I just think most people who whine don't like going to the movie theater. I even can agree with some of the complaints (sometimes sticky floors, I'm amazed by how people just LEAVE THEIR GARBAGE BEHIND)..
but even if I have a giant screen at home (which I don't yet), I still like seeing a movie on a giant screen with an audience. (Though I wait a while in most cases, and HAVE been times where there were only a few people in the theater.)
I completely realize MP is unsustainable, but it has made me be a moviegoer again, instead of just a couple times a year at most. When MP fails, I will almost certainly jump on AMC's version (until they dump it since it will then no longer have competition).. If movies just go back up to "regular" price, I will then just stop going again..
MP has made me go to the movies WAY WAY more often than I used to.
I think it's way more fun to see a movie at a theater, even just by myself.
There are about exactly 20 minutes of trailers at the theaters I typically go to, and I almost never see a movie soon after it comes out (I did see The First Purge yesterday, the day it opened, and it wasn't very crowded.. not good movie though).. so I just show up at about the _scheduled_ time, and play on my phone for a little while..
lots of "free" (since I'm already paying) movies.
also, the "fee" will only show up to NEW monthly and yearly members. I am already on a year plan, so it won't show up for me for many more months.
The fee was shown to be $3.43 in a screenshot in email sent to those whose accounts are getting the fee.
The stock market is a great way to earn a lot of money. Invest in an S&P 500 tracking fund, leave it there for MANY MANY years, and you'll likely have much more in the end.
Anyone who isn't investing in the stock market is missing out.
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Apparently Amazon is playing the game, at least in the USA, because I've seen a couple of Amazon produced-or-at-least-distributed movies in theaters. (With MoviePass, of course.) For example, The Big Sick.
Well, yeah, of course, for some things like that, especially involving the government, are the exceptions. Note I did say "merchants".
You wouldn't want the government taking in less tax money (because of the credit card fees(*))?
(*) In my original message, I didn't specifically mention that, but yes I realize merchants (and thus consumers) "pay" for the credit cards.. But at each individual purchase, my price is the same (with the gas exception), so as a good consumer, it's cheaper/more convenient to ME to use a credit card.
Actually, it's very easy to get 2% back on all purchases (I do).
Also, I'm not sure if this is a federal law or state law, but at least in some parts of the USA (unless it's federal), generally merchants can't charge a fee for using a credit card. They CAN give a cash discount, but the only place I ever saw that routinely used was gas stations, and even then, if I counted the cash back I would get, I still paid the same price the vast vast vast vast majority of the time (maybe a handful of times I paid a cent extra a gallon, ever), with more convenience, with credit card, compared to a "lower priced" Arco that didn't accept credit cards at all.. (and it was basically next door)
Also, paying via credit card (esp with these mobile payments) is more convenient than cash (including faster), you don't have to go to the ATM, and safer (even with a physical card since you're legally liable for only $50, usually waived).
PLUS, I'm paying 2% less than you are, at every transaction...
The vast vast majority of people don't need to go anywhere NEAR that far that often. The lowest range electric cars (which is one of the kind I have) cover FAR FAR more distance than most people need to go the vast majority of the time. Even if one has to rent a car for the very rare trip (1-2 a year?), you're still saving TONS of money, polluting less (including _noise_ pollution!).
Though the solar tax credit is still (currently) alive for a few more years. 30% of all costs.
It really doesn't "make sense" for me to get solar financially since I have a city owned power company with low power costs and I use relatively little power.. I still may eventually do it, for environmental reasons (in the long long long run).
I'm not saying this would be a GOOD job, but the summary (I only read the summary) seems to be way more sarcastic than I'd put it.
Of course at first humans are "babysitting" them. Don't you think many of the people at modern car plants are essentially "babysitting" the robots/machinery actually doing tons of the work to build cars?
Heck, you could even compare it to driving a car.. You no longer have to turn over the engine with a crank at the front. Not exactly related but this also made me think of a recent Adam Carolla episode I was listening to today. Either his or his guest's kid was seriously surprised by scenes from the 1970s movies of cars not being able to start.
