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Should the U.S. Congress Cut Its Pay? {BloggingStocks}
Mar 8th 2010 11:33PM 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.
The next Sony is Vizio {BloggingStocks}
Jun 30th 2008 1:15AM 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.
Microsoft (MSFT) tries to boost the Zune {BloggingStocks}
May 6th 2008 12:29PM Well, I do find the zune to be a much better product than the ipod in almost every way.
Ford Focus success shows change is happening at Ford, but it's still too little and too late {BloggingStocks}
Apr 15th 2008 10:28AM 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?
The Wal-Mart Weekly: Why do many hate Wal-Mart? {BloggingStocks}
Mar 29th 2008 11:55AM 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.
How to make suburbia work again in America {BloggingStocks}
Feb 11th 2008 12:00AM Moses kicked the Dodgers out of NY, so Moses is evil.
So if you use the transitive relation...
What's really wrong with Social Security? {BloggingStocks}
Dec 16th 2007 9:47PM 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.
Russia, The Island {Luxist}
Sep 23rd 2007 11:40AM 6.2 million is kind of cheap don't ya think?
6.2 billion sounds more like it.
Navizon virtual GPS system now iPhone-friendly {Engadget}
Sep 19th 2007 9:18PM 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.
Tranquil's T7-HSA shipping with Windows Home Server {Engadget HD}
Sep 12th 2007 10:06PM 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?
