Tell him he is wasting his life playing this game. Explain the exploration / exploitation trade off to him. If he still stick to this game, he is a moron not worthy of your concern. Find better persons to care about.
There are few large cellphone operators because you need a government license. Radio frequencies should be homesteaded and traded as property right, not handed out by the government. Government distribution of good will favor the large and politically connected organizations.
Government is the greater evil. If you don't use a cellphone, Verizon will not charge you anything. Try not paying taxes and let me know how it works for you.
Stupid. This has nothing to do with "greed". It's obviously a bad PR move from Verizon, it will cost them. They do not care that much about an unpaid $20 bill.
This story is about how large centralized organization become bureaucratic and fail to act efficiently.
Now the sad part is that the people who are the quickest to talk about "greed" are also the one who will want the government (n.b. a large centralized bureaucratic institution) to step in and prevent "greediness"
I'm in the middle of it, but it looks like the turk was going to be integrated inside the precursor of skynet by the redheaded terminator CEO whose name I can't recall. In all cases, if we're supposed to be believe it is, my point still stands.
I avidly watched that show, but come on. This is all about the fun of seeing Sarah Connor and Cameron trying to look normal. And Cameron beating up people of course (cue xkcd etc).
It's by no mean meditative or complex. Take for example the Turk. A chess program is one of the root of Skynet? Give me a break. Chess programs were cool and impressive 10 years ago. Chess is a narrow game, it's not a measure of intelligence.
Say the writers had picked "Poker" instead. Now that would be interesting. First of all, the show would ride on the wave of popularity of the game... second the game is much more complex. Third, the game requires bots to have a model of the opponents behavior, especially human behavior. Now that's interesting. There are many many ideas that could have been explored. Instead the writers choose the cheap trope, chess = intelligence, chess program = AI.
They could also have tried to explain why skynet does not entirely wipe humanity in the first second of its existence... I mean terminator robots? A super intelligence can surely engineer something more subtle, like a virus.
The only explanation I find is that skynet is mildly retarded, it has the mind of a teenager from the 80's and think robots are cool.
I'll stop here. TSCC is cool but not meditative or complex.
Net neutrality is not an individual right because it prevents people from operating a network they own the way they like. An individual right is not connecting to such a network. Saying: if we connect to your network, then you have to be neutral is nothing but tyranny.
No you're just ignorant, no cynicism involved. If corporations could increase their profit by rising the price of their goods, they would already have done so.
What will happen is that the marginal producers will go out of business or marginal production will be cut. The lower supply will make the profit maximizing price higher, and then they will rise their prices.
There will be less good produced, less services offered and they will be more expansive. The corporation lose, the customer lose, the rent seekers which consume $1 of wealth to obtain $1.05 dollar of public funds will win.
Overall, 95% of the wealth confiscated by the government will be destroyed.
To put it another way, government employees don't pay taxes, they're payed out of taxes. The fact that they fill out taxes is merely an accounting trick.
You fool. There are enough laws to put everyone in jail and to fine everyone.
Anyone, I mean anyone in the US can be jailed for at least of the following.
1. Drug use. Never had any drugs? 2. Copyright violation. Never downloaded a song? 3. Income Taxes. Always reported everything ? 4. Labor regulation. Never paid an employee cash ? 5. Gun laws. Never forgot a rifle in a trunk ?
Now these laws are not new at all. But they can be invoked to legally jail about anyone.
The anti-trust regulation are not new, but they just pick a victim once in a while and plunder.
Governments need someone to pay for the huge debt they're accumulating. Hey Intel, these guys, they have money. We can take it and spend it on programs that will make us look good, potentially reelected.
Libertarianism in a nutshell is opposing the government putting a gun to people's head.
I don't see what this has to do with living on one's parent money.
The student loan subsidy are much less than has been paid in taxes anyway. Accepting a student loan subsidy is merely a way to get that a fraction of that money back.
( N.B I don't have a student loan and I don't live on my parent income )
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Tell him he is wasting his life playing this game. Explain the exploration / exploitation trade off to him. If he still stick to this game, he is a moron not worthy of your concern. Find better persons to care about.
There are few large cellphone operators because you need a government license. Radio frequencies should be homesteaded and traded as property right, not handed out by the government. Government distribution of good will favor the large and politically connected organizations.
Government is the greater evil. If you don't use a cellphone, Verizon will not charge you anything. Try not paying taxes and let me know how it works for you.
It can treat frustration, just use a club on it :)
Stupid. This has nothing to do with "greed". It's obviously a bad PR move from Verizon, it will cost them. They do not care that much about an unpaid $20 bill.
