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Originally posted by Kidicious
Stick to one side of the argument for Christ sake. Do you believe in the neoclassical model for polution control or not?
By the way, Kuci, a major reason I have the job that I currently hold is the basic disconnect between doing something that is totally legal, and then being held liable for the results of that.
Insurance applies only to accidents (if you go on what the policies actually SAY, anyway). Therefore, if you discharge XYZ chemical pursuant to you permit, and this results in bodily injury or property damage... how is that covered? Clearly you meant to discharge the pollutants. Ah, but did you intend the damage? Open to question, to say the least!
And the war has been waged in courtrooms for decades now. In many, many, many cases, courts have decided for the insured over the insurer for what seems to me primarily public policy reasons. Cleanup is required, the insurance company has money, whereas maybe the insured doesn't. Hmm.... COVERED!
Originally posted by Flubber
I just see capitalism as being the system most likely to come up with better and better measures to deal with pollution.
Now a person knows that if they can come up with innovations that can reduce emissions by 25% this could be an immensely profitable product. Faced with stiffening regulations, businesses that can innovate will do well.
One of my big complaints with communism was the lack of individual incentives or even business unit incentives to innovate. If I am the manager of Factory 12 and production and pollution are within state-approved norms, what incentive is there to design that device?? If I did design it, no doubt the state would decide to put the first ones near the capital. Heck the state might even order me out of my comfortable rural lifestyle and order me to go around the world installing these things. I rarely see my wife and child, my factory is now being run by the nephew of the Administrator of Political Unit 18 and I see no benefit at all except the knowledge that the air is a little cleaner ( and wil be in my hometown when they get around to the installation there.
Capitalism has a problem in that a new device may be considered proprietary and therefore not widely distributed immediately but at least the device stands a better chance of getting built.
Not really. There is already a lot of technology that isn't implemented because of someone's vested interest. Communism will free those technologies so that we can all benefit from them.
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- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Anyway, that's a peculiarity of our system, and it doesn't make any sense. If you have a specific permit from Congress or your Parliament, it makes no sense that you can be sued.
I disagree. The theory is that the damage to neighbors can't occur but for your operation. Even if you do everything non-negligently, damage is possible, so you will pay for that damage. Its just a cost of doing business. If I store oil, I am responsible for any seepage period.
I am still curious as to when these explicit authoriations come about. Our parliament don't give them ( to my knowledge)-- ANY industrial activity is told to apply to the appropriate departments and comply with all relevant laws
You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo
Not really. There is already a lot of technology that isn't implemented because of someone's vested interest. Communism will free those technologies so that we can all benefit from them.
But will communism generate more of those technologies, that's the real question. I an skeptical that it would. Not without incentives of some kind!
I disagree. The theory is that the damage to neighbors can't occur but for your operation. Even if you do everything non-negligently, damage is possible, so you will pay for that damage. Its just a cost of doing business. If I store oil, I am responsible for any seepage period.
BINGO. And, by the way, if everyone agreed it would be music to my company's ears. Because many people don't see it that way. They see it this way:
I did what I was told was ok to do! Now they want money from me! What the hell?! Hey, I paid insurance premiums for years and years, they should pay for this!
Actually I feel FABULOUS. I have a meeting later and my express purpose is to try to negotiate as much PROFIT as I can from our planned arrangement. and GASP I think the other side plans to do the same thing.
Now I haven't yet figured out a way to profit more by polluting more on this particular deal so I think I'll just pour some oil on the street to compensate for my failing.
So you admit that your bottom line is to make profit. You have no true interest in benefiting society.
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Originally posted by Kuciwalker
(Aren't your federal laws superior to provincial ones?)
On some things yes and on some things no. That answer stands if you mean superior as in "better" or "stronger" OR if you mean that they superseded provincial law.
depending on the jurisdiction, the provinces can vary widely in their laws so they can be more or less stringent than the feds in areas where jurisdictions overlap.
As for jursidictions , while there is much overlap there are some clear heads of federal and some of provincial jurisdiction. A federal law in an area of provincial jurisdiction would be ultra vires and of nor force and effect
Originally posted by Kuciwalker
My argument would be that a permit to do something is such authorization.
A permit is simply a government agency approving an activity. It in no way relieve that permit-holder from their liabilities whether they be statutory or at common law.
As I said, I don't know of any permit that gives people exemptions from liability and again would ask for an example
You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo
But will communism generate more of those technologies, that's the real question. I an skeptical that it would. Not without incentives of some kind!
-Arrian
There's no point to developing technologies that can help if they don't help. Yes, you can develope technology with a communist system, and they will even be implemented for a better society.
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
1) Is the return on government research as good as the return on the free market's research? I honestly don't know the answer (actually, I doubt there is a definite answer); and
2) To what degree is the research driven by people who know they can leave after a while and nab a lucrative job at some private company's R&D lab?
There's no point to developing technologies that can help if they don't help. Yes, you can develope technology with a communist system, and they will even be implemented for a better society.
That's the dream, anyway. I'm rather uncertain that it would work out as well as you think.
The wonderfull thing is that you can basically develope as much research as you want to if you just don't leave it up to the free market, and you actually take measures to do so.
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
But will communism generate more of those technologies, that's the real question. I an skeptical that it would. Not without incentives of some kind!
Government corporations produce technologies all the time, including here. Why not in "communism"?
I don't say a communist system won't produce ANY innovation, I just think it will be much less.
The government employees that create things . . . can they get bonuses, advancement to higher paying jobs or lucrative private offers ? If they can, they are still in a capitalist society despite working for the government.
The communist society I am considering is one in which the MOST an innovator might get is the respect of their peers since financial incentives are not permitted as they might create an upper class
You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo
Cuba is now one of the leading inovators in cancer fighting drugs. And they are providing them to the rest of the world cheap. Unfortunately for us in the U.S., the embargo makes it difficult for us to get them. U.S. companies cannot pay for the drugs, so they have to get permission from the U.S. to ship an amount of goods equal to the monetary worth of the drug.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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