Mexico has always had cheaper drugs than Canada. In California, it's easy to pop across the border to one on the pharmacies that serve medical tourists.
"The Paraguayan President was ousted in a Contitutional (sic) manner, due to his enormous incompetence."
The President was ousted in a right wing kangaroo court where he was give 24 hours to prepare and 2 hours to testify. If you read the Wikipedia entry, you'll read that most of the neighboring countries considered this to be a coup. If you Google "Paraguay coup", you'll find lots of reputable news sources who reported it as a coup. The US, of course, supported the coup and welcomed the right wing administration.
The US keeps trying, though. Attempted coup in Ecuador in 2010 and successful coup in Paraguay in June this year. They usually do this by funding local right wing groups so it's difficult to trace the US origins but most people know how the system works.
It does state that they will be reducing the number of models from 27 to "just a few".
Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola. They got rid of 40% of their vice presidents which has to be a very good start.
One of my requirements is that software be available on both Mac and Linux since I use both of these regularly. gedit is very good for my needs and is available on both platforms.
I think the problem is that Knight doesn't pay any fees so is free to do as many trades as possible at no cost. This makes programmed trading possible. If there was even a very small fee (as some people have proposed), then the high speed programmed trading would not be profitable. Knight and others doing this type of trading are profiting from very small changes in price which they can see from their order book. They are "front running" the market and this has been illegal but I guess it is so profitable that the authorities are encouraged to ignore the man behind the curtain.
When I moved to a Mac last year, one thing that was missing was a good text editor. I looked at the options and decided that gedit (there is a Mac port of this Linux program) was better than any of the native Mac programs... FOSS also!
I've been using Firefox for many years and I've found it much better than anything else. Every time this discussion comes up, I take a look at the alternatives... usually Chrome. In the past, Chrome lacked plug-ins for many basic things so I went back to Firefox. I just checked Chrome again and it does appear to have more plug-ins but it doesn't have side tabs which I have been using in Firefox for years (Tree Style Tabs). Like most people, I have monitors which are much wider than tall so vertical space is at a premium and I have too much horizontal space. Side tabs helps by moving the tabs from the top to the side giving more vertical space and using some of my "wasted" horizontal space. I checked the forums on this feature and it seemed it was removed from Chrome a while ago due to "bugs" and there are no plans to put it back... what a shame. As usual, back to Firefox which does everything I want and need.
I went to medical school 40 years ago and the only option was pen and paper. This seemed to work well since a lot of the notes are diagrams. We did have a note taking service (one student would take good notes and distribute them) so this helped a lot. (In fact, I was able to spend a month skiing thanks to this service.) I do think I learn better when I take notes instead of just sitting and listening so I would probably do the same today. I don't know of any technology which would help today... you just have to put the time in to listen, process the info and commit it to memory.
"Nobody expects malicious attackers to have a change of heart and hand over information about a vulnerability for a few thousand dollars when they could sell the stole information for much more. " I really don't think that all hackers are greedy. While there are hackers who are willing to take the risks of selling hacks to criminals, there are probably many hackers who would be interested in exploring vulnerabilities for a modest legal reward.
Interesting that Adam Smith's original (and only) description of his famous "invisible hand" referred to consumers having a preference for local products over (even less expensive) products from far away. This does not seem to be the way things are now... perhaps people will come to realize that it is better to purchase locally rather than send their money to distant shores.
I think Marxist economists would argue that capital is the expropriated labor or workers. He argues that the capitalist mode of production requires that people be forced to work in value-adding production for someone else, and for this purpose, they must be cut off from sources of income other than selling their labor power. "The thing (money, commodity, value) is now capital even as a mere thing, and capital appears as a mere thing. The result of the entire process of reproduction appears as a property inherent in the thing itself. It depends on the owner of the money, i.e., of the commodity in its continually exchangeable form, whether he wants to spend it as money or loan it out as capital. In interest-bearing capital, therefore, this automatic fetish, self-expanding value, money generating money, are brought out in their pure state and in this form it no longer bears the birth-marks of its origin. The social relation is consummated in the relation of a thing, of money, to itself. - Instead of the actual transformation of money into capital, we see here only form without content." Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism: Socialism is a post-commodity economic system, meaning that production is carried out to directly produce use-value (to directly satisfy human needs, or economic demands) as opposed to being produced with a view to generating a profit (to maximize exchange-value). The stage in which the accumulation of capital was viable and effective is rendered insufficient at the socialist stage of social and economic development, leading to a situation where production is carried out independently of capital accumulation in a supposedly planned fashion. This would assume the destruction of capital which you postulate.
