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  1. Re:This is proof? Really? on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    TheSveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel(Swedish:Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), commonly referred to as theNobel Prize in Economics,[1][2]is an award for outstanding contributions to the field ofeconomics, generally regarded as the most prestigious award for that field.[3]Although not one of theNobel Prizesestablished by the will ofAlfred Nobelin 1895, it is identified with them, and prizes are announced with and awarded at the same ceremony.

    Atleast quote the whole thing. It was not one of the initial nobel prizes, but is awarded by the same body, at the same time, and commonly known as a Nobel prize

  2. Re:This is proof? Really? on Why Bitcoin Boomed During the Government Shutdown · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_prize_in_economics

    Not sure if grammer nazi, a dick or just ignorant.

  3. Re: Great for the ones running it on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    But how do you compete against it? Is it ethical as a deterant?

  4. Re:couldnt be worse than america. on Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started · · Score: 1

    ...A very large pile of money.

  5. Re:Yay for gas power! on Central New York Nuclear Plants Struggle To Avoid Financial Meltdown · · Score: 1

    There is no market pressure to pass on the savings, why would they?

  6. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    Your speaking of individual value, I am not. As far as price determination, I trust you understand how supply vs demand works. The difference between value and price on each side is the economic incentive to engage in a transaction, aka profits. Without difference between value and price there is no incentive to exchange the good or service for money. I have stated several times that price doesn't inclued externalities, and that is one of the reasons that value, to the market, the true value of a good or service diverges from price.

  7. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    If you don't grasp that free markets don't encapsulate externalities in prices, and that this often causes trye value to diverge from pruce than whomever paid for your education should demand a refund.

  8. Re:Basic microeconomics on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    Reread the sentance you quoted. That is where your overlap lies. But as I described, the value to the two parties isn't the whole of the value. Since your stuck on econ 101, can I instead direct you to utility theory. As sophmoric understanding of economics is all that's required to easily see that you infact are intentionally biasing your definition of value.

  9. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    False. Price has no consideration to externalities. Further, with respect to the two parties engaged in a transaction price is below what te buyer values a good at and above what a seller values it at. The market fan not organiclly set price to value.

  10. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    You're to poor to understand.

  11. Re:Philosophy of selfishness = anything goes. on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    Markets describe price not value.

  12. Re:The environmental potential is interesting on Scientists Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    It doesn't harm the water, but requires you to club a baby seal per megaflop.

  13. Re:Working on it on Air Force Wants Technology That Will Let Drones Sense and Avoid Other Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Your asking the wrong questions... The real question is why you don't take your RC planes on a fishing trip a few miles off shore, out side of the AOR of the CAA. Just completely remove them. Thousands upon thousands of dollars cheaper.

  14. You failed to notice that he will just keep moving the goal posts.

  15. Re:That's awesome on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    ... and sometimes the right thing to do is kill a few hundred people to prevent something like that from happening again. Evil is a pretty loose concept. I'm by no means an Obama fan. I don't really care for Neo-Cons at all, but the use of force was called for in this instance. Now we have a "peaceful" solution, that will result in a delay of a few weeks, or months, and we will end up needing to blow up Syria for a whole new list of reasons. We want both sides to take heavy losses, and to keep doing that for aslong as possible, while staying inside the boarders of Syria. The asymetry of the conflict is getting in the way of our, unstated, goal so the US will find a way to act. I would prefer that instead of killing people to insure they continue killing eachother, that we kill people to prevent the use of CBRN weapons.

  16. Re:I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    The content of TFA and the views expresed by Dr. Tyson are completely moot. This is just a jumping off point for Libertarians to get fired up about a free market. If they get to call some one dumb it's all the better.

  17. Re:"the cloud" is just mainframes again on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    That was kind of his point Dre.

  18. Re:No so much on Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault · · Score: 1

    But, I, also, believe that that is a decision that should be left up to the doctors, nurses, and hospitals. I believe that private citizens should band together to voluntarily create funds to provide healthcare for those who cannot otherwise afford it.

    That reminds me of a bit in the bible where Jesus said,"Fuck them, if they want healed the market will facilitate it." Private citizens banding togather is often refered to as Government, btw.

  19. Re:The Constitution is clear on this on Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    Perhaps we could flush out that statment with some foot notes. *IMHO **IMHO ***IANAL [Citation Needed]

  20. Re:Time for TOP GUN 2 on US Air Force Reporting Pilot Shortage · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you mean by relatively safe. Compared to kickboxing a pack of hungry lions, yeah it's relatively safe. Compared to surfing a desk in the bussiness park, taking indirect fire 3 or 4 times a week for 6 months, at a tilt isn't what I would really call relatively safe. The farthest you can get from action in the military is teaching, recruiting or personel in any of the services. There are plenty of non-deployment or low deployment careers, they play a larger role then the service.

  21. Re:Undermining of Agriculture .... on America's First Eco-City: Doomed From the Start · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Sweet Red Juice on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up Meg,

    -Peter Griffin

  23. Re:The interesting bit on Kenyans Will Soon Be Able To Send Bitcoin By Phone · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, TheDarkMaster. This will facitiltate all kinds of scamming and abuse. It's just a question of who is going to manipulate the market and wipe the wealth of these folks out. Anyone foolish enough to store their wealth in Bitcoins is going to have a bad day. Banks atleast provide a reliable level of tax.

  24. Re:Typical government efficiency... on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 1

    Your right, in many situations genocide would have solved their domestic issues for them.

  25. Re:1st on How DRM Won · · Score: 2

    I think alot of people miss the point hiding in there. The Netflix - DRM model is the direct result of winning the war on DRM. Most consumers are unwilling to actully buy DRM encumbered content for the price that is being charged. Instead there are a few, legal and moral, options left. Movie and Recording Industries have basically deceded that non-DRMed content won't be available at any price. So instead of renting something, and being told we are buying it. We just end up with only rentable content. You can pick from several reasonable rental services, all way cheaper then what you would have paid for nearly the same content access before.