It's a good thing Microsoft doesn't sell any products other than Windows XP. And it's also a good thing none of this technology that was patented will go into any future products. The real price when distributed over the myriad of products Microsoft sells drastically reduces this figure.
If you include just Office this figure will drop in half. Now you have to wonder how many of these patents apply or are financed by much higher end products, ie. Windows Server.
Basically, $21.50 is the MOST a customer could be paying for patents on Windows XP. The real thing to consider, is whether the average customer will derive more than $21.50 in value from those features. I think they will.
Muslims that follow the Koran are definitely enemies of liberty. Yes, their behavior does serve as a premise for OUR battlefield ethics, if they want to pull that shit, we'll pull out the B-52s and carpet bomb large urban areas. I don't know why Tony Blair totally pussied out going up against Iran. A better pretext for a war against Iran has never existed.
The next time they ask for Jihad we should give them one. I'm so tired of this shit. Don't commit the troops commit the air force. We could bring those countries to their knees in a few hours. Ever seen pictures of Europe after the bombing campaigns? Who cares about winning the hearts and minds, just kill them. Agent Orange for the limited crops available, troops to secure the oil fields, tin foil for the power sub-stations, bunker busters for the dams / water reservoirs, and cluster bombs / block busters for the parliament buildings / gov't infrastructure. Put a Phalanx every 2 miles on the pipeline and no more incursions for bombing.
I'd say it would take about 2 weeks to solve the entire middle east problem once and for all.
Haliburton wasn't really an issue before Government agencies started giving no bid contracts to them, and they started overcharging for services. Well it might have been but it's not really a serious issue. After Cheney and the government did the things they did it became a conflict of interest.
Clothing manufacturers don't "CHEAT" by having machines make their clothes.
It's just being more intelligent. I don't pry bolts off my car by hand, I use a tool that makes it easier. Gliding wouldn't be an issue if the game wasn't such a grind fest.
I honestly found it more a of challenge to setup the Glide right and perform the right actions based on input than to play the game. It taught me a lot about game mechanics than anything else, it really forces you to think about what the best thing to do in a situation is.
When you ask the government to "restrain other people's kids and indulge mine" what happens if that now that the government has this power and the majority are in control what they do is: "restrain YOUR kids and indulge other people's kids" because your views are not in the majority. You may participate in the production of the state, I participate in the destruction of the state.
I do this by trying to consume more services of the state than I pay for. And generally making the state expend the most resources possible for the least amount of action.
That is why when people complain that politicians do nothing I applaud, because NOTHING is the best possible thing the state can do.
Just like how in China when the law forbids saying bad things about the government and Yahoo gives up the bloggers information so he can be reeducated. There are great reasons why they should not comply with the law, the foremost being a respect for liberty.
No one gets that getting molecules to perform work for us is what makes us rich.
I can't wait til environmentalists find out how many "poor" people will starve once they mandate "organic" farming.
The cost of almost everything in a market-based economy is purely based in the energy consumption of its constituent parts.
Hippies would sure be surprised to find out how long shelter took to build before the industrial revolution. That is why everyone lived in cramped quarters.
Using corn and using a non-foodstock are the same thing economically unless the non-foodstock produces more energy per km^2.
Imagine that X is a non-foodstock that produces the same amount of biodiesel as corn.
The government will forbid the use of corn to make biodiesel, price of X will skyrocket. Farmers will switch to producing X, dropping the price of X and increasing the price of corn. This will continue until the price of corn and X are equal, or the government bans switching a farm from corn to X, then farmers will "stop farming", sell farm to cousin, and cousin will start a "new farm" producing X which he will sell to the farmer.
The exact same thing will happen except you'll introduce the added cost of converting farms to growing X and avoiding new government legislation to the market which EVERYONE will bear.
Because "the poor" will also bear this cost, they will be even worse off. But good feelings will abound from Al Gore, et al, for "doing something" for "the poor".
If you want to create schools that teach people useful knowledge the best thing that could happen is a school voucher program where parents receive a set amount of funding from the various levels of government and are free to spend those dollars as they see fit. Thus music programs and technological education can compete in a fair manner.
What's wrong with avoiding taxes?
I do it.
Every dollar that is not sent to the gov't is a dollar that will be put to better use elsewhere. Other than the nightwatchman state services which are subject to market failure, every other service the government provides could reasonably be paid for by those involved.
Yes, but it doesn't because its cheaper to get new stuff. Once resources cost enough to reprocess them, we will do that, which is why I advocate putting all our precious resources in the same place so that they are easy to retrieve in the future. I call this place a "garbage dump".
