Why? The minimum wage just normalizes out eventually anyway and the standard of living stays the same.
Slashdot Economics 101: when in doubt, just throw up some horseshit.
So, if it costs you 1/2 an hour of work to buy that Gallon of milk at the current minimum, it's going to cost you 1/2 hour of work to buy that $7 gallon of milk when you get paid $15/hour.
That only assumes that the milk company has perfect pricing power. It does not. Since there is more than one milk company, there is a limit to how high the price can be raised. Since a rise in the minimum wage does not immediately raise the wages of ALL non-minimum wage workers, the effect of raising the minimum wage is not the same as saying "Every dollar is now worth TWO dollars". Rising wages have a minimal effect on inflation. For example, it's been shown that doubling the minimum wage for fast food workers would add about $0.04 to the price of a Big Mac.
This report is from something called the "Digital Citizens Alliance". Sounds good, right? Sounds like a bunch of pro-freedom net citizens protecting all of our rights, yes?
Would it surprise you to learn that the DCA is a lobbying group involved in trying to get Google to take down search results? Here's a sentence from their materials:
Creators aren't the only ones harmed by content theft...
No, the real reason it doesn't matter is because we will have a new president 14 months from now who will most likely have a completely different position on encryption.
Nonsense. Whoever is president 14 months from now will have exactly the same position on encryption. And the same position on the Middle East and the same position on Afghanistan and Iraq and "free trade" and...
I trust the scientist to use it, loosely, to actually produce new theories that might be useful
I trust the engineer to use these to build or improve devices that are actually useful
Exactly. If you want to understand the scientific method, ask a philosopher. If you want to use the scientific method, ask a scientist. If you want to make something practical from the results, ask an engineer.
The most shameful part is how many philosophers never even made it to the first tier of science, much less mathematics or higher.
You are not keeping up with the conversation here.
That the scientific method is a philosophical concept is not in dispute (and if you think it is, you're disqualified). That does not mean that philosophers are scientists, or that they should be.
Architects are not steel workers. But without architecture, steel workers could not build a bridge or skyscraper. Does that mean there is some shame in the fact that architects are not steel workers?
Logic is a philosophical concept, and one that apparently is given the short shrift in education for many.
The philosopher will sit back and think about things, possibly describing a problem in a form that can be addressed by someone other than another philosopher.
Philosophy is not the scientific method, but philosophy is where the scientific method comes from.
A=B does not mean A=C.
This discussion is a very clear example of why people should not be able to get a college degree with out taking a few years of philosophy.
Bull. Metallurgy was practiced a very, very long time ago. Hit and miss, see what works. Try the last guy's formulas for making various bronzes. Note that last one.
Do you know what "scientific method" means? Do you think it means "hit and miss, see what works"?
So when you swap the boundaries of the US public service, with the boundaries of the USA
And why would you do that? The question is about due process. Kim Davis got due process. If people are not allowed to enter the country based only on their religion, then by definition they are denied due process.
but there is a great deal of coattail-riding in suggesting that current science is dependent on, or a consequence of, current academic philosophy.
That's not at all what I said. It's not "science" that's necessarily dependent on philosophy (although it is, of course), but the "scientific method" that is entirely dependent on philosophy (neither of those is "scare quotes", by the way). I hope you can see the distinction.
I bet if you had studied philosophy, you would most definitely see the distinction.
Honest to God, I'm pretty surprised at how much ignorance there is about philosophy. This is where the utility of a classical education comes in. Fucking engineers. The worship of science and scientists without understanding that there is a context in which science exists. And above science is Mathematics. And just above Mathematics is Philosophy.
While the philosophers have a point, it is highly unlikely any breakthroughs in fundamental science will be made by someone educated purely in academic philosophy.
Of course not. Just as you won't see architects putting up walls.
The point is that the scientific method was the product of philosophy, not science. Aristotle, Descartes, Roger Bacon...all philosophers. Go down the list.
In the sense that the scientific method is more philosophical than scientific.
The scientific method was not a product of science, but rather of philosophy. Roger Bacon was a philosopher. A Franciscan monk in fact. He's the guy you can thank (at least in the West).
