im far from clueless about it, I just dont agree with is conclusion in his statement. And Beta is the volatility of assets in a portfolio against others.
yes i think about this as well. i rarely hate anyone anymore and when i do i try to remind myself not to. people are, much more than i realized, a product of things they cannot control. when people are terrible and angry and mean, i realize that it sucks to be them and i feel bad for them. sometimes i hate them and want to beat people up for being stupid jerks but as i get older i really do genuinely feel bad for people who are shitheads. for example, i dont think criminals want to be criminals and i think they hate themselves for it. its like anything you hate about yourself. i am lucky to not tend to be violent and angry. i would be miserable if i was that sort of person who had to try to manage anger and criminal behavior. this doesnt mean i forgive bad folks or think jails should instead by psychiatric units. like steven pinker says in his book "the stuff of thought", the lack of freewill doesnt mean we shouldnt operate a justice system as if freewill doesnt exist. we need to pretend freewill exists in the same sense that we pretend in geometry that a plane extends indefinitely and has no mass.
cheers to you and i deserve a rebuke for assuming you dont know anything about this because i dont. one day i will start a thread about it and have both sides help me out.
also i am not as totally opposed to government health care as i used to be. i still think it is terrible but now i am willing to listen. i am definitely opposed to the weird hybrid we have now.
no rebuke at all, trust me it isnt all that interesting, but I do think you would enjoy it because its an argument of policy and not emotion and other stupid shit people vote on.
true enough, i do love policy discussions, but i am so poor with numbers that i am troubled and bored by discussing it. i do know i will take any argument for less taxing of anything, no matter what it is. we should be in a bloody battle to restrict the revenue and therefore power of the horrible government at all times.
I once thought that a national ID card was the embodiment of Big Brother. Now with much superficial privacy already gone by the wayside anyway due to the power of computers and the internet I see a secure National ID as an enhancement of national security, an impediment to illegal immigration, a fast-track through transportation security, protection against identity theft, and assistance to law enforcement. As for income taxes . . . income is income. Those that earn their money from investments should pay the same taxes as those who earn their income from salaries and business profits.
I believe as it relates to Capitol gains, everything you own either for business, pleasure or personal use is considered a Capitol asset. When you sell that asset the difference you sell it for is a Capitol gain or loss. So if you buy a piece of property for cheap and later down the road someone wants to give you more than what you paid you pay Capitol gains, as much as 28% if you own it less than a year.....somewhat less if you own it more than a year. I could be wrong, but I doubt it, so I must be right.
