A social contract is, by definition, voluntary - it's where the "consent of the governed" comes from.
Should an individual not consent to his society's flavor of social contract, he should leave that society. Should a critical mass reject the implied social contract, the government is illegitimate.
It's not an invoice for services rendered, payable to the government upon you being born.
As for your other points, you invent a system for organizing society, say it has problems, and then expect me to solve them for you?:-)
You must have missed the Sumerians solving those "problems" 4000 years ago. Cajun Hell described the world as it is currently functioning today, with some breadcrumbs showing how it came to be.
In the meanwhile, you seem to be thinking we can torrent uranium.
Those stories are a great reason to buy insurance. It's a shitty way to explain why "Insurance company, here's $10, now give me a $million 'cuz my house is already on fire" is a good way to manage risk.
Why should i waste considerable sums of money on a tailored suit
A few reasons, Bert:
Wearing a suit shows that you appreciate the gravity of a situation. If you show up to a meeting in jeans and t-shirt where everyone else is in suits and ties, you're flipping them the bird - "This meeting isn't as important as you think it is, and you're not as important as you think you are."
Conversely, donning a suit and tie yourself signals to everyone else that they were worth dressing up for, and that their concerns are worth at least a minimum amount of pomp.
It also signals that you're not an autist and capable of dressing yourself. This will help you command respect from people who'd otherwise immediately pigeonhole you as "nerd."
It's all about controlling your interactions with other people and managing their perceptions. Going to the Men's Wearhouse and saying, "I want to cosplay someone respectable" can do wonders for your professional success, especially when interviewing.
That said, I'm happy my employer's dress code is essentially "nothing that would upset HR." If everyone else is in jeans and t-shirt, you should be in jeans and t-shirt.
I'm having a hard time seeing what the problem is. The higher H.264 profiles simply compress better - more quality for the same file size, or the same quality in smaller files. It's not a "trick," it's still 1080p, etc.
So, the warnings are on everything from motels to coffee; so many things as to approach meaningless. They cost shittons of money (oversight, new packaging, reformulating every batch of Coke nationwide, etc.) And, at the end of the day, you admit they haven't actually altered your behavior.
I'd say I'm glad you're voting at the other end of the country, but California is big enough to foist its bullshit nationwide.
Where there are externalities or public goods (such as police protection), each person may be better off if some of each person's rights are infringed [...] Given the importance of such services, it is arguably permissible to force individuals to provide certain services (in violation of full self-ownership) as long as everyone benefits appropriately.
But, don't let me stop you from being rude and ignorant.
What, pray tell, social benefit does moving numbers around actually do?
You're not "moving numbers around." When you buy a share of stock, you actually own that fraction of a company. If you're looking for "social benefit," ask what benefit comes from selling anything else you own to someone who wants to buy it.
Yep. It definitely won't work, because we know that things never change and there's no other possible way that things can be done
There's "no other possible way that things can be done" because most of them are illegal. Unless you want to get rid of the only part of the FDA's mandate it can actually carry out with any efficacy.
Eh, maybe some people out there haven't heard of "targeted advertising." After telling YouTube to e-mail me in Japanese, just for kicks, I started getting some hilarious and kind of creepyads sent my way. Prior, I saw mostly men's products and electronics.
G-mail isn't the only context they use for ad placement, though. Either way, Google gives me free stuff, and makes my web surfing a bit more surreal. I consider it a fair trade.
Microsoft's video is rather crass, but maybe it'll be educational for someone who wouldn't take the Faustian bargain were they fully informed. It's kind of refreshing seeing advertising based on the relative merits of the respective products rather than "Bud Light Summons Women," but on the other hand... Office 365.
Good luck with that. One patent stunted steam engine research for years. A patent pool on sewing machines stopped any improvement in the art for 14 years.
Those were before the modern, "rounded rectangles" state of patent trolling. I doubt it's possible to implement a non-trivial standard without stepping on someone's patents.
So, next best thing to pretending everyone else's patents don't exist is having everyone offer them up on FRAND terms.
"A standard that you must pay for to comply with" makes more sense if you consider that the patents came before the standards. Companies with FRAND patents decided to license them for a (relative) pittance rather than sue everyone thinking about making cell phones.
That sounds kind of like what Microsoft did to Mosaic - we'll give you 10% of our IE revenue! I can see companies being tricksy about it, say, giving the FRAND part away for "free" to avoid paying royalties, but licensing the rest of the program for a fee.
In my perfect little world, software wouldn't be patentable, and we wouldn't have this problem.
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As an aside, 3:24 from your video is wheretWorld of Warcraft's Night Elf /dance emote comes from. Compare here
and it is a contract with no escape clause
A social contract is, by definition, voluntary - it's where the "consent of the governed" comes from.
Should an individual not consent to his society's flavor of social contract, he should leave that society. Should a critical mass reject the implied social contract, the government is illegitimate.
It's not an invoice for services rendered, payable to the government upon you being born.
As for your other points, you invent a system for organizing society, say it has problems, and then expect me to solve them for you? :-)
You must have missed the Sumerians solving those "problems" 4000 years ago. Cajun Hell described the world as it is currently functioning today, with some breadcrumbs showing how it came to be.
