Students! Grow up! Start campaigning against the state's meddling in your lives and education, not whining for even more of it.
Poruka se, doduše, odnosi na engleske studente, ali važi i za naše.
Students! Grow up! Start campaigning against the state's meddling in your lives and education, not whining for even more of it.
At the same time, Chinese wages are kept low by preventing labor from organizing and limiting the flow of information. Not only does this provide an unfair advantage to Chinese producers, but it prevents Chinese workers from having the resources to buy American steaks and iPods.
A redistribution of income would benefit the Chinese people and the world alike. Income inequality in this workers’ paradise is among the highest in the developing world. In addition, some more generous social-security system -- now almost non-existent -- for Chinese families would lower their precautionary savings.
The U.S. government should stop bashing China for its currency policy, while the Federal Reserve engages in massive quantitative easing. It’s hypocritical and leaves the Chinese with an easy way to respond. Instead the U.S. should regain the high ground and lecture them on what’s best in America: freedom.
Accusing communist China of keeping workers’ salaries artificially low and not being pro-workers would embarrass the nation’s government. Learning from Reagan, we can stand on our beliefs. If we do, the Chinese wall will come down sooner than we expect.
He was personable and funny, poking fun at the president without erupting into the seething fury that comes to mind when most liberals think of the Tea Party movement. Only when he reached his conclusion did I step back and realize that he had just posited the unconstitutionality of the Democrats’ new health care bill, and a good number of federal agencies to boot, through a crafty and convincing discussion of the Commerce Clause. It sounded—at least in the moment—reasonable enough to me.
Тако је прошле недеље, под утицајем победе српских тенисера на Дејвис купу, а док је штампа нашироко писала о неПИСАмености просечне српске омладине, министарка омладине и спорта Снежана Самарџић-Марковић најавила нови скупи пројекат за оне натпросечне – изградњу Националног тениског центра у Београду, са 15 тениских терена намењених „производњи” будућих српских тенисера. Има ли бољег начина да се побољша живот народу са све нижим стандардом и све мањом територијом, него хиперпродукцијом тениских шампиона?
Kako će izgledati ti "bolji dani" u tenisu koji tek treba da dođu, u odnosu na ove (loše) koje sada proživljavamo?
Šarenilo, proizvoljnost u izboru materijala i veličina poštanskih sandučića koje se mogu videti u gotovo svakom ulazu u stambenu zgradu od Nove godine polako će se seliti u istoriju.
Zakonom o poštanskim uslugama tačno je određeno kako poštansko sanduče može da izgleda. Da bi bio izbegnut novi udar na budžet, vlasnici starih, a funkcionalnih sandučića, imaće pet godina da ih zamene, ali su investitori novogradnje već obavezni da postavljaju i nove sandučiće.
Moj kolega i prijatelj, Phil Gramm, koji je kasnije postao US senator je ovako objasnjavao studentima inflaciju: "inflacija je kao biti u drugom stanju. Ima mnogo objasnjenja ali samo jedan uzrok." Studenti nisu imali nikada problem da shvate i zapamte sta je uzrok inflacije. Grammovo objasnjenje su i monetaristi prihvatili i Karl Brunner ga je cesto pominjaio u svojim lekcijama i seminarima. |
The Civ games are superficially just another turn-based strategy game, but they really function as a vivid interactive tutorial on how civilizations develop, how populations grow, how technology accumulates, how historical and geographical contingencies work, how superior trade is to warfare in promoting prosperity, etc. A lot of wisdom about history, economics, demographics, geography, etc. is built into these games, and players absorb that wisdom quickly and painlessly just through playing them. So Civ's designer Sid Meiers is arguably one of the great unacknowledged educators of the modern world. I also suspect that people who have spent at least 40 hours playing Civ will show a higher appreciation of modern life and more rational optimism about the human future.
I'd recommend 'Civ 4' if you haven't seen any of them (the more recent 'Civ 5' was a badly designed exception to an otherwise excellent series).
The essence of the non-deal deal reached at Cancun: Japan, Russia and other countries sick and tired of the idiocies of the Kyoto Protocol agree to say nothing that prevents other countries from pretending that the Kyoto Protocol lives; advanced industrial countries agree to keep discussing the fantasy that by 2020 they will be collectively shipping $100 billion a year to developing countries; developing countries agree to pretend to believe this will happen; countries agree to continue making laughably inadequate and also non-binding ‘pledges’ on carbon emissions; and everyone agrees not to think about the reality that pigs will fly before a treaty embodying any of these ideas will be ratified by the US Senate
It is possible, of course, that the development of the modern welfare state has been the result of a terrible wrong turn. Had it not reached full flower in Europe as various Marxian and other collectivist ideologies were being promulgated, or had the United States somehow avoided the “contamination” of the New Deal, perhaps the welfare state as we know it would never have come into being. Alternatively, one might argue that the welfare system was useful or necessary in years gone by, but that today’s higher level of absolute wealth, technological achievement, and social evolution has made it obsolete. But it would be foolhardy, from a conservative perspective, to eliminate a system so central to day-to-day life and long-term planning — and especially to do so all at once, acting on an unproved theory.
We want a welfare system as one part of a political economy that manages the conflict between capitalism and human nature in a fashion that achieves our shared goals, while putting a minimum of drag on market productivity and growth.
What a pair of blowhards. They were obviously unnerved by the question. They evidently like leaks that embarrass their political opponents, but in this case they found themselves tagged with a leak that had damaged the side they like; and since it seems to be more about political warfare against governments they dislike than some impartial ideal of transparency and freedom of information, they were stuck scrambling to make up a story about how it really served some nobler purpose. Of course they should simply have said that they weren’t the source of the leak, that it was in full circulation long before anyone looked to them for a copy and they didn’t know much about the details of what followed. But that would have been too humble, especially in front of a room full of simpering hero-worshippers. So they pretended to be insiders and proceeded to deliver a few minutes of sheer drivel.
While I was in the UK last fall, there was brief interest by the UK tabloids in the Russian angle, and an article appeared in the Daily Mail speculating that Russian intelligence officials had hacked the UEA and stolen the emails. But nobody took that line seriously and the story died within 48 hours. If Assange has a shred of evidence to support his lunatic theory he should release it. What’s with these secret communications between him and UK intelligence: out with it, Mr Wikileaks! Bloody poser.
On this issue at least they are nothing but fakes and cretins. Saying that UEA released all the background emails and whatnot to provide the full context is beyond idiocy; and Assange’s discussion of the “trick” is just painful to watch
If there’s one thing comic book nerds like doing it’s over-thinking the smallest details. Here we turn our attention to the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers. Just a few examples: Are mutants a protected class? Who foots the bill when a hero damages property while fighting a villain? What happens legally when a character comes back from the dead?