My parents are texting photos of plates of food on their vacation, but instead of crazy hole in the walls or home cooking, they are in the florida keys and the photos are all taken at like, carrabba's.
It's kind of adorable.
Why even go on vacation if you're not going to eat weird local food?
Cinders came over and I got her duck at a place where the menu wasn't even in English.
caveat: no matter the local custom, I won't eat bugs. that's where I draw the line.
i want to try bugs just once.
ground up maybe.
I had locusts/grasshoppers once. They were fine, just tasted like the soy sauce and sugar they were cooked in. Not much different to a weird rice cracker.
But worms and grubs? Can't even get near them, let alone eat them.
Clips of The Simpsons taken with a shaky iPhone 2 benefit no one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_w_twAr7w
If someone made a pristine copy of this scene, youtube would take it down the same day but this has stayed up for years. Is this a sick joke, youtube?
I make widgets. After accounting for all the cost of the materials to make the widgets (including the cost of getting the materials) and add in the cost of selling the widget (advertising, shipping, etc), then the difference between the cost of the widget and that prior value ought to be thought of as the cost of my labor and if I'm not being paid that much for making the widget then I'm being cheated.
I've been told that this is a Labor Theory way of looking at things. But I don't know what's wrong with this. I do know it's wrong, but not why.
As a moral statement, I'm pretty sympathetic to that, actually. But that's different from an economic system.
Keep in mind that LVT predates Marx by a pretty long history. Marx brought up the concept of worker exploitation and used LVT to justify it. But the concept worker exploitation is not a necessary component of LVT nor vice versa.
Ideally, an economic framework should be able to explain phenomena in the real world - changes in prices, labor movement, decisions by entrepreneurs to enter or exit a market. LVT just doesn't, as a general rule. When it does, it does so only under very narrow parameters.
Consider another example: diamonds, which we were talking about earlier and there's a collegehumor video going viral about them right now. The price of a diamond ring is a lot more than the cost of the natural materials plus the labor to produce it. They're not particularly scarce. But they command a high price. LVT can't explain that. LVT can't explain Magic cards. It can't explain why a video game that took 200,000 programmer man-hours to produce costs $50 while a financial package that took the same amount of time to produce costs $90.
LVT has to chalk all of these up to some kind of rent-seeking - eg, they're deviations from the normal price equilibrium that are due to markets being imperfect (unfair legal frameworks, monopolies, insufficient information on the parts of buyers). Or they're short-term fluctuations that will eventually correct. Both of these are simply untrue.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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due if you've ever eaten anything red, you've had crushed up bugs
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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except, like, fruits and veg
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Just to be totally fair, I should point out that some non-Marxist LVTs posited another form of value: use-value. In the 19th century, the use-value of, for example, a plow may exceed the labor-value of it. A good plow might last me years or even decades, but only take several days to make. Use-value can explain the difference in price between a financial package and a video game, for instance.
This is not too far away from the idea of marginal utility... but Marx more or less ignored it in his texts on worker exploitation. Because if you recognize that the use-value of a plow may exceed the labor value of that plow, then you can't really say that it's exploitative for the plow to fetch a higher price than it's cost.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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slow [chat] is slow
dance for me, monkeys
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
so one of my professors posted an assignment over spring break that was due during spring break
and since it was spring break i didn't check blackboard because it was spring break
and now he's telling me late assignments will not be accepted
fak u u fak
Yeah, that's dickery.
My prof gave an assignment that was due before break started because he was all, "I'm pretty sure you're not going to do anything during break, so do good work on this one small project and just have it in early. Then go nuts and do whatever, you crazy kids you."
I am a little embarrassed at how much moving aim from L1 to L2 and attack from R1 to R2 has messed me up.
But man it is a ton of fun to play.
I jelly, I wont play it until September at the earliest.
There's enough other crazy games coming out right now that you will be fine! Took me an hour to clear the main mission, and then the game gave me a completion counter, telling me 10% done.
But still, there are better dollar to time ratios out there, no doubt.
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I take back everything I've ever said about Fox News.
They are truly the best news organization
I am a little embarrassed at how much moving aim from L1 to L2 and attack from R1 to R2 has messed me up.
But man it is a ton of fun to play.
I jelly, I wont play it until September at the earliest.
There's enough other crazy games coming out right now that you will be fine! Took me an hour to clear the main mission, and then the game gave me a completion counter, telling me 10% done.
