I actually recall discussions about the underground black market, but I have no idea why a "sweet spot" of 15% would work. I always took it to mean something is off in the regulation or the business so people move elsewhere.
Wow... I mean I haven't paid Google directly with a dime and yet they continue to grow. Think about why people want to push for more broadband content at faster speeds. It's because the current crop of CEOs don't want anything more than their short term cash cow that is sure for a massive disruption.
And yet, Google continues to have most of its success based on offsetting better products at a cheaper price than the alternatives and relying on more public infrastructure than private investments.
The fact remains that the market for growth has changed rapidly in the last few years. But to ignore that twitter, google, and a dozen other brands don't get paid directly its a stunning omission from anyone making an argument about the efficiency of different business models.
The industry doesn't understand economics. That's the problem. If they did, they would understand how their own actions only increased piracy.
The artists don't like being considered economic slaves to their labels. Neither do actors, directors, or DJs like being tied to people that only believe they are entitled to make ever increasing profit in a crony capitalist system.
Economics tells us that if you provide a good service at a decent price, people will support you. Subsidies won't do much in creating more goods nor does out help our liberal markets flourish. Yet, because these people are in positions of power, with millions in the bank and access to politicians to "convince" them of their plight, they can freely corrupt markets and engage in gunboat diplomacy to force their economic view on the world.
That isn't a special kind of knowledge or access. It's stupidity of the highest order and it doesn't last long when the economics of piracy take over.
And that's why we need a stronger public sphere than capitalism provides. Sadly, no one will support a better way of capitalism anytime soon until you have Assn even more convergent force of progressives than what the occupy movement stood for.
I never quite cared for the hardcore centrist route myself. Both parties are not the same. One is extremely authoritarian while the other is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. One party wants to take away women's rights. The other wants to strengthen it. One party cares enough to try to have conversations about different issues. The other merely sells out to the highest bidder based on their ideological beliefs.
Both parties are not the same. You should look up the differences yourself instead of believing a media machine aimed at corporate interest over public interest.
Finally, terrorism is a tactic. It worked successfully because there has been no true dialogue about the damage we've done to other countries. Maybe if we stop bombing innocents, we can begin to figure out how to get our country back. But that won't happen so long as the US takes ash over-aggressive martial response to everything in front of them.
What's absolutely stunning here is how the growth in spending here coincides with that of fascist Germany in the 1930s. Germany was hit with an "austerity bomb" called "The Treaty of Versailles" and a chancellor came to power without the people electing him. He took away unions, increased corporate power, and increased spending on the military in the lead up to WWII.
He learned all his tricks from Edward Bernays, who literally wrote the book on propaganda as evidenced by Joseph Goebbels' successful rhetoric demonizing democracy and pushing the Germans to war. Everything was about security and the Homeland and whoever wasn't with us was our enemy.
Now we see the tide turning. The US is going fascist while Germany is becoming more democratic with greater unions and proportional representation in their parliament.
Will we be going to war soon just to prove we haven't learned the lessons from WWII?
Or Nixon's sabotage of the peace accord in 1968...
Or Reagan's "Two-Santa theory" as mentioned by Jude Waninski...
Or Bush's tax cuts that did even more damage than Reagan...
I mean, hell... What have consevatives done for the country besides work to undermine it based on their ideological beliefs? At least liberals try to follow the rules.
Actually, it's a j- curve. When the expectation of a new beginning and the reality of one's life reach a crescendo, you actually spark the fuse for revolt.
I have no idea why people think of direct democracy rather than the representative democracies that are important in converting ideas...
First, our morality is usually reflected in the policies that are brought into the House and Senate. I have no idea why you bring up such an extreme example that has no bearing on the conversation, but let's take you to a real life example.
Eric Cantor is currently opposing the "Violence against Women" Act, which helps Native American women find justice from their rapists. Last, I checked, rape was immoral. Yet, a gerrymandered Congress which disproportionately represents conservatives and their libertarian view that the government is the enemy is in charge.
We in the US have no proportional representation like in New Zealand or Europe.
We have a very bad electoral system that discourages third parties from winning and works to send the country far more right wing than it should be.
If the US had a true democracy instead of the corruptive influences of fascism from Reagan that destroyed the country in 1929, maybe you would have an argument. But in a true democracy, we, the people govern. Period. That can't be taken away by just stating the government is the enemy.
