I have little sympathy for an industry that could have spent the last 40 years reducing their emissions.
Paying for extra emission reduction would put you at a competitive disadvantage against power plants who just did the bare minimum. Or, in a highly regulated environment, it might run you afoul of price controls.
The second notable thing, who is the "all others"? All sort of white-label chinese makers?
Samsung, Sony, HTC, HP... anyone below Lenovo's 3% of the market. "All others" gives the impression of nameless, faceless horde but that's usually not the case.
I use binary for passwords, thus my password is 168 character long, only down side is it only has 10 digits!
0111100101101111011101010010000001101
text in the middle
0010110111001110011011001010110111001
text in the middle
1100110 11010010111010001101001011101
text in the middle
100110010100100000011000110110110001
text in the middle
1011110110010000100001
More text because
"Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there."
"Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there."
"He also says a one-penny tax on attachments would make him as rich as Germany"
Just goes to show that the product of multiplying two meaningless numbers is a meaningless number.
So it's kinda like a tax break. He could have taxed everyone 1 penny per attachment but he didn't, so he essentially gave everyone 1 penny per email attachment.
Thus Nathaniel Borenstein has given trillions of dollars to spammers. What a jerk! He should have spent those trillions on more worthy causes.
(The scary thing is that many lawmakers think along these lines. Money not taken = money given, regardless of logistics or practicality.)
Capitalism crushes everything in its path, including democracy and common sense.
Yeah, a nuclear disaster would never happen in a non-capitalist country!
because of our idiotic love affair with the failed "trickle down" theory of economics, we end up punishing millions of people, not because they're unwilling to work, but because we simply don't need them to.
So to combat "trickle-down" economics we should hire unnecessary workers? I'm not sure you have your economic theories straight.
we could simply start giving everyone enough money to get by
Money is a proxy for value. Simply printing more money does not magically create more things of value -- and in fact can lead to other negative consequences. If you don't believe me then I'll bet you 1 trillion Zimbabwean dollars that I'm right.
Countries that signed are "EU and its Member States that signed the Agreement at this ceremony are: the EU, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) "
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/i_property/acta1201.html
I'm also curious specifically on the drinking water pollution- something we should watch. Some people have detected elevated levels of methane in their water around fracking sites. I'm curious how much of this is really from fracking and how much is due to the fact that they only frack in places where there is methane in the ground anyway.
Methane is non-toxic, so it's a bit of a moot point.
Krugman quickly pronounced the Obama Administration's stimulus as far too small and said it would not get the job done.
He predicted that a Keynesian economic policy would fail because it wasn't big enough? So if it fails it reinforces his views, and if it succeeds it reinforces his views.
How can anybody be taken in by this?
And it is at that point that money goes away (though the actual going away part might be exceedingly unpleasant for a time). The rich who own the means to make products have no one to sell them to, and the poor who have nothing either revolt and take back all the resources that the rich have gobbled up or, less likely, get together with the rich and forge a money-less society.
More likely all those products become cheaper and cheaper until they're practically free. At some point it becomes feasible for a small number of talented individuals to provide free alternatives to everyone else -- kinda like the open source community. Heck, we already have people with 3D printers donating time and materials to various causes.
The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
