BTW- I have CS5. Hate it but am trying to use it. I’ve used coreldraw for years and love it. A number of the printers I work with have also told me they love coreldraw and are seeing more and more customers using it. Still- I really want to use CS5 because its the standard, and I love learning software. But to date even my biggest projects, including the book and the design for the Wash D.C. 25th Anniversary of the Vietnam Wall were all done in Coreldraw.
“True, because of government interference and meddling. Yes, there need to be laws and regulations but the more there are, the less inefficient become the markets”
Again, if you just say everything bad with the current capitalist system is the fault of ‘not capitalism’, then I could make an equally valid defense of communism’s failings. Which is to say, not valid at all.
“Unfortunately, capitalism is more abstract and therefore harder to understand, and since people on average aren’t that bright, socialism is almost impossible to weed out.”
Okay, I know I said I was leaving, but really. (Trollfeeding, I know)
This is gibbering idiocy. If you’re going to define capitalism as just the things that you think work, and say that any collapses are the fault of ‘not capitalism’ then of course capitalism is great. And I would say that giant economic busts are less like a smudge on your silver and more like a turd in your soup. Which, yes, I would complain about.
Capitalism is one of many many systems that people have used over time to facilitate the exchange of goods. As a concept, it has many advantages and many disadvantages. It is complex in that there are (nearly?) zero complete free-market totally-efficient what-have-you versions of it in practice, and so you can’t really say whether it’s god’s gift to exchanging goods or not.
Nearly every government out there uses a wide mix of various ideas. Many of the things that make life less squalid and horrible fly in the face of capitalism.
“Socialism … ignores the complex consequences that flow from that of course, but why think about difficult and abstract things if you can get yourself elected by promising to steal from the rich and give to the poor?”
Yes, why indeed, when you can get elected by promising to punish the undeserving ‘other’ poor people and make all the deserving people (that’s you, oh voter) rich?
Like I said, gibbering.”
uuhh, sounds like somebody’s rationalizing their “staycation” this year. ;o(
I think it was you saying that the other side ‘had never given you a job.’ Hence the assumption that you had been given a job by the capitalist/corrupt/batshit folks. But perhaps you meant that, if you *were* given a job by an irrational leftist, then you would support irrational leftists.
“It is complex in that there are (nearly?) zero complete free-market totally-efficient what-have-you versions of it in practice, and so you can’t really say whether it’s god’s gift to exchanging goods or not.”
True, because of government interference and meddling. Yes, there need to be laws and regulations but the more there are, the less inefficient become the markets
bxgrl- Yeah, my first point to them is that Photoshop is not really any good for type. But it’s a photoshop course, and that’s one week of it.
Though if you’re printing to inkjet without a real RIP, and you’re making a poster or something, I suppose it’s useful. It does have decent text manipulation tools, and you can keep it vector until you flatten for print. But my 126 pages of Pshop handouts (and counting) are all in InDesign.
Bfarwell is my new hero!!!!!!
Well said, bfarwell 🙂
BTW- I have CS5. Hate it but am trying to use it. I’ve used coreldraw for years and love it. A number of the printers I work with have also told me they love coreldraw and are seeing more and more customers using it. Still- I really want to use CS5 because its the standard, and I love learning software. But to date even my biggest projects, including the book and the design for the Wash D.C. 25th Anniversary of the Vietnam Wall were all done in Coreldraw.
dibs,
Did you notice that I posted the
After the Fire version.
I think you posted the Falco version.
Love that tune. It’s on my Ipod permanently.
“True, because of government interference and meddling. Yes, there need to be laws and regulations but the more there are, the less inefficient become the markets”
Again, if you just say everything bad with the current capitalist system is the fault of ‘not capitalism’, then I could make an equally valid defense of communism’s failings. Which is to say, not valid at all.
“Unfortunately, capitalism is more abstract and therefore harder to understand, and since people on average aren’t that bright, socialism is almost impossible to weed out.”
Okay, I know I said I was leaving, but really. (Trollfeeding, I know)
This is gibbering idiocy. If you’re going to define capitalism as just the things that you think work, and say that any collapses are the fault of ‘not capitalism’ then of course capitalism is great. And I would say that giant economic busts are less like a smudge on your silver and more like a turd in your soup. Which, yes, I would complain about.
Capitalism is one of many many systems that people have used over time to facilitate the exchange of goods. As a concept, it has many advantages and many disadvantages. It is complex in that there are (nearly?) zero complete free-market totally-efficient what-have-you versions of it in practice, and so you can’t really say whether it’s god’s gift to exchanging goods or not.
Nearly every government out there uses a wide mix of various ideas. Many of the things that make life less squalid and horrible fly in the face of capitalism.
“Socialism … ignores the complex consequences that flow from that of course, but why think about difficult and abstract things if you can get yourself elected by promising to steal from the rich and give to the poor?”
Yes, why indeed, when you can get elected by promising to punish the undeserving ‘other’ poor people and make all the deserving people (that’s you, oh voter) rich?
Like I said, gibbering.”
uuhh, sounds like somebody’s rationalizing their “staycation” this year. ;o(
“What gave you the impression I work FOR them?”
I think it was you saying that the other side ‘had never given you a job.’ Hence the assumption that you had been given a job by the capitalist/corrupt/batshit folks. But perhaps you meant that, if you *were* given a job by an irrational leftist, then you would support irrational leftists.
“It is complex in that there are (nearly?) zero complete free-market totally-efficient what-have-you versions of it in practice, and so you can’t really say whether it’s god’s gift to exchanging goods or not.”
True, because of government interference and meddling. Yes, there need to be laws and regulations but the more there are, the less inefficient become the markets
bxgrl- Yeah, my first point to them is that Photoshop is not really any good for type. But it’s a photoshop course, and that’s one week of it.
Though if you’re printing to inkjet without a real RIP, and you’re making a poster or something, I suppose it’s useful. It does have decent text manipulation tools, and you can keep it vector until you flatten for print. But my 126 pages of Pshop handouts (and counting) are all in InDesign.
“why think about difficult and abstract things if you can get yourself elected by promising to steal from the rich and give to the poor?”
That’s what worked for Obama. We are the closest to socialism that we’ve ever been and it’s very dangerous.
Luckily most Americans realized that and dished out a “shellacking.”