let me tell you a story... a story of a little text message. This little message, let's call him Bill, Bill was a happy little string of 1's and 0's. Back a few years ago, Bill could get anywhere he wanted for just 10 cents! it was a wonderful time, all three of the cellphone carriers had the same fees so Bill didn't care where he was going for his time.
But, one day carrier A decided that Bill was getting too much of a free ride and ramped up the price to 15 cents. Now Bill was sad, he didn't think he was that fat, so for a while he hung out with the other two carriers, but soon they saw just how much more money carrier A was making those times that Bill had to use them and rose their prices to 15 cents too... now it didn't matter where Bill went, he had to pay the higher fee.
Well, a couple years later, the carriers once again raised their prices to 20 cents, then 25 cents, first one would raise their prices and for a while Bill could avoid the increased fees by going to the other carriers but soon they too would match the highest cost carrier.
Now, Bill has to pay 25c to go anywhere, and another 10c once he gets there. The cost it takes to go places hasn't changed, but because one carrier could get that ammount out of Bill, they all raised their prices to match.
The moral of the story is: free market only works when the sellers give the customers the choice to drive the market. If there is no choice, or all choices are rendered equally bad, free market falls flat on it's ass.
The publishers are interested in making big piles of money
exactly... now, what gives you more money:
option a: Sell book X with adds for $1, and without for $10. Ad mone makes $9 per book, average net for each book sold: $10
option b: only sell book X with adds for $10 because the only three other e-book retailers are doing the same. Ad money still makes $9 per book, average net is $19.
Why cut your net in nearly half? It is the same reason why your cellphone company can get away with charging 25c a text, because every other cellphone company is charging 25c a text, not because it actually costs that much to do.
It will start with the next huge blockbuster book, think the next harry potter or twilight... it will ONLY come in full price, ad-saturated books, and because everyone wants one, they will pay it. Next big book, maybe not as popular, same thing, then another, and another... within a few years, every book will be full price + ads.
DVDs? iTunes? Netflix? not cable, and when was the last time you bought a dvd without a wad of ads at the start (some they wont let you skip)?
CDs? iTunes? Spotify? not broadcast, and both the brick&morter and the online stores get money from the ads they pelt you with while you are there.
If the whole "free market" kumbiya actually held true with a small selection of providers, why do we not have comercial-less channels? or more ad-free pay/contribute webpages? because people realize they can have their cake and eat it too... you will pay full price for your DVD and they get the ad money on top.
Do we have the option to get our cable TV without comercials? there are a few pay on-demand channels, but as a general rule, no. Broadcast radio? no Magizines? no
Think like a distributer... why charge less for the version with ads in them when you can charge full price AND get the advertising money and make it the only version offered. If I were a heartless corp, I would offer the two versions, then when the next big hit comes out only offer it with ads at full price, then slowly increase the number of ad-only books till that was all I offered in about 5 years or so.
well, as a girl with muscular thighs, I wear em to keep my regular shorts from getting holes worn right through the crotch.
Most bike seats are (ironically) designed for male hips/legs. The horn tends to be in exactly the wrong place for female riders and will constantly rub against our pants.
girls bike shorts are a) designed to take this wear and will often have extra material in that area, and b) are tighter to the skin so wear less.
because the guy who vents occasionally is safter to have around than the guy who bottles up his rage for 20 years and goes postal with a shotgun because you forgot to get him a cake on his birthday like the other employees?
actually, all those things can be updated to a new name (take it from someone who has changed hers). It is a royal pain in the backside, but you can get most near all your old name stuff changed over (depending on where you are of course, some places are better than others).
It can take years, and hundreds of dollars, but it can be done.
As for refrences, you do have a point there. I've lost past work experience because of my name change, it was part of the price I had to pay.
but, but, but.... that guy applying for a job said something mean 20 years ago! We can't hire him, what if he is the same as he was when he was seven years old? Our company can't take that chance!
oh I never said Dionysus was the god of the geeks, but he has a slightly more... attainable body than most Greek gods. Hephaestus, while lame, was also freaky strong, even by god standards.
