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Simple economics are great if you're trying to pass a fifth grade Economics test, but not much use in the real world, where economics are anything but simple. Simple economics can't explain things like Giffen goods, Veblen goods, inferior goods, and other goods that violate the law of demand. It's not that the reasons for such goods' existence cannot be explained; it's that they can't be explained without acknowledging the existence of economic forces other than simple supply and demand. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I can think of two, off the top of my head. Some states do not allow single people to adopt. I've yet to hear any reasonable justification for such laws. Some states do not allow gays to adopt. Again, there is no reasonable justification for such laws (unless one considers bigotry to be reasonable justification). If adoption criteria were always reasonable, then your mom's idea might well have merit. However, such a law would currently serve to further legislate bigotry in some places. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Actually, one of the things that makes the "good shit" so good is that it is grown indoors, exposed to far more light than it could be exposed to via natural sunlight (at least while on earth). My experience has been that high quality indoor grown cannabis provides approximately the same bang for the buck as lower priced outdoor grown commercial cannabis. The good stuff costs ~4x more per unit of weight (retail), and has ~4x as much THC per unit of weight. OTOH, outdoor grown commercial bud offers far greater quantity discounts. A pound of commercial bud is typically much less expensive than a quarter pound of high grade. I've not grown indoors myself, only "plant-sat," so I don't know how much of the "good shit's" higher price is due to increased production cost, and how much is due to the limited production potential and additional costs inherent in having to grow indoors. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

About the same as driving under the influence of cold medicine that has been taken as directed, according to some studies. In other words, it has minimal effects on driving. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Economics have never been as simple as supply and demand, despite what we might learn in fifth grade. In the real world, there are other important factors, which can sometimes have a greater effect on market prices than supply and demand. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

At best, that could be considered a bad analogy. The floor/ground is analogous to a regulation based safety net. There is a limit to how far he can fall. Would you have been willing to allow your son to try to learn to walk, unassisted, while on a ledge at the top of a skyscraper? Pretty surprising opinion, coming from someone who once suggested the need for a Secretary of History in the President's cabinet. I didn't create the adjectives, I just used them as they apply to the two different philosophies of liberty. An example: One who supports positive liberty might believe everyone that everyone has a right to receive an education, and thus support compulsory education, funded by taxes, which is diametrically opposed to the concept of negative liberty. OTOH, the supporter of negative liberty opposes taxes to pay for education for society, believing people are only entitled to the education that they can afford. They believe being forced to surrender their property (i.e. money for taxes) violates their liberty. In practice, all you need to do is make me believe that I'll get my money's worth long enough for me to exchange my money for your goods/services. That end can be accomplished via providing a good/service actually of quality appropriate to the price, or that can be accomplished by providing a well marketed good/service that is portrayed as having appropriate value, but does not. However, since the consumer won't discover the lack of real value until they have exchanged money for the product, the seller need not be concerned about the lack of quality. As long as the players in a free market lack perfect information, it won't work as described by Mr. Smith. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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I'm not positive, but I don't think so. Players choose characters that have already been created by the game's developers. I think certain accomplishments will unlock more characters from which to choose, but that's it. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

One of my roommates plays Street Fighter IV on his PS3 10-12 hours per day, everyday. About 95% of the time he plays it by himself. He's smart, well spoken, sociable, in decent shape, and, aside from formerly being an MP, has no serious character flaws. I'm not much into video games, but I generally understand their appeal. This particular game, however, seems to be particularly uninteresting. SFIV seems largely unchanged from the (original?) Street Fighter that I played long ago on a SuperNES, except higher resolution. It's the same 2D game it's always been, but with a snazzier looking background. Could someone please explain the appeal of this particular game? What is it that makes it like virtual crack for some people? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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I know of one moderate who gets criticized by his conservative friends for buying porn, while his liberal friends criticize him for buying porn. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

No, but the cat was seen the following week moving on from pot to snorting coke and shooting up heroin. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Do you really believe rubbing your nipples on the outside of the coconut shells would be more enjoyable? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

That depends. If she's a conservative, she should back it up, because she probably paid for it. If she's a liberal, she was probably able to download the very same files for free after a thirty second Google search, and can perform the same search and download the files again after replacing the hard drive. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

