I'm sorry I thought you were looking for a rational argument not a legal one. You are correct the laws right now support temporary intellectual monopolies over property rights.
The rational argument goes as follows. Property rights exist to determine who controls what. For physical objects there are no contradictions. I own my car you own yours. Intellectual Monopoly is not compatible with property rights because contradictions arise. Do I own this piece of plastic? Not really because there are millions of shapes I am prohibited from arranging it in. Do I own my hard drive? No because there are billions of patterns I am not allowed to arrange it in.
I tend to place the majority of persons around where I live who openly carry in the same category as some of the unfortunate homeless ranks who suffer to spew collections of epithets at passersby.
That's not a very nice way to think of the police. They are just trying to serve and protect.
The whole non-profit thing is a scam anyway just like non-profit healthcare. It's just a ruse to avoid taxes. Everyone involved in a non-profit makes money. It's just the accounting.
I thought the reason to outsource security is because the contractor takes the hit for liability. Let's say your security guard open fires and hits some bystanders. If it's your employee you are liable. The lawsuit will look into your hiring, training, etc. Since you have deep pockets you are on the hook for damages.
Now if you hire it out you can claim you are an IT company and don't know anything about security guards which is why you hired experts to do the job.
By the way most government facilities hire security contractors like Delaware North.
or interchanges. If the cars are well guided and coordinated you could have full speed ground level crossing where the cars just space out enough to weave past each other. Would be terrifying at first but people would get used to it.
Depends on the collapse. If the FED does another huge QE and causes the dollar to depreciate you are correct. If they don't and there is a depression then you will lose your job and still owe the debts but have no way to pay.
Banks need heavy regulation put back on them. I also suggest we have a Bank police that goes around tazing executives at random if we even think they are thinking of anything "clever"
Do you honestly think the economy is fixed now? You are going to be just as shocked when it collapses this time as you were in 2008. The same policies are in place so why would it be fixed?
If unions were just collective bargaining groups nobody would oppose them. The problem are the laws that give them extra rights and the fact they typically resort to violence to get their way.
Workers should absolutely have the right to bargain as a collective. But the employer should also have the right not to negotiate and to fire all of those employees and hire replacements. The reason people don't like unions is they will resort to violence to prevent willing people from taking the jobs they abandoned.
Use your estimate precision as a bargaining chip for things your need. Typically what impacts my estimate is requirement uncertainty. So give an estimate with an error +200/-10% error. If we could just finalize these particular requirements my estimate would improve. This way a manager will focus on getting the requirements fixed.
I was once given a "project" and I asked for the requirements document. They said there are no requirements so I happily said great I'm done designing!
Are you kidding? If people were diciplined enough to wait to buy things there would be zero consumer debt. There is a multi-trillion dollar industry based on people not wanting to wait until they can afford things.
There are much easier solutions that already exist like credit card companies. My Amex has buyer protection. If a vendor screws me over (which happens from time to time) I call Amex up and the investigate and refund the charges. The cost is what they charge to the merchants. So both the merchant and I are voluntarily paying a fee. The merchant gets a larger customer base by taking Amex and I get buyer protection.
The only people that benefit from the current system are the crooks. The whole system exists to unload the cost of doing business with shady companies to the tax payers.
Normal deflation isn't a big deal. The computer industry has operated under price deflation since day 1. My first computer was an Apple II GS. That thing was over $2k in the early 90's.
Also the whole industrial revolution occurred under deflation.
Now I assume you are talking about deflation right now. Yes after years of easy money a tightening will cause a bad depression. But that is the cute not the disease.
Nope. Booms work when the Fed floods Wall St with cash. It has to go somewhere? It ends when the realization hits and the 40:1 leveraged accounts go bust.
Then it's time for the tax payers to bail them out and start over.
Or people would actually do some research into a person they are about to sign a deal with. As it stands now people really don't bother because if the deal falls through they can use other peoples money (taxes) to hire goons (police) to make the other person pay.
Let's say you get three bids for a contract. You go with the low bidder because you always can go to court to get them to adhere to the contract. If you actually took the risk yourself you would either have to go through a third party (like e-bay or credit card companies that have buyer protection) or actually take the risk yourself. Either way is superior in my opinion.
Great check! I found my error. My G calculation was pulled from a chart where the distance was measured in km (not meters). Here is the new code. This shows it takes about 19 minutes to reach the center and you miss by 310 km.
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I'm sorry I thought you were looking for a rational argument not a legal one. You are correct the laws right now support temporary intellectual monopolies over property rights.
The rational argument goes as follows. Property rights exist to determine who controls what. For physical objects there are no contradictions. I own my car you own yours. Intellectual Monopoly is not compatible with property rights because contradictions arise. Do I own this piece of plastic? Not really because there are millions of shapes I am prohibited from arranging it in.
Do I own my hard drive? No because there are billions of patterns I am not allowed to arrange it in.
I tend to place the majority of persons around where I live who openly carry in the same category as some of the unfortunate homeless ranks who suffer to spew collections of epithets at passersby.
That's not a very nice way to think of the police. They are just trying to serve and protect.
