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SHARON RAUDAT v. DENISE LEARY, AC 24491
Judicial District of New Haven
Fraudulent Misrepresentation; Whether Undisclosed Expert Witness' Testimony Improperly Admitted as Lay Opinion; Whether Plaintiff Entitled to Consequential Damages. The plaintiff bought a horse from the defendant for $2800. She brought this action claiming that, despite the defendant's representation that the horse was rideable and needed only training and exercise in order to be a good trail horse, the horse had bucked and thrown her and was in fact dangerous and unrideable. The plaintiff claimed that, as a result of the horse's dangerous disposition, she had been forced to sell it to a rodeo for $200. The plaintiff's two count complaint alleged that the defendant was liable for fraudulently or negligently misrepresenting the horse's true nature in inducing the plaintiff to buy it. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff on the fraudulent misrepresentation count and awarded her $2600, finding that the defendant knew of the horse's dangerous propensities and that the defendant's representation in the advertisement that the horse was "green broke," meaning it needed only training and exercise to render it safely rideable, constituted a positive misrepresentation of a material fact. The defendant appeals, claiming the trial court wrongly permitted one of the plaintiff's witnesses, a professional horse trainer who had worked with the horse, to testify that the horse was not green broke, a matter that the defendant claims required expert testimony. The defendant argues that, while the witness was a horse expert, the plaintiff failed to disclose her as an expert as required by the Practice Book and that, despite such failure, the court nonetheless permitted the witness' testimony under the guise of lay opinion. The defendant also claims that the court wrongly awarded the plaintiff $2600 absent any finding as to the value of the horse when the plaintiff sold it and that the $200 selling price was not a true reflection of the horse's value because that sale was not the result of an arm's length transaction. The plaintiff has cross appealed, claiming that the court should have awarded her the costs of boarding, shoeing and training the horse as consequential damages stemming from the defendant's fraud. She also contends that the trial court's judgment can be affirmed on the alternate ground that she presented sufficient evidence to support her claim that the defendant was liable for negligent misrepresentation.
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Terry Kennedy (Feat. Fly Society) - The Takeover
JTF reports "FLY SOCIETY HIT AND TERRY KENNDEDY. Directed by Jordan Tower of Jordan Tower Films. JTF TO THE DEATH! email@example.com
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Tommy Davidson Kicks Out An Italian Girl For Laughin When Gettin His Afrocentic History On! "You Gotta Go. You Cant Be Laughin Through This"
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A thief snatched a family's pram while they were enjoying an activity at Matlock Bath's Heights of Abraham tourist attraction.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Monday, March 3, how thief David Haines, 41, swapped his broken pram for the expensive Quinny Buzz Stroller.
Prosecuting solicitor Angela Hadfield said: "Haines and his partner attended the Heights of Abraham and they had a pushchair. Heights of Abraham has activities and one requires you to leave any pushchairs outside.
"The Quinny Buzz pushchair had been left outside by a family and the defendant was observing the area and he swapped the cheap pushchair with the expensive one and walked out of the grounds with it.
"His partner had gone to make a purchase and that's how Haines was traced by the use of a bank card and there was also clear CCTV footage."
Haines, of Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to theft after the incident on August 3. Defence solicitor Dean Bower said Haines accepts he took the pushchair but he only intended to borrow it and he returned it later and travelled back to Matlock Bath from Nottingham in an attempt to return it but the park was closed.
Mr Bower said: "It was not planned and it was not sophisticated and he acted alone.
"The pushchair he had, had broken that morning and he and his partner were having difficulties.
"They had planned on going to Chatsworth for a long walk and he made a very bad decision and he regrets it considerably."
The court also heard how Haines has a problem with his spine and cannot work and is dependent on benefits.
Magistrates fined Haines £84 and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £20 victim surcharge.


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Reel World
Superhero Shorts
On Jan. 15 and 16, Albuquerque will be hosting its first full-blown comic book convention in more than a decade. There will be vendors, guest artists and appearances by several film and TV luminaries (Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery from The Boondock Saints, "The Incredible Hulk" himself Lou Ferrigno, Gil Gerard and Erin Gray from "Buck Rogers," Herbert Jefferson Jr. and Anne Lockhart from the original "Battlestar Galactica," Peter Mayhew from Star Wars).
Film Review
I Love You Phillip Morris
Prison romance makes Carrey a fool for love
Honestly, I'm a bit wary of Jim Carrey these days. I prefer to think of him as a perfectly cute dog I've known for years that still bites me on occasion for no good reason. Really, I don't want to like the guy. Sure, he's been amazing in films such as The Truman Show, Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But just when I'm lulled into thinking the butt-talking comedian has matured into a fine actor, he turns around and gives us forgettable crap like Fun With Dick and Jane or Yes Man. Hell, even his serious films aren't without blemish (2007's just awful The Number 23). Impressive or insufferable: Carrey doesn't have much middle ground.
Idiot Box
Have a Cable TV Christmas
Christmas Eve around the dial
Do you fire up the TV on Christmas Eve in hopes of drowning out your relatives, or do you respectfully wait until after presents are opened on Christmas Day to do the same thing? I find that if the programming is holiday-centric enough, you can get away with ignoring everyone, turning up the volume and staring at the TV starting quite early on Dec. 24.


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FA Rules and Governance
Welcome to The FA Rules and Governance section of the County FA website. The FA will use this section to provide useful information and resources for Leagues, Clubs, and Players.
The FA Discipline Handbook 2017-18
The Discipline Handbook 2017-18 is an online interactive reference guide to aid Leagues, Clubs and Players through the forthcoming season.
You can access the handbook by clicking on the following link: The FA Discipline Handbook 2017-18
The handbook will be a useful guide to explain the disciplinary process and details the changes that have taken place over the last few years – including match based discipline, sin bin trials, sanction guidelines, the whole game system and changes to handling discrimination. This year's guide also includes videos and resources that will go into greater depth to explain the disciplinary process.
- Introduction from Mark Ives, Disciplinary Manager
- Sin Bin Trials
- Eligibility of Players in Fixtures
- Who is responsible for ensuring Players are not suspended before they play?
- Wrongful Dismissals
- Why have the RESPECT sanctions been introduced?
- Player Insurance
- Whole Game System
- What steps are The FA Taking to improve handling of discrimination cases?
- Reporting Discrimination - Grassroots Players and Supporters
- Why do County FA's issue fines in youth football?
- Sharing your ideas to improve grassroots football
- Board of Appeal
- Guide to the Appeals process
- Standard Code of Rules Template
- Standard Code of Rules Youth
- Reporting Discrimination booklets for grassroots players and supporters
- Sanction Guidelines - UPDATED for 2017-18
There is also a Leagues section to provide guidance for administrators regarding the Powers and Duties of the League.