As things in the factories, or driving cars, get better, you need less and less of the babysitting..
So do you think there should be NO LIMIT to the number of on-demand drivers of any type?
I'm not saying I'm necessarily in favor of the existing medallion system, but it seems to me like it's screwing over the owners of literally million dollar licenses.
BTW, I have used a taxi literally once ever, and Uber twice (to home and back to car dealership, paid for directly(I realize indirectly by customers) by car dealership when warranty service was happening). I will give up my own personal car when driverless Uber comes out/is cheap/reliable/quick. (Hopefully within 10 years, at the far end..)
If you own real estate, its value may change over time, but selling your properties wouldn't drive the fair market price down across the entire market.
The _entire_ (considering country by country here) market, sure. Couldn't you easily drive down the fair market price of the local (city, county, maybe even state for small states) market? e.g. if a bunch of houses in an area sell at way below what recent sales were at, then the comparable market value goes down, thus affecting future sales in the area, and property tax valuations, etc. (Ignoring our weird Prop 13 property tax situation.)
I did end up seeing a movie that started about 21 hours after the previous one.
Ok, I get it, youâ(TM)re one of the many people who donâ(TM)t like seeing movies in theaters.
I like seeing them in theaters, and have several theaters within a couple of miles. I donâ(TM)t have to have ridiculously priced theater junk food the vast vast majority of the time, so the ticket price is the main cost.. and this makes the cost go way down.
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Seven years later? It's over 10 years after the Roadster was delivered to customers.
The raw materials that batteries require can be recycled easily, including into new batteries.
How do you get the receipt via email instead of a paper receipt?
I definitely can do the promos via the app and pay via the app (and today, via ApplePay)..
How about not stealing my money to fight wars *OR* pay for other people's college degrees?
You mean the "having problems logging in?" emails.. yeah.
I just think most people who whine don't like going to the movie theater. I even can agree with some of the complaints (sometimes sticky floors, I'm amazed by how people just LEAVE THEIR GARBAGE BEHIND)..
but even if I have a giant screen at home (which I don't yet), I still like seeing a movie on a giant screen with an audience. (Though I wait a while in most cases, and HAVE been times where there were only a few people in the theater.)
I completely realize MP is unsustainable, but it has made me be a moviegoer again, instead of just a couple times a year at most. When MP fails, I will almost certainly jump on AMC's version (until they dump it since it will then no longer have competition).. If movies just go back up to "regular" price, I will then just stop going again..
MP has made me go to the movies WAY WAY more often than I used to.
I think it's way more fun to see a movie at a theater, even just by myself.
There are about exactly 20 minutes of trailers at the theaters I typically go to, and I almost never see a movie soon after it comes out (I did see The First Purge yesterday, the day it opened, and it wasn't very crowded.. not good movie though).. so I just show up at about the _scheduled_ time, and play on my phone for a little while..
lots of "free" (since I'm already paying) movies.
also, the "fee" will only show up to NEW monthly and yearly members. I am already on a year plan, so it won't show up for me for many more months.
The fee was shown to be $3.43 in a screenshot in email sent to those whose accounts are getting the fee.
The stock market is a great way to earn a lot of money. Invest in an S&P 500 tracking fund, leave it there for MANY MANY years, and you'll likely have much more in the end.
Anyone who isn't investing in the stock market is missing out.
Well, if it's just as good, and $2 cheaper, I say bring on the "robots".
God of War is getting terrific reviews, even from some people who didn't like the orig series.
(I'll wait until it drops to $20, I've already got tons of other games I haven't played..)
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Apparently Amazon is playing the game, at least in the USA, because I've seen a couple of Amazon produced-or-at-least-distributed movies in theaters. (With MoviePass, of course.) For example, The Big Sick.
Well, yeah, of course, for some things like that, especially involving the government, are the exceptions. Note I did say "merchants".
You wouldn't want the government taking in less tax money (because of the credit card fees(*))?
