if a decision how to value something is left for everyone in each case, ones with more negotiating power, force their decisions on everybody else.
If people get to make their own decisions (which is the case in a free market), then how is someone able to force their decisions on everybody else? Either you didn't write what you mean, or what you mean is incomprehensible.
The California misregulation of the electricity market was primarily caused by price controls. If you limit the amount that a price can rise, then if the product demand increases, supply will not increase to meet the demand. This is simple economic theory. Did you sleep through that class, too?
-russ
Also, in addition to the costs Christopher lists, leave room for corruption. A portal company in a certain second-world country stiffed me for 7% of my invoice. They just refused to pay it. I, being a foreign national in a country where I do not speak the language, was without recourse. I'm glad that I got what I got.
-russ
It doesn't use any Win32 APIs. It supports Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP. Runs over Crynwr packet drivers. And a wireless connection rocks. I was a LPB for a while, until Clarkson shut down my back-door wireless T-1 equivalent.
-russ
I have to second the choice of djbdns. It's extremely portable software. Download, untar, make setup check, tinydns-conf, start svscan and you're up and running.
-russ
If you don't like MAPS, then don't subscribe to services which use it. Or is your problem that you want to spam people, and you don't like the fact that MAPS makes it a lot harder?
-russ
So I get a call from a spammer just now. He's looking for high-level
email services, which I advertise on my home page, along with my phone
number. He wants to make sure that I've got a reliable connection,
because he keeps losing his Internet connection. I ask him why. He
says that his Internet providers keep kicking him off, accusing him of
spam. "But it's legal by federal law and by my state to send
unsolicited advertising". I hang up on him.
He's so stupid that he doesn't get it the first time. He calls back.
I know it's him because I've got caller ID. I pick up the receiver
and drop it.
He's not only stupid, he's persistent. He calls back a third time,
and I give him the finger again.
Yes, because the money could have been used for some software that enough people wanted. Forcibly extracting money from people to pay for something that they won't voluntarily pay for also stops them from voluntarily paying for something they want *more*.
In general, forcing people to do things makes them worse off.
-russ
The magstripe readers I've seen are either integrated, or else hook inline to the keyboard. So no Linux support is necessary. That's why you haven't been able to find any.
-russ
There is no such thing as a right "to" anything. A right "to" something is another way to say that you have a right to force somebody else to do something to help you.
Instead, true rights are things that nobody can do to you: own you, hurt you, take your property, stop you from saying or writing something, or going somewhere, or meeting with someone.
A "right to a job" imposes an obligation on someone else to provide you with a job. True rights don't interfere with anyone else's rights.
-russ
The Constitution is not a guarantee of anything. It is an agreement between a people and a government. The Federal Government agrees that it will only do a few carefully circumscribed activities (this is the theory anyway), and the people will not revolt against it.
That we've failed to enforce the Constitution is hardly the fault of our government. Governments have a certain nature -- to take away freedom. Woe until any citizenry that forgets that as ours has.
-russ
The core of the problem is basic business stupidity.
All the new electricity resellers are bound by price controls.
Sentence #1 and sentence #2 contradict each other. If the businesses are bound by price controls, then they're not being stupid. Instead, they're doing what they can in a situation created by insufficient deregulation.
Why is cert using https to publish advisories? My version of Netscape can't browse to their site because it and their site does not share a common encryption algorithm. Is there a plain-jane http: version of this URL?
-russ
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If people get to make their own decisions (which is the case in a free market), then how is someone able to force their decisions on everybody else? Either you didn't write what you mean, or what you mean is incomprehensible.
-russ
The California misregulation of the electricity market was primarily caused by price controls. If you limit the amount that a price can rise, then if the product demand increases, supply will not increase to meet the demand. This is simple economic theory. Did you sleep through that class, too?
-russ
You're welcome. :)
-russ
Three different string encapsulations. That should be enough to tag it as bletcherous.
-russ
Because they're both 1) widely used, and 2) have had remote root exploits.
-russ (webmaster@qmail.org and webmaster@djbdns.com)
Also, in addition to the costs Christopher lists, leave room for corruption. A portal company in a certain second-world country stiffed me for 7% of my invoice. They just refused to pay it. I, being a foreign national in a country where I do not speak the language, was without recourse. I'm glad that I got what I got.
-russ
Trust an economist to get economical issues correct. I mean, who else could even come close?
-russ
Call we please call it it mis-regulation, not de-regulation? When the utilities have to ask for price increases, they're not deregulated.
-russ
It doesn't use any Win32 APIs. It supports Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP. Runs over Crynwr packet drivers. And a wireless connection rocks. I was a LPB for a while, until Clarkson shut down my back-door wireless T-1 equivalent.
-russ
Your eyes can already pick out a single pixel. At least, *you* know that you're looking at it.
-russ
I have to second the choice of djbdns. It's extremely portable software. Download, untar, make setup check, tinydns-conf, start svscan and you're up and running.
-russ
If you don't like MAPS, then don't subscribe to services which use it. Or is your problem that you want to spam people, and you don't like the fact that MAPS makes it a lot harder?
-russ
email services, which I advertise on my home page, along with my phone
number. He wants to make sure that I've got a reliable connection,
because he keeps losing his Internet connection. I ask him why. He
says that his Internet providers keep kicking him off, accusing him of
spam. "But it's legal by federal law and by my state to send
unsolicited advertising". I hang up on him.
He's so stupid that he doesn't get it the first time. He calls back.
I know it's him because I've got caller ID. I pick up the receiver
and drop it.
He's not only stupid, he's persistent. He calls back a third time,
and I give him the finger again.
Stupid spammers.
-russ
Yes, because the money could have been used for some software that enough people wanted. Forcibly extracting money from people to pay for something that they won't voluntarily pay for also stops them from voluntarily paying for something they want *more*.
In general, forcing people to do things makes them worse off.
-russ
Can I moderate this post "Funny", and "Troll" at the same time??
-russ
The magstripe readers I've seen are either integrated, or else hook inline to the keyboard. So no Linux support is necessary. That's why you haven't been able to find any.
-russ
I don't hold a conversation with anonymous cowards. Signon or be satisfied with one reply.
-russ
There is no such thing as a right "to" anything. A right "to" something is another way to say that you have a right to force somebody else to do something to help you.
Instead, true rights are things that nobody can do to you: own you, hurt you, take your property, stop you from saying or writing something, or going somewhere, or meeting with someone.
A "right to a job" imposes an obligation on someone else to provide you with a job. True rights don't interfere with anyone else's rights.
-russ
The Constitution is not a guarantee of anything. It is an agreement between a people and a government. The Federal Government agrees that it will only do a few carefully circumscribed activities (this is the theory anyway), and the people will not revolt against it.
That we've failed to enforce the Constitution is hardly the fault of our government. Governments have a certain nature -- to take away freedom. Woe until any citizenry that forgets that as ours has.
-russ
Who calls this a free market? It's not a free market, it's a "differently regulated" market.
-russ
Sentence #1 and sentence #2 contradict each other. If the businesses are bound by price controls, then they're not being stupid. Instead, they're doing what they can in a situation created by insufficient deregulation.
-russ
Turns out that a plain http transfer works as well.
-russ
Why is cert using https to publish advisories? My version of Netscape can't browse to their site because it and their site does not share a common encryption algorithm. Is there a plain-jane http: version of this URL?
-russ
They want to filter out the foul language.
-russ
But can a gecko walk on it?
-russ