You can always stockpile sufficient arms to ensure you can import food. This has the happy side effect of making a country both very powerful and unlikely to be invaded/blockaded in the first place.
Well, firstly, wages have increased, though much of the increase is masked by tax, and secondly, rich people aren't usually rich because they stole the money, they got it because other people gave it to them of their own free will (except when the government intervened, and that's certainly wrong).
Average household incomes have been pretty stable in the US, but that's because the average number of people in a household has decreased, and not because people are earning less.
Except the rich have to do something with their money, usually putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not Scrooge McDuck, they don't build a massive vault and just hoard all their money. If they actually did that, the effective amount of money in circulation would decrease, and the spending power would increase. The way to misallocate resources in the economy is to pay people to do things they shouldn't be doing, like overly high unemployment benefit, fraudulent disability benefits, useless jobs, or excessive numbers of prison places.
Money the government spends on things people wouldn't buy on their own (agricultural subsidies, bank bailouts) create inefficiency in the economy and slow growth.
He's clearly going downhill. He had a friend give his lecture on assisted suicide, and his books aren't what they used to be. Still better than I could write, but a day is coming when he won't be himself. If he wants to die before he has to face every day trapped in a mind that is no longer him, or wants to wait until he's gone and then can't do it himself, I see no reason that someone shouldn't help him. In the UK suicide is the only act which is legal alone, but not with assistance.
Or if you believe Nicholas Taleb, only on things like that, and possibly not even. Hight has a bell curve distribution, as does weight, but possibly not intelligence, and certainly not anything like wealth.
In agreement with you, it's clear that the attempt of the IQ test is to measure an innate genetic disposition which determines intelligence, rejecting any idea that the capacity of a person to be more intelligent can be changed by any possible means such as education or alteration of environment.
Normal is a horrible thing to be. Statistically it's normal to be poor, and uneducated, living under a despotic regime. Even in western societies normal is uneducated, ugly and boring. By virtue of being born somewhere decent, we are all better off, and education only helps that. If I had to swap with anyone I went to high school with, I'd kill myself moments later.
The new testament is so full of metaphor it's ridiculous. Jesus is called the word, way, truth and light by John in appeal to different sects, not because it was in any way the revealed word of god, because god doesn't exist. It's probably the best piece of writing in there, and shows the kind of skill displayed by other brilliant classical writers like Cicero and the Greek bucolic poets.
I generally find that if I frown at them and say "really?", they give up and sell me booze. Or they get a manager and the same thing happens. Worst case I go next door, and they lose business. There's no way I'm carrying around expensive to replace documents unless I need to.
There are two countries in Britain. Scotland and England. You may also be interested in the principality of Wales. Or the territory of Northern Ireland (from which we get the diagonal red cross on the flag).
It's reasonably obvious why they'd want materials rather than our money. For years we've been taking all of this cool stuff from them, and sending them worthless bits of paper in return. And recently every bank in the western world made the paper worth even less by printing more of it.
Sure, during the worst economic crisis the world has known when nearly every country in the world had tariffs which stopped a lot of trade being viable. What exactly was Japan and Germany trading with the British Empire and the US at the time?
Odd that this is marked as a troll when a widely held belief is that Lewis Carol wrote it about a small girl of his acquaintance with whom he was reputedly on intimate terms.
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Now the EU directly funding anti capital punishment lobbying organisations in America, that's a proper waste of money.
You can always stockpile sufficient arms to ensure you can import food. This has the happy side effect of making a country both very powerful and unlikely to be invaded/blockaded in the first place.
Well, firstly, wages have increased, though much of the increase is masked by tax, and secondly, rich people aren't usually rich because they stole the money, they got it because other people gave it to them of their own free will (except when the government intervened, and that's certainly wrong).
Average household incomes have been pretty stable in the US, but that's because the average number of people in a household has decreased, and not because people are earning less.
Except the rich have to do something with their money, usually putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not Scrooge McDuck, they don't build a massive vault and just hoard all their money. If they actually did that, the effective amount of money in circulation would decrease, and the spending power would increase. The way to misallocate resources in the economy is to pay people to do things they shouldn't be doing, like overly high unemployment benefit, fraudulent disability benefits, useless jobs, or excessive numbers of prison places.
Money the government spends on things people wouldn't buy on their own (agricultural subsidies, bank bailouts) create inefficiency in the economy and slow growth.
Oh, wait, Slashdot doesn't do Korean text.
?, Though it could always be LG.
We also don't all have the same currency.
He's clearly going downhill. He had a friend give his lecture on assisted suicide, and his books aren't what they used to be. Still better than I could write, but a day is coming when he won't be himself. If he wants to die before he has to face every day trapped in a mind that is no longer him, or wants to wait until he's gone and then can't do it himself, I see no reason that someone shouldn't help him.
In the UK suicide is the only act which is legal alone, but not with assistance.
It has both. Depending on where you're born, you're one or the other.
Indeed, these are the farmers' property, being made less valuable by their actions. Do you smash your own windows? Do you key your own car?
Or if you believe Nicholas Taleb, only on things like that, and possibly not even. Hight has a bell curve distribution, as does weight, but possibly not intelligence, and certainly not anything like wealth.
In agreement with you, it's clear that the attempt of the IQ test is to measure an innate genetic disposition which determines intelligence, rejecting any idea that the capacity of a person to be more intelligent can be changed by any possible means such as education or alteration of environment.
Normal is a horrible thing to be. Statistically it's normal to be poor, and uneducated, living under a despotic regime. Even in western societies normal is uneducated, ugly and boring. By virtue of being born somewhere decent, we are all better off, and education only helps that. If I had to swap with anyone I went to high school with, I'd kill myself moments later.
It only holds if you think that bombing Hiroshima was a bad thing.
The new testament is so full of metaphor it's ridiculous. Jesus is called the word, way, truth and light by John in appeal to different sects, not because it was in any way the revealed word of god, because god doesn't exist. It's probably the best piece of writing in there, and shows the kind of skill displayed by other brilliant classical writers like Cicero and the Greek bucolic poets.
Lets all just be happy that it's a pile of nonsense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40TRJl5vvI
Maybe he just reads a lot of Milton : that man was all about spaces before punctuation ; and blind.
I generally find that if I frown at them and say "really?", they give up and sell me booze. Or they get a manager and the same thing happens. Worst case I go next door, and they lose business.
There's no way I'm carrying around expensive to replace documents unless I need to.
You might say he was blind to the implications.
Apparently some English councils have stopped flying the St George's Cross because it's racist.
How the flag of the country in which it is being flown could be perceived of as racist is completely beyond me.
There are two countries in Britain. Scotland and England. You may also be interested in the principality of Wales. Or the territory of Northern Ireland (from which we get the diagonal red cross on the flag).
In which case I apologise, and defer to your more truthful account.
It's reasonably obvious why they'd want materials rather than our money. For years we've been taking all of this cool stuff from them, and sending them worthless bits of paper in return.
And recently every bank in the western world made the paper worth even less by printing more of it.
Sure, during the worst economic crisis the world has known when nearly every country in the world had tariffs which stopped a lot of trade being viable. What exactly was Japan and Germany trading with the British Empire and the US at the time?
Of uniform density, naturally.
Odd that this is marked as a troll when a widely held belief is that Lewis Carol wrote it about a small girl of his acquaintance with whom he was reputedly on intimate terms.