Speaking as one who has worked on Wall Street and had first-hand experience with financial regulation: you're on crack. Finance is our most heavily-regulated industry, right after medicine and operating nuclear power plants.
my experience with medicine and airlines in the US, where I was born, and in the EU, where I have lived for a long time now, certainly speaks in favour of more regulation.
You are mistaken.
The FDA kills people by the thousands by keeping drugs off the market that could save their lives, and air travel is vastly cheaper today than it was when prices were de-regulated during the Carter administration.
yet you seem to think that a "kinda regular" inspection by a harried municipal bureaucrat will somehow magically eliminate the chance of fraud, tragedy, etc?
The truth is quite the opposite, when it comes to cabs in NYC. The standard way for a cab to pass inspection is to tuck $200 into the visor.
Standard shakedown: accuse a business of racial discrimination, make a bunch of noise in the press, which he will stop if the company in question pays him to fuck off.
I wouldn't call it bullying, There's no threat here at all, just snark.
Linus is quite the glass-house dweller, though. Hugh Daniel's comments over the years about the mistakes and misfeatures in Linux were enlightening and entertaining.
The appropriate response to Debbie Downer, or any other flavor of guilt-peddler, is to firmly and emphatically reject the guilt they're trying to peddle. E.G: "fuck you Debbie, who died appointed you the environmental guilt police?"
From the top, there is a great hatred of technical people there
You need to consult your doctor and get your meds adjusted. I've worked at Apple several times, and I sure didn't feel any "hatred of technical people" from anyone at any level of Apple's management chain.
They're like the goddamned Westboro Baptist Church, trying to leech publicity from anything that makes the news. They are not, and have never been an environmentalist organization. They're a marketing organization, that sucks up money by guilt peddling.
If you want to help the environment, then donate to a local group in your area, the Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited, or any of dozens of others.
The minimum wage affects those who are unable to earn some arbitrarily-set cutoff price. Growth of any jobs that pay that much or more is entirely beside the point.
Statists like to pretend that they're helping the poor with law that says "here you go, you get to earn at least this much!", but what these statues really do is say is "UNLESS you can earn this much, no job for you!"
Everyone wants to make another Candy Crush or Flappy Birds game, and they'll be lucky to make minimum wage for the time they spend doing it. When I became a Mac developer in '84, and when I switched to NeXTSTEP in '89, both were moves decidedly out of the mainstream.
There's no shortage of unmet needs that can be addressed with an iOS app, but if you don't take the time to figure out what they are, then of course you'll fail.
I'm an employer too, and what I care about is whether the applicant's skills are a match for what I need to get done. If I had your kind of hang-ups about people who knew how to pick a better opportunity when one came along, I'd get much less work out the door.
Note that the amendment does not presume to be granting the right to keep and bear arms. It acknowledges the right as pre-existing, and explicitly prohibits the government from infringing it.
Libertarians are against the initiation of violence, whether the perps are government thugs or quasi-private organizations like this. You can shove your smug little digs right back up the hole it came from.
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Finance is lightly regulated:
Speaking as one who has worked on Wall Street and had first-hand experience with financial regulation: you're on crack. Finance is our most heavily-regulated industry, right after medicine and operating nuclear power plants.
-jcr
my experience with medicine and airlines in the US, where I was born, and in the EU, where I have lived for a long time now, certainly speaks in favour of more regulation.
You are mistaken.
The FDA kills people by the thousands by keeping drugs off the market that could save their lives, and air travel is vastly cheaper today than it was when prices were de-regulated during the Carter administration.
-jcr
yet you seem to think that a "kinda regular" inspection by a harried municipal bureaucrat will somehow magically eliminate the chance of fraud, tragedy, etc?
The truth is quite the opposite, when it comes to cabs in NYC. The standard way for a cab to pass inspection is to tuck $200 into the visor.
-jcr
Define "fair pricing".
