Which has nothing to do with GPS. GPS can pinpoint your specific location and make it easy to police to come get you. In contrast EZpass only shows a few points spread-out over dozens or even hundreds of miles. i.e. Only when you enter and exit the tollroad. AND it's typically old data that would be of no use for police to locate you.
>>>Monopolies are allowed and legal, however, governments tend to institute measures to ensure that monopolies don't abuse their power
Monopolies aren't legal in the US, unless they first ask permission from the government (an exclusive contract). SO: Who regulates the monopoly known as government? Who controls Amtrak from over-charging me? Or from charging decent prices, but then not delivering the service promised (like losing my mail)?
A government monopoly is no better than a corporate monopoly.
>>>Walmart, Bestbuy, Amazon, all seem to have exactly the same price (or somewhere within 50 cents of each other)
Naturally. They are in competition with one another and watch prices. Of course they will all be in the same ballpark. They want to undercut each other, but still high enough to keep a profit. .
>>>new releases are hovering steadily around $18.
Well sure. New releases are always higher due to demand, but after awhile they drop to around $9.... which is 3 dollars less than the price-fixed $12-13 they used to cost. It's just the same way that Video games start at $50 but eventually drop to $20 (or less). High demand == high price.
>>>That settlement was a COMPLETE FRAUD. Customers who had bought 5-6 dozen music CD's over a decade, at $10+ overcharge per CD
The overcharge was estimated by the court to be $3 per disc. So if you got a $25 refund that covered the overcharge for eight-and-a-half discs. Yes there were some people who bought more than 8.5 discs, but there were also people who bought zero discs (like my mom) and were still eligible for a refund. It all averages out.
AND it punished the companies with a several hundred million dollars loss. .
>>>were ripped off with a measly $25 voucher to BUY MORE OVERPRICED PRODUCT
False. I got a check, as did my mom, brother, and my two nieces. The checks were converted to CASH. Maybe you should not make false assumptions about something you known nothing about. It was a true refund.
Likewise when Paypal got in trouble, I received a Cash refund of $75 due to a court order. Not a voucher - actual money.
>>>Punish price-fixing by price-fixing, at least for a period.
(1) That's unconstitutional. The New York Constitution does not grant such a power as "price fixing".
(2) There's no need for such extremes. When the record companies were caught price-fixing CDs (thereby forming an illegal cartel), they were ordered by the courts to refund ~$25 to all their customers, so that erased any illicit profits they had earned.
(3) And then the free market was left to its own devices, and the cost of CDs plummeted from $13 to $9 within a year, since the cartel was no longer allowed to operate. The same will happen to LCDs too, after the price-fixing cartel is broken-up.
>>>I'm only responding to you here to tell you that you really should seek some professional help.
You too. You're just like the bullies who beat-up the nerds/geeks in school. Why do you feel the need to that? Why do you feel the need to say "Liar" in response to someone's tale about a bad boss and manager? You're sick Sandtiger. You're s mean, cruel, and vindictive bully.
Yeah. Just like what my boss did to me when she terminated me based-upon a bunch of lies. It seems reasonable to me to hold-up a mirror, and reflect some of that "no recourse; no counsel; no justice" right back at her. Return to her what she did to me first.
The Motel 6 manager claimed I yelled at his maids, and had sex with a clerk. Now either these things happened, or they did not. I can tell you they did not.
>>>I know they aren't GPS yet, but probably future versions will be
How do you know that? The current gadgets are actually quite dumb, because it keeps them cheap to handout for free. Converting them to a GPS device would be about 20 times more costly, as well as requiring an external power plug, so I think your prognostication is wrong.
Also the article mentions, "cars partially powered by fumes".
We already have that via exhaust gas recirculation. I don't know how common it is in gasoline engines, but in diesels it's pretty standard. It's a way to reduce unburnt hydrocarbons and soot by feeding the exhaust back into the engine.
- preemptive multitasking == 1985 Amiga [68000] with OS 1.0 or higher == or 1995 IBM PC with Windows 4.x (95) == or 2002 Mac [PowerPC] with OS 10.1 and up.
For those that enjoy bashing the Commodore Amiga, let's consider a few simple "features" and what kind of hardware you need to get the job done:
- 8 bit sound and 4000 colors == 1985 Amiga with 7 MHz CPU and 256K of RAM == or 1992 Mac Quadra with 25 MHz CPU and ~8000K of RAM == or 1993 Windows PC with 100 MHz 486 and ~16,000K of RAM
- preemptive multitasking == 1985 Amiga with OS 1.0 or higher == or 1995 IBM PC with Windows 4.x (95) == or 2002 Mac Quadra with OS 10.x
plug-and-play addon cards == 1985 Amiga. Easy as pie. == or 1998 Windows PC with Windows 4.x (98) == or Mac.... uhhh... how do you open this thing? (just kidding)
BOTTOM LINE - It took between 8 and 17 years for the PCs and Macs to catch-up to what Amigas were doing in 1985. Even today modern Amigas have a lightwieght OS that runs circles around Mac or PC OSes. You don't need 1 gigabyte to get the job done. 0.1 gig and 1 GHz is enough.
