I would love it if every one of the Top 5 (Apple, Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon) said "You know what? Fuck it. We're out" and just left Europe entirely. Just leave it to its own devices.
You say that, but apparently when Apple approached car manufacturers to get them to adopt CarPlay, they had to promise that the only navigation app CarPlay would ever support was Apple Maps, in order not to eat into the sales of car navigation units.
What is your source for that little tidbit of information?
FWIW...the same units offer CarPlay and AndroidPlay have no issues using Google Maps for nav....so it seems unlikely the vendors give a shit if iPhones can use Google Maps as well. It is a lot more likely the whole thing was simply a move by Apple to dirvert people into its own shitty mapping application and have given up trying to convert people like me, who have deleted it from their phone and have chosen to forego CarPlay entirely for this reason.
Of course if they wanted to build it next to your house you'd be completely happy with the idea.
One house near me is full of white trash who make everyone else on the street miserable. Another has a dog that is allowed to bark at all houses of the day and night. Another is running some kind of auto shop out of his garage and makes noise all day and night.
I'd happily smile if Apple announced it is building a data center (or anything else) in any of those locations...or anywhere else near my house.
Amazon says the +$20 is due to the increased budgets for content creation, acquisition and delivery. Seems reasonable that if that is the case, then only the people who want those services pay the +$20.
Personally, I watch the "free" Prime Video because it is there anyway. I don't give a shit about it. If Amazon offered Prime without it, at a savings of $20 or $30 or more, fuck yeah, I'd sign up for that "Prime Lite".
I cancelled Netflix the last time they increased its price by a dollar. It was all that was needed to tip me over the edge and spur action, after considering dropping them for over a year.
Of course the loss of Kevin Spacey from House of Cards pretty much cemented that as a good decision. I mean, LAST season I signed up for a "free trial" of Netflix JUST to watch HoC. Not need to bother even doing THAT this year.
As for Amazon.....$120 is getting up there. I'll suck it up this time...but the NEXT time they increase by $20...good chance I'll drop Prime.
Could you explain this? If you're selling a product/service for less than it costs to produce/render (and sell) that product/service, then what do you call the monetary difference?
A loss.
That difference looks to me like profit, which translates into earnings for anyone involved on the selling side. What is your expectation for earnings?
This is why so many people go OUT of business shortly after going IN to business. The difference between a profit and a loss is a fairly important concept to understand.
False, all you need is capital and a viable market to sell a product/service for less than cost. No blue collar required at all. You're a moron, no wonder you're against education so stridently : It constantly proves you wrong about everything.
Selling a product/service for less than cost is only a viable strategy if you do not need to earn money from your activities.
Sure it does. But less trust than having all the money in it (:
I don't find fault with your approach. I'm just saying, it's not for me and I'd never sign up for it.
If my wife came home one day and said, "Hey, I'm going to open a checking account in my name only and have my pay direct deposited to it, and then contribute some portion of that to our joint account for our joint bills and spend the rest however I want", I'd probably just say "see ya" and move out. If I came home and gave that speech, I'd hope she would do the same.
I know many people think of marriage as a romantic involvement. That is wrong. It is primarily a contractual obligation, and the romantic aspect is a nice bonus. Perhaps I'm just weird. Perhaps I am a heartless cold calculating arsehole... If so, then I have no problem with that. You have the right to judge me.
Ironically - I completely agree with you, once again. I just have a different response.
In my calculation, if I can't trust someone in matters of finances, and take a joint approach to managing finances, I don't want to try making a life with that person.
Are there really many people that order so infrequently? I just checked my order history, and my family and I placed 87 Amazon orders last year.
Checking mine...so far this year (April 19th), I've got in 12 orders on 18 items, and my wife has got in 14 orders on 21 items. If you extrapolate that out for the rest of the year, you end up with something along the lines of 88 orders and 131 items. That's about 1 order every 4 days on average. On any given day, there's about a 25% chance one of us is placing an order from Amazon. On average, we probably get something from Amazon every week of the year. EVERY WEEK.
