Personal property rights are not just "the rights of the rich".
You are an idiot.
Tolerating injustice because you don't like the victim is how this nonsense starts. Sooner or later, the victim will be someone more sympathetic. By then the abuse will be entrenched.
This is a basic customs issue that could impact ANY ONE that has something that a customs agent wants to steal. This is a very fundemental issue of corruption that you should no be so quick to excuse or ignore.
This is precisely the kind of ignorance that I was alluding to.
Everyone tends to think that everyone else's profession or vocation doesn't require any training or practice. So people generally devalue your time and think that you should work for free. People are generally too stupid to understand the depths of their ignorance and why they should respect the skills of others (even tradesmen).
Knowing your shit takes time and other people's time.
Thinking that doctors don't really need to know anything is much like trying to represent yourself in court.
Scarcity is caused by the fact that you have to take time to learn stuff. You can't just start carving into people.
Things like licensing are just the END of a long process.
That's a nice bit of wishful thinking. Unfortunately, Doctors have to PAY their own way. They have to pay for their own schooling and they also have to pay their own liability insurance. This means that they have to be able to make a good coin regardless of how "self-less" they are. The economic realities of the situation simply won't allow them to do otherwise.
On the other hand, a Doctor is worth 10x of a good engineer and easily should be able to make 10x the money.
I have no problem respecting their talents and the level of effort required to get into their position.
I realize that I am in the minority in that respect. Ignorance breeds contempt and most people don't realize how ignorant they are.
This very thing led to factory workers and store clerks being more valued in the Soviet Union than engineers. You were treated better and paid better despite being more of a drone. People still became engineers. They just did so DESPITE of the economic incentives in place.
Whether or not it could be done for some arbitrary price is not relevant.
Doing something over again in a different medium is still not invention no matter how much you want to shill for companies that would grind you into crackers if given enough motive.
With cheaper technology, you can solve that by employing some redundancy.
Some times, trying to use the most over hyped (and thus expensive) shiny shiny thing comes with it's own built in problems. The fact that it's to expensive to allow for redundancy simply aggravates the situation.
In many cases, SSD drives aren't all they are cracked up to be. Some brands are quite unreliable. While other more reliable brands have somewhat limited performance.
I actually LIKE the fact that my stuff can last long enough to become obsolete rather than being an expensive albatross around my neck.
Stuff not being crap actually lessens the "it owns you" burden.
You have to dote over it less. You can ignore it and let it chug along doing it's thing. You don't don't have to be constantly on watch for it breaking and bother with replacing it afterwards.
Game resale was possible from the very beginning. I used it myself personally in the 90s. Chances are that it was available earlier than that simply due to human nature. Markets create themselves whenever there is demand.
Fighting against human nature? Against free markets? Against personal property righs? You might as well call yourself Communist.
A screen that is too small to allow the resolution of individual pixels is not really something to brag about. That's ultimately what a "retina display" is: too small for scrutinize.
Gamers aren't the only idiots that will happily pay a premium price to eat dirt.
My take on the "hypothetical company" was to take a REAL company and see what they actually need. There's probably a vertical app that you could replicate. You could destroy yet another situation where Windows is used for no other reason than "everyone else uses it".
If I can't easily break down something, then chances are that the minimum wage (probably Mexican) drone at the recycling center can't/won't break it down either.
That means it will just be considered trash and not recycled.
The standards for this already set a pretty low bar for "bother".
IOW: they did what ALL FARMERS have done since the beginnings of agriculture about ten thousand years ago.
Saving your own seed should be a fundemental right. It should not even have to be debated. This should get nowhere to the point where you need a new Constitutional Amendment just to sort this nonsense out.
Monsanto owning your crop is a BAD consequence of patent law as applied to LIFE.
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> Actually, the point is the only reason you care is because it happened to a rich person.
Bullshit.
He cares because it matters. The only relevant aspect about the victim is the fact that we get to hear about it.
Caring about the situation is entirely orthogonal to that.
Personal property rights are not just "the rights of the rich".
You are an idiot.
Tolerating injustice because you don't like the victim is how this nonsense starts. Sooner or later, the victim will be someone more sympathetic. By then the abuse will be entrenched.
Not really.
This is a basic customs issue that could impact ANY ONE that has something that a customs agent wants to steal. This is a very fundemental issue of corruption that you should no be so quick to excuse or ignore.
YOU WILL be next.
This is precisely the kind of ignorance that I was alluding to.
Everyone tends to think that everyone else's profession or vocation doesn't require any training or practice. So people generally devalue your time and think that you should work for free. People are generally too stupid to understand the depths of their ignorance and why they should respect the skills of others (even tradesmen).
