Some homeschooled children are indeed socially inept. Many are not. For example, 8 of 10 rosette winners at the New York State Fair district public presentation contest (my son among them) were home-schooled. How can someone who is socially inept be better at public speaking than a schooled child?
Remember: socialization in the public schools is called "talking in class." and is actively discouraged. Homeschoolers, on the other hand, tend to be out in the community interacting with people of many different ages. -russ
I'm signing my emails using DomainKeys, and I check incoming email for signatures. In production. It's for my server, with only my business depending on it, but that's more than nothing.
The reason DomainKeys is better than SPF is because it survives forwarding. It survives mailing lists. That requires crypto, but it's not the crypto that makes it better. -russ
Sigh. Money is an idea, not a thing. Once the idea exists, everyone who had the idea would have to die for it to stop existing. You should actually read the article, but in case you're too busy or lazy, I'll clue you in here: money is that commodity which is most tradable for anything else. -russ
There's just not enough gold, and new gold isn't being mined fast enough to keep up with the creation of other types of wealth.
Bing! You understand it, then! Whatever is being used as money must be of a constant nature. If people are given a choice, they will always choose a currency which cannot be inflated. Of course, given the legal tender laws, people do not have a choice about accepting inflatable dollars.
What you are missing is the fact that prices can change, and if the gold standard was adopted, prices would change. The amount of money borrowed would stay constant in value, but would be redenominated into $Au. And yes, as the economy becomes more productive because more capital is created by saving, the prices of everything would drop to reflect the increased value of the money. This natural and to be expected. -russ
It seems impossible, with the current state of economics (and economists!) to actually settle anything via experiment or observation.
Exactly why some economists maintain that the science has headed off down a dead end. Most economics results these days is worthless trash. To find the gems in economics, you must go back to the output of Hayek or von Mises. -russ
Yes, if you want to call yourself an economist, you must read Human Action. Conversely, if you call yourself an economist, and you have not read Human Action, you are lying. -russ
Economics has repeatable experiments, and politicans repeat them all the time. Print up 10% more dollars, and inflation rises, reducing the value of the dollar by 10% over time. The interesting thing is not that economics is a science, but that politicians are surprised when the experiment comes out the same way every time. -russ
If we understand that taxing cigarettes will reduce demand, then why do we (by "we" I mean "you") refuse to understand that taxing income will reduce demand? -russ
In a winner-takes-all system such as we have in the USA, you end up with two major parties and some number of fringe parties. The most that the fringe parties can hope to do is act as spoilers so as to influence the major parties to steal their ideas. -russ p.s. thanks for calling me young. I appreciate the sentiment even though I have thought about it hard for quite some number of years.
Python is an enterprise-grade programming language because its code is so readable. Sure, you can write a perl program faster, but six months later you won't be able to read it. -russ
Government attempts to scuttle VoIP by requiring them to abide by 5 9's reliability
In fact, yes, that's likely to happen. The BOCs are very skilled at lobbying. Since there's no way for VOIP to provide 5 9's reliability, and they can't really provide E911 service in any sense of the term, you should expect the BOCs to attack VOIP by lobbying the government to include wiretapping as a requirement, reliability as a requirement, and E911 service as a requirement for VOIP. -russ p.s. they're not a shoo-in, because not ALL of our legislators are stupid or evil.
Canada has plenty of room for landfills. What are you worried about? -russ p.s. are you really so transparently stupid as to think that a "Disposable" camera is really disposed of after a single use?
why do they keep posting meaningless or nearly meaningless comments on slashdot considering that this comment was already posted before i really don't need to see it again
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Some homeschooled children are indeed socially inept. Many are not. For example, 8 of 10 rosette winners at the New York State Fair district public presentation contest (my son among them) were home-schooled. How can someone who is socially inept be better at public speaking than a schooled child?
Remember: socialization in the public schools is called "talking in class." and is actively discouraged. Homeschoolers, on the other hand, tend to be out in the community interacting with people of many different ages.
-russ
Check the date that was written: in 2000. In 18 months from then it was at most 2002. 2004 > 2002.
-russ
That's *Doctor* Bunsen *Honeydew* to you, buster!
