This is only the case in Canada, Cuba, and North Korea. Every other country that has universal health care also allows a parallel private system to coexist.
It's really not going to hurt us that much to stop producing greenhouse gasses now, and it might even turn out to be the right thing to do. Why not do it?
Why don't you stop driving your car and cut your electricity usage by 90% and then come back and tell us how its not going to hurt? Nevermind the billions in third world countries that will remain in poverty if we crippled their economic development to stop emitting greenhouse gases. Global warming is obviously a serious problem, but let's not be glib about the real costs of doing something about it.
Economics 101: a thing is worth whatever the buyer thinks it's worth
You got the 'demand' part down, but I think you forgot about that other thing called 'supply'. Oxygen is extremely valuable to me but you won't find me paying for it.
This is a joke. Of course this is what the official line is, but any patent attorney worth their salt can write a perfectly good spec that holds up to the letter of the law without actually giving away how to actually implement the thing. In fact, many times the inventor himself doesn't know how to implement the invention but that does stop the attorney from writing up a perfectly valid patent.
Back in the good ol' days it was Beer, Napster, and AIM/ICQ, none of this newfangled iPOD business. We had to walk uphill both ways against raging firewalls to get our digital music. Kids these days have it easy.
This is entirely untrue. Free trade is beneficial regardless of whether it is reciprocated. This is established economic theory for 200 years. See David Ricardo
they can 'try' to compel you to divulge the encryption key, but then you don't have to testify against yourself in the U.S.... at least not yet.
I am not a lawyer (just a law student) but I am fairly certain that the government could compel you to divulge your encryption key as it would not be testimonial evidence (something akin to why you can be forced to give up your fingerprints, etc)
There is no evidence that cutting the levels of CO2 emissions would "devolve [the US] economy". In fact, the opposite is far more plausible: the move to energy efficient technologies would spur new R&D, it would result in modernization of our transportation and manufacturing infrastructure, it would improve efficiency, it would lessen dependence on foreign oil (thereby also reducing the need for military expenses), and it would create lots of new economic activity and jobs.
This is a prime example of a broken window fallacy. Consider what that human and financial capital that is used to reduce emmissions and develop new infrastructure could have done instead. Rather than developing less polluting transportation technologies, they could instead be developing new computing technologies, biomedical technologies, or advancing practical space flight. R&D in other areas that effect peoples lives must be sacrificed to maintain R & D that would allow us to comply with the kyoto protocol. Regardless of whether you believe reducing CO2 emmissions is a worthwhile goal, there are REAL costs involved and real tradeoffs that must be considered.
Actually, what this is is barratry. From the wikipedia entry:
"In criminal and civil law, barratry is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass. Usually, the actions brought lack merit. This action has been declared a crime in some jurisdictions. "
Yes. In overturning portions of the Communications Decency Act, the Supreme Court overturned some restrictions on online activity as restricting the first amendment right of freedom of speech. See Reno v. ACLU
Off the top of my head, I remember a study where men and women were given some simple test like solving a maze puzzle. Men completed the test fast when they were told they were competing against other men and even faster when they were competing against women. Women did better when they were not told that they were in a competition. Draw from this what conclusions you will.
That is, if we had no patent system and anyone could produce anything they wanted without restriction you may not have been able to buy either product.
So far as I know, this is a broadly held but entirely baseless assumption. There is no empirical research showing that patent protection causes more innovation being available to the consumer. See http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/again st.htm for a more complete treatment.
IAAL (in training). Circumstantial evidence is used to "prove" many aspects of a crime. For proving criminal mental states such things as intent, you have only circumstantial evidence unless there is a confession.
imagine what a Great Depression will be like, world-wide, with no barriers to trade?
The Hawley-Smoot Tarrif Act raised tarifs in the united states to record levels. It was instituted shortly before the great depression. If anything, history shows that high tariffs prolonged and worsened the great depression.
There is economic equivalency more or less. You can move the capitol to the labor or the labor to the capital. Does it make a difference? It would actually be easier for companies to bring indian programmers to facilities in podunk, indiana or something as long as they paid them the same salary as they do now. Face it. The real thing that pisses people off is low wage competition, not on which continent people happen to be coding on.
The engineers know about the generic case but they dont know about YOUR car. If I install aggressive camshafts high compression pistons or an aftermarket turbo, I can damn well expect the default ecu settings to be practically useless. Also, the car manufacturer has different priorities than I do. If I decide its worth it to advance my timing and pay extra to run higher octane gas for more power, i should be able to do that. What do I care that the manufacturer decided that my car is an economy car and thus will always run the lowest possible octane?
Mirrored windows reduce the amount of energy spent on AC in the summer. Less energy needed means fewer turbines. Question: On balance, will more or fewer birds be killed by outlawing mirrored windows?
Todays lesson brought to you by the law of unintended consequences.
Ah. Senior year of college I was 5' 7' and weighed 115 (tops!) and i could bench my weight and was on the Ultimate frisbee team. Cant gain weight for the life of me but I managed to lose alot of strength and stamina. =/ Ah well. The point being is that its perfectly possible to be healthy and skinny if you have a weird body type such as mine.
Retarded. Traffic jams are purely economic results. There is no technological or economical way to charge for use of the roads so they are overused. Tragedy of the commons. Its like giving away bread in soviet russia. Because there is never enough to go around for the amount that people are willing to consume at $0, you wind up with lines or rationing. Traffic Jams are basically lines to use a free good: the roads.
