Actually, yes, they did. The UAE citizens don't pay for schooling at all, just like the Saudis. The problem is, the citizens don't have to earn a living, so their incentives for effort are rather limited.
In the case of analyzing a market, market value is indeed the average (or median, or whatever statistical tool you want to use) of the prices recently paid for houses in the area.
Nope. The market value of any good, is the price at which a buyer and seller agree to the transaction. In the absence of voluntary price discovery, you don't have a market transaction at all, you have state plunder.
Why don't you tell me what's ethical about using the threat of violence to forcibly prevent someone from being employed?
Employers have a duty to provide an experience which contributes to human flourishing, taking advantage of employees because you can (due to market conditions) is unethical.
Nope. Their duty is to pay whatever they've agreed to pay, and fulfill whatever other terms they may have agreed to. It's called a "contract". There's nothing at all unethical about making an offer that someone else can take or leave.
It was 20 frickin' years ago, and he was going (or about to go) through a divorce.
Umm. So what? He broke the law, and wasn't punished for it. Putting him in any position where he's got the opportunity to do it again is grossly negligent.
There was a time when Microsoft made some excellent hardware products. the Z80 softcard for the Apple II, for example. Their software was never better than mediocre, though.
How intelligent do these guys expect an elephant to be?
Elephants, whales... Lots of other species have bigger brains than humans. For that matter, who says that people with bigger heads are any smarter in the first place?
Free trade has gutted the economy. All it is a proxy for slave labor. It's a total failure. All you have to do is look at all the shuttered manufacturing plants and all the loss of industrial know how to see that.
That's a failure of tax policy, not a failure of trade. Companies move manufacturing abroad for many reasons, and the cost of labor is the least of them. US workers still have the highest productivity.
an old fashioned long umbrella has a lot more reach and potential lethality, at least if one can make modifications to it..
No modifications necessary. It doesn't even need to be sharp. An umbrella works great for yari-waza. One solid poke in the face, and nine out of ten opponents will drop the knife.
Litigation is a poor substitute for competition. Nokia's grasping at straws here, because they know that when the iPhone gets down around the $50 price point, they're toast.
What policy decision of Bush was it that sunk the economy?
Bush certainly didn't act alone, and I'd place the greatest share of responsibility for our current mess on the Fed. The next biggest culprit would be the congress, for happily shirking its constitutional duty to exercise the money power, not to mention completely avoiding the responsibility to declare war or not.
the reality is, what sunk the economy is free trade.
Nonsense. Relatively free trade is one of the things that's kept us afloat for this long. Our financial problems are our government's doing, and selling us what we're willing to buy is not an act of aggression.
our current security is fairly good at preventing physical metallic objects that could be used as weapons.
No, it's not. I've taken my umbrella on flights since 9/11, and if I had to choose between that and a knife, I'd give the other guy the knife every time.
The decision flew in the face of the takings clause of the 5th amendment.
Not only that, it flew in the face of the purpose of government in the first place, which is to secure our life, liberty, and property. By acting as the agent of the thieves, the local government in New London violated the homeowner's rights, and by permitting them to do it, the Supreme Court of the United States added one example to their list of failures to uphold their duty.
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Once that device has a five-mile range and can carry a pizza and a six-pack, its market potential is enormous.
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Yeah, because Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot were such religious men.
They were, actually. They worshipped themselves. With the utmost devotion.
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did they use it to educate their people?
Actually, yes, they did. The UAE citizens don't pay for schooling at all, just like the Saudis. The problem is, the citizens don't have to earn a living, so their incentives for effort are rather limited.
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I don't know of an organized terrorist group that would be both capable and interested in knocking it over.
Are you kidding? Haven't you heard about the various muslim factions that consider each other heretics?
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About two years late for that, actually.
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Threats of Physical Violence?
That's what government is, sunshine. Admit it to yourself.
-jcr
In the case of analyzing a market, market value is indeed the average (or median, or whatever statistical tool you want to use) of the prices recently paid for houses in the area.
Nope. The market value of any good, is the price at which a buyer and seller agree to the transaction. In the absence of voluntary price discovery, you don't have a market transaction at all, you have state plunder.
