The "Tragedy of the Commons" occurs because of a lack of private property rights. Quite the opposite: If there were no public land, and every parcel was owned by someone (roads included) you would find that the owners would keep up after their property. I encourage you to at least read a few pages from this abstract on the Privatization of Roads and Highways, by Walter Block.
"The driving force behind a private service's price is what they believe the maximum amount you will be willing to pay for their service."
Well, no. Not exactly. The driving force is supply and demand. That's why you see gas prices skyrocket during natural disasters -- it's the market's way of compensating for the fact that there's less of it available. If you want gas, you can get it, but only if you're willing to pay higher prices. In that way, you keep people from hoarding precious goods when they don't need to.
That's also why when you see government enact price controls to 'protect' the consumers, the words 'shortage' inevitably appears shortly thereafter. The price controls keep the prices artificially low, so more people buy. So much more that the 'supply' of that good or service isn't enough to handle the increased demand, and there's a shortage. That shortage otherwise wouldn't be there (or would be very, very minimal) if the market were allowed to set prices according to the situation.
That's also the inherent problem with government: They're a monopoly, and they can't respond to changing situations like the private sector can. That's why you have problems of rationing during droughts. The government says to ration because that's the only way to handle the fact that there's a decreased supply of water but the same demand. If the price were to go up, people would naturally curb their desire to water their lawns as often as they otherwise would, all without the threat of imprisonment or force.
The other problem with your statement is, "How do they know how much it costs?" There's no inherent 'right price' for a gallon of water. It all depends on a collection of factors -- factors that no one person can possibly know (see also: Why central economic planning fails); and that collection of factors is what you take into account when you have multiple producers competing to provide a product or service.
*No base closures*? You mean, except all of our overseas bases? With all those troops home, we're probably going to need all the bases we have open right now in the Continental US.
If you look at the Wikipedia page you linked to for the Gramm Act, it even says that it passed 90-8 in the senate, and 362-67 in the house. Not exactly a 'party line vote'.
They didn't 'grant' them anything. Habeas Corpus is considered an unalienable right (...Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness... anyone?). They merely affirmed that the law was struck down because it unconstitutionally tried to remove a right they have, by nature of being.
You aren't kidding. What they don't realize is that what works for Madden and The Sims (releasing an expansion or 'booster' pack every 3 months) doesn't work for PC Multiplayer games like the Battlefield Series.
Battlefield 2 sold well, but they tried to capitalize on that by releasing BF2:Special Forces, and Armored Fury and Euro Forces in quick succession, and were rebuffed by the community.
They then didn't learn from their mistake by releasing Battlefield 2142 a scant year after BF2 came out, and it only surpassed BF2 in hours played the first week. Now, it barely registers on the top ten for Xfire, and doesn't hold a good spot on Gamespy's Server list either.
First: So long as it isn't on my property, there's not much I can legally do. I'm not just a fairweather civil libertarian; I firmly believe what I preach.
My wife hates that, though.
You don't need my permission -- I may mind -- insofar as I wonder why the heck I'm so interesting, but I can't say anything to you about it, other than a friendly, "Why?"
Should you choose not to tell me, there's not much I can do, nor should I be able to.
First off, I can't believe you were modded +4 insightful.
Trollish comment aside, here's why I can't believe that:
Your Comment presupposes that liberty is what I want to do, and not what others see me doing.
You want people to freely do whatever they wish with their windows open, without someone watching. Guess what? People can and will watch, and unless your blinds are closed, or they are on your property, what they are doing is simply an extension of their rights as citizens. The same rights you have.
If you don't want people to take pictures, or watch you, close the blinds. You cannot complain, and certainly cannot sue or try to get someone in legal trouble because they 'invaded' your privacy by taking pictures in a clearly open window.
It were perfectly reasonable if Google were on her property when the photos were taken (they weren't).
It'd be perfectly reasonable if her blinds were closed (which would lend credence to them 'invading' her privacy)
But it isn't even remotely reasonable because she keeps her blinds open! If you don't want someone to take pictures of you, or see you doing the nasty, or anything else inside your house, close your blinds, otherwise you have no expectation of privacy, either from the government, or from your fellow citizens.
MySpace has that issue as well, past 10 characters. If you go to their signup screen, you can sign up with a longer password, but if you go to the secondary login screen, it will stop typing either after 10 or 12 characters.
Falcon: I think you are forgetting a few documents:
The Declaration of Independence, which says in part:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Government doesn't give me any rights. Since they can't give me any rights, they can't take them away, either. You'll notice that the Constitution doesn't say "Congress shall ensure that all citizens have the right to Free Speech", instead it specifically prohibits them from taking them away. The Founding fathers weren't stupid: Both the Declaration and the Constitution are Natural Law Documents -- and people today would be well pressed to stop trying to get rid of natural law theory.
In conclusion: Your argument is moot. The US Laws do not give us rights, we give the Government the right to exist to help preserve our rights.