While the guy in the article brings up some interesting questions, only some of them are related to true scarcity. Others are clearly issues of political economy.
However, before it was prohibited, France was the second biggest supplier of arms (after russia) to Iraq. All this talk of the US arming Saddam is just a smoke screen. The weapons he got from the US are a drop in the bucket compared to what he got from Russia and France.
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This is only the case in Canada, Cuba, and North Korea. Every other country that has universal health care also allows a parallel private system to coexist.
I can hear the slogans now: "It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and EveBot"
Why don't you stop driving your car and cut your electricity usage by 90% and then come back and tell us how its not going to hurt? Nevermind the billions in third world countries that will remain in poverty if we crippled their economic development to stop emitting greenhouse gases. Global warming is obviously a serious problem, but let's not be glib about the real costs of doing something about it.
You got the 'demand' part down, but I think you forgot about that other thing called 'supply'. Oxygen is extremely valuable to me but you won't find me paying for it.
This is a joke. Of course this is what the official line is, but any patent attorney worth their salt can write a perfectly good spec that holds up to the letter of the law without actually giving away how to actually implement the thing. In fact, many times the inventor himself doesn't know how to implement the invention but that does stop the attorney from writing up a perfectly valid patent.
Back in the good ol' days it was Beer, Napster, and AIM/ICQ, none of this newfangled iPOD business. We had to walk uphill both ways against raging firewalls to get our digital music. Kids these days have it easy.
This is entirely untrue. Free trade is beneficial regardless of whether it is reciprocated. This is established economic theory for 200 years. See David Ricardo
I am not a lawyer (just a law student) but I am fairly certain that the government could compel you to divulge your encryption key as it would not be testimonial evidence (something akin to why you can be forced to give up your fingerprints, etc)
This is a prime example of a broken window fallacy. Consider what that human and financial capital that is used to reduce emmissions and develop new infrastructure could have done instead. Rather than developing less polluting transportation technologies, they could instead be developing new computing technologies, biomedical technologies, or advancing practical space flight. R&D in other areas that effect peoples lives must be sacrificed to maintain R & D that would allow us to comply with the kyoto protocol. Regardless of whether you believe reducing CO2 emmissions is a worthwhile goal, there are REAL costs involved and real tradeoffs that must be considered.
"In criminal and civil law, barratry is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass. Usually, the actions brought lack merit. This action has been declared a crime in some jurisdictions. "
Yes. In overturning portions of the Communications Decency Act, the Supreme Court overturned some restrictions on online activity as restricting the first amendment right of freedom of speech. See Reno v. ACLU
Won't this just be free advertising for those companies that use adware?? Two for the price of one!
Is that a typo, or just some EE humor?
Off the top of my head, I remember a study where men and women were given some simple test like solving a maze puzzle. Men completed the test fast when they were told they were competing against other men and even faster when they were competing against women. Women did better when they were not told that they were in a competition. Draw from this what conclusions you will.
IAAL (in training). Circumstantial evidence is used to "prove" many aspects of a crime. For proving criminal mental states such things as intent, you have only circumstantial evidence unless there is a confession.
The Hawley-Smoot Tarrif Act raised tarifs in the united states to record levels. It was instituted shortly before the great depression. If anything, history shows that high tariffs prolonged and worsened the great depression.
Pre-1970 we used Leaded Gasoline which lets you have higher compression as it doesnt detonate as easily as unleaded gasoline.
There is economic equivalency more or less. You can move the capitol to the labor or the labor to the capital. Does it make a difference? It would actually be easier for companies to bring indian programmers to facilities in podunk, indiana or something as long as they paid them the same salary as they do now. Face it. The real thing that pisses people off is low wage competition, not on which continent people happen to be coding on.
My first question is not "does it intefere with people's rights" but "is the interference beneficial"? and thats why canada sucks and the us rules
The engineers know about the generic case but they dont know about YOUR car. If I install aggressive camshafts high compression pistons or an aftermarket turbo, I can damn well expect the default ecu settings to be practically useless. Also, the car manufacturer has different priorities than I do. If I decide its worth it to advance my timing and pay extra to run higher octane gas for more power, i should be able to do that. What do I care that the manufacturer decided that my car is an economy car and thus will always run the lowest possible octane?
Todays lesson brought to you by the law of unintended consequences.
Ah. Senior year of college I was 5' 7' and weighed 115 (tops!) and i could bench my weight and was on the Ultimate frisbee team. Cant gain weight for the life of me but I managed to lose alot of strength and stamina. =/ Ah well. The point being is that its perfectly possible to be healthy and skinny if you have a weird body type such as mine.
Retarded. Traffic jams are purely economic results. There is no technological or economical way to charge for use of the roads so they are overused. Tragedy of the commons. Its like giving away bread in soviet russia. Because there is never enough to go around for the amount that people are willing to consume at $0, you wind up with lines or rationing. Traffic Jams are basically lines to use a free good: the roads. While the guy in the article brings up some interesting questions, only some of them are related to true scarcity. Others are clearly issues of political economy.
However, before it was prohibited, France was the second biggest supplier of arms (after russia) to Iraq. All this talk of the US arming Saddam is just a smoke screen. The weapons he got from the US are a drop in the bucket compared to what he got from Russia and France.