You forgot to add some incidentals. Shall we? Company taxes (they don't all get off scot-free), shipping (don't forget one shipping company won't do it for you, you need to get them from the Nike factories to the coast if they aren't already there, then on a ship, then on trucks or trains, and if trains, a truck from train depot to warehouses, then to stores), warehousing, advertising, store overhead, store personal to sell said shoes (this probably includes health insurance, the other half of social security, etc.) , store property taxes. I'm sure I've missed something. Oh, company personal. Shoes don't make it from there to here without a company full of people who greatly desire paying.
Of course most Nike shoes do not cost $200, they seem to run $40-$80 where I live.
If you went back in time the Nazi Germany, you also have to lose your modern view. There was no WWII yet. WWI was very vivid memory. The Great Depression was exceedingly great. Being a regular schmoe, you would also have a low standard of living in Germany at time. You will have been filled in grade school with the perceived humiliation of having "lost" WWI and having part of your homeland declared not yours. You would also have high taxes to pay the retribution required of Germany for WWI.
In that environment, you would first be subjected to little anti-Jewish propaganda but instead a healthy dose of German nationalism. That nationalism would have presented one of the few ways you and your hamlet could get out of the Depression. A few years of this and you might or might not notice the creeping anti-Jewish propaganda. A new job linked to the new nationalism (Hitler refinanced the defense industries) might make you willing to look the other way "for the good of Germany".
In short, Hilter created a slippery slope for Germany, he never pushed them over an obvious cliff.
I don't think Islam fell into their own dark ages. Rather, I think they simply failed to keep up. The controversy over Darwin is a case in point. There was never a point where Islam accepted Darwin and then rejected it. Darwin simply didn't register because very few Western books were, and still are, ever translated in to Arabic. When they are finally confronted with Darwin, they have no way to comprehend it much less accept it because their world has been so insular.
Another factor which is an advantage to the West and East Asian cultures, is women. It was a long struggle but they finally were freed (in large part) from being treated like cattle. The face veil was never part of Islam. It came about because men decided it was easier to cover women than fight off other men who took at fancy to them. It is a primitive notion that the weirdo-beardos who claim to be mullahs and imams use to advance their own status. Sharia courts are nothing more than the same will-to-power made manifest. In true Islam, there wouldn't be any weirdo-beardos.
Ah, another Philistine. Way back when, long ago before your simple mind has read, there were physicists who thought about amazing things yet those things had no relevance to the then modern life. They thought about atoms and particles and forces and such. They built grand theories, mathematics that would cause a grown man to cry, but not you since you haven't a prayer of understanding it. It happened, in the long distance future that their theories and mathematics created the foundation of many modern industries.
But you argue, mathematics and science were bound to give us untold riches, surely we wouldn't axe those. However, it turned out that these crazy scientists built their new theories on older mathematics and older understanding. How could this be? Well, those precursors surely had no idea where it would all lead.
Further analysis reveals even these old "natural scientists" based their theories on even older philosophers. They deemed of "atoms" composing everything material. Forces moved the particles. The heavens controlled the forces.
Back in those ancient times, geometry was esteemed and developed to align human thought with the heavens and how they influenced life on this earth. They conceived of the universe as a giant machine. This notion seemed pervasive, it never seemed to go away, no matter how many influential people declared it void of any practical use.
The precursors of the atoms and particles and forces and such conceived of machines which moved in lock step of gears and wheels and such. The common folk (you) laughed and exclaimed it was all worthless and would come to nothing.
But lo, machines were built, textiles made, the machines became reified. Astounded, compatriots of the atoms and particles and forces people conceived of mathematical theories to describe precisely what the ideal machines could actually do.
Inconceivably, some wild-eyed engineers thought to build approximations to these machines. The approximations were not robust, they broke down a lot, needed lots of spare parts.
Then lightning struck! The engineers read what the scientists were saying about atoms and particles and forces and such. The transistor was born.
The rest is history. Think of how educated you'd be if you understood this.
Sheesh, what are you, two years old, Google for Nexus One. Here's a hint, copy and paste this link in your web browser (that means copy and paste it into the text field usually at the top of your browser where you usually see URLs...oh forget it, just type the following into that text box): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
What got them into antitrust hot water was business practices relating to windows. What got them into a court case with Sun was the way they broke their contract with Sun. They were different, although business as usual at MS.
Just for the record, the inflation calculator at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl says that 22.96 was 30.25 in today's dollars. The 9.42 was 12.41. It doesn't change your point much.
Apple turned responsibility for Java on Macs over to Oracle. Oracle appears to have every intention of supporting it. But you are correct in that having an outside organization responsible for Java on Macs isn't good long term.
