Most of those are the "spherical cow" model of trade. Reality is messier.
For example, it appears open trade favors the wealthy over the rest, and is partly why inequality is growing. Commodity skills get bid down on a global market relative to profits from ownership. In short, the benefits of open trade are not distributed equally, and outright harm some groups.
And an imbalance of cash flow can result in bubbles as those with excess cash tend to unload it on the same things at the same time.
Ironic we can't see it either because of a pay-wall. That's all China has to do to hide stuff: erect a pay-wall, AND make American consumers pay for it.
A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things.
Has something comparable been set up that actually works? It's not only a lot of products to periodically test, but seems ripe for collusion if the industry itself sets it up.
Good labs and lab technicians are not cheap. It's going to need substantial funding.
It's an interesting idea on paper, but I'm skeptical it can fly for this kind of thing.
That doesn't work well for low-priced items. There's often no record of the purchasers, and it would be impractical to track them down even if such records are kept. Class-action suits generally are only practical on expensive or medically/safety-critical purposes.
If you don't like gov't monitors, please propose a decent alternative.
Aloe's three chemical markers -- acemannan, malic acid and glucose -- were absent in the tests
If you limit your tests to 3 markers, and tell everybody about them, the producers will put artificial versions of them in to fake the tests. It's Volkswagen all over again.
after the [US] ran the Afghani campaign so successfully...
It only looked successful. Some kept wondering, "where are all the bodies if so many fighters were wiped out?"
It seems no reporter followed up on that; maybe those in charge kept them from snooping around? Turns out the fighters were just hiding in the hills or blending into towns, waiting for better opportunities to strike back. We saw a fake victory. It's why we are still there.
We were royally duped with that country also. One dupe (Afghanistan) was used to justify another dupe (Ireq).
Going to ditch these globalist trade agreements that have destroyed American jobs and pay
There are at least two problems with that claim. First, you risk a trade war if you shut out other countries' trade.
Now assume for the sake of argument that Trump really is the brilliant trade negotiator he claims and gets us better trade deals such that factories come back here. US labor is expensive enough that manufacturing bots will start taking jobs even faster than they already have. You'd increase the incentive for automation.
Detroit already makes the same number of cars using roughly 2/3 the workforce of before due to automation. A trade deal that brings factories back will exacerbate this trend.
Trump stated no plan for that, unlike Hillary who proposed retraining programs. What's he gonna do, build walls around robots and make R2D2 pay for it?
You're going to save more by living in California and buying insurance from Maine, then flying cross country to see an in-network doctor!
If you think crying babies made flying annoying, now it will be full of people wailing in pain: an emergency waiting room in the sky.
Joking aside, there ain't no free lunch. You either have some group subsidizing the other, or cut benefits, boot the really sick, add coverage ceilings, and/or raise prices for somebody else.
It's like a bunch of slider controls where raising slider X may lower sliders Y and Z. There is no "magic optimum", you have to kick one group or care type in the gonads to benefit another.
The Republicans may even rig it so that blue states pay the medical bills of the red states. I hope they don't go that low.
And forcing states to accept out-of-state carriers erodes states' rights, something the right used to be for. Texas would be dictating medical and billing practices (or lack of) done in California, and vice versa. States could have a hard time keeping slimy players from other states at bay. Such could end up being challenged in the Supreme Court. But the court may be packed by Republicans in a few years now anyhow who will give in to Congress.
In my opinion we should mostly copy the UK system. It's one of the best in the world. You get some freedom of choice and schedules if you pay a bit more, unlike some systems that outright force everybody into the same queue. It's a decent compromise between a centralized system and private choice.
False shows of decisiveness. A lot of people seem to think that "doing something" is what a leader does, even if that "something" isn't well thought out or planned.
Scary, because that's how we got into Ireq: "We are doing something about terror!" (Alternative spelling intentional.)
it sounds like your kids have run of the house and that you are not in control. Not sure how you lost it...
It's called becoming a teen. A whole new set of aggressive hormones kicks in. They welcome power struggles and have all day to plan, plot, and work around it such that it becomes a war of endurance and attrition.
I would boot them out, but they'd want that: work in a burger joint and live with a bunch of room-mates to cut costs. Their graduation is more important than winning a nasty power struggle in my opinion.
Pure conservatives/libertarians are not bothered by cancer water: some humans will evolve superior livers to filter the pollution and produce immune offspring, comparable to Kevin Costner evolving gills in water-world. Competition and the Great Market-Place will produce a superior race. Don't let the pesky gov't interface with evolution.
