If drugs were legal, then their prices would drop sharply. At the same time, there would probably be move users of the 'safer', currently more expensive drugs.
As for punishments, what is needed is some enforcement of current penalties, rather then new ones. Just have Lindsay Lohan serve out her next prison sentence fully and in general population. One picture of her without her nose will do more then a dozen executions.
If the guy has enough money to buy back the company now, why not wait for the downturn then buy it for less? Hostile takeovers are only a problem if you don't have the money to fight them.
The problem is the time it takes for people to think about selling their games. Each new generation of games might be 'better' (yes I know only the graphics improve with most other things getting worse and worse), but a new game from a series will be released once a year at best, while the customer will be thinking about selling the old game in a couple of weeks.
Game maker should be thinking about ways to keep players playing the games they buy, rather then preventing them from selling them.
But how quickly does that responsibility start? Is the site liable as soon as something is posted, or is there a 'reasonable' period in which they have to remove it if it's found to be objectionable? Should a site be punished for taking a few hours for removing a post?
The 'waste' factor depends on the terrain you're working with. Trying to grow any kind of a food crop on fairly steep hills is pretty futile, while cows or sheep are happy to graze there.
The rich are the class that can most easily be taxed sustainably. Unlike the lower or middle classes, you'd have to tax them by a hell of a lot to force them down into a lower class.
Has there been a study done, where people that didn't have any complications during a surgery were told they were dead for a few minutes, then asked if they saw anything?
It would be interesting to see how many of the people that were just unconscious also reported tunnels and lights.
So how would you go about proving causation? Just about everything in nature could just be the result of some 'undetectable force', rather then what we currently thing of as a cause.
When you hit the ball you might not cause it to move. The undetectable pink gerbils might be moving it, you just happened to hit it at the same time. And it might happen every time, but that's just correlation.
If you look at what they can actually study, then 5 million is way more then the field deserves. What can they do with the money, except maybe interview the few people that were brain dead and recovered (but even these interviews won't give any hard information since the people were not dead)?
The only thing they can study is what people BELIEVE about immortality and life&death, not immortality and life&death itself. And do we need a study about that, when every religion is so eager to let us know it's own beliefs?
And those things don't change do they? A person could move every year, and have ten jobs each year. And and ID card is not that much of a burden for a person to carry. Think of a smaller, harder to forge driver's license.
It won't come close to preventing it. But it will require the criminals to at least put some effort into it. And if filing a false tax return suddenly requires a few days of work ( compared to a few seconds) for a hundred dollars it might no longer be such an attractive way of making money.
So because they did the worst possible thing once, it should never be fixed? SSNs have the problem of being insanely easy to 'steal' combined with being the only thing each citizen is sure to have. So anyone that wants to check your identity has to accept them as 'proof', since there is no requirement for any other way of identifying yourself.
If you think SSNs are such a bad idea, just imagine if even they would not exist. How would you identify yourself? Just by your name - plenty of people have the same name, By name and address? Changing your identity suddenly becomes as easy as moving (or just registering at a different address). And what prevents a random person from claiming they're you?
With a government issued foto ID the identity thief at least has to go to the trouble of forging a card, rather then just obtaining a widely used number.
Isn't the stock market supposed to be very good at deciding the 'right' price for shares. So if some companies shares loose value due to a maverick, shouldn't the market bring the right back up again? Or is the marker just a pile of gamblers that have no idea about the companies they are trading in, dumping stocks as soon as they look their price is going to drop, with no regard to their actual 'value'?
Will the other parties of these trades be compensated for the cancelations? If Knight lost money, then someone must have made it. So why does NYSE get to take their winnings away?
It was the other way around. They waned to buy X shares, but the system didn't let them. So they tried again and again. Then, when system came back up, ALL of those orders went through. So they are stuck with way more stocks that lost 44% then they were planning on.
Aren't bird lungs extremely efficient at extracting oxygen from the atmosphere? If dinosaurs had similar lungs, then the low oxygen content won't harm them all that much.
The problem is that (unlike in Jurassic park), the people that take the risks aren't the people killed when things go wrong. At worst, they might loose the money they put into their company, but in most cases even that won't happen.
What should be done is that the people that made the decision that ultimately killed someone should be charged with involuntary manslaughter AND the limited liability of the company itself should be removed. So any owners would have all of their assets spent compensating the victims or their families)
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If drugs were legal, then their prices would drop sharply. At the same time, there would probably be move users of the 'safer', currently more expensive drugs.
As for punishments, what is needed is some enforcement of current penalties, rather then new ones. Just have Lindsay Lohan serve out her next prison sentence fully and in general population. One picture of her without her nose will do more then a dozen executions.