Chairmans Checklist
The Chairmans checklist is a useful aid for County FA Commission Chairman to ensure that all the necessary processes have been correctly followed. It can also help Participants understand the general format of their hearing. It should be noted that this document is just a guide and not compulsory so Commissions may adopt varying approaches. You can download this from the documents section below.
Sanction Guidelines
UPDATED FOR 2017-18 - download from resources section below.
In 2011 The Football Association decided to implement a Sanctions Guideline document to improve consistency across all Associations in the application of sanctions. This document will serve as a useful guide and will enable Participants to have an awareness of likely sanction should the case against them be found proven. You can download this from the documents section below.
Attending a Hearing
There may be occasions when are you are asked to attend to a County Disciplinary Hearing – either as a Player charged with misconduct, or attending as a witness to misconduct, or as a Match Official giving evidence.
The FA has produced a series of guides to help prepare you for the Hearing and let you know what to expect covering topics such as:
What should I bring with to the hearing?
What should I wear?
Can I bring witnesses with me?
How long do Personal Hearings normally last?
What happens if I am not happy with the result of my Hearing?
Procedures for young people
These can be downloaded from the resources section below.
Respect Charges
Over recent years The Football Association have been promoting RESPECT visibly both on and off the pitch with the aim to reduce the bad discipline, increase and promote good behaviour from Players, Clubs and all individuals who are involved in the game.
To assist with this change a new charge has been introduced which will affect Clubs at Steps 5-7 and outside the National League System called 'RESPECT', which will be an automatic charge raised by the County should a team receive 10 or more yellow/red cards in a season for Dissent or Foul & Abusive language.
The table below provides further details on the sanction that will be imposed when if the thresholds are to be exceeded by a team throughout the season. To clarify that the only discipline that counts towards the charge are cautions for dissent and sendings off for foul and abusive language:
The FA Rules and Governance website
The Rules and Governance website helps provide a better understanding of the role of The FA's governance department and governance of the game in general. The purpose of the site is to enable everyone involved in the game, whether with a league or club, as a player, match official ,or as a spectator, to have a better understanding of the role we all play in the governance of the game. Click here to access site.
Wrongful Dismissals
Changes have been made to permit wrongful dismissal claims at Steps 5-7 and below without having to submit video evidence as we understand that not all games at these levels are filmed. However, we do require that the match footage is submitted when available to help demonstrate that the Referee made an obvious error in dismissing a player.
The deadlines for appeal and submitting evidence have also been amended to be more beneficial for Clubs operating at Steps 5 to 7 and below – appeals will still be heard before any suspension is due to commence.


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=== Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights ===
Contributors: chriscct7, smub
Donate link: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wpbeginner-needs-your-help/
Tags: analytics, analytics dashboard, google analytics, google analytics dashboard, google analytics widget, universal google analytics, statistics, tracking, stats, google, yoast, google analytics by yoast, ga, monster insights, monsterinsights, universal analytics, web stats, ecommerce, ecommerce tracking
Requires at least: 3.8.0
Tested up to: 4.9
Stable tag: 7.2.0
License: GPL v3
The best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress. See how visitors find and use your website, so you can keep them coming back.
== Description ==
= Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress =
We believe that you shouldn't have to hire a developer to add Google Analytics to your website. That's why we built MonsterInsights, a complete Google Analytics for WordPress plugin that's EASY and POWERFUL.
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With almost 15 million downloads, MonsterInsights is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.
At MonsterInsights, user experience is our #1 priority. That's why we make it extremely easy for you to connect and view your Google Analytics reports from inside your WordPress dashboard. Our tracking settings and workflows make MonsterInsights the most beginner friendly google analytics plugin in the market.
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* How to setup Google Analytics with WordPress
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= Note for Beginners =
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= Credits =
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== Installation ==
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== Changelog ==
= 7.2.0: September 19, 2018 =
- Tweak: Sites with large traffic will see numbers larger than 1 million abbreviated so the numbers will no longer overflow out of the report container boxes.
- Tweak: We've clarified the download tracking setting to point out that externally hosted downloads are now tracked as downloads, not external links.
- Tweak: Compatibility for the Fix WP Tables and Magee Shortcodes plugins.
- Fixed: We've fixed issues where sites that were recreated/migrated sometimes could not re-authenticate with MonsterInsights.
= 7.1.0: August 8, 2018 =
- New: Comprehensive review of the plugin to ensure styles are correct when utilizing a right to left language.
- Tweak: Compatibility for the WP Media Folder plugin, TagDiv Composer plugin, Ali Dropship plugin, Affiliate Boxes plugin, Impreza theme, GT3 Photo & Video Gallery plugin, WP Booklist plugin, Houzez theme, Prowess theme, and Add Social Share plugin.
- Tweak: Standardized capitalization and spelling of various strings.
- Tweak: External download links will not be marked as downloads.
- Tweak: Updated SweetAlert2 to the latest version.
- Tweak: Tweaked error messages returned on the reports page to include more details and be more specific whenever possible.
- Tweak: Documentation links will always open in a new tab now to ensure you don't lose your place.
- Fixed: Condition which caused the network UA code to not properly fallback in some instances.
- Fixed: Some plugin links to our documentation have been corrected
- Fixed: Sometimes error strings might be over-escaped. We've corrected some cases of this.
= 7.0.9: June 26, 2018 =
- Tweak: The link to support for Lite now goes directly to the Lite support form.
- Tweak: Compatibility fixes for the Newspaper theme and the WordPress Book List plugin.
- Tweak: Sweetalert2, used for notices in core, now uses the newer 7.x release, which has a slightly better layout and fixes some bugs.
= 7.0.8: June 19, 2018 =
- Tweak: Fixes some links to our documentation site.
= 7.0.7: June 7, 2018 =
- Tweak: Compatibility with Selz plugin.
- Tweak: Issue where some settings would remain hidden inadvertently.
- Fixed: Issue where some lite users would see an error regarding a license key.
= 7.0.6: May 14, 2018 =
- Tweak: Better handling of link tracking for links embedded as anchor tags inside of an SVG image.
- Tweak: Link tracking has been updated to enforce more strict type checks on variables.
- Tweak: Plugin conflict notice has been updated to use the actual name of the plugin.
- Tweak: Compatibility fixes for users of the Ken, Vitrine, Artisian Nayma,Grand News, Tie and Church Suite Themes along with the WooCommerce bolder product alerts, Selz eCommerce and Artisian Pages plugin.
- Tweak: Fixed "you you" typo on the Reports page notice.
- Tweak: On the overview report the indicator icon colors for bounce rate have been flipped to more accurately describe the impact (ie green = bounce rate going down = good).
- Fixed: Undefined $tracking variable error.
- Fixed: Better type checking before converting number strings to human readable dates on reports.
