By routinely violating US intellectual property China is initiating economic warfare. Why do you think it is advisable for the US to just bend over and take it? Because China's military is so much more powerful than the US's?
When the government fines someone for criminal behavior and imposes a lien against their tax returns, it doesn't cause people to abandon the US dollar.
So if someone comes up and mugs you and you go after him to get your money back, you're a "sore loser".
Got it.
If China went to war with the US it would be a very short war primarily because China would have to attack US territory. Attacking things the neocon idiots think of as "American Interests", such as access to middle east oil, would only spur innovation in the US and get us to stop the equivalent of a national heroin addiction.
If the US is concerned about intellectual property violations from China, it is a simple matter to fine China under RICO statutes:
Just cancel out debt owed to China in proportion to the actual damages. Triple that canceled debt if there is criminality under RICO.
Then if guys like Klotz want a more open relationship and technological exchange with China, all the government policy measure involves lifting trade barriers to let our space entrepreneurs do business with Chinese companies. Again, if the Chinese act as an organized crime syndicate to violate the IP of the entrepreneurs, cancel out debt to China. Keep doing it until the debt is gone and -- if necessary -- reversed.
Oh, and this idea that it is ok to trade with countries that routinely engage in human rights abuses is essentially participating in slave trade. It should be US policy not to engage in slave trade nor to allow domestic companies to engage in slave trade.
Finally, if you REALLY want to get US innovation going, reverse the current tax situation in which the only national asset tax is the patent fee and the rest of the revenue comes from taxes on economic activity:
Tax only property net rights at their liquidation value at a rate equal to the national debt, and exempt inventor owned patents from any taxes or fees.
When the original dot-con bubble burst, the guys from India in Silicon Valley were able to hold onto jobs while most of the contemporaries of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. who had built the computer industry were washed away. How did they do it? By being Indian:
Get a correspondence degree from India.
Turn your skin dark brown like the guy who wrote "Black Like Me" did. (Yes, you'll be risking skin cancer later on in life but by then you're kids will have been put through college.)
Change your name to something appropriately Dravidian.
The ten thousand year explosion theory of human evolution is that there has been an enormous change in the genetic character of humans during the last 10000 years.
OK, so now we have a data point.
Hmmmmm... maybe someone should inject formaldehyde "on a accident" to denature all the DNA before hate-facts surface.
And did you know that as of 1900 half of the babies born in the US had blue eyes and the figure is now less than 20%?
Natural selection in action! Well, maybe not natural selection but we certainly have no right to interfere in artificial selection because that would be, well, artificial selection.
The US did just fine prior to the fraudulently passed Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. It did so fine, in fact, that people like you want to come here.
Stay the fuck out of my country.
Here's what I'll be willing to offer you instead of my country:
The whole Fortune 1000.
As long as you guys keep your nepotistic hiring practices in India we can rebuild our economy.
The way things are going, its all going down the shitter anyway because of you guys and your nepotism. You may as well take it. Just stay the fuck out so we can rebuild a society based on individualistic genotypes.
The big problem with the social sciences is that they cannot be value neutral since their deliberations are used to inform public policy, frequently against even the will of the majority let alone against the will of the minority much less the individual.
"Correlation doesn't imply causation." is a truism since not even controlled experiments imply causation. This is true of all natural sciences of which the social sciences are a subset. It is increasingly recognized in the social sciences that the important thing to do is pay attention not only to "the weight of the evidence", rather than "proof" but to, as described in the discourse in "implication analysis" in the social sciences: "try harder to find relevant natural experiments".
So not only is it a truism that "correlation doesn't imply causation" it is a sophomoric barrier to scientific progress which understands not only that there is no "proof" but that some "correlations" are more relevant to evaluation of causal hypotheses in the social sciences than are other correlations.
The question comes down to the word "evaluation" since we're trying to place a "value", indeed a numeric value, on a causal hypothesis rather than "test" it in a logical sense. To the Monetary Man, this numeric "value" is quantified in money as a net present value adjusted for future risk. The Monetary Man is, however, not the Natural Man from whom Natural Rights derive.
