It's people like you who really need to be educated
See, there's your contempt for other people showing through again.
As it happens, I'm rather well-read in history, and what my investigations show me is that time and time again, it's liberty that produces the best results.
And what happens when the government makes bad decisions?
If you or I guess wrong, we affect only ourselves, and maybe our families. When the government guesses wrong, millions of people get suckered into a Ponzi scheme like Social Security or Fiat currency.
Some times you need to save people from them selves.
A couple of countries tried it your way. Didn't work out so well.
Especially the stupid ones who must have a bigger SUV than their neighbor.
I've noticed lately, that the contempt that you liberals have for your fellow man is far more blatant than it used to be, even a few years ago. Why is that?
No, they don't. An ideallyefficient market requires thoughtful participants, but all a free market needs is buyers and sellers with whatever motivations they may happen to have, rational or not.
"Yah, people in a free market VOTED for the ARM mortgages. That sure has worked out well, didn't it?"
I hope someday you'll understand that the underlying cause of the mortgage crisis was unconstitutional fiat money, created by the Federal Reserve. Blaming that mess on the market is absurd.
I've written to him on several occasions over the years, before, during, and after the time that I worked at Apple. To date, I've gotten replies from him on four occasions, including his message tonight regarding this joke by FSJ.
It's well known that all mail to sjobs@apple.com is handled by a team of secretaries and few messages sent there are ever read by Steve.
You are mistaken. Steve reads his mail, and has been known to rebuke Apple VPs who don't. It's Bill Gates who has the team of flacks to filter his mail for him.
Dan Lyons had me fooled, since he was not in character as FSJ, and really did sound scared. I sent an e-mail to SJ about it, expressing the concerns that any shareholder would have if this situation were true, and he replied.
One of the programs he was involved in back in Illinois was pushing for oversight in police interrogations by requiring them to be videotaped (to rule out coercion and abuse), which he was successful on, which tells me that: a. he is effective at getting his agenda passed, and b. he is not full of shit about caring about transparency issues.
Hold on a second.. My business partner was involved in that work, and it was done because the CPD wanted to fix a workflow problem, which was: how do we find the video from the interrogation of perp FOO on case BAR, interviewed by officer BAS? If the court date came up and they couldn't find the tape, they had just hope that the perp didn't kill anybody else. Politicians taking credit for a police department trying to get its IT act together is a bit of a stretch, to say the least.
Competent and interesting ideas like more taxation, more spending, and bombing an ally?
Obama's entire qualifications are 1) he's not GWB, and 2) he's not Hillary. Once you get past those admittedly great points in his favor, all you have left is an utterly conventional politician.
Ron Paul wrote a book when he was on the U. S. Gold Commission, which was appointed by Reagan the last time that the dollar crashed against gold. He deals with how to transition back to lawful money in some detail in that book, but in a nutshell, to get off the fiat money you would first repeal the legal tender laws and allow people to transact business with whatever currency they choose, while requiring that the government continue to accept the fiat currency for payment of taxes and levies (that is, it remains good for something).
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It's people like you who really need to be educated
See, there's your contempt for other people showing through again.
As it happens, I'm rather well-read in history, and what my investigations show me is that time and time again, it's liberty that produces the best results.
-jcr
My fellow man has not been making a terribly good showing for himself lately.
So, why should one defer decision-making to anyone but themselves?
-jcr
you probably don't really care what's going on outside your own little world
Smug, much?
My local daily is full of wire service reports from around the world
So is Google News. What's your point?
-jcr
I get so much junk mail that I no longer need newspapers for getting a fire going in my fireplace.
I'll still buy a paper once in a while when I'm traveling, but I haven't subscribed to one at home for at least a decade now.
-jcr
And what happens when the government makes bad decisions?
If you or I guess wrong, we affect only ourselves, and maybe our families. When the government guesses wrong, millions of people get suckered into a Ponzi scheme like Social Security or Fiat currency.
-jcr
Some times you need to save people from them selves.
A couple of countries tried it your way. Didn't work out so well.