= 7.0.5: April 9, 2018 =
- New: Introduced a system (behind-the-scenes) that automatically attempts to correct for improperly set timezones in the WordPress settings panel, server timezone settings and/or GA profile timezones. This should eliminate issues with timezones on Lite user accounts, as well as allow for more accurate date reporting.
- New: Introduced a system (behind-the-scenes) to allow for deauthentication of profiles set on websites whose profiles were migrated (for example from a staging site to a production site)
- Tweak: Made clientID retrieval more efficient.
- Fixed: Several translation/textdomain and typo fixes.
- Fixed: Undefined $num in the overview report.
= 7.0.4: March 7, 2018 =
- New: We've added links to the pages listed in the top pages part of the Overview report to make it easier to see which page each title belongs to.
- New: We've added the UA code to the account selector to make it easier to determine which property to use.
- New: Better compatibility with IE11.
- New: The links to view more reporting data now default to the currently selected daterange when you go to analytics.google.com
- Fixed: We've corrected some missing closing li tags on the overview report.
- Fixed: We fixed an issue where get_current_screen might be undefined on some pages.
- Fixed: We fixed an issue where some improperly configured servers might resolve symlinks that are not supposed to be resolved, leading to issues with loading asset files MonsterInsights uses.
= 7.0.3: February 28, 2018 =
- New: We added support for tracking download files that have a cache busting variable on the URL.
- New: We added support for the new UserID mode used in our AMP addon.
- Tweak: We fixed a bug with the notices class, and drastically cut back on the number of them.
- Fixed: We fixed a bug with our Facebook Instant Articles addon that prevented some users from being tracked for downloads.
- Fixed: We fixed a bug in the usage tracking for some types of installs.
- Fixed: We've allowed the disabling of tracking for admininistrator role users on single sites.
= 7.0.2: February 27, 2018 =
- Fixed: Fixed a bug with the analytics.js output where a UA code wasn't entered, the $reason variable could be undefined.
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where a notice might not be dismissable and we've also removed several of them.
= 7.0.1: February 26, 2018 =
- New: Support for the updated version of MonsterInsights AMP plugin which switches from using a custom REST endpoint to using the now built in Google AMP ClientID synching feature. If you're using the AMP addon, you'll want to also update that addon as well.
- New: The __gaTracker and disable tracking functions will always be defined, even when we're not tracking users (for example if viewing a preview, or if a logged-in administrator) to allow sites to not have to worry about breakage when variable exist checking isn't done.
- New: We now output a notice in the console and output the GA code (though do not run it) when we're not tracking someone. This makes it easier to verify the Google code is indeed outputting, and also makes it more clear as to why a particular user isn't being tracked. Note, when testing Google Analytics code, always do it logged out, ideally in the private browsing/incognito mode of your web browser. We're going to keep working on improving the frontend system to simplify it and add new features for both Lite and Pro users now that we've jettisoned ga.js support in MonsterInsights 7.0. You'll see updates through the year that add new tracking features, particularly ones that we're tweaking in order to expand and refine our built-in reporting.
- New: We added a "have a MonsterInsights license" link on the settings panel, to make it clearer the procedure for the quick and easy upgrade from MonsterInsights Lite to MonsterInsights Pro.
- Tweak: We removed the phrase referencing the dashboard (removed in MonsterInsights 7.0) from the permissions settings.
- Fixed: Due to us forgetting to include our jQuery shim for disable() in the Lite, some users were unable to use the 10/25/50 expand feature on the reports page.
- Fixed: An accidental use of the PHP function date instead of the one called time meant that some users were unable to see updated reporting data each day in the Lite version.
- Fixed: In sitei() in the api-auth class, we used mb_strimwidth to trim the final string to 30 characters. While this is a great PHP function, not all servers have the mbstring (Multibyte String) PHP extension installed, from which all mb_* functions are provided, despite it being a "required" PHP extension to use WordPress core. This caused some servers to be unable to authenticate and thus get our amazing new reports (sad face). This usage has been replaced with a standard substr use, thus allowing for compatibility with all servers.
= 7.0.0: February 20, 2018 =
* New: Completely revamped reports with a new UI.
* New: Ability to oAuth at the network level, and have that oAuth apply as the default to all subsites (can still override at a subsite level).
* New: Ability to enter a license key at the network level, and have that oAuth apply as the default to all subsites (can still override at a subsite level).
* New: Completely new oAuth flow, that handles more errors and allows for future growth. Importantly, your existing sites will continue to track (the UA code is manually moved in the upgrade process), but you will need to re-authenticate (a quicker, and even easier process in 7.0) to enable our all new reporting area. New permissions requested to allow for significantly expanded reporting (and some upcoming reports).
* New: Ability to see the site traffic graphs in both pageviews and sessions.
* New: You can now choose between Last 30 days, Last 7 days, or any date range of your choosing if you're a paid MonsterInsights user!
* New: Compare site traffic to the previous period.
* New: Completely revamped overview report. You'll find lots of new data has been added. Also, all of that data changes as you use change the date ranges (a Pro exclusive feature).
* New: A brand new eCommerce report for Pro users
* New: A brand new Search Console/Queries report for paid MonsterInsights users. This allows you to see which terms you are ranking for on Google and how Google searches are driving your site traffic, along with clickthrough rates.
* New: A brand new Publishers report for Plus level users allowing you to see breakdown of important site metrics.
* New: A lot of behind the scenes work enabling more reports to be added in the future. Stay on the lookout as we start significantly expanding the breadth and depth of reporting this year.
* New: A revised general settings panel which is significantly faster to load.
* New: Significant performance improvements. We completely top-to-bottom audited MonsterInsights. It's now 286% faster in the admin and 161% faster in the frontend.
* New: Completely new internal notification handling has been implemented. This should make it clearer if you need to address anything, and if so make it less tedious to figure out exactly what.
* Tweak: We've changed the verbage for what users see if they are logged in as a site administrator on the frontend to make it more clear MonsterInsights doesn't track site administrators to prevent them from skewing their own Google Analytics data (particularly demographics data) and to encourage them to use the Incognito Mode/Private browsing mode of their web browser (or log out) if they want to view the Google Analytics code.
* Tweak: The URL used for the measurement protocol calls has been updated per Google guidance.
* Tweak: We've discovered some strings that weren't translatable, and fixed that.
* Tweak: Based on your feedback, we've clarified the titles and descriptions used in some of the settings to make it more clear as to what they do.
* Tweak: When first adding a license key, in rare cases sometimes the addons permissions didn't sync. While extremely rare, and while MonsterInsights would automatically fix itself within 6 hours, we've added a system that eliminates this from happening, and made sure that there's also a way to fix this manually if this need arises.
* Tweak: The countries map has been changed to a countries list (sorted). This means we can remove jVectorMap which had some issues in mapping, and also make it easier for you to see your top countries data.
