I think it depends on whether or not fixing your arm can let you get a job and pay back enough in payroll taxes what the feds spent covering your ER bill.
And I suppose we should all stop downloading so much data instead of making the networks upgrade their tubes with all that money they're making off of us.
Here's my point:
If you have a bunch of people fighting over slices of cake that are too small, you don't ask them to hold back just so that someone else can take their share.
You hire more cooks and bake a bigger cake.
Deferential courtesy goes quite far, but unless it's an inherently scarce resource, and not just one that's made artificially scarce for monopoly profit reasons, it's not the ideal solution.
The worst part is that I'm no longer allowed to self insure simply by exercising, eating my vegetables, getting regular checkups, and boosting my vitamin intake.
Self helpers have an incentive to stay away from paying insurance premiums to protect against health problems they are less likely to encounter due to preventive healthcare.
Now since I have no choice but to cough up either to the feds or to the private sector, why should I bother keeping myself healthy if I'm just going to wind up giving up my savings to the pockets of some insurance CEO?
Personally, I see the flood of H1B's as reflecting the relative poverty of other nations considering that they are even willing to accept such low paying jobs to begin with.
Minimum wage and high barriers to immigration is just a long way of saying that we are being protectionist in the global labor market.
As long as companies are honest, don't cheat people out of their wages, and comply with payroll tax obligations, I welcome this.
I believe in capitalism and competition.
Besides, if a company is hell bent on saving costs, and can't hire H1B's, it can always just take on a foreign vendor to do the work completely oversees.
The problem is that us Americans are being rich snobs that won't roll up our sleeves and pitch in. If we really wanted to do the work for a fair price, there wouldn't be room for H1B workers.
People want to think that labor is something special, but it really isn't. It is a commodity that can be bought and sold on the market just like any other good.
Also, considering government corruption I would challenge your given that the people have enough say in who is elected for the democracy to count as representative in the first place.
So long as I can actually vote for who I want to, that's all well and good. But when you have fiascoes like Diebold and the great Ohio election hack screwing the citizens out of their suffrage it's a completely different ballgame.
People should speak up more often but faulting them for their silence is hardly reasonable when their proverbial throats have been slit by the system so that they can't complain even if they wanted to.
What actually happened is that the.001 percent that are willing to lie cheat and steal to get ahead kicked everyone else in the balls and stabbed them in the back. They rose to the top by knocking everyone else down.
Second on Apple for maliciously taking advantage of a bad situation.
Replace patent abuse with burglary, the USPTO with a stupid homeowner that didn't lock the door, and Apple with the burglar, and you have the same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't grant those powers, because they already had them by virtue of being our overlords.
I think it depends on whether or not fixing your arm can let you get a job and pay back enough in payroll taxes what the feds spent covering your ER bill.
Meanwhile the broccoli farmers are seeing dollar signs coming back, and happy that their bribe--err, lobbying paid off.
And I suppose we should all stop downloading so much data instead of making the networks upgrade their tubes with all that money they're making off of us.
Here's my point:
If you have a bunch of people fighting over slices of cake that are too small, you don't ask them to hold back just so that someone else can take their share.
You hire more cooks and bake a bigger cake.
Deferential courtesy goes quite far, but unless it's an inherently scarce resource, and not just one that's made artificially scarce for monopoly profit reasons, it's not the ideal solution.
In China you can always elect not to keep your mouth shut about Tiananment Square too. However, there is a risk of high velocity lead poisoning.
Obviously different in scale but basic principle states that a choice isn't a free choice when artificial consequences are attached.
I believe the concept is known as being placed under duress.
Strangely enough they will let your house burn down because you didn't pay your firefighter fees.
The worst part is that I'm no longer allowed to self insure simply by exercising, eating my vegetables, getting regular checkups, and boosting my vitamin intake.
Self helpers have an incentive to stay away from paying insurance premiums to protect against health problems they are less likely to encounter due to preventive healthcare.
Now since I have no choice but to cough up either to the feds or to the private sector, why should I bother keeping myself healthy if I'm just going to wind up giving up my savings to the pockets of some insurance CEO?
It's not car insurance.
It's liability insurance, and is required because driving is a hazardous activity that can hurt OTHERS if you do it wrong.
Personally, I see the flood of H1B's as reflecting the relative poverty of other nations considering that they are even willing to accept such low paying jobs to begin with.
Minimum wage and high barriers to immigration is just a long way of saying that we are being protectionist in the global labor market.
As long as companies are honest, don't cheat people out of their wages, and comply with payroll tax obligations, I welcome this.
I believe in capitalism and competition.
Besides, if a company is hell bent on saving costs, and can't hire H1B's, it can always just take on a foreign vendor to do the work completely oversees.
The problem is that us Americans are being rich snobs that won't roll up our sleeves and pitch in. If we really wanted to do the work for a fair price, there wouldn't be room for H1B workers.
People want to think that labor is something special, but it really isn't. It is a commodity that can be bought and sold on the market just like any other good.
No it cannot.
Wickard v. Filburn is set in stone by the doctrine of stare decisis for the parties involved.
And tax evasion IS a crime.
Collectively, yes, but not individually.
Also, considering government corruption I would challenge your given that the people have enough say in who is elected for the democracy to count as representative in the first place.
So long as I can actually vote for who I want to, that's all well and good. But when you have fiascoes like Diebold and the great Ohio election hack screwing the citizens out of their suffrage it's a completely different ballgame.
People should speak up more often but faulting them for their silence is hardly reasonable when their proverbial throats have been slit by the system so that they can't complain even if they wanted to.
See also learned helplessness.
What actually happened is that the .001 percent that are willing to lie cheat and steal to get ahead kicked everyone else in the balls and stabbed them in the back. They rose to the top by knocking everyone else down.
Superfast internet links that are clogged with HFT traffic.
If by future you mean insider trading you bet.
Hardware flaking out because of bad software is still bullshit.
It's a form of DRM.
Make a shitty device, only make your windows drivers aware of its quirks, leave open source out in the cold.
The linux foundation would probably be a good central holder for it.
These are the same guys that made Windows Vista after all.
Except that at least in theory they could sign a bootloader that checks for a signed kernel.
Paradoxically that somewhat implies that they are only fit to create the rules if they already have an affinity for the ones that currently exist.
If a gun dealer sells a firearm to a felon that shoots someone they are on the hook too.
FEI, the reference is to Solomon.
It's BOTH at fault.
First, on the USPTO, for granting the patents.
Second on Apple for maliciously taking advantage of a bad situation.
Replace patent abuse with burglary, the USPTO with a stupid homeowner that didn't lock the door, and Apple with the burglar, and you have the same thing.
All his mistake did was give the elite the excuse they needed to stomp on the common sense the judge displayed.
There is free software right now, and the marvelous thing is that it's already installed on the best computer in the world.
It's called the human brain and maternal instinct.