Why don't you just say I'm as bad as the Nazis? Why not go the whole hog if proportionality does not matter to you?
I'm not as bad as the homophobes because I'm not trying to get laws passed that treats them differently to other people.
Stop this "everyone is equally wrong" New Age bullshit. Some people are more wrong than others. I don't have to know the exact situation of everyone - that's why we have statistics and demographics. We study the trend and it's very reasonable to assume certain things about a situation in that a homosexual person is forced to have sex with a person of the sex they don't find sexually attractive.
I didn't judge anyone. I don't judge the homosexual who chooses to live a heterosexual life because people like you force him into it. That does not forbid me to make the assessment that his choice to do so is not entirely for personal reasons.
If they want to run from their homosexuality, that is their business. Not yours.
If a person has to run from their homosexuality, it's most likely pressure from the outside forcing them to. For those people, it was never their business alone in the first place. So pipe the fuck down.
When I say governments, keep in mind the plural form of the word I use, and realize that the US only consitutes one government on the world stage.
As for the US, that situation simply is not a Keynesian approach. I don't know what it is. A clusterfuck may be. But then, it would be a clusterfuck given that you guys waited until a recession (caused by you guys) to be able to provide your own citizens with the health care other countries already have.
So it seems really weird to me that the people who react to my comments the worst are libertarian/anarchist/laissez-faire economics type people. I've "foed" twice for being critical of libertarianism. Foed, not disagreed with, or insulted, but foed.
Geez you economic extremists are all fucking nuts.
Dude, that's not even wrong.
I personally don't like any aspect of economics, even Keynesian. They're all about gaming the system to make things look good.
What about other economists who made accurate predictions not based on Austrian economics?
You're being selective. I could very well say Confucian economics made accurate predictions. After all, Confucian philosophy makes a strong case against the "Merchant" class - a group of people who make money by playing around with money.
If there's been any successfully predictive system, it's the one that says: watch out when financialists get involved, they'll fuck up everything.
Except economics works like the Douglas Adams model of the universe: as soon as you figure out how it works, a new and more confusing one takes its place. The problem with economics is people try to game the system. As soon as people figure out how it works, people try to fake it by making the numbers look real, thus creating an even more complex system than the one before it.
Dr Steve Keen will subsequently be wrong if his ideas are put into practice.
That's what we're arguing. No government has applied Keynesian policy.
You can't argue against Keynesian theory by arguing that governments that implement it wrongly are screwing up. Governments today cut spending during recessions and increase spending during booms. The opposite of Keynesian.
Nothing about the US bailouts was Keynesian. It may look Keynesian, but the underlying motive and effect is US Crazy Randian. What is Keynesian about tax cuts for the rich and attacking the middle class?
As for Japan, it actually isn't that bad. Unlike what economists would like us to believe, perpetual economic growth is stupid and dangerous. Japan kept it mostly level and it wouldn't have been so bad if economists weren't fear mongering about phantoms. Japan may have lost a decade, but it's not as if it plunged into the Dark Ages.
This is the stupid reality economists have people like you believing - that you can live in a city and not die from common diseases, not go hungry, not go homeless, but if you don't have your five wide screen TVs in your McMansion with economic growth every year, then it's the Worst Economy Ever.
Uh, most governments of the world cut back expenditure during recession. That's not what Keynesian economics would suggest as a course of action.
If by "majority of the world" you actually mean the US, then it is more the Randians that are screwing up your country with their mad race to the extreme.
Unlike other religion, Buddhism itself doesn't even have "rebirth" or "planes of existence" as necessary doctrine. The only central beliefs are the four noble truths and the middle eightfold path. The other stuff are cultural things that local versions of Buddhism adopted.
This redistribution takes place via taxes, which are enforced at the barrel of a gun by the government.
I keep getting this bad argument from anti-tax types. You are not forced by the barrel of a gun to stay in the country - therefore, you're not really forced to pay taxes. However, you choose to participate in your society, and that society requires upkeep. Society belongs to everyone. If you refuse to pay for your share of society's upkeep, then you are stealing from me. I am in all my rights to force you at gun point to stop STEALING from me.
Anti-tax types are the ones who haven't really thought anything through. If society somehow magically maintains itself (over the course of decades and centuries), then yes, taxation would be "force". But society doesn't. The reason why society even exists is the maintenance of some kind of stability - there is no free lunch. Tax is no longer a force, but the necessary other half of the equation. Refusing to pay taxes becomes stealing, whether you like it or not.
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I once had a threesome with a psychic.
That was a Medium Bang.
Really, then how do you explain comets etc being ejected from solar systems?
Hint, not everything has to be done in one big explosion.
My experience is that many geeks are poor spellers, regardless of how ingrained certain words are in geek culture.
Why don't you just say I'm as bad as the Nazis? Why not go the whole hog if proportionality does not matter to you?
I'm not as bad as the homophobes because I'm not trying to get laws passed that treats them differently to other people.
Stop this "everyone is equally wrong" New Age bullshit. Some people are more wrong than others. I don't have to know the exact situation of everyone - that's why we have statistics and demographics. We study the trend and it's very reasonable to assume certain things about a situation in that a homosexual person is forced to have sex with a person of the sex they don't find sexually attractive.
