I won't even get into the issue of the Anarchist claims that ANY government is necessarily illegitimate, coercively imposing its will on people who did not pre-approve this and are not attempting, themselves, to coerce others.
I think you just got into it.
Soylent News is slowly getting better and better. I still check it each day, and the comments section has slowly been getting more interesting and more full over time. It's not as good as
Don't want to join the "rewards program?!?" -- great! You'll be spending more than I do every time you visit the store b/c I have a rewards card and you don't. You are subsidizing my purchases. Thank you!
Your "rewards program" allows your privacy to be violated. Your store thanks you.
Remember, you're personal information, spending habits, movement information, location, etc are worth something. And you're giving it away for pennies on the dollar. Have you ever read the EULA on your "rewards program"?
PT Barnum had a word for people who thought they were getting something for nothing.
I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?
You really believe you're getting a "free" meal?
I guess it's true there's one born every minute.
And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink.
The Chinese have a term for people like you: schnorrer.
So, I specifically said state universities would be free to those who qualify. If someone wanted to go to a private institution they could certainly go into crippling debt in order to attend if they so chose.
And, really, I probably wouldn't care much if more people went to university, even if they weren't really qualified. People spending more time in school isn't a bad thing.
And further, I'm sure "the market" will fend for itself when it comes to filtering out idiots; it's just that people won't have crippling student loan debt that will make them so desperate for work that they'll be willing to let their employers bend them over in order to accept a shitty, low paying job.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like it - employers would actually have to offer something in order to attract workers because the workers won't be desperate anymore. I've known people who've taken very, very shitty jobs and worked in abusive environments for years out of fear of losing their health insurance or being unable to pay for school loans - that's pretty fucked up.
Yes, I know, I was simply providing information about what he ACTUALLY said.
(Since I was/am too lazy to look the rest of it up for sure, the full line was something close to "You played it for her, so play it for me. Play it, Sam.")
I think you are correct; but this is where I have to sheepishly hand-in my movie-geek card, and admit that in all my 59 years, I have never once seen Casablanca from start to finish. In fact, I think I've only seen about two scenes from that movie, ever! (But that happens to be one of the two scenes that I have seen)...
and you understand that government mandated loans drove the cost of those schools up right?
That's right.
It's cheap to have the government set up a school like City College and pay the costs directly.
It's much more expensive to have the government give (or loan) people money, and tell them to buy their education from the private sector in the free market.
Bogart's character said "Play it, Sam".
Right. But everyone always mis-quotes it as "Play it AGAIN, Sam.", hence my reference.
But that's not really the point I was making. There's a difference between writing an app for a phone or a desktop and writing software for a safety critical embedded systems. The whole approach you take towards developing the software is different.
Hence my diatribe above about the flywheel-balancer and handicap-van projects I have worked on. IOW, you don't have to go to space to find yourself involved in "mission-critical" applications. It isn't like there's designing for "Spaceship OS 1.2" vs. "Candy Crush Saga" with nothing in-between.
It's the old adage. "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." Having more people with good judgment would have helped them enormously.
Or, as I always say: "Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want."
Are you trolling?
I see you're new here, and have no idea exactly how fall
This is not the well-reasoned debate I was looking for.
You missed the key word: RETAIL. Tesla isn't a retail store. Tesla is a vertical market
"Retail" only means the products are sold to the end user rather than a reseller.
Tesla is most certainly a retailer of cars, because you can go buy one from them right now.
JC Penney doesn't make their own clothes, they sell other people's clothes for more money than they spent on acquiring them
JC Penney most certainly makes their own clothes. In fact, they started by making their own clothes in 1914 and today they're betting their future on their own house brands.
You don't need broadband to call 911, or answer a job call-back, or answer a call from your kid's school.
I'd be interested to see your success in a job hunt if you used only your phone and had no access to email or online forms vs having access to the net.
We'll leave out that a lot of school business is also conducted via email now, but we'll assume that they also send home paper copies of things that never get lost in between the kid's hands and the kitchen table.
Ahaha. Good one.
Obama has been nowhere near this. The phrase "obamaphone" originated in the right wing media sphere as a way to generate outrage fuel for right wingers to throw on the "we hate obama" fire.
However, don't let facts get in the way of a good, baseless Obama bash. Carry on.
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