But what happened to all the good Republican candidates?
They got starved out by the press because Trump sucked all the air out of the room. The same thing happened on the other side of the Ruling Party. Their last reasonable prospect was Jim Webb, but he couldn't get any attention with the press all working for Hillary to sink Bernie.
"Vote for (Trump | Hillary) because (Hillary | Trump)! A vote for any other candidate is really a vote for (Trump | Hillary)! Don't throw your vote away because (Hillary | Trump) is too horrible to contemplate!"
Fuck that noise. I want a clear conscience, so it's Gary Johnson/William Weld for me.
I don't hate Tesla, and in fact I expect to be quite grateful to them for making me a lot of money when I short their stock in the not-too-distant future. Apple's going to crush them like Blackberry.
all actual studies done on the topic say otherwise.
Then those studies are either conducted by incompetent researchers or baldfaced liars, as anyone who's observed the effects of the dependency culture in the UK or the USA can plainly see.
.., then a lot of them are going to do just that. Not only do the taxpayers lose the money stolen from them to pay those who want to be idle, the economy doesn't get the output that the idle would otherwise have to produce to support themselves.
Expanding welfare payments to everyone is not a solution.
If you believe that Dr. Woods made any factual errors in that presentation, please point them out. You can't just sneer the facts away.
the only people who think FDR made the Depression worse are people who were born many decades after the Great Depression was over
Nope. There were any number of his contemporaries who could see that FDR's economic policies were insane. His own secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau, to name one.
But the Obamacare legislation was the epitome of "unread garbage". Don't you remember Pelosi's idiotic statement that "we have to pass it to see what's in it"?
Used BASIC , FORTRAN and Pascal in school ('76 to' 82), used Tandem TAL, 6502, Z80 and 68000 assemblers, FORTH, C, C++, and Postscript at various jobs until I started using NeXTSTEP in 1989, used Obj-C from 1989 to the present, and I started using Swift when it came out two years ago.
So, Obj-C was my main language for around 27 years. I expect that Swift will be what I use from now until I stop coding altogether.
Along the way, I also had occasion to use Perl, various shells, and a tiny bit of Python and COBOL.
Ever since Plato, one bunch of conceited pricks or another has claimed that they were superior to the rest of mankind, and should be allowed to rule us. Whether they're "philosopher kings" like plato imagined, "holy men" like the Pharisees or the Wahabbis, "scientific planners" like the Marxists or the British "upper class", they can all go fuck themselves.
Oh, for fuck's sake. I'm quite aware of Tarbell's line of bullshit. You should be aware that she had an axe to grind with Rockefeller because her brother was one of Rockefeller's failed competitors.
Hadn't seen that book, but thanks for letting me know about it.
The fact is, that while Rockefeller was building Standard Oil, he brought down the price of kerosene from 58 cents/gallon in 1865 (when his market share was quite small), to 9 cents/gallon when he reached his peak market share of 90% in 1880. He performed a massive public service.
More to the point, natural monopolies form in any market where there is huge advantages of scale, first mover advantages or large infrastructure outlays required. The services provided by water, gas, electric and gasoline distribution follow these laws.
That's a lie. Utility providers claim that they have a "natural" monopoly to convince goverments to grant them monopoly franchises.
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So you're voting for Hillary.
NO, dumbass. I'm voting for Johnson. Fuck you and your guilt-peddling.
-jcr
But what happened to all the good Republican candidates?
They got starved out by the press because Trump sucked all the air out of the room. The same thing happened on the other side of the Ruling Party. Their last reasonable prospect was Jim Webb, but he couldn't get any attention with the press all working for Hillary to sink Bernie.
-jcr
"Vote for (Trump | Hillary) because (Hillary | Trump)! A vote for any other candidate is really a vote for (Trump | Hillary)! Don't throw your vote away because (Hillary | Trump) is too horrible to contemplate!"
Fuck that noise. I want a clear conscience, so it's Gary Johnson/William Weld for me.
