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Economics: Rich People and Leverage?

All this thread was was a simplified example of how people with immense wealth can use their wealth to potentially increase their wealth, power and influence. I'm sure that in the United States that if someone bought all the property in a small town that there would eventually be some sort of...
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- Post #40
- Apr 8, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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What do you think about people that value work just for the sake of work?

What do you think about people that value work just for the sake of work? I'm not talking about people who work hard to pay their bills and support their families, I'm talking about people who are work fanatics and think that making anything easy on themselves (or others) is being lazy. Take...
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- Apr 8, 2011
- Replies: 55
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Windows Repair + Wife = Upset Husband

Reinstall the OS. Have a separate data partition. Do data backups regularly. Clone the OS install. Make your wife do web browsing and other stuff that could ruin your OS install inside of a virtual machine. Have an administrator account that she can't use. Also, man up and refuse to accept...
- billdotson
- Post #23
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Computer Building
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Gas Prices -- What would it take to get you out of your SUV?

Cars for most people are simply to get to their job, run errands, etc. Most people don't need to care about the top speed or max acceleration of a car. What most people do care about is whether it can do what they need it to (enough space), get good gas mileage, etc. If a hybrid costs $10000...
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- Post #258
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Economics: Rich People and Leverage?

Ok, here is a hypothetical example: Say I have millions and millions of dollars and decide that I want to buy all of the housing in a particular area. After I do that, I want to charge very high prices, because my housing is all that is available in the area. What would prevent someone from...
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- Apr 6, 2011
- Replies: 42
- Forum: Politics and News
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Gas Prices -- What would it take to get you out of your SUV?

It would take a few years of increased gas prices to offset the cost of a new, more fuel efficient car. Most people can't afford a new car that costs them over $10000 if it is only going to save them $1000 a year in gas.
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- Post #253
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Rapid Technological Growth: Why is the Cost of Living Still So High?

I'm talking about quality of life by looking at the prices of the basics. To me, traveling at a cheaper cost isn't making life that much better for me because it is such a small part of life. If I could afford all the basics plus some in the 1980s, but now I must work about the same amount just...
- billdotson
- Post #83
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Rapid Technological Growth: Why is the Cost of Living Still So High?

To summarize: You would think that with such amazing increases in productivity and technological growth that that would mean not as much work would be required to make the economy go. If it took 40 hrs/week to make the economy go in 1980, and we are 50% more productive now, then wouldn't it...
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- Post #81
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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GSmartControl says all my hard drives have pre-failure or old age attributes?

Two different forums and nobody has anything to say?
- billdotson
- Post #2
- Apr 1, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Rapid Technological Growth: Why is the Cost of Living Still So High?

I am not talking about the cost of living in purely monetary terms. I also factor in the time spent working, time which people would otherwise spend on pursuing their hobbies, enjoying their somewhat short life (in the grand scheme of things). BoberFett: a 1950's lifestyle really isn't that...
- billdotson
- Post #67
- Apr 1, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libertarian ideas ever made you go..wtf?

Here it is, I'm warning you: this post is LOOOONG. If you read it though, I would think you may find it at least somewhat useful, even if you may not agree with me. People, now that you are arguing about this again, please read my two posts. I don't think I said anything that didn't make sense...
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- Post #166
- Apr 1, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libertarian ideas ever made you go..wtf?

JSt0rm: whoever it was that said they are a libertarian and lives off welfare because it is there is full of you-know-what. Any self respecting libertarian values personal responsibility and not being babied by the government. For people that truly need welfare, many libertarians believe this...
- billdotson
- Post #138
- Mar 29, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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GSmartControl says all my hard drives have pre-failure or old age attributes?

I have a Maxtor 300GB IDE drive that I pulled out of an external casing, a month old Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB and a 250GB Seagate drive. I haven't had any problems with any of them except for the Maxtor, who's USB interface in the external case failed (no computer would even...
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- Mar 29, 2011
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Rapid Technological Growth: Why is the Cost of Living Still So High?

Even with the rapid technological growth that has happened in recent years, everyone still works about the same. People go to their 8 (if you're lucky) hour a day job Mon-Fri, pay your bills and then go home to spend what little time you have left. Obviously technology has improved economic...
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- Mar 29, 2011
- Replies: 83
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libertarian ideas ever made you go..wtf?

TheRedUnderURBed: I assume you didn't read the Wiki article? I didn't really expect anyone to I guess. Read this: http://www.lp.org/platform If you think that is full of conspiracy theories then something is truly wrong. Some of the things you could argue against, such as the need for everyone...
- billdotson
- Post #136
- Mar 29, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libertarian ideas ever made you go..wtf?

If I read anyone else talking about democracy I am going to scream. The United States is NOT a democracy. How many times must this be said? The United States is a Constitutional Republic. No, that isn't a nitpick, that is huge. “Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies...
- billdotson
- Post #135
- Mar 29, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News
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Libertarian ideas ever made you go..wtf?

Why is it so ridiculous for some drugs to be legalized? Are you hurting anyone else but yourself if you want to do a drug? You're ruining your life, not mine. You don't need drug laws to keep people from doing drugs and neglecting their children, you just need neglect and/or abuse laws. For...
- billdotson
- Post #129
- Mar 29, 2011
- Forum: Politics and News

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