No, it isn't. The protein is similar and has similar infectivity characteristics, but no-one has proved that you get vCJD from eating meat from cattle that had BSE. The old story: correlation is not causation. There is still nothing to prove there was not a common cause.
And you believe that they're living on "less than a dollar a day" because they're just not working hard enough?
No. They're on less than a dollar a day because I can't afford to buy anything from them.
They do not contribute to the general well-being. In some cases, they actually work against the general well-being.
And who are you to decide? If someone wants to pay for someone else's services, let them. Just because you have a particular vision of how you want to live your life, doesn't mean we have to subscribe to it.
The job of the financial system is to allocate capital efficiently. If it doesn't do that, none of your multi-million dollar projects would ever see the light of day. Yes, there's plenty wrong with the system, but to misrepresent it as "moving virtual worthless values around" is just complete rubbish.
Saying reality is wrong doesn't make it any less real. Do you think people are going to change? Then the only other approach is to change the rules of the game. Or stick your fingers in your ears and pretend you can't hear the thunder...
Actually, we don't. For all the scaremongering at the time, there is no real evidence tying BSE transmission through animal derived feedstuffs to vCJD.
A billion people on this planet live on less than a dollar a day and you're seriuosly suggesting we should work less? As for the virtue of work, I spent years getting up at 4am to gut fish, so please don't tell me about my ivory tower. Slinging frozen salmon around is no fun, but being penniless is worse.
Such a high human cost? You're saying these workers would be better off replaced by robots? You really think it's acceptable for these people to be workless as long as you're not involved?
There is also the option of "Work a bit shorter days for 50 cents an hour". We as consumers can demand companies to demand their subcontractors to offer workers somewhat tolerable working conditions.
No, there isn't. Consumers don't work like that. I don't know how clear this can be: it's not going to happen. There is no market for ethically manufactured iDevices.
I challenge you to actually produce meaningful studies with real facts connected to real history and real psychology and real politics in an advanced industrial economy full of computers and robotics that support your position.
I challenge you to repeat that post replacing your references to actual papers published in mainstream journals.
No, it isn't. Sorry. It makes no assumption about future demand growth. It merely says that if you introduce a worker into a closed economy, that worker will generate sufficient demand to employ, in aggregate, at least one other person. Unemployment has nothing to do with it.
Honestly, people like you have been making badly thought out arguments like this since Adam Smith conceived the invisible hand. Yes, the planet is finite, no, economics cannot cure everything, but the fact is people like you are happy to drive economies into stagnation in pursuit of misguided beliefs. Have a little faith in your fellow human beings, and when every man, woman, and child on this planet has managed to ascend your precious hierarchy of needs, you can come back with your arguments that we should slow down. Personally, I don't believe people should starve or live off rubbish heaps because of your precious sensibilities.
It does. It comes with some internal storage (4GB or 8GB), but only one slot. That said, brilliant little machine. Haven't been so happy with an MP3 player since my X-Clef died.
And call me old-fashioned, but I don't really see what's particularly fair trade about throwing Chinese workers out of work so they can go and spend their days scavenging through rubbish dumps instead.
Your error is called the lump of labour fallacy, the idea that there is a certain amount of work to be done and that a foreigner doing it takes a job away from an American. In fact, the presence of H1-B holders bring new skills and enables the creation of firms that would not otherwise exist, and hence creates new jobs.
Shakespeare is a bugbear of mine. They are plays. Take a bunch of kids and get them to produce one of them. They'll get it; in fact, they can't not. Yet if you force them to grapple a wall of blank text, they can't. And who can blame them?
You're talking about repairing a massive gash underwater. Difficult. Once that's done, you have to float her off the rocks. Dangerous, and liable to more damage. Finally, you have to sort the list, which is not as easy as trimming the ballast tanks.
I haven't read the opinion, but generally speaking, my understanding is that international treaties signed by the US are on the same legal level as the Constitution. So if the Berne Convention says that such-and-such must be copyrighted, then Congress must have de facto power to copyright it.
