Under Liberty, the state's sole function is to prevent criminal exploitation, not provide security nor prevent the stupid from doing stupid stuff by punishing the smart (under current government practices).
What people don't understand is that under liberty, people are responsible for their own actions and decisions and that doesn't count as "exploitation". Captialism is amoral in the classic sense of the word. There are no "morals" guiding capitalism. What has happened is Liberty has been forgotten and therefore Capitalism has been corrupted by those that would exploit it for their own benefit. The state is failing its primary purpose.
I love Mobile Smartphones, they are starting to bring back sanity in websites. Why can't all websites function like the good ones do on my Droid? Clean, unbloated, fast loading...
It is sad when I hit a website on my gig Inet connection (at work) and.... buffering buffering....
I don't try to convince dimwits who have closed their minds to reality. Plenty of people are thinking Obama was not the right choice. Even a few (D)s are starting to make those noises.I find it interesting that you call me a partisan hack, when I'm a registered Libertarian and have been for over 20 years.
I'm curious, name one thing that Obama has done that you're actually proud of?
If it were only that easy. Gibson has the paperwork, and the only people who are complaining are in the Justice Dept. What you won't read in the Newspapers or hear on CNN or MSNBC is that Gibson donates to (R) party, and this is nothing more than political extortion, Chicago style.
If this was GWB administration doing this, you bet this would be going differently in the press.
We're not trading lives for oil. we're trading lives for power, and this President is no different than GWB, Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson... in this regard.
The only thing people like you do, is bury your head in the sand, because the ends justify the means in your world.
The Constitution hasn't mattered in a very long time. When people are looking at INTERNATIONAL law as superseding it, or when they view it as a "living changing document".
So, where do you think all that Rare Earth Metals and stuff the solar panels comes from? Where do you think the energy to make them comes from? Unicorns and Leprechauns?
So Boycott Apple who ostensibly is trying to help fix the problem, and leave those that use more atrocious factories running. That makes sense.
Also, many people don't have Apple products, so boycotting Apple products is easy for them (and appearently you). Which kind of shows that you're all for boycotting a company that you don't like, or don't use (American Eagle, which I never heard of).
If you want to IMPACT policy, you're going to have to make changes that IMPACT you. I know, kind of inconvenient.
Do you want China dictating policy here? How about Russia?
We should dictate policy at our borders, not beyond. You want to sell products here, these are the conditions... obey our laws and regulations. That gives them the choice, so we can't say we're dictating anything.
What good is all our environmental regulations in the USA if China is polluting the world to sell to us cheap products?
It makes it about what THEY choose, not us dictating to them. Lead by example. We're not leading anyone and we're being dragged down to the gutter in the process.
People are being slaughtered all over the planet for all sorts of reasons. Liberty is not for some it is for all, equally without regard to group memberships.
As for your quoted article, can you, without going back to the reference, tell me exactly what they said that was so "horrible" that you would construe it to mean they are in favor of child labor? If you can't you're just a parrot for leftwing loons. Oh wait, it is a leftwing loon website
I ask people for the quote they supposedly base their entire hatred upon, and often (more often than should be) they don't know, they just "heard about it".
This is the problem of the group thinking. Consumers are Businesses, and Businesses are consumers . YOU are both. Unless you work for the government, in which case you live off of businesses and consumers taxes.
Well, the problem is, when it IS cheaper to build somewhere else because you don't have to worry about pesky things like child labor, and environmental issues, then yeah. It is HARD to IMPOSSIBLE to compete when the playing field is not level. THIS is why everyone left for China.
And you can thank all the people who wanted to normalize relations and "free" trade with China. Both (R) and (D) parties are to blame here, because both don't give a real shit about LIBERTY. Mainly because they don't understand Liberty and are mired in Group Politics and class warfare debates, while liberties are being systematically removed.
To fix this problem, we have to DEMAND that imported goods are manufactured under the same rules and regulations required by US law, and charge import duties or refuse entry for all products that do not comply with US Law. Fair Trade, not Free Trade. We cannot impose our laws on others, we can only enforce them at our borders.
And, if YOU are not willing to demand such action, then you cannot complain about the results such as the one mentioned in the article. People are buying from China (and other places) and when people do, they're part of the problem. There is no way a US manufacturer can make a product in the US, and compete against low wage, lax environmental laws and lack of regulation.
