Yeah, um, the rules are different when you're dealing with monopolies. Never mind that the cable company probably promised to serve the whol area that it got the monopoly for.
If you want my food, move to a place where I offer it, or buy someone else's food. Simple as that. Jackass.
No problem. I'll buy your crops, then resell them in the cities that demand them. If I'm savvy, I can eventually control most of the transport out of your town and buy most of your crop. When that happens, you'll pay what I choose to give you.
Without balance you consumers die. It's a simple as that.
There really isn't any technical reason you can't have 3-5 fibers/cables running through the existing right-of-ways. Then you'd have REAL choice/competition, but without unnecessary government interference.
Yes there is - you have to tear up the road each time you lay the fibers, so you only want to do it once. Of course you throw down 8 or 16 fibers because it's comparatively cheap, but you only do that once. What we need to do is have the city manage the fiber and let people sell service on top.
I'm asking this honestly, because I want to know: do you have citations for that info about cable companies getting court orders preventing rural consumers from obtaining satellite?
I remember the cable companies suing to prevent municipal broadband projects a couple of years back. This was back when some cities didn't have broadband or even planned rollouts.
live in a rural area myself, where cable stops about a half a mile from my house. It sucks, but I don't feel that I'm *entitled* to cable internet.
Well, you actually are. You got that entitlement in exchange for the cable company being the only cable company in the area. At least until this latest thing.
If in a given field, a company is making excessive profits, the fact that that field is so profitable naturally leads it to draw in other companies.
Bullshit. The cable company has a monopoly granted by the city (can't have two companies tearing up all the roads), so any competition will have to use some other approach (like wi-max), which is generally inferior compared to a hard line. Result: no competing cable company, and they'd cannibalize the existing customer base instead of offering service to the guys who weren't profitable for the first cable company.
They self-correct, in the absence of State regulation, which permanently distorts markets and either increase prices or restrict supply. (New York renting laws, for example).
No, in the absence of regulation, one guy screws the others and leverages that into a monopoly. Go back and read your MacroEcon book again.
That's really none of your concern. What business is it of yours if the daycare you go to has a BDSM freak on staff? Presumably, they know to keep that stuff away from the kids anyway. I think you're just hung up on sex.
Yeah, every time this comes up, someone posts to object to the terminology. Face it, ID theft is what we call it even though it isn't literally true. They are, however, eroding your identity with various banks, so it's more accurate that you may think. Anyway, have fun tilting at windmills.
Simple solution there: increase the supply and cull the Nick Riviera's of the world. Of course, we've got a system where everything is private - if some level of insurance was provided to anyone who could fog a mirror (and many who can't - this is a hospital), would all the hospitals run away? In your real life example, would allowing people to pay for use of the big magnetic donut drive the best away from the public sector? Would it allow the hospital to buy another big magnetic donut, or would they not, since 'they' only use it half the time anyway (never mind the people renting it).
I get that you probably don't buy this argument, but it's really irritating. Perhaps we should be looking at sweden or denmark for our model healthcare.
Try again: MS released Vista after 4 years of development, but it doesn't work with their flagship SQL database. Why wouldn't you expect there to be driver problems too? A lot of places still don't sign their drivers.
Someone with no work experience, even without a degree, may be more skilled than their managers.
Gee, I hope so. Management is a lot different skillset than most tech/development stuff. Or are you implying that the managers they'll be under are tools?
That's the formula for getting anything done in any company, and it varies by company. All you're missing is finding your champion (needed for projects and fixing larger fuckups).
These are PC techs, not exchange admins. Whether it's for a small company (likely) or a box store (not so much), they will need similar skills that aren't really covered by most certs. Diagnosis, especially over the phone is a big one. Knowing how to run exchange on 100 servers isn't even on the list.
I think at Microsoft. The interview ended when he got his meal on the table and immediately put salt on it without even tasting if it needed it. That would be a bad trait.. if you consider for a moment how that kind of attitude affects the way he'd develop software. I have no idea if it's truly true or not, but it's a good example.
There are lots of reasons why someone would do that unrelated to his competence at a job:
Habit - grow up salting your food and wou'll do so until you make an effort to stop.
Taste - you may simply prefer a lot more salt than is normal.
I have to wait up to 8 months for an MRI even though the one at the local hospital isn't being used more than 8 or 10 hours a day because they can't afford to pay the staff to run it... while not allowing private companies to use the machines who are willing to PAY to for the privilege of giving their customers faster access. BTW, the government frowns and disallows companies from buying their own machines and offering these services.
Okay, I'll never get an MRI anyway, but I don't get this: why is Canada so fucked in the head on this? I like socialized medicine, where everybody gets a base level of care, but I want the option to get additional coverage. The big win for this scheme is that there's no real question of whether the hospital will get paid for most things (and more people will see doctors, reducing the emergency burden further). Anyway, why is it that Canada won't let someone open up Joe's MRI and sandwich shop?
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Did the fact that he was hispanic figure into the judgment?
It implies that he had no insurance.
Wusses. Poke It With A Stick could wreck your entire solar system 3 seconds before you noticed him.
Yeah, um, the rules are different when you're dealing with monopolies. Never mind that the cable company probably promised to serve the whol area that it got the monopoly for.
How about a warship that just went through a nasty breakup with that medical frigate over there?
