When I want a burger, and I'm willing to pay $10 for it, I'm not going to go out and see a burger that's included if you buy 10 pounds of anchovies for $50 and act like that's what I want.
Thanks for HELPING ME easily PROVE you're ALL "hotair blowhard bs"
You don't understand what proof means. Lack of proof is not proof of a lack. There's really no reason to try to teach logical fallacies to you though, you wouldn't understand. My consistent response to your demands for proof, and your continued demands, show that you are incapable of understanding basic logic.
Keep being so "classy" tossing those names
OK. APK, you're a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. And, I want you to know something else. I really mean that. From the heart, big guy.
It's amazing, truly. You're like a low-functioning Down syndrome puppy. All of the emotional maturity and attention span of a puppy, combined with the logic and reasoning skills of a low-functioning Down patient. It's almost adorable that you're still asking about stuff like that, as if all of my responses to that request have either never happened or just gone right over your head. It would be adorable if it wasn't so pathetic, anyway. I'm sure in your fantasy world I've just avoided that request instead of constantly giving the same answer, or you've some how "caught" me, or "won" something. Even though it's pathetic to see the insanity-level repetition that goes on in your head, I admit that it is amusing from time to time.
I knew that if I brought up something like projection you would immediately accuse me of it. It's the Donald Trump school of debate. Your Pavlovian response has become far too easy to anticipate.
It's always a pleasure to make you EAT YOUR WORDS
How would you know, fantasy boy, I've literally never felt like I've ever lost any argument to you? It's just your fantasy world man. I'm glad that you've managed to at least obtain some measure of respect, even if it's a complete lie and fabrication you tell yourself. Just imagine how good life would be if you didn't have to pretend that people liked and respected you.
This is exactly why I watch less football. I can't find an option that will let me stream whatever live games I want. There are all kinds of packages I *could* buy, but they don't want to sell me what I actually want. If you go to the NFL's site you can see hey, watch all 256 games! But they're not live. OK fine, here's some live games but the one you want to watch isn't available because it's "out of market", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean to me. Or here, every game live, for only 4 times as much as you want to pay and part of an entire cable TV package. I don't know why they don't understand that the old model of licensing specific games to specific networks is now costing them money if they are giving out exclusive deals so the games can only be shown in that one place. So, in my house, if Kodi is up for the job then we find a stream, and it not then I don't watch or just listen to the radio. Once they figure out that it might be a good idea to sell me what I want to buy then I'm happy to spend the money. Otherwise if I really, really need to watch that game I'll just go out to somewhere showing it. Either way, the NFL is leaving my money on the table.
I have no idea what that non-sequitor about Marino is supposed to imply. You are not exactly the Dan Marino of programmers. Or of anything, with the possible exception of lying. APK, you are the Dan Marino of lying.
Per your 'FoAmInG-@-tHe-MoUtH" reply
This is what I mean when I talk about the fantasy world you live in. I don't think you have ever once correctly attributed any sort of emotion to me, everything you say about me is 100% made up in your head. In other words, pure fantasy. It's probably projection that you think I'm in any way angry or upset when I write things like that.
For me they are, concrete verifiable undeniable REALITY
What, a few people saying your program doesn't suck? OK, quick reality check. Your program makes HTTP requests, sorts and filters text, and writes to a file. This is not exactly rocket surgery. But, for some reason it's what you're so proud of, it's literally your life's work. It is at best a year 2 or 3 computer science project, and I mean that literally. "Make a program to download data, sort and filter it, and write it to a file". In my second year we had a project to do a GUI to visualize the entire OSI stack. It's not like you're doing anything groundbreaking. That's something you assign a beginning programmer to teach them about HTTP requests or file I/O. This is like the programmer of Notepad talking all this shit about how his program doesn't have any major bugs. And this program that you're so proud of? 10 major versions.
You wish you were me.
