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Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which means of production are mostly privately owned, and in which capital is invested in the production, distribution and/or other trade of goods and services for profit in a largely unregulated market.
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- [Capitalism is] an economic system based on private, rather than state, ownership of businesses, factories, transport services, etc, with free competition and profit-making.
- Allwords.com: Lemma "Capitalism", 2006
- A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
- Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion" (1921), translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
- Capitalism is presumably the first case of a blaming, rather than a repenting cult. ... An enormous feeling of guilt not itself knowing how to repent, grasps at the cult, not in order to repent for this guilt, but to make it universal, to hammer it into consciousness and finally and above all to include God himself in this guilt.
- Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion" (1921), translated by Chad Kautzer in The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (2005), p. 259
- But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
- John Desmond Bernal (1959) Marx and Science. p. 39
- Capitalism is a mode of socio-economic organization in which a class of entrepeneurs and entrepeneurial institutions provide the capital with which businesses produce goods and services and employ workers. In return the capitalist extracts profits from the goods created. Capitalism is frequently seen as the embodiment of the market economy, and hence may result in the optimum distribution of scarce resources, with a resulting improvement for all; this optimism is countered by pointing to the opportunity for exploitation inherent in the system.
- Simon Blackburn ed. (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. Lemma "Capitalism"
- The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
- Allan Bloom, "Commerce and Culture," Giants and Dwarfs (1990), p. 280
- The United States is the Darwinist capital of the capitalist world. A head afraid is a head haunted. A head haunted is a head hunted. Run for your life. Run from the guillotine to a head hunter who saves your head and raises your salary — so you'll be caught in the red of the fish-market buying gadgets to distract your fragile imagination that is cut in the red market of blood—running and escaping — running again — changing your resume to update the fear you feel of being unemployed tomorrow — in the streets — and from there to welfare — and from there to begging.
- Giannina Braschi, "United States of Banana," AmazonCrossing, 2011.
- Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of property and business, with the goal of making the greatest possible profits for the owners.
- Cambridge University Press (2008) Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Paperback with CD-ROM. p. 129. Lemma "Capitalism"
- The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.
- G. K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers (1917), pp. 33-34
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill, "Demobilisation", speech in the House of Commons (1945-10-22)
- The French Revolution qualitatively transformed all aspects of human culture, including science, for better or worse. The institutional ideological changes wrought in French science by the Revolution and its aftermath shaped the subsequent course of modern science everywhere. The essential underlying factor, as the Hessen thesis maintains, was the victory of capitalism, which the Revolution consolidated. The new social order spread to Europe and the rest of the world, everywhere subordinating the further development of science to capitalist interests.
- Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005)
- I just don't trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there's been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there's a part of me that goes, "This can't be good." None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It's not like there's actually more of anything. It's just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.
- Even after 9/11, during the darkest moment of our recent history, the President told us, "Go shopping." That's how we were told to uphold American values; go out and fucking buy more shit. So what were we supposed to do?
- Louis C.K. Vanity Fair (2009) Louis C.K. starvation can be character building
- Capitalism is an economic system in which
(1) private ownership of property exists;
(2) aggregates of property or capital provide income for the individuals or firms that accumulated it and own it;
(3) individuals and firms are relatively free to compete with others for their own economic gain;
(4) the profit motive is basic to economic life.
Among the synonyms for capitalism are LAISSEZ-FAIRE economy, private enterpreise system, and free-price system. In this context economy is interchangeable with system."
- John Downes (2003) Barron's Finance and Investment Handbook. p. 258. Lemma "Capitalism"
- The winner, at least for now, of the battle of economic "isms". Capitalism is a free-market system built on private ownership, in particular, the idea that owners of CAPITAL have PROPERTY RIGHTS that entitle them to earn a PROFIT as a reward for putting their capital at RISK in some form of economic activity. Opinion (and practice) differs considerably among capitalist countries about what role the state should play in the economy. But everyone agrees that, at the very least, for capitalism to work the state must be strong enough to guarantee property rights. According to Karl MARX, capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction, but so far this has proved a more accurate description of Marx's progeny, COMMUNISM.
- Economist.com. Lemma "Capitalism", 2006
- This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. … An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.
- Albert Einstein in Why Socialism?
- The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
- Albert Einstein, in Why Socialism?
- Capitalism, also called free market economy, or free enterprise economy: economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most of the means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc (1998) The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 2; Vol 8. p. 831. Lemma "Capitalism"
- Capitalism is the socio-economic system where social relations are based on commodities for exchange, in particular private ownership of the means of production and on the exploitation of wage labour. Wage labour is the labour process in capitalist society: the owners of the means of production (the bourgeoisie) buy the labour power of those who do not own the means of production (the proletariat), and use it to increase the value of their property (capital)...
- Encyclopedia of Marxism. at www.marxists.org, 1999-2008. Lemma "Capitalism". (online)
- Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.
- Pope Francis, "The Joy of the Gospel" (2013), Section 54
- While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from enjoying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide dimensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.
- Pope Francis, "The Joy of the Gospel" (2013), Section 56
- The possibility of co-ordination through voluntary co-operation rests on the elementary - yet frequently denied - proposition that both parties to an economic transaction benefit from it, provided the transaction is bi-laterally voluntary and informed. Exchange can therefore bring about co-ordination without coercion. A working model of a society organized through voluntary exchange is a free private enterprise exchange economy - what we have been calling competitive capitalism.
- Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
- Alan Greenspan (1963) The Assault on Integrity
- The systems advocated by professed upholders of laissez-faire are in reality permeated with coercive restrictions of individual freedom. ... What is the government doing when it "protects a property right"? Passively, it is abstaining from interference with the owner when he deals with the thing owned; actively, it is forcing the non-owner to desist from handling it, unless the owner consents. Yet Mr. Carver would have it that the government is merely preventing the non-owner from using force against the owner. This explanation is obviously at variance with the facts—for the non-owner is forbidden to handle the owner's property even where his handling of it involves no violence or force whatever. ... In protecting property the government is doing something quite apart from merely keeping the peace. It is exerting coercion wherever that is necessary to protect each owner, not merely from violence, but also from peaceful infringement of his sole right to enjoy the thing owned.
