What is the typical age of the consumer PC? My mac was purchased in early 2004, and so far this has been the longest I have had a computer not die on me.:/
Since you seem to have research the topic -- one thing I've wanted to know a statistic for and haven't yet been able to find, is whether or not private R&D spending is more likely to invent new drugs than public R&D spending. Which actually gets more results, and what kind of statistics can back that up. Have you ever come across anything like this?
Cuba is not perfectly communist. It doesn't exist. If the US allowed trade and travel to Cuba, you'd find that a lot of the weatlth they accumulated would be through capitalistic (possible illegal) markets.
Regardless of that, don't you find it at least slightly ironic that you claim the source of their poverty is that a capitalist nation won't trade with them? That's gold. By the way, they trade with Europe and other countries and they're still poor.
That said, we should be trading with Cuba. In the same way it has for China, and Vietnam, trade will move them towards Capitalism.
Frederic Bastiat wrote a tremendous series of essays titled "What is Seen & What is Not Seen" that I always recommend to people. Your off-the-cuff quip about the health care industry's profits is what is seen.
What is not seen is what the health care industry COULD be without the regulations. Oh the health care industry that exists does just fine. The people who are getting screwed by regulations are those who are unable to enter the market and compete under the current system. For example, who do we have to see an AMA licensed doctor when we are sick? Why can't their be a second tier of health care providers that are more along the level of a nurse who can prescribe medicine such as antibiotics and painkillers for people with standard medical problems. Supply of health care goes up, prices go down.
Since health care is so profitable, wouldn't you expect more workers and firms to go into health care to try and capture profits for themselves? Why do you think they don't?
No the people who get screwed are not the Doctors who are part of the AMA's cartel, or the pharmaceutical firms that can afford to go through the FDA's bureaucratic approval process for drugs. It's the consumer that gets screwed.
The vast majority of people do exactly that. Many people go to college to learn whatever the "hot" profession is. A considerable number grow up not knowing what they want to do, and are guided by others along the career path.
Please to be explaining the large number of students who major in art, theatre, music, teaching, and every other career that isn't the "hot" profession...
Don't you think making a pretty wild claim about what the vast majority of people do without any evidence is just as much of a fallacy as using anecdotal evidence as proof?
Depends on the locality and contract. New York City public schools are NOTORIOUS for having a Union Contract that took 5 years to fire a guy who sent sexually explicit e-mails to a student, not even to mention teachers who were just bad at teaching. So no, it isn't just a "myth".
Many successful private schools spend MUCH less per student than public schools. Money is not the problem.
If you want to know what's wrong with education in the United States, a good starting point is to watch 20/20's Special on education, Stupid in America
I hate it when companies provide options! Lets protest them! A tyranny of choices, I say.
I don't like DRM so I buy all my music on CD's, but for people who don't mind the DRM, well, that's too bad! We need to stop people from having the option to purchase things how they want, but force them to purchase things how *I* want. Right?
You nerds need to get a life. There are so many more important things in the world than a company that gives you the to option to purchase songs online with restrictions that you KNOW about.
Interesting statistic regarding energy per capita -- I wonder how much of that is directly related to the fact that we live in a bigger continent and live farther spread apart and use less public transportation. This also might include how much shipping we do by semi's rather than by boat/train.
Yeah, and are you going to personally guarantee that giving up a "small amount of our historically unrivaled level of personal comfort" will actually avert a potential worldwide disaster? If it doesn't, or we later learn that you were full of shit and there was no potential worldwide disaster, can we hold YOU accountable?
You missed his point entirely. We may have more to lose, but those of us who live in wealthy, already industrialized nations are not going to suffer the most, as it will be easier to use our wealth & productive capacity to adapt to new situations, while those who are at the bottom will find a much harder time at moving up.
All industrialized nations are dependent on energy. We are a lot wealthier for it. Those who are still have agrarian based economies are generally very poor, and will probably stay that way if they do not learn to be "energy dependent" as well.
Funny, that's exactly what small retailers said in the 1920's and 1930's when big retail merchandise stores started to open up shop all over the country. And yet most American's make above the low wages these places pay.
When will you idiots stop repeating this tired line?
I work at a small business using all Microsoft software and we too are mostly paperless. For the few things that we do keep paper copies, it is more out of habit than necessity. Also, one of my managers prints out half of his f*cking e-mails and reads them on paper. But that's not Microsoft's fault.
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You can't hug your children with nuclear arms!
Yeah we need to stop those yellow slanty eyes from selling us stuff and investing in our economy! Those bastards!
Ricardo is turning in his grave.
What is the typical age of the consumer PC? My mac was purchased in early 2004, and so far this has been the longest I have had a computer not die on me. :/
Since you seem to have research the topic -- one thing I've wanted to know a statistic for and haven't yet been able to find, is whether or not private R&D spending is more likely to invent new drugs than public R&D spending. Which actually gets more results, and what kind of statistics can back that up. Have you ever come across anything like this?
