Your mistake is assuming that the goal is the encourage behavior when in fact the goal is tax revenues so politicians with miniscule genitalia can build their little empires.
In those cases you listed the market is working perfectly. It's government that is failing by not passing the cost of it's services on to private enterprise. If oil companies were sent a bill for Middle East military presence we would all be paying more for gas. If gas cost more there would be more demand for either cheaper private transportation or more public transportation. Either way, those would become more profitable. The problem is government, not the market.
Exactly. It's funny how people piss and moan about how the free market is a failure and that we need more government to solve market failures, but when you look behind the curtain almost inevitably the government is somehow behind the entire problem.
So what you're saying is that the GOVERNMENT RUN MEDICAID program wouldn't pay for her treatment, and that the only answer to that is a GOVERNMENT RUN PLAN?
Sorry about your sister, but think about what you're saying.
Why would someone driving a 12mpg truck want to buy a 120mpg shoebox? Those people are not interested in mileage or they'd already be driving something that got 40mpg.
Are you saying I should be allowed to take a recording of a pop star's performance, claim the duplication required a lot of effort and was therefore copyrighted, and put it on the radio?
According to that page, the number 10 selling Wii game outsold the best selling PS3. Does that mean PS3 developers should abandon it and move to Wii exclusives?
Just fire up the second controller by yourself and choose the characters you need, then drop out of the second player once you're in the game. That worked me... I mean it worked for a friend.
I do the exact same thing. I save that uber-weapon each time I could really use it, thinking that there may be a better point to use it later on. I could probably save myself the headache of plinking at bosses with slingshots if I'd stop being that kind of hoarder.
Whether people know the formal name DRM or not, it's a problem and people do see it.
I just bought this song on my cell phone, why can't I listen to it on my computer?
I just downloaded this game on my computer, why won't it install on my laptop so I can take it with me?
They may not know the root of the problems is DRM, but even the average tech consumer is aware of the fact that the things they buy are very limited use, and I hear it all the time from friends and family.
I think you need to read a bit more about fingerprinting. Rarely do you get to line up two transparencies with fingerprints and boom! The police have their killer.
No, fingerprints are close approximates as well based on matching points, similar to DNA.
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Property is anything you yourself can defend. Government is just an agreement between people to help each other defend one anothers things.
Your mistake is assuming that the goal is the encourage behavior when in fact the goal is tax revenues so politicians with miniscule genitalia can build their little empires.
In those cases you listed the market is working perfectly. It's government that is failing by not passing the cost of it's services on to private enterprise. If oil companies were sent a bill for Middle East military presence we would all be paying more for gas. If gas cost more there would be more demand for either cheaper private transportation or more public transportation. Either way, those would become more profitable. The problem is government, not the market.
Don't tell me. You're one of those bleeding hearts that believes that preserving one life has infinite value?
Haha, I've been modded Troll for this? I didn't realize Obamabots had feelings to hurt.
And people wonder why some of us feel that MORE government is not the answer to our problems.
That judge doesn't need a pension, he needs a jail cell with one of the guys he put there.
Exactly. It's funny how people piss and moan about how the free market is a failure and that we need more government to solve market failures, but when you look behind the curtain almost inevitably the government is somehow behind the entire problem.
So what you're saying is that the GOVERNMENT RUN MEDICAID program wouldn't pay for her treatment, and that the only answer to that is a GOVERNMENT RUN PLAN?
Sorry about your sister, but think about what you're saying.
Why would someone driving a 12mpg truck want to buy a 120mpg shoebox? Those people are not interested in mileage or they'd already be driving something that got 40mpg.
So which company that he consults for on the side stands to make an assload of money off this deal?
Cloud computing is a buzzword right now. Not something I as a potential customer would want to entrust my future to.
No.
Well... that was easy.
Are you saying I should be allowed to take a recording of a pop star's performance, claim the duplication required a lot of effort and was therefore copyrighted, and put it on the radio?
According to that page, the number 10 selling Wii game outsold the best selling PS3. Does that mean PS3 developers should abandon it and move to Wii exclusives?
The Volt is nothing like current hybrids, and the Tesla is still as much a pipe dream as the Volt right now.
Just fire up the second controller by yourself and choose the characters you need, then drop out of the second player once you're in the game. That worked me... I mean it worked for a friend.
I do the exact same thing. I save that uber-weapon each time I could really use it, thinking that there may be a better point to use it later on. I could probably save myself the headache of plinking at bosses with slingshots if I'd stop being that kind of hoarder.
Whether people know the formal name DRM or not, it's a problem and people do see it.
I just bought this song on my cell phone, why can't I listen to it on my computer?
I just downloaded this game on my computer, why won't it install on my laptop so I can take it with me?
They may not know the root of the problems is DRM, but even the average tech consumer is aware of the fact that the things they buy are very limited use, and I hear it all the time from friends and family.
Great post, I'd mod you up if I had it.
Because you dared to mention Rand.
Whoosh!
It's too bad 5 is the limit for moderation. Intelligent AND eloquent.
Are you being serious or facetious?
I think you need to read a bit more about fingerprinting. Rarely do you get to line up two transparencies with fingerprints and boom! The police have their killer.
No, fingerprints are close approximates as well based on matching points, similar to DNA.
So I leave it on my hard drive which just happens to be open to sharing software like eMule or Kazaa.
Now what?
Yes, poorer than that. In debt to the label.
So not only are you not making money as a musician, you have to pay the record label from what you make at your day job.