You are in control of your self-driving car. You tell it to go on the road. It isn't an act of god. It is a machine. It doesn't have a mind of its own.
You (the owner) are liable for the damage it does. You can buy insurance to protect yourself from this liability.
Not exactly 12 times. 5 TWh is for the month of July which is probably one of the peak months in the year. You can see in the linked PDF the graph for monthly production. Mininal production was 0.35 TWh in January. I don't know how much of an impact is the growing number of solar panels and how much is the seasonal effect. We can have a better look when we get the data for the rest of the year.
You wrongly assume that I want those government services at those prices in the first place. I don't. I would gladly not pay taxes and in return not get any services from the government.
When you picked your plan/phone you were not free, just a consumer.
How was I not free? Did someone force me to buy the plan I have (or even to buy one at all)?
And if you were in the US (or worse, Canada), _all_ your options were overpriced and crappy.
I am in Canada, and I think the plan I got fits my needs perfectly so I don't think it's overpriced or crappy, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. You might think differently, but that's because we don't have the same needs.
What is wrong with voting is that you can't make your own choices, you have to go with the majority.
we all use/need the collective services in the same way.
No we don't all need the same services in the same way.
If it makes you happy, think of voting as a market operation. But remember: it is not freedom to individually decide on a globally suboptimal solution that we then all need to collectively live with. It is stupidity.
You might argue that it is stupid or not optimal (I would disagree with that), but it certainly is freedom to individually decide.
And BTW, yes, people can decide for you. They do, all the time: doctors decide what you have, engineers decide on your car's design, coders on how your programs are made, cell phones companies on their pricing schemes, the shop owner on the products that are on his shelves, the traffic authority the circulation plan of your neighbourhood, other countries the rules for access to their territories, the central banks decide on the value of your bank account, designers decide on the look of your garments.
But they don't decide which car I buy, which programs I use, what cell phone scheme I buy or if I even buy one of those. Imagine if we had to vote on what cell phone plans we wanted and then everyone would get what the majority decided. What if I didn't want a cellphone, or I wanted a cheaper plan or a more expensive one? I would have no choice but to accept what the majority decided for me. Even worse, we rarely vote on direct issues like that. We only vote for who is going to decide for us, leaving us with even less choice on how to run our own lives.
Also, what is "waste"? is funding fundamental science waste? is funding liberal arts waste? are the likes of the FDA waste? is paying for some dubious piece of art in your own town waste? is paying people to check for fraud waste, or is the fraud the largest cause of waste?
In the marketplace, we can all decide individually what we consider waste and what we don't. Nobody can decide for us. That is called freedom (also capitalism).
Please explain.
When I pay for a good, I do it voluntarily because that good is worth more to me than the money I give in exchange.
The only reason I pay taxes is that I don't want to go to jail.
How is it the same, or even similar?
The store would already be paying the tax for their Internet connection, and pass it to its customers through increased costs. His grandparents would already pay for it indirectly, so no need to tax them an additional 10$.
I don't want to pay for music, but I would gladly pay for products like CDs (if they weren't so overpriced), t-shirts, concerts, etc from a band I like.
I don't really understand youy analogy. Is windows support that much cheaper than linux that after a year linux ends up being more expensive? Also, you don't have to upgrade linux more often than windows and when you do you don't pay for software , only for the time it takes to upgrade (which you also have to pay with windows).
Well, maybe they'll have to realize that they can't control what the others will do with their songs (like sharing it on p2p networks) after they release it on CD. If they don't want to give up control then they have to make sure nobody they don't trust gets a copy of their CD.
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You are in control of your self-driving car. You tell it to go on the road. It isn't an act of god. It is a machine. It doesn't have a mind of its own. You (the owner) are liable for the damage it does. You can buy insurance to protect yourself from this liability.
Not exactly 12 times. 5 TWh is for the month of July which is probably one of the peak months in the year. You can see in the linked PDF the graph for monthly production. Mininal production was 0.35 TWh in January. I don't know how much of an impact is the growing number of solar panels and how much is the seasonal effect. We can have a better look when we get the data for the rest of the year.
