which isn't much- econ is to real science what an mcse is to a real engineer.
Corrected Example 3: Product costs $X to make, company charges $Y + 50 * (some fraction of 1 whose value is derived from the price elasticity: ie the degree to which demand for the product shifts according to changes in price. Small change in demand relative to price increase == bend over consumer)
When there's a tax, the producer eats some of it, the consumer eats some. What proportion each eats depends on the elasticity. If the producer could charge the whole amount of the tax, they'd have charged it before the tax was imposed and just kept the profits.
Didn't you see the "Hit by a Bus" study ?
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It was on segfault. "What if Linus got hit by a bus: an empirical study"
This was normal Senate procedure, and the current opposition party has been much more restrained in using the filibuster and other procedural tactics to block judicial appoinments than the Republicans were under Clinton.
The right-wingers get all bent out of shape when unqualified and certifiable nutjobs get blocked, but they forget the long list of decent Clinton nominees that got jobbed.
Ashcroft himself bore false witness against Judge White, intentionally, knowingly distorting the man's record to score a few political points. That's against one of the Commandments he wants to see up all over the place. Maybe he should read them.
I have always seen to it that the software on the networks I admin was properly licensed. Sometimes, on taking up a new job, the task was enormous.
We still got audited. So we had a double penalty of staff time: fix the problem before the audit, then prove it was fixed. Neither case advanced the organizational mission. It was pure loss, friction . All the time I was doing that, I wasn't fixing things that were broken. I wasn't making the net more secure. I wasn't installing new things.
I will grant that a company can set the terms of use for their products as they wish. They should be aware that hamfisted, user-hostile enforcement mechanisms like this are driving customers like me away. At comparable functionality, even with higher costs, I prefer the Free as in Speech solution.
Should I experience a difficult implementation due to lack of developer/test resources in an Open Source project, I experience necessary pain. That is to say, any problems I have with getting it working are a natural result of the state of the project I'm working with. Licensing friction is unnecessary pain. It's the unnatural result of the developers going out of their way to put up obstacles.
Unnecessary pain hurts way more than necessary pain for similar stimulus levels.
Gotta say, props to the commercial software outfits that have simple concurrent licensing setups that actually work. It's the ones that suck that cost you future business.
It has driven me up a tree that simple admin tasks leap around like spastic marmoset as the OS evolves. Some major tasks were easier in NT 3.51
I don't do XP at work (got it at home on the wife's laptop, not on mine, which is RH. Setting the xp thing to 2000 mode was a happy moment), we're resisting 2003. Just ick.
They didn't have the telephony-fu to ask the phone company for what they needed. The phone company, in the manner of bureaucratic twits everywhere, answered the question that was asked, not the one that needed asking.
Now, that is probably good in a subpoena situation. But if a properly identified law enforcement officer was tracking a bomb threat, I'd tell them what they needed to ask for, wait while they got the corrected subpoena, and provide the info. That is, if I worked for the phone company.
I probably shouldn't get involved until such time as I am.
Cutting a check is not that hard - especially when it's not my money. Losing hours and hours to tracking down purchase orders that are 4+ years old to prove that the major brand pc we bought (that we could buy without a windows license) had a license: that is painful. Business investment should be fairly simple: this is/is not worth the expense and we can/can not afford it. But the meta-costs of non-free really chap my ass. How do you budget for the risk of a BSA/SPA audit? We went through one, were completely cool, and still lost thousands of dollars worth of staff time in salary alone. The staff time is worth more than the salary, but harder to quantify. Nobody compensated us for that loss. And don't say we were rewarded by the use of the software - that audit wasn't on the invoices we paid.
You seem to be arguing that the MPAA and I have an equal right to attempt to buy legislators. That's so, in the old, "the law that prohibits sleeping under a bridge applies equally to beggar and king" way.
I'm arguing that the effect of that lobbying has been an indefensible curtailment of my rights. They are bending the legal code into knots to defend a business model. It's not reasonable, it's not just, it's insane.
tinkerers should just shut up and accept what our corporate masters want to give us. We are not people, not inventors, explorers or problem solvers, we are consumers to be milked like dairy cows.
Do you really consider a law reasonable that prohibits you from making your own consumer electronics? The MPAA's right to swing apparently does not stop at the interviewer's nose. (For the metaphorically-impaired, this translates to, "The MPAA's expanded rights unreasonably constrain and impose upon the individual's rights")
If you are unaware of the state of enforcement of computer crimes against networks, you are ignorant. Here's an exercise left to the reader: run a network or even just a website. Antagonize a skript kiddie clan. Watch as they obliterate your net presence with bandwidth attacks. Contact the FBI. Watch them do nothing. Contrast with 1) being a big campaign contributer - watch them allocate resources to stupid, trivial shit.