Especially the stupid ones who must have a bigger SUV than their neighbor.
I've noticed lately, that the contempt that you liberals have for your fellow man is far more blatant than it used to be, even a few years ago. Why is that?
-jcr
explain how Kennedy has stayed in office for so long
It's a consolation prize for his brothers all being dead. The voters in that state are kind of sentimental that way.
-jcr
Free markets require educated, thoughtful consumers
No, they don't. An ideallyefficient market requires thoughtful participants, but all a free market needs is buyers and sellers with whatever motivations they may happen to have, rational or not.
-jcr
"Yah, people in a free market VOTED for the ARM mortgages. That sure has worked out well, didn't it?"
I hope someday you'll understand that the underlying cause of the mortgage crisis was unconstitutional fiat money, created by the Federal Reserve. Blaming that mess on the market is absurd.
-jcr
I for one am glad to see legislation forcing energy conservation,
You believe this is a legitimate prerogative of the federal government?
That's really tragic.
-jcr
I've written to him on several occasions over the years, before, during, and after the time that I worked at Apple. To date, I've gotten replies from him on four occasions, including his message tonight regarding this joke by FSJ.
-jcr
Nope, that's bullshit too. The EFF didn't like that spammer Hamadi, but they still took his case.
-jcr
It's well known that all mail to sjobs@apple.com is handled by a team of secretaries and few messages sent there are ever read by Steve.
You are mistaken. Steve reads his mail, and has been known to rebuke Apple VPs who don't. It's Bill Gates who has the team of flacks to filter his mail for him.
-jcr
The amazing part to me here is that Steve Jobs is replying to mails in person
Steve reads his mail. I know this from direct personal experience.
-jcr
Guys,
Dan Lyons had me fooled, since he was not in character as FSJ, and really did sound scared. I sent an e-mail to SJ about it, expressing the concerns that any shareholder would have if this situation were true, and he replied.
He told me, quote:
I think this is a joke.
Steve
-jcr
I wish we'd done away with interlacing when the HD standards were being written.
-jcr
One of the programs he was involved in back in Illinois was pushing for oversight in police interrogations by requiring them to be videotaped (to rule out coercion and abuse), which he was successful on, which tells me that: a. he is effective at getting his agenda passed, and b. he is not full of shit about caring about transparency issues.
Hold on a second.. My business partner was involved in that work, and it was done because the CPD wanted to fix a workflow problem, which was: how do we find the video from the interrogation of perp FOO on case BAR, interviewed by officer BAS? If the court date came up and they couldn't find the tape, they had just hope that the perp didn't kill anybody else. Politicians taking credit for a police department trying to get its IT act together is a bit of a stretch, to say the least.
-jcr
Competent and interesting ideas like more taxation, more spending, and bombing an ally?
Obama's entire qualifications are 1) he's not GWB, and 2) he's not Hillary. Once you get past those admittedly great points in his favor, all you have left is an utterly conventional politician.
-jcr
Ron Paul wrote a book when he was on the U. S. Gold Commission, which was appointed by Reagan the last time that the dollar crashed against gold. He deals with how to transition back to lawful money in some detail in that book, but in a nutshell, to get off the fiat money you would first repeal the legal tender laws and allow people to transact business with whatever currency they choose, while requiring that the government continue to accept the fiat currency for payment of taxes and levies (that is, it remains good for something).
-jcr
I agree.. I don't know if she has to drop her cross-complaint just because the RIAA's bailing.
-jcr
I wish you were kidding...
-jcr
Don't they just order and piece together hardware just like joe shmoe's computer shop would?
No, they don't. That's why the MacBook Pro is thinner and lighter than machines from other vendors with comparable performance specs, for example.
-jcr
your hearing will suffer in the long term.
I don't turn it up that loud.
-jcr
I doubt it. Whoever it was is obviously trying to trying to disparage us both.
-jcr
It's a collimated sound beam that vibrates the skull.
Hmm... It might be controllable through a nuisance suit by property owners in the areas where it's used, then.
-jcr