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If Hitler and his followers had been more apathetic, they wouldn't have displayed the zeal that they did in trying to change the world according to their ideals.

The problem with it is that you don't know whether you are the brave person speaking out against injustice or the lunatic that stands against obvious progress.

Up until 1865, the United States made extensive use of slave labor to grow its economy. It also made use of foreign innovations, stealing others' intellectual property.

Both were immoral, and neither should be accepted today.

Miss Thatcher? Not Mrs? Or Ms?

8th.

http://www.ccsce.com/PDF/Numbers-July-2014-CA-Economy-Rankin...

Well that phenomenon must go back thousands of years, given the fact that many pre-modern civilizations involved such things.

The GP said between the establishment of the papacy to Napoleon, so he's speaking about events well before there were 50 sovereign states in Europe or an EU.

This particular fund might be acting a bit more aggressively than some others, but big pension funds are huge investors. Calpers (the California state pension fund) has over $300 billion in assets, and often acts to try to improve the performance of the companies that they own.

The UK is still in the EU - at least until Farage gets his way.

Of course, there is a planet that astronomers and others are very familiar where 747s appear all the time. They just happen through complex chemical reactions. Apparently they do that near some hive of theirs called "Seattle"

Some renewables are "baseload" sources of power. Things both proven, like geothermal and hydro, or more experimental like OTEC. They can work 24/7/365.

Yeah, I was just trying to communicate the parent's argument. I appreciate your introduction of actual numbers.

I've been reading Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, and I just finished the chapters of Hellenistic philosophies. Of those discussed, Stoicism seemed the least appealing. I frankly don't see the value in optimizing for some ill-defined "virtue". It seemed like a heuristic for finding utility rendered into a goal unto itself.

That could of course just be Russell's positivist bias speaking through, of course. I really ought to read some of the actual sources sometime.

In a lot of states, including California, non-competes are illegal as a matter of course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California A lot of other states have restrictions on them.

I think the GP is saying that they wonder if an equivalent Northern European with identical stats would have been rejected.

They're not disputing the fact that some white people get denied, but rather that they get denied less than other groups.

For reference the parent is from Tunisia, which is really only third-world in the Cold War sense.

The HDI is 0.72, ranked globally in the "high human development" tier. It is just above China, and slightly below Thailand.

Wouldn't the market imbalance of the price of Uber drivers vs regular drives be resolved naturally?

Why don't regular drives switch to Uber?

For anyone who is interested in Ontario's GDP numbers, I found some data. Excel so beware.

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/ecaccts/oea_hist.xls

Washington DC would be the obvious example, but it's organic growth is more of the reason for its success as opposed to governmental action.

And that just worked out brilliantly, and the Ancien Régime ruled peacefully for the next hundred years.

Oh wait...

The underlying problem is that the scarcity of water is not being taken account into what farmers pay for it.

That underlying discrepancy distorts the market and prevents Ricardo's comparative advantage from being done.

Where did you go to business school?

Human beings are not property of their governments. They have a right to live, and move to a place that they choose. Brain drain might be a problem, but the correct approach is to make the drained country a better place to live, not to prohibit escape.

I think you're missing the real motive for Congress ordering hardware that the military doesn't want.

It's what their constituents want.

They are (by and large) not doing that sort of thing out of some scheming to enrich themselves. They want to be reelected to their next term, and delivering some federal cash and contracts to your district is the perfect way to do that.

I think that it could be a treasonous action, but also not literally meeting the terms of treason as set out in law.

In other words, it could meet the common-person interpretation of the word, but not the legal offense.

I'm curious to know exactly what crimes that you think the US has punished around the world.

Terrorism? Drugs? Copyright?

Wikipedia has a policy against this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring...

The wayback machine just captured it once, and that was after the deletion.