You just might want to do a little more in depth research to see where the huge price rises in corn, etc come from. Hint: not from farmers, nor from ethanol production. It comes from wall street speculators, people who produce *nothing*, parasites, who take and take and take as much as they can get through controlling the government.
If this were true, farmers would have a very simple way to get rid of those parasites: sell directly to the consumers. AFAIK there are no militias that force farmers to deliver corn to the speculators at gun point.
Here's a farmer that grows corn, there's an industry that consumes corn. Both meet, agree on a price, the corn is delivered. Simple, isn't it?
However, both farmers and industries much prefer the system where intermediates guarantee prices and delivery. With a commodities market farmers know they will always have someone to sell their products to, industries know they will have someone to buy from. The futures market tell them what price they will get so they can plan ahead.
If markets were as bad as you say, then North Korea and Cuba would be the richest nations in the world. Albania would still be Stalinist, China would have continued with Maoism and the Soviet Union would still be a union.
Anecdote: in the mid 1960s, my mom's parents decided to have some work done to their house, including re-doing the chimney and fireplace. The man hired to do the job was a German immigrant. He and my grandfather got to talking and discovered they had been in the same battle, on the same day, during WWII, but on opposing sides. They ended up going through a couple of bottles of scotch and crying together for a few hours
Counter-anecdote: my grandfather fought in the Russian revolution when he was 18 years old. A short while before he died of alcoholism in 1963 he told my mother he could never forget how he had to shoot a communist fighter who used a small boy as a human shield.
Moral of the story: soldiers are like anybody else, there's good and bad. Not every Russian was a communist, not every German was a nazi, and not every Palestinian is a terrorist. But, until Russians started fighting communism and until Palestinians start fighting terrorism, how can we know which is which?
You don't directly pay cash for it but the music industry still profits off the radio and you still hear the ads or at least the throwaway "brought to you by Mennen"
This means that whenever I buy anything from Mennen I'm also buying the right to listen to any song played on that radio program. I don't have an advertising opt-out when I buy a product, the marketing budget is built into the price I pay for everything. Since I wasn't tuning into that program when it played, this means I have the right to download that song. Simple, isn't it?
The big problem is that people have been listening too much to the arguments of the media industry, they've become hipnotized by fallacies.
The media industry has been selling their songs for fractions of a cent, radio and TV are marginal profit. If they charge so little for playing on radio and TV, how come they claim losses of $150000 for every song that's downloaded from the internet?
I have (many) friends who, because they can, allot 0 dollars for entertainment and download every movie, song and game they want from the torrents
Replace "download" by "listen on the radio". Do you know of anyone who opted for not buying an album because the songs were available on the radio?
Music sales have always been like that. People get most of it free, then they buy one particular album because they like it specially much, or to give as a gift. I have a few albums I bought mostly for the enclosed poster when I was a teen.
The big failure of the media industry is in insisting on changing their old business model that worked so well for decades. My grandparents already got music for free on the radio and films for free on the TV, why should I start now paying every time I listen to a music or watch a film?
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Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Does the Constitution specifically state that the federal government has the power to legislate on the topics you mentioned?
bugs tend to... go over looked, especially in projects that are hobby-based in nature, like many FLOSS programs.
This happens in commercial software as well. When you buy the next "improved" version they get paid, fixing the current version gives them costs without revenue.
Neither of the BrazilianRonaldos are in this World Cup. However, if you're looking for a password to a disk coming from Portugal, this could be plausible.
Actually laptop batteries are standard (usually AA) size batteries packed into a plastic box, sometimes with a little charge controller board. It's totally possible to make them user-serviceable, but that wouldn't be as profitable.
And when someone tried to recharge those AA-size Li-ion cells with the wrong charger and your laptop catches fire, who's responsible for that?
If the NSA could have unlocked it for them, I believe the FBI would have been there in a split second. They probably already asked.
It could even be that the NSA was asked first and failed, then they sent it to the FBI.
Daniel Dantas was involved in many shady operations, including one when the MCI company, which has used some funny accounting, bought Brazilian Embratel.
It was the Brazilian federal government which asked the US government for help in cracking that encryption. International cooperation among different countries law enforcement agencies often happens in crimes involving international money laundering, so probably the US state department went to some effort to fing which agency was the most likely to decrypt those disks.
