I lay much of the blame squarely at the feet of Ralph Nader. Much as I'd like to vote for a 'spoiler candidate' for president, I can't stomach the lies he told in 'Unsafe at Any Speed'. And the thought of voting for a man without a driver's license is almost as absurd as voting for a man who had never seen a checkout price scanner prior to 1990.
How much movie piracy occurs in Ohio? Shouldn't these wanks be more worried about trying to get some jobs and industry back into the state? (Wife is from Ohio. I've looked at relocating there. No thanks.)
Medecine needs price controls since demand doesn't change with price. Demand is pretty consistant regardless of price and supply
Not true. Wrong on many counts.
First, commodity type care (routine checkups) is relatively cheap. There's no reason to think it won't stay that way. Where costs get out of hand is in specialty care. In particular, end of life care is incredibly expensive. Demand is not price inelastic. See, demand isn't just 'I want it', demand is 'I want it for this much, and I can pay for it'.
You've also ignored the supply side of the question. Let's say it's worth $50,000 to buy treatment X to cure your life threatening illness. But a provider will only do it for $75,000. You don't get the treatment. If there is an imposed ceiling of $50,000 for the treatment, fewer providers (a generic term, as it could be a doc, NP, homeopath, or some other quack) will provide.
You're on slashdot, so let me make a few assumptions. Let's say you are a programmer. Every person thinks that the program you create is worth, let's say, $10 per copy. You think it worth $50. The government says 'it's only worth $10, and that's all you can charge'. Do you continue to make that software or sell it new? Or do you find another vocation? And what about the/. kiddies who are getting ready for college? When they see that they can't set their own prices for their work product, do they get an MD, a CS degree, or just go get a law degree (who are relatively free to set their own prices)?
(How much would you pay to save your life..)
Again, it's not just how much would you pay, it's how much would you and can you pay to save your own life. (Or buy a widget, or a piece of software). I constantly see people piss and moan about correct technological terms on slashdot (is that a megabyte or a mibibyte, etc.), I expect the same for economic terms.
Who wouldn't want a redundant array for a fridge:)
You *do* know my parents then. Unfortunately, there's so much cruft stored in the array that it can be a bit frightening. There are entire partitions that need to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Chevrolet is a horrible comparison. Prior to WWII and prior to various regulatory requirements beginning largely in the 60's, there were hundreds and hundreds of foreign and domestic competitors to Chevrolet. The reason you can't compete with Chevy has very little to do with tech, and everything to do with safety and emissions requirements. It's almost trivial in most of the US to build your own car. But to build them and sell them. Good luck.
That's kinda why I fix my parents' computer without too much grumbling. And they're still paying for it. I needed to build a train table for my son. Rather than buying hundreds or thousands of bucks worth of tools and wood, I went to my father's house yesterday, grabbed some scrap wood, etc, etc. Nice 3x4 foot train table. Then I spent about two hours working on their network (and gave up. It's got me stumped. I recommended a new bit of hardware.) Sounds about even to me. Oh, and I got to raid the fridge for leftovers to bring to my house as well.
Those 78's sound like shit. My mother has tons of them and two refurbed players. 33's and 45's are a much better comparison. (and they aren't as brittle as the damned 78's)
No, it's because his girlfriend has another guy living there who bangs her like there's no tomorrow instead of fucking around on all those damned computers.
As regards the targetting of civilians of the opposing countries, the actions are comparable. The bombing of Rotterdam by Germany explicitly set out to crush the Dutch, killing approximately 30000. This is and was deplorable. But later attacks by the US and Allied forces were no better in this regard.
IOW, war is hell. Hardly deserving of an insightful mod. Perhaps the Japanese should have thought of this before bombing Pearl Harbor? (And yes, the US should have more fully considered the consequences prior to their current aggressive behavior)
Not sure about caffeine, but I know that nicotine changes brain chemistry. Replaces/supplants some needed neurochemicals. One of the reasons for addiction and withdrawal is that the body needs to learn to start making them again. I'm pretty sure that caffeine has a similar effect.
But yes, you are correct: 'flushing out the toxins' does sound a bit like homeopathy.
30 points on the SAT is just noise. Sure, colleges place hard and fast limits, but 30 points is within your standard deviation. Your 'real' score could be higher or lower.
Points for knowing 'the tragedy of the commons'; points off for not recognizing other areas in which OSS doesn't qualify. Using OSS doesn't leave less for others to use. Using OSS doesn't pollute, damage, or destroy it, preventing others from using it. There is no incentive to rush in and grab as much OSS as possible before others can take it.
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Damn. I was gonna say that Greedo was wearing one of these when he shot first.
from what I've heard, all future consoles from the Big Three will have specs that make 1.4GHz look a little lame
And from what I've heard, we will all be driving flying cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells in 2010.
TurboTax for the web. You can get pissed at the TOS, but I'd rather be safe than sorry when it comes to my taxes.
Would it be asking too much for you to link to the 'offending' url? Especially for me. I can't seem to find any porn on the internet.
I lay much of the blame squarely at the feet of Ralph Nader. Much as I'd like to vote for a 'spoiler candidate' for president, I can't stomach the lies he told in 'Unsafe at Any Speed'. And the thought of voting for a man without a driver's license is almost as absurd as voting for a man who had never seen a checkout price scanner prior to 1990.
