Then where do you get the capital to start new ventures? Do you expect people to continue investing just as much money when the rewards are lower? The market is an amazing thing. If you sell your labor on the open market, you will be, by definition, compensated for exactly what your labor is worth. If you want more money, make yourself more valuable. Stop asking for gifts.
See: $2.00 fees on ATM transactions if you use the wrong bank machine.
How could you expect anything else? The ATM provides a service. In exchange for providing you with that service, the machine operator charges a fee. Amazingly enough, there are multiple operators out there. Most people have an agreement with one operator (their bank) to use their ATMs free of charge. Use a service provided by someone that you don't have a prior agreement with, and expect to be charged.
And where does that csv come from? Who puts the names in it? Who ensures that they're the right names? Who makes sure that the right people have the password to the right accounts? See...it's a bit more complicated. Not tremendously complicated, but these things do take time.
The constitution that spells out universal suffrage and equality allowed slaves to be kept/ Blacks to be segregated and prevented women from voting. But at some point of time the interpretation of the same lines of text changed and the world changed drastically.
I would argue that most of these things you mention were changed by amending the constitution, rather than the interpretation changing.
statements like Idiots like you are what ruin this nation. do not really help.
You're missing the store aspect. Modify Synaptic in such a way that a user can easily use the packaging system to purchase software from multiple vendors. Make it easy on both the user and the vendor, and now you've significantly lowered one of the barriers to developing for linux. Right now, any software that I purchase (and yes, I NEED some of it) is outside of the packaging system. And sure, it would be easy for the vendor to create a deb package, but then I'm still not getting updates automatically. It seems like it could be pretty easy to get something like this going, all of the basics in the packaging system seem to be there, but I haven't found any obvious way to do it.
6.) People who want to copy your games on a mass production scale and sell them, undercutting you significantly on price. These are the people, and the only people, that you should be using the law to go after.
From personal experience, it's fairly easy to find. Sure, not every station has it, but it seems most interstate exits have at least 1 diesel station, and once you get more rural it seems even more likely that a station will carry diesel. So you might have to try a bit harder, but there's plenty of it available to keep your car full.
Germany takes your car off the road after 10 years. Period.
Really? Wow. So, you're saying that cars in Germany are built so poorly that they're not road safe after a mere ten years? I find that hard to believe, given what I know about German cars, and the 20-30 year old BMWs and Benzs that I see over here. I mean, I've had American made cars (both Ford and Chevy) that were maintained for crap and were very safe after 15 years. Granted, that's the exception rather than the rule for American made cars these days, but it seems like a rather short sighted policy. I wonder how much money the automakers spend lobbying for it?
Interesting that folks had to resort to tricking the city into taking away their old, broken down car. Back in 1999, I was able to convince the tow company to take my '87 Astro Van with a thrown rod and horrible suspension in exchange for ownership of the vehicle. They even let me keep my relatively new tires (resold them) and the back seats (what college dorm is complete without a couple of van seats?).
Ah, the beauty of having local mechanics do the inspections. I've found it very interesting the way this works out. From my andecdotal experience in two states, it definitely has plenty of avenues to fail.
In South Carolina, they had yearly inspections, to be completed by your local mechanic. However, in order to keep costs down (and to answer other arguments about government imposed costs), the mandated cost of said inspection was $3. Guess how many mechanics wanted to spend a half hour inspecting your car for $3 when they normally charge upwards of $60/hr for labor? Yep, none. The "inspection" program turned into a $3 sticker program. Went to your mechanic, bought your $3 sticker once a year, and you were good to go. The state scrapped the program because it was pointless as implemented, and no agreement on how to fix it.
In West Virginia, the inspection was a bit more expensive - more in line with the mechanics' labor costs. Fortunately for me, if you had glaring errors, the mechanic would take a glance at your vehicle, and just tell you up front that you wouldn't pass, and you would be on your way. The fourth mechanic I went to was willing to inspect and pass my vehicle.
I have nothing against that. However, you would want to look at if the rights that come with it are still valid for 100 or 200 person unions (if you're not going to limit the number, you should consider worst case scenarios...).
The drawback was usually that you got raped on the peripherals and accessories ($20 printer cables you could buy for $2 anyone?)
As former staff at one of these stores, we found these prices pretty ridiculous too. Of course, it was always nice that the employee discount dropped a $35 printer cable down to about $3.50. I know there were people who got great discounts on big ticket items at other stores by exchanging overpriced accessories.
