What does that even mean?
According to the one other source I found, it wasn't the video which led to the charges. He recorded a subsequent phone call with the police department without notifying them that the call was being recorded. According…
Certain rights can be signed away. A right that cannot be given up, even willingly, is called an 'inalienable' right. Thus in most of the world today, you cannot willingly sell yourself into slavery.
While I agree with your larger point, that retribution (and worse) is not justice, I wouldn't put too much weight on the study you mention. It's extraordinarily difficult to 'give details' in a completely neutral frame.…
Originators lend the money and sell the loan. It is agreed that the originate to sell model has perverse incentives. However, the point is that home borrowers are not the victims of this fraud. The people who bought…
Absolute twaddle. This is not science -- this is the science industry. This work is so subjective on so many levels as to be worse than worthless -- rather than increasing humanities knowledge by even a modicum, this…
Threatening to bankrupt someone with a nuisance lawsuit that has no merit is not looked favorably on by judges, and a lawyer who says as much risks sanctions from both a judge and the bar association.
When you live in a city, most merchants deliver.
Intellectual property absolutely is rent-seeking. It brings the full weight of government to enforce an artificial monopoly, for the pragmatic end of encouraging the creation of works of art and technological advances.…
In fact 100 years ago it was quite the opposite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
Again I raise the possibility that laws were not broken. There may have been instances of fraud, but its more than likely that the mess was largely the result of of groupthink and really bad decisions made in good faith.
There is the possibility that despite the populist rancor, no actual laws were broken.
tb;dr
For the sake of argument lets say time spent on line = revenue. This picture shows us top line numbers. What about costs? I suspect that Google's cost for delivering content is markedly lower than Facebook's.
What does that even mean?
According to the one other source I found, it wasn't the video which led to the charges. He recorded a subsequent phone call with the police department without notifying them that the call was being recorded. According…
Certain rights can be signed away. A right that cannot be given up, even willingly, is called an 'inalienable' right. Thus in most of the world today, you cannot willingly sell yourself into slavery.
While I agree with your larger point, that retribution (and worse) is not justice, I wouldn't put too much weight on the study you mention. It's extraordinarily difficult to 'give details' in a completely neutral frame.…
Originators lend the money and sell the loan. It is agreed that the originate to sell model has perverse incentives. However, the point is that home borrowers are not the victims of this fraud. The people who bought…
Absolute twaddle. This is not science -- this is the science industry. This work is so subjective on so many levels as to be worse than worthless -- rather than increasing humanities knowledge by even a modicum, this…
Threatening to bankrupt someone with a nuisance lawsuit that has no merit is not looked favorably on by judges, and a lawyer who says as much risks sanctions from both a judge and the bar association.
When you live in a city, most merchants deliver.
Intellectual property absolutely is rent-seeking. It brings the full weight of government to enforce an artificial monopoly, for the pragmatic end of encouraging the creation of works of art and technological advances.…
In fact 100 years ago it was quite the opposite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
Again I raise the possibility that laws were not broken. There may have been instances of fraud, but its more than likely that the mess was largely the result of of groupthink and really bad decisions made in good faith.
There is the possibility that despite the populist rancor, no actual laws were broken.
tb;dr
For the sake of argument lets say time spent on line = revenue. This picture shows us top line numbers. What about costs? I suspect that Google's cost for delivering content is markedly lower than Facebook's.