If you don't want to be affected by the stock market, don't invest.
Except that's entirely, utterly, and completely false. Every single motherfucker in the country is affected by the stock market, regardless of their level of investment, or lack thereof, in the stock market.
The scenario you're describing is usually only common when there are HIGH BARRIERS TO ENTRY, which, more often than not, are CREATED BY GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
Horseshit. People who bitch about government regulation behing high barriers to entry are usually just whiny bitches who couldn't succeed in the first place. Government regulation is rarely among the most significant barriers to entry, unless you're talking about something extremely dangerous or destructive, like strip mining or nuclear power. The biggest barrier to entry is more often than not, startup capital required, and the presence of existing players who would be able to put their prices lower than yours and push you out of the market.
New competitors enter the market, undercut the would-be oligarchs, and the process starts all over again.
Except this isn't guaranteed to happen. And should someone try it, the oligarchs are established players in the market, with access to far greater amounts of resources than the startup. Hell, most of the time one of the oligarchs just buys the startup.
As a mobile developer, I find that it's a simple problem to deal with by just coding to an older API.
And then that means that developers aren't able to take advantage of any of the new stuff. What's the point in supporting things like Big Notifications, or anything ICS related, if hardly anyone is able to run it?
Why the (more expletives) should I damn well have to move to a non stock ROM just because of a foolish decision by Google?
Because you want something different than the standard. It's no different than those of us who want updated versions of Android, but aren't able to get them because of decisions by the manufacturers/carriers.
No, it's an object. Its a set of attributes on a particular thing. And if you want, you can put some pointers to functions in there that would act on that data. Hell, you don't even need the pointers to functions to be in the struct, you just need functions that take the struct as a parameter.
Ruby and Java have two vastly different styles of OOP. Java is closer to the C++ style, while Ruby is closer to the Smalltalk/Objective-C message passing style.
When Ron Paul says freedom, he does really mean it.
No, he doesn't. Ron Paul is for the "freedom" of an ISP to fuck with your traffic however they see fit. That is not freedom in any sense of the word, unless you believe someone has the "freedom to oppress".
To Ron Paul freedom literally means freedom from government oppression
Because him and most of his followers are too stupid to realize that the private sector can oppress you just as easily. In fact, following their rhetoric, they can do it much more efficiently.
Freedom of an individual IS freedom of business, individuals run business.
No. A business is NOT a person, and should not have anywhere near the rights of one. That individual can still express their freedoms as an individual. Why should they be given double rights?
In Ron Paul's government the government cannot steal individual liberties from people and thus it cannot sell them to businesses.
And in Ron Paul's government, they don't have to, because the business will be free to do that on their own.
Calling people who support individual freedoms
Ron Paul doesn't support this. He supports corporate freedoms. Huge fucking difference.
This place is a hotbed of anti-free market sentiment
No, it's not. It's a hotbed of sane, rational regulation, which is necessary for a free market to actually work. No one here is advocating state control of all industry, like you seem to think.
No, absolutely nothing you've said is remotely accurate.
Tell me, do you think that "basic technician" would know anything about the possible drug interactions, or complications from the diagnosis? And don't you fucking dare say, "It'll be on the screen!" Some of us want more from medical professionals than just being screen reading monkeys.
Another FDA shill that can't distinguish between alternative medicine and quackery.
Because there is no distinction. Alternative medicine is quackery. If there was evidence and research to show that it was effective, it would be called MEDICINE.
I suspect someone licensed and practicing as a doctor for 30 years knows a bit more about it than you do.
If he's advocating alternative medicine? No, he doesn't.
Do you know the story of red yeast rice and the big pharma / FDA collusion to ban the cheap and natural stuff to create the most profitable drugs in history?
No, but I do know that none of this "alternative medicine" bullshit you're trying to peddle has absolutely no research backing it up. If it did, then you'd not only be able to show it, but it would be able to get approval. But instead, you draw the tinfoil hat too tight, and claim it's a conspiracy.
There's trillions of dollars at stake, and people that don't care if you live or die.
Yes. These people are called "alternative medicine practitioners.
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So you are completely fine with people being discriminated against and being fucked over. Good to know.
Had that not happened, the reverberations across the economy would have fucked us up even more than we are now.
Yes, the idea of someone getting their comeuppance due to their stupidity is enjoyable. But having a working economy is even more so.
If you don't want to be affected by the stock market, don't invest.
Except that's entirely, utterly, and completely false. Every single motherfucker in the country is affected by the stock market, regardless of their level of investment, or lack thereof, in the stock market.
and the remaining companies will be stronger.
That's not always a good thing. Stronger companies tend to have more power and more money, meaning they can bully both competitors and users around.
And that is a problem, why? Just like in the flash crash, some people lost money and some people got big deals.
By "some people got big deals", you mean the insiders, right? No normal person made any money off that.
The scenario you're describing is usually only common when there are HIGH BARRIERS TO ENTRY, which, more often than not, are CREATED BY GOVERNMENT REGULATION.
