MS should have plenty of incentive to publish their own FTDI driver that doesn't pull this crap. There are now a bunch of devices out there that work fine with Linux every time but not with Windows unless you screw around with the drivers.
I'm talking about fundamental freedoms and reasonability and you're quacking on about inflation. I never said it was perfect, but there have been some fundamental changes. When I was in the 4th grade, our social studies teacher told us about some of the things Russia does that makes it bad and that America is good because none of those things happen here. Most of those things increasingly happen here now.
In the country I grew up in you could walk through the airport and just show the flight attendant your boarding pass and walk right on the plane. There was a metal detector but it was so insensitive that nothing smaller than Crocodile Dundee's knife would raise an alarm. If anyone wanted to grope someone in line, they'd get a punch in the nose for the suggestion. Sporting events didn't dare search bags because they wanted people to come back. Even a President could get in trouble for domestic spying (and I mean real trouble like better to resign). Lite brite couldn't cause a city wide panic and brief cases left on a bench weren't blown up. Secret courts, collecting call data on everyone, cameras on street corners and such were things you saw in bad sci-fi movies.
True, but they will lose the patent and whatever they paid for it plus legal fees. Further, they might stand to lose earlier gains on the same patent as they delay cash transfers to avoid comingling of funds (which could expose the parent company to liability).
All the legal wrangling costs money. The more often they lose and then have to pay compensation, the more likely they are to be a net loss. If most of them turn out to be a net loss, they will dry up and blow away.
If they move ops out of the country, we class their products as imports and impose tariffs on them. Further, once they're foreign corporations under law, they naturally no longer have any standing to lobby or make political contributions here.
I don't know why you bothered with examples from Communism (in particular, the central planned economy), I never suggested it. You still seem stuck in the strange part of the 20th century where people forgot that an economy is a social construct to serve the people, never the other way around.
As for welfare, Rowling was on the dole when she wrote Harry Potter. Since then, she has brought BILLIONS into the economy. Produced nothing, huh? Your ideas would have kept a potentially successful author too busy being a mediocre floor mopper to produce anything of note. The great irony is that I see no sign in you that you will ever have the vast wealth you believe will be yours one day. It will all go to the very people you advocate for while you scavenge their table scraps. That is, they no doubt find you to be a useful idiot.
But it seems to me that you are projecting some sort of thin strawman in front of me and pretending to debate your own alter ego. So I'll save my time and suggest you register a second account and ague with that.
You do realize that the U.S. and the countries of Europe have mixed economies right? Somalia is pretty much a pure Capitalism.
Now, back to those empires and great works you haven't accomplished...
Now, you've had your "funny" little joke, but I'm guessing you're mid 20's at most, quite possibly you haven't had your first real job yet. That's for the best since you clearly aren't ready to make decisions that actually affect other people's lives yet.
No doubt you've read Ayn Rand. One day you'll wake up and realize, Galt didn't actually build anything. Other people did. They are the Atlas upon which his world stands.
I can only guess that your inability to imagine people willingly doing an honest day's work in exchange for a nice lifestyle when they could live in a barely adequate apartment on beans and rice for free is more a reflection of you and/or your associates than of society.
BTW, those experimental societies fell apart from political squabbling and being too small to form a stable society rather than from economic failure.
Implementing the basic income does allow for eliminating minimum wages and most aid programs with a corresponding reduction in costs for the reams of paperwork and bureaucracy. It also removes the disincentive to do odd jobs, part time, etc that under current programs would leave the aid recipient worse off than if they don't work.
So which secret government black op slipped Linus the big bux to write and release the Linux kernel for free? It must be the same organization that pays Habitat volunteers on the sly.
As for the rest, you realize that under any basic income scheme, you can improve your situation over the bare minimum through working, right? And through merit you can be paid more.
I don't know the stats for specific countries in Europe, but apparently they have more people than they have jobs. Certainly that is true of the United States.
And yet, they haven't. We'll see how that plays out in a few years when they have a massive population on early medical retirement because their lungs wore out faster than the rest of them.
No, the money is there. If it isn't, then they can't afford to maintain their popuilation at a basic level under any system.
Is that your claim? That they are running on stockpiled food and clothing and when that runs out they're screwed?
Because otherwise, they can afford it. It just might be that some who have long enjoyed taking far more for themselves than their efforts can justify won't like it.
You assume that a cop (and/or a DA) who thinks his OS is either Firefox or Internet Explorer will know that and not cause me several really bad days and a stink that won't wash off.
If I am working on a specific problem someone is having, I won't really look to see what image thumbnails are showing unless it's actually relevant to the problem. It's called being a professional.
The question is do the cops really know that (especially when they get a lot more headlines is they "don't know" that)? Professionalism in police work is in many ways the opposite of professionalism in IT. Do they know that the "un-missable" wallpaper on a user account is totally missable if I log in as Administrator to fix a driver problem?
It would also be worth looking at shifting demand. Set things up to run the dishwasher etc during peak solar production. Pre-cool the house and the fridge. Then size based on that.
