Rearden_Steel
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How pathetic that Schiff has to rely on the support of a bunch of right wing hippies to get the publicity he wants.
I won't contribute a dime to a bunch of libertarian losers.
Sounds like slanderous postulating.
In addition to what Andrew said he also doesn't recognize animals rights (stating they would never recognize ours) and is critical of environmentalist.
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I have had my phone a week and there hasn't been one issue. I know guys who had their phones for months and not a single issue. Regardless of how it was made it works and works better or as well as other phone OS's. And here's a newsflash all OS's are made by groups. They're divided into parts and made piecemeal then patched together and worked with to be better. That is the reason Microsoft made a mediocre performance with vista is because they do that more than anyone. This is the same as any because while the OS was owned by the OHA it was actually created by Android, Inc. and some of google.
As for apps its real easy to tell which ones are safe because of capitalism. The entire marketplace is sorted by popularity and use and the majority of apps are created by companies you already know, ie the WSJ. It is never hard to pick out false apps if you have common sense; just check their website and get your application from known sources you already trust instead of shady ones. The WSJ arcticle asserts the apps are less safe because they are not checked before they are put up but they still register every single purchase so they can keep track of a false application.
Finally There is nothing wrong with Open Source, every other product google has created is free, gmail, google docs, google calendar, google chrome, google itself. They all work well and are user friendly and useful. Linux isn't used despite being open source because its complexity is too much for most users and the price of another OS is worth the saved time.
It still lacks the cohesion of a single goal. Too many hands in the pot as it were, all with different goals, values, and objectives.
One of my favorite stories of the iphone is when the development team at Apple gave Steve Jobs the first iphone prototype. After inspecting it he proclaimed " I just can't talk myself into loving it" he then promptly told them to start over from the beginning. This is the kind of vision and oversight that Android lacks. There may be a team of engineers working out the details but at the end of the day they still take their marching orders from the vision and objectives of a single architect who has a master plan. No alliance or committee can ever match that.
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Android's open source nature allows a level of freedom that mobile platforms have never facilitated before - both on the level of the consumer and the developer/designer.
The Android platform itself is quite secure, and the security risks posed in the WSJ article can easily be avoided by not being an ignorant, uninformed user.
The open source freedom you hint at doesn't work. That's why Linux isn't popular. Nothing designed by multiple teams and committees can compete with an individual goal and idea. Perhaps the next Android phone should be called "The Courtland".
Also I don't think its unreasonable for a consumer to demand that a product work seamlessly out of the box without having to worry about defects or security.
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Could you elaborate?
Android is the flag ship OS of the OHA or Open Handset Alliance. The OHA consist of over sixty different companies each contributing to the design.
There is also no quality control for the android or its apps. Its ripe for viruses and security flaws. Here is a article from today's Wall Street Journal about the security flaws: Dark Side Arises for Phone Apps
Unlike Apple or BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Google doesn't have employees dedicated to vetting applications submitted to its Android store. Google said it removes apps that violate its policies, but largely relies on users to alert it to bad software. -
The Android platform is design by committee. This type of thing never ends well.
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Yes, a more Voltaire style response would have been better. Something along the lines of.
"While I do not condone what some people do with their property I will defend to the death their right to own it"
The left would spin it. Tomorrow's headlines would read: 'Rand Paul vows to Fight to the Death for Segregation".
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How and why do they count or not count "discouraged" workers?
How can those numbers possibly be accurate?
If I leave my job and don't tell the department of labor if I'm looking for a job or not, what do they count me as?
Will I be considered a discouraged worker?
Where's the form to sign up for this category?
You don't contact them. They derive their numbers from conducting an over the phone poll. Is it accurate? Probably not. Especially if you compare the numbers to the payrolls of companies.
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Instead of "stealing" the bikes, why couldn't they just run a bomb-sniffing dog up and down the streets?
They can't..... The dogs could be bombs.
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Why would they take a truck load of possible pipe bombs to the police station...
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Oh I don't know. I guess I was just thinking very cynically when I wrote that. I do think he is telling the truth on economic matters, and he has other decent views and is principled, but other than that, he just lacks a real strong sense of overall consistency. He wants to "crack down" on illegal immigration, he called himself "the most socially conservative candidate" because he strongly supports state's rights, he supports a consumption tax as opposed to the income tax when he knows damn well (or should know) that all taxes are taxes on income. And he now doesn't want to "End the Fed" but just reign it in a little (although I understand the fears that the Left wants to nationalize it, or take over its duties with the Congress, or otherwise make the situation worse, but he could state that and articulate laissez-faire instead of saying that he "wants a responsible" central bank.)
