How do you know the purchaser didn't use it to complete a million dollar sell. Then maybe the purchaser "over profited" what ever that is suppose to mean.
"Addicted to porn" is not an issue I think would stand up in court. It may be a deep penetrating issue, but all it does is allow us to watch a bunch of people get screwed. Watching evidence I'd have a really hard time too. In the end he'll probably get off.
It can be less profitable if they plan to make up for it in volume. Opening more fabs/foundries would make this the case.
Sometimes the anti free market stance on Slashdot is amazing. Few fortunes have ever been made by trying to find a way to sell things for more. (not zero, but still few) They have always been find a way to make things of the same or acceptably less quality but be significantly cheaper so has to sell higher volumes.
What is google a monopoly in? At best they were at one point a near monopoly in search but that wasn't because they were a monopoly they were just literally 10x better than what else was available. Today others are catching up and are viable alternatives that are even better in some ways.
If a new company came out with a car that required no maintenance for 20+ years, ran on any fuel you could find, got the equivalent of 120 MPG and still maintained a stylish appearance and sporty performance they would become a near overnight monopoly as well.
Did it suddenly lose value to the owner when the price dropped in the market? The one who purchased it at the previous price seemed to think that that value of the tablet was higher than that of the money payed. Sure you always want to get the best deal, but once that deal is made the purchaser has profited as well as the seller.
Of the thousands of issues in peoples daily lives we make a list of 20. You seem to think that #20 is unimportant? All 20 are considered current important issues, that's the point of making the list.
My guess, there's a million hard drives a day manufactured and tuned for very specific MTBF, there's probably a million cranes in the world total. If that.
No, i said high taxes result in lower revenues. Of course taxes of zero don't produce infinite revenue. If you're looking for the opinion part of my post it's that the government should hover in the point below where revenues go down and error on the too low side.
Accounting is a very poor indicator of tax increase/decrease. If you say we had a tax rate of 20% and took in $2b that doesn't mean that a 30% tax rate will bring in $3b or that a 10% tax rate will only bring in $1b.
Otherwise the government could just say, "Look there are 100 Million movie goers every year, lets just add a $1000 tax to movie tickets and we'd be out of debt in no time." Obviously at this high tax rate they will get almost no income from movie ticket sales, also they will get no income from movies even being made as that economy will also drop to near zero. They'll also miss out on the tax revenue from the income tax that supports that entire industry. Everything else is a matter of degree. if no tax rate gives 100 million movie goers and 1% tax rate only changes that to 99.9 million that may be an acceptable change, if 10% drops that to 90 million and 50% drops that to 35 million and 100% drops that to 10 million you will find sever demising returns on tax revenue.
High taxes from the government can only be used to punish unwanted behavior not to increase revenue.
Yet it has been proven time and again that lowering high taxes increases revenue for the government due to increased economic activity. getting $100 from 10 transactions is not as good as getting $10 form 1000 because people aren't being charge $100 per taxable transaction they will do significantly more of them. This is not theory it is proven with actual tax rate changes, both raising and lowering throughout history and in every country that kept records.
Yes it is nice that all these apps that are being made for iOS and Android all just run on Linux PCs due to the platform independent technologies they all use.
I've noticed we have more and more people that are turning to tablets for larger and larger portions of their work. Many now have the case with the build in blue tooth keyboard.
I still think that the tablet will replace the laptop as they get more and more powerful and eventual will doc to a workstation much like most people use laptops today. The PC form factor is what will go away. The workstation will still exist.
Savings and investment are also wealth generators because it's money being loaned out to people who have some sort of track record of knowing what to do with it, otherwise there wouldn't be any interest payments.
semi-funny store, when IBM came out to deploy our New Mainframe the engineers had to go back to the documentation because he hadn't set up a new once since he was in training many many years ago. He said that nobody installs new ones it's just maintenance and upgrade of existing ones.
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How do you know the purchaser didn't use it to complete a million dollar sell. Then maybe the purchaser "over profited" what ever that is suppose to mean.
Of course, by "barrier to entry" you mean "ability to do it as good or better"
Complete and utter horse shit. Ford, Walmart, Intel, Microsoft,sears, all companies that made their fortunes by finding a way to sell things cheaper.
