Is there a nation on earth that can f**k with 187 F-22s, the thousands of F-35s we have planned, not to mention the thousands of F-14, F-15, and F-16s that we already have?
Yes. China can. By indulging our willingness to gorge ourselves on foreign-held debt and deficit budgets, so that one day, as happened with USSR, we just can't afford to maintain our military.
What I'm saying is that in the current system, the net result is that a low-bidding dictatorship is almost fated to ruin the labor market in countries that have more costly but more humane employment laws and/or industrial laws.
On reason for this is that at least in the U.S., case law generally obligates publicly traded companies to maximize profit, and thus forces them to ignore all purely social considerations when deciding where to have the labor and/or manufacturing done. So if you get a company like China which is willing to let workers be abused and/or is willing to dump toxic waste where kids play, but they can produce goods cheaply, U.S. corporations are pretty much forced to ship the labor over there.
And even if a U.S. company wanted to compete on those terms with China, it couldn't, because U.S. labor and environmental laws wouldn't let it do the things that Chinese companies can to do their people and environment.
So yes, I think one way to break that vicious system is to use tariffs to eliminate the financial incentives for this. If China wants to let employers piss on its workers, that perhaps their business, but I don't see a reason to structure trade deals that pretty much guarantee jobs will be transferred from countries that value their workers as humans to countries that don't.
Granted, America couldn't do this on its own, because it's not big enough to be competitive without some degree of foreign trade. But if America, the E.U., and Japan banned together to place price premiums on worker/environment abuse, I suspect they would form a big enough trade group that they could afford to get by trading only amongst themselves. And once they could get by without needing to trade with China, China would have to decide: avoid trade altogether, or start treating workers like a civilized country should.
A true student of the RIAA would just start suing people at random and offering them the chance to "settle" for less then the cost of defending themselves at trial.
No, a true student of the RIAA would sue you for this current discussion. And then get a judge to slap you with a gag ord----
Why isn't the difference in workers' rights and environmental abuse priced into free trade agreements?
I have no problem with work going to China, as long as the employers there also have to pay for health care, disability, U.S. minimum wages, and safe workplace enforcement; cannot dump their waste into rivers, etc.
Without those restrictions, U.S. workers cannot hope to compete based on price.
So work done in those countries, and items manufactured in those countries, should probably incur tariffs big enough to compensate for all those other disparities.
Neurosurgery (along with other kinds of brain damage) frightens me like few other phenomena. It's a little bit like saying: "okay, this piece of code in the kernel is crashing. Let's overwrite it with NOPs and see what happens." What if you need that part of your brain? Are you really the same person after the procedure?
In that sense, you're a different person every time your brain undergoes any change, including learning, forgetting, being short on sleep or having extra sleep, etc. I think the notion of "identity" can be disturbingly slippery.
I'm pretty sure this technique is already in daily use. From what I can tell, it involves rap, subwoofers, and the patient driving by my house at 11:30 p.m.
I also know the guy who's in charge of systems integration for the Ares project. He's a young-earth creationist. I have little faith in the engineering acumen of anyone who can accomplish such a massive feat of ignoring experimental evidence.
Have you considered asking him how he reconciles the two habits of mind?
I think what he meant is not that the corporations are justified, but that its healthier to maintain and adhere to a personal sense of right and wrong, regardless of rewards or lack thereof.
Correct. Thanks for saying it more politely than I did.
Reading comprehension not your thing? He named a different business after a component "essential to the process" of pirating DirecTV's services. His business was not pirating DirecTV's services, people just assumed it was.
Right. Inexcusable brain-fart on my part. Sorry for the confusion.
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Damn straight! I'm raising Hell if those booster rockets aren't running on discarded restaurant oil.
Is there a nation on earth that can f**k with 187 F-22s, the thousands of F-35s we have planned, not to mention the thousands of F-14, F-15, and F-16s that we already have?
Yes. China can. By indulging our willingness to gorge ourselves on foreign-held debt and deficit budgets, so that one day, as happened with USSR, we just can't afford to maintain our military.
You call it hyper-radiation, I call it good cheap eatin'.
What I'm saying is that in the current system, the net result is that a low-bidding dictatorship is almost fated to ruin the labor market in countries that have more costly but more humane employment laws and/or industrial laws.
