Except items with biggest retail profit will be preferred by retailers. MAP allows this model to work. Consumers buy from retailers unless they know of a better alternative. Majority of alternatives will be found from consumer product guides - magazines, websites. These resources operate on advertising profit and endorse products from manufacturers throwing money around.
So consumers choose between cheap products with high retail mark-up, or cheap products with high manufacturer mark-up. We need an avenue for manufacturers that spend more to produce, but don't spend much to advertise, allowing competitive pricing for alternative, higher quality products.
Open-source product review/comparisons, or equivalent. And ditch the MAP, why allow another method of retailer product biasing? We want diverse markets.
If prices are constantly falling, then sure, there's incentive to horde cash. Unless, that is, you can make more money using that cash. Why stuff it under your mattress, when you can invest it until you need it?
Never underestimate the greed of people - if there's a way to make more money, people will do it.
It seems this system's interest rate - the price of money - is set by deflation, rather than by a central currency issuer, such as the Fed.
In theory, when deflation accelerates - say, a population explosion, or someone rich starts hording cash - then prices decline faster, and interest rates will plummet. This encourages people to horde their cash, and less cash for investments is available.
This, in turn, increases barriers to entry for new competitors, which stabilizes markets. This may also stifle innovation. Market stability encourages price stability, while demand continues to grow. The quickest markets to stabilize during these times will likely have the greatest relative price increases.
Eventually, these effects should disappear when the source of deflation dissipates. With barriers to entry then reduced, the most stable markets with greatest profit margins are most susceptible to new competition.
It seems in many ways, this system would be self-stabilizing, and not require intervention - although monopolization is always a concern, and anti-trust forces need to stay vigilant.
True that. The punishment should have been forfeiture of patent rights. Hit them where it hurts.
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Yes, it seems pay raises or other issues directly affecting Congress as a whole is a problem. Only the sponsor of that bill would feel the heat.
However, without any incentive for bribery in Congress, it's likely those in office would be less likely to vote themselves a pay raise. That is, the greedy types would have a different job.
Use slower-rotating 120mm fans - same CFMs, less noise. You can even use an adapter to mount a 120mm fan onto your CPU heatsink. Or just use rubber bands or duct tape;)
if ron paul had his way, competing currencies would be an option. as soon as bush signed the bailout, you'd see half the country suddenly buying and selling with notes carrying a giant middle finger pointed at corporate america and elitist pricks
new banks carrying the new notes would overtake the old behemoths and lend all the small biz's all the 'fuck-you' notes they need.
corporate media giants would lose their monopolistic grip on popular view as new companies emerged, and the population would gradually realize there is no goddamned economic crisis except the one imagined on fox and cnn.
ok, so that's just a fairy tale. but it sounded good.
People find it difficult to digest what you're saying here. Many of us have lived our entire lives without even seeing a gun fired..
Sign up for the Army, next thing you know you'll have the smell of expended cartridges filling your nose. It's all too real and all too hellish to imagine.
If every human could be made to vividly experience the anguish and pain of war every moment, and contrast that with whatever strategic advantage it provided, war would never be.
War exists because we are conditioned to accept it and we are too stupid to prevent it.
The company receives additional customers, satisfies the government's requirement of supporting all citizens, is granted a monopoly, *and* receives capital to do it all.
What's wrong with forcing the company to either pay for the construction or stop expanding their network in the area. There just might be another company willing to make the investment to capture the rest of the region's customers.
If tax dollars are going to go toward this construction, then these portions of the network can be owned by the government and leased to the company.
It often comes as a sort of deal: Your water company enjoys a monopoly status, subject to various regulations that you have to perform, in exchange for funding to cover the plumbing for the unprofitable areas.... The city... paid for costs of plumbing by taking out a bond, secured against a tax raised against people's water bill.
How is enjoying a monopoly an exchange for receiving tax dollars to build out your infrastructure?!
..too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there.
If anything, it's a sign something went wrong. Though it's not actually a sign at all - it's a consequence.
