You are not a nation-state. Granted the solution is the same, some one applies force or threat of force to make you comply. A few billion of debt might not be invasion worthy, but it could offer a pretext.
They pay people to research important things for them, lawyers on how to exploit the lay, accountants on how to cheat the state, PR folks on determine how the public will react to something. That 1% is an Industry for determining and ofuscating the truth.
Many adults fit that niche, and buy copies and equipment for themselves to play with their kids. This is why I now own more then 1 of every damn console that comes in the house.
Nintendo should sell those flag ship games on the other consoles, iOS and Android. If you can't beat them, join them. Or face the sad truth that their share price is going to drop low enough that a compeditor, probably Sony because MS isn't savvy enough and Apple and Google don't seem to crave their patents, will buy them out for what would have been pennies on the dollar a few years ago.
Well it's complicated. There is a portion of the US that wants to prevent the killing of innocent people. There is a portion of the US that makes a ton of money off of oil / manipulating currencies / other National Intrests. When those two groups agree that we should intervene we (usually) do. So it isn't genuine to say that we only care about oil. It is more genuine to say that we can only get concensus to invade when multiple no-aligned parties agree,
Except that it really isn't the case. Everyone with access to classified doccuments is breifed on what types of infomation is classified and how to identify it, and how to get it classified correctly. This isn't the same situation that you describe. It is more of a willfull negligence on the part of the leaker, then a ex post facto law change. Now if you Anonymous Coward, having not been granted privilaged access, having not sworn an oath to protect and identify that infomation, having not been trained in the classification process, having not knowingly accessed a classified network, accidently stumbled across something than there might be room to be butthurt over ex post facto.
But that isn't the case in this matter. The only grounds to argue are over if the information was not infact classified, if the release of the information doesn't harm the nation, if the information details some illegal activity and if the public good was served by it's release.
The sad truth is all this government spying was passed into law, and everything it would be strengthened the "crazy liberals" would be the only ones out against it. I for one am happy that the Classical Liberals (Libertarians) are now supporting the left on this. Perhaps we can find some common ground in this.
On the Legal side I would disagree. Much of the rhetoric for BitCoin is that it operates outside of regulated spaces. That doesn't negate your point about Libertarians wanting all those regulations recinded. But let's be honest, it's a tool to do illegal things with, be they drugs, hookers or banking. On the Valuation side I disagree a bit less. Short term seems to show you incorrect, however I beleive you will be proven correct in the long term by market collapse.
Similar to how those with out kids will begrudge helicopter parents, some portion are astonished that parents do not have 24/7 indepth surveillance of everything their kids do. Parents have to depend on kids to self sooth and self entertain some art of their day. When many of us were kids we prefered computers, but they didn't have a dump money valve attached. I know my parents never read the EULA. It is really rational to expect non-technical parents to be infront of deceptive kid targeted ads hiding in Hello Kitty vs. SpongeBob Saga?
I don’t want to refute the sentiment of your post, because I feel the same way. However looking at real world situations, it seems that there are various natural reproductive strategies that center on real incomes and specialization. As education requirements increase across the population, such that the time/money invested per offspring must increase the number of children decrease. When the amount of time/money required to have a median and acceptable level of income is low having more children pays of by distributing risk. Granted birth control, women having rights, and reproductive freedoms all figure in too. Further, the population is effected by migrants from places that don’t fit the same criteria. These changes are relatively slow. It’s taken Japan about 50 years to start seriously shrinking its work force. The EU after over a century of Industrialization is just starting to see it. The US isn’t feeling it yet at all.
I think if you’re going to trim the population down to a level where full employment makes sense with drastically declining real wages, reaching that is going to take something unfortunately faster than natural and voluntary population management decisions. If we take a population management approach, that doesn’t hinge on an increase individual prosperity, I am very concerned.
In his defense, he may have caused a traffic jam. It's not like he started 2 decade long wars, and oversaw the largest single destruction of wealth in human history.
Same problem of being "fake" in the scenerio used.
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Babies! Or, robot-miners that have already been paid for. Each generation builds on the last after all.
In all seriousness the issue is Demand side for this problem. The price of labor per widget declines as the capitol cost per widget increases. That means that labor can buy fewer widgets per unit of labor even though the price of widgets may be falling. The demand for widgets declines as effiency increases, curtailing demand for more widgets and further depressing the need for Labor. The unit price of Labor declines. The iron law of wages would leave us to belive that the value of labor will move close to zero, and that is only if there is a method of employment. The barriers to entry climb as capitol requirements increase, preventing workers from migrating into job creators. There isn't an equalibrium if the price of Labor is zero and you keep a free market economy.
