I don't understand the problem here. Powell's simply needs to ban children from their store. Why should children be reading books their parents haven't approved, anyway? In fact, I think no child should be allowed to read a book that their parents haven't or can't read. That way, illiteracy will become an inheritable disease, and we'll need a government program to treat it. Your health care dollars at work.
Plus, guarding the Federal Reserve building in NYC are "Federal Reserve Police". What the hell branch of government do THEY fall under??? Executive? Legislative? Judicial? (you didn't count the Marshalls).
The very basis of wisdom is accepting that you might be wrong. Some people are so good at arguing and so used to being more right than their neighbor that they never have to confront their own fallibility. Yeah, I used to think that, but I was wrong.... so wrong.
Business is war too, fighting over the territory of another, leaving hundreds of thousands without jobs, a crashed economy or any number of other problems. Oh, yeah, definitely, the McDonald's and the Burger King in my town lob mortars across the street at each other, all the time. And the Pepsi and Coca-Cola troops battle each other with their soda-delivery tanks.
Interestingly, non-violent action on the part of German civilians did work against Hitler. But I don't want to disturb your war-monger fantasies, so don't read this posting.
Efficiency? You mean like designing and building four different UVAs for each branch of the US military? You mean like designing a computer language for its own projects that nobody else uses (Ada)?
I hope that Microsoft realizes that if they don't sell Windows XP, we'll steal it. And by "steal" I mean make fair use of a product not being sold. Copyright exists to protect commerce, not property rights. If someone refuses to sell a copyrighted work, a defense against copyright infringent is to point out that you're making non-commercial use of a work that is not being sold.
Errrr, but you intended to share it with me, because you didn't secure it. This story isn't about people breaking into secure networks. It's about those nice people who intentionally leave their wifi network open for other people to use. Clearly this story isn't about you.
The problem with their searching is a form like this one: http://quaker.org/users.cgi It's *meant* to keep people out unless they've entered into a legal agreement.
Oh. My. God. When you're having a stupid attack, please do the rest of us a favor and just shut up, okay? There are *always* barriers to competition, so "logically" (as if you know what that means) free markets would never be "ideal" (whatever you mean by that). Yet there's plenty of evidence that more-free markets function better than less-free markets. Yes, some problems are hard to solve because of economies of scale, transaction costs, or barriers to entry. But claiming that you can solve a problem of monopoly by relying on a monopoly government pegs my bogo-meter.
As long as you're talking about things that the government has had a hand in, how about NASA Yeah, I spent last week up at the NASA moonbase doing a server install. It didn't take a week, of course. I spent the rest of the time touring the famous craters. Good thing we have NASA instead of some crummy private company!
Use cooperatives instead of the municipality. The problem with paying things through the municipality is that their bonding gets paid-for by everybody. Ask any of the towns which bonded to build railroads that didn't get built a hundred or so years ago. Harpersfield, NY is one example: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D12F7355C15738DDDAA0894DB405B8884F0D3 but there are many others.
One alternative to government schools are home schooling. It's legal in all 50 states, and even though it's fairly expensive in terms of one parents' time, more and more people are opting out of the government school system.
Interstate roads are obvious: let anybody build, and tap into the electronic toll system. That even works for state routes. Where it becomes difficult are the local roads leading to people's houses. But do you realize that most of these roads were built by the housing developer, and handed over to the local municipality. If the road was built to their standard, they take over maintaining it. But your property taxes are paying for the road anyway, so why not just have the developer continue to own the road, reduce your taxes, and he can subcontract for maintenance.
As for the rest of the services you name ("the like") I name "the like" solutions.
I'm tempted to resort to sarcasm here, because what you said is so stupid. However, I won't, because if you're that stupid, you will think that my sarcasm is agreeing with you. Instead, I'll point out that it's the greed of competing entities that forces them to be honest or lose your business. Who competes with the federal government? Other country's governments? The transaction cost of switching is a little high. That's why governments are incompetent -- because they're greedy and have nobody to keep them honest. If Verizon pisses me off, my transaction cost for switching is $175.
You will be missed. There is not much that can be said when the scietific community looses such a distinguished and important person. loses Also, scientific.
The intent of copyright is to allow an author of a creative work to profit from sales of the work. It is NOT intended to stop non-profit copying of a work which is not being sold. If you're engaging in non-commercial copying of a copyrighted work, a judge will take seriously a defense of "But I cannot buy the work!"
Nobody wants to sell their house short. The banks taking foreclosures typically want to sell quickly, so they're dropping their prices, which puts price pressure on the other houses.