-russ
Ever tried to spend a gold coin for its gold value rather than its face value?
-russ
You mean DUF(tm). Trademarks have to be capitalized.
-russ
I'm signing my emails using DomainKeys, and I check incoming email for signatures. In production. It's for my server, with only my business depending on it, but that's more than nothing.
The reason DomainKeys is better than SPF is because it survives forwarding. It survives mailing lists. That requires crypto, but it's not the crypto that makes it better.
-russ
Sigh. Money is an idea, not a thing. Once the idea exists, everyone who had the idea would have to die for it to stop existing. You should actually read the article, but in case you're too busy or lazy, I'll clue you in here: money is that commodity which is most tradable for anything else.
-russ
Hahahahahahahaha! You're so funny! Or do you really believe that a free market chooses fiat currencies?
-russ
There's just not enough gold, and new gold isn't being mined fast enough to keep up with the creation of other types of wealth.
Bing! You understand it, then! Whatever is being used as money must be of a constant nature. If people are given a choice, they will always choose a currency which cannot be inflated. Of course, given the legal tender laws, people do not have a choice about accepting inflatable dollars.
What you are missing is the fact that prices can change, and if the gold standard was adopted, prices would change. The amount of money borrowed would stay constant in value, but would be redenominated into $Au. And yes, as the economy becomes more productive because more capital is created by saving, the prices of everything would drop to reflect the increased value of the money. This natural and to be expected.
-russ
The essay is rife with flaws from the mainstream economic point of view;
Exactly! That's because the mainstream economic point of view is wrong.
-russ
It seems impossible, with the current state of economics (and economists!) to actually settle anything via experiment or observation.
Exactly why some economists maintain that the science has headed off down a dead end. Most economics results these days is worthless trash. To find the gems in economics, you must go back to the output of Hayek or von Mises.
-russ
Yes, if you want to call yourself an economist, you must read Human Action. Conversely, if you call yourself an economist, and you have not read Human Action, you are lying.
-russ
reasoning a priori is not science unless it is supported by emperical data.
That's exactly what the Austrian school does. You figure out what MUST happen, and then see if it does. If it doesn't, then you screwed up.
-russ
Economics has repeatable experiments, and politicans repeat them all the time. Print up 10% more dollars, and inflation rises, reducing the value of the dollar by 10% over time. The interesting thing is not that economics is a science, but that politicians are surprised when the experiment comes out the same way every time.
-russ
Wow. You obviously know nothing about the Austrian school of economics. You have a lot to learn, and none of it requires any mathematics.
-russ
If we understand that taxing cigarettes will reduce demand, then why do we (by "we" I mean "you") refuse to understand that taxing income will reduce demand?
-russ
In a winner-takes-all system such as we have in the USA, you end up with two major parties and some number of fringe parties. The most that the fringe parties can hope to do is act as spoilers so as to influence the major parties to steal their ideas.
-russ
p.s. thanks for calling me young. I appreciate the sentiment even though I have thought about it hard for quite some number of years.
Python is an enterprise-grade programming language because its code is so readable. Sure, you can write a perl program faster, but six months later you won't be able to read it.
-russ
Government attempts to scuttle VoIP by requiring them to abide by 5 9's reliability
In fact, yes, that's likely to happen. The BOCs are very skilled at lobbying. Since there's no way for VOIP to provide 5 9's reliability, and they can't really provide E911 service in any sense of the term, you should expect the BOCs to attack VOIP by lobbying the government to include wiretapping as a requirement, reliability as a requirement, and E911 service as a requirement for VOIP.
-russ
p.s. they're not a shoo-in, because not ALL of our legislators are stupid or evil.
Canada has plenty of room for landfills. What are you worried about?
-russ
p.s. are you really so transparently stupid as to think that a "Disposable" camera is really disposed of after a single use?
"Insightful"???? You thought that was "Insightful"?!? You moron, that was FUNNY! Sheesh, don't you recognize good mockery when you see it???
-russ
Finance is not a science; economics is.
-russ
No apology.
-russ
why do they keep posting meaningless or nearly meaningless comments on slashdot considering that this comment was already posted before i really don't need to see it again
People usually take pictures of the four compass points. Close enough, really.
-russ