I'm happy, with my own house and car, plenty of friends, six figure job, retirement and investment accounts, beautiful wife, fulfilling job leading a team as CTO designing and implementing a program used by hundreds of thousands to millions of people. No, I do not want to trade that to be a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. If I did, I could, it's not hard to be you. I just have to develop an awful personality, regress emotionally back to middle school age, lie my ass off, and produce a basic program over 10 versions. I could have all that, there's just no reason to take such a far step backwards in life.
have "StRaNgE" delusions
Literally everything I've said about myself is true, I don't have any reason to lie to you, my life is already fulfilling, there's no reason to make anything up. I know that's foreign to you, which is why you've accused me of living in a fantasy. You know what the irony is about that? Haha, what am I saying, you're completely clueless. I'll tell you. The idea that I live in a fantasy is itself a fantasy created by you. Irony!
You're an idiot. Having class has nothing to do with calling you a cunt, class is either something you have or you don't. You do not have it, as you make clear at every available opportunity. You have never had it, and you never will. Me calling you a cunt has nothing to do with that. I'm only calling you a cunt because you're a cunt.
And honesty has fuck-all to do with a login name, you emotionally-stunted logic-challenged moron. You have never once won an argument with me, and you never will, because you take lying to the extreme. You have no idea what it even means to be truthful, you make up your own fantasy and then act like it's reality. Look at your post, "eating my words", no man that's your fantasy. You just like to act like your delusions are truth. That's why you post acting like people other than yourself for no apparent reason but then insist those are actually other people. I've even seen you thank yourself. It's pathetic fantasy. You build a fantasy world and then you act like it's real. You make claims about other people without knowing the first thing about them and whether or not those claims could possibly be true, but you don't give a shit because you have no fucking clue what it means to be honest or have integrity so you make up whatever shit you want to make up and then try to convince other people and yourself that these things are true. In other words, you lie to everyone, and you even know you do it. You know you're a lying sack of shit but you have so little self-worth that even though you know you're lying you still do it anyway. That's why no one can ever believe anything you say or claim, because you will obviously lie about any and everything if it makes you feel better about your own sad little life. It must feel like shit to know that after you die you're going to leave no legacy and the only people who will be at your funeral are those with some sort of familial obligation instead of people who genuinely cared about you and want to mourn, but man you need to find a more constructive way to deal with that than going online and spouting off lie after lie after lie. Maybe if you didn't lie all the fucking time you'd be able to hold together a decent relationship. Maybe another human being would be able to stand you. It's a stretch, but it's possible. Unfortunately though I think you are completely without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. If you have ever demonstrated even a single redeeming quality it hasn't been apparent.
And look at that, I'm already way over my weekly quota of time spent dealing with a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. Looks like you'll have to fuck off again, you stupid, stupid person. My own fantasy of one day causing you to actually examine your own behavior and realize why everyone hates you continues to elude me, as you more and more appear to be completely incapable of anything approaching logical rational thought. In conclusion, go fuck yourself, because you're the only person who ever would.
That's really flattering that you're thinking about me for hours, but really, fuck off. You're a lying racist no-class no-talent cunt. You have nothing to offer me except wasted time.
APK, you are a lying, ignorant, willfully dishonest, no-class, spamming, racist, moronic cunt with nothing to offer anyone. Again, I have zero time for someone as worthless as you. Stop wasting your own obviously worthless time by trying to stalk me around the site you dumb sack of shit.
And, while interesting, it's also basically unprovable. We can't prove that the bacteria didn't come from Earth, at best we can prove that we've never seen that bacteria on Earth. We also can't prove it did come from Earth, at best we can prove that it exists on Earth.
If Cogent's network doesn't have the bandwidth then Netflix needs another ISP, end of story. But we both know there's a difference between a network having the bandwidth and the carrier wanting to extract as much money from as many people as possible even though their network is not at capacity.
I fail to see why you think Comcast should give Netflix (or Cogent) bandwidth for free.
