When people had such a low opinion of their fellow man that they essentially thought he was a retard, incapable of surviving without the wise overlords in government.
Countries like Portugal have decriminalised drugs but I think they are still illegal. I am guessing it is something to do with the enforcement. Though, I don't really know so perhaps I shouldn't have replied:)
- Ballmer sounds like an unpatriotic ass. Perhaps/I'm wrong and he's a really nice guy, but not in this article. He's turning his back on the country that gave Ballmer opportunity to be where he is today. Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
- Raising corporat taxes doesn't affect the consumer as badly as you believe. Yes some prices get raised, but increased taxation also leads to more cuts internally like plastic desks instead of mahogany, fewer free trips to Vegas, snd so on.
Ahh patriotism, socialism, and economic ignorance. These great ideas could come together to form a new poltical party. Perhaps it could be called the National Socialist party!!
Capitalism made it what it is today, if they had kept at it it would be like a Soviet car today.
What about the CD and DVD, or the thousands of other standardized products?
Generally companies supply what is demanded by customers, not by elitists. What average customer gives a flying hoot about IMAP if they are happy with webmail, or whether one protocol is a bit better than another? Companies have to make a profit, otherwise they go out of business so why the hell should they spend lots of money changing all their systems just because some academics thinks a new protocol is 30% faster. They actually need need a return on the money spent, unlike government which can waste all the money it wants and never go out of business (it doesn't need to cater to real people either.)
Anyway, I suspect IMAP and newsgroups haven't got replaced, its just that new users find webmail and phpbb easier to use.
Everyone else gets to choose between a couple of quacks and then vote for said ignorant quack once every few years - I guess that is the will of the majority bit.
Somehow I think Intel will be able to spend a billion a bit better than the EU government. They don't have a great track record with the common agricultural policy etc
I keep getting sucked in by this argument and then it dawns on me that more time on this petite thing is less time spent on more important things as to whether these bailouts should have happened at all. This is simply an unintended consequence of bad policy.
I would argue that they shouldn't release it with any browsers default installed and instead give them a package manager (similar to many Linux distributions) that allows them to step through a wizard process to download browsers from trusted sources based on an ever changing list (or conf file if they really want to change that).
Why just the browser, why not solitaire, why not the calculator? And if we take that logic to its conclusion would there wouldn't even be a desktop (or windows!), it's the thin end of the wedge. The EU should just stop bullying, this isn't rocket sciences it is just common sense.
Great! But that's a useless figure if they don't say how many will be lost in productive sectors of the economy. Government only moves money about, spilling some on the way...
Assuming that market forces are going to work all the time is what got us into the current meltdown of both the economy as well as the internet hardware.
No, the current meltdown is due to central planning and then calling that central planning the market. If you have a central bank on one side putting interest rates down to 1% in early 2000 and then on the other hand deregulating some bits and on top of that encouraging people to buy houses they can't afford you have a recipe for disaster. Thinking the market is powerful enolugh that it won't get distorted is wishful thinking, presumably what Greenspan deluded himself into thinking. So, in that sense I aggree with you.
It's pretty damn hard to have sane central planning---it is politics, it will always be political.
I thought I was a bit elitist thinking that the people who watch TV have the most trivial conversations, I never thought for one second that I knew what was best for them and considered throwing the idea of free speech away simply so they couldn't see too many boobies or hear too many naughty words.
What, the same Lincoln who killed hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen and suppressed free speech and tortured? I don't have a high opinion of Obama but I would never ever compare him to Lincoln, even if it was on the topic of how they filled their cabinets and not the number of people they plan to kill.
But these corporations do not operate under a proper market, they are big, subsidised creations of government. Why not fix the problem for once, not the symptom?
No, capitalism can only be imposed by force of threat of poverty, which to me, is much more insidious. Money (wealth) is a weapon, too.
That is just pure ignorance. If you are alone on an island then you don't need to trade so that's fine, but then if someone else comes along what do you do? The island is small so you will bump into each other occasionally. Do you a) trade with him voluntarily or do you b) force him to give over whatever he produces into a pile with whatever you produce then decide how to use it? With option b because you force him to put it into a pile you demonstrate that you are using force, that is the Hitler and Stalin way of doing it. You are the dictator.
Perhaps lefty politics doesn't necessitate totalitarianism but it does necessitate the use of force or the threat of force, which is a tool of totalitarianism.