So we either: a. Throw progress in reverse. - Insane and futile to attempt. b. Develop new things that people need to do to get compensated as Labor. - Looking at the trend in STEM wages, I'm guessing that direction isn't working so well. c. Develop a ways to share the benifits of the increase in return on Capitol. - Widely seen as theft, and amoral by the right. d. Curb population to decrease the Labor pool - Genocide is looked down on, generally. e. Accept that 98% of the population (in the US, EU and GB) is going to do worse then the generation before them, and the next will do worse then them. - Sad, but most likely outcome. f. Revolution! - It doesn't solve anything, but people really like a good revolution.
I'm not a fan of Kodak, I'm just using the companies sited above. We can look at any number of factors, but we have fewer then 3 Million more jobs then when Clinton left office. We have about 60 million more people. We have declining real wages. Those unionized manufactuing jobs were well paying. We have offset those jobs with lower paying service jobs. We need to address that on some level. We are ramping up productivity per worker hour, and most of the population doesn't get to take part in that gain. Kodak was a dinosaur that built their own comet.
Unfortunately the only other clear alternatives currently are to socialize the profits from the recent fourfold increase in productivity, (wage floors, unemployment, welfare, guarenteed minimum income, ect) or free market induced wage free-fall (Iron Law of Wages, and associated civil unrest). If only we dropped the work week with increase in productivity if they weren't offset with wages. We could be working 3 days a week and making about twice what me make now in real terms. Would serve to keep the demand side strong, giving incentive to build production capacity, yeilding more profits.
In 1988 Kodak employed about 150K people, I couldn't find how much they paid in wages, but if they paid minimum wage 3.25 (5.74 in 2013 dollars) of about $1.722B. Google employs 21805 people at the most current number I could find. So if Google pays on average 79K or a year and Kodak only paid minimum wage you may be correct.
However having lived in Rochester, NY in the late 90's and early 00's as Kodak was winding down I can assure you that there were a large number of engineers making well over minimum wage. As well as those union manufacturing workers making a nice peice of change.
I eagerly await your complete unified theory. All sarcasm aside, of course general relativity is wrong. It is just more right then every other theory for some cases. Same as quantum theory, string theory, ect.... Science isn't about only using the right set of equations, it's about improving them continously. If we didn't have things that our theories failed to fully answer, we would know everything; the rest is just stamp collecting.
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You are not a nation-state. Granted the solution is the same, some one applies force or threat of force to make you comply. A few billion of debt might not be invasion worthy, but it could offer a pretext.
Advertisement exists almost purely to cultivate a sense of truth, while glossing over the unfortunate parts. Tge 1% was the parents term, not mine.
They pay people to research important things for them, lawyers on how to exploit the lay, accountants on how to cheat the state, PR folks on determine how the public will react to something. That 1% is an Industry for determining and ofuscating the truth.
They write better in our native tounge than we do in general , so you know.... there is that.
Sweet come back.
Nintendo Stock has lost 56% of it's value in the last 3 years. Let's looks at what the facts say.
The targeted demographic is pretty young. They are missing 15-20 years of gaming history. Something from 1986 is still new to them, if it's shiney.
Many adults fit that niche, and buy copies and equipment for themselves to play with their kids. This is why I now own more then 1 of every damn console that comes in the house.
Nintendo should sell those flag ship games on the other consoles, iOS and Android. If you can't beat them, join them. Or face the sad truth that their share price is going to drop low enough that a compeditor, probably Sony because MS isn't savvy enough and Apple and Google don't seem to crave their patents, will buy them out for what would have been pennies on the dollar a few years ago.
The solution is upward pressure on wages, via tax policy and/or minimum wage.
Well it's complicated. There is a portion of the US that wants to prevent the killing of innocent people. There is a portion of the US that makes a ton of money off of oil / manipulating currencies / other National Intrests. When those two groups agree that we should intervene we (usually) do. So it isn't genuine to say that we only care about oil. It is more genuine to say that we can only get concensus to invade when multiple no-aligned parties agree,
That point was explicitly not covered on FoxNews. What they did say is that there was a token investigation of several leftist groups.
Except that it really isn't the case. Everyone with access to classified doccuments is breifed on what types of infomation is classified and how to identify it, and how to get it classified correctly. This isn't the same situation that you describe. It is more of a willfull negligence on the part of the leaker, then a ex post facto law change. Now if you Anonymous Coward, having not been granted privilaged access, having not sworn an oath to protect and identify that infomation, having not been trained in the classification process, having not knowingly accessed a classified network, accidently stumbled across something than there might be room to be butthurt over ex post facto.
But that isn't the case in this matter. The only grounds to argue are over if the information was not infact classified, if the release of the information doesn't harm the nation, if the information details some illegal activity and if the public good was served by it's release.
The sad truth is all this government spying was passed into law, and everything it would be strengthened the "crazy liberals" would be the only ones out against it. I for one am happy that the Classical Liberals (Libertarians) are now supporting the left on this. Perhaps we can find some common ground in this.
On the Legal side I would disagree. Much of the rhetoric for BitCoin is that it operates outside of regulated spaces. That doesn't negate your point about Libertarians wanting all those regulations recinded. But let's be honest, it's a tool to do illegal things with, be they drugs, hookers or banking.
