No, he didn't. Corporatist is where politically influencial companies are rewarded regardless of how successful they are. I'm in favor of capitalism, but I'm against corporatism.
The collapse is easily traceable to media consolidation.
You've got it backwards. Media consolidation was a consequence of the collapse; as circulations fell, newspapers had to merge to survive. This is easily seen by simply observing that the decrease in circulation started happening *before* the consolidations.
but it is declared legal tender by the authorities, ie: worth something.
The government's declaration of fiat money as being legal tender does not in and of itself make the money worth anything. See: Germany in the 1930s, and Zimbabwe in the past few years. In both cases, currency proclaimed by the government as legal tender became absolutely worthless anyways.
Does it? I thought Apple allowed a few other languages, like plain C/C++...
On the Mac you have the usual choice of languages, although Objective-C is the "native" language of the MacOS API. On the iPhone it's Objective-C or GTFO.
You seem to think there is something magic about the word "money". When you call it "money", that makes it automatically of intrinsic worth. Don't work that way. The only difference between virtual furniture in an account and virtual money in an account is that one is more widely accepted.
If you have an online account with "things" that are sellable/transferable out of it, is taking those "theft"?
How about if those "things" are dollars? An online account with dollars that are transferable out of it is how most of us store our savings these days...
They are supposedly starting with ordinary, fit-to-drink beer. Therefore there wasn't any methanol to begin with, and thus they don't have to worry about getting rid of it.
The "eating the expensive advanced computer piece by piece" bit they did again (reworked slightly) on the Muppet Show. Even used the exact same prop, but I believe a different monster.
how about threatening to take the damages directly out of shareholder equity
Um, they do. Whenever a limited liability company pays for anything, that's where it comes from. The stockholder's equity is the ownership of the corporation's assets; when assets are lost, the equity shrinks.
You can patent a recipe, though. It would have to be a new recipe that was just invented, however, so this Mayan beer wouldn't qualify. Making it a trade secret generally works better, but then it actually has to be kept secret, and so once again the Mayan beer recipe, which is publicly known, wouldn't qualify.
Artificially desalinating water is insanely expensive. It is simply unaffordable to supply your water needs like that unless you're super-rich. For third-world countries, it is flatly not an option.
Those gardens blooming in the middle of the Nevada desert are depleting non-renewing aquafers to do it. Check back in a few decades--they won't be doing it any more, and they may be in a lot of trouble.
technically renewable and basically unlimited resources like water
I'm sorry, but you really have no idea what you're talking about. Usable water (which generally means, among other things, desalinated) is definitely a limited resource--in some places, critically so. Many places get it by drawing it from the groundwater at a much greater rate than it is replaced.
I am getting a new desktop and a new laptop (both Dells). They will have XP on them; we never transferred to Vista and Win 7 is still in testing. We only approved SP3 for roll out a few months ago.
Well, over there is the guy who wants to limit your freedom because it's useful/convenient/profitable for him to do so. He doesn't give one single goddamn about your closely reasoned arguments or impassioned tirades about your liberty. He's busily lining up political support to pass laws to arrange things the way he wants. How are you going to stop him *other* than a fight? Preferably a political one; if you can't win that one, then you're going have decide just how important the issue is to you...
Because Lord knows you can't track the rich who don't buy pre-paids at all. It's not like they have a permanent account with a billing address on file. Oh wait...
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No, he didn't. Corporatist is where politically influencial companies are rewarded regardless of how successful they are. I'm in favor of capitalism, but I'm against corporatism.
You've got it backwards. Media consolidation was a consequence of the collapse; as circulations fell, newspapers had to merge to survive. This is easily seen by simply observing that the decrease in circulation started happening *before* the consolidations.
The government's declaration of fiat money as being legal tender does not in and of itself make the money worth anything. See: Germany in the 1930s, and Zimbabwe in the past few years. In both cases, currency proclaimed by the government as legal tender became absolutely worthless anyways.
There are people who know how to do concrete right. And then there are people who know how to do concrete cheap.
On the Mac you have the usual choice of languages, although Objective-C is the "native" language of the MacOS API. On the iPhone it's Objective-C or GTFO.
WRONG! No major currency these days is backed by ANY physical assets. The gold standard was abandoned by just about everybody back in the 1930s.
You seem to think there is something magic about the word "money". When you call it "money", that makes it automatically of intrinsic worth. Don't work that way. The only difference between virtual furniture in an account and virtual money in an account is that one is more widely accepted.
How about if those "things" are dollars? An online account with dollars that are transferable out of it is how most of us store our savings these days...
They are supposedly starting with ordinary, fit-to-drink beer. Therefore there wasn't any methanol to begin with, and thus they don't have to worry about getting rid of it.
The "eating the expensive advanced computer piece by piece" bit they did again (reworked slightly) on the Muppet Show. Even used the exact same prop, but I believe a different monster.
"The internet is for porn! The internet is for porn! So grab your dick and doubleclick for porn, porn, porn!"
Whoops, sorry, that was the *Trekkie* Monster.
If I were you, I'd demand my money back.
Um, they do. Whenever a limited liability company pays for anything, that's where it comes from. The stockholder's equity is the ownership of the corporation's assets; when assets are lost, the equity shrinks.
You can patent a recipe, though. It would have to be a new recipe that was just invented, however, so this Mayan beer wouldn't qualify. Making it a trade secret generally works better, but then it actually has to be kept secret, and so once again the Mayan beer recipe, which is publicly known, wouldn't qualify.
NiMH batteries? Nah, feeding the rats is too much of a hassle.
You can't do it with cheap labor. It takes expensive, advanced machinery and lots of electric power.
And they all have one thing in common--they're really, really expensive.
Artificially desalinating water is insanely expensive. It is simply unaffordable to supply your water needs like that unless you're super-rich. For third-world countries, it is flatly not an option.
Those gardens blooming in the middle of the Nevada desert are depleting non-renewing aquafers to do it. Check back in a few decades--they won't be doing it any more, and they may be in a lot of trouble.
I'm sorry, but you really have no idea what you're talking about. Usable water (which generally means, among other things, desalinated) is definitely a limited resource--in some places, critically so. Many places get it by drawing it from the groundwater at a much greater rate than it is replaced.
I'm perfectly willing to call IE6 an STD. Does anybody remember where we keep the penicillin?
I am getting a new desktop and a new laptop (both Dells). They will have XP on them; we never transferred to Vista and Win 7 is still in testing. We only approved SP3 for roll out a few months ago.
The one that'll save every one of us, of course!
Well, over there is the guy who wants to limit your freedom because it's useful/convenient/profitable for him to do so. He doesn't give one single goddamn about your closely reasoned arguments or impassioned tirades about your liberty. He's busily lining up political support to pass laws to arrange things the way he wants. How are you going to stop him *other* than a fight? Preferably a political one; if you can't win that one, then you're going have decide just how important the issue is to you...
Because Lord knows you can't track the rich who don't buy pre-paids at all. It's not like they have a permanent account with a billing address on file. Oh wait...
Um, bill? What bill? Pre-paid means, "When your roaming charges have eaten up the prepaid balance, the phone stops working."