APK, you are a loser lying racist spamming shitbag and I have no time for you or your racist lying bullshit. Find someone who doesn't know who you are to spread your lies and bullshit.
If Comcast's network doesn't have the bandwidth to handle Netflix then that sucks for Comcast's customers, but that's not really Netflix's problem. Comcast just needs to tell their customers that they won't be able to use Netflix, or Netflix can show a warning to Comcast IPs that their ISP sucks, and then their customers can go to another ISP if they want to watch Netflix. If Comcast does have the bandwidth, but they just don't want to give it away for free without extorting Netflix even though their own customers are already paying for it, then that's just Comcast being dicks. This may come as a shock to you, but Comcast is actually known for being dicks. They treat their own customers with contempt, there's no reason to think they wouldn't try to extort money from anyone they can.
OK, APK. Your program has 1 moving part and you're on version 10 now. Congratulations. I see you bumped up to a new major version and dropped all the service release hand waving after I criticized your ridiculous naming scheme. You still can't quit that "++" nonsense though, got to keep that character count up somehow.
If you think that "business class" is some sort of value-add, I think I know why you're getting ripped off. Internet service should always be reliable regardless of where it's going.
Also, Phoenix.
It's not exactly 200, it would have been more correct to say an order of magnitude. It's less than 400 though.
When they said why should Netflix pay anything, that would be why should they pay anything other than their own connectivity. Obviously they pay a tremendous amount of money right now for infrastructure, if you're assuming that someone is arguing that Netflix should stop paying for their multiple data centers and multiple backbone connections then I think you're missing the point.
The idea that an ISP should have unlimited bandwidth into another ISP's network effectively makes that first ISP a reseller of the second.
OK. That also has nothing to do with Netflix though. Netflix isn't an ISP. What you're talking about is between the different ISPs. They've decided that charging each other is a zero sum game and they can make a lot more money if they start double-dipping by charging the content companies in addition to us.
You realise your conduct on slashdot makes your product look like it was developed by someone unhinged, right?
You realize that he literally is completely unhinged, right? It's not that his product looks like it was developed by someone unhinged, it actually was. Have you ever seen a single developer put "++" in their version number? He likes to make his stuff look more impressive than it actually is (this is a text sorting program that makes HTTP requests and writes to a file).
Just wait, he'll be along in no time to post a completely unhinged reply to this. AI is going to become self-aware long before APK ever does.
I find it amazing that you think Netflix should get free internet.
You might be reading a reply that I didn't see, because I didn't see anyone claim that Netflix should get free internet. You better believe that the Netflix data centers are hooked up to multiple backbones and that Netflix is paying quite a bit for all of that infrastructure. They're already paying for bandwidth, so why should they be made to pay twice? They're already paying to send their data out, you also want them to pay to get their data the rest of the way to individual customers, where they have to pay any ISP that their customer is using? Isn't it enough that they pay their own providers? Why do they have to pay your provider also? Isn't that your responsibility? I find it amazing that you think you should get free internet.
It's in the exact same section where the founding fathers directed the FCC to classify telephone service as a common carrier because they determined that it was a fundamental necessity to modern life and that the government would be failing the people if they didn't make protections to ensure that everyone has the necessities. It's in that section.
If you can't find that section, it's right by the section that dictates that cable companies and ISPs should operate in a de-facto monopoly where there is no real competition for your "market to decide", which is made stronger by their lobbying dollars helping to ensure that the laws stay on their side.
So yeah, it's in the same part of the Constitution that makes all of that possible.
