...who hired the majority of math PhDs for several years just to look for market exploits.
The investment banks hire math PhDs to look for arbitrage opportunities and serve the valuable service of price discovery. There is no need to load this activity up with the negative connotation of "exploits."
Ridiculous. It's true, no one can prove that there are no gods. But we can say that there is as much evidence for gods as there is for the tooth fairy. In fact, there is more for the tooth fairy.
This is simply a case of poor system design -- not doing a thermal analysis or improper air filtering. Very common on hacked together gaming rigs. Get a Mac -- they are built right. Less neon I suppose though...
The problem is that there are more than 437 other people just like you that have there own, different ideas of what I should have to pay $57.10/year for them to do too.
The list is in Article 1, Section 8. Health care isn't on the list. Military spending is on the list. Manned spaceflight might be considered military spending, although I would have to agree with you that a civilian space agency is not on the list.
Why did you bring up Somalia? Limited government != no government.
As long as the federal taxes are being collected for purposes that are constitutional you are correct about my ability to leave. I suspect we disagree what is constitutional. Since we have a very specific list in the Constitution, I would think that would be an easy determination. Note that health care is not on the list.
Somalia is not a libertarian paradise -- again, it is lawless. Lawlessness is not a libertarian principle. I'm not a libertarian and even I know that. Taxation, even though it is coercion, is fine -- provided it is done within the limits imposed by the Constitution.
You again expand your point into new areas. I'll pick a few of your new topics to respond to.
Taxes are confiscation. If you don't pay them, they will be taken from you forcibly. We allow our government the monopoly of force in exchange for limited powers.
Somalia: I assume you bring this lawless state up as an example of a capitalism gone bad. Capitalism is an economic system where every exchange is consensual. Lawless Somalia is the opposite of this. So surely I must misunderstand your point.
On cost plus vs. fixed fee contracts we agree. Fixed fee contracts are better. Unfortunately, the risk is often too high for some projects to lead to any serious fixed fee bids.
Your original post seemed to indicate that the government has a zero cost of capital -- which is what profit pays for in private businesses. This is simply not true. The US Governments either has to print money, borrow it, or confiscate it from citizens. If they print it, the cost is paid via by devaluing our dollars. If they borrow it, we eventually pay interest. If they confiscate it, we pay for it directly. This is no different than paying the contractor profit. Profit is not evil.
Your second post changes the subject. Now you suggest a different type of contracting approach -- from cost plus to fixed fee. True, this is a different incentive, but the contractor is still making a profit. Good contractors will charge more for a fixed fee vs. cost plus contract due to the higher risk -- all other factors being equal.
The bottom line is that the government is a terribly inefficient way to do anything. They simply have no motivation to provide value -- it is always someone else's money.
It's a fucking war idiot. They had weapons -- including an RPG. Even Wikileaks admits that. A US unit was engaged a block away. It wasn't covered up, it was investigated by the Pentagon.
You need to grow the fuck up fast. Those guys over their in the helicopter perform a more courageous act by just getting up in the morning than the sum total of courage you display your entire life.
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...who hired the majority of math PhDs for several years just to look for market exploits.
The investment banks hire math PhDs to look for arbitrage opportunities and serve the valuable service of price discovery. There is no need to load this activity up with the negative connotation of "exploits."
That's a cute litte saying there boy. I'll have some fries with my cheeseburger please.
That's not a diety, that's an alien civilization of virtualized intelligences.
And therein lies your logical mistake. Lack of evidence is not evidence.
No faith is required. There simply is no evidence for any sort of deity/deities.
Ridiculous. It's true, no one can prove that there are no gods. But we can say that there is as much evidence for gods as there is for the tooth fairy. In fact, there is more for the tooth fairy.
Calling atheism a faith is like calling bald a hair color.
Someone really enjoyed blowing it up. That's value. If you don't get that, you don't get Eve.
"Gamers have no idea what they're doing when they put a machine together right?"
Pretty much. If you are water cooling your desktop then you are a perfect example.
"I can buy my setup 3 times over for the price of the Mac equivalent, right?"
At least you realize you will be buying 3 systems over the life of a Mac to be equivalent.
"..and replace my hardware if it fails."
It will.
"Oh wait, you can't."
Oh wait, I can.
This is simply a case of poor system design -- not doing a thermal analysis or improper air filtering. Very common on hacked together gaming rigs. Get a Mac -- they are built right. Less neon I suppose though...
What was specious or pretentious? Did I miss something?
The problem is that there are more than 437 other people just like you that have there own, different ideas of what I should have to pay $57.10/year for them to do too.
The problem is that you want me to pay for your wondrous little field trip.
http://blog.mises.org/7257/a-world-without-nasa/
Yeah, cause a netbook use case is so close to a MBP's.
OK, I'm going on a trip where I won't be able to charge my laptop for about 10 hours.
The list is in Article 1, Section 8. Health care isn't on the list. Military spending is on the list. Manned spaceflight might be considered military spending, although I would have to agree with you that a civilian space agency is not on the list.
Why did you bring up Somalia? Limited government != no government.
As long as the federal taxes are being collected for purposes that are constitutional you are correct about my ability to leave. I suspect we disagree what is constitutional. Since we have a very specific list in the Constitution, I would think that would be an easy determination. Note that health care is not on the list.
Somalia is not a libertarian paradise -- again, it is lawless. Lawlessness is not a libertarian principle. I'm not a libertarian and even I know that. Taxation, even though it is coercion, is fine -- provided it is done within the limits imposed by the Constitution.
You again expand your point into new areas. I'll pick a few of your new topics to respond to.
Taxes are confiscation. If you don't pay them, they will be taken from you forcibly. We allow our government the monopoly of force in exchange for limited powers.
Somalia: I assume you bring this lawless state up as an example of a capitalism gone bad. Capitalism is an economic system where every exchange is consensual. Lawless Somalia is the opposite of this. So surely I must misunderstand your point.
On cost plus vs. fixed fee contracts we agree. Fixed fee contracts are better. Unfortunately, the risk is often too high for some projects to lead to any serious fixed fee bids.
Your original post seemed to indicate that the government has a zero cost of capital -- which is what profit pays for in private businesses. This is simply not true. The US Governments either has to print money, borrow it, or confiscate it from citizens. If they print it, the cost is paid via by devaluing our dollars. If they borrow it, we eventually pay interest. If they confiscate it, we pay for it directly. This is no different than paying the contractor profit. Profit is not evil.
Your second post changes the subject. Now you suggest a different type of contracting approach -- from cost plus to fixed fee. True, this is a different incentive, but the contractor is still making a profit. Good contractors will charge more for a fixed fee vs. cost plus contract due to the higher risk -- all other factors being equal.
The bottom line is that the government is a terribly inefficient way to do anything. They simply have no motivation to provide value -- it is always someone else's money.
Brilliant! Using this logic the government might as well do everything.
Monopsony does not generate a competitive market -- especially government monopsony.
I very much doubt the engineer could do the sales guy's job.
It's a fucking war idiot. They had weapons -- including an RPG. Even Wikileaks admits that. A US unit was engaged a block away. It wasn't covered up, it was investigated by the Pentagon.
You need to grow the fuck up fast. Those guys over their in the helicopter perform a more courageous act by just getting up in the morning than the sum total of courage you display your entire life.
Several of the men are clearly carrying weapons. One looks like an RPG.
How do you know they were civilians? How do you know they weren't receiving fire? How do you know they could even see the helicopter?
You don't. All we know is somebody released some classified information.