But still, there are better dollar to time ratios out there, no doubt.
Question, since you will be back here and it doesnt have a PC release (yet) will you be my PS4 Destiny bro?
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I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
I had locusts/grasshoppers once. They were fine, just tasted like the soy sauce and sugar they were cooked in. Not much different to a weird rice cracker.
But worms and grubs? Can't even get near them, let alone eat them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_w_twAr7w
If someone made a pristine copy of this scene, youtube would take it down the same day but this has stayed up for years. Is this a sick joke, youtube?
As a moral statement, I'm pretty sympathetic to that, actually. But that's different from an economic system.
Keep in mind that LVT predates Marx by a pretty long history. Marx brought up the concept of worker exploitation and used LVT to justify it. But the concept worker exploitation is not a necessary component of LVT nor vice versa.
Ideally, an economic framework should be able to explain phenomena in the real world - changes in prices, labor movement, decisions by entrepreneurs to enter or exit a market. LVT just doesn't, as a general rule. When it does, it does so only under very narrow parameters.
Consider another example: diamonds, which we were talking about earlier and there's a collegehumor video going viral about them right now. The price of a diamond ring is a lot more than the cost of the natural materials plus the labor to produce it. They're not particularly scarce. But they command a high price. LVT can't explain that. LVT can't explain Magic cards. It can't explain why a video game that took 200,000 programmer man-hours to produce costs $50 while a financial package that took the same amount of time to produce costs $90.
LVT has to chalk all of these up to some kind of rent-seeking - eg, they're deviations from the normal price equilibrium that are due to markets being imperfect (unfair legal frameworks, monopolies, insufficient information on the parts of buyers). Or they're short-term fluctuations that will eventually correct. Both of these are simply untrue.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
@skippydumptruck as of 2:00pm yes.
That's pretty clear.
Thanks @Feral
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
have you pickled anything yet or made shell art?
Nah, but his muttonchops are coming in nicely.
Just to be totally fair, I should point out that some non-Marxist LVTs posited another form of value: use-value. In the 19th century, the use-value of, for example, a plow may exceed the labor-value of it. A good plow might last me years or even decades, but only take several days to make. Use-value can explain the difference in price between a financial package and a video game, for instance.
This is not too far away from the idea of marginal utility... but Marx more or less ignored it in his texts on worker exploitation. Because if you recognize that the use-value of a plow may exceed the labor value of that plow, then you can't really say that it's exploitative for the plow to fetch a higher price than it's cost.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
dance for me, monkeys
Please you know how many dead bugs go into making an apple? Thousands!
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
But you can say the same thing about supply side economics.
good little monkeys
http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/2014/03/16
6 player splitscreen xbone racing game, devs shooting for 60fps
and since it was spring break i didn't check blackboard because it was spring break
and now he's telling me late assignments will not be accepted
fak u u fak
WHERE IS THE BRO? BUTTON???
Im so glad they're finally making Wave Racer 2!
but just
gawldangit get your shit together
Yeah, that's dickery.
My prof gave an assignment that was due before break started because he was all, "I'm pretty sure you're not going to do anything during break, so do good work on this one small project and just have it in early. Then go nuts and do whatever, you crazy kids you."
i'll probably just do the latter
I am a little embarrassed at how much moving aim from L1 to L2 and attack from R1 to R2 has messed me up.
But man it is a ton of fun to play.
The garlic came out of the oven looking like bleu cheese
Apparently this is a normal thing that happens
If you guys ever visit Japan.
Basashi.
Trust.
I jelly, I wont play it until September at the earliest.
There's enough other crazy games coming out right now that you will be fine! Took me an hour to clear the main mission, and then the game gave me a completion counter, telling me 10% done.
But still, there are better dollar to time ratios out there, no doubt.
They are truly the best news organization
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/03/17/sugars-found-in-tequila-may-protect-against-obesity-diabetes/
Pressed garlic? Surely you mean Preston Garlic
Question, since you will be back here and it doesnt have a PC release (yet) will you be my PS4 Destiny bro?
You were taught an important life lesson. In the real world there are no breaks. That'll be 50 grand.
I have only about 40 cards to find placeholder art, i should finish that part of the game tomorrow. thursday at the latest.
So i should have a plugin ready by this week-end, meaning Alpha testing can begin real soon.
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I should probably withhold.