I am a "liberal" (in the European, not American, sense of the word - I don't want the government to fuck with my money, nor my life, more than absolutely necessary).
I am for free trade in goods, capital, services, people, and find it hard to understand why anyone would be against it. Imagine, for example, if individual states in the US became protectionist - does anyone really think that would help anyone?
Forget about the relatively small issue of offshoring low-skilled jobs, and focus instead on the big issue of agricultural subsidies.
I always thought Lada's were great - but I only admired them from a distance. The joke in Germany in the eighties was that there was nothing that could go wrong with them that couldn't be fixed with a simple hammer and a wrench.
Granted, you might need to fix them on a regular basis, but you'd always be able to fix them yourself.
You have no chance of ever getting your dream job unless you lace your resume with cologne. No idea what this calogne stuff is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't smell nice.
The only way free trade would lead to an increas in price in HK would be if the supply was restricted. So the argument MAY apply to natural commodities, or even physical products, but CDs and software can be reproduced at (virtually) no cost.
So I contend that the record companies are still screwing consumers.
So does that mean if you buy, say, a mercedes, which equally depends largely on branding for its value, that DaimlerChrysler now has a right to tell you what to do with that car after you've paid for it?
Does the situation change if you buy two, five, ten, or a hundred cars?
Obviously Levi's were legally right; but morally the restrictions against grey importers are wrong.
If sell you a widget, you are free to do with it what you like - throw it off a bridge, wrap it in clingfilm, sell it in a different country - nothing to do with me anymore.
I really fail to see why that should be any different for Jeans or CDs.
Just to second that - psyco gives you a huge performance improvement in runtime intensive code in python, making a lot more things practical. Just think of Java in the pre-JIT days compared to now!
is without doubt the worst airline I have ever flown - I once accidentally ( a friend booked the ticket ) ended up on a code shared northwest flight from Skiphol to Mumbai. So much for going KLM:(
The whole plane looked decrepit; even the flight attendant's uniforms were mismatched and ripped. Which, I'm sorry, just isn't acceptable for an airline.
Why why why does everyone assume that a falling dollar is BAD for the US?
It's great news for the US economy, just like the rising euro is a big pain for that economy. It means your imports are more expensive, and need to be substituted with internal production, and you're exports are cheaper, which means they'll sell better.
Oh, and all those bloody foreigners that hold US Treasuries have just lost 20% of their value;)
Seriously, though, falling dollar within reason is good for the US; deficit spending & increasing debt isn't.
But surely if they are selling stuff (be it penis extenders, "viagra", or mortgages), they must have some part of their business in the US, so they can be hit.
These companies are incredibly successful at getting large contracts from governments & large companies; but they don't seem to actually be successful at delivering projects on time and on budget. Certainly all the big govnmnt software projects in the UK using this strategy have been unmitigated fiascos.
So, you can use this strategy, but I'm not convinced you can build good - much less innovative and good - software this way.
Think about it: Does Microsoft outsource it's core development? Why not? They may have development centers around the world, but they are staffed with MS staff.
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I have a (very) young daughter, and while I agree with a lot of what you're saying about the intricacies of parenting, you don't address the basic question relating to (mainly) american media: Violence is okay, sex isn't.
I still can't see why it's better for my daughter to see people being killed than to see people naked. Practically, a 12 year old will be unable to handle the consequences of shooting someone either;)
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That's not a heresy, that's a truism. The challenge is how to deal with that fact; either you become a nihilist, or you do something constructive about it.
Actually, I think he was a crap orator in every sense I can think of. Incoherent, hard to understand, unpleasant sounding (and that's as a native German speaker, as you can guess from my handle).
My only explanation is that everyone was smoking crack in the thirties....... anyway, it'd be nice to have a time machine so that you could either retrospectively get the idiot into art school, or close the austrian border in 1918.
Funnily enough, George Soros probably did more for the British economy in the long run than any of the governments. Without George & friends we would have entered the Euro at a vastly inflated rate, and woul d be paying the price (in terms of joblosses etc).
