Are you an Indian software engineer by chance? Because then you don't have to fill out the census either.
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers... and excluding Indians not taxed"
You do know that Somalia has improved steadily since the disolution of the state, and at a faster rate than it's state ridden neighbors? Their private law system, the Xeer, has been somewhat disrupted by the US backed Etheopian invasion, but I'd still prefer it to any of it's neighbors. They have the best and cheapest cell phone service in all of Africa, and their living standards have improved by every measure, life expectancy, infant mortality, per capita income, you name it.
Monoprice, that awesome, dirt cheap site for (great quality) cables now sells ink and toner, and flatscreen tv mounts. Basically all the stuff the big box stores put obscene markups on.
Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and others all joined AT&T in bidding huge amounts for wireless spectrum in FCC auctions, some $70-plus billion since the mid-1990s. That all gets passed along to you and me in the form of higher fees and friendly oligopolies that don't much compete on price.
That is not how business works. If a certain behavior on their part can maximize revenues, they will implement it regardless of what the upfront costs were. If they had paid $10 for the spectrum, they would still charge high fees because that is what the market is willing to bear and that is what they feel with maximize their revenues and with that their profits. You can argue that the cost of spectrum raises the cost of entry into the market, but I don't see that as what the author is going for here.
Well, no. Look at other industries. When the costs of production go down then competition brings the costs to consumers down as well. The costs will only go down to the point where it would be unprofitable to go down much further. Lower costs of production also lower the barrier to entry for new competitors, while at the same time increasing the incentive for any one member of a cartel to break their cartel agreement or find some tricky way around it to attract new customers.
The primary concern here, as least for me, is what level can a drug sniffing dog indicate on. The DEA frequently "confiscates" money that has been involved in a crime without charging the owner. Since you haven't been charged, you have no opportunity to defend yourself against the theft. It's flat out armed robbery, often conducted on the highway.
Apart from not talking about it, I don't see anything wrong with most items on the list. The problem comes with the use of force against the unwilling. Murder and subprime fall into this category. You don't like murder, be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones. The subprime issue was caused by fed manipulation of interest rates. i.e. price controls on credit. Central economic planning doesn't work. If you were to open a bank that wasn't part of the federal reserve system, men with guns would show up and shut you down. Again, force against the unwilling. With enron you could make an argument that fraud was the culprit.
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I know everyone likes to make fun of rent-a-cops, mall cops, fake bacon, etc... but I have more respect for them than real cops. Private security is providing a service that's valuable to a property owner who's spending their own money instead of yours. If they assault someone, they can even be held accountable. I'll take private security over a pig any day.
Haha... The *US* impose sanctions against *China*? I think the other way around is more likely. We're going to have to start jumping to their tune, or they might impose sanctions against us. We're the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world and who do you think our banker is? They could destroy us in a second by simply deciding not buy any more of our government bonds. Say so long to the dollar. They have positioning themselves to take over as the economic center of the world for decades, and those plans are moving right along nicely.
Hopefully we can keep this from devolving into a flame war, but if you're interested do search for John Stossel's "Stupid in America". Private schools in the heart of Chicago catering to poor black students spend about a third per student compared to private schools and produce standardized test scores that compare favorably with white suburban schools. Being cheap and producing results, even poor families are willing to sacrifice that second tv and fast food meals to send their kids there. Charity will also go a lot further and be better funded with the knowledge that government isn't taking care of it. Gates by himself is already giving nearly enough to k-12 to provide free education at 1/3 current costs to every family below the poverty line, and that's just one guy.
And if you think the telecom industry is an example of the free market, I can understand your confusion. Telecom more closely resembles mercantilism than capitalism.
Get the government out of it. We need free market competition. Let failing schools fail. Let failing teachers get fired. Let failing students get expelled. Let schools compete to provide the best education for the lowest cost. Let voluntary charities choose who is most in need and able to benefit from education charity. Education is too important to let government continue to completely cluster f*** it. Won't somebody please think of the children?
I use my macbook pro heavily, so for me a 3 hour battery life vs 5 makes no difference. I have to plug it in either way, so I'd rather it be thin, sleek and easy to carry over to the nearest outlet. Now if it could go for, say, 10 hours, that would be worth sacrificing a bit of portability and style, so probably tripling the size (and cost) of the existing battery.