-jcr
Found a way to make rockets to go to space as a private institution.
That's a bit of a stretch. SpaceX is a tax-dependent vendor.
-jcr
I don't hate Tesla, and in fact I expect to be quite grateful to them for making me a lot of money when I short their stock in the not-too-distant future. Apple's going to crush them like Blackberry.
-jcr
Fuck you too, snowflake.
-jcr
all actual studies done on the topic say otherwise.
Then those studies are either conducted by incompetent researchers or baldfaced liars, as anyone who's observed the effects of the dependency culture in the UK or the USA can plainly see.
-jcr
The problem is a lack of jobs for people to do.
That's still a symptom. The problem is that the economy is made inefficient by government attempts to manage it.
-jcr
Businesses will take on the tax load as well as the rich.
Businesses don't pay taxes. Businesses collect taxes.
-jcr
.., then a lot of them are going to do just that. Not only do the taxpayers lose the money stolen from them to pay those who want to be idle, the economy doesn't get the output that the idle would otherwise have to produce to support themselves.
Expanding welfare payments to everyone is not a solution.
-jcr
If you believe that Dr. Woods made any factual errors in that presentation, please point them out. You can't just sneer the facts away.
the only people who think FDR made the Depression worse are people who were born many decades after the Great Depression was over
Nope. There were any number of his contemporaries who could see that FDR's economic policies were insane. His own secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau, to name one.
-jcr
I remember the polls that said Jimmy Carter was going to squeak past Ronald Reagan.
-jcr
Your smug ignorance is depressing.
Watch and learn.
-jcr
He's the first president since WWII that hasn't taken the nation into a recession.
He's the president who's impeded recovery more than anyone since Roosevelt.
-jcr
But the Obamacare legislation was the epitome of "unread garbage". Don't you remember Pelosi's idiotic statement that "we have to pass it to see what's in it"?
-jcr
Why wait? You can shift your useless ass to Cuba today!
-jcr
Used BASIC , FORTRAN and Pascal in school ('76 to' 82), used Tandem TAL, 6502, Z80 and 68000 assemblers, FORTH, C, C++, and Postscript at various jobs until I started using NeXTSTEP in 1989, used Obj-C from 1989 to the present, and I started using Swift when it came out two years ago.
So, Obj-C was my main language for around 27 years. I expect that Swift will be what I use from now until I stop coding altogether.
Along the way, I also had occasion to use Perl, various shells, and a tiny bit of Python and COBOL.
-jcr
Plato was a wannabe tyrant.
-jcr
Ever since Plato, one bunch of conceited pricks or another has claimed that they were superior to the rest of mankind, and should be allowed to rule us. Whether they're "philosopher kings" like plato imagined, "holy men" like the Pharisees or the Wahabbis, "scientific planners" like the Marxists or the British "upper class", they can all go fuck themselves.
-jcr
If you're leaving on good terms, give notice. If your boss is an asshole, then courtesy is not owed.
-jcr
The story was factual enough to get a reaction form the government,
Like the government ever cared about facts when they wanted to grab more power?
-jcr
Oh, for fuck's sake. I'm quite aware of Tarbell's line of bullshit. You should be aware that she had an axe to grind with Rockefeller because her brother was one of Rockefeller's failed competitors.
-jcr
Hadn't seen that book, but thanks for letting me know about it.
The fact is, that while Rockefeller was building Standard Oil, he brought down the price of kerosene from 58 cents/gallon in 1865 (when his market share was quite small), to 9 cents/gallon when he reached his peak market share of 90% in 1880. He performed a massive public service.
-jcr
There have been half-assed coders for nearly as long as there have been computers. It's not a generational thing.
-jcr
More to the point, natural monopolies form in any market where there is huge advantages of scale, first mover advantages or large infrastructure outlays required. The services provided by water, gas, electric and gasoline distribution follow these laws.
That's a lie. Utility providers claim that they have a "natural" monopoly to convince goverments to grant them monopoly franchises.
-jcr