It is harder to upsell over the Internet. When the web page keeps popping up "how about adding this great option for a low, low total of $45k", you just adblock it.
This is not "altering the deal", it is just an attempt at upselling. And it isn't a galactic evil lord doing the talking, it just a car salesman. No need to make it overly dramatic, there is a bunch of real electric vehicles to choose from already.
It's a shame that the market position of Boeing and Airbus has very little to do with capitalism and everything to do with cronyism.
You say that like "cronyism" sprang up all by itself from the vacuum. Cronyism is the expected result of the operation of a capitalist economy without effective and strong oversight, the result of which operation is always and invariably capitalism taking over politics, democratic or otherwise. The economic mechanisms are also well understood by the economic theory: when investing in bribes and government subversion creates better returns than investing in production, a capitalist will invest in bribery and not in production. This case is a perfect illustration of the phenomenon - it was a lot more effective for Boeing to subvert the certification process than to ensure quality aircraft design. Boeing boss even had the temerity to call Trump and ask that grounding of the dangerous planes be delayed for PR reasons.
The result of the right-wing(nut) policies of oversight removal in the US are well known. Corporations have for a long time had a say over politics that the ordinary citizens don't. Even science says so:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
The worst part is that US is exporting this model worldwide, damaging and weakening democratic governments all over the place.
publishers. Scientists don't make any money on science publications. You write for free (or sometimes are asked to pay a fee), you edit and format your article, you're expected to do peer review for free, and when your own articles get published you not only surrender your "copyright" to them, you are even expected by the greedy lawyers to pony up to access them yourself. And the fees are, indeed, exuberant.
Ages ago, when distribution of scientific articles was mostly on paper, and "scientific publishing" was not a lawyer-run money-grabbing monopoly, those "journals" may have had some positive impact.
This is no longer the case today. Today, those assholes sit on stuff that should have been public domain for ages, stuff that isn't theirs, and use part of their outrageous income to bribe politicians to extend their monopoly, hoping to eventually extend it into perpetuity.
The good news is that in many fields they are already irrelevant, or becoming irrelevant fast. The community is creating their own, open-access journals online, and new metrics of academic goodness dispense with the super-promoted and meaningless indices based on perceived paid journals "prestige" factors.
Progress is not "good" or "bad", it is not a normative category. It is a positive one. Progress is what extends what you get out of your limited resources. So, if you're in the same shoes in all other respects, having more "progress" gives you more choices that you can make and more freedom to make them in a smart way.
You can make the "good" ones, or the "bad" ones, but hear, it is also likely that if your mind is more advanced, you'll make the "better" choices simply because you're more aware of their consequences.
So, knowledge and its foundation - education - are always valuable.
It really isn't. It is propagating a very well-known market failure, which tax-funded research is supposed to rectify. Fundamental science is, for example, a field that is traditionally underfunded by the markets and the reason is that the returns from understanding basic physics are very small in the short run, although nearly immeasurable in the long term, so the "investment" and pay are very low.
If you validate this with your funding scheme, you're doing the opposite of what you should.
The other circumstance is obviously that this is your phone. Refusing to provide a password because you "forgot" it will hardly be an acceptable excuse unless you have a medical condition or something. In which case you won't be using a password anyway.
you are behind a judicially-sponsored life sentence
Not me, I'm just pointing out what will happen to you if you try it.
it should be an explicit statute.
And it will be if the push comes to shove -- it is already so in the UK, for example. An explicit statute is not something hard to get through a legislature that has supported things like the war on drugs. But contempt will probably do just as well in the meantime.
True, but it is difficult to prosecute rich US citizens at home, they can afford defense. Blaming it on some random guy on the other side of the planet, where the government is corrupt enough to send its minions to face "justice" by plea bargain, on the other hand, is a guaranteed success.
As a back-pain sufferer who turned out to have 12 large gall bladder stones I thank you for your sharp observation. I could have had years more of pain medication and counselling instead of an operation.
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Sex, sports, safari, planting trees, reading the Feynman lectures, whatever.
GoT is just dumb slasher porn with no "deep meaning".
Not if you install Google Apps.
It is harder to upsell over the Internet. When the web page keeps popping up "how about adding this great option for a low, low total of $45k", you just adblock it.
This is not "altering the deal", it is just an attempt at upselling. And it isn't a galactic evil lord doing the talking, it just a car salesman. No need to make it overly dramatic, there is a bunch of real electric vehicles to choose from already.
"You"? What did I do to get the blame of a country on the other side of the globe?
reasonable as the project of that 20 year-old that was supposed to clean up the ocean plastic.
Also, see Jules Verne's Propeller Island.
the US has been the biggest exporter of democratic governments and liberty
LOL. You must be as indoctrinated as you're stupid and ignorant.
It's a shame that the market position of Boeing and Airbus has very little to do with capitalism and everything to do with cronyism.
