I was chatting to my phone company about my modem. They lulled me into a false sense of security by asking for info I'd already given. But a bit later I thought better of a somewhat tetchy paragraph and replaced it with a calmer one. Then they referred to something in the paragraph I had not sent. Then they offered to call me and I had a friendly conversation with a nice young lady who fixed my problem. I was left wondering: good customer service, or psychological warfare?
You theory might apply to investors in foreign currencies but it doesn't explain why people value their own government's currency. The real reason government currencies have value is that everyone needs them to pay their taxes with.
Orthodox. When a physicist uses that word he is pointing up the element of faith involved, and probably implying that he doesn't believe it.
There is around a dozen interpretations (what does it mean, really?) of quantum mechanics.
I remember reading a while back about a convention where they took an anonymous poll of which interpretations the attendees favoured. To everyone's surprise Many Worlds was the most popular.
What would be the macroeconomic effects of UBI and JG?
UBI is inflationary: you are handing out money, and it would have to be a lot, without getting anything back.
A Job Guarantee on the other hand acts as an inflation anchor. Because it is a buffer stock of employed people it damps oscillations in the business cycle.
Note that the JG is an idea that has been developed over 20 years by economists. The UBI has a 100 year history but economists tend not to like it too much.
You can find a recent paper on the JG here which answers a lot of FAQs.
It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory. Their videos are staged. Their claims are questionable. The fog of war is thick in the mainstream media.
Private companies have not been able to promise unfunded pensions for decades - it's a moral issue that the government is allowed to continue this practice.
It really isn't. Unlike private companies, the government can create money ex nihilo. It can pay its bills, any size, any time, simply by typing numbers into a computer. It does not need to prefund anything, nor does it need to tax or borrow money in order to spend.
FDR's policies only worsened the Great Depression.
People think this is insightful? It is totally wrong. Go look up the unemployment stats on FRED. That bump in 1937 is because FDR was persuaded to dial back his policies. He quickly resumed course and unemployment fell again.
As I understand it, it is not normal for the FBI to make recommendations, nor for the DOJ to request them. The FBI presents the evidence and the DOJ decides. In this case Loretta Lynch handed the hot potato to James Comey, who found a way to drop it. It seems pretty clear to me that a prosecution could have been brought if the desire was there.
This is correct. There is another source of confusion though: "liberal" has two quite different meanings.
One is the opposite of authoritarian, as you say.
The other refers to the political ideology of Capitalism. "Free" markets (especially in labor), laissez-faire government, "sound" finance. What most Americans think of as Conservatism is more properly called Liberalism.
The Democratic Party exploits this confusion to co-opt people with a liberal attitude into supporting the party's conservative agenda. Its emphasis on identity politics gets people all riled up about things which can have no effect on the power structure or economic status quo.
Choosing to regulate any corporate thing is a departure from the Neoliberal ideology that has ruled the UK (as elsewhere) for the last 40 years. I wonder if this is really a tacit acceptance of the utter failure of that approach, or if they just saw the reaction to Ajit Pai in the US and thought they could do without that kind of grief right now.
I began writing this column on November 9, 2016, on the balcony of a hotel in Istanbul, while a call to prayer echoed through the streets below. I took that as good advice, because a few hours earlier my country elected an Internet troll, Donald Trump, as its president (http://scripting.com/2016/07/28/dontFeedDjTrump.html). Perhaps by now we're calling this day 11/9, in the mold of 9/11. I'm an optimistic guy, but color me pessimistic about where my country is now heading, led by a world-class narcissist. And forgive me for obsessing not only about where this is going, but how we got here. Our country has been hacked, and that matters. Disclosure: I'm a political independent, and not a fan of Hillary Clinton, though I thought she was the only sensible choice, given Trump's shortcomings, many of which should have disqualified him, flat out. But he won. Why?
This caused a shitstorm of complaining letters and cancellations. Quite astonishing to me, though perhaps it shouldn't have been after the hysterical reaction to the picture of a naked man seated at a piano on the cover of the Monty Python issue. There are some pretty weird Americans out there, and some of them run Linux.
The impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was in no small part due to the Panama Papers
Wikipedia says: "Rousseff herself is not mentioned in the papers" and "No politicians from Rousseff's party were mentioned in the leaks."
The Panama Papers' link with the coup in Brazil was that the corrupt politicians had to get rid of Rousseff in order to stop the investigations against them.
Socialism is when the government pays the paycheck, but the private enterprises reap the profits.
Socialism is when there is some democratic say in what workers get paid. Capitalism is when the capitalists have all the say. They pay the bill either way. So the OP's scheme where the government lays down basic ground rules on behalf of workers is one form of socialism. It would not preclude the need for unions however; they are still needed to negotiate the details in each workplace.
gl-inet have a nice range of routers that come with openWRT out of the box. Some of them are well supported by Rooter which is a version of openWRT with support for cellular modems.
The Conservative digital platform also promises to better protect Brits' personal information, compelling social media companies to trash user records from before the age of 18.
Will that be before or after they have to hand them over to the secret police under the new Snooper's Charter?
Slashdot Mirror
Most of the media in Venezuela is not controlled by the government, it is owned and controlled by capitalist oligarchs just like in the US.
And just like in the US there is a shitstorm of disinformation being pumped out by everyone. In fact the gaslighting has gone global.
And why should Maduro cede power? He just won an election. If the opposition wanted to win they should have taken part.
