You could use some of the oil to make plastic and some to run a generator. Then you use the electricty from the generator to run the microwave - that makes the plastic into even more oil. You take some of that oil to run the generator, some to make plastic and sell the surplus - rinse and repeat.
I would propose that collisions are more common (statistically) on the road.
One could assume that because parking lots are slow-driving zones that drivers have more time to react to situations. I would propose, however, that it is the lack of explicit (imo overwhelming) signage and laws which allow (force) people to take responsibility for themselves.
It could also be that (unless you live somewhere with a lot of very large parking lots in very close proximity to each other) the vast majority of miles that cars are driven occurs on roads. But I might be wrong.
Anybody wanting to install a user friendly Linux distro doesn't know what a "Linux distro" is and doesn't want to learn.
That's nonesense. How can someone want to install a distro if they don't know what one is? A novice just wants to use one. For him the best thing is if its preinstalled - just like windows is on most machines.
Speculators can only sell high because people are willing to buy high. If people are willing to buy high that's what the market will hold anyways - 'ordinary' buyers would have charged higher prices eventually. Speculators are just ahead of the wave.
Now if peiople aren't willing to pay high prices, then the market dives and the speculators get their fingers burned.
At least convert it to Euros or something, the dollar is getting weaker!
Euroe's are just another denomination of dollars. When it comes down to the end of the day, all paper money is worthless as it has no intrinsic vaue. Much better to buy gold.
So getting rid of all that economic jargon, basically because the computer would not be produced for profit the quantity produced can be larger and the price be lower than the actual cost of producing the last computer.
So even if each one is sold at a loss, they can make it up in volume? I've got boo.com on hold...
How can they use washers as money? I assume they're the normal kind made of base metal (not silver or gold) so anybody could mine some more zinc or steel and make more of them. Where's the intrinsic value? It's just another fiat currency like dollars except in this case the 'the man' is the zookeeper.
Why shouldn't someone be punished for holding a stupid opinion? If you're have the opinion gold is going to fall in value and you sell short, and it goes up, you were stupid and you lose. Likewise the asshats here gambled and lost.
There's no disinsentive to frivolous lawsuits - it's rare in the extreme for defendants costs to be awarded. This applies to the plaintiff and his lawyer - the worst case secenario is they'd come out with nothing. All they'd lose was time.
Now if they were going to share there ill-gotten gains - I don't see why they shouldn't share the costs when their little scam backfires.
That was about the fees - I agree Thomson can rant as much as he likes, just not on my dime.
Yes, you missed off that all copywrites, patents (and the other thing, I don't remember what it's called) are impediments to free markets and therefore a form of communism.
Participation in the Darfur media circus IS exactly EVIL.
I agree. As I say on my increasingly popular speaking engagements. If there's a solution to the Darfur problem the market will find the best one in the least time.
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You could use some of the oil to make plastic and some to run a generator. Then you use the electricty from the generator to run the microwave - that makes the plastic into even more oil. You take some of that oil to run the generator, some to make plastic and sell the surplus - rinse and repeat.
Hmm, I see a business opportunity here.
Don't you mean Ehchelon?
Do we think this ruling is good, because coprights are teh suX0rz eleventyone?
Or is it bad, because corporations are teh suX0rz oh noeess?
(Just wanting to see whih way the wind blows, so I don't say something against the consensus and get modbombed)
The AK-47 is just a rip-off of the German MP44.
Not sure I agree about the "good thing" part.
Speculators can only sell high because people are willing to buy high. If people are willing to buy high that's what the market will hold anyways - 'ordinary' buyers would have charged higher prices eventually. Speculators are just ahead of the wave.
Now if peiople aren't willing to pay high prices, then the market dives and the speculators get their fingers burned.
That's because they haven't invented Googlepr0n. Yet.
Like that will ever happen. Well it might, if we retutrn to the gold standard.
If that's what people want, they'll buy it. If they don't the producer will try a different tack. That's how market's work.
How can they use washers as money? I assume they're the normal kind made of base metal (not silver or gold) so anybody could mine some more zinc or steel and make more of them. Where's the intrinsic value? It's just another fiat currency like dollars except in this case the 'the man' is the zookeeper.
I guess the pressure would be the normal one - witholding of highway funding? Won't work. From what I've seen Montana doesn't get any to start with.
With all their socialist welfare states, I don't see any savings in going to Europe.
Why shouldn't someone be punished for holding a stupid opinion? If you're have the opinion gold is going to fall in value and you sell short, and it goes up, you were stupid and you lose. Likewise the asshats here gambled and lost.
There's no disinsentive to frivolous lawsuits - it's rare in the extreme for defendants costs to be awarded. This applies to the plaintiff and his lawyer - the worst case secenario is they'd come out with nothing. All they'd lose was time.
Now if they were going to share there ill-gotten gains - I don't see why they shouldn't share the costs when their little scam backfires.
That was about the fees - I agree Thomson can rant as much as he likes, just not on my dime.
You may as well get rid of patents as offsource them.
1) send application to india or china.
2) filter out good ones
3) reject, and file under own/brothers/uncle's name
4) profit!!!!! (for them)
Welcome to the patent quagmire. The whole progress of industry will become a stalemate if this goes on.
End the patent nonesense now!
The Platinum 2.0 Age?
I use them as coasters. Some say they make good bird-scarers for the garden, but I don't have a garden so I don't know if it's correct.