If a person creates a product they fall under the same rules as a corporation. And in product liability issues corporations are generally held to a higher standard than individuals because the likelihood of recovering enough money from an individual to cover your legal costs are less than those of an individual. Thus suit is not usually brought against individuals in the same way as companies.
It would be highly unlikely that in the event that I served my neighbor coffee that was much too hot that a jury would award $7 million in punitive damages.
Murder is generally requires an intent to kill people. If GM put a shotgun under the seat designed to kill anyone that sits on it and sold this product as a "car" then yes, they would be committing "murder for money". However, we generally don't regard every instance that someone dies as murder.
Also defective products usually have some benefit, thus the number of people delivered successfully to hospitals,feed their families because GM decided to make trucks with larger fuel tanks generally outweighs the number of people killed. Of course this may not be the case with GM and their trucks, but generally in life one weighs the benefits of a product versus the risks of a product. Air travel has risks but certainly the risks outweigh the losses.
Honestly, whenever I hear someone say "Support local business X that is competing against big chain Y" I invariably go out of my way not support it. Charity is for welfare cases. There are lots of local businesses that I support, primarily ones that provide a) better service, b) better price.
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It's a good thing Microsoft doesn't sell any products other than Windows XP. And it's also a good thing none of this technology that was patented will go into any future products. The real price when distributed over the myriad of products Microsoft sells drastically reduces this figure. If you include just Office this figure will drop in half. Now you have to wonder how many of these patents apply or are financed by much higher end products, ie. Windows Server. Basically, $21.50 is the MOST a customer could be paying for patents on Windows XP. The real thing to consider, is whether the average customer will derive more than $21.50 in value from those features. I think they will.
Just show them your EULA.
Blizz claims ownership of the items, thus it would be illegal for them to tax you on something you don't own.
Remember, you licensed it, you don't own it.
Tax time in WOW is stupid and will never happen. OTOH, Tax time in second life is a possibility.
Muslims that follow the Koran are definitely enemies of liberty. Yes, their behavior does serve as a premise for OUR battlefield ethics, if they want to pull that shit, we'll pull out the B-52s and carpet bomb large urban areas. I don't know why Tony Blair totally pussied out going up against Iran. A better pretext for a war against Iran has never existed.
The next time they ask for Jihad we should give them one. I'm so tired of this shit. Don't commit the troops commit the air force. We could bring those countries to their knees in a few hours. Ever seen pictures of Europe after the bombing campaigns? Who cares about winning the hearts and minds, just kill them. Agent Orange for the limited crops available, troops to secure the oil fields, tin foil for the power sub-stations, bunker busters for the dams / water reservoirs, and cluster bombs / block busters for the parliament buildings / gov't infrastructure. Put a Phalanx every 2 miles on the pipeline and no more incursions for bombing.
I'd say it would take about 2 weeks to solve the entire middle east problem once and for all.
Haliburton wasn't really an issue before Government agencies started giving no bid contracts to them, and they started overcharging for services. Well it might have been but it's not really a serious issue. After Cheney and the government did the things they did it became a conflict of interest.
Umm... seeing someone BREAK the law IS probably cause for a warrant.
This is like saying that a camera catching someone killing someone else is not probable cause for a murder investigation.
The two holes in your theory are that, observation in public whether you like it or not is not considered search.
The other being that the camera only observes the traffic while the red light is in operation.
Other than cost, there is no difference between this and having an officer at the location observing the traffic and ticketing people.
But aren't we all government? Maybe we should just get rid of the services all the leeches like me use, so you won't have to pay for my free ride.
It's not cheating.
Clothing manufacturers don't "CHEAT" by having machines make their clothes.
It's just being more intelligent. I don't pry bolts off my car by hand, I use a tool that makes it easier. Gliding wouldn't be an issue if the game wasn't such a grind fest.
I honestly found it more a of challenge to setup the Glide right and perform the right actions based on input than to play the game. It taught me a lot about game mechanics than anything else, it really forces you to think about what the best thing to do in a situation is.
Yeah, its not like a bunch of Comp Sci students couldnt figure out an algorithm to break them.
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mori/research/gimpy/
When you ask the government to "restrain other people's kids and indulge mine" what happens if that now that the government has this power and the majority are in control what they do is: "restrain YOUR kids and indulge other people's kids" because your views are not in the majority. You may participate in the production of the state, I participate in the destruction of the state.
