Galls

Congressional pay is always constant, the only variables are what percentage comes from "contributions" and what percentage comes from salary. If you want to reduce corruption and actually get some qualified people in congress, their pay needs to increase ten fold.

Vizio just buys up excess capacity at assembly lines, so to claim they will become Sony is premature. They have shown great marketing ability by the reselling of industry excess, but they have not shown ability with being prime order/manufacturing.

Well, I do find the zune to be a much better product than the ipod in almost every way.

Why hasn't Ford just started using their European models? They do look and handle much better. Is it some deal set with the unions or some protectionist government policy?

Well Wal-Mart if the definition of the clash between the desires of the consumer and the citizen. Wal-Mart and other big box stores kill main street, the former gathering place of the community. Now main street is on private property, away from the offices of government and devoid of the rights granted through the constitution.

That is the principle citizen argument against wal-mart.

I can say I lack bias against Wal-Mart, I got to the Walton School of Business.

Moses kicked the Dodgers out of NY, so Moses is evil.

So if you use the transitive relation...

Singapore(I think) does exactly what you are talking about and does it very effectively.

The residents pay 1/3 of their income to taxes. Another 1/3 goes to what essentially is a mandatory personal security account, invested and not immediately surrendered to another generation. All that capital invested obviously helps the economy. Further more this leaves the population with 1/3 of their money to spend.

I am sure they have some provision for the poor, this is just recovered from a conversation I just had with my old economics prof.

6.2 million is kind of cheap don't ya think?

6.2 billion sounds more like it.

It works better in Manhattan I will tell you that.

GPS is only accurate to a couple of blocks in the city.

I work in the business, I know.

Why would you be concerned about the processor? Windows Home Server is just storage and transport? All the encoding and decoding is done on client side PCs is it not?