Of course, when people switch providers, they will switch to the lowest-cost (or greatest price-feature) provider, not the one with the best quality of service.
If that was true Speakeasy.net wouldn't be around. Their success disproves your point.
Yeah, it's like watching the two biggest bullies in school fight each other. It's fun to see one of them get his ass kicked, but you know that the other will still be after you tomorrow.
((man, sometimes I feel like I just post on/. to exercise my analogy lobe))
Hey, don't worry. All of these/. posts will still be here. Or you can stop reading. It's that simple. You can complain about it until you're red in the face, and it's not going to do you any good. The readers do not care, therefore spending your time on the problem is wasting time. You may mod them up or down if you had mod points, but you don't.
What I ended up doing was writing a bit that would inject item info from my layout and database into the OSC one once a person added the item to their cart. Not real elegant, but it works well. The frustrating bit is that OSC is hands-down the best open cart program I've seen.
The theorems require certain assumptions to be made, which consitute the axioms of the system, and these lead directly to logical conclusions.
And I'd argue that the validity of any system would rest upon the quality and demonstrability of the assumptions being made. Here's where the religious analogy comes into play. The base assumptions of both religion and "the free market" are inherently unprovable because they both posit a system outside the framework of our reality.
Of course, we're really talking about two different things here. You brought up "an efficient market" and I'm going on about The Free Market. One is an attainable goal, the other is precluded by human nature. Neither are wholly relevant to this specific story, IMHO, since the issue isn't the allocation of resources but rather one company wishing to double-bill for services provided.
I've come to the conclusion that the notion of a "free market" is a pseudo-religious belief. You need to accept it's hypothetical existence as an article of faith in order to discuss economics (especially on/.), yet there really is no rational basis for this.
((and just like a deity, IMHO, were one to suddenly show up in a populated area today there'd be a lot less of the love and benevolence and a lot more of the firey destruction))
If you ask for documentation that's "useful and light on the bullshit" you'll get compliance from the folks who are interested in actually providing useful documentation. The people who don't really want to help you out will complain that "useful" is too vague.
or maybe just someone who has a PROBLEM WITH VOLUME CONTROL. Seriously though, hasn't this guy posted the same screed in every topic for the past few months? I miss the hot grits =(
You know, I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to mortally wound a government agent with a firearm. It's just not a situation that presents itself very often.
Ok, ok. The deal is that I was making the case that we'll always have people killing each other w/ guns as long as we have guns. For a politician to address this by trying to ban videogames seems like pure cowardice. Nowhere in my post did I advocate repealing the 2nd amendment (I own a few rifles myself, and enjoy reading about dead highschool kids), I'm just saying that legislation like this ignores The Elephant In The Livingroom(tm).
Oh, and as a little fuck you to the mods who tagged my post flamebait, here it is again: Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
I'm just gonna, you know, go ahead and nullify that flamebait moderation. Dear libertarian asswipes, go back to Fark.
Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
Sort of. I remember Bud ads from a decade ago (hell, I remember Rainier ads from when I was a kid), yet I still feel that drinking Bud is like having a robot piss in my mouth. They can't spend enough to get past the fact that it's just bad beer.
I'll start paying attention when these jackasses write books like Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against the Military or How to Tell if Your Child is a Homicidal Maniac or even Stop Teaching Our Kids to Whine: How to Say NO when Your Child Wants Something Inappropriate.
This bullshit only makes sense if parents are using the media as a babysitter. DON'T BUY YOUR KID AN XBOX, ASSHOLE.
The fact that occupationaly smart people are always out maneuvered by weasels is just a sign of the times and if I remember correctly the subtext of every slashpost.
FRED: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs--they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
TED: The text.
FRED: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records.
There's the relevant bit... not quite the activity you described. And come on man, everybody knows that Bush and his supporters are pro-fascism. Don't come across all shocked when you hear that.
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Of course, when people switch providers, they will switch to the lowest-cost (or greatest price-feature) provider, not the one with the best quality of service.
If that was true Speakeasy.net wouldn't be around. Their success disproves your point.
Yeah, it's like watching the two biggest bullies in school fight each other. It's fun to see one of them get his ass kicked, but you know that the other will still be after you tomorrow.
/. to exercise my analogy lobe))
((man, sometimes I feel like I just post on
Hey, don't worry. All of these /. posts will still be here. Or you can stop reading. It's that simple. You can complain about it until you're red in the face, and it's not going to do you any good. The readers do not care, therefore spending your time on the problem is wasting time. You may mod them up or down if you had mod points, but you don't.