>>>I would counter that the Republican party is more Demogogic and Authoritative
The Republicans voted AGAINST the bailout bill in 2008, in direct opposite to the leader of their party (George Bush). In contrast the Democrats voted near-unanimously to pass Obama's healthcare bill, simply because it was Obama that wanted it.
Almost every bad bill that's passed these last 4-5 years has been near-100% Democrat (like the renewal of the Patriot Act) while the Republicans opposed the bill (but lacked the numbers to block it).
>>>the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country
Thank you. I've been waiting for a hate-filled troll to come along and spout a bunch of nonsense (and get modded +5 insightful by other trolls), JUST so I could post the following.
The most racist Party in the whole history of America:
1790s - the Founders abolished importation of slaves, abolished slavery in the north and northwest territories, and banned selling of slaves across state lines. They intended to abolish slavery in the south too but.....
1820s - the South, aka the Democrats, reversed a lot of the laws the Founders had put in place, and adopted a pro-slavery stance, thereby blocking any more progress toward complete abolition.
1860s - the Democrats seceded from the Union because a Republican won the presidency (and because they wanted protect slavery)
1880s - the Democrats invented the idea of Segregation
1950s/60s/70s - the Democrats opposed/ voted against Civil Rights Laws. To quote Senator Byrd: "Rather I should die a thousand times, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels." . That's 150 years of Democrats trying to keep black Americans down. So where does this myth come from that the Democrats are the "good" party and the Republicans are the evil party. Hmmmm.
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If Obama's such a great fuck, why did he sign the Patriot Renewal Act? He should have vetoed it and proven he was better.
Except of course Obama is as big of a tyrant as that bitch Bush was.
Which has nothing to do with GPS. GPS can pinpoint your specific location and make it easy to police to come get you. In contrast EZpass only shows a few points spread-out over dozens or even hundreds of miles. i.e. Only when you enter and exit the tollroad. AND it's typically old data that would be of no use for police to locate you.
>>>Monopolies are allowed and legal, however, governments tend to institute measures to ensure that monopolies don't abuse their power
Monopolies aren't legal in the US, unless they first ask permission from the government (an exclusive contract). SO: Who regulates the monopoly known as government? Who controls Amtrak from over-charging me? Or from charging decent prices, but then not delivering the service promised (like losing my mail)?
A government monopoly is no better than a corporate monopoly.
I bought a 21" CRT for $70 (2006).
>>>Walmart, Bestbuy, Amazon, all seem to have exactly the same price (or somewhere within 50 cents of each other)
Naturally. They are in competition with one another and watch prices. Of course they will all be in the same ballpark. They want to undercut each other, but still high enough to keep a profit.
.
>>>new releases are hovering steadily around $18.
Well sure. New releases are always higher due to demand, but after awhile they drop to around $9.... which is 3 dollars less than the price-fixed $12-13 they used to cost. It's just the same way that Video games start at $50 but eventually drop to $20 (or less). High demand == high price.
>>>That settlement was a COMPLETE FRAUD. Customers who had bought 5-6 dozen music CD's over a decade, at $10+ overcharge per CD
The overcharge was estimated by the court to be $3 per disc. So if you got a $25 refund that covered the overcharge for eight-and-a-half discs. Yes there were some people who bought more than 8.5 discs, but there were also people who bought zero discs (like my mom) and were still eligible for a refund. It all averages out.
AND it punished the companies with a several hundred million dollars loss.
.
>>>were ripped off with a measly $25 voucher to BUY MORE OVERPRICED PRODUCT
False. I got a check, as did my mom, brother, and my two nieces. The checks were converted to CASH. Maybe you should not make false assumptions about something you known nothing about. It was a true refund.
Likewise when Paypal got in trouble, I received a Cash refund of $75 due to a court order. Not a voucher - actual money.
>>>They can put a ceiling on the price.
Which creates shortages, as not enough items are produced to meet customer demand.
>>>Punish price-fixing by price-fixing, at least for a period.
(1) That's unconstitutional. The New York Constitution does not grant such a power as "price fixing".
(2) There's no need for such extremes. When the record companies were caught price-fixing CDs (thereby forming an illegal cartel), they were ordered by the courts to refund ~$25 to all their customers, so that erased any illicit profits they had earned.
(3) And then the free market was left to its own devices, and the cost of CDs plummeted from $13 to $9 within a year, since the cartel was no longer allowed to operate. The same will happen to LCDs too, after the price-fixing cartel is broken-up.
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>>>>>All it takes is one maladjusted loser (that would be you)
"You really should seek some professional help."
Insulting people is juvenile.
>>>I'm only responding to you here to tell you that you really should seek some professional help.
