Part of it is because there's a million pointy haired morons out there who will throw a temper tantrum if you're not there at exactly 9:00 A.M. and they don't give a damn if the sun won't rise for another 9 hours.
Moving right along to your 1 sec = 1 sec desires, what do you plan to do when your clock has drifted from the standard? You can either jump (against your express wishes) or slightly change the length of a second according to your clock until you come back into agreement (also against your express wishes). Your clock not drifting isn't an option, there's no room for an atomic clock in your tower case and you wouldn't like the price. So physics says "petition denied".
If only 1 million people in the next 20 years worldwide need a single 14 day course, that's 10,000,000,000 to them.
They wouldn't have so much cost from failed attempts if they would actually give up on them when the early results are disappointing rather than trying to find a way to game the stats to show some tiny sliver of efficacy.
That's just nonsense. Unless they simply never take on any sort of debt or obligation whatsoever (including leasing), there is no amount of backup plan that can fully cover them. I agree that prudence can make it less likely.
You provided a hypothetical not seen in nature. I asked to see an actual dog and you drew a picture of a dragon and figured that was just as good.
I then pointed out the ways that a dragon is not a dog. Now I am also pointing out that a drawing is not actually a thing in the real world ( a drawing of a dog is not an actual dog).
For the rest, honestly most modern economic theory is based on describing how and why our markets are not healthy. Some actually suggest things we could do to improve the situation, but they rarely get done because it would interfere with major political contributor's ability to profit on the failures and because it would trample various people's ideologies and/or political aspirations.
Sure, but eventually, someone unlocks something, perhaps a last ditch effort to stay afloat, and there you have it. Or someone takes on half of a percent off the price of their top end model, and about the same off of their mid model, then you cut a tiny bit more. The low end doesn't ghet cut as much because it's actually priced about right.
Fast forward and there's no point in having the mid model so it just goes away.
Of do you claim that healthy markets don't actually do any of the good things claimed for them? If that's the case, we'd better try Communism.
Note, I have not used a No True Scotsman fallacy. That would first require that you give an actual example of price discrimination that is actually good for the consumer.
A different example is how airlines charge less for flights that include a weekend stay. That tends to eliminate price insensitive business travellers.
And a healthy market would drive the non-weekend price down.
And your example of deactivated features happens all the fucking time in the real world.
I am all too aware of that. It's a shame we don't have a healthy market. A vigorous market with well informed buyers would force the manufacturers to enable the high end features at mid to low end prices to compete.
Well, yeah, they did it wrong and it went badly, go figure.
Notice that executive compensation and dividends weren't on the table for their move. My guestimate was based on taking a generally more egalitarian approach rather than giving the shirt off of someone else's back and squeezing their testicles if they object.
Those are examples of product differentiation. Business phone service has a better SLA than residential as well as offering services only interesting to a business such as hunt groups and T. Student editions of software are generally licensed for non-commercial use only and may have limitations of functionality. We all know there are distinct differences between coach and first class.
Some forms of product differentiation are perfectly reasonable. The different price reflects the different cost to provide the service. Or, in the case of student editions (sometimes), the price wouldn't cover the prorated development cost. It's tallied against advertising and promotion since there is the hope the student will one day advocate for the pro edition.
Other forms of product differentiation are not reasonable. For example, when all models in the line are built as the top of the line model and features are then disabled to produce the lesser models. There, the marginal cost of production is actually a bit greater for the low cost models. That play wouldn't work in a healthy market.
Price discrimination is when exactly the same product with exactly the same production cost is sold for a higher price in markets that aren't functional enough to drive the price towards the marginal cost of production.
Your 3 points are good ones, but people who don't follow those rules are not necessarily deadbeats. They may not be that great at managing their money, but it doesn't mean they didn't fully intend to pay and could before that layoff, heart attack, natural disaster, etc.
More relevantly, the theory is that if you spend money you don't have on the right thing, it'll generate enough money to repay the money your borrowed and leave you extra money afterwards.
So you mean SOP for businesses these days?
I do know what it is and how it works, and I'm sober.
I pay my bills too. Too bad someone who does not has same first initial and last name (but is not related).
The fact that you blocked their number (singular) suggests that they were not the hard core scum I speak of that have multiple numbers and repeatedly sell the same debt back and forth.
