A common misconception. the free market is a toxic, radioactive turd. You're thinking of the perfect market, which is perfect in theory, but impossible in practice.
A free market means no regulation what so ever. The free market is bad. Everyone is confusing it with the perfect market, which is good, but also impossible.
They're mostly foreign companies, so I don't think that's an issue. Also, I think "Too big to fail" is sort of like "All your eggs in one basket". The solution is to put the eggs in more baskets.
The black in black market means illegal. Pawning iPads is perfectly legal. Grey market is probably what you're looking for. It means: "there's no reason why it should be illegal, but we really want it to be".
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Lasers large enough to zap ~10cm pieces of space junk weigh far more than 500kg.
This. A glass of water in geosynchronous orbit costs approximately half it's weight in gold on the ground.
You've brought back about $15M [google.com] worth of titanium back to earth orbit.
FTFY. How much would it cost to get 75.3m^3 of titanium off the ground?
What does Newtons per meter measure?
Pulseaudio does that, so plenty.
DDT was responsible for the near extinction of several bird species, including the bald eagle.
It's brain cancer.
The free market is better than anything else
A common misconception. the free market is a toxic, radioactive turd. You're thinking of the perfect market, which is perfect in theory, but impossible in practice.
In the USSR^H^HA!
+1: Awesome.
A free market means no regulation what so ever. The free market is bad. Everyone is confusing it with the perfect market, which is good, but also impossible.
I wish more wars could be settled that way. rounds of head-butting until one side gets knocked out, and then a huge kegger when they come to.
Yet it still escalated to the point of M16s, handcuffs and being marched outside. Land of the free indeed.
But how will everyone know I have a tiny penis?
Here in BC it's CAD $0.0627 / kWh. Hydro all the way.
We already have a cure for AIDS. They're called condoms.
IIRC, one of the lower estimates is 25,000 barrels, or one million gallons per day.
Ironically, Steven Harper seems to want Canada to become USA North.
Fascism is generally considered to be on the extreme right of the political spectrum.
that's still E500.00 per MB.
They're mostly foreign companies, so I don't think that's an issue. Also, I think "Too big to fail" is sort of like "All your eggs in one basket". The solution is to put the eggs in more baskets.
The black in black market means illegal. Pawning iPads is perfectly legal. Grey market is probably what you're looking for. It means: "there's no reason why it should be illegal, but we really want it to be".
Do you have 5 or 6 fake identities to go with them?
IIRC, the limiting factor on plants is the amount of CO2 they can absorb. I think if you grew them in a CO2 rich environment, they'd grow really fast.
This. The fine should be their profits from the affected products from the time they started price fixing to the time they stopped.