I didn't judge anyone. I don't judge the homosexual who chooses to live a heterosexual life because people like you force him into it. That does not forbid me to make the assessment that his choice to do so is not entirely for personal reasons.
If they want to run from their homosexuality, that is their business. Not yours.
If a person has to run from their homosexuality, it's most likely pressure from the outside forcing them to. For those people, it was never their business alone in the first place. So pipe the fuck down.
Steve Ballmer may not know much about programming, but he knows some useful language constructs. Like looping. Or exceptions.
Germany, UK, Canada...
The fact that it's so easy to Google these and a lot more, and yet you would ask, rhetorically, rather than do some basic research speaks volumes.
Sorry, you must be living in the US.
When I say governments, keep in mind the plural form of the word I use, and realize that the US only consitutes one government on the world stage.
As for the US, that situation simply is not a Keynesian approach. I don't know what it is. A clusterfuck may be. But then, it would be a clusterfuck given that you guys waited until a recession (caused by you guys) to be able to provide your own citizens with the health care other countries already have.
You're right. I don't post much.
So it seems really weird to me that the people who react to my comments the worst are libertarian/anarchist/laissez-faire economics type people. I've "foed" twice for being critical of libertarianism. Foed, not disagreed with, or insulted, but foed.
Geez you economic extremists are all fucking nuts.
Dude, that's not even wrong. I personally don't like any aspect of economics, even Keynesian. They're all about gaming the system to make things look good.
Good to know.
What about other economists who made accurate predictions not based on Austrian economics?
You're being selective. I could very well say Confucian economics made accurate predictions. After all, Confucian philosophy makes a strong case against the "Merchant" class - a group of people who make money by playing around with money.
If there's been any successfully predictive system, it's the one that says: watch out when financialists get involved, they'll fuck up everything.
Except economics works like the Douglas Adams model of the universe: as soon as you figure out how it works, a new and more confusing one takes its place. The problem with economics is people try to game the system. As soon as people figure out how it works, people try to fake it by making the numbers look real, thus creating an even more complex system than the one before it.
Dr Steve Keen will subsequently be wrong if his ideas are put into practice.
That's what we're arguing. No government has applied Keynesian policy.
You can't argue against Keynesian theory by arguing that governments that implement it wrongly are screwing up. Governments today cut spending during recessions and increase spending during booms. The opposite of Keynesian.
I can't even parse anything you wrote. What are you even talking about? Do you know how to write proper sentences that mean something?
Nothing about the US bailouts was Keynesian. It may look Keynesian, but the underlying motive and effect is US Crazy Randian. What is Keynesian about tax cuts for the rich and attacking the middle class?
As for Japan, it actually isn't that bad. Unlike what economists would like us to believe, perpetual economic growth is stupid and dangerous. Japan kept it mostly level and it wouldn't have been so bad if economists weren't fear mongering about phantoms. Japan may have lost a decade, but it's not as if it plunged into the Dark Ages.
This is the stupid reality economists have people like you believing - that you can live in a city and not die from common diseases, not go hungry, not go homeless, but if you don't have your five wide screen TVs in your McMansion with economic growth every year, then it's the Worst Economy Ever.
Uh, most governments of the world cut back expenditure during recession. That's not what Keynesian economics would suggest as a course of action.
If by "majority of the world" you actually mean the US, then it is more the Randians that are screwing up your country with their mad race to the extreme.
As an Australian, I approve Julia's message. Australia likes to view itself as being approving of larrikin behaviour.
So if we resurrect Neanderthals, would they have the right to force Sapiens out of Europe?
Bronze age propaganda myths will be evidence more than facts ever will.
Very soon, it will be curtains for Palestine.
You may want to recheck your usage of "Dr Roy Spencer" as any kind of legitimate argument, before you further humiliate yourself.
Unlike other religion, Buddhism itself doesn't even have "rebirth" or "planes of existence" as necessary doctrine. The only central beliefs are the four noble truths and the middle eightfold path. The other stuff are cultural things that local versions of Buddhism adopted.
This redistribution takes place via taxes, which are enforced at the barrel of a gun by the government.
I keep getting this bad argument from anti-tax types. You are not forced by the barrel of a gun to stay in the country - therefore, you're not really forced to pay taxes. However, you choose to participate in your society, and that society requires upkeep. Society belongs to everyone. If you refuse to pay for your share of society's upkeep, then you are stealing from me. I am in all my rights to force you at gun point to stop STEALING from me.
Anti-tax types are the ones who haven't really thought anything through. If society somehow magically maintains itself (over the course of decades and centuries), then yes, taxation would be "force". But society doesn't. The reason why society even exists is the maintenance of some kind of stability - there is no free lunch. Tax is no longer a force, but the necessary other half of the equation. Refusing to pay taxes becomes stealing, whether you like it or not.
Precisely.
I don't know if it's an invasion of MBAs or something else that causes these kind of it-makes-sense-in-theory-but-not-practice thinking.