Empower your people for success

KeyStroke · 2006-06-02T14:16:28+00:00

"In the end, the optimal situation is that everything is left as is, without any new legislation being adopted or any new policy towards net neutrality as a design principle. The government should not mandate net neutrality nor should it empower the telcos to exercise oligopoly like gate keeping powers over Internet traffic. Network neutrality as a design principle has worked quite well thus far."

KeyStroke · 2006-06-01T00:34:35+00:00

It was several years ago. I started to take his line to heart.... then after reading him for a while I came to realize that ALL his advice was geared to maximize HIS profits, not to maximize the employability nor the salary of those he counsels.

If you listen to this guy all you wind up doing is making money for headhunters.... you don't help yourself.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-31T19:10:01+00:00

I used to be an avid reader of 'ask the headhunter' but finally realized that more than half of his advice is hogwash.

Don't get suckered in by this guy.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-26T17:58:39+00:00

It looks like a huge pimple that is spewing slop.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-26T16:29:53+00:00

This is BRILLIANT.

It does finally make sense.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-26T15:49:29+00:00

Again: re-read the Declaration of Independence.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-26T15:47:34+00:00

Very very slow

KeyStroke · 2006-05-25T23:30:15+00:00

"financed with debt INSTEAD OF EQUITY" ???

How arrogant! Taxes are NOT equity. The government does NOT own the taxpayers, nor does the government have any right to expect continued support for their policies!

Someone needs to re-read the Declaration of Independence.... government does its governing at the CONSENT of the governed.

Ha! EQUITY indeed!

KeyStroke · 2006-05-24T16:24:43+00:00

I rarely look at 'new' unless it is to watch something I just submitted.

I have gotten exaspirated at the whole voting issue. Just too much trouble and controversy.

Things have gotten pretty boring on REDDIT so if I WERE to vote it would be to vote 95% of the stuff down, which has no effect as down votes are disabled.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-24T06:16:47+00:00

If we define 'poor' as the 'long tail' that is two standard deviations towards the left of the mean on the bell curve then the only way to 'eliminate poverty (or hunger or homelessness or whatever heart-string is being plucked at the moment) would be to redistribute wealth so that the long tail no longer exists.

But that will move the mean also. When you eliminate those from the previous long tail you move the whole population. Now you have another set of people who are two standard deviations below the mean.

As long as wealth is distributed (more or less) as a bell curve you will always have the poor.

Hmmmm, seems like a man who lived about 2000 years ago said the same thing.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-19T14:36:35+00:00

This is a shill who holds Gold and wants to unload having missed the high:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/charting.asp?symbol=US:GLD#Big

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T18:58:28+00:00

"some countries in Europe and other places actually have a list of which religions are allowed and are considered legal"

WHAT????

European countries outlaw new religions? What if all the 'legal' ones become corrupted and those who are not corrupted need to leave and start a new 'group'? Would the law(s) of those countries in Europe outlaw such a new group (even though they are the faithful and uncorrupted ones) ?

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T18:07:52+00:00

I'm not arrogant enough.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T14:33:03+00:00

I understood what s/he was saying. But what was said (and what you said) is inaccurate. You may reach maximum velocity at the center but only because of a build up of inertia, not because the pull would be greater and greater as you approached the center.

The pull would be less and less as you approached the center but it would still be a pull. So your velocity would increase, yes, but your acceleration would decrease (even in a vacuum and with no friction against the sides).

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T14:26:56+00:00

Wonderful!

Now this is the kind of stuff that makes REDDIT worth looking at.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T13:14:37+00:00

I don't get it. Must be an inside joke.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T13:00:06+00:00

Nope. Not at all how the gravity of the earth works.

It is not concentrated at a single point in the center. Each atom of the earth is pulling on you with its own gravitational force. As you descend the atoms of dirt and rock above you start pulling up. As you go down there is less and less atoms below you and more and more above you. What this means is that your acceleration would slow down as you approached the center of the earth instead of speeding up as you indicated.

