" Instead of iodine (which gives you the squirts after more than a few days)"
Says who? I've used iodine for 20 years of backpacking. No problems, even on week long stints. Many people use iodine on six month long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.
Iodine tablets (eg, Potable Aqua) are cheap, lightweight, effective, and easy to use. One pill treats one pint of water. Instructions are printed on every bottle.
The downsides to iodine are relatively minor and well-understood:
Some people don't like the slight taste it gives to water. Potable Aqua sells Vitamin C tablets that neutralize the iodine from solution. Be sure to use the Vitamin C after treatment is over.
Shouldn't be used for long periods (many, many months or years), and pregant or nursing women should minimize use.
After opening the bottle, the shelf life is limited to a year or two, depending on humidity. You can tell the tablets are going bad because they turn black.
Iodine does not treat cryptospordia. It's not very common, though there was an outbreak once in the Cincinatti (I think) municipal water system.
Except that the woman in the DVD incident was a "frequent faller." She had nine "accidents" in Wal-Mart stores, and has filed personal injury suits against six stores. From Gizmodo.
That's incorrect. There is plenty Apple can legally do about it. For example, Apple can stop selling to/through that store. There is nothing in anti-trust law that requires Apple to sell via every store that wishes to carry iPods.
They don't have to sell to every store, but legally they can't coerce the store into selling at non-competitive prices.
I'm not familiar with how Apple does it, but there are a couple of varieties of this sort of thing. One (that's both moral and legal) is to say "if you'll agree to minimum advertised pricing (MAP) we'll give you co-op advertising dollars." The variety that's illegal and immoral is "don't sell for less than this or we'll cut you off as a reseller."
The general term for it is price-fixing. It happens all the time, and I run into it all the time managing an e-commerce site for networking equipment:
Anti-trust law would be a problem if Apple threatened to cut off people for discounting, but if Apple doesn't make the threat, but rather simply acts after the fact and cuts off people who discount, that is perfectly legal.
Since all of those stores know not to sell for less than a certain price, Apple has clearly signaled a price. It is illegal (check the link above for a link to the FTC ruling where CD price-fixing was involved). It just isn't enforced for want of money to enforce the law.
Nashville journalist and blogger Bill Hobbs has been covering this bill all year: Hobbs Online.
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If the pilot is disgruntled and wants to kill passengers, he doesn't need a gun. He could just crash the plane.
If you're worried about drunk pilots on the plane having guns, why aren't you worried about air marshals having guns. Is it impossible for them to get drunk? Or do they not get disgruntled?
Hardly anyone is aware of it, but there has been a documented case of an armed airline pilot stopping at attempted hijacking:
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0BTA/2002_March- April/83280949/p1/article.jhtml?term=massad+ayoob+ pilot
I should have been clearer and simply said that spam isn't demand-driven, it's supply-driven.
I have to disagree about most spam selling illegal products. Selling Herbal Viagra over-the-counter isn't illegal, because it isn't Viagra. It's orange peels.
The filters to get pay-per-view for free aren't illegal, but they don't work, either.
I forgot about pyramid schemes, but to be honest I haven't been spammed for one of those in years.
"Expecting laws to stop people who already make hiding their true identity and crossing as many jurisdictions as possible because they are usually selling ILLEGAL products is insane."
How come?
Laws never completely stop illegal behavior, but they do tend to curb it.
In the case of illegal drugs, the reason drugs are still sold is because of demand: people want the drugs and are willing to pay for them. Nobody wants spam, just like no one wants ads interrupting their TV shows. They might want the products advertised in the spam, or on the TV show, but they don't want the spam or the ads. No demand equals no supply.
FWIW, I can't think of anything that I've been spammed for that was truly illegal, despite what the emails claimed. If you're selling something illegally, why would you announce that fact to a million strangers? At some point you'll take money from the customer, and that's when the cops get you.
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You know that link is to the weapons guide for a role-playing game, right?
It wants it article back.
Says who? I've used iodine for 20 years of backpacking. No problems, even on week long stints. Many people use iodine on six month long hikes on the Appalachian Trail.
Iodine tablets (eg, Potable Aqua) are cheap, lightweight, effective, and easy to use. One pill treats one pint of water. Instructions are printed on every bottle. The downsides to iodine are relatively minor and well-understood:
Except that the woman in the DVD incident was a "frequent faller." She had nine "accidents" in Wal-Mart stores, and has filed personal injury suits against six stores. From Gizmodo.
It just goes to prove my theory: Jedi are pusses.
They don't have to sell to every store, but legally they can't coerce the store into selling at non-competitive prices.
I'm not familiar with how Apple does it, but there are a couple of varieties of this sort of thing. One (that's both moral and legal) is to say "if you'll agree to minimum advertised pricing (MAP) we'll give you co-op advertising dollars." The variety that's illegal and immoral is "don't sell for less than this or we'll cut you off as a reseller."
The general term for it is price-fixing. It happens all the time, and I run into it all the time managing an e-commerce site for networking equipment:
http://www.lesjones.com/posts/000062.shtml
Anti-trust law would be a problem if Apple threatened to cut off people for discounting, but if Apple doesn't make the threat, but rather simply acts after the fact and cuts off people who discount, that is perfectly legal.
Since all of those stores know not to sell for less than a certain price, Apple has clearly signaled a price. It is illegal (check the link above for a link to the FTC ruling where CD price-fixing was involved). It just isn't enforced for want of money to enforce the law.
Nashville journalist and blogger Bill Hobbs has been covering this bill all year: Hobbs Online.
If the pilot is disgruntled and wants to kill passengers, he doesn't need a gun. He could just crash the plane. If you're worried about drunk pilots on the plane having guns, why aren't you worried about air marshals having guns. Is it impossible for them to get drunk? Or do they not get disgruntled? Hardly anyone is aware of it, but there has been a documented case of an armed airline pilot stopping at attempted hijacking: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0BTA/2002_March- April/83280949/p1/article.jhtml?term=massad+ayoob+ pilot
I should have been clearer and simply said that spam isn't demand-driven, it's supply-driven. I have to disagree about most spam selling illegal products. Selling Herbal Viagra over-the-counter isn't illegal, because it isn't Viagra. It's orange peels. The filters to get pay-per-view for free aren't illegal, but they don't work, either. I forgot about pyramid schemes, but to be honest I haven't been spammed for one of those in years.
How come?
Laws never completely stop illegal behavior, but they do tend to curb it.
In the case of illegal drugs, the reason drugs are still sold is because of demand: people want the drugs and are willing to pay for them. Nobody wants spam, just like no one wants ads interrupting their TV shows. They might want the products advertised in the spam, or on the TV show, but they don't want the spam or the ads. No demand equals no supply.
FWIW, I can't think of anything that I've been spammed for that was truly illegal, despite what the emails claimed. If you're selling something illegally, why would you announce that fact to a million strangers? At some point you'll take money from the customer, and that's when the cops get you.