And then the end consumer takes the hit as merchants raise prices to cover the margin. Insurance companies offering business theft insurance then double the cost on the end consumer because the insurance company obviously has to recoup their losses someplace--so the cost of health car, auto, and home insurance goes up as well.
"We screw the other guy to pass the savings on to you."
Any government at any time has the means to make people uncomfortable - why do you think that this particular part in time is any different to previous times? What is it about your government which makes you feel uncomfortable?
gobbling up prime real estate People have made a fortune on that and I have commented on the fraud that fed that market--especially since a large amount of the money used to fuel the real estate boom was money which was gleaned by dumping the.com bubble. The people who created the.com bubble hyped it up, took the cash, left the.com investors in the dirt, and then used their new (arguably fraudulent--on the same lines as the Enron scandal) profits to buy real estate from the investors who were scrabbling to save their hides. The profiteers then developed the real estate (which they bought on the cheap) and turned around and sold/rented it back to the suckers they had previously screwed (in the.com bubble) at five, ten, even hundreds of times the cost. There's no better example of the paradigm: "Create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, milk them dry while they're in debt."
nobody would care That's not true at all. Some people have cared but the people who took part in the.com bubble scam (and coupled it with the real estate swindle) made certain to grease their politicians ahead of time. They knew exactly what they were doing and made sure that they could do it without being caught. They had years to set up the rules, regulations, and laws concering those sorts of things so that they both knew how to skirt the law and slip through the loopholes.
why is this different? For one--there's a finite amount of real estate but domain names can be created to (near) infinity. For another--nobody accidentally clicks the housing market. For a third--you can't set up a botnet to buy your real estate.
On that last point: well, yeah, you can set up a "botnet", of sorts, to ensure that the real estate is bought at a certain profit. That has to do with greasing the politicians ahead of time.
But the big money is in the aftermarket, where the most valuable names -- those that draw thousands of pageviews and throw off steady cash from Google's and Yahoo's pay-per-click ads -- are driving prices to dizzying heights Why do I suspect that his business colleagues are using botnets to artificially inflate those pageviews? If one follows the money paid in the advertising--whose pockets are he picking?
This seems to be an obvious case of multimillion dollar fraud yet I can see how it would be difficult to investigate and prove.
And what few people know is that he's also the man behind the domain world's latest scheme: profiting from traffic generated by the millions of people who mistakenly type ".cm" instead of ".com" at the end of a domain name And advertisers accept his claims of legitimate page views without any skepticism? I get the feeling that the American investment money and the government subidies going into online conglomerates are being seriously screwed.
I think your view of your government is quite skewed from reality You've been drinking too much federally approved educational Kool-Aid. The only thing you have to do to complete your training is dismis me as paranoid.
The united states government doesn't control the flow of information anywhere near that which governments in the past have controlled information If you're not joking, or trolling, then you must be in that segment of the population which is educated to a level of mediocrity which prevents you from seeing the larger system at work.
they've never been so transparent Complexity, lending to obfuscation, defeats the transparency easily.
you can put your children into another school, or in the US homeschool them The numbers for homeschooling and the number of households where both parents must work in order to meet bills defeats this. Required government accreditation defeats the ability of alternative schools to break away from government enforced mediocrity.
but hyperbole There's no hyperbole in my post.
The government retains the right to control the activities of individuals Where in the US Constitution is that? The combination of the 9th and 10th Amendments says that you're wrong.
You've expressed the mode of thought of a socialist regime, or a dictatorship, or a micromanaging monarchy--but certainly not anything in line with a republic as defined by the US Constitution.
At no other point in history has government been this large. At no other point in history has tax collection been so automated. At no other point in history has it been so easy to propagate a dog'n'pony show. At no other point in history has government been able to securely dictate educational subject material for the first 12 years of education for the purpose of conditioning the majority % of the general public into inferior levels of reasoning--ie. keep them easily exploitable.
They've already allocated their resources in what they believe to be the best way possible Including using their collective monopoly position to kill funding on alternative energy methods, stifle the formation of competitive providers, and finance politicians who will not threaten their guaranteed profit margins.
