The problem of course is figuring out who the hell the address belongs to. That is the hard part.
Isn't that kinda like the problem the **AA has with piracy on BitTorrent? They can find an address, but they can't necessarily match that address with an actual person.
Not that a tiny detail like that has stopped them...
yes, business was and is still the more significant market for phones, especially smart phones
I would STRONGLY disagree with that statement. Especially if you look at the growth of smartphones in the consumer market since the introduction of the iPhone, and later the Android phones. Even more so if you look at the marketshare graphs over the same time, and see Apple/Android eating Microsoft and RIM's lunch.
I would disagree. Wall Street does stop us from having engineers, mainly because a lot of the really smart people see that you can make more money shuffling money around than actually doing something useful. Reign in Wall Street, make it less lucrative to be a stockbroker douchebag (not completely unlucrative, just nowhere near the completely undeserved levels it's at now), and combine that with projects to make engineering more attractive and lucrative.
You say that, but having this level of granularity is actually a much needed benefit. How many stories have gone on about the wrong leg being amputated, or the wrong side of a patient's body being operated on. Not to mention, when the doctor is in his office, he's not going to run over to the patient's room, or call them up to ask which finger is missing. There simply isn't time.
This is not "make work" stuff, this is adding needed clarification to the system.
It's simpletons standing in the way of progress towards a better society because they are incapable of evolving beyond their upbringing in a society where selfishness is accepted.
As opposed to you schmucks who want to believe that said selfishness just won't exist, and therefore refuse to put up even the most basic protections against it?
Not very much. Seriously, if your choices are "Work this shitty job" or "Starve", that's not a fucking choice, and it is basically slavery, whether you'd like to admit it. Only rather than violence and chains keeping you at work, it's your ability to put food on the table.
Or, get your fellow workers to rally together to use the power of collective bargaining to improve your working conditions.
You know, for someone who crows about "free association" and "free markets", you certainly don't like a group of people exercising those rights for themselves. Probably because they're not doing it to raise profits.
a) If companies don't need to hire humans, then where are they spending all of they money in production? If their production costs are very low, then their unit prices (will eventually) be very low. That's a good thing!
Production costs have very little to do with unit prices. They'll charge what they can get. And it doesn't matter how low their unit prices are, if you don't have an income to be able to purchase.
And you should go fuck yourself. Not everyone has the intelligence or ability to acquire skills that would make them indispensable. So what should happen to those people? Should they just be tossed out into the street to starve?
Instead of arguing with the cashier, you go to the next supermarket over that sells bananas for 10% less. Nobody's willing to sell you bananas for less? Then they wouldn't haggle down, either.
So in other words, your post was completely meaningless, because it's using the exact same argument of "voting with your wallet" that he shot down? Because with food, if you try "voting with your wallet", you either pay the posted price, or starve?
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The problem of course is figuring out who the hell the address belongs to. That is the hard part.
Isn't that kinda like the problem the **AA has with piracy on BitTorrent? They can find an address, but they can't necessarily match that address with an actual person.
Not that a tiny detail like that has stopped them...
yes, business was and is still the more significant market for phones, especially smart phones
I would STRONGLY disagree with that statement. Especially if you look at the growth of smartphones in the consumer market since the introduction of the iPhone, and later the Android phones. Even more so if you look at the marketshare graphs over the same time, and see Apple/Android eating Microsoft and RIM's lunch.
That's an incredibly shitty attitude to have. There are lots of jobs that pay well and can be fun.
I would disagree. Wall Street does stop us from having engineers, mainly because a lot of the really smart people see that you can make more money shuffling money around than actually doing something useful. Reign in Wall Street, make it less lucrative to be a stockbroker douchebag (not completely unlucrative, just nowhere near the completely undeserved levels it's at now), and combine that with projects to make engineering more attractive and lucrative.
In the business market they were. But they were never popular in the consumer market, and still aren't.
No, they thought they weren't special, and thus didn't have to give Nokia more in addition to the same license fees everyone else was paying.
That were never really popular.
Doesn't "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" mean that they have to offer the same terms to Apple that they would offer to Motorola, HTC, et al?
You say that, but having this level of granularity is actually a much needed benefit. How many stories have gone on about the wrong leg being amputated, or the wrong side of a patient's body being operated on. Not to mention, when the doctor is in his office, he's not going to run over to the patient's room, or call them up to ask which finger is missing. There simply isn't time.
This is not "make work" stuff, this is adding needed clarification to the system.
It's simpletons standing in the way of progress towards a better society because they are incapable of evolving beyond their upbringing in a society where selfishness is accepted.
As opposed to you schmucks who want to believe that said selfishness just won't exist, and therefore refuse to put up even the most basic protections against it?
Do you backstab people at work? Steal from your family? Rape your neighbor's daughter? Of course not (or at least the rest of us don't).
Agreed, most of us don't. However, you fail to realize that THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DO. These people would completely fuck your utopia up.
Not very much. Seriously, if your choices are "Work this shitty job" or "Starve", that's not a fucking choice, and it is basically slavery, whether you'd like to admit it. Only rather than violence and chains keeping you at work, it's your ability to put food on the table.
You still have a choice.
No you fucking don't. That is not a fucking choice, choosing between a shitty job and food.
Not unless you want to pay bills, continue to have shelter and eat.
Or, get your fellow workers to rally together to use the power of collective bargaining to improve your working conditions.
You know, for someone who crows about "free association" and "free markets", you certainly don't like a group of people exercising those rights for themselves. Probably because they're not doing it to raise profits.
Because not every American citizen supports capitalism and competition? Most of us don't really give a shit about it.
As opposed to paymasters, who are all about bankrupting their employees by giving them the least possible compensation necessary.
and if all else fails put laws in place (tariffs, min wages, socialized medicine) to protect themselves.
As opposed to their bosses and the rich, who are all about exposing themselves to risk, and would never dream of using power to protect themselves.
Fuck that. If they can do it, everyone else should be able to as well. Want it to stop? Get the rich to stop doing it first.
If current employees are unhappy with their situation, they always have the choice of doing something to improve their situation.
Like banding together to use the power of collective bargaining to get better working conditions from their employer?
If a job is no longer necessary, because it can be done easily by machines, then workers will switch to doing another job
Tell that to someone who has spent their life on an assembly line. What are they going to go do next, once all of that has been automated?
a) If companies don't need to hire humans, then where are they spending all of they money in production? If their production costs are very low, then their unit prices (will eventually) be very low. That's a good thing!
Production costs have very little to do with unit prices. They'll charge what they can get. And it doesn't matter how low their unit prices are, if you don't have an income to be able to purchase.
And you should go fuck yourself. Not everyone has the intelligence or ability to acquire skills that would make them indispensable. So what should happen to those people? Should they just be tossed out into the street to starve?
Because it's actually not true. Especially if you are making quality products, instead of just importing shit made in Chinese sweatshops.
Yeah, because they see it as an excuse to jack up prices, even though there isn't an actual reason to.
Instead of arguing with the cashier, you go to the next supermarket over that sells bananas for 10% less. Nobody's willing to sell you bananas for less? Then they wouldn't haggle down, either.
So in other words, your post was completely meaningless, because it's using the exact same argument of "voting with your wallet" that he shot down? Because with food, if you try "voting with your wallet", you either pay the posted price, or starve?