Of course, they could also allow the price to fluctuate on the opening days as well and never have a shortage at all. Just make like the airlines and sell the first x units at $price1 and the next x units at $price2 and drop back a few levels every reshipment. people might be anoyed by the higher prices, but there's always be one available for the people that 'have to have one today.'
there is no such thing as price gouging. there is only prices rising to market clearing levels. (ok there's also collusion, but that's an entirely different beasty altogether and can't possibly apply to luxury consumer items still under the original patents.)
Indeed. They always tax people's income rather than people's wealth. This is to prevent new people from becoming "extremely wealthy." Once you reach those hallowed ranks, you're 'safe'. The 'fairtax' taxes spending. This would effectively tax wealth rather than income. It is however somewhat inelegant in that it involves sending people cheques for money they may or may not have spent.
We should keep in mind however, that the goal of the tax system should not be to punish/help the wealthy/poor. The primary goal of the tax system should be to pay for the necessary operations of government. (unnecessary operations shouldn't be paid for. they should be cancelled.)
No congress has the right to judicial review. In the history of this country, it has not been excercised. Kind of like the vice president almost never actually presides over the senate.
I have found wikipedia to be a much better source of refined search terms than my old method of poking through usenet postings for same. as for the actual information in the Wiki? only a fool would trust it as his only source.
"DDT is not used for outdoor mosquito control, partly because scientific studies have demonstrated toxicity to wildlife, but mainly because its persistence in the environment rapidly leads to the development of resistance to the insecticide in mosquito populations. There are now much more effective and acceptable insecticides, such as Bacillus thuringiensis, to kill larval mosquitoes outdoors."
This offhanded factoid is in fact, the main point of contention of the parent. namely that the wildlife toxicity was overstated and inferred from unrelated factors and that the use of DDT for wide coverage mosquito control is the main contributing factor in the spread of malaria worldwide.
There won't be a "crisis" as long as politicians don't go on about "price gouging" and fix prices on a resource of limited supply and increasing demand. We will simply slowly ween ourselves due to the increasingly unattractive price.
That depends on your lexical parser. Pascal, I believe, uses:= as the assignment operator which would free up = for the role used by == in other languages.
Anyway, it's moot. In c if you assign the value of fish to the container fish, it'll still return true since the assignment will be successful and the value of fish will essencially not be changed.
Great grandparent did not compare christian fundamentalists to islamic fundamentalists. s/he compared huge groups of christians including mormons and baptists* and further went on to claim that ignorance is the reason for these peoples misguided claims. the poster also excempted the church of england from the roll of the uneducated.
*specified southern baptists, but how are southern baptists different from 'regular' baptists except perhaps in the color of their skin?
The post essencially asserts that everyone is equally guilty of terrorism (except perhaps the elite oxford graduates), but provides no framework for us to defend ourselves. In fact it implies that such a framework would be a sign of ignorance to apply.
I know of no christian group that is analogous to the nation of islam, hamas, or whatever the heck is going on in Iran. There are a few that attempt to use the legal system to impose some version of moral law, but how is that different from any other group that wants their particular ethics codified into law? All law is imposed morality and the democratic process is a nonviolent way to determine what laws we as a society will adopt.
I also object to the deliberate misunderstanding of simple gramatical rules regarding inherited names for the purpose of trivializing the current president of the united states.
Reading those, the big question, "How do I do x" was not presented. They read like whitepaper announcements of "things that are possible, but don't actually ask us to do them"
What is the windows equivalent of :
1) ln -s targetdir linkname 2) ln targetdir hardlinkname 3) mount blockdevice dir 4) mount --bind olddir newdir 5) cp --sparse=always FileWithLotsofZeroBytes SparsifiedVersionofThatFile
I realize that those are just utility implemenations of functionality that is present in the kernel, but nevertheless they are ways in userspace to use that functionality. Not being a programmer, I'm interested in how I can use these tools.
Wait a minute you were educated at cambrige, oxford, or london and you never were told that juniors and seniors are so because they share a name?
George H. W. Bush != George W. Bush though they are similar in 3 names.
Scholar fundamentalism is just as reactionary and dangerous as theological fundamentalism. The fact that you are so quick to lump so many christians into the same bin as islamic fundies speaks volumes.... "At my [insert prestegious school] I learned that [insert populist group] is stupid. I learned that we who go to [prestegious school] are much more intelligent than [people who didn't go to prestegious school] and we should be making decisions for the poor ignorant proletariat"
Woah burn. I can imagine the sweedish press might be like other presses in the integrity department, but c'mon, worse than NYT? They had a guy MAKING UP STORIES and when they were called on it, they tried to label those that did the calling as racist. as if poor integrity is a racial trait.
That really depends on how they expect to extract payment. with a growing population, our most valuable resource to them might just be the grain belt. In which case, it doesn't matter if a few cities get blown up as a warning.
