States are now puppets of the corporations. This is something I can't seem to make anarchist-capitalists understand. They don't comprehend that money == power. With a government the corporations may not exist, but the large companies and rich owners would still be in charge and writing the laws that make us all victims to their whims.
ALSO: How can a judge enact a punishment that is double that proscribed by law? This looks like a stupid decision just waiting to be overturned by an appeals court.
>>>we're gonna have to cut a LOT of spending, and a lot of that is social programs
You just have to sell it properly. I don't think anyone would complain if you changed them to needs-based programs like welfare and food stamps. And advertised it as: "No more medicare or social security for the rich!" I think there's near-universal agreement that the rich & well-off should not be receiving government assistance. They can live off their own personal savings.
Canada? In the west? No. The U.S. is still being used as the world's currency for trading the world's fuel: Oil. It has a massive debt but that debt is being propped-up by everyone else, so we still have many good years left.
I would locate to the Northeast along the I-95 corridor since there are tons & tons of jobs there. Also lots of cities so you'll never get bored. (And you can get Free TV because those same cities broadcast free entertainment on almost every channel (6 to 51).) The northeast also has cheap internet. I pay $15 a month for DSL, or have the option to pay $50 a month for highspeed FiOS or cable.
Or taking ten cars and burying them nose first in the desert & calling it "art". Hey I'm going to take my collection of VCRs and lay them in the front yard. Buried sideways! Come see my new art project.
Yes Mr. Boss I could code an entire program in just one day. It just won't work. THAT'S the hard part Testing the product & making it work bugfree. Even you know that testing takes a long, long time.
>>>B16B00B5
Some of us prefer 5/^\A11B00B5 thank you very much. Like two scoops of vanilla.
>>>Watching their life story will not change your life story unless you make it happen and are "lucky".
Well I'm pretty satisfied where I'm at: In a nice cool office where I don't do any real work except type. Even though it's boring I get to listen to books or music or news all day long, so it's more like entertainment then work. And get paid almost ten times minimum wage to do it.
Yes having banks leveraged 50 to 1 on loans worked just great in 2008, didn't it? That is why the thing all came collapsing down. You pointed-out the positives (paper money leads to gigantic artificial boom economies due to deritives/leveraging), but failed to note the negatives of paper money. Like the point I just made about overleveraging leading to busts.
And the fact your personal savings lose 5-10% of its wealth (buying power) every year especially now that the Fed is using QE1, 2, 3 to create trllions out of thin air. Isn't it great to know that the money you worked hard to earn is being gradually wiped out? Yeah this current system is just un-fucking-fantastic.
This is the same reason I don't watch "Biography" on television. I really don't care about life stories unless it's a top 50 success like Gates or Jobs or Tramiel or Bushnell or Miyamoto. Someone who created a news blog, even if it's a major one like Huffington Post, is just someone who got lucky.
BTW when my stuff does eventually die, I dispose of it through selling on ebay. There's always someone who is a hacker who wants to either repair it to restore functionality, or use it for parts.
And also: I thought the EU Parliament does not pass laws? The summary calls this a "law" but Europeans on/. always claim the EU does not have that power. Only the States can pass laws. (confuseD)
>>>No, this is a tax and thus is a net drain on society. Morality can't be legislated, even if recycling is a good thing.
By that logic we shouldn't have filters on car exhausts, stop people from littering, or have centralized sewer disposal in cities. We should just let people live in filfth, like how Paris was circa 1800. (It is said that place was so full of manure and waste that visitors could Smell the city before they could see it.)
People have basic rights. Among those rights is the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. That means forbidding people from polluting & violating those basic rights. The government is simply doing its job to stop these violations of individual rights.
As for "shipping jobs overseas" there would be no advantage. Chinese companies if they want to operate in the EU also must abide by these recycling rules. Else they will be barred from entering & selling to ~500 million citizens.
