Except now that Amazon is filling up with 1 star reviews and people calling out the issue, those people will go elsewhere. And the ones who got caught out will remember what they DON'T want to use next year.
They were red hot in the area of consumer electronics in general and the iPhone was a part of that red hot line. People were breathlessly reporting on the rumor that there might be a rumor that Apple was considering producing a phone.
If the anticipation had been any higher there would have been people camping in line already.
Had Google had that sort of situation, they could have wrestled control from the carriers as well, but they didn't.
Not if they have no money they won't. You get that? No money = no food. No job growing food = no money.
Again, friction-less spherical cows.
Lets say the import is allowed such that local production becomes un-economical. Where do the people no longer working get their income for food? Don't say other production because the current situation based on economic mis-matches is that most all production is cheaper elsewhere.
Don't say it will equalize, because it will do so at poverty levels and long after people have starved or revolted. It MIGHT work out if the trade is limited and controlled well over a long period.
That's the problem with economics. They prove some simple small case in isolation and millions suffer in the large and broad real world.
Apple had considerably more clout in the market when they penned those deals. They had to bend the carriers over backwards to get that level of control.
Then there was Google who had no consumer electronics on the market at all. The deals with the carriers were penned by Samsung, HTC, etc.,etc.
That's because they had a big enough market that the carriers were forced to accept Apple's terms including retaining control over updates.
Google may have the clout to force that now if they care to exercise it, but they didn't when Android was new. They would still have a tough time of it since Google doesn't actually manufacture the phones.
Blame the carriers. They wouldn't offer Android at all if they can't have total control. In turn, they then choose to totally ignore any responsibility that comes with that power.
If you want to see some real innovation in cellphones, you'll have to get a law or two on the books that forces harmonization of the phone networks, phones that support all bands, and a requirement that all carriers accept any phone that meets an independent assessment of standards compliance which shall apply only to the radio.
Just look at all the options that opened up once Bell was forced to allow any electrically compliant device to be connected to a phone line.
There are good philosophical arguments for real property and possessions. Things that one no longer has if someone else takes them. Those do not extend to ideas where copying doesn't remove the property from the originator. If you have a baseball and take it, you are minus one baseball. I have stolen from you. If I make one of my own, you lose nothing but the unjustifiable glee at knowing I don't have a baseball. I make my own baseball, you still have a baseball. If you have a lit candle and I light mine from yours, you still have a lit candle.
The wheel existed long before some guy in Wherethehellisthatistan came up with it. that is true of many patents in the U.S. as well. We got along without patents of copyrights for most of human history. They do not represent actual property in any common sense of the term.
If Brasil starts making it's own wheels, the guy in Wherethehellisthatistan who refused to sell his wheels in Brazil anyway loses nothing.
That's not actually the case. Unlike the grease on your hands (or in the water), the radioactive waste will eventually stop being radioactive all by itself.
It doesn't matter if the container used to re-process fuel becomes contaminated with radiation, it's going to be used to process more waste. Let it glow!
As for the soup, precipitate the Sr90 and dispose of it.
The U.S. doesn't re-process in orser to keep countries lioke India (oops) or Pakistan (oops again) from diverting it to become nuclear powers.
Beyond that, the more modern processes leave the actinides in the fuel making it worthless for a bomb but just fine for a reactor.
Consider, when sites contaminated with Sr90 and cesium cool off and become safe for people, the chemically contaminated superfund sites will still be off-limits.
Perhaps we should (validly) measure things like PCBs, DDT, and Dioxins in terms of half-life. That would put things in perspective.
Simply re-asserting it won't make it true. You're declining to extend special treatment to an intangible that only exists because of a boon from the government. That boon is supposed to advance the useful arts and sciences. If it fails at that purpose, the government should stop handing out special gifts.
In this case, they would be mostly declining to recognize a boon handed out by some other government.
Wherethehellisthatistan may think that one of their citizens is so special that only he should be allowed to make anything wheel-like but why should I care?, I don't live there!
If I take a wheel that he made without his consent, that would be stealing.
Of course, if not for the weird political issues, that plutonium would be bound for the core of a reactor and not being hastily shoved in a can and put in a special warehouse.
I didn't say it was a great idea, I just said it's not stealing.
