It sure as hell does leave a scar. I have a 4 inch long, 1/4 inch wide laceration running from my nose to my ear because safety glass gashed the hell out of my face in an accident. That said, i'm glad it was safety glass rather than normal glass, because that laceration would've been a beheading otherwise
That was the war of 1812. The US president at the time invaded Canada, was beaten off by our military. Then in retaliation, Canada went to Washington, and burned down the presidential palace. Rather than fixing the damage, they white-washed it, and dubbed it the White House
Because that wasn't my point. My point was that he was overpaid for the work he's doing. Part of the reason Silly valley is so expensive is BECAUSE of overpaid coders, not the other way around
Is "american work" worth more than "indian work"? undoubtedly. 7 times as much, likely not. If you were making 7 times as much before, you were likely just overpaid in the first place.
By the way, the reason we have so many shoddy chinese products on our shelves is because they were likely all built in china's EPZ (export processing zone... that's where the sweatshops are)
"I'm personally also of the opinion that unions are a byproduct of market inefficiency. In a highly efficient free job market (with a sufficiently large number of equal job suppliers), the qualities of the jobs offered won't drop so low that unions become necessary."
Except that they do. When there are more workers than there are jobs, the employer has the employees by a choke-hold. Either work for me, at my (starvation) wages with horrible working conditions, or good luck finding a job elsewheres. And there's never been a time that I can recall when there were more jobs than workers. When that happens, capitalists buy machinery to fill these job spots because at that point it's less expensive than paying for an employee. Then, with all this machinery lying around, they can lay some workers off.
Smith was a loony. There's a reason we use Keynsian economics now, because classical econ resulted in millions dying of starvation.
More to the point, The market will only reach equilibrium when one doesn't have such things as copyright law imposing a monopoly on a product, or advertising, which sways consumer opinion towards a single company for no rational reason, as opposed to smith's idea that the best product for the lowest price can be achieved. At the moment, we have the worst products for the highest price dominating because people are being programmed to wear Nike instead of $20 store brand shoes.
What's the difference between private slavery and public slavery?
Because I sure as hell don't see one... it's all the same to me if the government opresses me or if my employer/companies i do business with oppress me. The argument about 'why not just change jobs/companies you deal with/etc.' doesn't hold any weight either... "why don't you just move away from the soviet union" is the public parallell
Go ask a smoker on the street corner if they ever intended to get addicted. Ask the same of a crack addict or an alcoholic. The universal answer will be NO!
Actually I picked up smoking at 19 so that I could become addicted to something mostly benign in day to day affairs, so that I can know what it's like to try to kick an addiction.
"If someone made an External, Wireless, CD-Drive that I could just sit on my desk, in the closet my machines go."
Well, what you could do is take an old computer, or just buy a new one, install it on all the desks, and install linux on them, use samba or nfs, hook them up to 802.11, and use them as CDROM servers... one for each desk
"Though I too love the joke (above) about Disney owning rights to it... They own so many other things.:)"
Including Canada's national police force (Disney owns the rights to the likeness of the mountie, which is the show-dress and at one point the regular dress of the RCMP)
"This localized flood would of course also account for all the flood stories passed down through many different races?"
Yeah. like the race of the middle eastern hebrews, or the middle eastern persians, or the middle eastern babylonians, or the middle eastern greeks... etc.
all these societies which have flood myths are from the same trading region (the mediterannian sea area). Find me a mayan or native american, or hell, even a chinese/japanese flood story and you get some kind of credibility, but i refuse to believe something to be even a tiny bit believable because all people who lived in a single cultural exchange area believed it.
"If it is found, "science" (not all Science is close minded to anything and everything that science can't explain) is going to have a fun time trying to continue rejecting the notion that somebody or something exists that isn't bound by the laws of physics and that caused such an event to occur."
No it's not. "it was either a piece of art, or a previously unknown burial ritual" -science guy
"Unbelievers are going to be shitting their pants if the Ark is found. "
No they won't. "oh, you found a boat on top of a mountain. Neat wierd piece of art or burial, but still isn't any kind of evidence whatsoever."
If god is omnipotent, he can see all of the future
If the future can be seen, by anyone, deity or otherwise, then it's set in stone.
If the future is set in stone, then there is NO WAY we can change it
Ergo we either don't have free will, or we don't have god. If we don't have free will, god puts people in shitty situations for no reason, and choses who goes to heaven or hell for no reason whatsoever, and then why bother worshipping or believing him?
Uhmmm... I'd think the muslims would have just as much reason to be interested, Islam being as much Judeo-Christian as Judeism or Christianity. They all worship the same god and have the same stories
perhaps because someone wanted to build a monument to it, art, likes... doesn't even need to be a recent scam by creationists, it could have been a symbolic representation of it by some jewish/babylonian/etc people, like the giant jesus statue on the mountain in either south america or spain, i can't remember which
Because of people like me who think that there's more to confederation than personal benifit.
Personally, I'm a Canadian first, and the province I came from has nothing to do with anything. If the west seperates I'm on the first plane to Toronto.
Notice they're all Airbus aircraft. I will NEVER set foot on one of those deathtraps. American made or else I'm taking the bus. (And I'm not even American, or one of those who only buy US/CA. My car's a Nissan.)
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It sure as hell does leave a scar. I have a 4 inch long, 1/4 inch wide laceration running from my nose to my ear because safety glass gashed the hell out of my face in an accident. That said, i'm glad it was safety glass rather than normal glass, because that laceration would've been a beheading otherwise
I'd imagine he writes some damn good simulators too.