It's customary in Slashdot to ask if we are for or against someone.
This guy is a banker who has been accused of several crimes, but convicted only once, of trying to bribe an officer, Brazilian federal police "delegado" (I think the closest English translation would be "sheriff") Protogenes Queiroz.
Anyone can be accused of a crime and it's up to the state to prove him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
However, when a very rich banker is arrested and gets a writ of habeas corpus within fifteen minutes after his arrest from none other than the president of the country's supreme court... Personally, I don't think any reasonable doubt remains.
Did the article mention that people who buy second had gas cars worry about the transmission and whether the previous owner ran the engine in properly, always changed the oil on schedule and always warmed it up before screeching off down the street?
I've never had an electric car, but I've had lots of battery-powered stuff.
In the old days, the rule with nickel-cadmium batteries was that they had a "memory" effect, if you didn't discharge them fully they lost capacity. With lithium ion batteries I'm told that the opposite effect rules, if you discharge them deeply they don't last as long.
So, you see, with pre-owned batteries you also have to worry about the previous owner's habits.
A good start would seem to be delivery vehicles - predictable loads, distances, always park at the same place.
Yes, and taxis should be a good second step for electrics. They never drive too far from the base and run mostly on congested inner city traffic, where running idle becomes an appreciable percentage of fuel consumption for gas or diesel vehicles.
Slow speeds also benefit electric taxis since they can recover energy from regenerative braking. It's only when speed is high enough that wind resistance becomes appreciable that electrics start spending energy they cannot recover.
some sites directly compete and have contradictory information
And that's the way I like it!
The kind of country where contradiction is not welcome is not the country where I'd want to live. There may be pros and cons to eating chips or fries, and I think the government should release all that data and let the public decide.
Think of your mini-rant on how that food is called. What would you say if some "Royal Council on Nutrition Terminology" decided that "chips" should be called "fries"? Geroge Gershwin said it best:
"You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto;
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!"
Also extremely heavy due to the liquid nitrogen cooling requirement
Actually liquid helium as someone already observed, but never mind which element it is. You are thinking of an insufficiently advanced technology. Let's not confuse technological limitations with physical limitations.
A microscopic droplet of liquid helium is exactly as cold as a whole planet made of liquid helium. The way I imagine a handheld cryogenic device is as a tiny box whose walls are made of multiple layers of Peltier chips.
There was a time when games came with a "DOS extender" program that allowed the game to use machine resources that weren't available to MS-DOS. It wasn't such a big deal for the software companies to ship that small program together with the game, and it wasn't such a big deal for the user to install it.
Imagine if games came in a live Linux CD-ROM. MS-Windows users could play those games with all the benefits of Linux and Linux users would have a natively compilated game.
Are there still people running Windows 9X for their games?
Last week I found my original Tomb Raider CD lost in the bottom of a drawer. I tried to install it in XP, without success. I was considering installing windows 98 in an old computer, just to play that game again, when a friend suggested me to run it in a DOS box. I got it installed in DOSemu and it's awesome how well it runs in Ubuntu, with an i5-750 and a 9600 GSO graphics card.
As absurd as this is, essentially making it illegal to give the stuff you produce away for free, the media industry has a metric ass tonne of money and influence,
Most interesting is the fact that the media industry *does* give music and films for free. Radio and TV, for instance, have been largely ad-financed for decades. This does not mean the industry does not receive payment for it, but whatever they receive is orders of magnitudes less than what they claim their losses from unauthorized copies are.
I recently bought a Nokia "Comes With Music" phone. I bought that model for other reasons, it was only after I read the documentation that I learned it came with a licence to copy music from the Nokia site for one year after the purchase.
I paid about $200 for that phone, I don't know how much of that goes to the music industry, let's assume it's $20. If I copy twenty thousand songs during that first year, the media industry gets $0.001 for each song copied.
So, the true value the media industry gives to one copy of a song is about one tenth of one cent. Compare that with the $150,000 loss they claim they have for each song copied without authorization.