* Removed: Support for the long deprecated PHP events tracking has been removed. We've had dismissable (and then later non-dismissable) persistent admin notices for over a year now offering a 1 click update. The PHP events tracking, a stayover from the Yoast years, caused a lot of issues and couldn't track everything on a page. It could only track things in specific WordPress areas like the_content and widgets, but couldn't track anything outside of that, or things that were added to the DOM after WordPress rendered the page. Our JS events tracking system can track all-the-things on all parts of a page, and is far more accurate and easier for us to maintain. Maintaining a gigantic PHP regex-based system took a lot of our development time up, and based on our opt-in tracking data, almost no one uses it anymore (which is good, because JS tracking is so much better). Users still using it will be automatically switched to JS events tracking on update (which requires no changes to switch to using it).
* Removed: Many deprecated filters from the Yoast era have been removed. After maintaining backwards compatibility for over a year now, and also issuing a notice every time those deprecated filters were used, it's time to pull the plug on these to allow our tracking system to be able to be simplified in the future. We have a complete document in our documentation for the 6.0 release that details exactly how to update for each of these filters.
= 6.2.6: November 17, 2017 =
* Tweak: Compatibility with WordPress 4.9.
* Skipped release version.
= 6.2.4: October 6, 2017 =
* Tweak: Adjusted how the optin tracking is sent to us.
= 6.2.3: September 9, 2017 =
* Tweak: Added a notice for new users of MonsterInsights about when the reports will begin populating.
= 6.2.2: August 16, 2017 =
* Tweak: Adjusted order of setup/config notices
* Fixed: Fixed an issue with the sanitation of number fields. Solves an issue with the Google Optimize extension.
= 6.2.1: August 9, 2017 =
* New: MonsterInsights now has the ability to automatically update itself and it's addons. You can set MonsterInsights to automatically update minor versions only or all new versions inside the MonsterInsights settings panel in Tracking -> Permissions.
* Tweak: Introduce scrollbars on GA auth screen for users with many Google accounts
* Tweak: Added notice to users still on deprecated GA.js tracking and PHP-based events tracking.
* Fixed: Issue with notices having multiple icons has been resolved.
* Fixed: Facebook Instant Articles can now properly handle the Automattic Facebook plugin transformation changes (requires FB IA addon version 1.0.1 or newer)
* Fixed: Conflict with wp_head output for some themes.
* Fixed: Correct level for Forms and Google Optimize addons.
* Fixed: License key errors will no longer show to lite users.
= 6.2.0: June 6, 2017 =
* New: Form Tracking addon
* New: Google Optimize addon
* New: Facebook Instant Articles addon
* New: Telephone link tracking
* New: Functions for supporting enhanced eCommerce tracking in the eCommerce addon
* New: Measurement protocol functions
* New: Tweaks for the settings pages to get ready for a speed improvement release upcoming along with some coming soon addons.
* Tweaks: Spelling corrections.
* Fixed: Internet Explorer tracking fix.
* Fixed: Issue with initialization of settings on certain installs.
= 6.1.11: May 31, 2017 =
* Tweak: Renamed the tools tab for settings import/export
* Fixed: Issue with saving of manual UA codes
* Fixed: Fixed a couple display issues in the admin
* Fixed: Issue for undefined index when the settings array hasn't been initialized.
= 6.1.10, May 18, 2017 =
* New: Performance improvement in tracking.
= 6.1.9, May 15, 2017 =
* New: Plugin has been tested for compatibility with WordPress 4.8-beta1. We'll continue to test through the beta and release candidates, but MonsterInsights is 4.8 ready as-is.
* Tweak: Deleting lite plugin will no longer delete license key of installed pro version.
* Fixed: Import/export settings page has been fixed so that on sites with a ton of plugins installed that make lots of admin bar items, the admin bar will have relative positioning now to allow it to be scrollable.
* Fixed: Users with more than 1 property for the same domain name can now use any of the views for those properties.
* Fixed: For Pro users, sometimes all available addons for your license level didn't show, requiring you to download them from our site. This has been corrected.
= 6.1.8, May 11, 2017 =
* New: Functions needed to support future features including enhanced eCommerce
* Fixed: Compatibility with Firefox for link tracking.
* Fixed: Issue saving certain fields.
= 6.1.7, April 10, 2017 =
* New: Changes needed to support new addons, including the Google AMP addon, available as of today.
* Tweak: Comments for frontend are minification-safe.
* Tweak: GA notice is now hidden when debug mode is on.
* Tweak: All settings now use the Settings API framework, including all addons.
= 6.1.6, March 29, 2017 =
* New: Select2 filter for the Google oAuth list of profiles, to make it easier to find your Google property by fully supporting search by URL.
* Tweak: Inbound-as-external now is prioritized before downloads in tracking preference order.
= 6.1.5, March 24, 2017 =
* New: Added some functions to prepare for upcoming new addon (Google AMP) and updates (eCommerce, Performance, Dimensions).
* Tweak: JS events tracking for click events.
= 6.1.4, March 23, 2017 =
* Tweak: JS events tracking for click events.
* Fixed: Edge case where JS events tracking won't turn on if the main tracking setting was disabled (such as faulty import).
= 6.1.1 - 6.1.3 (depending on which version of MI you have), March 22, 2017 =
* Fixed: (pro users) Issue with JS events throwing an error for array on non-set settings.
= 6.1.0, March 22, 2017 =
* New: Campaign URL building tool with shortlink capability.
* New: Settings import/export tool.
* New: Experimental (beta) hash tracking for single-page style themes. Note, as the description for the setting says, this feature is a beta feature, and can be tweaked or removed in upcoming versions.
* New: Manual default subsite UA's can now be set from the network settings panel for MonsterInsights.
* New: Optout of GA tracking is now enabled per Google standard. See https://github.com/awesomemotive/google-analytics-for-wordpress/issues/488 for more information.
* Tweak: Notices about JS conflicts now include the JS error when possible.
* Tweak: Some tweaking to when the "Connection error with Google" error is displayed during oAuth.
* Tweak: Notice now shown when too early to display statistics from Google.
* Tweak: Inbound as outbound links may now have a period in them.
* Tweak: Removed duplicate option checking on frontend.
* Tweak: oAuth dialog now only programically closes when the select profile view is shown or when a new one is opened.
* Tweak: Mailto links are now handled as an externally opening link, allowing to bypass issues with the Safari browser not following standards.
* Tweak: WP-Admin Login page tracking has been removed.
* Tweak: More countries now shown in the country map in the overview report.
* Tweak: License key field is no longer shown on lite installs.
* Tweak: Frontend JS file has been refactored to make it more unit testable.
* Fixed: Download events now correctly include data in all cases not just some.
* Fixed: A syntax error involving the manual UA code input has been resolved that could have affected some users under a rare circumstance.
= 6.0.16, March 7, 2017 =
* Fixed: Issues related to link tracking.
