Motivation doesn't need to be lead directly by achieving profit.
Alternatively and more realistically, does it benefit BP to keep the region screwed and continue paying out billions in claims? No, that would be eroding their profits. As would losing oil to the ocean vs barreling and selling it. Dispersants thin the oil to say, prevent less birds from being mucked down in heavy crude.
You stated Pascal's Wager but for climate science.
If I don't believe in God, and he exists, he's gunna be pissed and I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity.
If i do believe in God and he exists then I'm good to go!
If I don't believe and God and he doesn't exist, no harm no foul.
Actually, I'd start at the horrendous entitlement commitments we have. Like, the ones with outstanding liabilities that equal all the private wealth in the country.
Then, maybe the military. Or maybe fending off more entitlements, like the Federal gov't being the only originator of student loans. And maybe cut off Fannie and Freddie from the taxpayers pockets.
Just some thoughts.
I would leave things up to investors to take care of getting full disclosure here; the information was out there and they chose to restrict it. Could it be argued that it is material information that should be disclosed? We already have laws about that...
Unsurprisingly authoritarian attitudes from academia! It's not "their" classroom - W&M is taxpayer funded and I am paying for a service to be provided (education). I will choose to learn how I decide to while I am footing the bill.
I had a limited number of professors who banned laptops in their classrooms. Typically it was only the insecure professors who sucked pedagogically who resorted to such bans. If you have a stimulating lecturer on a worthwhile topic, the issue of attention solves itself. Ultimately, it's only the student who suffers anyway. Sort of the old "you can lead a horse to water..." type deal, just involving technology as an inhibitor to learning which is only a distraction because of lack of inherent attention/motivation in the student.
Laptops are no more distracting than elaborate doodling, fidgeting, or sleeping students.
Disclaimer: I totally fucked around on my laptop in classes I didn't care about (General Education Requirements!) or with professors who sucked. However, it's also nice to be able to lookup something you don't understand or is tangential but interesting...
I've never understood why people use the "teabagging/teabagger" phrase in a negative context politically.
You're insisting I keep teabagging. I will indeed continue to be the one putting my balls on your face.
Now go back to the DailyKos.
Can you explain how a newspaper with plenty of competition is anything like a utility? News is highly competitive with blogs and internet sites in the market places. The parent's mention of Comcast (a monopoly with high distribution & infrastructure costs) and Shell (sells a very limited-supply good, oil, not information like newspapers do) are false comparisons.
Actually, we live in a republic.
You also seem to forget anti-corporate attitudes are frequently self-defeating. Those corporations account for a huge amount of employment in this country.
Correct.
The free market assumes perfect access to information (information wants to be free, no?). We just got more information on this product. Thus we can make decisions based on this new information (it gets "priced in"). We then return to an equilibrium after the use of this GM corn falls in disfavor. Of course, I'd also like to see more studies confirming this before any conclusions are drawn.
How about a simple comparison of how widespread this GM corn is, when it was released, and national rates of organ failure over a long period of time?
Maybe someone would care if it were MoveOn.org but lets be serious - these people are not a threat to the Bush administration.
Occam's razor my friends.
Subpoenaing a site for records is not illegal just because they're a political activism site. Maybe kiddy porn sites shouldn't be able to be subpoena'd because a member of them has been doing something they shouldn't have.
Making threats on the presidents life is enough to get the Anarchist site subpoena'd
Apparently you're not farmiliar with the English language. Grant is synonymous with acknowledge.
The government absolutely acknowledges the rights of it's people. It therefore protects said rights, making it the guarantor of said rights. One to guarantee's something, gives something - without the government there wouldn't be protection of rights hence there would be no rights. Whats hard to understand here?
" The government is a TOOL of the people to protect their rights from those that would try to suppress them."
but according to everyone else here the government only suppresses freedoms. So some one needs to be wrong here.
Lets face it: if the government isn't supressing them (ie: in the US, or I wouldn't be posting this right now, like would be the case in China) its protecting them
From Locke's two Treatise on government: "The end of government is to secure the natural rights of its citizens and to judge those who transgress these rights."
The government exists to uphold the inalienable rights of the people.
Which is exactly what this says:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
The only people who feel the need to over throw the government which is still granting said freedoms are whack job paranoid anarchists.
Maybe you've never read Locke, who inspired our founding fathers.
"The end of government is to secure the natural rights of its citizens and to judge those who transgress these rights. "
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Motivation doesn't need to be lead directly by achieving profit.
Alternatively and more realistically, does it benefit BP to keep the region screwed and continue paying out billions in claims? No, that would be eroding their profits. As would losing oil to the ocean vs barreling and selling it. Dispersants thin the oil to say, prevent less birds from being mucked down in heavy crude.
I know, I know: But this big bad corporation!!
You actually look through your address book? I just start typing...
After this law, contentlessness will be a disease afflicting many a website...
You stated Pascal's Wager but for climate science.
