What? Impossible! The free market worked out the price of meat, so obviously, it's perfect! And you suggest more government interference. You socialist, why do you hate America so much?
Your sarcasm would work better if there weren't so many billions of federal and state dollars given to agricultural producers to prop up their prices artificially.
That interpretation doesn't work in the context of the GP's text because the side that still has power isn't screwed at all, they just can't help their countrymen.
Vendor A seeing Vendor B's new price on ads,etc, and changing to match is not collusion, however often, promptly and exactly they move to Vendor B's price. CEO A asking CEO B at the golf course if they should both set the price at $x is collusion.
Otherwise ads along the lines of 'we shop our competition's prices so you can get the best deal here!' would be indications of antitrust violations.
They are screwed, this decision has fucked both parties.
At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Japan was a feudal monarchy in the 1800's. There were no political parties then as known now. And now they have a bunch of political parties, not 'both', because it's a parliamentary system.
I can't believe that i took this long for an organization to show original content over the Internet considering there were companies in the late '90s that tried to offer an Internet based substitute for tv.)
And how many of those companies from the 90s are still in business? It took this long for 1.enough high speed home internet connections and 2. Netflix to get the user base needed to make sure they don't go out of business trying it.
That's nothing. Have you read some of the comments on "news" sites? I was reading an article on a paper's website about the US looking to provide some assistance to Japan and the comments tended to be something like "serves them right, we should let them die for WWII!".
Yes, and those comments are nothing compared to the comments on the Chinese websites. The US remembers an attack by a foreign military against a US military target, albeit a sneak attack. The Chinese remember the rape of Nanjing.
There is probably more than enough capacity in the West to compensate for the offline power stations in the East, but there is no transfer capacity beyond about an order or two of magnitude below what is needed.
Transmission is easy; convert the interior hold of an old container ship as a capacitor. I bet it could carry enough power to run Tokyo all week.
Several nuclear powered warships from allies could temporarily provide a significant portion of the lost power. And at reasonable rates, too; I'm sure with the US Navy's budget problems they might be convinced to rent-a-carrier for a few months at the right price. Whatever their temporary economic woes, Japan should be good for it.
oh boy. one great display of freedom after another - freedom to commit war crimes and hide it from public that is. and it is not treason to commit war crimes behind the backs of the elected people - but to let people know it - or, even more, people TO know it.
It's a long standing precedent that one has the freedom to publish anything first and then face punishment after the fact. Did you think this was something new? Why do so many people think freedom of the press means freedom from consequences of publishing something proscribed?
A private service will charge a pretty penny for those warnings...
If only one person per oceanfront block subscribes to the fee service then whenever he comes running out of his house headed towards the hills the neighbors will know a wave is coming.
I just hope enough nuclear power plants come online before their first supercomputer customer turns on a new rig. The latest GPUs already use more power than the hungriest Intel or AMD x86 ever did.
Why is it irony? WP's article says the "free speech flag" apparently is the HD-DVD key. While the whole DVD key scheme is annoying, turning their key into your flag is, well, waving a flag the MPAA's face for a lawsuit.
You must be a European or otherwise never seen a 70's era Cadillac.
A friend of mine had a '76 Chrysler Newport, the longest car Chrysler ever made. One day an extended cab full bed pickup parked next to it. The Newport was longer.
if you dismiss every one as a "troll" for any small problem, your community will not grow a lot and you'll leave people with a lot of bad taste in the mouth.
Someone with a 7 digit ID complaining the community will not grow if trolls are abused?
This is the same concern people have with flying, despite it's vastly safer statistical margins. People are bothered when they are not in control of their own fate.
Flight is an excellent example of how human control is still far better than any computer; would an autopilot have safely landed that US Air flight in the middle of the Hudson river? Would even the best modern AI have brought UA232 in as well as the human crew did?
I can't drive due to my disabilities. This would be useful. Of course, it has to be bug free (OK almost). It probably won't be ready until after I am dead though. I always wanted KITT type of car!:(
Keep in mind the guy with the robotic arms whose car swerved off the road and crashed for no apparent reason when they offer to give out these cars to the handicapped.
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What? Impossible! The free market worked out the price of meat, so obviously, it's perfect! And you suggest more government interference. You socialist, why do you hate America so much?
Your sarcasm would work better if there weren't so many billions of federal and state dollars given to agricultural producers to prop up their prices artificially.
That interpretation doesn't work in the context of the GP's text because the side that still has power isn't screwed at all, they just can't help their countrymen.
Yes except perfect competition doesn't exist. Therefore it's collusion.
Vendor A seeing Vendor B's new price on ads,etc, and changing to match is not collusion, however often, promptly and exactly they move to Vendor B's price. CEO A asking CEO B at the golf course if they should both set the price at $x is collusion.
