The state has no obligation to stop your "negotiation".

They may prosecute for your actions, but there is no legal obligation the police have to stop you from actually committing a crime, even if they know a crime is in progress.

But the alternative is long lines and most people not getting it anyway.

The net result is the same: Most people won't get the scarce resource anyway.

Your method ensure the distribution is essentially random, allowing price rises to what the market will bear has two advantages:

1) The people who most highly value (or can afford) that resource will get it

2) It will encourage other suppliers to step in to fill the void.

"Allowing price gouging post disaster can be very dangerous because it exacerbates any shortages."

No, it will eventually alleviate the shortage.

If you don't understand why, then you have no concept of supply & demand.

So your take is its better for no one to have generators than to have people who value the generator pay more for it?

All you do with this kind of rational is ensure there is a generator shortage.

I live far away from the carnage, but I have a Honda portable generator.

I'm willing to sell it for $2,000 to anyone who wants it. For $3,000 I'll deliver.

Am I now a scumbag?

Or consider:

I have a generator, but its not worth my while to sell it to you at what you consider a fair price.

Now I'm a good guy, right?

If you're running mainframes, run a z/VM LPAR, and then run a RedHat guest that is the timeserver for your mainframe.

Of course if you use a sysplex, you'll use STP anyway, probably synced to an atomic clock someplace.

I wouldn't offboard NTP for the mainframe.

Depends on the requirements (the needs).

You don't need cadillac solutions if the requirement is to have logs that are easy to correlate.

Virtual Machines will work fine for most applications.

the iPod was released in 2001

Zune was released in what.... 2006?

Diamond Rio in 1998, but it was from Diamond

Creative Nomad in 2000 but it was from Creative.

What is this guy talking about that MS had a music player before the iPod?

Sorry, I was laughing too hard.

And my comment at least made sense.

I'm telling you, if child handed that mess into their grammar school teacher, it would make their teacher cry.

Somebody needs to get a proof read things before they're published.

I dare you to understand the story based on that summary -- its like random words strung together.

"made more sense when crappy domestic makes required a new transmission at 25k miles"

There has never been such a requirement.

I'm sure you could point to an individual car with a failed transmission at 25K miles; heck I had a brother in law that had an engine fail at 7K miles (Saab, of course), but even at the depths of their quality, American cars were never as bad as you make it sound.

You beat me to it.

Anything like this, you buy on ebay or amazon for $3 SHIPPED from Hong Kong.

Not sure how that's even done, but nonetheless, it is.

Perhaps this explains why Google is good at making money from search (their first idea), but everything has essentially fallen apart.

Great conceptually, but execution-wise, if search was not so profitable, they'd be in worse shape than Yahoo.

Where are those big successful ideas for Google?

Google+?
Picasa?
Google Office?
Android? Well okay.

That's awesome. Thanks.

You can buy one at most places for around $60 (US). And a pretty good one at that.

I agree with the speculation of why they don't include it, but for people who have no idea that an ODB II readers is, the additional information that ah O2 sensor is broken won't keep them from taking it to a dealer anyway.

Every independent garage has an ODB II reader.

And no shade tree mechanic goes without. Its time for the car manufacturers to come into the 1990's.