- Robert Hale, "Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1923), pp. 470-494
- Faith in natural order and market efficiency forecloses a full normative assessment of market outcomes. ... It effectively depoliticizes the market itself and its outcomes. It is only when the illusion of natural order is lifted that a real problem arises: that of the justice of the organizational rules and their distributional consequences.
- Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (2011), p. 32
- The idea of natural order, in effect, masks the state's role. ... Robert Hale ... demonstrated the extent to which the distribution of income and wealth is the product of legal rules we choose to impose. Hale trained our attention on the foundational rules of property and contract law, showing how free, voluntary, compensated exchange is in fact a product of the legal coercion that the government establishes through its role in defining property rights.
- Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (2011), p. 32
- [Harvey defined capitalism in terms of three features: it is growth-oriented] a steady state of growth is essential for the health of a capitalist economic system... growth in real values rests on the exploitation of living labor in production... [and it is] necessarily technologically and organizationally dynamic.
- David Harvey The Condition of Postmodernity. p. 180
- An economic system based on private, rather than state, ownership of businesses, factories, transport services, etc, with free competition and profit-making.
- Elaine Higgleton, Howard Sargeant, Anne Seaton (1992) Chambers Pocket Dictionary. p. 128. Lemma "Capitalism"
- It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
- Eric Hoffer, "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", The New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971), p. 50.
- [Capitalism is an] economic system characterized by the following: private property ownership exists; individuals and companies are allowed to compete for their own economic gain; and free market forces determine the prices of goods and services.
- Investorwords.com: Lemma "Capitalism". 2006
- Why spend mine, when I can spend yours?
- Kimberly Denise Jones, "Lady Marmalade" (2001), Moulin Rouge! (2001).
- It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
- Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
- The decadent international but individualistic capitalism, in the hands of which we found ourselves after the War, is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it doesn't deliver the goods. In short, we dislike it and we are beginning to despise it. But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed.
- John Maynard Keynes, National self-sufficiency (1933) Section 3, republished in Collected Works Vol. 11 (1982)
- To judge by the current arrangement in corporate America, one might suppose capital creates wealth - which is odd, because a pile of capital sitting there creates nothing. Yet capital-providers (stockholders) lay claim to most of the wealth that public corporations generate. They also claim the more fundamental right to have corporations managed on their behalf. Corporations are believed to exist for one purpose alone: to maximize returns to shareholders. This principle is reinforced by CEOs, the Wall Street Journal, business schools, and the courts. It is the law of the land - much as the divine right of kings was once the law of the land. Indeed, "maximizing returns to shareholders" is universally accepted as a kind of divine, unchallengeable mandate.
- Marjorie Kelly, Divine Right of Capital (2003)
- Major public corporations have evolved into something new in civilization, structures more massive, more dominant in the world than our democratic forefathers dreamed possible. They left us little guidance on governing these institutions - the word "corporation" appears nowhere in the Constitution - because only a handful of American corporations existed when that seminal document was written. Washington and Jefferson governed a nation of farmers, in which most nonagricultural businesses were indeed "private," run out of the parlor, or in the barn, as part of the private household.
- Marjorie Kelly, Divine Right of Capital (2003)
- In the current narrative of the corporation, it works like this: A corporation exists to generate profit. Profit belongs to stockholders, but they leave part of it in the corporation to fund growth. So a portion (about a third) is paid out as dividends, and the rest is kept as retained earnings. Those earnings are generated by the income statement, and retained on the balance sheet, where they are added to shareholder equity. Equity is what stockholders initially contributed when they purchased shares from the company. And by the magical closed loop of accounting, equity grows, year after year, while stockholders never contribute another cent out of their pocket.
- Ergo- Stockholders "create wealth" without lifting a finger.
- Marjorie Kelly, Divine Right of Capital (2003)
- I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.
- Nikita Khrushchev, quoted in Edward Crankshaw, Khrushchev: A Career (1966), p. 12
- I understand that you have an economic system in America known as Capitalism. Through this economic system you have been able to do wonders. You have become the richest nation in the world, and you have built up the greatest system of production that history has ever known. All of this is marvelous. But Americans, there is the danger that you will misuse your Capitalism. I still contend that money can be the root of all evil. It can cause one to live a life of gross materialism. I am afraid that many among you are more concerned about making a living than making a life. You are prone to judge the success of your profession by the index of your salary and the size of the wheel base on your automobile, rather than the quality of your service to humanity.
- The misuse of Capitalism can also lead to tragic exploitation. This has so often happened in your nation. They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. If you are to be a truly Christian nation you must solve this problem. You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept. You can work within the framework of democracy to bring about a better distribution of wealth. You can use your powerful economic resources to wipe poverty from the face of the earth. God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. God intends for all of his children to have the basic necessities of life, and he has left in this universe "enough and to spare" for that purpose. So I call upon you to bridge the gulf between abject poverty and superfluous wealth.
- Martin Luther King Jr., "Paul's Letter to American Christians", Sermon delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, on 4 November 1956.
- Dr. King makes two biblical allusions to Luke 15:17 and 1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil".
- My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonable equal in their buying and selling of economic power. It is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands, using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. … This is not a market, and definitely not a democracy. The basic principle of democracy is "one person one vote" and in the capitalistic society, we have "one dollar one vote."
- David Korten, in an interview with Alexander M. Duke, as quoted in Globalization and After (2006) edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, p. 32
- In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy.
- David Korten, in The Post Corporate World : Life After Capitalism (1999)
- For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not 'trade' but democratic governance.
- Robert Kuttner, "Globalization and Its Critics", The American Prospect, vol. 12 no. 12, July 2-16, 2001
- It is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else. When one starts poor, as most do in the race of life, free society is such that he knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor, for his whole life. I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat, just what might happen to any poor man's son! I want every man to have the chance, and I believe a black man is entitled to it, in which he can better his condition. When he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this year and the next, work for himself afterward, and finally to hire men to work for him! That is the true system.
