Myself, I am more of a Keynsian. I think the market is useful, but it can run amok if not attended to by a government powerful enough to guide it towards the public good.
The problem is your government is just as irrational, and often more irrational, than the market it is attempting to regulate.
How does a market composed of people who make irrational choices voting suddenly create a government composed of rational actors? It doesn't.
Now, I'm not in favor of corporations running amok, in fact, I'm quite against it. I'm simply not so irrational to suggest that somehow the people that will take office will be any more rational than the group that voted them in.
Apple isn't "taking" anything. The company can still sell their product, so nothing is stolen. Apple's fine. In fact, I bet they just happened to get this design off a torrent.
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case? I've had my PSU/Case combo for 3 computers now. When I say that I've "upgraded my computer", I often mean that I've replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to a new architecture.
You use a case? Wussy. I have my equipment glue gunned to the wall!
Same goes for optical interconnect to memory: the flood may be Biblical when it arrives, but while waiting for it to arrive the processor isn't doing anything useful.
That's the thing though, isn't it? There isn't a "the processor", there's 8, 16, 32, 128 processors. So stalling one may not be that great a loss.
Yep. Half of that is about $400 billion dollars. That would be way more than a shot in the arm for the economy. And once you start paying down the debt, then the interest on said debt goes down, too.
So until you cut another $1.1 trillion dollars the debt will continue rising, as will interest payments. Especially given interest rates are at historic lows. What happens when the world realizes we do not have the economic growth to pay this back? Someone will blink first.
While halving the military budget will be a wonderful start, it's just that.
As for the War on Drugs that runs about $60B a year. I'd love to see that go as well, but even if we look at profits from taxation and reduction of incarceration we're still not close to eliminating our deficits, much less our debt.
We need across the board freezes and across the board cuts and across the board tax rises. This will never fly. We had some decent choices ten or twenty years ago, now we have none. And everyone will want to make the other guy pay first. I don't see any solutions but ultimately hyper-inflating our way out.
Maybe not this year or next, but it will happen, count on it.
The real issue is that Americans really don't care about Afghanistan, but no politico is yet willing to say 'this was a stupid idea and we're leaving'. If 'crushing' the country really mattered they'd have done it long ago, but it doesn't.
That is 80% of AT&T Android users. AT&T only sells gimped Android phones.
You information is out of date. I just came home with my Samsung Activate. It's not a Nexus One as far as openness of course, but I can do what I want without having to wait for someone to jailbreak the latest OS.
It reminds me of Sony (I think it was them) who "fixed" one of their overheating laptop series by having users download a "patch" that would turn off the power management in Windows and make the fans go non-stop. It certainly stopped the overheating, but at the price of shortened fan life and a very noisy machine...
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Myself, I am more of a Keynsian. I think the market is useful, but it can run amok if not attended to by a government powerful enough to guide it towards the public good.
The problem is your government is just as irrational, and often more irrational, than the market it is attempting to regulate.
How does a market composed of people who make irrational choices voting suddenly create a government composed of rational actors? It doesn't.
Now, I'm not in favor of corporations running amok, in fact, I'm quite against it. I'm simply not so irrational to suggest that somehow the people that will take office will be any more rational than the group that voted them in.
Apple isn't "taking" anything. The company can still sell their product, so nothing is stolen. Apple's fine. In fact, I bet they just happened to get this design off a torrent.
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case? I've had my PSU/Case combo for 3 computers now. When I say that I've "upgraded my computer", I often mean that I've replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to a new architecture.
You use a case? Wussy. I have my equipment glue gunned to the wall!
Same goes for optical interconnect to memory: the flood may be Biblical when it arrives, but while waiting for it to arrive the processor isn't doing anything useful.
That's the thing though, isn't it? There isn't a "the processor", there's 8, 16, 32, 128 processors. So stalling one may not be that great a loss.
Hayek: the unoriginal "too hard; don't try" philosopher.
Tell that to the millions who voted for the "lesser of two evils" in the last election(s).
So all we have left is design and marketing, which is what counterfeiting "takes".
The "victim" still has their product to sell. It's not like I'm "stealing" something from them.
Yep. Half of that is about $400 billion dollars. That would be way more than a shot in the arm for the economy. And once you start paying down the debt, then the interest on said debt goes down, too.
The deficit is four times that.
So until you cut another $1.1 trillion dollars the debt will continue rising, as will interest payments. Especially given interest rates are at historic lows. What happens when the world realizes we do not have the economic growth to pay this back? Someone will blink first.
While halving the military budget will be a wonderful start, it's just that.
As for the War on Drugs that runs about $60B a year. I'd love to see that go as well, but even if we look at profits from taxation and reduction of incarceration we're still not close to eliminating our deficits, much less our debt.
We need across the board freezes and across the board cuts and across the board tax rises. This will never fly. We had some decent choices ten or twenty years ago, now we have none. And everyone will want to make the other guy pay first. I don't see any solutions but ultimately hyper-inflating our way out.
Maybe not this year or next, but it will happen, count on it.
His iPhone 4. You know, the one with the whyfys.
They already have the sound cannons that cause instantaneous and permanent hearing damage, and can rapidly cause permanent deafness.
They were used against protesters to the G20 meeting.
Toronto is not in the US.
I wonder who are the freaks who actually think it useful, or go so far as to enjoy it.
The ones who are worried about you pulling a weapon on them.
But I would just like to say, thanks for not posting any spoilers in the summary.
The real issue is that Americans really don't care about Afghanistan, but no politico is yet willing to say 'this was a stupid idea and we're leaving'. If 'crushing' the country really mattered they'd have done it long ago, but it doesn't.
One did, or at least got close. Oh wait, that was before he got the nomination.
Here you go.
That is 80% of AT&T Android users. AT&T only sells gimped Android phones.
You information is out of date. I just came home with my Samsung Activate. It's not a Nexus One as far as openness of course, but I can do what I want without having to wait for someone to jailbreak the latest OS.
Not scared? Maybe you should be.
And here I thought the right was the "Party of Fear"!
I grew up slaughtering my own chickens and growing my own corn, etc...
The world is a different place. I don't think it bodes well.
So wait, then I must be thief!
So what you're saying is, you're a thief.
Maybe not Bob Smith, but Abdul, Jose or Pierre will have a tough time. Racism exists.
And apparently only committed by white people.
Global air and sea temperatures are on average going up, and have been doing so for decades.
On geological time scales, pointing to "decades" is just as misleading as pointing to "decade".
Just so you know, spouting this crap makes you sound pretty much exactly like the people you're trying to insult.
So stop. And stop voting for the people that do as well.
It reminds me of Sony (I think it was them) who "fixed" one of their overheating laptop series by having users download a "patch" that would turn off the power management in Windows and make the fans go non-stop. It certainly stopped the overheating, but at the price of shortened fan life and a very noisy machine ...
Not Sony. Guess who?