Cuba is not perfectly communist. It doesn't exist. If the US allowed trade and travel to Cuba, you'd find that a lot of the weatlth they accumulated would be through capitalistic (possible illegal) markets.
Regardless of that, don't you find it at least slightly ironic that you claim the source of their poverty is that a capitalist nation won't trade with them? That's gold. By the way, they trade with Europe and other countries and they're still poor.
That said, we should be trading with Cuba. In the same way it has for China, and Vietnam, trade will move them towards Capitalism.
Frederic Bastiat wrote a tremendous series of essays titled "What is Seen & What is Not Seen" that I always recommend to people. Your off-the-cuff quip about the health care industry's profits is what is seen.
What is not seen is what the health care industry COULD be without the regulations. Oh the health care industry that exists does just fine. The people who are getting screwed by regulations are those who are unable to enter the market and compete under the current system. For example, who do we have to see an AMA licensed doctor when we are sick? Why can't their be a second tier of health care providers that are more along the level of a nurse who can prescribe medicine such as antibiotics and painkillers for people with standard medical problems. Supply of health care goes up, prices go down.
Since health care is so profitable, wouldn't you expect more workers and firms to go into health care to try and capture profits for themselves? Why do you think they don't?
No the people who get screwed are not the Doctors who are part of the AMA's cartel, or the pharmaceutical firms that can afford to go through the FDA's bureaucratic approval process for drugs. It's the consumer that gets screwed.
The vast majority of people do exactly that. Many people go to college to learn whatever the "hot" profession is. A considerable number grow up not knowing what they want to do, and are guided by others along the career path.
Please to be explaining the large number of students who major in art, theatre, music, teaching, and every other career that isn't the "hot" profession...
Don't you think making a pretty wild claim about what the vast majority of people do without any evidence is just as much of a fallacy as using anecdotal evidence as proof?
You can certianally fire bad teachers.
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Depends on the locality and contract. New York City public schools are NOTORIOUS for having a Union Contract that took 5 years to fire a guy who sent sexually explicit e-mails to a student, not even to mention teachers who were just bad at teaching. So no, it isn't just a "myth".
http://cgood.org/assets/attachments/firing_chart.
No private company has to deal with that kind of bureaucracy to fire inept employees.
Many successful private schools spend MUCH less per student than public schools. Money is not the problem.
If you want to know what's wrong with education in the United States, a good starting point is to watch 20/20's Special on education, Stupid in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA
That would be a DUOPOLY, not an oligopoly.
It must be desirable for them, or else they'd leave.
I hate it when companies provide options! Lets protest them! A tyranny of choices, I say.
I don't like DRM so I buy all my music on CD's, but for people who don't mind the DRM, well, that's too bad! We need to stop people from having the option to purchase things how they want, but force them to purchase things how *I* want. Right?
You nerds need to get a life. There are so many more important things in the world than a company that gives you the to option to purchase songs online with restrictions that you KNOW about.
Interesting statistic regarding energy per capita -- I wonder how much of that is directly related to the fact that we live in a bigger continent and live farther spread apart and use less public transportation. This also might include how much shipping we do by semi's rather than by boat/train.
Nope, nothing. That's why unemployment in the US is so high. I've been twiddling my thumbs for the last decade.
Yeah, and are you going to personally guarantee that giving up a "small amount of our historically unrivaled level of personal comfort" will actually avert a potential worldwide disaster? If it doesn't, or we later learn that you were full of shit and there was no potential worldwide disaster, can we hold YOU accountable?
You missed his point entirely. We may have more to lose, but those of us who live in wealthy, already industrialized nations are not going to suffer the most, as it will be easier to use our wealth & productive capacity to adapt to new situations, while those who are at the bottom will find a much harder time at moving up.
All industrialized nations are dependent on energy. We are a lot wealthier for it. Those who are still have agrarian based economies are generally very poor, and will probably stay that way if they do not learn to be "energy dependent" as well.
No no no, the internet is NOT a big truck. Even the senile senator from Alaska knows that!! It's a series of tubes!
Funny, that's exactly what small retailers said in the 1920's and 1930's when big retail merchandise stores started to open up shop all over the country. And yet most American's make above the low wages these places pay.
When will you idiots stop repeating this tired line?
OS X is only treading water if Apple can't make a profit off of it, and as far as I know, that isn't the case.
FYI Annual US GDP is only about 12.5 Trillion... and I can assure you that not 10% of that is going to foreign aid (thankfully).
Anyone who thinks there are obscenely poor people in the United States need to take a trip to Africa.
I don't believe there is such a thing as obscenely rich, unless riches were gained through theft or government handouts.
I work at a small business using all Microsoft software and we too are mostly paperless. For the few things that we do keep paper copies, it is more out of habit than necessity. Also, one of my managers prints out half of his f*cking e-mails and reads them on paper. But that's not Microsoft's fault.
I don't know, I would say that using the description "Post-Industrial Elegance" is a kind of faggotry in it's own right.
My bets are that it will be about an old man that hooks up with a young chick. Or two.
Either way, it couldn't be worse than The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls, could it?
You said "huge staffs". Huh huh.