And they don't get to sell a car. You can't negotiate from a position of power unless you are willing to walk away without a car. If you go in with the mindset that you have to have that car then the dealer has all the power and you will end up paying more than you could.
Streaming: You watch what they make available, but it's ready nearly instantly.
Mail: You watch what you want to watch (almost any movie title and many TV shows you can think of) but you have to wait a couple days for it to come in the mail.
To me, the DVD by mail option is much more valuable.
Move out of California. Plenty of nice homes out here in a flyover state with 1500 sq ft in a safe neighborhood with good schools, easily under $200k. No traffic. No smog. But don't tell anyone. We like it this way.
I agree there is nothing at all wrong with going right into plumbing. But when the plumbing jobs dry up, for whatever reason, what do you have to fall back on? This has happened time and time again in the skilled trades. When I was a kid, working at the meat-packing plant was a good, relatively high-paying job. If you had some specific skill, you could earn a nice living. My neighbor once made a good living cutting meat at the plant and that was going to be his career. But no more. They now pay below a living wage and the benefits are crap. And with no degree, what is he going to do? 55 years old, 30 years cutting meat, now what? Going to school full time 2, 3, or 4 years now, while he supports a family is difficult to do.
A bachelor's degree opens more doors in the long-term.
There is nothing preventing someone from pursuing plumbing (or electrical work, or HVAC, etc.) after earning a bachelor's degree. A smart college would create just this sort of program - a combination bachelor's degree in a non-work-specific area (say, medieval theology) with something that directly prepares someone for a job, like plumbing.
In any case, earning a bachelor's degree should be about the long-term opportunities rather than that first job. When the robot plumbers enter the workforce, you'd better have something to support your ability to transition to something else.
No one will pay $.20 to watch an hour of Netflix. At 2 hours per day, that's $2.80 per week or about $11.20 a month (which is about the price of a Netflix streaming package, from what I remember).
No, I think you offer it for free but insert your own pop-up advertisements and commercials throughout the programs. It would be a gold mine.
Let's patent together - I'll split the profit with you 50 / 50.
Shootings with a handgun where 3 people are injured happen all the time. It's not possible to keep all of these sorts of shootings in the news all the time. No conspiracy or political motivation here. It's just that people have moved on to the next shooting / bridge collapse / water-skiing squirrel / etc.
Why does it matter if it's Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo, online gaming, or downloading photos or audio books? The people who want faster (and more) internet access already pay more. The companies that receive more requests for their content already pay more.
Net neutrality is an issue of fairness and greed. Without net neutrality Comcast can make Netflix run slowly for their customers because Comcast would prefer you purchase their crappy cable TV package instead. And since Comcast has a monopoly in many places, if Netflix wants to stay open, they have to pay the extortion fee to Comcast if they want to keep those customers which would be in addition to the fees they (and their customers) already pay!
Further, let's say you want to start your own video streaming business, say NerdFlix. You don't have the big budget that Netflix has, so you can't afford to pay the extortion fee to Comcast. As a result, your videos take 30 minutes to load vs 10 seconds for Netflix. How many subscribers do you think you'll get?
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We can argue about what constitutes a "school shooting" or how to calculate this number all day. But as long as it != 0 we have a problem that needs addressing.
Taking guns out of the hands of mentally ill, out of the hands of children, decreasing the number of bullets that can rapidly be fired by a gun, and limiting the types of guns that you can own hardly seem to be meaningful limitations of your liberty.
We require children to go to school. What about their right to not be shot while at school? What choice do they have about where they live? What choice about their level of risk were they able to make?
Choosing liberty or choosing mass school shootings is an artificial dichotomy. It's not one or the other.
It would be a beneficial and legitimate use of the Commerce Clause [wikipedia.org] for the federal government to just ban this economically damaging activity. It would be better and more fair for both states and businesses.
Which just about guarantees that it will never be used by the federal government in this way. They care nothing about "better" or "fair."
The Affordable Care Act / Obamacare slowed the amount of increase in the cost of health care. Costs still went up, but less quickly than they would have gone up had the ACA not become law. https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878
The cost of health care will increase every year under Trump as well, even if they manage to pass some health care / health insurance reform. The only way we will really start to reduce the cost of health care will be for us to live healthier lives.
Of course, it could be A username but not YOUR username, which would make it incorrect for you even though it might show up in the database. Alternatively, you would never tell a user that they entered the "correct" password but the wrong username! So why tell them that the username is "correct" if it doesn't match with the password?
Importantly, multiple attempts to log-in using someone else's (correct) username could lock them out of the system thus resulting in an inconvenience to the other user who has to call on the phone (in many cases) to get it unlocked.