Coined by someone who was tired of idiots jumping up every time someone had a cool day (even in the middle of winter) and claiming there can't be global warming because someone somewhere still needs a coat.
The wholesale market matters very much since it sels a lower bound on the profitable retail price.
In the CPU market, step one is to quit giving Intel little taps on the wrist when they engage in anti-competitive practices and start breaking fingers. It may be worth thinking about pressing for more than 1 second source for government sales. For that matter, just demand separation between design and fab. Corporate charters are not a right, and so strings can be attached.
For books, one approach could be making exclusive publication contracts an anti-competitive practice. Push the non-commodity aspects back as far as they can logically go. We can't logically split an author in half, but we can open the door to more than one publisher printing their work.
In fact, there are very few markets I see as healthy. It's time we at least quit pretending that they are and so quit assuming corrective forces found in a healthy market will be at work. Better, where we can think of a way to improve market health, we should. The currently fashionable laissez faire approach will not work.
At the retail level, books are a fairly free market. At the wholesale level, they are anything but. Only one printer can print a given book. Books are not really interchangeable. Nevertheless, hardcovers do actually cost more to make, ship, and stock than paperback so a cost difference is justifiable, though probably not as much of a difference as we actually see. At least they don't just rip the cover off of a hardback when you buy a paperback. All in all, I would say the market for books falls somewhere in the middle other than textbooks which are a really unhealthy market.
As for chip makers, I am all for cost recovery on defective but still useful chips. But in a healthy market, the fully functional chip would be much closer to the marginal cost of production since the cost is recovered on many of the defects. Note that the marginal cost would still include the cost of defective chips that were not useful since those are unavoidable. The price would come down after a while as fewer and fewer defects are produced. That would tend to dry up the availability of the defects being sold off for cost recovery, but in that parallel world where the markets are healthy, the high end chip would sell for about what we pay here for the defects. Intel would still make a pile of money, but not as much as they make here.
Yes, the commodities markets work fairly well here +/- speculators in some commodities tying up supply and producers colluding to artificially limit production (though as we see in the oil market, those efforts break down eventually).
Actual Capitalism is long dead in this country. Most if not all markets are unhealthy and slanted to the large corporate players that probably shouldn't exist. Increasingly, actual ownership is restricted to the very wealthy.
I'm not really disagreeing with the link you posted, just looking at it from a different angle.
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MS should have plenty of incentive to publish their own FTDI driver that doesn't pull this crap. There are now a bunch of devices out there that work fine with Linux every time but not with Windows unless you screw around with the drivers.
I'm talking about fundamental freedoms and reasonability and you're quacking on about inflation. I never said it was perfect, but there have been some fundamental changes. When I was in the 4th grade, our social studies teacher told us about some of the things Russia does that makes it bad and that America is good because none of those things happen here. Most of those things increasingly happen here now.
In the country I grew up in you could walk through the airport and just show the flight attendant your boarding pass and walk right on the plane. There was a metal detector but it was so insensitive that nothing smaller than Crocodile Dundee's knife would raise an alarm. If anyone wanted to grope someone in line, they'd get a punch in the nose for the suggestion. Sporting events didn't dare search bags because they wanted people to come back. Even a President could get in trouble for domestic spying (and I mean real trouble like better to resign). Lite brite couldn't cause a city wide panic and brief cases left on a bench weren't blown up. Secret courts, collecting call data on everyone, cameras on street corners and such were things you saw in bad sci-fi movies.
True, but they will lose the patent and whatever they paid for it plus legal fees. Further, they might stand to lose earlier gains on the same patent as they delay cash transfers to avoid comingling of funds (which could expose the parent company to liability).
All the legal wrangling costs money. The more often they lose and then have to pay compensation, the more likely they are to be a net loss. If most of them turn out to be a net loss, they will dry up and blow away.
Yes, just as Mussolini intended..OH, WAIT!
Foreigners trying to influence the U.S. political process outside of diplomatic channels? Now, THAT is a legitimate target for the NSA and CIA.
If they move ops out of the country, we class their products as imports and impose tariffs on them. Further, once they're foreign corporations under law, they naturally no longer have any standing to lobby or make political contributions here.
I don't know why you bothered with examples from Communism (in particular, the central planned economy), I never suggested it. You still seem stuck in the strange part of the 20th century where people forgot that an economy is a social construct to serve the people, never the other way around.
As for welfare, Rowling was on the dole when she wrote Harry Potter. Since then, she has brought BILLIONS into the economy. Produced nothing, huh? Your ideas would have kept a potentially successful author too busy being a mediocre floor mopper to produce anything of note. The great irony is that I see no sign in you that you will ever have the vast wealth you believe will be yours one day. It will all go to the very people you advocate for while you scavenge their table scraps. That is, they no doubt find you to be a useful idiot.
But it seems to me that you are projecting some sort of thin strawman in front of me and pretending to debate your own alter ego. So I'll save my time and suggest you register a second account and ague with that.
You do realize that the U.S. and the countries of Europe have mixed economies right? Somalia is pretty much a pure Capitalism.
