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Diego Mamani
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Keep wondering, and don’t lose hope. Maybe someday you’ll get some ammunition to use on personal attacks against me or my family.
Although you do represent the bottom of the barrel for the Piggs, there’s always a chance that you’ll be able to lower the bar even further.[/quote]
Time for me to use the “ignore user” button…Participant[quote=pri_dk][quote=sheilawellington][quote=pri_dk]Of course almost all countries have a few state-owned enterprises, but there are no countries in the developed world where the majority of economic activity is controlled by the state (aside from a few, truly socialist exceptions – e.g. North Korea)[/quote]
North Korea is part of the developed world? I don’t think too many people would agree.[/quote]They’ve got nukes.
I think most people would agree that North Korea is a little more developed than sub-Saharan Africa.[/quote]
Pri_dk, your original statement made no comparison of North Korea to other poorer countries. You simply mentioned N.K. as an example of “developed”. So, are you really saying that “North Korea is a developed country”? I think that your second statement, i.e., that “North Korea is more developed that some of the poorer countries in sub-Saharan Africa” is more accurate (provided we add “some” as a qualifier since some of these African countries have better quality-of-life measures, such as children nutrition, than North Korea).
To say that having nuclear weapons makes you part of the developed world is really a stretch…
Participant[quote=CA Renter]If you’re right, then where are these “free market” countries with all the innovation and creativity? Are they in no/low-tax countries with no/few social safety nets, or are they in places where there is a stable government, rule of law, and safety nets for those who are less fortunate — along with the relatively high taxes required by those systems?[/quote]
I think it’s at best misleading, if not fallacious, to imply that stable government and rule of law go hand-in-hand with having safety nets for the less fortunate. Especially when the definition of “less fortunate” is so subjective (e.g., a person defined as “poor” in official statistics in the US is very likely to have a car and a cell phone, while in most of the world owning those two would make you middle class).Participant[quote=flu]Not if you have a wells fargo advisor account that gives you 1000 free trades each year, per account.[/quote]
That’s a sweet deal Flu! But there’s no free lunch in this world… there must be something that WF gets out of this.Participant[quote=pri_dk]No need to worry…there’s a difference between daytrading and gambling.
Right?[/quote]
Yes, there’s a difference and one could lose money with both. The former can eat capital through trading fees and transaction costs, and the latter through taking risks. Of course, day trading could be akin to gambling, depending on what is being bought and sold.April 18, 2012 at 9:35 PM in reply to: OT: red light camera ticket for right turn and 0.1 secs #741886Participant[quote=Hatfield]They don’t enforce front plates much in SD but they do up in LA. [/quote]
My experience, more than 10 years ago, was the opposite. I had my rear license plate stolen, registration tags included, from just outside USC in L.A. I filed a police report, moved the front license plate to the back, and then I paid $15 to the DMV for replacement tags/stickers (month and year). I then drove in L.A. w/o a front plate for over a year, before moving to San Diego. After about 5 months living in Point Loma, a cop stopped me and gave me a fix-it ticket.My original plate was blue and started with 1G…, the new plate was white and started with 4AL…
April 16, 2012 at 10:55 AM in reply to: OT: Post your favorite pic of your town/neighborhood that you took. #741741ParticipantYuck!
ParticipantYup. Print this page up, and ask him to read it as a personal favor to you. If he still wants to hand over his father’s money to the con artist, at least you will have done your duty as a friend.
People, stop using words such as “investing in this deal.” It’s not an investment, and it’s not a deal. It’s a con and a scam. It’s not even an original con.
Participant[quote=pri_dk]Are you concerned about legal recourse if the policy chooses not to pay?[/quote]
That’s very unlikely to be an issue, especially given the fact that medical care, medicines, etc., are a lot cheaper in Mexico than in the US. They don’t charge $5K per hospital day alone (exclusive of doctors’ fees) as they do here in the good old USA.I had to go to an ER in South America a few years back. It turned out that no treatment was needed other than a written prescription. I didn’t have my US-issued insurance card with me, so I told them up front that I was going to pay out of pocket. My total cost for the ER visit? The equivalent of US$8. I didn’t have to wait in line (it was 5 am), and the facilities were better than OK, and that was a government-run hospital.
ParticipantSugar is responsible for the drop (or rise?) in fertility rates! This is Demography 102; see the statistical evidence behind the Grapes of Wrath story (more sugar coming out of the grapes!)
ParticipantThat’s excellent advise from sdr. If I were you, I’d seriously consider not buying this house. Masking, or even getting rid of smells is one thing. Getting rid of allergens is something else altogether, and may not be easy to do.
You may be able to have the house thoroughly cleaned of all traces of allergens, and that would be great. But what if you can’t?
Remember also that if you are not ready and willing to walk away from a deal, then you may be overpaying (or worse, risking serious health problems down the road).
I realize that this is not what you wanted to hear… but we Piggs are extremely practical and objective, or at least we try 🙂
Participant“Cigarettes are a delivery device for tobacco” from an old 60 Minutes piece
I thought today’s piece was going to use this line from the Simpsons:
“Candies are a delivery device for sugar!”Participant[quote=walterwhite]I feel more testisteroney when I make money.[/quote]
LOL! Thomas Malthus, the 18th century scholar and demographer, would have agreed with you. After all, he wrote a whole book to say essentially the same thing!Participant[quote=dumbrenter]What kind of a person/family would make a decision to have or not have children based on economy?[/quote]
It’s Demography 101, really. And it’s not the economy per se that dictates family size.These examples are precisely what does not go through people’s minds:
-“Gee, the GDP per capita (or the unemployment rate, or the federal government deficit, etc.) hasn’t improved for more than four quarters, so let’s not have more children (or let’s not get married yet).”
Instead, the thinking goes more like this:
-“Gee, I got laid off (or half of my neighbors were laid off, or I haven’t been able to find a job after 12 months, etc.), so I can’t afford to have a child now, or afford to marry now, let’s wait for my situation to improve.”
Our friend above gave us an example based on her family. Many folks simply felt that they couldn’t afford to have (more) kids:
[quote=UCGal]I have my grandmother’s diaries from this timeframe. Very enlightening. (…) My grandmother had a pregnancy scare (…) Lets just say she considered all options (at least emotionally, as written in her diary). Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm. They could *not* afford a second child.[/quote]
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