Otherwise ads along the lines of 'we shop our competition's prices so you can get the best deal here!' would be indications of antitrust violations.
Wait: I thought the free market solved all problems and never needed government intervention.
You seem to have a stunning amount of faith in government, including 1800's feudal Japan, to accurately plan for catastrophes 130 years in advance.
They are screwed, this decision has fucked both parties.
At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Japan was a feudal monarchy in the 1800's. There were no political parties then as known now. And now they have a bunch of political parties, not 'both', because it's a parliamentary system.
I can't believe that i took this long for an organization to show original content over the Internet considering there were companies in the late '90s that tried to offer an Internet based substitute for tv.)
And how many of those companies from the 90s are still in business? It took this long for 1.enough high speed home internet connections and 2. Netflix to get the user base needed to make sure they don't go out of business trying it.
That's nothing. Have you read some of the comments on "news" sites? I was reading an article on a paper's website about the US looking to provide some assistance to Japan and the comments tended to be something like "serves them right, we should let them die for WWII!".
Yes, and those comments are nothing compared to the comments on the Chinese websites. The US remembers an attack by a foreign military against a US military target, albeit a sneak attack. The Chinese remember the rape of Nanjing.
There is probably more than enough capacity in the West to compensate for the offline power stations in the East, but there is no transfer capacity beyond about an order or two of magnitude below what is needed.
Transmission is easy; convert the interior hold of an old container ship as a capacitor. I bet it could carry enough power to run Tokyo all week.
Several nuclear powered warships from allies could temporarily provide a significant portion of the lost power. And at reasonable rates, too; I'm sure with the US Navy's budget problems they might be convinced to rent-a-carrier for a few months at the right price. Whatever their temporary economic woes, Japan should be good for it.
A manager says,"Men we have to go and take out the machine gun nest. Jones, you go first."
So the ultimate manager is the Hindmost?
oh boy. one great display of freedom after another - freedom to commit war crimes and hide it from public that is. and it is not treason to commit war crimes behind the backs of the elected people - but to let people know it - or, even more, people TO know it.
It's a long standing precedent that one has the freedom to publish anything first and then face punishment after the fact. Did you think this was something new? Why do so many people think freedom of the press means freedom from consequences of publishing something proscribed?
Um... all the computer systems shown in Jurassic Park where real. Even the 3D interface, that was something SGI came up with.
Yes, but all that and they still couldn't grep a lousy million rows for 'white_rabbit_object'; THAT was the hideously bad tech moment in that movie.
A private service will charge a pretty penny for those warnings...
If only one person per oceanfront block subscribes to the fee service then whenever he comes running out of his house headed towards the hills the neighbors will know a wave is coming.
After all, at the pressures we're talking about, water would be liquid well above 100 degrees C.
Excellent! That means to use the wormholes hiding in the center of stars we just need a submarine.
Darwinism doesn't select for intelligence. Just survival.
Darwinism doesn't select for survival per se; Darwinism is about adaptability in order to enable survival.
I just hope enough nuclear power plants come online before their first supercomputer customer turns on a new rig. The latest GPUs already use more power than the hungriest Intel or AMD x86 ever did.
Uhm... so? Are you arguing that because the MPAA might get upset we shouldn't say it?
No, I'm saying the irony is in calling it 'the free speech flag' in the first place, not in having to remove it.
Why is it irony? WP's article says the "free speech flag" apparently is the HD-DVD key. While the whole DVD key scheme is annoying, turning their key into your flag is, well, waving a flag the MPAA's face for a lawsuit.
You must be a European or otherwise never seen a 70's era Cadillac.
A friend of mine had a '76 Chrysler Newport, the longest car Chrysler ever made. One day an extended cab full bed pickup parked next to it. The Newport was longer.
if you dismiss every one as a "troll"
for any small problem, your community
will not grow a lot and you'll leave people
with a lot of bad taste in the mouth.
Someone with a 7 digit ID complaining the community will not grow if trolls are abused?
This is the same concern people have with flying, despite it's vastly safer statistical margins. People are bothered when they are not in control of their own fate.
Flight is an excellent example of how human control is still far better than any computer; would an autopilot have safely landed that US Air flight in the middle of the Hudson river? Would even the best modern AI have brought UA232 in as well as the human crew did?
I can't drive due to my disabilities. This would be useful. Of course, it has to be bug free (OK almost). It probably won't be ready until after I am dead though. I always wanted KITT type of car! :(
Keep in mind the guy with the robotic arms whose car swerved off the road and crashed for no apparent reason when they offer to give out these cars to the handicapped.
God's Battalions: The Case For the Crusades is an interesting, well-researched book on this topic.
Totenglocke and the moderators think the author of that book is not too bright and just wrote what the TV told him.