Ya know..... I've heard this complaint my whole life. Yes people have been complaining, "They don't make things like they used to" for decades. And yet I have a Sears TV built in the 70s that still works.
A Panasonic 80s radio that still works (though the cassette player runs too slow). An XP-PC that is ten years old and still runs. A N64 that still plays games. A PS2 that is eleven years old and still plays games. A cellphone I bought in 1999 that still makes calls. A 1990 Dodge that lasted til 360,000 miles and a 1997 Mitsubishi that is still going strong at 150,000. Point: All MY stuff seems to last a long, long, long time with very few issues.
What on EARTH do you people do to your stuff that it dies so early? Maybe the problem isn't the manufacturer but the user being abusive: Dropping the phone, piling books on top of the console, going 0-to-60 in 10 seconds (and then slamming on the brakes) at every redlight. Stuff is meant to be used with care and gentleness.
>>>I love typing on that thing. People know you're serious.
Reminds me of a line from a movie:
George Clooney: "Are you angry with your laptop?" girl: "I type with purpose." George:"Keep that up and you'll be typing with carpal tunnel."
I couldn't hear an IBM Type M keyboard even if I had one. I listen to radio or audiobooks while at work, so I just use whatever keyboard comes with my computer. It's pretty quiet.
The tiny antennas are supposedly "environmentally friendly" because they use very few rare earths & broadcast only a few nanowatts of power. Of course the best thing you can do for the environment is not have any antenna gobbling-up any power at all.
>>>What really matters in a serious crisis: 1. Having arable land, and stuff you can plant. 2. Having weapons, so you can hang onto the land and the crops. 3. Having people who will use those weapons on your behalf.
Yeah but if you have gold you can BUY the land, BUY the weapons, BUY the soldiers when the time is right. There's no way for me to buy & store away 2 million dollars worth of guns or corn seeds. My house ain't that damn big.
>>>Gold isn't feasible. There simply isn't enough of it available to back all the money necessary for the modern economy.
Everytime I hear this, it makes no sense. You fix the dollar to the amount of gold you have. Most likely that means one ounce of gold equals 5000 Fed Reserve Notes. And then you hold it there..... no more running of the printing press. The supply of notes is fixed.
Oh well. You can continue holding onto your paper, and watch as it loses ~75% of its purchasing power from the time you're 20 until you retire. I'd rather put my wealth into something the Banks can not run off a printing press & devalue.
>>>$4,500 of gold purchased in the early 80s is currently worth around $1000, after you take inflation into account.
And how much is $4500 of 1980s dollars worth? Back then you could have bought a luxury car like a Chrysler at that price. Today you couldn't even buy a low-end car. (Point: I'd sooner have the gold, as it holds wealth..... the dollar does not.)
That's nice. Gold fluctuates, yes, but not as many as the paper dollar which has lost 95% of its value since 1913. You can take one-third-ounce of gold and buy yourself a nice wool suit. Ditto back in 1920. The value has remained almost constant. Suit == 1/3 ounce of gold.
In contrast it would take ~500 paper dollars to buy the same suit that would have only been ~25 dollars in 1920. The dollar's devalued.
The way to preserve your savings over the long term is to dump the Federal Reserve Note, which they are steadily eroding in value, and switch to something else that the Fed can't run off a printing press.
Gold stored in a bank is the only money you can count on. Virtual money isn't real (and isn't insured). Paper money is devalued through inflation of the supply. Gold is the way to go, though even that loses some value (-0.1%) over time as more of it is dug from the mines. Ditto diamonds.
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They don't comprehend that money == power. [ Without ] a government the corporations may not exist
States are now puppets of the corporations. This is something I can't seem to make anarchist-capitalists understand. They don't comprehend that money == power. With a government the corporations may not exist, but the large companies and rich owners would still be in charge and writing the laws that make us all victims to their whims.
ALSO: How can a judge enact a punishment that is double that proscribed by law? This looks like a stupid decision just waiting to be overturned by an appeals court.
