Sure this one is easy. The MLB has the power to grant monopoly status on modern, baseball video games (at least.. with real team names).
If only one person has that license they can set the monopoly, profit maximizing price. If they sell two licenses, the total profit will be duopoly profit, which is strictly less than monopoly profit. (this is assuming identical products, of course.)
Since there is more money to be had by limiting the number of licenses, the licensee is willing to pay much more to avoid competition. Thus the business case for this move. If you're interested in the mathematics of all this do a google search for coalitional game theory.
I was watching CNN last night (no Fox in my hotel). The level of anti-Bush spin on CNN is simply staggering. I too remember the constant "SS is in Crisis" talk on CNN during the compaign. Now it's "SS is perfectly fine its a distraction." CNN incredibly obtuse. It especially seems to me "Lou Dobbs" is always spouting non-sense about what "this administration" is doing wrong.
It's no wonder they're losing so much ground to Fox.
Ah yes, except that.. the next day someone's house was broken into and they slit the girls throat... luckily she was a nurse and was able to save herself.
The window also had giant handprints on it. It was obvious the window was opened from the outside. Unfortunately, the cops didn't even take any the prints, so it wasn't possible to know if it was the same person.
Ian
Similiar Experience with IRC Wave Files
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About 7 years back our house was nearly broken into. At the time I was an IRC junkie (running my own network and all). We used to play this wav file that had a guy screaming WAKEUP!!! and we would play it frequently late at night to get each others attention.
For some reason all the thief did was open the window. For some reason he didn't go any further. Our best guess is when he was breaking in he heard a wave file yelling WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!:)
That's a good point. They were projected. However, WI, PA, and NH were all swing states. They were no different from Ohio, except that Gore carried them in 2000. All three weren't projected into late into the night once a significant amount of vote had been counted. By the time they were projected the exit pools were completely discredited.
But for some reason, %90 presincts reporting with %0.4 for Kerry is good enough to call for Kerry. However, %2.5 bush with %100 reporting is not good enough. That looks like a double standard to me.
Why did the main stream media not call Ohio for Bush but did call WI, PA, and NH for Kerry. Consider:
OH: Not Called.
Bush Kerry
2,794,346 | 2,658,125
0.51 0.4852 Adv Bush 2.4% and 136,221 votes.
PA: Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
2,746,856 | 2,868,674
0.4868 0.50834 Adv Kerry 2.1% and 121,818 votes.
WI: Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
1,474,210 | 1,487,880
0.4930 0.4976 Adv Kerry 0.4% and 13,670 votes.
NH: Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
330,848 | 330,848
0.4899 0.503 Adv Kerry 1.358% and 9,171 votes.
If this doesn't show liberal media bias, I don't know what does.. FNC and NBC did call it for Bush so maybe they have the least bias. Does anyone see any reason why CNN/ABC/CBS would call PA, NH, and WI in favor of Kerry but refrain from calling Ohio?
Mostly true with the bible. However, NKJV is NOT copyrighted. You can copy it as you please. However, if you're distributing the New International Version (NIV) on the internet expect a cease and decist order from Zondervan.
Back when I was helping write the mIRC script 'c-script' we used to ship it with NIV. However, we received a cease-and-desist from Zondervan and were forced to remove it. Oh the irony of using copyright to stop the spread of the bible...
I understand they need to pay the translators and all.. but it's still ironic.
They invest in the things that will make them money. This happens to be things people in the united states want like SUVs, cheap home goods (wal-mart), technology (msft, oracle). So they are investing money into things American's want.
Now, explain to me again how this is a bad idea? The debts just don't 'come due' If a European buys of walmart, that makes the trade-deficit increase. However, it is a good thing for us. It's not like we now "owe" them anything or they're going to "collect." If our assets didn't have the desired rate of return, they would sell them to someone else!
John Snow is right and anyone that has even a trivial background in international economics has to agree.
Think about what a positive trade account means. It means on net, we decided it was more valuable for us to buy into things abroad then for people abroad to buy into us.
All Canadians have health care. Absolutely terrible health care with extremely long waiting lists. Before socialization, it coverage was on par with the united states, and now if you want anything half way serious done, you better make a trip south.
It's like communionism... equal sharing of misery.
That's just a silly argument. It's better for them to buy our debt than for ourselves to buy the debt. That means our financial assets are very attractive and therefore can have lower interest rates. The government is going to issue the debt regardless of who buys it.
Think about what you said.. you just said they'll take the money and invest it in the united states.. and that's a bad thing.
