Actually, the courts do concur with that assessment. And it cost at least one detective his job in a high-profile case; does the name Mark Fuhrman ring a bell?
I wish people who use that stupid 'business just passes the cost off to the customer' meme took an economics 101 class, or a basic class in business administration.
Here's the deal: if the demand is high enough that Apple is capable of passing on that cost to the customer, they should have (and would have) hiked their price already. To do otherwise would have meant to pass on profit.
Nice hypothetical you have there. Unfortunately, I don't deal in hypotheticals, I deal with the real world, and the real world says that Internet libertarians are the kind of people that with a 95% confidence interval deserve the moniker 'libertard'.
Well d'oh. Adam Smith already pointed out that Unions are a necessity, because the employers sure as hell do form covenants, so if we forbid the workers to do so, we use the power of the State to oppress one part of the population on behalf of the others.
It is fairly obvious that the US Republican Party has been on a Union-busting spree of unprecedented viciousness in the Western world since Reagan; and in the same time the income disparity has increased. Correlation may not always be proof of causation, but it sure as hell implies a causation, and a smart person starts doing research to see if a causation exists or the issue is a confounding factor.
If leading philosophers of Capitalism point out such a possible causation, then the onus is on the opposition to disprove it.
And as for those that want to point at the failure of Detroit to blame the UAW: the fact that Detroit kept making bad quality land yachts in times the populace was crying out for better cars that the Japanese and Europeans were willing to supply has nothing to do with the decline of the US car industry; it's all the Unions' fault.
Unless you're the AC I'm replying to, I think the lady doth protest too much.
And aside from that, my point stands: question libertard dogma in even the most general terms, and you get plenty of libertards whining as if you insulted them personally. Thank you for proving the point.
Try changing 'some' to 'most'. Truly self-made multi-millionaires are rarer than hens' teeth.
Every time the press wants to tout a self-made man, I've looked into his background, and without fail I found at least a high-middle class background; it's a lot easier to take a risk if failure doesn't mean complete destitution.
And guess what else? Ever since the union-busting really took off, working conditions and the share of the revenue going to the workforce have declined.
Once again proving that Apple fanboys have a rather tenuous grasp on reality and facts. The judge specifically noted in the judgement why this was in fact not an unusual order.
Because Slashdot has a rather large audience of Randroids and Ron Paul zombies, and any suggestion that they are not completely rational actors must be suppressed.
The Earth is warmer than can be explained from the amount of energy from the Sun reaching its orbital position.
The only explanation that fits that data is greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trapping heat.
There are only two known atmospheric components that fit this description: CO2 and H2O vapour.
Water vapour is out, because there are mechanisms that keep the concentration more or less constant (such as increased albedo from clouds and photodissociation in the upper atmosphere).
CO2 has been known to cause a greenhouse effect in low concentrations for over a century.
How about you take a basic science class before shooting your mouth off with Right Wing Nutjob pronouncements?
Worse, the other judgements were reversed because Apple tried to have the cases tried in Community Court (i.e. judged under EU law, binding for the entire EU). The problem is however that once one court accepts the case as a Community Court, no other court in the EU has standing to do the same.
The judges specifically pointed out that at least one of the judgments Apple was using to advertise against Samsung was the result of this illegal shopping for jurisdiction.
Since the attackers came in through an open port, the firewalls are irrelevant. Now, will someone please moderate this antisemitic bullshit down to -infinity?
See, the reason I know I'm an actual human being and you're nothing but a poo-flinging baboon, is that I actually gave some arguments along with the invective.
Once again you show that most Java Monkeys cannot do anything but blindly regurgitate.
I think you shouldn't put too much stock in your own reading ability; you admit that you puke stack traces into the log. Do you know how hard it is to actually diagnose anything when your log is full of stack traces?
Of course you don't. You're a Java Monkey, a lifeform only marginally more intelligent than the PHP Ape.
Yes, about history: why don't you actually take a look at history and then go read some good books, like those by J.M. Keynes for example?
Your post specifically used timespans of 2 years as long-term overspending. Comparing that to household management, where people routinely take out 30-year loans for 5-6 times their annual pay makes you look stupid, period.
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Actually, the courts do concur with that assessment. And it cost at least one detective his job in a high-profile case; does the name Mark Fuhrman ring a bell?
Comrade, the talking point of today is how the timing of Petraeus resignation is suspicious with the Benghazi hearings coming up.
Get with the program already.
I wish people who use that stupid 'business just passes the cost off to the customer' meme took an economics 101 class, or a basic class in business administration.