From his campaign page:
Immigration
We should strengthen our borders to crack down on illegal immigration and streamline the process to make legal immigration more accessible. Immigrants must respect our laws and not be given amnesty.The Fed
Reform the Federal Reserve so that it no longer enables deficit spending, inflates asset bubbles, or creates inflation. Its original independence must be restored, including strict limits on the types of securities it can buy. Interest rates should be set by the market, not the Federal Reserve. The Fed’s main responsibility should be providing our nation with a sound currency, backed by quality commercial paper and gold.On Taxes:
Why not just abolish it completely? How about a flat-tax of zero. Why don’t we shrink government and have a much smaller national tax. It’s far less destructive to our economy and people don’t have to surrender their individual rights to privacy in order to comply with tax law? -
First of all, I didn't find Ayn Rand's definiton of esthetics to be so specific. All she said was that your art should be a reflection of your values, how the world should be according to you. She condemned innovation of art for the sake of innovating, the notion that everything is art no matter what, and many other things that artists would criticize.
But I'm really stuck on the last rebuttal. How would I respond to that?
Just about every philosophy and philosopher had their own ideas about these things. Does that make every school of philosophy a cult? Sound like your friend is incapable of differentiating religion and philosophical thought.
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Right. That's why Holmes' play in Superbowl LXIII has replaced the Clark play as The Catch. Come on. Mr Holmes beat three defenders and caught the ball right at the edge of the end zone. It doesn't get any greater than that.
I'm not saying that it wasn't a great catch. You just have to come up with your own name (The Steel Trap?). People have been refereeing to Montana to Clark catch "the catch" for nearly 28 years. Besides if the phrase could be replaced it would most likely be the Manning to Tyree catch in Super Bowl XLII that would claim it.
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Yesterday NFL Net reported the Steelers traded Santonio Holmes (he of The Catch, and Superbowl MVP) to the Jets for a late round draft pick in 2010 (5th, I think). Word is there were locker room problems and off the field porblems. He also faces a suspension regarding the League's "subtsance abuse" policy
Hold on here...What catch are you talking about? In the NFL "The Catch" is the one made by Dwight Clark from Joe Montana in the 1982 NFC championship. There can't be two ["The Catch"] that would be confusing and inane.
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How about Switzerland? I often thought of moving there.
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I think most people who buy Apple products like this are simply ignorant of what has been on the market for a long time. There are touch screen tablet PC's with cheaper price tags, that have full keyboards and all the functionality of a notebook that have existed for a long time. Check out Asus EEE PC line, they have a couple touch screens. The great thing is that you don't need to buy special "Apps" since you can run regular computer software on them.
Yes, but that's what Apple does. It doesn't invent new categories but rather takes existing ideas and makes them better. For example they didn't invent the MP3 player, Cellphone and music player but expanded their roles, improved the quality and made them easier to use and include them in their architecture of other devices.
As for the Asus EEE its a completely different animal. Have fun walking around with a 10'' clam shell in you arms. Not to mention its flimsy plastic pieces and lack of flash memory. It only has a 1024 x 600 LED screen resolution vs 1024x768 IPS on the iPad. The Asus comes with Windows XP which means you can now crash your laptop on the go. Its what you would expect in a netbook, compromises in all corners. This is the type of thing you get from design by committee.
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asked about bipartisan gridlock, the other candidates voiced confidence that, if elected, they could work with their Democratic colleagues. Schiff, gesturing with hands to underscore his points, wondered why bipartisanship was viewed as such a virtue.
"A lot of people say we need bipartisanship so we can overcome gridlock,'' Schiff said. "Well, I don't want to overcome gridlock if that's the only thing standing between us and more government. I want to change what's happening in Washington. I don't want to go to Washington to compromise my positions or my principles. I want to try and persuade and educate the other members of Congress to adopt my principles. ... We've been compromising for years, and look at the mess that we're in."
The contrast between Peter and the other two is striking. He also clearly showed he was the better public speaker.
