Its only more effective to launch from the Moon, if the spaceship is being assembled there and the raw materials for the spaceship come from the moon, including fuel. (This could be feesable a very long way down the line, but not anywhere in the near term.)
Otherwise its simply easier to launch to assemble the ship in earth orbit, or even on earth itself. The earth has plenty of resources.
And even if you can assemble the spaceship at the moon, the crew will still needs to originally come from earth.
So even way down the line its a toss up. Is it cheaper to assemble the spacecraft on the moon and transport the crew from earth to the moon. Or to transport the spacecraft from the moon to earth orbit where it can be boarded with the crew?
This is all hypothetical for in the far future, in the near future (this century at least) launching from earth is the easiest.
"So your brokers wouldn't be able to get the stuff in the cheap country and sell them in the other country, because Nintendo would stop delivering the stuff to the distributor because of breaching the contract and selling stuff to people known as reimporters. "
Nintendo could do this only up to a point though, if they don't deliver the product they lose sales. Of course that doesn't answer the question of why the retailers would still go along with paying higher prices.
The reason for that is they can still sell at the higher prices, because the customers in those contries are willing to pay for it. If the customers were not then they would have to lower the price or the trade would not occur at all.
In a Free Market there is no such thing as overpriced. If something is overpriced no one will trade for it.
"But don't expect me to expend more resources to make your life easier. Anyone who feels entitled to the fruits of my labor just because I have something they don't have should go form their own socialist country elsewhere where they can violate each others' rights to their hearts' content."
The reason they can sell online cheaper than on the phone is this: It costs less to have people purchase online than it does to have them talking to expensive phone reps to get their tickets.
I was going to post the same link but you beat me to it.
Actually they wrote a better one on the whole enron/CA issue check it out here.
The Greast Power Shortage Myth
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1053& month=48&title=The+Great+Power%2DShortage+Myth&id= 49
"Of course, for most people, we're close to that point where chip-speed stops mattering... (maybe 1-2 more cycles of Moore's Law ought to do it.) How many people think about the speed of their computer while surfing, emailing, word-processing, or any such thing? (I know, I know, it's a cliche, but cliches are cliches because they're _true_.)"
Ha don't make me laugh. Do you seriously believe that?
I don't konw about you but I want to tell my computer what to do, not type it in or use a mouse but use voice recognition to tell it what I want it to do, and for it to make assumptions so i don't have to be speaking syntax.
I want to be able to say Me: I would like to write an email to John, tell him I really enjoyed Doom3 from years ago. Computer: What would you like it to say? Me: I will get back to that later, bring up that speadsheet I had open last week, the one listing my expenses. Also, find a good image of the New York skyline and display it full screen. If I don't have one locally find one on the net. Get the best quality one you can find.
I also want my games to look photorealistic, I shouldn't be able to tell whats a polygon and whats a texture. And I want all to happen without loading or waiting for any of it.
You think were 1-2 cycles of Moore's Law (whatever that is?) away?
Not sure where that quote is from, no the Atlas V cannot outlift the Saturn V or the Shuttle. Look at the info taken from www.astronautix.com. The LEO (Low earth orbit) payload is how much mass the rocket can lift to low earth orbit.
Atlas V LEO Payload: 12,500 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees. Payload: 5,000 kg. to a: Geosynchronous transfer trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 875,900 kgf. Total Mass: 546,700 kg. Core Diameter: 5.4 m. Total Length: 58.3 m. Launch Price $: 77.00 million. in 1998 price dollars.
Saturn V LEO Payload: 200,000 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.0 degrees. Payload: 67,000 kg. to a: Translunar trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 6,056,370 kgf. Total Mass: 5,172,820 kg. Core Diameter: 10.1 m. Total Length: 124.0 m.
Shuttle LEO Payload: 24,400 kg. to: 204 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees. Payload: 12,500 kg. to a: space station orbit, 407 km, 51.6 deg inclination trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 2,625,932 kgf. Total Mass: 2,029,633 kg. Core Diameter: 8.7 m. Total Length: 56.0 m.
