If Blizzard have their own league then they know they can always keep it going. If MLG had Overwatch, they would drop it as soon as it became unpopular.
Sports will take a long time to die off, they have a huge amount of inertia and are still getting record TV deals. The fans may be old, but they won't die for decades. Real sports also has local pride to keep people watching, a Geordie will keep watching Newcastle United FC, but it's much easier to stop watching SKT Telecom T1 if they go to shit.
"Many of your aerospace people", you mean people making the old expendable rockets that are shit-scarred of being made obsolete? Choose your links better next time. I'm not American anyway. The ITS is being built, a development version of the Raptor engine has been test fired, and an oxygen tank has been built and tested.
If China is making advances then they're not showing it yet, their program is where the US and USSR were in the 60s.
They're not in terminal decline, just being caught up as their advantages are being eroded. The US will do better than the EU because they're more competitive and dynamic.
There was no vote to join, but there was a vote a few years later to confirm it. Britain does not require referendums for anything, and they are not legally binding.
Except...the only country making advances in manned space flight is the US. The only country making rockets which will take men outside of LEO is...the US. The only country building a rocket to take men to Mars is...the US. The only country making reusable rockets is...the US.
The weird thing about that is the entire tech industry came from government investment. The nerds hate the thing that gave them the things they like. The government creates all sorts of cool new technologies, a CEO like Steve Jobs takes them for free, puts them in a shiny box, sells them to Slashdotters, then Slashdotters post about how evil the government is and how CEOs should run the world.
The oil workers aren't more productive than the farmers, the oil field is more productive than the wheat field. That's why it's hard to measure worker productivity.
I think it still wouldn't hurt to try to reduce the number of hours worked but to be working the most hours per week and still have the most productivity per hour is actually kindof impressive.
Not really, the US economy has inherent efficiencies which make it easier to achieve greater GDP without individual workers actually being any better.
You seem to be implying (wrongly) that this is somehow a bad thing.
Most tax payers would consider it a bad thing if they had to pay for some expensive technology to be developed, just for some parasitic CEO to come along and use it for free and make billions.
The government big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take away everything you have.
That's one of the dumbest libertarian memes. A government which doesn't give you anything can also take away everything you have. You have to hand it to the Reaganites though, they're three decades of propaganda has been so effective it's got ordinary people spouting support for the mega-rich who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.
The idea that people should be free to conduct business seems to be foreign to NYC.
Yeah what would NYC know about business anyway? It's not like it's the centre of global finance or anything. Maybe these 'tech' companies should set up their rogue business empires in libertarian cities that don't have any rules or regulations.
People almost never think of the consequences of writing rules or laws.
What consequences are there of a city kicking out some parasitic organisation like Airbnb? Other than said company having to go back to Silicon Valley with its tail between its legs, thinking up the next 'get rich quick' scheme.
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If Blizzard have their own league then they know they can always keep it going. If MLG had Overwatch, they would drop it as soon as it became unpopular.
That's pretty much just Korea, no-one else cared about the Starcraft esports scene. The Japanese don't like PC gaming at all.
Sports will take a long time to die off, they have a huge amount of inertia and are still getting record TV deals. The fans may be old, but they won't die for decades. Real sports also has local pride to keep people watching, a Geordie will keep watching Newcastle United FC, but it's much easier to stop watching SKT Telecom T1 if they go to shit.
"Many of your aerospace people", you mean people making the old expendable rockets that are shit-scarred of being made obsolete? Choose your links better next time. I'm not American anyway. The ITS is being built, a development version of the Raptor engine has been test fired, and an oxygen tank has been built and tested.
If China is making advances then they're not showing it yet, their program is where the US and USSR were in the 60s.
It's not a race to the bottom, it's a race to the middle if third world wages are going up.
1) Living costs are also much higher in the US than the nations with much lower labor costs.
Living costs are a function of income. If US wages go down then living costs should follow.
Who says that 'on the premises' needs to be where you live though?
They're not in terminal decline, just being caught up as their advantages are being eroded. The US will do better than the EU because they're more competitive and dynamic.
There was no vote to join, but there was a vote a few years later to confirm it. Britain does not require referendums for anything, and they are not legally binding.
Except...the only country making advances in manned space flight is the US. The only country making rockets which will take men outside of LEO is...the US. The only country building a rocket to take men to Mars is...the US. The only country making reusable rockets is...the US.
Fine, just don't ever do business outside of the US, which is the only country in the world with an innate right to free speech.
Or say hello to all the other companies will which flood in to fill the gap.
There are rockets that can lift 27 tonnes.
The weird thing about that is the entire tech industry came from government investment. The nerds hate the thing that gave them the things they like. The government creates all sorts of cool new technologies, a CEO like Steve Jobs takes them for free, puts them in a shiny box, sells them to Slashdotters, then Slashdotters post about how evil the government is and how CEOs should run the world.
The oil workers aren't more productive than the farmers, the oil field is more productive than the wheat field. That's why it's hard to measure worker productivity.
I think it still wouldn't hurt to try to reduce the number of hours worked but to be working the most hours per week and still have the most productivity per hour is actually kindof impressive.
Not really, the US economy has inherent efficiencies which make it easier to achieve greater GDP without individual workers actually being any better.
(difficulties in financing voyages meant that colonies could be unsupplied and on their own for 2-3 years at a time).
And yet they had air, water, wood and agricultural land.
Actually it's Minecraft. Most Tetris sales were pack-ins.
Re-usability doesn't just lower cost, but increases launch cadence because you don't need to build a hundred rockets for a hundred launches.
You seem to be implying (wrongly) that this is somehow a bad thing.
Most tax payers would consider it a bad thing if they had to pay for some expensive technology to be developed, just for some parasitic CEO to come along and use it for free and make billions.
Fine, but don't pretend this is some sort of private space industry, when it's just a giant welfare program.
What exactly are you croaking about?
The government big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take away everything you have.
That's one of the dumbest libertarian memes. A government which doesn't give you anything can also take away everything you have. You have to hand it to the Reaganites though, they're three decades of propaganda has been so effective it's got ordinary people spouting support for the mega-rich who wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.
The idea that people should be free to conduct business seems to be foreign to NYC.
Yeah what would NYC know about business anyway? It's not like it's the centre of global finance or anything. Maybe these 'tech' companies should set up their rogue business empires in libertarian cities that don't have any rules or regulations.
People almost never think of the consequences of writing rules or laws.
What consequences are there of a city kicking out some parasitic organisation like Airbnb? Other than said company having to go back to Silicon Valley with its tail between its legs, thinking up the next 'get rich quick' scheme.
There's plenty of reason for it, it's a public nuisance. No-one wants their neighbouring houses/apartments turned into motel rooms.