Whenever I hear someone saying "people need to realize" and "willing to make sacrifices". I walk quickly in the other direction and hope they don't see me.
Yeah, I think you're over estimating the saving face feature of the Japanese. I'm guessing a bean counter at Toyota ran the numbers and found out the cost involved to produce would go past potential profit.
Whenever I hear from some all knowing sage telling me what's good for me, I take his advice with a grain of salt. I don't completely write it off, but history is full of people telling other people what they should do for the good of the first.
Please explain to me how you would fix the markets with regulation intended to directly influence them, and I'll come back with a "law of unintended consequences". Obama wants to spark new car sales: cash for clunkers. Unintended consequence: lack of affordable used cars, thousands of serviceable vehicles destroyed. Used car prices are STILL higher than they should be because of this, and at the time I had dealers BEGGING me to sell them back my car I had bought two years earlier. and that one wasn't even hard to figure out beforehand.
you regulate to make sure nobody goes outside the bounds, not to influence.
Economics laws exist as surely as physical laws. They may be psychological based on human actions, and we may not understand them correctly, but they exist. Pretending that they don't is silly. Look at the beautiful housing bubble for a good example of what happens when you attempt to manipulate them. We also shouldn't ascribe morals to them. Nobody sits around cursing gravity as immoral. We just work with it.
you misunderstand. the objective is not to vote for things that are GOOD FOR US and BAD FOR THEM. The objective is to vote for things that are good as a society overall. Whether that's being done is up in the air, but when I go to the polls I try to choose what I think is best overall, not just for my particular group.
Thanks for that. We all get caught up in arguments, and dithering over small things, and finding someone else's opinion wrong..etc. Sometimes being reminded of plain simple decency is needed.
Here's a easy example why I'm upset. I'm looking to buy a nice Sony Ipod speaker dock (RDP-X500IP). About $200, I've tested them in the store, sounds very good. It interfaces nicely with the ipod, and allows you to use a remote control to control the songs and volume. However... this integration only works if the ipod is on the dock, anything plugged in through audio-in doesn't have that function. So If i buy it, I Have to keep using my ipod forever. Or give up the functionality. Or wait for a newer version which WON'T work with my current ipod. Sigh.
There was an interesting article, not too long ago, I believe it was the LA times, but I'm not sure. In it, a supposed ex-CIA agent made the argument that the US actually wasn't as involved in the Iranian overthrow as we pretended to be. It was primarily a "boast", with the CIA trying to take credit and make themselves look more effective and badass, with the UK being the primary driving force. I'm not saying I buy it, but if it's true, it's a really good example of something coming back to bite you on the ass.
Name some really popular culturally relevant foodstuff/drink from from where you're from. I can bet if I drank/ate it, I'd be disgusted, or find it weird. These things are always bizarre. It's why people miss them: they get them as a kid and have fond memories for them. Look at Vegemite, for example. Unless you're Australian: if that's true I rest my case.
A really good example of this is a pineapple from the store versus a pineapple that you buy in Hawaii if you happen to visit. Oh my god is that stuff good when you get it there.
you know, a lot of people buy things to impress others without realizing they're doing it. In other words, they're not saying to themselves "oh, i want to impress other people", but subconsciously they're doing it. I think this might happen a lot more than people realize or wish. Of course, I could be completely mistaken...
Actually, everyone uses American. Go to Japan and try using anything but "American" and you'll get confused looks. Or China. Or Africa. or the Middle East. Pretty much everywhere except for your Mom's basement.
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You were going along so nicely, and then you switched into partisan land.
BTW, you smell.
Whenever I hear someone saying "people need to realize" and "willing to make sacrifices". I walk quickly in the other direction and hope they don't see me.
As opposed to joe sixpack spending 8 hours waiting on a recharge?
BTW, you ARE Joe Sixpack, whether you want to admit it or not.
Yeah, I think you're over estimating the saving face feature of the Japanese.
I'm guessing a bean counter at Toyota ran the numbers and found out the cost involved to produce would go past potential profit.