Now, back to those empires and great works you haven't accomplished...
Now, you've had your "funny" little joke, but I'm guessing you're mid 20's at most, quite possibly you haven't had your first real job yet. That's for the best since you clearly aren't ready to make decisions that actually affect other people's lives yet.
No doubt you've read Ayn Rand. One day you'll wake up and realize, Galt didn't actually build anything. Other people did. They are the Atlas upon which his world stands.
And what empire have you built? Where is your great work?
I can only guess that your inability to imagine people willingly doing an honest day's work in exchange for a nice lifestyle when they could live in a barely adequate apartment on beans and rice for free is more a reflection of you and/or your associates than of society.
BTW, those experimental societies fell apart from political squabbling and being too small to form a stable society rather than from economic failure.
Implementing the basic income does allow for eliminating minimum wages and most aid programs with a corresponding reduction in costs for the reams of paperwork and bureaucracy. It also removes the disincentive to do odd jobs, part time, etc that under current programs would leave the aid recipient worse off than if they don't work.
So which secret government black op slipped Linus the big bux to write and release the Linux kernel for free? It must be the same organization that pays Habitat volunteers on the sly.
As for the rest, you realize that under any basic income scheme, you can improve your situation over the bare minimum through working, right? And through merit you can be paid more.
I don't know the stats for specific countries in Europe, but apparently they have more people than they have jobs. Certainly that is true of the United States.
And yet, they haven't. We'll see how that plays out in a few years when they have a massive population on early medical retirement because their lungs wore out faster than the rest of them.
No, the money is there. If it isn't, then they can't afford to maintain their popuilation at a basic level under any system.
Is that your claim? That they are running on stockpiled food and clothing and when that runs out they're screwed?
Because otherwise, they can afford it. It just might be that some who have long enjoyed taking far more for themselves than their efforts can justify won't like it.
They are professional malware distributors. Nobody pays them to be Russians :-)
Yes. It makes sense to at least leave room to add batteries later once you have measurements to see how much they can capture.
You assume that a cop (and/or a DA) who thinks his OS is either Firefox or Internet Explorer will know that and not cause me several really bad days and a stink that won't wash off.
Score one more for MS
If I am working on a specific problem someone is having, I won't really look to see what image thumbnails are showing unless it's actually relevant to the problem. It's called being a professional.
The question is do the cops really know that (especially when they get a lot more headlines is they "don't know" that)? Professionalism in police work is in many ways the opposite of professionalism in IT. Do they know that the "un-missable" wallpaper on a user account is totally missable if I log in as Administrator to fix a driver problem?
It would also be worth looking at shifting demand. Set things up to run the dishwasher etc during peak solar production. Pre-cool the house and the fridge. Then size based on that.
climate weirding
Coined by someone who was tired of idiots jumping up every time someone had a cool day (even in the middle of winter) and claiming there can't be global warming because someone somewhere still needs a coat.
The wholesale market matters very much since it sels a lower bound on the profitable retail price.
In the CPU market, step one is to quit giving Intel little taps on the wrist when they engage in anti-competitive practices and start breaking fingers. It may be worth thinking about pressing for more than 1 second source for government sales. For that matter, just demand separation between design and fab. Corporate charters are not a right, and so strings can be attached.
For books, one approach could be making exclusive publication contracts an anti-competitive practice. Push the non-commodity aspects back as far as they can logically go. We can't logically split an author in half, but we can open the door to more than one publisher printing their work.
In fact, there are very few markets I see as healthy. It's time we at least quit pretending that they are and so quit assuming corrective forces found in a healthy market will be at work. Better, where we can think of a way to improve market health, we should. The currently fashionable laissez faire approach will not work.
At the retail level, books are a fairly free market. At the wholesale level, they are anything but. Only one printer can print a given book. Books are not really interchangeable. Nevertheless, hardcovers do actually cost more to make, ship, and stock than paperback so a cost difference is justifiable, though probably not as much of a difference as we actually see. At least they don't just rip the cover off of a hardback when you buy a paperback. All in all, I would say the market for books falls somewhere in the middle other than textbooks which are a really unhealthy market.
As for chip makers, I am all for cost recovery on defective but still useful chips. But in a healthy market, the fully functional chip would be much closer to the marginal cost of production since the cost is recovered on many of the defects. Note that the marginal cost would still include the cost of defective chips that were not useful since those are unavoidable. The price would come down after a while as fewer and fewer defects are produced. That would tend to dry up the availability of the defects being sold off for cost recovery, but in that parallel world where the markets are healthy, the high end chip would sell for about what we pay here for the defects. Intel would still make a pile of money, but not as much as they make here.
Yes, the commodities markets work fairly well here +/- speculators in some commodities tying up supply and producers colluding to artificially limit production (though as we see in the oil market, those efforts break down eventually).
Actual Capitalism is long dead in this country. Most if not all markets are unhealthy and slanted to the large corporate players that probably shouldn't exist. Increasingly, actual ownership is restricted to the very wealthy.
I'm not really disagreeing with the link you posted, just looking at it from a different angle.