In the meantime...I buy from Amazon more often than not, NOT because they have the lowest price, but simply for the convenience. Into "convenience", I factor in:
1). Timely shipments. 2). One-stop shopping. 3). "Known factor". 4). Payments and Addresses. 5). Record of purchases.
Amazon can get stuff delivered to me in a timely fashion. Two days "free". In the meantime, I ordered something from E-Trailer that is "in stock" on Monday and it is currently scheduled to arrive on Saturday. I leave on my trip on Friday. Had Amazon had it, I would have bought it from them, even if it cost more.
2). Where else can I get Dr. Pepper Stubbs BBQ sauce, a Bluetooth headphones receiver unit and a box of small Trojan condoms all in one shipment? I mean, that's awesome!
3). I know what I'm going to get when I order from Amazon. I know they will ship, I know the return policy and that I will not have issues, I know the order system, etc. I don't have to guess how I will be treated, like I do when I order from somewhere new.
4). They have my payment info. They have my shipping addresses. They have my billing address. I don't have to enter any of that shit again, like I do when ordering from somewhere new. That makes things fast and easy. I can decode I want to order something, to find it on their site and complete my purchase in 60 seconds, in some cases. 2-3 minutes tops in others. Yeah, I will pay extra for that.
5). I like having my order history in one place. If I wonder, "when did I buy this" or "how much did I pay for this", it is very easy to come up with this information, quickly. If I order from somewhere else, the first thing I have to figure out is "where did I order this from?" Then I go to their site and have to figure out what my login info is. Then if I get logged in, maybe I can find my info, maybe not, depending on how long ago it was. In the meantime - just the other day I was wondering about my headphones and I went on Amazon and quickly determined I got them in 2012 for $500. That made me feel a lot better about ordering a set of replacement earpads for $15 or so.
So yeah, overall, maybe Amazon doesn't always have the best price. But if Amazon is only a little more than the next guy, I will order from them. If it is an item I can get for $10 at some random place, no, I'm not going to pay $20 at Amazon. But if it is an item I can get for $500 at some random place, then, yeah, sure, I'll pay $510 or maybe $515 from Amazon. If for no other reason than I know I will not have issues returning the item without hassle, if that's what I need to do.
My point was that for virtually any position X, there are numerous cases where X doesn't hold. Therefore, someone holding position X is hardly a reason to make wholesale judgements, such as people are angry at Apple because SOME people may have the "perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal." I mean, who the fuck cares? There are plenty of people who DON'T feel that way. Furthermore, there are plenty of people who will find reasons to piss on whatever brand you DO own/like/worship.
At the end of the day, being angry about what someone feels about your purchasing decisions is just retarded.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
I don't know ANYONE who feels this way - no matter how much they dislike Apple products. It sounds a lot more like projecting one's on insecurities on to others to me.
Voicemail is 100% spam now. Ask your service provider to disable it. Anyone you actually want to talk to can use SMS or email. The only people who leave voice messages are spammers who don't have any other means of contacting you.
I already block all SMS messages....both because it blocks that spam channel, plus I think text messages are lame anyway.
My preferred communication channel is e-mail. Fortunately, I can set up and tear down new email addresses on my domain name any time I want.
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I would love it if every one of the Top 5 (Apple, Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon) said "You know what? Fuck it. We're out" and just left Europe entirely. Just leave it to its own devices.
You say that, but apparently when Apple approached car manufacturers to get them to adopt CarPlay, they had to promise that the only navigation app CarPlay would ever support was Apple Maps, in order not to eat into the sales of car navigation units.
What is your source for that little tidbit of information?
FWIW...the same units offer CarPlay and AndroidPlay have no issues using Google Maps for nav....so it seems unlikely the vendors give a shit if iPhones can use Google Maps as well. It is a lot more likely the whole thing was simply a move by Apple to dirvert people into its own shitty mapping application and have given up trying to convert people like me, who have deleted it from their phone and have chosen to forego CarPlay entirely for this reason.
FINALLY!!!!
Now CarPlay is finally worth getting!!! THANK YOU, Apple!!
Of course if they wanted to build it next to your house you'd be completely happy with the idea.
One house near me is full of white trash who make everyone else on the street miserable.
