Cut THEIR cables from YOUR property and throw them into the street. Let's play real capitalism. I have no relationship with Comcast and see no need for their wires to trespass on my property, although I will rent out the space for $1 million per month. I concede the need to have power lines cross over, because they provide a necessity, while cable service is a mere luxury.
Google and Amazon also offer competing payment services. I usually seek out online merchants who use either Google or Amazon, since it means I don't have to re-enter credit card information. I do not have a paypal account (deleted it a few months ago) and avoid merchants who only have paypal as their CC processor.
Exhaust manifold cracking was a known flaw for my 1998 Chevy Blazer...yet GM refused to acknowledge the problem. I had to replace it at least twice. GM - not a single dime ever again.
You are defrauding the person that does not have access to the same information. If everyone involved in a stock trade is not acting on the same information, it is fraud. This same randroid bullshit argument comes up every other year and the response has been the same since 1933.
Back in the real world, everything you described has already happened and it's why we have the current regulations on insider trading in place. All of the knowledge you require does not get dispersed evenly to everyone. Technically, there will always be people with inside information. Therefore, you establish windows of opportunity for insiders to make their trades. Furthermore, companies are held to a strict set to guidelines to make sure they can disperse information to the public as soon as reasonably possible.
Insider trading is fraud; you're using information that others don't have to negotiate a trade. It's no different than lying by withholding information, which most people learn by the time they're 12 years old.
It has not been done yet. There are media companies that still have monopolies (or oligopolies, technically) over the EM spectrum in every local market in the US. Those monopolies have to be shut down.
Personally, I think all television broadcasts should be shut down, regardless of content. The bandwidth could be reclaimed for a nationwide wireless network infrastructure that anyone could get on, former television stations included. The immediate effects would be a squelching of the reactionary and hateful views found in much of today's television broadcasts, since everyone's voice would be equally as loud.
An LLC and a limited partnership are functionally the same thing in most cases. Anyone whose business is growing and needs outside financial resources (ie, debt, venture capital, additional stock) to grow, has the business in some form of legal entity.
Ending limited liability, too? You just killed the next Apple or Google and every other small start-up that starts in someone's garage or home office. The potential pool of people willing to start a business gets reduced to only those who are already well-heeled financially.
My congressman, Rush Holt, is a former rocket scientist and beat IBM's Watson supercomputer on Jeopardy. I did my part and voted for someone intelligent. You get the government you deserve, not the one you need.
Everything worthwhile (regardless of origin) shows up fast on Amazon, iTunes, Zune Marketplace or Netflix. Content producers have a financial incentive to do it.
I can't speak about bandwidth caps because I have none with Verizon Fios. In terms of resolution, my Roku brings in 720p and higher from Netflix and Amazon on my TV. The picture quality beats the picture quality I see on my GF's television: digital cable box with HDMI connection to the screen. In terms of content selection, I highly disagree; I have no problem finding a vast selection of entertaining video content on a Roku. Coming back to the cable TV set-top box, its selection is limited to relatively current episodes of a small selection of shows...and its costs more.
The broadcast spectrum is being put to horrible waste in its current form...THAT is what is wrong with TV, along with the public's sense of entitlement to free and cheap television programming. Shut down every transmitter and reclaim the bandwidth for a national wireless network that any content provider can tap into. That is the closest thing you can achieve to applying free market ideals to a limited resource (ie, broadcast frequencies). Anything less is corporate welfare for a small group of content providers that are holding regional monopolies over the EM spectrum.
Roku: Starting at $50. Streams via wireless network or wired. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Vimeo, Crackle, every major news network, HBO Go and dozens of other video providers.
My work laptop is pretty much used in the same manner as the "luggable" portable computers of days past...except the only thing that is being lugged is the actual processing part, with a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor at each location (work and home). The built-in monitor is ok if I really need to get something done, but I flat out cannot get "real work" done without a proper keyboard and mouse.
I'm single, have a dog and struggle to fill an entire bag in a week. And, I often bring home take-home containers. Are you including chopped up corpses in your calculations???
The billboard argument doesn't make sense. It's a sign...it doesn't do anything and too bad if you're feeling butthurt about *gasp* seeing billboards. A shopping mall is private property and completely avoidable. I don't remember the last time I was in one; yet, I spend thousands of dollars at local shops and online retailers like Amazon. Do without.
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Cut THEIR cables from YOUR property and throw them into the street. Let's play real capitalism. I have no relationship with Comcast and see no need for their wires to trespass on my property, although I will rent out the space for $1 million per month. I concede the need to have power lines cross over, because they provide a necessity, while cable service is a mere luxury.
