Yeah, just like he failed primary school, because he was misunderstood, and the theory of relativity was just a good guess that anyone could have had. Wow. Now that we've established that, I could be a genius in disguise! *sigh of relief* And I thought I was just a mediocre mind. I feel so good now.
Those nike's won't cost twice as much, as they are already maxing the acceptable consumer price level - aggregate income. Nike products are also sold for many times over what it costs to produce and market these products. I'm willing to bet that if Nike raised prices, their aggregate revenue would go down due to prices unacceptable to consumers. You can only raise prices so high before parents say no to childrens advertising propagandized mainstream cult status symbols. I also doubt there are too many adults running around shaving their heads with nike signs.
He blathers a lot about inconsequential facts, sometimes ignoring fundamental differences in societal structure, crony capitalism, and the long temporal passage in social and political evolution without outside forces of coercion; Still interesting though.
Sure, there's braveheart 2.. er I mean patriot coming out soon. Then there's that extrordinary scientology movie. And then there's disney movie version 30 with super deluxe effects. And then gladiator, a wwf viewers dream, with a plot so simple, no one will be excluded from the emotional high one gets predicting the plot outcome, character roles, who will die, etc, 15 seconds into the movie! Mission Impossible 2.. well hey, another (former) scientologist. What joy. And this summer is going to be incredible - what, with X-men and SHAFT.
You have drawn a negative feedback factor. Positive feedback factors can also affect accurate reporting. As can structural systems in the journalist employment ladder to filter out unwanted deviants.
It's not so bad if you seek variety and don't generally take news for absolute truth.
I agree with your premise that readers here are often ignorant and paranoid. This site seems to attract a certain crowd who eventually end up drowning in their own pool of vitriol, and misguided attempts at understanding in their limited web of insubstantiated ideas.
The original comment in this thread has some merit, insomuch as an implication of corporate hegemony over individual and other human relation unrelated to an economic imperative. However, the poster commits a fallacy of exclusion by failing to realize that the rights of the individual are also upheld by government, regardless of possible structural slants.
Reading this forum is somewhat like talking to a bunch of hippies who just finished their first Chomsky. They don't know anything about economics of politics, but being new to ideas counter to mainstream, they aren't able to discern errant assertions and the resultant assumptions, especially when presented in slight sophistry.
"Big business sets the rules, lobbys congress, etc."
I'm detecting a certain idealogical slant on slashdot. Perhaps some readers here have been too busy using this as their primary source for information, reading endless flows of paranoid drivel, and incessant zealot muck raking, from interminably ignorant posters.
"All that seperates us from the Chinese are a few words on a page that no one takes seriously anymore anyway." This point is paranoid and I lacks factual evidence and established patterns of behavior.
Whats the difference between someone asking you to take something down through a somewhat fair protocol and a guy walking through your front door and putting a sledge hammer to your web server?
If the reports are accurate, I think we have established here that Penfield and his lackeys are idiots. It's too bad, because a real effort to resolve past abuses, based on the understanding of subversion of standards, could have been enacted -- while still allowing MS to "innovate" but cut the artificial barriers to entry created by Microsoft. Instead we have a bunch of government bureaucrats and know nothing lawyers scurrying around, pretending to be a rational think tank who can actually understand more than two words of jargon.
NIT: The 15-20 dollar price point may be good for maximizing revenue (e.g., see the recent case of collusion between large record companies) - not resultant variety in music available and promoted. I would also assert, however insubstantiated, that this collusion is a reduction of competition, which therefore hurts the consumer, variety, and limits which artists are viable to the market through control of major marketing and sales channels. Result: artificial inflation of prices. The model instead works like: throw a bunch of money into advertising, hype and promotion; limit the marketed artists to a select few; set price levels at double that which would be viable if those select artists weren't overadvertised corporate whores It's their right to do so - but I instead retrieve music from napster, free online radio stations and clips, word of mouth, etc. Then I get to purchase music that I want to hear, instead of that which is dictated to me by record companies, with carefully engineered artists, who are dressed up for sex appeal and potential market penetration by generating pre-adolescent pablum for the lowest common demographic denominator. Why? Because their business model is not conductive to customer choice. Their model is not sensible given new means to bring variety to listeners. I have faith that it will change over time. In the mean time, I will intentionally ignore the corporate demified artists. "If you lower the price to one cent, the demand will not increase 1500-fold" Heh, sure it will. Aggregate revenue streams will just likely be much smaller given a price so low.
I had no idea underwater basket weaving was so complex! Don't worry, you don't have to finish your PhD. You can come work for me at the PT barnum freak show, weaving baskets while dipped in a pool full of piranhas. I can imagine all the honorary degrees that will come of this.
Jesus christ. Can you try staying on topic? OpenBSD to anti-religious fervor. Good job. -- This message would be in caps if it weren't for automated content filters.
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Yeah, just like he failed primary school, because he was misunderstood, and the theory of relativity was just a good guess that anyone could have had. Wow. Now that we've established that, I could be a genius in disguise! *sigh of relief* And I thought I was just a mediocre mind. I feel so good now.