While anecdotal, I know a professional blacksmith. At a festival where he was demonstrating his craft he decided he didn't like the place his anvil was placed so he lifted it up and moved it... a 300lbs anvil, that was nailed down.
Juror predisposition. One of the more common causes of dismissing a juror is due to them being predisposed (one way or the other) due to media coverage... the fact that this is an "official" posting adds quite a bit of prejudice towards guilt to many who see it... who would then be dissmissed by the defense.
you mean like $30 a month with a $10 "connection fee", $5 "wire rental fee" and a $20 "because we say so fee".... or the other guy who is $65 all included?
While I see your point, I would like to be sure in a firefight that the guy who has been ordered to watch my back is actually there and not on a plane home because he/she decided they didn't want to play war any more.
You need to balance the "if you want to leave you should be able to leave" with "if you have been ordered to go to X and do Y we need to be sure that Y is actually going to get done or people will die".
You reply with rumor and ad-homs. Either cite your sources or move on.
As for mine: Dune ( The Road to Dune (2005), p. 264 ) LoTR: "World War I and World War II". http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/influences.html. Retrieved 16 June 2006. I'm afraid I will have to go home to look up the info on Journeys of the Catechist (the one I was not to sure on)
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let me tell you a story... a story of a little text message. This little message, let's call him Bill, Bill was a happy little string of 1's and 0's. Back a few years ago, Bill could get anywhere he wanted for just 10 cents! it was a wonderful time, all three of the cellphone carriers had the same fees so Bill didn't care where he was going for his time.
But, one day carrier A decided that Bill was getting too much of a free ride and ramped up the price to 15 cents. Now Bill was sad, he didn't think he was that fat, so for a while he hung out with the other two carriers, but soon they saw just how much more money carrier A was making those times that Bill had to use them and rose their prices to 15 cents too... now it didn't matter where Bill went, he had to pay the higher fee.
Well, a couple years later, the carriers once again raised their prices to 20 cents, then 25 cents, first one would raise their prices and for a while Bill could avoid the increased fees by going to the other carriers but soon they too would match the highest cost carrier.
Now, Bill has to pay 25c to go anywhere, and another 10c once he gets there. The cost it takes to go places hasn't changed, but because one carrier could get that ammount out of Bill, they all raised their prices to match.
The moral of the story is: free market only works when the sellers give the customers the choice to drive the market. If there is no choice, or all choices are rendered equally bad, free market falls flat on it's ass.
Why should I could keep paying full price and suffer through advertisements
because there is no other option? because it is that or you don't get to read it. If the only option is full price, with ads, what do you do?
The publishers are interested in making big piles of money
exactly... now, what gives you more money:
option a:
Sell book X with adds for $1, and without for $10. Ad mone makes $9 per book, average net for each book sold: $10
option b:
only sell book X with adds for $10 because the only three other e-book retailers are doing the same. Ad money still makes $9 per book, average net is $19.
Why cut your net in nearly half? It is the same reason why your cellphone company can get away with charging 25c a text, because every other cellphone company is charging 25c a text, not because it actually costs that much to do.
It will start with the next huge blockbuster book, think the next harry potter or twilight... it will ONLY come in full price, ad-saturated books, and because everyone wants one, they will pay it. Next big book, maybe not as popular, same thing, then another, and another... within a few years, every book will be full price + ads.
DVDs? iTunes? Netflix?
not cable, and when was the last time you bought a dvd without a wad of ads at the start (some they wont let you skip)?
CDs? iTunes? Spotify?
not broadcast, and both the brick&morter and the online stores get money from the ads they pelt you with while you are there.
