No, the price we pay for civilization is treating each other decently. Taxes are the price we pay for delegating some of our prerogatives as free people to the state, to exercise on our behalf.
I have to pay for the degree with debt because MS wanted a higher margin.
No, you're going into debt because government-backed loan programs removed the market pressure to hold down costs. If anyone can go to college just by taking out a loan, the colleges have no reason to limit what they charge.
First of all, private organizations would have no incentive to build roads to nowhere. Secondly, "Learn some goddamn history" yourself. It's goverments, not corporations, that kill people by the tens of millions. Third, I know you want to believe that government keeps us all from just tilting our heads back and drowning in the rain like turkeys, but did you know that RIGHT NOW, the FDA is prohibiting beef producers from testing every single animal for mad cow disease? Do you know how many people the FDA kills every year by keeping drugs off the market that are saving lives in other countries?
Now, on to a few of your other canards:
Regulating insurance companies and the like. Insurance is one of the most regulated industries we have, that's why it's so insanely expensive. Every regulation raises the barrier to new competition, and drives up the cost of insurance policies. It wasn't always this way, google for "lodge doctors" if you want to learn how we once had medicine within just about everybody's reach, until government intervened to make it as expensive as possible.
Cops to keep you safe.
It's not the cops' job to keep us safe, and it would be impossible for them to even try to do so. Their job is to collect taxes and force displays of obedience to the state. If you want to be safe, carry a weapon. If you want to get tazed until you die from cardiac arrest, call a cop.
Privatization is the mantra of the robber barons
Umm, no. Regulation is the mantra of the robber barons, because it's regulation that protects them from competition.
They don't need idiots cheerleading for them from the sidelines.
Why does government have so many of you people doing exactly that? -jcr
Wow, it took an entire half hour for someone to toss off that canard? Read and learn.
Or educating kids.
Oh, you're funny. Have you set foot in an American starter-prison lately? Don't confuse indoctrination with education.
paying people to make sure Johnson & Johnson don't leave metal shards in your tylenol
Did some idiot teacher at a government school give you this asinine fantasy that vendors can make more money by killing their customers?
every dollar Apple keeps WILL go toward pushing impoverished Chinese people toward suicide
How, by giving them far better pay that they can get at other jobs in China? Do a bit of research: Foxconn workers have a lower suicide rate than every single state in the USA.
Go troll somewhere else.
That's advice you should take. Try educating yourself a bit before you do though, so you won't embarrass yourself like this again.
Apple's legal and finance departments know their stuff, and the company is fulfilling its fiduciary duty to the shareholders (like me). I don't see why the legacy media dregs at the NYT have any issue with that, but who cares what they say?
Every dollar that Apple can keep out of government's hands is a dollar that won't be spent on killing people I have no quarrel with, paying goons to grope old ladies, or harassing terminally ill patients who need pain relief.
That's the difference between today's incompetent security theater organization, and the FBI that broke the back of the KKK. It takes more than a checkbook, it takes some actual intelligence.
Terrorists don't have to bother getting on a plane anymore, and in fact they never did. The biggest, easiest target for mayhem is the crowd of people wrapped up in serpentine lines waiting to get to the obedience ritual machines.
The money spend on the entire TSA is a total waste. Put a tenth of that into bribing informants the way that Hoover did to the KKK, and what's left of Al-Queda will disintegrate.
Your obvious fear of more black people in the world fills me with disgust. If the people in Africa want to drill wells and improve their lives, good for them!
I've been a software developer, I've been a hiring manager, I've been a co-founder of a startup, and worked in this industry for decades. Every time I've had an open job req, I see maybe one female applicant out of 200 resumes. 90% of success is showing up.
Aside from the fact that this is the only good thing on your list, you do realize that it's still the congress and not the president that has the power to levy taxes, right?
Dr. Paul is quite candid about the problems with the "gold standard" as we once had it, which is the simple fact that it doesn't mean gold coinage, it means paper notes ostensibly redeemable for gold. The trouble is that governments will always cheat and issue more notes than they can redeem. That's not a problem with gold, it's a problem with lying shyster politicians handing out bogus gold receipts.
What he actually has called for, is the elimination of the Federal reserve's monopoly, which would open the market to competing currencies. Gold and silver coinage would most likely prove to be the most popular money for all the reasons that applied historically, but if people want to trade in bitcoins or commodity contracts, that would be their decision and not the government's.
If they're too cowardly to give the go-ahead to a licensing project where they're not even fronting the cash, but just collecting royalties, to hell with them. I'd rather have the Galactica, anyway.
Reading comprehension isn't your long suit, apparently. You missed this in the first line: "demands both ISPs and device makers filter adult content." The line you quoted all by itself might sound like she's just asking ISPs to offer filtering software, but if you RTFA, you'd find that she wants it to be filtered by default. Among other things, that means that the ISP has a list of people who've opted-in. A list that a government can abuse.
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No, the price we pay for civilization is treating each other decently. Taxes are the price we pay for delegating some of our prerogatives as free people to the state, to exercise on our behalf.
-jcr
I have to pay for the degree with debt because MS wanted a higher margin.
No, you're going into debt because government-backed loan programs removed the market pressure to hold down costs. If anyone can go to college just by taking out a loan, the colleges have no reason to limit what they charge.
-jcr
The question is: what do you think Microsoft owes YOU?
-jcr
What do you think Microsoft owes you, and why?
-jcr
Glad to hear that Microsoft is employing competent accountants.
-jcr
First of all, private organizations would have no incentive to build roads to nowhere. Secondly, "Learn some goddamn history" yourself. It's goverments, not corporations, that kill people by the tens of millions. Third, I know you want to believe that government keeps us all from just tilting our heads back and drowning in the rain like turkeys, but did you know that RIGHT NOW, the FDA is prohibiting beef producers from testing every single animal for mad cow disease? Do you know how many people the FDA kills every year by keeping drugs off the market that are saving lives in other countries?
Now, on to a few of your other canards:
Regulating insurance companies and the like. Insurance is one of the most regulated industries we have, that's why it's so insanely expensive. Every regulation raises the barrier to new competition, and drives up the cost of insurance policies. It wasn't always this way, google for "lodge doctors" if you want to learn how we once had medicine within just about everybody's reach, until government intervened to make it as expensive as possible.
Cops to keep you safe.
It's not the cops' job to keep us safe, and it would be impossible for them to even try to do so. Their job is to collect taxes and force displays of obedience to the state. If you want to be safe, carry a weapon. If you want to get tazed until you die from cardiac arrest, call a cop.
Privatization is the mantra of the robber barons
Umm, no. Regulation is the mantra of the robber barons, because it's regulation that protects them from competition.
They don't need idiots cheerleading for them from the sidelines.
Why does government have so many of you people doing exactly that?
-jcr
Or building your roads.
Wow, it took an entire half hour for someone to toss off that canard? Read and learn.
Or educating kids.
Oh, you're funny. Have you set foot in an American starter-prison lately? Don't confuse indoctrination with education.
paying people to make sure Johnson & Johnson don't leave metal shards in your tylenol
Did some idiot teacher at a government school give you this asinine fantasy that vendors can make more money by killing their customers?
every dollar Apple keeps WILL go toward pushing impoverished Chinese people toward suicide
How, by giving them far better pay that they can get at other jobs in China? Do a bit of research: Foxconn workers have a lower suicide rate than every single state in the USA.
Go troll somewhere else.
That's advice you should take. Try educating yourself a bit before you do though, so you won't embarrass yourself like this again.
-jcr
that's borderline illegal AND morally corrupt.
No, the moral issue is the taxation. Your diatribe above presumes that a company's revenues belong to the state.
-jcr
every single corporation in existence does this,
Every corporation with competent accountants and tax attorneys, you mean. Any company that fails to do this is wasting their shareholders' money.
-jcr
Apple's legal and finance departments know their stuff, and the company is fulfilling its fiduciary duty to the shareholders (like me). I don't see why the legacy media dregs at the NYT have any issue with that, but who cares what they say?
Every dollar that Apple can keep out of government's hands is a dollar that won't be spent on killing people I have no quarrel with, paying goons to grope old ladies, or harassing terminally ill patients who need pain relief.
-jcr
Hear, hear! Bring back the Peppermill! It was fun to have a little bit of Las Vegas right on DeAnza boulevard.
-jcr
I recall signs on the wall at the cafeteria on Apple's main campus that warned employees not to chat about their work
I worked there for three and a half years as an employee, and I've been back twice as a consultant, and I've never seen any such signs.
-jcr
you'll find plenty of Google, Facebook, and other South Bay company employees living in San Francisco, but not Apple employees
Really? Then why does Apple run a fleet of busses between Cupertino and San Francisco every day?
Got anything else you want to make up like that?
-jcr
The pursuit of ever growing profits has got to be curbed.
I truly hope that you are never placed in any position of fiduciary responsibility.
-jcr
That's the difference between today's incompetent security theater organization, and the FBI that broke the back of the KKK. It takes more than a checkbook, it takes some actual intelligence.
-jcr
Terrorists don't have to bother getting on a plane anymore, and in fact they never did. The biggest, easiest target for mayhem is the crowd of people wrapped up in serpentine lines waiting to get to the obedience ritual machines.
The money spend on the entire TSA is a total waste. Put a tenth of that into bribing informants the way that Hoover did to the KKK, and what's left of Al-Queda will disintegrate.
-jcr
Your obvious fear of more black people in the world fills me with disgust. If the people in Africa want to drill wells and improve their lives, good for them!
-jcr
I've been a software developer, I've been a hiring manager, I've been a co-founder of a startup, and worked in this industry for decades. Every time I've had an open job req, I see maybe one female applicant out of 200 resumes. 90% of success is showing up.
-jcr
Lets start with extending the bush tax cuts.
Aside from the fact that this is the only good thing on your list, you do realize that it's still the congress and not the president that has the power to levy taxes, right?
-jcr
Frankly I don't know a great deal about it
Obviously.
Dr. Paul is quite candid about the problems with the "gold standard" as we once had it, which is the simple fact that it doesn't mean gold coinage, it means paper notes ostensibly redeemable for gold. The trouble is that governments will always cheat and issue more notes than they can redeem. That's not a problem with gold, it's a problem with lying shyster politicians handing out bogus gold receipts.
What he actually has called for, is the elimination of the Federal reserve's monopoly, which would open the market to competing currencies. Gold and silver coinage would most likely prove to be the most popular money for all the reasons that applied historically, but if people want to trade in bitcoins or commodity contracts, that would be their decision and not the government's.
-jcr
If they're too cowardly to give the go-ahead to a licensing project where they're not even fronting the cash, but just collecting royalties, to hell with them. I'd rather have the Galactica, anyway.
-jcr
Printed on the toilet paper in all of the restrooms.
-jcr
>I have a 3GS sitting in a shelf from 2010. Am I eligible for unlocking on this phone?
Yes. The contract term on that 3Gs has expired.
-jcr
Reading comprehension isn't your long suit, apparently. You missed this in the first line: "demands both ISPs and device makers filter adult content." The line you quoted all by itself might sound like she's just asking ISPs to offer filtering software, but if you RTFA, you'd find that she wants it to be filtered by default. Among other things, that means that the ISP has a list of people who've opted-in. A list that a government can abuse.
-jcr
That woman is actually stupid enough to believe that a single country can stop porn on the net.
-jcr