THAT is the least comfortable mouse i could imagine using. Although I am a right hander, I still stick to the ol' symetric logitec 2-button + wheel optical mouse. No crazy curves to make me think it's scientifically designed and no stupid side buttons to force my hand into unnatural positions when doing the thing the mouse is primarily intended to do: move a cursor on a screen.
You're amazed that mouse manufacturers fail to bring "interesting new" mice to 10% of the population. I'm even more amazed that they keep foisting these ungainly designs on the other 90% of us.
2) what you want to do is sell people a turnkey solution. i.e. a device which solves the problem, no thought needed. Just make sure to give it a fancy name like, "Airgap Firewall" claim it's 100% effective and slap a $50 price tag on it.
I wouldn't pay anyobody more than $1.99 for a filet mignon. Sure it's tender, but it's also flavorless. It's the blandest cut on the cow. Filet mignon is a choice cut of beef for people that don't like beef, but do like to cook it too long.
more seriously though. I don't want to buy a subscription because I don't want every new version as soon as it comes out. If you bought a porche last year, do you really need another porche this year?
How about
1) a guy who commits perjury in a sexual harrasment suit ostensably to avoid confronting his wife about an unrelated blowjob, transfered authority from the energy department to the commerce department to allow the sale of missile guidance systems to the chinese, demands american troops be unarmed while at port in middle eastern countries resulting in an unresponded to attack on US military assets and the deaths of several sailors, had several mysterious deaths during his presidency including one cabinet member found with "bullet sized" trauma to the head in the wreckage of an equally mysterious plane crash, and erected a wall between the CIA and FBI that directly resulted in 3000 deaths.
Just because you're willing to gloss over or explain away your guy's flaws doesn't make them any less real. In bush's case, there is at least one regular citizen who can say, "yeah that's what I wanted him to do" in each circumstance. I challenge you to find a single citizen who thinks that the national policy should have been to lie about a blow job to avoid getting in trouble for sexual harrasment and rape. Or who thinks it was good for america's national interests to provide the chinese with working guidance systems for the nuclear missiles they'd like to point at us. (everyone knows "manned space program" is a codeword for "we can safely send and return a man to space. imagine if we put bombs on these rockets and pointed them at you")
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Of course, they could also allow the price to fluctuate on the opening days as well and never have a shortage at all. Just make like the airlines and sell the first x units at $price1 and the next x units at $price2 and drop back a few levels every reshipment. people might be anoyed by the higher prices, but there's always be one available for the people that 'have to have one today.'
there is no such thing as price gouging. there is only prices rising to market clearing levels. (ok there's also collusion, but that's an entirely different beasty altogether and can't possibly apply to luxury consumer items still under the original patents.)
Indeed. They always tax people's income rather than people's wealth. This is to prevent new people from becoming "extremely wealthy." Once you reach those hallowed ranks, you're 'safe'. The 'fairtax' taxes spending. This would effectively tax wealth rather than income. It is however somewhat inelegant in that it involves sending people cheques for money they may or may not have spent.
We should keep in mind however, that the goal of the tax system should not be to punish/help the wealthy/poor. The primary goal of the tax system should be to pay for the necessary operations of government. (unnecessary operations shouldn't be paid for. they should be cancelled.)
A place that was astrologically significant would surely be hostile to scientists.
it can't claim credit as "world's largest" if it's not located on the world.
Interesting. but why would the workers carry around methods for their own destruction?
No congress has the right to judicial review. In the history of this country, it has not been excercised. Kind of like the vice president almost never actually presides over the senate.
Congress. since it has the power to overturn supreme court rulings. Of course, no congress has had the guts to try since marbury v. madison.
Plus, everyone mistakenly thinks it's the highest court in the land.
It's like a red pokemon X-box. how strangely appropriate for the freest of the free OSs.
You might just want to watch the news stories they don't bother showing because they can't find a way to make them hurt Bush.
I have found wikipedia to be a much better source of refined search terms than my old method of poking through usenet postings for same. as for the actual information in the Wiki? only a fool would trust it as his only source.
Forgot to actually read the blog, eh.
"DDT is not used for outdoor mosquito control, partly because scientific studies have demonstrated toxicity to wildlife, but mainly because its persistence in the environment rapidly leads to the development of resistance to the insecticide in mosquito populations. There are now much more effective and acceptable insecticides, such as Bacillus thuringiensis, to kill larval mosquitoes outdoors."
This offhanded factoid is in fact, the main point of contention of the parent. namely that the wildlife toxicity was overstated and inferred from unrelated factors and that the use of DDT for wide coverage mosquito control is the main contributing factor in the spread of malaria worldwide.
There won't be a "crisis" as long as politicians don't go on about "price gouging" and fix prices on a resource of limited supply and increasing demand. We will simply slowly ween ourselves due to the increasingly unattractive price.
That depends on your lexical parser. Pascal, I believe, uses := as the assignment operator which would free up = for the role used by == in other languages.
Anyway, it's moot. In c if you assign the value of fish to the container fish, it'll still return true since the assignment will be successful and the value of fish will essencially not be changed.