= 6.0.15, March 7, 2017 =
* Fixed: Issue with translation string numbering in the disabled user group frontend template.
* Fixed: Resolved issue that caused issue with lightbox-style redirects.
* Fixed: Issue where admin pages had JS issues from mis-ordered JS files.
= 6.0.14, March 1, 2017 =
* Tweak: Allow for invalid license to be removed if debug turned on.
* Fixed: Issues with internal links being tracked as internal-as-outbound
* Fixed: Issues with tracking of downloads
* Fixed: Issue where optin tracking would opt-out on settings panel save
= 6.0.13, February 28, 2017 =
* Tweak: Better detection of issues with authentication due to an outdate WP version.
* Fixed: Issue where JS tracking inadvertantly turned on debug mode due to a bad string to boolean conversion.
= 6.0.12, February 27, 2017 =
* New: The JS events tracking has been moved to a new JS file instead of inline. This will offer the same performance as inlining under HTTP/2, but with the benefit of better cache bursting.
* New: Expanded admin adblock detection.
* Tweak: Select2 is now bundled as Select300 in MonsterInsights. We're pulling down the latest copy of Selct2 and then on-the-fly renaming it. This should end any conflicts between our select2 boxes and other plugins/themes.
* Tweak: We've implemented better error detection on the authentication flow. Some users may have previously seen "No profile errors", due to issues with their server setup will now see more accurate errors.
* Tweak: For servers that use PHP Object caching, the cache will now be flushed during the uninstall routines. This should solve a very rare uninstall error.
* Fixed: A "Invalid UA code" error was displayed whenever someone used oAuth2 and then saved the settings panel, despite having a valid UA code.
* Fixed: An issue with the lazyloading of the Google Client for frontend use has been fixed.
= 6.0.11, February 24, 2017 =
* Notice: Version numbers 6.0.5 - 6.0.10 were not used, as we're synching the version numbers of the Lite and Pro versions of our plugin. You didn't miss any updates.
* Notice: As of this release, we no longer backport changes to the old `yst_ga` option. If you need to access MonsterInsights's settings programically, please use our helper functions. Do not directly access a option.
* New: Redesigned authentication dropdown that shows the site urls to make it easier to find a profile when the users have many accounts.
* New: Tracking is now enabled for the WordPress admin login page (wp-login.php).
* Tweak: The Google class in the admin now only checks for blocking when the reauth is attempted. Expect to save a ton of external calls in the admin, and maybe a performance boost.
* Tweak: The GA client object is now lazyloaded on the frontend, so it's loaded only when something (like another plugin) attempts to use it. In plain English, this will make a alot of sites load times significantly improve.
* Tweak: The analytics.js output has been tweaked to be slightly more asthetically pleasing (its aligned correctly). We realize no one probably cares but we look at this code for every user we support, so it help us.
* Tweak: The config expired notice has been updated to reflect that it can also be shown if the server is blocking MonsterInsights's ability to connect to Google Analytics.
* Tweak: The cron jobs for opt-in tracking and statistics have been combined into a single cron.
* Tweak: Various performance improvements in the frontend output class.
* Tweak: A notice is now shown when MonsterInsights rejects a manual UA code from being saved for being an invalid format.
* Fixed: Issue where the plugin TweetShare would prevent users from being able to see their properties in the authentication dropdown.
* Fixed: Issue where the manual UA code might not be ported as we were backporting changes to the monsterinsights_settings option to the yst_ga option for backwards compatibility. This lead to a situation where the new settings would override the old ones before the routine to fix the manual UA code issue had run.
* Fixed: Issue where a fatal error from a reference to a class called "Yoast_Frontend_GA" which our plugin doesn't have or use, would be shown caused by the previous Yoast usage of object caching via an autoloader. This is solved by doing a 1 time object cache flush on upgrade.
* Fixed: Issue where if you had more than 1000 profiles on your Google account, not all would be shown.
* Fixed: App analytics properties are now excluded from the dropdown of properties you can authenticate to.
* Fixed: The readme suggested a filter to use for filtering the UA to use, but the filter name was typo'd. This has been fixed.
* Fixed: Issue where the tracking cron would add a new unique cron each day.
* Fixed: We implemented a routine to cleanup those extra crons as well as the old yoast one we no longer use.
* Fixed: Issue where the .org theme Schema would prevent users from being able to see their properties in the authentication dropdown.
* Fixed: Issue where JS based events tracking might not correctly track a mailto: link.
= 6.0.4, February 20, 2017 =
* Tweak: monsterinsights_delete_options now checks to ensure an array is passed in
* Tweak: The reporting class now has many more object property checks.
* Fixed: In install if WP version not supported or if MI Pro was active, the plugin attempted to call a property of the plugin object which didn't exist.
* Fixed: In the deactivate/uninstall routines, MI attempted to use a method of a class object which might not exist, as it might not be the active instance. Better instance handling has been added as well as many more exists checks have been added througought the plugin.
* Fixed: Conflicting loads when both MI Pro and Lite are installed. Note, you should only have Pro installed if you want to use it. That being said, we've done extensive testing to ensure we've handled all of the edge cases surrounding this. This could also lead to issues where it would be impossible to remove Lite and/or Pro from a site if both were installed.
* Fixed: Conflicts with the Pinnacle theme, which loads it's CSS file (with overrides to literally all select2 inputs not just the ones it adds) across the entire admin. This lead to an issue where in the Google Auth, a user might not have been able to see (or could appear with wacky styling) the dropdown of profiles to select. If you cannot see this dropdown after authenticating, let us know as its most likely a simple plugin or theme conflict on CSS styling.
* Fixed: The notices to deactivate/uninstall MI Lite/Pro when the other one were installed had an errant extra quotation mark, and they're now more specific about the action to take.
* Fixed: For some users, the setting for user role exclusion was not working. This has been corrected.
* Fixed: A redirect issue that was looping for some users. The code that does this, while working for most, doesn't for some. We've removed it until a full investigation can be completed.
= 6.0.3, February 20, 2017 =
* Fixed: Path for fontawesome font files was incorrect
* Fixed: Notice in the install routine for the $version variable not being set.
= 6.0.2, February 19, 2017 =
* Fixed: Upgrade routine could drop manual UA codes in certain cases. If you upgraded to 6.0.0 or 6.0.1 and it lost the manual UA code, installing this update will automatically restore the UA code entered as long as you haven't used the oAuth or re-entered the manual UA code.
= 6.0.1, February 19, 2017 =
* Fixed: Typo that caused an issue with PHP 7 installs.
= 6.0.0, February 18, 2017 =
* New: Completely overhauled design, from top to bottom. The plugin has been completely rewritten.
* New: **no more advertisements** in the settings pages. We hated them too.
