From the description, it sounds like this is *purely* a final rendering/output issue.
Now, if the car were to *do* something (brake; wiggle; spin wheels; honk) when it saw a reindeer or sleigh on the road, I'd be far more concerned . . .
Quite simply, it is a functional competitive market in an industry usually put forth as a "natural monopoly." Data, rather than supposition.
And the experience in Lubbock shows that it's not too "expensive and ugly".
It's not the only example of a perfectly obvious assumption turning out to be wrong. Lighthouses, for example, have long been offered as an example of a "public good" that only makes sense for a government to provide. However, when you actually look a the data, most were privately constructed by ports to compete with other potential ports. Where would you dock, the lit one or the dark one?:)
And while
hawkI'm at it, bimbo joints also fascinate us for reasons other than the obvious. It's the only example I know of where the same "job" in the same location can have both a positive and negative wage on the same day (strippers are paid by the house off-peak, but pay for stage time during prime hours).
Check with any competent (rather than movement) antitrust economist, or a lawyer involved in such regulation who is welling to tell you about reality rather than the party line.
There is more total profit in a monopoly than a duopoly, and in a duopoly than a triopoly, and so forth. The incumbents don't simply welcome, but invite expensive regulation that makes it to expensive for new players to enter, keeping up their "economic profits".
This phenomenon is the primary reason for the heavy regulation of taxis in most cities of any size. Consumer protection is the window dressing and political cover.
Similarly for cable monopolies and (of all things) hair dressers in many locales (in DC, for example, to braid hair many hours of the cosmetologists chemical training is required, just to keep them out).
A couple of decades ago, when I was younger and more foolish, I actually butted heads to get what turned out to be the first taxi/limo license issued in Clark County (Las Vegas) in three decades. Not just foolish, but naive: maybe five years earlier, certainly ten, I would not have survived the experience. Most likely an accident, but possibly plain violence, or maybe disappeared into the desert.
But what do I know; I'm just trained in antirust law and antitrust economics . . .
Economists love to study it, as it has two competing power grids--and not coincidentally, about the lowest electric prices in the country.
I spoke to another Economist who actually plotted electric prices by distance from lubbock: the closer to it, the greater the threat of the other company expanding there . . .
But that wasn't about worker welfare, nor was it the urban legend about workers being able to buy cars.
Worker turnover at auto makers in general at the time was about three times a year. At the higher wage, workers stayed over a year on average, becoming more skilled and radically reducing training costs.
Note: iirc, Cadillac had significantly longer retention than the industry at large.
Note 2: the higher wage avoiding training costs is also the economic reason that you don't see layoffs after a moderate minimum wage increase--the training costs have already been paid, and the effect is seen when not all the workers are replaced..
> Pick a country or city and look up its taxi >regulations. They are often tilted in favor of special >interests (like large taxi cab companies).
That is demonstrably incorrect, at lest in the US: there is no "often" nor "tilt"; the very *purpose* of "tai regulation" is to keep new taxi companies from entering the business.
OK, a *bit* of consumer protection actually comes in, like insurance requirements and background checks, from which is *insane* to let a new entrant have an exception.
I actually prefer the extreme FF button of the newer Tivos to 30 second skip--you can see what you're missing in case there's something you wanted, and stop or go back. It's the only button with its paint completely worn off the control on my current unit . . .
Then again, most of the time I use the green button and get to the next segment. But some shows don't have that, or it recorded a second showing, or . . . but that's why I noticed that commercial breaks hit 5 minutes last fall, but are back below that this year.
Typically, each launcher has its own targeting system, such that a single destroyer can target more subs than any nation other than Russia or the US can realistically dispatch together.
However, the debris tends to sink, so it is rarely hauled back . . .:)
Chevy had a far larger share of the market here (Las Vegas), yet the mob always put bodies (OK, and people) in the trunks of Cadillacs to take them deeper into the desert to bury. I guess the FBI was aware of that.
>- If MACs had a 90+% market share, they would be under attack too...
That again. The dork-cred for a remote mac hack would be staggering, instant king of krackers.
Or go for the unix machines that handle the money. The whole "market share" thing doesn't make sense.
