So, pray, tell us, what resource belonging to First Nations is being consumed, so that you have less of it the signal has passed through? I will take one silver coin, and drop it on the ground, and you may comfort yourself with the sound of the money.
People who get stock options typically buy the stock and sell it right away. Unfortunately a corporate executive isn't as free as you or I to sell stock. They have to report that they've sold stock, and this alarms ignorant investors: "Palm, Inc. Jumping Shark! Founder sells 15000 shares!" To avoid doing this, they set up automatic stock sales. These sales go through regardless of what the executive knows about the stock (including material good or bad news). Forbes prints it because it's news, but that doesn't mean that it's meaningful.
Yeah, I wonder how much a modern Tandy 102 would cost? Give it a Nokia N800 screen, wifi...
Say, why not just marry a full-travel full-size bluetooth keyboard with a set of four 4500mAh NiMH D cell batteries to an N800? You'd have a battery lifetime of about 9 hours of full use.
No. You're not the first idiot to fail to understand free markets. That's why you've got me, the Angry Economist, to explain exactly and precisely why you're so painfully wrong.
Assume a closed system (take the Earth for example...),
ZOMG! How can you hope to be correct when you start off on the wrong foot? Yes, the Earth is a mostly closed system (if you ignore the energy input from the sun, and occasional donations from meterorites). What is not closed is people's valuation of these materials. Okay, let's say you have something that you want to sell, and I want to buy it. I give you money, you give me the thing. That's trade in a free market (unless I'm the government, in which case I can force you to sell). Now, would either of us immediately trade back? No! Of course not! That's because that trade has made both of us better off. No one else is harmed, and we are better off. Out of nothing, we have increased the total satisfaction in the world. So when you call it a "closed system", you start by ignoring economics. How can you hope to say anything sensible about economics when you're ignoring it?!?
The rest of your argument stems from this mistake. Now that you know where you went south, you won't go there again, okay?
Free markets are not zero sum games. If we enter a lottery, somebody walks away with the pot and everybody else loses. With trade in a free market, everyone who participates comes away a winner. So if Google employees come up with some new company, that doesn't mean that Google is harmed in any way.
DomainKeys is not a solution to spam. What it lets you do is distribute and verify authority for email. It's a solution for email forgery, which is only slightly related to spam.
Kyoto. Given that it would have cost trillions and accomplish nothing, and people want MORE controls over carbon emission than Kyoto would have created, I suggest **anybody who thinks that we can control the amount of carbon emitted in the timeframe specified as "necessary"**. I'd start with Gore and go upwards. Can't get lower than Gore.
You have the right to anything you can defend, e.g. your person, your real property, your car, the things you carry around with you. You don't have a right to control something I own, e.g. a CD with your music on it. You have to bargain with me to get that right. In exchange for being allowed to control copying for A LIMITED TIME (that's what the Constitution says, "limited time"), we allow you to control OUR PROPERTY (a CD or book that we own).
Communication Workers of America pro-consumer?? Since when is a union pro-consumer?? Union members pay their union to advocate for the union members, not consumers.
Clarkson (my alma mater) has a perennial case of the MIT / CMU / Stanford wannabees. They don't understand why they aren't a top-drawer engineering school. The answer is, as always, that they're a bunch of ninnies. Individually every (well, nearly) professor is smart as a cookie. But when they travel in packs, they become dumb as rocks. Sandstone, probably.
In other words, "Global" Warming is nothing of the sort. What it means is that some people will have bad weather. And how is this different from now? And why should it mean shutting down the global economy so that everybody becomes poor and nobody can help anybody else to pay to deal with bad weather?
Remember: climate change has always happened, but "Global Warming" is just hysteria. Give it twenty years and we'll be laughing at our fears just like we laugh at "Global Cooling" now.
There's nothing to say in favor of Microsoft other than "Well, sure, if they have valid patents which Linux developers cannot implement around, then Microsoft need only get an injunction from a court against distribution of Linux." Microsoft hasn't done that, so everybody is saying "This is FUD until we see the patent numbers and you point us to the infringing code."
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Smoke and toxic gases kill more people than flames do. http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/citizens/all_citizens/abou t_fire.shtm
Yeah, really. He should save and invest his money for rebuilding his house the next time the levees fail.
^it the^it once the
So, pray, tell us, what resource belonging to First Nations is being consumed, so that you have less of it the signal has passed through? I will take one silver coin, and drop it on the ground, and you may comfort yourself with the sound of the money.
