Star Trek: TNG ended decades ago and has long ago recovered the cost of production for the original run. The reason that copyrights were created was to encourage new and original work. How many $125 sets do you think they will need to sell before they start production on a new season?
This is like asking what is the fair market price for bread. And let's not pretend that all book purchasing is voluntary and optional. Apple got in to the ebook market to replace the current model for school textbooks, which are mandatory purchases.
I would argue that "monopoly power" is the ability of *one* player to reset the price above the what would normally be a market price. Since the deal Apple brokered among publishers raised the cost of ebooks across all platforms, the term should apply here.
Safari is freeware and partially open source. If it makes you happy, you can add $0 to the fee to the price for a Mac. I don't need to reverse stance on Apple. They are no more evil than the leading psychopathic multinational corporation who only follow the rules if the cost of compliance is lower than the penalty for non-compliance.
It is no more part of the government than modern corporations such as Chase Manhattan or Monsanto. They may be run by the same people, but are distinct entities.
Not true, the East India Company was a well know corporation that existed in the founding fathers' era. Part of the reason that the US exists is because the founding fathers did not like these corporate interests subverting their democracy.
Bad example. The US (as also in much of the developed world) is punishing businesses for hiring people. There are substantial costs associated with employing people (especially when an additional employee would push the business over a bureaucratic threshold, like 50 full time employees). And it's worth noting that minimum wage prevents a lot of people from being employed simply because their labor is worth less than minimum wage at present.
Businesses in the US (as also in much of the developed world) currently pay lower taxes than at any other time since the industrial age. It's also worth noting that most minimum wage workers are working at international corporations such as Wal-Mart, which move most of their income to holding companies in tax havens. Whatever costs there are to hiring people to run their stores isn't punishment, it's needed to build an environment where their business is possible. It builds roads to bring in customers, supplies, and workers. It hires police to protect them from bandits and thieves. It provides a stable currency, without which they could not buy or sell anything.
A government agency on the other hand will stick around and even grow in spite of the fact that the reason for its existence is no longer relevant.
Faulty premise. Government run by the people will shut things like this down. Government run by profiteers will find a way to keep the gravy boat running.
So you would prefer to remove government from the equation and leave society to the direct control of the wealthy and well-connected families and individuals at the top?
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This is an unfair statement. Microsoft has plenty of missteps/failures in the mobile/tablet market preceding Windows 8.
Star Trek: TNG ended decades ago and has long ago recovered the cost of production for the original run. The reason that copyrights were created was to encourage new and original work. How many $125 sets do you think they will need to sell before they start production on a new season?
There is the more relevant buy out and shut down our competitors business strategy.
There is a difference between IRL and surfing activity.
Money, markets, and prices are man-made constructs. The price of everything is artificial: mechanically produced potatoes and ebooks alike.
Cote said the conspiracy resulted in prices for some e-books rising to $12.99 or $14.99, when Amazon had sold for $9.99.
So you are arguing that because you have unspecific anecdotal evidence to the contrary, this judge is a liar?
This is like asking what is the fair market price for bread. And let's not pretend that all book purchasing is voluntary and optional. Apple got in to the ebook market to replace the current model for school textbooks, which are mandatory purchases.
I would argue that "monopoly power" is the ability of *one* player to reset the price above the what would normally be a market price. Since the deal Apple brokered among publishers raised the cost of ebooks across all platforms, the term should apply here.
Safari is freeware and partially open source. If it makes you happy, you can add $0 to the fee to the price for a Mac. I don't need to reverse stance on Apple. They are no more evil than the leading psychopathic multinational corporation who only follow the rules if the cost of compliance is lower than the penalty for non-compliance.
Yes, the mortality rate for stem-cell transplants is improving, but it is still not zero. I believe the rate was ~20% in 2009. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130528180857.htm
Obama started out center-right (started just to the right of Reagan) and moves more to the right every time someone calls him a socialist.
It is no more part of the government than modern corporations such as Chase Manhattan or Monsanto. They may be run by the same people, but are distinct entities.
Not true, the East India Company was a well know corporation that existed in the founding fathers' era. Part of the reason that the US exists is because the founding fathers did not like these corporate interests subverting their democracy.
You could always make your own CA, but maybe you can't trust yourself.
Bad example. The US (as also in much of the developed world) is punishing businesses for hiring people. There are substantial costs associated with employing people (especially when an additional employee would push the business over a bureaucratic threshold, like 50 full time employees). And it's worth noting that minimum wage prevents a lot of people from being employed simply because their labor is worth less than minimum wage at present.
Businesses in the US (as also in much of the developed world) currently pay lower taxes than at any other time since the industrial age. It's also worth noting that most minimum wage workers are working at international corporations such as Wal-Mart, which move most of their income to holding companies in tax havens. Whatever costs there are to hiring people to run their stores isn't punishment, it's needed to build an environment where their business is possible. It builds roads to bring in customers, supplies, and workers. It hires police to protect them from bandits and thieves. It provides a stable currency, without which they could not buy or sell anything.
There's good and bad in most situations. Sure, these people were employed, but many didn't actually earn living wages and were more indentured servants that were forced to live in company dormitories, eat company provided food, and work so many hours that it was illegal even under Chinese standards. They also are forced into repetitive actions that caused carpal tunnel and exposed to chemicals that caused other effects. I will provide just one article citing the poor working conditions, but there are many others. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/foxconn-worker-riot-closes-factory/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+(Ars+Technica+-+All+content)
They also made you agree not to sue them in case they leaked your private data in order to install the update.
As soon as you decide that you have the right to someones labor, thats called slavery.
If someone paid wages (especially under contract), they have the right to your labor or penalty of breaking the contract (a tax).
Taxation in and of itself is always bad...
False premise. For example, without the penalty of a fine (a socially engineering tax) I could dump my trash on your lawn when you're not home.
A government agency on the other hand will stick around and even grow in spite of the fact that the reason for its existence is no longer relevant.
Faulty premise. Government run by the people will shut things like this down. Government run by profiteers will find a way to keep the gravy boat running.
So you would prefer to remove government from the equation and leave society to the direct control of the wealthy and well-connected families and individuals at the top?
I think the problem is that you are speaking of a time that doesn't exist in the Libertarian mind.
It is incriminating if there is evidence of some other crime (such as copyright infringement).
Checking a bag costs extra money on most (shitty) airlines.
You missed more smudges on the screen.