Umm, that seems to be pretty much everyone's opinion. Very few people will read something against their opinion and say wow they're right but I'm not going to change my thoughts on the matter. You either agreed with it, start agreeing with it, or think it is biased in the other sides favor.
"Why then shouldn't they go ahead and pursue a patent attack strategy in order to crush what they see as the competition? They are bound only to act within the confines of the law. There is no legal reason why they should play nice."
I think they would be afraid of the fall out that could possibly occur. Linux has gained enough support that an all out attack on it would very possibly bring about an all out attack on software patents and copyright law, as well as more antitrust suits. Their empire would slowly crumble if either of these two things were pushed very hard.
Answer this then, why do for profit private schools with less funding than public schools turn out much better students?
I'll give you 'an' answer. profit motive. Rather than just being given money these schools have to show real results in order to attract more students. You need more than just per student allocation, you need a choice in what school to send your kids to. Otherwise you are stuck with the good hearted honest will of the school board and the bureaucracy born of it. At least profit motive is consistent in the private sector. How many truly good hearted and honest politicians do you know of?
None, because I was given all my military awards just like 99% of the people in the military that have awards. I didn't feel I earned them. I did my time, got my metals moved on. Nothing to brag about.
kind of like how John Kerry served honorably in the military.
"You must remember, Luke, many of the truthes we cling to depenend greatly on a certian point of view."
It actually ads a human character to the story in that you know what and how things happend, but the dialog is giving the characters point of view of what happend. Just because a characters missunderstand of the events is not a key plot point like in most movies. This does add depth the the characters.
He he, that's funny. At least I have the option to by my right to life rather than die waiting in line for the government to provide substandard health care. Sorry after a year and a half of waiting for the Government, supposedly high quality health care from the VA hospital, I went out and paid to have some critical work done to fix a bone infection that could have paralyzed me had I waited much longer.
With public services you are descendant on the good will of the people providing the service with little motivation other than their best intentions. They get paid either way.
At least with private industry you have a standard basis to judge someones bias, Greed. Best intentions or not they are out to put food on the table, roof over the head and a Porche in the driveway. As long as you can look at any service with the idea that they are trying to get money from me and would probably like to continue to get money from me then you can use that knowledge to help negotiate.
Otherwise you are stuck with people hired at salary and have a lose set of minimum standards they have to maintain to keep their job. Sorry it promotes maintaining the minimum standard.
I don't remember being able to vote for head of the FCC. I only see a few major positions and then they pick everyone else. What if I like Democrat views on FCC regulation but republican views on foreign policy??? Nope it's all or nothing. I say vote for every single frigging government official. If you have a title other than administrative assistant or janitor you need to be voted in, and I don't mean by a blanket vote for one person.
I think you are just rather confused. You make ok sense other than I think you are agueing against someone else. And your anti voucher sentance kind of seems a little strange to me. first you say restructure everything to a per studant bases then you say don't allow vouchers???? You seem to be against people chooseing to take their kids to private schools that dont do stupid standardized no child left behind testing???? you want stuipid standardized no child left behind testing????
I can only guess your trian of thought got skewed between your brain and the key board.
In case TIVO is listening, I'd pay much more than $12.95 for this. If I had access to all the same stuff as is on my cable line only it was on demand at any time after the shows first released I'd go so far as to pay a premium for this service of about 10% over my current cable bill.
Except that most evil corporations got that way through government. Not all but most. and all corporations exist due to government sponsorship of the idea of a corporate entity. Which I am in favor of restricting the government imposed benefits of being a corporate entity greatly and putting more responsibility on the investors, share holders, and executive staff.
Not merely acceptable at a high cost to the tax payer, but actually good.
I hope this rewording makes it a little more clear to you.
Defence, Police, Fire, I never said the government shouldn't run things, I am just saying that they are not running anything well. All the curruption and greed in the private sector is 10 fold in government.
I do think that Police and Fire can be handled better by private organizations like communities and Insurance companies, because they currently are.
Education as a co-privet/public sector educational vouture program, where parants could choose any school public or private and that money would be used for the schools income, would be far better than the current were doing bad give us more money. were still doing bad give us more money. were still doing bad give us more money. why should we do good we get money anyway? school system we have now.
1. Water Can you actually drink your tap water? Sorry this is one of the worst examples
2. Power (electric) Deregulation of power companies always makes a bunch of news for the first year or two because of the big mix ups and shifting changes but ends up for the better. Please actually do some long term research rather than just pointing at messed up transitions pains.
3. Sewer You may have me here, (why I say to name 3) but I don't know the operational costs and tax payer burden. Just because you don't see the $100 a month to pay for something doesn't mean it isn't there.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. That lunch gets paid for somewhere.
Except when you decide you don't like that good ole boy network at Verizon you can move on to sprint, vonage, AT&T, that green couch company etc... if your local government good ole boy network builds up you have to deal with it. Sorry liberal ideals provide choice, only if you're pregnant.
PS No I'm not a conservitave nutball either. Maybe consider me an extreme moderate.
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Oh, and its 96.37% of all stats are made up on the spot.
And you know that 76.654% of those made up on the spot have absolutly no basis in reality.
Umm, that seems to be pretty much everyone's opinion. Very few people will read something against their opinion and say wow they're right but I'm not going to change my thoughts on the matter. You either agreed with it, start agreeing with it, or think it is biased in the other sides favor.
uncertainties - more than one uncertainty, Plural of uncertainty.
inevitable uncertainties - of these 20 uncertian items, some are inevitable to occure while some are not. There is no way to tell which are which.
Not really an oxymoron so much as a statement of the obvious. Or just an attempt to enbiggen the word future.