It's Ayn Rand-ism and Social Darwinism. With dog-eat-dog, the superior dog lives and produces better dogs. Mad Max is not a dystopia: it's the human breading field. If you don't like it, you'll die off and those who do like it will thrive. Oh, and bring your guns. Gotta have guns.
It's premature to say what Mr. Trump will actually do. He has given anti-trust some lip service, which suggests he'd preserve NN in order prevent big telecoms from also controlling big media. But whether he follows through is another matter.
While he may prefer trust-busting actions, he may trade it away for something else that he wants from Congress, being the deal-maker he is. The up-side is that he may be willing to cut deals with Democrats also, but it would only work for issues that divide the GOP, for the Democrats don't have enough seats to produce a viable bill otherwise.
Trump is unlike every other president. Burn the history books and get the popcorn out. I don't know whether Trump will take us to heaven, hell, the loony bin, or something in between; but I am certain it will be an interesting ride. Don't forget to buckle up, and keep your hands inside at all times.
While my kids are "good" in the sense they don't get into trouble in terms of fights, vandalism, etc.; they won't do chores. We tried taking away privileges and gizmos, but they dig in. If we try to starve them, they sneak away and visit relatives or neighbors and make sad puppy-dog eyes so that the relatives feed them, AND give them gizmos to use.
It's kind of like prisoners: they have all day to think about and discuss escape techniques, and therefore often outsmart the guards: it's a game to them. I honestly don't have the discipline to prevent or work-around all the tricks they've learned; it would consume most of my free time The prisoners won!
my kids can fold a shirt in 10 minutes.. Including the time spent convincing them
I want YOUR kids. Mine are un-bribable. They'd rather starve than do chores for money*. They'd make the most honest politicians... and maybe the laziest.
* Actually they sneak out and beg relatives for food, the little worms.
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There's a fact about Trump that's growing ever more apparent: his mouth is nearly useless. Only his actions matter (and they've yet to unfold).
Forrest Trump is like a box of chocolates: you don't know what you are getting until you bite into one ... or one bites into you.
Most of those are the "spherical cow" model of trade. Reality is messier.
For example, it appears open trade favors the wealthy over the rest, and is partly why inequality is growing. Commodity skills get bid down on a global market relative to profits from ownership. In short, the benefits of open trade are not distributed equally, and outright harm some groups.
And an imbalance of cash flow can result in bubbles as those with excess cash tend to unload it on the same things at the same time.
I was mostly joking, but pay-walls will work on most regular users. Thus, it's de-facto censorship.
I can't think of ANY study where 4 people would be a statistically valid sample size.
Somebody is either a cheapskate, or using tricks to yank our crank.
Ironic we can't see it either because of a pay-wall. That's all China has to do to hide stuff: erect a pay-wall, AND make American consumers pay for it.
Has something comparable been set up that actually works? It's not only a lot of products to periodically test, but seems ripe for collusion if the industry itself sets it up.
Good labs and lab technicians are not cheap. It's going to need substantial funding.
It's an interesting idea on paper, but I'm skeptical it can fly for this kind of thing.
That doesn't work well for low-priced items. There's often no record of the purchasers, and it would be impractical to track them down even if such records are kept. Class-action suits generally are only practical on expensive or medically/safety-critical purposes.
If you don't like gov't monitors, please propose a decent alternative.
If you limit your tests to 3 markers, and tell everybody about them, the producers will put artificial versions of them in to fake the tests. It's Volkswagen all over again.
Indeed. My kids even threatened to turn me in for "child abuse" if I whipped them with a belt. They got WTF, a lawyer app?
As my mom used to say about teens: "It's a shame all that energy and determination is wasted on sheer stubbornness."
If ACA is so great for the insurance companies, why are some existing certain markets?
(There are proposed adjustments to change the incentives to some degree so they stay, but GOP blocks them.)
So an org has to choose between memory leaks (Mongo) or wallet leaks (Oracle).
It's because they're still in school. The smartitivity hasn't finished being installed yet.
It only looked successful. Some kept wondering, "where are all the bodies if so many fighters were wiped out?"
It seems no reporter followed up on that; maybe those in charge kept them from snooping around? Turns out the fighters were just hiding in the hills or blending into towns, waiting for better opportunities to strike back. We saw a fake victory. It's why we are still there.
We were royally duped with that country also. One dupe (Afghanistan) was used to justify another dupe (Ireq).