But I share your enthusiasm. And really, we need to simply step back and ask what we're willing to sacrifice before replacing the engineering team, or killing the project. And sticking to those standards.
Who cares about tax cuts? Let's see some spending cuts!
I could care less about changes to the tax code. If I'm getting taxed more, so is everyone else. Your relative wealth is not going to change much unless you're involved in international trade. And all wealth is just relative wealth.
What we need to control is federal spending, before we're so far in debt that the government either shuts down completely or invades some more countries to wipe out our debt.
Stop buying so much crap, Uncle Sam! Lay off some people, streamline your operations. Lean and mean is the way to go, not fat and stupid.
It's not an ideal system, but running the federal government more or less requires it.
Bullshit. We've got more tools and methods for information management and analysis than the framers could have dreamed of.
I bet 50 random slashdotters could throw together an immensely improved system to manage the government in under a month.
but giving McCain and the right an easy attack point ("Look! He's soft on the terrerrsts!") probably isn't something he can afford at this point.
Have you ever seen Obama speak? Surely he can afford the opportunity to remind the public there are limits to what liberties we sacrifice in the name of security. It rather seems his actions are reflective of his position.
Maybe I'm too proud, or maybe I'm too cheap - but I've never contacted support from either MS or Red Hat. Perhaps someone who has could detail their experiences here? I'm interested to see how they compare.
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Except items with biggest retail profit will be preferred by retailers. MAP allows this model to work. Consumers buy from retailers unless they know of a better alternative. Majority of alternatives will be found from consumer product guides - magazines, websites. These resources operate on advertising profit and endorse products from manufacturers throwing money around.
So consumers choose between cheap products with high retail mark-up, or cheap products with high manufacturer mark-up. We need an avenue for manufacturers that spend more to produce, but don't spend much to advertise, allowing competitive pricing for alternative, higher quality products.
Open-source product review/comparisons, or equivalent. And ditch the MAP, why allow another method of retailer product biasing? We want diverse markets.
Oh sure, $39.99 for a 6ft HDMI cable is necessary to pay for all those hard working Radio Shack employees.
Regardless, your gripes with the tax-system should be directed to your Congressman, not toward rich or poor people.
(Not that I'm accusing you of such; it seems common for people to miss that point.)
Win32 apps can access more than 2/3GB of physical memory.. if they're written properly. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366527.aspx
If prices are constantly falling, then sure, there's incentive to horde cash. Unless, that is, you can make more money using that cash. Why stuff it under your mattress, when you can invest it until you need it?
Never underestimate the greed of people - if there's a way to make more money, people will do it.
It seems this system's interest rate - the price of money - is set by deflation, rather than by a central currency issuer, such as the Fed.
In theory, when deflation accelerates - say, a population explosion, or someone rich starts hording cash - then prices decline faster, and interest rates will plummet. This encourages people to horde their cash, and less cash for investments is available.
This, in turn, increases barriers to entry for new competitors, which stabilizes markets. This may also stifle innovation. Market stability encourages price stability, while demand continues to grow. The quickest markets to stabilize during these times will likely have the greatest relative price increases.
Eventually, these effects should disappear when the source of deflation dissipates. With barriers to entry then reduced, the most stable markets with greatest profit margins are most susceptible to new competition.
It seems in many ways, this system would be self-stabilizing, and not require intervention - although monopolization is always a concern, and anti-trust forces need to stay vigilant.
True that. The punishment should have been forfeiture of patent rights. Hit them where it hurts.
Yes, it seems pay raises or other issues directly affecting Congress as a whole is a problem. Only the sponsor of that bill would feel the heat.
However, without any incentive for bribery in Congress, it's likely those in office would be less likely to vote themselves a pay raise. That is, the greedy types would have a different job.
One could judge them on their speeches before Congress and on their proposed legislation - particularly if it was adopted by a fully anonymous vote.
There'd be no incentive to bribing a Congressman..
..except to make corrupt proposals, which no one would have incentive to vote for.
If only Congress voted with secret ballots, too..
