Let us analyze the situation you mention. If Google is making $100MM on $700MM Revenue, and growing at 20%, and their 14% margin and 20% growth/year hold for 10 years (a lifetime in tech), and the low interest rate is sustained at 5%, then:
Income(t)=$100MM(1.2^t), PresentValue(I(t))=(I(t)/(1.05^t), Sum of all PV|0t10, and the answer is (consults OOCalc) $2.24 billion in profits.
Of course, a firm is a source of cashflows in perpetuity, and at a PEG=2, which a well run no debt high growth stock should get, it'll get valued by the market around $4 billion. And all you need is someone else who thinks it's worth that to sell it at that price.
If you not only go after the people who send the spam, but the people whose products are being advertised, then I think we'll get some results.
All that would happen is you'd see OSS people spamming for MS, Republicans spamming for Democrats, etc. First, you need accountability, then you can expand the scope. Now, if its demonstrable that a company PAYS to spam, then I think they're already implicated under current law. But thats just small distributers anyway.
And does anyone actually believe that the fossil fuels industry will lie down and let this happen without a fight?
Lie down and let some upstart buy their oil and methane as an energy source and hydrogen source? Capitalism isn't about making money, its about killing promising technologies by colluding men with cigars in penthouses!
...even if its digital 'paperwork', why not slap on a fee for every 14 years? If, after 14 years, your copyright is still worth something to you, even if only sentimental values, you wouldn't be willing to pay on the scale of a dollar a year, its not worth wasting copyright archive (and legal protection) resources.
If the people have to pay the costs associated with reviewing, they should at least be entitled to that which isn't worth that cost.
"Sulfur Dioxide - Main cause of acid rain 10,000 Tons Nitrogen Oxides - Causes smog and acid rain 10,200 Tons Carbon Dioxide - Greenhouse gas suspected of causing global warming 3,700,000 Tons
It also produces smaller amounts of just about every element on the periodic table, including the radioactive ones. In fact, a coal-burning power plant emits more radiation than a (properly functioning) nuclear power plant!"
The problem is that the big software companies behind these games know three things:
1) Big companies have money.
2) People will buy anything with high $ graphics and advertising
3) Genius designers are rare This is exactly the same situation as Hollywood. It is easier to make expensive movies and hype them and make money than to hire geniuses to write, direct and act in movies. Most of any artform is crap, which makes the gems more valuable. The same rule applies in software as everything else in life: boycot crap. Thats how markets work.
I'm currently playing this game at home. It's been 7 years since I used non-GUI UNIX... and its more revetting than any of video game titles since GTA: VC.
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Here is a link. Cleveland Institute of Art is one of the best for graphic design.
if you use bittorrent to only download from the lowest ping/highest bandwidths, you optimize the entire internet. by taking bandwidth from only the fastest routes, you reduce the strain on the rest of the internet.
and since another article today said 60% of traffic is file transfers, this is saving everyone in the country/world resources, and therefore money. a 1% increase in a $100 billion industry (theres ~$80 bil/yr in networking equipment per year, so this is the right order of magnitude) means that bittorrent is producing $1 billion in savings per year. can't say precisely the impact here, but its potentially huge. gj bittorrent team.
Since theory doesnt assuage your spasing, heres some empirical evidence:
1) The energy used collides with Earth daily. Cosmic rays are much stronger, and so far, I've noticed no 'sucked up into the sky' disasters 2) Even if it doesn't radiate, the gravity holding it together is less than the electromagnetic forces. It'll fall apart either way.
On another note, I will be selling 'Black Hole Insurance' at very resonable prices. Please inquire for rates.
Exploiting monopoly is by its nature, illegal. If it could be demonstrated that their pricing is designed to undercut the competition, thats abuse of monopoly power. Microsoft is trying to exploit the LegalCode(tm) bug that a gift can't be selling, and therefore isn't subject to those legal standards. It's just more envelope pushing, and legality is for the courts to decide.
if their response rate is one in a million, why not put a $0.0001 fee on emails? I use a lot of email, and I dont think that the one cent per hundred is gonna break my bank. (Of course, if you tax it, they'll do it surreptitiously.)
If they can get this thing off the ground (pun intended), think about the synergy applications: -Wireless networking service -Wireless phone service -Balloon digital radio -Balloon "satellite" TV -Air traffic control relay -Mobile/Static radar stations
Also, at 1500m, is it feasible (not necessarily cost effective) to build an antenna tower up to it?
The only way to guarantee no counterfeiting is to make the currency cost more to manufacture than its value, at which point commodities are more valuable, and making 'currency' a commodity.
