If that doesn't work, they just sue the newcomers for some bogus patent or three.
Finally, they lobby for industry regulations that they can tolerate but will choke a newcomer.
That isn't a free market: that's crony capitalism. A free market has a very limited (or nonexistent) patent system and few or no regulations by definition. You make a great argument against socialism.
The "barrier to entry" in the internet is increasingly small. This isn't something where you need millions of dollars in investment so you can have factories, offices, and Aeron chairs.
Why would you expect Anonymous to shut down a botnet? What are they, some kind of do-gooders? They'd be more likely to take it over and use it to attack some US government site or international corporation.
You act like someone can't be pro-corporate and pro-leftist (sorry, but "liberals" aren't liberal) at the same time. Al Gore and George Soros use left-wing means of enriching their business endeavors.
The conflict of interest lies in that an enemy of the regime can be denied access to the critical utility and thus be at its mercy. Kinda creates a de facto limitation of human rights.
Obviously you don't know what "anecdotal" means. I was answering the parent post's anecdote with my own to show the fallacy. Of course, I was modded down because I went against the Slashdot groupthink.
Just because there's wireless broadband available doesn't mean everyone is using it. Did you actually ask any farmers, or just assume they all had smartphones?
He's using the "mainstream media" math that allows them to claim that the "income gap" is widening. Due to constant inflation, the entire salary scale is rising (although there will always be unemployed or grossly underemployed people who will earn nothing or next to nothing in a year). If the "poor guy" earns $25K and the "rich guy" earns $100K, the gap is $75K. When incomes go up by 10%, now it's $27.5K and $110K. The media will report that the gap has widened to $82.5K, over 9%. This is only one of their tricks, others being using the median income and comparing it to the government-selected "poverty level" to prove that the poor are being "left behind", when it's a growing economy (and inflation, again) that's creating more "rich" people.
OK, Captain Anectdotal Evidence, I've been to TN, NC, SC, VA, WV, and TX, and I saw no segregation. That leaves out several states, but then you can't exactly say "the south" and leave out the ones I listed.
Assuming you properly converted the $US into euros, I have to point out that most of the salaries listed would be taxed at over 40%, not to mention your VAT of around 15% on most things, correct? Europeans like to point out that our income tax tops out at a mere 35.5%, as if that is a bad thing. But if your point is that our increasingly fascist government is wasteful, then I agree. We should be able to provide the crappy services we have with about half the income tax.
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I hope you're making a followup joke, because that's spelled Cardassians. Geek meta-fail.
That isn't a free market: that's crony capitalism. A free market has a very limited (or nonexistent) patent system and few or no regulations by definition. You make a great argument against socialism.
The "barrier to entry" in the internet is increasingly small. This isn't something where you need millions of dollars in investment so you can have factories, offices, and Aeron chairs.
It's not "anti-government schtick", it's anti-command economy.
Why would you expect Anonymous to shut down a botnet? What are they, some kind of do-gooders? They'd be more likely to take it over and use it to attack some US government site or international corporation.
On the flip side, they didn't have universal suffrage for citizens over 18 until 1971.
Huffington Post? I mean, it even has her name in it and everything. It's really just a collection of blog posts, but they do claim it's news.
Maybe these ACs work for the government or public utilities. They're used to dishing out whatever they like without any consideration.
Maybe you should consider whether you are ignorant before calling other idiots. Sunday-only subscriptions have been common for decades.
Newsweek did that on purpose. It didn't work for them either.
kardasians? Are those some kind of Chinese lower-case ripoff? Can I watch the kardasians on my Sorny or Magnetbox TV?
You act like someone can't be pro-corporate and pro-leftist (sorry, but "liberals" aren't liberal) at the same time. Al Gore and George Soros use left-wing means of enriching their business endeavors.
Just the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news.
Indeed. Who doesn't love tentacle porn and warrantless police searches!
The rest of the nonexistent documentation?
At least the dental hygenists are still hot.
I don't know; I've been told we've been able to compensate for whatever caused the Cretaceous extinction.
The conflict of interest lies in that an enemy of the regime can be denied access to the critical utility and thus be at its mercy. Kinda creates a de facto limitation of human rights.
Because government programs never have to run a budget, right? So everyone makes as much as they want, right?
Obviously you don't know what "anecdotal" means. I was answering the parent post's anecdote with my own to show the fallacy. Of course, I was modded down because I went against the Slashdot groupthink.
Just because there's wireless broadband available doesn't mean everyone is using it. Did you actually ask any farmers, or just assume they all had smartphones?
He's using the "mainstream media" math that allows them to claim that the "income gap" is widening. Due to constant inflation, the entire salary scale is rising (although there will always be unemployed or grossly underemployed people who will earn nothing or next to nothing in a year). If the "poor guy" earns $25K and the "rich guy" earns $100K, the gap is $75K. When incomes go up by 10%, now it's $27.5K and $110K. The media will report that the gap has widened to $82.5K, over 9%. This is only one of their tricks, others being using the median income and comparing it to the government-selected "poverty level" to prove that the poor are being "left behind", when it's a growing economy (and inflation, again) that's creating more "rich" people.
OK, Captain Anectdotal Evidence, I've been to TN, NC, SC, VA, WV, and TX, and I saw no segregation. That leaves out several states, but then you can't exactly say "the south" and leave out the ones I listed.
Chinese, Korean, Hispanic, Persian, Arab, etc. people weren't segregated, yet recent and new immigrants tend to live together in neighborhoods.
Assuming you properly converted the $US into euros, I have to point out that most of the salaries listed would be taxed at over 40%, not to mention your VAT of around 15% on most things, correct? Europeans like to point out that our income tax tops out at a mere 35.5%, as if that is a bad thing. But if your point is that our increasingly fascist government is wasteful, then I agree. We should be able to provide the crappy services we have with about half the income tax.