Why there is neither Mario nor Zelda to play on the Wii then, huh?
In Europe at least, no. Maybe they have a different strategy over here, i.e. the old 'don't bother releasing anything here until a year after everywhere else so we don't make any sales' strategy.
Lower corporate taxes increase the rewards for successful businesses. The higher the potential rewards, the bigger risks investors will take with startups. Therefore, there will be more 'fit' companies.
Do you truly believe that America has a right to sap foreign nations of their talent and create perpetual charity cases out of entire countries?
You're saying this as if America is kidnapping foreigners to work in America. I'm pretty sure they leave of their own accord. Maybe you think you should be able to make clever people stay in poverty-ridden third world hell holes.
Do you truly believe that the Federal Government of America is any more honest and humanitarian than the (former) Soviet Union or China? I don't see China invading nations around the globe and creating perpetual debtors out of its entire population.
China was founded by conquering neighbouring provinces. Ask people in Tibet, Taiwan or Hong Kong about China's foreign policy. I don't see how America is forcing its population into debt either.
Do you truly think that it's in the long term best interest of the anchored citizens of this nation to be giving the priveleged positions and salaries to immigrants, and subsidizing them for it, while leaving the average true American household at around $30k/year?
Why should average American people be paid more than average wages? Those immigrants are paid highly because they're in the top level of talent. Why shouldn't a genius scientist from India be paid more than a red-neck burger-flipper from Alabama? Maybe you think global science and research should suffer just so Bubba can be paid 50k for sweeping the streets.
Or maybe, instead of whining about immigrants, Americans should become more educated, qualified and intelligent so there is no need to bring in immigrants. Of course that means giving up good old American values like treating smart kids like crap whilst worshipping dumb, steroid-pumped athletes.
I'd say it's the opposite. With faster Internet become more wide-spread, making it easier to work from home via the desktop, I think laptops are on their way out. Why spend all that money on a laptop with a crappy screen and cramped keyboard and no mouse, as well as expensive, desk-clogging docking stations, when you can just access your work's computer from home with your proper desktop?
No nation that is well armed with nuclear counterstrike capabilities will ever be invaded.
Britain was invaded by Argentina. We didn't nuke them, maybe that was an opportunity lost to show we're not afraid to use them. Or maybe they don't work anyway and it's all just a big bluff.
Palestine and Lebanon launch countless strikes against Israel, yet there is no nuclear retaliation.
Add the religious side and you'll see why Europe currently feels an influx of researchers, not only from "poor" countries where they can't get funding, but also a healthy dose of quite capable people from the US who prefer to ponder what their findings mean, not to ponder what they may write should they not want to be censored.
Try getting the funding in Europe for research to prove that global warming isn't caused by carbon emissions.
In America, climate change is something to be censored. In Europe, climate change is an excuse to raise taxes. I'm not sure which system is better.
If you're going first, put your mark in the corner. Almost regardless of what your opponent does, put your next mark in an adjacent corner. He'll now have to block you, and then you put your third mark in yet another corner, and voila, you have 2 winning moves.
Um no, you put your first mark in the corner, and your opponent goes in the middle. Your tactic is useless.
But then what if everyone bids high so they win, thinking they'll pay a much lower second price? Not allowing a bidding war will also mean a reduced price for the seller. People who are wanting to buy but don't know the market price or value of the product will not be able to bid. A secret ballot means you don't know you're out of the bidding until it's too late to find another auction, so all the losers in the auction are severely inconvenienced.
No, I'm afraid this Vickrey method is full of flaws.
Prices to the customer are higher because the prices to the companies are higher. This is truly a cure that is worse than the disease, introducing a huge level of economic inefficiency. If it's ever required for small companies, it'll raise the bar for entrepreneurs even further, lowering the number of companies created. This thing is attacking the capitalist economy directly. Our entire way of life is based on that kind of economy, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it originated as an attempt to undermine that, to move us towards a more European model.
I don't think so, Europe doesn't have a SOX, and has no intentions of introducing one. In fact, it's existence in America, and lack of it over here, is beneficial to us.
I co-founded a Sarbanes-Oxley consulting firm a couple of years ago,
Then surely you have a huge vested interest in SOX? The stats are there for everyone to see: more companies going private, less going public. The result: less investment, and stifled growth for small companies.
Of course I hate cooking. It's a horrible chore, and means standing about in the tiny, grotty, mouldy kitchen where there's no room to do anything.
When I make pizza sauce, I make about a gallon which is enough for about 30 pizzas, and costs under $5
Where the hell would I put a gallon of sauce? I don't think I eat that many pizzas in a year either. And it's a hell of a waste of time and space if the sauce comes out wrong.
Any sit down restaurant better than a fast food joint will probably take you an hour anyway... You have to get there, wait for a seat, wait to place your order, wait for it to come, wait for your check, etc.
Sitting in a restaurant is an enjoyable experience. Sitting at home isn't. Restaurants are designed to be nice places to sit in, you don't expect to just come in, eat your food, then leave.
If things you made are bland and badly-cooked, then you either have a shitty recipe or you didn't even TRY to cook right.
Recipes in general are shit. This is the advantage of a takeaway or restaurant, they know all the good recipes. They also have the right equipment.
To address your equipment issue, Hot pizza ovens - a regular oven with a stone (cheap unglazed quarry tile from a tile store - $2) works just fine.