Good luck getting that job with no address, no proof of immigration status, and you are disabled, mentally ill, addicted to a substance, or you have kids you have to take care of during the day with no help. You are just victim blaming here, and the real problem is that we have created a culture where homelessness is acceptable when there are some very real structural steps we could take as a society to fix these problems.
The merchandising for the Cars franchise has produced over $10 billion in sales. Cars 3 made money on its own, but it really served as an advertising avenue for the more profitable aspects of the business, such as the theme park, toys, branded clothing, etc. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/box...
Exactly - the traders make money through volatility of price, not through long-term growth. The fact that a few people can essentially control the price of BitCoin makes it easy for them to manipulate the price (up or down) to make a lot of money.
Most parents I know want to be good parents and to raise their children to be healthy, happy, and productive. But most parents are challenged with this goal because:
1. Working multiple part-time jobs just to keep the lights on.
2. Inability to afford medical care and health insurance (see #1).
3. The impossibility of keeping up with the lifestyle our society insists is necessary to be happy (what, no new Mercedes for Christmas this year? You must be a loser).
4. Pressures to race kids from activity to activity, hoping the child will be come the next Bieber or Gold Medal winner.
Most parents want to do a good job, but the deck is stacked against them. It's really not fair to blame parents when the society we have constructed for families is aligned to undermine all that parents seek to achieve.
The Associated Press approach seems to work pretty well for news. We need an expanded version of this approach for all of the various (non-news) things the internet offers. In this way you might subscribe to one site but get access to the work from multiple players. In this way small players could work together to share revenue and content with each other. This solves the issue of subscribers having to pay a small monthly amount to 20 different sources and gives these sources a non-advertising source of revenue.
Let's get rid of time zones, too. Totally unnecessary. I'll eat when I'm hungry. I'll go to work during the day, and sleep when it's dark. Clocks are arbitrary and it would save us so much headache if we could just pick a single time and go for it.
Let's make all social security numbers, birth dates, and addresses public. That way the financial companies will have to find a better way of verifying the identify of people before it gives them access to large sums of money.
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in Excel a random number of times as Excel calculates a new random number on each sort. 15-20 sorts should do the trick.
And they don't get to sell a car. You can't negotiate from a position of power unless you are willing to walk away without a car. If you go in with the mindset that you have to have that car then the dealer has all the power and you will end up paying more than you could.
Streaming: You watch what they make available, but it's ready nearly instantly.
Mail: You watch what you want to watch (almost any movie title and many TV shows you can think of) but you have to wait a couple days for it to come in the mail.
To me, the DVD by mail option is much more valuable.
Oh, so those growing lights and hydroponics are for "salad." Right.
Move out of California. Plenty of nice homes out here in a flyover state with 1500 sq ft in a safe neighborhood with good schools, easily under $200k. No traffic. No smog. But don't tell anyone. We like it this way.
I agree there is nothing at all wrong with going right into plumbing. But when the plumbing jobs dry up, for whatever reason, what do you have to fall back on? This has happened time and time again in the skilled trades. When I was a kid, working at the meat-packing plant was a good, relatively high-paying job. If you had some specific skill, you could earn a nice living. My neighbor once made a good living cutting meat at the plant and that was going to be his career. But no more. They now pay below a living wage and the benefits are crap. And with no degree, what is he going to do? 55 years old, 30 years cutting meat, now what? Going to school full time 2, 3, or 4 years now, while he supports a family is difficult to do.
A bachelor's degree opens more doors in the long-term.
There is nothing preventing someone from pursuing plumbing (or electrical work, or HVAC, etc.) after earning a bachelor's degree. A smart college would create just this sort of program - a combination bachelor's degree in a non-work-specific area (say, medieval theology) with something that directly prepares someone for a job, like plumbing.
In any case, earning a bachelor's degree should be about the long-term opportunities rather than that first job. When the robot plumbers enter the workforce, you'd better have something to support your ability to transition to something else.
No one will pay $.20 to watch an hour of Netflix. At 2 hours per day, that's $2.80 per week or about $11.20 a month (which is about the price of a Netflix streaming package, from what I remember).
No, I think you offer it for free but insert your own pop-up advertisements and commercials throughout the programs. It would be a gold mine.
Let's patent together - I'll split the profit with you 50 / 50.
Shootings with a handgun where 3 people are injured happen all the time. It's not possible to keep all of these sorts of shootings in the news all the time. No conspiracy or political motivation here. It's just that people have moved on to the next shooting / bridge collapse / water-skiing squirrel / etc.
