One question for the libertarians reading. Can the theory of magical free markets be falsified?
If stocks go up, it is because of the free market.
If stocks go down, it is the free market correcting itself.
If wages stagnate for the majority while steadily increasing for an elite minority, it's because the free market works in mysterious ways.
But if we have a mortgage bubble, it's the government's fault for letting the federal reserve print all that extra money.
If people get what they want, the free market gave it to them.
If a government purchases something, it makes the free market cry.
Yet when someone's retirement portfolio gets set back a year or more, they simply were not shrewd with their investments. Hey, it's a free market!
When deregulation is consistently followed by exploitation and gross contempt for the public it is simply the market deriving value for its shareholders.
When there's a near complete meltdown followed by a recession, it is because true free markets have never really been tried because of liberal regulations.
So my question is this: For a theory to be Science it must be falsifiable; so what would it take for one of you True Believers to reconsider your theory?
sure except in order to really understand the standards of evidence you need to, you know, go to school and participate in science. having a science career will do wonders for your credibility. posting ridiculous equivocations on slashdot just gets lost in the noise (in case you were wondering why nobody of import has been taking you seriously)
I can't say for sure where their confidence comes from but it probably has something to do with the fact that this project is part of their jobs and you're just some guy posting the first thing he thinks of after seeing a summary on Slashdot.
As with all ideas, the only true arbiter of this proposal's utility is - and should be - the free market. If people are want to pay for an internet license, why shouldn't they be free to? I expect a lot of the same Linux liberals here on/. that bank on big government protectionism (in the form of the copyright laws that make anti-competitive devices like the GPL possible) will be the first to decry this potential market, they would love to regulate the internet to the point where sharing your CPU, memory, and all your intellectual property with everyone else on the network is compulsory.
A lot of the concerns in this case are overblown FUD. There is no motive for licensing companies to exploit their positions as gatekeepers of the public trust. It would be entirely against their interests to allow the types of activities in the summary to go on and if some should stray, the freedom of consumer choice as exercised in a free market would quickly put them out of business
Anyone who disagrees with this just doesn't understand that free markets have never really been tried. Any cases where unregulated free markets appeared to fail were really due to the inefficiency of big government, which can of course never be responsible for anyone's economic gains, but universally presides over private industry's failures. How cruel that this Craig Mundie will have his entrepreneurial spirit mocked and torn down by leeches with no innovative drives of their own, on the very internet which he is trying to protect.
As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us to innovate faster.
suckling at the teat of government social programs
racial supremacist agitators
not to mention your little screed against PhDs. Yes, I'm sure they're all drooling simpletons who had enough money and free time to sit in a room until they were handed their credentials.
Yes, and maybe someday we can get an open source mathematics that will be to Wolfram Research what Sage is to Mathematica. Until then I guess I'll have to keep buying all my math online.
Firefox used to be the lightweight alternative. Now when everyone else is focusing on speed and usability, Firefox will take longer to start than any other browser, and do all sorts of things that you probably didn't have in mind when you clicked the Firefox icon (Please wait while we update your extensions....Oops, I couldn't update this extension. Please restart Firefox because I updated this other one. Do you want me to reopen all your old tabs? What about next time? Oh, please update your Firefox! No? Please tell us why! Here, fill out this survey web page which is embedded in this 320x240 pixel window for no reason, and tell us what we can do to improve Firefox.
Give me a break. I only ever use it for Firebug anymore and even that's becoming more rare as the tools for Safari and Chrome improve. Firefox will be irrelevant within 3 years, and still wondering where they went wrong.
If dignity were an essential human right, the free market would have already put a price on it. As this has not happened, we must conclude "dignity" is a liberal myth.
Thanks for catching that, I'm much better able to participate in this and future discussions having read your post. I'm glad someone with your insight and expertise on China is watching Obama so that we don't miss these crucial turning points in history.
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One question for the libertarians reading. Can the theory of magical free markets be falsified?
If stocks go up, it is because of the free market.
If stocks go down, it is the free market correcting itself.
If wages stagnate for the majority while steadily increasing for an elite minority, it's because the free market works in mysterious ways.
But if we have a mortgage bubble, it's the government's fault for letting the federal reserve print all that extra money.
If people get what they want, the free market gave it to them.
If a government purchases something, it makes the free market cry.
Yet when someone's retirement portfolio gets set back a year or more, they simply were not shrewd with their investments. Hey, it's a free market!