Also, it's probably worth checking out how much the US has in reserves, and compare that to its reckless borrowing. Is there something sinister going on there?
"Main Entry: col.lier Pronunciation: 'k@l-y&r Function: noun Etymology: Middle English colier, from col coal Date: 13th century 1 : one that produces charcoal 2 : a coal miner 3 : a ship for transporting coal"
I would imagine that buying a coal miner for your wife WOULD cause quite a stir, even if you're Rockefeller;)
More miles of road per capita than anywhere else? I doubt it - there simply isn't enough space. You do the math....
Anyway, the UK has pretty much the most expensive fuel in Europe, AND the most expensive (not to mention worst) public transport. So whatever the hell we are subsidising with fuel tax, it ain't public transport!
Amen! The first sensible post I've read on this subject in a long time.
What is the problem that electronic voting (or punchcards,...) are supposed to fix? Beats me, but having voted in two separate countries, picking up a pen and making a cross in a box never struck me as an incredible effort.
If it's speed - I know the UK and Germany manage to get their results calculated the same night, save perhaps a few straggling counts that go on until the next day. Given that this problem parallelizes extremeley well;), I can't see why the US can't do the same.
What state was it that imposed a moratorium on the death penalty recently when the governor realised that there a huge number of clearly unsafe convictions?
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I am a "liberal" (in the European, not American, sense of the word - I don't want the government to fuck with my money, nor my life, more than absolutely necessary).
I am for free trade in goods, capital, services, people, and find it hard to understand why anyone would be against it. Imagine, for example, if individual states in the US became protectionist - does anyone really think that would help anyone?
Forget about the relatively small issue of offshoring low-skilled jobs, and focus instead on the big issue of agricultural subsidies.
Well, since you're making up statistics, let me do the same:
90% of the shares are owned by Pension and other investmend funds which are, actually, by your next door neighbours. Well, in small bits, anyway.
I always thought Lada's were great - but I only admired them from a distance. The joke in Germany in the eighties was that there was nothing that could go wrong with them that couldn't be fixed with a simple hammer and a wrench.
Granted, you might need to fix them on a regular basis, but you'd always be able to fix them yourself.
You have no chance of ever getting your dream job unless you lace your resume with cologne. No idea what this calogne stuff is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't smell nice.
The only way free trade would lead to an increas in price in HK would be if the supply was restricted. So the argument MAY apply to natural commodities, or even physical products, but CDs and software can be reproduced at (virtually) no cost.
So I contend that the record companies are still screwing consumers.
So does that mean if you buy, say, a mercedes, which equally depends largely on branding for its value, that DaimlerChrysler now has a right to tell you what to do with that car after you've paid for it?
Does the situation change if you buy two, five, ten, or a hundred cars?
Obviously Levi's were legally right; but morally the restrictions against grey importers are wrong.
If sell you a widget, you are free to do with it what you like - throw it off a bridge, wrap it in clingfilm, sell it in a different country - nothing to do with me anymore.
I really fail to see why that should be any different for Jeans or CDs.
Just to second that - psyco gives you a huge performance improvement in runtime intensive code in python, making a lot more things practical. Just think of Java in the pre-JIT days compared to now!
is without doubt the worst airline I have ever flown - I once accidentally ( a friend booked the ticket ) ended up on a code shared northwest flight from Skiphol to Mumbai. So much for going KLM :(
The whole plane looked decrepit; even the flight attendant's uniforms were mismatched and ripped. Which, I'm sorry, just isn't acceptable for an airline.
Why why why does everyone assume that a falling dollar is BAD for the US?
;)
It's great news for the US economy, just like the rising euro is a big pain for that economy. It means your imports are more expensive, and need to be substituted with internal production, and you're exports are cheaper, which means they'll sell better.