Unfortunately, quite often, it is the Fed who buys the government t-bills, effectively creating a silent, through inflation tax.
Outsourcing money doesn't "leave our economy forever." Consider, when you buy something from overseas (like, say, programming), why do people accept your American money?
Well, of course, because they want to buy stuff from America!
It's not like when you buy something from India it just magically turns into Rupees. Somebody takes the American money and gives them rupees because they find the American money to be worth slightly more. The guy with the American money then use that American money to buy.. American stuff.
I put wi-fi at my sister's house, and nothing was a problem except for a video baby monitor. Turning it on would cause interference in both the 2.4ghz phones and 802.11g AP, practically disabling both. So instead we just used a 900mhz non-video baby monitor...
Due to loss of farming jobs. Current models predict that while currently %70 of jobs in America are based on farming. Millions and millions of jobs will be lost to automation.
So isn't that a shame? Shouldn't we saved all those jobs and shutdown the industrial revolution?:P
So for a more modern day example, people were whining bitterly when the last Levi's plant went over seas. How many people here at Slashdot want to work in a Levi's plant? How many people here want their kids to work in a Levi's plant?
Yeah, I didn't think so. We'll find other better things to work on. Don't worry people, the market dynamics guarantee that offshoring will make us richer.
An act to add Section 1798.87 to Title 1.81.15 (commencing with Section 1798.88) to Part 4 of Division 3 of
the Civil Code, relating to privacy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1822, as amended, Figueroa. Privacy: social security numbers: sales online communications.
Existing law protects the privacy of personal information, including customer records and social security numbers. Existing law prohibits a person or entity located in California from initiating or advertising in unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements, as defined, and prohibits a person or entity not located in California from initiating or advertising in unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements sent to a California e-mail address.
This bill would prohibit a provider of e-mail or instant messaging services, as defined, that serves California customers, from reviewing or evaluating the content of a customer's e-mail or instant messages, except as specified. The bill would permit a provider of e-mail or instant messaging services to review and evaluate the content of a customer's outgoing e-mail or instant messages with the customer's consent, and would permit a provider to review and evaluate the content of incoming e-mail or instant messages only from another subscriber to the same service and only when that subscriber has consented to the procedure.
Existing law prohibits a person or entity, except as specified, from publicly posting or displaying an individual's social security number, and from printing that social security number on a card required for the individual to access products or services.
This bill would provide that a person or entity that sells a social security number is strictly liable to the person to whom the social security number applies for any and all damages that directly or indirectly result from the sale. The bill would except specified transactions from its provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1798.87 is added to the Civil Code, to
SECTION 1. Title 1.81.15 (commencing with Section 1798.88) is added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, to read:
TITLE 1.81.15 PRIVACY OF ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS
1798.88. For the purpose of this title:
(a) "Electronic mail" or "e-mail" means an electronic message that is sent to an e-mail address and transmitted between two or more telecommunications devices, computers, or electronic devices capable of receiving electronic messages, whether or not the message is converted to hard copy format after receipt or is viewed upon transmission or stored for later retrieval. "Electronic mail" or "e-mail" includes electronic messages that are transmitted through a local, regional, or global computer network.
(b) "Instant messaging service" means a service that alerts a person when another person is online and allows them to communicate with each other in current time in private, online areas.
(c) "Provider of electronic mail or instant messaging service" means any person, including an Internet service provider, that is an intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail or instant messages or that provides to users of the electronic mail or instant messaging service the ability to send or receive electronic mail or instant messages.
(d) "Spam" means an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement
38mpg is that impressive to me. I drive a six cylinder bmw 325i convertible, and I get 24mpg and I drive fast. I've done experiments where I baby the car (shift at low rpms, rolling stop, etc) and I can easily obtain 30mpg for a trip. I would think with batteries, a four cylinder, low hp or torque, low roll-resistant tires (I have high stick 235/40/17s) you could achieve some really impressive gas mileage (100+).
I have heard of Google's "Don't be evil" mantra, however I have become increasingly concerned that they are feeling pressure to become evil. I personally trust google quite a bit because of their founders and mantras. Specifically the DomainPark service which caters to domain name squatters seems to be directly encouraging "Evil", wherein evil includes domain name squatters.
It's not "Dying" its readjusting for purchase power parity. In 2000, the dollar was really 'expensive' since our financial assets were valued so highly. Right now its just swung the other direction. If you read some the other threads, you'll see people talking about tourists and what not coming to the states because its so cheap.. domestical people not going overseas because its expensive.. which will close the trade deficit. Which will cause the dollar to get stronger... you see where this goes...