People who get stock options typically buy the stock and sell it right away. Unfortunately a corporate executive isn't as free as you or I to sell stock. They have to report that they've sold stock, and this alarms ignorant investors: "Palm, Inc. Jumping Shark! Founder sells 15000 shares!" To avoid doing this, they set up automatic stock sales. These sales go through regardless of what the executive knows about the stock (including material good or bad news). Forbes prints it because it's news, but that doesn't mean that it's meaningful.
Yeah, I wonder how much a modern Tandy 102 would cost? Give it a Nokia N800 screen, wifi ...
Say, why not just marry a full-travel full-size bluetooth keyboard with a set of four 4500mAh NiMH D cell batteries to an N800? You'd have a battery lifetime of about 9 hours of full use.
No. You're not the first idiot to fail to understand free markets. That's why you've got me, the Angry Economist, to explain exactly and precisely why you're so painfully wrong.
ZOMG! How can you hope to be correct when you start off on the wrong foot? Yes, the Earth is a mostly closed system (if you ignore the energy input from the sun, and occasional donations from meterorites). What is not closed is people's valuation of these materials. Okay, let's say you have something that you want to sell, and I want to buy it. I give you money, you give me the thing. That's trade in a free market (unless I'm the government, in which case I can force you to sell). Now, would either of us immediately trade back? No! Of course not! That's because that trade has made both of us better off. No one else is harmed, and we are better off. Out of nothing, we have increased the total satisfaction in the world. So when you call it a "closed system", you start by ignoring economics. How can you hope to say anything sensible about economics when you're ignoring it?!?
The rest of your argument stems from this mistake. Now that you know where you went south, you won't go there again, okay?
Math Barbie says "Parallel Programming is hard!"
Free markets are not zero sum games. If we enter a lottery, somebody walks away with the pot and everybody else loses. With trade in a free market, everyone who participates comes away a winner. So if Google employees come up with some new company, that doesn't mean that Google is harmed in any way.
You *do* realize that today is Towel Day, don't you?
DomainKeys is not a solution to spam. What it lets you do is distribute and verify authority for email. It's a solution for email forgery, which is only slightly related to spam.
No, Godwin's Law only applies to comparisons to Nazis, not to talk about the Nazis themselves.
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That's a goal, not a prediction. A prediction requires that you have no ability to affect the outcome.
Kyoto. Given that it would have cost trillions and accomplish nothing, and people want MORE controls over carbon emission than Kyoto would have created, I suggest **anybody who thinks that we can control the amount of carbon emitted in the timeframe specified as "necessary"**. I'd start with Gore and go upwards. Can't get lower than Gore.
You have the right to anything you can defend, e.g. your person, your real property, your car, the things you carry around with you. You don't have a right to control something I own, e.g. a CD with your music on it. You have to bargain with me to get that right. In exchange for being allowed to control copying for A LIMITED TIME (that's what the Constitution says, "limited time"), we allow you to control OUR PROPERTY (a CD or book that we own).
Communication Workers of America pro-consumer?? Since when is a union pro-consumer?? Union members pay their union to advocate for the union members, not consumers.
Care to explain the significance of Clarkson?
Clarkson (my alma mater) has a perennial case of the MIT / CMU / Stanford wannabees. They don't understand why they aren't a top-drawer engineering school. The answer is, as always, that they're a bunch of ninnies. Individually every (well, nearly) professor is smart as a cookie. But when they travel in packs, they become dumb as rocks. Sandstone, probably.
In other words, "Global" Warming is nothing of the sort. What it means is that some people will have bad weather. And how is this different from now? And why should it mean shutting down the global economy so that everybody becomes poor and nobody can help anybody else to pay to deal with bad weather?
Remember: climate change has always happened, but "Global Warming" is just hysteria. Give it twenty years and we'll be laughing at our fears just like we laugh at "Global Cooling" now.
Oh. My. God. Well, it's nice to see that your lobotomy went well.
There's nothing to say in favor of Microsoft other than "Well, sure, if they have valid patents which Linux developers cannot implement around, then Microsoft need only get an injunction from a court against distribution of Linux." Microsoft hasn't done that, so everybody is saying "This is FUD until we see the patent numbers and you point us to the infringing code."
I bought a Dell Inspiron laptop as a graduation present for my daughter precisely *because* it came with XP instead of Vista.
You must be attending Clarkson!
Ballmer is in his Last Throws.
Nobody writes for Linux anymore, because there's too much software running on Linux.
aka Yogi Berra's "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."