How in the world are we, unachored from the operational definition of "value" as embodied in money, to place value on which correlations, hence which "natural experiments" to study (hence which such experiments to actively promote)?
My answer, that is friendly to civilization while upholding the individual, is directly hostile to Monetary Man since I place Natural Man above Money:
Provide an inalienable and equal monetary stream to each individual so that individual may, through the subordinate anarcho capitalist system, construct his own world in cooperation with others. In such a world many "natural experiments" will be conducted and they will be conducted in proportion to value determined from a founding notion of sovereign individuals who, in exchange for their inalienable monetary dividend from civilization, agree that the ultimate appeal in dispute processing will not be force, but money.
The source of revenue is therefore obvious:
The property rights that would not exist in the absence of that agreement, properly called "artificial property rights" as opposed to "natural property rights" such as a homestead supporting an individual and his immediate family, are subject to that agreement and are, therefore, as with any partner's profit stream from a business venture, optimally divided between payout and retention. The payout is the individual sovereign's profit from the partnership which is limited by the expectation of future value from the partnership. Of course, if the future value of the partnership (ie: civilization) falls to zero, then the partnership is dissolved, the wealth distributed equally and we go back to natural duel as the appeal of last resort in dispute processing until another partnership again restrains individual sovereignty.
Social scientists and their politicians deny that the individual is preeminent over civilization and hence is to be asked for what terms he demands of civilization and its artificial property rights prior to suspending his true, forceful, individual sovereignty. They simply take from the sovereign individual his natural right to use force and they do so by forming a group (usually called a "government") that takes it from him -- a group that has volumes upon volumes of words from the "social sciences" to justify their crimes against humanity.
Are you saying that a state that had 31 hate crimes in 2010 isn't filled to the brim with racists? Well, maybe not, but if they they weren't racists before being displaced we can be pretty sure they will be after being displaced.
Well, the smart set has known for some time that skilled immigrants create more skilled jobs they take, so wages increase. Obviously, with wages for skilled jobs on the rise, the only reason native skilled workers would move away is that they're racists.
The corporations are essentially giving away US territory to high fertility rate peoples.
This is war.
Kick the corporations out. Yes, kick the entire Fortune 1000 out to India if that's what it takes. Let India have them.
The US got along just fine before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which, it was promised by the cosponsors, would not change US demography.
In the first study to measure the temporary impact of highly skilled immigrants on native populations, University of Notre Dame Economist Abigail Wozniak and Fairfield University's Thomas J. Murray — a former Notre Dame graduate student — found that when highly skilled immigrants move to a city or town, the U.S. natives in that area who are also highly skilled tend to move away. However, the study found that the same immigrant group's presence decreases the chances that low-skilled natives would leave.
"High skill" refers to those having some post-secondary education or above, while "low skill" are those with a high school diploma or less education. "Natives" refer to U.S. citizens by birth.
According to the study, which will appear in the July issue of the Journal of Urban Economics, smaller and more geographically isolated cities show the biggest impacts. There was little difference in results between growing versus declining cities.
"We conclude that natives with less education take longer to adjust to the arrival of immigrants in their local labor market than do natives with more education," Wozniak says. "These effects are more pronounced in smaller, more isolated communities, from where it would be more difficult and expensive for less skilled natives to relocate."...
When, in 1991 I was testifying before Congress on a grassroots-promoted bill to require NASA to procure launch services from the private sector, a NASA employee, flown in on my tax dollars while I had to pay my own way, pointed at me and said "There's the enemy."
NASA started being friendly toward private launch services only when it was apparent it could no longer play the same good-ole-boy game that had for so long presented an anti-competitive barrier to the entry of true freedom to pursue industrially reasonable launch services.
To now listen to "experts" that are designated as such by NASA telling us to pump huge amounts of money into NASA so it can turn SpaceX and others into yet another good-ole-boy network is the moral equivalent of pumping huge amounts of money into creation science.
The folks in the Ford Foundation jokingly refer to Henry Ford as "the grave spinner" because the foundation he established engages in activities, the majority of which, has Henry Ford "spinning in his grave".
