But theft is a viable option to paying inflated prices. It can't be ignored as a force in the decisions people make. If you make milk cost too much, it's going to get stolen. Rights and laws be damned.
Free up trade, regulations, and get corporate welfare out of the picture and the 'monopoly'
problem goes away.
I disagree. Sometimes a company or entity just has such a large pool of resources that it can afford to crush the shit out of any competition without any real fear of consequence. (Wow, $400 million in fines, big deal, the company they crushed may have taken away $500 million with viable competition. In the eyes of the company, they just made a hundered million bucks.) I really don't have any good suggestions on how to stop that sort of situation from happening aside from the fines being greater than the perceived cost of the economic damage dealt to the monopoly. And I don't even really believe in fines too heavily either, so I'm sort of at a loss.
Doesn't mean they can get it. Sorry, there is no nebulous "right" to profit. If you can't make a product or provide a service at a cost that people think is fair, they will steal it/reproduce it. It could be argued that at a certain point, in a monopolistic endeavour, there still is a competitor: theft. Try forcing the cost of milk up to $5/gallon and watch the rate of milk theft rocket. "But the dairy producers WANTED more money!" you may say. I say, "So? I want money too."
Well, first off, it seems like a beautiful country. I'd enjoy living amongst those mountains. The only real qualm for me would be the tech, from what you list. I don't plan on having children, maybe ever, I don't really care for doctors anyhow so big deal there, so yeah, the cost you guys pay for tech seems outrageous though. Maybe I'll keep looking at Canada, I can ALMOST get in there as it is.
I think that lack of skilled tradesmen is because you guys have such damn high immigration standards. Not knocking NZ or anything, but, couldn't you guys lax up a bit? It's like all you want there are movie stars and oil barons.
What sort of strikes me odd is that the polar reveral has happened at least ONCE since humanoids evolved (I think 700,000yrs ago). This means we somehow survived the first time, and other shit survived before us. I wonder what'll happen?
Some of the more upscale restaurants I've been to have always running water, and I've definitely seen the foot-pedal sink before. Perhaps they're just too expensive and/or inaccessible for wheelchair bound people?
One more thing, figuring out what the bug is would be insane. It would seriously be probably only one bit out of the library/executable. Making that error crop up enough so you'd even know it was a bug would be hard enough, and it would seem more like a hardware fault (which it technically is, but it's also a software fault as well).
Yeah, so long as the binaries are compiled with the same flags, and the compiler is the same version. But then again, if I have a system producing buggy code, I wouldn't trust it to produce cross-checking code.
Downloading an erroneous file would require the computer to fuck up on both the incoming packet AND the packet CRC in just the right way. I think the odds are well over 1:1 billion.
It's GCC, not Gentoo. If the computer flips a bit and GCC puts that into the code, the resulting bug can be damn near impossible to find. Short of having an assload of time, a good debugger, and being damn near a genius, forget it.
...you're asserting that this company will somehow reward him for these forced changes. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts they will not. If he ever reaches the position of manager in this organization, it won't be becuse he abided by his company's recent refusal to pay for work-related expenses.
Now my question to you is, did anyone think to ask the board why they thought they deserved 21% more income while concurrently stripping pay from their employees?
I just stole a little sticker off the door of my local theatre. It goes something like "ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING RATED I: Inappropriate for all audiences." Just like the movie ratings R, PG, etc... It was so funny I had to make it mine.
To elaborate even further, this works exceedingly well at mom and pop stores, where the "management" never changes. Large stores like WalMart et al. often have such high turnover that it's impossible to have such a rapport.
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I wonder how much junk mail 1060 W Addison, Chicago, IL gets. I know I've contributed a bunch.
Fourth response is correct. Yank the finished product.
But theft is a viable option to paying inflated prices. It can't be ignored as a force in the decisions people make. If you make milk cost too much, it's going to get stolen. Rights and laws be damned.
Doesn't mean they can get it. Sorry, there is no nebulous "right" to profit. If you can't make a product or provide a service at a cost that people think is fair, they will steal it/reproduce it. It could be argued that at a certain point, in a monopolistic endeavour, there still is a competitor: theft. Try forcing the cost of milk up to $5/gallon and watch the rate of milk theft rocket. "But the dairy producers WANTED more money!" you may say. I say, "So? I want money too."
Well, first off, it seems like a beautiful country. I'd enjoy living amongst those mountains. The only real qualm for me would be the tech, from what you list. I don't plan on having children, maybe ever, I don't really care for doctors anyhow so big deal there, so yeah, the cost you guys pay for tech seems outrageous though. Maybe I'll keep looking at Canada, I can ALMOST get in there as it is.
I think that lack of skilled tradesmen is because you guys have such damn high immigration standards. Not knocking NZ or anything, but, couldn't you guys lax up a bit? It's like all you want there are movie stars and oil barons.
What sort of strikes me odd is that the polar reveral has happened at least ONCE since humanoids evolved (I think 700,000yrs ago). This means we somehow survived the first time, and other shit survived before us. I wonder what'll happen?
Some of the more upscale restaurants I've been to have always running water, and I've definitely seen the foot-pedal sink before. Perhaps they're just too expensive and/or inaccessible for wheelchair bound people?
Maybe I'm stupid, but what the fuck?
One more thing, figuring out what the bug is would be insane. It would seriously be probably only one bit out of the library/executable. Making that error crop up enough so you'd even know it was a bug would be hard enough, and it would seem more like a hardware fault (which it technically is, but it's also a software fault as well).
Yeah, so long as the binaries are compiled with the same flags, and the compiler is the same version. But then again, if I have a system producing buggy code, I wouldn't trust it to produce cross-checking code.
Sad. People disgust me more and more every day.
Downloading an erroneous file would require the computer to fuck up on both the incoming packet AND the packet CRC in just the right way. I think the odds are well over 1:1 billion.
It's GCC, not Gentoo. If the computer flips a bit and GCC puts that into the code, the resulting bug can be damn near impossible to find. Short of having an assload of time, a good debugger, and being damn near a genius, forget it.
...you're asserting that this company will somehow reward him for these forced changes. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts they will not. If he ever reaches the position of manager in this organization, it won't be becuse he abided by his company's recent refusal to pay for work-related expenses.
Now my question to you is, did anyone think to ask the board why they thought they deserved 21% more income while concurrently stripping pay from their employees?
I realized I parroted the subject line after I hit submit... I realize it isn't an acronym. And to great-grandparent - I'm 22 :p
CD Players have WOW and Flutter too...
I hope when they fix that they fix the goddamn broken CSS position:fixed command... Fucking annoying is what that is.
Just as Aleister Crowley is demonized for being a satanist, because he is pretty misunderstood by the populace at large.
:)
And I think you'll be ok
No way! An open-source Order. Well, that's... unexpected... at best. Can't believe I've never run across this before.
I just stole a little sticker off the door of my local theatre. It goes something like "ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING RATED I: Inappropriate for all audiences." Just like the movie ratings R, PG, etc... It was so funny I had to make it mine.
To elaborate even further, this works exceedingly well at mom and pop stores, where the "management" never changes. Large stores like WalMart et al. often have such high turnover that it's impossible to have such a rapport.
I like it, very fun, but you need more diverse questions. Is there any way to submit some?