> Walmart employs three times as many people (1.2
> million compared to 380k at GM).
They're not employees, they're associates.
I guess that means they own part of the company, sit on the board of directors, and so on. Clearly, they'll earn a lot more money than GM's union workers.
> If Grandma doesn't choose Windows and then
> wonders where her Windows is then Grandma needs to
> pay more attention.
Dell still gets the call, though. If only one out of a thousand users has a problem each day (an vast underestimate) and you sell a million computers a year, you get a thousand tech calls a day.
For one good example, you do NOT want case sensitive passwords on such computer systems. Witness all the calls you'd get every day that end in "is your caps loc key on or off?"
> By your definition ("idiot local socialist
> regulations"), the US is one of the worst offenders
I heartily agree. Australia, New Zealand, and better yet, the People's Republic of Canada have farmers that can undercut the vaunted US farmer. (Actually, probably they can't in the long run, but the US government subsidizes their inefficiencies so they definitely don't in the short run.) And if they don't? A few more smaller farms go out of business, and other politicians start beating their breast about the cruel excesses of capitalism; Willie Nelson leaves his flophouse for the road, etc.
> Unfortunately, nobody has ever figured out how to
> fix prices in a socialist system, they all either
> ape capitalist pricing elsewhere or they end up
> with irrational, distorted markets where things
> just don't make sense
You can't fix a price because all products and services are of a different, subjective value to each person. All fixed systems by definition can't make sense. Maybe I want a great house and a lot of land, but want to drive a crappy car and eat bologna for the rest of my life. Maybe I consider my home a flophouse for the night and want to dump money into clothes and be a big spender on the town.
One shouldn't have to do anything other than turn it on and pop in a CD at most.
If I connect new hardware, I shouldn't have to turn the machine off. I should just be able to hook it up, turn it on, and, at worst, have the computer ask me to pop in the program floppy or CD for it.
It's strange how leftism is so remarkably close to a religious belief.
- You jump to the conclusion that your opponents aren't honest, but rather are (perhaps knowingly, perhaps not) dupes of the Devil, i.e. the evil rich.
- Some of your opponents are the Devil.
- Your arguments frequently are arguments from moral intimidation. This sits well with you because, well, everyone knows which position is right.
- If logically cornered on a position, you become enraged rather than change your position. This indicates a heavy emotional investment hiding a subconscious knowledge in the falsity of your position.
Well, the electoral college from a state must be directly elected by the population. The state may not put up arbitrarily silliness and call it a fair, democratic election. That impacts the citizens of that state on a federal issue, which is a federal concern, and it affects the rest of the states and the federal government itself.
Gore could not have won Florida without counting double-punched ballots and other crap that clearly could not be done legally, and the best he could hope for was to cause Florida to become disenfranchised due to the delay, and win that way. That is not some kind of pleasant situation, either.
1. All laws requre a 90% supermajority. If you can't get 90% of the people to agree it should be a law, it shouldn't.
2. All laws must be re-approved every 5 years or they expire.
3. Congress may not delegate regulatory authority, and must vote directly on all regulations. That regulatory agencies "take the politics" out of things is precisely their defect.
No one complains when Chrysler popularizes the Minivan, or does a cool, radical new look on their pickups or Jeep products, and it gets copied in a year by Ford, and two years by GM.
Many people never even bother to check a company other than the one for their brand loyalty.
> I'm still convinced that MS got the SC Attorney
> General to pull out by promising him a huge
> campaign contribution for his upcoming run for
> Governor.
As opposed to the attornies general of the other states who seek to be (re)elected because they beat up on Microsoft, whose "ruining your life."
> Netscape would ultimately lose because their
> business model only consists of giving away their
> flagship product while making money on a portal
> and a web server.
Not necessarily. They could have gotten into the ISP business. AOL's content, aka superportal, would then go up against Netscape's standard browser.
I don't deny that corporations shouldn't run rough-shod over local areas, polluting via runoff and exhausts (although it should be pointed out that in 3rd world countries, average life expectancies continue to rise even in the face of severe pollution.)
After all, you don't have the right to damage (pollute) things you don't own (other people's land, the common air, etc.)
I would also like to point out that vastly altering local ecosystems (a fancy way of saying cutting down all the trees and filling in the swamps, things done in Europe a thousand years ago, indeed two thousand years ago) vastly benefits the locals much more than it harms anything, and becoming an ecologic conservative (maintaining such things) causes development to lag. People end up worse off for not mowing down the trees than they do if they did.
It's all based on faulty concepts that government knows best, build infrastructure and a powerful economy will magically appear.
Meanwhile, silly laws penalizing companies remain in place, heavy handed things more for the purpose of allowing local officials to extort money, and silly environmental regulations to appease the western masters all make the country a place no sane corporation would go, and no local one to form in the first place. When everyone and their brother gets a cut before you, the business man, does, then, surprise surprise! To hell with it.
And thus no economy develops to pay back the loan. They are juvenile attempts to ape a strong economy by duplicating the window dressing rather than the hard working guts.
