The solution is a progressive tax on businesses, just like a progressive tax on individuals. This should help small businesses and help prevent large monopolies.
Well, you're in the minority. If you don't pay teachers much, you end up with a minority of good teachers who are in it for the teaching, and a majority of bad teachers who couldn't get a job anywhere better.
Surely you're not implying that paying people more is going to get you even more bad teachers? I mean, if you pay people more, you're going to have a lot of smart people who want to be teachers, but aren't willing to sacrifice half their salary (15% like in your post is a severe underestimation). That doesn't make them bad teachers, in fact they're probably a lot better than the ones who hate their job and are bad at it but can't find any better job. Even greedy doctorate-holders would probably be better.
With regards to video sharing, maybe a completely ad-supported site generating profit will be plausible in 10 more years, when bandwidth costs fall a little bit more. I mean, we didn't have free hosting for 1 gb files 10 years ago did we?
That's what has puzzled me to no end since the onset of various hypes. SARS? Your chance to catch it? Play the lottery if you do, your chance for a jackpot is higher. Mad cow? Ditto. Terrorism? 3000 affected of roughly 200 million (directly, not due to the political fallout). Swine/bird flu?
And now compare that to the chance of a heart attack. Lung cancer. Getting run over by a car. Getting mugged. And various freak accidents that happen all the time.
It's a miracle that you're still alive! And it's not because of black holes, not because of terrorism, not because of pandemics. It's because you're living.
Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then again, where's the difference to being dead already?
Nice false dichotomy. The truth is, you'll do a lot to extend your lifespan if you eat healthy, don't smoke, drive a safe car while sober, live in a safe neighborhood, etc. There are, in fact, a lot of things you can do that are underrated in effectiveness by the general population, whereas terrorists and exotic diseases are overrated. The correct approach is to be aware of them.
When you press "I accept" or something similar on an econtract, you accepted (though if someone who was not you accepted for you you could use a fraud defense assuming you can prove it was more likely than not someone else acted without your consent).
So then you're going to sue my cat for walking on my keyboard?
USSR wasn't Communist. Nothing resembling a true Communist country exists in the modern world; just because a country calls itself Communist does not make it so. North Korea officially calls itself a "Democratic People's Republic" - that doesn't make it Democratic either.
Sometimes you need the "minimum wage boob with a script" to push a couple buttons on their side that you can't access unless you use illegal cracking methods.
Don't pick your research area based on profitability or popularity. There are always "hot" areas of research but these things are usually cyclic. Pick something interesting that excites you, and that you can spend the next 4 (or 5 or 6 or 7) years working on.
There's another reason for this: if you find something interesting to do, it also helps with motivation, and you'll end up doing better in it. Succeeding in a highly competitive field is almost always better than doing average in a field for which there is a lot of demand.
The problem is, I think the internet rush has finished, that is, pretty much everyone that was ever going to be a potential internet customer is already one nowadays
BUT - online video is still rising in popularity, and we will see a massive surge in bandwidth demand in the next few years due to this.
Socialism and US internet markets have one thing in common - lack of competition. I'd say it's the government-sponsored monopolies that are the problem, and the solution is de-regulation.
I'd blame his parents. If they let him feel the consequences of his actions, and let him get used to managing his own time, while he was still in school, then he wouldn't have problems of this magnitude later on. The whole point of growing up is to learn to deal with real life. If control-freak parents forcefully deny a kid any real life responsibility or choice while they are growing up, the kid is going to have problems when they grow up, regardless of any video games or other addictions. It's the worst thing that can be done to a kid, short of keeping them locked in their room 24/7. The only people who need to be treated this way are people who have mental problems (such as an IQ below 50) and are physically incapable of supporting themselves.
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Solution - accountability on the part of brokers?
The Republicans don't try to legislate what can be broadcast, or debated.
What freaking Republican party are you referring to?
Ron Paul maybe?
The solution is a progressive tax on businesses, just like a progressive tax on individuals. This should help small businesses and help prevent large monopolies.
I emit methane in your general direction!
There is also a distinction between "comic books" and "graphic novels" too.
You sure? I smell a euphemism treadmill.
Why don't you just get a tablet PC?
Well, you're in the minority. If you don't pay teachers much, you end up with a minority of good teachers who are in it for the teaching, and a majority of bad teachers who couldn't get a job anywhere better.
