Sigh, I wish this line of reasoning would die the swift death it deserves. Taxes are probably the least controlling way of making these sorts of adjustments. You're not realistically going to vote with your money because there's few if any products which aren't at some stage created in that fashion. A tax is a simple way of shifting the cost curve up in areas which aren't desirable so that the new equilibrium is a bit more responsible. And it works wonders. There's a reason why Seattle beats the crap out of pretty much any other major US city in terms of fuel efficiency. The state legislature instituted high taxes on gas and when combined with the oil industries tendency to screw us over at the pump more than other parts of the state you end up with people making sensible decisions over all.
By taxing them you put people on a more even footing to make informed decisions, it's not telling companies that you can't do it, it's telling them that if they want to do it they'll have to compete on a more even playing field.
He did the right thing, money wasn't the motivating factor for him and he's acknowledge that in his mind he made a minor contribution to the solution. It would've been unethical for him to take the money knowing that it wasn't a motivating factor rather than leaving it where it is to be awarded to somebody else that might be so motivated.
The truly great ones tend to be, and I haven't seen any evidence that there's many of them out there at any given time. Mostly because most choose to go under the radar. But it does seem to require a certain amount of brokenness to the thalamus region of the brain to even get these sorts of ideas to begin with, and that tends to be somewhat counter the purpose of desiring recognition.
Also, trying to gain recognition is counter the process as it tends to drive people to fence in their thinking to areas that are somewhat conventional, if you want to look at the conventional you're not going to discover things like relativity or most of quantum physics. It just doesn't work. Quantum physics actually makes a whole lot more sense than is generally accepted, but it requires a certain amount of brokenness to comprehend how things like the Copenhagen interpretation apply to everyday life. And why that's surprisingly important to not know when one wishes to function in society with other sentient beings.
Nope, we already have solutions to that, research funds should be spent on things for which we don't presently have an answer. Garbage is easy, don't buy so much useless disposable crap. And as for deforestation, that's also an easy one to figure out, don't buy things made by unsustainable logging.
Sure you then have to put into place policies to make it happen, but it's not exactly difficult. It's dealing with the morons that seem to think that there isn't a problem that represents the real challenge. And no amount of scientific research will deal with that.
Chrome isn't a better browser, it is faster at the moment, but it uses a lot of memory and isn't mature at this point. It's mostly fast by virtue of not having all the features that have made the competition somewhat bloated. But rest assured that Google realizes this and is in the process of larding it up.
Being fast is one thing, but it's really pointless when it's spying on you and makes it a headache to use sites because it randomly refuses to show images without explanation. I have a sneaking suspicion that, that whole spying things probably has something to do with it not being chosen.
Sure they can, they include kludge code in their OS to make up for hardware manufacturers that think that standards are optional. ACPI wouldn't have been anywhere near the mess early on had MS insisted that all manufacturers stuck to the standard and used bug free implementations. Additionally, how is it that MS can't be to blame for it, but the good folks over at Ubuntu and FreeBSD don't have anywhere near the trouble with my hardware crashing that MS does?
Sure, the people wanted free stuff and the RIAA wanted the death penalty. They settled upon huge awards and prison time. If that's not the definition of a "careful balance" then I don't know what is.
You need to go back and do some study. The SCOTUS is all about public policy. Taking the laws provided and interpreting them within a framework of precedence and the constitution to make them actually work. And in certain areas of law, particularly anti-trust law, the courts write more or less the entirety of the law. Ever notice how extremely vague some of those laws are? Additionally the courts don't have a lot of leeway in what they can take and turn down, at least not until the first trial has been finished.
You can indeed, you steal from it by taking that which belongs in the public domain and preventing it from becoming public domain. And worse having the politicians snatch things back from the public domain.
You might not consider them to be so, but you'd be wrong about that. It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution. Which is what is so troubling about things like the WTO and ACTA. Definitely not in the interests of the American people, but the politicians write and sign them anyways.
It's worse than it used to be. Back 60 or 70 years ago, chances are that if a company had a different name it was a different company. Now those two companies may very well be different, but they get their products produced on the same exact line. Perhaps one of them requires an additional QA step to make sure it's better. The problem then lies when a consumer wants to boycott or avoid products of an inferior quality, since much of the products come off only a very small number of lines or are made by only a couple companies, getting quality becomes challenging.
But when all is said and done this is really just the natural consequences of hiring MBAs to do things which require actual knowledge and experience. Well that and some degree of common sense and patience.
NTFS is probably the best bet. I don't like saying that, but it is the most widely available filesystem that can handle the large size of files. But really the company that makes the equipment really ought to come up with some way of reducing the size of the files to something reasonable. Most likely via splitting of some sort.
