First of all, good going on Milton Friedman who was important in ending the draft in the US, co-author of one of the best economic histories of the Great Depression, and has been very influential around the world.
And the implementation of his theories have helped cripple the middle class and blow up the world economy.
Also good for adding F.A. Hayek, the most influential members of the Make Shit Up School of economics.
The Times objects to the teaching, for example, that we are a constitutional republic rather than a democracy - which is an objectively true fact.
Except the fact is that we have a democratic republic.
They object to teaching that the free enterprise economic system works best in the absence of limited government intervention - which is another objectively true fact.
Right, because Standard Oil and AT&T improved all on their own without government intervention. Because it's regulated, socialist countries that try to blow up the world economy every few decades.
Someone else here objected to the rejection of a liberal's amendment trying to explain that the founders favored a separation of church and state, when it is objectively false that they did.
You should have stopped digging a hole in your credibility when you passed Baghdad Bob. The founders were deeply concerned about keeping government out of religion and religion out of government. Which is why we have the first amendment. Which is why the Constitution specifically says that a religious test will never be required to hold any office.
All I can say on the subject is that there is no greater honor in life than there is in what they do for a nation of people who will never know what they did or the sacrifices they make.
You mean making tapes of our troops having phone sex with their wives back home?
We're surrounded by the world's largest oceans and two large, friendly nations. We've only faced one invasion in our country's entire history. The Soviet Union is long gone.
How do you determine in which countries it is legal to kill American citizens who are suspected of supporting terrorists?
Since the Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it, defines the battlefield on the war on terror as being the entire planet, it means they are claiming the right to assassinate U.S. citizens anywhere on the globe. Including the U.S.
Funny thing, if he had had a gun and tried to use it, he would have just gotten shot sooner. You know, since muggers and car jackers don't generally give you advance notice that you are going to be mugged or car jacked.
A 3 year old knows the difference between a real gun, and a lightweight plastic controller.
Which ones? My nieces have liked playing with gadgets and electronics since they were 18 months old. A loaded gun that looks like a game controller would be just one more gadget to play around with.
It's still criminal negligence. Sending text messages from your cell phone is legal. Sending text messages while driving is legal (in most states). And you might have great intentions while sending that text message while driving - but it doesn't matter a whit if you your negligence results in harming someone else.
My sister is a Mac devotee, however she was faced recently (last week) with the decision of owning a Mac and no software, or a PC and software, due to costs, and the PC won out, as she needed to you know, be able to do stuff on it.
Two more: non sense. Or did you notice your link talks about customers that file rebates for products, and then return the product for a refund? How is that remotely comparable to insisting on getting a refund for a junk product?
If you circumvent a particular store's return policy with chargebacks too often, the store has every right to ban you from its private property.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a good little corporate ankle grabber. Remember, these aren't customers trying to get refunds after they've cashed rebates, but customers wanting to return a poor product that doesn't work.
How, by taking credit for stimulus money after having voted/opposed it, like Republican Governors and Congressmen and Senators? Like Bobby Jindal, who trashed stimulus spending in his response to Obama's SOTU speech...only to make a big show of handing out giant sized, Jindal-signed checks to programs funded with stimulus money?
Obama ought to be a good enough fighter to know that and move on.
One of the memes floated by the Obama fanboys is that he throws "rope a dopes" against Republicans. Nevermind that a rope a dope comes in two steps:
1. Let your opponent tire himself out attacking your defenses 2. Counter-attack and knock his ass out
Obama has never come close to Step 2. With anyone.
1. he is not stupid - he is a strict constitutionalist.
Oreaaaaly? What's the Constitutional basis for Paul's Sanctity of Life Act, which defines human life as beginning at conception?
Founding fathers knew the opression from the almighty government first hand and were reluctant to give federal government more power than necessary.
Right, which is why all the "strict constitutionalists" also rant and rave about the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the USAF, spy satellites and NORAD. Because the Constitution only allows Congress to fund an Army and a Navy. Oh wait, they don't - which means the entire lot are political hacks.
They chose gold and silver to be a legal tender so nobody has a print button - fiat currencies were tried in their times already and failed.
Nevermind that we actually had more financial collapses under a backed currency than under a fiat currency. It's like gold bugs have excised the 19th century from their minds.