"You do of course realize that you're comparing the performance of a pre-release OS complete, with debug code (you're breaking your NDA, btw) to a relased product, don't you? "
You do realize that the poster is comparing OS X to Win2000, and not Lindows to Win2000.
Its very simple why people trust companies more than they do governments.
WAR.
Sure there might be a few examples of companies that have engaged in war, nothing on the scale that governments do though.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to make a case that private companies are more evil than government. Can a company really compare with the massive problems that governments create.
Company's must offer a good or service that people want/need or they cease to exist. Consumer power if far greater than the power to vote.
Ha ha you just pointed out one of the two major flaws in socialism/communism. Who's going to take out the trash. In a socialist/communist system there is always a big problem with incentive, basically how do you get people to do the jobs nobody wants to do. In capitalism its simple there is incentive for them to do that work, namely money. In socialism/communism to get people to do the work they need to either pay them (im using that in broad terms, it could be money or anything of value), or they hold a gun to there head and make them slave labor. Or a combination of the two.
There is a great article on www.mises.org in defence of laziness that you should read. Use the linnk below. http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?record=928&mo nth=43
(make sure you get rid of that space in "month" at the end of the URL)
Also, in case anyone is wondering what the other flaw in communism/socialism is (which is actually a bigger problem than the incentive problem), is that it can't determine value. I'm not taking the time to explain that here though.
Gattaca was a great movie but the ending kind of sucked.
Think how much better the ending would have been if we find out that Ethan Hawk (forgot his character name) actually did kill the Director and got away with it. He already had a disposition to violent outbursts, and we did see him brutally attack that cop outside the restaurant.
But instead we get this rushed ending where we are expected to believe that the cops miss this important piece of evidence on the body the first time, just to find it later and solve the crime all while the climax of the movie is occurring.
This way we can believe there is some sort of "human spirit" that rises above genetics. Well I think it would have made a much better movie if they would have left the crime unsolved and right before the spaceship takes off, have Uma Thurman discover some evidence or a confession letter where Ethan Hawk tells he did commit the murder, but she does nothing to stop the launch. Then Cut to the scene at the end where he gets on the space ship and Jude Law commits suicide.
I believe you are just being sarcastic, but in any case play Total Annihilation (Best RTS to date), or if you don't want a complete RTS but turnbased strategy/real time engagement play Shogun: Total War, or wait for the next game Medeval: Total War.
I thought Lexmark was a spinoff business from IBM, (as in no longer affiliated with IBM). So Lexmark being an independent company can do whatever it wants.
Yes, Freespace 1/2 were good games. Good story, graphics, sound, music, but the physics like most other space shooters (people should not call these types of games space sims) are better defined as flying around in zero-g water, than flying through space. I'd love to play a mod with real newtonian physics of Freespace 2, this would probably throw off the in game missions and mess up the AI though, but it would be fun none the less.
If you are looking for a game with real good newtonian physics try Independence War (or if in europe its called I-War. Don't bother with Independence War 2 it has the same real newtonian physics but the actual game is not nearly as good as the first one.
Ha, when in recent years has a democrat used supply side theory? The last one I can think of is Kennedy, but that was before it was called supply side. I will agree Bush I and Bush II don't care about supply side theory very much if at all, though.
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You do understand that supply and demand are a big factor on prices.
For all the games you listed. There is a large enough supply and small enough demand to keep the prices low on those items.
Its only more effective to launch from the Moon, if the spaceship is being assembled there and the raw materials for the spaceship come from the moon, including fuel. (This could be feesable a very long way down the line, but not anywhere in the near term.)
Otherwise its simply easier to launch to assemble the ship in earth orbit, or even on earth itself. The earth has plenty of resources.
And even if you can assemble the spaceship at the moon, the crew will still needs to originally come from earth.
