It's hard to think of a more clear cut example of supposed business rivals getting together to agree and enforce a common price.
Price fixing is a time honored practice in many industries. oil, steel, railroads, airlines and communications, all run by pirates who do challenge each other for top position, like in any other herd or flock of animals, but will never work against the whole..
A masturbatory endeavor for sure. He should've automated the entire thing and watch it upgrade itself on every reboot, and on the last one jump back to CP/M
It's not just the quakes, they will subside when the work stops. The much bigger issue is the contamination. It spreads far and wide. And I don't care about the "industry". Somebody else will quickly fill the void left by those who shut down. Like you said, we still need the resource. The next guy that takes over production will be a bit more circumspect and respectful, or he too, will be put out.
Or you can make it relatively safe and pass some things on to the population at large who pay for it by enjoying cheaper utilities.
Authoritarian socialist doctrine. Easy to say from a thousand miles distance. "The needs of the many..." "The greater good.." Despicable rationalizations that are responsible for so much human suffering. You're assuming "zero sum"... That no longer applies in today's world. All of our resource problems, the pollution, the "shortages", all of it can be traced back to bad/corrupt management, bureaucratic turf wars, etc. (Perfect example? India. They bury themselves in paperwork which all ends up in the trash with a simple bribe, making half the country look like a land fill) Nature no longer presents a serious challenge. We can all live like kings without having to wreck the place.
The military is generally comprised of morally upstanding citizens who want to serve their country.
And if we have to pry it open to make sure it stays that way, then so be it. All positions of authority must be laid open to the public. I don't want to hear about the "freedoms you provide" and that we shouldn't question how you do it. The military may be full of honest people, but the organization exists to protect the country's economic interests at the expense of all else. Hardly a noble cause
Yeah, I understand the guy in the field should be the guy in charge, but it's still just a numbers game. If you kill 100 people or a million, I'm still going to treat you the same. Besides, if a state wants more authority, it might unite with other states. Next thing you know when 40 or 50 get together, you got a pretty big "trade federation" which will always evolve into a galactic empire. Then where are you gonna run? Best to nip the whole thing in the bud, before one's authority extends beyond himself.
State, national, what's the difference? Only in scale. Sometimes you need the feds to protect you from the state. Authority is authority. All you're choosing is whose foot you want up your ass. The natural birthright is to be able to move about without being tagged like cattle.
Oh yes they do. They merge, and spin off "little" corporations. They attack and defend. They grow and shrink. They act very much alive, in the same manner as their creator. A corporation is made in man's image. A corporation can be a person, but man is their god. So we should probably treat them with total indifference, just like the real thing. We are their creator and destroyer, on a whim. Nature is equally whimsical, creating and destroying entire systems.
I was hoping you would say a single person can function without other people. But a person cannot function without a cellular structure any more than a corp can function without people. The people are the cellular structure, fully differentiated and everything. If we are to ever give rights to robots for their "intelligence", then we have to rethink the personhood of anything we create when it takes a life of its own. That's why intelligence is a bad benchmark to use.
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You better stay more than 200 yards away from any school or playground
No dessert?
It's hard to think of a more clear cut example of supposed business rivals getting together to agree and enforce a common price.
Price fixing is a time honored practice in many industries. oil, steel, railroads, airlines and communications, all run by pirates who do challenge each other for top position, like in any other herd or flock of animals, but will never work against the whole..
Don't they call that "leading your target"?
Mission accomplished :)
A masturbatory endeavor for sure. He should've automated the entire thing and watch it upgrade itself on every reboot, and on the last one jump back to CP/M
The best kind... What's the deal? You have something against warped and twisted?
I was hoping they implanted some DNA from Robert Parker and gave it a typewriter...
"<I am nearly as fast on EFD as on paper>"
Many reliable systems have been built using Java and reside in hospitals, transportation, and power infrastructure.
A house of cards will stand forever, and may look very nice and stylish... until the first puff of wind comes along..
I want a repulsor beam.
That would be a mirror. Don't look into it :-)
It's not just the quakes, they will subside when the work stops. The much bigger issue is the contamination. It spreads far and wide. And I don't care about the "industry". Somebody else will quickly fill the void left by those who shut down. Like you said, we still need the resource. The next guy that takes over production will be a bit more circumspect and respectful, or he too, will be put out.
Or you can make it relatively safe and pass some things on to the population at large who pay for it by enjoying cheaper utilities.
Authoritarian socialist doctrine. Easy to say from a thousand miles distance. "The needs of the many..." "The greater good.." Despicable rationalizations that are responsible for so much human suffering. You're assuming "zero sum"... That no longer applies in today's world. All of our resource problems, the pollution, the "shortages", all of it can be traced back to bad/corrupt management, bureaucratic turf wars, etc. (Perfect example? India. They bury themselves in paperwork which all ends up in the trash with a simple bribe, making half the country look like a land fill) Nature no longer presents a serious challenge. We can all live like kings without having to wreck the place.
The military is generally comprised of morally upstanding citizens who want to serve their country.
And if we have to pry it open to make sure it stays that way, then so be it. All positions of authority must be laid open to the public. I don't want to hear about the "freedoms you provide" and that we shouldn't question how you do it. The military may be full of honest people, but the organization exists to protect the country's economic interests at the expense of all else. Hardly a noble cause
You'll either end up in prison or buried in a land fill.
Yeah, there's a chance she might run a challenge... wait 'n see..
If they televise the executions, I'm all for it. It'll be a real shot in the arm for the industry...
Our presidents are term limited.
But the party isn't, though changing faces every few years does provide a persistent illusion. The president is a mannequin..
...in bed with the same special interests...
and each others wives...
Yeah, I understand the guy in the field should be the guy in charge, but it's still just a numbers game. If you kill 100 people or a million, I'm still going to treat you the same. Besides, if a state wants more authority, it might unite with other states. Next thing you know when 40 or 50 get together, you got a pretty big "trade federation" which will always evolve into a galactic empire. Then where are you gonna run? Best to nip the whole thing in the bud, before one's authority extends beyond himself.
The FCC doesn't care about RF emissions anymore, unless they are transmitting nude pictures
State, national, what's the difference? Only in scale. Sometimes you need the feds to protect you from the state. Authority is authority. All you're choosing is whose foot you want up your ass. The natural birthright is to be able to move about without being tagged like cattle.
The studios have been using this tech for years to try to get those dried up old prunes who read the news to look like they're human.
Oh yes they do. They merge, and spin off "little" corporations. They attack and defend. They grow and shrink. They act very much alive, in the same manner as their creator. A corporation is made in man's image. A corporation can be a person, but man is their god. So we should probably treat them with total indifference, just like the real thing. We are their creator and destroyer, on a whim. Nature is equally whimsical, creating and destroying entire systems.
I was hoping you would say a single person can function without other people. But a person cannot function without a cellular structure any more than a corp can function without people. The people are the cellular structure, fully differentiated and everything. If we are to ever give rights to robots for their "intelligence", then we have to rethink the personhood of anything we create when it takes a life of its own. That's why intelligence is a bad benchmark to use.
A human is made up of cells. It's not its own lifeform