* New: Javascript based event tracking
* New: ga.js is now officially deprecated. New users cannot use it anymore, and existing users can only switch to analytics.js (but not back). Please note, all new features will be developed exclusively for analytics.js. Google has deprecated it, and now we're deprecating our support for it.
* New: License key system now uses the MonsterInsights License management system
* New: Ability to pick which roles can access the dashboard/reports & settings/addons/tools page using our UI. There's also a new custom capability for this (a meta capability)
* New: Support for Google Analytics Master accounts. When you oAuth into MonsterInsights now, the UA view is now locked to what you picked using the brand new oAuth procedure.
* New: Revamped dashboard
* New: Completely new settings system, with a completely new settings page, and a completely new settings API. Also some new hooks and tabs in preparation for the many addons we'll be releasing over the next few months.
* New: No more conflicts between the base plugins
* New: Completely overhauled translation experience. The lite version translations are now fully managed through translations.wordpress.org.
* New: Opt-in to anonymous data so we can better improve MonsterInsights
* New: Significantly better addons page
* New: Single license key to manage all MonsterInsights extensions.
* New: Automatic detection of blocked asset files (from things like un-whitelisted uBlock Origin) with step by step directions on how to easily correct.
* Tweak: Completely overhauled the ga.js and analytics.js outputs to fix outstanding bugs.
* Tweak: Better debugging + disabled + preview tracking modes, that more clearly indicate what's going on
* Tweak: Completely overhauled PHP regex tracking to solve nearly a dozen outstanding bugs including issues where non-link elements starting with the letter "a" such as tags would get parsed as links causing issues. Also solves issues related to single versus double quote usage for existing onclick handles, non-semicolon terminating onclick handles and various other parsing issues.
* Tweak: Many previously untranslatable strings are now translatable.
* Tweak: Minified in-plugin images.
* Tweak: Minified admin css and js
* Tweak: Uses latest version of Google PHP API now.
* Tweak: The system for creating reports and getting Google Analytics reports have changed. If you've hardcoded into Yoast functions previously not designed for frontend output this could cause problems. We'll introduce an API intended for this type of use after we update to use the v4 reporting API.
* Fixed: Fixed an issue with HostEurope and other hosts modifying the default PHP arg seperator.
* Fixed: Prevents an issue where users with a plugin like Airplane Mode active will get a better error message than "code invalid" on the GA token auth screen (and also fixes how that detection is done in other parts of the plugin).
* Removed: unused track_full_url setting
= 5.5.3, October 3rd, 2016 =
* New: Announces MI 6.0 beta.
* Fixed: Compatibility with PHP compatibility scanner's bug
= 5.5.2, July 7, 2016 =
* Tweak: Updates license manager to have more reliable update information including better compatibility with Yoast SEO products.
* Fixed: Compatibility with upcoming Shiny Updates v2 in WP core
= 5.5.0, May 1, 2016 =
* New: Added new System Info tab for faster support.
* Fixed: Issue with changelog missing some deployed versions.
= 5.4.9, April 15, 2016 =
* New: Font based dashboard icon
* Tweak: The "MonsterInsights" menu item name has been renamed to just "Insights"
* Fixed: Issue with eCommerce addon (also requires user to update eCommerce addon)
* Fixed: Issue with 2 dashboard links
* Fixed: A bug in pre-existing code caused the menu of the plugin to skyrocket unintentionally. This has been corrected.
= 5.4.8, April 14, 2016 =
* New: Google Analytics by Yoast is now MonsterInsights.
* Fixed: Compatibility issue with WordPress 4.5
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My mother never talked about my dad so I didn't know what he did for a living when they were first married, or how they met. I knew bits and pieces but those bits and pieces were vague half-memories formed while listening to my father when I was very young. He worked in "the city" (Toronto) for Veteran's Affairs. I knew that much. He loved to fish and every fall he went hunting, always coming home empty-handed.
He never talked to me about his childhood or growing up in Guelph, and when i asked about his time in England in WW2 all he ever revealed was that he was in the Signal Corps and, in his words, "swung through the trees like a monkey"


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IlikemustardPosts: 99Joined: Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:44 am
Re: Public vs. Private Business
AdmiralPeacock wrote:You're larbouring under the delusion that it's either A> Free Market or B> Socialism. One or the other. That's simply not representative of reality.
Well sure, we can look at resources that are "in between", and only partially socialized, i.e subsidized. Like food in Egypt, which ended up low in supply and high in price, and is blamed for sparking the riots in Egypt.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/mid ... 70879.html
"price controls or food subsidies, which are expensive and bad for the economy in the long run"
Or you can look at the partially free healthcare market in the USA, which is heavily subsidized, and doing incredibly poorly.
Or food dumping in Africa and other areas by the USA and others in the form of "foreign aid". All it does is put farmers out of jobs and wreck the economy, whilst making Africans dependent on foreign aid in the same way a fed bird becomes dependent on the person feeding it.
Or the airline industry.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:it's objectively true that a nations with social services have a higher standard of living than nations without social services
Um, can you find me a nation without any social services? No, you can only measure the amount of money spent on social services as a percentage of GDP. And even then it's not exactly a relevant statistic in relation to HDI, as obviously a nation with a high GDP per capita that spends more on social services as a percentage of GDP is going to have a higher HDI than a nation with a low GDP per capita that spends very little on social services as a percentage of GDP, regardless of the economic growth of each nation. You can compare two nations with similar GDP per capita statistics, but looking at a list of nations by GDP per capita and a list of nations by HDI shows this to be a mixed result, as the USA and Norway are almost identical in GDP per capita and HDI, despite the fact that (from the statistics that I can find) the USA spends only 14.8% of its GDP on welfare whilst Norway spends 23.9% of its GDP on welfare.
You can, however, look at a state that has transitioned from high welfare to low welfare. Somalia is an excellent example, as it went from high welfare to almost no welfare during its period of statelessness, and experienced increases in standards of living.
http://namcub.accela-labs.com/pdf/Bette ... teless.pdf
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Perhaps you should be more careful with the tenses then. "Nations like China, while having their heart in the right place and trying to socialise food so that the poorest can eat the same meal as the rich, experienced famine. " I accept that you might have meant a past tense, but you didn't even imply one.
The word experienced is past tense. Regardless this is a matter of miscommunication and isn't relevant.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Likewise - you just strawman my arguments (i.e. arguing against communists for some stupid reason)
I am not arguing against communists (as if communism is the only political stance that advocates socialization of resources?), I am arguing in favour of total economic freedom. Which you are arguing against. Or did I misinterpret your multiple arguments in favour of state regulation and state control of the economy?
Yeah, I know you're not arguing against all freedoms. Have you considered that maybe you're misinterpreting my argument, though? I'm saying that the more free a resource becomes economically, the more growth it experiences, as well as experiencing lower prices. This doesn't mean that I think you want communism. It means I believe economic freedom should not be in some grey area between communism and absolute freedom, which you seem to want.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Here's another questionable debate strategy - Fuck you and your pretentious ass.
