"Diversity?: This class doesn't exist. You made it up. Besides, engineering classes are the most diverse on any campus. You meet geeks and nerds from 5 different continents!"
Made it up? When is the last time you attended university? Here at ASU we are actually required to have a certain amount of "cultural, sexual and racial diversity" credits in order to graduate. They don't really teach as much about other cultures as they do about hating white people. Sadly I think it does more to divide groups of people than help them live together peacefully.
Sadly many times using a less-than-lethal weapon is used even though physical contact with the suspect would cause less damage to them. This isn't because police officers are just lazy or because they like to see people tazered but because it it much more defensible in court if the suspect doesn't have any kind of marks on him where as if the officer would wrestle him to the ground and cuff him he would likely have cuts and bruises(almost always superficial damage). Blame the courts and people's perception before you blame the police officers.
When you hold constant things like degrees earned, time in the workforce, IQ, wealth of the parents, and so on woman earn almost the same or more than men. The "gap" is mostly determined by life choices like their major in college and having children and being out of the work force. Out of people with my degree it is well known that woman make more money with the same amount of experience, and it is similar in other jobs as well.
It is that same central planning mentality that always pops up. People get scared of leaving things to the market because it will produce something unknown, but in reality it will almost always produce something better than what a central planner could have done. Leave the internet the hell alone!
Why does every potential problem have to have a "government enforced" solution? Why not have some personal responsibility for your own actions instead? Are you that stupid that the government has to make each and every decision for you so you don't hurt yourself?
My German friends laughed at me because of my guns. "Why would you need that unless you are going to kill someone?" they said. "To protect myself from others who have them" I said. "Then why don't they make them illegal?" they said.
I wonder if people will ever understand that criminals don't care about the law. After all, if they did they wouldn't be criminals. Outlawing things like this only hurts the good guys.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-C.S. Lewis
Most of your claims could just as easily be attributed to government and not free enterprise. Would slavery even have been profitable without government protecting the institution? How would masters reclaim runaway slaves if the "police" didn't return them and others were barred by law from helping them escape? Yes that's right. Government regulation made slavery a profitable enterprise.
You say that medical care can't be left up to the market because it is necessary to survival, but food and water are necessary for survival as well and yet the market provides cheaper and better quality food and cleaner water than at any other time in history. Regulation is sometimes very helpful but if it is too pervasive than it cripples that which it is trying to help. The medical industry in the U.S. is NOT repeat NOT anywhere near a free market. In fact a single payer system might even be preferable to what we have now. The U.S. medical industry is so heavily regulated and subsidized that people are insulated from their health care costs and so supply and demand are distorted and prices are pushed up to astronomical levels.
To claim that the U.S. health care is free from government intervention is absolutely mind-numbing considering that the U.S. government pays more per person for health care than any other country in the world including the ones with a universal system.
The parent thinks that the telecommunications market in the U.S. is free. What a joke. It is one of the most tampered with and over regulated industries in the whole country. Hardly an example of "too free a market".
I didn't get the idea of limited government from Goldwater or Reagan. I got it from people like Adam Smith, Frederic Bastiat, and Thomas Jefferson. I would be willing to bet that for every instance you can come up with where government regulation gave us MORE liberty I could come up with ten where it took it away. Government regulation is not that answer to keep the internet "safe".
You have a problem with Iran and China having control of the internet in those countries but in order to save us from the same fate you want OUR government to start regulating it with "net neutrality"? Don't you understand it is precisely BECAUSE these governments got control of the internet that it became less free. Giving the government the power to control something makes it LESS free not more free. Why Slashdot? Why do you believe net neutrality can possibly save the openness of the internet?
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty" -Ludwig von Mises
In order to keep the internet open and free we have to.....let the government regulate it? You lost me somewhere in there. I think you've fallen for Google's propaganda campaign.
I live in Arizona so buying class 3 weapons is no problem as long as I have no criminal record, am at least 21, and pay the tax stamp on it. Also I would take a bolt-action.50 over any 50 year old Russian guns they have over there (which is also legal for purchase).
Colonialism's fault? The U.S. and Hong Kong were colonies. Why aren't we that f***ed up? For that matter the U.K. was a colony of Rome before we were a colony of them. Colonialism is not even close to the cause of Africa's mess.
IBM's costs will be reduced and the prices of their IT services will go down making them more affordable. This means our money spent in the IT industry will go farther. This is only bad for the people being laid off, everyone else benefits.
I would have to disagree on that one. A Minarchist Republic would be the ideal form of government if you value Individual Freedom. Democracy is only the best if you value "equality" over liberty.
No because there is a wide range of political idealogies on Slashdot. And besides Technocracy is just a repackaged version of an oligarchy, which is in no way democratic(which means 90% of people will not agree with it regardless of the political party they are in). Yes most people here on Slashdot are liberal but there is also a sizable amount of libertarians and conservatives.
Wrong...If it was an attack on American foreign policy it wouldn't have attacked a bunch of regular American workers but instead attacked a building containing the actual foreign policy makers such as the White House.
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"Diversity?: This class doesn't exist. You made it up. Besides, engineering classes are the most diverse on any campus. You meet geeks and nerds from 5 different continents!" Made it up? When is the last time you attended university? Here at ASU we are actually required to have a certain amount of "cultural, sexual and racial diversity" credits in order to graduate. They don't really teach as much about other cultures as they do about hating white people. Sadly I think it does more to divide groups of people than help them live together peacefully.