>>>we're gonna have to cut a LOT of spending, and a lot of that is social programs
You just have to sell it properly. I don't think anyone would complain if you changed them to needs-based programs like welfare and food stamps. And advertised it as: "No more medicare or social security for the rich!" I think there's near-universal agreement that the rich & well-off should not be receiving government assistance. They can live off their own personal savings.
Canada? In the west? No. The U.S. is still being used as the world's currency for trading the world's fuel: Oil. It has a massive debt but that debt is being propped-up by everyone else, so we still have many good years left.
I would locate to the Northeast along the I-95 corridor since there are tons & tons of jobs there. Also lots of cities so you'll never get bored. (And you can get Free TV because those same cities broadcast free entertainment on almost every channel (6 to 51).) The northeast also has cheap internet. I pay $15 a month for DSL, or have the option to pay $50 a month for highspeed FiOS or cable.
Or taking ten cars and burying them nose first in the desert & calling it "art". Hey I'm going to take my collection of VCRs and lay them in the front yard. Buried sideways! Come see my new art project.
Shouldn't it be Korean Artist [to Launch]Intentionally Useless Satellite
Do good & cheap go together? If it's slow to develop, it wouldn't be cheap because of all the extra labor hours.
Yes Mr. Boss I could code an entire program in just one day.
It just won't work.
THAT'S the hard part Testing the product & making it work bugfree. Even you know that testing takes a long, long time.
>>>B16B00B5
Some of us prefer 5/^\A11B00B5 thank you very much. Like two scoops of vanilla.
>>>Watching their life story will not change your life story unless you make it happen and are "lucky".
Well I'm pretty satisfied where I'm at: In a nice cool office where I don't do any real work except type. Even though it's boring I get to listen to books or music or news all day long, so it's more like entertainment then work. And get paid almost ten times minimum wage to do it.
Yes having banks leveraged 50 to 1 on loans worked just great in 2008, didn't it? That is why the thing all came collapsing down. You pointed-out the positives (paper money leads to gigantic artificial boom economies due to deritives/leveraging), but failed to note the negatives of paper money. Like the point I just made about overleveraging leading to busts.
And the fact your personal savings lose 5-10% of its wealth (buying power) every year especially now that the Fed is using QE1, 2, 3 to create trllions out of thin air. Isn't it great to know that the money you worked hard to earn is being gradually wiped out? Yeah this current system is just un-fucking-fantastic.
Anon. Coward is obligated to stop stalking me everywhere I go. (Or at least post under your actual UserID.)
This is the same reason I don't watch "Biography" on television. I really don't care about life stories unless it's a top 50 success like Gates or Jobs or Tramiel or Bushnell or Miyamoto. Someone who created a news blog, even if it's a major one like Huffington Post, is just someone who got lucky.
BTW when my stuff does eventually die, I dispose of it through selling on ebay. There's always someone who is a hacker who wants to either repair it to restore functionality, or use it for parts.
And also: I thought the EU Parliament does not pass laws? The summary calls this a "law" but Europeans on /. always claim the EU does not have that power. Only the States can pass laws. (confuseD)
>>>No, this is a tax and thus is a net drain on society. Morality can't be legislated, even if recycling is a good thing.
By that logic we shouldn't have filters on car exhausts, stop people from littering, or have centralized sewer disposal in cities. We should just let people live in filfth, like how Paris was circa 1800. (It is said that place was so full of manure and waste that visitors could Smell the city before they could see it.)
People have basic rights. Among those rights is the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. That means forbidding people from polluting & violating those basic rights. The government is simply doing its job to stop these violations of individual rights.
As for "shipping jobs overseas" there would be no advantage. Chinese companies if they want to operate in the EU also must abide by these recycling rules. Else they will be barred from entering & selling to ~500 million citizens.
