Being first to market isn't such a big advantage when your competitors can offer your product at a lower price because they don't have to make up for the cost of research. Very few people are going to buy a more expensive product when they can get an identical product for less money.
Why spend all that money to fool lots of people, when you can just get local governments to give their money to your friends to build a voting system that will guarantee you a win with no possibility of proving you cheated?
Actually, Bush won the popular vote in 18 states, which is considerably fewer than half. And in the nationwide popular vote Bush was far behind Clinton. But feel free to just make stuff up, that seems to be popular among conservatives who know they're wrong.
Yes, but when the voting machines are manufactured by a corporation whose CEO really wants one of those parties to be the one that gets power, you'd think the other party would want to do something about that.
It doesn't really matter which party's policies you prefer to favor; anyone who cares either way should be opposed to stuff like this happening because attempts to subvert the process are a vicious circle. When one side thinks the other side is blatantly cheating, they will feel justified in cheating, too..
And how exactly is 1950s technology non-technological? They didn't say they wanted a system of counting 100 million votes using horribly outdated technology. We already have that.
It's a resize button, not a maximize button. The behavior of the button is application-specific on Macs; in iTunes, it switches between Compact and the regular view.
Unfortunately, Pepsico doesn't always include all of its products in its under-the-cap games. But if 1 out of 3 bottles of Code Red gives me a free song, my poor little 5GB iPod will fill up pretty quick.
If you like the artists that website offers, feel free to use them.
Those of us who want to listen to more than 4 "rock" artists (although how they use that term to describe "instrumental electronic space pop" I'm not sure) will buy from a better source.
Back in the good old days of baseball, it was actually impossible for a team to score 8 runs in one play when the ball was hit foul. Since they added those 5 extra bases to the field and allowed anyone on base to keep running on foul balls until the ball is retrieved, the game just hasn't been interesting anymore.
I have a degree in philosophy, and I've read Marx, thanks. He firmly believed that the anti-property government (the dictatorship of the proletariat) was an intermediate, non-"Communist" step between Capitalism and Communism. A Communist society would be one in which the government had completely disappeared.
As for property being the product of labor, in Capitalism, capital isn't generated through the labor of the individual who is accumulating capital, it's generated by capturing as profits the difference between your costs (including the cost of paying laborers, who are paid a lot less than they produce) and revenues. The system is designed to make it extremely difficult for an actual laborer to accumulate property, and in a truly Capitalist society it would be impossible. The working class in modern "Capitalist" societies is allowed to accumulate some wealth because of the more socialist aspects of society, such as labor laws and unions that prevent corporations for paying their workers just enough to keep them alive to work. Try telling a sweatshop worker in the Third World that he is creating propetry for himself by working for a dollar a day.
You think that an increase in supply brings an increase in demand in financial markets? That's certainly an innovative theory. I suggest you test it out by watching for stocks that everyone is selling, and then buying as much of them as you can, as the demand caused by all those shares being offered for sale will drive the price up.
Communism is an anti-State political philosophy. If there is State driving you down, the society you live in is not Communist, it's a horrible corruption.
No, there's no law prohibiting it, but Verisign's contract with ICANN limits the number of domains they can register for themselves for free, and ICANN can (and should) send them a bill for, in effect, registering every possible unclaimed domain name. I don't want to calculate how many domains can theoretically exist under.com or.net, but it's a whole lot, and the registration fees should total a lot more than the total GNPs of every country on the planet.
ICANN doesn't need to own the Internet. They have the power to decide who controls the root servers, and they can revoke the authority they delegated to VeriSign.
I especially like where VeriSign says they "voluntarily" shut down SiteFinder a few weeks ago, when in reality they were ordered to do so by ICANN.
The existence of the military and police to prevent people from coming and blowing up competitors' factories or stealing all of their products is government interference in the free market.
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Being first to market isn't such a big advantage when your competitors can offer your product at a lower price because they don't have to make up for the cost of research. Very few people are going to buy a more expensive product when they can get an identical product for less money.