I believe that it is the government which sets up the laws which protect private intellectual property. Without these government patent laws, there would be no way to protect intellectual property. Anarchy would allow the free flow of ideas without these artificial barriers to embrace and extend. Not sure how John Galt would resolve the conflict between "government is evil" and "government must protect my private property" since it has been 50 years since I read those polemics.
So, the author is trying to claim that open software is bad because it is not open? FUD to the max. I actually tried to read the article and it makes no sense. There is no logic to the argument. It's a series of disconnected statements that contradict each other.
Sorry for not being more verbose. I was using my tablet with no keyboard so I kept it short. I believe that you were expressing frustration that you couldn't find a source of news that had "people walking on the streets, searching for interesting bits and pieces of news, searching for links between them and trying to get the big picture which they then write down in a generally comprehensible manner for the rest of the world." There are lots of news sources that do just that... there are many "small" sources of news like this all over the world. The advantage of news.google.com is that it scours all of these sources and organizes them so that you can easily see what is happening everywhere. I also particularly like the fact that when I am interested in a particular story, Google News gives me literally hundreds of different sources with different perspectives.
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Mexico has always had cheaper drugs than Canada.
In California, it's easy to pop across the border to one on the pharmacies that serve medical tourists.
"The Paraguayan President was ousted in a Contitutional (sic) manner, due to his enormous incompetence."
The President was ousted in a right wing kangaroo court where he was give 24 hours to prepare and 2 hours to testify. If you read the Wikipedia entry, you'll read that most of the neighboring countries considered this to be a coup. If you Google "Paraguay coup", you'll find lots of reputable news sources who reported it as a coup.
The US, of course, supported the coup and welcomed the right wing administration.
The US keeps trying, though.
Attempted coup in Ecuador in 2010 and successful coup in Paraguay in June this year.
They usually do this by funding local right wing groups so it's difficult to trace the US origins but most people know how the system works.
The NYT has a much better article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/technology/motorola-to-cut-20-of-work-force-part-of-sweeping-change.html
It does state that they will be reducing the number of models from 27 to "just a few".
Also they are attempting to introduce a more "small start-up culture" to Motorola. They got rid of 40% of their vice presidents which has to be a very good start.
One of my requirements is that software be available on both Mac and Linux since I use both of these regularly.
gedit is very good for my needs and is available on both platforms.
I think the problem is that Knight doesn't pay any fees so is free to do as many trades as possible at no cost. This makes programmed trading possible.
If there was even a very small fee (as some people have proposed), then the high speed programmed trading would not be profitable.
Knight and others doing this type of trading are profiting from very small changes in price which they can see from their order book. They are "front running" the market and this has been illegal but I guess it is so profitable that the authorities are encouraged to ignore the man behind the curtain.
They must be alive... I just saw a picture of them.
I've found gedit to be the best text editor. Native to Linux and there is a Mac port.
When I moved to a Mac last year, one thing that was missing was a good text editor. I looked at the options and decided that gedit (there is a Mac port of this Linux program) was better than any of the native Mac programs... FOSS also!
I've been using Firefox for many years and I've found it much better than anything else. Every time this discussion comes up, I take a look at the alternatives... usually Chrome. In the past, Chrome lacked plug-ins for many basic things so I went back to Firefox. I just checked Chrome again and it does appear to have more plug-ins but it doesn't have side tabs which I have been using in Firefox for years (Tree Style Tabs). Like most people, I have monitors which are much wider than tall so vertical space is at a premium and I have too much horizontal space. Side tabs helps by moving the tabs from the top to the side giving more vertical space and using some of my "wasted" horizontal space.