I do this by trying to consume more services of the state than I pay for. And generally making the state expend the most resources possible for the least amount of action.
That is why when people complain that politicians do nothing I applaud, because NOTHING is the best possible thing the state can do.
Regarding transactions that don't involve legal tender, the Freemans called they want their legal theory back.
The problem with that is then on every disc each key needs to be encoded.
Lets say the market is 580 million players.
580 million * 128 bits = 8.64267349 gigabytes
That is 8 gigabytes just for the keys. Let alone the amount of time required to try decoding each encrypted field.
Sorry, it just won't work.
Just like how in China when the law forbids saying bad things about the government and Yahoo gives up the bloggers information so he can be reeducated. There are great reasons why they should not comply with the law, the foremost being a respect for liberty.
Amen.
No one gets that getting molecules to perform work for us is what makes us rich.
I can't wait til environmentalists find out how many "poor" people will starve once they mandate "organic" farming.
The cost of almost everything in a market-based economy is purely based in the energy consumption of its constituent parts.
Hippies would sure be surprised to find out how long shelter took to build before the industrial revolution. That is why everyone lived in cramped quarters.
Using corn and using a non-foodstock are the same thing economically unless the non-foodstock produces more energy per km^2.
Imagine that X is a non-foodstock that produces the same amount of biodiesel as corn.
The government will forbid the use of corn to make biodiesel, price of X will skyrocket. Farmers will switch to producing X, dropping the price of X and increasing the price of corn. This will continue until the price of corn and X are equal, or the government bans switching a farm from corn to X, then farmers will "stop farming", sell farm to cousin, and cousin will start a "new farm" producing X which he will sell to the farmer.
The exact same thing will happen except you'll introduce the added cost of converting farms to growing X and avoiding new government legislation to the market which EVERYONE will bear.
Because "the poor" will also bear this cost, they will be even worse off. But good feelings will abound from Al Gore, et al, for "doing something" for "the poor".
Never suggest a lefty actually take personal responsibility and do something about the problem they are talking about themselves.
No, it is only other people who should be forced to labour for their cause de jour.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of your post, I do not see how running a porn site impugns ones honesty.
If you want to create schools that teach people useful knowledge the best thing that could happen is a school voucher program where parents receive a set amount of funding from the various levels of government and are free to spend those dollars as they see fit. Thus music programs and technological education can compete in a fair manner.
If we weren't such pussies we would have done what Israel did to Lebanon when Hamas took two guys hostage.
Except we would have scaled it up to the extent that 9/11 is to taking two hostages.
People who drive vehicles that consume large amounts of fuel ALREADY PAY MORE FOR FUEL.
What is so magical about gasoline that it needs to be taxed?
It is a scare resource with alternative uses just like any other.
What's wrong with avoiding taxes? I do it. Every dollar that is not sent to the gov't is a dollar that will be put to better use elsewhere. Other than the nightwatchman state services which are subject to market failure, every other service the government provides could reasonably be paid for by those involved.
Yes, but it doesn't because its cheaper to get new stuff. Once resources cost enough to reprocess them, we will do that, which is why I advocate putting all our precious resources in the same place so that they are easy to retrieve in the future. I call this place a "garbage dump".
If a person creates a product they fall under the same rules as a corporation. And in product liability issues corporations are generally held to a higher standard than individuals because the likelihood of recovering enough money from an individual to cover your legal costs are less than those of an individual. Thus suit is not usually brought against individuals in the same way as companies.
It would be highly unlikely that in the event that I served my neighbor coffee that was much too hot that a jury would award $7 million in punitive damages.
Murder is generally requires an intent to kill people. If GM put a shotgun under the seat designed to kill anyone that sits on it and sold this product as a "car" then yes, they would be committing "murder for money". However, we generally don't regard every instance that someone dies as murder.
Also defective products usually have some benefit, thus the number of people delivered successfully to hospitals,feed their families because GM decided to make trucks with larger fuel tanks generally outweighs the number of people killed. Of course this may not be the case with GM and their trucks, but generally in life one weighs the benefits of a product versus the risks of a product. Air travel has risks but certainly the risks outweigh the losses.
Honestly, whenever I hear someone say "Support local business X that is competing against big chain Y" I invariably go out of my way not support it. Charity is for welfare cases. There are lots of local businesses that I support, primarily ones that provide a) better service, b) better price.
Plan B is buy from people who do not subscribe to this model.
Amen to that.
I was bullied in school until I fractured someone's nose in front of their friends.
All of a sudden no one wanted to make fun of me anymore.