Great grandparent did not compare christian fundamentalists to islamic fundamentalists. s/he compared huge groups of christians including mormons and baptists* and further went on to claim that ignorance is the reason for these peoples misguided claims. the poster also excempted the church of england from the roll of the uneducated.
*specified southern baptists, but how are southern baptists different from 'regular' baptists except perhaps in the color of their skin?
The post essencially asserts that everyone is equally guilty of terrorism (except perhaps the elite oxford graduates), but provides no framework for us to defend ourselves. In fact it implies that such a framework would be a sign of ignorance to apply.
I know of no christian group that is analogous to the nation of islam, hamas, or whatever the heck is going on in Iran. There are a few that attempt to use the legal system to impose some version of moral law, but how is that different from any other group that wants their particular ethics codified into law? All law is imposed morality and the democratic process is a nonviolent way to determine what laws we as a society will adopt.
I also object to the deliberate misunderstanding of simple gramatical rules regarding inherited names for the purpose of trivializing the current president of the united states.
Reading those, the big question, "How do I do x" was not presented. They read like whitepaper announcements of "things that are possible, but don't actually ask us to do them"
What is the windows equivalent of :
1) ln -s targetdir linkname
2) ln targetdir hardlinkname
3) mount blockdevice dir
4) mount --bind olddir newdir
5) cp --sparse=always FileWithLotsofZeroBytes SparsifiedVersionofThatFile
I realize that those are just utility implemenations of functionality that is present in the kernel, but nevertheless they are ways in userspace to use that functionality. Not being a programmer, I'm interested in how I can use these tools.
Wait a minute you were educated at cambrige, oxford, or london and you never were told that juniors and seniors are so because they share a name?
... "At my [insert prestegious school] I learned that [insert populist group] is stupid. I learned that we who go to [prestegious school] are much more intelligent than [people who didn't go to prestegious school] and we should be making decisions for the poor ignorant proletariat"
George H. W. Bush != George W. Bush though they are similar in 3 names.
Scholar fundamentalism is just as reactionary and dangerous as theological fundamentalism. The fact that you are so quick to lump so many christians into the same bin as islamic fundies speaks volumes.
Woah burn. I can imagine the sweedish press might be like other presses in the integrity department, but c'mon, worse than NYT? They had a guy MAKING UP STORIES and when they were called on it, they tried to label those that did the calling as racist. as if poor integrity is a racial trait.
That really depends on how they expect to extract payment. with a growing population, our most valuable resource to them might just be the grain belt. In which case, it doesn't matter if a few cities get blown up as a warning.
Theme park is an awesome idea. I'm still trying to grasp the concept of a 240 acre rave club.
THAT is the least comfortable mouse i could imagine using. Although I am a right hander, I still stick to the ol' symetric logitec 2-button + wheel optical mouse. No crazy curves to make me think it's scientifically designed and no stupid side buttons to force my hand into unnatural positions when doing the thing the mouse is primarily intended to do: move a cursor on a screen.
You're amazed that mouse manufacturers fail to bring "interesting new" mice to 10% of the population. I'm even more amazed that they keep foisting these ungainly designs on the other 90% of us.
wait. Our birthrate is ALREADY below the replacement rate due to our own lifestyle decisions. No virus needed.
2) what you want to do is sell people a turnkey solution. i.e. a device which solves the problem, no thought needed. Just make sure to give it a fancy name like, "Airgap Firewall" claim it's 100% effective and slap a $50 price tag on it.
I wouldn't pay anyobody more than $1.99 for a filet mignon. Sure it's tender, but it's also flavorless. It's the blandest cut on the cow. Filet mignon is a choice cut of beef for people that don't like beef, but do like to cook it too long.
more seriously though. I don't want to buy a subscription because I don't want every new version as soon as it comes out. If you bought a porche last year, do you really need another porche this year?
How about
1) a guy who commits perjury in a sexual harrasment suit ostensably to avoid confronting his wife about an unrelated blowjob, transfered authority from the energy department to the commerce department to allow the sale of missile guidance systems to the chinese, demands american troops be unarmed while at port in middle eastern countries resulting in an unresponded to attack on US military assets and the deaths of several sailors, had several mysterious deaths during his presidency including one cabinet member found with "bullet sized" trauma to the head in the wreckage of an equally mysterious plane crash, and erected a wall between the CIA and FBI that directly resulted in 3000 deaths.
Just because you're willing to gloss over or explain away your guy's flaws doesn't make them any less real. In bush's case, there is at least one regular citizen who can say, "yeah that's what I wanted him to do" in each circumstance. I challenge you to find a single citizen who thinks that the national policy should have been to lie about a blow job to avoid getting in trouble for sexual harrasment and rape. Or who thinks it was good for america's national interests to provide the chinese with working guidance systems for the nuclear missiles they'd like to point at us. (everyone knows "manned space program" is a codeword for "we can safely send and return a man to space. imagine if we put bombs on these rockets and pointed them at you")