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A group of network ports stuck together for easy accessibility. Usually this panel resides in a wiring closet or server room. Connections are made between this panel and ports on a hub to enable a network connection at a remote port. Each port on the patch panel is connected by a longer cable (often run through the ceiling) to a remote port anywhere in an office that needs a computer hooked up to the network.
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Patch panel - In <3mDvPwcHrQCxEBxoPhqNygpfonxt@4ax.com> MuscleMan wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:24:12 GMT, Sarah Jane wrote:In <=0XvP17f2ErX+cXvqxYLzdJVp68g@4ax.com> MuscleMan wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:02:31 GMT, Sarah Jane wrote:In <2sfuuv47uhvafv340rgsvbok93mrkqqrmm@4ax.com> John M. Williamswrote: MuscleMan wrote:But raising taxes doesn't kill businesses. Not giving peopleenough for wages to buy products does. Raises wages so people can buy products, then the products made by those people cost more due to increased labor costs. So you raise everybody else's wages, and their products cost more. Voila! Runaway inflation. And thus, the U.S. dollar falls like a stone against other currencies.I think this is his fundamental problem (wrt this particular issue,anyway). He thinks there should be an infinite supply of money. Whathe doesn't seem to realize is that if you behave as though there'san endless supply and give everyone more, the end result is thateveryone's money is worth less. No, I am jsut not silly enough to think h economic system actually works, and people get what they deserve. I knwo when you pay workers more, they spend more, whic hincreases the economy.But there isn't an endless supply of goods either. If everyone hasmore money and is competing to buy the same goods, prices willincrease. not so, due to returns to scale. The larger theeconomy is, the less it costs incremenetally to make another product.Are you trying to talk about economies of scale? Yes, for some productsunder some circumstances, it may cost less per item to make more. Butthat does not apply to all goods, and certainly not to all services.Furthermore, even in cases when it does apply, you can't instantaneouslyquintuple your production of widgets, and it may require an initialinvestement to expand your operations. In the meantime, people will becompeting to buy your existing widgets, and it would only make sense toraise the price. Also keep in mind that sellers don't always raiseprices because they have to due to production costs - they often do itsimply because they can. Although products are scarce, that is only relatively so.Yes. It's relative. So if more people had more money and wanted to buymore goods, they'd be relatively scarcer. To make more doesn't really cost as much-case in point, music CD's. Back in in1995, it cost only 50 cents per cd, for marketing, shipping, royalties, etc. So once more is mad,e it's not like anyone is really "competing" to get the goods, since there are sales al lthe time. Right now, nationwide, supply exceeds demand. But prices aren't dropping enough to take u pthe slack. To increase the demand and reduce supply, we'd need more jobs doing anything to give more money to workers to stimulate the economy.But not everything is as easy to make as CDs. How would your theoryapply to housing? You can cut taxes to the bone, but only paying people more will stimulate growth.Huh? The net effect of cutting income taxes is more income, thereforemore disposable income and more spending. Toomuch money chasing too few goods - didn't you learn that in Economics101? Or are you also going to suggest that the government fix priceswhen they force employers to pay higher wages? We already do that, just not enough. Minimum wage?Yes, I know about the minimum wage. You think the minimum wage should beincreased? Do you also think non-minimum wage workers should getincreases? Funny, but union jobs seem to make workers more, not less, productive.Are you serious? When their wages stagnate, so does the economy.Or maybe wages stagnate when the economy stagnates. Since people buy things with money, they have to get paid first. Wages stagnate, then the economy.I see that you're finally getting the idea that money that's being spenthas to come from somewhere. Unfortunately, in this case it doesn't workexactly the way you'd expect. Most consumers spend money they don't have. If the US has enough to treble executive salar
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