I don't know if you're deliberately missing the point or not.
The reason more people don't counterfeit money is because if they get caught they go to jail for a long time.
I'm sure there are plenty of multi millionaires who could easily fund a high quality counterfeiting operation, but they don't want to take the risk of spending ten years shitting in a bucket and playing who dropped the soap in the showers.
I'll never understand the thinking process that leads us to conclude that a dead kid is less dead due to beating, traffic, starvation, etc. than it is due to a gun.
Kids die from mumps, measles and rubella. but they're going to die of old age anyway, so what's the point in vaccinating them?
As such, the law may need to change in order to maintain the status quo, or a decision will have to be made to accept that untraceable non-metal weapons in widespread ownership.
Just make it illegal to have an untraceable non-metal weapon, and when you find someone with one, put them in jail for a couple of years. That's how it works with real metal guns in most of the rest of the world.
This phone doesn't provide "access to the internet". It has a number of apps that allow you to interact with a small number of specific Internet services.
You're right, it probably doesn't have a Gopher or Usenet client, so it's not True Internet Access.
This happened regularly in the 19th century. Several businesses would compete in the steel or the railroad industry, and finally one would dominate the industry and eliminate competitors by competitive pricing or mergers. Then, the dominant player could raise prices without fear of competition. That's what Uber would do if it could.
It's called laissez faire capitalism, and it's what results when you believe that absolutely unrestricted markets are "free".
One of the preconditions for a working, efficient free market is competition and consumer choice
But in reality, capitalism tends towards lack of competition and lack of consumer choice, which is why you need laws to balance things out.
You can try to argue that capitalism isn't "real" free market economics, but then you're into No True Scotsman territory.
Capitalism is what has developed naturally from unrestricted trade. If you're a capitalist, you want to increase the value of your money by any legal means necessary, and if there are no laws it will just be by any means necessary.
For Uber to become a "monopoly" it would need to get ordinances passed that prevented other companies from competing in given cities. In other words, it would have to become a cab company.
Yes, like Microsoft had to get laws passed preventing people from buying anything other than Windows and Internet Explorer in order to be classed as monopolists.
On the other hand... the main reason I don't take taxis anymore is because I started business travelling two years ago. During that two year time, every single taxi cab I ever took was shady in one fashion or another
I have travelled on business for thirty years, and I have never had a shady experience in a taxi.
That's not unrelated to the fact that if anything dodgy happened, I could report the driver and he and/or the firm could be easily traced and prosecuted.
Regulations can improve public safety and fair trade if they just cover such things as meter accuracy, insurance, and driver background. But the moment you see a specified limit on the number of cabs in a city, that's when you know the fix is in and we need Uber.
This is where the ridiculous conspiracy theories start. "The Government"/Communist City Council/Oligarchical taxi company owners/Space lizards are all in it together against the poor consumer and brave little Uber.
Or, alternatively, it's simply a sign that just because your business is connected with phones or computers it doesn't exempt you from obeying the law.
This is true for writing, but when it comes to speaking, it is far easier for an English person to pronounce German convinicngly than French.
This applies the other way round too: there are many Germans who speak English with no realGerman accent, but even the most highly educated and articulate native French speakers tend to sound obviously French when they speak English.
As much as I believe there is value in manned space flight, I'm increasingly convinced that the real key to long term space flight is the ability to migrate human consciousness into machine form. It makes the ship less complex and solves a lot of problems with traveling long distances and some of the social and psychological side effects of relativistic effects.
Luckily, we'll be able to do this in less than twenty years' time. Just ask the AI experts here: it's practically a done deal already, with a few minor engineering tweaks needed.
As any fule kno, the human brain is just a moderately complicated binary computer.
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It was a beautiful machine, but really, really loud.
Lots of airlines around the world operate at a loss, that is actually normal for the industry
That does not make sense. A commercial organisation cannot operate (long term) at a loss.
Government-subsidised airlines are a different matter.
I'm going to cry myself to sleep and look for a new job after work tomorrow.
You're supposed to look for a new job during work, and use up your sick leave allowance going to interviews.
Don't they teach you kids anything nowadays?
What happens if you don't have 18 sick days in a year? Are you allowed to carry them forward?
The reason more people don't counterfeit money is because if they get caught they go to jail for a long time.
I'm sure there are plenty of multi millionaires who could easily fund a high quality counterfeiting operation, but they don't want to take the risk of spending ten years shitting in a bucket and playing who dropped the soap in the showers.
clearly you have not been paying attention if you think this is the first thing that we tried to print.
Obviously, realistic artificial vaginas were first.
