OT: Brussels attacks

No, the whole purpose of socialism *is* to take other people's stuff. Think about it for once. If socialism only took your own stuff and gave it back to you, what would be the point?

The point is exactly to take other people's stuff--that's what Bernie's promising all those college kids.

1) Of course, except unlike socialism I don't just demand that other people pay, I also gladly pay for those things myself. Paying for legitimate services rendered is not the same as having my property taken and redistributed. 2) And they aren't all federal functions. Does Europe build roads through one central agency, funded by tribute from the whole continent? Is that the best way to get a local road built in Sicily, as compared to a park? Of course not.

We might as well have Bernie Sanders and the U.S. Congress make those decisions for Europe. You know, since central planning is so great for entire continents. Socialists and stupid people assume it all has to be federal / centralized, because socialists are stimulus-bound thinkers.

3) But those items you've listed are 25 cents on the dollar of U.S. federal spending. About twenty cents on defense, and five or so on the rest.

Critically, spending twenty-five cents legitimately doesn't justify redistributing seventy-five, or spending it on any arbitrary thing. But socialists are incapable of making that distinction: "If any spending is legitimate, all spending is legitimate. Yes We Can!"

Socialism is all about an elite taking people's money and telling them what to do, plus rewarding the elite's friends and supporters. Cronyism.

But these are difficult concepts. You'd have to think.

Cheers, James Arthur

They would only give you 60% of it back. They have overhead, you know.

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Not very smart.

It depends. If I had a new worth of say 20 billion, I would be convinced t hat I was richer than you. True you could have a net worth of 21 billion, but is is not likely. If I had a net worth of say %500,000. I would not be very confident that I was richer than you.

hey can't know to be true and smart isn't any of them.

agined superiority of his education, and the totally imaginary superiority of his intelligence marks him out as a superior man.

Maybe so. Are you willing to bet $10,000 on it?

Still richer and smarter than you.

Dan

Thanks. That is what I try to achieve.

Dan

I agree it is juvenile. And I would not do it if Sloman did not think he is the smartest one here.

There is a certain amount of luck, but mostly in avoiding things like health issues that can be devastating . Otherwise it is being willing to save and invest.

Indeed you might be. I just pick on Sloman as kind of a " If you are so smart, why aren't you rich ".

Dan

re super good and others are just good. Companies can not afford to have p oor HR departments. If the HR department is poor, the company will go bank rupt. Those that claim that HR departments are all poor are just upset tha t they did not get hired.

Many of Dan's comments seem to fly over your head.

nkrupt companies. Good people get hired by by-passing the HR department.

You'd seem to be suggesting that bureaucracies and central planning, fail.

Yet your philosophy of governing is to rely on them. And put them in charg e.

Cheers, James Arthur

Okay, THAT was funny.

Cheers, James

P.S. I think they'd keep 60%. Overhead ain't cheap.

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ow much money I've got) and thinks that he went to a better university (whe n he won't admit which one it was). His claim to smarter than I am seems to be even less well-founded, but he's too stupid to realise quite how stupid it is to make claims you can't (or won't) substantiate.

versity than you. And also smarter than you. And am willing to put up a l ittle money on it. You are not willing to put any money on this which tend s to bolster my outlook. I am willing to substantiate it, but not for noth ing.

I do not agree. One of the sure signs of genius is being able to make the complex simple.

Cheers, James Arthur

Making something sound simple is one thing. Making it sound stupid is another.

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Rick

The most effective way to deal with Sloman is to absolutely ignore him. He sad, delusional, and repulsive, things we don't want to be. And he has all the time in the world to be obnoxious. Rassling with pigs and all that.

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HR should primarily make sure that we don't have hassles with our medical insurance, and that the fridge is properly filled with snacks.

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To a sufficiently advanced intelligence, everything is obvious.

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w how much money I've got) and thinks that he went to a better university ( when he won't admit which one it was). His claim to smarter than I am seems to be even less well-founded, but he's too stupid to realise quite how stu pid it is to make claims you can't (or won't) substantiate.

university than you. And also smarter than you. And am willing to put up a little money on it. You are not willing to put any money on this which t ends to bolster my outlook. I am willing to substantiate it, but not for n othing.

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Obviously.

Cheers, James Arthur

The only management book I've ever seen that is worth a damn is by Robert Townsend, who built Avis in to the number 2 hire car company. "Up the Organisation" is delightfully witty, terse and to the point.

From memory the section on the personnel department (shows how old it is) is, in its entirety, "Fire the lot".

You ineffective person, you!

I'm of the opinion that one should always completely ignore the first arrogant dismissal, in any discussion. The discussion value goes up, when I do that.

As to the second arrogant dismissal: what part of "completely ignore" made you think I was incrementing a counter?

No, Hillary still has Willy's in a lockbox.

Sadly, HR departments are needed to keep government bureaucrats at bay.

And they would tell you what you had to spend it on.

ow much money I've got) and thinks that he went to a better university (whe n he won't admit which one it was). His claim to smarter than I am seems to be even less well-founded, but he's too stupid to realise quite how stupid it is to make claims you can't (or won't) substantiate.

ersity than you. And also smarter than you. And am willing to put up a li ttle money on it. You are not willing to put any money on this which tends to bolster my outlook. I am willing to substantiate it, but not for nothi ng.

The juvenile stupidity is all Dan's. He makes the claim from time to time, and I jeer at it, mainly because of the logical inconsistency of claiming t hat he's smarter than I am etc when he can't know any of it for a fact (exc ept the university he went to, which he won't tell us about).

It may be juvenile of me to react at all, but I do have a visceral objectio n to people posting nonsense - I've gone after you for making the same mist ake - and I do see it as being a sociallly7 useful activity.

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Going to a particular school doesn't guarantee you get a good education -t doesn't even guarantee that you get good teachers, since even the best univ ersities have weaker departments. I got a lot of my electronics education f rom the Physics Departemtn library at Melbourne - they had a copies of Ralp h Morrison on "Grounding and Shielding Techniques" and G.H.K. Neubert on "I nstrument Transducers".

None of us do, which Dan is too stupid to notice.

So you can copy them and sell them?

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Bill Sloman, Sydney