If you are talking about "free market" as in no government regulations of safety or liability, then they would probably be significantly less expensive, and significantly more dangerous.
Because people really want to buy drugs that are dangerous and would never look at third-party certification?
errh I mean make campaign contributions, to 2 parties. Try to elect some representatives from the pirate party, like sweden has.
Well, they usually donate to campaigns, not as much to parties. There's one big-party candidate running this year who is only taking small individual contributions. That would seem to fit the description.
We're stuck with two parties until we get rid of plurality voting in the US. Political science has proven that this voting system always leads to two-party systems. A Condorcet method ought to be used, probably Approval Voting (as a compromise between good outcomes and actually being implementable).
The government does lots of stuff that would be illegal if somebody else does it. Heck, according to the FBI, many TSA agents are committing rape as a profession.
But, hey, they have a monopoly on violence, and people are constantly dreaming up new powers they want the government to have to use that violence to squelch their particular itch, so it just gets worse and worse, as do most positive feedback cycles.
Except Newhost doesn't rotate IP addresses very often, and Joe's old router isn't bright to send updates to dyndns unless the IP address actually changes.
That's not an issue. DynDNS started expiring hosts that hadn't checked in for 30 days at least five years ago. There was a thread on dd-wrt boards about it (which got a patch), so that could narrow down the date if needed.
If the stuff is working now, it will keep working for the foreseeable future.
If it's really important, though, he shouldn't rely on a free service to be there forever.
That's what the release notes say, but I'm pretty sure it's just internal encryption. For some reason sdcard isn't encrypted. I don't get why but some people were still looking to get LUKS working for sdcard.
one could get much more effective by directly seeking out people need help - as in, one family, or even just one person - and giving it to them directly.
Yeah, there was an article linked from Freakonomics a few [weeks,months] back that reviewed charity rating systems, and one of the ones they were talking about does just that. It's a young charity without a track record yet, but their charity model is to find a person in need and give them money.
The theory is that they know better how to spend that money to help themselves than some office person at an NGO in Brussels.
I hope that's true. If they're educated enough it probably is.
I have known some guys that were/are in "The Agency" and like the work and serving their country. Not for me though.
Thus ensuring the CIA has nobody on the IT staff that has an ethical problem with privacy-invading policies. Not a bad way to keep the risk of whistle-blowers at bay.
Which means the west pays a lot more than the east because, due to the aforementioned communist management, it's taking a long time for the economy of the east to ramp up to match that of the west.
Ah, so next time I hear about Germany being resistant to bailing out the rest of the Eurozone, I'll remember that they're still working on bailing out their brethren as well.
Now on the other end of the scale, suppose I am expected to provide extremely hands on support. Each and every computer is custom built to the user's wishes, both hardware and software. They get it setup however they want. They also have full and complete admin access. Plus, I am expected to handle any questions or training they have. In that case, I'm not going to be able to handle many systems. 15 might well be too many.
I worked in an environment like this at a major medical center in the 90's. There were four support folks for about 3,000 computers. Generally two on the phone, one doing in-person troubleshooting, and one doing installs/migrations.
OK, it was 6 people if you count the guys who repaired the computers and printers (in-house repair was cost effective at those volumes) but they were also responsible for wiring the network as well.
What are you on about? The story is about the fact that people use the Opiod Methadone over other Opiods for painkiller use because it's cheap. However it is vastly more lethal then the other Opiods.
I think what he's getting at is that the cost of the other medications are driven up by government regulation of drugs.
In a free market, there's probably no pharmaceutical that could cost more than $3 a day (excluding harvested biological products, of course).
Getting other people to do your dirty work for you is often fraught with complications like conscience and morality.
I think the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have proven that when the cost of a war, in domestic lives, is relatively low, wars are more palatable to the populous.
Look at the Republican debates - all but one of the candidates is itching to start some more wars.
Robotic soldiers will just allow the politicians to go kill brown people without relent, so they should be opposed on that basis. Pound the war bots into farm bots.
If you price that a full-blown "Nexus" device is about $700 every couple years ( just so you don't have to deal with Carrier crap, but Google's lacking hardware instead), are you really breaking even vs a contract iPhone?