"Why then shouldn't they go ahead and pursue a patent attack strategy in order to crush what they see as the competition? They are bound only to act within the confines of the law. There is no legal reason why they should play nice."
I think they would be afraid of the fall out that could possibly occur. Linux has gained enough support that an all out attack on it would very possibly bring about an all out attack on software patents and copyright law, as well as more antitrust suits. Their empire would slowly crumble if either of these two things were pushed very hard.
All you need is 1.21GW and get your RV up to 88 miles an hour.
Don't ruin the fantasy.
Answer this then, why do for profit private schools with less funding than public schools turn out much better students?
I'll give you 'an' answer. profit motive. Rather than just being given money these schools have to show real results in order to attract more students. You need more than just per student allocation, you need a choice in what school to send your kids to. Otherwise you are stuck with the good hearted honest will of the school board and the bureaucracy born of it. At least profit motive is consistent in the private sector. How many truly good hearted and honest politicians do you know of?
None, because I was given all my military awards just like 99% of the people in the military that have awards. I didn't feel I earned them. I did my time, got my metals moved on. Nothing to brag about.
kind of like how John Kerry served honorably in the military.
"You must remember, Luke, many of the truthes we cling to depenend greatly on a certian point of view."
It actually ads a human character to the story in that you know what and how things happend, but the dialog is giving the characters point of view of what happend. Just because a characters missunderstand of the events is not a key plot point like in most movies. This does add depth the the characters.
uhh, except Luke had no memory of his mother, while Leia did.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me, twi....uhh, can't be fooled again.
No your wrong, people will dissagree with anything here.
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As shown here is Arizona that doesn't seem to work at all.
Issue: reject smokeing ban. Passed by voters shot down by city.
Issue: stop illegal immigrants from taking social services. Passed by voters shot down by state
plus many others over the years.
Yea and it also makes for a good way to make 5000 people pay for the 500 people that wanted this luxary item.
Except profit and greed are easy to to understand and compinsate for. This is the biggest modivation for the private sector.
Political power and control are not as easy to understnad or compinsate for. These are the biggest modivators for the public sector.
And yes I did vote I lost and my mouth is open.
He he, that's funny. At least I have the option to by my right to life rather than die waiting in line for the government to provide substandard health care. Sorry after a year and a half of waiting for the Government, supposedly high quality health care from the VA hospital, I went out and paid to have some critical work done to fix a bone infection that could have paralyzed me had I waited much longer.
With public services you are descendant on the good will of the people providing the service with little motivation other than their best intentions. They get paid either way.
At least with private industry you have a standard basis to judge someones bias, Greed. Best intentions or not they are out to put food on the table, roof over the head and a Porche in the driveway. As long as you can look at any service with the idea that they are trying to get money from me and would probably like to continue to get money from me then you can use that knowledge to help negotiate.
Otherwise you are stuck with people hired at salary and have a lose set of minimum standards they have to maintain to keep their job. Sorry it promotes maintaining the minimum standard.
I don't remember being able to vote for head of the FCC. I only see a few major positions and then they pick everyone else. What if I like Democrat views on FCC regulation but republican views on foreign policy??? Nope it's all or nothing. I say vote for every single frigging government official. If you have a title other than administrative assistant or janitor you need to be voted in, and I don't mean by a blanket vote for one person.
I think you are just rather confused. You make ok sense other than I think you are agueing against someone else. And your anti voucher sentance kind of seems a little strange to me. first you say restructure everything to a per studant bases then you say don't allow vouchers???? You seem to be against people chooseing to take their kids to private schools that dont do stupid standardized no child left behind testing???? you want stuipid standardized no child left behind testing????
I can only guess your trian of thought got skewed between your brain and the key board.
How is taking care of less kids more of an expense?
In case TIVO is listening, I'd pay much more than $12.95 for this. If I had access to all the same stuff as is on my cable line only it was on demand at any time after the shows first released I'd go so far as to pay a premium for this service of about 10% over my current cable bill.
Except that most evil corporations got that way through government. Not all but most. and all corporations exist due to government sponsorship of the idea of a corporate entity. Which I am in favor of restricting the government imposed benefits of being a corporate entity greatly and putting more responsibility on the investors, share holders, and executive staff.
Let me rephase my post
Not merely acceptable at a high cost to the tax payer, but actually good.
I hope this rewording makes it a little more clear to you.
Defence, Police, Fire, I never said the government shouldn't run things, I am just saying that they are not running anything well. All the curruption and greed in the private sector is 10 fold in government.
I do think that Police and Fire can be handled better by private organizations like communities and Insurance companies, because they currently are.
Education as a co-privet/public sector educational vouture program, where parants could choose any school public or private and that money would be used for the schools income, would be far better than the current were doing bad give us more money. were still doing bad give us more money. were still doing bad give us more money. why should we do good we get money anyway? school system we have now.
1. Water
Can you actually drink your tap water? Sorry this is one of the worst examples
2. Power (electric)
Deregulation of power companies always makes a bunch of news for the first year or two because of the big mix ups and shifting changes but ends up for the better. Please actually do some long term research rather than just pointing at messed up transitions pains.
3. Sewer
You may have me here, (why I say to name 3) but I don't know the operational costs and tax payer burden. Just because you don't see the $100 a month to pay for something doesn't mean it isn't there.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. That lunch gets paid for somewhere.
Except when you decide you don't like that good ole boy network at Verizon you can move on to sprint, vonage, AT&T, that green couch company etc... if your local government good ole boy network builds up you have to deal with it. Sorry liberal ideals provide choice, only if you're pregnant.
PS No I'm not a conservitave nutball either. Maybe consider me an extreme moderate.