Comment Re:Yes we all know size is everything... (Score 1) 568
Increased brain size means more intelligence? That's just as silly as that other correlation we always hear about.
Bah.. That's just something people with small brains say.
Increased brain size means more intelligence? That's just as silly as that other correlation we always hear about.
Bah.. That's just something people with small brains say.
Monoprice, that awesome, dirt cheap site for (great quality) cables now sells ink and toner, and flatscreen tv mounts. Basically all the stuff the big box stores put obscene markups on.
and not all greens walk to work
Riding a bike is more efficient than walking. Fewer calories per mile. Those calories have to come from somewhere.
Air fair from san francisco to san diego is $29 each way. That travels at 300+ mph.
Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and others all joined AT&T in bidding huge amounts for wireless spectrum in FCC auctions, some $70-plus billion since the mid-1990s. That all gets passed along to you and me in the form of higher fees and friendly oligopolies that don't much compete on price.
That is not how business works. If a certain behavior on their part can maximize revenues, they will implement it regardless of what the upfront costs were. If they had paid $10 for the spectrum, they would still charge high fees because that is what the market is willing to bear and that is what they feel with maximize their revenues and with that their profits. You can argue that the cost of spectrum raises the cost of entry into the market, but I don't see that as what the author is going for here.
Well, no. Look at other industries. When the costs of production go down then competition brings the costs to consumers down as well. The costs will only go down to the point where it would be unprofitable to go down much further. Lower costs of production also lower the barrier to entry for new competitors, while at the same time increasing the incentive for any one member of a cartel to break their cartel agreement or find some tricky way around it to attract new customers.
The primary concern here, as least for me, is what level can a drug sniffing dog indicate on. The DEA frequently "confiscates" money that has been involved in a crime without charging the owner. Since you haven't been charged, you have no opportunity to defend yourself against the theft. It's flat out armed robbery, often conducted on the highway.
Apart from not talking about it, I don't see anything wrong with most items on the list. The problem comes with the use of force against the unwilling. Murder and subprime fall into this category. You don't like murder, be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones. The subprime issue was caused by fed manipulation of interest rates. i.e. price controls on credit. Central economic planning doesn't work. If you were to open a bank that wasn't part of the federal reserve system, men with guns would show up and shut you down. Again, force against the unwilling. With enron you could make an argument that fraud was the culprit.
Damn... 13 years of development down the drain.
I know everyone likes to make fun of rent-a-cops, mall cops, fake bacon, etc... but I have more respect for them than real cops. Private security is providing a service that's valuable to a property owner who's spending their own money instead of yours. If they assault someone, they can even be held accountable. I'll take private security over a pig any day.
Haha... The *US* impose sanctions against *China*? I think the other way around is more likely. We're going to have to start jumping to their tune, or they might impose sanctions against us. We're the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world and who do you think our banker is? They could destroy us in a second by simply deciding not buy any more of our government bonds. Say so long to the dollar. They have positioning themselves to take over as the economic center of the world for decades, and those plans are moving right along nicely.
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