This is simply not true. In which market do you have lasting monopolies? Only in those where the barrier to entry is very high, either naturally (high up-front capital investment) or due to regulations (which large companies love, because they keep out new entrants). So there will always be naturally forming monopolies in almost all areas, but persistent monopolies only in those areas where barriers are high. There is nothing government can do about those barriers, except raise new ones themselves. Look at any highly regulated industry. How much competition do you see there?
Assuming you have enough memory to not swap to disk under normal usage, replacing a spinning disk drive with an SSD is by far, hands down, the best all around performance improvement ever in the history of computing.
If you want to be paid for your pictures, host them with a stock photography site that will pay you money when they sell your picture. Or if you want your valued pictures private, and they are actually valued, stop using shitty free services, and pay a couple bucks for real hosting.
Don't be an idiot. Every major city in Canada has at least 1 university, and several colleges/technical institutes. It's not the frikkin 3rd world out here.
Eastern Canada would work as well, but there is a somewhat higher risk of earthquakes there, whereas the prairies are very stable from geologic and weather perspective.
Exactly. That Twitter of Facebook are "public" is irrelevant.
First of all, they are privately owned and operated services, subject to the whims and policies of their owners.
Second, SEC has certain requirements for disclosure, not necessarily because it is "public", but because it is a clearinghouse. It is not reasonable to expect traders, investors and analysts to keep track of the 100s of thousands of Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, company blogs, CEO/CFO/CIO/etc blogs, even if they are all "public". That's not disclosure.
If you're into "a few hundred terabytes", you're not dealing with Oracle anyways (or even SQL) because you've already hit the query performance wall around 10 terabytes and had to look for alternatives, such as NoSQL and Hadoop and Cloudera.
I like how this is modded funny, because overriding the status bar is something even Google does with its search results to hide that every link is actually a redirect.
The only thing that does matter is the outcome of laws. And right now, the outcome of Stand Your Ground Laws is that if you're ever in a confrontation with no witnesses (or very pliable witnesses), make sure to kill whoever is confronting you.That can't possibly work long term.
Objectively, that's just common sense. If you're ever in the position where you're seriously hurting someone or fighting for your life against an intruder or attacker, you're best off to finish the job, so to speak, so there is no witness/victim to contradict your lies, or to supply lies of their own. This outcome has nothing to do with stand your ground laws.
There's ALWAYS pressure on the household budget. This is not unique to any particular time in history or geographic region. Fact is we've been compromising our principles (supporting free speech and independent media) for a perceived short term gain. This is classic slippery slope. Doing the right thing is always hard. This is entropy in action. Consistently doing the right thing, or taking the easy way out, has a compounding effect over time that gets more difficult to reverse. But the default is the easy way out, because it requires no thought, no action and no effort. The flip side of other people doing things for you "for free" is that they're not free at all; their agenda takes over, and you get consideration for table scraps.
If Microsoft do this right, it’s going to be game changing – and right now, Google doesn’t have an answer for it, that I can see.
Microsoft doesn't have to do anything right. In fact they don't have to do anything at all, just wait, until technology miniaturizes enough that you can run desktop business apps in a tablet or phone hardware format. The portable device space has been all about device and feature consolidation, and I don't expect that trend to suddenly reverse because Google excluded Microsoft from some list they made up.
You got the "Tea Party" think backwards. They got co-opted by Republicans, much like the Green Party was absorbed by Democrats and no one takes Ralph Nader seriously anymore.
Why are they voting on stuff then? Aren't they just figureheads?
The average politician does not read the bill he is voting on, and he certainly doesn't write it. And that's fine, but I don't think the average voter realizes this.
That's BS. Cars today can be way lighter than decades ago, except for all the safety gear that has to be put in (and yes comfort, such as AC and power everything). A friend of mine built a kit car recently. Virtually no creature comforts to speak of. The required safety systems and mechanics and buffers that have to be put in by law comprised a significant percentage of total weight.
Alas, north Americans really do not know how to live in apartments. Mostly, apartment dwellers are regarded as second class citizens. When the common wisdom tells everyone the road to middle-class wealth and financial freedom is through house ownership, people will buy the biggest one they can afford, with the highest leverage they can get away with. Apartment dwellers are regarded as those who do not have such drive and ambition, ie, they are lesser humans.
I would love to find a nice, small, comfortable, upscale apartment in the city, that has such 21st century luxuries like sound insulation, laundry, and common area cleaning services, and is inhabited by people who are socialized and civilized. But, monster houses are for people with money, apartments are for people who have none. The quality of the accommodations reflect that.