Oh ho ho, that is rich. If there is anything pretentious about my comments it was simply an act of returning the favour.
I mean, do you honestly believe these remarks of yours are not pretentious?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:DUH! I swear you're a fucking moron
AdmiralPeacock wrote:You're grasping at straws now.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:You're right your logic here is no existence - good thing you said it and not me.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:expand your field of experience
AdmiralPeacock wrote:The irony is that delicious
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Heh, yeah... what is the name of this imaginary world you live in called?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:One of the few worthwhile to creep out of Ayn Rand's cake hole
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Heh, the ultimate irony here is you mini-anarchists, anarchists and like hold Individualism in such high regard; but I swear you all sound so similar as to basically be Borg.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Or are you one of those NWO retards?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:you failed to understand my point... unsurprisingly.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:I know it stings, but take consolation with the fact that hippy fucktards that employ the argument for nature fallacy to criticize modern life are just as owned.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Yeah yeah there's a difference... just like there's a difference between being stabbed in the liver and being stabbed in the heart.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:By "Better source" you mean a Conservative circle jerk... errr I mean Think Tank.
This old gem.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:heh, you've yet to come close to establishing things. So far you've basically said, "State bad, private good... [insert some inane crap] and because I say so".
AdmiralPeacock wrote:your arguments can be boiled down to a kind of quasi-juvenile interpretation of inherent social obligation which is evident in the language you use
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Fuck you
This one is particularly annoying, and not just because you refer to me along with my "ilk" as if we are evil fiends, but because I know your definition of my "ilk" would include everyone to the right side of the political spectrum, including conservatives.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:you or your ilk
Annnnd here is where it all started.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Another conservative that can not look beyond their own self righteousness to present has "pinko commies" another ridiculous strawman of a generalized image of the left. Joy!
I honestly tried to be polite. Honestly. Clearly though you're a deluded hypocrite of the most monstrous kind, and far too ignorant of it.
Oh, and "fuck you" isn't an argument.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/press ... rices-poor
Well you've seemed to miss the fact that enforced intellectual property law is regulation.
The funny thing is though, the entire article goes on about "poor countries" and "rich countries" whilst rarely even naming a country. Indeed, this quote:
"studies indicate that in some countries as much as 44 per cent of certain types of medicines, such as anti-malarials, are substandard"
is exceptionally hilarious, as it refers to 'some countries' without actually naming any of them, and does not even give a source for the studies. I mean seriously?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/
Um, ok? This just gives a few statistics about the sales of herbal medicines, and gives no information on the statistics of counterfeit herbal medicines, the statistics of dangerous herbal medicines, or the statistics of people injured by herbal medicines. So what is the point of this?
In the paragraph about "Safety, effectiveness and quality", they even admitted they don't know much about herbal medicine.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:History of US Food Regulation - Food Toxicology - Instructor: Gregory Mà¶ller, Ph.D. - University of Idaho
Awesome. I'm not watching an hour long lecture, though.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:FDA History - Part I
Since this source doesn't list what the journalists discovered about the marketplace, or what made the meat-packing industry nauseating, I can't exactly form a counter-argument to this.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Edwin Markham children in Bondage (1914)
Yeah, and no one is forcing those children to work. They can quit at any time. Which is the most obvious flaw in the statement "children wasting their bodies and souls".
You're ignoring the benefits though. Many children aren't as intelligent as the people on this board, and do not benefit from education. They are better off learning from a direct experience in the workforce than learning math that they will never make use of.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Henry Demarest Lloyd
Yeah, a lot of the world lives in poverty, I know. And I blame it on states funneling wealth to the elite through carefully designed regulations.My solution is removing the state. I also believe those envious of the USA are living in poverty simply because their state was far too restrictive on the economy, while the USA enjoyed economic freedom and thus prospered. Not because the free market somehow destroyed their lives.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:FDA History - Part I
You've seemed to ignore my proposed situation of dealing with injury sustained through free trade, also known as property aggression. If you are injured from something you've bought, you can sue the distributor using a court. This will ensure businesses have incentive not to harm their customers, or destroy their property via oil mining, etc. This is also coupled with points I've already made about competition - Businesses don't want to lose customers. And I also talked about a system of 'before-the-fact' regulation that Gnug was talking about in this thread.
You can choose not to buy a product unless it has been inspected by a trusted inspection firm and has the inspection firm's watermark placed on it. This does not inhibit freedom of course, harmful substances such as alcohol and cigarettes could still be sold without the seller being at risk of being sued, they could simply have their customer sign a contract of some sort, so that the customer acknowledges they face risk of injury.
You see, my system places absolute control in the hands of the buyer. The state does not interfere in their exchange.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Ignore these all you want.
I didn't. Except for the lecture.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:They hold together in the cartel because it is in their best interest to.
No, I already told you why they have more incentive to undercut the rest of the cartel, because it means they can steal the market.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:If that is the only way you can think of it, you're without creativity - as I said, the companies that form cartels are usually the largest of the industry (or at least the local market) and can absorb the loses need to undercut the new competition
This is not creative. This argument has been made before. I already knew about this argument. You're assuming that undercutting the new competition occurs only for a brief period. Do you think that new competition just stops appearing after the first try? New competition is going to be constantly coming, every time new competition is put out of business by the cartel it gives newer competition even more incentive to enter the market, as they will know that the cartel has been weakened due to running at a loss to undercut the previous competition. No matter how big a cartel is it cannot run at a loss indefinitely. And of course, if they're undercutting new competition the whole time, their cartel is no longer a problem, is it?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Example, you have two big grocery stores in a shopping centre
How much do you want to bet that your two big grocery stores are given subsidies and economic protection from the government, just like the airlines? Of course I don't actually know whether they are, I don't even know what your local grocery stores are. But I feel confident enough to bet on it.
AdmiralPeacock wrote:So? They compete against each other - there is still a market on an international scale.
So? So? Did you ignore everything I just said? Yeah, they compete against each other on an international market. Only the number of competitors is tremendously reduced due to regulations and economic protection, and you completely ignored my statement about flight route rights. Yeah, they are competing, but only if the states they fly between let them compete! Even if I was a multi-billionaire, I could not set up an airline business and enter the market in an attempt to undercut the existing airlines and steal their profits, because I likely would not be allowed to. I would simply not be given rights to fly along flight routes. Did you read that source I gave on Air France? EasyJet wanted to come in and compete, they wanted to try and offer the french a better service, but the french government did not allow EasyJet to! It's as simple as that!
So, your criticism is not a criticism of the free market at all, which is why it is irrelevant. Can you demonstrate to me why the airline industry is indeed a free market? Can you demonstrate why it is as competitive as, say, the software industry (which is one of the more free areas of the market)?