You too. You're just like the bullies who beat-up the nerds/geeks in school. Why do you feel the need to that? Why do you feel the need to say "Liar" in response to someone's tale about a bad boss and manager? You're sick Sandtiger. You're s mean, cruel, and vindictive bully.
>>>With no recourse. No counsel. And no justice.
Yeah. Just like what my boss did to me when she terminated me based-upon a bunch of lies. It seems reasonable to me to hold-up a mirror, and reflect some of that "no recourse; no counsel; no justice" right back at her. Return to her what she did to me first.
The Motel 6 manager claimed I yelled at his maids, and had sex with a clerk. Now either these things happened, or they did not. I can tell you they did not.
>>>You've noticed that Bush is out of office now, right?
Yeah I know. In fact the idea to track us via GPS or our cellphones didn't come from Bush. It came from Obama who is just as bad.
>>>I know they aren't GPS yet, but probably future versions will be
How do you know that? The current gadgets are actually quite dumb, because it keeps them cheap to handout for free. Converting them to a GPS device would be about 20 times more costly, as well as requiring an external power plug, so I think your prognostication is wrong.
>>>It probably says it runs Windows, but doesn't run on Windows 1.0, either...Lying bastards.
Nope. Says 7/vista/XP
..... and their plan to track us via our GPS or cellphones. Good job justices.
Also the article mentions, "cars partially powered by fumes".
We already have that via exhaust gas recirculation. I don't know how common it is in gasoline engines, but in diesels it's pretty standard. It's a way to reduce unburnt hydrocarbons and soot by feeding the exhaust back into the engine.
I don't know how you can be called +5 informative when you didn't even answer the question: WHO has the right to the name Amiga?
As far as I can tell, it's owned by the present company that developed the OS 4.x and will soon be released an Amiga X1000.
Oh I see. It's like that Windows OS project that attempts to clone the functionality (ReactOS), but isn't the actual OS.
I don't think making the OS 4.x is the answer. The company still wants to make money off the Amiga, just like Apple wants to do with Mac.
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- preemptive multitasking
== 1985 Amiga [68000] with OS 1.0 or higher
== or 1995 IBM PC with Windows 4.x (95)
== or 2002 Mac [PowerPC] with OS 10.1 and up.
For those that enjoy bashing the Commodore Amiga, let's consider a few simple "features" and what kind of hardware you need to get the job done:
- 8 bit sound and 4000 colors
== 1985 Amiga with 7 MHz CPU and 256K of RAM
== or 1992 Mac Quadra with 25 MHz CPU and ~8000K of RAM
== or 1993 Windows PC with 100 MHz 486 and ~16,000K of RAM
- preemptive multitasking
== 1985 Amiga with OS 1.0 or higher
== or 1995 IBM PC with Windows 4.x (95)
== or 2002 Mac Quadra with OS 10.x
plug-and-play addon cards
== 1985 Amiga. Easy as pie.
== or 1998 Windows PC with Windows 4.x (98)
== or Mac.... uhhh... how do you open this thing? (just kidding)
BOTTOM LINE - It took between 8 and 17 years for the PCs and Macs to catch-up to what Amigas were doing in 1985. Even today modern Amigas have a lightwieght OS that runs circles around Mac or PC OSes. You don't need 1 gigabyte to get the job done. 0.1 gig and 1 GHz is enough.
>>>the latest AmigaOS boards are still only at 733mhz
2000 megahertz. Due to be released in August.
As for open source, you can get upto Amiga OS 3.5 in that format and run it on a PC or Mac. Intel or PowerPC.
>>>I would counter that the Republican party is more Demogogic and Authoritative
The Republicans voted AGAINST the bailout bill in 2008, in direct opposite to the leader of their party (George Bush). In contrast the Democrats voted near-unanimously to pass Obama's healthcare bill, simply because it was Obama that wanted it.
Almost every bad bill that's passed these last 4-5 years has been near-100% Democrat (like the renewal of the Patriot Act) while the Republicans opposed the bill (but lacked the numbers to block it).
>>>the republicans are spiteful, self-centered assholes who sell out the country
Thank you. I've been waiting for a hate-filled troll to come along and spout a bunch of nonsense (and get modded +5 insightful by other trolls), JUST so I could post the following.
The most racist Party in the whole history of America:
1790s - the Founders abolished importation of slaves, abolished slavery in the north and northwest territories, and banned selling of slaves across state lines. They intended to abolish slavery in the south too but.....
1820s - the South, aka the Democrats, reversed a lot of the laws the Founders had put in place, and adopted a pro-slavery stance, thereby blocking any more progress toward complete abolition.
1860s - the Democrats seceded from the Union because a Republican won the presidency (and because they wanted protect slavery)
1880s - the Democrats invented the idea of Segregation
1950s/60s/70s - the Democrats opposed/ voted against Civil Rights Laws. To quote Senator Byrd: "Rather I should die a thousand times, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels."
.
That's 150 years of Democrats trying to keep black Americans down.
So where does this myth come from that the Democrats are the "good"
party and the Republicans are the evil party. Hmmmm.
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