That's an interesting conundrum. I've got this piece of software I bought that came with additional contract terms wrapped inside the box. It is my understanding that if I don't like these additional terms I am free to reject them, cancelling the sale (i.e. I return it for a full refund).
It isn't rich, white fat cats twirling their mustaches. Two thirds of all publicly-traded stocks in the USA are owned by the small investor, either directly or through some sort of investment fund.
And what percentage of investors are "small"? 67? More? Less?
We don't live in Jefferson's decentralized world; any sort of armed revolution, successful or unsuccessful, against the government would be incredibly disruptive, would result in a lot of lost lives, would open us up to serious military threats from abroad, and would tank the economy for several years.
So how exactly is that different from Jefferson's time? Large armed conflicts have always been expensive, disruptive, and dangerous.
And while we're pointing out contradictions...
They propose this in response to a couple of idiots posting a video, and then they say they won't actually go after "personal" postings.
In a free market, there is generally not a surplus or a shortage of anything.
So apply this to labor markets and see what you end up with. In an ideal market, every job is filled (no labor shortage), and nobody is unemployed (no labor surplus). There exists one engineer for every engineering job. I'm sure every/.er knows that "ideal" means things are simplified well beyond what is realistic.
The primary criticism today is that their inflation-adjusted salary expectations are inconsistent with the net changes in profit per employee over the same period.
If workers spend more due to inflation, where exactly does that money go?
For all of the bashing the left does about Bush, what is more telling is that Bush didn't really create the modern government that is capable of doing this. Everyone has had a hand in this. A police state machine is a police state machine, all the time, not just when a "good guy" is driving it. Stop attacking Bush, and start looking at the machine!
Right. People don't kill people. Guns kill people.
Ok, I didn't realize the reach of a "market" was all that large. Back home (near Chicago), there's only a dozen stations I can hear, though "what I can hear" probably doesn't even touch most of the collar counties.
If each conglomerate is limited to three FM stations in a market, you'd still have about 33 companies in any market instead of the average of 2 companies we have today in most major markets even if you didn't do anything more than that rule.
I'm curious as to where you're getting these numbers. Most places I've been, the "three stations per company" would mean there are about two companies broadcasting.
Maybe they could back off on the quota and measure performance according to what percent of the patents that they approve end up getting overturned on later review.
Nope, unlike what tv may have taught you, people rarely, if ever, joke about something anything that affects and hurts them.
I can't speak for GP, GGP, etc., but I didn't get that notion from watching TV. I got that notion from watching myself. Apparently, as defense mechanisms go, it's not all that bad.
I would also expect that vandals would typically be repeat offenders. The times when I have looked through page history, I generally find many instances of vandalism, all from a few IP addresses. Wikipedia vandals aren't all that different from forum trolls.
The difference here is that everyone knows that Congress is open to lobbying all the time. It seems some people at the FCC have been telling just their friends about upcoming decisions, so only their friends get to make suggestions.
trying to write a law based around the *potential* for a problem that simply does not exist, nor shows signs of existing anytime soon.
There's this telco/ISP that's been making public comments to the effect of "major internet companies should pay us for using our bandwidth." Maybe you've heard of it?
"You should get what you pay for" is a pretty nonsensical argument. Because service providers paying to get their traffic prioritised (or not de-prioritised) is a fairly standard example of exactly that.
Peering agreements exist to get traffic between different ISPs. Google only has to pay its own ISP for an internet connection. I only have to pay Charter. Suppose Charter goes to Google and says packets Google sends me will be degraded unless Google pays money. Now Google and I are both about to get less than we paid for.
This is protection money for packets: "Pay us not to do something we shouldn't be doing anyway."
That right there is what this all comes down to: a noticeable penalty for having employees work overtime. Make it less of a burden to hire more people than to demand overtime. The only argument on this story seems to be what that penalty ought to be.
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Yeah, if not for the left wing's complaints, the right wing would all be perfectly honest people.
And while we're pointing out contradictions...
They propose this in response to a couple of idiots posting a video, and then they say they won't actually go after "personal" postings.
Sanjay can also live like a king on what would barely pay the bills in America.
And yet, following regular 9-5 hours doesn't exactly seem to solve those problems.
Surely you meant to say "hovering"...
Ok, I didn't realize the reach of a "market" was all that large. Back home (near Chicago), there's only a dozen stations I can hear, though "what I can hear" probably doesn't even touch most of the collar counties.
Maybe they could back off on the quota and measure performance according to what percent of the patents that they approve end up getting overturned on later review.
Of course. Real robots aren't nearly that smart. That leaves following the laws up to the humans designing the machine. They'd best tread carefully.
I would also expect that vandals would typically be repeat offenders. The times when I have looked through page history, I generally find many instances of vandalism, all from a few IP addresses. Wikipedia vandals aren't all that different from forum trolls.
The difference here is that everyone knows that Congress is open to lobbying all the time. It seems some people at the FCC have been telling just their friends about upcoming decisions, so only their friends get to make suggestions.
This is protection money for packets: "Pay us not to do something we shouldn't be doing anyway."
I'm afraid I can't help you with that, Dave.