Consider with modern equipment, I could walk into a facility with a microSD stuffed in my nose. You are going to have to work a lot harder to pass those doors with an 8" floppy stuffed into an orifice.
My guess is that you could do all of the unsafe surfing you wanted. You could specifically look for malware infested sites, and a C64 would still be safe on the internet.
You just acknowledged that there are competitors that want to lay their own cable. Not only their own cable, but even better cable than what the current monopoly has. This is exactly the opposite of a natural monopoly.
No, YOU said that your insurance does not make any disicions on whether they will cover your treatment or not. YOU claimed that your insurance will pay no matter the cost. The reality is that all insurance has always had limits. There has never been any practical way for insurance to function. Perhaps you are just obsessed with the mythical Right Wing bad guys behind every tree.
Your system requires one hell of a lot more knowledge to install and maintain than a simple set of instructions for installing under the sink. I was with you when you called out people on being intentionally helpless, but RO systems are extreamly wastefull. Your recycling system to prevent that waste is simply not accessable to everyone, and a lot more than just the parts under the sink.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. You are going to have to give an explination as to the vector for disease to spread into the water coolers from the bottle for this to be believable. And it has to be a vector that would not apply to any other kind of container.
Most likely they just needed to be cleaned periodically anyway due to always being damp, and someone who didn't understand what was happening heard that refilling water bottles is unhealthy. So, they made up that the coolers needed cleaning because they were making people sick. Then office myth just spread from there.
Speaking of anti-science sentiment growing in the US. It was sad to see this in the 'Science and Education' section of Toys 'R' Us the other day: http://www.toysrus.com/product...
No. It is not. If it was a natural monopoly, there would be no need for cities to grant legal monopoly to existing cable companies. You would also not have companies like Google and Sonic trying to lay their own cable.
There was no 'deregulation'. If it was deregulated, I could put in cable and start offering services as an ISP on my own cables. I cant do that because of regulation. 'Deregulation' usually means keep regulating, but do it in a way that lets the company screw the customers.
There is no economic incentive for this to happen. It costs a lot of money to build plant. Nobody is going to build plant where they can get only, on average, half the customers, and if they cut prices to lure the other company's customers they'll lose money.
That is verifiably wrong. If it were true, there would be no need for monopoly deals that prevent competition from moving in. Also, there would be no need for the incumbents to try and derail the competition from entering cities.
So you are telling me that your insurance will pay for a heart transplant while you are laying in bed with inoperable brain cancer which is expected to kill you within 2 months?
Tofu is not a meat substitute. It tastes nothing like meat, and does not have a texture anything like meat. Calling tofu a meat substitue is like calling pinto beans a meat substitue.
Heavy internet users are why you have 15/1. If it were not for those few people who want to hog bandwidth by sending pictures and sound over the internet, you would still be on a 2400 baud modem.
I am amazed at the number of people that claim the game was unbeatable. As you say, it wasn't that hard. And, contrary to the urban myth, there were no pits that couldn't be gotten out of.
Raiders (which I did beat) was easily the most complex game ever made for the 2600. I can't image how bad the people who couldn't beat E.T. would think Raiders was.
The fact that you were not good at the game doesn't mean it sucked. I never found a pit that I couldn't get out of in that game. The game was better than 80% of the 2600 games made. It got panned so badly because it was too complex for most 2600 game players. As rsilvergun pointed out, you actually had to read the manual.
To make matters worse, the 'hard core' gamers that might have appreciated the game had moved on to the C64/Apple II where they already had 2 Ultima games to compare E.T. to.
Then the final nail in the coffin was the level of hype put on the game due to the movie left people completely let down.
Very good review of Star Wars. Too many people take the content of Star Wars way to serious. It's like listening to people argue about Woody Woodpecker canon.
I'm still confused about how going back in time was supposed to change the past from before the time travellers arrived. It must be because Apple invented the Starship Enterprise.
That was my point. Anyone that is still claiming "Death Panels" has dismissed "There are no 'death panels'." as a lie. My point was that anything you would call a 'death panel' under ObamaCare would need to be called a 'death panel' for all insurance since health insurance was first sold.
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Consider with modern equipment, I could walk into a facility with a microSD stuffed in my nose. You are going to have to work a lot harder to pass those doors with an 8" floppy stuffed into an orifice.