Anyway, what exactly is your recourse when the market decides that it wants to fuck you over as much as it legally can while attempting to keep new players out of the same market? What if the market decides that you're nothing but a bank account, and once that balance is 0 you're not worth anything to them any more? What if the market in your local town decides that the luxury of having water delivered to your house through a pipe is worth at least $100 per gallon? What if your local electricity market decides that your prices are going to quadruple, and they're also going to shut off service completely if you hit your daily or weekly or monthly cap unless you upgrade your electricity plan? What are you going to do when every other market sees how profitable yours is and copies the same tactics, while spending plenty of that new money to buy off the legislators to make sure this situation never changes? I mean, the market decided, right? The all-powerful market with its eternal wisdom has laid down the law, and you are just honor-bound to follow that as the red-blooded patriot you are.
He's not going to space, he's traveling nearly horizontally. His max altitude is supposed to be something like 1800 feet. It's just a stunt though, he probably wants his own TV series.
I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.
I'm a walking reality show.
Anyway, luckily for him, science doesn't require that he "believes" in it. When he's doing his calculations to figure out how big his parachutes need to be to put him safely on the ground, he can just plug in 9.8 meters per second squared into his formula. He doesn't need to understand why we know that value, he can just use it. It doesn't require him to believe in anything.
Following his jump, he said he’s going to announce his plans to leap into the race for governor of California.
Fantastic, that's exactly what this country needs more of. Science-denying reality TV stars are really so well cut out for governance.
I don't even think that's actionable though, I don't think the person is necessarily making a claim that they were screamed at and threatened with a lawsuit. They're just saying that other people should prepare for it.
That last "claim" isn't a claim. They're saying that if you do X, prepare for Y. They aren't saying that if you do X then Y is going to happen. That doesn't sound actionable. The other claim that you left out though is that the return more than doubled, that is also a factual statement which can be verified.
If the bill was "way more" than the quote, depending on how the judge wants to see that, if another firm redid the return, and if the return more than doubled, then the accountant should lose the case.
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When I want a burger, and I'm willing to pay $10 for it, I'm not going to go out and see a burger that's included if you buy 10 pounds of anchovies for $50 and act like that's what I want.
Thanks for HELPING ME easily PROVE you're ALL "hotair blowhard bs"
You don't understand what proof means. Lack of proof is not proof of a lack. There's really no reason to try to teach logical fallacies to you though, you wouldn't understand. My consistent response to your demands for proof, and your continued demands, show that you are incapable of understanding basic logic.
Keep being so "classy" tossing those names
OK. APK, you're a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. And, I want you to know something else. I really mean that. From the heart, big guy.
Enjoy your fantasy day, I have shit to do.
PROVE everything you say about yourself
It's amazing, truly. You're like a low-functioning Down syndrome puppy. All of the emotional maturity and attention span of a puppy, combined with the logic and reasoning skills of a low-functioning Down patient. It's almost adorable that you're still asking about stuff like that, as if all of my responses to that request have either never happened or just gone right over your head. It would be adorable if it wasn't so pathetic, anyway. I'm sure in your fantasy world I've just avoided that request instead of constantly giving the same answer, or you've some how "caught" me, or "won" something. Even though it's pathetic to see the insanity-level repetition that goes on in your head, I admit that it is amusing from time to time.
Anyway, thanks for the laugh.
in you projecting all of YOUR FAULTS onto me
I knew that if I brought up something like projection you would immediately accuse me of it. It's the Donald Trump school of debate. Your Pavlovian response has become far too easy to anticipate.
It's always a pleasure to make you EAT YOUR WORDS
How would you know, fantasy boy, I've literally never felt like I've ever lost any argument to you? It's just your fantasy world man. I'm glad that you've managed to at least obtain some measure of respect, even if it's a complete lie and fabrication you tell yourself. Just imagine how good life would be if you didn't have to pretend that people liked and respected you.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to watch the way I want, because they say so? OK, fine, if you've read this far you owe me money. Because I say so.
