Uhhh, ok -- they may not be physically chained to their desks, Mr. Star-eyed Libertarian, but if they have mortgages and families and other responsibilities, then they can't quit so easily.
So who put those chains of mortgages, etc., around their necks?
It's simple enough. Just fill out the forms made available by your state government offices.
One problem - Where do I get start-up capital? I can't earn it via a job, because no corporation would pay their employees enough money to afford to become their competition.
85% of America's millionaires are self-made (See the book "The Millionaire Next Door".)
I can't get a loan or investor money, because I'm not well connected enough (read: born and raised among the rich)
Read up on how Apple started. America is full of similar stories, from John Jacob Astor to Colonel Sanders to Steve Jobs.
It's no accident that corporations are hard to create - the businesses who did it first didn't want competition, so they used their money to warp the rules to make it nearly impossible (unless it was a daughter corp).
Microsoft and Apple, when they started, ate the lunch of their established competitors. Whatever happened to DEC, Harris, Univac, etc.?
The fact is, CEOs that get paid a lot are paid a lot because they have a track record of making money for their investors. If you want to be paid well, then start making money for the people who pay you.
Note: To anybody in a corporation, I highly recomend against looking up your CEO's salary. It's one of the most depressing things you could possibly do (my CEO makes in one hour what I make all year).
You can always start your own corporation, make yourself CEO, and get rich!
There is no boring science. There are only boring speakers. And you're quite wrong about Fourier transforms. If you don't have an interest in the world around you, that doesn't make the world boring, it makes you boring.
to maximize the braking effectiveness of your car. The point of maximum effectiveness is when the tires make a slight 'singing' sound. If the tires lock up, back off!
"No matter the capitalistic filth that has been shoved down your throat by "the man," socialism was not founded on principles of lazy people leeching off of the community. It's about taking from those with an overabundance and giving to those who lack. It's about charity and love and most of all respect for humanity."
Too bad the real world implementations of socialism produce little but famines, death camps, and gulags. I think I prefer capitalist filth to that.
I'm always bemused by people that imagine that a socialist school system would teach anything other than the supposed benefits socialism, rather than the benefits of freedom.
What would put a brake on some of this nonsense is to have, as part of the patent review process, a period of one year of public comment on each. The public would then have the opportunity to comment on whether or not the patent was "novel" or "obvious", and can bring up prior art. The patent examiners would be required to take the public comments into account when they rule.
I'd suggest just having stuff that isn't worth stealing. Use laptops, gadgets, etc., that are at least 2 years old and worthless but still get the job done. Is there any reason you'd need the latest laptop to browse the internet or write a term paper?
Do you believe that life was better before industrialization began than after? That suffering increased during the industrial revolution? If you look at infant mortality, life expectancy, etc., throughout the period, things got steadilly better. There was no spike in bad statistics in the beginning of the IR.
Also, what were people making in the IR? Pots, pans, furniture, shoes, clothes, for the mass market. Things the mass market never had before.
If slave/prison labor is more economically productive than free labor, then why is it that free market economies consistently bury the unfree ones? Since when has slave labor ever been competitive with free labor?
How you make an airplane resistant to bullet holes is you make redundant systems. A commercial airliner is full of redundant systems, it can withstand a great deal of damage and keep flying. A military fighter can actually withstand much less damage, because it has fewer redundant systems (redundant systems add weight, and a heavy fighter is a slow, easy target). A military fighter will expend some precious weight to give the pilot some armor protection.
Heck, even in WW1, aviators soon found that you couldn't bring down even those string bags with small caliber single shot weapons. You needed large caliber machine guns, and then you needed to pump it full of hits.
Furthermore, airliners are specifically designed to withstand considerable hull damage and keep flying. A bullet hole will not even be noticed.
C'mon, you don't need to worry about "hull penetration" with a bullet. Ever wonder why military fighters use *cannons* to shoot down aircraft? A little handgun won't do anything, even if a hole is punched in the skin. The airplane won't even lose pressure, the pumps can easilly keep up with multiple bullet holes. And the airplane machinery is loaded with redundant systems, you'd be very hard pressed to knock out anything critical.
5) The Queen of Uruguay: that's just funny. If someone accidentally or on purpose started referring to the US as a monarchy, they'd probably be hired as a spokesperson for the DNC.
They already are. Haven't you noticed the political persuasion of those who refer to the Kennedys as "America's Royalty", JFK jr as the former "crown prince" and Kennedy's administration as "camelot"?
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If they're viciously incompetent, you should be able to start a company and run rings around them.
That's supposedly how the Indians felt when the white man first offered to buy their land. They accepted the deal thinking they were getting money for nothing - how could you really own anything you didn't create and couldn't carry with you?
If the Indians supposedly felt that way, why were they in a state of nearly constant warfare over which tribe controlled which territory?
space is a province of all mankind. There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space. It is a common thing that should belong to all.
Since communism has failed every time it's been tried on earth, maybe it will work in space.
Rigid enforcement of speed limits will cause more accidents. For example, it's usually safer to match the speed of the cars around you, even if they are speeding. Going slower and causing them to try to get around you is a hazard. Also, how good are you at maintaining an exact speed without watching the speedo all the time? Wouldn't you rather a driver has his eyes on the road, than on the speedo constantly?
