The market economy we live in requires an ever-growing population.
So change the economy. In fact it's as simple as changing the monetary system from one which is naturally inflationary to one which is naturally deflationary.
Think about not pushing your genes onward. Actually, given that higher-incomes have less children on average, think about adopting an at-risk child and giving them a good education.
Yeah, you haven't figured out the meaning of life yet.
until they are competitive with gas. That won't happen until gas becomes expensive. There needs to be a market for alternatives, at the moment there's no point because people will just continue with gas because it's cheaper.
I don't think it should be taxed mind you. Just add it to the cap and trade emissions system.
Yeah, but we're talking about reducing CO2 rather than using it as an additional tax on the economy. Cap'n trade will have a far bigger effect on CO2 levels than a tax. If they were planning on reducing other taxes on sales and incomes, business capital gains etc then great, migrating from taxing people's work to taxing machines work great but that isn't going to happen, it'd just be additional taxation.
What's needed is a decent standardised easy to code to data bus and yes, a standard data format. Like Unix stdio but network wide. There are too many proprietary competing systems at the moment.
Cue xmlBlaster or other Message Oriented Middleware and Rosettanet/other data definition standards et al. Why hasn't it been happening? NIH, ignorance, laziness, narrow focus.
Throwing hardware at a badly performing application is usually the wrong way to go about getting better performance. The performance gains you're going to get are usually marginal unless there's some gross configuration mistake. The biggest performance gains are made by making changes to the application. Count that as another reason to investigate free software.
Don't tax oil/fuel, simply include it in the cap'n trade emission system. This'll send the funds directly to the greener systems without the politicians first getting their greasy paws on it. It reduces their ability to f*ck it all up.
Until my digital camera automatically tags all photos with the information then uploads them wirelessly and automatically up to my flickr or other site, then logs the photos into google earth or whatever. I can't be arsed. Really all this is completely automatable so why would I bother?
Wealth is only created if the cost of buying/implementing Vista is lower than the savings/earnings through resulting cost reduction or productivity improvements over the existing system. It's far more marginal than Y and may be negative. Of course CEO of MS says wealth created is Y * number of sales.
Plagiarists get lower grades, or fail their exams and coursework. This reduces the numbers passing, reducing the supply of graduates thereby increasing the value of your hard work and grades. Grades are like money, if everyone has a million dollars then a million dollars is worthless.
Also collaborative filtering, rate a bunch of products, which could well be films, or anything else, and have products recommended by people who rated other things in a similar way to you. I have to be honest, it could be implemented better but it basically works.
Not really Walmart in particular. It has far more to do with oversupply.
Ok so the US farmer is concerned about competing against the EU farmer for corn, he goes to his representative and demands a subsidy to make things fair, which he gets, EU farmer goes to his representative and gets a similar subsidy, both farmers are now producing corn at below the true market value. It gets worse, in order to obtain the maximum subsidy, the US and EU farmer maximise their yields of corn, in addition, seeing large subsidies, lots of other farmers begin producing corn to take advantage of subsidies. The result is huge oversupply and with that a lower and lower market value. Eventually the unwanted corn mountain is dumped on the third world as aid and decimates the agricultural markets there as well causing famine, civil war and millions of deaths.
Walmart, as sociopathic as their organisation may or may not be has relatively little to do with the problem, they just take advantage of it. The solution to low prices for farmers is for subsidies to be removed and for a significant proportion of them to stop farming and do something else instead.
Egroupware, webdav pretty much do what you suggest. A 500 quid turnkey box would be ideal for small businesses, add a web accounts package and you've got everything a small business needs to run.
You can set up a system like that in a couple of days.
MS does this when competitors announce new products they hadn't thought of themselves. They suggest they're going to move into the market and essentially wipe out the competition. It's to keep the microsoft shops waiting for their product. It seems to take them about 3 years to come up with something worthwhile, if they ever do.
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So change the economy. In fact it's as simple as changing the monetary system from one which is naturally inflationary to one which is naturally deflationary.
Yeah, you haven't figured out the meaning of life yet.
Sorry, mother nature beat you to it. We ate them all.
until they are competitive with gas. That won't happen until gas becomes expensive. There needs to be a market for alternatives, at the moment there's no point because people will just continue with gas because it's cheaper.
I don't think it should be taxed mind you. Just add it to the cap and trade emissions system.