>- Lastly, you will save a fair bit of money, I don't think >anyone really disputes that MACs are more >expensive, unless it is a very high end Windows box
Usable service life is generally significantly longer. If you replace every two years whether needed or not, it's another story. (Assuming you do your own support and don't have to pay for it--if you do, TCO for max is significantly lower)
hawk, who is in the unix camp anyway, and merely tolerates the mac interface due to spotlight (whose utility seems to drop with each release)
>How is that the the Klingon, a warrior race, are so crap at fighting?
This is a common trait of all Bad Guys (TM) while fighting the Good Guys (TM) in either promotional segments or when the plot actually turns on the outcome.
>The Klingons have always been about a society that is fractured into houses and only ever united by war,
No, that's only the spinoffs.
In Star Trek, they were evil commies, or maybe nazis, with funny eyebrows and odd accents (like all Hollywood commie/nazi villains). [OK, like the on-screen ones]
Oroville has done Star Trek better than *any* of the spinoffs.
It's just that kirk, err, captain whatshisface, isn't the only one that's incompetent; they all are!
Also, it's camp and understands that, and isn't above mocking itself. (and why are there so many families and children on a ship that's in mortal combat every episode?
Slashdot Mirror
In France? Probably, "a Royal with cheese that doesn't stink" :)
hawk
> Large boards are 2400x1200mm
so 7.9 by 3.9 ft, pretty much the size of a nominal 4x8 board.
hawk
From the description, it sounds like this is *purely* a final rendering/output issue.
Now, if the car were to *do* something (brake; wiggle; spin wheels; honk) when it saw a reindeer or sleigh on the road, I'd be far more concerned . . .
hawk
I have long maintained that the only reason to keep celebrities around is as a reserve protein source in case of apocalypse . . .
hawk
>Ok, but being better than a frozen veggie burger is a very low bar,
As in, "I'd rather filet a dust bunny from under the couch and cook and eat *that* than a veggie burger." :)
hawk
âoeI am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.â
â A. Whitney Brown
Quite simply, it is a functional competitive market in an industry usually put forth as a "natural monopoly." Data, rather than supposition.
And the experience in Lubbock shows that it's not too "expensive and ugly".
It's not the only example of a perfectly obvious assumption turning out to be wrong. Lighthouses, for example, have long been offered as an example of a "public good" that only makes sense for a government to provide. However, when you actually look a the data, most were privately constructed by ports to compete with other potential ports. Where would you dock, the lit one or the dark one? :)
And while
hawkI'm at it, bimbo joints also fascinate us for reasons other than the obvious. It's the only example I know of where the same "job" in the same location can have both a positive and negative wage on the same day (strippers are paid by the house off-peak, but pay for stage time during prime hours).
That just isn't true.
Check with any competent (rather than movement) antitrust economist, or a lawyer involved in such regulation who is welling to tell you about reality rather than the party line.
There is more total profit in a monopoly than a duopoly, and in a duopoly than a triopoly, and so forth. The incumbents don't simply welcome, but invite expensive regulation that makes it to expensive for new players to enter, keeping up their "economic profits".
This phenomenon is the primary reason for the heavy regulation of taxis in most cities of any size. Consumer protection is the window dressing and political cover.
Similarly for cable monopolies and (of all things) hair dressers in many locales (in DC, for example, to braid hair many hours of the cosmetologists chemical training is required, just to keep them out).
A couple of decades ago, when I was younger and more foolish, I actually butted heads to get what turned out to be the first taxi/limo license issued in Clark County (Las Vegas) in three decades. Not just foolish, but naive: maybe five years earlier, certainly ten, I would not have survived the experience. Most likely an accident, but possibly plain violence, or maybe disappeared into the desert.
But what do I know; I'm just trained in antirust law and antitrust economics . . .
hawk, j.d., ph.d., etc.
Note, however, Lubbock, TX.
Economists love to study it, as it has two competing power grids--and not coincidentally, about the lowest electric prices in the country.
I spoke to another Economist who actually plotted electric prices by distance from lubbock: the closer to it, the greater the threat of the other company expanding there . . .
doc hawk
But that wasn't about worker welfare, nor was it the urban legend about workers being able to buy cars.