High gas prices aren't gonna fix anything, unless they double or triple.
The user-pay model costs the same as publicly funded. It's just that you're A) no longer being subsidized and B) pay the full cost up front.
For things which only a section of the population is doing, public pay system spreads the cost over the entire population, subsidizing those who use it.
For things which nearly everyone needs, there is no subsidy, but you're paying the full cost up front, instead of spread out over, say 3 years (ex license renewal).
You can't say you're paying more for things, unless you account for all factors. And if you ARE objectively paying more, then your activities were previously subsidized by the rest of the population.
This is what happens every time you hand a public monopoly to a private company. This is not how you privatize. You just get the worst of both worlds. This is flat out corporate welfare. If you're going to privatize something, you need to have competition in the market.
Obviously no such thing will happen. Money will go into general revenues, never to be seen again. Numerous empty promises and hand waving about improving Internet access will be made.
It's annoying enough already with cybersquatters buying up every domain in sight, there's just no need to add yet another one to the mix. If it was really not about a money grab, they would just give every.co.uk registrant the equivalent.uk domain at no cost, and then phase out.co.uk. Yeah, I don't see that one happening.
Statistics isn't about being 100%. That's the whole point of trends and probabilities. If there's around 65% voter turnout in an area, within a certain deviation, and one polling station has an 80% voter turnout, that's an anomaly. Usually anything more than 2 standard deviations out is an anomaly, statistically speaking. Nothing implies this is 100% election fraud, or even election fraud at all. It just means something different is happening there.
The matching cannot be exact, and requiring for it to be so is an unfair burden. Equivalent matches in the PC world exist, without being exact. As a counter to this dumb argument, Apple will never match much of the clever and innovative hardware available for PCs. How much does a Mac cost then? Oh yeah, it doesn't even exist. If you want to go down the path "we have hardware you can't match", it's just not a game you will win.
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Ridiculous. When someone makes a phone call to you, or sends you a letter, and it costs them money, you do not get a cut.
This is simply not true. In which market do you have lasting monopolies? Only in those where the barrier to entry is very high, either naturally (high up-front capital investment) or due to regulations (which large companies love, because they keep out new entrants). So there will always be naturally forming monopolies in almost all areas, but persistent monopolies only in those areas where barriers are high. There is nothing government can do about those barriers, except raise new ones themselves. Look at any highly regulated industry. How much competition do you see there?
Assuming you have enough memory to not swap to disk under normal usage, replacing a spinning disk drive with an SSD is by far, hands down, the best all around performance improvement ever in the history of computing.
I don't see a problem with this.
If you want to be paid for your pictures, host them with a stock photography site that will pay you money when they sell your picture. Or if you want your valued pictures private, and they are actually valued, stop using shitty free services, and pay a couple bucks for real hosting.
Don't be an idiot. Every major city in Canada has at least 1 university, and several colleges/technical institutes. It's not the frikkin 3rd world out here.
Eastern Canada would work as well, but there is a somewhat higher risk of earthquakes there, whereas the prairies are very stable from geologic and weather perspective.
Exactly. That Twitter of Facebook are "public" is irrelevant.
First of all, they are privately owned and operated services, subject to the whims and policies of their owners.
Second, SEC has certain requirements for disclosure, not necessarily because it is "public", but because it is a clearinghouse. It is not reasonable to expect traders, investors and analysts to keep track of the 100s of thousands of Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, company blogs, CEO/CFO/CIO/etc blogs, even if they are all "public". That's not disclosure.
It's all on-the-job training and work experience anyways. Just do the minimum to get the piece of paper admitting you to the club.
If you're into "a few hundred terabytes", you're not dealing with Oracle anyways (or even SQL) because you've already hit the query performance wall around 10 terabytes and had to look for alternatives, such as NoSQL and Hadoop and Cloudera.
I like how this is modded funny, because overriding the status bar is something even Google does with its search results to hide that every link is actually a redirect.
The only thing that does matter is the outcome of laws. And right now, the outcome of Stand Your Ground Laws is that if you're ever in a confrontation with no witnesses (or very pliable witnesses), make sure to kill whoever is confronting you.That can't possibly work long term.
Objectively, that's just common sense. If you're ever in the position where you're seriously hurting someone or fighting for your life against an intruder or attacker, you're best off to finish the job, so to speak, so there is no witness/victim to contradict your lies, or to supply lies of their own. This outcome has nothing to do with stand your ground laws.
I don't get it... do you normally hold your pants up with your hands?
There's ALWAYS pressure on the household budget. This is not unique to any particular time in history or geographic region. Fact is we've been compromising our principles (supporting free speech and independent media) for a perceived short term gain. This is classic slippery slope. Doing the right thing is always hard. This is entropy in action. Consistently doing the right thing, or taking the easy way out, has a compounding effect over time that gets more difficult to reverse. But the default is the easy way out, because it requires no thought, no action and no effort. The flip side of other people doing things for you "for free" is that they're not free at all; their agenda takes over, and you get consideration for table scraps.
0. We're too cheap and now all our media is funded by advertisers, while we wonder why it's not accountable to the public anymore.
Jupiter having moons has nothing to do with distances.
If Microsoft do this right, it’s going to be game changing – and right now, Google doesn’t have an answer for it, that I can see.
Microsoft doesn't have to do anything right. In fact they don't have to do anything at all, just wait, until technology miniaturizes enough that you can run desktop business apps in a tablet or phone hardware format. The portable device space has been all about device and feature consolidation, and I don't expect that trend to suddenly reverse because Google excluded Microsoft from some list they made up.
You got the "Tea Party" think backwards. They got co-opted by Republicans, much like the Green Party was absorbed by Democrats and no one takes Ralph Nader seriously anymore.
Why are they voting on stuff then? Aren't they just figureheads?
The average politician does not read the bill he is voting on, and he certainly doesn't write it. And that's fine, but I don't think the average voter realizes this.
That's BS. Cars today can be way lighter than decades ago, except for all the safety gear that has to be put in (and yes comfort, such as AC and power everything). A friend of mine built a kit car recently. Virtually no creature comforts to speak of. The required safety systems and mechanics and buffers that have to be put in by law comprised a significant percentage of total weight.
While that's strictly true, shouldn't road maintenance be budgeted when a road is constructed, with some kind of plan for covering the ongoing costs?
Should it? Yes. Is it? No.
When your project is invariably 50% over budget, maintenance simply becomes the next guy's problem.
Alas, north Americans really do not know how to live in apartments. Mostly, apartment dwellers are regarded as second class citizens. When the common wisdom tells everyone the road to middle-class wealth and financial freedom is through house ownership, people will buy the biggest one they can afford, with the highest leverage they can get away with. Apartment dwellers are regarded as those who do not have such drive and ambition, ie, they are lesser humans.
I would love to find a nice, small, comfortable, upscale apartment in the city, that has such 21st century luxuries like sound insulation, laundry, and common area cleaning services, and is inhabited by people who are socialized and civilized. But, monster houses are for people with money, apartments are for people who have none. The quality of the accommodations reflect that.
High gas prices aren't gonna fix anything, unless they double or triple.
The user-pay model costs the same as publicly funded. It's just that you're A) no longer being subsidized and B) pay the full cost up front.
For things which only a section of the population is doing, public pay system spreads the cost over the entire population, subsidizing those who use it.
For things which nearly everyone needs, there is no subsidy, but you're paying the full cost up front, instead of spread out over, say 3 years (ex license renewal).
You can't say you're paying more for things, unless you account for all factors. And if you ARE objectively paying more, then your activities were previously subsidized by the rest of the population.
This is what happens every time you hand a public monopoly to a private company. This is not how you privatize. You just get the worst of both worlds. This is flat out corporate welfare. If you're going to privatize something, you need to have competition in the market.
Obviously no such thing will happen. Money will go into general revenues, never to be seen again. Numerous empty promises and hand waving about improving Internet access will be made.
It's annoying enough already with cybersquatters buying up every domain in sight, there's just no need to add yet another one to the mix. If it was really not about a money grab, they would just give every .co.uk registrant the equivalent .uk domain at no cost, and then phase out .co.uk. Yeah, I don't see that one happening.
Didn't even read TFSummary.
Statistics isn't about being 100%. That's the whole point of trends and probabilities. If there's around 65% voter turnout in an area, within a certain deviation, and one polling station has an 80% voter turnout, that's an anomaly. Usually anything more than 2 standard deviations out is an anomaly, statistically speaking. Nothing implies this is 100% election fraud, or even election fraud at all. It just means something different is happening there.
The matching cannot be exact, and requiring for it to be so is an unfair burden. Equivalent matches in the PC world exist, without being exact. As a counter to this dumb argument, Apple will never match much of the clever and innovative hardware available for PCs. How much does a Mac cost then? Oh yeah, it doesn't even exist. If you want to go down the path "we have hardware you can't match", it's just not a game you will win.