"In theoretical economics, a free market is an idealised economic model wherein exchanges are "free" of all coercive measures"
see that? all coercive measures. Not merely the governmental measures listed afterwards, but all of them. It is possible for a corporation to use coercive measures upon another economic unit (say a person or another corporation). Anti-monopoly law exists to allow the government to prevent a corporation from doing so, hence making the market behave more similarly to the free-market.
"In an absolutely free-market economy, all capital, goods, services, and money flow freely--transfers are not forcibly restricted or impeded. If a government intervenes in private affairs, it only does so to stop coercion that may take place among market participants."
The problem you face is that free has many meanings. This is not free-as-in-speach as many people seem to think, but rather free-as-in-group. That is - a free market is the simplest possible mathematical object which obeys the required axioms to be called a market.
In this case "free" is as in "free group", "free module" etc... in higher mathematics. It refers to the simplest possible system that meets the requirements of being such a thing in a mathematical sense.
Apple's. So go after them for that (you won't hear me complaining), though as others have pointed out that you can burn apple's DRM locked music to CD and then rerip them as DRMless mp3s. That's not true of the microsoft format music stores.
Please stop misusing the term "free market". A market free of government restriction is not a free market. A free market is a market in its purest mathematical sense - free of any constraints other than having the most basic properties of a market. Such a thing is a theoretical construct that can be used in modeling of certain situations - but is not the same thing as a real market, which will always have additional constraints upon it (such as tgransport costs, retooling costs, the realities of human behaviour, limitted knowledge, monopolies, limitted resources, limitted communication, etc...).
Anti-competative law is designed to allow a government to intervene in a realworld market to make it behave more like a free-market.
In this case the government in question may not know what it's doing - but this has nothing to do with "interfering with a free-market".
But if it wasn't a joke I think I'll clarify - the Halo Effect is the effect that the popularity of one thing can cause increased popularity in related things - a halo being an area of light surrounding a light-source.
The mac version is very good, the windows version is very similar (which of course means that it doesn't feel as much like the rest of teh OS as one might like), there is, unfortunately, no Linux version.
To be honest it's free so why not try it and make the decision for yourself (unless you run Linux, in which case you can't)?
I seem to recall that whilst they do use the same basic chipset the mac versions of the video cards have slightly different firmware from the pc versions (since, notably, they support only XGA graphics without the VGA compatibility stuff).
And having to stand up in church or registry office and sign a contract saying that you will stay with your parttner until death do you part isn't an insult to one's honour?
If I say I'll love my girlfriend for the rest of my life then I would expect to be taken as being honest, not be required to go through a marriage ceremony to "prove" it.
My parents' marriage broke-up, my paternal grandparents were divorced, and my maternal grandparents damned well ought to have been divorced if the catholic church would only allow it. Marriage proves nothing, and requiring it is as much of an insult as requiring a pre-nuptual agreement would be.
I'm fairly sure that no AI writers are working on stopping robots from "taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies" - they're all kind of busy attempting to get them to arange blocks by colour, recognise human speech, walk a few steps, or do other things that every five-year-old is capable of. Once we have AIs that can regularly outperform a toddler then we can perhaps start worrying about them trying to take over.
The people discussing how to stop them taking over are philosophers with some interest in AI, not AI writers themselves:)
The book uses robots as an analogy for a very serious philosophical point about humanity: codified rules are not a suitable replacement for people educated in ethics, science, and rational thinking. No set of laws, commandments, edicts, or mandates passed from On High will ever match every situation. Knowledge is the only way forward.
A better argument for a secular society with an unwritten constitution and a system of mutable legal precedent I have never heard.
Money is nothing more than units of exchange issued and maintained by the government of the state in which you reside. For historical reasons it has generaly been made clear that granting people a certain share of these units in recompense for their work is a good way of ensuring that society continues functioning - that's your pay.
Similarly it has also become clear that the "obvious" way of doing this - which would be to have everybody work for an organ of the government and be payed a reasonable amount by them doesn't work much of the time (although as a research student it's notable that this is how I get paid - so it can work under certain circumstances). The alternative which seams to work is to have quasi-independent organs called "bussinesses" which overpay their workers, and then have government organs remove the excess (that's your taxes).
So your pay and taxes are realy just an organisational thing - no one is "taking things away from you" they just give you too much and then take it back.
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I haven't owned a TV in four years, but when I catch something on someone else's box there's usualy something good on the BBC.
The tilting system worked fine, and didn't throw people's coffee around - it was practicly every other experimental system on the train that failed. Virgin trains are now running a tilting train service between London and Birmingham... which makes me seasick, but everybody else seems to be happy with it.
British Rail were a public joke. The trains were late, crowded, and falling apart.
So the Major government privatised them... and the trains managed to get later, more crowded, and even more motheaten - not to mention a series of spectacular rail disasters caused by the private companies cutting costs on pointless things like track maintainence. As a result the current labour government partialy renationalised the company which owned the tracks (but left the trains themselves privitised) and imposed much stricter saftey regulations on the private rail-companies. The result? things are now only slightly worse than they were when British rail was a national joke (and as a regular trian user I'd say they were actualy improving) - but now we apreciate quite how much worse things could be...
