As far as more effective at letting air into the engine, I noticed a significant improvement in my wife's Mazda Protege, which had 30k miles on it when the filter was installed. It's had the same air filter since then, cleaned 8 times, and now has 268k. I think it's also as effective at filtering the air as the paper filters.
You're the constant because you're the one narrating that story. The problem with that theory is that no one is constant. You grow, learn and get better at how you handle life. Either that or you stab someone for cutting off your drug money, get incarcerated, and learn life's lessons the hard way.
That's precisely why I love K&N air filters. They cost 3 times as much, but they took something that had been disposable and gave it a lifetime warranty. It's on the shelves next to the cheap air filters, costs 3 times as much. You have to clean them every 50k miles, but it's easy to do and you may only buy one cleaning kit during the life of your car.
I'm not saying you're wrong about people's inclination toward cheap stuff. When you know something better is coming out within the next 4 years, it makes no sense to buy something that lasts for 10. If I can pay double for something that will last 10 times as long, and won't go obsolete in that time, I do.
Not that I'm a big fan of the way the Pharmaceutical Industry works these days, but its a lot less black and white than you suggest. Drug companies pay fellowships for students going to grad schools, sponsor labs and give grants to Chemical Engineering departments who publish work like this, and do their best to ensure a continued flow of talent and research. There is Federal grant money in there as well. Once the research is done, Chemical Engineers at the drug companies work on how to reproduce and mass produce compounds that are likely to have a positive effect based on this type of research. On top of the actual cost of research to bring these medicines to market there are administrative costs, facility overhead and regulatory overhead.
Many Pharmaceutical companies do come out with near clones of previous medicines and then get patents on them, and then market the crud out of those new medicines to get people to insist on them. The (sarcasm intended) glorious health insurance companies (end sarcasm) try to ensure that big Pharma doesn't always get away with it by putting medicines in tiers and insisting we lowly consumers actually step through the generics before filling prescriptions for these pseudo-innovations. The single best thing you can do, if you don't like how big Pharma gouges consumers for prescriptions, is to buy generic.
The difference is visible and noticeable improvement. Anyone can quickly tell the difference between HDTV and NTSC. A lot of people don't even notice the difference between 720P and 1080P on the more common sizes of TV. Not everyone will buy the audiophile level of equipment, only people that are discerning enough to care about the difference will pay extra for it. The same holds true for blue-ray. The reason I bought a blue ray player was because it had a bundled netflix application, which seems to play movies in lower quality than DVD. I don't care about the lost quality, and I don't hear my wife or kids complaining, either. Mostly they're just happy they can ask to watch something, and have it on the TV right away.
I have a daughter with monocular vision. It'll be at least another 12 years before I consider buying a 3D TV.
On a related note, I walked into Best Buy to buy Christmas presents, and noticed that all the blurry TV's actually made me want to look at anything other than the TV section. I had never felt such an aversion to the TV section before this stupid craze. My eyes are watering just remembering the experience.
I think he mentioned the monthly iPhone fee, but a lot of places are charging a premium "Smartphone Data Fee" that I assume is similar to this iPhone fee he's talking about. I'm starting to believe that the cell phone companies are charging differently based on street address and zip code, as well.
1. Patent a precise method used to record patent documents in a digital form on a computing device, a computing device with a touch screen, and a hand held computing device with a touch screen.
2. Write software that can be used to record patent documents in a digital form, a vi macro would suffice.
3. Sue patent trolls for patent infringement.
4. Profit.
Actually, all decent Linux distros come with some form of proprietary configuration tool. One can configure SuSE and OpenSuSE about as easily as RedHat, in fact most of the configuration files and log files are identical between the two. The big difference there is that SuSE has an excellent configuration tool where one can go to do all of their GUI administration. It's really well done, and makes RH tools remind me of Windows for Workgroups. Any good admin can configure their system quickly from the command line, I make many of my modifications with sed, awk or vi. You don't have to use the very well made config tool if you don't want to.
I use netflix on my android phone to queue up stuff on my LG Blue-Ray player. It's a near seamless experience. If I had a Kindle that I could do that with, then it would be much easier. I'm not spending $200 on a remote control, but an ebook reader for my wife for Christmas that doubles as a remote control? Now we're talking.