Oh, and all those bloody foreigners that hold US Treasuries have just lost 20% of their value
Seriously, though, falling dollar within reason is good for the US; deficit spending & increasing debt isn't.
Of course, IANAEconomist
But surely if they are selling stuff (be it penis extenders, "viagra", or mortgages), they must have some part of their business in the US, so they can be hit.
These companies are incredibly successful at getting large contracts from governments & large companies; but they don't seem to actually be successful at delivering projects on time and on budget. Certainly all the big govnmnt software projects in the UK using this strategy have been unmitigated fiascos.
So, you can use this strategy, but I'm not convinced you can build good - much less innovative and good - software this way.
Think about it: Does Microsoft outsource it's core development? Why not? They may have development centers around the world, but they are staffed with MS staff.
I have a (very) young daughter, and while I agree with a lot of what you're saying about the intricacies of parenting, you don't address the basic question relating to (mainly) american media: Violence is okay, sex isn't.
;)
I still can't see why it's better for my daughter to see people being killed than to see people naked. Practically, a 12 year old will be unable to handle the consequences of shooting someone either
That's not a heresy, that's a truism. The challenge is how to deal with that fact; either you become a nihilist, or you do something constructive about it.
Go and read some Camus. Seriously.
Actually, I think he was a crap orator in every sense I can think of. Incoherent, hard to understand, unpleasant sounding (and that's as a native German speaker, as you can guess from my handle).
My only explanation is that everyone was smoking crack in the thirties....... anyway, it'd be nice to have a time machine so that you could either retrospectively get the idiot into art school, or close the austrian border in 1918.
Funnily enough, George Soros probably did more for the British economy in the long run than any of the governments. Without George & friends we would have entered the Euro at a vastly inflated rate, and woul d be paying the price (in terms of joblosses etc).
Also, it's probably worth checking out how much the US has in reserves, and compare that to its reckless borrowing. Is there something sinister going on there?
"Main Entry: col.lier
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Pronunciation: 'k@l-y&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English colier, from col coal
Date: 13th century
1 : one that produces charcoal
2 : a coal miner
3 : a ship for transporting coal"
I would imagine that buying a coal miner for your wife WOULD cause quite a stir, even if you're Rockefeller
Of course, given their well-known respect for copyright, they wouldn't just rip off SQL Server instead?
nice troll
"he's making it more difficult for people to purchase these films, thereby allowing us to protect our interest in these properties"
Surely the distributor of a movie should make it EASIER for people to BUY it? I hope the original owner of the movie has some words with them....
More miles of road per capita than anywhere else? I doubt it - there simply isn't enough space. You do the math....
Anyway, the UK has pretty much the most expensive fuel in Europe, AND the most expensive (not to mention worst) public transport. So whatever the hell we are subsidising with fuel tax, it ain't public transport!
Amen! The first sensible post I've read on this subject in a long time.
;), I can't see why the US can't do the same.
What is the problem that electronic voting (or punchcards,...) are supposed to fix? Beats me, but having voted in two separate countries, picking up a pen and making a cross in a box never struck me as an incredible effort.
If it's speed - I know the UK and Germany manage to get their results calculated the same night, save perhaps a few straggling counts that go on until the next day. Given that this problem parallelizes extremeley well
What state was it that imposed a moratorium on the death penalty recently when the governor realised that there a huge number of clearly unsafe convictions?
The death penalty is wrong. period.
Presumably it's the MPAA, not RIAA - but anyway, believe it or not, it's because their overpriced DVDs are even more overpriced in other countries.
But you could have an import duty.
Not that there's much point to this. Classifying it as a crime is much more useful, as long as it's actually prosecuted.
If spam advertises a real service, the purveyors of the service can be held accountable.
If it advertises fake services, then it's fraud anyway.
What seems to be missing is enforcenent, not more laws
So, in the spirit of the article, does this post indicate an american poster? ".. I might ... have fell for"? Fell? Fell??!??!!?
F A L L E N !
Can't write proper English, must be American.