Society thrives when wealth is well distributed. "Free markets" are a race to the bottom in slow motion.
Actually it's working as promised, it's just that the poor overseas are benefiting more than those here in the US. Eventually all sources of labor would equalize in price and then we'd have wage pressure like what happened prior to globalization. The problem is that automation technology is advancing so quickly that prior to full equalization most workers will have zero marginal utility.
I've worked with plenty of competent government people, the problems usually aren't the staff, it's the leadership. Failure to set clear and achievable objectives and then adequate follow through to make sure that it happens.
The problem with these sorts of projects is they keep trying to build the pyramids when their planning capacity is only sufficient for a small condo. Break it down into multiple small projects and you'd be much more likely to succeed.
And is the rest of the world the same? It is bigger than the United States, y'know.
Sure, there is plenty of other land mass but they are either over-regulated, poor, or have low quality research infrastructures. The majority of all new drugs come out of research from the United States and that trend has only increased over the last forty years. That doesn't mean everything is happy days here, excessive market consolidation has reduced the number of new substances produced by more than 60%.
Well, they're scoring for people who are excellent debtors not for people who are fiscally responsible. The two groups have some overlap but they're not the same.
ZERO return is hyperbole and false. Now, has the investment been worth the expenditure, that's a more nuanced question and it's possible that other investments of that same amount might have had better results.
I disagree. It's taught us a huge amount about how to keep technology running in a weightless vacuum. That knowledge will be quite useful in building follow on systems.
I actually liked Voyager. Enterprise was pretty terrible though, a bad choice of captains and a small crew that wasn't very interesting or diverse, combined with a strange hurry to catch up in technology and philosophy.
Of course, great chunks of that money went to crony-capitalists like Solyndra, which pissed away a half a billion dollars and accomplished nothing at all.
Of course the reason they failed so spectacularly is that Chinese companies with government support dumped panels on the market at below cost, which made Solyndra's investment in lower cost production techniques irrelevant.
That's both unlikely to happen and unlikely to work. Corruption is eternal, it's part of human nature, all we can do is try and build systems that assume it will happen and attempt to mitigate it.
You're assuming that the other countries would pick up the slack, which I find doubtful in the current environment. Still, we do have too many overseas bases and could likely close quite a few without too many repercussions. Closing them all would be unwise.
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Society thrives when wealth is well distributed. "Free markets" are a race to the bottom in slow motion.
Actually it's working as promised, it's just that the poor overseas are benefiting more than those here in the US. Eventually all sources of labor would equalize in price and then we'd have wage pressure like what happened prior to globalization. The problem is that automation technology is advancing so quickly that prior to full equalization most workers will have zero marginal utility.
If there were a better place to go, of course they'd move, currently there isn't.
There are a variety of ways if we actually wanted to do that. A foreign employees tax would be an obvious example.
Right, because the problem in the 21st century was that the voice of the unions was too strong.
They don't stay cheaper forever, ask Japan and now China.
I believe he means more like the AMA or Bar Association.
I've worked with plenty of competent government people, the problems usually aren't the staff, it's the leadership. Failure to set clear and achievable objectives and then adequate follow through to make sure that it happens.
The problem with these sorts of projects is they keep trying to build the pyramids when their planning capacity is only sufficient for a small condo. Break it down into multiple small projects and you'd be much more likely to succeed.
And is the rest of the world the same? It is bigger than the United States, y'know.
Sure, there is plenty of other land mass but they are either over-regulated, poor, or have low quality research infrastructures. The majority of all new drugs come out of research from the United States and that trend has only increased over the last forty years. That doesn't mean everything is happy days here, excessive market consolidation has reduced the number of new substances produced by more than 60%.
That sounds more like a bug than a feature.
Of course they will, by then no one else will want it.
Even inexpensive lift to orbit would change everything.
Well, it would have been Dr. Glaive-Guisarme but he missed out on 1st edition.
Well, they're scoring for people who are excellent debtors not for people who are fiscally responsible. The two groups have some overlap but they're not the same.
Sure, that's easy: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa...
ZERO return is hyperbole and false. Now, has the investment been worth the expenditure, that's a more nuanced question and it's possible that other investments of that same amount might have had better results.
You think Microsoft is using "2.5" notebook hard drives" in its storage cloud?
It's Microsoft so I assume they're using those giant reel to reel things from the 1960s.
I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
I disagree. It's taught us a huge amount about how to keep technology running in a weightless vacuum. That knowledge will be quite useful in building follow on systems.
It's OK you don't understand the benefits cloud providers offer.
The same ones remote hosting providers with a support contract have been offering for years? The Cloud is good marketing but otherwise not new.
I actually liked Voyager. Enterprise was pretty terrible though, a bad choice of captains and a small crew that wasn't very interesting or diverse, combined with a strange hurry to catch up in technology and philosophy.
Of course, great chunks of that money went to crony-capitalists like Solyndra, which pissed away a half a billion dollars and accomplished nothing at all.
Of course the reason they failed so spectacularly is that Chinese companies with government support dumped panels on the market at below cost, which made Solyndra's investment in lower cost production techniques irrelevant.
Considering that the other alternative was to begin bombing, it seems worth trying.
That's both unlikely to happen and unlikely to work. Corruption is eternal, it's part of human nature, all we can do is try and build systems that assume it will happen and attempt to mitigate it.
You're assuming that the other countries would pick up the slack, which I find doubtful in the current environment. Still, we do have too many overseas bases and could likely close quite a few without too many repercussions. Closing them all would be unwise.