So even way down the line its a toss up. Is it cheaper to assemble the spacecraft on the moon and transport the crew from earth to the moon. Or to transport the spacecraft from the moon to earth orbit where it can be boarded with the crew?
This is all hypothetical for in the far future, in the near future (this century at least) launching from earth is the easiest.
"So your brokers wouldn't be able to get the stuff in the cheap country and sell them in the other country, because Nintendo would stop delivering the stuff to the distributor because of breaching the contract and selling stuff to people known as reimporters. "
Nintendo could do this only up to a point though, if they don't deliver the product they lose sales. Of course that doesn't answer the question of why the retailers would still go along with paying higher prices.
The reason for that is they can still sell at the higher prices, because the customers in those contries are willing to pay for it. If the customers were not then they would have to lower the price or the trade would not occur at all.
In a Free Market there is no such thing as overpriced. If something is overpriced no one will trade for it.
"But don't expect me to expend more resources to make your life easier. Anyone who feels entitled to the fruits of my labor just because I have something they don't have should go form their own socialist country elsewhere where they can violate each others' rights to their hearts' content."
Very Well said.
The reason they can sell online cheaper than on the phone is this:
It costs less to have people purchase online than it does to have them talking to expensive phone reps to get their tickets.
Read this:
Why the Housing Scandals
I was going to post the same link but you beat me to it. Actually they wrote a better one on the whole enron/CA issue check it out here. The Greast Power Shortage Myth http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1053& month=48&title=The+Great+Power%2DShortage+Myth&id= 49
"Of course, for most people, we're close to that point where chip-speed stops mattering... (maybe 1-2 more cycles of Moore's Law ought to do it.) How many people think about the speed of their computer while surfing, emailing, word-processing, or any such thing? (I know, I know, it's a cliche, but cliches are cliches because they're _true_.)"
Ha don't make me laugh. Do you seriously believe that?
I don't konw about you but I want to tell my computer what to do, not type it in or use a mouse but use voice recognition to tell it what I want it to do, and for it to make assumptions so i don't have to be speaking syntax.
I want to be able to say
Me: I would like to write an email to John, tell him I really enjoyed Doom3 from years ago.
Computer: What would you like it to say?
Me: I will get back to that later, bring up that speadsheet I had open last week, the one listing my expenses. Also, find a good image of the New York skyline and display it full screen. If I don't have one locally find one on the net. Get the best quality one you can find.
I also want my games to look photorealistic, I shouldn't be able to tell whats a polygon and whats a texture. And I want all to happen without loading or waiting for any of it.
You think were 1-2 cycles of Moore's Law (whatever that is?) away?
Not sure where that quote is from, no the Atlas V cannot outlift the Saturn V or the Shuttle. Look at the info taken from www.astronautix.com. The LEO (Low earth orbit) payload is how much mass the rocket can lift to low earth orbit.
Atlas V
LEO Payload: 12,500 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees. Payload: 5,000 kg. to a: Geosynchronous transfer trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 875,900 kgf. Total Mass: 546,700 kg. Core Diameter: 5.4 m. Total Length: 58.3 m. Launch Price $: 77.00 million. in 1998 price dollars.
Saturn V
LEO Payload: 200,000 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.0 degrees. Payload: 67,000 kg. to a: Translunar trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 6,056,370 kgf. Total Mass: 5,172,820 kg. Core Diameter: 10.1 m. Total Length: 124.0 m.
Shuttle
LEO Payload: 24,400 kg. to: 204 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees. Payload: 12,500 kg. to a: space station orbit, 407 km, 51.6 deg inclination trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 2,625,932 kgf. Total Mass: 2,029,633 kg. Core Diameter: 8.7 m. Total Length: 56.0 m.
Please for the love of god read
"Human Action" By Lugwig Von Mises.
Look it up on Amazon.
Go Jude Wanniski Go. Supply side economics will come back eventually.
Hehe, "I don't care who uses IE. It's just that i don't want to be forced to use IE."
You are not forced to use IE. You are not forced to use Windows. You are not forced to use the web. You are not forced to even use a computer.
