I still don't know what you mean, what do you mean by "unrestricted capitalism"?
In a complete free market system where all the government does is provide for the common defense, restrict the use of violence and enforce contract law, wealth does not accumulate in the hands of the few.
You have obviously never talked to cigar or pipe smokers. There is a significant difference between the flavor of a cigar made from tobacco grown in Honduras vs tobacco grown in Nicaragua. There are also several strains of tobacco that some pipe smokers prefer one over the other. Having been a pot smoker at one time and an occassional smoker of tobacco pipes and cigars, I can tell you that the discussions among afficionados of each are similar.
A simple example of the problem he is talking about is the government mandating ethanol is gasoline and subsidizing such ethanol being made from corn. This means that someone attempting to make fuel ethanol from another source must make it not only cheaper than corn based ethanol, but than corn based ethanol with a government subsidy (a subsidy that might increase if they succeed).
If a train is coming at you, you do not wait until he hits you to get out of the way.
Yes, but when you are on a trestle 200 feet above a chasm, jumping off of the tracks just because someone who has been trying to convince you to jump for years says a train is coming is stupid, especially when someone else is telling you that there is a place to step out of the way just around the corner up ahead.
on the other hand if you based your diet on the current best practice as advised by the majority of dieticians...
If you had done that in the 1970s, you would have had a low fat, low protein, high carbohydrate diet. This has been proven since then to be an unhealthy diet. I remember when dieticians insisted that coffee was bad for you. They ran study after study attempting to quantify the ways in which coffee was bad for you. They finally had to admit that coffee was actually good for you. The same thing went on with eggs. They had all these studies showing how eggs were bad for you, until someone did a long term study of people who ate a reasonable number of eggs vs. people who ate no eggs and discovered that the people who ate the reasonable number of eggs (averaging around two per day) were on average healthier than those who did not eat eggs.
Yes, we all understand that to Europeans, the populace exists to serve the government. The only question the Europeans have is what the goals of government should be. The U.S. still has some people who believe that the government should serve the populace and that individuals should be the locus of all power.
Except that this isn't our taxes, this is our grandchildren's taxes. The money for this came from a Federal grant. The federal deficit is over $1.5 trillion, perhaps some consideration should be given to just not spending some of it.
William Gibson did not write during the heyday of the other writers you mentioned. If you consider Asimov, Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Frederick Pohl and Arthur C. Clark as writing in the golden age of science fiction, then William Gibson comes later. When I worked in the book business (at a store that was known for its science fiction section), the golden age of science fiction was considered to be from the 1950s and 1960s. I agree that William Gibson is fairly considered with those other authors. However, he did not write in the golden age of science fiction.
My problem with the thought of this replacing animal testing comes from these two sentences in the article: "Animal skin is unpredictable, which makes it extraordinarily difficult to anticipate how it will respond when grafted onto a person. Synthetic skin, on the other hand, is consistent in composition and behavior,..." To me this means that the synthetic skin does not fully replicate the responses of natural skin to irritants (the place where this would primarily be of use).
We don't know. All we know is that it registered this guy's vehicle as speeding when the camera evidence says he wasn't. The company claims it was accurate in this case (not that it has a plus or minus 5 miles an hour margin of error). Why should a judge believe that it has any relation to your actual speed?
It doesn't really matter if East Texas is the only place in the world where this patent would be considered valid, because it's the only place future infringement lawsuits are likely to get filed.
And then one of the cases will get appealed to a higher court, and if that higher court does not agree with the East Texas ruling, it will get overturned and no future case will get decided that way even in East Texas. This is a federal case, so it could potentially get appealed all of the way to the Supreme Court (and Google has sufficient funds to do so).
Revenue falling 57.6 percent generally means the end of a business. Profit, (revenue - expenses) falling 57.6 percent is not a big deal in a business which has often been in the black as of late.
Everything I have seen says it is revenue that fell, not profit. According to the news I have seen, the NYT hasn't seen a profit in several years.
It doesn't matter. If the device that is used to measure the speed is questionable, then its speed determination for every vehicle is questionable. Once the device has been accepted as unreliable, you don't need further evidence of unreliability.