How are they going to work when they're rusted on solid? I can't tell you how many times I needed a long "persuader" bar to break a bolt loose, used a "nut cracker" on it, had to grind it off, or use a hacksaw.
The difference between a zeppelin and a blimp is a zeppelin has a rigid airframe. That may be what they're talking about when saying it's an airship, not a blimp.
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So who put those chains of mortgages, etc., around their necks?
It's simple enough. Just fill out the forms made available by your state government offices.
One problem - Where do I get start-up capital? I can't earn it via a job, because no corporation would pay their employees enough money to afford to become their competition.
85% of America's millionaires are self-made (See the book "The Millionaire Next Door".)
I can't get a loan or investor money, because I'm not well connected enough (read: born and raised among the rich)
Read up on how Apple started. America is full of similar stories, from John Jacob Astor to Colonel Sanders to Steve Jobs.
It's no accident that corporations are hard to create - the businesses who did it first didn't want competition, so they used their money to warp the rules to make it nearly impossible (unless it was a daughter corp).
Microsoft and Apple, when they started, ate the lunch of their established competitors. Whatever happened to DEC, Harris, Univac, etc.?
The fact is, CEOs that get paid a lot are paid a lot because they have a track record of making money for their investors. If you want to be paid well, then start making money for the people who pay you.
Note: To anybody in a corporation, I highly recomend against looking up your CEO's salary. It's one of the most depressing things you could possibly do (my CEO makes in one hour what I make all year).
You can always start your own corporation, make yourself CEO, and get rich!
There is no boring science. There are only boring speakers. And you're quite wrong about Fourier transforms. If you don't have an interest in the world around you, that doesn't make the world boring, it makes you boring.
With a bit of practice, you'll have it down pat.
Too bad the real world implementations of socialism produce little but famines, death camps, and gulags. I think I prefer capitalist filth to that.
I'm always bemused by people that imagine that a socialist school system would teach anything other than the supposed benefits socialism, rather than the benefits of freedom.
What would put a brake on some of this nonsense is to have, as part of the patent review process, a period of one year of public comment on each. The public would then have the opportunity to comment on whether or not the patent was "novel" or "obvious", and can bring up prior art. The patent examiners would be required to take the public comments into account when they rule.
I'd suggest just having stuff that isn't worth stealing. Use laptops, gadgets, etc., that are at least 2 years old and worthless but still get the job done. Is there any reason you'd need the latest laptop to browse the internet or write a term paper?
Also, what were people making in the IR? Pots, pans, furniture, shoes, clothes, for the mass market. Things the mass market never had before.
If slave/prison labor is more economically productive than free labor, then why is it that free market economies consistently bury the unfree ones? Since when has slave labor ever been competitive with free labor?
How you make an airplane resistant to bullet holes is you make redundant systems. A commercial airliner is full of redundant systems, it can withstand a great deal of damage and keep flying. A military fighter can actually withstand much less damage, because it has fewer redundant systems (redundant systems add weight, and a heavy fighter is a slow, easy target). A military fighter will expend some precious weight to give the pilot some armor protection. Heck, even in WW1, aviators soon found that you couldn't bring down even those string bags with small caliber single shot weapons. You needed large caliber machine guns, and then you needed to pump it full of hits. Furthermore, airliners are specifically designed to withstand considerable hull damage and keep flying. A bullet hole will not even be noticed.
C'mon, you don't need to worry about "hull penetration" with a bullet. Ever wonder why military fighters use *cannons* to shoot down aircraft? A little handgun won't do anything, even if a hole is punched in the skin. The airplane won't even lose pressure, the pumps can easilly keep up with multiple bullet holes. And the airplane machinery is loaded with redundant systems, you'd be very hard pressed to knock out anything critical.
If the post office is the best deal in the world, why is it illegal to compete with the USPS?
They already are. Haven't you noticed the political persuasion of those who refer to the Kennedys as "America's Royalty", JFK jr as the former "crown prince" and Kennedy's administration as "camelot"?
If they're viciously incompetent, you should be able to start a company and run rings around them.
The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 caused a collapse of international trade with the US. The result was a world-wide depression.
That's supposedly how the Indians felt when the white man first offered to buy their land. They accepted the deal thinking they were getting money for nothing - how could you really own anything you didn't create and couldn't carry with you?
If the Indians supposedly felt that way, why were they in a state of nearly constant warfare over which tribe controlled which territory?
space is a province of all mankind. There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space. It is a common thing that should belong to all.
Since communism has failed every time it's been tried on earth, maybe it will work in space.
6. You can turn off the black box with a switch on the dash.
Rigid enforcement of speed limits will cause more accidents. For example, it's usually safer to match the speed of the cars around you, even if they are speeding. Going slower and causing them to try to get around you is a hazard. Also, how good are you at maintaining an exact speed without watching the speedo all the time? Wouldn't you rather a driver has his eyes on the road, than on the speedo constantly?
The privacy concerns would be adequately addressed if the black box could be turned on and off by a switch on the dash.
How are they going to work when they're rusted on solid? I can't tell you how many times I needed a long "persuader" bar to break a bolt loose, used a "nut cracker" on it, had to grind it off, or use a hacksaw.
Actually, they did patent it. See the Seldon Patent, which was a huge problem for early car makers. Similar patents encumbered early aircraft makers.
The difference between a zeppelin and a blimp is a zeppelin has a rigid airframe. That may be what they're talking about when saying it's an airship, not a blimp.