The part you left out is the loss of infrastructure because the tax base is gone. Soon the city dies. An infrastructure designed for a high density isn't sustainable at a low density.
You're in the weeds for sure now. Regulations have nothing to do with the cost of court. If anything, lack of sufficent regulations are what allows the ABA to manipulate competition and allows the truly rapacious legal bills.
Have you noticed how costly court is and how closely it resembles spinning the wheel of fortune?
Going to the pole situation, let's say the pole bursts into flames one fine day, falls over and results in 2 houses burning down. Blame blame, who gets the blame? Nobody was violating the non-existent regulations and everyone claims the other guy's wires caused the fire. The evidence burned up with the fire, so that's 2 families living on the street and nobody on the hook.
With regulation, worst case they are found to share liability equally (since they were all knowingly violating the safety regulations) and the families are made whole.
The H2S is truly remarkable. I was affected by a small amount once. I didn't even feel myself passing out, just one moment I smell the gas, the next I am sitting down hard. The effects clear just as fast. Fortunately, I was working with such a small amount that sustained exposure wasn't possible.
Oh joy, I really want the poles to look like this. Sure, that looks safe.
At one time, there was no need to convince anyone to hire you (either as an employee or as a business). But I understand people get upset if you shoot food in the neighborhood.
I notice that many praise a place where the government does nothing, but there's no line to enter Somalia.
Nonsense. I support eliminating the H1-B program entirely. Poof, gone. I also support streamlining the legal immigration program. Supporters of H1-B don't mind letting "them" do the dirty work, but god forbid "that kind" should move in!
So who is the racist, the guy that welcomes actual immigrants or the guy who wants to churn 'em and burn 'em?
I have one power company. It's sign here or sit in the dark. I have one water company. It's sign here or go without water (the hygiene issue might tend to make me unemployable, of course). Fortunately, they are regulated, so they have fairly reasonable terms.
Few starve, primarily because they (however reluctantly) sign here instead. That doesn't make it properly consensual. Making sure "consensual" agreements are actually consensual and conscionable is a job for government. As is making sure the more powerful entity honors the agreement. Even the Libertarians agree with that. Of course, the existence of clauses in EULAs that allow the company to change the terms at will suggest that the courts aren't very good at that.
If I point a gun at you and say "your money or your life", will you claim that the transaction was consensual because you didn't HAVE to hand me your money?
I'm fairly convinced that if I claim the moon is not made of cheese you will insist that it's hand waving unless I present you with a core sample and video to prove it was taken from the moon. If you want to go all starry eyed and say OOOOOOOOOOoohh every time someone describes common knowledge using the word plurality, beat my guest.
The problem is that if you delete something that is NOT evidence of a crime, you may still have problems. How do you prove that it was your grocery list from last week and NOT a todo list for robbing a bank?
If you insist they prove it was, suddenly the (deleted) text file becomes evidence that you deleted. It's kind of like being arrested for resting arrest in the absence of any other reason you would be arrested.
Everybody poops. Most people don't feel a need to write a paper about it each time (not even the author of "Everybody Poops").
Why wouldn't resource cost (as determined by scarcity or, TADA how tight the quota is and how close to the limit you are) be considered when deciding how important something is. Ever notice how when people are moving they start out carefully wrapping and boxing everything but by the end when they are tired and the truck is full they become willing to just chuck it? Same idea. Did you consider that I skipped it because it was unremarkable? Good programmers know when NOT to get bogged down in the details too. If you had relevant expertise in the art, you might know that.
Aggregates of pretty much anything have been dealt with that way for a very long time. It's not a 'gut' thing, it's based on work I have personally done in file systems.
Again, I *DO* hope you're not a patent examiner. You seem to be impressed very easily.
Do you know what an aggregate file is? It's a file! Do you know what the modification time of an aggregate file is? The latest modification time of any chunk of the file. So, do we want the least or greatest credible TTL figure? Six of one, half dozen of the other, so which to pick.....OH OH Mr. Kotter! we can split the difference! Wow, nobody's ever thrown up their hands and split the difference before!
I'm not saying it wasn't good thinking, just that pretty much any competent team faced with the same problem would have come to a very similar solution. I *DO* hope you're not a patent examiner.
Evidence? Because all I see right now is that it was shot down. And, BTW this has been rumbling around before ACA passed, so you can't even blame the attempt on the current insurance scam.
No, it means if you make noise, your bogus patent gets the approval. Then a bunch of poor suckers get to spend everything they have in court reversing the bad decision.
Keep in mind, the rejections include a big pile of some idiot patenting something that came and went before he was born but he's totally convinced nobody ever thought of it before because he packs the bearings with cat hair plus the ones that are just a vague thought with no reduction to practice at all. That and a pile of zero point energy anti-gravity whoosiewhatsises.
That ongoing march has been happening for decades. Well before even a hint of a public conversation about universal healthcare. Whatever is to blame, it's not healthcare.
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It happens here too, except sometimes they actually try to prosecute to inflict maximum damage.
The part you left out is the loss of infrastructure because the tax base is gone. Soon the city dies. An infrastructure designed for a high density isn't sustainable at a low density.
The biggest WTF is that the batteries were actually included! Other than that, I don't see the problem for older kids.
You're in the weeds for sure now. Regulations have nothing to do with the cost of court. If anything, lack of sufficent regulations are what allows the ABA to manipulate competition and allows the truly rapacious legal bills.
