'perfect consumers' is just some marketing dude's wet dream.
Whom are you quoting? Not me. I said "perfectly informed consumers." "Perfectly" modifies "informed." My "reductive and mechanistic model" has little to do with marketing and is called economics; look into it. My first sentence states an axiom of economics. My second sentence begins with "The large x don't want," and is descriptive in nature. It is my analysis of an entity other than myself.
Perfectly informed consumers are a necessary condition of a perfectly competitive market. The large x don't want the current market to become more competitive because that favors small x.
.sj is "allocated but not used" (wikipedia), they use.no....and "Svalbard consists of a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean; ranging from 76 to 81 North, and 10 to 35 East, it forms the northernmost part of Norway and the northernmost lands of Europe" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard. If you look at a map, "off Norway" really is a decent description of its location.
My two cents: Picture a right triangle, two units wide, one unit tall. Thats a a gradient of one-in-two (you know, rise-over-run). So steeper than one-in-two, would be two wide, more than one tall.
George orwell even did it in 1940, said there were problems, said there were people writing bad english, said they wouldn't be able to communicate soon. Well look at what we have here, a world still functioning nearly 70 years later.
Did you even read Politics and the English Language? Much of what he talks about has actually happened already; I read in the paper everyday. This might be part of the reason that it's now a pretty standard read for highschool and college students. But what Orwell says only applies to writing, not everyday speech; and most things done online, especially by kids, is more speech than writing (the process, not the act of putting letters on paper or typing).
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Perfectly informed consumers are a necessary condition of a perfectly competitive market. The large x don't want the current market to become more competitive because that favors small x.
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.sj is "allocated but not used" (wikipedia), they use .no....and "Svalbard consists of a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean; ranging from 76 to 81 North, and 10 to 35 East, it forms the northernmost part of Norway and the northernmost lands of Europe" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard. If you look at a map, "off Norway" really is a decent description of its location.
Apparently, Google news didn't think this was news worthy. http://news.google.com/
"Arbeit macht frei."
Actually, that show aired in the US for several years on PBS. It is probably still TV today.
I've never heard it said that way. I would say: Two to the N minus one power. That way 'to the' and 'power' are delimiters.
My two cents: Picture a right triangle, two units wide, one unit tall. Thats a a gradient of one-in-two (you know, rise-over-run). So steeper than one-in-two, would be two wide, more than one tall.
Mimes. Fucking brilliant.
Dude, that's not funny. Farley's dead.
Beowulf wants to be anthropomorphized.
Did you even read Politics and the English Language? Much of what he talks about has actually happened already; I read in the paper everyday. This might be part of the reason that it's now a pretty standard read for highschool and college students. But what Orwell says only applies to writing, not everyday speech; and most things done online, especially by kids, is more speech than writing (the process, not the act of putting letters on paper or typing).
I believe that that's called the logorithmic scale.