Use slower-rotating 120mm fans - same CFMs, less noise. You can even use an adapter to mount a 120mm fan onto your CPU heatsink. Or just use rubber bands or duct tape ;)
What an accomplishment!
if ron paul had his way, competing currencies would be an option. as soon as bush signed the bailout, you'd see half the country suddenly buying and selling with notes carrying a giant middle finger pointed at corporate america and elitist pricks
new banks carrying the new notes would overtake the old behemoths and lend all the small biz's all the 'fuck-you' notes they need.
corporate media giants would lose their monopolistic grip on popular view as new companies emerged, and the population would gradually realize there is no goddamned economic crisis except the one imagined on fox and cnn.
ok, so that's just a fairy tale. but it sounded good.
People find it difficult to digest what you're saying here. Many of us have lived our entire lives without even seeing a gun fired..
Sign up for the Army, next thing you know you'll have the smell of expended cartridges filling your nose. It's all too real and all too hellish to imagine.
If every human could be made to vividly experience the anguish and pain of war every moment, and contrast that with whatever strategic advantage it provided, war would never be.
War exists because we are conditioned to accept it and we are too stupid to prevent it.
It is not an exchange.
The company receives additional customers, satisfies the government's requirement of supporting all citizens, is granted a monopoly, *and* receives capital to do it all.
What's wrong with forcing the company to either pay for the construction or stop expanding their network in the area. There just might be another company willing to make the investment to capture the rest of the region's customers.
If tax dollars are going to go toward this construction, then these portions of the network can be owned by the government and leased to the company.
It often comes as a sort of deal: Your water company enjoys a monopoly status, subject to various regulations that you have to perform, in exchange for funding to cover the plumbing for the unprofitable areas. ... The city ... paid for costs of plumbing by taking out a bond, secured against a tax raised against people's water bill.
How is enjoying a monopoly an exchange for receiving tax dollars to build out your infrastructure?!
Hahahahah wait wait wait...
Are you telling me you honestly believe it costs movie studios $10-$15 per title to recoup their costs of producing a Blu-ray title rather than DVD?
Just how many of these do you think they sell? A thousand? Are you kidding me?
To assert that large corporations are money-hungry greedy bastards is far from conspiracy or theory.
..too often see these kind of events as a signal to stop, where it really should be a sign that they're almost there.
If anything, it's a sign something went wrong. Though it's not actually a sign at all - it's a consequence.
But I share your enthusiasm. And really, we need to simply step back and ask what we're willing to sacrifice before replacing the engineering team, or killing the project. And sticking to those standards.
That's cute, TFS calls them 'stinkers'. I might call them 'all-too-common evidence of corruption in Congress'.
Who cares about tax cuts? Let's see some spending cuts!
I could care less about changes to the tax code. If I'm getting taxed more, so is everyone else. Your relative wealth is not going to change much unless you're involved in international trade. And all wealth is just relative wealth.
What we need to control is federal spending, before we're so far in debt that the government either shuts down completely or invades some more countries to wipe out our debt.
Stop buying so much crap, Uncle Sam! Lay off some people, streamline your operations. Lean and mean is the way to go, not fat and stupid.
If bringing countless little babies into the world can't ensure a man is morally sound, I don't know what will. *ducks*
It's not an ideal system, but running the federal government more or less requires it.
Bullshit. We've got more tools and methods for information management and analysis than the framers could have dreamed of. I bet 50 random slashdotters could throw together an immensely improved system to manage the government in under a month.
but giving McCain and the right an easy attack point ("Look! He's soft on the terrerrsts!") probably isn't something he can afford at this point.
Have you ever seen Obama speak? Surely he can afford the opportunity to remind the public there are limits to what liberties we sacrifice in the name of security. It rather seems his actions are reflective of his position.
Maybe I'm too proud, or maybe I'm too cheap - but I've never contacted support from either MS or Red Hat. Perhaps someone who has could detail their experiences here? I'm interested to see how they compare.
You're thinking waaay too deep.
Turn the page 90 degrees clockwise.
It says 'Hi'