Yeah. I see on AT&T's site that if I want unlimited voice/text and a medium data plan that runs me $120 per month (with navigation which is somehow optional). It's $299 for the phone.
299+120*24 = $3179
If I buy a Nexus from Google for $700, load CM on it, and get an unlimited talk/text plan from PagePlus with a medium data plan, that's:
$700+55*24 = $2020
So, if you assume both are about equal, you're paying ~$500 a year in finance charges for the iPhone.
Good for you. I think make-up on women makes them look rather frightening. My wife can be convinced to not wear much often (oh, but she loves to put on the stage make-up). My daughter is at an impressionable age, but so far I've managed to convince her not to put on toxic make-up, which really narrows the field down by 95% or so.
I'm not quite sure where her peers get their images from, but I'm hoping the 21st Century sees today's concept of make-up go the way of the white-powdered face.
positioned all of the parts perfectly, and photographed it under good lighting
Oh, and it's not just that. Photographed food often isn't even cooked. I recall seeing a turkey once that was being photographed. They rubbed brown shoe polish all over the turkey and then crisped the skin with a Sears heat gun.
Heh, maybe the quarter pounder you see photographed at Burger King is before freezing, thawing, and cooking. Black magic marker for grill marks and paint laquer for fatty goodness.
I'm sure a few trips to the ER were caused somewhere or another due to this toy,
I totally burned the shit out of my thumb when I was a kid, by melting some glass with my dad's propane torch and generally being an idiot.
I did it again (to my palm) when I first bought a house and installed a boiler and had my hand directly under a solder joint (yeah, I way over-flowed that joint).
Hot molten shit hurts. A lot. I now have good plumbing gloves (never swung for the third strike after that). Besides learning to buy gloves, I'm now very aware of the dangers of being between the dangerous thing and the Earth's core. It would be great if we could give kids a big list of "don't do that" but humans seem to learn better from experience.
but you know, I'd rather not lived in the kind of dumbed down idiot-proof world that comes from trying to save people from themselves. That's a surefire way to breed more idiots.
Well, that is the point. Idiots are easy to control. When people are farmed as livestock for 'their' tax money, having rambunctious ones just decreases the profit per head. Best to keep them calm, dumb, and in front of reality TV.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha. I cannot believe you just trumpeted warlord-run Somalia, where there is no longer infrastructure to support food distribution or medical provisions or ANYTHING, as an example to promote your idea of anarchy! What a complete joke!
Time for a bit of epistemology - where do you get your information? Fox News? Some other corporation with a pro-State agenda?
Try a scholarly paper, if your world view will permit the challenge. (citations available on SSRN or Google Scholar, but the PDF is $$$ there).
I think we have government because we all agree pure anarchy is bad.
What does 'pure anarchy' mean anyway? Serious question.
Most people haven't looked seriously into the work done in the past 50 years on stateless societies. Some experiments like Somalia show that the fall of the State leads to improved economic conditions (compared to its neighbors, not teh whole world). Dubai implemented private law when they designed their new society.
Anyway, State-form governments killed half a billion people in the 20th Century between wars and democide, so stateless societies have to at least be that bad before they're dismissed.
We have government for precisely this reason, to restore some semblance of a balance of power between the individual consumer and the corporate giants who feel free to subject you to anything they think they can make you swallow.
In this case, no one cared enough at the stations to actually do it, the government gave up waiting for the free market to do something that's generating tons of complaints, and acted on it.
Except lots of TV's and amps come with a compressor/limiter built in. You can buy a box for $25 that will do it for other gear. I've got one for PulseAudio that I'm just waiting for upstream to accept some patches for.
Free market solutions are available. In fact, the government is likely to put some of them out of business with their new rules.
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If you are talking about "free market" as in no government regulations of safety or liability, then they would probably be significantly less expensive, and significantly more dangerous.
Because people really want to buy drugs that are dangerous and would never look at third-party certification?
errh I mean make campaign contributions, to 2 parties. Try to elect some representatives from the pirate party, like sweden has.
Well, they usually donate to campaigns, not as much to parties. There's one big-party candidate running this year who is only taking small individual contributions. That would seem to fit the description.