If Uber offers me a service I want at a price I agree to pay, that's as fair as it needs to be.
-jcr
As 3 tech advocacy groups show, Manpower, IBM, and Infosys are blocking qualified candidates.
"claim", not "show", Donna.
You're full of shit.
-jcr
Standard shakedown: accuse a business of racial discrimination, make a bunch of noise in the press, which he will stop if the company in question pays him to fuck off.
-jcr
I wouldn't call it bullying, There's no threat here at all, just snark.
Linus is quite the glass-house dweller, though. Hugh Daniel's comments over the years about the mistakes and misfeatures in Linux were enlightening and entertaining.
-jcr
The appropriate response to Debbie Downer, or any other flavor of guilt-peddler, is to firmly and emphatically reject the guilt they're trying to peddle. E.G: "fuck you Debbie, who died appointed you the environmental guilt police?"
-jcr
From the top, there is a great hatred of technical people there
You need to consult your doctor and get your meds adjusted. I've worked at Apple several times, and I sure didn't feel any "hatred of technical people" from anyone at any level of Apple's management chain.
-jcr
They're like the goddamned Westboro Baptist Church, trying to leech publicity from anything that makes the news. They are not, and have never been an environmentalist organization. They're a marketing organization, that sucks up money by guilt peddling.
If you want to help the environment, then donate to a local group in your area, the Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited, or any of dozens of others.
-jcr
They bomb hospitals under UN protection
They bomb hospitals that UN personnel have allowed Hamas to use as weapons depots, and they call and warn people to get out of them first.
Taking Hamas propaganda at face value is a good way to make an ass of yourself.
-jcr
The minimum wage affects those who are unable to earn some arbitrarily-set cutoff price. Growth of any jobs that pay that much or more is entirely beside the point.
Statists like to pretend that they're helping the poor with law that says "here you go, you get to earn at least this much!", but what these statues really do is say is "UNLESS you can earn this much, no job for you!"
-jcr
Why should I abandon my home instead of resisting the protection racket in the neighborhood?
-jcr
Human nature dictates that those with power will always try to exploit the weak.
Yes, and when they do so, we call that government.
-jcr
It's people like you who enable that mayhem.
You have that exactly backwards. You're the one who supports government, and I'm the one who opposes it.
Logic apparently wasn't taught in the government schools you attended.
-jcr
You say that like avoiding taxes is a bad thing.
Every dollar kept out of government hands is a dollar not spend on bloody mayhem.
-jcr
Everyone wants to make another Candy Crush or Flappy Birds game, and they'll be lucky to make minimum wage for the time they spend doing it. When I became a Mac developer in '84, and when I switched to NeXTSTEP in '89, both were moves decidedly out of the mainstream.
There's no shortage of unmet needs that can be addressed with an iOS app, but if you don't take the time to figure out what they are, then of course you'll fail.
-jcr
I'm an employer too, and what I care about is whether the applicant's skills are a match for what I need to get done. If I had your kind of hang-ups about people who knew how to pick a better opportunity when one came along, I'd get much less work out the door.
-jcr
Normal weapons, even with fancy training, couldn't ever pose a large threat to the government.
Really?
Tell it the king we overthrew in in the late 1700s.
-jcr
Note that the amendment does not presume to be granting the right to keep and bear arms. It acknowledges the right as pre-existing, and explicitly prohibits the government from infringing it.
-jcr
You are unclear on the word "intiation". Better luck next time.
-jcr
Libertarians should love this
What's your next guess, asshole?
Libertarians are against the initiation of violence, whether the perps are government thugs or quasi-private organizations like this. You can shove your smug little digs right back up the hole it came from.
-jcr
Cute kid, but what a completely useless thing to memorize.
-jcr
The big lie is the claim that IQ means anything.
-jcr
overpriced toys so they can feel adequate in the company of other desperate status seekers.
You unemployed guys are so bitter.
-jcr