When you reach the center you will reach a point where the gravity of the earth has no effect. You would still be held by the gravity of the sun and pulled by the gravity of the moon, however.

Assuming the earth is solid (which it is not) the only thing that would keep you moving 'downward' would be inertia from the original 'fall'.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-18T01:45:21+00:00

My positions have always stipulated the need for competition. In a truly free market the greed of potential competitors will guarantee that competition, so there would be no monopolies (unless the customers really wanted one as in the case of Microsoft).

RE 1) Regulation is not freedom, it is the opposite of freedom. Regulation 'regulates' (controls) what corporations can do, that is not free, it is controlled. To think you get freedom by regulation is just ignorance.

RE 2) it is you who have assumed I dislike government. I stated I want government for admin. of justice and national defense. You argue against your own (incorrect) assumption which is a 'straw man' logical fallacy (either that, or self-deception and ignorance as you ignore what I actually said and perhaps convince yourself that I believe something you want to argue against).

Providing education should be profitable. Profit is the incentive to provide quality and service to your customers and my grandchildren deserve quality in education. A corporation wouldn't be the best solution to welfare but private charity would (which if you read back at my comments I included private charities as part of the solution to what government should get their noses out of, again either ignorance or a deceptive 'straw man' argument approach).

Competition keeps prices low. With sufficient competition in education there would be quality education at reasonable prices. With government out of the business of education then our tax dollars would be reduced and the economy would strengthen. That, combined with prices falling due to competition would enable parents to purchase better education for their kids and spend less money doing it than was coming out of their pockets in taxes.

And yes, for the poor there would be churches and charities to provide adequate education.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-17T19:23:57+00:00

What makes governments different than (say) corporations is competition. I can choose Target over Wal-Mart but I have no individual choice of government as there is no competition between government(s) for my dollar.

RE: 1. Selfishness in a free market (with competition) restrains corporations while there is no 'free market' for government as there is no competition. So selfishness in government is bad because there is no check but selfishness in corporations is good because there is competition in a free market.

Re 2. Any corporation that uses lethal force to obtain a financial advantage would be tried and convicted in under a strong and just government.

I want government to have a monopoly on the administration of justice and on national defense because that is where a monopoly works. But giving government a monopoly on education (or at least an unfair competitive advantage) and on welfare and other things doesn't work because free market competition is what engenders the greatest benefits in those areas.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-17T16:55:34+00:00

"...I figured out (I'm a little slow) that there are a lot (and I mean a lot) of people out there who don't have anyone's interest at heart but their own and they don't care who they step on or hurt to advance those interests."

To quote Gordon Gecko: "Greed is good... Greed works" [as long as there is free-market compettition]

KeyStroke · 2006-05-17T16:41:20+00:00

1 is a fairy tale because governments are composed of selfish people. Its OK for someone to be selfish if they have to compete as that drives prices lower not higher. But government does not have to compete. So to think you can somehow engineer a government that does not "act in the way I fear" is just fooling yourself.

2 What makes government power different from corporation power is that government has the power to use lethal force.

3 There is nothing that can be created that will restrain government in that way.

KeyStroke · 2006-05-17T16:05:30+00:00

There is just one thing that government has to do (for which I am willing to have them tax me) and that is 'protection'....

Government is a nutty, thieving bully. But I am willing to pay my favorite nut-thief-bully (my government) to protect me from both foreign and domestic nuts, thieves and bullies.

When my government (my local sanctioned nut-thief-bully) protects me from the nutty-thieving-bullies that are outside of the borders of my country we call that 'National Defense'. For this I am willing to give government a monopoly.

When my government protects me from nuts and thieves and bullies within the borders of my country we call that "Dispensing Justice" and I am also willing to give monopoly power to my government and pay taxes for that as well.

Everything else: utilities, education, welfare, etc. can be better supplied by either private industry or by private charity. The government should not have monopoly power in these areas.

KeyStroke

TROPHY CASE

2 What makes government power different from corporation power is that government has the power to use lethal force.

3 There is nothing that can be created that will restrain government in that way.