We've never had Laissez Faire Capitalism, but when we've come close, things have improved vastly for most people. The industrial revolution made it possible for vast numbers of people to live who would otherwise have had a short and nasty existence. That those people lived hard lives by today's standards is irrelevant.
If you think that the government should be able to veto any purchase you wish to make, you are inviting busybodies to spy on you and run your life. Think of the "War on Drugs" and expand it to everything that can be sold.
My grade school had a small library that was heavily used because the entire class was marched down there once a week to get a book to read that week. Both my Jr High and Sr High schools had large libraries, and in 6 years I never saw a student in either. At first glance, high school libraries seem like a good idea, but the regimented class schedule tends to insure that they get little use.
The recent flap in Texas was due to the well-deserved defeat of people who think that Rosa Parks is more important than George Washington.
Texas has become a standard because a large state is a good choice to have the resources available to make textbook choices, and even teachers recognize that California is too crazy to be accepted country-wide.
There is always a point of diminishing returns. Spending $100,000 per student-year to increase their earning power by $1 a year is a waste.
Another waste is intensive education of severe mental defectives. There are people who, no matter how well they are taught, will never be able to do anything more than mold clay into ashtrays. Yet their parents sue the school system to have huge quantities of money spent on them.
It is not expensive to teach most children who want to learn, through high school level. A teacher, a schoolroom, books. Yet this, which ought not to cost more than $2500 per student-year in the US, now costs about $8000. The problem is government "public" schools, which have no incentive to do well and a negative incentive to control costs.
Note that Daley wants additional years of government schooling, i.e. more money and power. Judging from the summary, he wants this especially for bright children. This is in contrast to the proper approach for intelligent students, who ought to be prepared for college in as few years as possible and then gotten out of the government school system.
Keep in mind that government schools, like all government activities, are funded by theft from victims who are legally prohibited from defending themselves.
If you'd bother to read any source material on Objectivism, the supporters of which you smear as "Randists", you might realize that criticism in this context is evasive at best.
C. Northcote Parkinson did some preliminary research on this subject, which resulted in Parkinson's law (q.v.) and other observations of government and hierarchies.
Illudium Phosdex is the shaving cream molecule. It's made up of an illudium atom and an "ex" ion based on the element phosdium, just as calcium carbonate is made of calcium and an "ate" ion of carbon.
People who press the wrong pedal and never realize it tend to be older, and can't react fast enough to undo their mistake. I did it at least twice within the first ten years of driving, but realized what I was doing wrong and corrected my action within 5 feet. No problem. But someone with an attitude problem is going to blame everyone but himself.
If you think designing a superior product is "the easiest way" you aren't employed to design automobiles. People have been designing cars for 100 years, and they still aren't right.
Most AT cars will start up smoothly by just releasing the brake, foot off the accelerator. The problem comes when the profile of pedal movement versus engine speed (or torque) is too abrupt at small accelerator depressions. This is a design problem which makes acceleration control from stop more difficult with an automatic, and it's the manufacturer's fault.
50 years ago an American car with a big V8 had a splendid automatic transmission, no hunting going up hills. Modern ATs on smaller cars with much smaller, more efficient engines are prone to shift too often for comfort rather than relying on the fluid torque converter to take up the slack. The slight improvement in efficiency is more than overwhelmed by the feeling that the car is misbehaving and the increased wear on the transmission.
surely you want everyone to be better off, not everyone to be equally poor?
Those who want power understand that it is much harder to control those who are well off than those who are poor. So they do want everyone (usually, except themselves and maybe their buddies) to be equally poor.
Most lefties, when pressed, will admit that they'd rather see everyone poor than to have some people rich end everyone else not poor. Even my mother was like that, and she was middle-of-the-road.
you owe your success and productivity to the society that allowed you to come into existence and be successful and productive
Any society that would prohibit such actions is evil and those that create and enforce the restrictions should be killed to the last man. The society that allows such actions is DOING NOTHING (that's what allowing is).
and you are going to pay back into that society and to future generations and to the less fortunate.
There is no way to pay back NOTHING. The "less fortunate" are those who have earned nothing, and you are proposing stealing at gunpoint from those who have earned what they have. You, sir, are promoting a system of legalized theft from unarmed victims.
I've bought 3 cars in my life for under $200 each, you don't "need" to buy a car on credit.
I was going to make a similar point. Where I live, taxes on even such a cheap car would equal the cost of the car in 2 years. I used to live in California; taxes on such a car there would probably be $200 a year and mandatory insurance over $400 a year. The purchase price can be far exceeded by taxes and "unfunded mandates".
Yes, charging higher interest rates to those least able to pay does exacerbate the problem. Tell you what: get together with a bunch of like-minded people, pool your money, and loan it out to deadbeats at a lower rate than banks.
If the malware let's [sic] itself get swapped out, then it can't hide it's [sic] memory footprint.
A piece of malware that installs itself into a big program like Photoshop could remain hidden indefinitely. Compilers frequently waste lots of memory, including uninitialized tables, procedure names, and all sorts of foolishness.
The best thing any person or corporation can do is hide information from the government. Intrusive government requires information to operate, and every time you make that information more difficult or impossible to obtain, you add just a little more distance between yourself and tyranny.
C'mon people, wake up. If your employer didn't report what it paid you, how could an income tax be imposed?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah. The years that users of Photoshop kept Apple alive.
Apple wouldn't exist anymore without Adobe. Photoshop was Apple's "killer app".
It's not a reform law. Look in a dictionary. For something to be a reform, it must be an improvement, and the new law is no improvement.
