True... and you pay the lowest prices for their products that you can get away with. Anything wrong with that? What prevents them from charging more? What prevents you from being paid as little as they would like?
Competition! When you contract for employment, you have an expert on your side, advising you what your employer must pay to get you on staff. This expert is the company's competition. You have no idea how much your employer is able to pay -- but their competitor does, and they'll hire you away if the employer tries to pay too little.
(Insert messy world, where nothing works as well as you'd like -- including unions and the FLSA.)
I'm not assuming a strongly competitive market. I realize that some markets are not. I'm pointing to a better solution than the FLSA -- one which requires politicians to do less -- and citizens to demand that they do that.
Errr if you have "free trade" then your point #2 is wrong. Care to try again?
Of course reality is messy and there are always things that cause a theory to work imperfectly. Objects still fall with increasing velocity even when there's turbulance in the air which makes computing the *exact* velocity unlikely.
Someone else made the same point -- that you have to negotiate to get the highest salary. Not true in a competitive market. You don't have to be an expert on determining what you're worth, just like you don't have to be an expert in determining what eggs or milk are worth, and what price a grocery is willing to accept. They know that you're going to be comparing prices with the grocery across town, and if they sell the eggs or milk for less, you'll go shop there.
Yes, true, labor isn't quite such a commodity. Still the point holds that the employer knows how much he's willing to pay, and it's his competition that keeps him honest, in wages as much as in prices. Most regulation acts to reduce competition, because any regulation acts as a barrier to entry.
FLSA or not, you get paid what you're worth. If not, then you move on. A strongly competitive market ensures that people will be able to find a new job. As long as they can do that, employers will have to pay an employee what they're worth if they want to keep them.
When somebody subscribes to one of my mailing lists, and confirms, we need a token from the mailbox provider which, when included on an incoming email means that the email is NEVER spam. Spam reports get converted into unsubscribe requests.
True. What to do about it, though? Is the problem that we really *do* want security? Or is the problem that people who see through the sham are unwilling to speak up?
MMV. My Chordite keyboard caused a neckless pinhead screener to react, shutting down security in Burlington VT and causing me and others to miss my flights. I was completely cooperative even though they're doing an unnecessary job (passengers will kill anybody attempting a hijack, and if the sole goal is to kill, there are many softer targets, e.g. any state fair).
This is the end of the Batman movie franchise. You can't have Batman without the Joker, and you can't have a better Joker than Heath Ledger, and he's dead.
No, it's not American Sign Language. It uses a special gesture system, dictated by the location of the pairs of key paids that need to make contact. Has nothing to do with American Sign Language.
Well, the big problem is that it needs to fit better than a glove. Plus you have left and right handed versions. I can just imagine persuading Best Buy to stock ten different versions of the keyboard. NOT! I need the keyboard to be both flexible and solid, movable and stable.
Okay, holocaust deniers are lunatics because you can (still) go talk to people who were in the concentration camps, watched the people disappear, and smelled the burning flesh from the incinerators. You can (still) go talk to the soldiers who freed them from the camps, who saw the mounds of shoes.
Where is the evidence for AGW? That it's gotten warmer? DOH! Everybody expects it to get warming, and lo and behold, it has.
So, to abuse the term "denier" for people on one side of the AGW controversy, is to diminish its use for people who claim that the Nazis weren't evil; just misunderstood.
That's a nice theory, but nobody was tracking fractional degree changes in the earth's temperature during the past sixty 5-degree warming / cooling cycles. We simply DO NOT KNOW what speed of warming or cooling is typical, nor what the bounds of the natural warming and cooling speeds are. We can't say that the speed necessarily is caused by CO2 emissions.
You're talkng about faith-based science here, only because the faith goes in the direction of the religion of environmentalism, they don't decry it.
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True ... and you pay the lowest prices for their products that you can get away with. Anything wrong with that? What prevents them from charging more? What prevents you from being paid as little as they would like?
Competition! When you contract for employment, you have an expert on your side, advising you what your employer must pay to get you on staff. This expert is the company's competition. You have no idea how much your employer is able to pay -- but their competitor does, and they'll hire you away if the employer tries to pay too little.
(Insert messy world, where nothing works as well as you'd like -- including unions and the FLSA.)
If the back of your birth certificate says "Life will be fair", then for you, life will be fair.
I'm not assuming a strongly competitive market. I realize that some markets are not. I'm pointing to a better solution than the FLSA -- one which requires politicians to do less -- and citizens to demand that they do that.
