I'm not nearly as upset about the RIAA attempting to extract royalties from radio stations as I am about their attempt charge me royalties based on how many people are in my living room or car when I'm listening to music. And don't tell me about their family "discount" plan. It's a crock. Furthermore, my children don't enjoy listening to the music I play--they suffer through it. Why should I be charged extra for them, when they're not even listening voluntarily? Sheesh.
Considering that www.yahoo.com takes about 5,000k more memory than www.google.com in my Firefox browser, it's obvious to me which one I use by default.
Is it really necessary to reason with yourself to know what you do? Why not just watch yourself do it and then remember?
"Step back for just a minute and look at the reasons why it was decided long ago that you needs an auctioneer license. Obviously running an auction takes a bit of skill. Recognizing bid raises, knowing how much to raise the price, knowing how long to wait for the item to be sold, and the whole "talking fast" thing are special skills. The idea of regulating it is to protect the public from unskilled auctioneers who won't get a good price for an item."
The reason it was decided long ago that you need an auctioneer's license was not to protect consumers. It was to cartelize the business of auctioneering and thus keep auction fees higher than they would be in a less regulated market. What we have here, I believe, is just another example of captured regulators and politicians doing the bidding (pardon the pun) of the auction house cartel. The auction housaes are steadily losing business to their internet competitors and they don't like it.
The politicians and the regulators will come up with some noble sounding reasons about protecting consumers, but that's all just so much salesmanship. (If they really cared about consumers, they'd all resign their positions and start producing goods and services for consumers to consume.)
Exactly. It's when of the oldest propaganda ploy in the book. And it will ALWAYS work, because if there are no real idiots to post such messages, all you have to do is make some up.
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I'm not nearly as upset about the RIAA attempting to extract royalties from radio stations as I am about their attempt charge me royalties based on how many people are in my living room or car when I'm listening to music. And don't tell me about their family "discount" plan. It's a crock. Furthermore, my children don't enjoy listening to the music I play--they suffer through it. Why should I be charged extra for them, when they're not even listening voluntarily? Sheesh.
Is it really necessary to reason with yourself to know what you do? Why not just watch yourself do it and then remember?
How does this spell doom for mankind?
The reason it was decided long ago that you need an auctioneer's license was not to protect consumers. It was to cartelize the business of auctioneering and thus keep auction fees higher than they would be in a less regulated market. What we have here, I believe, is just another example of captured regulators and politicians doing the bidding (pardon the pun) of the auction house cartel. The auction housaes are steadily losing business to their internet competitors and they don't like it. The politicians and the regulators will come up with some noble sounding reasons about protecting consumers, but that's all just so much salesmanship. (If they really cared about consumers, they'd all resign their positions and start producing goods and services for consumers to consume.)
Exactly. It's when of the oldest propaganda ploy in the book. And it will ALWAYS work, because if there are no real idiots to post such messages, all you have to do is make some up.