I checked the forums on this feature and it seemed it was removed from Chrome a while ago due to "bugs" and there are no plans to put it back... what a shame.
As usual, back to Firefox which does everything I want and need.
I went to medical school 40 years ago and the only option was pen and paper. This seemed to work well since a lot of the notes are diagrams. We did have a note taking service (one student would take good notes and distribute them) so this helped a lot. (In fact, I was able to spend a month skiing thanks to this service.)
I do think I learn better when I take notes instead of just sitting and listening so I would probably do the same today.
I don't know of any technology which would help today... you just have to put the time in to listen, process the info and commit it to memory.
I agree.
However, what else would you expect from America's Borat?
"Nobody expects malicious attackers to have a change of heart and hand over information about a vulnerability for a few thousand dollars when they could sell the stole information for much more. "
I really don't think that all hackers are greedy. While there are hackers who are willing to take the risks of selling hacks to criminals, there are probably many hackers who would be interested in exploring vulnerabilities for a modest legal reward.
And at $20.00 for all of your computers, Apple will make billions... (or, maybe, at least cover some of their costs).
You are assuming that the only value of a person is the work you can get out of them.
Interesting that Adam Smith's original (and only) description of his famous "invisible hand" referred to consumers having a preference for local products over (even less expensive) products from far away.
This does not seem to be the way things are now... perhaps people will come to realize that it is better to purchase locally rather than send their money to distant shores.
I think Marxist economists would argue that capital is the expropriated labor or workers.
He argues that the capitalist mode of production requires that people be forced to work in value-adding production for someone else, and for this purpose, they must be cut off from sources of income other than selling their labor power.
"The thing (money, commodity, value) is now capital even as a mere thing, and capital appears as a mere thing. The result of the entire process of reproduction appears as a property inherent in the thing itself. It depends on the owner of the money, i.e., of the commodity in its continually exchangeable form, whether he wants to spend it as money or loan it out as capital. In interest-bearing capital, therefore, this automatic fetish, self-expanding value, money generating money, are brought out in their pure state and in this form it no longer bears the birth-marks of its origin. The social relation is consummated in the relation of a thing, of money, to itself. - Instead of the actual transformation of money into capital, we see here only form without content."
Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism:
Socialism is a post-commodity economic system, meaning that production is carried out to directly produce use-value (to directly satisfy human needs, or economic demands) as opposed to being produced with a view to generating a profit (to maximize exchange-value). The stage in which the accumulation of capital was viable and effective is rendered insufficient at the socialist stage of social and economic development, leading to a situation where production is carried out independently of capital accumulation in a supposedly planned fashion.
This would assume the destruction of capital which you postulate.
We've outsourced everything and the capital hides in offshore accounts.
Should be no surprise that poverty is up.
Marx was right.
My Kindle Fire fits in at least one pocket of all of my pants.
Standard front pocket is a universal fit.
Wow!
Thanks for this great discussion.
I believe that it is the government which sets up the laws which protect private intellectual property. Without these government patent laws, there would be no way to protect intellectual property. Anarchy would allow the free flow of ideas without these artificial barriers to embrace and extend.
Not sure how John Galt would resolve the conflict between "government is evil" and "government must protect my private property" since it has been 50 years since I read those polemics.
Commercial food interests may be greedy and evil but GM food should be evaluated on its own merits.
I signed up last week and received my order email today.
So, the author is trying to claim that open software is bad because it is not open?
FUD to the max.
I actually tried to read the article and it makes no sense. There is no logic to the argument. It's a series of disconnected statements that contradict each other.
Sorry for not being more verbose. I was using my tablet with no keyboard so I kept it short.
I believe that you were expressing frustration that you couldn't find a source of news that had "people walking on the streets, searching for interesting bits and pieces of news, searching for links between them and trying to get the big picture which they then write down in a generally comprehensible manner for the rest of the world."
There are lots of news sources that do just that... there are many "small" sources of news like this all over the world. The advantage of news.google.com is that it scours all of these sources and organizes them so that you can easily see what is happening everywhere. I also particularly like the fact that when I am interested in a particular story, Google News gives me literally hundreds of different sources with different perspectives.