You "know" it to be wrong? The one example we have of it being tried worked beautifully. This "know", is it like we "know" that the planets can only move in perfect circles? Is it like we "know" that Negros will go mad smoking marijuana and rape white women? Or is it like we "know" that leaded gasoline is safe?
I ask because it apparently isn't "know" in the sense of we did an experiment and these are the results.
I think the AC has it right, it's know" as in unwavering faith.
You've never dealt with the hard core scum that have multiple phone numbers and sell the debt on to the next hard core scum as soon as you figure out who and where they are.
If only. It's also the consequence of happening to have the same last name as an unrelated debtor, or having a phone number one or two digits off from a debtor, or attempting to do business with a merchant that doesn't understand that they have to actually provide a product or service to you if they want you to give them money, or a hospital that doesn't understand that they have to send you a bill if they hope to be paid, etc.
While I understand how overbearing debt collectors can be (I once had one bugging me for a medical expense that I didn't even know I had for anesthesia, which was just a portion of the bill that nobody bothered to tell me that I owed until it was already in collections,)
Try having a debt collector making constant and obnoxious calls for someone you don't even know. Or for a debt you certainly don't owe. The latter is technically easy to handle since you just have to file a dispute, BUT what really happens is they sell it on to the next collector and the whole process starts from square 1. The former is impossible. Since you are not the (alleged) debtor you have no legal standing to order them to cease collection activities or to dispute the debt. And again, they will quickly sell it on to the next collector providing all of the bogus contact info that got them to call you.
Debt collectors ARE bottom feeding scum. The last thing our society needs is for them to start robo-calling.
As for people who actually DO owe a debt, many of them took it on in good faith but then unforeseen circumstances left them unable to pay. Harassing them won't make the money appear.
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You'll still have to deal with clock drift resulting in seconds that aren't exactly a second or occasional jumps.
Part of it is because there's a million pointy haired morons out there who will throw a temper tantrum if you're not there at exactly 9:00 A.M. and they don't give a damn if the sun won't rise for another 9 hours.
Moving right along to your 1 sec = 1 sec desires, what do you plan to do when your clock has drifted from the standard? You can either jump (against your express wishes) or slightly change the length of a second according to your clock until you come back into agreement (also against your express wishes). Your clock not drifting isn't an option, there's no room for an atomic clock in your tower case and you wouldn't like the price. So physics says "petition denied".
No, it isn't. Put an atomic clock on Earth and another in orbit. They will disagree soon enough. They will both be right.
If only 1 million people in the next 20 years worldwide need a single 14 day course, that's 10,000,000,000 to them.
They wouldn't have so much cost from failed attempts if they would actually give up on them when the early results are disappointing rather than trying to find a way to game the stats to show some tiny sliver of efficacy.
Then why didn't you RTFA?
That's just nonsense. Unless they simply never take on any sort of debt or obligation whatsoever (including leasing), there is no amount of backup plan that can fully cover them. I agree that prudence can make it less likely.
You provided a hypothetical not seen in nature. I asked to see an actual dog and you drew a picture of a dragon and figured that was just as good.
I then pointed out the ways that a dragon is not a dog. Now I am also pointing out that a drawing is not actually a thing in the real world ( a drawing of a dog is not an actual dog).
For the rest, honestly most modern economic theory is based on describing how and why our markets are not healthy. Some actually suggest things we could do to improve the situation, but they rarely get done because it would interfere with major political contributor's ability to profit on the failures and because it would trample various people's ideologies and/or political aspirations.
Sure, but eventually, someone unlocks something, perhaps a last ditch effort to stay afloat, and there you have it. Or someone takes on half of a percent off the price of their top end model, and about the same off of their mid model, then you cut a tiny bit more. The low end doesn't ghet cut as much because it's actually priced about right.
Fast forward and there's no point in having the mid model so it just goes away.
Of do you claim that healthy markets don't actually do any of the good things claimed for them? If that's the case, we'd better try Communism.
Note, I have not used a No True Scotsman fallacy. That would first require that you give an actual example of price discrimination that is actually good for the consumer.
A different example is how airlines charge less for flights that include a weekend stay. That tends to eliminate price insensitive business travellers.