Ditto, I'm in the throws of producing a PP slide brief and it too is excruciating. What's with the dumbass modal dialogs for changing an objects properties. See object in wrong place, mouse movement not fine enough, go to the objects properties, change them....uh...make dialog go away. Hmmm....object still not in right place....sigh...must I open that brain dead dialog again? Wouldn't it be better to take the MS engineers out back and hit them repeatedly with cluesticks? Or at least more theraputic?
Greece, Italy, and Spain have been spending beyond their means for years. The Americans banks didn't cause that. What the American banks did was add the last straw that broke the camel's back. Also, the banks in Europe were just as greedy as the American banks, they knew that the housing bubble and its funding bubble was just bubbles. However, they assumed they were so much more worldly and intelligent than the American banks that they couldn't get caught when the musical chairs stopped. They were wrong.
I'm not interested in absolving the American banks for what they did. And they were never made to pay for it. At the very least, the parts of Glass-Steagall that were repealed under Clinton and the Republican Congress should have been reimposed. Then the American banks should have been made to underwrite new proper loans to stem the foreclosure crises and not the ARMs they had been selling. That would need to be done under Federal supervision because, while the banks were at fault, so too were a lot of Americans who thought they could get rich quick. And we might as well force the rating agencies to cough up too, they lied.
And let's recall just exactly why they were used in the Japan. During WWII, the Japanese rarely surrendered. During one of the last islands to be taken, Saipan, the Japanese had about 31,000 troops on the island. Of that, 24,000 were killed, 5000 committed suicide, and 921 surrendered. There were 22,000 civilians killed and most of those were suicides. That's just one island when it was already clear Japan had lost the war. On the home islands, the Japanese were training school children to attack Americans with pitchforks and sticks. Japan had organized the home islands to fight to the death rather than surrender. And after the n-bombs had fallen, it was mere luck that a palace coup was thwarted; had it succeeded, Japan would never have surrendered. The U.S. estimated it would take well over a million men (I've read 5 million but that seems unbelievable) to invade Japan and would have resulted in between 250,000 and 500,000 American casualties.
By the end of WWII, given the horror the Japanese had inflicted on China and the Philippines, the U.S. was in no mood to spend that many lives to invade Japan. On the other hand, an undefeated and unbowed Japan would have been a constant threat. They had their own nascent nuclear program. They also had biological and chemical weapons programs, all of which did not go unnoticed by the U.S.
The military wasn't bucking to invade Iraq, that was the Bush Administration. And Afghanistan was done cheaply initially until the Administration decided to pacify the entire country. The military's idea was to stand behind the Northern Alliance and allow it to keep the Taliban at bay.
On the other hand, the Taliban have designs on all of central Asia. It might be smarter in the long run to beat them senseless now rather than when they have whole countries to fund their jihad against everyone non-Muslim.
Yes Education is pitiful. However, you seem to have no idea how science these days must be done. I do a lot of work in logic. Logic really took off around Hilbert's time. Now we've had 100 years of logic development. Do you have any idea how much you need to learn just to get to the head of that field and make a contribution? Approximately the last 100 years of logic "innovation". You won't even be able to recognize an advance without learning what's been done before.
Yeah, cause hoisting stuff into space is cheap, right?
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That makes no sense, the U.S. government doesn't decide to spend x on research and then make sure that Defense spends most of it. Rather, Defense has decided that research is vitally important to them and spends a fair amount on it. Your problem is with the rest of the money that Congress spends...or ratther Americans consume seeing as 2/3's of the government is entitlements. Go bark up another tree.
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Last I heard, the A10 was being upgraded with the idea of retiring them in the late 2020's. Someone at the Pentagon doesn't have their head up their ass.
Yep, people need to look at the apps they install and ask them whether they harbor malware. There, the security problem is now deemed solved, we can rest easily from here on out.
The U.S. gov. declassifying Area 51 would do no good, the Believers would simply believe all the incriminating evidence had been moved prior to the declassification, demand to see the hidden evidence, and then take any response to the effect of "what evidence?" as proof the government was lying.
" Then of course who could forget wikileaks and embassy cables, basically the US government lying all over the place, again and again and again."
Really, take this acid test, write down everything you say about your place of employment for a year and then send it to your boss, your boss's boss, and shove it all the way up the chain of command. Information wants to be free, y'now.