I think he hears the voices of a million CEOs murmuring "if AOL can do it..."
What I ended up doing was writing a bit that would inject item info from my layout and database into the OSC one once a person added the item to their cart. Not real elegant, but it works well. The frustrating bit is that OSC is hands-down the best open cart program I've seen.
I think we have a contender for this year's Most Appropriate 'In-Soviet' Award!
OTOH if you want to quickly get ahold of a random asshole, and you don't live in NYC, it's really the only solution.
If you're into recording audio as a hobbyist the MD format is pretty popular here too.
And the Dubai corp has plenty of Americans onboard. This is such a non-issue.
The theorems require certain assumptions to be made, which consitute the axioms of the system, and these lead directly to logical conclusions.
And I'd argue that the validity of any system would rest upon the quality and demonstrability of the assumptions being made. Here's where the religious analogy comes into play. The base assumptions of both religion and "the free market" are inherently unprovable because they both posit a system outside the framework of our reality.
Of course, we're really talking about two different things here. You brought up "an efficient market" and I'm going on about The Free Market. One is an attainable goal, the other is precluded by human nature. Neither are wholly relevant to this specific story, IMHO, since the issue isn't the allocation of resources but rather one company wishing to double-bill for services provided.
I've come to the conclusion that the notion of a "free market" is a pseudo-religious belief. You need to accept it's hypothetical existence as an article of faith in order to discuss economics (especially on /.), yet there really is no rational basis for this.
((and just like a deity, IMHO, were one to suddenly show up in a populated area today there'd be a lot less of the love and benevolence and a lot more of the firey destruction))
2700 pages? There has to be a pony in there somewhere, keep digging.
If you ask for documentation that's "useful and light on the bullshit" you'll get compliance from the folks who are interested in actually providing useful documentation. The people who don't really want to help you out will complain that "useful" is too vague.
or maybe just someone who has a PROBLEM WITH VOLUME CONTROL. Seriously though, hasn't this guy posted the same screed in every topic for the past few months? I miss the hot grits =(
You know, I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to mortally wound a government agent with a firearm. It's just not a situation that presents itself very often.
Ok, ok. The deal is that I was making the case that we'll always have people killing each other w/ guns as long as we have guns. For a politician to address this by trying to ban videogames seems like pure cowardice. Nowhere in my post did I advocate repealing the 2nd amendment (I own a few rifles myself, and enjoy reading about dead highschool kids), I'm just saying that legislation like this ignores The Elephant In The Livingroom(tm).
Oh, and as a little fuck you to the mods who tagged my post flamebait, here it is again:
Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
I'm just gonna, you know, go ahead and nullify that flamebait moderation. Dear libertarian asswipes, go back to Fark.
Wow, the politicians will do everything short of the one act that would actually make a difference. Of course, repealing the 2nd ammendment and banning firearms would be death at the polls (and elsewhere, probably). So we get crap like this for the sake of appearances. Such courage.
Sort of. I remember Bud ads from a decade ago (hell, I remember Rainier ads from when I was a kid), yet I still feel that drinking Bud is like having a robot piss in my mouth. They can't spend enough to get past the fact that it's just bad beer.
"Ow, pointy... eew, slimy... ahh! moving!... Aha!"
"Aww, twenty dollars. I wanted a peanut."
"Blamed" as if this is a bad thing. This is a natural occurance in the "everything gets fatter" pipe of today's computing power and bandwidth.
And don't forget most ISPs recent marketing efforts. "Watch blazing video over your internet connection!" Ok, now I'm doing that.
Here comes a hammer.
I'll start paying attention when these jackasses write books like Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against the Military or How to Tell if Your Child is a Homicidal Maniac or even Stop Teaching Our Kids to Whine: How to Say NO when Your Child Wants Something Inappropriate.
This bullshit only makes sense if parents are using the media as a babysitter. DON'T BUY YOUR KID AN XBOX, ASSHOLE.
Can I be Anti-Plant but Pro-Zep?
The fact that occupationaly smart people are always out maneuvered by weasels is just a sign of the times and if I remember correctly the subtext of every slashpost.
FRED: And one of the things that keeps popping up is this about "subtext." Plays, novels, songs--they all have a "subtext," which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious? They never talk about that. What do you call what's above the subtext?
TED: The text.
FRED: OK, that's right, but they never talk about that.
The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records.
There's the relevant bit... not quite the activity you described. And come on man, everybody knows that Bush and his supporters are pro-fascism. Don't come across all shocked when you hear that.