They just wanna start arguments bordering on flame wars.
Ehh, let's get it kicked off.
> But Giddens argues that democracy -- and the
> globalism inextricably linked with it -- is the
> most powerful emerging idea of the 21st century.
Ironically, this parallels, indeed extends the communist idea that wars are not between the proletariat, or working class, of nations, but between those vying for power. Democracy, the leveling wind of those who dare stand out,
Oh, wait a minute. I'm pegged at 50 high karma.
What a stupid idea this guy has. Democracy, the "powerful" emerging idea, is in conflict with Freedom, the powerful emerging idea of the previous century and a half. In so far as democracy conflicts with freedom, it can be a bad thing, more often than not (dare I suggest all the time?)
In the case of globalization, it certainly is. The stripping of idiotic local socialist regulations (and let's face it, blocking or highly taxing imports is a socialist concept) benefits everyone. Let those whiners be dragged kicking and screaming into a world where everyone is better off, not because of socialism, but because it was stomped out. Let them live that down, that their world view, even partially implemented, led to a worse world, especially for those very poor and "working class" to begin with, much like the doctor who bled his patients to cure them of every disease seeing modern medicine of the 21st century. Well, we thought we were doing the right thing. It felt right.
> Then again...small video cameras may seriously
> intrude on the privacy...' of European people too.
> Are they going after things of that nature as well?
God, I hope not! The omnipresent pole cameras in Europe provide my weekly entertainment on Max X.
> Anti-Vegans love to bait Vegans by looking far
> enough "down the line"
Exactly! We should be proud enough and intellectually sure enough of our positions to state, clearly, that we are for the killing of animals for food, fun, firs, and profit, as well as the factory farming of them for same.
It may not be technically necessary, but it is feels and tastes much better. Also, you feel superior, and rightly so.
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> Walmart employs three times as many people (1.2
> million compared to 380k at GM).
They're not employees, they're associates.
I guess that means they own part of the company, sit on the board of directors, and so on. Clearly, they'll earn a lot more money than GM's union workers.
> If Grandma doesn't choose Windows and then
> wonders where her Windows is then Grandma needs to
> pay more attention.
Dell still gets the call, though. If only one out of a thousand users has a problem each day (an vast underestimate) and you sell a million computers a year, you get a thousand tech calls a day.
For one good example, you do NOT want case sensitive passwords on such computer systems. Witness all the calls you'd get every day that end in "is your caps loc key on or off?"
> By your definition ("idiot local socialist
> regulations"), the US is one of the worst offenders
I heartily agree. Australia, New Zealand, and better yet, the People's Republic of Canada have farmers that can undercut the vaunted US farmer. (Actually, probably they can't in the long run, but the US government subsidizes their inefficiencies so they definitely don't in the short run.) And if they don't? A few more smaller farms go out of business, and other politicians start beating their breast about the cruel excesses of capitalism; Willie Nelson leaves his flophouse for the road, etc.
> Unfortunately, nobody has ever figured out how to
> fix prices in a socialist system, they all either
> ape capitalist pricing elsewhere or they end up
> with irrational, distorted markets where things
> just don't make sense
You can't fix a price because all products and services are of a different, subjective value to each person. All fixed systems by definition can't make sense. Maybe I want a great house and a lot of land, but want to drive a crappy car and eat bologna for the rest of my life. Maybe I consider my home a flophouse for the night and want to dump money into clothes and be a big spender on the town.
One shouldn't have to do anything other than turn it on and pop in a CD at most.
If I connect new hardware, I shouldn't have to turn the machine off. I should just be able to hook it up, turn it on, and, at worst, have the computer ask me to pop in the program floppy or CD for it.
It's strange how leftism is so remarkably close to a religious belief.
- You jump to the conclusion that your opponents aren't honest, but rather are (perhaps knowingly, perhaps not) dupes of the Devil, i.e. the evil rich.
- Some of your opponents are the Devil.
- Your arguments frequently are arguments from moral intimidation. This sits well with you because, well, everyone knows which position is right.
- If logically cornered on a position, you become enraged rather than change your position. This indicates a heavy emotional investment hiding a subconscious knowledge in the falsity of your position.
The fantasy:
> EXACTLY THE SAME. in 1990, i would get DOS, 1995, win 3.1 or maybe 95
The reality: These are all tremendously different. They are the same company, but tremendously different products.
Also, you could, at any point, have gotten a Mac and done most of the stuff you wanted, save games.
Well, the electoral college from a state must be directly elected by the population. The state may not put up arbitrarily silliness and call it a fair, democratic election. That impacts the citizens of that state on a federal issue, which is a federal concern, and it affects the rest of the states and the federal government itself.
Gore could not have won Florida without counting double-punched ballots and other crap that clearly could not be done legally, and the best he could hope for was to cause Florida to become disenfranchised due to the delay, and win that way. That is not some kind of pleasant situation, either.
> Proud that innocent (!) Afgans are killed by US military?
You left out "accidentally", which, I'm sure, was purely an innocent mistake on your part and not a sophomoric attempt at rhetoric.
