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  • Re: *** April 2013 Low Content Thread ***

    Wow thats exactly right! Freedom of marraige = euphemism?
    Posted to General (Forum) by eliotn on Thu, May 9 2013
  • Re: Governments Can Easily Force People to Do Something and Claim No Force is Involved

    " You got 5 offers in increasing order of pay. A, B, C, D, E. Governments wants to force you to pick C. What would government do? Tell you to do C? No. Governments need only to prohibit D and E. Then government would say, no body force you to do C. You can still do A and B. " Why are A, B, C, D, E in increasing utility for everyone? Why do
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by eliotn on Tue, Apr 30 2013
  • Re: The Anons Around Us

    I know that search engine crawlers are bots used by websites in order to find new websites and link them over to google and other search engines, so that the forum posts can be found. Data miner crawlers are probably used to gather other information from the World Wide Web.
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by eliotn on Thu, Apr 25 2013
  • Re: Incan Socialism: some initial thoughts

    For those who are interested, the book can be read online at mises.org here: http://mises.org/document/4336/ Interestingly enough, Ludwig Von Mises himself wrote the foreword to this book.
    Posted to History (Forum) by eliotn on Fri, Apr 19 2013
  • Re: Attended a Lecture by Congressman Steve Cohen

    " -Our real defense department is the National Institute of Health. The sequester cut 1 billion from it, and now our medical progress will grind to a halt." Hi congressman. How much money have you received from the national institute of health, and how much money have they spent to lobby for this as your primary adgenda? And clever semantic
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by eliotn on Sat, Apr 6 2013
  • Re: Mississippi Bans Soft Drinks Smaller Than 20 Ounces

    I thought this was an april fools joke, until I noticed the date on the article...
    Posted to Current Events (Forum) by eliotn on Mon, Apr 1 2013
  • Re: Pay kids to do chores or no?

    Possibly relevant: http://sandradodd.com/chores/intro http://joyfullyrejoycing.com/influencing%20kid%20behavior/chores/tyingallowancetochores.html From the second link: "Setting up a pretend situation to teach someone a lesson rarely teaches them the lesson we want them to learn. If you have the ability to give someone something and you make them
    Posted to General (Forum) by eliotn on Sun, Mar 24 2013
  • Re: Why doesn't milk cost $20 - LibertyHQ

    "1. And how do workers determine their marginal revenue product?" Non-sequitor. Competition for buyers does not imply that the competitors somehow determine "their" marginal product for the good they are selling. Rather, it is the buyer of the good who has an idea of the marginal revenue product. What workers determine is the wages
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by eliotn on Wed, Mar 20 2013
  • Re: Why doesn't milk cost $20 - LibertyHQ

    "But that Investopedia "article" did not explain how marginal revenue product is calculated. Why would I ask a question if I don't want an answer? I'll repeat my question: how do competing employers decide that workers are being underpaid? Wheylous' article was good and I'm sure it holds true when it comes to milk, but
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by eliotn on Tue, Mar 19 2013
  • Re: On the minimum wage: is it even an issue?

    " For example, let's say all employers are forced to hire workers at 18 dollars an hour when previously they were paying 8 dollars - won't they just raise prices to compensate? Everything will cost 10 dollars more, but workers will have 10 dollars more purchasing power. Has this been brought up - thoughts?" This has been brought up
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by eliotn on Tue, Mar 19 2013
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