It would be interesting to compare the cost to society that legalized drugs in compared to the cost of crime and enforcement right now.
So we should also ban alcohol, sleeping pills, lack of sleep,......
Have you ever read how many legal drugs have the warning that you shouldn't drive after using them?
If the guy has enough money to buy back the company now, why not wait for the downturn then buy it for less? Hostile takeovers are only a problem if you don't have the money to fight them.
The problem is the time it takes for people to think about selling their games. Each new generation of games might be 'better' (yes I know only the graphics improve with most other things getting worse and worse), but a new game from a series will be released once a year at best, while the customer will be thinking about selling the old game in a couple of weeks.
Game maker should be thinking about ways to keep players playing the games they buy, rather then preventing them from selling them.
But will they play them on a NES, or will they just download them from piratebay and fire up an emulator?
But how quickly does that responsibility start? Is the site liable as soon as something is posted, or is there a 'reasonable' period in which they have to remove it if it's found to be objectionable? Should a site be punished for taking a few hours for removing a post?
So why are public funds spent on primary elections, when they are held by private clubs?
The 'waste' factor depends on the terrain you're working with. Trying to grow any kind of a food crop on fairly steep hills is pretty futile, while cows or sheep are happy to graze there.
The rich are the class that can most easily be taxed sustainably. Unlike the lower or middle classes, you'd have to tax them by a hell of a lot to force them down into a lower class.
Has there been a study done, where people that didn't have any complications during a surgery were told they were dead for a few minutes, then asked if they saw anything?
It would be interesting to see how many of the people that were just unconscious also reported tunnels and lights.
So how would you go about proving causation? Just about everything in nature could just be the result of some 'undetectable force', rather then what we currently thing of as a cause.
When you hit the ball you might not cause it to move. The undetectable pink gerbils might be moving it, you just happened to hit it at the same time. And it might happen every time, but that's just correlation.
If you look at what they can actually study, then 5 million is way more then the field deserves. What can they do with the money, except maybe interview the few people that were brain dead and recovered (but even these interviews won't give any hard information since the people were not dead)?
The only thing they can study is what people BELIEVE about immortality and life&death, not immortality and life&death itself. And do we need a study about that, when every religion is so eager to let us know it's own beliefs?
How about social security?
And those things don't change do they? A person could move every year, and have ten jobs each year. And and ID card is not that much of a burden for a person to carry. Think of a smaller, harder to forge driver's license.
It won't come close to preventing it. But it will require the criminals to at least put some effort into it. And if filing a false tax return suddenly requires a few days of work ( compared to a few seconds) for a hundred dollars it might no longer be such an attractive way of making money.
So because they did the worst possible thing once, it should never be fixed? SSNs have the problem of being insanely easy to 'steal' combined with being the only thing each citizen is sure to have. So anyone that wants to check your identity has to accept them as 'proof', since there is no requirement for any other way of identifying yourself.
If you think SSNs are such a bad idea, just imagine if even they would not exist. How would you identify yourself? Just by your name - plenty of people have the same name, By name and address? Changing your identity suddenly becomes as easy as moving (or just registering at a different address). And what prevents a random person from claiming they're you?
With a government issued foto ID the identity thief at least has to go to the trouble of forging a card, rather then just obtaining a widely used number.
That's the price you pay for a society that resists mandatory personal ID.
Isn't the stock market supposed to be very good at deciding the 'right' price for shares. So if some companies shares loose value due to a maverick, shouldn't the market bring the right back up again? Or is the marker just a pile of gamblers that have no idea about the companies they are trading in, dumping stocks as soon as they look their price is going to drop, with no regard to their actual 'value'?
Will the other parties of these trades be compensated for the cancelations? If Knight lost money, then someone must have made it. So why does NYSE get to take their winnings away?
It was the other way around. They waned to buy X shares, but the system didn't let them. So they tried again and again. Then, when system came back up, ALL of those orders went through. So they are stuck with way more stocks that lost 44% then they were planning on.
The same is true in many countries. Are the British people stealing when watching national overseas TV stations without paying?
Aren't bird lungs extremely efficient at extracting oxygen from the atmosphere? If dinosaurs had similar lungs, then the low oxygen content won't harm them all that much.
The problem is that (unlike in Jurassic park), the people that take the risks aren't the people killed when things go wrong. At worst, they might loose the money they put into their company, but in most cases even that won't happen.
What should be done is that the people that made the decision that ultimately killed someone should be charged with involuntary manslaughter AND the limited liability of the company itself should be removed. So any owners would have all of their assets spent compensating the victims or their families)
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