"Addicted to porn" is not an issue I think would stand up in court. It may be a deep penetrating issue, but all it does is allow us to watch a bunch of people get screwed. Watching evidence I'd have a really hard time too. In the end he'll probably get off.
It can be less profitable if they plan to make up for it in volume. Opening more fabs/foundries would make this the case.
Sometimes the anti free market stance on Slashdot is amazing. Few fortunes have ever been made by trying to find a way to sell things for more. (not zero, but still few) They have always been find a way to make things of the same or acceptably less quality but be significantly cheaper so has to sell higher volumes.
What is google a monopoly in? At best they were at one point a near monopoly in search but that wasn't because they were a monopoly they were just literally 10x better than what else was available. Today others are catching up and are viable alternatives that are even better in some ways.
If a new company came out with a car that required no maintenance for 20+ years, ran on any fuel you could find, got the equivalent of 120 MPG and still maintained a stylish appearance and sporty performance they would become a near overnight monopoly as well.
much simpler than that. Wife's car is registered in my name, my car in hers.
Did it suddenly lose value to the owner when the price dropped in the market? The one who purchased it at the previous price seemed to think that that value of the tablet was higher than that of the money payed. Sure you always want to get the best deal, but once that deal is made the purchaser has profited as well as the seller.
Of the thousands of issues in peoples daily lives we make a list of 20. You seem to think that #20 is unimportant? All 20 are considered current important issues, that's the point of making the list.
sorry, I guess a whoosh for you?
"For fast typists, this can easily result in swapped letters."
I don't know what teh heck you're talking about.
My guess, there's a million hard drives a day manufactured and tuned for very specific MTBF, there's probably a million cranes in the world total. If that.
You, sir, make entirely to much sense to be here.
No, i said high taxes result in lower revenues. Of course taxes of zero don't produce infinite revenue. If you're looking for the opinion part of my post it's that the government should hover in the point below where revenues go down and error on the too low side.
Much in the same way the buggy whips never really went away.
Yep, looked it up, higher taxes killed the economy just before the lower taxes spurred it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2012/07/16/the-dangerous-myth-about-the-bill-clinton-tax-increase/
bottom of the list of top 20 hot button issues is still a hot button issue.
I checked on Clinton tax policy and most definitely his reduction of taxes in Capital gains significantly increased revenue.
Accounting is a very poor indicator of tax increase/decrease. If you say we had a tax rate of 20% and took in $2b that doesn't mean that a 30% tax rate will bring in $3b or that a 10% tax rate will only bring in $1b.
Otherwise the government could just say, "Look there are 100 Million movie goers every year, lets just add a $1000 tax to movie tickets and we'd be out of debt in no time." Obviously at this high tax rate they will get almost no income from movie ticket sales, also they will get no income from movies even being made as that economy will also drop to near zero. They'll also miss out on the tax revenue from the income tax that supports that entire industry. Everything else is a matter of degree. if no tax rate gives 100 million movie goers and 1% tax rate only changes that to 99.9 million that may be an acceptable change, if 10% drops that to 90 million and 50% drops that to 35 million and 100% drops that to 10 million you will find sever demising returns on tax revenue.
High taxes from the government can only be used to punish unwanted behavior not to increase revenue.
Yet it has been proven time and again that lowering high taxes increases revenue for the government due to increased economic activity. getting $100 from 10 transactions is not as good as getting $10 form 1000 because people aren't being charge $100 per taxable transaction they will do significantly more of them. This is not theory it is proven with actual tax rate changes, both raising and lowering throughout history and in every country that kept records.
Yes it is nice that all these apps that are being made for iOS and Android all just run on Linux PCs due to the platform independent technologies they all use.
I've noticed we have more and more people that are turning to tablets for larger and larger portions of their work. Many now have the case with the build in blue tooth keyboard.
I still think that the tablet will replace the laptop as they get more and more powerful and eventual will doc to a workstation much like most people use laptops today. The PC form factor is what will go away. The workstation will still exist.
The government able to pay for crap like this is proof that we are over taxed, and the government get's too much funding.
Savings and investment are also wealth generators because it's money being loaned out to people who have some sort of track record of knowing what to do with it, otherwise there wouldn't be any interest payments.
semi-funny store, when IBM came out to deploy our New Mainframe the engineers had to go back to the documentation because he hadn't set up a new once since he was in training many many years ago. He said that nobody installs new ones it's just maintenance and upgrade of existing ones.