Amazon provides no hassle, no-cost returns and free shipping in both directions.
Case in point: I ordered a jacket on Wednesday, it arrived Friday, but didnt fit; I shipped it back (for free) on Saturday, and received a replacement by Wednesday.
Thats really not bad, especially considering how good the price / selection was, that I didnt have to spend forever looking for the right size, and that my total time invested in the whole procedure was about 30 minutes in total.
Compare with a store, where if it doesnt fit, I have to get in my car to head back to the store, spend time looking, spend time in line, etc etc; each store visit would easily be 30-40 minutes.
Because if you care about games, this is too slow.
Its really not, unless its not the game you care about but the eye-candy. IIRC professional Starcraft 2 gamers (who could be said to "care about games") turn the graphics way down anyways.
So I _COULD_ buy a car for under $20k that does 0-60 in a modest amount of time... Or I could just buy a Bugatti Veyron with a better engine and drive properly.
Good question - they probably should, but I suspect they don't. I'm sure they suffer taxation.
"Suffer" is ridiculous. They are here illegally. They are not legally allowed to reside in the country. What makes you suspect that they should be able to vote?
And they most probably DONT "suffer" taxation, because if theyre on a payroll that does automatic deductions they would have had to provide details that they wouldnt have (social security # etc).
Im just not getting the outrage at asking folks to drop by their safety deposit box, grab their birth certificate, and show it when they arrive at the polls. Or if thats too much trouble, their drivers license, passport, or anything else.
The right-wing nuts here passed a voter ID law, and now the people who all know me at the voting place can't let me vote without showing government papers
Its a government election, and we have a huge number of undocumented folks in the country (hence the talk of immigration reform). By what possible logic should we NOT ID folks at the ballot box?
Drivers licenses expire every 10 years. Ditto passports. Birth certificates do not expire.
And seriously are you defending the right for people to utterly not give a crap so that we can have a completely unmonitored voting system with no chance of making sure its legit? 1 Hour every few years, omigosh. (or, you know, social security card or birth certificate).
The subject was "personal freedom". And for abortion it is about forcing someone to take a significant risk for their health and life on behalf of someone else
For 99% of cases that "risk" was voluntarily taken, and is not significant (beyond normal childbirth). In no way can you justify the taking of the life of an infant that you conceived because you got cold feet after the fact.
In before someone throws in that incredibly niche 1% rape / incest thing to distract from the actual issue at hand.
Its like people are being intentionally obtuse to pretend to misunderstand why "pro-lifers" actually oppose abortion.
Abortion isnt even the same thing, and you know it; youre just trying to trollbait.
The abortion debate is about stopping infanticide; it has absolutely nothing to do with personal rights, unless you consider there to be a personal right to kill others.
It also looks like this has become a minor right-wing cause. Jack-booted thugs coming to take away your wood-burning stoves, and all that.
The right wing tends to be against regulation that erodes personal freedoms. This particular rule may or may not be a good idea, but the healthy thing for society is to look at all new regulation with a healthy dose of skepticism and suspicion.
Why do people flip out about these basic tenets of modern civilization?
Because the basic tenet of the US government was that it had a very limited, explicitly listed set of duties, and that in general it wasnt to be in the business of taking away basic freedoms.
How we go from that to the government deciding that my diet isnt acceptable, but theyll fix it for me, is beyond me.
And is there any benefit to using trans fats other than that they are cheaper than alternatives?
Yes: The benefit that comes to rational adults living in a free country without having to get permission from the government to make basic life decisions (such as what to eat for dinner).
She would ask her manager, as would any person in the food service industry when asked a nutrition question. My first job was burger king, we got those questions, and the manager had the answers. Ditto as a waiter; in fact as a waiter I specifically knew what kinds of fat were used to cook specific dishes for the vegans / vegetarians.
What sort of restaurant wouldnt keep close tabs on what ingredients are in their foods?
Scare-labeling isnt "honest", its an appeal to emotion (which is a fallacy). Why couldnt it be a label on the back about how much trans-fat the item contained, and a public campaign to let people know about it?
I mean even thats a bit ridiculous, but its really none of the government's business.
Passing a law that increased information (without going full california-mode "lets label everything as causing cancer") might be reasonable. Passing a law banning a foodstuff that the government has decided isnt in my best interest to eat rings alarm bells.
Restaurant food is even worse in that you never know if it contains it or not.
I imagine that any grown-ups that particularly cared would take the effort to find out.
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Amazon provides no hassle, no-cost returns and free shipping in both directions.
Case in point: I ordered a jacket on Wednesday, it arrived Friday, but didnt fit; I shipped it back (for free) on Saturday, and received a replacement by Wednesday.
Thats really not bad, especially considering how good the price / selection was, that I didnt have to spend forever looking for the right size, and that my total time invested in the whole procedure was about 30 minutes in total.
Compare with a store, where if it doesnt fit, I have to get in my car to head back to the store, spend time looking, spend time in line, etc etc; each store visit would easily be 30-40 minutes.
Because if you care about games, this is too slow.
Its really not, unless its not the game you care about but the eye-candy. IIRC professional Starcraft 2 gamers (who could be said to "care about games") turn the graphics way down anyways.
So I _COULD_ buy a car for under $20k that does 0-60 in a modest amount of time...