My guess is that you could do all of the unsafe surfing you wanted. You could specifically look for malware infested sites, and a C64 would still be safe on the internet.
Are we still doing phrasing?
What non-exlusive franchises?
You just acknowledged that there are competitors that want to lay their own cable. Not only their own cable, but even better cable than what the current monopoly has. This is exactly the opposite of a natural monopoly.
And thus they it is not a natural monopoly.
No, YOU said that your insurance does not make any disicions on whether they will cover your treatment or not. YOU claimed that your insurance will pay no matter the cost. The reality is that all insurance has always had limits. There has never been any practical way for insurance to function. Perhaps you are just obsessed with the mythical Right Wing bad guys behind every tree.
Given the amount of waste involved with the sale of fruits and vegetables, that might not be a good example.
Your system requires one hell of a lot more knowledge to install and maintain than a simple set of instructions for installing under the sink. I was with you when you called out people on being intentionally helpless, but RO systems are extreamly wastefull. Your recycling system to prevent that waste is simply not accessable to everyone, and a lot more than just the parts under the sink.
RO filters are horribly wasteful. In large parts of the country, they should just be outright banned
This doesn't pass the sniff test. You are going to have to give an explination as to the vector for disease to spread into the water coolers from the bottle for this to be believable. And it has to be a vector that would not apply to any other kind of container.
Most likely they just needed to be cleaned periodically anyway due to always being damp, and someone who didn't understand what was happening heard that refilling water bottles is unhealthy. So, they made up that the coolers needed cleaning because they were making people sick. Then office myth just spread from there.
Speaking of anti-science sentiment growing in the US. It was sad to see this in the 'Science and Education' section of Toys 'R' Us the other day: http://www.toysrus.com/product...
No. It is not. If it was a natural monopoly, there would be no need for cities to grant legal monopoly to existing cable companies. You would also not have companies like Google and Sonic trying to lay their own cable.
There was no 'deregulation'. If it was deregulated, I could put in cable and start offering services as an ISP on my own cables. I cant do that because of regulation. 'Deregulation' usually means keep regulating, but do it in a way that lets the company screw the customers.
There is no economic incentive for this to happen. It costs a lot of money to build plant. Nobody is going to build plant where they can get only, on average, half the customers, and if they cut prices to lure the other company's customers they'll lose money.
That is verifiably wrong. If it were true, there would be no need for monopoly deals that prevent competition from moving in. Also, there would be no need for the incumbents to try and derail the competition from entering cities.
So you are telling me that your insurance will pay for a heart transplant while you are laying in bed with inoperable brain cancer which is expected to kill you within 2 months?
Tofu is not a meat substitute. It tastes nothing like meat, and does not have a texture anything like meat. Calling tofu a meat substitue is like calling pinto beans a meat substitue.
As illustrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can simulate the exact same effect by just quiting your job and never working in the field again.
Which is why Comcast should not be allowed to own content.
Heavy internet users are why you have 15/1. If it were not for those few people who want to hog bandwidth by sending pictures and sound over the internet, you would still be on a 2400 baud modem.
I am amazed at the number of people that claim the game was unbeatable. As you say, it wasn't that hard. And, contrary to the urban myth, there were no pits that couldn't be gotten out of.
Raiders (which I did beat) was easily the most complex game ever made for the 2600. I can't image how bad the people who couldn't beat E.T. would think Raiders was.
The fact that you were not good at the game doesn't mean it sucked. I never found a pit that I couldn't get out of in that game. The game was better than 80% of the 2600 games made. It got panned so badly because it was too complex for most 2600 game players. As rsilvergun pointed out, you actually had to read the manual.
To make matters worse, the 'hard core' gamers that might have appreciated the game had moved on to the C64/Apple II where they already had 2 Ultima games to compare E.T. to.
Then the final nail in the coffin was the level of hype put on the game due to the movie left people completely let down.
Very good review of Star Wars. Too many people take the content of Star Wars way to serious. It's like listening to people argue about Woody Woodpecker canon.
I'm still confused about how going back in time was supposed to change the past from before the time travellers arrived. It must be because Apple invented the Starship Enterprise.
That was my point. Anyone that is still claiming "Death Panels" has dismissed "There are no 'death panels'." as a lie. My point was that anything you would call a 'death panel' under ObamaCare would need to be called a 'death panel' for all insurance since health insurance was first sold.