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No, it isn't. The protein is similar and has similar infectivity characteristics, but no-one has proved that you get vCJD from eating meat from cattle that had BSE. The old story: correlation is not causation. There is still nothing to prove there was not a common cause.
No. They're on less than a dollar a day because I can't afford to buy anything from them.
And who are you to decide? If someone wants to pay for someone else's services, let them. Just because you have a particular vision of how you want to live your life, doesn't mean we have to subscribe to it.
The job of the financial system is to allocate capital efficiently. If it doesn't do that, none of your multi-million dollar projects would ever see the light of day. Yes, there's plenty wrong with the system, but to misrepresent it as "moving virtual worthless values around" is just complete rubbish.
Saying reality is wrong doesn't make it any less real. Do you think people are going to change? Then the only other approach is to change the rules of the game. Or stick your fingers in your ears and pretend you can't hear the thunder...
Actually, we don't. For all the scaremongering at the time, there is no real evidence tying BSE transmission through animal derived feedstuffs to vCJD.
A billion people on this planet live on less than a dollar a day and you're seriuosly suggesting we should work less? As for the virtue of work, I spent years getting up at 4am to gut fish, so please don't tell me about my ivory tower. Slinging frozen salmon around is no fun, but being penniless is worse.
Such a high human cost? You're saying these workers would be better off replaced by robots? You really think it's acceptable for these people to be workless as long as you're not involved?
No, there isn't. Consumers don't work like that. I don't know how clear this can be: it's not going to happen. There is no market for ethically manufactured iDevices.
I challenge you to repeat that post replacing your references to actual papers published in mainstream journals.
Honestly, people like you have been making badly thought out arguments like this since Adam Smith conceived the invisible hand. Yes, the planet is finite, no, economics cannot cure everything, but the fact is people like you are happy to drive economies into stagnation in pursuit of misguided beliefs. Have a little faith in your fellow human beings, and when every man, woman, and child on this planet has managed to ascend your precious hierarchy of needs, you can come back with your arguments that we should slow down. Personally, I don't believe people should starve or live off rubbish heaps because of your precious sensibilities.
It does. It comes with some internal storage (4GB or 8GB), but only one slot. That said, brilliant little machine. Haven't been so happy with an MP3 player since my X-Clef died.
And call me old-fashioned, but I don't really see what's particularly fair trade about throwing Chinese workers out of work so they can go and spend their days scavenging through rubbish dumps instead.
No, you don't. Learn to read. The UK is the same; you can live your entire life here without a government ID, should you choose.
Your error is called the lump of labour fallacy, the idea that there is a certain amount of work to be done and that a foreigner doing it takes a job away from an American. In fact, the presence of H1-B holders bring new skills and enables the creation of firms that would not otherwise exist, and hence creates new jobs.
Can I suggest reading The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath before slinging around comments like that?
Shakespeare is a bugbear of mine. They are plays. Take a bunch of kids and get them to produce one of them. They'll get it; in fact, they can't not. Yet if you force them to grapple a wall of blank text, they can't. And who can blame them?
Is computer literacy for 14 year olds still an issue? Really?
Depends what you did. Given the treatment of child pornographers in prisons, I think I'd probably rather be jailed for not giving up a password.
You're talking about repairing a massive gash underwater. Difficult. Once that's done, you have to float her off the rocks. Dangerous, and liable to more damage. Finally, you have to sort the list, which is not as easy as trimming the ballast tanks.
At this point, probably not. Just getting her off the rocks will probably involve the end of her.
I haven't read the opinion, but generally speaking, my understanding is that international treaties signed by the US are on the same legal level as the Constitution. So if the Berne Convention says that such-and-such must be copyrighted, then Congress must have de facto power to copyright it.
Umm...subscription has been around for a while. Hasn't done much for the spelling though.
With SOPA, it doesn't matter whether you do or not. If I complain, your site will be taken down anyway.
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Dude, A-class networks are gettng swallowed up in *months*. You're proposing to bail out the Titanic with a bucket.