Want to know what to think? Ask the old old question: Who benefits? Then follow the money.
Wire. Handy comparison chart here.
It's not immediately apparent from their site that wire is open source and free to use, but it is.
I use Wire and so do at least three people I know. Join us!
I was chatting to my phone company about my modem. They lulled me into a false sense of security by asking for info I'd already given. But a bit later I thought better of a somewhat tetchy paragraph and replaced it with a calmer one. Then they referred to something in the paragraph I had not sent.
Then they offered to call me and I had a friendly conversation with a nice young lady who fixed my problem. I was left wondering: good customer service, or psychological warfare?
You theory might apply to investors in foreign currencies but it doesn't explain why people value their own government's currency.
The real reason government currencies have value is that everyone needs them to pay their taxes with.
Orthodox. When a physicist uses that word he is pointing up the element of faith involved, and probably implying that he doesn't believe it.
There is around a dozen interpretations (what does it mean, really?) of quantum mechanics.
I remember reading a while back about a convention where they took an anonymous poll of which interpretations the attendees favoured. To everyone's surprise Many Worlds was the most popular.
What would be the macroeconomic effects of UBI and JG?
UBI is inflationary: you are handing out money, and it would have to be a lot, without getting anything back.
A Job Guarantee on the other hand acts as an inflation anchor. Because it is a buffer stock of employed people it damps oscillations in the business cycle.
Note that the JG is an idea that has been developed over 20 years by economists. The UBI has a 100 year history but economists tend not to like it too much.
You can find a recent paper on the JG here which answers a lot of FAQs.
Indeed:
Mighty Wurlitzer
Operation Mockingbird
Why waste good propaganda on foreigners?
The Telegraph
The Guardian
It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory. Their videos are staged. Their claims are questionable. The fog of war is thick in the mainstream media.
Rigged it was, at least in New York:
A catalogue of SNAFUs
An admission of guilt
It really isn't. Unlike private companies, the government can create money ex nihilo. It can pay its bills, any size, any time, simply by typing numbers into a computer. It does not need to prefund anything, nor does it need to tax or borrow money in order to spend.
FDR's policies only worsened the Great Depression.
People think this is insightful? It is totally wrong. Go look up the unemployment stats on FRED.
That bump in 1937 is because FDR was persuaded to dial back his policies. He quickly resumed course and unemployment fell again.
The fractional reserve and the loanable funds theories of banking are both wrong.
How Do Banks Create Money?
JohnnyCalcutta is correct, someone mod him up.
For Us, the Living. His first novel (1938) but not published until 2003.
Nazis love the idea because it will give them money to not work and it's inventor CH Douglas made a few anti-semitic comments once.
"Progressives" like UBI because they think it will reduce poverty, but on its own it probably won't because...
Neoliberals are coming to love the idea because it will allow them to eliminate the minimum wage and pay workers less.
Landlords like it because they will be able to raise rents.
Leftists prefer a Job Guarantee.
Knowing why someone does something is always tricky but this might offer a clue.
This offers four examples.
As I understand it, it is not normal for the FBI to make recommendations, nor for the DOJ to request them. The FBI presents the evidence and the DOJ decides. In this case Loretta Lynch handed the hot potato to James Comey, who found a way to drop it. It seems pretty clear to me that a prosecution could have been brought if the desire was there.
CNN
Fox
For some reason CNN softpedals the way the report was toned down.
Nope. Gross negligence = jail time.
This is correct. There is another source of confusion though: "liberal" has two quite different meanings.
One is the opposite of authoritarian, as you say.
The other refers to the political ideology of Capitalism. "Free" markets (especially in labor), laissez-faire government, "sound" finance. What most Americans think of as Conservatism is more properly called Liberalism.
The Democratic Party exploits this confusion to co-opt people with a liberal attitude into supporting the party's conservative agenda. Its emphasis on identity politics gets people all riled up about things which can have no effect on the power structure or economic status quo.
Choosing to regulate any corporate thing is a departure from the Neoliberal ideology that has ruled the UK (as elsewhere) for the last 40 years.
I wonder if this is really a tacit acceptance of the utter failure of that approach, or if they just saw the reaction to Ajit Pai in the US and thought they could do without that kind of grief right now.
In his EOF column Doc Searls wrote:
This caused a shitstorm of complaining letters and cancellations. Quite astonishing to me, though perhaps it shouldn't have been after the hysterical reaction to the picture of a naked man seated at a piano on the cover of the Monty Python issue. There are some pretty weird Americans out there, and some of them run Linux.
Wikipedia says: "Rousseff herself is not mentioned in the papers" and "No politicians from Rousseff's party were mentioned in the leaks."
The Panama Papers' link with the coup in Brazil was that the corrupt politicians had to get rid of Rousseff in order to stop the investigations against them.
Socialism is when there is some democratic say in what workers get paid.
Capitalism is when the capitalists have all the say. They pay the bill either way.
So the OP's scheme where the government lays down basic ground rules on behalf of workers is one form of socialism. It would not preclude the need for unions however; they are still needed to negotiate the details in each workplace.
gl-inet have a nice range of routers that come with openWRT out of the box. Some of them are well supported by Rooter which is a version of openWRT with support for cellular modems.
'liberalism' has two meanings and they are practically opposites. Most Americans don't realise this so get quite confused.
Will that be before or after they have to hand them over to the secret police under the new Snooper's Charter?