1. All laws requre a 90% supermajority. If you can't get 90% of the people to agree it should be a law, it shouldn't.
2. All laws must be re-approved every 5 years or they expire.
3. Congress may not delegate regulatory authority, and must vote directly on all regulations. That regulatory agencies "take the politics" out of things is precisely their defect.
It's not so hard.
> Let's also remember that he's the stupidest man
> to lead a country since Ronald Reagan...no wait,
> Bush makes Reagan look like a Nobel Laureate.
You're probably ecstatic that Gore lost. You remember Gore? He got slightly worse grades at a much worse University.
Why is MS bad here?
No one complains when Chrysler popularizes the Minivan, or does a cool, radical new look on their pickups or Jeep products, and it gets copied in a year by Ford, and two years by GM.
Many people never even bother to check a company other than the one for their brand loyalty.
> There is too much DRAM on the market, and some of
> it has to be eliminated.
Not necessarily -- it still all gets bought.
The prices undercutting the cost of production gives companies two options: go out of business, or cut costs until it is profitable again.
Sometimes the former happens, many times the latter.
> I'm still convinced that MS got the SC Attorney
> General to pull out by promising him a huge
> campaign contribution for his upcoming run for
> Governor.
As opposed to the attornies general of the other states who seek to be (re)elected because they beat up on Microsoft, whose "ruining your life."
> Netscape would ultimately lose because their
> business model only consists of giving away their
> flagship product while making money on a portal
> and a web server.
Not necessarily. They could have gotten into the ISP business. AOL's content, aka superportal, would then go up against Netscape's standard browser.
I don't deny that corporations shouldn't run rough-shod over local areas, polluting via runoff and exhausts (although it should be pointed out that in 3rd world countries, average life expectancies continue to rise even in the face of severe pollution.)
After all, you don't have the right to damage (pollute) things you don't own (other people's land, the common air, etc.)
I would also like to point out that vastly altering local ecosystems (a fancy way of saying cutting down all the trees and filling in the swamps, things done in Europe a thousand years ago, indeed two thousand years ago) vastly benefits the locals much more than it harms anything, and becoming an ecologic conservative (maintaining such things) causes development to lag. People end up worse off for not mowing down the trees than they do if they did.
It's just some silly death throes. Give it up, people.
It's all based on faulty concepts that government knows best, build infrastructure and a powerful economy will magically appear.
Meanwhile, silly laws penalizing companies remain in place, heavy handed things more for the purpose of allowing local officials to extort money, and silly environmental regulations to appease the western masters all make the country a place no sane corporation would go, and no local one to form in the first place. When everyone and their brother gets a cut before you, the business man, does, then, surprise surprise! To hell with it.
And thus no economy develops to pay back the loan. They are juvenile attempts to ape a strong economy by duplicating the window dressing rather than the hard working guts.
They just wanna start arguments bordering on flame wars.
Ehh, let's get it kicked off.
> But Giddens argues that democracy -- and the
> globalism inextricably linked with it -- is the
> most powerful emerging idea of the 21st century.
Ironically, this parallels, indeed extends the communist idea that wars are not between the proletariat, or working class, of nations, but between those vying for power. Democracy, the leveling wind of those who dare stand out,
Oh, wait a minute. I'm pegged at 50 high karma.
What a stupid idea this guy has. Democracy, the "powerful" emerging idea, is in conflict with Freedom, the powerful emerging idea of the previous century and a half. In so far as democracy conflicts with freedom, it can be a bad thing, more often than not (dare I suggest all the time?)
In the case of globalization, it certainly is. The stripping of idiotic local socialist regulations (and let's face it, blocking or highly taxing imports is a socialist concept) benefits everyone. Let those whiners be dragged kicking and screaming into a world where everyone is better off, not because of socialism, but because it was stomped out. Let them live that down, that their world view, even partially implemented, led to a worse world, especially for those very poor and "working class" to begin with, much like the doctor who bled his patients to cure them of every disease seeing modern medicine of the 21st century. Well, we thought we were doing the right thing. It felt right.
Ehh, life was so much fun for you yunguns.
We didn't have no steenking sound cards. We used to rlogin and flow& and logout on another user's Apollo workstation.
> Then again...small video cameras may seriously
> intrude on the privacy...' of European people too.
> Are they going after things of that nature as well?
God, I hope not! The omnipresent pole cameras in Europe provide my weekly entertainment on Max X.
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I say we ban the EU Federal Government instead.
Let's also not forget:
VA GNU Interface Network Applications
That, and:
> but it really is sad knowing that most of the
> cool open source hackers no longer work there.
Well, they have to productize things and stabilize them, so they need a different kind of programmer.
> Anti-Vegans love to bait Vegans by looking far
> enough "down the line"
Exactly! We should be proud enough and intellectually sure enough of our positions to state, clearly, that we are for the killing of animals for food, fun, firs, and profit, as well as the factory farming of them for same.
It may not be technically necessary, but it is feels and tastes much better. Also, you feel superior, and rightly so.