Surely you're not implying that paying people more is going to get you even more bad teachers? I mean, if you pay people more, you're going to have a lot of smart people who want to be teachers, but aren't willing to sacrifice half their salary (15% like in your post is a severe underestimation). That doesn't make them bad teachers, in fact they're probably a lot better than the ones who hate their job and are bad at it but can't find any better job. Even greedy doctorate-holders would probably be better.
There might be a bit of Nirvana fallacy in your post, heh.
They have their own problems. There is not a single habitable place on Earth that is free of self-righteous egomaniacs telling you what to do.
With regards to video sharing, maybe a completely ad-supported site generating profit will be plausible in 10 more years, when bandwidth costs fall a little bit more. I mean, we didn't have free hosting for 1 gb files 10 years ago did we?
who've spent "tens and hundreds" of dollars
Did they by any chance get one of these?
Mexicans (and humans in general) aren't kosher meat either, so we also should not be naming it the Mexican flu....
Did Somali pirates kill the import/export industry? Did arsonists kill the housing industry? Did murderers kill the healthcare industry?
and being kicked in the balls by someone with electrified spiked boots is preferable.
What?
1 Gbps should be enough for anyone?
they snuffed and reminded me that no one ever made money on copyright litigation.
Have they ever heard of the RIAA?
That's what has puzzled me to no end since the onset of various hypes. SARS? Your chance to catch it? Play the lottery if you do, your chance for a jackpot is higher. Mad cow? Ditto. Terrorism? 3000 affected of roughly 200 million (directly, not due to the political fallout). Swine/bird flu?
And now compare that to the chance of a heart attack. Lung cancer. Getting run over by a car. Getting mugged. And various freak accidents that happen all the time.
It's a miracle that you're still alive! And it's not because of black holes, not because of terrorism, not because of pandemics. It's because you're living.
Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then again, where's the difference to being dead already?
Nice false dichotomy. The truth is, you'll do a lot to extend your lifespan if you eat healthy, don't smoke, drive a safe car while sober, live in a safe neighborhood, etc. There are, in fact, a lot of things you can do that are underrated in effectiveness by the general population, whereas terrorists and exotic diseases are overrated. The correct approach is to be aware of them.
When you press "I accept" or something similar on an econtract, you accepted (though if someone who was not you accepted for you you could use a fraud defense assuming you can prove it was more likely than not someone else acted without your consent).
So then you're going to sue my cat for walking on my keyboard?
USSR wasn't Communist. Nothing resembling a true Communist country exists in the modern world; just because a country calls itself Communist does not make it so. North Korea officially calls itself a "Democratic People's Republic" - that doesn't make it Democratic either.
You mean like North Korea? The only way you can fit everyone into jail is to make the whole country into a prison.
Places like Finland, Belgium, New Zealand, Switzerland, Canada.... They aren't known for government surveillance or overbearing police forces.
Some of those countries are also known for a lack of a second amendment to their constitution.
Sometimes you need the "minimum wage boob with a script" to push a couple buttons on their side that you can't access unless you use illegal cracking methods.
Don't pick your research area based on profitability or popularity. There are always "hot" areas of research but these things are usually cyclic. Pick something interesting that excites you, and that you can spend the next 4 (or 5 or 6 or 7) years working on.
There's another reason for this: if you find something interesting to do, it also helps with motivation, and you'll end up doing better in it. Succeeding in a highly competitive field is almost always better than doing average in a field for which there is a lot of demand.
The problem is, I think the internet rush has finished, that is, pretty much everyone that was ever going to be a potential internet customer is already one nowadays
BUT - online video is still rising in popularity, and we will see a massive surge in bandwidth demand in the next few years due to this.
Socialism and US internet markets have one thing in common - lack of competition. I'd say it's the government-sponsored monopolies that are the problem, and the solution is de-regulation.
I'd blame his parents. If they let him feel the consequences of his actions, and let him get used to managing his own time, while he was still in school, then he wouldn't have problems of this magnitude later on. The whole point of growing up is to learn to deal with real life. If control-freak parents forcefully deny a kid any real life responsibility or choice while they are growing up, the kid is going to have problems when they grow up, regardless of any video games or other addictions. It's the worst thing that can be done to a kid, short of keeping them locked in their room 24/7. The only people who need to be treated this way are people who have mental problems (such as an IQ below 50) and are physically incapable of supporting themselves.