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When people had such a low opinion of their fellow man that they essentially thought he was a retard, incapable of surviving without the wise overlords in government.
Countries like Portugal have decriminalised drugs but I think they are still illegal. I am guessing it is something to do with the enforcement. Though, I don't really know so perhaps I shouldn't have replied :)
Government is a large monopoly that happens to own the court system and gets its money through taxation.
http://thesinosaudiblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/mountain-fortr.gif
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Maybe he lives in this cave and Donny Rumsfeld couldn't find it
Off topic but I nearly puked when I read your sig.
The people in Iraq sure love what taxes enable, they are getting civilisation good and hard!
It is quite necessary for government to steal ~50% of peoples' income so they can bomb other countries into civilisation.
You got rid of one idiot only for him to be replaced by another idiot, King Bush III. Is that what you call change?
Ahh patriotism, socialism, and economic ignorance. These great ideas could come together to form a new poltical party. Perhaps it could be called the National Socialist party!!
Hi, your post must have gone to the wrong dimension. In my dimension this page exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highway
;)
I guess you have a government internet connection
Capitalism made it what it is today, if they had kept at it it would be like a Soviet car today.
What about the CD and DVD, or the thousands of other standardized products?
Generally companies supply what is demanded by customers, not by elitists. What average customer gives a flying hoot about IMAP if they are happy with webmail, or whether one protocol is a bit better than another? Companies have to make a profit, otherwise they go out of business so why the hell should they spend lots of money changing all their systems just because some academics thinks a new protocol is 30% faster. They actually need need a return on the money spent, unlike government which can waste all the money it wants and never go out of business (it doesn't need to cater to real people either.)
Anyway, I suspect IMAP and newsgroups haven't got replaced, its just that new users find webmail and phpbb easier to use.
Special interests can target their approach.
Everyone else gets to choose between a couple of quacks and then vote for said ignorant quack once every few years - I guess that is the will of the majority bit.
Maybe
Somehow I think Intel will be able to spend a billion a bit better than the EU government. They don't have a great track record with the common agricultural policy etc
Oh, so that's why the GDP per capita is fairly low I guess.
I keep getting sucked in by this argument and then it dawns on me that more time on this petite thing is less time spent on more important things as to whether these bailouts should have happened at all. This is simply an unintended consequence of bad policy.
A war and a depression... Go Keynes!!!
Why just the browser, why not solitaire, why not the calculator? And if we take that logic to its conclusion would there wouldn't even be a desktop (or windows!), it's the thin end of the wedge. The EU should just stop bullying, this isn't rocket sciences it is just common sense.
Great! But that's a useless figure if they don't say how many will be lost in productive sectors of the economy. Government only moves money about, spilling some on the way...
that it is a welfare program for scientists.
No, the current meltdown is due to central planning and then calling that central planning the market. If you have a central bank on one side putting interest rates down to 1% in early 2000 and then on the other hand deregulating some bits and on top of that encouraging people to buy houses they can't afford you have a recipe for disaster. Thinking the market is powerful enolugh that it won't get distorted is wishful thinking, presumably what Greenspan deluded himself into thinking. So, in that sense I aggree with you.
It's pretty damn hard to have sane central planning---it is politics, it will always be political.
It is not customary for women to attach their handbag to their dress.
I thought I was a bit elitist thinking that the people who watch TV have the most trivial conversations, I never thought for one second that I knew what was best for them and considered throwing the idea of free speech away simply so they couldn't see too many boobies or hear too many naughty words.
What, the same Lincoln who killed hundreds of thousands of your fellow countrymen and suppressed free speech and tortured? I don't have a high opinion of Obama but I would never ever compare him to Lincoln, even if it was on the topic of how they filled their cabinets and not the number of people they plan to kill.
But these corporations do not operate under a proper market, they are big, subsidised creations of government. Why not fix the problem for once, not the symptom?
That is just pure ignorance. If you are alone on an island then you don't need to trade so that's fine, but then if someone else comes along what do you do? The island is small so you will bump into each other occasionally. Do you a) trade with him voluntarily or do you b) force him to give over whatever he produces into a pile with whatever you produce then decide how to use it? With option b because you force him to put it into a pile you demonstrate that you are using force, that is the Hitler and Stalin way of doing it. You are the dictator.
Perhaps lefty politics doesn't necessitate totalitarianism but it does necessitate the use of force or the threat of force, which is a tool of totalitarianism.
No reason? To save the 'environment' of course :P