Or, wait, does this mean my phone is actually worth $3 billion? If so, then it's for sale at that price. Any takers?
some consumers will always pick the lowest-cost, for-least-profit distribution channel, which will almost certainly never be the original studios as their business model concerns first recovering a large investment
Every consumer always picks the lowest cost, that's what they call the "market". The studios business model concerns greed, that's all. A successful movie recovers the investment in the first week at the theaters, everything after that is profit.
The problem with the studios is called "Hollywood accounting". Since so much of their costs is services, paid to companies in the same cartel, they can juggle the accounts in order to pay less to artists and outside investors.
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If this were true, farmers would have a very simple way to get rid of those parasites: sell directly to the consumers. AFAIK there are no militias that force farmers to deliver corn to the speculators at gun point.
Here's a farmer that grows corn, there's an industry that consumes corn. Both meet, agree on a price, the corn is delivered. Simple, isn't it?
However, both farmers and industries much prefer the system where intermediates guarantee prices and delivery. With a commodities market farmers know they will always have someone to sell their products to, industries know they will have someone to buy from. The futures market tell them what price they will get so they can plan ahead.
If markets were as bad as you say, then North Korea and Cuba would be the richest nations in the world. Albania would still be Stalinist, China would have continued with Maoism and the Soviet Union would still be a union.
Counter-anecdote: my grandfather fought in the Russian revolution when he was 18 years old. A short while before he died of alcoholism in 1963 he told my mother he could never forget how he had to shoot a communist fighter who used a small boy as a human shield.
Moral of the story: soldiers are like anybody else, there's good and bad. Not every Russian was a communist, not every German was a nazi, and not every Palestinian is a terrorist. But, until Russians started fighting communism and until Palestinians start fighting terrorism, how can we know which is which?
You may die, but, unless someone makes a lampshade of your skin, your tattoos will stay with you in your grave forever.
This means that whenever I buy anything from Mennen I'm also buying the right to listen to any song played on that radio program. I don't have an advertising opt-out when I buy a product, the marketing budget is built into the price I pay for everything. Since I wasn't tuning into that program when it played, this means I have the right to download that song. Simple, isn't it?
The big problem is that people have been listening too much to the arguments of the media industry, they've become hipnotized by fallacies.
The media industry has been selling their songs for fractions of a cent, radio and TV are marginal profit. If they charge so little for playing on radio and TV, how come they claim losses of $150000 for every song that's downloaded from the internet?
Replace "download" by "listen on the radio". Do you know of anyone who opted for not buying an album because the songs were available on the radio?
Music sales have always been like that. People get most of it free, then they buy one particular album because they like it specially much, or to give as a gift. I have a few albums I bought mostly for the enclosed poster when I was a teen.
The big failure of the media industry is in insisting on changing their old business model that worked so well for decades. My grandparents already got music for free on the radio and films for free on the TV, why should I start now paying every time I listen to a music or watch a film?
Interesting. Among other things, the United States Constitution says:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Does the Constitution specifically state that the federal government has the power to legislate on the topics you mentioned?
Think twice. Do you *really* think this will be so important to you forever?
This happens in commercial software as well. When you buy the next "improved" version they get paid, fixing the current version gives them costs without revenue.
Neither of the Brazilian Ronaldos are in this World Cup. However, if you're looking for a password to a disk coming from Portugal, this could be plausible.
And when someone tried to recharge those AA-size Li-ion cells with the wrong charger and your laptop catches fire, who's responsible for that?
It could even be that the NSA was asked first and failed, then they sent it to the FBI.
Daniel Dantas was involved in many shady operations, including one when the MCI company, which has used some funny accounting, bought Brazilian Embratel.
It was the Brazilian federal government which asked the US government for help in cracking that encryption. International cooperation among different countries law enforcement agencies often happens in crimes involving international money laundering, so probably the US state department went to some effort to fing which agency was the most likely to decrypt those disks.
It's customary in Slashdot to ask if we are for or against someone.
This guy is a banker who has been accused of several crimes, but convicted only once, of trying to bribe an officer, Brazilian federal police "delegado" (I think the closest English translation would be "sheriff") Protogenes Queiroz.
Anyone can be accused of a crime and it's up to the state to prove him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
However, when a very rich banker is arrested and gets a writ of habeas corpus within fifteen minutes after his arrest from none other than the president of the country's supreme court... Personally, I don't think any reasonable doubt remains.