As for the grocery store, if it is a question of shoplift or starve, the sane response is to shoplift. Apparently you expect people to nobly watch their family die of starvation.
You capitalists who think tough times is when you can only order 3 pounds of the finest caviar are honestly too screwed up to find funny.
Better than being one of those assholes that likes to call people an idiot.
There is always an aspect of obscurity to secrecy. In OPs example, the exact structure of the underlying filesystem. In mine, the user and pass. In both cases the mechanism is known. Many server admins make an effort not to reveal too much of the underlying structure to the outside and wouldn't appreciate the http server revealing all of it to the world.
Do you post your banking details here? Your uname and pass for the work servers?
Of course you don't, because you're not stupid. That's why you don't leak unnecessary details in diagnostic messages even if they might help the right person.
And like most economic theorems, it assumes spherical friction free cows. You still have to give your citizens some way to make a living. Widgets costing $1.00 that your people can afford trump widgets costing $0.10 that they can't.
How is it stealing patents? Unless they were actually patented IN Brazil and the requirements of the patent are maintained, there is nothing to steal.
The word you're looking for is recognize. As in Brazil recognizing foreign patents. By what right do you demand a sovereign nation recognize foreign patents?
If you want to separate out the principled political position from the 'libertarians' who just want to be allowed to crap on everyone else, ask them about dissolution of all corporate charters. The genuine libertarian sees the corporate charter as just one more unjustifiable boon from a government that should not be.
No. The work, they just overestimate the effect. They are qualitatively correct but have quantitative errors.
That is far different from not working.
The difference shows that we have more to learn about a complex system. Not a surprise. It's not exactly good news for your desire to do nothing, it shows that we are probably exhausting some additional sink and so reversing the already measured effect will require more effort than we thought or at least will take longer than we thought to have the desired effect.
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Except now that Amazon is filling up with 1 star reviews and people calling out the issue, those people will go elsewhere. And the ones who got caught out will remember what they DON'T want to use next year.
They were red hot in the area of consumer electronics in general and the iPhone was a part of that red hot line. People were breathlessly reporting on the rumor that there might be a rumor that Apple was considering producing a phone.
If the anticipation had been any higher there would have been people camping in line already.
Had Google had that sort of situation, they could have wrestled control from the carriers as well, but they didn't.
Not if they have no money they won't. You get that? No money = no food. No job growing food = no money.
Again, friction-less spherical cows.
Lets say the import is allowed such that local production becomes un-economical. Where do the people no longer working get their income for food? Don't say other production because the current situation based on economic mis-matches is that most all production is cheaper elsewhere.
Don't say it will equalize, because it will do so at poverty levels and long after people have starved or revolted. It MIGHT work out if the trade is limited and controlled well over a long period.
That's the problem with economics. They prove some simple small case in isolation and millions suffer in the large and broad real world.
Apple had considerably more clout in the market when they penned those deals. They had to bend the carriers over backwards to get that level of control.
Then there was Google who had no consumer electronics on the market at all. The deals with the carriers were penned by Samsung, HTC, etc.,etc.
The carriers are control freaks.
No talent there, but a lot of stubbornness and willingness to say or do nearly anything.
That's because they had a big enough market that the carriers were forced to accept Apple's terms including retaining control over updates.
Google may have the clout to force that now if they care to exercise it, but they didn't when Android was new. They would still have a tough time of it since Google doesn't actually manufacture the phones.
Blame the carriers. They wouldn't offer Android at all if they can't have total control. In turn, they then choose to totally ignore any responsibility that comes with that power.
If you want to see some real innovation in cellphones, you'll have to get a law or two on the books that forces harmonization of the phone networks, phones that support all bands, and a requirement that all carriers accept any phone that meets an independent assessment of standards compliance which shall apply only to the radio.
Just look at all the options that opened up once Bell was forced to allow any electrically compliant device to be connected to a phone line.
There are good philosophical arguments for real property and possessions. Things that one no longer has if someone else takes them. Those do not extend to ideas where copying doesn't remove the property from the originator. If you have a baseball and take it, you are minus one baseball. I have stolen from you. If I make one of my own, you lose nothing but the unjustifiable glee at knowing I don't have a baseball. I make my own baseball, you still have a baseball. If you have a lit candle and I light mine from yours, you still have a lit candle.