We're stuck with two parties until we get rid of plurality voting in the US. Political science has proven that this voting system always leads to two-party systems. A Condorcet method ought to be used, probably Approval Voting (as a compromise between good outcomes and actually being implementable).
Criminal negligence
The government does lots of stuff that would be illegal if somebody else does it. Heck, according to the FBI, many TSA agents are committing rape as a profession.
But, hey, they have a monopoly on violence, and people are constantly dreaming up new powers they want the government to have to use that violence to squelch their particular itch, so it just gets worse and worse, as do most positive feedback cycles.
I'm partly to blame for not logging in every other day to make sure my account didn't expire.
There's a probe for that.
Except Newhost doesn't rotate IP addresses very often, and Joe's old router isn't bright to send updates to dyndns unless the IP address actually changes.
That's not an issue. DynDNS started expiring hosts that hadn't checked in for 30 days at least five years ago. There was a thread on dd-wrt boards about it (which got a patch), so that could narrow down the date if needed.
If the stuff is working now, it will keep working for the foreseeable future.
If it's really important, though, he shouldn't rely on a free service to be there forever.
Honeycomb added full device encryption
That's what the release notes say, but I'm pretty sure it's just internal encryption. For some reason sdcard isn't encrypted. I don't get why but some people were still looking to get LUKS working for sdcard.
one could get much more effective by directly seeking out people need help - as in, one family, or even just one person - and giving it to them directly.
Yeah, there was an article linked from Freakonomics a few [weeks,months] back that reviewed charity rating systems, and one of the ones they were talking about does just that. It's a young charity without a track record yet, but their charity model is to find a person in need and give them money.
The theory is that they know better how to spend that money to help themselves than some office person at an NGO in Brussels.
I hope that's true. If they're educated enough it probably is.
I have known some guys that were/are in "The Agency" and like the work and serving their country. Not for me though.
Thus ensuring the CIA has nobody on the IT staff that has an ethical problem with privacy-invading policies. Not a bad way to keep the risk of whistle-blowers at bay.
Which means the west pays a lot more than the east because, due to the aforementioned communist management, it's taking a long time for the economy of the east to ramp up to match that of the west.
Ah, so next time I hear about Germany being resistant to bailing out the rest of the Eurozone, I'll remember that they're still working on bailing out their brethren as well.
Now on the other end of the scale, suppose I am expected to provide extremely hands on support. Each and every computer is custom built to the user's wishes, both hardware and software. They get it setup however they want. They also have full and complete admin access. Plus, I am expected to handle any questions or training they have. In that case, I'm not going to be able to handle many systems. 15 might well be too many.
I worked in an environment like this at a major medical center in the 90's. There were four support folks for about 3,000 computers. Generally two on the phone, one doing in-person troubleshooting, and one doing installs/migrations.
OK, it was 6 people if you count the guys who repaired the computers and printers (in-house repair was cost effective at those volumes) but they were also responsible for wiring the network as well.
MacOS 6-9.
What are you on about? The story is about the fact that people use the Opiod Methadone over other Opiods for painkiller use because it's cheap. However it is vastly more lethal then the other Opiods.
I think what he's getting at is that the cost of the other medications are driven up by government regulation of drugs.
In a free market, there's probably no pharmaceutical that could cost more than $3 a day (excluding harvested biological products, of course).
^this
Shaking one's head a the rank incompetence of government is what they want you to do.
As they say, follow the money.
Getting other people to do your dirty work for you is often fraught with complications like conscience and morality.
I think the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have proven that when the cost of a war, in domestic lives, is relatively low, wars are more palatable to the populous.
Look at the Republican debates - all but one of the candidates is itching to start some more wars.
Robotic soldiers will just allow the politicians to go kill brown people without relent, so they should be opposed on that basis. Pound the war bots into farm bots.
If you price that a full-blown "Nexus" device is about $700 every couple years ( just so you don't have to deal with Carrier crap, but Google's lacking hardware instead), are you really breaking even vs a contract iPhone?
Yeah. I see on AT&T's site that if I want unlimited voice/text and a medium data plan that runs me $120 per month (with navigation which is somehow optional). It's $299 for the phone.
