing — the two biggest responsibilities of the human pilots. In fact, some airlines do not allow human pilots to fly the aircraft because autopilot is a lot better on fuel economy. Their biggest mistake was not programming the autopilot correctly for that flight.
You are not the center of the world. I am convinced there are people out there who would love to have the chance to have a computer if it meant dealing with some pesky advertising. Not everyone has the opportunities you may have to own a computer and get ahead in life. Think of the children!
Many of you speak like you are powerless lemmings. Apple won't implement something that its paying users don't want. The dollar has the ultimate voting power, and the corporations listen when you vote with your dollar. If you don't approve — don't buy it.
When these networks accept government subsities, they should be governed by a policy of net neutrality.
The problem exists beacuse government should not subsidize these networks. Without subsidies, these are private entities that provide a service on their own terms. Therefore, there ought not be any forcing of net neutrality upon them.
Libertarians should qualify their statements based on existing facts. In the current situation, there should be net neutrality.
But if the situation wasn't screwed up, there should be no interference between two lawful parties exchanging money for service that doesn't have any negative externalities.
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In the USA, there's no special license for bullets, kid
That's complete baloney spewed by a brainwashed peon of the media. Ad hominem? Yes. But the fact remains that teflon doesn't have some special armor-penetrating properties. It just reduced barrel-wear. Shocker what facts can do to your head!
I was under the impression that the great lakes were carved out by glaciers. The badlands in places like Idaho seem to support that theory, as the glaciers grinded away topsoil too.
The problem with this is that as you lower employment in the US and move money overseas, there is less of it in the US to support US prices. Eventually the standard of living in the countries you outsourced to will rise increasing your outsourced costs, and the standard of living in the US will lower decreasing your revenues.
Actually, if you sell dollars and buy foreign currency, the dollars will become lower in value relative to the foreign currency and the dollar prices will rise to equilibrium with other prices.
If your statement were true, then international trade would be the destoryer of worlds. Alas, tis not so. Outsourcing allows people with a compqrative advantage to produce what they produce best.
Woe to the persons who denied you a literate education. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Additional reading:
The term "Luddite fallacy" has become a concept in neoclassical economics reflecting the belief that labour-saving technologies (i.e., technologies that increase output-per-worker) increase unemployment by reducing demand for labour. The fallacy lies in assuming that employers will seek to keep production constant by employing a smaller, more productive workforce instead of allowing production to grow while keeping workforce size constant.[4] Wikipedia
Why would you want to have two persons doing the job one person can?
You must be the type of psychopatic Luddite who would destroy automatic elevators in the beginnig of the 20th century so elevator boys could keep their jobs.
The greatest part of this is that there's no limit to how big you can grow; from nothing, you can become a wealthy individual and walk among giants.
Contrast this with the entitlement mentality of socialists who think everyone, no matter their effort and talent, should be equal in where they end up.
In capitalism, we all start from the same starting line.
In socialism, we all end at the same finish line.
Combined with tax rates on short term investments which are and were far too low to discourage irresponsible short term trading.
You're saying that we should use taxes to control behavior. That is wrong. Taxes can be used to control behavior that causes negative externalities, like pollution.
Not only do short-term invesments not affect you in any negative way, but they increase market liquidity to allow a smaller spread between the bid and the ask. They also provide a market where businesses may seek capital and stay on the efficient curve. You, dear sir or madam, suck donkey c0ck at economics.
What part of CONQUERED don't they understand? It was conquered, and now doesn't belong to them anymore.
The hardest part in transporting mega-turbines is the ground part. The logistics of routing a shipment in a way that ensures that every overpass has the necessary clearance are immense and add greatly to the cost.
I don't like how much space these turbines take up and how little power they provide.
It comes out to roughly 4.26 turbines per square mile
I agree. Private corporations can mess up just as easily. It's just that corporations have no power to tax people regardless of their results. People give them money voluntarily. Therefore, if they don't do a good job then they go out of business. But with the government, if they do a crappy job, they will just tax more to throw money at the problem. Alternatively, you can get a new government, but it's not as easy as just getting a new company with a proven track record to do the job.