The entire point of currency is its value is entirely legal (the full faith and credit of the US government), not instrinsic. Your gold standard idea was tried before, and the cornering of the US gold market caused the Great Depression. Hence the float and reserve system.
Iraqi dinars are notoriously easy to counterfeit. The ink smudges when it gets wet, and the life expectancy of a new Saddam (250 dinar bill, ~20c on todays exchange rate) is usually about 6 months. The problem is the counterfeits are usually more expensive to make than the bills themselves.
The country that pioneered mass-production and mass-interchangeability make unique notes for each value? The dollar, five, ten, and twenty all fit in our postal machines with minimal hassling. Cash registers all have equal sized slots. Wallets are already the right size. Changing all that crap is probably more costly than the counterfeiting damage.
Americans don't use US currency. We use bankers, accountants, and databases to do our transactions. Foreign currency holdings in most central banks are heavily weighted in dollars. Exempli gratis, Iraq and Uday's bank heist. Plus, the USD is traditionally one of the most stable stores of value.
I see, in the near future, a video game where an innocent videogamer is assailed by evil law enforcement officials for playing a game they found offensive, and ends up killing them all. I also forsee strong sales in British Columbia, Idaho, and Oregon.
Microsoft:
Annual Revenues: $28.4 bil
Net Income: $7.8 bil (ibid)
Debts: $12.7 bil (ibid)
Cash on hand: $42.6 bil (ibid)
Thai Government:
Annual Revenues: $24.5 billion
Deficit: $2.1 bil (ibid)
Foreign Debts: $3.8 bil
Foreign Reserves: $38.7 bil (ibid)
Thailand is barely ahead excluding non-cash assets on both sides, but Microsoft's cash generation will bring them ahead within 12 months, more likely less than 6.
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Let us analyze the situation you mention.
If Google is making $100MM on $700MM Revenue, and growing at 20%,
and their 14% margin and 20% growth/year hold for 10 years (a lifetime in tech),
and the low interest rate is sustained at 5%, then:
Income(t)=$100MM(1.2^t), PresentValue(I(t))=(I(t)/(1.05^t), Sum of all PV|0t10, and the answer is (consults OOCalc) $2.24 billion in profits.
Of course, a firm is a source of cashflows in perpetuity, and at a PEG=2, which a well run no debt high growth stock should get, it'll get valued by the market around $4 billion. And all you need is someone else who thinks it's worth that to sell it at that price.
If you not only go after the people who send the spam, but the people whose products are being advertised, then I think we'll get some results.
All that would happen is you'd see OSS people spamming for MS, Republicans spamming for Democrats, etc. First, you need accountability, then you can expand the scope. Now, if its demonstrable that a company PAYS to spam, then I think they're already implicated under current law. But thats just small distributers anyway.
...if Chile will call the Oregon Department of Transportation to remove this giant thing from the shore?
And does anyone actually believe that the fossil fuels industry will lie down and let this happen without a fight?
Lie down and let some upstart buy their oil and methane as an energy source and hydrogen source? Capitalism isn't about making money, its about killing promising technologies by colluding men with cigars in penthouses!
I believe you neglected IP infringement. How many million Americans booked on how many counts per day?
Clearly, I'm not entering these games...
Just keep quiet so I can keep my precious little karma!
...even if its digital 'paperwork', why not slap on a fee for every 14 years? If, after 14 years, your copyright is still worth something to you, even if only sentimental values, you wouldn't be willing to pay on the scale of a dollar a year, its not worth wasting copyright archive (and legal protection) resources.
If the people have to pay the costs associated with reviewing, they should at least be entitled to that which isn't worth that cost.
Chemical weapons are a lot easier to make disappear than nuclear weapons are to make.
1) Find river
2) Dump
While PDRK intel is worse than the crappy Iraqi intel, their threats to use these weapons force you to assume they have them.
Better sell that to Rockstar Games first...
Easy.
PANMJ=5
FIJCUBA=7
SWEDNORWAY=10
AUSTRLI=7
CANDUTES=8
There's more radiation inhaled by coal fumes than emitted by nuclear power for the same amount of power. And then theres the ecological damage...
Pollutants produced per year by a 500kW coal plant:
"Sulfur Dioxide - Main cause of acid rain 10,000 Tons
Nitrogen Oxides - Causes smog and acid rain 10,200 Tons
Carbon Dioxide - Greenhouse gas suspected of causing global warming 3,700,000 Tons
It also produces smaller amounts of just about every element on the periodic table, including the radioactive ones. In fact, a coal-burning power plant emits more radiation than a (properly functioning) nuclear power plant!"