Or I could just buy a Bugatti Veyron with a better engine and drive properly.
Is that the argument you're making?
It also probably costs as much for the CPU and GPU as it would for the entire AMD-based system.
Wasnt the whole point that people wanted an unregulated currency with no government involvement?
Whats that old saying? "Be careful what you wish for."
ReactOS is attempting to reimplement an OS that is EOL'd and 10 years old. I dont know that Microsoft cares too much.
the long knives will come out.
Good luck with that, clean-room reverse engineering is legal.
Good question - they probably should, but I suspect they don't. I'm sure they suffer taxation.
"Suffer" is ridiculous. They are here illegally. They are not legally allowed to reside in the country. What makes you suspect that they should be able to vote?
And they most probably DONT "suffer" taxation, because if theyre on a payroll that does automatic deductions they would have had to provide details that they wouldnt have (social security # etc).
Im just not getting the outrage at asking folks to drop by their safety deposit box, grab their birth certificate, and show it when they arrive at the polls. Or if thats too much trouble, their drivers license, passport, or anything else.
The right-wing nuts here passed a voter ID law, and now the people who all know me at the voting place can't let me vote without showing government papers
Its a government election, and we have a huge number of undocumented folks in the country (hence the talk of immigration reform). By what possible logic should we NOT ID folks at the ballot box?
Why are so many "pro-life" posters posting AC?
Drivers licenses expire every 10 years. Ditto passports. Birth certificates do not expire.
And seriously are you defending the right for people to utterly not give a crap so that we can have a completely unmonitored voting system with no chance of making sure its legit? 1 Hour every few years, omigosh. (or, you know, social security card or birth certificate).
The subject was "personal freedom". And for abortion it is about forcing someone to take a significant risk for their health and life on behalf of someone else
For 99% of cases that "risk" was voluntarily taken, and is not significant (beyond normal childbirth). In no way can you justify the taking of the life of an infant that you conceived because you got cold feet after the fact.
In before someone throws in that incredibly niche 1% rape / incest thing to distract from the actual issue at hand.
Its like people are being intentionally obtuse to pretend to misunderstand why "pro-lifers" actually oppose abortion.
What sane argument is there for not verifying someone's right to vote prior to letting them do so?
Abortion isnt even the same thing, and you know it; youre just trying to trollbait.
The abortion debate is about stopping infanticide; it has absolutely nothing to do with personal rights, unless you consider there to be a personal right to kill others.
Way to drop in a huge non-sequitur.
Dragging out false stereotypes like that really just makes you look stubborn, partisan, and unable to have an adult discussion about politics.
Do you have any actual stats on starvation in the US? Because last time I checked that number was so low that it wasnt even tracked.
Dunno, comments like this just seem to be aimed at stirring up hysteria with no actual basis in fact.
In the real world every single techonlogical advance ever has resulted in MORE jobs, better pay, etc etc etc.
But I suppose if youre really worried we could abandon farming machinery etc, since its such a job killer.
The farm hands who left the fields and went into the factories are now finding themselves being replaced en masse by sophisticated machines.
Seems to me they could leave the factories for machine maintenance, or design.
It also looks like this has become a minor right-wing cause. Jack-booted thugs coming to take away your wood-burning stoves, and all that.
The right wing tends to be against regulation that erodes personal freedoms. This particular rule may or may not be a good idea, but the healthy thing for society is to look at all new regulation with a healthy dose of skepticism and suspicion.
Combine that with the equally depressing amount of customers who also do not give a shit, and you end up with the current mess.
Its not your mess to worry about. They can make their own life decisions without your approval.
Why do people flip out about these basic tenets of modern civilization?
Because the basic tenet of the US government was that it had a very limited, explicitly listed set of duties, and that in general it wasnt to be in the business of taking away basic freedoms.
How we go from that to the government deciding that my diet isnt acceptable, but theyll fix it for me, is beyond me.
No consumer, if properly educated, would ever choose to
This logic could be used to defend any number of curtailments of freedom; might want to be careful with it.
It seems really sketchy to defend a government taking away a "wrong choice" by insisting that it really is what citizens want, they just dont know it.
And is there any benefit to using trans fats other than that they are cheaper than alternatives?
Yes: The benefit that comes to rational adults living in a free country without having to get permission from the government to make basic life decisions (such as what to eat for dinner).
She would not know, she did not make it.
She would ask her manager, as would any person in the food service industry when asked a nutrition question. My first job was burger king, we got those questions, and the manager had the answers. Ditto as a waiter; in fact as a waiter I specifically knew what kinds of fat were used to cook specific dishes for the vegans / vegetarians.
What sort of restaurant wouldnt keep close tabs on what ingredients are in their foods?
Scare-labeling isnt "honest", its an appeal to emotion (which is a fallacy). Why couldnt it be a label on the back about how much trans-fat the item contained, and a public campaign to let people know about it?
I mean even thats a bit ridiculous, but its really none of the government's business.
Passing a law that increased information (without going full california-mode "lets label everything as causing cancer") might be reasonable. Passing a law banning a foodstuff that the government has decided isnt in my best interest to eat rings alarm bells.
Restaurant food is even worse in that you never know if it contains it or not.
I imagine that any grown-ups that particularly cared would take the effort to find out.