I doubt they will, they'll probably just chock it up to pirates, and demand that congress enact a statue making anybody that fails to pay there extor... er licensing fees a felon. Including the worst of all, the people that are too busy reading public domain books rather than watching movies. I mean, why on Earth should they be allowed to read Cervantes, Shakespeare and Mark Twain without paying for the privilege.
Or in civilized parts of the world return them for recycling. I'm not sure about the rest of the country how yous handle it, but here in WA you can take that stuff back to pretty much any major electronics retailer and they'll recycle it for free. Since around here manufacturers have to pay for recycling, all we have to do is drop it off and they cover the tab. Sure we ultimately pay for it ourselves, but having the manufacturers handle it ensure that it's done efficiently.
When they rolled those out here, there was a mysterious inflation that rolled in at the same time, making everything significantly more expensive than it had been without the loyalty card. And the loyalty card prices were mysteriously similar to the previous prices sans card.
That's why I advocate for communist loyalty rewards cards. Cards shared with many people. On the bright side, it also helps them market to the people that are constantly flying around the country at like mach8 buying things on both coasts and the heartland in the same day.
It's inherently so. Ever notice how the Fundamentalists try to reshape the face of their religion so that they can conveniently decry those that disagree with them for not being true believers? The problem is that while a lot of these views are genuinely minority views, since the rest of the religious devotees let it pass without comment, since those other ones aren't true believers, you end up in a situation where it just stews and nobody knows what's up.
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There's no such thing as grade inflation. It's a myth that just won't die. The closest thing to grade inflation out there is the tendency of what used to be F work to become a C or D grade. But it doesn't affect the B or C grades. What's changed is that teachers have less room to evaluate students than in the past, more of the grades are on a standardized basis and students are expected to do a lot more work than they used to. Consequently, you do see higher grades, but you also see smarter people as well.
Strip clubs are either both or neither. Well, or a shade between those two levels. Moral and ethical are mostly the same thing, the main difference being connotation. The only difference is that people tend to reference religious dogma with morals and philosophical dogma with ethics, but they're essentially the same thing.
Yeah, because it's not like science majors ever cheat or have to write research papers. Sure once you start getting towards masters and doctoral level work you can't generally get a way with it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen anyways.
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Sigh, I wish this line of reasoning would die the swift death it deserves. Taxes are probably the least controlling way of making these sorts of adjustments. You're not realistically going to vote with your money because there's few if any products which aren't at some stage created in that fashion. A tax is a simple way of shifting the cost curve up in areas which aren't desirable so that the new equilibrium is a bit more responsible. And it works wonders. There's a reason why Seattle beats the crap out of pretty much any other major US city in terms of fuel efficiency. The state legislature instituted high taxes on gas and when combined with the oil industries tendency to screw us over at the pump more than other parts of the state you end up with people making sensible decisions over all.
By taxing them you put people on a more even footing to make informed decisions, it's not telling companies that you can't do it, it's telling them that if they want to do it they'll have to compete on a more even playing field.
That's tweeted you twit.
He did the right thing, money wasn't the motivating factor for him and he's acknowledge that in his mind he made a minor contribution to the solution. It would've been unethical for him to take the money knowing that it wasn't a motivating factor rather than leaving it where it is to be awarded to somebody else that might be so motivated.
The truly great ones tend to be, and I haven't seen any evidence that there's many of them out there at any given time. Mostly because most choose to go under the radar. But it does seem to require a certain amount of brokenness to the thalamus region of the brain to even get these sorts of ideas to begin with, and that tends to be somewhat counter the purpose of desiring recognition.
Also, trying to gain recognition is counter the process as it tends to drive people to fence in their thinking to areas that are somewhat conventional, if you want to look at the conventional you're not going to discover things like relativity or most of quantum physics. It just doesn't work. Quantum physics actually makes a whole lot more sense than is generally accepted, but it requires a certain amount of brokenness to comprehend how things like the Copenhagen interpretation apply to everyday life. And why that's surprisingly important to not know when one wishes to function in society with other sentient beings.
Nope, we already have solutions to that, research funds should be spent on things for which we don't presently have an answer. Garbage is easy, don't buy so much useless disposable crap. And as for deforestation, that's also an easy one to figure out, don't buy things made by unsustainable logging.
Sure you then have to put into place policies to make it happen, but it's not exactly difficult. It's dealing with the morons that seem to think that there isn't a problem that represents the real challenge. And no amount of scientific research will deal with that.
Best would be most reliable, which at least to a non-engineer, would seem to be the strongest, although that might be more of a SNR sort of thing.
Chrome isn't a better browser, it is faster at the moment, but it uses a lot of memory and isn't mature at this point. It's mostly fast by virtue of not having all the features that have made the competition somewhat bloated. But rest assured that Google realizes this and is in the process of larding it up.