Stop bitching please.
"You do of course realize that you're comparing the performance of a pre-release OS complete, with debug code (you're breaking your NDA, btw) to a relased product, don't you? "
You do realize that the poster is comparing OS X to Win2000, and not Lindows to Win2000.
Its very simple why people trust companies more than they do governments.
WAR.
Sure there might be a few examples of companies that have engaged in war, nothing on the scale that governments do though.
You'd be pretty hard pressed to make a case that private companies are more evil than government. Can a company really compare with the massive problems that governments create.
Company's must offer a good or service that people want/need or they cease to exist. Consumer power if far greater than the power to vote.
This must be sarcasm, a Radeon 7500 mobile is no where near as fast as a G4 TI 4400. Thats still an awesome laptop though.
Ha ha you just pointed out one of the two major flaws in socialism/communism. Who's going to take out the trash.
o nth=43
In a socialist/communist system there is always a big problem with incentive, basically how do you get people to do the jobs nobody wants to do. In capitalism its simple there is incentive for them to do that work, namely money.
In socialism/communism to get people to do the work they need to either pay them (im using that in broad terms, it could be money or anything of value), or they hold a gun to there head and make them slave labor. Or a combination of the two.
There is a great article on www.mises.org in defence of laziness that you should read. Use the linnk below.
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?record=928&m
(make sure you get rid of that space in "month" at the end of the URL)
Also, in case anyone is wondering what the other flaw in communism/socialism is (which is actually a bigger problem than the incentive problem), is that it can't determine value. I'm not taking the time to explain that here though.
Gattaca was a great movie but the ending kind of sucked.
Think how much better the ending would have been if we find out that Ethan Hawk (forgot his character name) actually did kill the Director and got away with it. He already had a disposition to violent outbursts, and we did see him brutally attack that cop outside the restaurant.
But instead we get this rushed ending where we are expected to believe that the cops miss this important piece of evidence on the body the first time, just to find it later and solve the crime all while the climax of the movie is occurring.
This way we can believe there is some sort of "human spirit" that rises above genetics. Well I think it would have made a much better movie if they would have left the crime unsolved and right before the spaceship takes off, have Uma Thurman discover some evidence or a confession letter where Ethan Hawk tells he did commit the murder, but she does nothing to stop the launch. Then Cut to the scene at the end where he gets on the space ship and Jude Law commits suicide.
I can only think of one movie,
2001: A Space Odessey.
I can't sepll!!
I believe you are just being sarcastic, but in any case play Total Annihilation (Best RTS to date), or if you don't want a complete RTS but turnbased strategy/real time engagement play Shogun: Total War, or wait for the next game Medeval: Total War.
Right you are. Why are so many people here afraid of business, its the government they should worry about.
These kinds of deals happen all the time in almost every industry, and their is absolutely nothing wrong with them legaly or ethically.
Well If the federal reserve keeps pouring money into the market creating inflation, 40 billion might seem like a small amount of cash.
I thought Lexmark was a spinoff business from IBM, (as in no longer affiliated with IBM). So Lexmark being an independent company can do whatever it wants.
I might be wrong about this though.
"without the bloat;"
WordPad is missing the all important spell check feature, rendering it useless for me and everyone else that can't spell.
Yes, Freespace 1/2 were good games. Good story, graphics, sound, music, but the physics like most other space shooters (people should not call these types of games space sims) are better defined as flying around in zero-g water, than flying through space. I'd love to play a mod with real newtonian physics of Freespace 2, this would probably throw off the in game missions and mess up the AI though, but it would be fun none the less.
If you are looking for a game with real good newtonian physics try Independence War (or if in europe its called I-War. Don't bother with Independence War 2 it has the same real newtonian physics but the actual game is not nearly as good as the first one.
Ha, when in recent years has a democrat used supply side theory? The last one I can think of is Kennedy, but that was before it was called supply side. I will agree Bush I and Bush II don't care about supply side theory very much if at all, though.