Sadly many times using a less-than-lethal weapon is used even though physical contact with the suspect would cause less damage to them. This isn't because police officers are just lazy or because they like to see people tazered but because it it much more defensible in court if the suspect doesn't have any kind of marks on him where as if the officer would wrestle him to the ground and cuff him he would likely have cuts and bruises(almost always superficial damage). Blame the courts and people's perception before you blame the police officers.
If college was all it took to make you smart we would be a hell of a lot better off. That's for sure.
When you hold constant things like degrees earned, time in the workforce, IQ, wealth of the parents, and so on woman earn almost the same or more than men. The "gap" is mostly determined by life choices like their major in college and having children and being out of the work force. Out of people with my degree it is well known that woman make more money with the same amount of experience, and it is similar in other jobs as well.
It is that same central planning mentality that always pops up. People get scared of leaving things to the market because it will produce something unknown, but in reality it will almost always produce something better than what a central planner could have done. Leave the internet the hell alone!
Why does every potential problem have to have a "government enforced" solution? Why not have some personal responsibility for your own actions instead? Are you that stupid that the government has to make each and every decision for you so you don't hurt yourself?
No, but they are.
My German friends laughed at me because of my guns.
"Why would you need that unless you are going to kill someone?" they said.
"To protect myself from others who have them" I said.
"Then why don't they make them illegal?" they said.
I wonder if people will ever understand that criminals don't care about the law. After all, if they did they wouldn't be criminals. Outlawing things like this only hurts the good guys.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C.S. Lewis
Most of your claims could just as easily be attributed to government and not free enterprise. Would slavery even have been profitable without government protecting the institution? How would masters reclaim runaway slaves if the "police" didn't return them and others were barred by law from helping them escape? Yes that's right. Government regulation made slavery a profitable enterprise.
You say that medical care can't be left up to the market because it is necessary to survival, but food and water are necessary for survival as well and yet the market provides cheaper and better quality food and cleaner water than at any other time in history. Regulation is sometimes very helpful but if it is too pervasive than it cripples that which it is trying to help. The medical industry in the U.S. is NOT repeat NOT anywhere near a free market. In fact a single payer system might even be preferable to what we have now. The U.S. medical industry is so heavily regulated and subsidized that people are insulated from their health care costs and so supply and demand are distorted and prices are pushed up to astronomical levels.
To claim that the U.S. health care is free from government intervention is absolutely mind-numbing considering that the U.S. government pays more per person for health care than any other country in the world including the ones with a universal system.
The parent thinks that the telecommunications market in the U.S. is free. What a joke. It is one of the most tampered with and over regulated industries in the whole country. Hardly an example of "too free a market".
I didn't get the idea of limited government from Goldwater or Reagan. I got it from people like Adam Smith, Frederic Bastiat, and Thomas Jefferson. I would be willing to bet that for every instance you can come up with where government regulation gave us MORE liberty I could come up with ten where it took it away. Government regulation is not that answer to keep the internet "safe".
You have a problem with Iran and China having control of the internet in those countries but in order to save us from the same fate you want OUR government to start regulating it with "net neutrality"? Don't you understand it is precisely BECAUSE these governments got control of the internet that it became less free. Giving the government the power to control something makes it LESS free not more free. Why Slashdot? Why do you believe net neutrality can possibly save the openness of the internet?
"Government is essentially the negation of liberty" -Ludwig von Mises
In order to keep the internet open and free we have to.....let the government regulate it? You lost me somewhere in there. I think you've fallen for Google's propaganda campaign.
I live in Arizona so buying class 3 weapons is no problem as long as I have no criminal record, am at least 21, and pay the tax stamp on it. Also I would take a bolt-action .50 over any 50 year old Russian guns they have over there (which is also legal for purchase).
Oh no.....! It's already happened!
Colonialism's fault? The U.S. and Hong Kong were colonies. Why aren't we that f***ed up? For that matter the U.K. was a colony of Rome before we were a colony of them. Colonialism is not even close to the cause of Africa's mess.
That was an M16...not an AK-47
Isn't finding Linux drivers for your high-end audio hardware the real problem with making music on Linux, not the lack of sound editing programs?
IBM's costs will be reduced and the prices of their IT services will go down making them more affordable. This means our money spent in the IT industry will go farther. This is only bad for the people being laid off, everyone else benefits.
Will online voting mean we will get leaders that believe that 9/11 was an inside job and Microsoft should be destroyed?
I would have to disagree on that one. A Minarchist Republic would be the ideal form of government if you value Individual Freedom. Democracy is only the best if you value "equality" over liberty.
No because there is a wide range of political idealogies on Slashdot. And besides Technocracy is just a repackaged version of an oligarchy, which is in no way democratic(which means 90% of people will not agree with it regardless of the political party they are in). Yes most people here on Slashdot are liberal but there is also a sizable amount of libertarians and conservatives.
How can you compare the U.S. to the E.U.? One is a country! That is like comparing North America to Germany. It doesn't mean anything...
Wrong...If it was an attack on American foreign policy it wouldn't have attacked a bunch of regular American workers but instead attacked a building containing the actual foreign policy makers such as the White House.