The FBI can't investigate everything. It is investigating prostitution in New Orleans, peace groups, and warez doodz. And with what is left, it allocates to organized crime and terrorism. Yeah, they do more than one thing at a time, but they shouldn't spend any time on economically insignificant copywrite violations against politically connected corporations until they have done a much better job against the serious shit.
Sorry your attempt to burst the bubble was so lame. Try again?
I'm not especially anti-Bush. It's just that anyone with a grip on reality looks that way.
Ashcroft is an ass. Terrorism wasn't a priority before 9/11 and it still isn't important enough to preclude this errand-boy stuff?
Look - even after 9/11 the FBI ran an investigation into prositution in New Orleans. Guess what! They found some!
You: Get the FBI defending your interests re: computer crime if
1) you are a big campaign contributer
there is no 2)
The alleged $50,000 provable damage rule is only the point where they have the authority to decide to investigate. Mostly they decide not to. Chasing warez d00dz for copywrite violation is a staggering misallocation of resources that may get people killed.
On the other hand, stringing up a packeting kidiot by his thumbs might actually make the net an easier place to for the rest of us to do our thing .
Let's see...two possibilities here. The White House does not closely coordinate its legistlative agenda with the House Republican leadership, or it does.
Guess which.
There's not a lot of room in a signature on Slashdot. To put it as precisely as you crave: the House, acting in accordance with instructions from George W. Bush's white house, declined to upgrade the electrical infrastructure and a blackout resulted.
And pulling the trigger didn't fire the bullet - it was the firing pin's impact on the cartridge primer. Or it wasn't the firing pin at all, but the rapid expansion of gas...
They knew the effect they wanted, and they got it by trashing decades of consistency. They were embarrassed enough that the opinion contains an absolutely unprecedented section saying it should not be used for, well, a precedent. Presumably they couldn't be sure a Democrat might not reap an advantage the next time.
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which isn't much- econ is to real science what an mcse is to a real engineer.
Corrected Example 3: Product costs $X to make, company charges $Y + 50 * (some fraction of 1 whose value is derived from the price elasticity: ie the degree to which demand for the product shifts according to changes in price. Small change in demand relative to price increase == bend over consumer)
When there's a tax, the producer eats some of it, the consumer eats some. What proportion each eats depends on the elasticity. If the producer could charge the whole amount of the tax, they'd have charged it before the tax was imposed and just kept the profits.
It was on segfault. "What if Linus got hit by a bus: an empirical study"
Abstract: greivous bodily injury.
This was normal Senate procedure, and the current opposition party has been much more restrained in using the filibuster and other procedural tactics to block judicial appoinments than the Republicans were under Clinton.
The right-wingers get all bent out of shape when unqualified and certifiable nutjobs get blocked, but they forget the long list of decent Clinton nominees that got jobbed.
Ashcroft himself bore false witness against Judge White, intentionally, knowingly distorting the man's record to score a few political points. That's against one of the Commandments he wants to see up all over the place. Maybe he should read them.
You were in a prime position!
By my standards, a good slash-cliche.
was it in Harry Potter?
I have always seen to it that the software on the networks I admin was properly licensed. Sometimes, on taking up a new job, the task was enormous.
We still got audited. So we had a double penalty of staff time: fix the problem before the audit, then prove it was fixed. Neither case advanced the organizational mission. It was pure loss, friction . All the time I was doing that, I wasn't fixing things that were broken. I wasn't making the net more secure. I wasn't installing new things.
I will grant that a company can set the terms of use for their products as they wish. They should be aware that hamfisted, user-hostile enforcement mechanisms like this are driving customers like me away. At comparable functionality, even with higher costs, I prefer the Free as in Speech solution.
Should I experience a difficult implementation due to lack of developer/test resources in an Open Source project, I experience necessary pain. That is to say, any problems I have with getting it working are a natural result of the state of the project I'm working with. Licensing friction is unnecessary pain. It's the unnatural result of the developers going out of their way to put up obstacles.
Unnecessary pain hurts way more than necessary pain for similar stimulus levels.
Gotta say, props to the commercial software outfits that have simple concurrent licensing setups that actually work. It's the ones that suck that cost you future business.
but I'm making one.
It has driven me up a tree that simple admin tasks leap around like spastic marmoset as the OS evolves. Some major tasks were easier in NT 3.51
I don't do XP at work (got it at home on the wife's laptop, not on mine, which is RH. Setting the xp thing to 2000 mode was a happy moment), we're resisting 2003. Just ick.
In my view, even during the boom times recruiters were for shit.
I got great job-hopping opportunities by word of mouth and the newspaper.
