Uh, no. this is the perfect example of why libertarianism is mentally bankrupt. Firefighting is a perfect example of a shared good where the public MUST be taxed to ensure fair and equal access. Instead, libertarianism wants to privatize everything.
Libertarianism works for those who already have money and would only serve to collect more and more wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer.
Basically you are now forcing firefighters to be bill collectors. What do they do, negotiate with the guy on the spot?
No, the real problem is with having a voluntary fee for a collective, necessary service. Don't blame the firefighters. Blame the government that set up a no-win situation.
The real problem is why this is a voluntary fee? You can point the finger at the fire department, you can point it at the home owner. But the reality is that the system forced this type of situation.
When you see this type of conflict, you canalmost always trace the problem to the next level up in "management". if management sets up a situation where an entity has two conflicting priorities, then you should look up a level to see who created the mess.
Load of shit? Ok, I have 200 people under this arrangement. 100 pay, 100 don't. One of the 100 who don't pay end up needing the service. I bill him $75 but the other 99 don't pay but, in effect, got the service.
What is the incentive for ANYONE to pay in this type of arrangement?
I was talking with an individual who talked about this when talking about some type of "energy measurement device" that was used on him once during some type of therapy. He ended up identifying himself as a Scientologist. Now beyond knowing about Tom Cruise being a member, and about the science fiction writer who started the "religion", I know very little about Scientology.
I wonder if in the future, this type of procedure will be standard. Say you hit 55 and the stats say you'd be better off just replacing the heart instead of taking the risk of a heart attack.
I could see this happening. And with millions getting the treatment every year, costs would likely go down 2-3% with HMOs pocketing the rest of the savings.
Damn. I hit submit. I cannot believe I said "factoring primes". I considered playing it off like it was pat of the joke, but that would just be dishonest.
Please revoke my nerd card and send me to business school.
(here is hoping my x minutes since last post allows me to correct myself before I get ripped by 350 nerds)
Actually, it is not what is wrong with Capitalism. This is what is called an externality. Basically a unaccounted for benefit or cost. The role of government is to see things like this that the market cannot account for and be sure to tax or regulate according to the cost.
It isn't terribly difficult. The problem is we have the right with their Pavlovian "Government is bad" chant, and the left which wants to micromanage. You then have the majority of the population which doesn't really understand economics and just listens to their favorite commentator think for them.
With a mass three times larger than Earth's, the newly discovered world has the muscle to hold atmosphere. Plus, it has the gift of time. Not only is its parent star especially long-lived, the planet is tidally locked to its sun -- similar to how the moon keeps the same side pointed at Earth -- so that half the world is in perpetual light and the other half in permanent darkness. As a result, temperatures are extremely stable and diverse.
Pssst. It hasn't been all that long since we discovered our first exoplanet, Jupiter sized or otherwise... 15 years or so. I think we get spoiled by the wonderful advances in science and forget how hard and how much resources it takes to keep advancing.
My what exciting times we live in. Just think... it has only been around 100 years since we realized the universe is organized into galaxies. Only a few hundred since we realized that the Earth is not the center of the universe. Sometimes it is hard to have faith in the future... but discoveries like this touch that small part of me that hasn't become jaded.
Further digging show that you are indeed correct. In the US, the term partner is almost exclusively reserved for same sex relationships. Not that I am worried about lesbianism... just that it seemed like it meant this had to be planned.
17 is way to young to have a kid in today's society. It might have worked a century ago, but there is so much fun to have.. so much growing to do. And considering that she had to be sixteen when she got pregnant with a 23 year old... it is just wrong.
"Her mother Chelsea Rowberry, 17, said: ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive."
So, underage kids having babies... Then we have.
"Miss Rowberry and her partner Lee Lacey, 24, feared she was having a miscarriage when she suffered agonising stomach pains when she was 26 weeks pregnant on the evening of June 26. "
What? So she has a 24-year-old "partner"? I'd be in jail right now if that were me.
And considering they are the same gender, this seems like it could be a planned pregnancy.
The issuing of executive orders (i.e. making law) is unconstitutional.
Some people have this opinion. However, that has not been the position of the courts or congress. in fact this practice has happened since at least the beginning of the nineteenth century (possibly 18th as well... they didn't keep records of exec orders until mid 20th century I think). Thus the rest of your statement is meaningless.
Actually, a decade as a developer. Some projects made the whole YMCA parking lot seem like a step up:) It is fun to actually be in management and get to have an impact on the culture rather than be the victim of it.
As I reread my post, the "requires a certain personality -- very confident, very controlling" is not stricly true. However, the vast majority of small businesses that do not fail and actually grow tent to br run by these personality types. There are cases, of course, of other types. I only wanted to point out that WikiLeaks appears to fall into this majority case.
As someone with a business background and studying for my MBA (let the jokes begin), I find this type of thing fascinating.
This type of situation happens a lot in small business. Most successful smal businesses face failure when they make the hurdle to medium-sized businesses. They either end up folding,or going back to a smaller company.
To get a company up and running requires a certain personality -- very confident, very controlling. To successfully grow you need a staff around you that shares in the power and is trusted to make decisions. The original personality type fails in this regard. Either the person in charge must change his leadership style or the person in charge must change (i.e. get rid of him).
So from the 50.000 foot view, it seems like we have this situation at wikileaks. This is a shame as I think this type of organization can truly be a benefit to freedom and democracy.
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Uh, no. this is the perfect example of why libertarianism is mentally bankrupt. Firefighting is a perfect example of a shared good where the public MUST be taxed to ensure fair and equal access. Instead, libertarianism wants to privatize everything.
Libertarianism works for those who already have money and would only serve to collect more and more wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer.