That idea is so 1912... Haven't you heard? We now have a federal reserve that can just lower interest rates by creating more money out of nothing whenever an popped economic bubble needs to be re-inflated... err.. I mean... whenever there's a downturn caused by not enough money.
This is not intended as a troll... really... but it's good to keep in mind that this is the FreeBSD team's definition of "experimental". You may be more accustomed to the meaning that the Linux community attaches to that term. When Linux says it's experimental, that generally means it won't work for most people. When FreeBSD says it's experimental, that means you can probably use it in production but you might want to keep an eye on it.
I'm not sure they're shooting anything. Ripping a CD *is* unauthorized by the copyright holder. Fortunately, copyright law does not require authorization for such things.
Ron Paul is not 100% against legal abortions. He's carried them out himself! He just believes that the fetus is a person and has only killed them when they would have died anyway and likely killed the mother as well. He mentioned in an interview that he's personally done procedures to end a tubal pregnancy. In any case as president and staunch constitutionalist, he would support letting states make laws governing abortion. He couldn't even legislate that though, he could only support it.
Don't be so cynical. I agree what you describe has been the way things have gone in the past, but this 2007, not 2004. RP keeps surprising the main stream media because they don't yet understand that they no longer hold all the keys and control all the gates to news, information and public opinion. Primaries are self selecting. Only 20% of registered voters bother and the ones who do are the ones who actually care about politics. The people who care about politics are exactly the people most likely to do research and find out there's actually a choice this time, that the status quo isn't the only option. RP is very much like a version of Buchanan policy wise with the added bonus that he actually understands economics. Buchanan was polling at 5% when he won the NH primary in '96. RP is at 7.4% with a month or two to go. Once he wins NH in a land slide the rest of the country will realize that he actually *is* electable. He's really got a shot at this.
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Are you an Indian software engineer by chance? Because then you don't have to fill out the census either.
"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers... and excluding Indians not taxed"
You do know that Somalia has improved steadily since the disolution of the state, and at a faster rate than it's state ridden neighbors? Their private law system, the Xeer, has been somewhat disrupted by the US backed Etheopian invasion, but I'd still prefer it to any of it's neighbors. They have the best and cheapest cell phone service in all of Africa, and their living standards have improved by every measure, life expectancy, infant mortality, per capita income, you name it.
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Quan Ha is absolutely right. The irony of being force to pay for your own oppression is positively Kafkaesque.
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Increased brain size means more intelligence? That's just as silly as that other correlation we always hear about.
Bah.. That's just something people with small brains say.
Monoprice, that awesome, dirt cheap site for (great quality) cables now sells ink and toner, and flatscreen tv mounts. Basically all the stuff the big box stores put obscene markups on.
and not all greens walk to work :)
Riding a bike is more efficient than walking. Fewer calories per mile. Those calories have to come from somewhere. :)
Air fair from san francisco to san diego is $29 each way. That travels at 300+ mph.
Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and others all joined AT&T in bidding huge amounts for wireless spectrum in FCC auctions, some $70-plus billion since the mid-1990s. That all gets passed along to you and me in the form of higher fees and friendly oligopolies that don't much compete on price.
That is not how business works. If a certain behavior on their part can maximize revenues, they will implement it regardless of what the upfront costs were. If they had paid $10 for the spectrum, they would still charge high fees because that is what the market is willing to bear and that is what they feel with maximize their revenues and with that their profits. You can argue that the cost of spectrum raises the cost of entry into the market, but I don't see that as what the author is going for here.
Well, no. Look at other industries. When the costs of production go down then competition brings the costs to consumers down as well. The costs will only go down to the point where it would be unprofitable to go down much further. Lower costs of production also lower the barrier to entry for new competitors, while at the same time increasing the incentive for any one member of a cartel to break their cartel agreement or find some tricky way around it to attract new customers.
The primary concern here, as least for me, is what level can a drug sniffing dog indicate on. The DEA frequently "confiscates" money that has been involved in a crime without charging the owner. Since you haven't been charged, you have no opportunity to defend yourself against the theft. It's flat out armed robbery, often conducted on the highway.