Here's the deal: if the demand is high enough that Apple is capable of passing on that cost to the customer, they should have (and would have) hiked their price already. To do otherwise would have meant to pass on profit.
Nice hypothetical you have there. Unfortunately, I don't deal in hypotheticals, I deal with the real world, and the real world says that Internet libertarians are the kind of people that with a 95% confidence interval deserve the moniker 'libertard'.
Mart
Well d'oh. Adam Smith already pointed out that Unions are a necessity, because the employers sure as hell do form covenants, so if we forbid the workers to do so, we use the power of the State to oppress one part of the population on behalf of the others.
It is fairly obvious that the US Republican Party has been on a Union-busting spree of unprecedented viciousness in the Western world since Reagan; and in the same time the income disparity has increased. Correlation may not always be proof of causation, but it sure as hell implies a causation, and a smart person starts doing research to see if a causation exists or the issue is a confounding factor.
If leading philosophers of Capitalism point out such a possible causation, then the onus is on the opposition to disprove it.
And as for those that want to point at the failure of Detroit to blame the UAW: the fact that Detroit kept making bad quality land yachts in times the populace was crying out for better cars that the Japanese and Europeans were willing to supply has nothing to do with the decline of the US car industry; it's all the Unions' fault.
Unless you're the AC I'm replying to, I think the lady doth protest too much.
And aside from that, my point stands: question libertard dogma in even the most general terms, and you get plenty of libertards whining as if you insulted them personally. Thank you for proving the point.
Actually they were; they voted against increased security budgets.
But then again, since you sound like a parrot left next to a radio tuned to Rush, I don't think you will go look into the facts.
Try changing 'some' to 'most'. Truly self-made multi-millionaires are rarer than hens' teeth.
Every time the press wants to tout a self-made man, I've looked into his background, and without fail I found at least a high-middle class background; it's a lot easier to take a risk if failure doesn't mean complete destitution.
And guess what else? Ever since the union-busting really took off, working conditions and the share of the revenue going to the workforce have declined.
Smart people would notice the correlation.
Apparently Foxconn doesn't seem to care.
Once again proving that Apple fanboys have a rather tenuous grasp on reality and facts. The judge specifically noted in the judgement why this was in fact not an unusual order.
Fuck off, you goalpost-moving, science-denying moron.
Mart
And the neat thing is, the libertards are so predictable to jump on anything who does not agree that Rand is God and Paul is her prophet.
Because Slashdot has a rather large audience of Randroids and Ron Paul zombies, and any suggestion that they are not completely rational actors must be suppressed.
Now explain this:
How about you take a basic science class before shooting your mouth off with Right Wing Nutjob pronouncements?
Rich people don't invest, they spend on luxuries, which has a lower return in terms of jobs and contribution to the GDP.
Mart
Actually, this was an order in a single jurisdiction. The UK Court was sitting as a Community Court.
Worse, the other judgements were reversed because Apple tried to have the cases tried in Community Court (i.e. judged under EU law, binding for the entire EU). The problem is however that once one court accepts the case as a Community Court, no other court in the EU has standing to do the same.
The judges specifically pointed out that at least one of the judgments Apple was using to advertise against Samsung was the result of this illegal shopping for jurisdiction.
Since the attackers came in through an open port, the firewalls are irrelevant. Now, will someone please moderate this antisemitic bullshit down to -infinity?
I think you meant to say "something I pulled out of my ass without even doing a cursory review of the existing knowledge".
Mart
See, the reason I know I'm an actual human being and you're nothing but a poo-flinging baboon, is that I actually gave some arguments along with the invective.
Once again you show that most Java Monkeys cannot do anything but blindly regurgitate.
I think you shouldn't put too much stock in your own reading ability; you admit that you puke stack traces into the log. Do you know how hard it is to actually diagnose anything when your log is full of stack traces?
Of course you don't. You're a Java Monkey, a lifeform only marginally more intelligent than the PHP Ape.
Mart
And this is why I hate Java programmers: the idea that puking a stack trace into the logs is perfectly fine diagnostics.
As someone who has to admin large java-based systems, I have one thing to say to that: Go die in a fire.
Mart
Yes, about history: why don't you actually take a look at history and then go read some good books, like those by J.M. Keynes for example?
Your post specifically used timespans of 2 years as long-term overspending. Comparing that to household management, where people routinely take out 30-year loans for 5-6 times their annual pay makes you look stupid, period.
Explain why the Humble Bundle consistently sees the highest contributions coming from Linux users?