Ah, so you prefer the disorganized slaughter of deer getting killed by cars instead?
Albert Einstein refused to memorize telephone numbers because they could be written down. Clearly, he was an idiot.
And speed doesn't kill; stopping does.
Google and Amazon also offer competing payment services. I usually seek out online merchants who use either Google or Amazon, since it means I don't have to re-enter credit card information. I do not have a paypal account (deleted it a few months ago) and avoid merchants who only have paypal as their CC processor.
Exhaust manifold cracking was a known flaw for my 1998 Chevy Blazer...yet GM refused to acknowledge the problem. I had to replace it at least twice. GM - not a single dime ever again.
Nope, they got what they deserved. Completely different scenario.
You are defrauding the person that does not have access to the same information. If everyone involved in a stock trade is not acting on the same information, it is fraud. This same randroid bullshit argument comes up every other year and the response has been the same since 1933.
Back in the real world, everything you described has already happened and it's why we have the current regulations on insider trading in place. All of the knowledge you require does not get dispersed evenly to everyone. Technically, there will always be people with inside information. Therefore, you establish windows of opportunity for insiders to make their trades. Furthermore, companies are held to a strict set to guidelines to make sure they can disperse information to the public as soon as reasonably possible.
Insider trading is fraud; you're using information that others don't have to negotiate a trade. It's no different than lying by withholding information, which most people learn by the time they're 12 years old.
You're not looking hard enough (no pun intended, although it would be a pretty good pun if it were indeed one).
And don't be shy about calling them traitors to their faces.
It has not been done yet. There are media companies that still have monopolies (or oligopolies, technically) over the EM spectrum in every local market in the US. Those monopolies have to be shut down.
Personally, I think all television broadcasts should be shut down, regardless of content. The bandwidth could be reclaimed for a nationwide wireless network infrastructure that anyone could get on, former television stations included. The immediate effects would be a squelching of the reactionary and hateful views found in much of today's television broadcasts, since everyone's voice would be equally as loud.
An LLC and a limited partnership are functionally the same thing in most cases. Anyone whose business is growing and needs outside financial resources (ie, debt, venture capital, additional stock) to grow, has the business in some form of legal entity.
Ending limited liability, too? You just killed the next Apple or Google and every other small start-up that starts in someone's garage or home office. The potential pool of people willing to start a business gets reduced to only those who are already well-heeled financially.
My congressman, Rush Holt, is a former rocket scientist and beat IBM's Watson supercomputer on Jeopardy. I did my part and voted for someone intelligent. You get the government you deserve, not the one you need.
Netflix is going to create new episodes of Arrested Development.
Everything worthwhile (regardless of origin) shows up fast on Amazon, iTunes, Zune Marketplace or Netflix. Content producers have a financial incentive to do it.
I can't speak about bandwidth caps because I have none with Verizon Fios. In terms of resolution, my Roku brings in 720p and higher from Netflix and Amazon on my TV. The picture quality beats the picture quality I see on my GF's television: digital cable box with HDMI connection to the screen. In terms of content selection, I highly disagree; I have no problem finding a vast selection of entertaining video content on a Roku. Coming back to the cable TV set-top box, its selection is limited to relatively current episodes of a small selection of shows...and its costs more.
The broadcast spectrum is being put to horrible waste in its current form...THAT is what is wrong with TV, along with the public's sense of entitlement to free and cheap television programming. Shut down every transmitter and reclaim the bandwidth for a national wireless network that any content provider can tap into. That is the closest thing you can achieve to applying free market ideals to a limited resource (ie, broadcast frequencies). Anything less is corporate welfare for a small group of content providers that are holding regional monopolies over the EM spectrum.
Roku: Starting at $50. Streams via wireless network or wired. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Vimeo, Crackle, every major news network, HBO Go and dozens of other video providers.
My work laptop is pretty much used in the same manner as the "luggable" portable computers of days past...except the only thing that is being lugged is the actual processing part, with a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor at each location (work and home). The built-in monitor is ok if I really need to get something done, but I flat out cannot get "real work" done without a proper keyboard and mouse.
I'm single, have a dog and struggle to fill an entire bag in a week. And, I often bring home take-home containers. Are you including chopped up corpses in your calculations???
That didn't keep the Decepticons down for long.
The billboard argument doesn't make sense. It's a sign...it doesn't do anything and too bad if you're feeling butthurt about *gasp* seeing billboards. A shopping mall is private property and completely avoidable. I don't remember the last time I was in one; yet, I spend thousands of dollars at local shops and online retailers like Amazon. Do without.