- Abraham Lincoln, "Allow the humblest man an equal chance" speech (6 March 1860) at New Haven, Connecticut.
- [Capitalism is] a system of wage-labour and commodity production for sale, exchange, and profit, rather than for the immediate need of the producers."
- Gordon Marshall ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, 2nd edition. Lemma "Capitalism"
- In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
- Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and has left no other bond between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment." It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
- Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
- Karl Marx, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
- [Capitalism is] a system which separates workers from any property rights in the means by which they produce culture by their labor. The system transforms the social means of subsistence into capital on the one hand and the immediate producers into wage laborers on the other hand. Most of the time, capitalism is defined as the private ownership of the means of production but that definition does not encompass the great harm done to humanity by the system. By claiming all (or most) of the means to produce culture as private property, a small class of owners preempts material culture to their own comfort while denying the vast majority the means to subsistence as well as the means to produce ideological culture when they are not working.
- Robert E. Mazur Dictionary of Critical Sociology. Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market."
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary 11th Edition:. Lemma "Capitalism"
- It is true that the materialistic society, the so-called culture that has evolved under the tender mercies of capitalism, has produced what seems to be the ultimate limit of this worldliness. And nowhere, except perhaps in the analogous society of pagan Rome, has there ever been such a flowering of cheap and petty and disgusting lusts and vanities as in the world of capitalism, where there is no evil that is not fostered and encouraged for the sake of making money. We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
- Thomas Merton, in The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
- All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.
- Ludwig Von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method (1978)
- The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.
- Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method (1962), p. 137
- [Capitalism is a] free-market system: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit"
- MS Encarta: Lemma "Capitalism", 2006
- Western society is relapsing at critical points into precivilized modes of thought, feeling, and action because it has acquiesced too easily in the dehumanization of society through capitalist exploitation.
- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (1934), Chapter 6, § 9, p. 302
- [Capitalism is] the condition of possessing capital; the position of a capitalist; a system which favours the existence of capitalists.
- Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Henry Bradley, Philological Society (1933) 'The 'Oxford English Dictionary. Vol 2. p. 94 Lemma "Capitalism"
- What I really believe in, first and foremost, isn't capitalism or globalization. It isn't the systems or regulatory codes that achieve all we see around us in the way of prosperity, innovation, community, and culture. Those things are created by people. What I believe in is man's capacity for achieving great things, and the combined force that results from our interactions and exchanges. I plead for greater liberty and a more open world, not because I believe on system happens to be more efficient than another, but because those things provide a setting that unleashes individual creativity as no other system can. They spur the dynamism that has led to human, economic, scientific, and technical advances. Believing in capitalism does not mean believing in growth, the economy, or efficiency. Desirable as they may be, those are only the results. At its core, belief in capitalism is belief in mankind.
- Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003), p. 17
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which capital (the goods or wealth used to produce other goods for profit) is privately owned and profit is reinvested so as to accumulate capital. The dynamics of the economic exchange in capitalism are unique. In a barter system of economic activity a producer may grow a pound of potatoes and barter them for an equivalent amount of honey produced by someone else. In this exchange the goods bartered are of roughly equal value. In capitalism, however, a person uses capital to produce goods and then sells those goods for cash. The amount of cash received is greater than the value of the good produced such that a profit is created allowing for reinvestment in the capital stock and to support the owner and producers.
- Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences: Lemma "Capitalism". 2006
- Blake was not a politician, but there is more understanding of the nature of capitalist society in a poem like "I wander through each charter'd street" than in three-quarters of Socialist literature.
- George Orwell, Dickens (1939)
- [Capitalism is] an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- Judy Pearsall (2002) The Concise Oxford English Dictionary. p. 207 Lemma "Capitalism"
- The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
- Michael Parenti, Against Empire (1995)
- When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 1
- What would happen if someone were to choose the captains of ships by their wealth, refusing to entrust the ship to a poor person even if he was a better captain?
- They would make a poor voyage of it.
- And isn't the same true of the rule of anything else whatsoever?
- I suppose so.
- Except a city? Or does it also apply to a city?
- To it most of all, since it's the most difficult and most important kind of rule.
- Plato, Socrates and Adeimantus in The Republic, 551c, G. Grube and C. Reeve, trans., Plato: Complete Works (1997), p. 1163
- Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
- Plato, The Republic, 555c, G. Grube and C. Reeve, trans., Plato: Complete Works (1997), p. 1166
- What they have to discover, what all the efforts of capitalism's enemies are frantically aimed at hiding, is the fact that capitalism is not merely the 'practical,' but the only moral system in history.
- Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), p. 8
- When I say capitalism, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez faire capitalism, with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
- Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966), p. 17
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
- Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan (1967) Capitalism: the unknown ideal. p. 19
- In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.
- Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan (1967) Capitalism: the unknown ideal. p. 19
- Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes capitalism and the American way of life from the totalitarian statism that is swallowing the rest of the world. All the other social groups — workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers — exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars. Businessmen are the symbol of a free society — the symbol of America.
- Ayn Rand (1967), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p. 55
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
- Random House Webster's college dictionary. (1991) p. 202: Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which land and means of production, as factories, are owned mainly by private individuals or companies rathen than by the government, and there is competition among businesses: The economic system of the U.S. is based on capitalism
- Random House School Dictionary, 1990: Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] a system of economy based on free enterprise with minimum interference by government; an economic system in which the bulk of the means of production (e.g. the production facilities and the capital) and the means of distribution (marketing facilities and systems) of goods and services are privately owned and operated; or a system of economic activity whereby the individual uses his talents and/or capital for the purposes of earning a profit. The paraphrase one economist, it is a system of incentive and work for profit; a system of "two cows and one bull," not the other way around."
- Raymond, Walter. J. Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms, Brunswick Publishing (2002), p. 71. Lemma "Capitalism"
- Capitalism is organised crime, and we are all its victims.
- Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come
- Capitalism is a social system based on private ownership of the means of production. It is characterized by the pursuit of material self-interest under freedom and it rests on a foundation of the cultural influence of reason. Based on its foundations and essential nature, capitalism is further characterized by saving and capital accumulation, exchange and money, financial self-interest and the profit motive, the freedoms of economic competition and economic inequality, the price system, economic progress, and a harmony of the material self-interests of all the individuals who participate in it.
- George Reisman Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics
- [Capitalism is] an economic system based on private ownership, competition, and a free market
- Philip M Rideout (2000) The Newbury House dictionary of American English. Heinle Publishers Inc, p. 108: Lemma "Capitalism"
- 1. An economic system, marked by open competition in a free market, in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporated owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits.
2. A political or social system considered to be based on capitalism.
- Riverside Publishing Company (1984) Webster's II new Riverside university dictionary. p. 227. Lemma "Capitalism"
- We must first decide what the meaning of the term 'capitalism' really is. Unfortunately, the term 'capitalism' was coined by its greatest and most famous enemy, Karl Marx. We really can't rely upon him for correct and subtle usage. And, in fact, what Marx and later writers have done is to lump together two extremely different and even contradictory concepts and actions under the same portmanteau term. These two contradictory concepts are what I would call 'free-market capitalism' on the one hand, and 'state capitalism' on the other. The difference between free-market capitalism and state capitalism is precisely the difference between, on the one hand, peaceful, voluntary exchange, and on the other, violent expropriation.
- Murray Rothbard (2011) Economic Controversies. p. 671
- The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders; how much misery and horror the human race would have been spared if someone had pulled up the stakes and filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this impostor. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone and the earth itself belongs to no one!"
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, M. Cranston trans., p. 109
- Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
- Bertrand Russell Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13, Freedom in society
- I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
- Bertrand Russell, Unarmed Victory (1963), p. 14
- It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elisabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
- Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1950, 3rd ed.), part II, chapter VII, p. 82.
- Capitalist civilization is rationalistic 'and anti-heroic.' The two go together of course. Success in industry and commerce requires a lot of stamina, yet industrial and commercial activity is essentially unheroic in the knight's sense — no flourishing of swords about it, not much physical prowess, no chance to gallop the armored horse into the enemy, preferably a heretic or heathen - and the ideology that glorifies the idea of fighting for fighting's sake and of victory for victory's sake understandably withers in the office among all the columns of figures. Therefore, owning assets that are apt to attract the robber or the tax gatherer and not sharing or even disliking warrior ideology that conflicts with its 'rational' utilitarianism, the industrial and commercial bourgeouis is fundamentally pacifist and inclined to insist on the moral application of the moral precepts of private life to international relations. It is true that, unlike most but like other features of capitalist civilization, pacifism and international morality have also been espoused in non-capitalist environments and by pre-capitalist agencies, in the Middle Ages of the Roman Church for instance. Modern pacifism and modern international morality are nonetheless products of capitalism.
- Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1950, 3rd ed.), part II, chapter XI, p. 127f.
- In terms of concretes, by capitalism I mean an economy with no progressive taxes, no central bank, no pure paper currency, no drug prohibition, no gun prohibition, no 'affirmative action' employment mandates for any ethnic group, no government-run health care, no federal departments of education, energy, labor, homeland security, health and human services, no DEA, BATFE, SEC, EPA, FTC, FDA, no minimum legal wage rates, no price controls, no tariffs, no welfare — domestic or foreign, rural or urban, for the rich or the poor. You know, a free economy!
- As we know, socialism is calculational chaos. Rational appraisement and allocation are eternally elusive. It is a gigantic negative-sum game in which each player quickly grabs a piece of the pie, and all the while the pie shrinks before the players' eyes. The welfare/warfare state, the interventionist state, is no improvement. Each intervention begets yet another. Bureaucracy is the only 'industry' guaranteed to experience growth. Each new regulation taxes the private sector, relentlessly shifting resources out of the hands of the productive, and into the hands of the unproductive. Capitalism is the only positive-sum game in town.
- Larry J. Sechrest, "The Anti-Capitalists: Barbarians at the Gate" (15 March 2008)
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
- George Bernard Shaw, in The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928), p. 214.
- You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.
- George Bernard Shaw, in The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928), p. 263.
- [Capitalism is] an economic system of government in which 1) private ownership of property exists; 2) CAPITAL ownership can provide income to the owners; 3) relative freedom of competition for economic gain is permitted; 4) the profit motive is basic to economic life. Also called FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM."
- Small-business-dictionary.org. Lemma "Capitalism", 2006
- Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.
- Werner Sombart Der Moderne Kapitalismus
- Because the West has a property rights system, and property rights systems seem to be about ownership. What we're discovering more and more is that it's really the system that undergirds the system of values called capitalism. In other words, you have property rights in the West. In developing nations we do, too, but they're not legal. Once you legalize them and you have recordkeeping systems and you have tracking systems and you've got contracts and you're able to get all the information about somebody's ownership over an asset, all of a sudden you obtain enormous amounts of data that you do not have in developing nations. In the West, that is captured in the property system. If you are somebody that is honorable and pays their debts, which is what somebody would be interested in, that's going to be captured in your records, and your records are linked to your property records. All of these are property rights, [but we don't have them] organized in a central system … in Third World countries.
- Grotesque sentiments such as the lust of business success or economic power of any kind, and indeed every purely self-regarding passion, from that of the social climber to that of the salvation-seeking ascetic, are experienced by the explorer with something of that shame which the child, emerging into adolescence, may feel toward the still-clinging fascination of his outgrown toys, or with such disgust as the youth may feel when he wakes from some unworthy sexual infatuation.
- Olaf Stapledon, Last Men in London (1932), Chapter II
- Capitalism prospers in an environment with a peculiar combination of self-interested behavior - enough to induce individuals to look for profitable activities - and non-self-interested behavior, where one's word is one's honor, where social rather than economic sanctions suffice to enforce contracts.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz, Whither Socialism? (1994), chapter 16, p. 271
- It is the fundamental wisdom of the capitalist system that it functions irrespective of the wisdom or the stupidity of the capitalists.
