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2 years ago
In Ohio the street lights will be turning on soon, so Night Saint Thee OSU can go claim his lamp post.
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2 years ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
It is also because then we had strong unions, and executive compensation was much lower because there was scrutiny of publicly traded firms, and because higher compensation would have been pointless as it would just have gone to the top tax bracket. And we had much better and broader government employment to build our infrastructure, and to anchor the middle range of wages.
We just want the money that is fattening the fat to go back into circulation. It circulates until the fat get it. Otherwise it recirculates with taxes taking a bit each time. That is what will pay for progressive spending ambitions. So long as the money recirculates it can be vast.
The COVID bail out money would have recirculated if we had much higher top tax levels. But as we don't, it went into the Real Estate and Securities Ponzi Schemes.
Food Stamps money recirculated only until it is siphoned up by the financializers.
We need to tax it back.
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2 years ago
Strippers work for tips, not for posting on message boards for free.
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2 years ago
left wing radical idiots is an ad hominem.
The people that are idiots are the neoliberals like Gavin Newsom.
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2 years ago
I don't like Suze Orman.
My Org is happening and it will take care of our people extremely well. But we are not to be a nation state.
As far as the nation state we will always be fighting for the Radical Left, Social Democracy.
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2 years ago
You mean the women members of TUSCL?
There is only about one that has even a limited stomach for Male PL discussions.
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2 years ago
Keep in mind that I know I am talking to noise makers only.
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
But you get much higher growth and create a much bigger middle class when you have very high top tax rates.
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2 years ago
Capitalism tends to reward what we don't want to reward, and this is why we need political consciousness raising. And right now what does a lot of that is Gender Studies and Racial Grievance programs.
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2 years ago
But it dried up at the end of the 80's because of the big fabs going up in asia. So for decades the semiconductor industry was self funded, and it did smarter and more effective stuff.
And there can be different kinds of stuff we do today.
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2 years ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
You act like my Privacy Wall is not there, and then you post stupid stuff, and you seem to get stupider each time you do that.
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
The years of greatest economic grown were Eisenhower-Kennedy, and you know what that means, very high top tax rates.
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2 years ago
And yes, these booms and busts increase the wealth gap, and generally leave a mess.
Once a busts starts, it is hard to stop it. But if you refuse to support the booms, then something good is accomplished.
The semi-conductor industry had made more progress after it went off the radar of the VCs. It will be like this in other fields too.
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Except that you are promoting a model of innovation funding which is designed to perpetuate limits for purposes of control. Thoerstein Veblen called this "The Price System".
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2 years ago
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san_jose_guymoney was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
Holland:
Complex Systems
* Self-organization
* Chaotic Behavior
* fat-tailed behaviour, rare events (mass extinctions, market crashes) occur more often than would be predicted by a normal bell-curve distribution.
* adaptive interaction
TWO KINDS OF COMPLEXITY
Complex Physical Systems (CPS)
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
CAS deals with entities which are not fixed, usually called agents.
Navier Stokes Equations,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations
Partial Differential Equations, extending from Maxwell's Equations for Electromagnetism, but for fluid flow.
Complex Physical Systems are almost always modelled by PDEs ( Partial Differential Equations )
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2 years ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
No, the people have challenged my Privacy Wall are like punch drunk fighters.
Don't know that CJKent posted.
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2 years ago
There is no shortage of funding. Stuff can be internally funded, "years without funding before you have enough to sell". And a lot of this biotech is dystopia stuff, like that so called COVID vaccine. AI advances are often dystopia too.
When the VC's are doing it, different stuff is done different ways than when it is funded internally.
This new America Competes Act is not really that much money, it will supplement internal funding, not encourage stupid stuff.
THings work better with less VC direction.
Doug Henwood:
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-How-Works-Whom/dp/086091495X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=doug+henwood+how+wall+street+works&qid=1661991369&sr=8-1
Very little of the money put into the stock market funds new ventures. It is really just paying off old investors, and these have a strangle hold on our productive capacity.
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2 years ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
^
YES!
But this does not mean just a mutual back patting society where the hierarchies remain the same. It has to mean moving to Social Democracy.
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Free - Wishing Well w/ British Leyland 3 axle dump truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKy_puDDnRk
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san_jose_guymoney was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
Complexity, A Very Short Introduction, by John H. Holland
Oxford University Press (2014)
This is special series of very small fine print books they have.
Holland's Refs:
Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial. MIT Press 1981
Arthur W. Burks, Essays in Cellular Automata. University of Illinois Press (1970)
Mitchell M. Waldrop, Complexity, (1972)
Melanie Mitchell. Complexity: A Guided Tour (2009)
Donald O. Hebb. The Organization of Behavior (1949)
Simon A. Levin, Fragile Dominion (199)
William Feller, Probability Theory and its Applications (1950)
Paul A. Samuelson, Economics 1948
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Free - Wishing Well w/ British Leyland 3 axle dump truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKy_puDDnRk
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
^ but it is there and that is why despite repeated efforts you cannot get beyond it.
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Free - Wishing Well w/ British Leyland 3 axle dump truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKy_puDDnRk
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Charging head first into a steel and concrete wall, just because they are pretending that it is not there?
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2 years ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Whack!
Another blood and lymph fluid spot to clean off of my steel and concrete privacy wall.
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Free - Wishing Well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMqZSp0dHNI
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2 years ago
There is no shortage of money to fund ventures. Lots of it.
Most industries actually do better when the Venture Capitalists get out and they can fund stuff themselves from customer generated proceeds. What the VC's want is too focused on explosive gains, and so it more often than not fails.
Capitalism works best when it is highly regulated and taxed, not like it is now.
Things were better in the US before Reagan.
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Free - Wishing Well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMqZSp0dHNI
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
You still don't seem to understand that you are bashing your skull against my privacy wall.
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2 years ago
Not taking sides here, just posting what the news says. I posted above about the CA Senate discussion. If the Right is trafficking in exaggerated accounts, that is very serious. All the more so if they are just doing this for the Nov election.
Children’s hospitals become targets of anti-transgender attacks and harassment (PBS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1tPPZp-l_o
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