Centrisms Voice's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 19:53:05 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:53:05 The Post-Dot-Com US Business Model Here's the playbook the nation's CFOs have been using over the past several years:

1. Fire everyone who knows what they're doing. They are too expensive.
2. Replace them with employees who don't know what they're doing, at no more than half the cost. This translates into huge savings and more p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/9 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:11:48 Something else Taleb said, I'd have to do some digging for the exact quote, but he also attributes the current crisis to having private profits and socialized losses. According to him, both profits and losses must be either private or socialized (e.g., no FDIC protection except for banks that are government-owned). ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/8 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:01:15 It's easy to avoid seeming like a troll when... You never insult anyone other than a public figure. I don't flame anyone, and if someone insists on being uncivil to me, I'll just ignore them.

I ended up quitting a board where the admin actually chastised members for NOT flaming one another! :crazy: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/7 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:17:15 Mostly My user name says it all. Primarily I'm hanging around here these days because centrist Republicans seem to be extinct.

At any rate, I can see that you all are a welcoming bunch. Thanks! ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/6 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:58:13 Question from a noob, for and about noobs Is there a forum where it's customary for the noobs to introduce themselves on a thread? If so, where?

I wouldn't want to shirk my civic responsibility. :)
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/5 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:37:53 They want to feel it. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when I see an attractive woman, sooner or later I wonder - silently, most of the time - what it would be like to have sex with her. Seeing cleavage reminds me of caressing a woman's chest with my hands and later my face, as I and many other men do when we're being phys... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/4 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:15:29 First, calm him down When he's in a calm mood, make him promise to answer you questions only with logic for the next x minutes. (Don't make X too big a number at first.)

Then, start with "If the rich get a tax cut, what's to stop them from socking it away in a Cayman Island bank instead of using it to hire middle cl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/3 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:28:06 Wealth inequality just can't be so extreme, that's all Wealth inequality is inevitable (look what happened to communism), but that doesn't mean that the rich can't or shouldn't kick in many times more money than they are now - to ensure a reasonable safety net exists for the bottom 90%. And even with that, socialist countries still have lots of rich bus... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/2 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:35:48 They're ridiculously partisan, true That being said, I was hoping with my earlier question to get to the "meat" of the issue. Put another way, I'd like to hear some specifics on the corporate personhood laws that make them out of date now. I'd also be interested in hearing what changes the interested DUers would like to see in these l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Centrisms Voice/1 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:57