There used to be a vibrant hard goods economy in New England. I recently bought a pipe wrench that was made in Massachusetts.... it's decades old and I bought it at a thrift store.
General Radio used to make some of the very best electronics test gear- in Massachusetts.
The software economy shifting out is just another stage in the same process.
Even the strongest libertarians believe that preventing fraud is a legitimate roll for government.
That's an utterly ridiculous statement. It's like saying a role of government is to prevent crime. Nope. The role of government is to enforce criminal penalties after a crime has been committed.
You're living in a strange world, I guess, where criminals and fraudsters should be ferreted out beforehand.
All that said The GOP isn't trying to defund the NLRB not because it isn't working, it's because they don't like what it's doing.
Some of us, and I am not speaking for 'the GOP' because I am not a member, want the NLRB de-funded because there is no constitutional mandate for it to exist in the first place.
We all KNOW it wasn't global warming. Nor can blame be assigned to the people shrieking about anthrogenic climate change. Thankfully they've never had enough power to do all that much damage yet.
The ecotourists were running out of weed. And you can NOT have Chinese Military Helicopters airlift in another kilo of weed. It just doesn't work that way. So they HAD to be rescued.
You fail to realize that the whole FUN of owning a 4x4 is getting it stuck for awhile. Otherwise, all they get to do is speed along in the left lane on the freeway before slipping off into the ditch. (where having 4x4 mostly doesn't matter, call 911 now, you hardcore dudes)
People who do that will basically be publicly acknowledging their ignorance of science.
You forgot to capitalize, and slightly misspell that word 'science' that you used. Also put a (tm) at the end to keep others from capitalizing on whatever you define it to mean.
Still, keep believing you can score political points by pretending that the R's are better defenders of the 4th Amendment than the D's.
Which is why we need to take as much power as possible away from ALL of them. Call the Conservative's bluff: radically trim away the power of Federal Government. We can start by heavily trimming the budgets of the acronym agencies (DOD, EPA, OSHA, FDA, CIA, NSA, etc.)
People with power in the government need to be considered differently, because the power that they hold can be corrupted through blackmail.
If Harry Reid is caught with sucking the toe of his dominitrix, he could be blackmailed into telling the truth about something. If you are caught, at best they can embarrass you in front of your friends, acquaintances, and family.
Otherwise there will always be starving people in bad places because they keep breeding beyond their food supply (it's a modern human trait) no matter how much food you give them.
There's the key. When you give somebody free food, it takes away all incentive for them to produce their own, and it depresses food prices, which wipes out of business anybody in the local economy who is still motivated to want to grow local food.
It's the 'give a man a fish/teach a man to fish' deal. Something taught by those, uh, Catholics that you're having your five-minute-hate over.
We've known lead and mercury were toxic for centuries. Where do you get the idea it's been mere decades?
There wasn't the will to begin regulating lead and mercury emissions. And lead was being placed in gasoline and thus pumped into the air when vehicles burned said gasoline. Paint chips are also a problem, but we and our children were literally breathing large quantities of lead.
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... the same old pump and dump ...
I remember VA Linux. (who, in fact, owned Slashdot for awhile)
When he is President they can put his bust on a Bitcoin.
(or does he need to be dead first? )
Are Bitcoins minted in Rearden Metal?
The only 'hot gamer girls' are the fictitious ones in photographs for ads selling gaming guides.
Real 'gamer girls' are same same chips-n-cheeseburger munching human mounds-of-flesh as the gamer guys.
Definitely. And when the more robust and automated servers replace the need for sysadmin monkeys writing scripts, you can all become cable pullers.
Until all the cable is pulled. Then one or two of you can work maintaining the conduits.
Also, haul some more paper up to the cabinet by the LJet on second floor when you get a chance, willya?
There used to be a vibrant hard goods economy in New England. I recently bought a pipe wrench that was made in Massachusetts.... it's decades old and I bought it at a thrift store.
General Radio used to make some of the very best electronics test gear- in Massachusetts.
The software economy shifting out is just another stage in the same process.
That's a zero-sum point-of-view. People are resources, and people create resources. More people = more resources.
Ah, so it's the beancounters who siphon off that big chunk of the funding.
Are you, perchance, a beancounter? Do your wingtips reflect up?
Even the strongest libertarians believe that preventing fraud is a legitimate roll for government.
That's an utterly ridiculous statement. It's like saying a role of government is to prevent crime. Nope. The role of government is to enforce criminal penalties after a crime has been committed.
You're living in a strange world, I guess, where criminals and fraudsters should be ferreted out beforehand.
All that said The GOP isn't trying to defund the NLRB not because it isn't working, it's because they don't like what it's doing.
Some of us, and I am not speaking for 'the GOP' because I am not a member, want the NLRB de-funded because there is no constitutional mandate for it to exist in the first place.
We all KNOW it wasn't global warming. Nor can blame be assigned to the people shrieking about anthrogenic climate change. Thankfully they've never had enough power to do all that much damage yet.
I can't imagine anybody in Europe wanting to buy or drink the US-branded concoction known as Budweiser 'beer.'
The ecotourists were running out of weed. And you can NOT have Chinese Military Helicopters airlift in another kilo of weed. It just doesn't work that way. So they HAD to be rescued.
You fail to realize that the whole FUN of owning a 4x4 is getting it stuck for awhile. Otherwise, all they get to do is speed along in the left lane on the freeway before slipping off into the ditch. (where having 4x4 mostly doesn't matter, call 911 now, you hardcore dudes)
He's that Russian dude on Saturday Night Live who claims 'I can see the Tea Party from my patio.'
People who do that will basically be publicly acknowledging their ignorance of science.
You forgot to capitalize, and slightly misspell that word 'science' that you used. Also put a (tm) at the end to keep others from capitalizing on whatever you define it to mean.
Why simply err on the side of caution, when you can scuttle the entire world economy with superstitious ignorance?
The icebreaker was 'say, do all these ships have a carbon footprint?'
But the ecotourists just frowned in response.
Naw, you just raise taxes.
Still, keep believing you can score political points by pretending that the R's are better defenders of the 4th Amendment than the D's.
Which is why we need to take as much power as possible away from ALL of them. Call the Conservative's bluff: radically trim away the power of Federal Government. We can start by heavily trimming the budgets of the acronym agencies (DOD, EPA, OSHA, FDA, CIA, NSA, etc.)
People with power in the government need to be considered differently, because the power that they hold can be corrupted through blackmail.
If Harry Reid is caught with sucking the toe of his dominitrix, he could be blackmailed into telling the truth about something. If you are caught, at best they can embarrass you in front of your friends, acquaintances, and family.
Except Rock Stars have significant portions of the mainstream public admiring them before they O.D.
There's the key. When you give somebody free food, it takes away all incentive for them to produce their own, and it depresses food prices, which wipes out of business anybody in the local economy who is still motivated to want to grow local food.
It's the 'give a man a fish/teach a man to fish' deal. Something taught by those, uh, Catholics that you're having your five-minute-hate over.
Welcome to Slashdot, where compiling your own kernel is a liberating experience and gives you vast insight into every aspect of human knowledge.
We've known lead and mercury were toxic for centuries. Where do you get the idea it's been mere decades?
There wasn't the will to begin regulating lead and mercury emissions. And lead was being placed in gasoline and thus pumped into the air when vehicles burned said gasoline. Paint chips are also a problem, but we and our children were literally breathing large quantities of lead.