When people start to gamble and overinvest (prosperity) they compete for loanable funds. These funds shrink rapidly and IR raises to match high demand.
Nevermind that the current crisis was banks making insanely risky investments at 60:1 asset ratios. What would the gold standard done to prevent this? Nothing whatsoever. And of course we were on the gold standard when the economy crashed in 1929, for much the same reasons as it did in 2008.
There was a recession of 1920 (caused by retooling to peace time production and returning soldiers sharply increasing workforce numbers), more severe than the Great Depression - it ended in 1,5 years because government did nothing to fight it. Great depression was enlarged and stretched out by failed policies meant to end it.
Wow. You should have stopped digging a hole in your credibility when you passed Baghdad Bob. When there's a total economic collapse, the only entity that can stimulate demand is the government. Know when FDR actually made the depression worse? When he listened to fiscal conservatives and slashed spending in 1937 to cut the deficit.
So is being a self-righteous asshole, since this wasn't an advertised "feature", and even if you read multiple reviews, reviewers are frequently given "clean" versions of the game.
And what if he did read multiple reviews of the game, but none of the reviewers had to deal with this problem because Ubisoft sent them a clean copy of the game? Happens all the time with all kinds of products - the manufacturer sends a copy in to be reviewed - it's why Consumer Reports buys everything they test at retail.
Maybe they shouldn't have to for products this bad that you can't return. You buy any other product under the sun and it's a POS, you can get your money back. Not so with software, unless you do a charge back - in which case Valve kills any other games you've purchased on Steam, and retailers might place you on a blacklist of "problem" customers.
Except of course that the school district can make most of that lawsuit go away by firing the offending officials and making changes to their rules and regulations. But without huge lawsuits hanging over their heads, they have no reason to do either one.
Who said anything about press releases? I was talking about shipping products, Willis. Obviously Intel ended up outstripped both IBM and Motorola, but that was not obvious when the PowerPC was first launched, as you claimed.
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And the implementation of his theories have helped cripple the middle class and blow up the world economy.
Fixed that for you.
The Times objects to the teaching, for example, that we are a constitutional republic rather than a democracy - which is an objectively true fact.
Except the fact is that we have a democratic republic.
Right, because Standard Oil and AT&T improved all on their own without government intervention. Because it's regulated, socialist countries that try to blow up the world economy every few decades.
You should have stopped digging a hole in your credibility when you passed Baghdad Bob. The founders were deeply concerned about keeping government out of religion and religion out of government. Which is why we have the first amendment. Which is why the Constitution specifically says that a religious test will never be required to hold any office.
Hmm, rockets.
All I can say on the subject is that there is no greater honor in life than there is in what they do for a nation of people who will never know what they did or the sacrifices they make.
You mean making tapes of our troops having phone sex with their wives back home?
We're surrounded by the world's largest oceans and two large, friendly nations. We've only faced one invasion in our country's entire history. The Soviet Union is long gone.
Our actual defense needs are pretty minuscule.
How do you determine in which countries it is legal to kill American citizens who are suspected of supporting terrorists?
Since the Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it, defines the battlefield on the war on terror as being the entire planet, it means they are claiming the right to assassinate U.S. citizens anywhere on the globe. Including the U.S.
Funny thing, if he had had a gun and tried to use it, he would have just gotten shot sooner. You know, since muggers and car jackers don't generally give you advance notice that you are going to be mugged or car jacked.
Don't you mean:
Hee Haw?
Please do not claim to be more educated about firearms while in the same paragraph call a gun magazine a "clip".
They're as different as cougars and mountain lions.
Please don't be a retentive pedant.
By their own family's dog? I'm skeptical.
Then he should have no problem spending a few months in jail over it.
The DOD should purchase those in bulk for when DADT is repealed.
No, that was your mom.
A 3 year old knows the difference between a real gun, and a lightweight plastic controller.
Which ones? My nieces have liked playing with gadgets and electronics since they were 18 months old. A loaded gun that looks like a game controller would be just one more gadget to play around with.
It's still criminal negligence. Sending text messages from your cell phone is legal. Sending text messages while driving is legal (in most states). And you might have great intentions while sending that text message while driving - but it doesn't matter a whit if you your negligence results in harming someone else.
Xbox all the way.