The real travesty here is that the judge let other tickets issued by the same devices stand after it was demonstrated to him that they are not reliable. If there is reason to believe that the device was wrong in one case, there is reason to believe that it was wrong in every case.
Actually in a way you have hit on the answer. When I was in school in the 70s, they passed a law to change the U.S. over to the metric system over time. They spent a lot of time teaching us how to convert from Imperial Units to Metric Units. Everyone else in my class thought that the metric system was very hard because it is difficult to convert Imperial Units to Metric Units (and vice versa). That is what it comes down to, most Americans think metric units are hard because they were taught the metric system by way of converting from imperial units to metric units. Instead of spending so much time teaching us how to convert from one to the other (including making us memorize the conversion constant), they should have just taught us how the metric system works, given us a quick example of how to convert and moved on.
You don't even have to do that. If the officer is not arresting you, when he asks for your cellphone, just say "no." I have only once been in a situation where the police officer would have had access to my cellphone (I did not have one at the time).
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Do you know why high fructose corn syrup is used instead of cane sugar? I'll give you a hint, government regulation in the form of tarrifs on cane sugar.
So, basically what you are saying is that HIPAA is a law that has caused me a lot of inconvenience, but that the government doesn't actually enforce, they just take the word of hospitals, etc that they are in compliance?
You have obviously never dealt with government regulators. Their response would likely be, "That is insufficient. We are going to fine your organization $X for non-compliance unless you can prove that this server did not violate regulations." And then the organization would likely hold IT responsible.
And when the government regulators ask the IT Department how they know that private health information isn't being disseminated over this server, their answer would be...?
'This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.'
I am unaware of anyone who questions the fact that Obama was born. What they question is where he was born, what hospital was he born at? There are an amazing paucity of records concerning the life of the "most transparent President in history," not just his birth certificate.
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I still don't know what you mean, what do you mean by "unrestricted capitalism"?
In a complete free market system where all the government does is provide for the common defense, restrict the use of violence and enforce contract law, wealth does not accumulate in the hands of the few.
You have obviously never talked to cigar or pipe smokers. There is a significant difference between the flavor of a cigar made from tobacco grown in Honduras vs tobacco grown in Nicaragua. There are also several strains of tobacco that some pipe smokers prefer one over the other. Having been a pot smoker at one time and an occassional smoker of tobacco pipes and cigars, I can tell you that the discussions among afficionados of each are similar.
A simple example of the problem he is talking about is the government mandating ethanol is gasoline and subsidizing such ethanol being made from corn. This means that someone attempting to make fuel ethanol from another source must make it not only cheaper than corn based ethanol, but than corn based ethanol with a government subsidy (a subsidy that might increase if they succeed).
If a train is coming at you, you do not wait until he hits you to get out of the way.
Yes, but when you are on a trestle 200 feet above a chasm, jumping off of the tracks just because someone who has been trying to convince you to jump for years says a train is coming is stupid, especially when someone else is telling you that there is a place to step out of the way just around the corner up ahead.
on the other hand if you based your diet on the current best practice as advised by the majority of dieticians...
If you had done that in the 1970s, you would have had a low fat, low protein, high carbohydrate diet. This has been proven since then to be an unhealthy diet. I remember when dieticians insisted that coffee was bad for you. They ran study after study attempting to quantify the ways in which coffee was bad for you. They finally had to admit that coffee was actually good for you. The same thing went on with eggs. They had all these studies showing how eggs were bad for you, until someone did a long term study of people who ate a reasonable number of eggs vs. people who ate no eggs and discovered that the people who ate the reasonable number of eggs (averaging around two per day) were on average healthier than those who did not eat eggs.
I have no idea what you are saying. I am unaware of anyone who says that capitalists should be the locus of power.
Yes, we all understand that to Europeans, the populace exists to serve the government. The only question the Europeans have is what the goals of government should be. The U.S. still has some people who believe that the government should serve the populace and that individuals should be the locus of all power.
Yes, but with very rare exceptions, getting a court judgment doesn't change anything.
