Yes. The only way to make an omlette is to break some eggs.
Off-with-their-heads says the Red Queen. (Not to mention Stalin, Mao and other humanitarians of the past century).
Who cares if people disagree - we don't want them to live anyway. They're only getting in the way of a new race of people: homo Sovieticus -- the future of humanity.
"That is why many advocates of Utopian ideas seek a fundamental revolution, rather than a gradual development."
Perhaps that's why the French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions were so peaceful and everything came up roses.
The invisible hand refers to many things including the "law of unintended consequences." There is nothing magical about that.
Secondly, in case it matters, the concept of the invisible hand came up in the 18th C and, I suppose, one could say that some 18th C people equated or conjoined the concepts. However Menger, von Mises, Hayek, Friedman did not, in any way conflate the two concepts.
So. If Obama was for Keystone the Republicans would be against it?
If Obama enforced the border the Republicans would be against it?
If Obama used Executive Privilege to relinquish Federal lands and give them back to the states the Republicans would be against it?
I don't think so.
However the Democrats passed Obamacare - how's it gone for them since then?
The blockchain is the one of the key pieces that makes up bitcoin. A workable P2P distributed ledger should not be dismissed as "merely" anymore than a printing press be described as merely putting ink of metal an then pressing it into paper.
Guess you missed the news that Bank of America, Citi and Deutsche Bank,Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into blockchain technology.
Really? Exponential increases in processing power along with a decrease in price is not affecting your life in any meaningful way? Do you want to go back to 9600 baud? And be excited when 14.4s and then 28.8 came out.
In 2000 T1s (1.54 Mb/s) cost $1000 a month and I don't know how much to install. Now 1.54 up and down is low end consumer speed.
The difference between an iPhone and a brick phone is astonishing. You have a computer better than what was available 20 years ago (better than what sent men to the moon) in the palm of your hand plus a camera plus a recording device plus a calculator plus all the apps that never existed before and yet you're blase about it?
Dude!. Wake up. The pace of change is truly amazing. Not to go Kurzweilian on you but this world is changing faster than ever and you're not seeing it; not appreciating the beauty; nor aware of the dangers.
I understand that Mike Tyson is not the norm. Our primary point of contention is the phrase "95% of the population." Secondly I don't think that BMI is a good indicator of flabbiness. I have a friend who is taller 5'11 and lighter than me (mid 150s) and he is most definitely flabbier than I am, especially around the middle.
And yet his BMI is normal (21.6) and mine is overweight (26.5) -- Just used a BMI calculator - I pretend don't know this off hand.:-)
Third, BMI doesn't pass the sniff test. Take a guy 6'1" who is 230, goes to the gym all the time, pushes 315+ while benching and is solid but overweight (BMI of 31.7) . Tell him that he should get down to under 190 to be in "good" shape. That's a joke. At 190 he would probably be in the 5-8% body fat range. That's not overweight that is competitive athlete range.
These three things: that BMI is fairly accurate only with those people who are not regular gym goers (not talking about aerobics or pilates here); that the normal / overweight range does not give accurate "flabby" measures, and doesn't pass the sniff test with regular gym goes is the reason it's not respected - nor should it be.
Your waist is a good measure of your fatness. It would be great to have accurate ratios to go by (hip, waist, chest, height) because for those of us that go to the gym 5-6 times a week BMI is bullsh!t.
BMI is terrible. I'm a desk jockey and am a regular gym goer. I'm 5'10 and 185 and while I don't have a six pack I can see my belt buckle. According to BMI calculations I am overweight. If I put on 20 pounds of fat and muscle I would be called obese.
BMI is foolishness and ought not be given the light of day. Google Mike Tyson. At his prime he was 5'10 and 215. OBESE (and yet had a six-pack).
A better generic measurement would be a ratio of waist and chest. Picture two males at 5'10 and 185. One with a chest of 44 with a 33" waist; and another with a 38" chest and 38" waist. One is in good shape. The other is in miserable shape and both have the same BMI.
There isn't any parent server that is tracking all uses. There is a distributed ledger that is cryptographically secure until, perhaps/probably/maybe/who knows, the arrival of quantum computers.