If you want my food, move to a place where I offer it, or buy someone else's food. Simple as that. Jackass.
No problem. I'll buy your crops, then resell them in the cities that demand them. If I'm savvy, I can eventually control most of the transport out of your town and buy most of your crop. When that happens, you'll pay what I choose to give you.
Without balance you consumers die. It's a simple as that.
No, you die. Go read the grapes of wrath.
There really isn't any technical reason you can't have 3-5 fibers/cables running through the existing right-of-ways. Then you'd have REAL choice/competition, but without unnecessary government interference.
Yes there is - you have to tear up the road each time you lay the fibers, so you only want to do it once. Of course you throw down 8 or 16 fibers because it's comparatively cheap, but you only do that once. What we need to do is have the city manage the fiber and let people sell service on top.
Ok, since when did cable TV, phone, internet connectivity, wireless...all become inalienable rights?!?!?
Equal access is a right because we've all paid for it.
I'm asking this honestly, because I want to know: do you have citations for that info about cable companies getting court orders preventing rural consumers from obtaining satellite?
I remember the cable companies suing to prevent municipal broadband projects a couple of years back. This was back when some cities didn't have broadband or even planned rollouts.
live in a rural area myself, where cable stops about a half a mile from my house. It sucks, but I don't feel that I'm *entitled* to cable internet.
Well, you actually are. You got that entitlement in exchange for the cable company being the only cable company in the area. At least until this latest thing.
If in a given field, a company is making excessive profits, the fact that that field is so profitable naturally leads it to draw in other companies.
Bullshit. The cable company has a monopoly granted by the city (can't have two companies tearing up all the roads), so any competition will have to use some other approach (like wi-max), which is generally inferior compared to a hard line. Result: no competing cable company, and they'd cannibalize the existing customer base instead of offering service to the guys who weren't profitable for the first cable company.
They self-correct, in the absence of State regulation, which permanently distorts markets and either increase prices or restrict supply. (New York renting laws, for example).
No, in the absence of regulation, one guy screws the others and leverages that into a monopoly. Go back and read your MacroEcon book again.
That's really none of your concern. What business is it of yours if the daycare you go to has a BDSM freak on staff? Presumably, they know to keep that stuff away from the kids anyway. I think you're just hung up on sex.
Yeah, every time this comes up, someone posts to object to the terminology. Face it, ID theft is what we call it even though it isn't literally true. They are, however, eroding your identity with various banks, so it's more accurate that you may think. Anyway, have fun tilting at windmills.
As such they shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs which give them unsupervised access to and influence over children.
Why? These are sex offenders, which is different from pedophiles. Why would a rapist be interested in your kids?
Calling it a "progressive" tax makes it sound like a good thing. It's not.
Would you prefer a regressive tax? After $150k, the tax rate goes down.
The incompatibility points to a nasty problem with compatibility testing. Yeah, it's speculative, but not without basis.
I get that you probably don't buy this argument, but it's really irritating. Perhaps we should be looking at sweden or denmark for our model healthcare.
Try again: MS released Vista after 4 years of development, but it doesn't work with their flagship SQL database. Why wouldn't you expect there to be driver problems too? A lot of places still don't sign their drivers.
Someone with no work experience, even without a degree, may be more skilled than their managers.
Gee, I hope so. Management is a lot different skillset than most tech/development stuff. Or are you implying that the managers they'll be under are tools?
That's the formula for getting anything done in any company, and it varies by company. All you're missing is finding your champion (needed for projects and fixing larger fuckups).
These are PC techs, not exchange admins. Whether it's for a small company (likely) or a box store (not so much), they will need similar skills that aren't really covered by most certs. Diagnosis, especially over the phone is a big one. Knowing how to run exchange on 100 servers isn't even on the list.
I think at Microsoft. The interview ended when he got his meal on the table and immediately put salt on it without even tasting if it needed it. That would be a bad trait.. if you consider for a moment how that kind of attitude affects the way he'd develop software. I have no idea if it's truly true or not, but it's a good example.
There are lots of reasons why someone would do that unrelated to his competence at a job:
If it was built in the last two years, it's probably "Vista Capable". A sticker does not enable some magic compatibility.
Yeah right. Vista doesn't run SQL server, and that's a MS product. What makes you think there won't be other landmines (probably related to DRM)?
I'm pretty sure Microsoft offers licensing discounts as long as they're exclusive.
Not anymore they don't. They can offer volume discounts, but exclusivity is a big nono.
Obviously Texan conservatives want to conserve violence.
Why, is there a shortage?
Damn it, Lars, this has nothing to do with kids shooting each other. This is about raiding people for producing a video game.
I have to wait up to 8 months for an MRI even though the one at the local hospital isn't being used more than 8 or 10 hours a day because they can't afford to pay the staff to run it... while not allowing private companies to use the machines who are willing to PAY to for the privilege of giving their customers faster access. BTW, the government frowns and disallows companies from buying their own machines and offering these services.
Okay, I'll never get an MRI anyway, but I don't get this: why is Canada so fucked in the head on this? I like socialized medicine, where everybody gets a base level of care, but I want the option to get additional coverage. The big win for this scheme is that there's no real question of whether the hospital will get paid for most things (and more people will see doctors, reducing the emergency burden further). Anyway, why is it that Canada won't let someone open up Joe's MRI and sandwich shop?