I'm sure they could be bought for much less.
Not at all. If the idea was to have a standing army it would have been written just like the Navy.
The whole non-profit thing is a scam anyway just like non-profit healthcare. It's just a ruse to avoid taxes. Everyone involved in a non-profit makes money. It's just the accounting.
In reality there wasn't supposed to be a standing army at all. In the powers of congress they congress is given the power to:
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
So an army was only supposed to be raised when needed. Which is how it was for over 100 years.
I thought the reason to outsource security is because the contractor takes the hit for liability. Let's say your security guard open fires and hits some bystanders. If it's your employee you are liable. The lawsuit will look into your hiring, training, etc. Since you have deep pockets you are on the hook for damages.
Now if you hire it out you can claim you are an IT company and don't know anything about security guards which is why you hired experts to do the job.
By the way most government facilities hire security contractors like Delaware North.
Not from Utah I guess?
or interchanges. If the cars are well guided and coordinated you could have full speed ground level crossing where the cars just space out enough to weave past each other. Would be terrifying at first but people would get used to it.
Depends on the collapse. If the FED does another huge QE and causes the dollar to depreciate you are correct. If they don't and there is a depression then you will lose your job and still owe the debts but have no way to pay.
Just do what the rest of us space geeks do. Get a job there and get as close as humanly possible.
Banks need heavy regulation put back on them. I also suggest we have a Bank police that goes around tazing executives at random if we even think they are thinking of anything "clever"
I would settle for not bailing them out.
Do you honestly think the economy is fixed now? You are going to be just as shocked when it collapses this time as you were in 2008. The same policies are in place so why would it be fixed?
If unions were just collective bargaining groups nobody would oppose them. The problem are the laws that give them extra rights and the fact they typically resort to violence to get their way.
Workers should absolutely have the right to bargain as a collective. But the employer should also have the right not to negotiate and to fire all of those employees and hire replacements. The reason people don't like unions is they will resort to violence to prevent willing people from taking the jobs they abandoned.
Use your estimate precision as a bargaining chip for things your need. Typically what impacts my estimate is requirement uncertainty. So give an estimate with an error +200/-10% error. If we could just finalize these particular requirements my estimate would improve. This way a manager will focus on getting the requirements fixed.
I was once given a "project" and I asked for the requirements document. They said there are no requirements so I happily said great I'm done designing!
Are you kidding? If people were diciplined enough to wait to buy things there would be zero consumer debt. There is a multi-trillion dollar industry based on people not wanting to wait until they can afford things.
The difference is voluntary and force.
This is also how large stores give a 5% discount using their own cards. They don't have to pay the fees.
There are much easier solutions that already exist like credit card companies. My Amex has buyer protection. If a vendor screws me over (which happens from time to time) I call Amex up and the investigate and refund the charges. The cost is what they charge to the merchants. So both the merchant and I are voluntarily paying a fee. The merchant gets a larger customer base by taking Amex and I get buyer protection.
The only people that benefit from the current system are the crooks. The whole system exists to unload the cost of doing business with shady companies to the tax payers.
Normal deflation isn't a big deal. The computer industry has operated under price deflation since day 1. My first computer was an Apple II GS. That thing was over $2k in the early 90's.
Also the whole industrial revolution occurred under deflation.
Now I assume you are talking about deflation right now. Yes after years of easy money a tightening will cause a bad depression. But that is the cute not the disease.
Nope. Booms work when the Fed floods Wall St with cash. It has to go somewhere? It ends when the realization hits and the 40:1 leveraged accounts go bust.
Then it's time for the tax payers to bail them out and start over.
Or people would actually do some research into a person they are about to sign a deal with. As it stands now people really don't bother because if the deal falls through they can use other peoples money (taxes) to hire goons (police) to make the other person pay.
Let's say you get three bids for a contract. You go with the low bidder because you always can go to court to get them to adhere to the contract. If you actually took the risk yourself you would either have to go through a third party (like e-bay or credit card companies that have buyer protection) or actually take the risk yourself. Either way is superior in my opinion.
Thanks. Now I just need to get motivated enough to do this in 3D for random points on a sphere.
Great check! I found my error. My G calculation was pulled from a chart where the distance was measured in km (not meters). Here is the new code. This shows it takes about 19 minutes to reach the center and you miss by 310 km.
[t,y]=ode23(@orbit_ode,[0 90*60],[6500e3 0 0 2*pi/(24*3600)]);
polar(y(:,3),y(:,1))
min(y(:,1))
function dx=orbit_ode(t,x);
dx=zeros(4,1);%This is a pre-initialization.
%x(1) = r position
%x(2) = r velocity
%x(3) = theta position
%x(4) = theta velocity
dx(1)= x(2); %Velocity
dx(2)= x(1)*x(4)^2-(.0037e-3*x(1)-3.35e-13*x(1)^2);
dx(3)= x(4);
dx(4)= (-2*x(2)*x(4))/x(1);
end
http://imgur.com/WHsoenC
This is relative to a fixed observer outside of earth.
If you subtract out the earth rotation you get this.
http://imgur.com/nMN2Hd7