I knew some people not far below the CTO level at SBC. These regulations basically made it impossible for them to roll out new services. If they would add new lines, they would have to pay to roll out the lines then have to sell them to competitors at a loss.
These regulations really were slowing the spread of broadband technologies. Of course, the question comes so how should it be priced? The government set prices will always be wrong. Making it either unprofitable for the regional telco or the CELC.
If the regional telco gets to set the prices, it will of course be way too high.
The only logical thing I can think of is to do exactly what the court did, throw out the regulations.
Luckily a host of new technologies should force the telcos to be competitive in the "Communications" space. We have two-way satellite, cell phone-based internet access, wi-fi internet access, broadband over power, and currently most importantly cable modems. In Chicago, my dad actually had a cable modem/VoIP thing sitting outside his house with a little UPS. He had no idea it wasn't using traditional phones lines. He just knew he only had one bill, from the cable company.
This kind of situation should bring about very low prices without the regulation side effects. Considering how easy it is to switch with number portability and all it should bring about some beautiful Bertend, Duopoly competition.
What you are talking about is called Purchase Power Parity. The economist does this cool little thing where they use the Big Mac to compute the purchase power parity of each currency.
The reason the purchase power parity can very so much from currency to currency is primarily because of the financial interest in the U.S. Markets which drives the demand for our currency up.
Unfortunately for us American's, eventually the worth of our strong dollar must eventually fall to put it back into line with PPP.
Having a high PPP is a double edged sword though. If you have a high PPP, it means you can buy a lot of stuff from abroad with your dollar. However, conversely, your stuff looks high priced compared to other country's stuff. Thus, you tend to run trade-deficits. Eventually, it will balance out.
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Sure this one is easy. The MLB has the power to grant monopoly status on modern, baseball video games (at least.. with real team names).
If only one person has that license they can set the monopoly, profit maximizing price. If they sell two licenses, the total profit will be duopoly profit, which is strictly less than monopoly profit. (this is assuming identical products, of course.)
Since there is more money to be had by limiting the number of licenses, the licensee is willing to pay much more to avoid competition. Thus the business case for this move. If you're interested in the mathematics of all this do a google search for coalitional game theory.
Ian
I was watching CNN last night (no Fox in my hotel). The level of anti-Bush spin on CNN is simply staggering. I too remember the constant "SS is in Crisis" talk on CNN during the compaign. Now it's "SS is perfectly fine its a distraction." CNN incredibly obtuse. It especially seems to me "Lou Dobbs" is always spouting non-sense about what "this administration" is doing wrong.
It's no wonder they're losing so much ground to Fox.
Ah yes, except that.. the next day someone's house was broken into and they slit the girls throat... luckily she was a nurse and was able to save herself.
The window also had giant handprints on it. It was obvious the window was opened from the outside. Unfortunately, the cops didn't even take any the prints, so it wasn't possible to know if it was the same person.
Ian
About 7 years back our house was nearly broken into. At the time I was an IRC junkie (running my own network and all). We used to play this wav file that had a guy screaming WAKEUP!!! and we would play it frequently late at night to get each others attention.
:)
For some reason all the thief did was open the window. For some reason he didn't go any further. Our best guess is when he was breaking in he heard a wave file yelling WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!
Ian
That's a good point. They were projected. However, WI, PA, and NH were all swing states. They were no different from Ohio, except that Gore carried them in 2000. All three weren't projected into late into the night once a significant amount of vote had been counted. By the time they were projected the exit pools were completely discredited.
But for some reason, %90 presincts reporting with %0.4 for Kerry is good enough to call for Kerry. However, %2.5 bush with %100 reporting is not good enough. That looks like a double standard to me.
Why did the main stream media not call Ohio for Bush but did call WI, PA, and NH for Kerry. Consider:
OH:
Not Called.
Bush Kerry
2,794,346 | 2,658,125
0.51 0.4852
Adv Bush 2.4% and 136,221 votes.
PA:
Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
2,746,856 | 2,868,674
0.4868 0.50834
Adv Kerry 2.1% and 121,818 votes.
WI:
Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
1,474,210 | 1,487,880
0.4930 0.4976
Adv Kerry 0.4% and 13,670 votes.
NH:
Called Kerry.
Bush Kerry
330,848 | 330,848
0.4899 0.503
Adv Kerry 1.358% and 9,171 votes.
If this doesn't show liberal media bias, I don't know what does.. FNC and NBC did call it for Bush so maybe they have the least bias. Does anyone see any reason why CNN/ABC/CBS would call PA, NH, and WI in favor of Kerry but refrain from calling Ohio?