Yeah, but we're talking about reducing CO2 rather than using it as an additional tax on the economy. Cap'n trade will have a far bigger effect on CO2 levels than a tax. If they were planning on reducing other taxes on sales and incomes, business capital gains etc then great, migrating from taxing people's work to taxing machines work great but that isn't going to happen, it'd just be additional taxation.
We've been doing it for decades.
What's needed is a decent standardised easy to code to data bus and yes, a standard data format. Like Unix stdio but network wide. There are too many proprietary competing systems at the moment.
Cue xmlBlaster or other Message Oriented Middleware and Rosettanet/other data definition standards et al. Why hasn't it been happening? NIH, ignorance, laziness, narrow focus.
Throwing hardware at a badly performing application is usually the wrong way to go about getting better performance. The performance gains you're going to get are usually marginal unless there's some gross configuration mistake. The biggest performance gains are made by making changes to the application. Count that as another reason to investigate free software.
You should jump ship to a competitor... Oh wait, you can't be bothered. In that case, tough cheese.
The free market picks the most cost efficient system, not the technically best. Whatever is "good enough" to do the job.
However, it's $7 in today's dollars, not tomorrow's. It's just that inflation will make $500 in 2020 be worth $7 in today's money.
Isn't the point to push people away from using fuel by making it more expensive?
Don't tax oil/fuel, simply include it in the cap'n trade emission system. This'll send the funds directly to the greener systems without the politicians first getting their greasy paws on it. It reduces their ability to f*ck it all up.
Looks around. Surprised and wide eyed. There's something very wrong here...
I know... We've had this day before!!!! We're in a TIME BOUNCE!!!!! AAAAArrrrrgghhhh!!!
A box of capacitors in the garage. Trickle charge them over 24 hours at about one kW, discharge them into the car when you park.
Until my digital camera automatically tags all photos with the information then uploads them wirelessly and automatically up to my flickr or other site, then logs the photos into google earth or whatever. I can't be arsed. Really all this is completely automatable so why would I bother?
That doesn't stop the really determined idiot though. Oh no.
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It came with my PC.
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Eye ran this poem threw it,
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And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
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-- "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
By Jerrold H. Zar, Northern Illinois University
Journal of Irreproducible Results 39, 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 13
Wealth is only created if the cost of buying/implementing Vista is lower than the savings/earnings through resulting cost reduction or productivity improvements over the existing system. It's far more marginal than Y and may be negative. Of course CEO of MS says wealth created is Y * number of sales.
A monopoly happened and subsequent network effect. At least on the Windows side.
In the short term yes, it is a zero sum game. In the long term you're correct. Wealth creation is a vastly and inappropriately overused term.
It's wealth movement.
Plagiarists get lower grades, or fail their exams and coursework. This reduces the numbers passing, reducing the supply of graduates thereby increasing the value of your hard work and grades. Grades are like money, if everyone has a million dollars then a million dollars is worthless.
Also collaborative filtering, rate a bunch of products, which could well be films, or anything else, and have products recommended by people who rated other things in a similar way to you. I have to be honest, it could be implemented better but it basically works.
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http://www.whynot.net/ideas/2195
Not really Walmart in particular. It has far more to do with oversupply.
Ok so the US farmer is concerned about competing against the EU farmer for corn, he goes to his representative and demands a subsidy to make things fair, which he gets, EU farmer goes to his representative and gets a similar subsidy, both farmers are now producing corn at below the true market value. It gets worse, in order to obtain the maximum subsidy, the US and EU farmer maximise their yields of corn, in addition, seeing large subsidies, lots of other farmers begin producing corn to take advantage of subsidies. The result is huge oversupply and with that a lower and lower market value. Eventually the unwanted corn mountain is dumped on the third world as aid and decimates the agricultural markets there as well causing famine, civil war and millions of deaths.
Walmart, as sociopathic as their organisation may or may not be has relatively little to do with the problem, they just take advantage of it. The solution to low prices for farmers is for subsidies to be removed and for a significant proportion of them to stop farming and do something else instead.
Egroupware, webdav pretty much do what you suggest. A 500 quid turnkey box would be ideal for small businesses, add a web accounts package and you've got everything a small business needs to run.
You can set up a system like that in a couple of days.
MS does this when competitors announce new products they hadn't thought of themselves. They suggest they're going to move into the market and essentially wipe out the competition. It's to keep the microsoft shops waiting for their product. It seems to take them about 3 years to come up with something worthwhile, if they ever do.