- Gustav Stolper, in This Age of Fables (1942), Part I, Ch. 8, Sec. 10, p. 167
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition: Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] 1. The state of having capital or property; possession of capital. 2. The concentration or massing of capital in the hands of a few; also, the power or influence of large or combined capital.
- The Century Dictionary. 1909 edition: Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] an economic and political system characterized by a free market for goods and services and private control of production and consumption.
- The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition: Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned, and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market.
- The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus on www.wordsmyth.net, 2013: Lemma "Capitalism"
- The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Two, Chapter XX.
- Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.
- Immanuel Wallerstein (1979) The Capitalist World-Economy. p. 15
- The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.
- Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 32
- In contrast to all other forms of domination, the economic domination of capital cannot, because of its 'impersonal character', be ethically regulated. ... The competitiveness, the market, the labour market, the monetary market, the commodity market, in one word 'objective' considerations, neither ethical nor anti-ethical, but simply non-ethical ... determine behaviour at the decisive points.
- Max Weber, Economy and Society (1923), in The War of Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America (1996), p. 143
- We will define a capitalistic economic action as one which rests on the expectation of profit by the utilization of opportunities for exchange, that is on (formally) peaceful chances of profit...Unlimited greed for gain is not in the least identical with capitalism, and is still less its spirit. Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of conscious, rational, capitalistic enterprise.
- Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- [Capitalism is] the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, as land, factories, railroads, etc., are privately owned and operated for profit, originally under fully competitive conditions: it has been generally characterized by a tendency toward concentration of wealth, and, in its later phase, by the growth of great corporations, increased government control, etc.
- Webster's New World College Dictionary, 3rd Edition:. Lemma "Capitalism"
- [Capitalism is] an economic system characterized by private or corporation ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly in a free market."
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. (1969). p. 124. Lemma "Capitalism"
- The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
- Simone Weil, in "The Power of Words" (1937)
- [Wolf defines capitalism in terms of] three intertwined characteristics: First, capitalists detain control of the means of production. Second, laborers are denied independent access to means of production and must sell their labor power to the capitalists. Third, the maximalization of surplus produced by the laborers with the means of production owned by the capitalists entails "ceaseless accumulation accompanied by changes in the methods of production.
- Eric Wolf Europe and the People Without History. p. 78 cited in: Sweezy 1942: 94; Mandel 1978, 103-107.
- [Capitalism is] an economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government. In this system, goods are sold for the purpose of making money."
- Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary: Lemma "Capitalism"
- Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1995 edition, chapter 23


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Mountain Hardwear
Long Sleeve Haydon Shirt (Men's) (out-of-stock)
Out of Stock Product Number: 30611
The men's Mountain Hardwear Long Sleeve Haydon Shirt is a thick 100% cotton casual flannel shirt.
* This product does not qualify for shipping to all countries.
- Two chest pockets for storage
- Simple button front closure
- Flannel fabric finish provides warmth
- Center Back Length: 29"; 74 cm
Gender: Men's
Weight: 7.3 oz.; 208 g.
Material: Haydon's Howling Plaid (100% cotton)
Fit: Semi-Fitted
Season: F12
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What To Do If You're Arrested
It can be difficult to think clearly after an arrest. Many arrestees are scared about the social stigmas, personal consequences, financial consequences, legal consequences and the affect of the arrest on their families. However, it is important to remain focused and to take the steps necessary to ensure that all of your rights are protected. At the time of your arrest, a police officer should provide you with your Miranda Rights. These are not just a formality but rather an important part of your arrest.
Communication with the Police
The Miranda Rights include your right to remain silent. This is an important right grounded in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects a person from being a witness against himself in a criminal trial. While you should identify yourself upon police request by stating your name and address or providing your driver's license or state ID, you are not required to answer further questions asked to you by a police officer. However, it is in your best interest to be polite. For example, you can calmly state that you will not be answering questions until you have consulted with your attorney.
While you are not required to answer the questions posed by police officials, you are required to remain in their custody until your attorney has secured your release or a judge has established bail which you have met. You should never try to escape from police custody. This will only compound the charges against you and increase your chances of remaining in jail.
Remember the Circumstances of Your Arrest
Sometimes things go wrong during an arrest. An officer may violate your rights or use excessive force, for example. These details may be important in your personal defense and are always important for the officer's superiors to be aware of. For these reasons, it is important that you pay careful attention to everything that happens during your arrest and write it down as soon as possible after your arrest. Witnesses to your arrest can also be important in this regard and may be able to testify about any police misconduct or error that occurred during your arrest. Many police cruisers are equipped with video surveillance that may be obtained during the discovery phase of a trial and can be an important piece of evidence if you are alleging police misconduct or that you did not commit the crime in question.
Right to be Represented by Counsel
Your lawyer can help you at the time of your arrest and throughout your criminal proceedings. After you provide the police with your name, address and telephone number you are not obligated to speak with them without your attorney present. Remember, if you cannot afford a lawyer then the court will appoint a defense lawyer to your case.
Your criminal defense lawyer can start helping you as soon as you call him after your arrest. Your lawyer will help you through police interrogation, bail hearings, plea bargaining and all aspects of your trial.
The information on this page is meant to provide a general overview of the law. The laws in your state and/or city may deviate significantly from those described here. If you have specific questions related to your situation you should speak with a local attorney.
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One would require minors to seek parental permission before getting an abortion. Current law says they have to have adult involvement, but it doesn't have to be a parent.
Representative Ellie Espling is a co-sponsor of that bill and has written another one that would require doctors to provide more information to patients about the abortion procedure and alternatives including adoption. A third bill seeks to establish a fetus as a person to allow estates to file wrongful death lawsuits. A broad coalition of pro-choice advocates spoke out against the bills, including members of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights.
