Comment Re:No Decent Solution (Score 0) 83
There is simply no easy solution for the border issue.
Landmines...
There is simply no easy solution for the border issue.
Landmines...
It's a bit baffling how "some economists" weren't fully cognisant of what would happen when the minimum wage was raised.
The difference between micro-economists and macro-economists is that micro-economists are wrong about specific things, and macro-economists are wrong about things in general...
You know who knows their shit? People that make their living making predictions about markets and economies. I do not mean people that get paid to talk about it - I mean people that put their money on the line and make money when and because they are right. Warren Buffet, Peter Schiff, etc..
What is Buffet doing? Well the top four stocks for him right now are Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, American Express, and IBM. His company has about $68 billion in holdings in these 4 companies alone.
why can't i find a copy of "ain't nobody's business..." anywhere?
The use of drugs is not exactly confined in its impact to the immediate use, which is the theory behind why it was a crime in the first place.
No, the theory behind the first drug laws in the United States was that chinese immigrants smoked opium, so the consumption of opium via smoking was prohibited while oral consumption (the white peoples consumption method) remained legal. A racist law written by racist people to harm a racial group.
Drug laws continue to be completely racist, even though the excuses for the laws no longer are. When it wasn't racism against the chinese-americans, it was racism against the african-americans...
If implemented properly, there is no need for extra cost. In addition to raising carbon tax, the government needs to lower sales tax so that the average consumer price can stay the same, and so does the government tax income.
What you seem to be saying... is that the government should hold its income constant, so if cheaper energy production does come about... taxes will be increased to nullify any benefits the public would have had from cheaper energy?
Why didnt you just say "price fixing" ?? Whats with this complex scheme to hide the fact that the end result is price fixing?
"but", you say... "it creates an incentive for cleaner energy"
We've seen price fixing in energy sectors before. It is what led to the California energy crisis. People died.
They already know they're being recorded, so no issues.
Also, due to the ambiguity of words, they are giving permission. "This call may be recorded..[by you]"
It was a government's decision to only allow one cable-TV company to serve a particular area.
Indeed. The Statists will admit that Government enables these monopolies to exist, but they still blame it on Corporations, but change the topic to the influence of Money on Government.
They cannot form an internally consistent argument that includes both the Good People in Government that wont allow Money to dictate Policy and the Bad Corporations that use their Money to influence Policy to exist simultaneously.
Even dictatorships are great when the Dictator is one of those Good People.
The problem isnt that corporations seek influence over government. A core ideal of a free society is in fact that the potential to influence government does not discriminate. Black, White, Male, Female, Church, Charity, Business,
It used to be that every single representative everywhere in the country was a White Man. It took a long time for Blacks to attain the right to vote, and even longer for Women to attain the right to vote. The Bad Policy wasn't dictated by Bad Corporations, just the White Men of government that werent Good People.
Government is the problem. It is a necessary evil, but still always and forever evil. The Statists that so casually cry out for more government influence are supporters of evil.
Sounds to me like an admission that they're overcharging everyone else.
Well we dont know what they were charging him, but we do know that one of the final desperate attempts by the customer service guy was to offer to save the man over $100/month on his service. My cable company cannot offer me that because I pay less than $100/month, so its an admission that they're overcharging him but not so much an admission that anyone else is being overcharged.
Seriously, since when is it ever legal to record a call like this?
Firstly, only 12 of the 50 States require that all parties to a telephone call consent to it being recorded. To quote wikipedia, those States are California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii (in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place), Illinois (debated, see next section), Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana (requires notification only), Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Secondly. one of the first things you get when you call a customer service department for any large telecom is a recording that states that the call may be recorded.
I was quoting someone else... please correct them instead... *yawn*
So you plagiarize too?
It's possible the person asking a question knows their stuff. It's possible. But we don't know that, which is why we ask probing questions.
Day 1, you ask: "Have you tried to [blah blah] your [woo hoo]?"
Day 2, you ask "Have you gotten all the latest [goo mo]?""
Finally day 4 or 5 comes around and you finally admit that you can't help (something you actually knew on day 1), but now the thread is pushed down, off everyones radar, and is filled with complete crap initiated by you. All because when you didn't know the answer, you decided that you must get involved anyways.
Do everyone in the world a favor and don't get involved when you don't know the answer. Don't pretend to be more than you are. The feel-good moment you get when you click "post" is a sham - you are harming the other person, not helping them.
Which once again returns us to the basic questions being asked by the would be helpers: "What are you trying to accomplish?"
Its stated quite specifically already so when you then go and ask that, you are of course doing exactly what I said you would do, proving my initial response that it really isn't helpful to describe in excruciating detail what is being tried.
The important specifics are already there: I need my generic class library to enforce a constructor contract on 3rd party code that calls my library.
Maybe you imagine that there isnt a need for it, but thats just proving the GPPP's point also.. that you think you know what other people need better than they do.
So you just proved us both right, showing that literally everyone else in the world would be better off if you didnt open your mouth when you dont know the answer but want to fish for a different question that you actually can answer (which is just self serving shit, harmful to the discussion as signal to noise goes righrt into the toilet
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