In Texas, lawmen are smart enough to realize they other guy not only probably has a gun, its probably bigger too.
The effect of this awareness in Texas, as in other places like Switzerland where the population is not only armed but well-trained in the use of arms, is that the police tend to avoid actions that would meet with disapproval from the people.
FWIW, the most polite officer I ever encountered was a DPS trooper who wrote me a ticket for 70 MPH when I was doing 90, and informed me that if the fine were paid before the court date, Texas wouldn't bother to notify my home state of the infraction.
That article cites numerous instances of Krugman advocating the housing bubble. They also missed one that I recall, which was in an interview in Der Spiegel.
Yeah, those bastards, paving roads and building bridges and schools.
Jesus, not that stupid canard again.
It does not follow that because government does something, that it can't happen otherwise. Read and learn.
We'd have a far better and cheaper transportation infrastructure if what to build, where to build it, and how much to spend was left to the market to decide. Bridges to nowhere aren't profitable.
As for schools, we sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for.
I don't quite understand why saving is considered so evil in the United States.
It's only considered so by those who believe that inflation is a good thing. That is to say, bankers, apparatchiki, and ivory-tower cretins like Krugman.
Krugman once again demonstrates the Keynesian confusion about the role of savings in the economy. A miser is a good neighbor: instead of consuming all that he could consume in exchange for his production, he holds onto his money, thus making everyone else's money buy more in the market. The profligate spender who consumes all he earns, and the borrows more and consumes all of that (like the federal government) is the one to despise.
Tell me about it! There are a hell of a lot of people who believe they're entitled to forcibly take their neighbors' earnings as long as they delegate the dirty work to goons in costumes.
>You don't even realize how many benefits you get from having a stable society, do you?
Of course I do. That's why I oppose governments. They have a nasty habit of murdering people on an industrial scale.
Social justice means recognizing that all men were not born with equal opportunity.
Nope, "social justice" is a propaganda term used to rationalize looting. Justice, or the lack thereof, only pertains to an individual, not to whatever categories you seek to divide people into.
Yes, take 3 hydrogen atoms and bond them to a carbon atom.
This is an intriguing idea. I wonder what kind of energy it would take to turn CO2+H2 into octane + however much O2 you have left over... Perfectly clean hydrocarbon fuels forever!
Well, for the last ten years or so, Steve has been the guy who decided what the company would do, and Tim Cook has been the guy who made it happen. Apple's got the most incredibly efficient operation I've ever seen at a company of any size, and that efficiency is thanks to Tim.
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In Texas, lawmen are smart enough to realize they other guy not only probably has a gun, its probably bigger too.
The effect of this awareness in Texas, as in other places like Switzerland where the population is not only armed but well-trained in the use of arms, is that the police tend to avoid actions that would meet with disapproval from the people.
FWIW, the most polite officer I ever encountered was a DPS trooper who wrote me a ticket for 70 MPH when I was doing 90, and informed me that if the fine were paid before the court date, Texas wouldn't bother to notify my home state of the infraction.
-jcr
propaganda will never work against intelligent people.
What's your next guess?
-jcr
Don't they teach navigation in flight school anymore?
-jcr
Getting stabbed isn't as bad as getting blown apart, but I'd still prefer not to be stabbed.
-jcr
That article cites numerous instances of Krugman advocating the housing bubble. They also missed one that I recall, which was in an interview in Der Spiegel.
-jcr
Yeah, those bastards, paving roads and building bridges and schools.
Jesus, not that stupid canard again.
It does not follow that because government does something, that it can't happen otherwise. Read and learn.
We'd have a far better and cheaper transportation infrastructure if what to build, where to build it, and how much to spend was left to the market to decide. Bridges to nowhere aren't profitable.
As for schools, we sure as hell aren't getting what we pay for.
-jcr
> what we still have here is an FDA-controlled cartel.
Bingo. The FDA is the means by which nearly all medical devices are made far more expensive than they should be.
-jcr
Citation on the 2002 bit please.
Here you go.
-jcr
I don't quite understand why saving is considered so evil in the United States.
It's only considered so by those who believe that inflation is a good thing. That is to say, bankers, apparatchiki, and ivory-tower cretins like Krugman.
-jcr
Krugman once again demonstrates the Keynesian confusion about the role of savings in the economy. A miser is a good neighbor: instead of consuming all that he could consume in exchange for his production, he holds onto his money, thus making everyone else's money buy more in the market. The profligate spender who consumes all he earns, and the borrows more and consumes all of that (like the federal government) is the one to despise.
-jcr
Yes, people all over the world are terrified that Al Queda will refuse to fund their governments' social programs and illegal wars.
-jcr
Do you know the difference between manufacturing sample quantities and million-lots?
-jcr
> you also think that taxes are slavery, right?
No, taxes are theft. Conscription is slavery.
> Man, the entitlement sense some people have!
Tell me about it! There are a hell of a lot of people who believe they're entitled to forcibly take their neighbors' earnings as long as they delegate the dirty work to goons in costumes.
>You don't even realize how many benefits you get from having a stable society, do you?
Of course I do. That's why I oppose governments. They have a nasty habit of murdering people on an industrial scale.
-jcr
Social justice means recognizing that all men were not born with equal opportunity.
Nope, "social justice" is a propaganda term used to rationalize looting. Justice, or the lack thereof, only pertains to an individual, not to whatever categories you seek to divide people into.
-jcr
Yes, take 3 hydrogen atoms and bond them to a carbon atom.
This is an intriguing idea. I wonder what kind of energy it would take to turn CO2+H2 into octane + however much O2 you have left over... Perfectly clean hydrocarbon fuels forever!
-jcr
It's not just a "newer display." Do you have any idea how difficult it is to double the DPI of an LCD panel?
it really was just another minor update.
Wow, I'm totally impressed by how blasé you are. I guess you must have a full-color holographic projector on your phone.
-jcr
Is this a superior alternative to the work that Dan Nocera's been doing at MIT with catalysts to make electrolysis take less energy?
-jcr
Never looked at an iPhone 3 and an iPhone 4 side-by-side, have you?
-jcr
I hope you have a great time doing whatever you decide to do next.
-jcr
Well, for the last ten years or so, Steve has been the guy who decided what the company would do, and Tim Cook has been the guy who made it happen. Apple's got the most incredibly efficient operation I've ever seen at a company of any size, and that efficiency is thanks to Tim.
-jcr
If it weren't for Steve and the people he got to work with him at NeXT and Apple, I'd have been out of the computer industry decades ago.
-jcr
You only need three rails to support two gauges.
-jcr
I thought they were more broke than we are
Nobody in the world is more broke than we are. The USA is deeper in the hole than any country has ever been in history.
-jcr
Genesis is allegory.
-jcr
AFAIK the iPad cannot read SD cards nor accept USB mass storage devices.
There's a dongle for that.
-jcr