Liar. Ignoramus.
We've never had Laissez Faire Capitalism, but when we've come close, things have improved vastly for most people. The industrial revolution made it possible for vast numbers of people to live who would otherwise have had a short and nasty existence. That those people lived hard lives by today's standards is irrelevant.
If you think that the government should be able to veto any purchase you wish to make, you are inviting busybodies to spy on you and run your life. Think of the "War on Drugs" and expand it to everything that can be sold.
My grade school had a small library that was heavily used because the entire class was marched down there once a week to get a book to read that week. Both my Jr High and Sr High schools had large libraries, and in 6 years I never saw a student in either. At first glance, high school libraries seem like a good idea, but the regimented class schedule tends to insure that they get little use.
The recent flap in Texas was due to the well-deserved defeat of people who think that Rosa Parks is more important than George Washington.
Texas has become a standard because a large state is a good choice to have the resources available to make textbook choices, and even teachers recognize that California is too crazy to be accepted country-wide.
The first year that the teacher is teaching, yes. After that, he's just repeating the same stuff he did last year.
A large part of a teacher's non-class time is spent grading and otherwise evaluating student performance, particularly when essays are involved.
Why does everything you mention involve the use of government force?
There is always a point of diminishing returns. Spending $100,000 per student-year to increase their earning power by $1 a year is a waste.
Another waste is intensive education of severe mental defectives. There are people who, no matter how well they are taught, will never be able to do anything more than mold clay into ashtrays. Yet their parents sue the school system to have huge quantities of money spent on them.
It is not expensive to teach most children who want to learn, through high school level. A teacher, a schoolroom, books. Yet this, which ought not to cost more than $2500 per student-year in the US, now costs about $8000. The problem is government "public" schools, which have no incentive to do well and a negative incentive to control costs.
Note that Daley wants additional years of government schooling, i.e. more money and power. Judging from the summary, he wants this especially for bright children. This is in contrast to the proper approach for intelligent students, who ought to be prepared for college in as few years as possible and then gotten out of the government school system.
Keep in mind that government schools, like all government activities, are funded by theft from victims who are legally prohibited from defending themselves.
If you'd bother to read any source material on Objectivism, the supporters of which you smear as "Randists", you might realize that criticism in this context is evasive at best.
Should surely be itti and bitti.
Is that an African mole or a European mole?
C. Northcote Parkinson did some preliminary research on this subject, which resulted in Parkinson's law (q.v.) and other observations of government and hierarchies.
Illudium Phosdex is the shaving cream molecule . It's made up of an illudium atom and an "ex" ion based on the element phosdium, just as calcium carbonate is made of calcium and an "ate" ion of carbon.
People who press the wrong pedal and never realize it tend to be older, and can't react fast enough to undo their mistake. I did it at least twice within the first ten years of driving, but realized what I was doing wrong and corrected my action within 5 feet. No problem. But someone with an attitude problem is going to blame everyone but himself.
If you think designing a superior product is "the easiest way" you aren't employed to design automobiles. People have been designing cars for 100 years, and they still aren't right.
Most AT cars will start up smoothly by just releasing the brake, foot off the accelerator. The problem comes when the profile of pedal movement versus engine speed (or torque) is too abrupt at small accelerator depressions. This is a design problem which makes acceleration control from stop more difficult with an automatic, and it's the manufacturer's fault.
50 years ago an American car with a big V8 had a splendid automatic transmission, no hunting going up hills. Modern ATs on smaller cars with much smaller, more efficient engines are prone to shift too often for comfort rather than relying on the fluid torque converter to take up the slack. The slight improvement in efficiency is more than overwhelmed by the feeling that the car is misbehaving and the increased wear on the transmission.
Those who want power understand that it is much harder to control those who are well off than those who are poor. So they do want everyone (usually, except themselves and maybe their buddies) to be equally poor.
Most lefties, when pressed, will admit that they'd rather see everyone poor than to have some people rich end everyone else not poor. Even my mother was like that, and she was middle-of-the-road.
Any society that would prohibit such actions is evil and those that create and enforce the restrictions should be killed to the last man. The society that allows such actions is DOING NOTHING (that's what allowing is).
There is no way to pay back NOTHING. The "less fortunate" are those who have earned nothing, and you are proposing stealing at gunpoint from those who have earned what they have. You, sir, are promoting a system of legalized theft from unarmed victims.
I was going to make a similar point. Where I live, taxes on even such a cheap car would equal the cost of the car in 2 years. I used to live in California; taxes on such a car there would probably be $200 a year and mandatory insurance over $400 a year. The purchase price can be far exceeded by taxes and "unfunded mandates".
The US medical system is in trouble because of government intervention and vicious lawyers. Giving government complete control is suicidal.
Funny how one blatant lie can invalidate your whole long post.
Or did I miss the news stories of millions of people dying in the most recent wave of influenza?
Yes, charging higher interest rates to those least able to pay does exacerbate the problem. Tell you what: get together with a bunch of like-minded people, pool your money, and loan it out to deadbeats at a lower rate than banks.
A piece of malware that installs itself into a big program like Photoshop could remain hidden indefinitely. Compilers frequently waste lots of memory, including uninitialized tables, procedure names, and all sorts of foolishness.
The best thing any person or corporation can do is hide information from the government. Intrusive government requires information to operate, and every time you make that information more difficult or impossible to obtain, you add just a little more distance between yourself and tyranny.
C'mon people, wake up. If your employer didn't report what it paid you, how could an income tax be imposed?