Apart from not talking about it, I don't see anything wrong with most items on the list. The problem comes with the use of force against the unwilling. Murder and subprime fall into this category. You don't like murder, be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones. The subprime issue was caused by fed manipulation of interest rates. i.e. price controls on credit. Central economic planning doesn't work. If you were to open a bank that wasn't part of the federal reserve system, men with guns would show up and shut you down. Again, force against the unwilling. With enron you could make an argument that fraud was the culprit.
Damn... 13 years of development down the drain.
I know everyone likes to make fun of rent-a-cops, mall cops, fake bacon, etc... but I have more respect for them than real cops. Private security is providing a service that's valuable to a property owner who's spending their own money instead of yours. If they assault someone, they can even be held accountable. I'll take private security over a pig any day.
Haha... The *US* impose sanctions against *China*? I think the other way around is more likely. We're going to have to start jumping to their tune, or they might impose sanctions against us. We're the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world and who do you think our banker is? They could destroy us in a second by simply deciding not buy any more of our government bonds. Say so long to the dollar. They have positioning themselves to take over as the economic center of the world for decades, and those plans are moving right along nicely.
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Hopefully we can keep this from devolving into a flame war, but if you're interested do search for John Stossel's "Stupid in America". Private schools in the heart of Chicago catering to poor black students spend about a third per student compared to private schools and produce standardized test scores that compare favorably with white suburban schools. Being cheap and producing results, even poor families are willing to sacrifice that second tv and fast food meals to send their kids there. Charity will also go a lot further and be better funded with the knowledge that government isn't taking care of it. Gates by himself is already giving nearly enough to k-12 to provide free education at 1/3 current costs to every family below the poverty line, and that's just one guy.
And if you think the telecom industry is an example of the free market, I can understand your confusion. Telecom more closely resembles mercantilism than capitalism.
Get the government out of it. We need free market competition. Let failing schools fail. Let failing teachers get fired. Let failing students get expelled. Let schools compete to provide the best education for the lowest cost. Let voluntary charities choose who is most in need and able to benefit from education charity. Education is too important to let government continue to completely cluster f*** it. Won't somebody please think of the children?
I use my macbook pro heavily, so for me a 3 hour battery life vs 5 makes no difference. I have to plug it in either way, so I'd rather it be thin, sleek and easy to carry over to the nearest outlet. Now if it could go for, say, 10 hours, that would be worth sacrificing a bit of portability and style, so probably tripling the size (and cost) of the existing battery.
That idea is so 1912... Haven't you heard? We now have a federal reserve that can just lower interest rates by creating more money out of nothing whenever an popped economic bubble needs to be re-inflated... err.. I mean... whenever there's a downturn caused by not enough money.
This is not intended as a troll... really... but it's good to keep in mind that this is the FreeBSD team's definition of "experimental". You may be more accustomed to the meaning that the Linux community attaches to that term. When Linux says it's experimental, that generally means it won't work for most people. When FreeBSD says it's experimental, that means you can probably use it in production but you might want to keep an eye on it.
I'm not sure they're shooting anything. Ripping a CD *is* unauthorized by the copyright holder. Fortunately, copyright law does not require authorization for such things.
Ron Paul is not 100% against legal abortions. He's carried them out himself! He just believes that the fetus is a person and has only killed them when they would have died anyway and likely killed the mother as well. He mentioned in an interview that he's personally done procedures to end a tubal pregnancy. In any case as president and staunch constitutionalist, he would support letting states make laws governing abortion. He couldn't even legislate that though, he could only support it.
Don't be so cynical. I agree what you describe has been the way things have gone in the past, but this 2007, not 2004. RP keeps surprising the main stream media because they don't yet understand that they no longer hold all the keys and control all the gates to news, information and public opinion. Primaries are self selecting. Only 20% of registered voters bother and the ones who do are the ones who actually care about politics. The people who care about politics are exactly the people most likely to do research and find out there's actually a choice this time, that the status quo isn't the only option. RP is very much like a version of Buchanan policy wise with the added bonus that he actually understands economics. Buchanan was polling at 5% when he won the NH primary in '96. RP is at 7.4% with a month or two to go. Once he wins NH in a land slide the rest of the country will realize that he actually *is* electable. He's really got a shot at this.