It is not about the representative's power, it is about the voter's power. When your vote counts for only one 700,000th, as it does today, then the representative does not care about you. When your vote is, say, one 30,000th, then the representative cares very much about you. A district of only 30,000 means that anyone can run and win, even without any party support. It places all of the power in the voter's hands, and removes it from the special interests. A large body of representatives, who are loyal to the voters, are extremely difficult to corrupt.
This is not the proper solution to the problem you state. There should be separate content reviews and material/presentation reviews. Authors and publishers need to know that consumers do not like poorly formatted books. I rarely see complaints about "a comma;" I see complaints on the myriad format issues that come from taking the print pdf file and dropping it into Calibre or something similar with complete disregard for the final product. Random dashes, probably where line breaks occurred in the print version, excessive spacing, lack of table of contents, etc., can disrupt the user experience, and I would not like a complete banning of feedback for this.
I recently went through the trouble of creating an ebook and I have sympathy for those involved in the process, but the problems I encounter in most ebooks are related to laziness, not excessive device formats. In fact, although far from perfect, my ebook was better formatted than many ebooks I've purchased and I tested it on every version of Kindle, including the first one, and it worked just fine (worked well in Android, too).
And this is the objection I raise to the claims of DARPA, NASA, et al as being worthy of public funding because they develop various technologies. Every technology they develop does not turn into a useful product, and they are nearly always developed at maximum cost when compared to development costs in the private sector receiving no public funds at all.
No sensible investor would invest in this because the payoff is nowhere in site. Not even today after decades of development. It may be argued that this is why we need to fund such things, but what things are not being funded because of this? Perhaps a superior backhaul for wireless cell phone towers, or some other such technology that would greatly benefit the masses instead of those people receiving the development funds.
However, I don't think that e-readers will die completely. Those hardcore people who prefer reflected light for reading books will likely cling to their devices (I'm one of them).
Care to back that up? I only mention this because most people seem to be unaware of which states are net receivers and which states are net payers of Federal tax revenues. California and Texas, for example, are net payers, thus it could be argued that if they seceded they would see an increase of capital.
Are you running SMF 2.0 or later? Which option did you use to tie SMF and WP together into the same login? I'm by no one's imagination good with code and the best I've able to manage is to use BlogBridger, which just makes the logins the same IF someone registers through SMF, but the sessions are not tied together.
What I do is ask questions that can be answered from a link inside the question. For example, "Who makes V8 Juice?" Haven't had any spam come through yet, though I occasionally rotate the questions through. It should be noted my board is relatively small.
But where this model fails is in the standard assumption that volume never changes, and this is wrong. Pre-flood I bought a 2 TB external HDD for my DirecTV DVR for ~$90. My 1 TB external HDD that I use for backups has been at it's limit for a while; in fact, I've been having fun finding all the stuff that I really don't need to backup. A few weeks ago I found archives that were truly worthless and saved myself about 300 (uncompressed) MB. If the price of a 2 TB external HDD had fallen to it's previous level, I would have just bought one and not bothered. I suspect I'm not the only person doing these kinds of activities. Yes, I realize I am a minority of the market, but in sum, we're probably talking about a substantial total volume of HDDs not being purchased.
Yes, today it's on the desktop, because they haven't moved any place else. If you want to break down markets into tiny pieces, you're going to find 'monopolies' everywhere.
Microsoft does not have a monopoly. If a monopolistic position is obtained in a free market, it is always temporary simply because the market perceives the product to be vastly superior for the time, but after a period, this position is lost. Microsoft failed to make any real inroads into the server market. Microsoft has failed to gain any significant market share on mobile devices.
You're close. Standard Oil had a peak market share of over 80%. When it was broken up, it's market share was only 25%. This is because new entrants came into the market with very clever ways to save money and thus took their market share. There is no such thing as a monopoly, other than the ones that the government creates.
This argument against verifying vote is loved by vote manipulators everywhere. If someone is paying someone else to vote a certain way, do you think either party is overly concerned with 'the law'? Well, guess what? There's already a fairly old standard for sharing how one votes with another person. The only thing the fools who fight such integrity initiatives accomplish is to keep the masses from being able to audit their own vote.
Did they practice electronic warfare in WWII? An enemy that is very effective at knocking out radio communications may not be as effective at killing pigeons.
The worst part about the judges is that most of them are former prosecutors. Most cases I've paid any attention to where the cop is on trial, the cop will waive his right to a jury and we end up with the cop, the prosecutor, and the former prosecutor all deciding what to do. I've come to the conclusion that there is a communal right to a jury trial. For serious crimes where the accused wants to waive their right to a jury, there should be some publicly elected official that has to approve the request, my theory being that the politician will not want to create a powerful weapon against him- or herself in the next election. Thus, the police will be less likely to commit such heinous crimes.
4G is only the wireless portion of your connection, and in many cases the bottleneck is due to the tower not having enough backhaul capacity as opposed to a bandwidth crunch on the wireless portion.
DING! DING! DING! We have a WINNER! Let's hear it for A.C.!
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It is not about the representative's power, it is about the voter's power. When your vote counts for only one 700,000th, as it does today, then the representative does not care about you. When your vote is, say, one 30,000th, then the representative cares very much about you. A district of only 30,000 means that anyone can run and win, even without any party support. It places all of the power in the voter's hands, and removes it from the special interests. A large body of representatives, who are loyal to the voters, are extremely difficult to corrupt.
