You seem to be suggesting that the existence of a problem demands with absolute certainty that laws must be passed, regardless of the eventual effects of those laws.
"Something must be done!"
"Think of the children!"
When you are done making unsubstantiated declarations, perhaps you will so kindly examine the outcome of passing these supposedly justified laws (justified by the strong argument "something must be done!", clearly) and compare with the original problem that you were trying to solve. I suspect that you will see that the real problem is in fact the government, more harm than good yet again.
..and more specifically, the market for low end cameras evaporated completely. Nobody buys a low end camera, their associated equipment, or photo development services any more. Instead they buy a phone, which happens to have a low end camera in it.
The professionals still buy high end cameras, but thats such a tiny market in comparison to what the low end market was. Kodak simply could not maintain the revenue stream it had had, and the margins in the high end market was and will continue to be dominated by the glass makers. Having good glass on your high end camera is the essential thing, so they hold all the cards.
The reason they accuse you of class warfare is that your argument isnt actually logical, so in effect you are right now engaged in a propaganda campaign supporting class warfare.
Why isnt your argument logical? Because you devolve quite quickly into "its not fair" as the centerpiece of it, and then move right on to attacking the messengers that oppose you instead of their message.
Step (1) - Define what "fair" means
Step (2) - Show that your version of "fair" is in fact an overall improvement.
Step (3) - Proceed to debate knowing full well that you do not have to attack your opponents personally.
The ice is retreating since decades, however in winter it grows and in summer it shrinks.
So you admit to being ignorant and believing a complete alarmist lie, then?
Which part of record ice levels confuses you? If I have to google the facts for you, that would be because you are willfully ignorant, so I wont bother. You will call NASA a bunch of deniers or something.
This bit here is pretty popular on the internet these days. Taking a single incident of global warming researchers stuck in ice and using the (rather remarkable) irony of that to debunk global warming as a whole.
So long as you repeatedly and disingenuously take each instance as a single instance, you make sense. The problem is that there are quite a bit of instances, most poignant of which is that southern ice has been increasing for decades, even while the alarmists were pointing at single instances of the southern ice shelf breaking off as evidence of global warming.
....meanwhile the complete lack of any recent compelling evidence of atmospheric warming is explained away by claiming that the oceans are absorbing all of it in ways and with an efficiency that we do not understand.
If it is not important that Antarctic ice melt is this year the lowest ever recorded, then what are we to make of "warmest year", "most hurricanes" and other assorted alarmisms?
The thing about science is that its supposed to be falsifiable. Why is it then that real data is completely ignored in favor of proxy data that doesnt even correlate with the real data?
Simply support maximum freedom. [..snip..] Incidentally, whether or not you "like" the way other people exercise their freedoms is irrelevant so long as it doesn't encroach on your freedom.
oter ID laws don't just require "photo ID", but very specific photo IDs.
The amazing thing is that before the "big stink" over voter ID laws, many blue States already had voter ID laws. It only became a "problem" when red States also wanted them, coincidentally during what was expected to be a close election.
Connecticut is one of the bluest States in the union and has had voter I.D. laws since the 1950's, and has recently increased the requirements to specific photo IDs. Didn't hear about that in the news, did you? Only when its red States....
33% of the population are age 50 and over, where a significant portion had to suffer through "new math" and "bauma reading" during their school years, rather than actual math and phonics.
The events leading to the death of the ambassador were largely an almost comic display of incompetence and stupidity and not the big conspiracy that the right makes it out to be.
If multiple people lied about it in order to cover up their incompetence and stupidity, especially the incompetence and stupidity of others, then that is in absolute fact a conspiracy.
You are ignoring the excess energy which they pay him 10% of the going rate for.
He has no excess energy. I am not forgetting anything. He produces 20kWh but uses 15kWh during the day, and then uses 5kWh during the night, and he owes nor is owed any money.
And exactly why shouldn't a company be allowed to decide how much its product should cost?
Because its wrong.
You are confusing what Apple sells its devices to resellers for, and what the resellers then sell the devices for.
Apple has every right to determine the first, but has no right to determine the second.
I'm sure that Apple doesnt want to accept the consequences of these resellers being agents of Apple, primary of which is complete liability with regards to the agents actions and behavior. Yet Apple wants them to be agents in every other respect. Thats not how it works, and is why we have anti-trust laws.
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...and yet to be justified by you.
You seem to be suggesting that the existence of a problem demands with absolute certainty that laws must be passed, regardless of the eventual effects of those laws.
"Something must be done!"
"Think of the children!"
When you are done making unsubstantiated declarations, perhaps you will so kindly examine the outcome of passing these supposedly justified laws (justified by the strong argument "something must be done!", clearly) and compare with the original problem that you were trying to solve. I suspect that you will see that the real problem is in fact the government, more harm than good yet again.
It was annihilated by digital CAMERAS.
The professionals still buy high end cameras, but thats such a tiny market in comparison to what the low end market was. Kodak simply could not maintain the revenue stream it had had, and the margins in the high end market was and will continue to be dominated by the glass makers. Having good glass on your high end camera is the essential thing, so they hold all the cards.
The reason they accuse you of class warfare is that your argument isnt actually logical, so in effect you are right now engaged in a propaganda campaign supporting class warfare.
