I'm not from the US, but isn't that the main bit of you guys' healthcare system that's most in need of fixing?
No, the main problem of our health care system is that government interference (bought and paid for by the biggest vendors in the field) drives the costs up and prohibits competition. We need affordable health care, not horrendously expensive health insurance that's compulsory to purchase.
The adults know that you can't fix the problems of a mostly government-controlled mess by making it fully government-controlled. Keynesians are infantile morons.
we wonder more often why Windows weenies insist on cornering us and telling us loudly and aggressively that they are not going to use our OS, even when we didn't ask them to, while demanding we fix their computers
Sounds like you need to learn to be firm with your family.
either the Japanese lost decade nor the current economic slump would have been as bad had governments spent a little more time listening to Keynesians about regulation, and stopped assuming that the regulation averse FFriedmanites were infallible.
You're on crack. We were regulated right into this mess, the same way the Soviets regulated themselves into their final collapse.
But we're discussing Linux here, not some proprietary OS. If you want foo, you 'aptitude install foo' and it just works. If it doesn't you build it yourself and it just works....and linux weenies wonder why users don't drop Windows and flock to Linux in droves.
You clearly have the Austrians confused with the Keynesians. The Keynesians are the ones demanding more debt as a remedy for the problems caused by debt, despite the obvious failure of their policies in the first great depression, the Japanese lost decade, and the depression we're headed into right now.
Who is to say that licensing Mac OS didn't save the company?
Anyone who's familiar with the sequence of events, that's who. Licensing wasn't started until Apple had already started declining, and when SJ came in, his team looked over the numbers and determined that licensing was bleeding Apple to death.
I think the chances of winding down the debt in any orderly fashion are slim and falling. There's a very strong chance that the USA will collapse like the Soviet Union did, and for the same reasons.
You should take note that it was in the 1970s that Nixon reneged on the promise to redeem dollars for gold, which set off the stagflation that all the Keynesians said wasn't possible.
when Friedman's economics aren't classically liberal enough for you, you know you're off the deep end.
Friedman was in favor of fiat money. That's not a classical iberal position.
No. That process was accelerated by Bush, but it was started long before him. Nixon, Johnson, FDR of course, Wilson... Lots of presidents have happily increased the debt to pay for their grandiose, unconstitutional projects.
Next time you walk into a voting booth, and elect a congresscritter, choose one that is neither R or D
I hear where you're coming from, but they way the Ruling Party has stacked the deck, we're not going to restore our Republic without fixing at least one of the Ruling Party franchises. I think we've got a good shot at bouncing the neocons out of the Republican party and back to the Democrats. They're power-seekers, they go where the power is.
they took a vacation when Bush actually started to dismantle the Constitution....kind of like the way all the people who protested Bush have shut up now that it's a Democrat continuing his policies?
As it happens, we didn't declare war, and that's a big part of the problem. It's one more example of the government's general disregard for the constitution, which vests the war power in the congress, not the executive.
We have an historical precedent that perfectly fits the situation of non-state outlaws who prey on our citizens, and that is the way we dealt with the Barbary pirates. We should have issued letters of marque to anyone who wanted to go to Afghanistan and hunt Bin Laden down.
I swear, Friedman/Reagan destroyed rational economic thinking for a generation.
No, they partially restored it after the Keynesian insanity that started in the 1930s. Friedman's big failure was discounting the importance of sound money. Reagan's big failure was to submit (and sign) unbalanced budgets.
Moreover, the rule of law is not about how citizens must act, but about how governments must act.
That is the heart of the matter. The constitution is the entirety of the legal authority for the federal government. When it does anything beyond the powers granted by that document, its action is illegitimate.
If the bullets were designed to defeat police body armor.. the intended purpose of the bullets would be clear.
The intended purpose of any weapon is clear: it's to increase the wielder's ability to apply deadly force. A round that can get through police body armor can also go through body armor worn by a well-prepared armed robber.
There's a reason why we didn't give the government a monopoly on deadly force in this country.
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I'm not from the US, but isn't that the main bit of you guys' healthcare system that's most in need of fixing?
No, the main problem of our health care system is that government interference (bought and paid for by the biggest vendors in the field) drives the costs up and prohibits competition. We need affordable health care, not horrendously expensive health insurance that's compulsory to purchase.
-jcr
the adults are trying to make things better.
The adults know that you can't fix the problems of a mostly government-controlled mess by making it fully government-controlled. Keynesians are infantile morons.
-jcr
As for the peroxide search, it's a treatment for getting wax out of your ear, although I don't know if it works or not.
It does. Peroxide's an ingredient of most of the commercial wax-removal treatments.
