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11-30-2015 , 09:13 PM

#190526

MEb

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Originally Posted by kidcolin

so let's socialize google?

Was your goal to demonstrate that you have no understanding of what I'm talking about?

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11-30-2015 , 09:13 PM

#190527

PocketChads

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Originally Posted by kidcolin

so let's socialize google?

Obviously. Private Google doesn't want you to know about the capitalistic insensitivity that led to Baseball genocide.

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11-30-2015 , 09:15 PM

#190528

TheQuietAnarchist

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"Tough on crime" 3 strike laws and the such, and the drug war (state sponsored, mind you) seem like far bigger culprits in the growing prison populations. The issue overall is pretty complex and susceptible to correlation/causation issues, not to mention events earlier in history playing a factor (e.g., WoD -> overpopulated prisons and limited funding to build new ones -> market for private firms), and is maybe not going to be fully understood or solved via our political talking point cheat sheets.

Very much this. The issue here is not in the cloudy, nebulous debate over public and private, it's that we continue to implement failed, costly public policy despite decades of evidence that our policy sucks and that other things will do what we claim we are trying to do and will cost less.

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11-30-2015 , 09:16 PM

#190529

kidcolin

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it was just jokes meb. relax.

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This is most often the case when a good or service is a necessity and demand for it is very inelastic.

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11-30-2015 , 09:19 PM

#190530

shane88888

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Originally Posted by MEb

This also generally requires that the handoff of public to private control creates a competitive market.

I don't understand your point here.

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11-30-2015 , 09:19 PM

#190531

MEb

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You understand Google isn't a necessity and would not have inelastic demand.

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11-30-2015 , 09:21 PM

#190532

kidcolin

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It's satire, calling google a necessity, since everyone uses it for everything, from K-retirement, and we'd be lost without it.

I forget sometimes you're from the midwest.

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11-30-2015 , 09:21 PM

#190533

bowens

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Originally Posted by MEb

You understand Google isn't a necessity and would not have inelastic demand.

Tell that to high school and college kids these days.

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11-30-2015 , 09:22 PM

#190534

bowens

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Originally Posted by kidcolin

It's satire, calling google a necessity, since everyone uses it for everything, from K-retirement, and we'd be lost without it.

I forget sometimes you're from the midwest.

dayum

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11-30-2015 , 09:22 PM

#190535

MEb

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Originally Posted by shane88888

I don't understand your point here.

Think about what happens if you hand off control of the police force to a single private entity.

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11-30-2015 , 09:24 PM

#190536

Eltbus

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Just fired up city of God per that dudes rec and the **** is not in English

Thanks bro

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11-30-2015 , 09:29 PM

#190537

BluffMyNuts

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Originally Posted by Eltbus

Just fired up city of God per that dudes rec and the **** is not in English

Thanks bro

After the beatdown you laid on me in fantasy I am really happy about this.

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11-30-2015 , 09:31 PM

#190538

kidcolin

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Originally Posted by Eltbus

Just fired up city of God per that dudes rec and the **** is not in English

Thanks bro

Rio, tho.

Seriously, though, great movie.

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11-30-2015 , 09:32 PM

#190539

MEb

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Originally Posted by Eltbus

Just fired up city of God per that dudes rec and the **** is not in English

Thanks bro

It is worth dealing with the subtitles

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11-30-2015 , 09:40 PM

#190540

MEb

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Originally Posted by MEb

Think about what happens if you hand off control of the police force to a single private entity.

This was a bad answer, so I'll provide a better one. Lets talk about private utilities. Competition among utilities in a single location isn't efficient due to infrastructure requirements. Because of this a monopoly is the most effective form of control in utilities. Where a monopoly is the most effective way of controlling a good or service, a government controlled monopoly is preferable to a private monopoly because the private controlled business is more likely to exploit their monopoly status to bring in higher prices to increase profitability through whatever means it has available and that are not otherwise restricted by government regulation.

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11-30-2015 , 09:41 PM

#190541

SirOsis

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The last two times I used Uber it was about 25% more than just taking a standard taxi. I thought one of their main things was to be cheaper, or did I hallucinate that?

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11-30-2015 , 09:44 PM

#190542

BluffMyNuts

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Originally Posted by SirOsis

The last two times I used Uber it was about 25% more than just taking a standard taxi. I thought one of their main things was to be cheaper, or did I hallucinate that?

That's odd, from my house to downtown SD is about 65-70 in a cab and uber is around 25-30.

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11-30-2015 , 09:54 PM

#190543

ludacris

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Originally Posted by Eltbus

Just fired up city of God per that dudes rec and the **** is not in English

Thanks bro

Would you want a movie set in the slums of Brazil to be in English? Cmon Bus.

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11-30-2015 , 09:56 PM

#190544

SirOsis

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It takes me maybe a minute to get used to subtitles in a movie and then I hardly notice it. Complaining about them never made sense to me.

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11-30-2015 , 09:57 PM

#190545

PocketChads

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What is this, a movie for ants?!

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11-30-2015 , 09:58 PM

#190546

ikestoys

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Originally Posted by MrWookie

Only if that is what their customers demand. If there is anything we have learned from the police killings and corresponding protests of late, it's that there are a whole ****load of people out there who think that the police aren't violent enough with minorities, nor do they lock them up enough.

I'm all for private security IF we get rid of qualified immunity. That's a big problem.

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11-30-2015 , 10:08 PM

#190547

SirOsis

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Originally Posted by BluffMyNuts

That's odd, from my house to downtown SD is about 65-70 in a cab and uber is around 25-30.

The rides I'm talking about were cheaper, like $15 vs $19, maybe that had something to do with it. And I know they weren't taking me on some random, elongated route to my destination. Oh well, I liked the Uber cars and drivers a lot better.