You say that like "cronyism" sprang up all by itself from the vacuum. Cronyism is the expected result of the operation of a capitalist economy without effective and strong oversight, the result of which operation is always and invariably capitalism taking over politics, democratic or otherwise. The economic mechanisms are also well understood by the economic theory: when investing in bribes and government subversion creates better returns than investing in production, a capitalist will invest in bribery and not in production. This case is a perfect illustration of the phenomenon - it was a lot more effective for Boeing to subvert the certification process than to ensure quality aircraft design. Boeing boss even had the temerity to call Trump and ask that grounding of the dangerous planes be delayed for PR reasons.
The result of the right-wing(nut) policies of oversight removal in the US are well known. Corporations have for a long time had a say over politics that the ordinary citizens don't. Even science says so:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
The worst part is that US is exporting this model worldwide, damaging and weakening democratic governments all over the place.
"Actual scientist"? More like actual Elsevier astroturfer.
I get merit pay increases and bonuses in my salary for publishing papers
No, you don't. Also, you don't publish.
covered under my salary
Yes, because you're paid by Elsevier.
Nope journal provides free access to the author.
LOL. You've never dealt with a "scientific" publisher as an author.
Fees I neither pay nor worry about.
Because you're not a scientist who depends on the budget of an institution, but an Elsevier astroturfer.
Nobody relevant in my field publishes in an open access journal.
Naturally. I didn't know astroturfing had them anyway.
in certain areas of field the work is classified or access controlled and it is illegal to publish in a journal of any type
Yours is an interesting field, you simultaneously publish and do not publish. Are you in quantum astroturfing?
publishers. Scientists don't make any money on science publications. You write for free (or sometimes are asked to pay a fee), you edit and format your article, you're expected to do peer review for free, and when your own articles get published you not only surrender your "copyright" to them, you are even expected by the greedy lawyers to pony up to access them yourself. And the fees are, indeed, exuberant.
Ages ago, when distribution of scientific articles was mostly on paper, and "scientific publishing" was not a lawyer-run money-grabbing monopoly, those "journals" may have had some positive impact.
This is no longer the case today. Today, those assholes sit on stuff that should have been public domain for ages, stuff that isn't theirs, and use part of their outrageous income to bribe politicians to extend their monopoly, hoping to eventually extend it into perpetuity.
The good news is that in many fields they are already irrelevant, or becoming irrelevant fast. The community is creating their own, open-access journals online, and new metrics of academic goodness dispense with the super-promoted and meaningless indices based on perceived paid journals "prestige" factors.
Fuck yourselves with a rusty rebar, assholes.
Or make them all go berserk. You can't do that with humans, but you surely can with things like OTA updatable Siemens centrifuges or vehicles.
Yep. I also have a maneki-neko to help me save money for my retirement.
Progress is not "good" or "bad", it is not a normative category. It is a positive one. Progress is what extends what you get out of your limited resources. So, if you're in the same shoes in all other respects, having more "progress" gives you more choices that you can make and more freedom to make them in a smart way.
You can make the "good" ones, or the "bad" ones, but hear, it is also likely that if your mind is more advanced, you'll make the "better" choices simply because you're more aware of their consequences.
So, knowledge and its foundation - education - are always valuable.
Now, go pray for salvation, troll.
Possibly the word "are" here should be "have, on average, hitherto been"
Is there any other way to have technological progress but education and research? Please elaborate, because I'm not aware of it.
Research and education really, because both are tightly linked.
It really isn't. It is propagating a very well-known market failure, which tax-funded research is supposed to rectify. Fundamental science is, for example, a field that is traditionally underfunded by the markets and the reason is that the returns from understanding basic physics are very small in the short run, although nearly immeasurable in the long term, so the "investment" and pay are very low.
If you validate this with your funding scheme, you're doing the opposite of what you should.
The other circumstance is obviously that this is your phone. Refusing to provide a password because you "forgot" it will hardly be an acceptable excuse unless you have a medical condition or something. In which case you won't be using a password anyway.
you are behind a judicially-sponsored life sentence
Not me, I'm just pointing out what will happen to you if you try it.
it should be an explicit statute.
And it will be if the push comes to shove -- it is already so in the UK, for example. An explicit statute is not something hard to get through a legislature that has supported things like the war on drugs. But contempt will probably do just as well in the meantime.
If you say "I forgot", fully expect to stay in prison for "contempt of court" until you remember.
True, but it is difficult to prosecute rich US citizens at home, they can afford defense. Blaming it on some random guy on the other side of the planet, where the government is corrupt enough to send its minions to face "justice" by plea bargain, on the other hand, is a guaranteed success.
Naturally, but let's compare apples to apples. The leaked passwords for Elsevier aren't of authors, but of readers.
Library Genesis don't need passwords, so not really possible to "expose" them.
It is local cooling, actually.
As a back-pain sufferer who turned out to have 12 large gall bladder stones I thank you for your sharp observation. I could have had years more of pain medication and counselling instead of an operation.
You seem to be confusing ASD (autism) and ADHD (attention deficit disorder). How brave of you to not let ignorance stop you from having an opinion.