-jcr
we wonder more often why Windows weenies insist on cornering us and telling us loudly and aggressively that they are not going to use our OS, even when we didn't ask them to, while demanding we fix their computers
Sounds like you need to learn to be firm with your family.
-jcr
Being afraid isn't a crime, nor is it probable cause for a search.
-jcr
what kind of vulnerable kit is this anyways?
We have a phrase for this kind of shoddy job here in the USA. "close enough for government work".
-jcr
It's the work of anti-science sabageutteurs.
-jcr
either the Japanese lost decade nor the current economic slump would have been as bad had governments spent a little more time listening to Keynesians about regulation, and stopped assuming that the regulation averse FFriedmanites were infallible.
You're on crack. We were regulated right into this mess, the same way the Soviets regulated themselves into their final collapse.
-jcr
But we're discussing Linux here, not some proprietary OS. If you want foo, you 'aptitude install foo' and it just works. If it doesn't you build it yourself and it just works. ...and linux weenies wonder why users don't drop Windows and flock to Linux in droves.
-jcr
You clearly have the Austrians confused with the Keynesians. The Keynesians are the ones demanding more debt as a remedy for the problems caused by debt, despite the obvious failure of their policies in the first great depression, the Japanese lost decade, and the depression we're headed into right now.
-jcr
For example, the Whig party is gone.
The party is gone, but their corruption continues.
They are no more.
Actually, they took over the Republican party, and changed it from an anti-slavery party to the Hamiltonian mercantilist organization that it is now.
-jcr
Who is to say that licensing Mac OS didn't save the company?
Anyone who's familiar with the sequence of events, that's who. Licensing wasn't started until Apple had already started declining, and when SJ came in, his team looked over the numbers and determined that licensing was bleeding Apple to death.
-jcr
I pay very little attention to open-source politics. What's the beef between Linus and Theo? Is it just a matter of dueling egos?
-jcr
I think the chances of winding down the debt in any orderly fashion are slim and falling. There's a very strong chance that the USA will collapse like the Soviet Union did, and for the same reasons.
-jcr
You should take note that it was in the 1970s that Nixon reneged on the promise to redeem dollars for gold, which set off the stagflation that all the Keynesians said wasn't possible.
when Friedman's economics aren't classically liberal enough for you, you know you're off the deep end.
Friedman was in favor of fiat money. That's not a classical iberal position.
-jcr
that process was started by Bush
No. That process was accelerated by Bush, but it was started long before him. Nixon, Johnson, FDR of course, Wilson... Lots of presidents have happily increased the debt to pay for their grandiose, unconstitutional projects.
-jcr
So, three lukewarm rebukes are equivalent to the protests that Bush got? Get serious.
-jcr
Go look up the definition of bankruptcy. Then, try to show me any record of any such legal proceeding against NeXT. QED.
-jcr
Next time you walk into a voting booth, and elect a congresscritter, choose one that is neither R or D
I hear where you're coming from, but they way the Ruling Party has stacked the deck, we're not going to restore our Republic without fixing at least one of the Ruling Party franchises. I think we've got a good shot at bouncing the neocons out of the Republican party and back to the Democrats. They're power-seekers, they go where the power is.
-jcr
Who knew Obama would come up with someone worse than Gonzales?
-jcr
they took a vacation when Bush actually started to dismantle the Constitution. ...kind of like the way all the people who protested Bush have shut up now that it's a Democrat continuing his policies?
-jcr
As it happens, we didn't declare war, and that's a big part of the problem. It's one more example of the government's general disregard for the constitution, which vests the war power in the congress, not the executive.
We have an historical precedent that perfectly fits the situation of non-state outlaws who prey on our citizens, and that is the way we dealt with the Barbary pirates. We should have issued letters of marque to anyone who wanted to go to Afghanistan and hunt Bin Laden down.
-jcr
I swear, Friedman/Reagan destroyed rational economic thinking for a generation.
No, they partially restored it after the Keynesian insanity that started in the 1930s. Friedman's big failure was discounting the importance of sound money. Reagan's big failure was to submit (and sign) unbalanced budgets.
-jcr
Moreover, the rule of law is not about how citizens must act, but about how governments must act.
That is the heart of the matter. The constitution is the entirety of the legal authority for the federal government. When it does anything beyond the powers granted by that document, its action is illegitimate.
-jcr
If the bullets were designed to defeat police body armor.. the intended purpose of the bullets would be clear.
The intended purpose of any weapon is clear: it's to increase the wielder's ability to apply deadly force. A round that can get through police body armor can also go through body armor worn by a well-prepared armed robber.
There's a reason why we didn't give the government a monopoly on deadly force in this country.
-jcr