>>>10K TVs that died 1 day after their warranty
Ya know..... I've heard this complaint my whole life. Yes people have been complaining, "They don't make things like they used to" for decades. And yet I have a Sears TV built in the 70s that still works.
A Panasonic 80s radio that still works (though the cassette player runs too slow). An XP-PC that is ten years old and still runs. A N64 that still plays games. A PS2 that is eleven years old and still plays games. A cellphone I bought in 1999 that still makes calls. A 1990 Dodge that lasted til 360,000 miles and a 1997 Mitsubishi that is still going strong at 150,000. Point: All MY stuff seems to last a long, long, long time with very few issues.
What on EARTH do you people do to your stuff that it dies so early? Maybe the problem isn't the manufacturer but the user being abusive: Dropping the phone, piling books on top of the console, going 0-to-60 in 10 seconds (and then slamming on the brakes) at every redlight. Stuff is meant to be used with care and gentleness.
>>>I love typing on that thing. People know you're serious.
Reminds me of a line from a movie:
George Clooney: "Are you angry with your laptop?"
girl: "I type with purpose."
George:"Keep that up and you'll be typing with carpal tunnel."
I couldn't hear an IBM Type M keyboard even if I had one. I listen to radio or audiobooks while at work, so I just use whatever keyboard comes with my computer. It's pretty quiet.
The tiny antennas are supposedly "environmentally friendly" because they use very few rare earths & broadcast only a few nanowatts of power. Of course the best thing you can do for the environment is not have any antenna gobbling-up any power at all.
Never thought I'd see that happen.
>>>What really matters in a serious crisis: 1. Having arable land, and stuff you can plant. 2. Having weapons, so you can hang onto the land and the crops. 3. Having people who will use those weapons on your behalf.
Yeah but if you have gold you can BUY the land, BUY the weapons, BUY the soldiers when the time is right. There's no way for me to buy & store away 2 million dollars worth of guns or corn seeds. My house ain't that damn big.
>>>Gold isn't feasible. There simply isn't enough of it available to back all the money necessary for the modern economy.
Everytime I hear this, it makes no sense. You fix the dollar to the amount of gold you have. Most likely that means one ounce of gold equals 5000 Fed Reserve Notes. And then you hold it there..... no more running of the printing press. The supply of notes is fixed.
Oh well. You can continue holding onto your paper, and watch as it loses ~75% of its purchasing power from the time you're 20 until you retire. I'd rather put my wealth into something the Banks can not run off a printing press & devalue.
>>>$4,500 of gold purchased in the early 80s is currently worth around $1000, after you take inflation into account.
And how much is $4500 of 1980s dollars worth? Back then you could have bought a luxury car like a Chrysler at that price. Today you couldn't even buy a low-end car. (Point: I'd sooner have the gold, as it holds wealth..... the dollar does not.)
That's nice. Gold fluctuates, yes, but not as many as the paper dollar which has lost 95% of its value since 1913. You can take one-third-ounce of gold and buy yourself a nice wool suit. Ditto back in 1920. The value has remained almost constant. Suit == 1/3 ounce of gold.
In contrast it would take ~500 paper dollars to buy the same suit that would have only been ~25 dollars in 1920. The dollar's devalued.
The way to preserve your savings over the long term is to dump the Federal Reserve Note, which they are steadily eroding in value, and switch to something else that the Fed can't run off a printing press.
>>>Right up until nuclear transmutation makes it as worthless as dirt. And it *is* coming fast.
I'll be that right next to my flying car (which I should have had in the 1970s if predictions in the 1920s World Fairs had been accurate).
Gold stored in a bank is the only money you can count on. Virtual money isn't real (and isn't insured). Paper money is devalued through inflation of the supply. Gold is the way to go, though even that loses some value (-0.1%) over time as more of it is dug from the mines. Ditto diamonds.
>>>mummies used as literal firewood and train boiler fuel,
An urban legend started by Mark Twain.