Considering that water can be filtered for next to nothing (that's what I do), yet bottled water runs a dollar a bottle, something is screwy with the theory that competition will drive prices down. The market shouldn't be able to support expensive advertising. That's why you don't see TV commercials for matches or pencils, for example.
Nice theory there, but practically no market in the U.S. is healthy enough to make it happen.
Unlike the basic income, the current programs are filled with bureaucrats whose only job is to demand a pile of paperwork that will be filed and forgotten, and are loaded with tricks and traps that make it very hard to ever improve the situation it's "clients" are in.
At the same time, people need to be able to afford food, clothing, and shelter while doing that job nobody really wants to do. Of course, many of those jobs are undesired because they don't pay enough to cover food, clothing, and shelter.
Like what? Even "want fries with that" is being automated away. Trucking and package delivery is going away. Manufacturing went overseas and now it's going away even over there (as if we could live on $0.50/hour anyway).
So how about the people who happen to own the machines? Do they have to contribute or do they get to make money for passively allowing their machines to continue producing? Are they owed rent?
Two words: Value Pricing. Things aren't priced based on what they cost to produce, but based on what people will pay. The absolute minimum price will be the total marginal cost of production, but in practice, a business will simply shut down if it can't get more than that. You don't really think it costs more than $1.00 to run 16 oz of water through a filter and put it in a $0.02 plastic bottle, do you?
Theft of service is defined by state laws, which vary by state, but typically define the crime as knowingly securing the performance of a service by deception or threat, diverting another's services to the actor's own benefit, or holding personal property beyond the expiration of rental period without consent of the owner. Intent to avoid payment may be presumed under certain circumstances, such as failure to pay for an applicable rental charge within 10 days after receiving written notice demanding payment.
So unless she herself utilized the pipeline (that is, made it carry her own crude oil), she did not commit theft of service. Theft of service is most commonly charged when you bypass your electric meter, hook your cable back up, or alter the configuration of your cable box to see channels you don't pay for. It was also a popular charge connected with blue boxing a long distance phone call. In all cases because you took steps to use a service without intent to pay for it.
Absolutely, some senior execs will be banished to a warm beach in the Bahamas for a week or 2 and they will be ordered to delete the data *eventually*.
You should review the saying "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride". Pressing charges that will never stick is a popular way of punishing inconvenient people.
And actually, they dropped the tresspassing charges after she traveled to answer them (suggesting that they didn't actually believe they could convict), but made sure to press a new charge to start the process all over again.
In Schlosberg's case, the charges don't even make sense. For example, theft of property or service. Do they allege that she stole the pipeline? Or that she caused it to carry her own crude oil without paying?
Didn't that ship sail when they released a professional recording? If that didn't kill concert attendance, why would a bouncy garbled cellphone video complete with people screaming and shots of the backs of people's heads and waving arms hurt matters?
It may be considered the norm, but it shouldn't be. If your employer needed you on-call 24/7, that means if you got sick they would be sunk. If they had someone else, why weren't you on call just half of the time?
Or lmr. They have a little lower energy density, so the battery has to be a little bigger, but they don't go boom if overcharged or over discharged and they are rated for 20-40 Amps so the phone won't overload them. They also have a voltage range comparable to LiIon, so no need for a total re-design and a little easier to regulate.
They're safe enough to use without a protection circuit in an eCig.
Dig deeper. Some of those expensive cancer drugs have a cure rate of zero and on average buy 3 months worth of agonizing semi-conscious death in exchange for literally everything you and your children have. Most doctors who have seen someone on them fill out a living will to make sure they'll never be put on them.
They only exist because when the time comes, few who are personally involved can quite bring themselves to affirmatively let a loved one die even if that death is inevitable and actually the best of a small selection of terrible options.
The NHS doesn't deal in those drugs.
Meanwhile, you act as if medical bankruptcy and having to pay for diagnostic procedures isn't an every day occurrence in the U.S.