When deregulation is consistently followed by exploitation and gross contempt for the public it is simply the market deriving value for its shareholders.
When there's a near complete meltdown followed by a recession, it is because true free markets have never really been tried because of liberal regulations.
So my question is this: For a theory to be Science it must be falsifiable; so what would it take for one of you True Believers to reconsider your theory?
sure except in order to really understand the standards of evidence you need to, you know, go to school and participate in science. having a science career will do wonders for your credibility. posting ridiculous equivocations on slashdot just gets lost in the noise (in case you were wondering why nobody of import has been taking you seriously)
I can't say for sure where their confidence comes from but it probably has something to do with the fact that this project is part of their jobs and you're just some guy posting the first thing he thinks of after seeing a summary on Slashdot.
As with all ideas, the only true arbiter of this proposal's utility is - and should be - the free market. If people are want to pay for an internet license, why shouldn't they be free to? I expect a lot of the same Linux liberals here on /. that bank on big government protectionism (in the form of the copyright laws that make anti-competitive devices like the GPL possible) will be the first to decry this potential market, they would love to regulate the internet to the point where sharing your CPU, memory, and all your intellectual property with everyone else on the network is compulsory.
A lot of the concerns in this case are overblown FUD. There is no motive for licensing companies to exploit their positions as gatekeepers of the public trust. It would be entirely against their interests to allow the types of activities in the summary to go on and if some should stray, the freedom of consumer choice as exercised in a free market would quickly put them out of business
Anyone who disagrees with this just doesn't understand that free markets have never really been tried. Any cases where unregulated free markets appeared to fail were really due to the inefficiency of big government, which can of course never be responsible for anyone's economic gains, but universally presides over private industry's failures. How cruel that this Craig Mundie will have his entrepreneurial spirit mocked and torn down by leeches with no innovative drives of their own, on the very internet which he is trying to protect.
For shame.
You see, people are rich because they are smart, otherwise they wouldn't be rich. Discuss.
Yeah I think I'm going to go buy stock in companies because they use PHP. Take that! hurrrr
*learns PHP as a new hire at Facebook*
"Look, ma, I'm an engineer!"
*writes shitty php code*
"Look, ma, I'm innovating!"
As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us to innovate faster.
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You need to look into prescriptive vs normative decision making.
Get a damn job and pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Partisan hackery, like this kind of stuff?
suckling at the teat of government social programs
racial supremacist agitators
not to mention your little screed against PhDs. Yes, I'm sure they're all drooling simpletons who had enough money and free time to sit in a room until they were handed their credentials.
Same reason no one has made a serious fart machine for serious teenagers.
Yes, and maybe someday we can get an open source mathematics that will be to Wolfram Research what Sage is to Mathematica. Until then I guess I'll have to keep buying all my math online.
he says what they're thinking, they might as well read it
Firefox used to be the lightweight alternative. Now when everyone else is focusing on speed and usability, Firefox will take longer to start than any other browser, and do all sorts of things that you probably didn't have in mind when you clicked the Firefox icon (Please wait while we update your extensions....Oops, I couldn't update this extension. Please restart Firefox because I updated this other one. Do you want me to reopen all your old tabs? What about next time? Oh, please update your Firefox! No? Please tell us why! Here, fill out this survey web page which is embedded in this 320x240 pixel window for no reason, and tell us what we can do to improve Firefox.
Give me a break. I only ever use it for Firebug anymore and even that's becoming more rare as the tools for Safari and Chrome improve. Firefox will be irrelevant within 3 years, and still wondering where they went wrong.
Was that the same person that suggested using the Kursk as a deep sea habitat?
I hope someone at Comcast finds your post and offers you a job, you sound like the network architect they've been waiting for!
Dis-ease. You really don't get how a "wrecked mental state" would be dis-ease?
If dignity were an essential human right, the free market would have already put a price on it. As this has not happened, we must conclude "dignity" is a liberal myth.
As long as we can keep our guns in it, said house would be a castle no matter how many bars we have to put up to keep the social decay out.
You forgot to blame fiat money. Also, you need to whine more about how nobody takes Austrian economics seriously.
ding ding free market ding ding ron paul ding ding taxation is theft ding dong dumb
to infinity
Yes, if only there was some kind of "final solution" that could eliminate all the undesirable elements in society...
Thanks for catching that, I'm much better able to participate in this and future discussions having read your post. I'm glad someone with your insight and expertise on China is watching Obama so that we don't miss these crucial turning points in history.