Maybe Wal-Mart customers aren't so bad where you live, but here in Arizona, going to a Wal-Mart is not a fun experience, unless you like tripping over countless undisciplined children running amok and throngs of non-English speaking customers who walk very slowly and always insist on taking up the entire aisle, instead of staying to one side so you can get by.
There's a reason I'll only shop at Wal-Mart after 11pm.
I don't even thing we need civil unions - we can and should handle all legal functions of marriage differently (contractual arrangements or whatever).
Then there are a lot of questions that need answering. When I'm in the hospital, who has the right to come in and see me? For inheritance, who is my next of kin? Who gets to decide to take me off the ventilator when I'm in a coma? Do my wife and I file taxes separately? This doesn't make much sense to me, because all of our other finances are completely combined - attempting to separate things for the sake of taxes would be horrendously complicated. As long as government recognizes family relationships in any sense, it needs to recognize some mechanism for establishing a new one in a "union" type manner. We have adoptions for establishing new parent-child relationships, but nothing for two people who wish to live together as family and consider themselves as "next of kin" to each other (except marriage/civil unions, but you're proposing to do away with that).
You know, if you'd left out the word "republican", you would probably come of sounding like you're making a point. As it is, you simply sound like you're a partisan republican-basher.
Exactly. Really, the whole issue should be resolved by getting government out of the "marriage" business all together and just granting civil unions to any two people who care to declare themselves a union. Let religion have marriage.
I just have to chime in and agree with you. This sounds like one of the best options out there. If marriage is religious, then the government shouldn't be involved. If it's not religious, then there's really not much reason for not allowing any pairing people want.
I think we have to look at what legal standing marriages currently give to people, and figure out how to reproduce that without the legacy tie-in to a religious construct.
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Then where do you get the capital to start new ventures? Do you expect people to continue investing just as much money when the rewards are lower? The market is an amazing thing. If you sell your labor on the open market, you will be, by definition, compensated for exactly what your labor is worth. If you want more money, make yourself more valuable. Stop asking for gifts.
Not until they ship Windows 7. Then, if they do that, have at it.
See: $2.00 fees on ATM transactions if you use the wrong bank machine.
How could you expect anything else? The ATM provides a service. In exchange for providing you with that service, the machine operator charges a fee. Amazingly enough, there are multiple operators out there. Most people have an agreement with one operator (their bank) to use their ATMs free of charge. Use a service provided by someone that you don't have a prior agreement with, and expect to be charged.
And where does that csv come from? Who puts the names in it? Who ensures that they're the right names? Who makes sure that the right people have the password to the right accounts? See...it's a bit more complicated. Not tremendously complicated, but these things do take time.
The whole point of the capitalistic system is that the individual knows what is best for themselves.
The thing is, this is very rarely the case...
And yet, the case where the government knows what is good for all of the individuals is even more rare.
Excellent! In that case, to answer the GGP's question, it's incredibly easy. Should require approximately zero effort.
Why does my sniper rifle need an ipod?
Why's my doctor have to use his blackberry to tell me if I have the clap?
Why not? If somebody wants to produce it, and somebody else thinks it's worth paying for, why not?
The constitution that spells out universal suffrage and equality allowed slaves to be kept/ Blacks to be segregated and prevented women from voting. But at some point of time the interpretation of the same lines of text changed and the world changed drastically.
I would argue that most of these things you mention were changed by amending the constitution, rather than the interpretation changing.
statements like Idiots like you are what ruin this nation. do not really help.
Agreed.
You're missing the store aspect. Modify Synaptic in such a way that a user can easily use the packaging system to purchase software from multiple vendors. Make it easy on both the user and the vendor, and now you've significantly lowered one of the barriers to developing for linux. Right now, any software that I purchase (and yes, I NEED some of it) is outside of the packaging system. And sure, it would be easy for the vendor to create a deb package, but then I'm still not getting updates automatically. It seems like it could be pretty easy to get something like this going, all of the basics in the packaging system seem to be there, but I haven't found any obvious way to do it.
As of 8.04, I was able to setup two video cards with four monitors without touching the terminal. It works well, but again, with NVidia cards.
Looks like it should be pretty easy. Found this bit of info - shouldn't be too much of a stretch to create an "apt" protocol...
Keeps the car workers busy too.
This leads me to wonder what the point of this law really is...
6.) People who want to copy your games on a mass production scale and sell them, undercutting you significantly on price. These are the people, and the only people, that you should be using the law to go after.
