A thousand times, yes. People seem to forget the extent to which industry (yes, *capitalist industry*) deserves credit for so many of the modern luxuries they enjoy. We should be happy enough that there are people willing to work hard enough to create and run companies like GM and Ford before we gang up and start punishing them for trying to make a buck. Consumer protections and safety standards are just marketing terms for the real agenda: the expansion of government regulation until you can't even build a house or open a theme park without getting a bureaucratic stamp of approval.
This isn't fair to the automaker's shareholders, the government is infringing on their right to receive a return on their investment as determined by the objective free market. Forcing them to give up their intellectual property based on some absurd notion of repair rights (good luck finding that in the constitution) is just another form of wealth redistribution.
You call it paranoia, I see a rational actor navigating the free market by using all information available to him to evaluate the risks associated with this seemingly innocent request.
Naturally, the one post that puts the blame squarely where it belongs (the seemingly infinite credulity of large swaths of our population), gets modded "troll".
Education is a value that must be inculcated by parents. The notion that scientists have a duty to make their work culturally relevant is silly. It's a mistake to lay our cultural failings at the feet of science.
The free market isn't based on trust, it assumes that participants are a rational actors. If more people had done their due diligence Madoff wouldn't have been as successful. According to the market he was a bit more rational than his clients, but that's why it's a "free market" not a "magic return-on-your-investment machine".
1. Park your car. 2. Walk up to 1/2 block to store entrance. 3. Wait in line to enter and obtain a cart. 4. Pass the checkout counters and walk the equivalent of two or three blocks inside the stoor while manually loading groceries. 5. Wait in line to pay using coins or credit cards. 6. Wait for a paper receipt to be printed. 7. Walk up to 1/2 block back to your car. 8. Place the groceries in the car. 9. Head off to your destination. 10. Carry groceries inside destination. 11. Store groceries in various locations depending on consumability and shelf life at room temperature.
Embarassingly, it is already like this in Portland, Chicago and other cities worldwide.
I love this. Companies get to improve efficiencies and competition is preserved. I can't wait for the awesome choices this trend will bring consumers like me as the market optimizes our burgeoning educational system. I don't understand what all the fuss is about, if you want the privilege of working for an American corporation you have to compete for the lowest wage like everyone else. This is just more proof that today's American students don't understand Capitalism.
1. I believe that climate change is a hoax 2. Modern science and peer review demonstrates using all sorts of incontrovertible facts and logic that I am completely wrong 3. If climate change is obviously not a hoax, then I'm an idiot 4. Since I'm not an idiot, climate change is a hoax 5. Since climate change is a hoax, modern science is either stupid or lying 6. Al Gore and Big Environment want us to live in caves and spend all our money on smug energy efficient products
Wow, it works! Somebody do abstinence-only education and the gay agenda!
Are people really this stupid getting modded insightful? We're doomed. If the OP meant to include ice on land then the entire premise of their argument is flawed because ice on land does NOT displace its volume in water. Because it's on land, not in water. Jesus fucking christ, America.
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As a Ron Paul troll, my only comeback is that I shouldn't have to pay taxes, therefore I can ignore most of your argument.
A thousand times, yes. People seem to forget the extent to which industry (yes, *capitalist industry*) deserves credit for so many of the modern luxuries they enjoy. We should be happy enough that there are people willing to work hard enough to create and run companies like GM and Ford before we gang up and start punishing them for trying to make a buck. Consumer protections and safety standards are just marketing terms for the real agenda: the expansion of government regulation until you can't even build a house or open a theme park without getting a bureaucratic stamp of approval.
This isn't fair to the automaker's shareholders, the government is infringing on their right to receive a return on their investment as determined by the objective free market. Forcing them to give up their intellectual property based on some absurd notion of repair rights (good luck finding that in the constitution) is just another form of wealth redistribution.
You call it paranoia, I see a rational actor navigating the free market by using all information available to him to evaluate the risks associated with this seemingly innocent request.
Shine on you rational diamond! Ron Paul.
What's even funnier is that nowhere in the constitution does it say the government has the right to build an interstate highway system.
They don't want you to know about RON PAUL either!!!!@!1
RON PAUL says AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS are SCIENCE
Naturally, the one post that puts the blame squarely where it belongs (the seemingly infinite credulity of large swaths of our population), gets modded "troll".
Education is a value that must be inculcated by parents. The notion that scientists have a duty to make their work culturally relevant is silly. It's a mistake to lay our cultural failings at the feet of science.
Who the hell modded this incoherent crap insightful?
The free market isn't based on trust, it assumes that participants are a rational actors. If more people had done their due diligence Madoff wouldn't have been as successful. According to the market he was a bit more rational than his clients, but that's why it's a "free market" not a "magic return-on-your-investment machine".
Mod parent up. A lot of people on /. need to read and consider it.
Nothing in the summary or TFA. What does this app do?
Most people spending ten seconds at a parking meter already wasted minutes or more finding the space or held up in traffic. Get over yourself.
Might as well write a book about Wordpress or some other baroque piece of shit.
1. Park your car.
2. Walk up to 1/2 block to store entrance.
3. Wait in line to enter and obtain a cart.
4. Pass the checkout counters and walk the equivalent of two or three blocks inside the stoor while manually loading groceries.
5. Wait in line to pay using coins or credit cards.
6. Wait for a paper receipt to be printed.
7. Walk up to 1/2 block back to your car.
8. Place the groceries in the car.
9. Head off to your destination.
10. Carry groceries inside destination.
11. Store groceries in various locations depending on consumability and shelf life at room temperature.
Embarassingly, it is already like this in Portland, Chicago and other cities worldwide.
Sounds to me like their bozofilter worked perfectly.
I love this. Companies get to improve efficiencies and competition is preserved. I can't wait for the awesome choices this trend will bring consumers like me as the market optimizes our burgeoning educational system. I don't understand what all the fuss is about, if you want the privilege of working for an American corporation you have to compete for the lowest wage like everyone else. This is just more proof that today's American students don't understand Capitalism.
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1. I believe that climate change is a hoax
2. Modern science and peer review demonstrates using all sorts of incontrovertible facts and logic that I am completely wrong
3. If climate change is obviously not a hoax, then I'm an idiot
4. Since I'm not an idiot, climate change is a hoax
5. Since climate change is a hoax, modern science is either stupid or lying
6. Al Gore and Big Environment want us to live in caves and spend all our money on smug energy efficient products
Wow, it works! Somebody do abstinence-only education and the gay agenda!
If you don't like it, move to some other socialist fucking nightmare.
Anyone who believes this has never tried to record and mix multitrack audio on Linux
Are people really this stupid getting modded insightful? We're doomed. If the OP meant to include ice on land then the entire premise of their argument is flawed because ice on land does NOT displace its volume in water. Because it's on land, not in water. Jesus fucking christ, America.
Just wait until you want to start doing serious Moodle development! It may be better than Bb but it's still awful.
I can't wait for the new talking points. Scrubbing is murder! Toenails are people too! You know who else had his hair cut? Hitler!