The trolling of another brain-dead idiot. You do realize that there are a lot of immigrants and children (and grandchildren) of immigrants in the US - from Ireland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Greece, Turkey, India, China, Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica and about everywhere else. I think these people are aware that there is a world outside of North America.
Keep believing that you're not just another bigot.
I'm responding to the comment that says that Bitcoin is not controlled by a central authority BECAUSE it is "allowed to exist at the pleasure of the central authority. [Therefore] Control [can] be exerted as/when necessary."
Please site where Republicans are more interested in collecting information and preventing dissenters than Democrats.
I guess you haven't heard of the Supreme Court case being discussed right now in which the unions (they're Democrats from what I've been told) have been oppressing their members and making arguments that suppression of dissent gives them the ability to do more "good". Sweet.
Because when the price rises first come around companies take the hit because consumers are used to a lower price and resist the higher price.
It gets to a point when this is untenable and then everyone raises prices.
Now think about the problem as if you were in business. You bought at $1.00 and selling at $1.05. The price of your next shipment is going to be $1.10. Where do you get your money from? You need to raise the price of your current stock to cover being able to buy more.
Move forward months or years and we're now at the end of the process (prices are going down). Companies will resist lowering prices as they are making a good profit; making up for the loses and hard times. But then, as people are getting cheaper deliveries, and want to increase sales, they lower prices. And then prices collapse and stay down until prices start to hit. And at first companies take the hit because consumers are used to lower prices and resist the higher price. It gets to a point when this is untenable and...
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Yes. The only way to make an omlette is to break some eggs.
Off-with-their-heads says the Red Queen. (Not to mention Stalin, Mao and other humanitarians of the past century).
Who cares if people disagree - we don't want them to live anyway. They're only getting in the way of a new race of people: homo Sovieticus -- the future of humanity.
"That is why many advocates of Utopian ideas seek a fundamental revolution, rather than a gradual development."
Perhaps that's why the French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions were so peaceful and everything came up roses.
The invisible hand refers to many things including the "law of unintended consequences." There is nothing magical about that.
Secondly, in case it matters, the concept of the invisible hand came up in the 18th C and, I suppose, one could say that some 18th C people equated or conjoined the concepts. However Menger, von Mises, Hayek, Friedman did not, in any way conflate the two concepts.
Where do you see free market people saying that solar power is evil or communist (huh!!!???) Thanks for trolling.
And where have you seen social conservatives come out against renewables qua renewables?
So. If Obama was for Keystone the Republicans would be against it?
If Obama enforced the border the Republicans would be against it?
If Obama used Executive Privilege to relinquish Federal lands and give them back to the states the Republicans would be against it?
I don't think so.
However the Democrats passed Obamacare - how's it gone for them since then?
The blockchain is the one of the key pieces that makes up bitcoin. A workable P2P distributed ledger should not be dismissed as "merely" anymore than a printing press be described as merely putting ink of metal an then pressing it into paper.
associated by who?
Guess you missed the news that Bank of America, Citi and Deutsche Bank,Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into blockchain technology.
Really? Exponential increases in processing power along with a decrease in price is not affecting your life in any meaningful way? Do you want to go back to 9600 baud? And be excited when 14.4s and then 28.8 came out.
In 2000 T1s (1.54 Mb/s) cost $1000 a month and I don't know how much to install. Now 1.54 up and down is low end consumer speed.
The difference between an iPhone and a brick phone is astonishing. You have a computer better than what was available 20 years ago (better than what sent men to the moon) in the palm of your hand plus a camera plus a recording device plus a calculator plus all the apps that never existed before and yet you're blase about it?
Dude!. Wake up. The pace of change is truly amazing. Not to go Kurzweilian on you but this world is changing faster than ever and you're not seeing it; not appreciating the beauty; nor aware of the dangers.
and here we have the spouting of another ignorant bigot.
And MSNBC is saying "nothing to see here. (except for right-wing nuts slandering muslims)" "Move along"
Both are wrong
Thank you.
... such is the nature of quick posts on line.
Very nice post.
OK. Point made.
I would lose money on that bet. I still don't like it as a generic test to see if a population is overweight.
Population A and Population B both have 30% regular gym goers.
Population A spends it's time lifting weights.
Population B spends its time on cardio.
Population A will be obese in comparison with Population B - but more muscular.
