Do you make your own shoes and clothes or do you go out and buy them from "other" people outside of your household? Do you milk your own cow in your backyard or do you buy your milk at the grocery store? My guess is that you do what you do best in exchange for money and trade it for things that other make more efficiently. That way the total amount of production is greater because you and others are specializing in what you make. For the same reason it would be stupid to make all your own goods inside your own household it would be stupid for a country to make all of its goods inside of its borders. Comparative advantage increases division of labor which increases total production(AKA you become more wealthy). Making everything yourself is a good way to make yourself extremely poor.
That's the whole point. Hezbollah was hiding in the hospitals and residential areas so that Israel would look bad in the eyes of the world when they attacked. The strategy was not to win on the battlefield, but in the news media.
Good thing the government can decide for me what software I should receive packaged in my OS or else I just wouldn't know what to do with myself. It not like I can just choose for myself whether or not I will use the prepackaged version or download my own.
Trying to eliminate bias is a fools game. I would much rather read news sources which don't hide their bias and proclaim them out in the open, rather than "fair and balanced" news sources. When I know the bias of the news I am reading I can have a good idea of the types of things they will leave out or spin. When a source claims to be bias free I have a hard time with exactly where I should look for the bias and which "facts" I should check. This is one of the reasons I prefer "advocacy" journalism. I know where they stand and I can act accordingly.
BTW I am myself biased: I am suspicious of elected officials motives I am very skeptical of government intervention into the economy beyond the role of a referee I prefer a smaller, less intrusive, government than the one we currently have I tend to think that the cons of foreign intervention outweigh the pros almost all of the time
There you go. There are my biases. Now you can weigh those against my earlier comment. I wish news reporters would do the same instead of trying to appear "non-human".
Actually if the choices are listed horizontally all of them can be at the top of the list. Obviously the paper you were reading from to the user wasn't very well thought out.
"This is the first time a major free-market think tank has published in favour of taking action against Microsoft's monopoly power."
So basically it is the first time a "free-market" think tank has recommended policy that is against free-market principles. Makes sense. I guess it would be equally worth noting when a socialist think tank recommends policy in favor of a free-market. Am I right?
i was talking about the medical professionals that were weighing in on the subject and taking jabs at homeopathy. I'm by no means a believer in it. It's just that they make many of the same mistakes that they laugh at others for making.
They should take a look in the mirror.
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I find it somewhat funny that they make fun of non-western style medicine because it is expensive and unnecessary. In my experience most of the treatments THEY prescribe are also expensive and unnecessary. The majority of ailments people suffer in the U.S. could easily be cured by getting the proper amount of sleep, using good hygiene, exercising daily, and eating whole foods in moderation. Instead they give their patients all kinds of drugs that cause just as many problems as they eliminate and at prices that bankrupt families and put a huge strain on the overall economy. Somewhat hypocritical don't you think?
So what if a private company actually does make it to the moon? Is it possible for them to claim property there? How does private property work on the moon? It seems to me that according to the homestead principle one could claim parts of the moon if they change the land in some significant way.
Who knows. Maybe we could see some resort casinos open up in 2050.
I can't believe how many people won't buy the game simply because of the DRM scheme it contains. Guess what... You can get the game on Steam and install it on AS MANY COMPUTERS AS YOU WANT and you don't even need to have the disk when you play!
Are you seriously implying that in general men are not stronger than women? Dude you need to get out more. Anyone who has a problem with this IS IGNORING REALITY.
Yes and LE are customers of Glock and Taser International and GM. News flash! LE doesn't make all their own equipment! You wouldn't like it if they did. It would be the worst quality most expensive shit you have ever seen if they did.
"Libertarian: label used by embarrassed Republicans, longing to be open about their greed, drug use and porn collections." -willpall
and their anti-war stance, and open border policy, and support of separation of church and state...Oh wait. They really aren't very much like Republicans after all.
So it's just a simple matter of which side is greedy and which is not? So Google is for Net Neutrality out of the kindness of their heart...not because they don't want the increased costs for themselves? Oh I see. Some companies are greedy and others are not. That is why companies increase prices or decrease limit supply. It's simply about greed. That settles everything.
Right....
The cool thing about being an individual is that I am only responsible for my own actions. When someone from my "race" invents something I don't claim credit just because he has the same color skin as I do. In the same way I don't beat myself up over the stupid shit other people do. Many humans are immoral and ignorant. Some are not. Everything I do myself is entirely my fault and cannot be blamed on anyone else. I have no excuses. You are only yourself. Nothing more.
I knew people on/. were generally pessimistic but the majority of these posts are outright anti-human. For all of you who believe the universe and/or the planet would be better of without our race than stop being a hypocrite and off yourself for the good of the universe. What a bunch of sad weaklings you are; complaining about human exploration and equating our technological advances to meaningless endeavours. Man up Slashdot! Have some fucking pride in your own accomplishments and have some hope for the future. Just because you yourself are a worthless human doesn't mean the rest of us are and deserve to be destroyed. Simply sickening.
The term "Climate Change" is almost entirely meaningless. Can you name a single year, decade, or million year period where climate did not "change"? Didn't think so. It would be more accurate to call it the "humans making the planet too hot theory", because that is what is really being debated here.
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Do you make your own shoes and clothes or do you go out and buy them from "other" people outside of your household? Do you milk your own cow in your backyard or do you buy your milk at the grocery store? My guess is that you do what you do best in exchange for money and trade it for things that other make more efficiently. That way the total amount of production is greater because you and others are specializing in what you make. For the same reason it would be stupid to make all your own goods inside your own household it would be stupid for a country to make all of its goods inside of its borders. Comparative advantage increases division of labor which increases total production(AKA you become more wealthy). Making everything yourself is a good way to make yourself extremely poor.
