Among other things, fighters engage the enemies fighters and bombers while protecting our own. Fighters play a major role in keeping control of the sky which, as we have seen in the past few wars, is key to winning on the ground. If you could win a ground war with cruise missiles I am sure we would have tried that already.
The problem with that is that the NIH is a poor allocator of research funds. For diseases that are shared by many people the market will make the best choices in the presence of a reasonable patent system. However there is a good argument for government funding to study diseases that few people have and are therefore under-researched by the private sector.
Yet some how there's fruit in the grocery store every single year, single crop interruptions notwithstanding. And there's my point. It's ok if cabbage prices double overnight because we can always eat spinach.
Electricity prices too are set by the market, but we rarely seem to run out of that.
In the event of a sort of catastrophe wherein all the crops failed, price floors would do nothing and price ceilings would create shortages.
Eh? If you're talking about the insert/home/end group of keys then I liked the positioning on those old natural keyboards. They are still available on newegg, and yes, they only come in white.
That is true in a good system but the admittedly hypothetical act I mentioned is typical of those proposed by state lawmakers, as opposed to doctors. Who will be making the rules in this new American socialist system?
Most jobs in this world do not require 90% of the theorems and principles that people are forced to learn through high school.
Herein lies the problem: certainly 90% of high school students don't need to learn those theorems in high school but our future math grad students certainly do. Some people would argue it would be a shame to segregate those students at such an early level, but it seems that successful schools abroad are already doing this. To some extent this happens in good schools in the US via the AP Calculus program.
Actually my one beef with the US AP Calc program is that colleges accept the credits and dump freshmen into something like Differential Equations. I know on some level that is supposed to a be a crucible, but it would not have killed me to have some sort of transition between "ok I can solve calculus problems" to "I can solve problems where understanding of calculus is necessary and taken for granted."
Perhaps it is not wrong to get an introduction to logic by viewing some examples (proofs) rather than starting with the essences of logic which, as you pointed out, are somewhat intuitive for most people. It's sort of like learning to speak by listening rather than by studying the way the mouth moves. *Insert gratuitous car analogy here.
Under a socialist system, nobody gets the liver. After all Tennessee livers must not be given to outsiders under the Tennessee anti-organ trafficking act of 2012.
Oh yeah it is. It's usually against the merchant agreement with the CC companies, but it's not illegal in the sense that theft is illegal, and it's pretty commonly done. Seems fair to me , too. It's a cost of doing business that, in part, lines my pockets when I use a CC. As long as they're upfront about it I don't mind.
Why is it that some of stupidest, most close-minded comments are coming from those that are promoting "education", or "intrinsic learning", whatever the hell that is.
Because free market haters are neither as smart nor as open minded as they like to pretend. Education is a religion to these people and its core belief is that if we just throw more money at the public school teachers all the problems will go away. This here is blasphemy.
why aren't they giving it to inner-city schools in the first place?
Umm because that would be inefficient? Isn't kind of the whole point of this experiment to see if giving money to the kids directly results in better outcomes than giving it to their teachers?
It would be an issue in the U.S. Our legislators will nominally cut the budget during a bad year then reinflate it even bigger during the boom times. As a result the federal government grows over long periods of time.
The US still produces more food than it consumes, so the justifications for farm subsidies are traditional ("we like farmers") and diplomatic ("other countries are doing it too").
but everyone knows that "fair and balanced" means balancing out the other side. The real problem is that liberals can't own up to the fact that rest of the cable news clique panders to their political sensibilities.
I get it, too. Journalists are generally well educated, work hard, and all but the most famous get paid peanuts. There are some unions involved. Find any profession with those conditions and you'll find liberals. Let's stop pretending that when every person in an organization shares a political view that it doesn't leak into the reporting.
Money? I don't believe they ask me whether the reason is good before taking it. Land? Muddy at this point but if my land were to stand in the way of a government supported project I would hedge my bets. Life? The government generally needs to have a reason to execute you, but they can "pollute your land and kill you" just as well as private industry.
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Meh whatever. I'll down the chocolate, wash it down with the whisky, and finish off with a cigar, and be a very happy man.
Among other things, fighters engage the enemies fighters and bombers while protecting our own. Fighters play a major role in keeping control of the sky which, as we have seen in the past few wars, is key to winning on the ground. If you could win a ground war with cruise missiles I am sure we would have tried that already.
