Microsoft most definitely has a monopoly under that condition- they can set a price higher than equilibrium because there is no true replacement good. That makes them a monopoly.
I suppose I'd be more in favor of your plan when and if we have universal "free" medical coverage, and where absolutely no money can be given out for agreeing to try experimental treatments.
God forbid they get a potential cure and improve their financial lot at the same time.
Mainly it's too often used to turn the vocab of logic and proof into an underhanded debating tactic, which seems like the opposite of what it's supposed to be for.
Ah, you've fallen prey to the fallacy of the unbounded middle.
Anyway, people will wait in line for anything these days and I don't see it as a bad thing - in fact we need more. Why? Anything that will get people out of their basements and socialize with other people in person can't be all bad
Not buying a good product from a huge company because another division in the huge company did something stupid is like hating your local firefighters because the police in another town in a different state were corrupt.
If you don't buy anything from the company they won't figure out the difference between what they did right and what they did wrong.
I think the A&TT change sucks. If you're work and home have wifi, you'll likely be below 200MB per month... but if not, you'll seriously need the 2GB plan.
My home has wifi, but work doesn't. I just checked, and I used 131MB last month. I'm quite looking forward to this. My wife hasn't been able to justify a smartphone at $30/month. She's ready at $15.
But they don't want the bubble to happen, that's the point. By being able to predict that bubbles are happening, the markets can sell off sooner, rather than allowing the bubble to continue growing, and thus once the sell-off happens, it is not such a dramatic down-shift, since the prices were not allowed to rise to artificial highs.
Which, of course, will assure everyone that it can't possibly be a bubble, allowing them to comfortably jump back into the asset.
Stability breeds instability. This will only result in larger bubbles. Never match wits with mass stupidity when money is on the line.
Are you saying that as long as supplier is providing what a consumer desires, the supplier has no liability? No culpability? If that is the case, then absolutely anything goes...
No, no I'm not saying that at all. But the more expensive gas is, the faster we stop using it.
Why? So you can pay more taxes? As the previous poster said, the tax code is generally only as complicated as you make it. The complication is generally for your benefit.
All of your "just a few hours here and there" add up to quite a bit over the course of a year.
Your whole thesis seems to be "if you don't like how complicated the tax code is, don't take advantage of the benefits". Sorry, that's my money, I'm owed it, and the fact I have to put in several additional days of effort every year is unacceptable to me.
I agree that the system could be simpler, but for many people with simple incomes, it already is pretty dang simple (single 1040, maybe a 1099-INT for bank interest). It's when you have a large income and/or from many sources that it gets complex, and again, almost entirely due to tax breaks and reductions.
These people with "simple" incomes work for a corporation. When you work for yourself, calculating your income means tracking your gross income and deducting your costs. That's where a lot of the deductions come in. My wife is a therapist with a private practice working about 20 hours a week making a modest part time income. We still have to track all that crap.
Furthermore, even as someone with a "simple" income myself, various retirement plans (401K, IRA, Roth IRA), and college savings plans for my kids (529 plan, Educational IRA), and flexible spending accounts (childcare FSA, medical FSA) it gets complicated real quick. Do you know all the rules for putting money into your 401K? Your Roth? Conversion? Mandatory disbursement? Borrowing money from your 401K?
If you have a solution to this problem of being able to prove catastrophic failure modes can be solved by doing X with all the other unknowns you are clearly way smarted than the rest of us and I welcome our new over lord; otherwise you just another arm chair quarterback here.
I've heard Canada requires relief drills to be ready in advance. Given that's the only proven solution, having it in place beforehand so it would be done now would seem to be prudent.
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Microsoft most definitely has a monopoly under that condition- they can set a price higher than equilibrium because there is no true replacement good. That makes them a monopoly.
Then how can APPL charge more than Microsoft?
So if all the apps are crap, what makes the vaunted number of apps that is thrown around, and by extension the app store itself, so special?
If something like a PLAYSTATION 3 had come out five years ago it wold have been more expensive than a PLAYSTATION 3 at the time.
Just because people have lowered their standards and accept such defects doesn't make them any better.
Microsoft has upped their standards. Up yours!
The new console also takes measures to protect itself from overheating, so RRoDs shouldn't be a problem with this revision.
They shouldn't have been a problem with any revision.
About transitioning people from Monopoly to Settlers of Cataan to Dungeons and Dragons to tabletop gaming?