Mostly true with the bible. However, NKJV is NOT copyrighted. You can copy it as you please. However, if you're distributing the New International Version (NIV) on the internet expect a cease and decist order from Zondervan.
Back when I was helping write the mIRC script 'c-script' we used to ship it with NIV. However, we received a cease-and-desist from Zondervan and were forced to remove it. Oh the irony of using copyright to stop the spread of the bible...
I understand they need to pay the translators and all.. but it's still ironic.
They invest in the things that will make them money. This happens to be things people in the united states want like SUVs, cheap home goods (wal-mart), technology (msft, oracle). So they are investing money into things American's want.
Now, explain to me again how this is a bad idea? The debts just don't 'come due' If a European buys of walmart, that makes the trade-deficit increase. However, it is a good thing for us. It's not like we now "owe" them anything or they're going to "collect." If our assets didn't have the desired rate of return, they would sell them to someone else!
John Snow is right and anyone that has even a trivial background in international economics has to agree.
Think about what a positive trade account means. It means on net, we decided it was more valuable for us to buy into things abroad then for people abroad to buy into us.
Yes,
All Canadians have health care. Absolutely terrible health care with extremely long waiting lists. Before socialization, it coverage was on par with the united states, and now if you want anything half way serious done, you better make a trip south.
It's like communionism... equal sharing of misery.
Ian
That's just a silly argument. It's better for them to buy our debt than for ourselves to buy the debt. That means our financial assets are very attractive and therefore can have lower interest rates. The government is going to issue the debt regardless of who buys it.
Think about what you said.. you just said they'll take the money and invest it in the united states.. and that's a bad thing.
Unfortunately, quite often, it is the Fed who buys the government t-bills, effectively creating a silent, through inflation tax.
Outsourcing money doesn't "leave our economy forever." Consider, when you buy something from overseas (like, say, programming), why do people accept your American money?
Well, of course, because they want to buy stuff from America!
It's not like when you buy something from India it just magically turns into Rupees. Somebody takes the American money and gives them rupees because they find the American money to be worth slightly more. The guy with the American money then use that American money to buy.. American stuff.
FYI With the Pentagon thing:
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http://ourworld-top.cs.com/mikegriffith1/refute.h
www.tradesports.com ... odds on that are going for about 1:10 so you should be able to make a killing. Look under election props. :)
WRT to your sig.. you realize we live in a republic not a democracy, right?
I put wi-fi at my sister's house, and nothing was a problem except for a video baby monitor. Turning it on would cause interference in both the 2.4ghz phones and 802.11g AP, practically disabling both. So instead we just used a 900mhz non-video baby monitor...
Ian
Due to loss of farming jobs. Current models predict that while currently %70 of jobs in America are based on farming. Millions and millions of jobs will be lost to automation.
:P
So isn't that a shame? Shouldn't we saved all those jobs and shutdown the industrial revolution?
So for a more modern day example, people were whining bitterly when the last Levi's plant went over seas. How many people here at Slashdot want to work in a Levi's plant? How many people here want their kids to work in a Levi's plant?
Yeah, I didn't think so. We'll find other better things to work on. Don't worry people, the market dynamics guarantee that offshoring will make us richer.
Here is the text from the actual bill SB 1801:
.
BILL NUMBER: SB 1822 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 20, 2004
INTRODUCED BY Senator Figueroa
FEBRUARY 20, 2004
An act to add Section 1798.87 to Title
1.81.15 (commencing with Section 1798.88) to Part 4 of Division 3 of
the Civil Code, relating to privacy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1822, as amended, Figueroa. Privacy: social security
numbers: sales online communications
Existing law protects the privacy of personal information,
including customer records and social security numbers. Existing law
prohibits a person or entity located in California from initiating
or advertising in unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements, as
defined, and prohibits a person or entity not located in California
from initiating or advertising in unsolicited commercial e-mail
advertisements sent to a California e-mail address.
This bill would prohibit a provider of e-mail or instant messaging
services, as defined, that serves California customers, from
reviewing or evaluating the content of a customer's e-mail or instant
messages, except as specified. The bill would permit a provider of
e-mail or instant messaging services to review and evaluate the
content of a customer's outgoing e-mail or instant messages with the
customer's consent, and would permit a provider to review and
evaluate the content of incoming e-mail or instant messages only from
another subscriber to the same service and only when that subscriber
has consented to the procedure.
