Are you also against inter-state trade? Why not? If trade between 2 ppl in different countries is bad (that is what globalization is), why is trade between 2 ppl in 2 different state here is ok?
Wealth is created by division of labour aka trade - it doesn't matter if the 2 people trading are standing on either side of an imaginary line or not.
In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89—and I’m leaving out the son whose age wasn’t identified, but whose 94-year-old father died as a passenger.
These “electronic defects” apparently discriminate against the elderly, just as the sudden acceleration of Audis and GM autos did before them. (If computers are going to discriminate against anyone, they should be picking on the young, who are more likely to take up arms against the rise of the machines and future Terminators).
The govt should pass a new law that forces companies of all sizes to provide a breakdown of where they do business and where they hire. They should punish companies that do not hire where they make and sell things.
Every business should be forced to hire in the locality where they make money. This should be done not only countrywide, but statewide, citywide and blockwide.
Forget about stupid things like 'comparative advantage' - we will follow Mao's great leap forward. That will create a lot of wealth.
Like the justification for govt. running postal service in the USA, maybe the Iranians feel that the only way to provide equal access to this vital service is for the govt. to run the email service.
Makes as much sense as the argument for the USPS monopoly.
Great idea: go to a BOOKSTORE and buy a copy. Even better? Get one at a locally owned shop. Book-buying is better in person: browsing shelves, reading through a few pages, checking out your favorite section, then finding that rare gem that you'd have never seen on Amazon anyway.
Why? I value my time and I like to spend it doing other things. Amazon makes it incredibly easy for me to purchase the books I want, new or used. In fact, I have a few books that I could not have found if not for amazon.com.
I see amazon, like any other store, as my agent who aggregates the buying power of consumers to negotiate a price from manufacturers/publishers. I applaud whatever they do to get prices down for me. Authors' rights? That's for them to defend, not me.
do not use the word "cost" for lost sales or other imaginary did-not-happen income. Cost is when an expense has happened, i.e. money has been spent. Money that never came in is never a "cost".
The "money that never came in" is not the cost - the action/inaction that caused "money to never come in" is the cost.
It is the same setup as the Iraq war:
- all the experts agree
- if you don't support it, you're a terrorist
- sudden alarmism because of unrelated events (9/11 for iraq, the al gore movie for this)
- exaggerated claims (mushroom clouds vs new york under water)
- scaremongering
- ignore evidence that shows that the conclusions were assumed
I don't know much about climate or the statistics behind it. And I didn't know anything about WMDs or the intelligence business. But I know something about human motivations and in both cases, I could smell the BS a mile away.
People like.Net because MS offers tools to allow point & click programming. This means more people can do it and companies can lower wages.
In the same vein, computers and quickbooks allow more people to do accounting and lowers wages. Before this, a company needed an experienced accountant and a couple of assistants. Now all they need is a part time person to do the same work.
We should stop supporting computers.
(just in case it escapes you, I'm being facetious)
Is that the same greed that is causing laptop manufacturers to cut prices and add on more features? And why would laptop manufacturers be more greedy than lawnmower manufacturers? And if they can charge higher prices just because they're greedy, why would they stop at this particular price? Why can't they just charge $10,000 per laptop battery?
Are you sure it has nothing to do with battery size, heat dissipation requirements, logistics, safety requirements, FCC certification costs, etc? Have you looked at all the variables and set your political preferences aside?
but you weren't worried when the government got permission to do wiretaps without a FISA order?
I'm sorry, but where did the parent poster say that he supported any of the things you accuse him of supporting? Oh, you're one of those people who just assume that just because I oppose the pepsi party, I must be with the cocacola party.
How old are you?
By showing that some common game-theoretical problems are so hard that they'd take the lifetime of the universe to solve, Daskalakis is suggesting that they can't accurately represent what happens in the real world.
Hayek showed that about 50 years ago:
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." (The Fatal Conceit, p. 76)
Unfortunately, there is a lot of designing going on right now.