This is an issue only because Congress does not increase the number of Representatives, which is within its power.
If they had produced an LED that put out more light and more heat for the same energy, that would REALLY be something.
This is not the proper solution to the problem you state. There should be separate content reviews and material/presentation reviews. Authors and publishers need to know that consumers do not like poorly formatted books. I rarely see complaints about "a comma;" I see complaints on the myriad format issues that come from taking the print pdf file and dropping it into Calibre or something similar with complete disregard for the final product. Random dashes, probably where line breaks occurred in the print version, excessive spacing, lack of table of contents, etc., can disrupt the user experience, and I would not like a complete banning of feedback for this.
I recently went through the trouble of creating an ebook and I have sympathy for those involved in the process, but the problems I encounter in most ebooks are related to laziness, not excessive device formats. In fact, although far from perfect, my ebook was better formatted than many ebooks I've purchased and I tested it on every version of Kindle, including the first one, and it worked just fine (worked well in Android, too).
George Orwell was a literary critic by trade.
And this is the objection I raise to the claims of DARPA, NASA, et al as being worthy of public funding because they develop various technologies. Every technology they develop does not turn into a useful product, and they are nearly always developed at maximum cost when compared to development costs in the private sector receiving no public funds at all.
No sensible investor would invest in this because the payoff is nowhere in site. Not even today after decades of development. It may be argued that this is why we need to fund such things, but what things are not being funded because of this? Perhaps a superior backhaul for wireless cell phone towers, or some other such technology that would greatly benefit the masses instead of those people receiving the development funds.
However, I don't think that e-readers will die completely. Those hardcore people who prefer reflected light for reading books will likely cling to their devices (I'm one of them).
Copycat responses can really sting.
Removing caps on civil lawsuits will force firms to behave more responsibly.
How do I get a job there?
I am here to inform you that eBay and Intuit are the only employers in town.
Care to back that up? I only mention this because most people seem to be unaware of which states are net receivers and which states are net payers of Federal tax revenues. California and Texas, for example, are net payers, thus it could be argued that if they seceded they would see an increase of capital.
Are you running SMF 2.0 or later? Which option did you use to tie SMF and WP together into the same login? I'm by no one's imagination good with code and the best I've able to manage is to use BlogBridger, which just makes the logins the same IF someone registers through SMF, but the sessions are not tied together.
What I do is ask questions that can be answered from a link inside the question. For example, "Who makes V8 Juice?" Haven't had any spam come through yet, though I occasionally rotate the questions through. It should be noted my board is relatively small.
But where this model fails is in the standard assumption that volume never changes, and this is wrong. Pre-flood I bought a 2 TB external HDD for my DirecTV DVR for ~$90. My 1 TB external HDD that I use for backups has been at it's limit for a while; in fact, I've been having fun finding all the stuff that I really don't need to backup. A few weeks ago I found archives that were truly worthless and saved myself about 300 (uncompressed) MB. If the price of a 2 TB external HDD had fallen to it's previous level, I would have just bought one and not bothered. I suspect I'm not the only person doing these kinds of activities. Yes, I realize I am a minority of the market, but in sum, we're probably talking about a substantial total volume of HDDs not being purchased.
Yes, today it's on the desktop, because they haven't moved any place else. If you want to break down markets into tiny pieces, you're going to find 'monopolies' everywhere.
Microsoft does not have a monopoly. If a monopolistic position is obtained in a free market, it is always temporary simply because the market perceives the product to be vastly superior for the time, but after a period, this position is lost. Microsoft failed to make any real inroads into the server market. Microsoft has failed to gain any significant market share on mobile devices.
Bob Murphy does a good job in this video explaining how the market would work better than the price controls the AG is enforcing.
You're close. Standard Oil had a peak market share of over 80%. When it was broken up, it's market share was only 25%. This is because new entrants came into the market with very clever ways to save money and thus took their market share. There is no such thing as a monopoly, other than the ones that the government creates.
This argument against verifying vote is loved by vote manipulators everywhere. If someone is paying someone else to vote a certain way, do you think either party is overly concerned with 'the law'? Well, guess what? There's already a fairly old standard for sharing how one votes with another person. The only thing the fools who fight such integrity initiatives accomplish is to keep the masses from being able to audit their own vote.
Did they practice electronic warfare in WWII? An enemy that is very effective at knocking out radio communications may not be as effective at killing pigeons.
The worst part about the judges is that most of them are former prosecutors. Most cases I've paid any attention to where the cop is on trial, the cop will waive his right to a jury and we end up with the cop, the prosecutor, and the former prosecutor all deciding what to do. I've come to the conclusion that there is a communal right to a jury trial. For serious crimes where the accused wants to waive their right to a jury, there should be some publicly elected official that has to approve the request, my theory being that the politician will not want to create a powerful weapon against him- or herself in the next election. Thus, the police will be less likely to commit such heinous crimes.
4G is only the wireless portion of your connection, and in many cases the bottleneck is due to the tower not having enough backhaul capacity as opposed to a bandwidth crunch on the wireless portion.
DING! DING! DING! We have a WINNER! Let's hear it for A.C.!
Overall throughput? I'm skeptical. I have yet to consistently get 3G speeds out of even a 4G phone.
There is some real truth in that.