As if they have a right to milk the American population for their own personal greed. The Constitution was written by men who were asserting their right to compete rather than be milked.
excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant. It came from all the ACs.
Investigators want to know whether the data storm could have been initiated from outside the plant Using Tor.
The new particles exhibit enough dual wave-particle nature that a few small modifications of photons--subatomic particles which carry energy in a waveform--could fit all of them.
Once past the range of a whole atom then everything truly is just a particle, with a waveform, which carries energy. The other characteristics which have been assigned to things like fermions, bosons, particulatrons, quarks, and mesofemimento-ulons have been kludges to make life easier for people who don't know how to refactor their equations. These kludges have sadly been perpetuated in a system of self-anointed experts who need flashier lingo to appeal to the investment bankers who, in collusion with the government, have created a stranglehold on funding.
Because realistically the federal government should only be involved in those things that nearly everyone agrees it should be involved in, otherwise leave it up to local That was the thought behind the 9th and 10th Amendments which sought to limit the rights and powers of the federal government to a small, and explicit, set of duties and, in doing so, prevent the runaway abuse of government by the established gentry such as they had in England.
We're so far away from that now that nothing short of a revolution of monumental proportions could ever set the record straight.
It seems, frankly, downright wrong Most physicists have accepted that subatomic particles exhibit a dual wave-particle nature.
Maybe quantum mechanics invites bipolar trolls. If someone claims a wave, they can argue a particle. If someone claims a particle, they can argue a wave. If some claims duality then they can argue ambiguity.
All I suggested is that, rather than pronouncing new unprecedented discoveries every month, maybe the physicists ought to look into solidifying their dual wave-particle of photons. They'll find that all these other "new particles" and "new forms of matter" fit neatly with a which has been established for at least fifteen years.
Just pray that we get a better administration in 2008 If the government is (as I believe and as your post indicates) corrupt from top to bottom then there isn't any administration that could change it.
Santa Claus paid off Microsoft to put a back door in Wrong again, dumbass. No wonder you post AC.
The code base for an OS the size of Windows (and any Linux based OS as well) is bound to have security flaws. The great advantage of proprietary software development as that those security flaws are only known to the people in-house...and their friends...and the people they chat with on IRC...and the people they talk with at conventions...
You don't know a thing about social networking yet you somehow managed to influence someone with mod points.
"the amount of technically recoverable oil in the ANWR 1002 area 'is estimated to be between 4.3 and 11.8 billion barrels... with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels.'" The grain of salt being that the smart investors always tell you exactly how much they have in the bank, right? I don't need to know anything about oil-ology to know that number is deliberately underestimated.
Industry margins are still under 10% And 501(c)(3) organizations are still not for profit.
The only thing you're showing is that the money is disappearing into the pockets of the executives before it reaches the general shareholder pool. Who do you think funds the million dollar prizes for golf tours and tennis tournaments?
You're telling me that fermions are not subatomic bundles of energy?
Quote from Wikipedia on fermions: "Therefore fermions are usually related with matter while bosons are related with radiation, though the separation between the two is not clear in quantum physics"
Oh wait. I just saw your handle. You're still an undergrad. You'll understand eventually if you keep at it though most people quit even before they reach your level of ignorance.
the short term elasticity is so low That's one component of the "I'm not buying it". People have been pumping fuel out of the ground for, what, a little over one hundred years? It's been an extraordinarily profitable commodity product since at least the first decade of the 1900s. There is probably enough petroleum product stored up, around the globe, to last us all for at least a year or two. That's more than plenty time to adjust production and refining rates. This is about government protected profiteering.
People need to get to work, and in the car they have now That's a very astute observation and the Wall Street market fund managers who invest in various segments of the petroleum industry know it every bit as well as you do--and they're leveraging that need, guaranteed because people are (conveniently) in debt (due to systems which the same market fund managers and bankers also happen to conveniently control), against the population using government protected trusts and monopolies (which are in reality but due to some accounting technicality legally aren't).
we hit the wall of refining capacity Only because the financial game is rigged. In decades past many groups have expressed interest in shoring up our refining capacity and making it redundant. Those moves have been blocked on both the business and the political sides by already existant vested money interests.