Errr if you have "free trade" then your point #2 is wrong. Care to try again?
Of course reality is messy and there are always things that cause a theory to work imperfectly. Objects still fall with increasing velocity even when there's turbulance in the air which makes computing the *exact* velocity unlikely.
Someone else made the same point -- that you have to negotiate to get the highest salary. Not true in a competitive market. You don't have to be an expert on determining what you're worth, just like you don't have to be an expert in determining what eggs or milk are worth, and what price a grocery is willing to accept. They know that you're going to be comparing prices with the grocery across town, and if they sell the eggs or milk for less, you'll go shop there.
Yes, true, labor isn't quite such a commodity. Still the point holds that the employer knows how much he's willing to pay, and it's his competition that keeps him honest, in wages as much as in prices. Most regulation acts to reduce competition, because any regulation acts as a barrier to entry.
Okay, but the example you picked is one of a highly regulated market: banking. How can you expect competition and regulation at the same time?
Worse: we have to reverse-engineer the undocumented parts, e.g. RTMP.
None of the open-source implementations, last I checked, would run YouTube, or any embedded video.
Huh? Gnash runs YouTube just fine. So does Swfdec. Are you on an unsupported platform?
Swfdec is written in C, and Gnash in C++.
FLSA or not, you get paid what you're worth. If not, then you move on. A strongly competitive market ensures that people will be able to find a new job. As long as they can do that, employers will have to pay an employee what they're worth if they want to keep them.
When somebody subscribes to one of my mailing lists, and confirms, we need a token from the mailbox provider which, when included on an incoming email means that the email is NEVER spam. Spam reports get converted into unsubscribe requests.
But there's no standard for this.
great idea, except then politicians would have to give up the thing that gets them contributions: control.
I see only one solution: revolution.
Folks... This is going too far. Way too far.
True. What to do about it, though? Is the problem that we really *do* want security? Or is the problem that people who see through the sham are unwilling to speak up?
From their perspective, all searches are reasonable. WE'RE AT WAR AGAINST A TACTIC, you know.
MMV. My Chordite keyboard caused a neckless pinhead screener to react, shutting down security in Burlington VT and causing me and others to miss my flights. I was completely cooperative even though they're doing an unnecessary job (passengers will kill anybody attempting a hijack, and if the sole goal is to kill, there are many softer targets, e.g. any state fair).
This is the end of the Batman movie franchise. You can't have Batman without the Joker, and you can't have a better Joker than Heath Ledger, and he's dead.
No, it's not American Sign Language. It uses a special gesture system, dictated by the location of the pairs of key paids that need to make contact. Has nothing to do with American Sign Language.
Well, the big problem is that it needs to fit better than a glove. Plus you have left and right handed versions. I can just imagine persuading Best Buy to stock ten different versions of the keyboard. NOT! I need the keyboard to be both flexible and solid, movable and stable.
I'll pay $2,000 for one if it had a 10-year replacement warranty.
I'll sell you one of these http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite for $2,000 with a 10-year replacement warranty.
http://flickr.com/photos/russnelson/2675626315/
Okay, holocaust deniers are lunatics because you can (still) go talk to people who were in the concentration camps, watched the people disappear, and smelled the burning flesh from the incinerators. You can (still) go talk to the soldiers who freed them from the camps, who saw the mounds of shoes.
Where is the evidence for AGW? That it's gotten warmer? DOH! Everybody expects it to get warming, and lo and behold, it has.
So, to abuse the term "denier" for people on one side of the AGW controversy, is to diminish its use for people who claim that the Nazis weren't evil; just misunderstood.
Uhhhh, you do realize that much food in the US is grown with the help of fossil fuels?
That's a nice theory, but nobody was tracking fractional degree changes in the earth's temperature during the past sixty 5-degree warming / cooling cycles. We simply DO NOT KNOW what speed of warming or cooling is typical, nor what the bounds of the natural warming and cooling speeds are. We can't say that the speed necessarily is caused by CO2 emissions.
You're talkng about faith-based science here, only because the faith goes in the direction of the religion of environmentalism, they don't decry it.
that man is responsible for the sudden and sharp increase in overall global temperature since the industrial age? That's no longer in serious dispute.
Isn't it funny how everyone who wants to avoid this dispute claims that there is no dispute?
And exactly HOW many slashdot readers do you think understand the broken window fallacy?