I've found a tremendous range in quality among MBAs, with Harvard MBAs being just about useless, and Stanford MBAs generally being people I'd trust to run a business.
I'm pretty fucking sick of that particular sneer that you pinkbots toss off. The market isn't something to worship, it's something to use, just as we use language to facilitate cooperation. You sound just like the fucking bible-thumpers who accuse me of "worshipping" Darwin.
Just put a few drops of hashish oil into their coffee each day.
So, you can get someone fired if you're just willing to commit a felony? Sounds like a piece of cake, except for the prison term you would get if you were found out.
Seriously, it's how we got rid of the asshole gung-ho Neidermeier officers back in the 1980's when I was in the US Navy
Has it occurred to you that this makes you far more of an asshole then any of them could ever be?
That is the key to the success of schools in Europe. In European school systems, funding follows the student, and they aren't simply assigned to schools geographically. We outspend them per capita, and we don't get what we pay for.
Very well said. I would add a few things, like joint replacements, angioplasty, lens replacements and keratotomy. Medicine and engineering together save countless lives.
And to effect this "redistribution" (actually, what you're talking about is plunder), you would erect a government with the power to take wealth forcibly from some group of people and give it to some other group of people.
Make government that powerful, and watch what happens.
the pharmas are just shopping in probably the purest free-market, the buying and selling of congressmen
Actually, thats a highly regulated market, too. They have to jump through a lot of hoops to buy a congressman without the congressman, the lobbyist and the buyer all landing in jail. Again, it's something that larger companies can afford to do far more easily than smaller ones.
Careful. Start down that path, and the next thing you know the pinkos will be demanding National Lunch Insurance to defray the cost of the approved foods.
Big pharma does not operate in a free market. They exist in a regulatory framework consisting of thousands of laws and regulations written primarily by their own lobbyists to raise barriers to competition.
The more any industry is regulated, the more it will concentrate into fewer and larger organizations. Big companies can cope with the regulation, but the compliance costs drive smaller competitors out, or push them to be acquired by larger organizations.
If you want to see a free market in medicine, the closest you get to it is Mexico, Thailand, China, or India. There's a reason why medical tourism is a rapidly-growing market.
See, that's why I decided not to take you seriously.
a sociopath whose entire political philosophy boils down to "You aren't the boss of me, I'll do what I want!"
There's nothing more selfish or sociopathic than seeking power over others. There's nothing more pathetic than being part of the cheering section for the power-grabbers.
You are a closed minded selfish simpleton
I'm playing you like a fiddle, sunshine. If you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd have figured that out a long time ago.
the schools seemed like right wing conservative hellholes
Looks like you perceived half of the problem. The schools aren't right-wing or left-wing, they're pro-government, and they teach kids what the state wants us to believe. They promote big government across the board, whether it's cheerleading for wars or for government interference in the economy.
Don't try the 'emotional attachment' bullshit with me, you are the one who can't let it go
As it happens, I did let it go. There was a time when I bought the party line just as you do, and reacted angrily when I was told that that the hero of world war two wasn't all he was cracked up to be. That was before I started reading history on my own, when all I knew was the story fed to me in school by government employees.
I'm curious: how much of an FDR fan are you? Do you even admit that it's wrong to lock up thousands of innocent people for their race?
Just drop it already.
Gosh, don't you just hate it when people don't comply with your demands?
Yours is the view that is taught by advocates of big government, who of course are loathe to admit their failures. The sad thing is how many people they succeed in deceiving.
Ask yourself why all of the previous depressions were over so quickly, back before the federal government had seized enough power to interfere with the recovery the way that Hoover and Roosevelt did.
The New Deal was an abject failure, and your own failure is your refusal to admit it.
For as long as I can remember, the purpose of newspapers has been "Make as much money as you can, by any means you can get away with".
There was a period before that, when the purpose of any newspaper was to advocate a political agenda. Every party or movement had its own newspaper, and they were quite up front about where they were coming from.
This idea of the "impartial" journalist was mostly a 20th-century affectation.
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Our last President had an MBA from Harvard.
He didn't have a great record as a businessman, did he?
-jcr
My 17 yr old (mostly stupid) step-daughter
That remark gives me a far more negative opinion of you than of her.
-jcr
I wonder why nobody's got a 3270 emulator on the iPhone yet.
-jcr
the worst offenders seem to be MBAs
MBAs from what schools?
I've found a tremendous range in quality among MBAs, with Harvard MBAs being just about useless, and Stanford MBAs generally being people I'd trust to run a business.
-jcr
160 characters was the maximum amount of text a cell phone user could read before completely losing interest.
Perhaps it's a conditioned response to having only short messages available.
-jcr
Dance, pinkbot, dance.
-jcr
the depression stopped as soon as that idiot Hoover got the boot.
Nope. That idiot FDR continued Hoover's idiotic interventionist policies, just as Obama is doing now.
The proof is in the numerical data, which you refuse to even acknowledge
Your graphs chop off the data you don't want to acknowledge, which is that the recovery took place in 1946.
