Not helpful unless you have an alternative that works better.
Europe has been taking a monetary approach and is doing far worse than we are. Japan has been on a strong currency kick for decades leading to a stagnant economy and crippling deflation. They at least are trying something else now.
The question is why do we have the deficits we do? Is it because spending is too high, or is it because we've had a major recession which has decreased the tax base, or is it because the tax base has been reduced too much?
Hint: it isn't just because spending is too high. Anyone who is stuck on a simplistic explanation like that isn't paying attention.
1. Government spending as a percentage of GDP has been dropping since 2009. Some would say this is why the current recovery is so anemic. This issue is being addressed.
2. Arbitrage does not suck money from slower traders. It sucks money out of price differences across exchanges thereby reducing spreads. For an average Joe trader it's much more likely that having good arbitrage is going to be a benefit. Strong markets must have efficient price discovery and arbitrage.
3. The bulk of the people in the current system who do not pay income taxes are either retired or have incomes in the lower quintile. If you want to get people to have more skin in the game the way to do it is by having a broader income distribution; not by making the tax system more regressive. The US has a horrible income distribution pattern, one of the worst in the world, and it is getting worse. To get an idea of how severe this problem is, in 1980 the top 1% in the US collected 10% of the income. In 2010 the top 1% collected 24% of the income. The general population cannot possibly have skin in the game with this atrocious economic structure.
OK, Benno Ohnesorg and Rudi Dutschke (survived but had extensive brain damage so might as well be dead).
Also, how about the Athens Polytechnic Uprising, Greece, 1973. 24 died in that one.
Then there was Northern Ireland. Jan 5 1969. Queens University students on a four-day march for Roman Catholic civil rights were attacked by Protestant extremists, 136 injured
I read this when I was about 14. Suitable I think for a strong student at that age.
It's Darwin's journal of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle. It would be very difficult for a student of that age to not be positively influenced by it.
Also:
Birth of a New Physics by I Bernard Cohen. This one is perhaps a bit less challenging.
Phone companies are past masters of regulatory capture so it's hard to see that more regulation is going to help. In fact it might play right into their hands.
Technological obsolescence is maybe our best hope.
You aren't trying to capture a street view of every residence on the planet and publish it on a web site where every anti social human can study it for reasons to firebomb your home.
As far as the wardriving it really is a just stupid thing to do. In the US that sort of activity is probably a felony. Not sure why some enterprising DA (Carmen are you listening?) hasn't filed charges.
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> Keynesianism is a failure.
Not helpful unless you have an alternative that works better.
Europe has been taking a monetary approach and is doing far worse than we are. Japan has been on a strong currency kick for decades leading to a stagnant economy and crippling deflation. They at least are trying something else now.
The question is why do we have the deficits we do? Is it because spending is too high, or is it because we've had a major recession which has decreased the tax base, or is it because the tax base has been reduced too much?
Hint: it isn't just because spending is too high. Anyone who is stuck on a simplistic explanation like that isn't paying attention.
All this says is that the Feds can make IP laws. Nothing about the states not being able to do so if there is no federal coverage.
Put to work on the ongoing project for the recreation of the works of Shakespeare.
No, what he is saying is that he got a big campaign contribution from the *AA's and wants to pay them back by making things even worse for the public.
Police can search your home at any time without a warrant.
What the 4th amendment does is protect you from whatever they find from being used against you in court if they can't justify the search.
Yes, I am very serious.
Have you bothered to even research the issue rather than just listen to some talking heads on TV?
1. Government spending as a percentage of GDP has been dropping since 2009. Some would say this is why the current recovery is so anemic. This issue is being addressed.
2. Arbitrage does not suck money from slower traders. It sucks money out of price differences across exchanges thereby reducing spreads. For an average Joe trader it's much more likely that having good arbitrage is going to be a benefit. Strong markets must have efficient price discovery and arbitrage.
3. The bulk of the people in the current system who do not pay income taxes are either retired or have incomes in the lower quintile. If you want to get people to have more skin in the game the way to do it is by having a broader income distribution; not by making the tax system more regressive. The US has a horrible income distribution pattern, one of the worst in the world, and it is getting worse. To get an idea of how severe this problem is, in 1980 the top 1% in the US collected 10% of the income. In 2010 the top 1% collected 24% of the income. The general population cannot possibly have skin in the game with this atrocious economic structure.
OK, Benno Ohnesorg and Rudi Dutschke (survived but had extensive brain damage so might as well be dead).
Also, how about the Athens Polytechnic Uprising, Greece, 1973. 24 died in that one.
Then there was Northern Ireland. Jan 5 1969. Queens University students on a four-day march for Roman Catholic civil rights were attacked by Protestant extremists, 136 injured
O RLY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_student_movement
Some people don't see a problem with being able to do both.
So it's really a matter of where do you draw the line. Do you refuse to take antibiotics because they kill bacteria?
If you read the articles in Nature about this incident you would know why this is not realistic.
I read this when I was about 14. Suitable I think for a strong student at that age.
It's Darwin's journal of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle. It would be very difficult for a student of that age to not be positively influenced by it.
Also:
Birth of a New Physics by I Bernard Cohen. This one is perhaps a bit less challenging.
It seems to me these activists have just volunteered to replace the animals in the next round of experiments.
> in that a lot of rural areas have the RCMP as their primary law enforcement
So basically that's everything not within 20 miles of the border?
The key revelation as to identifying one of the bombers was testimony given by one of the bombing victims who saw the guy drop the bomb at his feet.
http://www.capitalbay.com/uk/332410-boston-bombing-suspect-identified-by-double-amputee-victim-who-woke-up-and-described-man-to-fbi.html
Video was important as a way of verifying things, but for the real answer you had to be there. Literally.
The AP1000 is a PWR from Westinghouse. Not sure this is a Chinese innovation, or that it's really even an innovation at all.
Now if you were talking about a wave of thorium fueled or other advanced tech reactors being built I'd be a lot more impressed.
Snow?
My first computer required that you toggle in the boot loader binary code from front panel switches!
That has to be the modern equivalent of hand crank started horseless carriages.
Clearly that's a typo in the first senteance. It should read Clearly that's a typo in the first sentence.
Yes, the big problem is OSs that don't have stable APIs.
Well, they are on the other side of the date line from me so it's more like far east.
Phone companies are past masters of regulatory capture so it's hard to see that more regulation is going to help. In fact it might play right into their hands.
Technological obsolescence is maybe our best hope.
But the headline said '1000s', not 'thousands'.
So since 1000s could be anything including 16.67 minutes criticism should be more like wtf is 1000s?
You aren't trying to capture a street view of every residence on the planet and publish it on a web site where every anti social human can study it for reasons to firebomb your home.
As far as the wardriving it really is a just stupid thing to do. In the US that sort of activity is probably a felony. Not sure why some enterprising DA (Carmen are you listening?) hasn't filed charges.
$2000 per election, not campaign. After all there are 535 people in Congress.
I don't have a problem with a company or union being able to spend $2000 either. It's when the money gets big that the problems start.
Lest we forget it isn't only companies that try to buy congress. After all unions invented the PAC in response to the Taft-Hartley Act.