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Comment on Copyright Maximalists or Middlemen Protectionists? by Darren

Darren — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:58:23 +0000

A good observation, and one that extends beyond just big-wigs, but other mid-range rights-holders or advocacy groups. I’ve encountered people working the grind like everyone else who have no idea how copyright should operate to ensure and incentivize creation, but are still die-hard thick copyright proponents because the company they work for makes its money from enforcing thick copyright (via take-down notices, soliciting user fees, etc) for a small group of rights-holders or labels.
They would gladly defend old copyright models for their clients to the death without any concern for copyright’s effect elsewhere.

Comment on Why Do Tube Amps Sound Louder Than Solid State Amps? by logictortured.com Blog » Why Hybrid Tube/Solid State Guitar Amps Aren’t The Worst of Both Worlds

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:58:36 +0000

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Comment on “Crappy but Free” is not a business plan by admin

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:02:13 +0000

Actually, he did complain about not generating enough paid business by complaining that not enough people signed up for his paid service to make it worth his while to keep the free service going. That’s practically a syllogism. Nope, wait. It is.

But his complaint is really irrelevant. The point of my post was to show how asinine his complete lack of a business model was.

Comment on “Crappy but Free” is not a business plan by mwb

mwb — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:43:05 +0000

Note: he’s not complaining that the free site didn’t generate enough paid business.

He’s complaining about the free users being unreasonably demanding or otherwise too much of a hassle.

Comment on Right to Work versus a Right to Contract by admin

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:40:40 +0000

I think they already have that. It’s called unemployment.

Comment on Right to Work versus a Right to Contract by John

John — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:26:42 +0000

I suppose in fairness there should be a pro-Labor “Right to Slack” law in which a worker under contract has the right not to go into work should an opportunity arise in which his/her time would be better spent elsewhere.

Comment on The Scales of Justice by logictortured.com Blog » Right to Work versus Right to Contract

logictortured.com Blog » Right to Work versus Right to Contract — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:13:52 +0000

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Comment on It’s Official: Hollywood is out of ideas! by John

John — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:02:48 +0000

Holy Crap! I used to think about that very thing when I was in middle school! (My version involved a fighter jet against a Roman legion.) I never thought of selling the movie rights! No wonder I ain’t rich!

Comment on Craigslist Spammers Suck! by logictortured.com Blog » Maybe Craigslist Buyers are Just Illiterate

logictortured.com Blog » Maybe Craigslist Buyers are Just Illiterate — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:06:53 +0000

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Comment on Insurance is not the solution to the health care crisis by Alexander Gieg

Alexander Gieg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:34:33 +0000

Here in Brazil public health is a joke, so almost everyone who can afford private insurance goes for it.

The interesting thing, however, is that the government instituted a ruling that private insurance can deny insurance due to pre-existing conditions for only up to two years after one signs for the insurance (and only far things directly related to said pre-existing conditions). After two years, though, everything must be covered.

Truth be told, many private insurance companies went bankrupt afterwards, as costs surpassed revenue. Many other, though, survived and thrived by updating their actuarial models so as to take into account the added costs of full coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Nowadays things mostly work, the main difference between insurance plans being on where you get your coverage (the more you pay, the wider you range of options, from doctors to hospitals) and how fast you get your treatment for non-urgent issues (urgent ones are instant, evidently). The cheapest plans go for about $30/mo. Premium ones, for up to $1000/mo. Mine is $80/mo (I’m 34 years old), while my grandma’s (she’s 86 years old) goes for $250/mo.

That said, it’s important to see that these private plans can be cheap only *because* the government provided one is crap. If government-provided health was better, everything would be much more expensive, as the base price for everything health-provided wouldn’t be actuarially constrained (governments always pay premium), with less private providers due to less demand, hence less competition, hence less forces pushing prices down. Overall, everyone would be paying more, although indirectly.

IMHO, the best solution for the US would be something similar to what we have here: not crappy government health, of course, but some kind of limitation of services to only those few really unable to pay, with some minimal rule set so that private services can neither deny service to people with pre-existing conditions, nor charge differently between those with and without pre-existing conditions. Then let the market run the show.

Over time prices would go down. It worked here, it’d work over there.