(said as a former contract tester for the Borg)
I'm not too worried.
maybe folks can social-engineer judges, but the risk is low compared to the alternative.
Which is what, exactly? Being unhelpful to an investigating officer?
A pc was loading a web bug through 1200 caching servers, apparenty using them to generate ad hits.
They didn't have the telephony-fu to ask the phone company for what they needed. The phone company, in the manner of bureaucratic twits everywhere, answered the question that was asked, not the one that needed asking.
Now, that is probably good in a subpoena situation. But if a properly identified law enforcement officer was tracking a bomb threat, I'd tell them what they needed to ask for, wait while they got the corrected subpoena, and provide the info. That is, if I worked for the phone company.
I probably shouldn't get involved until such time as I am.
If this had been more serious than a prank,
should read, "...that we could NOT buy without a windows license)"
Cutting a check is not that hard - especially when it's not my money. Losing hours and hours to tracking down purchase orders that are 4+ years old to prove that the major brand pc we bought (that we could buy without a windows license) had a license: that is painful. Business investment should be fairly simple: this is/is not worth the expense and we can/can not afford it. But the meta-costs of non-free really chap my ass. How do you budget for the risk of a BSA/SPA audit? We went through one, were completely cool, and still lost thousands of dollars worth of staff time in salary alone. The staff time is worth more than the salary, but harder to quantify. Nobody compensated us for that loss. And don't say we were rewarded by the use of the software - that audit wasn't on the invoices we paid.
Move on.
You seem to be arguing that the MPAA and I have an equal right to attempt to buy legislators. That's so, in the old, "the law that prohibits sleeping under a bridge applies equally to beggar and king" way.
I'm arguing that the effect of that lobbying has been an indefensible curtailment of my rights. They are bending the legal code into knots to defend a business model. It's not reasonable, it's not just, it's insane.
When they say I can't build a t.v. set - that's fsked up.
Your entire rhetoric seems to be that:
tinkerers should just shut up and accept what our corporate masters want to give us. We are not people, not inventors, explorers or problem solvers, we are consumers to be milked like dairy cows.
Do you really consider a law reasonable that prohibits you from making your own consumer electronics? The MPAA's right to swing apparently does not stop at the interviewer's nose. (For the metaphorically-impaired, this translates to, "The MPAA's expanded rights unreasonably constrain and impose upon the individual's rights")
Ashcroft sets the priorities for the FBI.
If you are unaware of the state of enforcement of computer crimes against networks, you are ignorant. Here's an exercise left to the reader: run a network or even just a website. Antagonize a skript kiddie clan. Watch as they obliterate your net presence with bandwidth attacks. Contact the FBI. Watch them do nothing. Contrast with 1) being a big campaign contributer - watch them allocate resources to stupid, trivial shit.
The FBI can't investigate everything. It is investigating prostitution in New Orleans, peace groups, and warez doodz. And with what is left, it allocates to organized crime and terrorism. Yeah, they do more than one thing at a time, but they shouldn't spend any time on economically insignificant copywrite violations against politically connected corporations until they have done a much better job against the serious shit.
Sorry your attempt to burst the bubble was so lame. Try again?
I'm not especially anti-Bush. It's just that anyone with a grip on reality looks that way.
Ashcroft is an ass. Terrorism wasn't a priority before 9/11 and it still isn't important enough to preclude this errand-boy stuff?
Look - even after 9/11 the FBI ran an investigation into prositution in New Orleans. Guess what! They found some!
You: Get the FBI defending your interests re: computer crime if
1) you are a big campaign contributer
there is no 2)
The alleged $50,000 provable damage rule is only the point where they have the authority to decide to investigate. Mostly they decide not to. Chasing warez d00dz for copywrite violation is a staggering misallocation of resources that may get people killed.
On the other hand, stringing up a packeting kidiot by his thumbs might actually make the net an easier place to for the rest of us to do our thing .
Let's see...two possibilities here. The White House does not closely coordinate its legistlative agenda with the House Republican leadership, or it does.
Guess which.
There's not a lot of room in a signature on Slashdot. To put it as precisely as you crave: the House, acting in accordance with instructions from George W. Bush's white house, declined to upgrade the electrical infrastructure and a blackout resulted.
you have to make all your money before the job is outsourced.
And pulling the trigger didn't fire the bullet - it was the firing pin's impact on the cartridge primer. Or it wasn't the firing pin at all, but the rapid expansion of gas...
They knew the effect they wanted, and they got it by trashing decades of consistency. They were embarrassed enough that the opinion contains an absolutely unprecedented section saying it should not be used for, well, a precedent. Presumably they couldn't be sure a Democrat might not reap an advantage the next time.
As I recall, he was appointed by a majority of the Supreme Court, two of which were appointed by his dad.
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