Prices needed to go up to push demand down Yet demand never has gone down. This further illustrates (and debunks) the complete idiocy with which people attempt to apply supply/demand/price explanations to a major global real world market. It may work for apples and oranges in the classroom, it may work for five cent lemonade stands in the streets, but it damn sure doesn't work that simply within a socially stratified society.
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And then the end consumer takes the hit as merchants raise prices to cover the margin. Insurance companies offering business theft insurance then double the cost on the end consumer because the insurance company obviously has to recoup their losses someplace--so the cost of health car, auto, and home insurance goes up as well.
"We screw the other guy to pass the savings on to you."
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which has the exact same compositional style as all of these posts...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=235857&cid=19
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=235861&cid=19
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=235857&cid=19
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All of which are single posts made from other new accounts created just today.
You're a gaming troll!
On that last point: well, yeah, you can set up a "botnet", of sorts, to ensure that the real estate is bought at a certain profit. That has to do with greasing the politicians ahead of time.
This seems to be an obvious case of multimillion dollar fraud yet I can see how it would be difficult to investigate and prove. And what few people know is that he's also the man behind the domain world's latest scheme: profiting from traffic generated by the millions of people who mistakenly type ".cm" instead of ".com" at the end of a domain name And advertisers accept his claims of legitimate page views without any skepticism? I get the feeling that the American investment money and the government subidies going into online conglomerates are being seriously screwed.
Who killed SGI and Irix?
You've expressed the mode of thought of a socialist regime, or a dictatorship, or a micromanaging monarchy--but certainly not anything in line with a republic as defined by the US Constitution.
I've already beat you to it.
At no other point in history has government been this large. At no other point in history has tax collection been so automated. At no other point in history has it been so easy to propagate a dog'n'pony show. At no other point in history has government been able to securely dictate educational subject material for the first 12 years of education for the purpose of conditioning the majority % of the general public into inferior levels of reasoning--ie. keep them easily exploitable.
I could tell you all about it.
As if they have a right to milk the American population for their own personal greed. The Constitution was written by men who were asserting their right to compete rather than be milked.
The new particles exhibit enough dual wave-particle nature that a few small modifications of photons--subatomic particles which carry energy in a waveform--could fit all of them.
Once past the range of a whole atom then everything truly is just a particle, with a waveform, which carries energy. The other characteristics which have been assigned to things like fermions, bosons, particulatrons, quarks, and mesofemimento-ulons have been kludges to make life easier for people who don't know how to refactor their equations. These kludges have sadly been perpetuated in a system of self-anointed experts who need flashier lingo to appeal to the investment bankers who, in collusion with the government, have created a stranglehold on funding.
We're so far away from that now that nothing short of a revolution of monumental proportions could ever set the record straight.
Maybe quantum mechanics invites bipolar trolls. If someone claims a wave, they can argue a particle. If someone claims a particle, they can argue a wave. If some claims duality then they can argue ambiguity.
All I suggested is that, rather than pronouncing new unprecedented discoveries every month, maybe the physicists ought to look into solidifying their dual wave-particle of photons. They'll find that all these other "new particles" and "new forms of matter" fit neatly with a which has been established for at least fifteen years.
The code base for an OS the size of Windows (and any Linux based OS as well) is bound to have security flaws. The great advantage of proprietary software development as that those security flaws are only known to the people in-house...and their friends...and the people they chat with on IRC...and the people they talk with at conventions...
You don't know a thing about social networking yet you somehow managed to influence someone with mod points.
Go AC go!
Duh.
The only thing you're showing is that the money is disappearing into the pockets of the executives before it reaches the general shareholder pool. Who do you think funds the million dollar prizes for golf tours and tennis tournaments?
You're telling me that fermions are not subatomic bundles of energy?
Quote from Wikipedia on fermions: "Therefore fermions are usually related with matter while bosons are related with radiation, though the separation between the two is not clear in quantum physics"
Oh wait. I just saw your handle. You're still an undergrad. You'll understand eventually if you keep at it though most people quit even before they reach your level of ignorance.