The problem with that is that the NIH is a poor allocator of research funds. For diseases that are shared by many people the market will make the best choices in the presence of a reasonable patent system. However there is a good argument for government funding to study diseases that few people have and are therefore under-researched by the private sector.
wth? they're based in Irvine, CA.
Yet some how there's fruit in the grocery store every single year, single crop interruptions notwithstanding. And there's my point. It's ok if cabbage prices double overnight because we can always eat spinach.
Electricity prices too are set by the market, but we rarely seem to run out of that.
In the event of a sort of catastrophe wherein all the crops failed, price floors would do nothing and price ceilings would create shortages.
What if they had a Linux key? With a penguin and everything...
Eh? If you're talking about the insert/home/end group of keys then I liked the positioning on those old natural keyboards. They are still available on newegg, and yes, they only come in white.
I assume these kinds of modern planes can't even fly without a computer anymore.
You're wrong. They can.
And nobody is arguing that the fly by wire system is what failed here.
You can ship a CD containing both open source and non open source software. What's important is how they're linked. I think it could be done.
That is true in a good system but the admittedly hypothetical act I mentioned is typical of those proposed by state lawmakers, as opposed to doctors. Who will be making the rules in this new American socialist system?
Everybody must be really fat. Wal Mart produce sucks, and the one here is just chock full of heart attack on a plate.
Most jobs in this world do not require 90% of the theorems and principles that people are forced to learn through high school.
Herein lies the problem: certainly 90% of high school students don't need to learn those theorems in high school but our future math grad students certainly do. Some people would argue it would be a shame to segregate those students at such an early level, but it seems that successful schools abroad are already doing this. To some extent this happens in good schools in the US via the AP Calculus program.
Actually my one beef with the US AP Calc program is that colleges accept the credits and dump freshmen into something like Differential Equations. I know on some level that is supposed to a be a crucible, but it would not have killed me to have some sort of transition between "ok I can solve calculus problems" to "I can solve problems where understanding of calculus is necessary and taken for granted."
Perhaps it is not wrong to get an introduction to logic by viewing some examples (proofs) rather than starting with the essences of logic which, as you pointed out, are somewhat intuitive for most people. It's sort of like learning to speak by listening rather than by studying the way the mouth moves. *Insert gratuitous car analogy here.
and most of them can be traced to certain groups (*cough*teacher's unions*cough*) waging a 30 year war on public education
The fundies are all home schooled now.
Under a socialist system, nobody gets the liver. After all Tennessee livers must not be given to outsiders under the Tennessee anti-organ trafficking act of 2012.
Oh yeah it is. It's usually against the merchant agreement with the CC companies, but it's not illegal in the sense that theft is illegal, and it's pretty commonly done. Seems fair to me , too. It's a cost of doing business that, in part, lines my pockets when I use a CC. As long as they're upfront about it I don't mind.
Why is it that some of stupidest, most close-minded comments are coming from those that are promoting "education", or "intrinsic learning", whatever the hell that is.
Because free market haters are neither as smart nor as open minded as they like to pretend. Education is a religion to these people and its core belief is that if we just throw more money at the public school teachers all the problems will go away. This here is blasphemy.
why aren't they giving it to inner-city schools in the first place?
Umm because that would be inefficient? Isn't kind of the whole point of this experiment to see if giving money to the kids directly results in better outcomes than giving it to their teachers?
It would be an issue in the U.S. Our legislators will nominally cut the budget during a bad year then reinflate it even bigger during the boom times. As a result the federal government grows over long periods of time.
The US still produces more food than it consumes, so the justifications for farm subsidies are traditional ("we like farmers") and diplomatic ("other countries are doing it too").
If we accept that a substance is so dangerous that Joe should not be able to buy it at all on his own
I do not.
but everyone knows that "fair and balanced" means balancing out the other side. The real problem is that liberals can't own up to the fact that rest of the cable news clique panders to their political sensibilities.
I get it, too. Journalists are generally well educated, work hard, and all but the most famous get paid peanuts. There are some unions involved. Find any profession with those conditions and you'll find liberals. Let's stop pretending that when every person in an organization shares a political view that it doesn't leak into the reporting.
All news is biased -- get over it.
Money? I don't believe they ask me whether the reason is good before taking it. Land? Muddy at this point but if my land were to stand in the way of a government supported project I would hedge my bets. Life? The government generally needs to have a reason to execute you, but they can "pollute your land and kill you" just as well as private industry.
Since when is a government supported and supposedly regulated cable monopoly an example of capitalism?