dadmonson
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now there are countless more jobs as a result of that advancement.
Many of those jobs have been replaced by machines though. What kind of jobs can come from this happening?
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This is going to come off as sort of trollish but I have a question...Aren't robotics and the internet taking away from jobs? For ex: Many potential employees of car manufacturing companies(potential buyers of the cars) have been replaced by robots. Furthermore, the internet has taken away some potential jobs as well.
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I think it's probably headed in the wrong direction. Independent contractors who work on their own to reach a goal don't need managing per se. For managing bunches of workers, I see too much emphasis on "teams", and a shift away from actually doing productive work towards undertaking various forms of social crap (such as that vomitous concept of "networking" and the emphasis on "community"). Business-external demands for so-called social justice drive this to a large extent, and I just don't see where the counter-forces are. When was the last time you saw a businessman be proud of making a huge profit?
On top of that I've actually heard people say that because of "impression management" we need government intervention in the market place.
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After the former Soviet Union collapsed, Russia ended much state planning, leaving individuals free to carry on business privately. Many economists expected the Russian economy to take off. Instead, it declined 41 percent over the next seven years. Why do you think that was?
Joseph E. Stiglitz argument says this..."Privatization without necessary institutional infrastructure [such as law] in the transition countries led to asset stripping rather than wealth creation."
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Okay, I'm bored right now so I want to know how often do you read and what book or books are you currently reading?
I'll start off; I "usually" try to read about 30 to 45 minutes a day and I'm currently struggling to read The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Your turn...
Also Barack Obama reads 95 books a year, I don't care what anyone says that is quite a load of books! Dummy he is not.
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What country would all the productive people go?
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If the economy does happen to improve, and it probably will because how much worse can it get, then he will get the credit. This is gonna get ugly.
I'm guessing you guys didn't hear him when he said that he would get rid of the government programs that don't work...
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What with people being pressured by their peers to accept unearned guilt for NOT voting for a black man.
He's a politician and his supporters will do anything they can. It didn't work for Jesse Jackson though and I doubt it would work for Flava Flav.
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This is sorta off topic but I read somewhere that if we continue down the unprincipled path that we are on that eventually we will have no republican party left only the Democrats. Democrats will then split into communists and socialists though and eventually the communists will win out and you can make a pretty good guess at what happens next...
It made it seem like vice trumps virtue all the time. Why is that? And did they mean that their literally would be no Republican party?
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My point is - optimism is the rational.
Isn't the rational person the one who expects the most likely outcome?
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How come so many users were online on that date at 08:36 AM? Anybody know?
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Dude, you messed it up by being too needy and clingy right off the bat with the flowers and all that. ...(snip)...
This thread is old but what are some good books on this topic EC?
Mod Note: Significantly shortened unnecessary quoted section - RB
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Sorry about your Broncs, Kel, but you can take solace in the fact that Indy will show SD to be the buster squad it is in short order next week.
I'm not so sure about that.
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I consider myself a natural optimist, but I also think of myself as a realistic evaluator of events, not biased by any fixed tendency to interpret things positively.
The reasons I am optimistic most of the time and about most issues are two:
(1). Most bad things that happen do not seriously affect my ability to enjoy life as an individual. Most good things contribute to my ability to enjoy it.
(2). I am tremendously aware of the power of good ideas over bad, and see the evil of the world as inherently weak and self-destructive.
The first was with me for most of my life. The second is acquired, and I think the more I learn history the more optimistic I get.
I've met a lot of Objectivists that are perpetual pessimists. They are dropping the context, since they seem to see only the bad, and ignore the good.
Some, however, seem to see both and focus on the bad, while I see both and focus on the good. The reason I do that is that on the basis of the good, I can work.
On the basis of the bad, I can only quit or whine.
So you wouldn't agree with the following quote?...
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"
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The season is over, finally the playoff picture is settled (Denver is still playing San Diego as I write, but, really, they're fighting for the privilege of loosing against Indianapolis next week).
Overall I see two big surprises: Miami and Arizona. The former ended last season 1-15, the latter are the Arizona Cardinals. Should Miami win the Superbowl, they'll have made the most amazing comeback ever.
And the Lions set a new standard for failed teams by loosing all 16 games. Unfortunately for them, there is no Messiah in line for next year's draft. Nor even a player so many teams want they could trade them for players and draft picks. So look for the Lions to remain near the basement for the foreseeable future (unless the Browns care to join them).
And Dallas has been eliminated, badly. They had, if not an unenviable position, then at least a desirable one: they controlled their own destiny. All they had to do was defeat the Eagles in Phily, which of course it's not easy. But loosing 44 to 6 is not easy either, for an alleged contender.
Here's some advice for the Cowboys: move heaven and Earth (particularly Earth) to get Matt Cassel out of New England. Then either replace Romo or use Cassel to pressure Romo. Either way, try to wind up with a QB who can play well when it matters most. As to the head coach, it's hard to say.
I don't think Cassel would do anything in Dallas. When I look at all the QBs that have done well in the NFL they all have one thing in common; they all have great protection. Romo and almost every QB in the NFL looks good when they have time to throw. The O Line I do believe is the most important position(Collectively) in the NFL.