The wheel existed long before some guy in Wherethehellisthatistan came up with it. that is true of many patents in the U.S. as well. We got along without patents of copyrights for most of human history. They do not represent actual property in any common sense of the term.
If Brasil starts making it's own wheels, the guy in Wherethehellisthatistan who refused to sell his wheels in Brazil anyway loses nothing.
That's not actually the case. Unlike the grease on your hands (or in the water), the radioactive waste will eventually stop being radioactive all by itself.
It doesn't matter if the container used to re-process fuel becomes contaminated with radiation, it's going to be used to process more waste. Let it glow!
As for the soup, precipitate the Sr90 and dispose of it.
The U.S. doesn't re-process in orser to keep countries lioke India (oops) or Pakistan (oops again) from diverting it to become nuclear powers.
Beyond that, the more modern processes leave the actinides in the fuel making it worthless for a bomb but just fine for a reactor.
Consider, when sites contaminated with Sr90 and cesium cool off and become safe for people, the chemically contaminated superfund sites will still be off-limits.
Perhaps we should (validly) measure things like PCBs, DDT, and Dioxins in terms of half-life. That would put things in perspective.
Simply re-asserting it won't make it true. You're declining to extend special treatment to an intangible that only exists because of a boon from the government. That boon is supposed to advance the useful arts and sciences. If it fails at that purpose, the government should stop handing out special gifts.
In this case, they would be mostly declining to recognize a boon handed out by some other government.
Wherethehellisthatistan may think that one of their citizens is so special that only he should be allowed to make anything wheel-like but why should I care?, I don't live there!
If I take a wheel that he made without his consent, that would be stealing.
I was asking someone who believes applications should own files and that access control should be by application.
I find Unix permissions + ACLs to be adequate. Users tend not to understand them, so I frequently use default ACLs on directories.
Of course, if not for the weird political issues, that plutonium would be bound for the core of a reactor and not being hastily shoved in a can and put in a special warehouse.
I didn't say it was a great idea, I just said it's not stealing.
As for the grocery store, if it is a question of shoplift or starve, the sane response is to shoplift. Apparently you expect people to nobly watch their family die of starvation.
You capitalists who think tough times is when you can only order 3 pounds of the finest caviar are honestly too screwed up to find funny.
Better than being one of those assholes that likes to call people an idiot.
There is always an aspect of obscurity to secrecy. In OPs example, the exact structure of the underlying filesystem. In mine, the user and pass. In both cases the mechanism is known. Many server admins make an effort not to reveal too much of the underlying structure to the outside and wouldn't appreciate the http server revealing all of it to the world.
And then you are surprised to learn: It's not sand!
It's their choice to withdraw or not. The number of Brazilians owning patents is probably dwarfed by the number suffering because of them.
So who should own the text file? Vi? cat? grep? emacs? gcc?
In what way are ACLs a kludge? There are official tools to support them and proper system calls to manipulate them.
The biggest shortcommings are GNU tar and cpio not supporting them properly.
Do you post your banking details here? Your uname and pass for the work servers?
Of course you don't, because you're not stupid. That's why you don't leak unnecessary details in diagnostic messages even if they might help the right person.
But if the only way your people earn money to buy those fruits at all is being paid wages to produce them, you all starve if you allow that trade.
And like most economic theorems, it assumes spherical friction free cows. You still have to give your citizens some way to make a living. Widgets costing $1.00 that your people can afford trump widgets costing $0.10 that they can't.
How is it stealing patents? Unless they were actually patented IN Brazil and the requirements of the patent are maintained, there is nothing to steal.
The word you're looking for is recognize. As in Brazil recognizing foreign patents. By what right do you demand a sovereign nation recognize foreign patents?
If you want to separate out the principled political position from the 'libertarians' who just want to be allowed to crap on everyone else, ask them about dissolution of all corporate charters. The genuine libertarian sees the corporate charter as just one more unjustifiable boon from a government that should not be.
No. The work, they just overestimate the effect. They are qualitatively correct but have quantitative errors.
That is far different from not working.
The difference shows that we have more to learn about a complex system. Not a surprise. It's not exactly good news for your desire to do nothing, it shows that we are probably exhausting some additional sink and so reversing the already measured effect will require more effort than we thought or at least will take longer than we thought to have the desired effect.
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