"Now all we need is a good government to define "public interest" to be in the interest of the actual public of the people, not the corporations."
As one of the 50% of Americans who own stock in corporations, I wish you'd learn about them and who owns them. The corporations are the people, or at least a large number of them. People who think there's more to earning a living than someone sending you a paycheck - then complaining about it.
But career politician Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown and his 5 or 6 government pensions, owned by the unions, and who created the CA public employee collective bargaining mess in the first place, he's "in touch?"
"Face it the iPhone is yesterday's phone and an Android phone is today's phone, tomorrow's phone now that another question."
Apple will have it's biggest quarter ever in Q1, all those people who waited for the new iPhone all summer put off their purchase and bought a 4S. Apple still can't make enough of them. The iPhone has a much better customer loyalty rate than Android phones.
Let's see Google actually make a profit on Android - and survive all the lawsuits - before we crown it king.
"Samsung blew past Apple and Nokia in the third quarter to become the No. 1 smartphone vendor in the world, but another emerging smartphone vendor stole the top spot in the U.S. according to a new report"
As GP says, Apple's numbers are real sales. The submission summary suggests that Samsung and Nokia have beaten Apple. For a company so lambasted here as closed, it's sales numbers sure are a lot more open and transparent than this "devices shipped" canard we are hearing about Samsung and HTC.
"I imagine it would look similar to what Augusta National does in not accepting female members: they would be just fine."
Of course, race and sex are not analogous. There are all-female clubs. The main reason country clubs don't allow women? So men can get away from their wives! Trust me, I've been a guest at some very nice country clubs, and this is the reason. There is this thing called "freedom of association."
People, like myself, own corporations. It's about economic liberty and Libertarians are quote clear on this. You might have your statist justifications for your selective big government solutions, and good for you. But they are decidedly not about liberty. They are about statist nannyism infringing on the economic interests of others (e.g., Apple stockholders) versus you or your favored group.
"The positions are consistent if you're interested in increasing the liberty of individuals."
Whose liberty? Certainly not the Apple or Microsoft stockholder when you pass your little regulations. Such liberty comes at others' expense, a zero sum game.
I totally disagree that IP protection, as spelled out in Article I of the Constitution, qualifies as welfare, or that a competitive governemtn contract for products or services does either. Welfare is when the government sends you a check for doing nothing.
Just because you don't like something doesn't make it welfare.
""Yes, we want to allow employers to refuse to hire black people. We think that racism is a smaller problem than government intrusion.""
Do we really need anti-discrimination laws in the US today? How would a US business do if it got out that they wouldn't serve black people?
Meanwhile, landlords now have to rent to people with kids or be sued, and police departments can't fire fat cops. Discrimination, 2011 ed., means something a lot different than it did in 1954.
Those spots are typically empty, and I hate rolling into a lot with no spaces, except 15 handicapped spots. Get rid of them! Government intrusion on private property! How about the government comes over to your house and tells you where in your driveway you can park?
There's my fanboy justification, get rid of mandatory handicap spots.
You mean the guy who was dying of cancer? That guy should be jailed for parking in a handicapped spot?
Where are all the supposed Libertarians here on/. pointing out what a government intrusion it is to tell private companies what kind of parking spaces they should have, let alone jailing people for not complying with them?
The tinfoil hat crowd, "government out of my life" - unless they are talking about big companies they don't like, then it's, "rain down the wrath of Big Government on them!"
All the Federal student aid program has done is make tuition rise far past inflation. The taxpayers of my state and city pay my salary. And yes, California gets a lot less back from the feds than it pays out. How can you possibly believe this giant federal bureaucracy doesn't needlessly squander money?
Private schools don't teach the PC nonsense of public schools, like CA's recent gay and transgender silliness. The three "R's," Readin', 'ritin', 'ritmatic, beat your but with a hickory stick. There is discipline and respect for teachers in the classroom. In public schools, you have to murder a teacher to get kicked out. They don't put up with that crap in private schools. The worst thing to happen to education in the US was making it a "right" instead of a privilege.
And BTW, the lower quintiles should be learning a trade in woodshop or metal fabrication, instead of dragging the good students down with the Marxist eqality-of-outcome thinking of the liberal teachers' unions.
"What's with all the Android-baiting on Slashdot lately?"
What is with the blind faith in Google? They are a for-profit corporation, so obviously they aren't going to be open. They spent two years' profit on Moto Mobility, so of course they are going to give them preferential treatment. From the Oracle lawsuit discovery:
"If we gave [Android] away, how do we ensure we get benefit from it? [We] create policies that allow us to drive the standard,"
"Tuition costs have "risen" basically on par with how state funding has fallen"
Then how do you explain private university tuition going up.? Just like with housing, it's all the federal student loan money thrown at education that has caused tuition to rise way past inflation. Eliminate that boondoggle, and colleges wouldn't be able to raise tuition every year. The money would dry up. What would they do, close their doors, or cut expenses and lower tuition?
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Hulk smash hybrid.
"Now all we need is a good government to define "public interest" to be in the interest of the actual public of the people, not the corporations."
As one of the 50% of Americans who own stock in corporations, I wish you'd learn about them and who owns them. The corporations are the people, or at least a large number of them. People who think there's more to earning a living than someone sending you a paycheck - then complaining about it.
But career politician Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown and his 5 or 6 government pensions, owned by the unions, and who created the CA public employee collective bargaining mess in the first place, he's "in touch?"
In casinos, your odds are the same as everyone else (obviously excluding games with some skill like blackjack.) That's gambling.