The heart rate monitors give you a reading of calories burnt. While I don't know if they are accurate, I do know they are more accurate than the reading from a machine.
A boat floating in a harbor has some percentage of its total mass below the water. When the tide comes in, the boat rises up. When the tide goes out, the boat sinks back down. But there is no change in the amount of boat mass above and below the water! The only thing that affects whether the boat goes deeper into the water or not is if additional mass is added, removed, or a hole is punched in the bottom. Governments are well known for punching holes into the titanics of industry, though.
If that logic is correct, there should be no problem imposing a 10,000% tax right? After all, it will be the same for all ISPs, so it will be ok.
Hint - like all taxes, it raises the prices and some consumers will not be able/want to pay.
Here is a comparison of life expectancies between the US and Europe.
For unadjusted life expectancy, the U.S. ranks #14 out of 16 countries, but for the adjusted standardized life expectancy, (adjusted for the effects of premature death resulting from non-health-related fatal injuries) the U.S. ranks #1.
There is no question that many Chinese people are not paying Microsoft for the products they use.
But I fail to understand the fixation with the trade deficit that many people have - do you also worry about people in Illinois pirating windows and hence the trade deficit between IL and WA? If not, why should one arbitrary political boundary matter more than another?
Unemployment is a problem. If nuclear power plants require more people to run, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Indeed. We should also ban all power tools and computers; think of all the jobs this will create! Maybe we should block the sun as well - more candle-making jobs!
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Globalization is not the way forward.
Are you also against inter-state trade? Why not? If trade between 2 ppl in different countries is bad (that is what globalization is), why is trade between 2 ppl in 2 different state here is ok?
Wealth is created by division of labour aka trade - it doesn't matter if the 2 people trading are standing on either side of an imaginary line or not.
Some more data here
The govt should pass a new law that forces companies of all sizes to provide a breakdown of where they do business and where they hire. They should punish companies that do not hire where they make and sell things.
Every business should be forced to hire in the locality where they make money. This should be done not only countrywide, but statewide, citywide and blockwide.
Forget about stupid things like 'comparative advantage' - we will follow Mao's great leap forward. That will create a lot of wealth.
For the truly stupid, I'm being sarcastic.
Like the justification for govt. running postal service in the USA, maybe the Iranians feel that the only way to provide equal access to this vital service is for the govt. to run the email service.
Makes as much sense as the argument for the USPS monopoly.
Great idea: go to a BOOKSTORE and buy a copy. Even better? Get one at a locally owned shop. Book-buying is better in person: browsing shelves, reading through a few pages, checking out your favorite section, then finding that rare gem that you'd have never seen on Amazon anyway.
Why? I value my time and I like to spend it doing other things. Amazon makes it incredibly easy for me to purchase the books I want, new or used. In fact, I have a few books that I could not have found if not for amazon.com.
I see amazon, like any other store, as my agent who aggregates the buying power of consumers to negotiate a price from manufacturers/publishers. I applaud whatever they do to get prices down for me. Authors' rights? That's for them to defend, not me.
The Apollo program employed over 400,000 people. People working in high tech jobs, all related to science, technology and mathematics
I don't know what the net effect of the Apollo program was, but the line quoted above is just a variation of the "broken window fallacy".
(and there were efforts, and they did fail
Not for the politician who got to say that he helped prevent "technology from getting into the wrong hands".
do not use the word "cost" for lost sales or other imaginary did-not-happen income. Cost is when an expense has happened, i.e. money has been spent. Money that never came in is never a "cost".
The "money that never came in" is not the cost - the action/inaction that caused "money to never come in" is the cost.
The WTO has nothing to do with free trade. How can it be "free" trade when it requires thousands of pages of rules and regulations?
Maybe you don't, but I certainly do.
It is the same setup as the Iraq war:
- all the experts agree
- if you don't support it, you're a terrorist
- sudden alarmism because of unrelated events (9/11 for iraq, the al gore movie for this)
- exaggerated claims (mushroom clouds vs new york under water)
- scaremongering
- ignore evidence that shows that the conclusions were assumed
I don't know much about climate or the statistics behind it. And I didn't know anything about WMDs or the intelligence business. But I know something about human motivations and in both cases, I could smell the BS a mile away.
