I'm worried about the 70 year old with a heart problem that has no idea it won't work if the power goes out, his internet connection goes down or that 911 may or may not work
There is only one factor at work here: personal responsibility. If a 70 year old signs up for VoIP service then it is their responsibility to know how it works. According to nature you don't make it to 70 years old by being ignorant and oblivious--though our current welfare state mitigates this. If a relative of a 70 year old sets this up for them then it is their responsibility to make sure the 70 year old is aware of mitigating factors. Surely by the age of 70 a person has had some reasonable opportunity to notice that some telephones must be plugged in to work. It should be obvious that if you don't have internet service you can't have a VoIP telephone. It then logically follows that if the network goes out, you no longer have internet service, and you no longer have a telephone. Are you accusing America's elderly of having made it to old age by wandering around for 70 years with their eyes closed and their ears shut? Again I do note that the welfare state has made this a real (and deplorable) possibility.
One wonders how the human race managed to survive for the 60-80 years without 911. Think of all the dead people who died from not having 911 service in 1960. Can we sue the phone companies for negligence? Hell no. People were expected to know their own emergency numbers and their own location.
Seriously. At what point are we going to require that the government spoon feed and powder our butts for us? At what point is anyone going to say,"I fully accept that this truly is a live at your own risk world"?
But I still think you'll find that they support truth in advertising laws for a reason
I've never seen a VoIP company attempt to convince me that there were absolutely no connectivity issues with VoIP service.
And this whole "Vonage is a replacement for your landline" is a complete overstatement by some marketing droid that ignores the key differences between the two services (reliability)
If you can't independently assess the differences between POTS and VoIP such that you're totally enamoured with marketing speak then please don't make that my problem. I hope you're not surprised if your VoIP telephone doesn't work on an unconnected private LAN.
This might sound coarse but real people die every day. Blaming it on 911/VoIP integration is 100% FUD. Raising a federal level stink over a few lives due to VoIP 911 is silly if you're not going to raise the same federal level stink over 1000+ lives lost in a war begun on false pretenses halfway across the world.
It's impossible to argue with the people who hold the purse-strings.
If the people had the ability to withold tax money without fear of prosecution or incarceration then you could argue that the citizens are at fault for not paying attention.
The way it works here, though, is the politicians have already decided to do whatever they want. They have an endless supply of money from the tax system. What they can't take out of taxes they'll borrow from the Federal Reserve. That increases the tax burden to the citizens at the sole discretion of the politicians and sells the citizens into inescapable debt. What recourse do the citizens have? The citizens have absolutely no power of veto at all. Elections are popularity contests, mostly, which are dependent on funding. It's impossible to fight a battle of finances against a group which has access to the tax money of an entire nation and holds those citizens in inescable debt.
I still want to know how they run their calculations on these ice core samples. How do they know that the gas levels in the ice actually reflect surface levels from that era? Maybe the ice was formed underwater? What about the effect of diffusion over 650000 years? Sure, methane and CO2 don't diffuse much through frozen ice but after 650000 years it's bound to be significant. What of global variances? Ice can float around. Are they sure that the ice was formed in the area which they think it was?
Very important scientific considerations which are completely ignored. It's much more fun to print "The sky is falling!" as a headline.
I saw that clue a little farther on in the comments. I think that was an editorial oversight on the part of the person who wrote the piece. It didn't even occur to me that the electric motor would be considered part of the engine. If anything it should've been called the starter.
All you had to do was get rid of the evils of capitalism
No you dumbass! Quit spreading that FUD.
Capitalism has no evils. All you have to do is get rid of the evils of government. Graft, corruption, and the ability to use other people's money to further their own greed.
You stupid dumbass fools get it wrong every fucking time!
I prefer the term minarchist. Yes, there are some social rules of order which shoudl be observed. The formal government should have the minimal role possible.
Now you're on to name-calling. You have a vested interest in this arguemnt and you believe in it so strongly that you must resort to name-calling to help fortify your point.
While you like to nitpick the general concept of "what's fair" in 99.999% of common daily interaction is obvious to most mammals.
You give 2 units of NADH, you take 2 units of NADH. That's fair. If you're operating at the scale of 2000 units then the tolerance level is about 20 units. If you're operating at the scale of 2 million units then the tolerance level is about 2000 units.
You only argue because to you "I take everything and give nothing" would be completely fair as long as you can convince yourself with enough signatures on pieces of paper. Any man can sleep with soft enough pillows.
I was hoping not to get trolled but you win that aspect.
It should be immediately obvious "what's fair". If one person stands up and starts debating red herrings that should not qualify them to suddenly become a politician in charge of authority and capable of spending everyone elses money.
Yes, there are cases where a community has been completely unfair to an outsider for no better reason than prejudice, but the way the system is running now most often the law is used to enforce people's right to be completely unfair simply because they have a financial or political upper hand.
How about you cite an example and I'll rip your ass to shreds on it?
The problems which you describe have nothing to do with capitalism. The problems you describe are due to your tiny city attempting to exist capitalistically within a larger communist system.
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It's an opposite opinion... but the mindset is the same.
To me, capitalism consists of combining natural market optimization forces with an arbritrary system of cost values
Such as standardizing them through a government body?