AdmiralPeacock wrote:Fuck you again
Oh, you.
|Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:04 am
BrainBlowPosts: 370Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:16 pmLocation: Norway Gender: Male
Re: Public vs. Private Business
Christ, I'd have alredy closed this, were I a mod.
|Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:08 pm
IlikemustardPosts: 99Joined: Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:44 am
Re: Public vs. Private Business
Gnug215 wrote:No, but it does so most of the time, and it is shaped by public opinion most of the time - also simply because the state, which you keep referring to as some kind of single-minded autonomous blob, consits of people. So no, a "state" won't try to get away with as much as it can without inciting a revolution; people in a given government might.
Yes, a state will sway to the desires of the public in many cases. But as I said it does not have to, and often doesn't, as the only thing keeping it in check is the fear of revolution.
A state may consist of people, but what is the percentage of politicians in comparison to the entire public that lives within the state? Politicians are the only ones in control, they can dictate law and how social services such as police are to operate. And it is very easy to bribe a politician, indeed a senator was involved in the creation of the federal reserve in order to make himself rich from the bribes of the bankers that were also involved. This is outlined in the book The Creature from Jekyll Island and in the recorded lecture, as well as numerous other sources.
Gnug215 wrote:Private business relies first and foremost on profit, everything else is secondary. Private business can "buy" reputation with advertising
Ok, I already covered this in this thread:
I will quote the relevant section for you.
Ilikemustard wrote:There are multiple things wrong with this argument.
Edit: I realised after re-reading this that I misread "advertisement" and instead read "media" for some reason. But the point still stands that buying a lot of advertisement will not cover up an issue that can not escape the various forms of media, including the internet.
Gnug215 wrote:and it can buy up its competitors
I already covered this in another thread. I will quote it for you.
Ilikemustard wrote:First, monopolies don't form in a free market. A good example I have read of why they don't is that as they get bigger, the cost of buying out the market increases. If companyA's competitors see companyA trying to become a monopoly, they know they can charge much higher prices when companyA tries to buy them out. If companyA owns 95% of the market, and you are one of the last few competitors, you know you can charge incredibly high prices for companyA to buy you, as there aren't many other companies you are competing with in stock price.
What I failed to cover was the fact that as a company buys out the market, it is accumulating debt on account of the incredibly high cost of buying out the market. This means it has to increase its prices in order to make up for this debt, making them easier to compete with for new competitors.
Gnug215 wrote:. It has incentive to make money off products, which should be as cheap as they can possibly get away with
Not really... Why do you think people would rather eat at a 5 star restaurant instead of McDonalds?
Gnug215 wrote:Deliberately? I doubt it. It's certain, however, that they have deliberately cut costs as much as they good, and in the process often made dangerous products
Ok, yes, my demonstration of competition as a form of regulation does have flaws. Unfortunately, I forgot to make light of an argument I had already made in another thread, which addresses your problem of 'before-the-fact' regulation. To clarify my position more thoroughly, I am not against regulation in the sense of inspecting a product to make sure it is safe, I am against state regulation.
I will quote the argument for you.
Ilikemustard wrote:Here's how it would work in an intelligent society: The meat sellers would pay a private firm to inspect their product, and then if it passes their inspection it would be stamped with the third party firm's seal, or watermark. This would let consumers know that the product is safe for consumption. If people choose to buy products that don't have a watermark from an inspection firm, it is their fault if they contract some horrible disease. I know what you're thinking, what's stopping the meat sellers from paying off the inspection firm to put their watermark on their meat without inspection?
As I said in my previous post to AdmiralPeacock, this gives the consumer absolute control over their product, as they have a say in every aspect of its purchase.
Gnug215 wrote:Sure, I generalized, and perhaps it's not fair to lump a whole business together and calling it dishonest
I will answer your question more seriously. No, I don't believe the level of dishonest businesses will increase, due to the point I've already made about competition keeping businesses in check. Though if a business advertises their product dishonestly, it can be dealt with by courts, as it is a breach of trade due to the fact that the customer is not receiving the item that they intended to pay for. This would also be how fraud it dealt with.
Gnug215 wrote:Yes, of course there are corrupt politicians and state officials. Does that make the entire system rotten?
Well, yes. I mean I know that not all politicians are corrupt, and that there are legitimate ones that want to help people, but the fact that any politician can simply accept a bribe and change the lives of millions of people they do not know for the worse makes the entire system corrupt, in my opinion.
Gnug215 wrote:Yes, I know that alcohol is harmful, and I don't suggest we ban it, nor sugar. But the state has a vested interest in fixing the problem in a way that private business never could.
Sorry, I should have made this point in my original response to this question.
The free market does handle it. You have seen the documentary-film Supersize Me, no? That probably rose more awareness about McDonalds than any state program ever did.
Added to this is the fact that competitors will likely help fund projects such as this.
Gnug215 wrote:What I mean is... the state doesn't entirely and intentionally quash private enterprise, even when it's harmful. And in a society where private enterprise is so free that entities like Coca Cola and McDonalds are allowed to exist, one would also assume that such freedom would produce a private solution to the problem, right? And yet this isn't the case
How do you know Coca-Cola and McDonalds don't bribe politicians in order to receive protection in the form of regulatory barriers? I'm just speculating here though, I haven't actually looked into this.
Gnug215 wrote:Anyway, I think your trust in private business is unrealistic, just as I'm sure you feel my trust in the state (which is not as high as I'm letting on here, of course - that is only a byproduct of my position) is unrealistic - and vice versa with distrust towards the two entities.
Fair enough. I only hope I've planted the seeds for future change in your mind, and opened you up to the possibilities.
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Yeah, I'm not really interested anymore - hell I totally forgot I was being an ass to Ilikemustard (blame it on a lapse in memory not hypocrisy).
I would suggest you look at those journalists again - they were written before federal regulation.
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Ilikemustard wrote:No, I mean the Road to Nowhere which was built after the bridge's declined proposal.
Fine, you're still hiding from my point. One useless road doesn't even compare in waste to basically every major road in America having one or two more built right next to it by competing road companies. It's an awful, awful idea. Not as awful as private courts or private police, but still awful.
Honestly though, if you think ensuring the quality of our food, water, and pharmaceuticals isn't a valuable government service, you and I aren't on close enough ground to have a discussion.
You two are conflating a state, a federated unit of government in the United States; with State, a generic term for a government.
I still don't see what that has to do with public vs. private enterprise.
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I just read your post about your purchase of the brewhouse. Congrats! If I remember right you were working (for free?) at a brewery in Seattle. Sounds like you are moving on up. I am just wondering what the cost was for those conicals, and more generally what the startup costs are for craft brewers. Also, I am curious about the mention of "crash cooling" in your post below. What is its purpose and how does it improve the flavour?
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