Yes, infrastructure is the core of industralized society. Tolls on roads are just a cost of doing business. The cost is there regardless — whether paid for by tolls or by taxes.
Yes, i recognize there is interdependency, and that there are positive externalities of having public roads paid for by public tax dollars. The problem is how to distribute limited resouces. In Soviet Russia, under a command economy, you had power figures set prices for everything. That's why you had shortages (because some things were underpriced) or surpluses (because some things were overpriced). This is not operating on the efficiency curve.
By having the actual users allocate resources where they are most needed, we avoid paying for roads that no one uses and we make sure the most popular roads are tended to most tediously. Yes, that probably means you have to pave your own driveway, and if your community is poor, the road from the highway to your community will probably be a gravel road. But that's life and if that community wants a paved road, then they can reallocate resources to pay for what they think is more important (paved road).
As a side note, perhaps paved roads are more durable and save money in the long run. OK, then you can issue municipal bonds (interest is tax-free to the holder) and have your community build those small roads. But it should all be decided on a local level. One should not have themselves impose costs on others in society.
I hate wikitionary:
adsorption (plural adsorptions) The process by which a liquid or gas adsorbate is adsorbed by an adsorbent, forming a film on the adsorbent's surface.
can someone please explain the difference! It's certainly not a common term in non-technical circles.
The canary trap is easily defeated by rewriting leaks in "your own" words.
Just summarize the classified document in a writing style randomly similar and dissimilar to your own writing style.
If roads were privatized, that would be the best distribution of resouces. We wouldn't have extranneous roads, and the ones that are used the most would get the most resources. Where there is demand that can be monetized, there will be individuals and groups of individuals (companies) that will work to fill that need. The modern age is creating technologies that make paying tolls effortless.
People should only pay for what they use. They should not be forced to subsidize others, especially when they do not use those resources for which they pay.
There's no free lunch. Those roads will be paid for by someone. Who would you prefer to manage these roads, people who have no vested interest in the roads (public officials who get paid regardless) or private individuals whose livelihood depends on providing quality service?
The judges are charged with instructing the jury on the law. The jury's responsibility is to decide on matters of fact. The judge rules according to the facts decided and in accordance with the laws in effect. The problem is laws.
Why should there ever be a question about whether or not a minor gets tried as an adult?? The punishment should fit the crime whether they are a minor or an adult!!
Do you know what happens to a captain (or any pilot, for that matter) when they are terminated? They start at the bottom of any airline that hires them. Yes, seniority is only on a per-airline basis. The only thing that matters in seniority is how long you've been at THAT airline.
This is a non-event. The autopilot takes care of everything in a modern aircraft. In Airbus aircraft, it can even take off and land. The pilot-in-command is there for EMERGENCIES that cannot be handled reliably by autopilot. Almost all of the training of a commercial/airline pilot is related to emergencies. As you can tell, with combined 30k hours of flight time between them, this is the STANDARD (albeit unofficial) procedure in any airline. Flying is very boring to the crew in the time between take-off and landing — the two biggest responsibilities of the human pilots. In fact, some airlines do not allow human pilots to fly the aircraft because autopilot is a lot better on fuel economy. Their biggest mistake was not programming the autopilot correctly for that flight.
You are not the center of the world. I am convinced there are people out there who would love to have the chance to have a computer if it meant dealing with some pesky advertising. Not everyone has the opportunities you may have to own a computer and get ahead in life. Think of the children!
Many of you speak like you are powerless lemmings. Apple won't implement something that its paying users don't want. The dollar has the ultimate voting power, and the corporations listen when you vote with your dollar. If you don't approve — don't buy it.
When these networks accept government subsities, they should be governed by a policy of net neutrality. The problem exists beacuse government should not subsidize these networks. Without subsidies, these are private entities that provide a service on their own terms. Therefore, there ought not be any forcing of net neutrality upon them. Libertarians should qualify their statements based on existing facts. In the current situation, there should be net neutrality. But if the situation wasn't screwed up, there should be no interference between two lawful parties exchanging money for service that doesn't have any negative externalities.