Shitty names and FOSS go hand-in-hand.
If you can think of another name for the Secure Human Interface Teletype then why don't submit it to the shitty developers? Or make your own shitty fork if you don't want to work with the shitty team. All of the code is right there in the shitty repository.
"Right". The "United States" is a "constitutional republic", which is a form of "democracy", and the "Soviet Union" and "Baathist Iraq" were "constitutional republics" which "we" both put in "quotes" because they were "fake" "democracies".
Looks like you "missed" a few "finger quotes" there.
The fact that your paper from 1998 even still asks the question shows you that the question certainly wasn't settled by then
Hardly. There are still papers published on Darwin's theory of evolution, how it applies in different situations, addressing paradoxes arising from the theory etc. This doesn't mean that the issue wasn't "settled" long ago.
The reason these require "large fixed investments" is not because there is a "natural monopoly" it is because power companies, electric companies, and municipal providers like it that way.
So the price of building roads, erecting power poles, and building a power station are artificially raised due to regulatory capture by how much? It's not like there aren't private roads, and it's not like they're built cheaper, in fact they cost as much as building a road anywhere.
And when it comes to screwing over customers, how come my Internet fibre in Sweden cost so much less being provided by a municipal company (no subsidies I might add), than anywhere in the US where it's almost exclusively provided by private entities? How is that even possible?
Why all the venom for Google? You don't see Microsoft releasing patches for Windows XP.
Windows XP wasn't released on July 24, 2013.
I don't think the directing was necessarily bad in ST:V. Let's be honest, the story as a whole was ridiculous didn't leave him a lot to work with.
That's right. The blame doesn't really belong to the director, William Shatner, but to the writer...
Whose name was also William Shatner. That's a funny coincidence, don't you think?
And let's not even talk about Indiana Jones 4 (what, there are only 3 Indiana Jones movies? Ok, I feel you).
Three? There was Raiders of the Lost Ark, and then Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. That's only two movies. Maybe you counted the Highlander movie as well.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow
Sure. You can sweat all you like. That's not the problem.
Look at the EU and their policy on GMO. It is ENTIRELY fear based.
Sure. But it's not fear of GMO as such. It's fear of American companies saying "Trust us, would we lie to you?"
Only half joking...
P.S. And the last thing Europe needs is even more food production. We don't know what to do with all the stuff we're growing/making as it is.
No, I don't keep using the word "natural monopoly" other than to tell people that the concept is bullshit.
So you are of the opinion that in (for example) industries with large fixed investments such as water distribution, electrical distribution etc. that the most efficient use of resources would be to have multiple companies competing for the same customers? That is, that there would naturally develop a situation where multiple companies would lay roads, or water/sewage lines, or electrical lines to your house, and that that would lead to a more efficient use of resources? (E.g. lower total cost for the system(s), lower cost of providing the service, and lower prices for the consumers?)
Nobody has ever demonstrated the existence of a permanent natural monopoly in anything.
Just a cursory googling for example brought up: Are Municipal Electricity Distribution Utilities Natural Monopolies?, Massimo Filippini, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Volume 69, Issue 2, pages 157â"174, June 1998, DOI: 10.1111/1467-8292.00077. Which points to that quite nicely. I.e. both natural monopoly and "permanent", i.e. have been so for a long time. (Of course any human endeavour isn't "permanent"). (Sorry, can't help you with full text access, you'll have to use your own library.)
Moot can't triforce.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