You have failed to distinguish your conceptual understanding of capitalism from communism.
I'm not arguing with your viewpoint. I'm telling you to quit bashing capitalism. Every ill which you attribute to capitalism is really a manifestation of communism within our current society.
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One wonders how the human race managed to survive for the 60-80 years without 911. Think of all the dead people who died from not having 911 service in 1960. Can we sue the phone companies for negligence? Hell no. People were expected to know their own emergency numbers and their own location.
Seriously. At what point are we going to require that the government spoon feed and powder our butts for us? At what point is anyone going to say,"I fully accept that this truly is a live at your own risk world"?
I've never seen a VoIP company attempt to convince me that there were absolutely no connectivity issues with VoIP service.
That's the clue phone ringing.
This might sound coarse but real people die every day. Blaming it on 911/VoIP integration is 100% FUD. Raising a federal level stink over a few lives due to VoIP 911 is silly if you're not going to raise the same federal level stink over 1000+ lives lost in a war begun on false pretenses halfway across the world.
It's impossible to argue with the people who hold the purse-strings.
If the people had the ability to withold tax money without fear of prosecution or incarceration then you could argue that the citizens are at fault for not paying attention.
The way it works here, though, is the politicians have already decided to do whatever they want. They have an endless supply of money from the tax system. What they can't take out of taxes they'll borrow from the Federal Reserve. That increases the tax burden to the citizens at the sole discretion of the politicians and sells the citizens into inescapable debt. What recourse do the citizens have? The citizens have absolutely no power of veto at all. Elections are popularity contests, mostly, which are dependent on funding. It's impossible to fight a battle of finances against a group which has access to the tax money of an entire nation and holds those citizens in inescable debt.
He wasn't taken to task. It was a dog'n'pony show staged to distract people from thinking about what really caused the event to happen.
How the heck can it be socialist? If anything it's anti-socialist and, since everything is tied back to economic profits, it's moreso communist.
I still want to know how they run their calculations on these ice core samples. How do they know that the gas levels in the ice actually reflect surface levels from that era? Maybe the ice was formed underwater? What about the effect of diffusion over 650000 years? Sure, methane and CO2 don't diffuse much through frozen ice but after 650000 years it's bound to be significant. What of global variances? Ice can float around. Are they sure that the ice was formed in the area which they think it was?
Very important scientific considerations which are completely ignored. It's much more fun to print "The sky is falling!" as a headline.
I saw that clue a little farther on in the comments. I think that was an editorial oversight on the part of the person who wrote the piece. It didn't even occur to me that the electric motor would be considered part of the engine. If anything it should've been called the starter.
I came into the comments specifically to find out if anyone had made note of this.
.movs for the engine I didn't see anything which wasn't made from paper. Especially the motor.
When I looked at the
That list, as far as I can tell, is the most elite piece of art I've seen in over 15 years.
That's the old way.
Capitalism has no evils. All you have to do is get rid of the evils of government. Graft, corruption, and the ability to use other people's money to further their own greed.
You stupid dumbass fools get it wrong every fucking time!
I prefer the term minarchist. Yes, there are some social rules of order which shoudl be observed. The formal government should have the minimal role possible.
Now you're on to name-calling. You have a vested interest in this arguemnt and you believe in it so strongly that you must resort to name-calling to help fortify your point.
Government doesn't take away IP. What government does is to make it impossible to enforce your IP unless you submit to the government first.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who recognizes this very important technicality.
While you like to nitpick the general concept of "what's fair" in 99.999% of common daily interaction is obvious to most mammals.
You give 2 units of NADH, you take 2 units of NADH. That's fair. If you're operating at the scale of 2000 units then the tolerance level is about 20 units. If you're operating at the scale of 2 million units then the tolerance level is about 2000 units.
You only argue because to you "I take everything and give nothing" would be completely fair as long as you can convince yourself with enough signatures on pieces of paper. Any man can sleep with soft enough pillows.
Open source material does not depend on strong copyright laws.
The biggest threat to open source material is stronger copyright laws.
I was hoping not to get trolled but you win that aspect.
It should be immediately obvious "what's fair". If one person stands up and starts debating red herrings that should not qualify them to suddenly become a politician in charge of authority and capable of spending everyone elses money.
Yes, there are cases where a community has been completely unfair to an outsider for no better reason than prejudice, but the way the system is running now most often the law is used to enforce people's right to be completely unfair simply because they have a financial or political upper hand.
How about you cite an example and I'll rip your ass to shreds on it?
Well at least you've got a sane and balanced take on it.
Best wishes.
Government is not the solution to the problem. Government IS the problem.
The problems which you describe have nothing to do with capitalism. The problems you describe are due to your tiny city attempting to exist capitalistically within a larger communist system.
It's an opposite opinion... but the mindset is the same.
I knew there'd be a sucker.
Because society can exist without the government playing big brother to everything.
Don't gasp so hard. I know it's a novel idea in this day and age. Almost unthinkable.
Brainwashed fools.
You have failed to distinguish your conceptual understanding of capitalism from communism.
I'm not arguing with your viewpoint. I'm telling you to quit bashing capitalism. Every ill which you attribute to capitalism is really a manifestation of communism within our current society.