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By: vyleside
In this episode, Sebastian examines the controversial ending to Mass Effect 3. This is just one path through the review. At www.youtube.com/findingtheplot you get to choose whether to follow the red or blue path and choose your ending. Choose wisely, it might make a difference. Follow sebastian on facebook at www.facebook.com/findingtheplot
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This is a Mass Effect Cinematics Trilogy Video Montage
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By: anizii
So there's going to be an extended cut of mass effect 3's ending. This is nothing more than a parody. I personally didn't have a problem with the ending but whatever. Models were not ripped from the game, they were customized by me. Clothing created by me. Videos in background from mass effect 3 game. Thanks for the feature. Maybe more animations in the future. Can also check it on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/user/anizii
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Got sent a couple of videos from Eneko.
06 November 2010
City of Cyclists
Got sent a couple of videos from Eneko.
7 comments:
- Editor of IAOR said...
Please can you tell me what the simple pictogram at 00:40 in the second video means. It looks like a cyclist in silhouette from behind. As far as I know, we do not have them in the U.K.
- 18:57
- Mikael said...
It's the symbol for The Green Wave. Stretches of streets with the traffic lights coordinated for cyclists. If you cycle 20 km/h you'll hit green lights all the way into the city centre.
See here
And here for a film about it.
- 20:08
Might I point out that you won't find anybody trumpeting Los Angeles as "The City of Drivers".
- 21:10
what song is that in the 2n one....sounds a little like Fiest?
- 04:44
- ibikelondon said...
Hi Anonymous - yes it is Fiest "I Feel it all" from her album 'The Reminder' - a great record :o)
- 10:14
- Editor of IAOR said...
Thank you. Now I know why we don't have such a pictogram in the U.K.. I live in Exeter, on of the "Cycling demonstration towns" and the official cycling map (http://www.devon.gov.uk/excguide.pdf) highlights (yellow) "quieter roads suitable for cycling" and (green) "traffic free cycle route". Many of the latter, it may be noted, are well away from the city centre.
- 16:07
- álvaro said...
@ ibikelondon & anonymous: It's actually Feist :) maybe you where thinking of fiets -bicycle in Dutch!
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Just answering my own question.
i did a search of sourceforge and found some interesting projects.
I don't know why I didn't do that earlier.
Sorry for wasting people's time.
I run a very small bookshop for our church. We turn over about $150 per week and have approximately 1 to 3 sales per day. Every couple of months we get a large shipment of books in and smaller shipments in between.
We've got a lap top set up with a bar code scanner and I'm looking for some easy to use, light POS software that would just help us with stock control, print receipts if necessary and keep a basic record of transactions.
I've done a search but most software seems to be set up for restaurants or similar which have a limited number of items for sale, or else set up for multiple cash registers/ operators with big turnover.
I was thinking of using MySQL on a server, and possibly hook up with a GUI front end of some sort. To do that and make it work might take a bit of effort.
I'm sure that someone somewhere must have produced the necessary software for a small business.
Any suggestions?
Just answering my own question.
i did a search of sourceforge and found some interesting projects.
I don't know why I didn't do that earlier.
Sorry for wasting people's time.
That was fast Keith, I just got to looking at this topic today. If you find a project that suits your needs, and works well, could you post it here? This way anyone else doing a search for POS software might find this thread.
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Western Digital WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1 120GB 7200 rpm ATA/133
Western Digital WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 80GB 7200 rpm ATA/133
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Here are the pick of the bunch of the ones on sourceforge from my perspective
Free Mercator- java based POS requires hsqldb
freemercator.sourceforge.net Seems OK, except I had a brief play with hsqldb and couldn't get it going on my computer.
PHPpoint of sale- seems just the ticket. Runs php, browser. databases set up looks OK for what I need. some tweaking may be necessary. www.phppointofsale.com/
Turquaz, inhumni, Erika- foreign language no obvious Eng. support.
Nola- PHP based. Seems a lot more than we need but could be excellent.
Custom- uses python, cgi scripts. Used web browser interface to SQL databases (eg MySQL)... looks a little difficult to set up.
EuroPOS- could be OK... seems simple to use. Uses Perl, MySQL. Front-end seems simple enough- enter code and go. europos.sourceforge.net
Of these, I think I like PHPpoint of sale and EuroPOS. This is just on first impressions gleaned from looking at the web pages, screen shots etc.
If I remember, i will follow this up with a report on what we actually install and how it goes.
Looks like I'm doing a great job of carrying this thread along!
We've installed Europos and it's going well. It's pretty well ideal for our needs, although we did run into some problems:
1. The app needs Tk-perl which for some reason our debian installation just spat the dummy every time we tried to install it. We eventually got it to accept it.
2. There is a flaw in the database set up. It creates a MySQL database with a field called sysstring but the program actually needs the field to be called sysString (it might be the other way round).
3. The cash register screens aren't complete with the exception of the one designed for restaurant touch screens. It works fine except that it has buttons that aren't really applicable.
Apart from these quibbles, one of which isn't related to the POS software, it works well and meets our needs.
Further update on EuroPOS.
Discovered the software really rocks!
I found that you can edit all the buttons in the Touch Screen Register so we no longer sell cheesecake and beer but can enter buttons for cards, novelties and other stuff.
You can edit the main function buttons as well to provide a range of discounts or sale types. This is all done through the MySQL database that EuroPOS uses.
So we are finding it a very fine POS package very flexible. Highly recommended.


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The City Council begins the post-election year with the same members, which will provide a degree of continuity that has not occurred in Montpelier in many years. While turnover can be a good thing for public bodies, I believe our city will benefit from a second year of continuity on the city council.
Our council members, Tom Golonka, Jessica Edgerly Walsh, Anne Watson, Justin Turcotte, Thierry Guerlain, Dona Bate and me, hold diverse political views, but are a group that works hard, listens respectfully and solves problems through collaboration. The fact that our municipal budget was approved by 80 percent of voters – the highest in at least 30 years – is a testament to the hard work of the council. I look forward to serving another year with these talented and dedicated individuals.