I'll never understand the thinking process that leads us to conclude that a dead kid is less dead due to beating, traffic, starvation, etc. than it is due to a gun.
Kids die from mumps, measles and rubella. but they're going to die of old age anyway, so what's the point in vaccinating them?
As such, the law may need to change in order to maintain the status quo, or a decision will have to be made to accept that untraceable non-metal weapons in widespread ownership.
Just make it illegal to have an untraceable non-metal weapon, and when you find someone with one, put them in jail for a couple of years. That's how it works with real metal guns in most of the rest of the world.
(Are you including the cost of the desktop itself in that price? That would make a lot more sense....)
I've just witnessed someone literally type out an example of watching the penny drop.
This phone doesn't provide "access to the internet". It has a number of apps that allow you to interact with a small number of specific Internet services.
You're right, it probably doesn't have a Gopher or Usenet client, so it's not True Internet Access.
An iPad, maybe up to a point. A 7 inch $50 Chinese Android tablet? I doubt it..
The flaw in this argument is that the only people who use bluetooth headsets are poseurs and the mentally negligible.
for two times the price one can get a Huawei Y330, which is a phone orders of magnitude better than this pile of sh*t.
Many thanks for today's message from the Glorious People's Republic of China PR section.
dealing with change/tips is a real hassle
Are you a slightly backwards eight year old? Or are you just too much of a precious snowflake to carry dirty old cash?
Oh no, I forgot, you're probably part of the astroturfing team that Uber are spending some of their billions of venture capital on.
This happened regularly in the 19th century. Several businesses would compete in the steel or the railroad industry, and finally one would dominate the industry and eliminate competitors by competitive pricing or mergers. Then, the dominant player could raise prices without fear of competition. That's what Uber would do if it could.
It's called laissez faire capitalism, and it's what results when you believe that absolutely unrestricted markets are "free".
One of the preconditions for a working, efficient free market is competition and consumer choice
But in reality, capitalism tends towards lack of competition and lack of consumer choice, which is why you need laws to balance things out.
You can try to argue that capitalism isn't "real" free market economics, but then you're into No True Scotsman territory.
Capitalism is what has developed naturally from unrestricted trade. If you're a capitalist, you want to increase the value of your money by any legal means necessary, and if there are no laws it will just be by any means necessary.
For Uber to become a "monopoly" it would need to get ordinances passed that prevented other companies from competing in given cities. In other words, it would have to become a cab company.
Yes, like Microsoft had to get laws passed preventing people from buying anything other than Windows and Internet Explorer in order to be classed as monopolists.
On the other hand... the main reason I don't take taxis anymore is because I started business travelling two years ago. During that two year time, every single taxi cab I ever took was shady in one fashion or another
I have travelled on business for thirty years, and I have never had a shady experience in a taxi.
That's not unrelated to the fact that if anything dodgy happened, I could report the driver and he and/or the firm could be easily traced and prosecuted.
In a lot of American cities licensing seems to have become some kind of horribly corrupt and utterly unreformable racket.
Even if this is true (and I'm not American so I don't know) it doesn't mean that it applies to the rest of the world.
Taxis just aren't really an issue in most places I've ever been.
Regulations can improve public safety and fair trade if they just cover such things as meter accuracy, insurance, and driver background. But the moment you see a specified limit on the number of cabs in a city, that's when you know the fix is in and we need Uber.
This is where the ridiculous conspiracy theories start. "The Government"/Communist City Council/Oligarchical taxi company owners/Space lizards are all in it together against the poor consumer and brave little Uber.
What a pile of bollocks.
Or, alternatively, it's simply a sign that just because your business is connected with phones or computers it doesn't exempt you from obeying the law.
Grammar Nazis will still be in no short supply, however.
You can not end a sentence with "however".
This applies the other way round too: there are many Germans who speak English with no realGerman accent, but even the most highly educated and articulate native French speakers tend to sound obviously French when they speak English.
Scientists describe virtually everything that is alive as animal or plant. So, if you’re not a plant then you are an animal!
And yet another slashdotter proves that they don't understand how words can have more than one meaning depending on the context.
Also, top work on citing "discovery kids" as a scientific source.
As much as I believe there is value in manned space flight, I'm increasingly convinced that the real key to long term space flight is the ability to migrate human consciousness into machine form. It makes the ship less complex and solves a lot of problems with traveling long distances and some of the social and psychological side effects of relativistic effects.
Luckily, we'll be able to do this in less than twenty years' time. Just ask the AI experts here: it's practically a done deal already, with a few minor engineering tweaks needed.
As any fule kno, the human brain is just a moderately complicated binary computer.