Except that this isn't our taxes, this is our grandchildren's taxes. The money for this came from a Federal grant. The federal deficit is over $1.5 trillion, perhaps some consideration should be given to just not spending some of it.
William Gibson did not write during the heyday of the other writers you mentioned. If you consider Asimov, Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Frederick Pohl and Arthur C. Clark as writing in the golden age of science fiction, then William Gibson comes later. When I worked in the book business (at a store that was known for its science fiction section), the golden age of science fiction was considered to be from the 1950s and 1960s. I agree that William Gibson is fairly considered with those other authors. However, he did not write in the golden age of science fiction.
It is pronounced the same as the first two syllables as syphilis, and it is just about as desirable.
My problem with the thought of this replacing animal testing comes from these two sentences in the article: "Animal skin is unpredictable, which makes it extraordinarily difficult to anticipate how it will respond when grafted onto a person. Synthetic skin, on the other hand, is consistent in composition and behavior, ..." To me this means that the synthetic skin does not fully replicate the responses of natural skin to irritants (the place where this would primarily be of use).
We don't know. All we know is that it registered this guy's vehicle as speeding when the camera evidence says he wasn't. The company claims it was accurate in this case (not that it has a plus or minus 5 miles an hour margin of error). Why should a judge believe that it has any relation to your actual speed?
It doesn't really matter if East Texas is the only place in the world where this patent would be considered valid, because it's the only place future infringement lawsuits are likely to get filed.
And then one of the cases will get appealed to a higher court, and if that higher court does not agree with the East Texas ruling, it will get overturned and no future case will get decided that way even in East Texas. This is a federal case, so it could potentially get appealed all of the way to the Supreme Court (and Google has sufficient funds to do so).
Revenue falling 57.6 percent generally means the end of a business. Profit, (revenue - expenses) falling 57.6 percent is not a big deal in a business which has often been in the black as of late.
Everything I have seen says it is revenue that fell, not profit. According to the news I have seen, the NYT hasn't seen a profit in several years.
It doesn't matter. If the device that is used to measure the speed is questionable, then its speed determination for every vehicle is questionable. Once the device has been accepted as unreliable, you don't need further evidence of unreliability.
The real travesty here is that the judge let other tickets issued by the same devices stand after it was demonstrated to him that they are not reliable. If there is reason to believe that the device was wrong in one case, there is reason to believe that it was wrong in every case.
Actually in a way you have hit on the answer. When I was in school in the 70s, they passed a law to change the U.S. over to the metric system over time. They spent a lot of time teaching us how to convert from Imperial Units to Metric Units. Everyone else in my class thought that the metric system was very hard because it is difficult to convert Imperial Units to Metric Units (and vice versa). That is what it comes down to, most Americans think metric units are hard because they were taught the metric system by way of converting from imperial units to metric units. Instead of spending so much time teaching us how to convert from one to the other (including making us memorize the conversion constant), they should have just taught us how the metric system works, given us a quick example of how to convert and moved on.
You don't even have to do that. If the officer is not arresting you, when he asks for your cellphone, just say "no." I have only once been in a situation where the police officer would have had access to my cellphone (I did not have one at the time).
Do you know why high fructose corn syrup is used instead of cane sugar? I'll give you a hint, government regulation in the form of tarrifs on cane sugar.
So, basically what you are saying is that HIPAA is a law that has caused me a lot of inconvenience, but that the government doesn't actually enforce, they just take the word of hospitals, etc that they are in compliance?
You have obviously never dealt with government regulators. Their response would likely be, "That is insufficient. We are going to fine your organization $X for non-compliance unless you can prove that this server did not violate regulations." And then the organization would likely hold IT responsible.
Meanwhile this guy works at a hospital where stuff like HIPPA means that if IT policies aren't carried out properly, IT people lose their jobs.
And/or get big fines and/or go to jail.
And when the government regulators ask the IT Department how they know that private health information isn't being disseminated over this server, their answer would be...?
'This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.'
I am unaware of anyone who questions the fact that Obama was born. What they question is where he was born, what hospital was he born at? There are an amazing paucity of records concerning the life of the "most transparent President in history," not just his birth certificate.