That's some convoluted innovating you're doing there.
Whenever I hear from some all knowing sage telling me what's good for me, I take his advice with a grain of salt. I don't completely write it off, but history is full of people telling other people what they should do for the good of the first.
Please explain to me how you would fix the markets with regulation intended to directly influence them, and I'll come back with a "law of unintended consequences".
Obama wants to spark new car sales: cash for clunkers.
Unintended consequence: lack of affordable used cars, thousands of serviceable vehicles destroyed. Used car prices are STILL higher than they should be because of this, and at the time I had dealers BEGGING me to sell them back my car I had bought two years earlier.
and that one wasn't even hard to figure out beforehand.
you regulate to make sure nobody goes outside the bounds, not to influence.
oddly enough, I remember having balloons as far back at 1975. Though, to tell the truth, being a child I don't know what they cost.
Economics laws exist as surely as physical laws.
They may be psychological based on human actions, and we may not understand them correctly, but they exist.
Pretending that they don't is silly.
Look at the beautiful housing bubble for a good example of what happens when you attempt to manipulate them.
We also shouldn't ascribe morals to them.
Nobody sits around cursing gravity as immoral. We just work with it.
Seriously, we need a -1 Partisan moderation for the 6 months leading up to and following a US presidential election.
you misunderstand. the objective is not to vote for things that are GOOD FOR US and BAD FOR THEM.
The objective is to vote for things that are good as a society overall.
Whether that's being done is up in the air, but when I go to the polls I try to choose what I think is best overall, not just for my particular group.
Thanks for that.
We all get caught up in arguments, and dithering over small things, and finding someone else's opinion wrong..etc.
Sometimes being reminded of plain simple decency is needed.
You lost me at apathy. the only choices in the world aren't to be a pessimist, or to be apathetic about everything.
Aww, look at the adorable AC (two, one, we're not sure). making comments.
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And there's the answer: "Just buy more stuff". Thanks.
Here's a easy example why I'm upset. I'm looking to buy a nice Sony Ipod speaker dock (RDP-X500IP). About $200, I've tested them in the store, sounds very good. It interfaces nicely with the ipod, and allows you to use a remote control to control the songs and volume. However... this integration only works if the ipod is on the dock, anything plugged in through audio-in doesn't have that function. So If i buy it, I Have to keep using my ipod forever. Or give up the functionality. Or wait for a newer version which WON'T work with my current ipod. Sigh.
There was an interesting article, not too long ago, I believe it was the LA times, but I'm not sure.
In it, a supposed ex-CIA agent made the argument that the US actually wasn't as involved in the Iranian overthrow as we pretended to be.
It was primarily a "boast", with the CIA trying to take credit and make themselves look more effective and badass, with the UK being the primary driving force.
I'm not saying I buy it, but if it's true, it's a really good example of something coming back to bite you on the ass.
You're correct. Iraq gassed the little kids. It was Iran that sent the little kids into minefields as Martyrs.
Name some really popular culturally relevant foodstuff/drink from from where you're from. I can bet if I drank/ate it, I'd be disgusted, or find it weird.
These things are always bizarre. It's why people miss them: they get them as a kid and have fond memories for them.
Look at Vegemite, for example. Unless you're Australian: if that's true I rest my case.
Where's the -1 Partisan rating?
You've obviously never had a class where the professor's textbook was one of many assigned readings, yet you were never assigned any reading from it.
A really good example of this is a pineapple from the store versus a pineapple that you buy in Hawaii if you happen to visit. Oh my god is that stuff good when you get it there.
you know, a lot of people buy things to impress others without realizing they're doing it.
In other words, they're not saying to themselves "oh, i want to impress other people", but subconsciously they're doing it.
I think this might happen a lot more than people realize or wish.
Of course, I could be completely mistaken...
Actually, everyone uses American. Go to Japan and try using anything but "American" and you'll get confused looks. Or China. Or Africa. or the Middle East. Pretty much everywhere except for your Mom's basement.