You want to fix the problem fix the two party system that enables it.
If you read the story, the person who bought the laptop, bought it from a student at her school. The problem was, the school was "alternative education" school, which in many cases is for young criminals and delinquents. If it is as I suspect, the teacher should have EXPECTED it to be stolen, and reported it. Secondly, the teacher should NEVER have bought the laptop from a student, as that is a breach of propriety and proper boundaries between student and teachers.
The +1 idea is not bad, it is bad only if you don't have any controls. +1 doesn't have to be a static value, it could just be a place to start. For a person that "likes" everything, their +1 doesn't mean as much as someone like me who only +1 on rare occasions. Likewise, a +1 from a "new account" is probably worth less than someone like me who's had their account for years.
All this means is that the +1 is weighted by several factors that prevent skewing results by link farmers and blackhats..
If I were a "web developer" I'd build two websites one at domain.com and one at www.domain.com. I'd figure out which one was the one with the dumb people and which one was the one with the smarter people, and develop the pages accordingly. If they were indistinguishable, or became that way, I would merge them back together and use another prefix,
There is no law against being either. That is the problem with assholes, is that the law tends to overly protect them from everyone except other assholes. The law doesn't protect people from Assholes because it can't. It can only protect assholes from everyone else.
THERE is the real story in all of this. ONE company's CEO wants the "best" products, the other doesn't want products at all. What is funny is that Apple once didn't want to make great products, and ended up getting its lunch handed to them from a start up called PowerComputing. HP is going the way of old Apple, and they may need to bring back someone fanatical about its products.
On a side note, I'm glad HP has lost almost half its value since they made the announcement. Maybe the board will fire the guy and put one of its engineers at the top.
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Under Liberty, the state's sole function is to prevent criminal exploitation, not provide security nor prevent the stupid from doing stupid stuff by punishing the smart (under current government practices).
What people don't understand is that under liberty, people are responsible for their own actions and decisions and that doesn't count as "exploitation". Captialism is amoral in the classic sense of the word. There are no "morals" guiding capitalism. What has happened is Liberty has been forgotten and therefore Capitalism has been corrupted by those that would exploit it for their own benefit. The state is failing its primary purpose.
I love Mobile Smartphones, they are starting to bring back sanity in websites. Why can't all websites function like the good ones do on my Droid? Clean, unbloated, fast loading ...
It is sad when I hit a website on my gig Inet connection (at work) and .... buffering buffering ....
Computers distract from real learning / Computers aid in real education.
Skill and practice is the difference. We must never forget.
I don't try to convince dimwits who have closed their minds to reality. Plenty of people are thinking Obama was not the right choice. Even a few (D)s are starting to make those noises.I find it interesting that you call me a partisan hack, when I'm a registered Libertarian and have been for over 20 years.
I'm curious, name one thing that Obama has done that you're actually proud of?
People who say things like this.
If it were only that easy. Gibson has the paperwork, and the only people who are complaining are in the Justice Dept. What you won't read in the Newspapers or hear on CNN or MSNBC is that Gibson donates to (R) party, and this is nothing more than political extortion, Chicago style.
If this was GWB administration doing this, you bet this would be going differently in the press.
http://landmarkreport.com/andrew/2011/08/ceo-of-gibson-guitar-a-republican-donor/
The question is, do you believe that Obama is just as bad as GWB yet?
We're not trading lives for oil. we're trading lives for power, and this President is no different than GWB, Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson ... in this regard.
The only thing people like you do, is bury your head in the sand, because the ends justify the means in your world.
The Constitution hasn't mattered in a very long time. When people are looking at INTERNATIONAL law as superseding it, or when they view it as a "living changing document".
So, where do you think all that Rare Earth Metals and stuff the solar panels comes from? Where do you think the energy to make them comes from? Unicorns and Leprechauns?
So Boycott Apple who ostensibly is trying to help fix the problem, and leave those that use more atrocious factories running. That makes sense.
Also, many people don't have Apple products, so boycotting Apple products is easy for them (and appearently you). Which kind of shows that you're all for boycotting a company that you don't like, or don't use (American Eagle, which I never heard of).
If you want to IMPACT policy, you're going to have to make changes that IMPACT you. I know, kind of inconvenient.
Let see what you can do. For the next year, do not buy anything from China. Ever. Let see if you can
Do you want China dictating policy here? How about Russia?
