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Even better, the big booksellers like Amazon and Borders are actually good for the marketplace. They are an *increase* in competition, not a decrease. They force the price down that the evil big publishing cartel used to control because small booksellers (and hence buyers) had no leverage over.
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Movies make you smarter too, just ask any actor. Can I have your email address? I would like to send you an advertisement for my herbal supplement, it will make you *ahem* smarter.
Of course everyone want "more educated" customers of your definition of "more educated" means paying more. Every car dealer wants a more educated customer who understands the value of a 4WD station wagon, or battery charging brake pads.
But the smarter customers have learned the same lesson that good software developers have, and that's "don't prematurely optimize." Chances are, the app they want will become obsolete, or have to be rewritten from scratch, or won't actually meet their requirements, or their requirements will change long before the cheaper maintenance payoff of your "higher quality" application.
After all, the really hard part us understanding what they need. And getting the ugly cheap hack out the door as quick as possible will help them correct their misconceptions that much quicker.
Why would you forfeit your right to think to someone else just because he has gone to one of a certain list of schools?
I guess the initial assumption is enough evidence that you are not using that right anyway, so having someone else tell you what to think is better than just not thinking at all.
Arial instead of Times font? This was the big change. Getting rid of the background and rounded corner images (probably not so much getting rid of, but failing to implement) being the other minor differences?
What if we go back to 1998, when the US didn't hardly need China. When banks were backing the Asian "tigers" instead. For some bizarre reason, China, a country that doesn't even have a currency, or any assets to speak of, has been given unlimited credit by international banks. And they've used that credit to by dollars so that they could claim they have assets. And then used the dollars as collateral for more loans to begin building real assets, but all owned by the government. Ask oil companies what happened to their "assets" in Venezeula.
You mean "because the BBC is in the grip of anti-American hysteria and wants to portray the US as xenophobic, because they've never had to deal with any kind of racial problems themselves surprisingly racist."
What your language calls "scientists" don't have anything to do with the discoveries made by science. "Science", in the old English, was the process of discovering sequences of events that have reproducible effects. Coming up with stories to explain your opinions didn't once factor into it, whether you believed in a God or not. No birds, monkeys, whales, dolphins, dogs, cats, elephants, or ants have any trace of language, culture, art, science, reason, tool using, or anything vaguely like it. One monkey poking a stick in a hole doesn't make a culture any more than a dog barking whenever it hears someone coming makes a language.
Aesthetics caused people to group together and build monuments. The large labor force translated into large armies, thus ensuring Egypt won wars against the less aesthetically inclined kingdoms. Or that the Lascaux artist got a bunch of groupies who begat him offspring and enabled him to beat the rival Neanderthal clan. Maybe it wasn't the really the painting that his women were attracted to, but that's aesthetics too.
If the wings won't help a clam because it lives underwater, then why would it help a creature that lives on land. Unless the wing mutation occurs fully developed and is transferable to the next generation, there is zero advantage to a wing mutation. There would have to be billions of non-degenerative, transferable mutations in a row before any advantage at all was gained.
The resistance to smallpox has served Europeans as well. But they didn't mutate into it, the ones who were less resistant died off. Just like the Indians. And Asians don't have sickle cells. They aren't especially resistant to Cholera or Malaria. In fact, they die of both diseases quite a bit more commonly than Europeans, but that's because of their environment and living conditions. They just don't get much press here, because they're not here, and maybe they're not as photogenic as Ethiopians.
Asians drink milk as often as anyone else, availability provided. The Mongols survived on milk. Indians drink milk, but won't eat meat. Everyone is lactose tolerant. Some people just don't like the taste of it as a kid, or get phlegm one day and decide their "intolerant" -- meaning they don't like it. Some people get indigestion, so what? Mostly it's just a fad. In 20 years, lactose intolerance will have disappeared, and it won't have been bred out.
What makes you think women were colorblind? Color blindness is not genetically transferrable. Your kids won't get it from you. And women are the same species as men, no matter what planet they come from.
Sickle cells are not a mutation, though it's a genetic characteristic, like skin color. Nobody claimed all of humanity had identical DNA except black people who must be mutants -- or possibly human-turtle hybrids.
That's okay. Much of the raw materials and agricultural products are produced in the USA. And much of the design work is produced in the USA.
Even for resources the US doesn't dominate, such as petroleum, it's still a major player.
Making products is the replaceable cog. Providing resources and designing products that utilize them are the value add.
The real casualty that will come from the housing bubble collapse is that it will instigate legislation that will outlaw variable rate mortgages, equity, loans, and other similar strategies that are being abused now, but used wisely, are virtually the only source of capital for the small investor or small business owner.
He might not have had a place to swing that hammer in the first place if it weren't for the bubble. He wasn't neccessarily hurt by the bubble's collapse, as temporarily helped by the bubble itself.
Yeah, if the Enron employees had bought GE, they'd have had a good hedge. Except it was their vested interest in Enron that made it such a successful competitor to GE, and thus why it was destroyed. If Enron were around now, they'd be trading oil on the spot market, and that $70/barrel would be much less. And if Exxon owned News Corp, Halliburton, and the Republican party, they'd fall right back down again.
There is a finite, but increasing number of positions of authority. And that finite number will go up as long as the population does. Assuming that can continue eternally, there will be an *infinite*, but limited number of positions of authority.
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Even better, the big booksellers like Amazon and Borders are actually good for the marketplace. They are an *increase* in competition, not a decrease. They force the price down that the evil big publishing cartel used to control because small booksellers (and hence buyers) had no leverage over.