This story is about how large centralized organization become bureaucratic and fail to act efficiently.
Now the sad part is that the people who are the quickest to talk about "greed" are also the one who will want the government (n.b. a large centralized bureaucratic institution) to step in and prevent "greediness"
I'm in the middle of it, but it looks like the turk was going to be integrated inside the precursor of skynet by the redheaded terminator CEO whose name I can't recall. In all cases, if we're supposed to be believe it is, my point still stands.
I avidly watched that show, but come on. This is all about the fun of seeing Sarah Connor and Cameron trying to look normal. And Cameron beating up people of course (cue xkcd etc).
It's by no mean meditative or complex. Take for example the Turk. A chess program is one of the root of Skynet? Give me a break. Chess programs were cool and impressive 10 years ago. Chess is a narrow game, it's not a measure of intelligence.
Say the writers had picked "Poker" instead. Now that would be interesting. First of all, the show would ride on the wave of popularity of the game... second the game is much more complex. Third, the game requires bots to have a model of the opponents behavior, especially human behavior. Now that's interesting. There are many many ideas that could have been explored. Instead the writers choose the cheap trope, chess = intelligence, chess program = AI.
They could also have tried to explain why skynet does not entirely wipe humanity in the first second of its existence... I mean terminator robots? A super intelligence can surely engineer something more subtle, like a virus.
The only explanation I find is that skynet is mildly retarded, it has the mind of a teenager from the 80's and think robots are cool.
I'll stop here. TSCC is cool but not meditative or complex.
Net neutrality is not an individual right because it prevents people from operating a network they own the way they like. An individual right is not connecting to such a network. Saying: if we connect to your network, then you have to be neutral is nothing but tyranny.
No.
It means Creation (as in artistic creation) and Internet
Call me when urban wifi starts killing baby. That'll be news !
The USPS has a legal monopoly and it manages to be profitable? I'm shocked!
Hey if it's so fucking hard to make a profit delivering mail, why do competitors get shut down by the government ?
Check the history of the American Letter Mail Company for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
No, the species living in wall mart tend to be much larger. It's the opposite phenomenon.
such as mood swings and a lowered sex drive
Oh, Fortunately, the women's pill has no such side effect.
No you're just ignorant, no cynicism involved. If corporations could increase their profit by rising the price of their goods, they would already have done so.
What will happen is that the marginal producers will go out of business or marginal production will be cut. The lower supply will make the profit maximizing price higher, and then they will rise their prices.
There will be less good produced, less services offered and they will be more expansive. The corporation lose, the customer lose, the rent seekers which consume $1 of wealth to obtain $1.05 dollar of public funds will win.
Overall, 95% of the wealth confiscated by the government will be destroyed.
Pathetic. There's going to be no reason left in the world to incorporate in the US.
Oh yeah, the Strenght of the American Worker, of course.
It doesn't matter. As long as you're paid by the federal government, you cannot be a net taxpayer.
I learned something today !
My plan to make a cow-dragon is now one step closer to reality.
Both funny and insightful.
To put it another way, government employees don't pay taxes, they're payed out of taxes. The fact that they fill out taxes is merely an accounting trick.
If the EU finances itself with fines, the member states don't have to pay it. Simple transfer.
As you said it has to balance printing money and inflating. Why print when you can steal ?
An economy with anti-trust regulation is not a free economy. What part of freedom don't you understand ?
Who do you think the money is going to?
You fool. There are enough laws to put everyone in jail and to fine everyone.
Anyone, I mean anyone in the US can be jailed for at least of the following.
1. Drug use. Never had any drugs?
2. Copyright violation. Never downloaded a song?
3. Income Taxes. Always reported everything ?
4. Labor regulation. Never paid an employee cash ?
5. Gun laws. Never forgot a rifle in a trunk ?
Now these laws are not new at all. But they can be invoked to legally jail about anyone.
The anti-trust regulation are not new, but they just pick a victim once in a while and plunder.
Governments need someone to pay for the huge debt they're accumulating. Hey Intel, these guys, they have money. We can take it and spend it on programs that will make us look good, potentially reelected.
Sickening.
Cue the brainwashed anti-trust crowd.
How about an airplane flying very low around the statue of liberty, followed by two fighter jets.
Moron.
I am an anarcho-capitalist, if you don't know what that means look it up, then come back to me and call me a republican again.
Libertarianism in a nutshell is opposing the government putting a gun to people's head.
I don't see what this has to do with living on one's parent money.
The student loan subsidy are much less than has been paid in taxes anyway. Accepting a student loan subsidy is merely a way to get that a fraction of that money back.
( N.B I don't have a student loan and I don't live on my parent income )