Since his pockets seem to be deep enough to buy a president of the Brazilian Supreme Court, not likely.
I've never had an electric car, but I've had lots of battery-powered stuff.
In the old days, the rule with nickel-cadmium batteries was that they had a "memory" effect, if you didn't discharge them fully they lost capacity. With lithium ion batteries I'm told that the opposite effect rules, if you discharge them deeply they don't last as long.
So, you see, with pre-owned batteries you also have to worry about the previous owner's habits.
Yes, and taxis should be a good second step for electrics. They never drive too far from the base and run mostly on congested inner city traffic, where running idle becomes an appreciable percentage of fuel consumption for gas or diesel vehicles.
Slow speeds also benefit electric taxis since they can recover energy from regenerative braking. It's only when speed is high enough that wind resistance becomes appreciable that electrics start spending energy they cannot recover.
If batteries wear too fast, the cure should be a better technology, not another business plan.
Unless there's a subsidy somewhere, a short battery life should have as much impact on leasing costs as it has on devaluation.
And that's the way I like it!
The kind of country where contradiction is not welcome is not the country where I'd want to live. There may be pros and cons to eating chips or fries, and I think the government should release all that data and let the public decide.
Think of your mini-rant on how that food is called. What would you say if some "Royal Council on Nutrition Terminology" decided that "chips" should be called "fries"? Geroge Gershwin said it best:
"You like potato and I like potahto,
You like tomato and I like tomahto;
Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto!
Let's call the whole thing off!"
Actually liquid helium as someone already observed, but never mind which element it is. You are thinking of an insufficiently advanced technology. Let's not confuse technological limitations with physical limitations.
A microscopic droplet of liquid helium is exactly as cold as a whole planet made of liquid helium. The way I imagine a handheld cryogenic device is as a tiny box whose walls are made of multiple layers of Peltier chips.
There was a time when games came with a "DOS extender" program that allowed the game to use machine resources that weren't available to MS-DOS. It wasn't such a big deal for the software companies to ship that small program together with the game, and it wasn't such a big deal for the user to install it.
Imagine if games came in a live Linux CD-ROM. MS-Windows users could play those games with all the benefits of Linux and Linux users would have a natively compilated game.
Last week I found my original Tomb Raider CD lost in the bottom of a drawer. I tried to install it in XP, without success. I was considering installing windows 98 in an old computer, just to play that game again, when a friend suggested me to run it in a DOS box. I got it installed in DOSemu and it's awesome how well it runs in Ubuntu, with an i5-750 and a 9600 GSO graphics card.
Most interesting is the fact that the media industry *does* give music and films for free. Radio and TV, for instance, have been largely ad-financed for decades. This does not mean the industry does not receive payment for it, but whatever they receive is orders of magnitudes less than what they claim their losses from unauthorized copies are.
I recently bought a Nokia "Comes With Music" phone. I bought that model for other reasons, it was only after I read the documentation that I learned it came with a licence to copy music from the Nokia site for one year after the purchase.
I paid about $200 for that phone, I don't know how much of that goes to the music industry, let's assume it's $20. If I copy twenty thousand songs during that first year, the media industry gets $0.001 for each song copied.
So, the true value the media industry gives to one copy of a song is about one tenth of one cent. Compare that with the $150,000 loss they claim they have for each song copied without authorization.
Or, wait, does this mean my phone is actually worth $3 billion? If so, then it's for sale at that price. Any takers?
Like this?
There's a deficit of muons, not neutrinos, from the moon's direction. Neutrinos pass through the moon easily.
Balmer does not assimilate chairs. I don't know what the suffix "imilate" means, but what he does with chairs is not related to the ass in any way.
Every consumer always picks the lowest cost, that's what they call the "market". The studios business model concerns greed, that's all. A successful movie recovers the investment in the first week at the theaters, everything after that is profit.
The problem with the studios is called "Hollywood accounting". Since so much of their costs is services, paid to companies in the same cartel, they can juggle the accounts in order to pay less to artists and outside investors.
You forgot: Hookers are better than wives because you only have to pay when you get laid.