I suppose I'd be more in favor of your plan when and if we have universal "free" medical coverage, and where absolutely no money can be given out for agreeing to try experimental treatments.
God forbid they get a potential cure and improve their financial lot at the same time.
Those patients would have been executed anyways. Why not experiment on them?
Nice rules. Still wouldn't handle my name.
Mainly it's too often used to turn the vocab of logic and proof into an underhanded debating tactic, which seems like the opposite of what it's supposed to be for.
Ah, you've fallen prey to the fallacy of the unbounded middle.
Anyway, people will wait in line for anything these days and I don't see it as a bad thing - in fact we need more. Why? Anything that will get people out of their basements and socialize with other people in person can't be all bad
I waited in line to wait in line.
I don't hate on their reader. I hate on Sony.
Not buying a good product from a huge company because another division in the huge company did something stupid is like hating your local firefighters because the police in another town in a different state were corrupt.
If you don't buy anything from the company they won't figure out the difference between what they did right and what they did wrong.
I think this is pretty obvious.
I think the A&TT change sucks. If you're work and home have wifi, you'll likely be below 200MB per month... but if not, you'll seriously need the 2GB plan.
My home has wifi, but work doesn't. I just checked, and I used 131MB last month. I'm quite looking forward to this. My wife hasn't been able to justify a smartphone at $30/month. She's ready at $15.
But they don't want the bubble to happen, that's the point. By being able to predict that bubbles are happening, the markets can sell off sooner, rather than allowing the bubble to continue growing, and thus once the sell-off happens, it is not such a dramatic down-shift, since the prices were not allowed to rise to artificial highs.
Which, of course, will assure everyone that it can't possibly be a bubble, allowing them to comfortably jump back into the asset.
Stability breeds instability. This will only result in larger bubbles. Never match wits with mass stupidity when money is on the line.
Whoops.
Are you saying that as long as supplier is providing what a consumer desires, the supplier has no liability? No culpability? If that is the case, then absolutely anything goes...
No, no I'm not saying that at all. But the more expensive gas is, the faster we stop using it.
Why? So you can pay more taxes? As the previous poster said, the tax code is generally only as complicated as you make it. The complication is generally for your benefit.
All of your "just a few hours here and there" add up to quite a bit over the course of a year.
Your whole thesis seems to be "if you don't like how complicated the tax code is, don't take advantage of the benefits". Sorry, that's my money, I'm owed it, and the fact I have to put in several additional days of effort every year is unacceptable to me.
I agree that the system could be simpler, but for many people with simple incomes, it already is pretty dang simple (single 1040, maybe a 1099-INT for bank interest). It's when you have a large income and/or from many sources that it gets complex, and again, almost entirely due to tax breaks and reductions.
These people with "simple" incomes work for a corporation. When you work for yourself, calculating your income means tracking your gross income and deducting your costs. That's where a lot of the deductions come in. My wife is a therapist with a private practice working about 20 hours a week making a modest part time income. We still have to track all that crap.
Furthermore, even as someone with a "simple" income myself, various retirement plans (401K, IRA, Roth IRA), and college savings plans for my kids (529 plan, Educational IRA), and flexible spending accounts (childcare FSA, medical FSA) it gets complicated real quick. Do you know all the rules for putting money into your 401K? Your Roth? Conversion? Mandatory disbursement? Borrowing money from your 401K?
The tax code needs to die a painful death.
Any damages applied to them would simply be passed on to the consumers.
Not a problem in my book. The consumers create the demand for the oil in the first place.
How does it work if the first hole blows before you get the second hole drilled? One of them has to be first, right?
No idea. I assume they drill them at the same time so the relief well could be uncorked within days.
If you have a solution to this problem of being able to prove catastrophic failure modes can be solved by doing X with all the other unknowns you are clearly way smarted than the rest of us and I welcome our new over lord; otherwise you just another arm chair quarterback here.
I've heard Canada requires relief drills to be ready in advance. Given that's the only proven solution, having it in place beforehand so it would be done now would seem to be prudent.
Stop justifying thievery.
When my downloading a file from you leaves you unable to access that file any longer, I'll call it stealing.
When people stop producing because there is no profit in it, then you have denied me access to what hasn't been made.
Did you not notice this is the Navy?
They finally figured out being involved in a land war in Asia was a military blunder so they're changing it to a sea war.