Being fast is one thing, but it's really pointless when it's spying on you and makes it a headache to use sites because it randomly refuses to show images without explanation. I have a sneaking suspicion that, that whole spying things probably has something to do with it not being chosen.
What are you talking about? I recently put a Win XP disc into a solvent and it did indeed dissolve. Therefore XP must be solvable.
Sure they can, they include kludge code in their OS to make up for hardware manufacturers that think that standards are optional. ACPI wouldn't have been anywhere near the mess early on had MS insisted that all manufacturers stuck to the standard and used bug free implementations. Additionally, how is it that MS can't be to blame for it, but the good folks over at Ubuntu and FreeBSD don't have anywhere near the trouble with my hardware crashing that MS does?
But, I haven't seen Apple's Steve throwing chairs or dancing around like a monkey. Are you sure that Apple's the new MS?
Sure, the people wanted free stuff and the RIAA wanted the death penalty. They settled upon huge awards and prison time. If that's not the definition of a "careful balance" then I don't know what is.
You need to go back and do some study. The SCOTUS is all about public policy. Taking the laws provided and interpreting them within a framework of precedence and the constitution to make them actually work. And in certain areas of law, particularly anti-trust law, the courts write more or less the entirety of the law. Ever notice how extremely vague some of those laws are? Additionally the courts don't have a lot of leeway in what they can take and turn down, at least not until the first trial has been finished.
You can indeed, you steal from it by taking that which belongs in the public domain and preventing it from becoming public domain. And worse having the politicians snatch things back from the public domain.
You might not consider them to be so, but you'd be wrong about that. It's been a pretty consistent ruling that treaties do indeed get placed ahead of the constitution. Which is what is so troubling about things like the WTO and ACTA. Definitely not in the interests of the American people, but the politicians write and sign them anyways.
It's worse than it used to be. Back 60 or 70 years ago, chances are that if a company had a different name it was a different company. Now those two companies may very well be different, but they get their products produced on the same exact line. Perhaps one of them requires an additional QA step to make sure it's better. The problem then lies when a consumer wants to boycott or avoid products of an inferior quality, since much of the products come off only a very small number of lines or are made by only a couple companies, getting quality becomes challenging.
But when all is said and done this is really just the natural consequences of hiring MBAs to do things which require actual knowledge and experience. Well that and some degree of common sense and patience.
I heard that if RTFA sometimes there's naughty images at the bottom. But since I never RTFA, I wouldn't know.
NTFS is probably the best bet. I don't like saying that, but it is the most widely available filesystem that can handle the large size of files. But really the company that makes the equipment really ought to come up with some way of reducing the size of the files to something reasonable. Most likely via splitting of some sort.
I doubt they will, they'll probably just chock it up to pirates, and demand that congress enact a statue making anybody that fails to pay there extor... er licensing fees a felon. Including the worst of all, the people that are too busy reading public domain books rather than watching movies. I mean, why on Earth should they be allowed to read Cervantes, Shakespeare and Mark Twain without paying for the privilege.
Or in civilized parts of the world return them for recycling. I'm not sure about the rest of the country how yous handle it, but here in WA you can take that stuff back to pretty much any major electronics retailer and they'll recycle it for free. Since around here manufacturers have to pay for recycling, all we have to do is drop it off and they cover the tab. Sure we ultimately pay for it ourselves, but having the manufacturers handle it ensure that it's done efficiently.
When they rolled those out here, there was a mysterious inflation that rolled in at the same time, making everything significantly more expensive than it had been without the loyalty card. And the loyalty card prices were mysteriously similar to the previous prices sans card.
That's why I advocate for communist loyalty rewards cards. Cards shared with many people. On the bright side, it also helps them market to the people that are constantly flying around the country at like mach8 buying things on both coasts and the heartland in the same day.
It's inherently so. Ever notice how the Fundamentalists try to reshape the face of their religion so that they can conveniently decry those that disagree with them for not being true believers? The problem is that while a lot of these views are genuinely minority views, since the rest of the religious devotees let it pass without comment, since those other ones aren't true believers, you end up in a situation where it just stews and nobody knows what's up.
There's no such thing as grade inflation. It's a myth that just won't die. The closest thing to grade inflation out there is the tendency of what used to be F work to become a C or D grade. But it doesn't affect the B or C grades. What's changed is that teachers have less room to evaluate students than in the past, more of the grades are on a standardized basis and students are expected to do a lot more work than they used to. Consequently, you do see higher grades, but you also see smarter people as well.
Strip clubs are either both or neither. Well, or a shade between those two levels. Moral and ethical are mostly the same thing, the main difference being connotation. The only difference is that people tend to reference religious dogma with morals and philosophical dogma with ethics, but they're essentially the same thing.
Yeah, because it's not like science majors ever cheat or have to write research papers. Sure once you start getting towards masters and doctoral level work you can't generally get a way with it, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen anyways.