Another good thing is that they charge A LOT, over $60 an hour, which means I can undercut them and still make a decent wage.
Wrong! You charge $100+ per hour, as the customers will treat the price as a hint of your better knowledge of tech and deeper experience in the business. You geeks REALLY don't know anything about marketing?:-)
For what I've seen, many small businesses are not the best places to work. This is because in a large corporation, a manager who is being an asshole or otherwise does not perform well e.g. does not get a change in the way the business is done is usually quickly replaced, whereas in small businesses he usually owns the company and there is no one to sack him. Of course the company will go under soon, but this is equally bad for the workers.
First you need a law that prohibits imprisonment without a trial and torture of Americans and foreign nationals. It needs to apply to the president too.
I love Eve, but there is no way it would even reach the complexity of real world financial markets.
Eve doesn't even have decent capital markets: No loans, no trading in corporate stock. Corporations can TAX their members instead of giving out dividends.
Even the marketplaces are separate and there is a game imposed barrier to trading in several markets simultaneously. Most of the trade goods have no function and as such trading in them is more or less a "mini-game" than a working commodities market.
One of the most significant contributions of Transmeta was to force Intel to create the Centrino product line. Now, Centrino is a low-consumption brand known to consumers, not Crusoe. Laptop manufacturers have been complaining not being able to sell non-Centrino laptops anymore!
I guess that's the way it goes in the IT business, never is the first-mover rewarded...
Why hasn't MS come out with a trade-in program for pirated copies of Windows XP? At least copies of XP installed illegally after 1st Jan 2005 should be eligible for a free copy of XP 64!
(I mean, no one buys that OS, right?):-)
Yes, it is peculiar how you can suddenly find again your will to live after facing the reality of death. This has been the subject of many books and movies, I think.
I don't think this is good news. It would be fine if all the companies indiscriminately opened all of their patent portfolio to open source, but that is not what will happen.
More likely the software companies will just open the less important patents, the ones that are not strategic to them. At the same time they can now proclaim that software patents are OK, because the little guys are allowed to use patented stuff freely.
Every person is supposed to have one vote. This worked as long as people believed in universal human rights. These days, however, more and more people agree that who pays the bills should be able to tell how they're spent. This is called neo-libertarism.
Social systems adjust themselves automatically. Thus, it has become so that the wealthy (and the corporations, which originally had no votes) can affect the democratic process disproportionately by giving campaign contributions, running ad campaigns, hiring people to lobby for them and so on.
Should we make it official, and let the wealthy and corps have more votes?
I created my own using PHP/MySQL, at least I got what I wanted. Only took me about 40 hours, as I took the K.I.S.S. approach.
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Of course they wouldn't do that, because they would be liable to compensate the damage they made to their bankrupted property by preventing further sale of their products!
You're usually not allowed to give anything away in bankruptcy, that would affect the rights of your debtors.
And I will not. It is not an easy question to answer, and I will not even try. I'd still say that your answer, to not treat anyone who has himself caused or made worse any of his condition is not the correct one.
Racism is not hating someones genes, it's more about generalizing people based on nonrepresenting assumptions. Not all South Africans think like SA President Thabo Mbeki. If you, based on his views, think American culture as superior and thus their culture as inferior, yes, that is indeed racist.
Back to the point: If healthcare as a universal right isn't for you, I'd see your answer in the external effects of healthcare. By vaccinations, treatments and provisioning of healthcare in the faraway lands of Overseas, the epidemics and new discovered illnesses are treated locally, and do not get a chance to get closer to you.
And don't be blind in your belief in one's own choices guiding his life. One can be infected with HIV from spouse (and please don't say it's just bad selection of life partner), drug abuse is seldom a choice, and so on.
> we eliminate the Fed's monopoly on currency provision
> repeal PATRIOT act
This guy is a true popularist, he promises people what they want even though there is no chance of realizing the promises. Well, there is also no chance of getting elected, so that's even:)
Is it wrong to think we shoulda withheld medical technology from people incapable of using it properly so it would still work for us?
By your reasoning, should we withhold it from middle-class American men, who stop taking their antibiotics in the middle when they start getting better?
Of course not. Healthcare is a basic human right. And while you would never admit it, you sound very much of a racist to me...
Get a power strip with on-off button, and plug your computer, screen and DC converters in it. When you don't use your massive computing power, you can shut them off easily.
I am not going to argue long against your libertarian beliefs, simply point out that all the links you provided are hosted on the Ludwig von Mises Institute's web server:
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics.
And a company having a monopoly on the market is just like the big guy of the sandbox - no matter what you do, he is always better equipped to kick your ass. Your solution would be to leave the sandbox, depriving me the use of it.
Yes, it would be so disastrous for the EverCrack addicted if their gaming sessions would be limited to 8 hours per day...