-jcr
It's not that simple. Have a look at the FEC regulations sometime.
-jcr
The depression was over in three years
Tell it to anyone who lived through it, sport. They'll laugh at you like I do.
-jcr
free-market religion,
I'm pretty fucking sick of that particular sneer that you pinkbots toss off. The market isn't something to worship, it's something to use, just as we use language to facilitate cooperation. You sound just like the fucking bible-thumpers who accuse me of "worshipping" Darwin.
-jcr
Just put a few drops of hashish oil into their coffee each day.
So, you can get someone fired if you're just willing to commit a felony? Sounds like a piece of cake, except for the prison term you would get if you were found out.
Seriously, it's how we got rid of the asshole gung-ho Neidermeier officers back in the 1980's when I was in the US Navy
Has it occurred to you that this makes you far more of an asshole then any of them could ever be?
-jcr
This is why we need school choice vouchers.
That is the key to the success of schools in Europe. In European school systems, funding follows the student, and they aren't simply assigned to schools geographically. We outspend them per capita, and we don't get what we pay for.
-jcr
Very well said. I would add a few things, like joint replacements, angioplasty, lens replacements and keratotomy. Medicine and engineering together save countless lives.
-jcr
And to effect this "redistribution" (actually, what you're talking about is plunder), you would erect a government with the power to take wealth forcibly from some group of people and give it to some other group of people.
Make government that powerful, and watch what happens.
Government is the ultimate monopoly.
-jcr
the pharmas are just shopping in probably the purest free-market, the buying and selling of congressmen
Actually, thats a highly regulated market, too. They have to jump through a lot of hoops to buy a congressman without the congressman, the lobbyist and the buyer all landing in jail. Again, it's something that larger companies can afford to do far more easily than smaller ones.
-jcr
Just who the fuck can we trust these days?
Actually, you can trust most of the people you meet. Criminals and fraudsters are still a minority.
My own policy is to trust people until and unless they show me a reason not to, and then I never trust that individual again.
-jcr
Why is Joe allowed to choose his food then ?
Careful. Start down that path, and the next thing you know the pinkos will be demanding National Lunch Insurance to defray the cost of the approved foods.
-jcr
Yay, free market!
Big pharma does not operate in a free market. They exist in a regulatory framework consisting of thousands of laws and regulations written primarily by their own lobbyists to raise barriers to competition.
The more any industry is regulated, the more it will concentrate into fewer and larger organizations. Big companies can cope with the regulation, but the compliance costs drive smaller competitors out, or push them to be acquired by larger organizations.
If you want to see a free market in medicine, the closest you get to it is Mexico, Thailand, China, or India. There's a reason why medical tourism is a rapidly-growing market.
-jcr
Oh don't even TRY the "I'm playing you" game with ME buster
I got you to claim that the great depression was over in three years. Admit it.
-jcr
Nutbard's
See, that's why I decided not to take you seriously.
a sociopath whose entire political philosophy boils down to "You aren't the boss of me, I'll do what I want!"
There's nothing more selfish or sociopathic than seeking power over others. There's nothing more pathetic than being part of the cheering section for the power-grabbers.
You are a closed minded selfish simpleton
I'm playing you like a fiddle, sunshine. If you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd have figured that out a long time ago.
-jcr
the schools seemed like right wing conservative hellholes
Looks like you perceived half of the problem. The schools aren't right-wing or left-wing, they're pro-government, and they teach kids what the state wants us to believe. They promote big government across the board, whether it's cheerleading for wars or for government interference in the economy.
-jcr
Don't try the 'emotional attachment' bullshit with me, you are the one who can't let it go
As it happens, I did let it go. There was a time when I bought the party line just as you do, and reacted angrily when I was told that that the hero of world war two wasn't all he was cracked up to be. That was before I started reading history on my own, when all I knew was the story fed to me in school by government employees.
I'm curious: how much of an FDR fan are you? Do you even admit that it's wrong to lock up thousands of innocent people for their race?
Just drop it already.
Gosh, don't you just hate it when people don't comply with your demands?
-jcr
Mine is the mainstream view,
Wow, what a compelling endorsement.
Yours is the view that is taught by advocates of big government, who of course are loathe to admit their failures. The sad thing is how many people they succeed in deceiving.
Ask yourself why all of the previous depressions were over so quickly, back before the federal government had seized enough power to interfere with the recovery the way that Hoover and Roosevelt did.
The New Deal was an abject failure, and your own failure is your refusal to admit it.
-jcr
don't fool yourself into thinking their only agenda is getting the truth out.
That's for sure.
-jcr
For as long as I can remember, the purpose of newspapers has been "Make as much money as you can, by any means you can get away with".
There was a period before that, when the purpose of any newspaper was to advocate a political agenda. Every party or movement had its own newspaper, and they were quite up front about where they were coming from.
This idea of the "impartial" journalist was mostly a 20th-century affectation.
-jcr