This is exactly why I watch less football. I can't find an option that will let me stream whatever live games I want. There are all kinds of packages I *could* buy, but they don't want to sell me what I actually want. If you go to the NFL's site you can see hey, watch all 256 games! But they're not live. OK fine, here's some live games but the one you want to watch isn't available because it's "out of market", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean to me. Or here, every game live, for only 4 times as much as you want to pay and part of an entire cable TV package. I don't know why they don't understand that the old model of licensing specific games to specific networks is now costing them money if they are giving out exclusive deals so the games can only be shown in that one place. So, in my house, if Kodi is up for the job then we find a stream, and it not then I don't watch or just listen to the radio. Once they figure out that it might be a good idea to sell me what I want to buy then I'm happy to spend the money. Otherwise if I really, really need to watch that game I'll just go out to somewhere showing it. Either way, the NFL is leaving my money on the table.
I have no idea what that non-sequitor about Marino is supposed to imply. You are not exactly the Dan Marino of programmers. Or of anything, with the possible exception of lying. APK, you are the Dan Marino of lying.
Per your 'FoAmInG-@-tHe-MoUtH" reply
This is what I mean when I talk about the fantasy world you live in. I don't think you have ever once correctly attributed any sort of emotion to me, everything you say about me is 100% made up in your head. In other words, pure fantasy. It's probably projection that you think I'm in any way angry or upset when I write things like that.
For me they are, concrete verifiable undeniable REALITY
What, a few people saying your program doesn't suck? OK, quick reality check. Your program makes HTTP requests, sorts and filters text, and writes to a file. This is not exactly rocket surgery. But, for some reason it's what you're so proud of, it's literally your life's work. It is at best a year 2 or 3 computer science project, and I mean that literally. "Make a program to download data, sort and filter it, and write it to a file". In my second year we had a project to do a GUI to visualize the entire OSI stack. It's not like you're doing anything groundbreaking. That's something you assign a beginning programmer to teach them about HTTP requests or file I/O. This is like the programmer of Notepad talking all this shit about how his program doesn't have any major bugs. And this program that you're so proud of? 10 major versions.
You wish you were me.
I'm happy, with my own house and car, plenty of friends, six figure job, retirement and investment accounts, beautiful wife, fulfilling job leading a team as CTO designing and implementing a program used by hundreds of thousands to millions of people. No, I do not want to trade that to be a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. If I did, I could, it's not hard to be you. I just have to develop an awful personality, regress emotionally back to middle school age, lie my ass off, and produce a basic program over 10 versions. I could have all that, there's just no reason to take such a far step backwards in life.
have "StRaNgE" delusions
Literally everything I've said about myself is true, I don't have any reason to lie to you, my life is already fulfilling, there's no reason to make anything up. I know that's foreign to you, which is why you've accused me of living in a fantasy. You know what the irony is about that? Haha, what am I saying, you're completely clueless. I'll tell you. The idea that I live in a fantasy is itself a fantasy created by you. Irony!
You're an idiot. Having class has nothing to do with calling you a cunt, class is either something you have or you don't. You do not have it, as you make clear at every available opportunity. You have never had it, and you never will. Me calling you a cunt has nothing to do with that. I'm only calling you a cunt because you're a cunt.
And honesty has fuck-all to do with a login name, you emotionally-stunted logic-challenged moron. You have never once won an argument with me, and you never will, because you take lying to the extreme. You have no idea what it even means to be truthful, you make up your own fantasy and then act like it's reality. Look at your post, "eating my words", no man that's your fantasy. You just like to act like your delusions are truth. That's why you post acting like people other than yourself for no apparent reason but then insist those are actually other people. I've even seen you thank yourself. It's pathetic fantasy. You build a fantasy world and then you act like it's real. You make claims about other people without knowing the first thing about them and whether or not those claims could possibly be true, but you don't give a shit because you have no fucking clue what it means to be honest or have integrity so you make up whatever shit you want to make up and then try to convince other people and yourself that these things are true. In other words, you lie to everyone, and you even know you do it. You know you're a lying sack of shit but you have so little self-worth that even though you know you're lying you still do it anyway. That's why no one can ever believe anything you say or claim, because you will obviously lie about any and everything if it makes you feel better about your own sad little life. It must feel like shit to know that after you die you're going to leave no legacy and the only people who will be at your funeral are those with some sort of familial obligation instead of people who genuinely cared about you and want to mourn, but man you need to find a more constructive way to deal with that than going online and spouting off lie after lie after lie. Maybe if you didn't lie all the fucking time you'd be able to hold together a decent relationship. Maybe another human being would be able to stand you. It's a stretch, but it's possible. Unfortunately though I think you are completely without any redeeming qualities whatsoever. If you have ever demonstrated even a single redeeming quality it hasn't been apparent.