Sorry, no. Someone who thinks being rich means he's allowed to do whatever he wants to whoever he wants, even if it's deviant and perverted is not acceptable. That is the policy he has demonstrated. The rest is just stuff he has said.
The email is a bit of a distraction. The real issue to me is that Clinton has always been the senator from Wall Street. That is her actual track record. The rest is just words.
The policies and plans they have spoken of will be abandoned before the voting machines are put away. All that is left will be their characters and their track records.
The turmoil within the Republican party that resulted from absorbing the Reform party is why they couldn't manage to kick Trump out in the primary. Their presidential candidate is actually a crazy RINO. If they try to absorb Libertarians as well, they'll lose the religious right.
Let's see what the Democrats do when they try to deal with a strong showing for the Green party.
There are some worrying aspects to the hacking, but at the same time, I'm wondering if the biggest issue is that Hallmark doesn't really have a good thank you card for this situation.
As far as disagreements about treatments go, you can appeal.
You mean you can ask to be told no in another voice? And then you get the bill because the treatment was already done?
The problem in the U.S. is that it IS half assed. The solution is to do the other half. Then there's a single entity with enough bargaining power to keep us from spending 4 times more per capita than any other developed country for healthcare.
The rest of the world manages, are you claiming Americans are uniquely too stupid to manage it?
The problem is the amount skimmed off the top by the non-productive 0.1% That's why the cost of everything keeps going even while less labor is required than even before and pay remains stagnant.
If X takes only 75% of the labor it did 10 years ago, but it's 50% more expensive and nobody got a raise, the money went somewhere.
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So why hasn't it driven the "designer" waters off the shelf?
Considering that water can be filtered for next to nothing (that's what I do), yet bottled water runs a dollar a bottle, something is screwy with the theory that competition will drive prices down. The market shouldn't be able to support expensive advertising. That's why you don't see TV commercials for matches or pencils, for example.
Nice theory there, but practically no market in the U.S. is healthy enough to make it happen.
Unlike the basic income, the current programs are filled with bureaucrats whose only job is to demand a pile of paperwork that will be filed and forgotten, and are loaded with tricks and traps that make it very hard to ever improve the situation it's "clients" are in.
At the same time, people need to be able to afford food, clothing, and shelter while doing that job nobody really wants to do. Of course, many of those jobs are undesired because they don't pay enough to cover food, clothing, and shelter.
Like what? Even "want fries with that" is being automated away. Trucking and package delivery is going away. Manufacturing went overseas and now it's going away even over there (as if we could live on $0.50/hour anyway).
Those cheaper workers are now being replaced by machines because they weren't cheaper enough.
So how about the people who happen to own the machines? Do they have to contribute or do they get to make money for passively allowing their machines to continue producing? Are they owed rent?
Two words: Value Pricing. Things aren't priced based on what they cost to produce, but based on what people will pay. The absolute minimum price will be the total marginal cost of production, but in practice, a business will simply shut down if it can't get more than that. You don't really think it costs more than $1.00 to run 16 oz of water through a filter and put it in a $0.02 plastic bottle, do you?
actually, no:
Theft of service is defined by state laws, which vary by state, but typically define the crime as knowingly securing the performance of a service by deception or threat, diverting another's services to the actor's own benefit, or holding personal property beyond the expiration of rental period without consent of the owner. Intent to avoid payment may be presumed under certain circumstances, such as failure to pay for an applicable rental charge within 10 days after receiving written notice demanding payment.
So unless she herself utilized the pipeline (that is, made it carry her own crude oil), she did not commit theft of service. Theft of service is most commonly charged when you bypass your electric meter, hook your cable back up, or alter the configuration of your cable box to see channels you don't pay for. It was also a popular charge connected with blue boxing a long distance phone call. In all cases because you took steps to use a service without intent to pay for it.