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Only about one-third of Montpelier's registered voters voted on Town Meeting Day. Although our voter turnout was higher than in many communities, a system in which two-thirds of participants opt out clearly needs improvement. A recent article in the Bridge included comments from many local residents who choose not to vote, for a variety of reasons. We need to improve our understanding of why so many voters choose not to participate in local elections and find ways to ensure that their participation is meaningful.
One easy way to encourage greater voter participation is to allow for same-day voter registration. I am pleased to join with City Clerk John Odum in supporting legislation, S.29, a bill under consideration in the legislature which would allow voters to register on the day of an election.
While our rate of voter participation should be higher, the level of citizen participation on our boards and commission is remarkable. The council regularly has to choose between highly qualified applicants for volunteer city positions. I am constantly amazed by, and grateful to, the talented individuals who offer to spend long hours volunteering on our boards, commissions and committees. Their participation makes Montpelier a far richer and more interesting city.
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Montpelier also has an impressive level of community engagement on important decisions. We have benefited greatly from citizen input on a range of issues in recent months, including the Taylor Street development, our downtown design, the bicycle and pedestrian master plan, and a city branding project.
We will be reaching out to the community this spring for help in solving the significant budget challenge that we will face in the coming years: how to maintain our commitment to make sustainable infrastructure investments while keeping our taxes affordable.
Three years ago, we determined that the city was spending about one million dollars less each year on our roads and sidewalks than is needed to maintain them in good condition. We adopted a six-year plan to increase infrastructure spending by $166,000 annually for six years. We are now halfway towards that "steady state" goal.
For the last three years, we have been able to increase significantly our infrastructure investment while still holding municipal tax increases to the rate of inflation. That challenge has become more difficult each year, however, and will not be possible over the next three years without making structural changes in the delivery of municipal services. We will not be able to deliver the same city services in the same manner while transferring another $500,000 towards capital improvements – the amount needed to reach a steady state. At the same time, I don't believe our community can afford to add those additional costs to our tax rate.
We will hold a series of public engagement sessions this spring to get input from the community on how best to solve this problem. Should we reorganize city departments? Reduce services? Increase taxes? Those are the difficult choices that lie ahead, and I look forward to hearing from community members about how to solve this challenge.
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Stay on schedule for our two major city projects, the Taylor Street development and the bike path extension. Both projects have been delayed by one year, but my goal for the city is to maintain the current schedule to complete the bike path in the fall of 2016 and the Taylor Street project in the fall of 2017.
Commit additional resources to Net Zero Montpelier. The Montpelier Energy Advisory Committee has made great progress in framing the challenge and engaging in community outreach. In order to make meaningful progress towards this goal, we will need to devote more city resources to this project.
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For the purpose of this chapter—
(1) "agency" means—
(F) the Office of the Architect of the Capitol; but does not include—
(2) "part-time career employment" means part-time employment of 16 to 32 hours a week (or 32 to 64 hours during a biweekly pay period in the case of a flexible or compressed work schedule under subchapter II of chapter 61 of this title) under a schedule consisting of an equal or varied number of hours per day, whether in a position which would be part-time without regard to this section or one established to allow job-sharing or comparable arrangements, but does not include employment on a temporary or intermittent basis.
Source(Added Pub. L. 95–437, § 3(a),Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1056, § 3391; renumbered § 3401 and amended Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(c)(1)(B), (2)(A),Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1226; Pub. L. 97–221, § 3,July 23, 1982, 96 Stat. 233; Pub. L. 97–468, title VI, § 615(b)(1)(B),Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2578; Pub. L. 102–378, § 2(15),Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1347; Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXV, § 3548(a)(1),Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2868.)
1996—Par. (1). Pub. L. 104–201, which directed amendment of par. (1) by striking cl. (v) and redesignating cls. (vi), (vii), and (viii) as (v), (vi), and (vii), respectively, was executed by striking cl. (iv), relating to the Panama Canal Company, and redesignating cls. (v), (vi), and (vii) as (iv), (v), and (vi), respectively, to reflect the probable intent of Congress, because par. (1) does not contain a cl. (viii) and the amendments were included in a series of conforming amendments relating to the Panama Canal.
1992—Par. (1)(iii). Pub. L. 102–378, which directed the amendment of cl. (iv) by substituting "Virgin Islands" for "Virgin Island", was executed by making the substitution in cl. (iii) to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
1983—Par. (1)(iii) to (viii). Pub. L. 97–468struck out cl. (iii) which excluded the Alaska Railroad, and redesignated cls. (iv) to (viii) as (iii) to (vii), respectively.
1982—Par. (2). Pub. L. 97–221inserted "(or 32 to 64 hours during a biweekly pay period in the case of a flexible or compressed work schedule under subchapter II of chapter 61 of this title)" after "week".
1978—Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(1)(B), renumbered section 3391 of this title as this section.
Pub. L. 95–454, § 906(c)(2)(A), substituted "chapter" for "subchapter".
Effective Date of 1983 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–468effective on date of transfer of Alaska Railroad to the State [Jan. 5, 1985], pursuant to section 1203 of Title 45, Railroads, see section 615(b) ofPub. L. 97–468.
Effective Date of 1978 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–454effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 ofPub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.
Short Title of 1978 Amendment
Section 1 ofPub. L. 95–437provided that: "This Act [enacting this chapter, amending sections 8347, 8716, 8906, and 8913 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section and sections 3407 and 8906 of this title] may be cited as the 'Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978'."
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Pub. L. 95–437, § 2,Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1055, provided that:
"(a) The Congress finds that—
"(1) many individuals in our society possess great productive potential which goes unused because they cannot meet the requirements of a standard workweek; and
"(2) part-time permanent employment—
"(A) provides older individuals with a gradual transition into retirement;
"(B) provides employment opportunities to handicapped individuals or others who require a reduced workweek;
"(C) provides parents opportunities to balance family responsibilities with the need for additional income;
"(D) benefits students who must finance their own education or vocational training;
"(E) benefits the Government, as an employer, by increasing productivity and job satisfaction, while lowering turnover rates and absenteeism, offering management more flexibility in meeting work requirements, and filling shortages in various occupations; and
"(F) benefits society by offering a needed alternative for those individuals who require or prefer shorter hours (despite the reduced income), thus increasing jobs available to reduce unemployment while retaining the skills of individuals who have training and experience.