Worker turnover at auto makers in general at the time was about three times a year. At the higher wage, workers stayed over a year on average, becoming more skilled and radically reducing training costs.
Note: iirc, Cadillac had significantly longer retention than the industry at large.
Note 2: the higher wage avoiding training costs is also the economic reason that you don't see layoffs after a moderate minimum wage increase--the training costs have already been paid, and the effect is seen when not all the workers are replaced..
doc hawk, displaced Economics professor
> Pick a country or city and look up its taxi
>regulations. They are often tilted in favor of special
>interests (like large taxi cab companies).
That is demonstrably incorrect, at lest in the US: there is no "often" nor "tilt"; the very *purpose* of "tai regulation" is to keep new taxi companies from entering the business.
OK, a *bit* of consumer protection actually comes in, like insurance requirements and background checks, from which is *insane* to let a new entrant have an exception.
hawk
That's not fair.
They're using "contractors" to connect to the user base they're building until they have their own autonomous fleet.
That makes them, err, a, oh never mind . . .
Recall that decades ago, MS claimed they were filing to trademark "Microsoft Windows", not "Windows", which could not have been granted.
You wouldn't know that from their behavior today . . .
hawk
Speaking as an Economics professor . . .
It is easy to explain why someone would pay a woman less than a man.
It is, at best, difficult to explain why anyone would hire a man that has to be paid more than a woman . . .
doc hawk
It's not being reported, but in the control room, the supervisor, a former drill instructor, was screaming, "Your OTHER up!" :)
hawk
I actually prefer the extreme FF button of the newer Tivos to 30 second skip--you can see what you're missing in case there's something you wanted, and stop or go back. It's the only button with its paint completely worn off the control on my current unit . . .
Then again, most of the time I use the green button and get to the next segment. But some shows don't have that, or it recorded a second showing, or . . . but that's why I noticed that commercial breaks hit 5 minutes last fall, but are back below that this year.
hawk
It's time they start.
I am so tired of typing out "Shazam" and "1234" in their entirety . . . :)
hawk
Which itself is no match for the Radeon 9500 ASC http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html, enhanced for high-power ASCII gaming . . .
hawk
It's the Teela Brown Gene in Niven.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if Pratchett played with it.
Anyway, its so dominant that it hits 100% penetration of the population.
hawk
Typically, each launcher has its own targeting system, such that a single destroyer can target more subs than any nation other than Russia or the US can realistically dispatch together.
However, the debris tends to sink, so it is rarely hauled back . . . :)
hawk
Chevy had a far larger share of the market here (Las Vegas), yet the mob always put bodies (OK, and people) in the trunks of Cadillacs to take them deeper into the desert to bury. I guess the FBI was aware of that.
hawk
>- If MACs had a 90+% market share, they would be under attack too...
That again. The dork-cred for a remote mac hack would be staggering, instant king of krackers.
Or go for the unix machines that handle the money. The whole "market share" thing doesn't make sense.
>- Lastly, you will save a fair bit of money, I don't think
>anyone really disputes that MACs are more
>expensive, unless it is a very high end Windows box
Usable service life is generally significantly longer. If you replace every two years whether needed or not, it's another story. (Assuming you do your own support and don't have to pay for it--if you do, TCO for max is significantly lower)
hawk, who is in the unix camp anyway, and merely tolerates the mac interface due to spotlight (whose utility seems to drop with each release)
>How is that the the Klingon, a warrior race, are so crap at fighting?
This is a common trait of all Bad Guys (TM) while fighting the Good Guys (TM) in either promotional segments or when the plot actually turns on the outcome.
It's because The Writers are on their side!
hawk
>The Klingons have always been about a society that is fractured into houses and only ever united by war,
No, that's only the spinoffs.
In Star Trek, they were evil commies, or maybe nazis, with funny eyebrows and odd accents (like all Hollywood commie/nazi villains). [OK, like the on-screen ones]
hawk
Oroville has done Star Trek better than *any* of the spinoffs.
It's just that kirk, err, captain whatshisface, isn't the only one that's incompetent; they all are!
Also, it's camp and understands that, and isn't above mocking itself. (and why are there so many families and children on a ship that's in mortal combat every episode?
hawk