If the whole "free market" kumbiya actually held true with a small selection of providers, why do we not have comercial-less channels? or more ad-free pay/contribute webpages? because people realize they can have their cake and eat it too... you will pay full price for your DVD and they get the ad money on top.
you have got a job offer from every single resume you have ever sent out? gods... can I get some tips?
aye, there's the rub... will we have options?
Do we have the option to get our cable TV without comercials? there are a few pay on-demand channels, but as a general rule, no.
Broadcast radio? no
Magizines? no
Think like a distributer... why charge less for the version with ads in them when you can charge full price AND get the advertising money and make it the only version offered. If I were a heartless corp, I would offer the two versions, then when the next big hit comes out only offer it with ads at full price, then slowly increase the number of ad-only books till that was all I offered in about 5 years or so.
and how many potential employers just never called you back? how many resumes dissapeared into the void?
maybe you're not hearing complaints because they saw what you said and binned your application.
well, as a girl with muscular thighs, I wear em to keep my regular shorts from getting holes worn right through the crotch.
Most bike seats are (ironically) designed for male hips/legs. The horn tends to be in exactly the wrong place for female riders and will constantly rub against our pants.
girls bike shorts are a) designed to take this wear and will often have extra material in that area, and b) are tighter to the skin so wear less.
because the guy who vents occasionally is safter to have around than the guy who bottles up his rage for 20 years and goes postal with a shotgun because you forgot to get him a cake on his birthday like the other employees?
actually, all those things can be updated to a new name (take it from someone who has changed hers). It is a royal pain in the backside, but you can get most near all your old name stuff changed over (depending on where you are of course, some places are better than others).
It can take years, and hundreds of dollars, but it can be done.
As for refrences, you do have a point there. I've lost past work experience because of my name change, it was part of the price I had to pay.
I'm not laughing... I put in more than a little effort to keep my on and offline lifes seperate for a good reason.
but, but, but.... that guy applying for a job said something mean 20 years ago! We can't hire him, what if he is the same as he was when he was seven years old? Our company can't take that chance!
What you say? Climate change has only been going on for the last 12 years of the last solar cycle and was directly discussed in the article?
oh I never said Dionysus was the god of the geeks, but he has a slightly more... attainable body than most Greek gods. Hephaestus, while lame, was also freaky strong, even by god standards.
While anecdotal, I know a professional blacksmith. At a festival where he was demonstrating his craft he decided he didn't like the place his anvil was placed so he lifted it up and moved it... a 300lbs anvil, that was nailed down.
Dionysus
depends on the case... for a domestic violence charge seeing the accused on an offical police site with a DUI charge could prejudice the juror.
Juror predisposition. One of the more common causes of dismissing a juror is due to them being predisposed (one way or the other) due to media coverage... the fact that this is an "official" posting adds quite a bit of prejudice towards guilt to many who see it... who would then be dissmissed by the defense.
I'm sure defence lawyers are just squeeing right now, this is perfict misstrial fodder / cause for dissmissing jurors.
you mean like $30 a month with a $10 "connection fee", $5 "wire rental fee" and a $20 "because we say so fee".... or the other guy who is $65 all included?
maybe we just need to hold them differently?
hope that guy can shoot first....
"Are you implying that people only die if orders are not followed ?"
That is a hell of a strawman you have there Dorthy.
While I see your point, I would like to be sure in a firefight that the guy who has been ordered to watch my back is actually there and not on a plane home because he/she decided they didn't want to play war any more.
You need to balance the "if you want to leave you should be able to leave" with "if you have been ordered to go to X and do Y we need to be sure that Y is actually going to get done or people will die".
sure, if you can actually FIND an unlimited "unlimited" data plan.
You reply with rumor and ad-homs. Either cite your sources or move on.
As for mine: Dune ( The Road to Dune (2005), p. 264 )
LoTR: "World War I and World War II". http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/rings/influences.html. Retrieved 16 June 2006.
I'm afraid I will have to go home to look up the info on Journeys of the Catechist (the one I was not to sure on)