That's the whole point. Hezbollah was hiding in the hospitals and residential areas so that Israel would look bad in the eyes of the world when they attacked. The strategy was not to win on the battlefield, but in the news media.
Being the freest doesn't make one free. Haven't been to Europe lately I take it?
That's funny I didn't know they made Internet Explorer for OpenBSD. Perhaps I am less of a geek than I thought.
Good thing the government can decide for me what software I should receive packaged in my OS or else I just wouldn't know what to do with myself. It not like I can just choose for myself whether or not I will use the prepackaged version or download my own.
Trying to eliminate bias is a fools game. I would much rather read news sources which don't hide their bias and proclaim them out in the open, rather than "fair and balanced" news sources. When I know the bias of the news I am reading I can have a good idea of the types of things they will leave out or spin. When a source claims to be bias free I have a hard time with exactly where I should look for the bias and which "facts" I should check. This is one of the reasons I prefer "advocacy" journalism. I know where they stand and I can act accordingly.
BTW I am myself biased:
I am suspicious of elected officials motives
I am very skeptical of government intervention into the economy beyond the role of a referee
I prefer a smaller, less intrusive, government than the one we currently have
I tend to think that the cons of foreign intervention outweigh the pros almost all of the time
There you go. There are my biases. Now you can weigh those against my earlier comment. I wish news reporters would do the same instead of trying to appear "non-human".
Good thing we don't need the government to fund something to make progress on it.
Actually if the choices are listed horizontally all of them can be at the top of the list. Obviously the paper you were reading from to the user wasn't very well thought out.
Since when have subsidies and government granted monopolies been the definition of a "free market"?
"This is the first time a major free-market think tank has published in favour of taking action against Microsoft's monopoly power."
So basically it is the first time a "free-market" think tank has recommended policy that is against free-market principles. Makes sense. I guess it would be equally worth noting when a socialist think tank recommends policy in favor of a free-market. Am I right?
i was talking about the medical professionals that were weighing in on the subject and taking jabs at homeopathy. I'm by no means a believer in it. It's just that they make many of the same mistakes that they laugh at others for making.
I find it somewhat funny that they make fun of non-western style medicine because it is expensive and unnecessary. In my experience most of the treatments THEY prescribe are also expensive and unnecessary. The majority of ailments people suffer in the U.S. could easily be cured by getting the proper amount of sleep, using good hygiene, exercising daily, and eating whole foods in moderation. Instead they give their patients all kinds of drugs that cause just as many problems as they eliminate and at prices that bankrupt families and put a huge strain on the overall economy. Somewhat hypocritical don't you think?
So what if a private company actually does make it to the moon? Is it possible for them to claim property there? How does private property work on the moon? It seems to me that according to the homestead principle one could claim parts of the moon if they change the land in some significant way. Who knows. Maybe we could see some resort casinos open up in 2050.
"the US looks bad from a personal rights viewpoints"
Sir have you ever traveled out of your country before?
If you believe what you said about personal rights in the U.S. I suspect you haven't.
I can't believe how many people won't buy the game simply because of the DRM scheme it contains. Guess what... You can get the game on Steam and install it on AS MANY COMPUTERS AS YOU WANT and you don't even need to have the disk when you play!
Are you seriously implying that in general men are not stronger than women? Dude you need to get out more. Anyone who has a problem with this IS IGNORING REALITY.
And making Dick Cheney the president is going to help us how?
Don't think I'm going to ask a judge first before I track you down, son.
It sure can if he is stumbling backwards and falls down the stairs after a shot to the chest...umm..I mean...so my friend tells me
Yes and LE are customers of Glock and Taser International and GM. News flash! LE doesn't make all their own equipment! You wouldn't like it if they did. It would be the worst quality most expensive shit you have ever seen if they did.
"Libertarian: label used by embarrassed Republicans, longing to be open about their greed, drug use and porn collections." -willpall
and their anti-war stance, and open border policy, and support of separation of church and state...Oh wait. They really aren't very much like Republicans after all.
So it's just a simple matter of which side is greedy and which is not? So Google is for Net Neutrality out of the kindness of their heart...not because they don't want the increased costs for themselves? Oh I see. Some companies are greedy and others are not. That is why companies increase prices or decrease limit supply. It's simply about greed. That settles everything. Right....
The cool thing about being an individual is that I am only responsible for my own actions. When someone from my "race" invents something I don't claim credit just because he has the same color skin as I do. In the same way I don't beat myself up over the stupid shit other people do. Many humans are immoral and ignorant. Some are not. Everything I do myself is entirely my fault and cannot be blamed on anyone else. I have no excuses. You are only yourself. Nothing more.
I knew people on /. were generally pessimistic but the majority of these posts are outright anti-human. For all of you who believe the universe and/or the planet would be better of without our race than stop being a hypocrite and off yourself for the good of the universe. What a bunch of sad weaklings you are; complaining about human exploration and equating our technological advances to meaningless endeavours. Man up Slashdot! Have some fucking pride in your own accomplishments and have some hope for the future. Just because you yourself are a worthless human doesn't mean the rest of us are and deserve to be destroyed. Simply sickening.
The term "Climate Change" is almost entirely meaningless. Can you name a single year, decade, or million year period where climate did not "change"? Didn't think so. It would be more accurate to call it the "humans making the planet too hot theory", because that is what is really being debated here.