In capitalism, you take risk, which varies depending on what you bring to the table, good product, good marketing, etc.
Just remember, Steve Jobs sold his car to found Apple. Years later, he sold all his Apple shares to found Next. No risk, no reward.
Way more Android models, and they give the things away. And yet, Apple looks to be passing Android.
Apple doesn't discuss their products in advance, and the ads usually come out a week or so after the product release.
"Face it the iPhone is yesterday's phone and an Android phone is today's phone, tomorrow's phone now that another question."
Apple will have it's biggest quarter ever in Q1, all those people who waited for the new iPhone all summer put off their purchase and bought a 4S. Apple still can't make enough of them. The iPhone has a much better customer loyalty rate than Android phones.
Let's see Google actually make a profit on Android - and survive all the lawsuits - before we crown it king.
"Samsung blew past Apple and Nokia in the third quarter to become the No. 1 smartphone vendor in the world, but another emerging smartphone vendor stole the top spot in the U.S. according to a new report"
As GP says, Apple's numbers are real sales. The submission summary suggests that Samsung and Nokia have beaten Apple. For a company so lambasted here as closed, it's sales numbers sure are a lot more open and transparent than this "devices shipped" canard we are hearing about Samsung and HTC.
See also, The bullshit Samsung smartphone numbers
"I imagine it would look similar to what Augusta National does in not accepting female members: they would be just fine."
Of course, race and sex are not analogous. There are all-female clubs. The main reason country clubs don't allow women? So men can get away from their wives! Trust me, I've been a guest at some very nice country clubs, and this is the reason. There is this thing called "freedom of association."
When did I say anything about "abusing taxpayer funded courts"? My point is handicap spaces on private property are an annoyance and an intrusion.
"Corporations and people are different."
People, like myself, own corporations. It's about economic liberty and Libertarians are quote clear on this. You might have your statist justifications for your selective big government solutions, and good for you. But they are decidedly not about liberty. They are about statist nannyism infringing on the economic interests of others (e.g., Apple stockholders) versus you or your favored group.
"The positions are consistent if you're interested in increasing the liberty of individuals."
Whose liberty? Certainly not the Apple or Microsoft stockholder when you pass your little regulations. Such liberty comes at others' expense, a zero sum game.
Don't speak for libertarians if you aren't one.
I totally disagree that IP protection, as spelled out in Article I of the Constitution, qualifies as welfare, or that a competitive governemtn contract for products or services does either. Welfare is when the government sends you a check for doing nothing.
Just because you don't like something doesn't make it welfare.
""Yes, we want to allow employers to refuse to hire black people. We think that racism is a smaller problem than government intrusion.""
Do we really need anti-discrimination laws in the US today? How would a US business do if it got out that they wouldn't serve black people?
Meanwhile, landlords now have to rent to people with kids or be sued, and police departments can't fire fat cops. Discrimination, 2011 ed., means something a lot different than it did in 1954.
Those spots are typically empty, and I hate rolling into a lot with no spaces, except 15 handicapped spots. Get rid of them! Government intrusion on private property! How about the government comes over to your house and tells you where in your driveway you can park?
There's my fanboy justification, get rid of mandatory handicap spots.
You mean the guy who was dying of cancer? That guy should be jailed for parking in a handicapped spot?
/. pointing out what a government intrusion it is to tell private companies what kind of parking spaces they should have, let alone jailing people for not complying with them?
Where are all the supposed Libertarians here on
Verb:
Display (something) ostentatiously, esp. in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.
Seems like the opposite, he didn't display his plate.
The guy was dying of cancer, seems handicapped enough to me.
The tinfoil hat crowd, "government out of my life" - unless they are talking about big companies they don't like, then it's, "rain down the wrath of Big Government on them!"
Like speed and stability and security improvements. Isn't that why there are Linux updates coming out all the time?
can attest, those library cops can track you down decades later.
All the Federal student aid program has done is make tuition rise far past inflation. The taxpayers of my state and city pay my salary. And yes, California gets a lot less back from the feds than it pays out. How can you possibly believe this giant federal bureaucracy doesn't needlessly squander money?
"Rhetorical question" on Wikipedia?
Private schools don't teach the PC nonsense of public schools, like CA's recent gay and transgender silliness. The three "R's," Readin', 'ritin', 'ritmatic, beat your but with a hickory stick. There is discipline and respect for teachers in the classroom. In public schools, you have to murder a teacher to get kicked out. They don't put up with that crap in private schools. The worst thing to happen to education in the US was making it a "right" instead of a privilege.
And BTW, the lower quintiles should be learning a trade in woodshop or metal fabrication, instead of dragging the good students down with the Marxist eqality-of-outcome thinking of the liberal teachers' unions.
"What's with all the Android-baiting on Slashdot lately?"
What is with the blind faith in Google? They are a for-profit corporation, so obviously they aren't going to be open. They spent two years' profit on Moto Mobility, so of course they are going to give them preferential treatment. From the Oracle lawsuit discovery:
"If we gave [Android] away, how do we ensure we get benefit from it? [We] create policies that allow us to drive the standard,"
"Tuition costs have "risen" basically on par with how state funding has fallen"
Then how do you explain private university tuition going up.? Just like with housing, it's all the federal student loan money thrown at education that has caused tuition to rise way past inflation. Eliminate that boondoggle, and colleges wouldn't be able to raise tuition every year. The money would dry up. What would they do, close their doors, or cut expenses and lower tuition?