Quite correct, which is why true capitalism will *always* end up forming a government and evolve into corporatism. The only difference between a libertarian and a crony capitalist is having enough money to buy a lobbyist.
I'd go one step further. NO bank should be able to operate across state boundaries, without using a federal clearing house. Including the FED. Let's expand the FED to 50 state-run corporations. That way, no one can take down the whole country.
Fundamental property of *corporatism* maybe, but not capitalism. True capitalism doesn't have bankruptcy laws, they're considered an immoral government interference in the organized crime, er, marketplace.
If I had mod points, I'd mark this as majorly insightful.
But then- for the first trigger- what you want is a password scheme, in a fictional language, that you give clues to in an e-mail in a program that only sends it if you haven't logged in for a month.
A harder limit on human lifespan than telemares is human stupidity. Sometime in 150 years, you are statistically 100% likely to step in front of a train or a bus.
We're still likely to lose 2/3rds of our population by 2150, if current fertility rates continue to trend downwards. When even a Catholic Country like Italy is seeing negative population growth now, and a third world country like Uganda has gone from 8 children per family to 3.1 children per family, be prepared for a much older and much more cynical world indeed.
All this does is give us an extra 50 years before the baby boom becomes an utter bust.
My town is in the center of a huge natural resource. The people who lived here for 20,000 years before us considered themselves to be quite wealthy, for food was available merely for the gathering of it. I'm tired of the natural resources being mined and grown and sold elsewhere while people right here are starving. Oregon is both one of the best natural resource states in the union, and #1 in hunger and #2 in homelessness. We would have no material shortages- if anything, we have an overabundance of material, we just have this stupid idea that we're better off selling it to Korea and Japan than actually profiting from it ourselves. We do this under pressure from your occupying army of an international monetary system. We would be better off if your Rome would self destruct.
99% of the financial industry, society can do without. Used to be all a bank was the one guy in town who owned a vault and charged rent to use it. I believe we should limit the financial industry to basically being an ultra-small, ultra-secure storage rental place and be done with it. If you don't know the creative mind personally, you shouldn't be investing in his company anyway.
Knights of Columbus- but this type of insurance is only available to Catholic Parishes that have loans with Knights of Columbus, and it doesn't cover all lost revenue, only the payments on the loan.
Here's one mechanism we can hold them responsible through- local currencies. Don't let a business trade in your currency unless ALL of it's C-level executives have a certificate of being free from mental illness. Let them have the dollar, let each city start printing it's own money and supporting it's own local economy, with that money being no good anywhere else.
But the only reason that is so is because of outright bribery, which *should be illegal but isn't*. Thus giving, at least on an international law level, reason for legitimate violent revolt.
I used to think like you, but wasting a lot of time on a subject I'd never use again seems to have compromised my last 6 projects before this one. I'm too much of a generalist computer programmer I guess- in the last 16 years I haven't worked in the same industry twice.
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Also, I find far too many librevox volunteers sound like they're doing it as practice in an ESL class.....
My wife was watching her soap, and it didn't happen. I heard almost none of the Western States got the alert.
Quite correct, which is why true capitalism will *always* end up forming a government and evolve into corporatism. The only difference between a libertarian and a crony capitalist is having enough money to buy a lobbyist.
I'd go one step further. NO bank should be able to operate across state boundaries, without using a federal clearing house. Including the FED. Let's expand the FED to 50 state-run corporations. That way, no one can take down the whole country.
Money in the form of INTEREST when they make loans. The more interest you can get, the more profitable your bank is.
Fundamental property of *corporatism* maybe, but not capitalism. True capitalism doesn't have bankruptcy laws, they're considered an immoral government interference in the organized crime, er, marketplace.
Ok, why flamebait?
If I had mod points, I'd mark this as majorly insightful.
But then- for the first trigger- what you want is a password scheme, in a fictional language, that you give clues to in an e-mail in a program that only sends it if you haven't logged in for a month.
That's because our culture breeds a sense of entitlement that creates more crime.
Only as a surrogate. Not as actually fertile.
A harder limit on human lifespan than telemares is human stupidity. Sometime in 150 years, you are statistically 100% likely to step in front of a train or a bus.
We're still likely to lose 2/3rds of our population by 2150, if current fertility rates continue to trend downwards. When even a Catholic Country like Italy is seeing negative population growth now, and a third world country like Uganda has gone from 8 children per family to 3.1 children per family, be prepared for a much older and much more cynical world indeed.
All this does is give us an extra 50 years before the baby boom becomes an utter bust.
Well, what they've forgotten is that at 85 the brain begins to go....
End shipping. Localize factories. The reduction in the economy of scale will eat up the unemployment rate in no time flat.
My town is in the center of a huge natural resource. The people who lived here for 20,000 years before us considered themselves to be quite wealthy, for food was available merely for the gathering of it. I'm tired of the natural resources being mined and grown and sold elsewhere while people right here are starving. Oregon is both one of the best natural resource states in the union, and #1 in hunger and #2 in homelessness. We would have no material shortages- if anything, we have an overabundance of material, we just have this stupid idea that we're better off selling it to Korea and Japan than actually profiting from it ourselves. We do this under pressure from your occupying army of an international monetary system. We would be better off if your Rome would self destruct.
Better than letting the feds regulate it from 3000 miles away.
Which is enabled by the money supply. Use a different currency, and you'll insulate your earnings and spending from that financial system.
99% of the financial industry, society can do without. Used to be all a bank was the one guy in town who owned a vault and charged rent to use it. I believe we should limit the financial industry to basically being an ultra-small, ultra-secure storage rental place and be done with it. If you don't know the creative mind personally, you shouldn't be investing in his company anyway.
Real growth for an electric company is not non-existent. It is directly proportional to the increase in population + new industry being built.
Knights of Columbus- but this type of insurance is only available to Catholic Parishes that have loans with Knights of Columbus, and it doesn't cover all lost revenue, only the payments on the loan.
Here's one mechanism we can hold them responsible through- local currencies. Don't let a business trade in your currency unless ALL of it's C-level executives have a certificate of being free from mental illness. Let them have the dollar, let each city start printing it's own money and supporting it's own local economy, with that money being no good anywhere else.
But the only reason that is so is because of outright bribery, which *should be illegal but isn't*. Thus giving, at least on an international law level, reason for legitimate violent revolt.
Chicken and egg problem there. Where's the pebcak? Both in the lack of ability of voters to keep out the psychopaths, and the insistence of stockholders to keep hiring psychopaths.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/10/corporate_political_psychopath.html
Haven't seen "Office Space" yet, have you?
I used to think like you, but wasting a lot of time on a subject I'd never use again seems to have compromised my last 6 projects before this one. I'm too much of a generalist computer programmer I guess- in the last 16 years I haven't worked in the same industry twice.