It's moot. The States Ratified the Constitution, ergo the states must abide by the Constitution. In this case, it's quite clear that the state is not abiding by the Constitution, and in any rational situation this would be knocked down as unconstitutional within months, if not weeks.
Oblivion is the Sequel to Morrowind. Nights of the Nine is an expansion pack for Oblivion. The next Expansion pack, named "Shivering Isles", is not a Sequel to Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls V: "Taking The Customers for a Ride" - would be a Sequel to Oblivion.
I am a senior at a Liberal Arts institution that offers a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Information Systems -- I'm quite surprised you guys don't go through that in CS.
I would suggest the following
3 hours Software Testing and Verification Systems Analysis Systems Design Senior Project 1 Senior Project 2
It's true. Unfortunately, those that have downloaded the game from EA Downloader are all but screwed, and I sincerely hope they are able to get their money back.
The real problem here is that EA isn't doing this to ease the burden for the consumer, it's doing it to make more profit -- you notice that whether or not you want ads, you've got them, and you still have to pay the full price for the game. It might not have been that bad if EA had reduced the price of the ad-supported game by 20 bucks or so.
GG EA, just another reason why I'm not buying BF2142.
Well, the title really says it all. I've been itching to switch over to a Linux only rig for a while now. I'm tired of Windows, I'm tired of all of the problems. I'd rather spend my time playing games than diagnosing the upteen million problems I've encountered with Windows.
It's too bad that my main source of enjoyment (Multiplayer FPSes) are not readily available in Cedega.
At least, not ones that use Punkbuster, the most ubiqitious anti-cheat available on the market. Battlefield 2 certainly isn't playable (at least, 1.3 isn't), so if I want to play a Ranked game, I've got to be on Windows.
I'm keenly watching and waiting for Cedega on Linux to be a true Windows gaming replacement, but it won't happen without a major change in the marketing strategies of the linux companies.
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The "Tragedy of the Commons" occurs because of a lack of private property rights. Quite the opposite: If there were no public land, and every parcel was owned by someone (roads included) you would find that the owners would keep up after their property. I encourage you to at least read a few pages from this abstract on the Privatization of Roads and Highways, by Walter Block.
"The driving force behind a private service's price is what they believe the maximum amount you will be willing to pay for their service."
Well, no. Not exactly. The driving force is supply and demand. That's why you see gas prices skyrocket during natural disasters -- it's the market's way of compensating for the fact that there's less of it available. If you want gas, you can get it, but only if you're willing to pay higher prices. In that way, you keep people from hoarding precious goods when they don't need to.
That's also why when you see government enact price controls to 'protect' the consumers, the words 'shortage' inevitably appears shortly thereafter. The price controls keep the prices artificially low, so more people buy. So much more that the 'supply' of that good or service isn't enough to handle the increased demand, and there's a shortage. That shortage otherwise wouldn't be there (or would be very, very minimal) if the market were allowed to set prices according to the situation. That's also the inherent problem with government: They're a monopoly, and they can't respond to changing situations like the private sector can. That's why you have problems of rationing during droughts. The government says to ration because that's the only way to handle the fact that there's a decreased supply of water but the same demand. If the price were to go up, people would naturally curb their desire to water their lawns as often as they otherwise would, all without the threat of imprisonment or force. The other problem with your statement is, "How do they know how much it costs?" There's no inherent 'right price' for a gallon of water. It all depends on a collection of factors -- factors that no one person can possibly know (see also: Why central economic planning fails); and that collection of factors is what you take into account when you have multiple producers competing to provide a product or service.
*No base closures*? You mean, except all of our overseas bases? With all those troops home, we're probably going to need all the bases we have open right now in the Continental US.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
Hashed passwords provide a degree of protection, so long as you salt the hash, and store a different salt for each password (for maximum protection).
Any programmer that doesn't understand salts, hashing, and encrypting should not bother making software that handles logins, period.
As much as the Left would like for us to be, we are NOT a democracy. We're a constitutional Republic.
If you look at the Wikipedia page you linked to for the Gramm Act, it even says that it passed 90-8 in the senate, and 362-67 in the house. Not exactly a 'party line vote'.
A little of your own revisionist history?
Vowels don't start license plates in NC, at least not that I've ever seen.
They didn't 'grant' them anything. Habeas Corpus is considered an unalienable right (...Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness... anyone?). They merely affirmed that the law was struck down because it unconstitutionally tried to remove a right they have, by nature of being.
That would help... *IF* we had the source code. Anyone have it lying around?
You aren't kidding. What they don't realize is that what works for Madden and The Sims (releasing an expansion or 'booster' pack every 3 months) doesn't work for PC Multiplayer games like the Battlefield Series.
Battlefield 2 sold well, but they tried to capitalize on that by releasing BF2:Special Forces, and Armored Fury and Euro Forces in quick succession, and were rebuffed by the community.
They then didn't learn from their mistake by releasing Battlefield 2142 a scant year after BF2 came out, and it only surpassed BF2 in hours played the first week. Now, it barely registers on the top ten for Xfire, and doesn't hold a good spot on Gamespy's Server list either.