Why isnt your argument logical? Because you devolve quite quickly into "its not fair" as the centerpiece of it, and then move right on to attacking the messengers that oppose you instead of their message.
Step (1) - Define what "fair" means
Step (2) - Show that your version of "fair" is in fact an overall improvement.
Step (3) - Proceed to debate knowing full well that you do not have to attack your opponents personally.
You cannot even get passed step 1.
The drug laws were passed to reduce illegal drug trade and use
Trade and use is only illegal after the laws are passed which make trade and use illegal.
You are living in a circular universe.
that is amazingly horrible
The ice is retreating since decades, however in winter it grows and in summer it shrinks.
So you admit to being ignorant and believing a complete alarmist lie, then?
Which part of record ice levels confuses you? If I have to google the facts for you, that would be because you are willfully ignorant, so I wont bother. You will call NASA a bunch of deniers or something.
This bit here is pretty popular on the internet these days. Taking a single incident of global warming researchers stuck in ice and using the (rather remarkable) irony of that to debunk global warming as a whole.
So long as you repeatedly and disingenuously take each instance as a single instance, you make sense. The problem is that there are quite a bit of instances, most poignant of which is that southern ice has been increasing for decades, even while the alarmists were pointing at single instances of the southern ice shelf breaking off as evidence of global warming.
....meanwhile the complete lack of any recent compelling evidence of atmospheric warming is explained away by claiming that the oceans are absorbing all of it in ways and with an efficiency that we do not understand.
If it is not important that Antarctic ice melt is this year the lowest ever recorded, then what are we to make of "warmest year", "most hurricanes" and other assorted alarmisms?
The thing about science is that its supposed to be falsifiable. Why is it then that real data is completely ignored in favor of proxy data that doesnt even correlate with the real data?
I'd say probably 80-90% of normal users are doing video transcoding these days.
The bubble you are living in seems very opaque.
Summary asks:
...but first it says it has 16GB of eDRAM. The 128MB is eDRAM in their "Iris Pro" adds almost $200 to the price tag.
Will Intel use this as a platform to compete with nVidia and AMD/ATI on graphics?
This chip is going to cost MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
Really, having to pay for something you hopefully won't use is slavery?
There is a difference between "hopefully wont use" and "will never ever use"
..and yes, being forced to pay for things you will never ever benefit from is slavery. Every. Fucking. Instance. Of. It.
Simply support maximum freedom. [..snip..] Incidentally, whether or not you "like" the way other people exercise their freedoms is irrelevant so long as it doesn't encroach on your freedom.
Winner of the thread.
I did check a dictionary. Its slavery. Maybe you should check it.
Just because your health insurance covers contraception, doesn't mean you're required to obtain and use it!
I get it, you think that its fair to require people to pay for things that they will never ever use.
Its called slavery. You are a modern day slaver.
oter ID laws don't just require "photo ID", but very specific photo IDs.
The amazing thing is that before the "big stink" over voter ID laws, many blue States already had voter ID laws. It only became a "problem" when red States also wanted them, coincidentally during what was expected to be a close election.
Connecticut is one of the bluest States in the union and has had voter I.D. laws since the 1950's, and has recently increased the requirements to specific photo IDs. Didn't hear about that in the news, did you? Only when its red States....
nice catch
wish I could +1
33% of the population are age 50 and over, where a significant portion had to suffer through "new math" and "bauma reading" during their school years, rather than actual math and phonics.
Latest Intel Iris Pro can easily compete with mid-range discrete solutions from Nvidia.
How the Intel fanboys can think that this is bragging material is beyond me...
Also why use ice area/volume as a standard of the global temperature?
The events leading to the death of the ambassador were largely an almost comic display of incompetence and stupidity and not the big conspiracy that the right makes it out to be.
If multiple people lied about it in order to cover up their incompetence and stupidity, especially the incompetence and stupidity of others, then that is in absolute fact a conspiracy.
You sir, are ignorant in corporate finance
The charity has no production costs, fucker. Dont be so fucking stupid.
You are ignoring the excess energy which they pay him 10% of the going rate for.
He has no excess energy. I am not forgetting anything. He produces 20kWh but uses 15kWh during the day, and then uses 5kWh during the night, and he owes nor is owed any money.
..except its not a business, making everything you said stupid.
The NRDC takes in $100 million in donations, whereas a business invests $x million, in the hopes of raking in $100 million in revenue.
$100M in revenue for an activist group is fucking huge, you ignorant fucker.
If I generate 20 kWh during the day, use 15 kWh during the day, and another 5 kWh during the night, I have net zero usage.
You are then paid exactly the retail price for the electricity. So if that is the case, how is his statement (which you quoted, fucker) false?
From the carriers that complain they can't make as much profit on an iPhone as they do on other phones?
Did you miss the part where Apple isnt keeping the prices artificially low, but instead is keeping the prices artificially high?
Yes, you did miss that part.
And exactly why shouldn't a company be allowed to decide how much its product should cost?
Because its wrong.
You are confusing what Apple sells its devices to resellers for, and what the resellers then sell the devices for.
Apple has every right to determine the first, but has no right to determine the second.
I'm sure that Apple doesnt want to accept the consequences of these resellers being agents of Apple, primary of which is complete liability with regards to the agents actions and behavior. Yet Apple wants them to be agents in every other respect. Thats not how it works, and is why we have anti-trust laws.