Have you noticed how costly court is and how closely it resembles spinning the wheel of fortune?
Going to the pole situation, let's say the pole bursts into flames one fine day, falls over and results in 2 houses burning down. Blame blame, who gets the blame? Nobody was violating the non-existent regulations and everyone claims the other guy's wires caused the fire. The evidence burned up with the fire, so that's 2 families living on the street and nobody on the hook.
With regulation, worst case they are found to share liability equally (since they were all knowingly violating the safety regulations) and the families are made whole.
The H2S is truly remarkable. I was affected by a small amount once. I didn't even feel myself passing out, just one moment I smell the gas, the next I am sitting down hard. The effects clear just as fast. Fortunately, I was working with such a small amount that sustained exposure wasn't possible.
That's one reason I do not consider the Dems to be left anymore. They're at best not as far right.
Oh joy, I really want the poles to look like this. Sure, that looks safe.
At one time, there was no need to convince anyone to hire you (either as an employee or as a business). But I understand people get upset if you shoot food in the neighborhood.
I notice that many praise a place where the government does nothing, but there's no line to enter Somalia.
Nonsense. I support eliminating the H1-B program entirely. Poof, gone. I also support streamlining the legal immigration program. Supporters of H1-B don't mind letting "them" do the dirty work, but god forbid "that kind" should move in!
So who is the racist, the guy that welcomes actual immigrants or the guy who wants to churn 'em and burn 'em?
I have one power company. It's sign here or sit in the dark. I have one water company. It's sign here or go without water (the hygiene issue might tend to make me unemployable, of course). Fortunately, they are regulated, so they have fairly reasonable terms.
Few starve, primarily because they (however reluctantly) sign here instead. That doesn't make it properly consensual. Making sure "consensual" agreements are actually consensual and conscionable is a job for government. As is making sure the more powerful entity honors the agreement. Even the Libertarians agree with that. Of course, the existence of clauses in EULAs that allow the company to change the terms at will suggest that the courts aren't very good at that.
If I point a gun at you and say "your money or your life", will you claim that the transaction was consensual because you didn't HAVE to hand me your money?
There are a lot of not actually consensual deals going on in the economy. Sign here or starve is NOT a consensual agreement.
I'm fairly convinced that if I claim the moon is not made of cheese you will insist that it's hand waving unless I present you with a core sample and video to prove it was taken from the moon. If you want to go all starry eyed and say OOOOOOOOOOoohh every time someone describes common knowledge using the word plurality, beat my guest.
The problem is that if you delete something that is NOT evidence of a crime, you may still have problems. How do you prove that it was your grocery list from last week and NOT a todo list for robbing a bank?
If you insist they prove it was, suddenly the (deleted) text file becomes evidence that you deleted. It's kind of like being arrested for resting arrest in the absence of any other reason you would be arrested.
Everybody poops. Most people don't feel a need to write a paper about it each time (not even the author of "Everybody Poops").
Why wouldn't resource cost (as determined by scarcity or, TADA how tight the quota is and how close to the limit you are) be considered when deciding how important something is. Ever notice how when people are moving they start out carefully wrapping and boxing everything but by the end when they are tired and the truck is full they become willing to just chuck it? Same idea. Did you consider that I skipped it because it was unremarkable? Good programmers know when NOT to get bogged down in the details too. If you had relevant expertise in the art, you might know that.
Aggregates of pretty much anything have been dealt with that way for a very long time. It's not a 'gut' thing, it's based on work I have personally done in file systems.
Again, I *DO* hope you're not a patent examiner. You seem to be impressed very easily.
Getting a medal for it? That's new.
Do you know what an aggregate file is? It's a file! Do you know what the modification time of an aggregate file is? The latest modification time of any chunk of the file. So, do we want the least or greatest credible TTL figure? Six of one, half dozen of the other, so which to pick.....OH OH Mr. Kotter! we can split the difference! Wow, nobody's ever thrown up their hands and split the difference before!
I'm not saying it wasn't good thinking, just that pretty much any competent team faced with the same problem would have come to a very similar solution. I *DO* hope you're not a patent examiner.
But most of the crazy laws aren't based on some sort of government subsidy at all. Most are unfunded mandates upon individuals and businesses.
Others are sin taxes (that somehow never manage to be used to mitigate the consequences of the sin).
Yes, all sadly true. But that cannot be blamed on healthcare, now can it?
By what measure? Real ammonia boils off and dissipates. Gasoline pools.
It is used safely all the time in everything from textiles to cooling ice rinks.
Not that ammonia gas is lighter than air. It disperses easily.
It must be treated with respect, but it really isn't the horror you seem to think it is.
Evidence? Because all I see right now is that it was shot down. And, BTW this has been rumbling around before ACA passed, so you can't even blame the attempt on the current insurance scam.
No, it means if you make noise, your bogus patent gets the approval. Then a bunch of poor suckers get to spend everything they have in court reversing the bad decision.
Keep in mind, the rejections include a big pile of some idiot patenting something that came and went before he was born but he's totally convinced nobody ever thought of it before because he packs the bearings with cat hair plus the ones that are just a vague thought with no reduction to practice at all. That and a pile of zero point energy anti-gravity whoosiewhatsises.
If not, how do you explain this?
Yes, not totally broken, but some duck tape is probably in order.
But note that neither legislature has attempted it.
That ongoing march has been happening for decades. Well before even a hint of a public conversation about universal healthcare. Whatever is to blame, it's not healthcare.