From personal experience, it's fairly easy to find. Sure, not every station has it, but it seems most interstate exits have at least 1 diesel station, and once you get more rural it seems even more likely that a station will carry diesel. So you might have to try a bit harder, but there's plenty of it available to keep your car full.
Germany takes your car off the road after 10 years. Period.
Really? Wow. So, you're saying that cars in Germany are built so poorly that they're not road safe after a mere ten years? I find that hard to believe, given what I know about German cars, and the 20-30 year old BMWs and Benzs that I see over here. I mean, I've had American made cars (both Ford and Chevy) that were maintained for crap and were very safe after 15 years. Granted, that's the exception rather than the rule for American made cars these days, but it seems like a rather short sighted policy. I wonder how much money the automakers spend lobbying for it?
Interesting that folks had to resort to tricking the city into taking away their old, broken down car. Back in 1999, I was able to convince the tow company to take my '87 Astro Van with a thrown rod and horrible suspension in exchange for ownership of the vehicle. They even let me keep my relatively new tires (resold them) and the back seats (what college dorm is complete without a couple of van seats?).
Ah, the beauty of having local mechanics do the inspections. I've found it very interesting the way this works out. From my andecdotal experience in two states, it definitely has plenty of avenues to fail.
In South Carolina, they had yearly inspections, to be completed by your local mechanic. However, in order to keep costs down (and to answer other arguments about government imposed costs), the mandated cost of said inspection was $3. Guess how many mechanics wanted to spend a half hour inspecting your car for $3 when they normally charge upwards of $60/hr for labor? Yep, none. The "inspection" program turned into a $3 sticker program. Went to your mechanic, bought your $3 sticker once a year, and you were good to go. The state scrapped the program because it was pointless as implemented, and no agreement on how to fix it.
In West Virginia, the inspection was a bit more expensive - more in line with the mechanics' labor costs. Fortunately for me, if you had glaring errors, the mechanic would take a glance at your vehicle, and just tell you up front that you wouldn't pass, and you would be on your way. The fourth mechanic I went to was willing to inspect and pass my vehicle.
Or, open up your dash, and remove (or replace with a bad one) the check engine light.
I have nothing against that. However, you would want to look at if the rights that come with it are still valid for 100 or 200 person unions (if you're not going to limit the number, you should consider worst case scenarios...).
The drawback was usually that you got raped on the peripherals and accessories ($20 printer cables you could buy for $2 anyone?)
As former staff at one of these stores, we found these prices pretty ridiculous too. Of course, it was always nice that the employee discount dropped a $35 printer cable down to about $3.50. I know there were people who got great discounts on big ticket items at other stores by exchanging overpriced accessories.
Maybe Wal-Mart customers aren't so bad where you live, but here in Arizona, going to a Wal-Mart is not a fun experience, unless you like tripping over countless undisciplined children running amok and throngs of non-English speaking customers who walk very slowly and always insist on taking up the entire aisle, instead of staying to one side so you can get by.
There's a reason I'll only shop at Wal-Mart after 11pm.
I don't even thing we need civil unions - we can and should handle all legal functions of marriage differently (contractual arrangements or whatever).
Then there are a lot of questions that need answering. When I'm in the hospital, who has the right to come in and see me? For inheritance, who is my next of kin? Who gets to decide to take me off the ventilator when I'm in a coma? Do my wife and I file taxes separately? This doesn't make much sense to me, because all of our other finances are completely combined - attempting to separate things for the sake of taxes would be horrendously complicated. As long as government recognizes family relationships in any sense, it needs to recognize some mechanism for establishing a new one in a "union" type manner. We have adoptions for establishing new parent-child relationships, but nothing for two people who wish to live together as family and consider themselves as "next of kin" to each other (except marriage/civil unions, but you're proposing to do away with that).
You know, if you'd left out the word "republican", you would probably come of sounding like you're making a point. As it is, you simply sound like you're a partisan republican-basher.
Exactly. Really, the whole issue should be resolved by getting government out of the "marriage" business all together and just granting civil unions to any two people who care to declare themselves a union. Let religion have marriage.
I just have to chime in and agree with you. This sounds like one of the best options out there. If marriage is religious, then the government shouldn't be involved. If it's not religious, then there's really not much reason for not allowing any pairing people want.
I think we have to look at what legal standing marriages currently give to people, and figure out how to reproduce that without the legacy tie-in to a religious construct.