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Slashdot Economics 101: when in doubt, just throw up some horseshit.
That only assumes that the milk company has perfect pricing power. It does not. Since there is more than one milk company, there is a limit to how high the price can be raised. Since a rise in the minimum wage does not immediately raise the wages of ALL non-minimum wage workers, the effect of raising the minimum wage is not the same as saying "Every dollar is now worth TWO dollars". Rising wages have a minimal effect on inflation. For example, it's been shown that doubling the minimum wage for fast food workers would add about $0.04 to the price of a Big Mac.
Especially if you measure by the pound.
Holy shit. Where do these numbskulls come from?
"Real-world scientists don't use logical reasoning any more, because we have computers! Logic was for a bunch of fruity medieval philosophers! Derp."
Not, THREE DAYS! My god, how does he survive?
We tell people you're Canadian, too.
They're a great organization. Just ask them!
This report is from something called the "Digital Citizens Alliance". Sounds good, right? Sounds like a bunch of pro-freedom net citizens protecting all of our rights, yes?
Would it surprise you to learn that the DCA is a lobbying group involved in trying to get Google to take down search results? Here's a sentence from their materials:
Does anyone else smell an agenda here?
Nonsense. Whoever is president 14 months from now will have exactly the same position on encryption. And the same position on the Middle East and the same position on Afghanistan and Iraq and "free trade" and...
Exactly. If you want to understand the scientific method, ask a philosopher. If you want to use the scientific method, ask a scientist. If you want to make something practical from the results, ask an engineer.
You are not keeping up with the conversation here.
That the scientific method is a philosophical concept is not in dispute (and if you think it is, you're disqualified). That does not mean that philosophers are scientists, or that they should be.
Architects are not steel workers. But without architecture, steel workers could not build a bridge or skyscraper. Does that mean there is some shame in the fact that architects are not steel workers?
Logic is a philosophical concept, and one that apparently is given the short shrift in education for many.
Philosophy is not the scientific method, but philosophy is where the scientific method comes from.
A=B does not mean A=C.
This discussion is a very clear example of why people should not be able to get a college degree with out taking a few years of philosophy.
Do you know what "scientific method" means? Do you think it means "hit and miss, see what works"?
And why would you do that? The question is about due process. Kim Davis got due process. If people are not allowed to enter the country based only on their religion, then by definition they are denied due process.
If the philosopher you ask is Roger Bacon (who advanced the scientific method), then you would definitely be also asking a theologian.
I can't believe how bloody-minded some people are.
That's not at all what I said. It's not "science" that's necessarily dependent on philosophy (although it is, of course), but the "scientific method" that is entirely dependent on philosophy (neither of those is "scare quotes", by the way). I hope you can see the distinction.
I bet if you had studied philosophy, you would most definitely see the distinction.
And yet, all those statements are true.
Honest to God, I'm pretty surprised at how much ignorance there is about philosophy. This is where the utility of a classical education comes in. Fucking engineers. The worship of science and scientists without understanding that there is a context in which science exists. And above science is Mathematics. And just above Mathematics is Philosophy.
Of course not. Just as you won't see architects putting up walls.
The point is that the scientific method was the product of philosophy, not science. Aristotle, Descartes, Roger Bacon...all philosophers. Go down the list.
Philosophers made it, scientists use it.
In the sense that the scientific method is more philosophical than scientific.
The scientific method was not a product of science, but rather of philosophy. Roger Bacon was a philosopher. A Franciscan monk in fact. He's the guy you can thank (at least in the West).
You had to drop Philosophy 101 because you couldn't understand a goddamn thing, right? Be honest.
And it's a construction worker's profession to implement an architect's design, but I wouldn't ask a construction worker to design my skyscraper.
The scientific method is a philosophical construct more than a scientific one.
Did you read the article?
When it comes to the "scientific method", you may be surprised that it's more useful and illuminating to query the philosopher than the scientist.
The bizarre part is that the reactor is at the German army base on the Moon and they're using only moon helium.
They need to offer death adder insurance, that's for sure. Those bastards got "death" right in their name.