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You forgot to add some incidentals. Shall we? Company taxes (they don't all get off scot-free), shipping (don't forget one shipping company won't do it for you, you need to get them from the Nike factories to the coast if they aren't already there, then on a ship, then on trucks or trains, and if trains, a truck from train depot to warehouses, then to stores), warehousing, advertising, store overhead, store personal to sell said shoes (this probably includes health insurance, the other half of social security, etc.) , store property taxes. I'm sure I've missed something. Oh, company personal. Shoes don't make it from there to here without a company full of people who greatly desire paying.
Of course most Nike shoes do not cost $200, they seem to run $40-$80 where I live.
If you went back in time the Nazi Germany, you also have to lose your modern view. There was no WWII yet. WWI was very vivid memory. The Great Depression was exceedingly great. Being a regular schmoe, you would also have a low standard of living in Germany at time. You will have been filled in grade school with the perceived humiliation of having "lost" WWI and having part of your homeland declared not yours. You would also have high taxes to pay the retribution required of Germany for WWI.
In that environment, you would first be subjected to little anti-Jewish propaganda but instead a healthy dose of German nationalism. That nationalism would have presented one of the few ways you and your hamlet could get out of the Depression. A few years of this and you might or might not notice the creeping anti-Jewish propaganda. A new job linked to the new nationalism (Hitler refinanced the defense industries) might make you willing to look the other way "for the good of Germany".
In short, Hilter created a slippery slope for Germany, he never pushed them over an obvious cliff.
C'mon, you mean you've never met any lizard aliens? One word: lawyers.
I don't think Islam fell into their own dark ages. Rather, I think they simply failed to keep up. The controversy over Darwin is a case in point. There was never a point where Islam accepted Darwin and then rejected it. Darwin simply didn't register because very few Western books were, and still are, ever translated in to Arabic. When they are finally confronted with Darwin, they have no way to comprehend it much less accept it because their world has been so insular.
Another factor which is an advantage to the West and East Asian cultures, is women. It was a long struggle but they finally were freed (in large part) from being treated like cattle. The face veil was never part of Islam. It came about because men decided it was easier to cover women than fight off other men who took at fancy to them. It is a primitive notion that the weirdo-beardos who claim to be mullahs and imams use to advance their own status. Sharia courts are nothing more than the same will-to-power made manifest. In true Islam, there wouldn't be any weirdo-beardos.
Ah, another Philistine. Way back when, long ago before your simple mind has read, there were physicists who thought about amazing things yet those things had no relevance to the then modern life. They thought about atoms and particles and forces and such. They built grand theories, mathematics that would cause a grown man to cry, but not you since you haven't a prayer of understanding it. It happened, in the long distance future that their theories and mathematics created the foundation of many modern industries.
But you argue, mathematics and science were bound to give us untold riches, surely we wouldn't axe those. However, it turned out that these crazy scientists built their new theories on older mathematics and older understanding. How could this be? Well, those precursors surely had no idea where it would all lead.
Further analysis reveals even these old "natural scientists" based their theories on even older philosophers. They deemed of "atoms" composing everything material. Forces moved the particles. The heavens controlled the forces.
Back in those ancient times, geometry was esteemed and developed to align human thought with the heavens and how they influenced life on this earth. They conceived of the universe as a giant machine. This notion seemed pervasive, it never seemed to go away, no matter how many influential people declared it void of any practical use.
The precursors of the atoms and particles and forces and such conceived of machines which moved in lock step of gears and wheels and such. The common folk (you) laughed and exclaimed it was all worthless and would come to nothing.
But lo, machines were built, textiles made, the machines became reified. Astounded, compatriots of the atoms and particles and forces people conceived of mathematical theories to describe precisely what the ideal machines could actually do.
Inconceivably, some wild-eyed engineers thought to build approximations to these machines. The approximations were not robust, they broke down a lot, needed lots of spare parts.
Then lightning struck! The engineers read what the scientists were saying about atoms and particles and forces and such. The transistor was born.
The rest is history. Think of how educated you'd be if you understood this.
He's not Sarah Palin.
Sheesh, what are you, two years old, Google for Nexus One. Here's a hint, copy and paste this link in your web browser (that means copy and paste it into the text field usually at the top of your browser where you usually see URLs...oh forget it, just type the following into that text box): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One
...going to court. So, we should have a resolution to this issue about 10 years from now, long after it ceases to be relevant.
What got them into antitrust hot water was business practices relating to windows. What got them into a court case with Sun was the way they broke their contract with Sun. They were different, although business as usual at MS.
Just for the record, the inflation calculator at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl says that 22.96 was 30.25 in today's dollars. The 9.42 was 12.41. It doesn't change your point much.
Apple turned responsibility for Java on Macs over to Oracle. Oracle appears to have every intention of supporting it. But you are correct in that having an outside organization responsible for Java on Macs isn't good long term.