And a healthy market would drive the non-weekend price down.
And your example of deactivated features happens all the fucking time in the real world.
I am all too aware of that. It's a shame we don't have a healthy market. A vigorous market with well informed buyers would force the manufacturers to enable the high end features at mid to low end prices to compete.
Sure, but it's not like that option was uniquely available to the one company.
Well, yeah, they did it wrong and it went badly, go figure.
Notice that executive compensation and dividends weren't on the table for their move. My guestimate was based on taking a generally more egalitarian approach rather than giving the shirt off of someone else's back and squeezing their testicles if they object.
Those are examples of product differentiation. Business phone service has a better SLA than residential as well as offering services only interesting to a business such as hunt groups and T. Student editions of software are generally licensed for non-commercial use only and may have limitations of functionality. We all know there are distinct differences between coach and first class.
Some forms of product differentiation are perfectly reasonable. The different price reflects the different cost to provide the service. Or, in the case of student editions (sometimes), the price wouldn't cover the prorated development cost. It's tallied against advertising and promotion since there is the hope the student will one day advocate for the pro edition.
Other forms of product differentiation are not reasonable. For example, when all models in the line are built as the top of the line model and features are then disabled to produce the lesser models. There, the marginal cost of production is actually a bit greater for the low cost models. That play wouldn't work in a healthy market.
Price discrimination is when exactly the same product with exactly the same production cost is sold for a higher price in markets that aren't functional enough to drive the price towards the marginal cost of production.
Your 3 points are good ones, but people who don't follow those rules are not necessarily deadbeats. They may not be that great at managing their money, but it doesn't mean they didn't fully intend to pay and could before that layoff, heart attack, natural disaster, etc.
If price discrimination is even possible, the market is already well on it's way to failure.
More relevantly, the theory is that if you spend money you don't have on the right thing, it'll generate enough money to repay the money your borrowed and leave you extra money afterwards.
So you mean SOP for businesses these days?
I do know what it is and how it works, and I'm sober.
I pay my bills too. Too bad someone who does not has same first initial and last name (but is not related).
The fact that you blocked their number (singular) suggests that they were not the hard core scum I speak of that have multiple numbers and repeatedly sell the same debt back and forth.
And?
You "know" it to be wrong? The one example we have of it being tried worked beautifully. This "know", is it like we "know" that the planets can only move in perfect circles? Is it like we "know" that Negros will go mad smoking marijuana and rape white women? Or is it like we "know" that leaded gasoline is safe?
I ask because it apparently isn't "know" in the sense of we did an experiment and these are the results.
I think the AC has it right, it's know" as in unwavering faith.
Just recognize it as yet another form of insider trading and pump and dump rolled into one.
Sorry, no. It is the same. If thing you want costs X, you gotta spend X or do without. It doesn't much matter what X is.
Sure, because debt collectors are so well known for not skirting on the ragged edge of illegality.
You've never dealt with the hard core scum that have multiple phone numbers and sell the debt on to the next hard core scum as soon as you figure out who and where they are.
If only. It's also the consequence of happening to have the same last name as an unrelated debtor, or having a phone number one or two digits off from a debtor, or attempting to do business with a merchant that doesn't understand that they have to actually provide a product or service to you if they want you to give them money, or a hospital that doesn't understand that they have to send you a bill if they hope to be paid, etc.
While I understand how overbearing debt collectors can be (I once had one bugging me for a medical expense that I didn't even know I had for anesthesia, which was just a portion of the bill that nobody bothered to tell me that I owed until it was already in collections,)
Try having a debt collector making constant and obnoxious calls for someone you don't even know. Or for a debt you certainly don't owe. The latter is technically easy to handle since you just have to file a dispute, BUT what really happens is they sell it on to the next collector and the whole process starts from square 1. The former is impossible. Since you are not the (alleged) debtor you have no legal standing to order them to cease collection activities or to dispute the debt. And again, they will quickly sell it on to the next collector providing all of the bogus contact info that got them to call you.
Debt collectors ARE bottom feeding scum. The last thing our society needs is for them to start robo-calling.
As for people who actually DO owe a debt, many of them took it on in good faith but then unforeseen circumstances left them unable to pay. Harassing them won't make the money appear.
So is Gravity Payments.