I love it how console fanboys always leave the cost of the flatscreen TV and surround sound system out of their side of the equation.
My sister is a Mac devotee, however she was faced recently (last week) with the decision of owning a Mac and no software, or a PC and software, due to costs, and the PC won out, as she needed to you know, be able to do stuff on it.
By "recently" do you mean "five years ago"?
Two more: non sense. Or did you notice your link talks about customers that file rebates for products, and then return the product for a refund? How is that remotely comparable to insisting on getting a refund for a junk product?
If you circumvent a particular store's return policy with chargebacks too often, the store has every right to ban you from its private property.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you're a good little corporate ankle grabber. Remember, these aren't customers trying to get refunds after they've cashed rebates, but customers wanting to return a poor product that doesn't work.
The stimulus is a dead issue. GOP won the round.
How, by taking credit for stimulus money after having voted/opposed it, like Republican Governors and Congressmen and Senators? Like Bobby Jindal, who trashed stimulus spending in his response to Obama's SOTU speech...only to make a big show of handing out giant sized, Jindal-signed checks to programs funded with stimulus money?
Obama ought to be a good enough fighter to know that and move on.
One of the memes floated by the Obama fanboys is that he throws "rope a dopes" against Republicans. Nevermind that a rope a dope comes in two steps:
1. Let your opponent tire himself out attacking your defenses
2. Counter-attack and knock his ass out
Obama has never come close to Step 2. With anyone.
1. he is not stupid - he is a strict constitutionalist.
Oreaaaaly? What's the Constitutional basis for Paul's Sanctity of Life Act, which defines human life as beginning at conception?
Founding fathers knew the opression from the almighty government first hand and were reluctant to give federal government more power than necessary.
Right, which is why all the "strict constitutionalists" also rant and rave about the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the USAF, spy satellites and NORAD. Because the Constitution only allows Congress to fund an Army and a Navy. Oh wait, they don't - which means the entire lot are political hacks.
They chose gold and silver to be a legal tender so nobody has a print button - fiat currencies were tried in their times already and failed.
Nevermind that we actually had more financial collapses under a backed currency than under a fiat currency. It's like gold bugs have excised the 19th century from their minds.
When people start to gamble and overinvest (prosperity) they compete for loanable funds. These funds shrink rapidly and IR raises to match high demand.
Nevermind that the current crisis was banks making insanely risky investments at 60:1 asset ratios. What would the gold standard done to prevent this? Nothing whatsoever. And of course we were on the gold standard when the economy crashed in 1929, for much the same reasons as it did in 2008.
There was a recession of 1920 (caused by retooling to peace time production and returning soldiers sharply increasing workforce numbers), more severe than the Great Depression - it ended in 1,5 years because government did nothing to fight it. Great depression was enlarged and stretched out by failed policies meant to end it.
Wow. You should have stopped digging a hole in your credibility when you passed Baghdad Bob. When there's a total economic collapse, the only entity that can stimulate demand is the government. Know when FDR actually made the depression worse? When he listened to fiscal conservatives and slashed spending in 1937 to cut the deficit.
So is buying a game from such a company.
So is being a self-righteous asshole, since this wasn't an advertised "feature", and even if you read multiple reviews, reviewers are frequently given "clean" versions of the game.
I'm not trying to be offensive
And what if he did read multiple reviews of the game, but none of the reviewers had to deal with this problem because Ubisoft sent them a clean copy of the game? Happens all the time with all kinds of products - the manufacturer sends a copy in to be reviewed - it's why Consumer Reports buys everything they test at retail.
Why, that would make you quite the jackass....
Maybe they should educate themselves then.
Maybe they shouldn't have to for products this bad that you can't return. You buy any other product under the sun and it's a POS, you can get your money back. Not so with software, unless you do a charge back - in which case Valve kills any other games you've purchased on Steam, and retailers might place you on a blacklist of "problem" customers.
They all do. Two words:
Charge. Back.
Except of course that the school district can make most of that lawsuit go away by firing the offending officials and making changes to their rules and regulations. But without huge lawsuits hanging over their heads, they have no reason to do either one.
Who said anything about press releases? I was talking about shipping products, Willis. Obviously Intel ended up outstripped both IBM and Motorola, but that was not obvious when the PowerPC was first launched, as you claimed.