It would seem that way. But what happens when americans can't even afford to buy the stuff at WalMart anymore?
It's hard to imagine that happening. There are things worth doing, and there are lots of Americans, so somebody will pay them something to do those things. People are still the best, most valuable, resource. Unless they're idiots sitting stupefied in front of TVs.
Unfortunately the only jobs that are going to be left for americans to work at is going to be at the local WalMart. There will be no shortage of those jobs.
The market's verdict in that case is that Americans are overpriced and underperforming. We can live off our fat for a coupla years, though.
An interesting comment: 'What about workers who lack the job skills to fit into the higher and higher levels of sophisticated production in which the US is specializing? Because of the existence of scarcity, there will never be a shortage of jobs to do, so long as we live in time and not eternal bliss. The phrase "shortage of jobs" can only be colloquial; there is never a shortage of things to do. It is only a question of price, and the best way to raise the wages is to make sure that people do what they are most suited to do--which can only be known by letting markets work.'
to the winodows hole found the other day. Has anybody heard if that was fixed yet(not sure if it has been 48 hours yet). Technically this hole was fixed before it was found. It looks like another win for open source.
Microsoft PR: "This was a known exploit and was already fixed for the next patch release for tomorrow, uh, no, make that next week, yeah, next week!"
Its ironic that people who have the motivation and ambition to earn $20 million will probably not stop there, but people who would stop at $20 million will never earn that much.
In other words, the rich keep doing what made them rich, the poor keep doing what made them poor.
Apple choose ease-of-use, and get criticised for leaving an open security "hole". Microsoft choose the same, and get criticised for (well, just about everything except wonderful marketing), and Linux chooses the other, and is criticised for poor ease-of-use.
Uh, you mean Red Hat Linux, where every service and it's 3rd cousin is running?
Try OpenBSD, which has just about nothing running default.
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I view hiking, biking, jumping, swimming, etc... as recreational activity.
Watching a movie and reading a book have very similar levels of recreational activity.
Recreation == re-creation. It's not necessarily physical activity. And anyone who thinks watching a movie, in which the imagination is pre-packaged, and reading a book are on the same level re-creationally, is just plain daft.
You are in the fantasy world, I never mentioned the US, you did.
The US is, in many ways, a fantasy world.
I presume that the laws of free markets would apply, no matter which country they are applied in? Even if the country is in South America?
The laws of physics apply there, don't they? There _are_ economic laws, which is why socialism can't work _anywhere_. Free market "failures" are due to some state intervention or other.
The truth is that both ideas are ultimately feeding on the free market as the source of their power. Dammit, I want to live in a world with out these friggin' overlords and uber men around every corner. A free market with small companies still looks like the best of all worlds to me.
I, too, have distributist leanings. I don't see how you can implement it, though. People want their WalMart.
Why man vs. machine is so important to us is a little baffling....we have to congratulate people when they can do something better than a tool can! (Personally I root for the block of silicon;-)
I agree. The computer itself is a fascinating creation, but the fact that a given computer churned huge amounts of numbers is banal. That's what computers do.
I really think this match was "Kasparov, chess grandmaster" vs. "a bunch of programmers augmented by computing power". Obviously any given programmer, no matter how much he knows about chess, would get killed by Kasparov. A Team of Programmers, augmented by the computer, drew.
Imagine, a battle between "someone who has figured out and memorized PI out to X million digits" (a Master Pi-Man) vs "a programmer and his computer". Sure, the programmer _understands_ Pi, and how to calculate it, but can he do it the same as the master Pi-man? Hardly.
I don't understand how a computer that can compute millions of moves a sec. and probably 20-50 or more moves deep in a fairly short amount of time could possibly not win? Even a home computer I would think could compute thousands of moves a sec. How could any person possibly out think that???
While the computer can be programmed to "look ahead" for N moves, the computer must also be programmed to pick a move eventually, what is programmed to be the "best move". And all this programming is done by humans. Voila!
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Why stop at religion? How about state-run "education" from my hard-earned dollars?
It's hard to imagine that happening. There are things worth doing, and there are lots of Americans, so somebody will pay them something to do those things. People are still the best, most valuable, resource. Unless they're idiots sitting stupefied in front of TVs.
The market's verdict in that case is that Americans are overpriced and underperforming. We can live off our fat for a coupla years, though.
That all sounds great, and doable. Could anyone help me with a good idea?
An interesting comment: 'What about workers who lack the job skills to fit into the higher and higher levels of sophisticated production in which the US is specializing? Because of the existence of scarcity, there will never be a shortage of jobs to do, so long as we live in time and not eternal bliss. The phrase "shortage of jobs" can only be colloquial; there is never a shortage of things to do. It is only a question of price, and the best way to raise the wages is to make sure that people do what they are most suited to do--which can only be known by letting markets work.'
Microsoft PR: "This was a known exploit and was already fixed for the next patch release for tomorrow, uh, no, make that next week, yeah, next week!"
In other words, the rich keep doing what made them rich, the poor keep doing what made them poor.
Uh, you mean Red Hat Linux, where every service and it's 3rd cousin is running?
Try OpenBSD, which has just about nothing running default.
Slashdot: 6 years of "virii" posing and arguing.
Watching a movie and reading a book have very similar levels of recreational activity.
Recreation == re-creation. It's not necessarily physical activity. And anyone who thinks watching a movie, in which the imagination is pre-packaged, and reading a book are on the same level re-creationally, is just plain daft.
making good music would be a start.
Who won? The battle is not always to the strongest, nor the race to the swiftest.
Is this some kind of Eastern Mysticism?
If you brought in psychologists, they'd get distracted by all the "case studies" in the Linux world.
This reminds me of the old joke: how much do dead batteries cost? Nothing, they're free of charge. Hey, it _is_ on topic!
The ones who take very good care of their things are wary. The ones who don't are eager. Do I sense a problem with the program here?
Clap on, clap off.
Now _that_ was funny.
You didn't really need to wait this long for proof? That is, unless you were waiting for three data points...
so where does the US national highway system work into all this? last time I checked, our roads were pretty damn good.
They may be smooth, but they're overcrowded in many places. And have you watched road crews at work? They're a standing joke (pun intended).
The US is, in many ways, a fantasy world.
I presume that the laws of free markets would apply, no matter which country they are applied in? Even if the country is in South America?
The laws of physics apply there, don't they? There _are_ economic laws, which is why socialism can't work _anywhere_. Free market "failures" are due to some state intervention or other.
It's a belief, but not a fact.
You are in a fantasy world. There are no deregulated water and electric markets in the US. They are the most-regulated industries.
I, too, have distributist leanings. I don't see how you can implement it, though. People want their WalMart.
I agree. The computer itself is a fascinating creation, but the fact that a given computer churned huge amounts of numbers is banal. That's what computers do.
I really think this match was "Kasparov, chess grandmaster" vs. "a bunch of programmers augmented by computing power". Obviously any given programmer, no matter how much he knows about chess, would get killed by Kasparov. A Team of Programmers, augmented by the computer, drew.
Imagine, a battle between "someone who has figured out and memorized PI out to X million digits" (a Master Pi-Man) vs "a programmer and his computer". Sure, the programmer _understands_ Pi, and how to calculate it, but can he do it the same as the master Pi-man? Hardly.
While the computer can be programmed to "look ahead" for N moves, the computer must also be programmed to pick a move eventually, what is programmed to be the "best move". And all this programming is done by humans. Voila!