-jcr
Take an ethics class sometime.
Why don't you tell me what's ethical about using the threat of violence to forcibly prevent someone from being employed?
Employers have a duty to provide an experience which contributes to human flourishing, taking advantage of employees because you can (due to market conditions) is unethical.
Nope. Their duty is to pay whatever they've agreed to pay, and fulfill whatever other terms they may have agreed to. It's called a "contract". There's nothing at all unethical about making an offer that someone else can take or leave.
Your utilitarian ethics are a very base level.
Go fuck yourself.
-jcr
It was 20 frickin' years ago, and he was going (or about to go) through a divorce.
Umm. So what? He broke the law, and wasn't punished for it. Putting him in any position where he's got the opportunity to do it again is grossly negligent.
-jcr
I think we should try and hang anyone who thinks we should arbitrarily shoot anyone.
Who said anything about shooting anyone arbitrarily?
-jcr
if you shoot someone, you are also depriving them of their franchise
Not in Chicago...
-jcr
There was a time when Microsoft made some excellent hardware products. the Z80 softcard for the Apple II, for example. Their software was never better than mediocre, though.
-jcr
How intelligent do these guys expect an elephant to be?
Elephants, whales... Lots of other species have bigger brains than humans. For that matter, who says that people with bigger heads are any smarter in the first place?
-jcr
I think we should get rid of the notion that everyone is qualified to vote
I think we should shoot anyone who seeks to deprive any of his fellow citizens of the franchise.
-jcr
Free trade has gutted the economy. All it is a proxy for slave labor. It's a total failure. All you have to do is look at all the shuttered manufacturing plants and all the loss of industrial know how to see that.
That's a failure of tax policy, not a failure of trade. Companies move manufacturing abroad for many reasons, and the cost of labor is the least of them. US workers still have the highest productivity.
-jcr
Correction - they wanted a Nokia, when Nokia had a strong brand name allure, and strong product offerings. That's not the case anymore.
Bingo. Anyone else remember when the Motorola RAZR was the hot product?
-jcr
an old fashioned long umbrella has a lot more reach and potential lethality, at least if one can make modifications to it..
No modifications necessary. It doesn't even need to be sharp. An umbrella works great for yari-waza. One solid poke in the face, and nine out of ten opponents will drop the knife.
-jcr
Apple has always catered to the higher end market, and has never brought any product down to the low end.
"iPod". Look it up.
-jcr
Wow. From a guy with an @mac.com address, I'd have expected you to know Apple's pricing strategy by this point.
You can get an iPhone 3G for $100 now. Go look up what the original iPhone sold for. For extra credit, look up the pricing history of the iPod.
-jcr
Litigation is a poor substitute for competition. Nokia's grasping at straws here, because they know that when the iPhone gets down around the $50 price point, they're toast.
-jcr
What policy decision of Bush was it that sunk the economy?
Bush certainly didn't act alone, and I'd place the greatest share of responsibility for our current mess on the Fed. The next biggest culprit would be the congress, for happily shirking its constitutional duty to exercise the money power, not to mention completely avoiding the responsibility to declare war or not.
the reality is, what sunk the economy is free trade.
Nonsense. Relatively free trade is one of the things that's kept us afloat for this long. Our financial problems are our government's doing, and selling us what we're willing to buy is not an act of aggression.
-jcr
our current security is fairly good at preventing physical metallic objects that could be used as weapons.
No, it's not. I've taken my umbrella on flights since 9/11, and if I had to choose between that and a knife, I'd give the other guy the knife every time.
-jcr
As I recall, they were hunted to extinction for their plumage. Haven't seen anything to indicate whether they were good to eat.
-jcr
The decision flew in the face of the takings clause of the 5th amendment.
Not only that, it flew in the face of the purpose of government in the first place, which is to secure our life, liberty, and property. By acting as the agent of the thieves, the local government in New London violated the homeowner's rights, and by permitting them to do it, the Supreme Court of the United States added one example to their list of failures to uphold their duty.
-jcr
Wooly mammoth? Dodo? Passenger pigeon?
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