Unemployment almost 10% nationally

[WalkingWolf]

Bring back tariffs and the jobs will come back. You cannot outlaw foreign manufacturers from building and taking jobs overseas as much as some politicians claim to try to throw the blame. The simple fact is most governments tax imports, even the ones that we do not place duties on our merchandise. There is no such thing as free trade, this is where a good portion of our federal revenue used to come from, our current policies are beyond stupid. Yes I know the price of everything would go up in Wally World, but at least people would have jobs and the debt might drop some.

 

[Dunkopf]

I agree. WW. I don't ever see it happening though. The majority in the house starting next year are against bringing jobs back. They will never pass legislation like that. I don't think the current ones would either. Neither would our President. He is almost as Republican in his deeds and actions as Clinton was. It's all about creating illusions.

 

[Dunkopf]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

OK Let's let Warren Buffett chime on one this issue.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/warren-buffett-read-lips-raise-taxes/story?id=12199889

"People like me should be paying more taxes. "

"Trickle down economics does not work."

Pretty clear language.




As some one who does teach college I clearly have opinions about colleges uses and its uselessness. I also have opinions about students who come to college home schooled versus not. Some of my homeschooled students really suffered in college. If they had been homes schooled due to a strict ideology, then they had often not gotten the ability to critically interpret conflicting data or to make up their own minds. (Had a student who had been homeschooled by a very strict parent team who maintained total control over all input including a very strict vegan macrobiotic diet. The kid had never even had pizza or ice cream. He got to college and went berserk. He eventually evened out, but it was a painful and expensive journey.)
But, I have had others who have been taught classical critical thinking. Logic in its truest form. They are a joy to teach, challenging and a great deal of fun.

So I question. How is it that people are struggling to grasp the difference between success and illegal behavior??
Much of what Wal-Mart does is unethical and abhorrent, but it is rarely illegal.
What Microsoft did on many occasions was illegal. There is winning out over competition on your merits and then there is illegally preventing any competition from having access to the free market. That is a monopoly. It really is not that hard to understand, but if you want the finer points then do read the judgment. It is laid out clearly as legality can be in there.


Most of America works for small business actually. Major corporations are a serious contender, don't get me wrong. And, we should not paint them all as evil doers or some such silliness. Just recognize that a corporation as a bureaucratic institution exists to create profit. It is immortal. It is amoral (I did NOT say immoral) It is similar to a shark. Sharks are not evil, they are simply trying to survive and they are very good at it. But, they do not make note of long term planning. They don't worry about their environment, they don't think, "Gee if I eat the guy who feeds me maybe I won't get fed." People within them who try to buck the trends end up replaced by those who will go along...

And multi=national corporations are beholden to no one. No shareholders really have enough clout since they are not so much owners anymore but funds, no country can hold them accountable since they can threaten too much..... Just a thought.

Yep. You can't really blame the actual corporations. It's the people in government that are not protecting us from the sharks, that are to blame. We're in the water whether we want to be or not. It doesn't mean you can't hate the sharks though.

On the schooling issue. We just keep falling farther and farther behind and a brain washed public keeps blaming the teachers. Glad to hear you teach.​

 

[Organics North]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

OK Let's let Warren Buffett chime on one this issue.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/warren-buffett-read-lips-raise-taxes/story?id=12199889

"People like me should be paying more taxes. "

"Trickle down economics does not work."

Pretty clear language.




As some one who does teach college I clearly have opinions about colleges uses and its uselessness. I also have opinions about students who come to college home schooled versus not. Some of my homeschooled students really suffered in college. If they had been homes schooled due to a strict ideology, then they had often not gotten the ability to critically interpret conflicting data or to make up their own minds. (Had a student who had been homeschooled by a very strict parent team who maintained total control over all input including a very strict vegan macrobiotic diet. The kid had never even had pizza or ice cream. He got to college and went berserk. He eventually evened out, but it was a painful and expensive journey.)
But, I have had others who have been taught classical critical thinking. Logic in its truest form. They are a joy to teach, challenging and a great deal of fun.