Another has a dog that is allowed to bark at all houses of the day and night.
Another is running some kind of auto shop out of his garage and makes noise all day and night.
I'd happily smile if Apple announced it is building a data center (or anything else) in any of those locations...or anywhere else near my house.
NASA gets it's funds from the government, so it too is a socialized organization.
Uh, no. NASA gets its funds from the people who generate wealth via Capitalism. The government just provides a conduit for the funds transfer.
Amazon says the +$20 is due to the increased budgets for content creation, acquisition and delivery. Seems reasonable that if that is the case, then only the people who want those services pay the +$20.
Personally, I watch the "free" Prime Video because it is there anyway. I don't give a shit about it. If Amazon offered Prime without it, at a savings of $20 or $30 or more, fuck yeah, I'd sign up for that "Prime Lite".
I cancelled Netflix the last time they increased its price by a dollar. It was all that was needed to tip me over the edge and spur action, after considering dropping them for over a year.
Of course the loss of Kevin Spacey from House of Cards pretty much cemented that as a good decision. I mean, LAST season I signed up for a "free trial" of Netflix JUST to watch HoC. Not need to bother even doing THAT this year.
As for Amazon.....$120 is getting up there. I'll suck it up this time...but the NEXT time they increase by $20...good chance I'll drop Prime.
I'm assuming other states have similar public school tuitions. U of Maryland is known to be cheap in-state. Also, NY is a big state.
Maryland? Shit. You might as well go to NY. Same fucking difference.
Could you explain this? If you're selling a product/service for less than it costs to produce/render (and sell) that product/service, then what do you call the monetary difference?
A loss.
That difference looks to me like profit, which translates into earnings for anyone involved on the selling side. What is your expectation for earnings?
This is why so many people go OUT of business shortly after going IN to business. The difference between a profit and a loss is a fairly important concept to understand.
You can go to CUNY or SUNY for about $7500/yr, less if you get an Empire Scholarship.
But you'd have to go to New York.
Fuck that.
False, all you need is capital and a viable market to sell a product/service for less than cost. No blue collar required at all. You're a moron, no wonder you're against education so stridently : It constantly proves you wrong about everything.
Selling a product/service for less than cost is only a viable strategy if you do not need to earn money from your activities.
NOW who is the moron?
The new Vettes? Just don't walk in front of them.
How often is a pedestrian hit by a vette? Seriously. How big of a problem is this?
Hell, I rarely even SEE a Vette anymore.
Wearing headphones, and a rubber lubed with Dr. Pepper and Stubbs BBQ sauce must be something new.
You need to read more closely.
It is Dr. Pepper flavoured Stubbs BBQ sauce....not Dr. Pepper AND Stubbs BBQ sauce.
https://www.amazon.com/Stubbs-...
The blessings of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are numerous and provided with great love....and usually a nice sauce.
Having a common account requires trust.
Sure it does. But less trust than having all the money in it (:
I don't find fault with your approach. I'm just saying, it's not for me and I'd never sign up for it.
If my wife came home one day and said, "Hey, I'm going to open a checking account in my name only and have my pay direct deposited to it, and then contribute some portion of that to our joint account for our joint bills and spend the rest however I want", I'd probably just say "see ya" and move out. If I came home and gave that speech, I'd hope she would do the same.
I know many people think of marriage as a romantic involvement. That is wrong. It is primarily a contractual obligation, and the romantic aspect is a nice bonus. Perhaps I'm just weird. Perhaps I am a heartless cold calculating arsehole... If so, then I have no problem with that. You have the right to judge me.
Ironically - I completely agree with you, once again. I just have a different response.
In my calculation, if I can't trust someone in matters of finances, and take a joint approach to managing finances, I don't want to try making a life with that person.
Having your finances sorted out helps to stabilize marriages. It's the singlemost important advice I would give to newlyweds.
I completely agree.
I'm just not much on the "mine, yours, ours" model. I'm a lot more interested in the "we're in this together" model.
But whatever works for you (:
Are there really many people that order so infrequently? I just checked my order history, and my family and I placed 87 Amazon orders last year.