Regular oven's aren't hot enough to cook pizza. Stones may provide the necessary heat from below, but not from above. The other advantage of restaurants/takeaways is that the pizza bases are round and even. Homemade bases are crooked and uneven. And get flour everywhere.
Vertical spit - definitely a nitch item, but a BBQ grill or broiler works fine
Normal grills don't have room for a kebab block. And they don't rotate either. A full block is too big for eating at home anyway, you'd cut a few slices off for the kebab and then what do you do with the rest? And where do you get the meat from in the first place?
As for sharp knives, I don't understand your problem... All my knives are quite sharp. If you can't figure out how to use a stone or one of the other bazillions of sharpening devices, you can find a shop that will do this simplistic task for you. Sharpening is a basic kitchen skill - like boiling water.
I use the stick that comes with them. It doesn't work. I have to use the serrated knife for everything as that's the only one that actually cuts. What a load of shit.
Done it, both Thai and Indian -the local store had all the spices.
But how do you know what spices to buy? Or how to use them? Recipes in the Internet are all shit.
I've tried making indians. They taste nothing like a proper curry. Even if you use stuff out of a jar it's complete crap. And I haven't a clue how to make the popadoms or chutney. The rice never comes out right. And samosas? Forget it. An indian is probably the most complicated thing there is to cook.
And knife sharpeners don't work. Domestic knives aren't sharp enough for cutting meat and vegetables.
If it only takes you 20 minutes to cook a meal, you can't be making anything interesting or tasty. Can you even make pasta in 20 minutes, or a curry marinade?
Home cooking eats* into scarce leisure time. If you only have two free hours a day, you don't want to use it up cooking, it wouldn't leave you much time to even eat it, let alone anything else. Add the time it takes to get all the obscure ingredients as well...
Then you've got all the pots and pans to clean up, and plates. Plus the cost of all the ingredients. At the end of it all, you're left with something that's bland and badly-cooked compared to something premade.
Unless you're telling me you can outcook professional chefs with decades of experience, as well as all the equipment you don't have at home (i.e. hot pizza ovens, deep-fat fryers, vertical spits, sharp knives).
Try making a curry at home, it'd take you six months to track down all the spices. And then try making popadoms or mango chutney...
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Lower corporate taxes increase the rewards for successful businesses. The higher the potential rewards, the bigger risks investors will take with startups. Therefore, there will be more 'fit' companies.
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If competition is bad, then Google should never have been invented, they should have cooperated with Yahoo instead...
Here in England we pay 10 'bucks' a gallon, and have hardly any public transport at all.
Or maybe, instead of whining about immigrants, Americans should become more educated, qualified and intelligent so there is no need to bring in immigrants. Of course that means giving up good old American values like treating smart kids like crap whilst worshipping dumb, steroid-pumped athletes.
What's immoral about hiring based on talent rather than nationality?
I'd say it's the opposite. With faster Internet become more wide-spread, making it easier to work from home via the desktop, I think laptops are on their way out. Why spend all that money on a laptop with a crappy screen and cramped keyboard and no mouse, as well as expensive, desk-clogging docking stations, when you can just access your work's computer from home with your proper desktop?
The Laptop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye?
What happens when you're parked in the shade, or at night?
Palestine and Lebanon launch countless strikes against Israel, yet there is no nuclear retaliation.
Damn right. Why should I pay taxes to support a stuffy old elitest Old Boys' institution that I'm never going to benefit from anyway?
In America, climate change is something to be censored. In Europe, climate change is an excuse to raise taxes. I'm not sure which system is better.
But then what if everyone bids high so they win, thinking they'll pay a much lower second price? Not allowing a bidding war will also mean a reduced price for the seller. People who are wanting to buy but don't know the market price or value of the product will not be able to bid. A secret ballot means you don't know you're out of the bidding until it's too late to find another auction, so all the losers in the auction are severely inconvenienced.
No, I'm afraid this Vickrey method is full of flaws.
But Civ 1 has more modern units like riflemen and mechanised infantry. Phalanxes aren't upgraded, they stay exactly as they are.
Sonic Rush is just Sonic 1 with less interesting levels. You hold down the direction button and occasionally fall off cliffs.
It's not the cooking, it's the making it in the first place.
That sounds like dull boiled rice, not pilau.
I've tried making indians. They taste nothing like a proper curry. Even if you use stuff out of a jar it's complete crap. And I haven't a clue how to make the popadoms or chutney. The rice never comes out right. And samosas? Forget it. An indian is probably the most complicated thing there is to cook.
And knife sharpeners don't work. Domestic knives aren't sharp enough for cutting meat and vegetables.
What could be more deliciuos than a steamed vegetable stew? Other than bread and butter obviously.
If it only takes you 20 minutes to cook a meal, you can't be making anything interesting or tasty. Can you even make pasta in 20 minutes, or a curry marinade?
Home cooking eats* into scarce leisure time. If you only have two free hours a day, you don't want to use it up cooking, it wouldn't leave you much time to even eat it, let alone anything else. Add the time it takes to get all the obscure ingredients as well...
Then you've got all the pots and pans to clean up, and plates. Plus the cost of all the ingredients. At the end of it all, you're left with something that's bland and badly-cooked compared to something premade.
Unless you're telling me you can outcook professional chefs with decades of experience, as well as all the equipment you don't have at home (i.e. hot pizza ovens, deep-fat fryers, vertical spits, sharp knives).
Try making a curry at home, it'd take you six months to track down all the spices. And then try making popadoms or mango chutney...