On reason for this is that at least in the U.S., case law generally obligates publicly traded companies to maximize profit, and thus forces them to ignore all purely social considerations when deciding where to have the labor and/or manufacturing done. So if you get a company like China which is willing to let workers be abused and/or is willing to dump toxic waste where kids play, but they can produce goods cheaply, U.S. corporations are pretty much forced to ship the labor over there.
And even if a U.S. company wanted to compete on those terms with China, it couldn't, because U.S. labor and environmental laws wouldn't let it do the things that Chinese companies can to do their people and environment.
So yes, I think one way to break that vicious system is to use tariffs to eliminate the financial incentives for this. If China wants to let employers piss on its workers, that perhaps their business, but I don't see a reason to structure trade deals that pretty much guarantee jobs will be transferred from countries that value their workers as humans to countries that don't.
Granted, America couldn't do this on its own, because it's not big enough to be competitive without some degree of foreign trade. But if America, the E.U., and Japan banned together to place price premiums on worker/environment abuse, I suspect they would form a big enough trade group that they could afford to get by trading only amongst themselves. And once they could get by without needing to trade with China, China would have to decide: avoid trade altogether, or start treating workers like a civilized country should.
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Why only people who link to it?
A true student of the RIAA would just start suing people at random and offering them the chance to "settle" for less then the cost of defending themselves at trial.
No, a true student of the RIAA would sue you for this current discussion. And then get a judge to slap you with a gag ord----
Sue everyone who links to it? BRILLIANT!!!
Why isn't the difference in workers' rights and environmental abuse priced into free trade agreements?
I have no problem with work going to China, as long as the employers there also have to pay for health care, disability, U.S. minimum wages, and safe workplace enforcement; cannot dump their waste into rivers, etc.
Without those restrictions, U.S. workers cannot hope to compete based on price.
So work done in those countries, and items manufactured in those countries, should probably incur tariffs big enough to compensate for all those other disparities.
Neurosurgery (along with other kinds of brain damage) frightens me like few other phenomena. It's a little bit like saying: "okay, this piece of code in the kernel is crashing. Let's overwrite it with NOPs and see what happens." What if you need that part of your brain? Are you really the same person after the procedure?
In that sense, you're a different person every time your brain undergoes any change, including learning, forgetting, being short on sleep or having extra sleep, etc. I think the notion of "identity" can be disturbingly slippery.
and now my ice cream thinks trees are precisely why shoe laces bark the 1812 overture spatula rice mommy.
Now you'll be able to write "The Family Guy" episodes with the best of them.
Well, at least it's better than the time that...
All we have to do is put an astronaut in a chair near Ballmer and then tell him Google just hired Gates!
We're not ready for interstellar flight.
I'm pretty sure this technique is already in daily use. From what I can tell, it involves rap, subwoofers, and the patient driving by my house at 11:30 p.m.
The math is actually pretty simple to figure this all out.
Given: About 12 weeks ago, Balmer finds out that Netbooks are shipping with Linux.
How much did kinetic energy did the chair possess...
I know that a number of Navy scientists have scratched their heads regarding why the NMCI abomination used Windows rather than Linux on the desktop.
I wonder if they'll smarten up when they roll out NGEN, which will replace NMCI.
My guess is no. They've almost certainly had lawyers, lobbyists, and campaign contributors focusing on the liability issue for a while.
We, the public, generally cannot afford such luxuries.
Have you considered asking him how he reconciles the two habits of mind?
Perhaps, but until you can prove it, I have an awesome idea for something to sell on late-night infomercials!
I think what he meant is not that the corporations are justified, but that its healthier to maintain and adhere to a personal sense of right and wrong, regardless of rewards or lack thereof.
Correct. Thanks for saying it more politely than I did.
I'm starting to have serious concerns about anyone who puts the queen on their money.
Funny, I have concerns about anyone who puts his money on a queen.
You are the yin to my yang.
Who the heck moderated this interesting? It's supposed to be funny!
Actually, I was shooting for "-1 Overrated". Apparently I missed.
Why does everyone keep treating them like a bunch of criminals?
Oh come on... we can't be dicks to a penile colony?
Throw anotha lawya' on the barbie, mate?
What's that from?
Reading comprehension not your thing? He named a different business after a component "essential to the process" of pirating DirecTV's services. His business was not pirating DirecTV's services, people just assumed it was.
Right. Inexcusable brain-fart on my part. Sorry for the confusion.
This is a bad, bad idea.
How long before it's noticed by the Invid???