People like .Net because MS offers tools to allow point & click programming. This means more people can do it and companies can lower wages.
In the same vein, computers and quickbooks allow more people to do accounting and lowers wages. Before this, a company needed an experienced accountant and a couple of assistants. Now all they need is a part time person to do the same work.
We should stop supporting computers.
(just in case it escapes you, I'm being facetious)
Is that the same greed that is causing laptop manufacturers to cut prices and add on more features? And why would laptop manufacturers be more greedy than lawnmower manufacturers? And if they can charge higher prices just because they're greedy, why would they stop at this particular price? Why can't they just charge $10,000 per laptop battery?
Are you sure it has nothing to do with battery size, heat dissipation requirements, logistics, safety requirements, FCC certification costs, etc? Have you looked at all the variables and set your political preferences aside?
but you weren't worried when the government got permission to do wiretaps without a FISA order?
I'm sorry, but where did the parent poster say that he supported any of the things you accuse him of supporting? Oh, you're one of those people who just assume that just because I oppose the pepsi party, I must be with the cocacola party.
How old are you?
By showing that some common game-theoretical problems are so hard that they'd take the lifetime of the universe to solve, Daskalakis is suggesting that they can't accurately represent what happens in the real world.
Hayek showed that about 50 years ago:
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." (The Fatal Conceit, p. 76)
Unfortunately, there is a lot of designing going on right now.
The heart rate monitors give you a reading of calories burnt. While I don't know if they are accurate, I do know they are more accurate than the reading from a machine.
I assume, have to do with the fact that advertisers are subhuman vermin who would sell their own grandmothers for a nickle
Have you ever sent your resume to someone asking for a job? Yes? Congratulations, you are an advertiser trying to sell your services.
A boat floating in a harbor has some percentage of its total mass below the water. When the tide comes in, the boat rises up. When the tide goes out, the boat sinks back down. But there is no change in the amount of boat mass above and below the water! The only thing that affects whether the boat goes deeper into the water or not is if additional mass is added, removed, or a hole is punched in the bottom. Governments are well known for punching holes into the titanics of industry, though.
If that logic is correct, there should be no problem imposing a 10,000% tax right? After all, it will be the same for all ISPs, so it will be ok.
Hint - like all taxes, it raises the prices and some consumers will not be able/want to pay.
Here is a comparison of life expectancies between the US and Europe.
For unadjusted life expectancy, the U.S. ranks #14 out of 16 countries, but for the adjusted standardized life expectancy, (adjusted for the effects of premature death resulting from non-health-related fatal injuries) the U.S. ranks #1.
Doesn't Airbus outsource as well?
If I'm not mistaken, they manufacture/assemble in over 5 different countries.
So, let's hear it for mindless peddling of stupid ideas that are based on arbitrary political boundaries.
And who decides what a "social network" is?
I wonder when we'll receive calls for govt. regulation of websites to keep it safe for children.
Here is an interesting piece about corporations and their incentives to protect their reputations.
It is not about IT (it is about insurance companies in Nazi Germany), but provides a very good insight nonetheless.
There is no question that many Chinese people are not paying Microsoft for the products they use.
But I fail to understand the fixation with the trade deficit that many people have - do you also worry about people in Illinois pirating windows and hence the trade deficit between IL and WA? If not, why should one arbitrary political boundary matter more than another?
Don't forget all the clerks and typists who lost their jobs due to the computer; hope you "spoke out" for them.
Is this one of those multi-level marketing (a.k.a. pyramid) schemes?
Nope. Their model is a trapezoid - much more stable.
Unemployment is a problem. If nuclear power plants require more people to run, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Indeed. We should also ban all power tools and computers; think of all the jobs this will create! Maybe we should block the sun as well - more candle-making jobs!