If I don't believe in God, and he exists, he's gunna be pissed and I'm going to burn in hell for all eternity.
If i do believe in God and he exists then I'm good to go!
If I don't believe and God and he doesn't exist, no harm no foul.
Actually, I'd start at the horrendous entitlement commitments we have. Like, the ones with outstanding liabilities that equal all the private wealth in the country. Then, maybe the military. Or maybe fending off more entitlements, like the Federal gov't being the only originator of student loans. And maybe cut off Fannie and Freddie from the taxpayers pockets. Just some thoughts.
In a natural monopoly like utilities, roads, bridges, etc, you're going to pay through the nose if privately owned.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4213016
I would leave things up to investors to take care of getting full disclosure here; the information was out there and they chose to restrict it. Could it be argued that it is material information that should be disclosed? We already have laws about that...
Unsurprisingly authoritarian attitudes from academia! It's not "their" classroom - W&M is taxpayer funded and I am paying for a service to be provided (education). I will choose to learn how I decide to while I am footing the bill.
I had a limited number of professors who banned laptops in their classrooms. Typically it was only the insecure professors who sucked pedagogically who resorted to such bans. If you have a stimulating lecturer on a worthwhile topic, the issue of attention solves itself. Ultimately, it's only the student who suffers anyway. Sort of the old "you can lead a horse to water..." type deal, just involving technology as an inhibitor to learning which is only a distraction because of lack of inherent attention/motivation in the student.
Laptops are no more distracting than elaborate doodling, fidgeting, or sleeping students.
Disclaimer: I totally fucked around on my laptop in classes I didn't care about (General Education Requirements!) or with professors who sucked. However, it's also nice to be able to lookup something you don't understand or is tangential but interesting...
I've never understood why people use the "teabagging/teabagger" phrase in a negative context politically. You're insisting I keep teabagging. I will indeed continue to be the one putting my balls on your face. Now go back to the DailyKos.
Can you explain how a newspaper with plenty of competition is anything like a utility? News is highly competitive with blogs and internet sites in the market places. The parent's mention of Comcast (a monopoly with high distribution & infrastructure costs) and Shell (sells a very limited-supply good, oil, not information like newspapers do) are false comparisons.
Actually, we live in a republic. You also seem to forget anti-corporate attitudes are frequently self-defeating. Those corporations account for a huge amount of employment in this country.
Correct. The free market assumes perfect access to information (information wants to be free, no?). We just got more information on this product. Thus we can make decisions based on this new information (it gets "priced in"). We then return to an equilibrium after the use of this GM corn falls in disfavor. Of course, I'd also like to see more studies confirming this before any conclusions are drawn. How about a simple comparison of how widespread this GM corn is, when it was released, and national rates of organ failure over a long period of time?
At William and Mary the CS department uses Eclipse. It's not a bad program but it's definately a little behind on Java standards.
...I'm stuck with Napster tracks that don't play on the player which has 60% market share.
Oh wait, just kidding, format shifting is peachy.
Jobs (read: manufacturing) have been moving over seas since the 80's. The only difference is the exportation has moved to a different sector.
...frown.
Enough.
Maybe the shoes that fat people are wearing are what make it comfortable to be fat.
With out shoes the only natural option would be to lose weight.
I only wear Birkenstock clogs/sandals.
None of my comments will get modded up because of the leftist militia on Slashdot doesn't want views which are dissenting from theirs.
Maybe someone would care if it were MoveOn.org but lets be serious - these people are not a threat to the Bush administration.
Occam's razor my friends.
Subpoenaing a site for records is not illegal just because they're a political activism site. Maybe kiddy porn sites shouldn't be able to be subpoena'd because a member of them has been doing something they shouldn't have.
Making threats on the presidents life is enough to get the Anarchist site subpoena'd
Apparently you're not farmiliar with the English language. Grant is synonymous with acknowledge.
The government absolutely acknowledges the rights of it's people. It therefore protects said rights, making it the guarantor of said rights. One to guarantee's something, gives something - without the government there wouldn't be protection of rights hence there would be no rights. Whats hard to understand here?
" The government is a TOOL of the people to protect their rights from those that would try to suppress them."
but according to everyone else here the government only suppresses freedoms. So some one needs to be wrong here.
Lets face it: if the government isn't supressing them (ie: in the US, or I wouldn't be posting this right now, like would be the case in China) its protecting them
Grant is synonymous with recognize/acknowledge.
Did you not read your own post?
From Locke's two Treatise on government: "The end of government is to secure the natural rights of its citizens and to judge those who transgress these rights."
The government exists to uphold the inalienable rights of the people.
Which is exactly what this says:
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
The only people who feel the need to over throw the government which is still granting said freedoms are whack job paranoid anarchists.
Maybe you've never read Locke, who inspired our founding fathers. "The end of government is to secure the natural rights of its citizens and to judge those who transgress these rights. "