ignorance is a bliss.
If a worthless currency was such a great thing for economy, Zimbabwe would have ruled the world, Argentina would have been up there with it, USSR would have dominated, Weimar Republic of Germany would have drowned the world in its currency.
The GP wasn't talking about a worthless currency. I'm pretty sure theres a middle ground between what we have and Zimbabwe.
NO. It's not the 'overvalued' currency that drives manufacturing jobs overseas. It's WEAK currency coupled with government regulations that destroy incentive to save capital and invest it in local economy, it's all the shit that drives prices up - printing and borrowing and rules that create asset bubbles and minimum wage laws (yes, even that), and all the social obligations that destroy jobs.
I'm not an economist, so you probably know this subject matter better than I do, but some of what you're saying sounds a little off to me. Didn't China kept their currency artificially low to help their economy? A lack of regulation might be one factor in companies moving their manufacturing operations to China, but wasnt the fact that the yuan was weaker than the dollar also a factor? Also, even with all those regulations, the USA is still the https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2198rank.htmlmost invested in country in the world.
But without the minimum wage law and all those social obligations, what kind of jobs would we have? Again, Im not an economist, but would the size of the middle class shrink if these protections are lifted?
How many parents are actually going to install this? Any parent can ask for their kid's password as you have but how many are actually do? I don't believe this will affect myspace at all. This is just something to point blame away from myspace when some kid meets an older person on myspace and gets molested.
Well, in the US they take greater care to hide such activities. If you go to certain neighborhoods in the United States, there are scatily clad women standing on street corners. Some of them will actively solicit men in passing cars.
Eh? How does the chinese government give an implicit "okay" to prostitution? Prostitution is ILLEGAL in China. Does it happen? Of course it does. But that happens in the USA too. Does that mean the US government implicitly okays prostitution?
What media player market? The last time I checked, Real Player and Quicktime were both FREE products.
If you think that there's a media player market, then isn't also a text editor market? There are companies that sell text editors (notetab, textpad, etc). Should microsoft stop including notepad and wordpad with windows?
I doubt Google will do that. There are other search engines, and switching search engines is much easier than switching ISPs.
If Google decides not to service Bellsouth's customers, some people will switch to a different ISP, but how many? Not everyone online uses Google, most people I know uses Yahoo. And even if some people decide to switch, who will they switch to? Cable companies are staying quiet on this issue, but they haven't exactly spoken out against it.http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71240
Also, if Google decides to lock out Bellsouth's customers, they will lose out on advertising revenue. Investors won't like that. Bellsouth OTOH probably won't mind. They are already working with yahoo on co-marketing of DSL service. So this will be a boost for their partner, Yahoo. And because it's Google locking out Bellsouth's customers, not Bellsouth locking out Google, who do you think the bad publicity will fall on?
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ignorance is a bliss. If a worthless currency was such a great thing for economy, Zimbabwe would have ruled the world, Argentina would have been up there with it, USSR would have dominated, Weimar Republic of Germany would have drowned the world in its currency.
The GP wasn't talking about a worthless currency. I'm pretty sure theres a middle ground between what we have and Zimbabwe.
NO. It's not the 'overvalued' currency that drives manufacturing jobs overseas. It's WEAK currency coupled with government regulations that destroy incentive to save capital and invest it in local economy, it's all the shit that drives prices up - printing and borrowing and rules that create asset bubbles and minimum wage laws (yes, even that), and all the social obligations that destroy jobs.
I'm not an economist, so you probably know this subject matter better than I do, but some of what you're saying sounds a little off to me. Didn't China kept their currency artificially low to help their economy? A lack of regulation might be one factor in companies moving their manufacturing operations to China, but wasnt the fact that the yuan was weaker than the dollar also a factor? Also, even with all those regulations, the USA is still the https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2198rank.htmlmost invested in country in the world. But without the minimum wage law and all those social obligations, what kind of jobs would we have? Again, Im not an economist, but would the size of the middle class shrink if these protections are lifted?
If you're on the winning side of the cult of dealth, doesn't that mean you're in the cult of life?
How many parents are actually going to install this? Any parent can ask for their kid's password as you have but how many are actually do? I don't believe this will affect myspace at all. This is just something to point blame away from myspace when some kid meets an older person on myspace and gets molested.
Well, in the US they take greater care to hide such activities. If you go to certain neighborhoods in the United States, there are scatily clad women standing on street corners. Some of them will actively solicit men in passing cars.
Eh? How does the chinese government give an implicit "okay" to prostitution? Prostitution is ILLEGAL in China. Does it happen? Of course it does. But that happens in the USA too. Does that mean the US government implicitly okays prostitution?
According to your logic, the United States censor the internet too, because we arrest Child Pornographers. Right?
They forgot to censor 'tank man'... US Image Search for Tank Man China Image Search for Tank Man
What media player market? The last time I checked, Real Player and Quicktime were both FREE products. If you think that there's a media player market, then isn't also a text editor market? There are companies that sell text editors (notetab, textpad, etc). Should microsoft stop including notepad and wordpad with windows?
I doubt Google will do that. There are other search engines, and switching search engines is much easier than switching ISPs.
If Google decides not to service Bellsouth's customers, some people will switch to a different ISP, but how many? Not everyone online uses Google, most people I know uses Yahoo. And even if some people decide to switch, who will they switch to? Cable companies are staying quiet on this issue, but they haven't exactly spoken out against it.http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/71240
Also, if Google decides to lock out Bellsouth's customers, they will lose out on advertising revenue. Investors won't like that. Bellsouth OTOH probably won't mind. They are already working with yahoo on co-marketing of DSL service. So this will be a boost for their partner, Yahoo. And because it's Google locking out Bellsouth's customers, not Bellsouth locking out Google, who do you think the bad publicity will fall on?