So I question. How is it that people are struggling to grasp the difference between success and illegal behavior??
Much of what Wal-Mart does is unethical and abhorrent, but it is rarely illegal.
What Microsoft did on many occasions was illegal. There is winning out over competition on your merits and then there is illegally preventing any competition from having access to the free market. That is a monopoly. It really is not that hard to understand, but if you want the finer points then do read the judgment. It is laid out clearly as legality can be in there.


Most of America works for small business actually. Major corporations are a serious contender, don't get me wrong. And, we should not paint them all as evil doers or some such silliness. Just recognize that a corporation as a bureaucratic institution exists to create profit. It is immortal. It is amoral (I did NOT say immoral) It is similar to a shark. Sharks are not evil, they are simply trying to survive and they are very good at it. But, they do not make note of long term planning. They don't worry about their environment, they don't think, "Gee if I eat the guy who feeds me maybe I won't get fed." People within them who try to buck the trends end up replaced by those who will go along...

And multi=national corporations are beholden to no one. No shareholders really have enough clout since they are not so much owners anymore but funds, no country can hold them accountable since they can threaten too much..... Just a thought.

Well said..​

 

[Organics North]

Bolded #3: I'm not sure whether to yell at you or ignore you. Have you not figured out yet that I do independent research?! In case you didn't know what that meant, that means generally ignoring politicians and talking heads on TV and looking at what differing points of view have to say, then weighing them against each other. I HATE the vast majority of politicians. I would have thought that you would have figured that out from most of my posts. Which, actually, brings up a question that I've been meaning to ask - do you read my posts or just skim over them and respond automatically? Sometimes, I've gotta say at the risk of offense, it really seems like the latter.

Q9, I do not just skim your posts, I read them.. Indeed I often just use what you say as a springboard to make some other point, rather than engaging you directly.. I am sorry and I apologize for the irritation it causes you...

Do me a favor try to not HATE anything even politicians... Hate is an unhealthy thing, for you and the rest of society... Try replacing that word in your heart with words like "dislike" or even "disdain". I know it seems just like semantics but it is not..

Peace and Love..

ON​

 

[Q9]

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Q9, I do not just skim your posts, I read them.. Indeed I often just use what you say as a springboard to make some other point, rather than engaging you directly.. I am sorry and I apologize for the irritation it causes you...

Do me a favor try to not HATE anything even politicians... Hate is an unhealthy thing, for you and the rest of society... Try replacing that word in your heart with words like "dislike" or even "disdain". I know it seems just like semantics but it is not..

Peace and Love..

ON

I see what you mean about hate; I just tend to use it as a synonym for extremely strong dislike.

And as for my post, I want to apologize for the sarcasm. I was having a bad day anyway, and ended up taking out the frustration on you. And the moderator that contacted me.

So, yeah, sorry.

 

[bakerjw]

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May want to back up your figures. It is only 1.4x faster than the Cray at Oak Ridge.
And it is running NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs. Are those the ones designed by the Chinese?
There is no mention of the operating system but I'd strongly suspect that it would be Linux or something else that would be copied.
They are the masters of copying others work.

Link is here.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/tag/cpu/

 

[Dunkopf]

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May want to back up your figures. It is only 1.4x faster than the Cray at Oak Ridge.
And it is running NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs. Are those the ones designed by the Chinese?
There is no mention of the operating system but I'd strongly suspect that it would be Linux or something else that would be copied.
They are the masters of copying others work.

Link is here.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/tag/cpu/

Thank You. I was just regurgitating some mis information. Those figures make me feel better.

 

[Royd]

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Q9, I do not just skim your posts, I read them.. Indeed I often just use what you say as a springboard to make some other point, rather than engaging you directly.. I am sorry and I apologize for the irritation it causes you...

Do me a favor try to not HATE anything even politicians... Hate is an unhealthy thing, for you and the rest of society... Try replacing that word in your heart with words like "dislike" or even "disdain". I know it seems just like semantics but it is not..

Peace and Love..

ON

Why replace a 4 letter word with two 7 letter words? I take it, you are not self employed.

Despise, disdain, contempt. They all roll off the tongue, nicely, and just hang in the air, if you know what I mean.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

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