And look at that, I'm already way over my weekly quota of time spent dealing with a pathetic emotionally-retarded socially-inept no-class willfully-ignorant integrity-lacking lying spamming racist cunt. Looks like you'll have to fuck off again, you stupid, stupid person. My own fantasy of one day causing you to actually examine your own behavior and realize why everyone hates you continues to elude me, as you more and more appear to be completely incapable of anything approaching logical rational thought. In conclusion, go fuck yourself, because you're the only person who ever would.
That's really flattering that you're thinking about me for hours, but really, fuck off. You're a lying racist no-class no-talent cunt. You have nothing to offer me except wasted time.
APK, you are a lying, ignorant, willfully dishonest, no-class, spamming, racist, moronic cunt with nothing to offer anyone. Again, I have zero time for someone as worthless as you. Stop wasting your own obviously worthless time by trying to stalk me around the site you dumb sack of shit.
And, while interesting, it's also basically unprovable. We can't prove that the bacteria didn't come from Earth, at best we can prove that we've never seen that bacteria on Earth. We also can't prove it did come from Earth, at best we can prove that it exists on Earth.
Fuck off you no-class low-standards constantly-lying multiple-personality delusional racist shitbag. You're not worth the time it took to type this.
If Cogent's network doesn't have the bandwidth then Netflix needs another ISP, end of story. But we both know there's a difference between a network having the bandwidth and the carrier wanting to extract as much money from as many people as possible even though their network is not at capacity.
I fail to see why you think Comcast should give Netflix (or Cogent) bandwidth for free.
I fail to see why you think that's my position.
APK, you are a loser lying racist spamming shitbag and I have no time for you or your racist lying bullshit. Find someone who doesn't know who you are to spread your lies and bullshit.
If Comcast's network doesn't have the bandwidth to handle Netflix then that sucks for Comcast's customers, but that's not really Netflix's problem. Comcast just needs to tell their customers that they won't be able to use Netflix, or Netflix can show a warning to Comcast IPs that their ISP sucks, and then their customers can go to another ISP if they want to watch Netflix. If Comcast does have the bandwidth, but they just don't want to give it away for free without extorting Netflix even though their own customers are already paying for it, then that's just Comcast being dicks. This may come as a shock to you, but Comcast is actually known for being dicks. They treat their own customers with contempt, there's no reason to think they wouldn't try to extort money from anyone they can.
OK, APK. Your program has 1 moving part and you're on version 10 now. Congratulations. I see you bumped up to a new major version and dropped all the service release hand waving after I criticized your ridiculous naming scheme. You still can't quit that "++" nonsense though, got to keep that character count up somehow.
If you think that "business class" is some sort of value-add, I think I know why you're getting ripped off. Internet service should always be reliable regardless of where it's going.
Also, Phoenix.
It's not exactly 200, it would have been more correct to say an order of magnitude. It's less than 400 though.
When they said why should Netflix pay anything, that would be why should they pay anything other than their own connectivity. Obviously they pay a tremendous amount of money right now for infrastructure, if you're assuming that someone is arguing that Netflix should stop paying for their multiple data centers and multiple backbone connections then I think you're missing the point.
The idea that an ISP should have unlimited bandwidth into another ISP's network effectively makes that first ISP a reseller of the second.