How much movie piracy occurs in Ohio? Shouldn't these wanks be more worried about trying to get some jobs and industry back into the state? (Wife is from Ohio. I've looked at relocating there. No thanks.)
Medecine needs price controls since demand doesn't change with price. Demand is pretty consistant regardless of price and supply
/. kiddies who are getting ready for college? When they see that they can't set their own prices for their work product, do they get an MD, a CS degree, or just go get a law degree (who are relatively free to set their own prices)?
Not true. Wrong on many counts.
First, commodity type care (routine checkups) is relatively cheap. There's no reason to think it won't stay that way. Where costs get out of hand is in specialty care. In particular, end of life care is incredibly expensive. Demand is not price inelastic. See, demand isn't just 'I want it', demand is 'I want it for this much, and I can pay for it'.
You've also ignored the supply side of the question. Let's say it's worth $50,000 to buy treatment X to cure your life threatening illness. But a provider will only do it for $75,000. You don't get the treatment. If there is an imposed ceiling of $50,000 for the treatment, fewer providers (a generic term, as it could be a doc, NP, homeopath, or some other quack) will provide.
You're on slashdot, so let me make a few assumptions. Let's say you are a programmer. Every person thinks that the program you create is worth, let's say, $10 per copy. You think it worth $50. The government says 'it's only worth $10, and that's all you can charge'. Do you continue to make that software or sell it new? Or do you find another vocation? And what about the
(How much would you pay to save your life..)
Again, it's not just how much would you pay, it's how much would you and can you pay to save your own life. (Or buy a widget, or a piece of software). I constantly see people piss and moan about correct technological terms on slashdot (is that a megabyte or a mibibyte, etc.), I expect the same for economic terms.
Who wouldn't want a redundant array for a fridge :)
You *do* know my parents then. Unfortunately, there's so much cruft stored in the array that it can be a bit frightening. There are entire partitions that need to be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Chevrolet is a horrible comparison. Prior to WWII and prior to various regulatory requirements beginning largely in the 60's, there were hundreds and hundreds of foreign and domestic competitors to Chevrolet. The reason you can't compete with Chevy has very little to do with tech, and everything to do with safety and emissions requirements. It's almost trivial in most of the US to build your own car. But to build them and sell them. Good luck.
That's kinda why I fix my parents' computer without too much grumbling. And they're still paying for it. I needed to build a train table for my son. Rather than buying hundreds or thousands of bucks worth of tools and wood, I went to my father's house yesterday, grabbed some scrap wood, etc, etc. Nice 3x4 foot train table. Then I spent about two hours working on their network (and gave up. It's got me stumped. I recommended a new bit of hardware.) Sounds about even to me. Oh, and I got to raid the fridge for leftovers to bring to my house as well.
Those 78's sound like shit. My mother has tons of them and two refurbed players. 33's and 45's are a much better comparison. (and they aren't as brittle as the damned 78's)
No, it's because his girlfriend has another guy living there who bangs her like there's no tomorrow instead of fucking around on all those damned computers.
I had trouble finding a list of JP1 remotes. How do I identify the connecter? (I dl'ed the PDF, but am impatient to look through all of it:)
Heh, 1000 comments? 6656 and counting.
Blah, blah, blah, blah. If you don't have the time to raise kids, don't have them.
Lawsuits? I don't know. Protests? Yes.
Loony groups with too much time on their hands? Yes.
And yes, I call my wife a 'guinea mick', but she calls me a 'mutt'.
It seems your 'time in the wilderness' the past few months has blunted your patience:)
As regards the targetting of civilians of the opposing countries, the actions are comparable. The bombing of Rotterdam by Germany explicitly set out to crush the Dutch, killing approximately 30000. This is and was deplorable. But later attacks by the US and Allied forces were no better in this regard.
IOW, war is hell. Hardly deserving of an insightful mod. Perhaps the Japanese should have thought of this before bombing Pearl Harbor? (And yes, the US should have more fully considered the consequences prior to their current aggressive behavior)
Not sure about caffeine, but I know that nicotine changes brain chemistry. Replaces/supplants some needed neurochemicals. One of the reasons for addiction and withdrawal is that the body needs to learn to start making them again. I'm pretty sure that caffeine has a similar effect.
But yes, you are correct: 'flushing out the toxins' does sound a bit like homeopathy.
30 points on the SAT is just noise. Sure, colleges place hard and fast limits, but 30 points is within your standard deviation. Your 'real' score could be higher or lower.
Enter zoo.pl (aka journals) on slashdot, and you'll meet and know plenty of people. BTW, more than 791 posts, and you officially need to get a life.
You seem to be going at me as if you think I'm a Marxist and yet I've stated, in this very thread no less, that Marx got it all wrong.
Yeah, it seemed like fun, precisely because of your disclaimer.
How do you distribute them? Each according to his need?
What a daft idea. Why should they sieze what the vast majority of them already possess?
Touche.
Points for knowing 'the tragedy of the commons'; points off for not recognizing other areas in which OSS doesn't qualify. Using OSS doesn't leave less for others to use. Using OSS doesn't pollute, damage, or destroy it, preventing others from using it. There is no incentive to rush in and grab as much OSS as possible before others can take it.