Basically you are now forcing firefighters to be bill collectors. What do they do, negotiate with the guy on the spot?
No, the real problem is with having a voluntary fee for a collective, necessary service. Don't blame the firefighters. Blame the government that set up a no-win situation.
The real problem is why this is a voluntary fee? You can point the finger at the fire department, you can point it at the home owner. But the reality is that the system forced this type of situation.
When you see this type of conflict, you canalmost always trace the problem to the next level up in "management". if management sets up a situation where an entity has two conflicting priorities, then you should look up a level to see who created the mess.
Load of shit? Ok, I have 200 people under this arrangement. 100 pay, 100 don't. One of the 100 who don't pay end up needing the service. I bill him $75 but the other 99 don't pay but, in effect, got the service.
What is the incentive for ANYONE to pay in this type of arrangement?
I was talking with an individual who talked about this when talking about some type of "energy measurement device" that was used on him once during some type of therapy. He ended up identifying himself as a Scientologist. Now beyond knowing about Tom Cruise being a member, and about the science fiction writer who started the "religion", I know very little about Scientology.
By chance are you a Scientologist?
I have mod points but don't know whether to mod you insightful, funny or troll for making me groan out loud and make my coworkers check on me.
Are you 12 or something? Goatse links are so 2000.
I wonder if in the future, this type of procedure will be standard. Say you hit 55 and the stats say you'd be better off just replacing the heart instead of taking the risk of a heart attack.
I could see this happening. And with millions getting the treatment every year, costs would likely go down 2-3% with HMOs pocketing the rest of the savings.
Damn. I hit submit. I cannot believe I said "factoring primes". I considered playing it off like it was pat of the joke, but that would just be dishonest.
Please revoke my nerd card and send me to business school.
(here is hoping my x minutes since last post allows me to correct myself before I get ripped by 350 nerds)
Notice how the blackberry adds
Adding is easier than factoring primes. This might have something to do with the security problem.
Actually, it is not what is wrong with Capitalism. This is what is called an externality. Basically a unaccounted for benefit or cost. The role of government is to see things like this that the market cannot account for and be sure to tax or regulate according to the cost.
It isn't terribly difficult. The problem is we have the right with their Pavlovian "Government is bad" chant, and the left which wants to micromanage. You then have the majority of the population which doesn't really understand economics and just listens to their favorite commentator think for them.
If the courts are not the final arbiter (along with the other two branches), then what is? If you say your opinion, then what is your remedy?
RTFA.
With a mass three times larger than Earth's, the newly discovered world has the muscle to hold atmosphere. Plus, it has the gift of time. Not only is its parent star especially long-lived, the planet is tidally locked to its sun -- similar to how the moon keeps the same side pointed at Earth -- so that half the world is in perpetual light and the other half in permanent darkness. As a result, temperatures are extremely stable and diverse.
Pssst. It hasn't been all that long since we discovered our first exoplanet, Jupiter sized or otherwise... 15 years or so. I think we get spoiled by the wonderful advances in science and forget how hard and how much resources it takes to keep advancing.
My what exciting times we live in. Just think... it has only been around 100 years since we realized the universe is organized into galaxies. Only a few hundred since we realized that the Earth is not the center of the universe. Sometimes it is hard to have faith in the future... but discoveries like this touch that small part of me that hasn't become jaded.
I think you are 36 minutes late to the party.
(doesn't it stink?)
Just as long as your butt does not explode.
(I feel like I went back to middle school...)
Further digging show that you are indeed correct. In the US, the term partner is almost exclusively reserved for same sex relationships. Not that I am worried about lesbianism... just that it seemed like it meant this had to be planned.
17 is way to young to have a kid in today's society. It might have worked a century ago, but there is so much fun to have.. so much growing to do. And considering that she had to be sixteen when she got pregnant with a 23 year old... it is just wrong.
"Her mother Chelsea Rowberry, 17, said: ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive."
So, underage kids having babies... Then we have.
"Miss Rowberry and her partner Lee Lacey, 24, feared she was having a miscarriage when she suffered agonising stomach pains when she was 26 weeks pregnant on the evening of June 26. "
What? So she has a 24-year-old "partner"? I'd be in jail right now if that were me.
And considering they are the same gender, this seems like it could be a planned pregnancy.
What a weird world we live in
um.... did this have anything to do with my post?
The issuing of executive orders (i.e. making law) is unconstitutional.
Some people have this opinion. However, that has not been the position of the courts or congress. in fact this practice has happened since at least the beginning of the nineteenth century (possibly 18th as well... they didn't keep records of exec orders until mid 20th century I think). Thus the rest of your statement is meaningless.
You might want to read about a similar feat performed by the U.S. Government here
:)
Actually, a decade as a developer. Some projects made the whole YMCA parking lot seem like a step up :) It is fun to actually be in management and get to have an impact on the culture rather than be the victim of it.
As I reread my post, the "requires a certain personality -- very confident, very controlling" is not stricly true. However, the vast majority of small businesses that do not fail and actually grow tent to br run by these personality types. There are cases, of course, of other types. I only wanted to point out that WikiLeaks appears to fall into this majority case.
As someone with a business background and studying for my MBA (let the jokes begin), I find this type of thing fascinating.
This type of situation happens a lot in small business. Most successful smal businesses face failure when they make the hurdle to medium-sized businesses. They either end up folding,or going back to a smaller company.
To get a company up and running requires a certain personality -- very confident, very controlling. To successfully grow you need a staff around you that shares in the power and is trusted to make decisions. The original personality type fails in this regard. Either the person in charge must change his leadership style or the person in charge must change (i.e. get rid of him).
So from the 50.000 foot view, it seems like we have this situation at wikileaks. This is a shame as I think this type of organization can truly be a benefit to freedom and democracy.