Knowing your shit takes time and other people's time.
Thinking that doctors don't really need to know anything is much like trying to represent yourself in court.
Scarcity is caused by the fact that you have to take time to learn stuff. You can't just start carving into people.
Things like licensing are just the END of a long process.
> Seriously, how much do do think materials and production add to the cost of a book?
No more than the wholesale price of a paperback.
If you are trying to increase prices on me, then you are just smoking some really bad weed that's causing you to lose your grip with reality.
> the publisher, who also promotes the book
You're funny.
A publisher actually doing promotion. That's hilarious.
Now editors are useful, just not nearly as valuable in terms of $$$ as publishers want you to think they are.
Microsoft violated the microkernel ideal the moment it became inconvenient.
It's like saying that Microsoft isn't evil anymore. Simply declaring something as true doesn't make it so.
You need to go into the robot factory for maintenance. Your humor detection circuits are faulty.
Buy a pitchfork. Hysterical liberals don't have enough imagination to fear those or ban them.
You are confusing the French for Germans.
I think the "only truly greedy" remark is along the lines of how some people say that Blacks can't be bigots.
That's a nice bit of wishful thinking. Unfortunately, Doctors have to PAY their own way. They have to pay for their own schooling and they also have to pay their own liability insurance. This means that they have to be able to make a good coin regardless of how "self-less" they are. The economic realities of the situation simply won't allow them to do otherwise.
On the other hand, a Doctor is worth 10x of a good engineer and easily should be able to make 10x the money.
I have no problem respecting their talents and the level of effort required to get into their position.
I realize that I am in the minority in that respect. Ignorance breeds contempt and most people don't realize how ignorant they are.
This very thing led to factory workers and store clerks being more valued in the Soviet Union than engineers. You were treated better and paid better despite being more of a drone. People still became engineers. They just did so DESPITE of the economic incentives in place.
Miniaturization took care of that.
Whether or not it could be done for some arbitrary price is not relevant.
Doing something over again in a different medium is still not invention no matter how much you want to shill for companies that would grind you into crackers if given enough motive.
> Stop buying shitty ones.
With cheaper technology, you can solve that by employing some redundancy.
Some times, trying to use the most over hyped (and thus expensive) shiny shiny thing comes with it's own built in problems. The fact that it's to expensive to allow for redundancy simply aggravates the situation.
It depends entirely on your workload.
In many cases, SSD drives aren't all they are cracked up to be. Some brands are quite unreliable. While other more reliable brands have somewhat limited performance.
I actually LIKE the fact that my stuff can last long enough to become obsolete rather than being an expensive albatross around my neck.
Stuff not being crap actually lessens the "it owns you" burden.
You have to dote over it less. You can ignore it and let it chug along doing it's thing. You don't don't have to be constantly on watch for it breaking and bother with replacing it afterwards.
Game resale was possible from the very beginning. I used it myself personally in the 90s. Chances are that it was available earlier than that simply due to human nature. Markets create themselves whenever there is demand.
Fighting against human nature? Against free markets? Against personal property righs? You might as well call yourself Communist.
A screen that is too small to allow the resolution of individual pixels is not really something to brag about. That's ultimately what a "retina display" is: too small for scrutinize.
Gamers aren't the only idiots that will happily pay a premium price to eat dirt.
You may be behind the times when it comes to gaming. That doesn't mean that the rest of us choose to be similarly handicapped.
My take on the "hypothetical company" was to take a REAL company and see what they actually need. There's probably a vertical app that you could replicate. You could destroy yet another situation where Windows is used for no other reason than "everyone else uses it".
Clone a legacy app today!
Why would you need an anti-MS Zealot for that? Isn't Access supposed to be easy enough that your cat can use it?
If I can't easily break down something, then chances are that the minimum wage (probably Mexican) drone at the recycling center can't/won't break it down either.
That means it will just be considered trash and not recycled.
The standards for this already set a pretty low bar for "bother".
No USER serviceable parts is a far cry from NO REPAIRS POSSIBLE AT ALL.
A: someone can repair it.
versus
B: NO ONE can repair it.
BIG DIFFERENCE
IOW: they did what ALL FARMERS have done since the beginnings of agriculture about ten thousand years ago.
Saving your own seed should be a fundemental right. It should not even have to be debated. This should get nowhere to the point where you need a new Constitutional Amendment just to sort this nonsense out.
Monsanto owning your crop is a BAD consequence of patent law as applied to LIFE.