The reality of these foundations, except for perhaps the Hughes foundation as a notable exception, is they are occupied by parasites who are very unlikely to do anything truly effective about other parasites such as malaria.
In any event, Bill Gates will more likely be remembered as the man who dissipated the potential Moore's Law in one of the biggest Network Externalities in history and, instead of investing his philanthropic money in correcting the tax base to be undistressed liquidation value of assets rather than economic activity, achieved whatever social status he did achieve at the expense of technological civilization.
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By routinely violating US intellectual property China is initiating economic warfare. Why do you think it is advisable for the US to just bend over and take it? Because China's military is so much more powerful than the US's?
Get real.
Got it.
If China went to war with the US it would be a very short war primarily because China would have to attack US territory. Attacking things the neocon idiots think of as "American Interests", such as access to middle east oil, would only spur innovation in the US and get us to stop the equivalent of a national heroin addiction.
Just cancel out debt owed to China in proportion to the actual damages. Triple that canceled debt if there is criminality under RICO.
Then if guys like Klotz want a more open relationship and technological exchange with China, all the government policy measure involves lifting trade barriers to let our space entrepreneurs do business with Chinese companies. Again, if the Chinese act as an organized crime syndicate to violate the IP of the entrepreneurs, cancel out debt to China. Keep doing it until the debt is gone and -- if necessary -- reversed.
Oh, and this idea that it is ok to trade with countries that routinely engage in human rights abuses is essentially participating in slave trade. It should be US policy not to engage in slave trade nor to allow domestic companies to engage in slave trade.
Finally, if you REALLY want to get US innovation going, reverse the current tax situation in which the only national asset tax is the patent fee and the rest of the revenue comes from taxes on economic activity:
Tax only property net rights at their liquidation value at a rate equal to the national debt, and exempt inventor owned patents from any taxes or fees.
The subtle yet profound chord progressions of rap music must have been overlooked.
OK, so now we have a data point.
Hmmmmm... maybe someone should inject formaldehyde "on a accident" to denature all the DNA before hate-facts surface.
Natural selection in action! Well, maybe not natural selection but we certainly have no right to interfere in artificial selection because that would be, well, artificial selection.
Obviously, if reality is racist, we can safely ignore it as no one will want to socialize with it.
More than that, I'm claiming that it varies by genotype of nation of origin.
Stay the fuck out of my country.
Here's what I'll be willing to offer you instead of my country:
The whole Fortune 1000.
As long as you guys keep your nepotistic hiring practices in India we can rebuild our economy.
The way things are going, its all going down the shitter anyway because of you guys and your nepotism. You may as well take it. Just stay the fuck out so we can rebuild a society based on individualistic genotypes.
This is, in no way, "representative" government.
"Correlation doesn't imply causation." is a truism since not even controlled experiments imply causation. This is true of all natural sciences of which the social sciences are a subset. It is increasingly recognized in the social sciences that the important thing to do is pay attention not only to "the weight of the evidence", rather than "proof" but to, as described in the discourse in "implication analysis" in the social sciences: "try harder to find relevant natural experiments".
So not only is it a truism that "correlation doesn't imply causation" it is a sophomoric barrier to scientific progress which understands not only that there is no "proof" but that some "correlations" are more relevant to evaluation of causal hypotheses in the social sciences than are other correlations.
The question comes down to the word "evaluation" since we're trying to place a "value", indeed a numeric value, on a causal hypothesis rather than "test" it in a logical sense. To the Monetary Man, this numeric "value" is quantified in money as a net present value adjusted for future risk. The Monetary Man is, however, not the Natural Man from whom Natural Rights derive.
How in the world are we, unachored from the operational definition of "value" as embodied in money, to place value on which correlations, hence which "natural experiments" to study (hence which such experiments to actively promote)?
My answer, that is friendly to civilization while upholding the individual, is directly hostile to Monetary Man since I place Natural Man above Money:
Provide an inalienable and equal monetary stream to each individual so that individual may, through the subordinate anarcho capitalist system, construct his own world in cooperation with others. In such a world many "natural experiments" will be conducted and they will be conducted in proportion to value determined from a founding notion of sovereign individuals who, in exchange for their inalienable monetary dividend from civilization, agree that the ultimate appeal in dispute processing will not be force, but money.