Don't believe that... Governments aren't inherently evil if they are democracies. The US unfortunately lost its democracy since Reagan corrupted it. W just need more people to wake up to the dangers of plutocracy and the excesses of a government that doesn't listen to its people.
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Re: Ecoonomy needs a black market
I actually recall discussions about the underground black market, but I have no idea why a "sweet spot" of 15% would work. I always took it to mean something is off in the regulation or the business so people move elsewhere.
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Wat?
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Can it be possible related to the DoJ's lax regulations on Monsanto in regards to patents?
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Cognitive dissonance?
And yet, Google continues to have most of its success based on offsetting better products at a cheaper price than the alternatives and relying on more public infrastructure than private investments.
The fact remains that the market for growth has changed rapidly in the last few years. But to ignore that twitter, google, and a dozen other brands don't get paid directly its a stunning omission from anyone making an argument about the efficiency of different business models.
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Re: Too bad for Canada
The artists don't like being considered economic slaves to their labels. Neither do actors, directors, or DJs like being tied to people that only believe they are entitled to make ever increasing profit in a crony capitalist system.
Economics tells us that if you provide a good service at a decent price, people will support you. Subsidies won't do much in creating more goods nor does out help our liberal markets flourish. Yet, because these people are in positions of power, with millions in the bank and access to politicians to "convince" them of their plight, they can freely corrupt markets and engage in gunboat diplomacy to force their economic view on the world.
That isn't a special kind of knowledge or access. It's stupidity of the highest order and it doesn't last long when the economics of piracy take over.
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Re: Missing one big point about Japan
This is the same country that used the citizenry for sharpening weapons. Only blacksmiths are applied to have weapons and that is kind of a big deal.
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Re: Re: Capitalism is outmoded
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/mapping-the-left/
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The FCC knows what's best for airwaves and believes that spectrum is scarce?
Is this the same party that had a war on math, science and women?
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Only 30% of the population didn't want healthcare. Those were the crazies who have us birtherism, and dog whistle politics.
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Both parties are not the same. You should look up the differences yourself instead of believing a media machine aimed at corporate interest over public interest.
Finally, terrorism is a tactic. It worked successfully because there has been no true dialogue about the damage we've done to other countries. Maybe if we stop bombing innocents, we can begin to figure out how to get our country back. But that won't happen so long as the US takes ash over-aggressive martial response to everything in front of them.
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How fascism grows...
He learned all his tricks from Edward Bernays, who literally wrote the book on propaganda as evidenced by Joseph Goebbels' successful rhetoric demonizing democracy and pushing the Germans to war. Everything was about security and the Homeland and whoever wasn't with us was our enemy.
Now we see the tide turning. The US is going fascist while Germany is becoming more democratic with greater unions and proportional representation in their parliament.
Will we be going to war soon just to prove we haven't learned the lessons from WWII?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shocking
On the post: Obama Administration Quietly Allowed National Counterterrorism Center To Keep Database Of Info On Innocent Americans
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shocking
On the post: Obama Administration Quietly Allowed National Counterterrorism Center To Keep Database Of Info On Innocent Americans
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Or Nixon's sabotage of the peace accord in 1968...
Or Reagan's "Two-Santa theory" as mentioned by Jude Waninski...
Or Bush's tax cuts that did even more damage than Reagan...
I mean, hell... What have consevatives done for the country besides work to undermine it based on their ideological beliefs? At least liberals try to follow the rules.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shocking
First, our morality is usually reflected in the policies that are brought into the House and Senate. I have no idea why you bring up such an extreme example that has no bearing on the conversation, but let's take you to a real life example.
Eric Cantor is currently opposing the "Violence against Women" Act, which helps Native American women find justice from their rapists. Last, I checked, rape was immoral. Yet, a gerrymandered Congress which disproportionately represents conservatives and their libertarian view that the government is the enemy is in charge.
We in the US have no proportional representation like in New Zealand or Europe.
We have a very bad electoral system that discourages third parties from winning and works to send the country far more right wing than it should be.
If the US had a true democracy instead of the corruptive influences of fascism from Reagan that destroyed the country in 1929, maybe you would have an argument. But in a true democracy, we, the people govern. Period. That can't be taken away by just stating the government is the enemy.
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Re: Re: Re: Shocking
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Sneaking suspicion
We can't get anything on either document without a lot of secrecy and both are harmful to innovation globally.
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