With TONS of bugs and frogs, and a nonsensical japanese name
That was the war of 1812. The US president at the time invaded Canada, was beaten off by our military. Then in retaliation, Canada went to Washington, and burned down the presidential palace. Rather than fixing the damage, they white-washed it, and dubbed it the White House
Because that wasn't my point. My point was that he was overpaid for the work he's doing. Part of the reason Silly valley is so expensive is BECAUSE of overpaid coders, not the other way around
Is "american work" worth more than "indian work"? undoubtedly. 7 times as much, likely not. If you were making 7 times as much before, you were likely just overpaid in the first place.
By the way, the reason we have so many shoddy chinese products on our shelves is because they were likely all built in china's EPZ (export processing zone... that's where the sweatshops are)
well, fine... a silly mishmash of supply side and demand side economics which doesn't seem to be working all that well
"I'm personally also of the opinion that unions are a byproduct of market inefficiency. In a highly efficient free job market (with a sufficiently large number of equal job suppliers), the qualities of the jobs offered won't drop so low that unions become necessary."
Except that they do. When there are more workers than there are jobs, the employer has the employees by a choke-hold. Either work for me, at my (starvation) wages with horrible working conditions, or good luck finding a job elsewheres. And there's never been a time that I can recall when there were more jobs than workers. When that happens, capitalists buy machinery to fill these job spots because at that point it's less expensive than paying for an employee. Then, with all this machinery lying around, they can lay some workers off.
Smith was a loony. There's a reason we use Keynsian economics now, because classical econ resulted in millions dying of starvation.
More to the point, The market will only reach equilibrium when one doesn't have such things as copyright law imposing a monopoly on a product, or advertising, which sways consumer opinion towards a single company for no rational reason, as opposed to smith's idea that the best product for the lowest price can be achieved. At the moment, we have the worst products for the highest price dominating because people are being programmed to wear Nike instead of $20 store brand shoes.
What's the difference between private slavery and public slavery?
Because I sure as hell don't see one... it's all the same to me if the government opresses me or if my employer/companies i do business with oppress me. The argument about 'why not just change jobs/companies you deal with/etc.' doesn't hold any weight either... "why don't you just move away from the soviet union" is the public parallell
Go ask a smoker on the street corner if they ever intended to get addicted. Ask the same of a crack addict or an alcoholic. The universal answer will be NO!
Actually I picked up smoking at 19 so that I could become addicted to something mostly benign in day to day affairs, so that I can know what it's like to try to kick an addiction.
"If someone made an External, Wireless, CD-Drive that I could just sit on my desk, in the closet my machines go."
Well, what you could do is take an old computer, or just buy a new one, install it on all the desks, and install linux on them, use samba or nfs, hook them up to 802.11, and use them as CDROM servers... one for each desk
"Though I too love the joke (above) about Disney owning rights to it... They own so many other things. :)"
Including Canada's national police force (Disney owns the rights to the likeness of the mountie, which is the show-dress and at one point the regular dress of the RCMP)
"This localized flood would of course also account for all the flood stories passed down through many different races?"
Yeah. like the race of the middle eastern hebrews, or the middle eastern persians, or the middle eastern babylonians, or the middle eastern greeks... etc.
all these societies which have flood myths are from the same trading region (the mediterannian sea area). Find me a mayan or native american, or hell, even a chinese/japanese flood story and you get some kind of credibility, but i refuse to believe something to be even a tiny bit believable because all people who lived in a single cultural exchange area believed it.
"If it is found, "science" (not all Science is close minded to anything and everything that science can't explain) is going to have a fun time trying to continue rejecting the notion that somebody or something exists that isn't bound by the laws of physics and that caused such an event to occur."
No it's not. "it was either a piece of art, or a previously unknown burial ritual" -science guy
"Unbelievers are going to be shitting their pants if the Ark is found. "
No they won't. "oh, you found a boat on top of a mountain. Neat wierd piece of art or burial, but still isn't any kind of evidence whatsoever."
If god is omnipotent, he can see all of the future
If the future can be seen, by anyone, deity or otherwise, then it's set in stone.
If the future is set in stone, then there is NO WAY we can change it
Ergo we either don't have free will, or we don't have god. If we don't have free will, god puts people in shitty situations for no reason, and choses who goes to heaven or hell for no reason whatsoever, and then why bother worshipping or believing him?
Uhmmm... I'd think the muslims would have just as much reason to be interested, Islam being as much Judeo-Christian as Judeism or Christianity. They all worship the same god and have the same stories
perhaps because someone wanted to build a monument to it, art, likes... doesn't even need to be a recent scam by creationists, it could have been a symbolic representation of it by some jewish/babylonian/etc people, like the giant jesus statue on the mountain in either south america or spain, i can't remember which
Don't worry... What with the economy and all, soon you should have no shortage of time at all to play games...
Because when you pay for it, you agree to a set of restrictions on what you can do with it. Don't like those restrictions? Buy it somewhere else.
Like where? China?
Copyright law exists in most corners of the earth, so by definition you can't do with it what you want
Then wouldn't MS need to turn around and sue AMD for the Athlon XP?
Because of people like me who think that there's more to confederation than personal benifit.
Personally, I'm a Canadian first, and the province I came from has nothing to do with anything. If the west seperates I'm on the first plane to Toronto.
Or bands like Matthew Good, Hot Hot Heat, Propaghandi, etc.
There's a lot more to Canadian music than celine (celine sucks. Noone up here likes her...)
Notice they're all Airbus aircraft. I will NEVER set foot on one of those deathtraps. American made or else I'm taking the bus. (And I'm not even American, or one of those who only buy US/CA. My car's a Nissan.)