Just checking. Oh and you've forgotten Zoroastrianism, which is a Middle-eastern religion which is still in existence today, though rarer than Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
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see that? all coercive measures. Not merely the governmental measures listed afterwards, but all of them. It is possible for a corporation to use coercive measures upon another economic unit (say a person or another corporation). Anti-monopoly law exists to allow the government to prevent a corporation from doing so, hence making the market behave more similarly to the free-market.
"In an absolutely free-market economy, all capital, goods, services, and money flow freely--transfers are not forcibly restricted or impeded. If a government intervenes in private affairs, it only does so to stop coercion that may take place among market participants."
Sums it up pretty well as well don't you think?
Please reread the wikipedia article. It agrees with me.
The simplest possible mathematical object that obeys the axioms of a market.
Just as a free group is the simplest possible mathematical object that obeys the axioms of a group.
When you use it to mean something else it is you who are attempting to twist its meaning, not I.
The problem you face is that free has many meanings. This is not free-as-in-speach as many people seem to think, but rather free-as-in-group. That is - a free market is the simplest possible mathematical object which obeys the required axioms to be called a market.
In this case "free" is as in "free group", "free module" etc ... in higher mathematics. It refers to the simplest possible system that meets the requirements of being such a thing in a mathematical sense.
Apple's. So go after them for that (you won't hear me complaining), though as others have pointed out that you can burn apple's DRM locked music to CD and then rerip them as DRMless mp3s. That's not true of the microsoft format music stores.
I'm a mathematician defining a mathematical term that gets frequently misused by people with an idealogical axe to grind :)
I may be flamebait - but everything I've said is true ... not even matters of opinion actual objective statements of what a word means.
Anti-competative law is designed to allow a government to intervene in a realworld market to make it behave more like a free-market.
In this case the government in question may not know what it's doing - but this has nothing to do with "interfering with a free-market".
Any music store that sells in DRM-free mp3 format is completely compatible with the iPod.
What you mean that the stores won't sell in anything other than locked microsoft formats? How is that Apple's fault?
I know things the public isn't interested in (and many wouldn't understand) does that count?
And Linux is so hard to use it requires a ten year training course just to get to a login window!
And Mac OS recently had some security flaws too! It's only for posers who wear turtlenecks and tinted glasses and drink imported tea!
Best just to turn all the computers off and goo back to using telephones! we never had any security problems with telephones!
But if it wasn't a joke I think I'll clarify - the Halo Effect is the effect that the popularity of one thing can cause increased popularity in related things - a halo being an area of light surrounding a light-source.
To be honest it's free so why not try it and make the decision for yourself (unless you run Linux, in which case you can't)?
But I'm currently unsure.
Couldn't care less.
If I say I'll love my girlfriend for the rest of my life then I would expect to be taken as being honest, not be required to go through a marriage ceremony to "prove" it.
My parents' marriage broke-up, my paternal grandparents were divorced, and my maternal grandparents damned well ought to have been divorced if the catholic church would only allow it. Marriage proves nothing, and requiring it is as much of an insult as requiring a pre-nuptual agreement would be.
(Just glad that my girlfriend feels the same way)
An OS with a naked catgirl on its official site just screams professionalism :)
I'm fairly sure that no AI writers are working on stopping robots from "taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies" - they're all kind of busy attempting to get them to arange blocks by colour, recognise human speech, walk a few steps, or do other things that every five-year-old is capable of. Once we have AIs that can regularly outperform a toddler then we can perhaps start worrying about them trying to take over. The people discussing how to stop them taking over are philosophers with some interest in AI, not AI writers themselves :)
A better argument for a secular society with an unwritten constitution and a system of mutable legal precedent I have never heard.
Money is nothing more than units of exchange issued and maintained by the government of the state in which you reside. For historical reasons it has generaly been made clear that granting people a certain share of these units in recompense for their work is a good way of ensuring that society continues functioning - that's your pay.
Similarly it has also become clear that the "obvious" way of doing this - which would be to have everybody work for an organ of the government and be payed a reasonable amount by them doesn't work much of the time (although as a research student it's notable that this is how I get paid - so it can work under certain circumstances). The alternative which seams to work is to have quasi-independent organs called "bussinesses" which overpay their workers, and then have government organs remove the excess (that's your taxes).
So your pay and taxes are realy just an organisational thing - no one is "taking things away from you" they just give you too much and then take it back.
Oh, you meant american TV.
The tilting system worked fine, and didn't throw people's coffee around - it was practicly every other experimental system on the train that failed. Virgin trains are now running a tilting train service between London and Birmingham ... which makes me seasick, but everybody else seems to be happy with it.
So the Major government privatised them ... and the trains managed to get later, more crowded, and even more motheaten - not to mention a series of spectacular rail disasters caused by the private companies cutting costs on pointless things like track maintainence. As a result the current labour government partialy renationalised the company which owned the tracks (but left the trains themselves privitised) and imposed much stricter saftey regulations on the private rail-companies. The result? things are now only slightly worse than they were when British rail was a national joke (and as a regular trian user I'd say they were actualy improving) - but now we apreciate quite how much worse things could be ...
You mean faith, right?
Just checking. Oh and you've forgotten Zoroastrianism, which is a Middle-eastern religion which is still in existence today, though rarer than Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.