People who cant spel don't care that they can't spell. Ridiculing them is a waste of time, first, because they don't care, and second, because they can't tell that you're mis-spelling stuff.
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I don't understand the problem here. Powell's simply needs to ban children from their store. Why should children be reading books their parents haven't approved, anyway? In fact, I think no child should be allowed to read a book that their parents haven't or can't read. That way, illiteracy will become an inheritable disease, and we'll need a government program to treat it. Your health care dollars at work.
Dead people have no privacy rights.
Plus, guarding the Federal Reserve building in NYC are "Federal Reserve Police". What the hell branch of government do THEY fall under??? Executive? Legislative? Judicial? (you didn't count the Marshalls).
Governments fight wars. Businesses trade peacefully.
Interestingly, non-violent action on the part of German civilians did work against Hitler. But I don't want to disturb your war-monger fantasies, so don't read this posting.
Um, I would point out that Heinlein was a science FICTION author. Reality much?
Efficiency? You mean like designing and building four different UVAs for each branch of the US military? You mean like designing a computer language for its own projects that nobody else uses (Ada)?
Don't get me started about government efficiency.
When people say "intuitive", they really mean "familiar" -- Jef Raskin.
I hope that Microsoft realizes that if they don't sell Windows XP, we'll steal it. And by "steal" I mean make fair use of a product not being sold. Copyright exists to protect commerce, not property rights. If someone refuses to sell a copyrighted work, a defense against copyright infringent is to point out that you're making non-commercial use of a work that is not being sold.
Errrr, but you intended to share it with me, because you didn't secure it. This story isn't about people breaking into secure networks. It's about those nice people who intentionally leave their wifi network open for other people to use. Clearly this story isn't about you.
The problem with their searching is a form like this one: http://quaker.org/users.cgi It's *meant* to keep people out unless they've entered into a legal agreement.
Oh. My. God. When you're having a stupid attack, please do the rest of us a favor and just shut up, okay? There are *always* barriers to competition, so "logically" (as if you know what that means) free markets would never be "ideal" (whatever you mean by that). Yet there's plenty of evidence that more-free markets function better than less-free markets. Yes, some problems are hard to solve because of economies of scale, transaction costs, or barriers to entry. But claiming that you can solve a problem of monopoly by relying on a monopoly government pegs my bogo-meter.
Use cooperatives instead of the municipality. The problem with paying things through the municipality is that their bonding gets paid-for by everybody. Ask any of the towns which bonded to build railroads that didn't get built a hundred or so years ago. Harpersfield, NY is one example: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D12F7355C15738DDDAA0894DB405B8884F0D3 but there are many others.
One alternative to government schools are home schooling. It's legal in all 50 states, and even though it's fairly expensive in terms of one parents' time, more and more people are opting out of the government school system.
Interstate roads are obvious: let anybody build, and tap into the electronic toll system. That even works for state routes. Where it becomes difficult are the local roads leading to people's houses. But do you realize that most of these roads were built by the housing developer, and handed over to the local municipality. If the road was built to their standard, they take over maintaining it. But your property taxes are paying for the road anyway, so why not just have the developer continue to own the road, reduce your taxes, and he can subcontract for maintenance.
As for the rest of the services you name ("the like") I name "the like" solutions.
I'm tempted to resort to sarcasm here, because what you said is so stupid. However, I won't, because if you're that stupid, you will think that my sarcasm is agreeing with you. Instead, I'll point out that it's the greed of competing entities that forces them to be honest or lose your business. Who competes with the federal government? Other country's governments? The transaction cost of switching is a little high. That's why governments are incompetent -- because they're greedy and have nobody to keep them honest. If Verizon pisses me off, my transaction cost for switching is $175.
Ignore the form at your peril. There is no FUSSP.
The intent of copyright is to allow an author of a creative work to profit from sales of the work. It is NOT intended to stop non-profit copying of a work which is not being sold. If you're engaging in non-commercial copying of a copyrighted work, a judge will take seriously a defense of "But I cannot buy the work!"
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... any real risk"? I call you insane.
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The stock is down 93.5% from its high last year. You call that "never
Nobody wants to sell their house short. The banks taking foreclosures typically want to sell quickly, so they're dropping their prices, which puts price pressure on the other houses.
Auction.
... the housing bubble/bust was the product of a free market, Mmmmmm, no, the Fed made credit too cheap. HARDLY the product of a free market.People who cant spel don't care that they can't spell. Ridiculing them is a waste of time, first, because they don't care, and second, because they can't tell that you're mis-spelling stuff.
Interesting. The t-mobile.com website uses RGB e7 00 73 -- pretty close but no cigar.