Movies make you smarter too, just ask any actor. Can I have your email address? I would like to send you an advertisement for my herbal supplement, it will make you *ahem* smarter.
Of course everyone want "more educated" customers of your definition of "more educated" means paying more. Every car dealer wants a more educated customer who understands the value of a 4WD station wagon, or battery charging brake pads. But the smarter customers have learned the same lesson that good software developers have, and that's "don't prematurely optimize." Chances are, the app they want will become obsolete, or have to be rewritten from scratch, or won't actually meet their requirements, or their requirements will change long before the cheaper maintenance payoff of your "higher quality" application. After all, the really hard part us understanding what they need. And getting the ugly cheap hack out the door as quick as possible will help them correct their misconceptions that much quicker.
Why would you forfeit your right to think to someone else just because he has gone to one of a certain list of schools? I guess the initial assumption is enough evidence that you are not using that right anyway, so having someone else tell you what to think is better than just not thinking at all.
Not it isn't and no it isn't. What you are is called "stupid" in the United States and it isn't illegal either, sadly.
Arial instead of Times font? This was the big change. Getting rid of the background and rounded corner images (probably not so much getting rid of, but failing to implement) being the other minor differences?
A form that takes 20 minutes to run would be better off written and filed by hand.
What if we go back to 1998, when the US didn't hardly need China. When banks were backing the Asian "tigers" instead. For some bizarre reason, China, a country that doesn't even have a currency, or any assets to speak of, has been given unlimited credit by international banks. And they've used that credit to by dollars so that they could claim they have assets. And then used the dollars as collateral for more loans to begin building real assets, but all owned by the government. Ask oil companies what happened to their "assets" in Venezeula.
You mean "because the BBC is in the grip of anti-American hysteria and wants to portray the US as xenophobic, because they've never had to deal with any kind of racial problems themselves surprisingly racist."
What your language calls "scientists" don't have anything to do with the discoveries made by science. "Science", in the old English, was the process of discovering sequences of events that have reproducible effects. Coming up with stories to explain your opinions didn't once factor into it, whether you believed in a God or not. No birds, monkeys, whales, dolphins, dogs, cats, elephants, or ants have any trace of language, culture, art, science, reason, tool using, or anything vaguely like it. One monkey poking a stick in a hole doesn't make a culture any more than a dog barking whenever it hears someone coming makes a language.
I think you meant a "dog" can recognize it's name, unlike a dolphin.
Aesthetics caused people to group together and build monuments. The large labor force translated into large armies, thus ensuring Egypt won wars against the less aesthetically inclined kingdoms. Or that the Lascaux artist got a bunch of groupies who begat him offspring and enabled him to beat the rival Neanderthal clan. Maybe it wasn't the really the painting that his women were attracted to, but that's aesthetics too.
What is the predator of monkeys?
If the wings won't help a clam because it lives underwater, then why would it help a creature that lives on land. Unless the wing mutation occurs fully developed and is transferable to the next generation, there is zero advantage to a wing mutation. There would have to be billions of non-degenerative, transferable mutations in a row before any advantage at all was gained.
The resistance to smallpox has served Europeans as well. But they didn't mutate into it, the ones who were less resistant died off. Just like the Indians. And Asians don't have sickle cells. They aren't especially resistant to Cholera or Malaria. In fact, they die of both diseases quite a bit more commonly than Europeans, but that's because of their environment and living conditions. They just don't get much press here, because they're not here, and maybe they're not as photogenic as Ethiopians.
Asians drink milk as often as anyone else, availability provided. The Mongols survived on milk. Indians drink milk, but won't eat meat. Everyone is lactose tolerant. Some people just don't like the taste of it as a kid, or get phlegm one day and decide their "intolerant" -- meaning they don't like it. Some people get indigestion, so what? Mostly it's just a fad. In 20 years, lactose intolerance will have disappeared, and it won't have been bred out. What makes you think women were colorblind? Color blindness is not genetically transferrable. Your kids won't get it from you. And women are the same species as men, no matter what planet they come from. Sickle cells are not a mutation, though it's a genetic characteristic, like skin color. Nobody claimed all of humanity had identical DNA except black people who must be mutants -- or possibly human-turtle hybrids.
That's okay. Much of the raw materials and agricultural products are produced in the USA. And much of the design work is produced in the USA. Even for resources the US doesn't dominate, such as petroleum, it's still a major player. Making products is the replaceable cog. Providing resources and designing products that utilize them are the value add.
Actually, Home Depot is a Democrat corporation.
$500,000,000,000 or about 4% of a 12,600,000,000,000 GDP isn't that scary.
God Damn Freedom.
The real casualty that will come from the housing bubble collapse is that it will instigate legislation that will outlaw variable rate mortgages, equity, loans, and other similar strategies that are being abused now, but used wisely, are virtually the only source of capital for the small investor or small business owner.
He might not have had a place to swing that hammer in the first place if it weren't for the bubble. He wasn't neccessarily hurt by the bubble's collapse, as temporarily helped by the bubble itself.
Yeah, if the Enron employees had bought GE, they'd have had a good hedge. Except it was their vested interest in Enron that made it such a successful competitor to GE, and thus why it was destroyed. If Enron were around now, they'd be trading oil on the spot market, and that $70/barrel would be much less. And if Exxon owned News Corp, Halliburton, and the Republican party, they'd fall right back down again.
There is a finite, but increasing number of positions of authority. And that finite number will go up as long as the population does. Assuming that can continue eternally, there will be an *infinite*, but limited number of positions of authority.
Nope, and watching a tv show about some obscure tribe doesn't make you an expert. No one ever caught malaria in Canada.