Of course it was unintentional, but you just justified why it is sometimes very beneficial for the society that "those politicians" place restrictions on your personal freedoms. Addiction is one of the major reasons for this, another present here is exploitation by others.
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Unlikely that they would be able to protect it but I doubt that they did it for 'bragging rights'. It is too expensive to do it for 'bragging rights.'
No, they do it because R&D gets their bonuses based on how many patents they get.
If high schools have burgers and fries as a lunch, that country has failed in educating its citizens.
Wrong! You charge $100+ per hour, as the customers will treat the price as a hint of your better knowledge of tech and deeper experience in the business. You geeks REALLY don't know anything about marketing? :-)
Not only you answer to the question about platform choice, but also accurately describe a company lifecycle issue and solve it. Very good!
For what I've seen, many small businesses are not the best places to work. This is because in a large corporation, a manager who is being an asshole or otherwise does not perform well e.g. does not get a change in the way the business is done is usually quickly replaced, whereas in small businesses he usually owns the company and there is no one to sack him. Of course the company will go under soon, but this is equally bad for the workers.
First you need a law that prohibits imprisonment without a trial and torture of Americans and foreign nationals. It needs to apply to the president too.
Eve doesn't even have decent capital markets: No loans, no trading in corporate stock. Corporations can TAX their members instead of giving out dividends.
Even the marketplaces are separate and there is a game imposed barrier to trading in several markets simultaneously. Most of the trade goods have no function and as such trading in them is more or less a "mini-game" than a working commodities market.
Eve - mercantilism at its best!
Killing people is more humane than torturing them.
I guess that's the way it goes in the IT business, never is the first-mover rewarded...
Why hasn't MS come out with a trade-in program for pirated copies of Windows XP? At least copies of XP installed illegally after 1st Jan 2005 should be eligible for a free copy of XP 64! (I mean, no one buys that OS, right?) :-)
Yes, it is peculiar how you can suddenly find again your will to live after facing the reality of death. This has been the subject of many books and movies, I think.
More likely the software companies will just open the less important patents, the ones that are not strategic to them. At the same time they can now proclaim that software patents are OK, because the little guys are allowed to use patented stuff freely.
Every person is supposed to have one vote. This worked as long as people believed in universal human rights. These days, however, more and more people agree that who pays the bills should be able to tell how they're spent. This is called neo-libertarism.
Social systems adjust themselves automatically. Thus, it has become so that the wealthy (and the corporations, which originally had no votes) can affect the democratic process disproportionately by giving campaign contributions, running ad campaigns, hiring people to lobby for them and so on.
Should we make it official, and let the wealthy and corps have more votes?
I created my own using PHP/MySQL, at least I got what I wanted. Only took me about 40 hours, as I took the K.I.S.S. approach.
Of course they wouldn't do that, because they would be liable to compensate the damage they made to their bankrupted property by preventing further sale of their products! You're usually not allowed to give anything away in bankruptcy, that would affect the rights of your debtors.
And I will not. It is not an easy question to answer, and I will not even try. I'd still say that your answer, to not treat anyone who has himself caused or made worse any of his condition is not the correct one.
Back to the point: If healthcare as a universal right isn't for you, I'd see your answer in the external effects of healthcare. By vaccinations, treatments and provisioning of healthcare in the faraway lands of Overseas, the epidemics and new discovered illnesses are treated locally, and do not get a chance to get closer to you.
And don't be blind in your belief in one's own choices guiding his life. One can be infected with HIV from spouse (and please don't say it's just bad selection of life partner), drug abuse is seldom a choice, and so on.
> we eliminate the Fed's monopoly on currency provision
> repeal PATRIOT act
This guy is a true popularist, he promises people what they want even though there is no chance of realizing the promises. Well, there is also no chance of getting elected, so that's even :)
By your reasoning, should we withhold it from middle-class American men, who stop taking their antibiotics in the middle when they start getting better?
Of course not. Healthcare is a basic human right. And while you would never admit it, you sound very much of a racist to me...
Get a power strip with on-off button, and plug your computer, screen and DC converters in it. When you don't use your massive computing power, you can shut them off easily.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute is the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics.
And a company having a monopoly on the market is just like the big guy of the sandbox - no matter what you do, he is always better equipped to kick your ass. Your solution would be to leave the sandbox, depriving me the use of it.
So, you advocate for locking retards in prison?
There is a connection between poverty and crime. In many cases, mugging people is a rational choice (in economic sense, that is!).
And if you still get mugged, give all you have.
Of course it was unintentional, but you just justified why it is sometimes very beneficial for the society that "those politicians" place restrictions on your personal freedoms. Addiction is one of the major reasons for this, another present here is exploitation by others.