No, what I'm saying is that the Comcast menu is so bad that I'm actively looking for some other interface for watching content on my TV. Comcast's GUI for manipulating TV leaves a lot to be desired, they're not helping the migration from TV content to Internet content.
If I'm frustrated in my pursuit of entertainment then I will find other sources. If I find I'm paying for sources of entertainment that I don't use, I'll reduce my costs. It's still simple economics of good customer service. Before we had kids, we lived without cable or Dish for 6 years. Those were some of the best reading years of my life.
Have you used the newer Comcast GUI? I moved from a rural area to an area where I could get cable and cable broadband. The pink GUI that comes with Comcast was a severe step down from Dish. There's no way to get the guide to just show the channels you've subscribed to, instead you get the whole shooting match with the guide, and your not exactly cheap "Digital Starter Package" doesn't really come with much. The HD DVR receiver costs $16/month rent, so after 7 months you've paid for a $100 GoogleTV device provided it has the content that you need. All I'm really interested in is something with a keyboard and a d-pad that my 3 year old can use to play games or watch a few age appropriate shows on the TV. I was just looking at the Logitec device last week. Looks like I'll need to buy one soon, before they're no longer available.
If I can get this thing and replace my cable box with it, and it's able to find the content that I want when I want it, then I really can't resist it at the lower price point. I know it doesn't have Hulu, but I'm betting that my 3 year old daughter won't care about hulu.
My point about those countries was that they dramatically reduce the average wage. The straw man is that the people who call themselves the 99% are indeed referring to the fact that the last 1% IN THE USA control the vast majority of the wealth IN THE USA. That 1% do indeed make over 250k per year, as cited earlier. Take a class in logic, your example is a classic straw man.
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As far as more effective at letting air into the engine, I noticed a significant improvement in my wife's Mazda Protege, which had 30k miles on it when the filter was installed. It's had the same air filter since then, cleaned 8 times, and now has 268k. I think it's also as effective at filtering the air as the paper filters.
Yep, court battles, just what we need to make power less expensive.
You're the constant because you're the one narrating that story. The problem with that theory is that no one is constant. You grow, learn and get better at how you handle life. Either that or you stab someone for cutting off your drug money, get incarcerated, and learn life's lessons the hard way.
That's precisely why I love K&N air filters. They cost 3 times as much, but they took something that had been disposable and gave it a lifetime warranty. It's on the shelves next to the cheap air filters, costs 3 times as much. You have to clean them every 50k miles, but it's easy to do and you may only buy one cleaning kit during the life of your car.
I'm not saying you're wrong about people's inclination toward cheap stuff. When you know something better is coming out within the next 4 years, it makes no sense to buy something that lasts for 10. If I can pay double for something that will last 10 times as long, and won't go obsolete in that time, I do.
The problem is that crooks are always on both sides of the ballot. The question is weather you want the murderous crook or the amoral crook.
Not that I'm a big fan of the way the Pharmaceutical Industry works these days, but its a lot less black and white than you suggest. Drug companies pay fellowships for students going to grad schools, sponsor labs and give grants to Chemical Engineering departments who publish work like this, and do their best to ensure a continued flow of talent and research. There is Federal grant money in there as well. Once the research is done, Chemical Engineers at the drug companies work on how to reproduce and mass produce compounds that are likely to have a positive effect based on this type of research. On top of the actual cost of research to bring these medicines to market there are administrative costs, facility overhead and regulatory overhead.
Many Pharmaceutical companies do come out with near clones of previous medicines and then get patents on them, and then market the crud out of those new medicines to get people to insist on them. The (sarcasm intended) glorious health insurance companies (end sarcasm) try to ensure that big Pharma doesn't always get away with it by putting medicines in tiers and insisting we lowly consumers actually step through the generics before filling prescriptions for these pseudo-innovations. The single best thing you can do, if you don't like how big Pharma gouges consumers for prescriptions, is to buy generic.
They don't eat brains because they're zombies, they are zombies because they eat brains from Alzheimer's casualties.
The difference is visible and noticeable improvement. Anyone can quickly tell the difference between HDTV and NTSC. A lot of people don't even notice the difference between 720P and 1080P on the more common sizes of TV. Not everyone will buy the audiophile level of equipment, only people that are discerning enough to care about the difference will pay extra for it. The same holds true for blue-ray. The reason I bought a blue ray player was because it had a bundled netflix application, which seems to play movies in lower quality than DVD. I don't care about the lost quality, and I don't hear my wife or kids complaining, either. Mostly they're just happy they can ask to watch something, and have it on the TV right away.