In other news, Wall Street analysts predict Novartis, makers of Ex-Lax and Gas-X, will exceed their projected earnings for the quarter. The news closely followed a debate among quantitative financial analysts who were unable to reach an agreement regarding the cause of the widespread criticism of the financial bailouts being engineered and implemented by Congress. The analysts were nearly equally split between those who felt the most vocal critics were full of shit, and those who felt those most critical of the bailout were talking out of their ass, but were only full of hot air. Novartis officials could not be reached for comment. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'm not sure how the Windows version handles auto-starting iTunes when an iPod is plugged in, but in OS X, the task of starting iTunes when the iPod is plugged in (different from auto-syncing, which is an iPod preference) is handled by a small program called iTunes Helper, which starts up, by default, upon computer startup (actually user login). Removing iTunes Helper from startup items keeps iTunes from starting automatically when an iPod is plugged in. iTunes Helper is (in OS X) contained within a sub-folder in the iTunes.app folder, but operates as a separate application. Note that I haven't taken the time to verify that iTunes v. 8.x handles the auto-launch the same as iTunes v. 7.x, but I haven't seen any indication that it works differently. As previously suggested, it sounds as though it is a USB issue, not an iTunes/iPod issue, that causes your machine to thing the iPod is freshly plugged in when you turn on your printer. Also, when hard drives click, that is usually a Very Bad Sign®. Most likely the drive is near failure. If you haven't already done so, back up your data immediately, starting with the most important and/or irreplaceable files first. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It depends on the goals. With respect to the government collecting taxes at gunpoint, do you really think a system of anarchy would be less violent than the IRS? Do you really think you should receive the benefits of taxes without paying your own way? How is that different from stealing. If you think taxes are too high, work within the system to change that, or move somewhere with lower taxes. If you stay, you're giving tacit consent to taxation. If you stay and don't pay taxes, you're stealing from and infringing on the rights of others. No, I don't, generally. I do, however, believe that I should be allowed to vote for those who are charged with the responsibility to make such decisions. No. Nor do I believe income taxes take away anyones rights. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

In Britain. To date, it's not that way in America. It is that way, and it has been that way for about 35 years. I originally posted about it here. The UK is the only place in western Europe that has lower economic mobility than the US, and only very slightly so. Worker productivity and worker income used to grow at about the same rate, but since about 1974 income increases have fallen short of productivity increases. Since 2000, the problem has been significantly worse. Direct link to Source Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I've had the opposite experience. It has been the right, not the left, that tends to interfere more in the lives of individuals. I long for the day when the private property management company of my apartment complex implements a rent payment method that allows me to pay my rent in less time than it takes me to renew my automobile's tags (which takes all of two minutes, ten if I do it in person). Me: •A pay as you go tax rate, plus ten percent (of the tax, not the income) to save/invest for large emergency expenditures and to reduce the future tax burden of citizens. •A government sufficiently large to meet the needs of citizens, not too small, not too big, as neither would be effective. •Armed citizenry and a drastically downsized military. •Anti-drug prohibition •Pro embryonic stem cell research •Anti-bigotry (e.g. against ban on same sex marriage) The same could be said of blondes, men, brown eyed people, deaf people, heterosexuals, Yale graduates, or any other demographic one wants to consider. In a democracy/representative republic, politicians are no less capable than other individual members of the the populace, unless the voters fail. If the people elect a chronic failure to the White House, it should come as no surprise when that elected official screws up everything he touches for the entirety of his eight years in office. If you think you can do a better job, fulfill your civic duty and run for office. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Yes, if one keeps their savings under their mattress, inflation will take an unnecessary effect. Wiser investment strategies avoid such problems. For example, TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) are indexed to the Consumer Price Index, so their rate of return is real, not nominal. Like most similar explanations, you have failed to consider the additional cost to individuals to purchase the goods and services that would not be provided by the government via tax dollars. Roads, schools, air traffic control, military forces, and countless other things aren't cheap, and would be even less so without the buying power of communities large and small with members pooling their money via taxes. It seems to be all too easy to forget that we get things back for our taxes. Without paying taxes, we would have to pay for those things as individuals, in most cases at a higher cost, since individuals lack the buying power of large groups. Again, it's a faulty analogy, since taxes purchase benefits, usually for a lower price than individuals could purchase those benefits individually. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Why? If some people find pleasure in recreational drug use, why try to get them to stop? Sure, the behavior can be risky, more so with some drugs than others, but aside from bumming out their friends and family if they die, the risk is their own, and they're not hurting others. In fact, it sounds a lot like skydiving (deriving pleasure from an activity that appears dangerous and without benefit to many non-participants). Because when you live in a nation that has socailised healthcare it ceases to be a burden on just their friends and family. Fair enough, should the US ever be fortunate enough to implement socialized healthcare. Should we actively attempt to get everyone to quit drinking alcohol, which is as dangerous as any common illegal recreational drug? Should we force skydivers to give up skydiving, since it's a dangerous sport that often leads to serious injury? Perhaps we should prohibit riding bicycles on the street, since that can be quite dangerous. We better not let anyone take on any DIY home improvement projects, since they might injure themselves. Most people participate in some dangerous activity or another. There's nothing safe in life. There are a lot of common activities that are more dangerous than recreational drugs if the goal is to save society from unnecessary healthcare costs. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Strictly speaking, signing the bill didn't have anything to do with the current situation, because the bill passed by a veto proof margin. I disagree with the former president about the bill helping to stabilize the current situation. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

1. Vinegar != BBQ sauce 2. The meat and the sauce need to be cooked at significantly different temperatures. Cooking the meat in the sauce is a surefire way to ruin both (when using vinegar instead of real BBQ sauce, it might not ruin the vinegar). 3. Vinegar != BBQ sauce Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!