In the meanwhile, you seem to be thinking we can torrent uranium.
Those stories are a great reason to buy insurance. It's a shitty way to explain why "Insurance company, here's $10, now give me a $million 'cuz my house is already on fire" is a good way to manage risk.
Why should i waste considerable sums of money on a tailored suit
A few reasons, Bert:
Wearing a suit shows that you appreciate the gravity of a situation. If you show up to a meeting in jeans and t-shirt where everyone else is in suits and ties, you're flipping them the bird - "This meeting isn't as important as you think it is, and you're not as important as you think you are."
Conversely, donning a suit and tie yourself signals to everyone else that they were worth dressing up for, and that their concerns are worth at least a minimum amount of pomp.
It's all about controlling your interactions with other people and managing their perceptions. Going to the Men's Wearhouse and saying, "I want to cosplay someone respectable" can do wonders for your professional success, especially when interviewing.
That said, I'm happy my employer's dress code is essentially "nothing that would upset HR." If everyone else is in jeans and t-shirt, you should be in jeans and t-shirt.
Funny how changes in purchasing power is how they calculate inflation.
I might give them $60 if the game had LAN support.
The extra $60 is for translation. And discs that spin the opposite direction.
I'm having a hard time seeing what the problem is. The higher H.264 profiles simply compress better - more quality for the same file size, or the same quality in smaller files. It's not a "trick," it's still 1080p, etc.
So, the warnings are on everything from motels to coffee; so many things as to approach meaningless. They cost shittons of money (oversight, new packaging, reformulating every batch of Coke nationwide, etc.) And, at the end of the day, you admit they haven't actually altered your behavior.
I'd say I'm glad you're voting at the other end of the country, but California is big enough to foist its bullshit nationwide.
Cops aren't universally dicks. In Wisconsin, we had one write himself a ticket for a driving infraction.
That said, when seven dashboard cameras "fail" just in time to assault someone's rotator cuff, you can't give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
Why? I'd be more inclined to pay something that restores my rights than something that takes them away.
Libertarian principles leave us without roads, police or fire services
Libertarians are not anarchists, sir.
Where there are externalities or public goods (such as police protection), each person may be better off if some of each person's rights are infringed [...] Given the importance of such services, it is arguably permissible to force individuals to provide certain services (in violation of full self-ownership) as long as everyone benefits appropriately.
But, don't let me stop you from being rude and ignorant.
What, pray tell, social benefit does moving numbers around actually do?
You're not "moving numbers around." When you buy a share of stock, you actually own that fraction of a company. If you're looking for "social benefit," ask what benefit comes from selling anything else you own to someone who wants to buy it.
Don't get me wrong, I understand investments.
Nobody that says this on /. actually does.
Yep. It definitely won't work, because we know that things never change and there's no other possible way that things can be done
There's "no other possible way that things can be done" because most of them are illegal. Unless you want to get rid of the only part of the FDA's mandate it can actually carry out with any efficacy.
Cracked's ads always seem more surreal than most. I wonder if their adsense goes to 11.
Eh, maybe some people out there haven't heard of "targeted advertising." After telling YouTube to e-mail me in Japanese, just for kicks, I started getting some hilarious and kind of creepy ads sent my way. Prior, I saw mostly men's products and electronics.
G-mail isn't the only context they use for ad placement, though. Either way, Google gives me free stuff, and makes my web surfing a bit more surreal. I consider it a fair trade.
Microsoft's video is rather crass, but maybe it'll be educational for someone who wouldn't take the Faustian bargain were they fully informed. It's kind of refreshing seeing advertising based on the relative merits of the respective products rather than "Bud Light Summons Women," but on the other hand... Office 365.
Good luck with that. One patent stunted steam engine research for years. A patent pool on sewing machines stopped any improvement in the art for 14 years.
Those were before the modern, "rounded rectangles" state of patent trolling. I doubt it's possible to implement a non-trivial standard without stepping on someone's patents.
So, next best thing to pretending everyone else's patents don't exist is having everyone offer them up on FRAND terms.
"A standard that you must pay for to comply with" makes more sense if you consider that the patents came before the standards. Companies with FRAND patents decided to license them for a (relative) pittance rather than sue everyone thinking about making cell phones.
It's almost noble.
That sounds kind of like what Microsoft did to Mosaic - we'll give you 10% of our IE revenue! I can see companies being tricksy about it, say, giving the FRAND part away for "free" to avoid paying royalties, but licensing the rest of the program for a fee.
In my perfect little world, software wouldn't be patentable, and we wouldn't have this problem.
I wouldn't think so - caffeine by itself has a rather bitter taste. Energy drinks add tons of other crap as much for marketing as to work around it.
A pity the authors neglected to site your previous neurological research. Clearly you've got this all figured out.
It's not Zuck's fault you're underpaid.
as to do with their stated primary purpose: Increase shareholders' equity. Anything else is secondary.
Corporations are required to follow their charter. Where do you kids get this stuff?
Romney's a "villain" because he's Mormon and has a large family? And this currently sits at +4 Interesting?
9/10. Well done.