I assume that the plutocrats made a cost-benefit decision and decided that a sedate population living in terrafoam was safer than a rebellious, starving society.
Libertarians hate the state, but their ideal society is one where a corporation can essentially have all of the power of the state, but without any representation. They will say, you are free to leave a corporation and do business with another. How is that different than, if you don't like the laws of a state, go to another state?
This isn't hypothetical. Company towns in the past were owned by a corporation which provided essentially all government functions. Quite the libertarian paradise.
Why would anyone want to go back to steam engines? You still rely on combustion to heat the steam, but it's external combustion instead internal, which means most of the energy is wasted.
Some industrial applications demand much more power, but 5 horse power is more than enough for personal transportation. There's no need for cars built like tanks. I get around just dandy with less than a quarter horse power.
Corporations want to be free to exploit cheap labor in developing countries. Well, developing countries want to exploit the demand and deep pockets of the first world. Counterfeits are a natural and essential part of a true competitive market. But corporations would rather operate under an imperialist market, where they use the force of big government to control the flow of goods and capital.
Shit, I really need to stop reading the internets and start meditating or something. Do I really need to fill my memory with super bowl advertisements and the latest NSA leak?
With a standard magnet, if you try to cut the poles apart, you end up with two smaller magnets, each with a pair of poles.
The Dirac monopole is like, instead of cutting the poles of a magnet apart, you deform the magnet and pull the poles apart until there is just a tiny infinitesimally small string connecting the two poles. You haven't actually created monopoles, but simulated them.
Still an impressive feat, but we haven't broken physics, despite what you might infer from the headlines.
Primaries are not presidential elections. Primaries are a construct for reducing choice in the actual presidential election. They exist as alliances between the many candidates because the first-past-the-post system guarantees that there can only be two choices in the election.
You forgot the brain rays. The Zionists are using brain rays to alter people's subconscious into passivity. Fortunately, these rays can be blocked by a thin layer of aluminium.
It's not permanent. Eventually it will be reintroduced into the ground via long term ecological and geological processes. We're talking millions of years, but then again we are comparing it to nuclear wastes.
Hmm, I realize now that I made an error. Fractional reserve banking is actually less bad than full reserve. In full reserve, if A lends to B plus interest, B has no way to pay back A unless A spends the interest. In fractional reserve, if A lends to B, and B starts a company, A can invest (purchase part of the company) and B can repay A. But it's all rotten anyways, with A siphoning up all the capital without producing much. We're probably better off with something like Islamic banking.
But if A loans $1 to B with 10% interest, B certainly can't repay A. Adding C and D don't really change anything. The only way B could repay A is if A hired B or for some other reason paid B. But if A decides not to hire B and to wait and accumulate interest, B's debt will continue to grow with no way to pay A back.
If the top lenders decide to take in more money in interest than they pay out in wages, there is an instability that means the assets of the top lenders will grow. Some amount of the interest debts can't be repaid because the lenders aren't spending 100% of their interest earnings. The only thing keeping it from exponential growth is bankruptcies at lower levels.
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I assume that the plutocrats made a cost-benefit decision and decided that a sedate population living in terrafoam was safer than a rebellious, starving society.
Fiction can be informative when they stop being fiction.
Libertarians hate the state, but their ideal society is one where a corporation can essentially have all of the power of the state, but without any representation. They will say, you are free to leave a corporation and do business with another. How is that different than, if you don't like the laws of a state, go to another state?
This isn't hypothetical. Company towns in the past were owned by a corporation which provided essentially all government functions. Quite the libertarian paradise.
People will do other things for money they won't do for love.
Is that like Maslow's hierarchy of greed?
Why would anyone want to go back to steam engines? You still rely on combustion to heat the steam, but it's external combustion instead internal, which means most of the energy is wasted.
Some industrial applications demand much more power, but 5 horse power is more than enough for personal transportation. There's no need for cars built like tanks. I get around just dandy with less than a quarter horse power.
Corporations want to be free to exploit cheap labor in developing countries. Well, developing countries want to exploit the demand and deep pockets of the first world. Counterfeits are a natural and essential part of a true competitive market. But corporations would rather operate under an imperialist market, where they use the force of big government to control the flow of goods and capital.
Shit, I really need to stop reading the internets and start meditating or something. Do I really need to fill my memory with super bowl advertisements and the latest NSA leak?
Yup. Real science is repeatable, unlike the majority of health news headlines.
People just love to throw around blame in this litigious country. Wanna blame someone? Blame God. Shit happens. Just deal with it.
With a standard magnet, if you try to cut the poles apart, you end up with two smaller magnets, each with a pair of poles.
The Dirac monopole is like, instead of cutting the poles of a magnet apart, you deform the magnet and pull the poles apart until there is just a tiny infinitesimally small string connecting the two poles. You haven't actually created monopoles, but simulated them.
Still an impressive feat, but we haven't broken physics, despite what you might infer from the headlines.
I can't wait for nasalus rift and labalus rift to come out so we can get the full waterboarding experience.
Not so easy for a university, which is fairly strongly entrenched in public funding.
With an approval voting system, we would not need primaries. We would not need political parties.
Primaries are not presidential elections. Primaries are a construct for reducing choice in the actual presidential election. They exist as alliances between the many candidates because the first-past-the-post system guarantees that there can only be two choices in the election.
You forgot the brain rays. The Zionists are using brain rays to alter people's subconscious into passivity. Fortunately, these rays can be blocked by a thin layer of aluminium.
Well, it's hard to say if it ever had any credibility.
Fast neutron reactors need highly enriched uranium, which is very politically undesirable to the powers currently possessing nuclear weapons.
one rod? I'm pretty sure nuclear reactors use more than one rod.
It's not permanent. Eventually it will be reintroduced into the ground via long term ecological and geological processes. We're talking millions of years, but then again we are comparing it to nuclear wastes.
Hmm, I realize now that I made an error. Fractional reserve banking is actually less bad than full reserve. In full reserve, if A lends to B plus interest, B has no way to pay back A unless A spends the interest. In fractional reserve, if A lends to B, and B starts a company, A can invest (purchase part of the company) and B can repay A. But it's all rotten anyways, with A siphoning up all the capital without producing much. We're probably better off with something like Islamic banking.
I don't know about the demand for wine bottles, but I suppose the demand for doctors and caskets should increase.
But if A loans $1 to B with 10% interest, B certainly can't repay A. Adding C and D don't really change anything. The only way B could repay A is if A hired B or for some other reason paid B. But if A decides not to hire B and to wait and accumulate interest, B's debt will continue to grow with no way to pay A back.
If the top lenders decide to take in more money in interest than they pay out in wages, there is an instability that means the assets of the top lenders will grow. Some amount of the interest debts can't be repaid because the lenders aren't spending 100% of their interest earnings. The only thing keeping it from exponential growth is bankruptcies at lower levels.