The source of revenue is therefore obvious:
The property rights that would not exist in the absence of that agreement, properly called "artificial property rights" as opposed to "natural property rights" such as a homestead supporting an individual and his immediate family, are subject to that agreement and are, therefore, as with any partner's profit stream from a business venture, optimally divided between payout and retention. The payout is the individual sovereign's profit from the partnership which is limited by the expectation of future value from the partnership. Of course, if the future value of the partnership (ie: civilization) falls to zero, then the partnership is dissolved, the wealth distributed equally and we go back to natural duel as the appeal of last resort in dispute processing until another partnership again restrains individual sovereignty.
Social scientists and their politicians deny that the individual is preeminent over civilization and hence is to be asked for what terms he demands of civilization and its artificial property rights prior to suspending his true, forceful, individual sovereignty. They simply take from the sovereign individual his natural right to use force and they do so by forming a group (usually called a "government") that takes it from him -- a group that has volumes upon volumes of words from the "social sciences" to justify their crimes against humanity.
This is evil.
They should change "anonymous coward" to "anonymous militant ignoramus coward".
That's what the fucking fuck.
Stop looking under the lamp post for the keys.
Are you saying that a state that had 31 hate crimes in 2010 isn't filled to the brim with racists? Well, maybe not, but if they they weren't racists before being displaced we can be pretty sure they will be after being displaced.
Small towns in Idaho are filled to the brim with racists so they deserve to be displaced.
Well, the smart set has known for some time that skilled immigrants create more skilled jobs they take, so wages increase. Obviously, with wages for skilled jobs on the rise, the only reason native skilled workers would move away is that they're racists.
This is war.
Kick the corporations out. Yes, kick the entire Fortune 1000 out to India if that's what it takes. Let India have them.
The US got along just fine before the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which, it was promised by the cosponsors, would not change US demography.
Study: When highly skilled immigrants move in, highly skilled natives move out
In the first study to measure the temporary impact of highly skilled immigrants on native populations, University of Notre Dame Economist Abigail Wozniak and Fairfield University's Thomas J. Murray — a former Notre Dame graduate student — found that when highly skilled immigrants move to a city or town, the U.S. natives in that area who are also highly skilled tend to move away. However, the study found that the same immigrant group's presence decreases the chances that low-skilled natives would leave.
"High skill" refers to those having some post-secondary education or above, while "low skill" are those with a high school diploma or less education. "Natives" refer to U.S. citizens by birth.
According to the study, which will appear in the July issue of the Journal of Urban Economics, smaller and more geographically isolated cities show the biggest impacts. There was little difference in results between growing versus declining cities.
"We conclude that natives with less education take longer to adjust to the arrival of immigrants in their local labor market than do natives with more education," Wozniak says. "These effects are more pronounced in smaller, more isolated communities, from where it would be more difficult and expensive for less skilled natives to relocate."...
NASA started being friendly toward private launch services only when it was apparent it could no longer play the same good-ole-boy game that had for so long presented an anti-competitive barrier to the entry of true freedom to pursue industrially reasonable launch services.
To now listen to "experts" that are designated as such by NASA telling us to pump huge amounts of money into NASA so it can turn SpaceX and others into yet another good-ole-boy network is the moral equivalent of pumping huge amounts of money into creation science.
The reality of these foundations, except for perhaps the Hughes foundation as a notable exception, is they are occupied by parasites who are very unlikely to do anything truly effective about other parasites such as malaria.
In any event, Bill Gates will more likely be remembered as the man who dissipated the potential Moore's Law in one of the biggest Network Externalities in history and, instead of investing his philanthropic money in correcting the tax base to be undistressed liquidation value of assets rather than economic activity, achieved whatever social status he did achieve at the expense of technological civilization.
Great Mother Government is our Purpose, oh my precious Broodmate. Have you so soon forgotten the smell of her loving pheromones?