Horseshit. People who bitch about government regulation behing high barriers to entry are usually just whiny bitches who couldn't succeed in the first place. Government regulation is rarely among the most significant barriers to entry, unless you're talking about something extremely dangerous or destructive, like strip mining or nuclear power. The biggest barrier to entry is more often than not, startup capital required, and the presence of existing players who would be able to put their prices lower than yours and push you out of the market.
New competitors enter the market, undercut the would-be oligarchs, and the process starts all over again.
Except this isn't guaranteed to happen. And should someone try it, the oligarchs are established players in the market, with access to far greater amounts of resources than the startup. Hell, most of the time one of the oligarchs just buys the startup.
Still not an excuse.
As a mobile developer, I find that it's a simple problem to deal with by just coding to an older API.
And then that means that developers aren't able to take advantage of any of the new stuff. What's the point in supporting things like Big Notifications, or anything ICS related, if hardly anyone is able to run it?
Nexus S 4G says hi. And until recently, Nexus devices weren't available on all carriers.
I'm 87% sure you're perfectly welcome to grab the source and start working on it yourself.
2) figure out the braindamaged UI on the sound player to pause the playback.
If you can't figure out how to pause the playback on your sound player, I think you've got bigger problems.
Why the (more expletives) should I damn well have to move to a non stock ROM just because of a foolish decision by Google?
Because you want something different than the standard. It's no different than those of us who want updated versions of Android, but aren't able to get them because of decisions by the manufacturers/carriers.
So what you're doing is loading a whole heap of bullshit by trying to claim you know better than they do what their users want.
If that's true, then why don't you fork the project and do it better than them?
If by "random location", you mean up in the top right corner, as part of the Action Bar, sure.
So what you're saying is that CM is not always better than vanilla or the skinned versions. Got it.
No, it's an object. Its a set of attributes on a particular thing. And if you want, you can put some pointers to functions in there that would act on that data. Hell, you don't even need the pointers to functions to be in the struct, you just need functions that take the struct as a parameter.
And congratulations, you've just invented OOP. You just did it without the compiler.
Ruby and Java have two vastly different styles of OOP. Java is closer to the C++ style, while Ruby is closer to the Smalltalk/Objective-C message passing style.
When Ron Paul says freedom, he does really mean it.
No, he doesn't. Ron Paul is for the "freedom" of an ISP to fuck with your traffic however they see fit. That is not freedom in any sense of the word, unless you believe someone has the "freedom to oppress".
To Ron Paul freedom literally means freedom from government oppression
Because him and most of his followers are too stupid to realize that the private sector can oppress you just as easily. In fact, following their rhetoric, they can do it much more efficiently.
Freedom of an individual IS freedom of business, individuals run business.
No. A business is NOT a person, and should not have anywhere near the rights of one. That individual can still express their freedoms as an individual. Why should they be given double rights?
In Ron Paul's government the government cannot steal individual liberties from people and thus it cannot sell them to businesses.
And in Ron Paul's government, they don't have to, because the business will be free to do that on their own.
Calling people who support individual freedoms
Ron Paul doesn't support this. He supports corporate freedoms. Huge fucking difference.
This place is a hotbed of anti-free market sentiment
No, it's not. It's a hotbed of sane, rational regulation, which is necessary for a free market to actually work. No one here is advocating state control of all industry, like you seem to think.
No, absolutely nothing you've said is remotely accurate.
Tell me, do you think that "basic technician" would know anything about the possible drug interactions, or complications from the diagnosis? And don't you fucking dare say, "It'll be on the screen!" Some of us want more from medical professionals than just being screen reading monkeys.
WTF? So, how exactly can a patient be assured that a medical practitioner is competent?
Clearly, the Free Market way is to be psychic, so you should already know all of this. Otherwise you deserve to die.
Another FDA shill that can't distinguish between alternative medicine and quackery.
Because there is no distinction. Alternative medicine is quackery. If there was evidence and research to show that it was effective, it would be called MEDICINE.
I suspect someone licensed and practicing as a doctor for 30 years knows a bit more about it than you do.
If he's advocating alternative medicine? No, he doesn't.
Do you know the story of red yeast rice and the big pharma / FDA collusion to ban the cheap and natural stuff to create the most profitable drugs in history?
No, but I do know that none of this "alternative medicine" bullshit you're trying to peddle has absolutely no research backing it up. If it did, then you'd not only be able to show it, but it would be able to get approval. But instead, you draw the tinfoil hat too tight, and claim it's a conspiracy.
There's trillions of dollars at stake, and people that don't care if you live or die.
Yes. These people are called "alternative medicine practitioners.
By way of example, he opposes state licensing of professionals
Yes, how dare those professionals prove their competence! Any hobo should be allowed to practice surgery!
He wants you to have more avenues to take care of yourself
No he doesn't.
and even stating in one of the GOP debates he would legalize alternative medicine.
Most of it is already legal, despite having NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO PROVE IT ACTUALLY DOES ANY GOOD, LET ALONE PROVING THAT IT DOESN'T CAUSE HARM.
but your failure to support the most pro freedom candidate
Who's that? Cause it certainly as fuck isn't Ron Paul.