"(b) The purpose of this Act [enacting this chapter, amending sections 8347, 8716, 8906, and 8913 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section and sections 3407 and 8906 of this title] is to provide increased part-time career employment opportunities throughout the Federal Government."
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Folks dined out all day yesterday to help raise funds for the Make a Wish Foundation. They were thanked for their trouble with a little celebrity service.
The second annual Celebrity Serve began at 6am yesterday with breakfast at the Mountain House and continued on through the day at 18 area restaurants. Created by area restaurateur Jack Pepper and businessman Tim Baxter as a way to give back to the community, Celebrity Serve enlists area notables to serve as waitstaff at local restaurants in order to draw business. The day or night's proceeds are donated. This year, they teamed up with ASU sorority Chi Omega to benefit Make a Wish…Chi O's official fundraising recipient. All of the funds raised yesterday will go towards granting the wishes of Watauga County children who face life-threatening illness. Last year, the Logull family shared son Matthew's wish to go to Washington. The sixth grader had wanted to meet the president for a long time. Make a Wish also fulfilled older sister Sara's wish for a maltipoo puppy.
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On Dec. 9, the United States Senate approved several tax, energy and health initiatives.
And in the last vote of the 109th Congress, the House of Representatives endorsed legislation that would require manufactures to notify the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of all serious adverse events for dietary supplements and over-the-counter drugs.
The federal legislation, HR-6111, would extend a series of tax, energy and health initiatives sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch.
The legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday and HR-6111 is expected to be signed into law by the president.
"Many of these provisions are vital to sustaining our economy, and I'm very glad that after months of effort, we were able to save Americans an enormous tax hike next year," Hatch said.
The tax package includes several provisions to make health savings accounts (HSAs) more user friendly for employees and businesses.
Approximately three million people have enrolled in the consumer driven health plans that allow participants and employers to save pre-tax dollars and withdraw the money tax-free for medical expenses.
The provisions enhance the availability and affordability of the plans for small businesses and individuals.
"HSAs are a great option for many people," said Hatch. "They address the chief health care concerns of families - price and portability. Putting health care decisions back in the hands of consumers will drive down costs by encouraging a more prudent use of health care dollars. And HSAs allow employees to take their health care savings with them when they switch jobs."
The HSA Improvement and Expansion Act provisions would:
Allow rollovers to a health savings account from existing HRAs and FSAs.
Simplify personal contribution limits.
Require the federal government to complete cost of living adjustments earlier in the year to provide individuals and employers with more time to modify plans.
Authorize full contributions for mid-year enrollees.
Allow families to "seed" an HSA with funds from individual retirement accounts.
Give employers the opportunity to make greater contributions to the accounts of non-highly compensated employees.
In addition, HR-6111 gives a boost to research based companies operating in Utah, noted Hatch.
Since its enactment in 1981, the research credit has become an effective incentive for firms to increase research spending, but was slated to expire Dec. 31.
The legislation approved last week by the U.S. Senate and House would extend the research credit retroactively through 2007.
"Many companies - especially in Utah - rely on this tax credit to remain competitive and innovative," said Hatch. "Research and development is the lifeblood of not only Utah's but the nation's economy. In short, our nation's future economic health depends on the innovations of today."
The legislation would also extend a provision providing school teachers a tax deduction for $250 for the costs of classroom expenses through 2007.
Last year, 3.3 million teachers working in schools at locations across the nation took advantage of the deduction.
"Dedicated teachers - who have enough challenges as it is - sacrifice by paying out of their own pockets for classroom supplies to meet the needs of their students," noted Hatch. "This deduction is a modest means of helping them cover their costs."
Experts indicate that Utah has one of the largest underground geothermal reservoirs in the nation.
Tax incentives for electricity produced from geothermal and renewable energy facilities - first enacted in the 2005 comprehensive - were extended through 2008 in HR-6111.
The U.S. has the reserves to provide energy from geothermal sources to more than 22 million homes if fully developed.
A July 2006 government accountability office study estimated that, due to the provision, future electricity production from geothermal resources could increase by 25 percent to 367 percent by 2017.
In addition, the tax package also prevents physician payment cuts in 2007 by freezing payments for medical services.
HR-6111 also provides a one-year extension of a provision that allows Medicare beneficiaries to apply for additional physical, occupational, and speech language therapy services.
In 2003, federal legislation changed the formula for Medicare reimbursements to physicians.
The 2006 bill extends the formula through 2007, which will continue to raise payments in certain rural areas.
Hatch also fought to extend the availability of the all-inclusive care for the elderly program.
PACE is of interest to people providing long-term, acute care for frail elderly in rural areas, continued the Utah senator.
Authored by Hatch and sponsored by Rep. Chris Cannon, the FDA dietary supplement and over the counter medication guidelines outlined in S-3546 is expected to be signed into law by the president.
"This bill strikes the right balance between necessary regulation and over-regulation," pointed out Hatch. "This new legislation complements the 1994 supplement law I authored by providing Federal authorities with an additional tool to identify when serious problems occur.
At the same time, the Utah senator insisted that the federal law not restrict consumers' access to supplements."
The Dietary Supplement and Non-prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act would require manufacturers, packers or distributors of over the counter drugs or dietary supplements in the United States to tell the FDA within 15 business days any reports of a serious adverse event associated with the products, according to the Utah senator.
Serious events include incidents that result in death, a life-threatening experience, inpatient hospitalization, disability or incapacity, birth defect or medical/surgical intervention to prevent one of the outcomes.
"Nearly 60 percent of Americans regularly use dietary supplements to maintain or improve their healthy lifestyles. They have benefited from a growing, vibrant supplement industry. This bill is the right thing to for a responsible industry to do for consumers. They should have the confidence that a significant mishap reported to a company will be taken seriously and that the government will take it seriously, too," concluded Hatch.