Those nike's won't cost twice as much, as they are already maxing the acceptable consumer price level - aggregate income. Nike products are also sold for many times over what it costs to produce and market these products. I'm willing to bet that if Nike raised prices, their aggregate revenue would go down due to prices unacceptable to consumers. You can only raise prices so high before parents say no to childrens advertising propagandized mainstream cult status symbols. I also doubt there are too many adults running around shaving their heads with nike signs.
I found this article by Robert Wright the other day, somewhat interesting:
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http://www.thenewrepublic.com/032700/wright0327
He blathers a lot about inconsequential facts, sometimes ignoring fundamental differences in societal structure, crony capitalism, and the long temporal passage in social and political evolution without outside forces of coercion; Still interesting though.
Sure, there's braveheart 2.. er I mean patriot coming out soon. Then there's that extrordinary scientology movie. And then there's disney movie version 30 with super deluxe effects. And then gladiator, a wwf viewers dream, with a plot so simple, no one will be excluded from the emotional high one gets predicting the plot outcome, character roles, who will die, etc, 15 seconds into the movie! Mission Impossible 2.. well hey, another (former) scientologist. What joy. And this summer is going to be incredible - what, with X-men and SHAFT.
You have drawn a negative feedback factor. Positive feedback factors can also affect accurate reporting. As can structural systems in the journalist employment ladder to filter out unwanted deviants.
It's not so bad if you seek variety and don't generally take news for absolute truth.
I agree with your premise that readers here are often ignorant and paranoid. This site seems to attract a certain crowd who eventually end up drowning in their own pool of vitriol, and misguided attempts at understanding in their limited web of insubstantiated ideas.
The original comment in this thread has some merit, insomuch as an implication of corporate hegemony over individual and other human relation unrelated to an economic imperative. However, the poster commits a fallacy of exclusion by failing to realize that the rights of the individual are also upheld by government, regardless of possible structural slants.
Reading this forum is somewhat like talking to a bunch of hippies who just finished their first Chomsky. They don't know anything about economics of politics, but being new to ideas counter to mainstream, they aren't able to discern errant assertions and the resultant assumptions, especially when presented in slight sophistry.
"Big business sets the rules, lobbys congress, etc."
I'm detecting a certain idealogical slant on slashdot. Perhaps some readers here have been too busy using this as their primary source for information, reading endless flows of paranoid drivel, and incessant zealot muck raking, from interminably ignorant posters.
"All that seperates us from the Chinese are a few words on a page that no one takes seriously anymore anyway." This point is paranoid and I lacks factual evidence and established patterns of behavior.
Whats the difference between someone asking you to take something down through a somewhat fair protocol and a guy walking through your front door and putting a sledge hammer to your web server?
If the reports are accurate, I think we have established here that Penfield and his lackeys are idiots. It's too bad, because a real effort to resolve past abuses, based on the understanding of subversion of standards, could have been enacted -- while still allowing MS to "innovate" but cut the artificial barriers to entry created by Microsoft. Instead we have a bunch of government bureaucrats and know nothing lawyers scurrying around, pretending to be a rational think tank who can actually understand more than two words of jargon.
NIT: The 15-20 dollar price point may be good for maximizing revenue (e.g., see the recent case of collusion between large record companies) - not resultant variety in music available and promoted. I would also assert, however insubstantiated, that this collusion is a reduction of competition, which therefore hurts the consumer, variety, and limits which artists are viable to the market through control of major marketing and sales channels. Result: artificial inflation of prices. The model instead works like: throw a bunch of money into advertising, hype and promotion; limit the marketed artists to a select few; set price levels at double that which would be viable if those select artists weren't overadvertised corporate whores It's their right to do so - but I instead retrieve music from napster, free online radio stations and clips, word of mouth, etc. Then I get to purchase music that I want to hear, instead of that which is dictated to me by record companies, with carefully engineered artists, who are dressed up for sex appeal and potential market penetration by generating pre-adolescent pablum for the lowest common demographic denominator. Why? Because their business model is not conductive to customer choice. Their model is not sensible given new means to bring variety to listeners. I have faith that it will change over time. In the mean time, I will intentionally ignore the corporate demified artists. "If you lower the price to one cent, the demand will not increase 1500-fold" Heh, sure it will. Aggregate revenue streams will just likely be much smaller given a price so low.
I had no idea underwater basket weaving was so complex! Don't worry, you don't have to finish your PhD. You can come work for me at the PT barnum freak show, weaving baskets while dipped in a pool full of piranhas. I can imagine all the honorary degrees that will come of this.
Jesus christ. Can you try staying on topic? OpenBSD to anti-religious fervor. Good job. -- This message would be in caps if it weren't for automated content filters.
CONGRATS. You have just been trolled. Have a bagel; you can slide it off my humungous shlong.
I can cvsup and recompile the OS every couple of hours if I want.