Why does it matter if it's Netflix, YouTube, Vimeo, online gaming, or downloading photos or audio books? The people who want faster (and more) internet access already pay more. The companies that receive more requests for their content already pay more.
Net neutrality is an issue of fairness and greed. Without net neutrality Comcast can make Netflix run slowly for their customers because Comcast would prefer you purchase their crappy cable TV package instead. And since Comcast has a monopoly in many places, if Netflix wants to stay open, they have to pay the extortion fee to Comcast if they want to keep those customers which would be in addition to the fees they (and their customers) already pay!
Further, let's say you want to start your own video streaming business, say NerdFlix. You don't have the big budget that Netflix has, so you can't afford to pay the extortion fee to Comcast. As a result, your videos take 30 minutes to load vs 10 seconds for Netflix. How many subscribers do you think you'll get?
Oh, like that wo{////the rest of this post is only available to Comcast subscribers - Login to your Comcast account or pay $0.05 to view the rest of this comment////}
We can argue about what constitutes a "school shooting" or how to calculate this number all day. But as long as it != 0 we have a problem that needs addressing.
Taking guns out of the hands of mentally ill, out of the hands of children, decreasing the number of bullets that can rapidly be fired by a gun, and limiting the types of guns that you can own hardly seem to be meaningful limitations of your liberty.
We require children to go to school. What about their right to not be shot while at school? What choice do they have about where they live? What choice about their level of risk were they able to make?
Choosing liberty or choosing mass school shootings is an artificial dichotomy. It's not one or the other.
Which just about guarantees that it will never be used by the federal government in this way. They care nothing about "better" or "fair."
The Affordable Care Act / Obamacare slowed the amount of increase in the cost of health care. Costs still went up, but less quickly than they would have gone up had the ACA not become law.
https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878
The cost of health care will increase every year under Trump as well, even if they manage to pass some health care / health insurance reform. The only way we will really start to reduce the cost of health care will be for us to live healthier lives.
Which reminds me, it's time for a walk.
What's a commercial? Since we got streaming Netflix seven years ago, I hardly see them any more (aside from the brief viewing of OTA TV).
Of course, it could be A username but not YOUR username, which would make it incorrect for you even though it might show up in the database. Alternatively, you would never tell a user that they entered the "correct" password but the wrong username! So why tell them that the username is "correct" if it doesn't match with the password?
Importantly, multiple attempts to log-in using someone else's (correct) username could lock them out of the system thus resulting in an inconvenience to the other user who has to call on the phone (in many cases) to get it unlocked.
Good luck getting that job with no address, no proof of immigration status, and you are disabled, mentally ill, addicted to a substance, or you have kids you have to take care of during the day with no help.
You are just victim blaming here, and the real problem is that we have created a culture where homelessness is acceptable when there are some very real structural steps we could take as a society to fix these problems.
The merchandising for the Cars franchise has produced over $10 billion in sales. Cars 3 made money on its own, but it really served as an advertising avenue for the more profitable aspects of the business, such as the theme park, toys, branded clothing, etc. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/box...
Just contact the author of that paper. Most academics will share with you directly.
Exactly - the traders make money through volatility of price, not through long-term growth. The fact that a few people can essentially control the price of BitCoin makes it easy for them to manipulate the price (up or down) to make a lot of money.
Most parents I know want to be good parents and to raise their children to be healthy, happy, and productive. But most parents are challenged with this goal because:
1. Working multiple part-time jobs just to keep the lights on.
2. Inability to afford medical care and health insurance (see #1).
3. The impossibility of keeping up with the lifestyle our society insists is necessary to be happy (what, no new Mercedes for Christmas this year? You must be a loser).
4. Pressures to race kids from activity to activity, hoping the child will be come the next Bieber or Gold Medal winner.
Most parents want to do a good job, but the deck is stacked against them. It's really not fair to blame parents when the society we have constructed for families is aligned to undermine all that parents seek to achieve.
The Associated Press approach seems to work pretty well for news. We need an expanded version of this approach for all of the various (non-news) things the internet offers. In this way you might subscribe to one site but get access to the work from multiple players. In this way small players could work together to share revenue and content with each other. This solves the issue of subscribers having to pay a small monthly amount to 20 different sources and gives these sources a non-advertising source of revenue.
Let's get rid of time zones, too. Totally unnecessary. I'll eat when I'm hungry. I'll go to work during the day, and sleep when it's dark. Clocks are arbitrary and it would save us so much headache if we could just pick a single time and go for it.
Let's make all social security numbers, birth dates, and addresses public. That way the financial companies will have to find a better way of verifying the identify of people before it gives them access to large sums of money.