OK. That also has nothing to do with Netflix though. Netflix isn't an ISP. What you're talking about is between the different ISPs. They've decided that charging each other is a zero sum game and they can make a lot more money if they start double-dipping by charging the content companies in addition to us.
You realise your conduct on slashdot makes your product look like it was developed by someone unhinged, right?
You realize that he literally is completely unhinged, right? It's not that his product looks like it was developed by someone unhinged, it actually was. Have you ever seen a single developer put "++" in their version number? He likes to make his stuff look more impressive than it actually is (this is a text sorting program that makes HTTP requests and writes to a file).
Just wait, he'll be along in no time to post a completely unhinged reply to this. AI is going to become self-aware long before APK ever does.
You're getting ripped off big time. Like, by a factor of 10.
I find it amazing that you think Netflix should get free internet.
You might be reading a reply that I didn't see, because I didn't see anyone claim that Netflix should get free internet. You better believe that the Netflix data centers are hooked up to multiple backbones and that Netflix is paying quite a bit for all of that infrastructure. They're already paying for bandwidth, so why should they be made to pay twice? They're already paying to send their data out, you also want them to pay to get their data the rest of the way to individual customers, where they have to pay any ISP that their customer is using? Isn't it enough that they pay their own providers? Why do they have to pay your provider also? Isn't that your responsibility? I find it amazing that you think you should get free internet.
It's in the exact same section where the founding fathers directed the FCC to classify telephone service as a common carrier because they determined that it was a fundamental necessity to modern life and that the government would be failing the people if they didn't make protections to ensure that everyone has the necessities. It's in that section.
If you can't find that section, it's right by the section that dictates that cable companies and ISPs should operate in a de-facto monopoly where there is no real competition for your "market to decide", which is made stronger by their lobbying dollars helping to ensure that the laws stay on their side.
So yeah, it's in the same part of the Constitution that makes all of that possible.
Anyway, what exactly is your recourse when the market decides that it wants to fuck you over as much as it legally can while attempting to keep new players out of the same market? What if the market decides that you're nothing but a bank account, and once that balance is 0 you're not worth anything to them any more? What if the market in your local town decides that the luxury of having water delivered to your house through a pipe is worth at least $100 per gallon? What if your local electricity market decides that your prices are going to quadruple, and they're also going to shut off service completely if you hit your daily or weekly or monthly cap unless you upgrade your electricity plan? What are you going to do when every other market sees how profitable yours is and copies the same tactics, while spending plenty of that new money to buy off the legislators to make sure this situation never changes? I mean, the market decided, right? The all-powerful market with its eternal wisdom has laid down the law, and you are just honor-bound to follow that as the red-blooded patriot you are.
He's not going to space, he's traveling nearly horizontally. His max altitude is supposed to be something like 1800 feet. It's just a stunt though, he probably wants his own TV series.
I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.
I'm a walking reality show.
Anyway, luckily for him, science doesn't require that he "believes" in it. When he's doing his calculations to figure out how big his parachutes need to be to put him safely on the ground, he can just plug in 9.8 meters per second squared into his formula. He doesn't need to understand why we know that value, he can just use it. It doesn't require him to believe in anything.
Following his jump, he said he’s going to announce his plans to leap into the race for governor of California.
Fantastic, that's exactly what this country needs more of. Science-denying reality TV stars are really so well cut out for governance.
I don't even think that's actionable though, I don't think the person is necessarily making a claim that they were screamed at and threatened with a lawsuit. They're just saying that other people should prepare for it.
That last "claim" isn't a claim. They're saying that if you do X, prepare for Y. They aren't saying that if you do X then Y is going to happen. That doesn't sound actionable. The other claim that you left out though is that the return more than doubled, that is also a factual statement which can be verified.
If the bill was "way more" than the quote, depending on how the judge wants to see that, if another firm redid the return, and if the return more than doubled, then the accountant should lose the case.