You wrongly assume that I want those government services at those prices in the first place. I don't. I would gladly not pay taxes and in return not get any services from the government.
When you picked your plan/phone you were not free, just a consumer.
How was I not free? Did someone force me to buy the plan I have (or even to buy one at all)?
And if you were in the US (or worse, Canada), _all_ your options were overpriced and crappy.
I am in Canada, and I think the plan I got fits my needs perfectly so I don't think it's overpriced or crappy, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. You might think differently, but that's because we don't have the same needs.
There are places not requiring it. But generally speaking, you'd prefer to avoid them. Voluntarily.
Which ones? Would they let me move there if I wanted to or would they consider me as a trespasser?
Why? what is wrong with voting?
What is wrong with voting is that you can't make your own choices, you have to go with the majority.
we all use/need the collective services in the same way.
No we don't all need the same services in the same way.
If it makes you happy, think of voting as a market operation. But remember: it is not freedom to individually decide on a globally suboptimal solution that we then all need to collectively live with. It is stupidity.
You might argue that it is stupid or not optimal (I would disagree with that), but it certainly is freedom to individually decide.
And BTW, yes, people can decide for you. They do, all the time: doctors decide what you have, engineers decide on your car's design, coders on how your programs are made, cell phones companies on their pricing schemes, the shop owner on the products that are on his shelves, the traffic authority the circulation plan of your neighbourhood, other countries the rules for access to their territories, the central banks decide on the value of your bank account, designers decide on the look of your garments.
But they don't decide which car I buy, which programs I use, what cell phone scheme I buy or if I even buy one of those. Imagine if we had to vote on what cell phone plans we wanted and then everyone would get what the majority decided. What if I didn't want a cellphone, or I wanted a cheaper plan or a more expensive one? I would have no choice but to accept what the majority decided for me. Even worse, we rarely vote on direct issues like that. We only vote for who is going to decide for us, leaving us with even less choice on how to run our own lives.
Also, what is "waste"? is funding fundamental science waste? is funding liberal arts waste? are the likes of the FDA waste? is paying for some dubious piece of art in your own town waste? is paying people to check for fraud waste, or is the fraud the largest cause of waste?
In the marketplace, we can all decide individually what we consider waste and what we don't. Nobody can decide for us. That is called freedom (also capitalism).
Please explain. When I pay for a good, I do it voluntarily because that good is worth more to me than the money I give in exchange. The only reason I pay taxes is that I don't want to go to jail. How is it the same, or even similar?
Where in Quebec do they have mandated smart meters? From what I could find, there is a pilot project in 4 cities, but it is voluntary. http://www.hydroquebec.com/heurejuste/en/index.html
The store would already be paying the tax for their Internet connection, and pass it to its customers through increased costs. His grandparents would already pay for it indirectly, so no need to tax them an additional 10$.
Is this because they drive less or because they have fewer accidents?
Here's a way to verify that your compiler can be trusted: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/coun tering_trus.html. It's not 100% safe but it's better than blind trust.
It's their property, they make the rules. If you don't like it, don't go. What's the problem?
But they can't force people to buy DRM hardware
im not sure you can hear 2600khz either its probably 2600hz
I don't want to pay for music, but I would gladly pay for products like CDs (if they weren't so overpriced), t-shirts, concerts, etc from a band I like.
I don't really understand youy analogy. Is windows support that much cheaper than linux that after a year linux ends up being more expensive? Also, you don't have to upgrade linux more often than windows and when you do you don't pay for software , only for the time it takes to upgrade (which you also have to pay with windows).
Yeah, but with windows you still have to pay for support AND for software.
The movie was based from the Mario Bros games. Super Mario Bros was NOT based on the movie.
Why not install the latest version of linux instead of the 6 years old version? You can download it for free.
Well, maybe they'll have to realize that they can't control what the others will do with their songs (like sharing it on p2p networks) after they release it on CD. If they don't want to give up control then they have to make sure nobody they don't trust gets a copy of their CD.
The $150,000 per violation is for sharing songs, not downloading them I believe.