First: So long as it isn't on my property, there's not much I can legally do. I'm not just a fairweather civil libertarian; I firmly believe what I preach. My wife hates that, though. You don't need my permission -- I may mind -- insofar as I wonder why the heck I'm so interesting, but I can't say anything to you about it, other than a friendly, "Why?" Should you choose not to tell me, there's not much I can do, nor should I be able to.
First off, I can't believe you were modded +4 insightful.
Trollish comment aside, here's why I can't believe that:
Your Comment presupposes that liberty is what I want to do, and not what others see me doing.
You want people to freely do whatever they wish with their windows open, without someone watching. Guess what? People can and will watch, and unless your blinds are closed, or they are on your property, what they are doing is simply an extension of their rights as citizens. The same rights you have.
If you don't want people to take pictures, or watch you, close the blinds. You cannot complain, and certainly cannot sue or try to get someone in legal trouble because they 'invaded' your privacy by taking pictures in a clearly open window.
It were perfectly reasonable if Google were on her property when the photos were taken (they weren't).
It'd be perfectly reasonable if her blinds were closed (which would lend credence to them 'invading' her privacy)
But it isn't even remotely reasonable because she keeps her blinds open! If you don't want someone to take pictures of you, or see you doing the nasty, or anything else inside your house, close your blinds, otherwise you have no expectation of privacy, either from the government, or from your fellow citizens.
MySpace has that issue as well, past 10 characters. If you go to their signup screen, you can sign up with a longer password, but if you go to the secondary login screen, it will stop typing either after 10 or 12 characters.
The Declaration of Independence, which says in part:The Government doesn't give me any rights. Since they can't give me any rights, they can't take them away, either. You'll notice that the Constitution doesn't say "Congress shall ensure that all citizens have the right to Free Speech", instead it specifically prohibits them from taking them away. The Founding fathers weren't stupid: Both the Declaration and the Constitution are Natural Law Documents -- and people today would be well pressed to stop trying to get rid of natural law theory.
In conclusion: Your argument is moot. The US Laws do not give us rights, we give the Government the right to exist to help preserve our rights.
Correctly done, Sudoku puzzles have only one solution -- perhaps I'm missing something in your statement?
It's moot. The States Ratified the Constitution, ergo the states must abide by the Constitution. In this case, it's quite clear that the state is not abiding by the Constitution, and in any rational situation this would be knocked down as unconstitutional within months, if not weeks.
An Expansion pack is not a Sequel. Example:
Oblivion is the Sequel to Morrowind. Nights of the Nine is an expansion pack for Oblivion. The next Expansion pack, named "Shivering Isles", is not a Sequel to Oblivion.
The Elder Scrolls V: "Taking The Customers for a Ride" - would be a Sequel to Oblivion.
I am a senior at a Liberal Arts institution that offers a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Information Systems -- I'm quite surprised you guys don't go through that in CS.
I would suggest the following
3 hours
Software Testing and Verification
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
Senior Project 1
Senior Project 2
(With SA SD, SP1, SP2 being taken as half semester courses (4 hours a week for 8 weeks - it equals a full semester) and taken in that order.
http://crusader.bac.edu/courses/CS309N
http://crusader.bac.edu/courses/CS310P
http://crusader.bac.edu/courses/CS414Q
The senior project is where you build an information system for a non-profit organization. My CIS courses
Besides the fact that Colin Clarke (DICE[CKMC]), the community manager for DICE, confirmed it? http://www.totalbf2142.com/forums/showthread.php?t =4180&page=3
Not to mention that BF2142 (like it's predecessors) has a rather lame SP setup -- the only way to get your money's worth is to play online.
It's true. Unfortunately, those that have downloaded the game from EA Downloader are all but screwed, and I sincerely hope they are able to get their money back.
The real problem here is that EA isn't doing this to ease the burden for the consumer, it's doing it to make more profit -- you notice that whether or not you want ads, you've got them, and you still have to pay the full price for the game. It might not have been that bad if EA had reduced the price of the ad-supported game by 20 bucks or so.
GG EA, just another reason why I'm not buying BF2142.
Can I use that in a letter to my Congresswoman?
Understatement of the century.
Well, the title really says it all. I've been itching to switch over to a Linux only rig for a while now. I'm tired of Windows, I'm tired of all of the problems. I'd rather spend my time playing games than diagnosing the upteen million problems I've encountered with Windows.
It's too bad that my main source of enjoyment (Multiplayer FPSes) are not readily available in Cedega.
At least, not ones that use Punkbuster, the most ubiqitious anti-cheat available on the market. Battlefield 2 certainly isn't playable (at least, 1.3 isn't), so if I want to play a Ranked game, I've got to be on Windows.
I'm keenly watching and waiting for Cedega on Linux to be a true Windows gaming replacement, but it won't happen without a major change in the marketing strategies of the linux companies.