There's a patch for Apple's Mail.app to access it. The patch isn't made my Microsoft.
Tekken Tag is the best game to play with a DDR pad. Although it would actually be less tiring to just fight your opponent for real.
You mean kind of like speed dial? And to think, we had this technology years before Al Gore even invented the web.
Umm... the "voter-verified paper trail" part?
Why spend all that money to fool lots of people, when you can just get local governments to give their money to your friends to build a voting system that will guarantee you a win with no possibility of proving you cheated?
Actually, Bush won the popular vote in 18 states, which is considerably fewer than half. And in the nationwide popular vote Bush was far behind Clinton. But feel free to just make stuff up, that seems to be popular among conservatives who know they're wrong.
You clearly plagiarized your entire story from Salon, as they were covering this issue at least 7 months before your article was published.
It doesn't really matter which party's policies you prefer to favor; anyone who cares either way should be opposed to stuff like this happening because attempts to subvert the process are a vicious circle. When one side thinks the other side is blatantly cheating, they will feel justified in cheating, too..
A properly programmed touch-screen machine on which a voter can verify the proper vote was recorded has an error rate of 0.
And how exactly is 1950s technology non-technological? They didn't say they wanted a system of counting 100 million votes using horribly outdated technology. We already have that.
It's a resize button, not a maximize button. The behavior of the button is application-specific on Macs; in iTunes, it switches between Compact and the regular view.
If you're using Windows in any of those situations, you're pretty much screwed anyway.
I ordered my 5GB iPod they day they were first announced, and it plays AAC's just fine.
Unfortunately, Pepsico doesn't always include all of its products in its under-the-cap games. But if 1 out of 3 bottles of Code Red gives me a free song, my poor little 5GB iPod will fill up pretty quick.
So when sites linked to from slashdot just happen to crash 5 minutes after the story linking to them go up, that's a coincidence, right?
Those of us who want to listen to more than 4 "rock" artists (although how they use that term to describe "instrumental electronic space pop" I'm not sure) will buy from a better source.
Back in the good old days of baseball, it was actually impossible for a team to score 8 runs in one play when the ball was hit foul. Since they added those 5 extra bases to the field and allowed anyone on base to keep running on foul balls until the ball is retrieved, the game just hasn't been interesting anymore.
As for property being the product of labor, in Capitalism, capital isn't generated through the labor of the individual who is accumulating capital, it's generated by capturing as profits the difference between your costs (including the cost of paying laborers, who are paid a lot less than they produce) and revenues. The system is designed to make it extremely difficult for an actual laborer to accumulate property, and in a truly Capitalist society it would be impossible. The working class in modern "Capitalist" societies is allowed to accumulate some wealth because of the more socialist aspects of society, such as labor laws and unions that prevent corporations for paying their workers just enough to keep them alive to work. Try telling a sweatshop worker in the Third World that he is creating propetry for himself by working for a dollar a day.
You think that an increase in supply brings an increase in demand in financial markets? That's certainly an innovative theory. I suggest you test it out by watching for stocks that everyone is selling, and then buying as much of them as you can, as the demand caused by all those shares being offered for sale will drive the price up.
Communism is an anti-State political philosophy. If there is State driving you down, the society you live in is not Communist, it's a horrible corruption.
And I just can't wait until google.com starts resolving to a Verisign-owned search engine.
No, there's no law prohibiting it, but Verisign's contract with ICANN limits the number of domains they can register for themselves for free, and ICANN can (and should) send them a bill for, in effect, registering every possible unclaimed domain name. I don't want to calculate how many domains can theoretically exist under .com or .net, but it's a whole lot, and the registration fees should total a lot more than the total GNPs of every country on the planet.
I especially like where VeriSign says they "voluntarily" shut down SiteFinder a few weeks ago, when in reality they were ordered to do so by ICANN.
The existence of the military and police to prevent people from coming and blowing up competitors' factories or stealing all of their products is government interference in the free market.