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The deficit rises as federal spending increases. It has absolutely nothing to do with utilization of industry, the income of the federal government is not diminishing in any way, they are simply spending more.
Another thing that has no bearing on US production is that Asian economies are expanding.
As for US exports, here's what they've been doing before the recession (and, by the way, they began rising again, for a while now):
Jesus Christ, if you skied down that slope, you'd break your neck. And yet, that's the slope your claim that US exports are falling is skiing down on right now. I'd be more careful with throwing around these facts you are making up to suit whatever theories you have.
Yeah, the chart is great if you include the banking and finance sector. Here is the chart for manufactured goods.
Happy skiing.
As for the industrial production and capacity utilization index its completely relevant seeing that its a measure of the change in the production of the nation's factories, mines and utilities. It also includes a measure of their industrial capacity and how much of it is being used. The fact that the same factory in the us that are being used today are producing less and less over the last two decades is reviling.
I'd be more careful with throwing around these facts you are making up to suit whatever theories you have.I take offense to that. What facts are suggesting I'm making up? Lets try and have a conversion without slanderous postulating. After all many of these theories that you attribute to me I've taken from various Austrian Economist. Remember at the end of the day we all want the same thing.
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This article from 2007 (prior to the current recession) directly contradicts your statement:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR2007090201189.html?hpid=topnews
I think you've made the common mistake of assuming that because we are in a long term trend of declining manufacturing employment, we are also producing less. That simply isn't the case. The other mistake you've made is to look at the recent decline in manufacturing (due to the recession) and assume that it will continue. It will not, and there is recent evidence that manufacturing has begun to bounce back as the economy rebounds.
Yes, I see your point however like I said how do you measure industrial production? Though the GDP? Like I showed on the previous post those numbers are artificially risen by counting foreign inputs so they are not an accurate way to measure industrial output. That's not real production. They only reason they piece them together here is to avoid tariffs. These things could be assembled anywhere.
The only way you can really judge us production is through the Manufacturing capacity utilization rate index, the level of industrial employment, and the deficit in trade all these things have fallen not just in the last year but have been declining in the last twenty.
The utilization of industry, the increase of industrial jobs and exports are rapidly rising in most of Asia but falling here. Look at the deficit. It rises as our utilization of industry falls.
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But now I'm curious, how is this thing measured exactly, and how does it tell me how much is being produced in the US, compared to other countries?)
Its hard to say because one of the problems with the way the Fed calculates industrial production is that it counts all inputs as if they were produced here in the US. For example if GM imports its Carburetors from Asia (as I believe it does) along with other parts once the car is finished the Fed counts all parts of the car as being produced in the US and the manufacturing of the Carburetor is counted as part of our GDP.
This isn't much different then me buying a table at Ikea assembling it my self and saying I produced the table.
Here is the production output for the last ten years:
Here is a chart showing the Trade balance
This chart shows the change in labor in the last six months
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I couldn't help notice you didn't mention the manufacturing capacity utilization index which I posted. The index has fallen nearly twenty percent since '82.
Here's the chart again.
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND CAPACITY UTILIZATION: SUMMARY for 2009.
Keep in mind these are the Federal Reserve's numbers. God knows they have a history of changing rules and inflating numbers to make their numbers seem better ie Unemployment, GDP, CPI. However, if these are their improved numbers I'd hate to see were they most likely are.
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I think you've said that before (though I'm not sure). If you did, consider making this the day you back it up with some evidence.
Ask and ye shall receive.
According to the EPI (Economic Policy Institute): between 2000 and 2003, annual manufacturing employment in the United States declined by almost 3 million jobs, and has been largely flat since then. The level of manufacturing employment is the lowest since 1950.
According to the Daily Capitalist in the last two years construction employment declined by 27,000, manufacturing employment fell by 41,000, and information industry jobs fell by 17,000.
The Daily Finance:U.S. industrial production falls, factory use hits record low
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Seeing how very little is produced in the US anymore anyhow I fail to see how they expect a VAT to collect much money. It would however help to diminish what little production capacity still remains.
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It is so madenning! How do people allow themselves to descend to such insanity?
I guess its they think its easier than thinking and dealing with reality. I can't take such people seriously. My response would be "yeah, good luck with that".
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Does anyone know if CNN or CNBC has covered this story? I tried looking for it but could not find it. It seems they are trying to keep it under wraps.
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