Ditto, I'm in the throws of producing a PP slide brief and it too is excruciating. What's with the dumbass modal dialogs for changing an objects properties. See object in wrong place, mouse movement not fine enough, go to the objects properties, change them....uh...make dialog go away. Hmmm....object still not in right place....sigh...must I open that brain dead dialog again? Wouldn't it be better to take the MS engineers out back and hit them repeatedly with cluesticks? Or at least more theraputic?
Not that I'd put anything slimy past MS, but do you have proof of this or are you talking out of your ass?
So in effect, MS is using the same strong arm tactics they agreed no longer to continue after the DoJ case, they just now call it a patent settlement.
Greece, Italy, and Spain have been spending beyond their means for years. The Americans banks didn't cause that. What the American banks did was add the last straw that broke the camel's back. Also, the banks in Europe were just as greedy as the American banks, they knew that the housing bubble and its funding bubble was just bubbles. However, they assumed they were so much more worldly and intelligent than the American banks that they couldn't get caught when the musical chairs stopped. They were wrong.
I'm not interested in absolving the American banks for what they did. And they were never made to pay for it. At the very least, the parts of Glass-Steagall that were repealed under Clinton and the Republican Congress should have been reimposed. Then the American banks should have been made to underwrite new proper loans to stem the foreclosure crises and not the ARMs they had been selling. That would need to be done under Federal supervision because, while the banks were at fault, so too were a lot of Americans who thought they could get rich quick. And we might as well force the rating agencies to cough up too, they lied.
And let's recall just exactly why they were used in the Japan. During WWII, the Japanese rarely surrendered. During one of the last islands to be taken, Saipan, the Japanese had about 31,000 troops on the island. Of that, 24,000 were killed, 5000 committed suicide, and 921 surrendered. There were 22,000 civilians killed and most of those were suicides. That's just one island when it was already clear Japan had lost the war. On the home islands, the Japanese were training school children to attack Americans with pitchforks and sticks. Japan had organized the home islands to fight to the death rather than surrender. And after the n-bombs had fallen, it was mere luck that a palace coup was thwarted; had it succeeded, Japan would never have surrendered. The U.S. estimated it would take well over a million men (I've read 5 million but that seems unbelievable) to invade Japan and would have resulted in between 250,000 and 500,000 American casualties.
By the end of WWII, given the horror the Japanese had inflicted on China and the Philippines, the U.S. was in no mood to spend that many lives to invade Japan. On the other hand, an undefeated and unbowed Japan would have been a constant threat. They had their own nascent nuclear program. They also had biological and chemical weapons programs, all of which did not go unnoticed by the U.S.
The military wasn't bucking to invade Iraq, that was the Bush Administration. And Afghanistan was done cheaply initially until the Administration decided to pacify the entire country. The military's idea was to stand behind the Northern Alliance and allow it to keep the Taliban at bay.
On the other hand, the Taliban have designs on all of central Asia. It might be smarter in the long run to beat them senseless now rather than when they have whole countries to fund their jihad against everyone non-Muslim.
Yes Education is pitiful. However, you seem to have no idea how science these days must be done. I do a lot of work in logic. Logic really took off around Hilbert's time. Now we've had 100 years of logic development. Do you have any idea how much you need to learn just to get to the head of that field and make a contribution? Approximately the last 100 years of logic "innovation". You won't even be able to recognize an advance without learning what's been done before.
Yeah, cause hoisting stuff into space is cheap, right?
That makes no sense, the U.S. government doesn't decide to spend x on research and then make sure that Defense spends most of it. Rather, Defense has decided that research is vitally important to them and spends a fair amount on it. Your problem is with the rest of the money that Congress spends...or ratther Americans consume seeing as 2/3's of the government is entitlements. Go bark up another tree.
Last I heard, the A10 was being upgraded with the idea of retiring them in the late 2020's. Someone at the Pentagon doesn't have their head up their ass.
Yep, people need to look at the apps they install and ask them whether they harbor malware. There, the security problem is now deemed solved, we can rest easily from here on out.
So, you are saying Apple hasn't solved the halting problem yet? Those ignorant bastards...
The U.S. gov. declassifying Area 51 would do no good, the Believers would simply believe all the incriminating evidence had been moved prior to the declassification, demand to see the hidden evidence, and then take any response to the effect of "what evidence?" as proof the government was lying.
" Then of course who could forget wikileaks and embassy cables, basically the US government lying all over the place, again and again and again."
Really, take this acid test, write down everything you say about your place of employment for a year and then send it to your boss, your boss's boss, and shove it all the way up the chain of command. Information wants to be free, y'now.