Comment Re:It really doesn't matter (Score 1) 292
>Obama: 874.6 million >Romney: 844.6 million
You must be a libertarian if you think $30 million is a lot of money. Reps and Dems write checks for $30 billion without blinking.
>Obama: 874.6 million >Romney: 844.6 million
You must be a libertarian if you think $30 million is a lot of money. Reps and Dems write checks for $30 billion without blinking.
Rule #2: ?
Rule #3: Profit.
What are you going to do about the the people who can't afford your expensive, low yielding sustainable foods?
You aren't going deep enough. The food system is a symptom of a much larger issue. If we continue to organize ourselves into individual units rather than functional communities, then $0.99/lb chicken thighs will become nutritious paste supplied by the government, deepening the schism between the Haves and Have Nots, ultimately leading to totalitarian government mandating everyone eats only nutritious paste, or revolution/civil war.
"Sustainable" food is expensive. In part because factory farms are unrealistically cheap; but, also because the market will bear those prices. If we truly were organized as small communities (like communes but with showering and no drum circles) then I think people with money would find voluntary and sensible means to redistribute their (relative) wealth. Unfortunately, we seem to be moving toward stacking ourselves in high rises (again, one day when it is deemed unfair that I can afford a house and someone else can't, we'll all be forced to live in gov't approved high rises), all the while becoming more isolated.
I actually find baseball fascinating, and I like most sports as I play several at least well enough to not look like a complete buffoon. Baseball on television can be really boring, but playing it is great. I find it unique in that even though it is a team sport, much of the action is strictly individual. And like you point out, it isn't just throw ball/hit ball/catch ball; a lot goes into just knowing when to swing, seeing as the ball is coming at you so fast that you have to decide moments after release.
And the application of metrics is interesting, although at some point - if not already - I'm sure there will be a science of counter-metrics.
I'm sure someone will weigh in, pointing out that shareholder value demands frosting in a can, at the expense of our global carbon sink. Please. Go ahead and make that point.
I'm not going to make that point. What I will say is this: As a regulation it becomes yet another thing we blindly follow.
People need to learn how and why to make good choices. For many of the same reasons $0.99 per pound chicken thighs should also be made illegal. It represents an unreasonable price, and to reach that price many bad practices are in play for the environment, the chickens, and often the workers.
We act like we are going to destroy the planet. We're not. We're going to destroy ourselves, and the planet will live on. Even if we kill off what we perceive as "most life on the planet," it will no doubt be a fraction of actual life, and the planet will be better off for it. We're a blip on the radar; if we can't as a civilization learn to eat, maybe it's time we faded out.
you spoke of regulation as a good thing, therefore you got modded to 0 by some of our resident slashbertarians. if I had the points I would mod you up and cancel it out.
Unless the topic is Uber, in which case pro-regulation posts get modded up.
Right up until the point you said "baseball." In the title.
This kind of research is almost self-defeating.
I feel the same way about stock market prediction.
... ideally what we really need to get to eventually is the point where we can read all neurons at the same time. Injectable meshes aren't going to cut it for that.
Already been done: https://youtu.be/Skxhii6VFdo
so the purveyors of unlicensed, unregulated public transportation services by potentially non directly employed third party contractors not required to submit to drug or background checks is complaining their service, which has been banned in spain, thailand, india and briefly germany, is being bilked for incentive payments in a country with markets for such exotiques as recycled cooking oil rendered from waste food. I guess the best solution could be to stop running an unregulated, unlicensed transit network thats been charged of raping and assaulting passengers in the past...or i guess just try another country and see if the idea of ayn rand on wheels works any better.
Regardless of your obvious bias against Uber, if said non directly employed third parties and/or passengers enter into agreements (e.g., TOS, etc.) and then purposefully violate said agreements, Uber is justified in trying to combat said violations.
As myself and others have stated, the problem isn't that, for example, a Master of Philosophy degree is only for the wealthy. The problem is that the willingness and ability to get massive student loans allows schools to charge exorbitant fees.
I'm on the fence as to whether or not the US government should subsidize some or all undergraduate education. My feeling is that our federal spending is so outrageously out of hand these days that first we need to get our fiscal house in order. I might be inclined to agree now to free associates degrees for all so that people can get a head start on college without having to also work full time.
However, given that university education costs have risen more rapidly in recent years than anything else in our economic oeuvre, including healthcare, shows that something is really wrong with the system, and some serious checks and balances are needed, specifically in terms of real competition.
The price of a college education -- let's just say 4-year bachelor's degree -- isn't the problem. Rather, it is a symptom of both the ability to get a large student loan, and desire for a traditional, 4-year degree.
As an analog, consider the housing market: The value of a house is what someone is willing to pay for it, and what someone is willing to pay for it is a factor of their assumption about its future value and their ability to fund the purchase with money they don't already have.
I graduated college with no student loan debt; however, I sure would like forgiveness on my house that is worth 10% less than I paid for it. Do I deserve it? No. I chose to put on the rose colored, things will always be worth more in the future glasses.
... breaks the banking system.
That's adorable. Banks don't break; they just pat themselves on the back with another bonus pass the failures along to us common folk.
If the government would just let them fail they might stop getting bonuses.
As for passing the failure along to "us common folk," that is, for the most part, our own doing because we have bought into the system. To be fair, it was an easy system to buy into, and it was supposedly safe under government scrutiny. Ultimately, we bought the lie; question is, how do we avoid buying into a new one?
In Boston, the MBTA have a theater troupe which setups up at one station each day and insists on swabbing bags for explosives, but of course, if you don't want to be swabbed, you can just walk out and walk the 15 minutes (if that) to the next station.
I ain't lettin' no goddamned mime swab my bag!
Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine
