Congress could spend months working on such a law, but in the end there are many more and many more intelligent people working in business that will circumvent it in a matter of days.
"if it has no value to you, you won't mind not having it."
It is not necessarily true that just because you wouldn't pay the asking price that it has no value to you. You could value a movie at $1 but your only way of obtaining it is to pay $10. So it is then in your own interest to download the movie for free, but buying it would not be.
This is demand side of what many companies do when they charge people more in accordance with their ability to pay. In this way they are able to decrease consumer surplus while maximizing their producer surplus. A reasonable alternative would be to allow customers to pay what they want to pay BELOW the standard price, thus paying more to the producers yet allowing customers to have what they otherwise would not have bought.
The idea behind a stimulus is not necessarily JUST that it will help the people to whom it is given.
There is such thing as a government transfer multiplier which states the affect that a stimulus, like this, is equal to the original amount given times 1/(1-MPC). The MPC is equal to the ratio that a consumer will spend as opposed to save when they are given additional money. In America this is extremely high, somewhere around 0.9. This means whatever the amount given to the person, this will affect the GDP by 10x that amount.
This is because if the consumer gets $500, he will spend $450 which then goes to whoever made the good who then spends $405 and so on.
Or in other words, if you are on an 8Mb connection, that is 1/10th of your advertised bandwidth 24/7.
And, since there are 720 hours in a month, that could also be said as downloading at your advertised rate for 72 hours a month. Not entirely unreasonable.
I just graduated from high school as valedictorian and I can tell you that teaching classes isn't always a bad thing.
I have had too many classes (even honors and AP) where the teacher taught to the slower students but didn't ask for my help at all, and let me tell you they sucked. All I could do was sit in back and read or do other work.
The much more enjoyable classes were the ones where I actually had a chance to help students. Honestly I had maybe two challenging classes in four years, but at least the ones where I helped students I had something to do.
Occasionally I would get to help someone who had questions beyond the regular curriculum and the vast majority of the time teachers would turn them to me. This was by far the most beneficial to me in that it gave me opportunities to have informed discussions with those who actually cared and even look up things I may not have known before.
I am a couple of years ahead in math, having taken Honors Calculus 2 and 3 at the Colorado School of Mines, and I can tell you there is a world of difference between there and my high school.
My first test in the college math class was an incredible eye opener. Taking other math classes at a public high school, I had been used to blowing through AP level tests without even staying awake in class. The tests were not merely made more clear, they were downright pathetic. There was always at least 10% worth of extra credit with problems like sin(pi)=? (in an AP Calculus class!).
Im an extremely glad that my college classes were not like this. They did scare off/fail all other 6 high school students in them, but I managed to stick through them and get A's in both classes. One of 3 in 60 first semester, 1 of 30 second.
It is on this level that I agree with your statement. The test were made clearer for the most part, testing comprehension, but there were always a few problems that went beyond that, requiring intensive integration using methods never before demonstrated. While most students were frustrated, they still earned passing grades while those that got correct answers excelled.
This is the way tests should be, honoring those with actual talent. My high school math didn't even come close. 30% A's is simply unacceptable. It is completely unrewarding to study and master the material when it didn't get me any more recognition than the rest of the students. There were the select few of the students that cared enough to ask for more work or learn it themselves, but I saw far too many competent students turned off as they sank to the same grade level as the not-so-bright students.
You won't even get punched by a believer if you stand in front of a church screaming jesus was a zombie. I would like to see you go try that outside of a babtist church in the south. Pictures would be appreciated.
I personally own one and use it quite often for searching the web. Considering the price different between this and the N810, its no contest. It does support 3rd party widgets but I'm not sure how many of those are out yet. The web browser itself is quite useable and supports flash which is the only reason I bought it. That and I don't want to be just another ipod user.
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Congress could spend months working on such a law, but in the end there are many more and many more intelligent people working in business that will circumvent it in a matter of days.
"if it has no value to you, you won't mind not having it."
It is not necessarily true that just because you wouldn't pay the asking price that it has no value to you. You could value a movie at $1 but your only way of obtaining it is to pay $10. So it is then in your own interest to download the movie for free, but buying it would not be.
This is demand side of what many companies do when they charge people more in accordance with their ability to pay. In this way they are able to decrease consumer surplus while maximizing their producer surplus. A reasonable alternative would be to allow customers to pay what they want to pay BELOW the standard price, thus paying more to the producers yet allowing customers to have what they otherwise would not have bought.
The idea behind a stimulus is not necessarily JUST that it will help the people to whom it is given.
There is such thing as a government transfer multiplier which states the affect that a stimulus, like this, is equal to the original amount given times 1/(1-MPC). The MPC is equal to the ratio that a consumer will spend as opposed to save when they are given additional money. In America this is extremely high, somewhere around 0.9. This means whatever the amount given to the person, this will affect the GDP by 10x that amount.
This is because if the consumer gets $500, he will spend $450 which then goes to whoever made the good who then spends $405 and so on.
In biology we were told each step in the food chain only retains 10% of the energy.
Or in other words, if you are on an 8Mb connection, that is 1/10th of your advertised bandwidth 24/7.
And, since there are 720 hours in a month, that could also be said as downloading at your advertised rate for 72 hours a month. Not entirely unreasonable.
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Well we all know about the secret sexual undertones on sesame street...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
I just graduated from high school as valedictorian and I can tell you that teaching classes isn't always a bad thing.
I have had too many classes (even honors and AP) where the teacher taught to the slower students but didn't ask for my help at all, and let me tell you they sucked. All I could do was sit in back and read or do other work.
The much more enjoyable classes were the ones where I actually had a chance to help students. Honestly I had maybe two challenging classes in four years, but at least the ones where I helped students I had something to do.
Occasionally I would get to help someone who had questions beyond the regular curriculum and the vast majority of the time teachers would turn them to me. This was by far the most beneficial to me in that it gave me opportunities to have informed discussions with those who actually cared and even look up things I may not have known before.
I am a couple of years ahead in math, having taken Honors Calculus 2 and 3 at the Colorado School of Mines, and I can tell you there is a world of difference between there and my high school.
My first test in the college math class was an incredible eye opener. Taking other math classes at a public high school, I had been used to blowing through AP level tests without even staying awake in class. The tests were not merely made more clear, they were downright pathetic. There was always at least 10% worth of extra credit with problems like sin(pi)=? (in an AP Calculus class!).
Im an extremely glad that my college classes were not like this. They did scare off/fail all other 6 high school students in them, but I managed to stick through them and get A's in both classes. One of 3 in 60 first semester, 1 of 30 second.
It is on this level that I agree with your statement. The test were made clearer for the most part, testing comprehension, but there were always a few problems that went beyond that, requiring intensive integration using methods never before demonstrated. While most students were frustrated, they still earned passing grades while those that got correct answers excelled.
This is the way tests should be, honoring those with actual talent. My high school math didn't even come close. 30% A's is simply unacceptable. It is completely unrewarding to study and master the material when it didn't get me any more recognition than the rest of the students. There were the select few of the students that cared enough to ask for more work or learn it themselves, but I saw far too many competent students turned off as they sank to the same grade level as the not-so-bright students.
I would like to see you go try that outside of a babtist church in the south. Pictures would be appreciated.
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Personally as a member of the Church of Later Day Saints, I know that searching shared directories usually comes up with some good results.
Which clearly demonstrates the feasibility of such a task for the average player playing daily for 3.4 years.
I personally own one and use it quite often for searching the web. Considering the price different between this and the N810, its no contest. It does support 3rd party widgets but I'm not sure how many of those are out yet. The web browser itself is quite useable and supports flash which is the only reason I bought it. That and I don't want to be just another ipod user.