Investigate THAT. It's far bigger than emails.
There are at least two problems with that claim. First, you risk a trade war if you shut out other countries' trade.
Now assume for the sake of argument that Trump really is the brilliant trade negotiator he claims and gets us better trade deals such that factories come back here. US labor is expensive enough that manufacturing bots will start taking jobs even faster than they already have. You'd increase the incentive for automation.
Detroit already makes the same number of cars using roughly 2/3 the workforce of before due to automation. A trade deal that brings factories back will exacerbate this trend.
Trump stated no plan for that, unlike Hillary who proposed retraining programs. What's he gonna do, build walls around robots and make R2D2 pay for it?
If you think crying babies made flying annoying, now it will be full of people wailing in pain: an emergency waiting room in the sky.
Joking aside, there ain't no free lunch. You either have some group subsidizing the other, or cut benefits, boot the really sick, add coverage ceilings, and/or raise prices for somebody else.
It's like a bunch of slider controls where raising slider X may lower sliders Y and Z. There is no "magic optimum", you have to kick one group or care type in the gonads to benefit another.
The Republicans may even rig it so that blue states pay the medical bills of the red states. I hope they don't go that low.
And forcing states to accept out-of-state carriers erodes states' rights, something the right used to be for. Texas would be dictating medical and billing practices (or lack of) done in California, and vice versa. States could have a hard time keeping slimy players from other states at bay. Such could end up being challenged in the Supreme Court. But the court may be packed by Republicans in a few years now anyhow who will give in to Congress.
In my opinion we should mostly copy the UK system. It's one of the best in the world. You get some freedom of choice and schedules if you pay a bit more, unlike some systems that outright force everybody into the same queue. It's a decent compromise between a centralized system and private choice.
Scary, because that's how we got into Ireq: "We are doing something about terror!" (Alternative spelling intentional.)
It's called becoming a teen. A whole new set of aggressive hormones kicks in. They welcome power struggles and have all day to plan, plot, and work around it such that it becomes a war of endurance and attrition.
I would boot them out, but they'd want that: work in a burger joint and live with a bunch of room-mates to cut costs. Their graduation is more important than winning a nasty power struggle in my opinion.
That's okay, they'll be hired back as coders to figure out your spaghetti code after you leave ;-)
I lost a bet over how a word was spailed.
It's like the Titanic captain arguing with the Chernobyl chief over who screwed the pooch the hardest.
Look who's lecturing us: YOUR country Brexited your asses into recession.
Pure conservatives/libertarians are not bothered by cancer water: some humans will evolve superior livers to filter the pollution and produce immune offspring, comparable to Kevin Costner evolving gills in water-world. Competition and the Great Market-Place will produce a superior race. Don't let the pesky gov't interface with evolution.
It's Ayn Rand-ism and Social Darwinism. With dog-eat-dog, the superior dog lives and produces better dogs. Mad Max is not a dystopia: it's the human breading field. If you don't like it, you'll die off and those who do like it will thrive. Oh, and bring your guns. Gotta have guns.
It's premature to say what Mr. Trump will actually do. He has given anti-trust some lip service, which suggests he'd preserve NN in order prevent big telecoms from also controlling big media. But whether he follows through is another matter.
While he may prefer trust-busting actions, he may trade it away for something else that he wants from Congress, being the deal-maker he is. The up-side is that he may be willing to cut deals with Democrats also, but it would only work for issues that divide the GOP, for the Democrats don't have enough seats to produce a viable bill otherwise.
Trump is unlike every other president. Burn the history books and get the popcorn out. I don't know whether Trump will take us to heaven, hell, the loony bin, or something in between; but I am certain it will be an interesting ride. Don't forget to buckle up, and keep your hands inside at all times.
While my kids are "good" in the sense they don't get into trouble in terms of fights, vandalism, etc.; they won't do chores. We tried taking away privileges and gizmos, but they dig in. If we try to starve them, they sneak away and visit relatives or neighbors and make sad puppy-dog eyes so that the relatives feed them, AND give them gizmos to use.
It's kind of like prisoners: they have all day to think about and discuss escape techniques, and therefore often outsmart the guards: it's a game to them. I honestly don't have the discipline to prevent or work-around all the tricks they've learned; it would consume most of my free time The prisoners won!
I want YOUR kids. Mine are un-bribable. They'd rather starve than do chores for money*. They'd make the most honest politicians ... and maybe the laziest.
* Actually they sneak out and beg relatives for food, the little worms.