(*) In my original message, I didn't specifically mention that, but yes I realize merchants (and thus consumers) "pay" for the credit cards.. But at each individual purchase, my price is the same (with the gas exception), so as a good consumer, it's cheaper/more convenient to ME to use a credit card.
So you mean:
Less stuff than the Old Slashdot. Lame.
Actually, it's very easy to get 2% back on all purchases (I do).
Also, I'm not sure if this is a federal law or state law, but at least in some parts of the USA (unless it's federal), generally merchants can't charge a fee for using a credit card. They CAN give a cash discount, but the only place I ever saw that routinely used was gas stations, and even then, if I counted the cash back I would get, I still paid the same price the vast vast vast vast majority of the time (maybe a handful of times I paid a cent extra a gallon, ever), with more convenience, with credit card, compared to a "lower priced" Arco that didn't accept credit cards at all.. (and it was basically next door)
Also, paying via credit card (esp with these mobile payments) is more convenient than cash (including faster), you don't have to go to the ATM, and safer (even with a physical card since you're legally liable for only $50, usually waived).
PLUS, I'm paying 2% less than you are, at every transaction...
Even "Dunkirk" had the normal "this is a work of fiction.." disclaimer at the end.
The vast vast majority of people don't need to go anywhere NEAR that far that often. The lowest range electric cars (which is one of the kind I have) cover FAR FAR more distance than most people need to go the vast majority of the time. Even if one has to rent a car for the very rare trip (1-2 a year?), you're still saving TONS of money, polluting less (including _noise_ pollution!).
Though the solar tax credit is still (currently) alive for a few more years. 30% of all costs.
It really doesn't "make sense" for me to get solar financially since I have a city owned power company with low power costs and I use relatively little power.. I still may eventually do it, for environmental reasons (in the long long long run).
I'm not saying this would be a GOOD job, but the summary (I only read the summary) seems to be way more sarcastic than I'd put it.
Of course at first humans are "babysitting" them. Don't you think many of the people at modern car plants are essentially "babysitting" the robots/machinery actually doing tons of the work to build cars?
Heck, you could even compare it to driving a car.. You no longer have to turn over the engine with a crank at the front. Not exactly related but this also made me think of a recent Adam Carolla episode I was listening to today. Either his or his guest's kid was seriously surprised by scenes from the 1970s movies of cars not being able to start.
As things in the factories, or driving cars, get better, you need less and less of the babysitting..
Phased out in how long?
So do you think there should be NO LIMIT to the number of on-demand drivers of any type?
I'm not saying I'm necessarily in favor of the existing medallion system, but it seems to me like it's screwing over the owners of literally million dollar licenses.
BTW, I have used a taxi literally once ever, and Uber twice (to home and back to car dealership, paid for directly(I realize indirectly by customers) by car dealership when warranty service was happening). I will give up my own personal car when driverless Uber comes out/is cheap/reliable/quick. (Hopefully within 10 years, at the far end..)
He didn't. He did it out of courtesy.
The _entire_ (considering country by country here) market, sure. Couldn't you easily drive down the fair market price of the local (city, county, maybe even state for small states) market? e.g. if a bunch of houses in an area sell at way below what recent sales were at, then the comparable market value goes down, thus affecting future sales in the area, and property tax valuations, etc. (Ignoring our weird Prop 13 property tax situation.)
This is very often made clear. You just say that they have over a billion dollars "on paper".
I did end up seeing a movie that started about 21 hours after the previous one.
Ok, I get it, youâ(TM)re one of the many people who donâ(TM)t like seeing movies in theaters.
I like seeing them in theaters, and have several theaters within a couple of miles. I donâ(TM)t have to have ridiculously priced theater junk food the vast vast majority of the time, so the ticket price is the main cost.. and this makes the cost go way down.
I think you may be referring to their old rules (pre-$9/95/month, since lowered again if paying annually).
A FAQ item currently says:
There are no âoeblackoutâ dates. As a MoviePass member, you can see up to one standard 2D film per calendar day.
I will likely today see a movie less than 24 hours after my previous movie started.