On the Valuation side I disagree a bit less. Short term seems to show you incorrect, however I beleive you will be proven correct in the long term by market collapse.
Nah, it's in the Patriot Act, it's cool.
Similar to how those with out kids will begrudge helicopter parents, some portion are astonished that parents do not have 24/7 indepth surveillance of everything their kids do. Parents have to depend on kids to self sooth and self entertain some art of their day. When many of us were kids we prefered computers, but they didn't have a dump money valve attached. I know my parents never read the EULA. It is really rational to expect non-technical parents to be infront of deceptive kid targeted ads hiding in Hello Kitty vs. SpongeBob Saga?
I don’t want to refute the sentiment of your post, because I feel the same way. However looking at real world situations, it seems that there are various natural reproductive strategies that center on real incomes and specialization. As education requirements increase across the population, such that the time/money invested per offspring must increase the number of children decrease. When the amount of time/money required to have a median and acceptable level of income is low having more children pays of by distributing risk. Granted birth control, women having rights, and reproductive freedoms all figure in too. Further, the population is effected by migrants from places that don’t fit the same criteria. These changes are relatively slow. It’s taken Japan about 50 years to start seriously shrinking its work force. The EU after over a century of Industrialization is just starting to see it. The US isn’t feeling it yet at all.
I think if you’re going to trim the population down to a level where full employment makes sense with drastically declining real wages, reaching that is going to take something unfortunately faster than natural and voluntary population management decisions. If we take a population management approach, that doesn’t hinge on an increase individual prosperity, I am very concerned.
Or in the process of making better widget making devices.
In his defense, he may have caused a traffic jam. It's not like he started 2 decade long wars, and oversaw the largest single destruction of wealth in human history.
Same problem of being "fake" in the scenerio used.
Babies! Or, robot-miners that have already been paid for. Each generation builds on the last after all.
In all seriousness the issue is Demand side for this problem. The price of labor per widget declines as the capitol cost per widget increases. That means that labor can buy fewer widgets per unit of labor even though the price of widgets may be falling. The demand for widgets declines as effiency increases, curtailing demand for more widgets and further depressing the need for Labor. The unit price of Labor declines. The iron law of wages would leave us to belive that the value of labor will move close to zero, and that is only if there is a method of employment. The barriers to entry climb as capitol requirements increase, preventing workers from migrating into job creators. There isn't an equalibrium if the price of Labor is zero and you keep a free market economy.
So we either:
a. Throw progress in reverse. - Insane and futile to attempt.
b. Develop new things that people need to do to get compensated as Labor. - Looking at the trend in STEM wages, I'm guessing that direction isn't working so well.
c. Develop a ways to share the benifits of the increase in return on Capitol. - Widely seen as theft, and amoral by the right.
d. Curb population to decrease the Labor pool - Genocide is looked down on, generally.
e. Accept that 98% of the population (in the US, EU and GB) is going to do worse then the generation before them, and the next will do worse then them. - Sad, but most likely outcome.
f. Revolution! - It doesn't solve anything, but people really like a good revolution.
I'm not a fan of Kodak, I'm just using the companies sited above. We can look at any number of factors, but we have fewer then 3 Million more jobs then when Clinton left office. We have about 60 million more people. We have declining real wages. Those unionized manufactuing jobs were well paying. We have offset those jobs with lower paying service jobs. We need to address that on some level. We are ramping up productivity per worker hour, and most of the population doesn't get to take part in that gain. Kodak was a dinosaur that built their own comet.
Unfortunately the only other clear alternatives currently are to socialize the profits from the recent fourfold increase in productivity, (wage floors, unemployment, welfare, guarenteed minimum income, ect) or free market induced wage free-fall (Iron Law of Wages, and associated civil unrest). If only we dropped the work week with increase in productivity if they weren't offset with wages. We could be working 3 days a week and making about twice what me make now in real terms. Would serve to keep the demand side strong, giving incentive to build production capacity, yeilding more profits.
In 1988 Kodak employed about 150K people, I couldn't find how much they paid in wages, but if they paid minimum wage 3.25 (5.74 in 2013 dollars) of about $1.722B.
Google employs 21805 people at the most current number I could find. So if Google pays on average 79K or a year and Kodak only paid minimum wage you may be correct.
However having lived in Rochester, NY in the late 90's and early 00's as Kodak was winding down I can assure you that there were a large number of engineers making well over minimum wage. As well as those union manufacturing workers making a nice peice of change.
I eagerly await your complete unified theory. All sarcasm aside, of course general relativity is wrong. It is just more right then every other theory for some cases. Same as quantum theory, string theory, ect.... Science isn't about only using the right set of equations, it's about improving them continously. If we didn't have things that our theories failed to fully answer, we would know everything; the rest is just stamp collecting.