Then we hear A is fat and B is better when in reality it isn't.
yes I'm leaving a lot out - but
I understand that Mike Tyson is not the norm. Our primary point of contention is the phrase "95% of the population." Secondly I don't think that BMI is a good indicator of flabbiness. I have a friend who is taller 5'11 and lighter than me (mid 150s) and he is most definitely flabbier than I am, especially around the middle.
:-)
And yet his BMI is normal (21.6) and mine is overweight (26.5) -- Just used a BMI calculator - I pretend don't know this off hand.
Third, BMI doesn't pass the sniff test. Take a guy 6'1" who is 230, goes to the gym all the time, pushes 315+ while benching and is solid but overweight (BMI of 31.7) . Tell him that he should get down to under 190 to be in "good" shape. That's a joke. At 190 he would probably be in the 5-8% body fat range. That's not overweight that is competitive athlete range.
These three things: that BMI is fairly accurate only with those people who are not regular gym goers (not talking about aerobics or pilates here); that the normal / overweight range does not give accurate "flabby" measures, and doesn't pass the sniff test with regular gym goes is the reason it's not respected - nor should it be.
Your waist is a good measure of your fatness. It would be great to have accurate ratios to go by (hip, waist, chest, height) because for those of us that go to the gym 5-6 times a week BMI is bullsh!t.
Wrong.
BMI is terrible. I'm a desk jockey and am a regular gym goer. I'm 5'10 and 185 and while I don't have a six pack I can see my belt buckle. According to BMI calculations I am overweight. If I put on 20 pounds of fat and muscle I would be called obese.
BMI is foolishness and ought not be given the light of day. Google Mike Tyson. At his prime he was 5'10 and 215. OBESE (and yet had a six-pack).
A better generic measurement would be a ratio of waist and chest. Picture two males at 5'10 and 185. One with a chest of 44 with a 33" waist; and another with a 38" chest and 38" waist. One is in good shape. The other is in miserable shape and both have the same BMI.
no. flew over my head.
damn lack of emojis
Do you understand what you're talking about? Do you think that Cruz and Trump are the same? Or is it - they're the same because I disagree with them?
No. They wouldn't be here remember?
There isn't any parent server that is tracking all uses. There is a distributed ledger that is cryptographically secure until, perhaps/probably/maybe/who knows, the arrival of quantum computers.
The trolling of another brain-dead idiot. You do realize that there are a lot of immigrants and children (and grandchildren) of immigrants in the US - from Ireland, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Greece, Turkey, India, China, Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica and about everywhere else. I think these people are aware that there is a world outside of North America.
Keep believing that you're not just another bigot.
OK. I agree completely with that. But that's a bit different than the general statement put forth by the OP.
We need to stop "too big to fail" and as far as banks are concerned scale back the FDIC to $10,000.
How does the bank "openly" rob the "taxpayer"?
I'm responding to the comment that says that Bitcoin is not controlled by a central authority BECAUSE it is "allowed to exist at the pleasure of the central authority. [Therefore] Control [can] be exerted as/when necessary."
Since you're allowed to exist at the pleasure of the central authority THEREFORE you, and everyone else, are controlled by a central authority. Right?
I hope you're trolling.
We're not talking about scabs but union members who dissent with the union actions.
Really? And the Dems are not?
Please site where Republicans are more interested in collecting information and preventing dissenters than Democrats.
I guess you haven't heard of the Supreme Court case being discussed right now in which the unions (they're Democrats from what I've been told) have been oppressing their members and making arguments that suppression of dissent gives them the ability to do more "good". Sweet.
Again, please give sources.
Because when the price rises first come around companies take the hit because consumers are used to a lower price and resist the higher price. It gets to a point when this is untenable and then everyone raises prices.
...
Now think about the problem as if you were in business. You bought at $1.00 and selling at $1.05. The price of your next shipment is going to be $1.10. Where do you get your money from? You need to raise the price of your current stock to cover being able to buy more.
Move forward months or years and we're now at the end of the process (prices are going down). Companies will resist lowering prices as they are making a good profit; making up for the loses and hard times. But then, as people are getting cheaper deliveries, and want to increase sales, they lower prices. And then prices collapse and stay down until prices start to hit. And at first companies take the hit because consumers are used to lower prices and resist the higher price. It gets to a point when this is untenable and