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My purpose in dating was to find a soulmate.
This is an old post but isn't the belief in "soulmates" mysticism?
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What kind of music did she like? I would think Opera.
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Interestingly, in Peikoff's latest podcast he says that he believes Obama is very religious. Stay tuned.
Why would he talk down on the Bible in public if he was very religious?
And I don't know how much weight it holds but for what it's worth Obama's mom was said to be an atheist.
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Well, I said that it wasn't necessarily immoral to let someone starve as long as you aren't using force in any way.
I came off as a jerk but that was the best response I could come up with at the time.
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I'm just getting back from a "discussion" on this topic. After I said what I said. One person asked me "Are you for letting people starve?"
How the heck do you respond to that?
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I like how people are trying to make it like Sweden's a paradise
During the current economic downturn, finally some positive employment news is coming out of Sweden: Haxriket i Norden, a company based in Ahus, is looking to hire 20 witches to staff its phones and internet website. The company specialises in fortunes, predictions and other advice at a price of just USD 2.45 per minute.The Local newspaper reports that qualified candidates for the position must be experienced in “contact with the other side, runes, tarots, crystals, herbs, rituals, exorcism, meditation, personal coaching, and more.” Interested witches must also have a fixed telephone line and Internet connection, but can enjoy the advantages of working from home.
Haxriket’s massive hiring wave is the result of an internal shakeup in the company in which several formerly-employed witches had to be terminated for violating telemarketing ethics that were put into place in 1994 by Sweden’s Trade Ethical Council for Telemarketing. What they did was not mentioned.
Qinna Blomgren, who claims to title of “top witch” and part-owner of Haxriket, told The Local, “We’ve really cleaned house. In order to work with us you don’t only need to have certain skills, but you also have to be serious and prepared to continually develop. We have a responsibility to our customers, and therefore our witches go through an employment exam so that we can see that they really can do what they say they can.”
Local authorities don’t mind Haxriket’s business at all. “When it comes to the type of activities described in the announcement, with cards, and crystal and the like, it has a lot to do with what each individual believes, and that isn’t something about which we can have an opinion,” Arbetsformedlingen’s Britt-Marie Grahn told the paper.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2008/12/07...ches-in-sweden/
That's all.
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Some people might laugh but we all know that he has a potential gold mine in his hands.
He has more hope than this guy who lost everything for his invention...
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4-5 times a week is normal. I'm talking people who do it like 5-6 times per day.
I've read the opposite. I read that masturbating a lot could make it difficult for you to ejaculate during intercourse since you are use to the tight grip of your hand. Any first hand experiences???
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And a good thing, too, otherwise our "common sense" scientists would still be insisting that the earth is flat. It's not mental states they're recording, they are looking at and for physical *signs* of that mental state.
I find it more likely that being a bully is what causes the pleasure centers to fire rather than the other way around--correlation is not causation. Many people grow out of it. There's a limit to the conclusions you can get from just one study.
Sure they can hurt. But they cannot hurt you unless you let them.
Edit: Oh good grief, every one of my points has already been made by someone else. NEVER MIND!!
Megan what advice would you give to a girl who says her sister has been bullying her and she is the reason for all her problems...
Her: God, I hate that everyone thinks my sister is soooo wonderful and perfect. If they really knew her, I don't think they would like her so much. I swear, it's only because she has a pretty face, that people like. But if your heart is cold as ice, it shouldn't matter how beautiful you are.Arrrgh.... I seriously just wants to tell everyone what a she is. That she's the reason why I want to end my life.
I hate her. I seriously do. If she died tomorrow, I wouldn't care.
interloper: WOW, what did your sister do?Her: Since I was a little girl, she has told me how useless I am. How fat I am, how ugly I am, and that I will never be as good as her. Everytime she gets a chance, she humiliates me.I remember some years ago when we it was summer. We were at the beach, in our bathing suits. And she kept telling me, that I was fat, and that I had a big belly, like the children in Africa, who doens't have enough food, so their bellies are swollen.
When I came home from my boarding school, and I felt like my only home was gone, she lied to me and said that our mom had told her, that she was so tired of me, and wished that I had stayed at my school.
It is hard to explain, exactly what she has done. But she is the reason, why I feel so uselless. Why I feel like the biggest loser in the world. Why I'm not good at making friends, because I'm afraid they won't like me. Why my life, is one big mess.
I think the bully is getting too much blame here, don't you think?
Does The Free Market Work For Agriculture?
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"The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will." That is what one farmer had to say about the free market's past relationships with agriculture. His name was George Naylor and he is president of the NFFC. The NFFC is an organization(according to their website) against big business, free trade, they are against GMO foods, and in favor of more gov. involvement so obviously George was biased. I was wondering though are their any concise papers, articles or books out there that argue in favor of the free market, addressing many of the statists arguments against free trade and denouncing government intervention in agriculture?
What info do you know about this subject?
Also has anybody here ever read The Omnivores Dillemma by Michael Pollan?