Checking mine...so far this year (April 19th), I've got in 12 orders on 18 items, and my wife has got in 14 orders on 21 items. If you extrapolate that out for the rest of the year, you end up with something along the lines of 88 orders and 131 items. That's about 1 order every 4 days on average. On any given day, there's about a 25% chance one of us is placing an order from Amazon. On average, we probably get something from Amazon every week of the year. EVERY WEEK.
So.........there you go (:
Amazon bashing...meh...OK.
In the meantime...I buy from Amazon more often than not, NOT because they have the lowest price, but simply for the convenience. Into "convenience", I factor in:
1). Timely shipments.
2). One-stop shopping.
3). "Known factor".
4). Payments and Addresses.
5). Record of purchases.
Amazon can get stuff delivered to me in a timely fashion. Two days "free". In the meantime, I ordered something from E-Trailer that is "in stock" on Monday and it is currently scheduled to arrive on Saturday. I leave on my trip on Friday. Had Amazon had it, I would have bought it from them, even if it cost more.
2). Where else can I get Dr. Pepper Stubbs BBQ sauce, a Bluetooth headphones receiver unit and a box of small Trojan condoms all in one shipment? I mean, that's awesome!
3). I know what I'm going to get when I order from Amazon. I know they will ship, I know the return policy and that I will not have issues, I know the order system, etc. I don't have to guess how I will be treated, like I do when I order from somewhere new.
4). They have my payment info. They have my shipping addresses. They have my billing address. I don't have to enter any of that shit again, like I do when ordering from somewhere new. That makes things fast and easy. I can decode I want to order something, to find it on their site and complete my purchase in 60 seconds, in some cases. 2-3 minutes tops in others. Yeah, I will pay extra for that.
5). I like having my order history in one place. If I wonder, "when did I buy this" or "how much did I pay for this", it is very easy to come up with this information, quickly. If I order from somewhere else, the first thing I have to figure out is "where did I order this from?" Then I go to their site and have to figure out what my login info is. Then if I get logged in, maybe I can find my info, maybe not, depending on how long ago it was. In the meantime - just the other day I was wondering about my headphones and I went on Amazon and quickly determined I got them in 2012 for $500. That made me feel a lot better about ordering a set of replacement earpads for $15 or so.
So yeah, overall, maybe Amazon doesn't always have the best price. But if Amazon is only a little more than the next guy, I will order from them. If it is an item I can get for $10 at some random place, no, I'm not going to pay $20 at Amazon. But if it is an item I can get for $500 at some random place, then, yeah, sure, I'll pay $510 or maybe $515 from Amazon. If for no other reason than I know I will not have issues returning the item without hassle, if that's what I need to do.
Separate Amazon accounts...separate credit cards accounts.....separate bank accounts....do you have sex with separate people too?
Sure.
My point was that for virtually any position X, there are numerous cases where X doesn't hold. Therefore, someone holding position X is hardly a reason to make wholesale judgements, such as people are angry at Apple because SOME people may have the "perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal." I mean, who the fuck cares? There are plenty of people who DON'T feel that way. Furthermore, there are plenty of people who will find reasons to piss on whatever brand you DO own/like/worship.
At the end of the day, being angry about what someone feels about your purchasing decisions is just retarded.
Here is a theory.
I do not think that the anger is with the high price, but with the perception that the high price translates into high quality, and the perception that unless you are proudly displaying an Apple product, you are a penniless peasant who cannot afford the real deal.
I don't know ANYONE who feels this way - no matter how much they dislike Apple products. It sounds a lot more like projecting one's on insecurities on to others to me.
I look at porn that I am not really interested in, just so they don't know what kind of porn I REALLY like.
I need to work on my AI - it didn't predict this and so I never saw it coming.
Voicemail is 100% spam now. Ask your service provider to disable it. Anyone you actually want to talk to can use SMS or email. The only people who leave voice messages are spammers who don't have any other means of contacting you.
I already block all SMS messages....both because it blocks that spam channel, plus I think text messages are lame anyway.
My preferred communication channel is e-mail. Fortunately, I can set up and tear down new email addresses on my domain name any time I want.