Perhaps YOU should do the looking up next time.
Absolutely, some senior execs will be banished to a warm beach in the Bahamas for a week or 2 and they will be ordered to delete the data *eventually*.
I can well understand that sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I was just objecting to considering it the norm.
You should review the saying "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride". Pressing charges that will never stick is a popular way of punishing inconvenient people.
And actually, they dropped the tresspassing charges after she traveled to answer them (suggesting that they didn't actually believe they could convict), but made sure to press a new charge to start the process all over again.
In Schlosberg's case, the charges don't even make sense. For example, theft of property or service. Do they allege that she stole the pipeline? Or that she caused it to carry her own crude oil without paying?
As for Goodman, here's the video.
Didn't that ship sail when they released a professional recording? If that didn't kill concert attendance, why would a bouncy garbled cellphone video complete with people screaming and shots of the backs of people's heads and waving arms hurt matters?
It may be considered the norm, but it shouldn't be. If your employer needed you on-call 24/7, that means if you got sick they would be sunk. If they had someone else, why weren't you on call just half of the time?
It is possible to do that politely. Sit at the back, phone on vibrate. If it actually gets a call, step out to answer.
Or lmr. They have a little lower energy density, so the battery has to be a little bigger, but they don't go boom if overcharged or over discharged and they are rated for 20-40 Amps so the phone won't overload them. They also have a voltage range comparable to LiIon, so no need for a total re-design and a little easier to regulate.
They're safe enough to use without a protection circuit in an eCig.
In the U.S. we have the sin taxes but the money isn't being applied to treat the associated health problems.
Dig deeper. Some of those expensive cancer drugs have a cure rate of zero and on average buy 3 months worth of agonizing semi-conscious death in exchange for literally everything you and your children have. Most doctors who have seen someone on them fill out a living will to make sure they'll never be put on them.
They only exist because when the time comes, few who are personally involved can quite bring themselves to affirmatively let a loved one die even if that death is inevitable and actually the best of a small selection of terrible options.
The NHS doesn't deal in those drugs.
Meanwhile, you act as if medical bankruptcy and having to pay for diagnostic procedures isn't an every day occurrence in the U.S.
Sorry, no. Someone who thinks being rich means he's allowed to do whatever he wants to whoever he wants, even if it's deviant and perverted is not acceptable. That is the policy he has demonstrated. The rest is just stuff he has said.
The email is a bit of a distraction. The real issue to me is that Clinton has always been the senator from Wall Street. That is her actual track record. The rest is just words.
The policies and plans they have spoken of will be abandoned before the voting machines are put away. All that is left will be their characters and their track records.
I'm not voting for either one of them.
The turmoil within the Republican party that resulted from absorbing the Reform party is why they couldn't manage to kick Trump out in the primary. Their presidential candidate is actually a crazy RINO. If they try to absorb Libertarians as well, they'll lose the religious right.
Let's see what the Democrats do when they try to deal with a strong showing for the Green party.
So Hillary thinks we should vote for Trump?
They say a broken clock is right twice a day, but in this case I think the hands fell off of both of these clocks.
There are some worrying aspects to the hacking, but at the same time, I'm wondering if the biggest issue is that Hallmark doesn't really have a good thank you card for this situation.
As far as disagreements about treatments go, you can appeal.
You mean you can ask to be told no in another voice? And then you get the bill because the treatment was already done?
The problem in the U.S. is that it IS half assed. The solution is to do the other half. Then there's a single entity with enough bargaining power to keep us from spending 4 times more per capita than any other developed country for healthcare.
The rest of the world manages, are you claiming Americans are uniquely too stupid to manage it?
The problem is the amount skimmed off the top by the non-productive 0.1% That's why the cost of everything keeps going even while less labor is required than even before and pay remains stagnant.
If X takes only 75% of the labor it did 10 years ago, but it's 50% more expensive and nobody got a raise, the money went somewhere.