That is the great insight that Ludwig Von Mises repeated throughout his career. Attempting to model human behavior as if it were possible to predict our behavior the way you can predict the outcome of elastic collisions is preposterous. There are however, economic laws which can't be overcome by violence or wishful thinking, and it was the operation of those laws that made the collapse of the romans and the soviets (to name two obvious examples), inevitable.
All those government agencies evolved because we needed them.
It only takes one counter-example to debunk your statement. My counterexample is the Drug Enforcement Administration. If you're claiming that we need a federal agency to harass cancer patients, then to hell with you.
It means that the IRS has sufficient reason (or rather, an automated program inside the IRS has sufficient reason) to believe that Google may owe more money than they have paid
What's to excuse? They have a fiduciary duty to protect their shareholders' interests, and that includes reducing their tax expenses as much as possible.
The killer features are the double hi-res graphics, lower case card, and dual analog joysticks. Also, it runs Integer Basic faster than you can imagine.
I'm sure Woz is having more fun camped out in front of that store with his friends than you are bitching about Apple and Woz. Have you considered maybe getting a life?
... and the people who joined him at NeXT and Apple, I would have left this industry twenty years ago. Thanks for all you did, Steve. You will be sorely missed.
When Apple decided to build their own retail operation, they had a problem to solve. Existing retailers were doing a very poor job of presenting their products. I remember a time where if you saw a Mac at all at a store that sold PCs, it was usually missing a few keys from the keyboard, and if it was powered up, it was flashing the "sad mac" icon. There were a handful of Mac-only resellers who did a better job of it, but there certainly weren't enough of them. Retail was crucial to Apple's survival.
For an outfit like Google or Microsoft, retail is just something they think they should do because Apple did it.
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia,
The phrase refers to American servicemen. It's what makes courts-martial legal. It's not a way to bypass the due process clause for anyone accused of a crime who's not a member of the armed forces.
. I'd say that satisfies the "when in actual service in time of War or public danger" requirement.
Nope. There's been neither a declaration of war, nor has the Congress issued any letter of Marque against Al Queda. There are provisions in the constitution for these kinds of situations, and they have not been used.
You know, sort of like how every action Hitler took was "legal" for the same reason.
As it happens, the defendants at the Nuremburg trials were prosecuted under German law in effect at the time of their crimes. The holocaust was never legal.
Even though it is routinely ignored by the government whenever they find it convenient to do so, the constitution is still the entirety of the legal basis for our federal government's existence. If they want to disregard it, then they are nothing but an occupying power, just like the British administration of the colonies.
Slashdot Mirror
Economics tries to take the veneer of science by using a lot of mathematics.
Just like Astrology.
-jcr
economics is not physics!
That is the great insight that Ludwig Von Mises repeated throughout his career. Attempting to model human behavior as if it were possible to predict our behavior the way you can predict the outcome of elastic collisions is preposterous. There are however, economic laws which can't be overcome by violence or wishful thinking, and it was the operation of those laws that made the collapse of the romans and the soviets (to name two obvious examples), inevitable.
-jcr
>Go read up on what it was like back when cocaine was legal.
I have it on good authority that cops weren't in the habit of staging military raids to serve routine warrants back then.
> People decided they didn't want their doctor to be high on cocaine while they were being operated on.
They don't want to be under the knife of a drunk, either. What's your point?
-jcr
All those government agencies evolved because we needed them.
It only takes one counter-example to debunk your statement. My counterexample is the Drug Enforcement Administration. If you're claiming that we need a federal agency to harass cancer patients, then to hell with you.
-jcr
It doesn't take a bureaucracy on the NIST's scale to establish standard weights and measures. Seriously, $1.1 BILLION dollars a bit much.
-jcr
It means that the IRS has sufficient reason (or rather, an automated program inside the IRS has sufficient reason) to believe that Google may owe more money than they have paid
Nope. Audits aren't based on probable cause.
-jcr
>Getting busted by the IRS isn't in their shareholders' interests.
Why are you assuming that the IRS is acting on anything more than wishful thinking here?
-jcr
I'm not excusing Google
What's to excuse? They have a fiduciary duty to protect their shareholders' interests, and that includes reducing their tax expenses as much as possible.
-jcr
The killer features are the double hi-res graphics, lower case card, and dual analog joysticks. Also, it runs Integer Basic faster than you can imagine.
-jcr
Or order it on line, like a million people did in the first 24 hours...
-jcr
I'm sure Woz is having more fun camped out in front of that store with his friends than you are bitching about Apple and Woz. Have you considered maybe getting a life?
-jcr
Apple was heavily rumored to have hired people to stand in line during the first releases of the iPhone to increase the hype.
Nope, but there have been cases of people selling off their place in line., or hiring people to keep their place.
-jcr
I heard that he had all the flags at MS's offices lowered to half-staff today, too.
-jcr
Do you think Sun didn't have those guys?
Sure they did, but Sun's incompetent leadership squandered their potential.
-jcr
Nah, Ballmer's got more class than that.
-jcr
... and the people who joined him at NeXT and Apple, I would have left this industry twenty years ago. Thanks for all you did, Steve. You will be sorely missed.
-jcr
Kid, I was signing my posts when you were still a gleam in the milkman's eye, and I'm not going to stop just because you newbs bitch about it.
-jcr
When Apple decided to build their own retail operation, they had a problem to solve. Existing retailers were doing a very poor job of presenting their products. I remember a time where if you saw a Mac at all at a store that sold PCs, it was usually missing a few keys from the keyboard, and if it was powered up, it was flashing the "sad mac" icon. There were a handful of Mac-only resellers who did a better job of it, but there certainly weren't enough of them. Retail was crucial to Apple's survival.
For an outfit like Google or Microsoft, retail is just something they think they should do because Apple did it.
-jcr
cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia,
The phrase refers to American servicemen. It's what makes courts-martial legal. It's not a way to bypass the due process clause for anyone accused of a crime who's not a member of the armed forces.
-jcr
. I'd say that satisfies the "when in actual service in time of War or public danger" requirement.
Nope. There's been neither a declaration of war, nor has the Congress issued any letter of Marque against Al Queda. There are provisions in the constitution for these kinds of situations, and they have not been used.
-jcr
You know, sort of like how every action Hitler took was "legal" for the same reason.
As it happens, the defendants at the Nuremburg trials were prosecuted under German law in effect at the time of their crimes. The holocaust was never legal.
-jcr
Even though it is routinely ignored by the government whenever they find it convenient to do so, the constitution is still the entirety of the legal basis for our federal government's existence. If they want to disregard it, then they are nothing but an occupying power, just like the British administration of the colonies.
-jcr
Wee bit of a fifth amendment problem there... You can't compel anyone to report a goddamned thing if it might incriminate them.
-jcr
Apple's P/E ratio is only 15. On what exactly do you base this prediction?
-jcr
Yeah, but this is like using WebKit instead of Opera! That makes it all new and exciting or something.
-jcr