I have a daughter with monocular vision. It'll be at least another 12 years before I consider buying a 3D TV.
On a related note, I walked into Best Buy to buy Christmas presents, and noticed that all the blurry TV's actually made me want to look at anything other than the TV section. I had never felt such an aversion to the TV section before this stupid craze. My eyes are watering just remembering the experience.
I don't know why, but I misread the subject as:
Apple Buys Israeli Flesh Manufacturer
Use James Earl Jones' voice:
You: Call Dad Phone: I AM YOUR FATHER . . . . just kidding, dialing now.
I think he mentioned the monthly iPhone fee, but a lot of places are charging a premium "Smartphone Data Fee" that I assume is similar to this iPhone fee he's talking about. I'm starting to believe that the cell phone companies are charging differently based on street address and zip code, as well.
At last! Forget the year of the Linux Desktop, this will be the year of the Linux Retinal Implant!
Now I know why I've started seeing ads for Zoloft and Prozac while chatting with my friends from college.
1. Patent a precise method used to record patent documents in a digital form on a computing device, a computing device with a touch screen, and a hand held computing device with a touch screen.
2. Write software that can be used to record patent documents in a digital form, a vi macro would suffice.
3. Sue patent trolls for patent infringement.
4. Profit.
Afterwards he can be ordered to perform a really nasty task, such is cleaning up the urinals in a public restroom with a toothbrush...
It's not actually really nasty until he has to brush his teeth with said toothbrush afterwards.
I dont lie at-all!
I believe that the (2.6.20-rc2–2.6.20–) Homicidal Dwarf Hamster would say different, and mean it.
Actually, all decent Linux distros come with some form of proprietary configuration tool. One can configure SuSE and OpenSuSE about as easily as RedHat, in fact most of the configuration files and log files are identical between the two. The big difference there is that SuSE has an excellent configuration tool where one can go to do all of their GUI administration. It's really well done, and makes RH tools remind me of Windows for Workgroups. Any good admin can configure their system quickly from the command line, I make many of my modifications with sed, awk or vi. You don't have to use the very well made config tool if you don't want to.
I use netflix on my android phone to queue up stuff on my LG Blue-Ray player. It's a near seamless experience. If I had a Kindle that I could do that with, then it would be much easier. I'm not spending $200 on a remote control, but an ebook reader for my wife for Christmas that doubles as a remote control? Now we're talking.
No, what I'm saying is that the Comcast menu is so bad that I'm actively looking for some other interface for watching content on my TV. Comcast's GUI for manipulating TV leaves a lot to be desired, they're not helping the migration from TV content to Internet content.
I've only ever purchased mice that were made by Microsoft, and I'm not about to change that now.
If I'm frustrated in my pursuit of entertainment then I will find other sources. If I find I'm paying for sources of entertainment that I don't use, I'll reduce my costs. It's still simple economics of good customer service. Before we had kids, we lived without cable or Dish for 6 years. Those were some of the best reading years of my life.
Have you used the newer Comcast GUI? I moved from a rural area to an area where I could get cable and cable broadband. The pink GUI that comes with Comcast was a severe step down from Dish. There's no way to get the guide to just show the channels you've subscribed to, instead you get the whole shooting match with the guide, and your not exactly cheap "Digital Starter Package" doesn't really come with much. The HD DVR receiver costs $16/month rent, so after 7 months you've paid for a $100 GoogleTV device provided it has the content that you need. All I'm really interested in is something with a keyboard and a d-pad that my 3 year old can use to play games or watch a few age appropriate shows on the TV. I was just looking at the Logitec device last week. Looks like I'll need to buy one soon, before they're no longer available.
If I can get this thing and replace my cable box with it, and it's able to find the content that I want when I want it, then I really can't resist it at the lower price point. I know it doesn't have Hulu, but I'm betting that my 3 year old daughter won't care about hulu.
My point about those countries was that they dramatically reduce the average wage. The straw man is that the people who call themselves the 99% are indeed referring to the fact that the last 1% IN THE USA control the vast majority of the wealth IN THE USA. That 1% do indeed make over 250k per year, as cited earlier. Take a class in logic, your example is a classic straw man.