The problem is that the big software companies behind these games know three things:
1) Big companies have money.
2) People will buy anything with high $ graphics and advertising
3) Genius designers are rare
This is exactly the same situation as Hollywood. It is easier to make expensive movies and hype them and make money than to hire geniuses to write, direct and act in movies. Most of any artform is crap, which makes the gems more valuable.
The same rule applies in software as everything else in life: boycot crap. Thats how markets work.
I'm currently playing this game at home. It's been 7 years since I used non-GUI UNIX... and its more revetting than any of video game titles since GTA: VC.
Here is a link. Cleveland Institute of Art is one of the best for graphic design.
if you use bittorrent to only download from the lowest ping/highest bandwidths, you optimize the entire internet. by taking bandwidth from only the fastest routes, you reduce the strain on the rest of the internet.
and since another article today said 60% of traffic is file transfers, this is saving everyone in the country/world resources, and therefore money. a 1% increase in a $100 billion industry (theres ~$80 bil/yr in networking equipment per year, so this is the right order of magnitude) means that bittorrent is producing $1 billion in savings per year. can't say precisely the impact here, but its potentially huge. gj bittorrent team.
Since theory doesnt assuage your spasing, heres some empirical evidence:
1) The energy used collides with Earth daily. Cosmic rays are much stronger, and so far, I've noticed no 'sucked up into the sky' disasters
2) Even if it doesn't radiate, the gravity holding it together is less than the electromagnetic forces. It'll fall apart either way.
On another note, I will be selling 'Black Hole Insurance' at very resonable prices. Please inquire for rates.
Exploiting monopoly is by its nature, illegal. If it could be demonstrated that their pricing is designed to undercut the competition, thats abuse of monopoly power. Microsoft is trying to exploit the LegalCode(tm) bug that a gift can't be selling, and therefore isn't subject to those legal standards. It's just more envelope pushing, and legality is for the courts to decide.
if their response rate is one in a million, why not put a $0.0001 fee on emails? I use a lot of email, and I dont think that the one cent per hundred is gonna break my bank. (Of course, if you tax it, they'll do it surreptitiously.)
If they can get this thing off the ground (pun intended), think about the synergy applications:
-Wireless networking service
-Wireless phone service
-Balloon digital radio
-Balloon "satellite" TV
-Air traffic control relay
-Mobile/Static radar stations
Also, at 1500m, is it feasible (not necessarily cost effective) to build an antenna tower up to it?
The only way to guarantee no counterfeiting is to make the currency cost more to manufacture than its value, at which point commodities are more valuable, and making 'currency' a commodity.
The entire point of currency is its value is entirely legal (the full faith and credit of the US government), not instrinsic. Your gold standard idea was tried before, and the cornering of the US gold market caused the Great Depression. Hence the float and reserve system.
Iraqi dinars are notoriously easy to counterfeit. The ink smudges when it gets wet, and the life expectancy of a new Saddam (250 dinar bill, ~20c on todays exchange rate) is usually about 6 months. The problem is the counterfeits are usually more expensive to make than the bills themselves.
The country that pioneered mass-production and mass-interchangeability make unique notes for each value? The dollar, five, ten, and twenty all fit in our postal machines with minimal hassling. Cash registers all have equal sized slots. Wallets are already the right size. Changing all that crap is probably more costly than the counterfeiting damage.
Americans don't use US currency. We use bankers, accountants, and databases to do our transactions. Foreign currency holdings in most central banks are heavily weighted in dollars. Exempli gratis, Iraq and Uday's bank heist. Plus, the USD is traditionally one of the most stable stores of value.
Everyone hates spam. Even Sen. McCain has taken an official position that there needs to be a national action against spam.
I see, in the near future, a video game where an innocent videogamer is assailed by evil law enforcement officials for playing a game they found offensive, and ends up killing them all. I also forsee strong sales in British Columbia, Idaho, and Oregon.
Microsoft:
Annual Revenues: $28.4 bil
Net Income: $7.8 bil (ibid)
Debts: $12.7 bil (ibid)
Cash on hand: $42.6 bil (ibid)
Thai Government:
Annual Revenues: $24.5 billion
Deficit: $2.1 bil (ibid)
Foreign Debts: $3.8 bil
Foreign Reserves: $38.7 bil (ibid)
Thailand is barely ahead excluding non-cash assets on both sides, but Microsoft's cash generation will bring them ahead within 12 months, more likely less than 6.