299+120*24 = $3179
If I buy a Nexus from Google for $700, load CM on it, and get an unlimited talk/text plan from PagePlus with a medium data plan, that's:
$700+55*24 = $2020
So, if you assume both are about equal, you're paying ~$500 a year in finance charges for the iPhone.
an Android phone is almost certainly going to be out of date very quickly and will almost certainly never be upgraded to the latest OS
if you're writing for a general audience, yes. If you're writing for Slashdotters, Cyanogenmod seems like a better recommendation.
Good for you. I think make-up on women makes them look rather frightening. My wife can be convinced to not wear much often (oh, but she loves to put on the stage make-up). My daughter is at an impressionable age, but so far I've managed to convince her not to put on toxic make-up, which really narrows the field down by 95% or so.
I'm not quite sure where her peers get their images from, but I'm hoping the 21st Century sees today's concept of make-up go the way of the white-powdered face.
positioned all of the parts perfectly, and photographed it under good lighting
Oh, and it's not just that. Photographed food often isn't even cooked. I recall seeing a turkey once that was being photographed. They rubbed brown shoe polish all over the turkey and then crisped the skin with a Sears heat gun.
Heh, maybe the quarter pounder you see photographed at Burger King is before freezing, thawing, and cooking. Black magic marker for grill marks and paint laquer for fatty goodness.
I'm sure a few trips to the ER were caused somewhere or another due to this toy,
I totally burned the shit out of my thumb when I was a kid, by melting some glass with my dad's propane torch and generally being an idiot.
I did it again (to my palm) when I first bought a house and installed a boiler and had my hand directly under a solder joint (yeah, I way over-flowed that joint).
Hot molten shit hurts. A lot. I now have good plumbing gloves (never swung for the third strike after that). Besides learning to buy gloves, I'm now very aware of the dangers of being between the dangerous thing and the Earth's core. It would be great if we could give kids a big list of "don't do that" but humans seem to learn better from experience.
but you know, I'd rather not lived in the kind of dumbed down idiot-proof world that comes from trying to save people from themselves. That's a surefire way to breed more idiots.
Well, that is the point. Idiots are easy to control. When people are farmed as livestock for 'their' tax money, having rambunctious ones just decreases the profit per head. Best to keep them calm, dumb, and in front of reality TV.
BB guns were considered toys (they are currently classified as firearms in the city I'm living in)
They don't quite get the 'fire' part, do they?
Frankly a dartboard set is far more dangerous.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha. I cannot believe you just trumpeted warlord-run Somalia, where there is no longer infrastructure to support food distribution or medical provisions or ANYTHING, as an example to promote your idea of anarchy! What a complete joke!
Time for a bit of epistemology - where do you get your information? Fox News? Some other corporation with a pro-State agenda?
Try a scholarly paper, if your world view will permit the challenge. (citations available on SSRN or Google Scholar, but the PDF is $$$ there).
Put it right next to the Fraternal Order of Police sticker?
Police mostly show up after the fact to fill out paperwork. I don't think they set thieves quaking in their boots.
Not that I like the NRA but a GOA sticker doesn't have the same brand recognition.
I think we have government because we all agree pure anarchy is bad.
What does 'pure anarchy' mean anyway? Serious question.
Most people haven't looked seriously into the work done in the past 50 years on stateless societies. Some experiments like Somalia show that the fall of the State leads to improved economic conditions (compared to its neighbors, not teh whole world). Dubai implemented private law when they designed their new society.
Anyway, State-form governments killed half a billion people in the 20th Century between wars and democide, so stateless societies have to at least be that bad before they're dismissed.
We have government for precisely this reason, to restore some semblance of a balance of power between the individual consumer and the corporate giants who feel free to subject you to anything they think they can make you swallow.
Um, no, that's not in the US Constitution.
Neither are megalocorps, of course.
In this case, no one cared enough at the stations to actually do it, the government gave up waiting for the free market to do something that's generating tons of complaints, and acted on it.
Except lots of TV's and amps come with a compressor/limiter built in. You can buy a box for $25 that will do it for other gear. I've got one for PulseAudio that I'm just waiting for upstream to accept some patches for.
Free market solutions are available. In fact, the government is likely to put some of them out of business with their new rules.