If either of you two wanted to make a point instead of arguing, you'd pick some commodities that weren't effected by fire, flood, drought, or unprecedented demand..
...you should be more rewarded for working hard and achieving in life. but by the same token, the poor shouldn't be doomed to substandard healthcare and education...
Yes, if you're willing to take life, smooth down all the edges and making it bland, sterile, and soul destroying, you can do just that.
Now, if you have any solutions that would work on human beings, I'd like to hear them.
This is why Germany and USSR had so many scientists defect, the lesser educated people (thugs) get into government command and control, and the more educated (professors and scientists and students) dislike the jock overlords
Interesting. So you think lesser educated people like jock overlords?
Or perhaps, those scientists were valuable to countries outside of Germany and USSR, and those countries would make an effort to get them.
Unless it's something amazing that I've been waiting for, I just won't spend 50-60$ on a new game.
At this point I see it more of a "Vote" than actually buying a game. Paying 50$ for a game is me saying "Great work! You're so awesome that you should make another game!"
How in the world do you figure Capitalism in the US is "Unbridled"
Have you done any...ANY research on this at all?
The reason entrepreneurs have problems starting up is compiling with all the rules and regulations. Big companies can hire endless lawyers and accounts; or be big enough to ignore government rules outright.
The little guy cannot. He's beyond bridled. He's crushed under reams of paperwork and regulations. Have you even tried talking to a small business owner? I do, every chance I get.
I still can't get over how you can possibly think that Capitalism in the US is unbridled.
"I am not sure what they teach in American state schools, but can you begin to imagine what life would have been like as a peasant under the Tsar?"
I'm sure it must have been terrible, after all, if it were great, Stalin would have let everyone know. Right?
I'm also highly amused that you equate blacks working in the fields as slaves, but people who are sent to work for free in forced labor camps and are trapped within their county are not.
The root problem - and this has been completely omitted from the health care debate - is that drug companies make their R&D decisions based on expected ROI, and cures have a very low ROI,
If that were true, no one would be researching/development better penicillin. Or Stem cell research.
Health should not be about profit. It should be about health. It is a non-monetary value.
Welcome to humanity. If you want people to work at making you better, you'll need to make it in their interest. Say, by paying them money.
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Oh for fucks sake.
If either of you two wanted to make a point instead of arguing, you'd pick some commodities that weren't effected by fire, flood, drought, or unprecedented demand..
And it doesn't look illegal to me. The "Silver Rounds" business is doing fine.
Good thing you weren't around a hundred years ago, we'd all be riding bicycles today.
Advancement REQUIRES risk taking.
I think you've summed up every society that has ever existed in a nutshell.
Bold prediction!
Unlike a future where no lives will be lost whatsoever?
...you should be more rewarded for working hard and achieving in life. but by the same token, the poor shouldn't be doomed to substandard healthcare and education...
Yes, if you're willing to take life, smooth down all the edges and making it bland, sterile, and soul destroying, you can do just that.
Now, if you have any solutions that would work on human beings, I'd like to hear them.
This is why Germany and USSR had so many scientists defect, the lesser educated people (thugs) get into government command and control, and the more educated (professors and scientists and students) dislike the jock overlords
Interesting. So you think lesser educated people like jock overlords?
Or perhaps, those scientists were valuable to countries outside of Germany and USSR, and those countries would make an effort to get them.
Unlike plumbers and brick layers.
So then gold has no intrinsic value because you say it it has no intrinsic value for you.
Very clever. (golf clap)
Now, the rest of the world would like to deal with reality, without the clever word games.
What would you like to bet?
Oh, I see, you're posting AC so you don't actually have to stand behind your words.
Really? What about all those previous articles on Slashdot about setting up a home lab for genetics labs?
I don't understand the hobbyists behavior.
At what point will they get a clue that they're not wanted, and go enjoy a better platform?
Or homebrew their own platform?
Unless it's something amazing that I've been waiting for, I just won't spend 50-60$ on a new game.
At this point I see it more of a "Vote" than actually buying a game. Paying 50$ for a game is me saying "Great work! You're so awesome that you should make another game!"
Hey man, it's your VAT and your messed up currency exchange rules.
If you're unable to splurge 130$ on a second monitor, the company is in trouble.
Another way to phrase this question is "Do you *really* need all those pixels to do your job?"
I wish I had people break into my home, steal my stuff, and then leave piles of money behind.
The same amount of money that I had used to purchase the items years ago.
How in the world do you figure Capitalism in the US is "Unbridled"
Have you done any...ANY research on this at all?
The reason entrepreneurs have problems starting up is compiling with all the rules and regulations. Big companies can hire endless lawyers and accounts; or be big enough to ignore government rules outright.
The little guy cannot. He's beyond bridled. He's crushed under reams of paperwork and regulations. Have you even tried talking to a small business owner? I do, every chance I get.
I still can't get over how you can possibly think that Capitalism in the US is unbridled.
How is writing code for Android not up your alley?
Or are phones not considered embedded systems?
"I am not sure what they teach in American state schools, but can you begin to imagine what life would have been like as a peasant under the Tsar?"
I'm sure it must have been terrible, after all, if it were great, Stalin would have let everyone know. Right?
I'm also highly amused that you equate blacks working in the fields as slaves, but people who are sent to work for free in forced labor camps and are trapped within their county are not.
Well, he's foreign now.
It's not hard to get the experience. If you like programming at all, you'll be doing things with the skills you picked up in college.
It's like having all the woodworking skills, and a full workshop in your garage. You end up making things.
The job market didn't change. It's the same as always.Things always need to get done.
What's changed is so many more rules the government creates to manage and regulate the job market causes the problems.
Hong Kong, the world's freest economy, has an unemployment rate of 3.4.
http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hong_kong_statistics/statistics_by_subject/index.jsp?subjectID=2&charsetID=1&displayMode=T
There will never be a "Vaccine" for cancer, here's a nice explanation why:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162
The root problem - and this has been completely omitted from the health care debate - is that drug companies make their R&D decisions based on expected ROI, and cures have a very low ROI,
If that were true, no one would be researching/development better penicillin. Or Stem cell research.
Health should not be about profit. It should be about health. It is a non-monetary value.
Welcome to humanity. If you want people to work at making you better, you'll need to make it in their interest. Say, by paying them money.
What's wrong with gasoline consumption?
You know we can make all we want until the sun burns out, right? It's just a string of hydrocarbons.
Interesting. Using that logic, truck drivers don't have the right to bitch about gas prices.