Existing law prohibits a person or entity, except as specified,
from publicly posting or displaying an individual's social security
number, and from printing that social security number on a card
required for the individual to access products or services.
This bill would provide that a person or entity that sells a
social security number is strictly liable to the person to whom the
social security number applies for any and all damages that directly
or indirectly result from the sale. The bill would except specified
transactions from its provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1798.87 is added to the Civil Code, to
SECTION 1. Title 1.81.15 (commencing with Section 1798.88) is
added to Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code, to read:
TITLE 1.81.15 PRIVACY OF ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS
1798.88. For the purpose of this title:
(a) "Electronic mail" or "e-mail" means an electronic message that
is sent to an e-mail address and transmitted between two or more
telecommunications devices, computers, or electronic devices capable
of receiving electronic messages, whether or not the message is
converted to hard copy format after receipt or is viewed upon
transmission or stored for later retrieval. "Electronic mail" or
"e-mail" includes electronic messages that are transmitted through a
local, regional, or global computer network.
(b) "Instant messaging service" means a service that alerts a
person when another person is online and allows them to communicate
with each other in current time in private, online areas.
(c) "Provider of electronic mail or instant messaging service"
means any person, including an Internet service provider, that is an
intermediary in sending or receiving electronic mail or instant
messages or that provides to users of the electronic mail or instant
messaging service the ability to send or receive electronic mail or
instant messages.
(d) "Spam" means an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement
38mpg is that impressive to me. I drive a six cylinder bmw 325i convertible, and I get 24mpg and I drive fast. I've done experiments where I baby the car (shift at low rpms, rolling stop, etc) and I can easily obtain 30mpg for a trip. I would think with batteries, a four cylinder, low hp or torque, low roll-resistant tires (I have high stick 235/40/17s) you could achieve some really impressive gas mileage (100+).
I have heard of Google's "Don't be evil" mantra, however I have become increasingly concerned that they are feeling pressure to become evil. I personally trust google quite a bit because of their founders and mantras. Specifically the DomainPark service which caters to domain name squatters seems to be directly encouraging "Evil", wherein evil includes domain name squatters.
A lot of these threats look similiar to the dangerous chemical DHMO. Do you think there might be a connection?
It's not "Dying" its readjusting for purchase power parity. In 2000, the dollar was really 'expensive' since our financial assets were valued so highly. Right now its just swung the other direction. If you read some the other threads, you'll see people talking about tourists and what not coming to the states because its so cheap.. domestical people not going overseas because its expensive.. which will close the trade deficit. Which will cause the dollar to get stronger... you see where this goes...
FYI.. the JayWalking stuff is a total scam. My friend's friend was in NY and asked to do that. They're told to play stupid.
I assume the same is true with Street Smarts.
Ian
I knew some people not far below the CTO level at SBC. These regulations basically made it impossible for them to roll out new services. If they would add new lines, they would have to pay to roll out the lines then have to sell them to competitors at a loss.
These regulations really were slowing the spread of broadband technologies. Of course, the question comes so how should it be priced? The government set prices will always be wrong. Making it either unprofitable for the regional telco or the CELC.
If the regional telco gets to set the prices, it will of course be way too high.
The only logical thing I can think of is to do exactly what the court did, throw out the regulations.
Luckily a host of new technologies should force the telcos to be competitive in the "Communications" space. We have two-way satellite, cell phone-based internet access, wi-fi internet access, broadband over power, and currently most importantly cable modems. In Chicago, my dad actually had a cable modem/VoIP thing sitting outside his house with a little UPS. He had no idea it wasn't using traditional phones lines. He just knew he only had one bill, from the cable company.
This kind of situation should bring about very low prices without the regulation side effects. Considering how easy it is to switch with number portability and all it should bring about some beautiful Bertend, Duopoly competition.
Actually, its not as bad as even sticking with 4.3. I suspect people will fork from 4.4-RC3 (or maybe it sRC2).
Ian
What you are talking about is called Purchase Power Parity. The economist does this cool little thing where they use the Big Mac to compute the purchase power parity of each currency.
The reason the purchase power parity can very so much from currency to currency is primarily because of the financial interest in the U.S. Markets which drives the demand for our currency up.
Unfortunately for us American's, eventually the worth of our strong dollar must eventually fall to put it back into line with PPP.
Having a high PPP is a double edged sword though. If you have a high PPP, it means you can buy a lot of stuff from abroad with your dollar. However, conversely, your stuff looks high priced compared to other country's stuff. Thus, you tend to run trade-deficits. Eventually, it will balance out.