Never been stuck behind an old lady digging dozens of small coins from her purse? Or someone who is just a little short of the total and then has to check if they have a little more cash elsewhere or put something back? It's even worse in the US where sales taxes are calculated at the checkout making it harder to keep a running total as you shop.
Also reminds me of the time I was in line and the guy behind me started complaining about having to wait for people using cards. Just then, the cashier had to restock her float and spent several minutes adding the new coins in and getting the collected notes ready for collecting.
Then let's not even start on the check writers. They can take forever...
The truth is that using plastic really shouldn't take any real time. Typically, I'd say that the time added to count out change would be an order of magnitude more than it takes me to pay by card. Whichever payment method you choose, there are always those that seem to be able to turn it into an opportunity to inconvenience others. Check writers are the worst though.
They also allow people who would otherwise miss the show to gain entry at the last minute for a small premium (I think we paid 50% over for turning up at the last minute for a Stone Sour/Lacuna Coil gig). Don't characterize all that buy from scalpers the same way.
I'm not sure on that either. A large segment of the democrat base has its foundation in opposition to the perceived status quo. In some cases, this is justified. In as much as the right has identified itself as anti-gay and anti-abortion, naturally the left can claim those people as allied. Where it comes to class warfare, I would say that the Democrats are banking on a naive (to be kind) view of the world.
I didn't necessarily make such an assumption, I was just stating my position to head-off any accusations of finger pointing.
The Dems most certainly do court the stupid. It was the premise of Obama's campaign in fact. Hope and change? Terminally gullible is probably a better fit though.
As someone who stands outside both parties, you are right about the Republicans but you are blinded by your bias if you can't see that the Democrats do it as well.
Excuse me, did you just say it was unfortunate that the world wasn't like "Brave New World" or "Logan's Run"? Seriously? I'm surprised you didn't include "1984" but I guess we're about there already.
And BTW, in "Brave New World", your chances of doing well in life were entirely dependent on whether you were pre-assigned to be alpha, beta, gamma, delta or epsilon class with epsilon being reserved for the lowest of manual drudgery. So stick that in your utopia and smoke it.
Unfortunately, all we have left are people fighting over being the easily-corruptible gatekeepers of the public purse, using extremist rhetoric to do so.
While there/is/ a correlation, I know plenty of "conservatives" (and more specifically libertarians) who are for legalization and a fair few "liberals" against. This is probably why Obama hasn't been bothered to get of his ass and fix this (or much of anything in fact).
Yeah, this kind of paper always seems to expose the political biases and poor analytical skills of the researchers. Logic along the lines of:
1)Gene A makes you kinder. 2)Liberals are kinder. 3)Therefore, Gene A makes you liberal.
Gah! Be a liberal if you want, be a conservative if you want but at least have the sense to realize when you're injecting non-scientific BS into your output.
I'm a libertarian but I have to say, there's a fair argument to be made that Amtrack is having to compete against a heavily subsidized road program. It's definitely not a level playing field but when the government is involved, what is?
Perfect example. That is based on a utilitarian premise. A socialist premise would say that you should support such a program for the benefit of society anyway, an individualist would say that government shouldn't create such a program anyway.
True. But a lot of people could do with applying some formal logic to their premises. Scratch the premises of most people, left or right and the foundations are incredibly shaky.
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With the rate tip jars are multiplying in the US, I'm sure it won't be too long before that's expected too.
Never been stuck behind an old lady digging dozens of small coins from her purse? Or someone who is just a little short of the total and then has to check if they have a little more cash elsewhere or put something back? It's even worse in the US where sales taxes are calculated at the checkout making it harder to keep a running total as you shop.
Also reminds me of the time I was in line and the guy behind me started complaining about having to wait for people using cards. Just then, the cashier had to restock her float and spent several minutes adding the new coins in and getting the collected notes ready for collecting.
Then let's not even start on the check writers. They can take forever...
The truth is that using plastic really shouldn't take any real time. Typically, I'd say that the time added to count out change would be an order of magnitude more than it takes me to pay by card. Whichever payment method you choose, there are always those that seem to be able to turn it into an opportunity to inconvenience others. Check writers are the worst though.
You don't necessarily have to pay tax but you are supposed to file.
If ticketmaster is involved, neither of your questions have much relevance.
They also allow people who would otherwise miss the show to gain entry at the last minute for a small premium (I think we paid 50% over for turning up at the last minute for a Stone Sour/Lacuna Coil gig). Don't characterize all that buy from scalpers the same way.
Or maybe 5% which would also cover 220 and 240.
This is just a nomenclature change. Europe is now 230V+-10%. The actual voltages generated in the countries concerned didn't change at all.
Our little city here in Tennessee still has a few old, dead pumps from when that was the case here.
Maybe by that time, the drive-through will sell dino-burgers.
And not for gas/petroleum which is less dense than water. So double fail there.
FWIW, I don't exchange propane cylinders. But it's more because of the monkey games Blue Rhino is getting up to (Google for it)
I'm not sure on that either. A large segment of the democrat base has its foundation in opposition to the perceived status quo. In some cases, this is justified. In as much as the right has identified itself as anti-gay and anti-abortion, naturally the left can claim those people as allied. Where it comes to class warfare, I would say that the Democrats are banking on a naive (to be kind) view of the world.
I didn't necessarily make such an assumption, I was just stating my position to head-off any accusations of finger pointing.
The Dems most certainly do court the stupid. It was the premise of Obama's campaign in fact. Hope and change? Terminally gullible is probably a better fit though.
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(Too leftist, didn't read)
As someone who stands outside both parties, you are right about the Republicans but you are blinded by your bias if you can't see that the Democrats do it as well.
Excuse me, did you just say it was unfortunate that the world wasn't like "Brave New World" or "Logan's Run"? Seriously? I'm surprised you didn't include "1984" but I guess we're about there already.
And BTW, in "Brave New World", your chances of doing well in life were entirely dependent on whether you were pre-assigned to be alpha, beta, gamma, delta or epsilon class with epsilon being reserved for the lowest of manual drudgery. So stick that in your utopia and smoke it.
And if you happen to be a redneck hacker, you're really up the creek...
Unfortunately, all we have left are people fighting over being the easily-corruptible gatekeepers of the public purse, using extremist rhetoric to do so.
While there /is/ a correlation, I know plenty of "conservatives" (and more specifically libertarians) who are for legalization and a fair few "liberals" against. This is probably why Obama hasn't been bothered to get of his ass and fix this (or much of anything in fact).
I had no idea the taxes I pay were optional...
Yeah, this kind of paper always seems to expose the political biases and poor analytical skills of the researchers. Logic along the lines of:
1)Gene A makes you kinder.
2)Liberals are kinder.
3)Therefore, Gene A makes you liberal.
Gah! Be a liberal if you want, be a conservative if you want but at least have the sense to realize when you're injecting non-scientific BS into your output.
I'm a libertarian but I have to say, there's a fair argument to be made that Amtrack is having to compete against a heavily subsidized road program. It's definitely not a level playing field but when the government is involved, what is?
Perfect example. That is based on a utilitarian premise. A socialist premise would say that you should support such a program for the benefit of society anyway, an individualist would say that government shouldn't create such a program anyway.
True. But a lot of people could do with applying some formal logic to their premises. Scratch the premises of most people, left or right and the foundations are incredibly shaky.
The "liberal" (Hate using that word, it's been hijacked by the left) part is that he stole from others to do so.