We should dictate policy at our borders, not beyond. You want to sell products here, these are the conditions ... obey our laws and regulations. That gives them the choice, so we can't say we're dictating anything.
What good is all our environmental regulations in the USA if China is polluting the world to sell to us cheap products?
It makes it about what THEY choose, not us dictating to them. Lead by example. We're not leading anyone and we're being dragged down to the gutter in the process.
People are being slaughtered all over the planet for all sorts of reasons. Liberty is not for some it is for all, equally without regard to group memberships.
As for your quoted article, can you, without going back to the reference, tell me exactly what they said that was so "horrible" that you would construe it to mean they are in favor of child labor? If you can't you're just a parrot for leftwing loons. Oh wait, it is a leftwing loon website
I ask people for the quote they supposedly base their entire hatred upon, and often (more often than should be) they don't know, they just "heard about it".
This is the problem of the group thinking. Consumers are Businesses, and Businesses are consumers . YOU are both. Unless you work for the government, in which case you live off of businesses and consumers taxes.
Well, the problem is, when it IS cheaper to build somewhere else because you don't have to worry about pesky things like child labor, and environmental issues, then yeah. It is HARD to IMPOSSIBLE to compete when the playing field is not level. THIS is why everyone left for China.
And you can thank all the people who wanted to normalize relations and "free" trade with China. Both (R) and (D) parties are to blame here, because both don't give a real shit about LIBERTY. Mainly because they don't understand Liberty and are mired in Group Politics and class warfare debates, while liberties are being systematically removed.
To fix this problem, we have to DEMAND that imported goods are manufactured under the same rules and regulations required by US law, and charge import duties or refuse entry for all products that do not comply with US Law. Fair Trade, not Free Trade. We cannot impose our laws on others, we can only enforce them at our borders.
And, if YOU are not willing to demand such action, then you cannot complain about the results such as the one mentioned in the article. People are buying from China (and other places) and when people do, they're part of the problem. There is no way a US manufacturer can make a product in the US, and compete against low wage, lax environmental laws and lack of regulation.
You want to fix the problem fix the two party system that enables it.
Did that make you feel better?
If you read the story, the person who bought the laptop, bought it from a student at her school. The problem was, the school was "alternative education" school, which in many cases is for young criminals and delinquents. If it is as I suspect, the teacher should have EXPECTED it to be stolen, and reported it. Secondly, the teacher should NEVER have bought the laptop from a student, as that is a breach of propriety and proper boundaries between student and teachers.
we are pathetic and insignificant. It isn't neat anymore than any other "star" no matter the distance. It might as well be a million light years away.
Somalia has no functioning government, and therefore does not protect the LIBERTIES of the individual, which is the purpose of government.
"Do it for the kids" ... the greatest threat to liberty in the world.
The +1 idea is not bad, it is bad only if you don't have any controls. +1 doesn't have to be a static value, it could just be a place to start. For a person that "likes" everything, their +1 doesn't mean as much as someone like me who only +1 on rare occasions. Likewise, a +1 from a "new account" is probably worth less than someone like me who's had their account for years.
All this means is that the +1 is weighted by several factors that prevent skewing results by link farmers and blackhats..
If I were a "web developer" I'd build two websites one at domain.com and one at www.domain.com. I'd figure out which one was the one with the dumb people and which one was the one with the smarter people, and develop the pages accordingly. If they were indistinguishable, or became that way, I would merge them back together and use another prefix,
Not using the host prefix is dumb.
Standard Powersupply to a standard connector on the MOBO ... easily replaced ... and still cheaper than Apple ;) Yeah, I had a Power Computing Mac too.
Any sufficient level of stupidity is indistinguishable from malice (asshole).
There is no law against being either. That is the problem with assholes, is that the law tends to overly protect them from everyone except other assholes. The law doesn't protect people from Assholes because it can't. It can only protect assholes from everyone else.
THERE is the real story in all of this. ONE company's CEO wants the "best" products, the other doesn't want products at all. What is funny is that Apple once didn't want to make great products, and ended up getting its lunch handed to them from a start up called PowerComputing. HP is going the way of old Apple, and they may need to bring back someone fanatical about its products.
On a side note, I'm glad HP has lost almost half its value since they made the announcement. Maybe the board will fire the guy and put one of its engineers at the top.