I've worked with asbestos you tool. Idiots were declaring it safe while people were dying.
People die, too, from automobiles. Lots of people. But we don't ban them.
Just like we don't ban sand, even though lots of people have caught (and died from) silicosis by spraying it and working in highly dusty conditions without protection. BTW, guess what asbestos is made of? Silicon, just like sand.
BeauHD wrote, "The company did however report only 1.54 million subscribers", which means... the company had 1.54 million subscribers. Obvious, right? But that's not what the article said.
This is nothing more than Yet Another Case of poor/. editorship.
and then think about how it could apply in other industries.
You're copping out. Tell me which laws and regulations inhibit competition in this industry.
You may then understand why there are so many regulations and now only a few very large players in an industry that used to have a lot of competition.
I voted for Reagan, twice. Even studied Economics. So I know all about how regulations hurt industry.
But it's not always "gubbment regglations". Sometimes it's lawyers+insurance companies (think of what they did to they asbestos industry). And -- shockingly -- sometimes the most aggressive and efficient businesses just get bigger and buy or drive out the rest.
Clearly something is preventing businesses setting up meatworks
Clear to you, but not to me (mostly because I've never thought about it before now).
in small towns a long way from where your strawmen live
It might be corrupt legislators and regulators. Or really big slaughterhouses might just be more economically viable than small ones. (The actual -- as opposed to stated -- preference of shoppers for supermarkets -- the bigger, the better -- over Mom and Pop grocery stores is almost certainly a driver in the demise of local abattoirs.)
"If I should show up dead on Monday, it wasn't me." means that he more than half-expected it.
The Government has a much better method of silencing Americans on American soil: the Aaron Swartz Gambit (legally harass emotionally weak people until they commit suicide).
Are you aware that a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated?
I've heard it, and it's irrelevant to whether or not Symantec researchers would be assassinated by Western powers.
The sailors on the USS Liberty thought that before they died.
You're comparing American civilians working in America to Navy sailors in a Navy ship. That's... weak.
they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent.
No. It's more than a bit stupid, in the same way that anti-Bush whiners always claimed that they were going to "wind up in Gitmo", yet somehow never did.
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our faithful "editor" has apparently never heard of the Morris Worm.
The super-smart mouse population keeps itself in check by trying to take over the world instead of breeding more super-smart mice.
Does bloomberg realize how LARGE that is???
Your eye lids don't block light 100% effectively.
They do when the lights are turned off. Like when you turn off the lights and go to bed...
Those virtual numbers have US$ signs next to them, not BTC.
Department of Pesticide Regulation?
I've worked with asbestos you tool. Idiots were declaring it safe while people were dying.
People die, too, from automobiles. Lots of people. But we don't ban them.
Just like we don't ban sand, even though lots of people have caught (and died from) silicosis by spraying it and working in highly dusty conditions without protection. BTW, guess what asbestos is made of? Silicon, just like sand.
You tool.
That's not at all what I'm referring to.
BeauHD wrote, "The company did however report only 1.54 million subscribers", which means... the company had 1.54 million subscribers. Obvious, right? But that's not what the article said.
This is nothing more than Yet Another Case of poor /. editorship.
Pay attention to the summaries, you nitwit!
for putting poor interns out of work, and endangering baby Republicans.
and then think about how it could apply in other industries.
You're copping out. Tell me which laws and regulations inhibit competition in this industry.
You may then understand why there are so many regulations and now only a few very large players in an industry that used to have a lot of competition.
I voted for Reagan, twice. Even studied Economics. So I know all about how regulations hurt industry.
But it's not always "gubbment regglations". Sometimes it's lawyers+insurance companies (think of what they did to they asbestos industry). And -- shockingly -- sometimes the most aggressive and efficient businesses just get bigger and buy or drive out the rest.
But no examples of such regulations.
You keep saying "regulatory capture", but in this whole, long thread have never give an example from the meat packing industry.
Clearly something is preventing businesses setting up meatworks
Clear to you, but not to me (mostly because I've never thought about it before now).
in small towns a long way from where your strawmen live
It might be corrupt legislators and regulators. Or really big slaughterhouses might just be more economically viable than small ones. (The actual -- as opposed to stated -- preference of shoppers for supermarkets -- the bigger, the better -- over Mom and Pop grocery stores is almost certainly a driver in the demise of local abattoirs.)
rich, urban PETA members are not doing anything to stop someone setting up a meatworks in a small town a long way from where they live
Out of sight, out of mind. (I never said they were bright, just rich and urban.)
Rich, urban PETA members aren't powerless hippies.
Limitations on how many slaughterhouses can exist, for one.
Why do those regulations exist? Was it rich, urban PETA fools who didn't like the thought or smell of abattoirs in their cities?
it needs to be feasible for producers to get their cattle to where it can be slaughtered.
There's enough meat in every supermarket that I go to that there doesn't seem to be any problem with getting animals to slaughterhouses.
What are these stupid roadblocks in the way of small-scale producers?
Facilitating the use of toxic pesticide
As opposed to non-toxic pesticide? And because there was so little pesticide used before "Monsanto"?
Worrying about it does not mean they expected it.
"If I should show up dead on Monday, it wasn't me." means that he more than half-expected it.
The Government has a much better method of silencing Americans on American soil: the Aaron Swartz Gambit (legally harass emotionally weak people until they commit suicide).
Are you aware that a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated?
I've heard it, and it's irrelevant to whether or not Symantec researchers would be assassinated by Western powers.
The sailors on the USS Liberty thought that before they died.
You're comparing American civilians working in America to Navy sailors in a Navy ship. That's... weak.
they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent.
No. It's more than a bit stupid, in the same way that anti-Bush whiners always claimed that they were going to "wind up in Gitmo", yet somehow never did.
The convenience of watching what you want, when you want.
People forget that when cable was first offered the big selling point was there were no ads
As someone who was alive and old enough to have paid attention... no .
The selling points were:
clear reception in all weather, and
more channels.
138 vulnerabilities is quite a low number. This is going to do nothing but give them a false sense of security.
As in pre-crime profiling, which stirs the libertarians and the left into a lathered tizzy?