That's funny, because one of the problems is that the taxi services ARE heavily regulated, and Uber/Lyft/etc. AREN'T, and just started going into cities (until they started getting sued then stopped working in various cities).
BTW, I'm not saying I'm FOR all of the regulation that exists on taxis, but it does seem somewhat unfair (yeah yeah yeah life isn't fair) to have one business heavily regulated and ANOTHER business, doing largely the same thing, NOT heavily regulated. Yes, removing some of the regulations on taxis would be good, but then you've screwed over the people who paid what, millions for their legally required medallions.
(I've only been in a taxi once in my life, but will give up a personal car when driverless Uber or the like comes around.)
AFAIK, "corner stores" (which 7-11 seems to be the most well known example) are different from bodegas. Bodegas seem to have a tiny bit more stuff like a 'regular' grocery store, PLUS all of the junk food and such... But they're still tiny. (They're all over NYC, at least according to TV shows set there!)
The modern trend or fashion of maximizing profits, at the expense of both employees and customers,
"maximizing profits" is a company's job.
is what sickens capitalism and leads to dumb ideas like electronic street bodegas,
I think it's kind of a dumb idea too, but did you say the same thing about vending machines, or even automats (halfway between a vending machine and a restaurant), over full service restaurants/stores?
Don't the health care requirements only kick in after 50 employees? Also, I know many (if not most if not all) startups don't have 401(k) plans either, etc..
and the "calculation of tax" part makes it sound closer to what I had guessed:
Although called an exclusion for historical reasons, since the 2006 tax year it is better described as a credit equal to the amount of tax that would have been owed on the eligible foreign income, without considering any deductions or exemptions.
Absolutely false. I'm a couple of decades older than that, and have been using cheapo Bluetooth earbuds for a couple of years now. They can be had for under $20.
Apple is the first company to obsolete a newly released product (iPhone 8) in it's[sic] product announcement by simultaneously introducing it's[sic] successor (iPhone X).
It's not a "successor". It's a line of products with different capabilities, at different prices. Maybe you prefer one that is lower priced, or has TouchID instead.
Because money is the medium of economic commerce, and if people cannot get money they cannot acquire goods or service that are necessary to live.
Currently it's the medium, but it's really just delayed/multi-step barter. If you can't get money directly, find a way to barter your work in exchange for someone else's work.
I'm almost 50 years old. I have zero interest in being part of some robotic future.
I'm about the same age. I LOVE the idea of being part of some robotic future.
If I can have robots clean my house (no, Roomba doesn't cut it), keep the weeds down on my "lawn" (currently not watered due to previous water shortage, plus that would mean I'd have to mow it), clean my clothes, etc., that would be AWESOME.
but none of the places I shop at offer cash discounts, even though they're allowed to, so it's strictly a disadvantage to not do this.
The *one* place that I've ever seen routinely give cash discounts is gas stations. (What are those? Only luddites who drive gas cars use those..)
But at least back when I was routinely buying gas, if you INCLUDED the cash back portion, at the cheapest places, it made up the cash discount the vast majority of the time (and was e.g. just as cheap as Arco, which doesn't take credit cards at all).
Pay your bill in full every month, automatically (i.e. auto-pay), and you end up paying LESS than those who pay with cash or check, AND it's more convenient.
Win win win, for me.
(This new PayPal one isn't interesting, since there's already the DoubleCash card that's 2% back on everything, and many others that give even more than that for various categories..)
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day too. Apple DOS was written several years before MSDOS, and has more sophisticated filenames. (Oh, I just realized, the later ProDOS has "only" 15 character filenames.) I realize other personal computers probably have similar features, I just don't recall the specifics about them.
DOS 3.x filenames can from 1-30 characters in length, and must start
with an uppercase letter. They cannot contain commas, colons, but can
contain control characters.
The (docu-)drama "Manhunt: UNABOMBER" is interesting, as a major plot point is that one FBI agent did that kind of stylometric analysis of the writings.
There are no options vs buying a car made by a large international corporation. I don't understand why anybody gets food directly (Cisco notwithstanding) from a crappy corporate restaurant chain. They add no value, specialize in making food just barely good enough, you don't send it back.
Because not everybody feels the same way as you do. I would probably FAR more enjoy going to several of the ones you mentioned, rather than I suspect what you like - some snooty ridiculously priced place.... even if someone else was paying.
I will even admit that a major benefit of what you call a "crappy corporate restaurant chain" (I would call it a "low priced sit down place") is not having to cook or do dishes, and be a step above takeout, usually.
Eh, every grocery store has had "loss leader" products to get people in the door since forever. Milk and eggs aren't anywhere near that cheap, no?
Not here, but Grocery Outlet seems to be the cheapest place to get milk. I think there used to be price controls in CA until a few years ago, but now at GO, a gallon of milk is a bit over $2, at least a buck less than at more well known grocery stores.
This is all part of the default upper class scheme to charge as much regressive tax (usually property and sales tax) as possible so they can pay as little income tax as possible.
You say that like it's a bad thing. (I'm mostly being serious.. As much as I personally hate usage-based taxes, something like a base vehicle tax + tax for mileage driven seems like it would be better to keep roads/bridges in shape.. But if I want to stay in my house and not go out, paying as little taxes as possible seems reasonable. Oh, and having the vehicle tax inversely proportional to MPG(e) would be good too.)
But anyway, my main point was going to be -- the one inconsistency I see here is, aren't "upper class" people the ones likely to have property? So they're the ones paying property tax. Unless you're claiming they're making the property tax so high that only rich people can EVER get property.
Also, even with exceptions like CA's Prop 13, aren't people paying property tax proportional to how much property they own? So that seems like it's "taxing the rich".
Also, I'm expecting (fearing) that all the data and computing fire-power will be used for surge pricing, sooner or later. The stockholders would love it.
Not exactly surge pricing, sort of the opposite.. but e.g. Safeway apparently does data-mining of what I buy, and very very often gives me deals _on stuff I buy anyway_ that's cheaper than the regular sale prices. (Other stores also do 'deals for you', but I haven't personally used any that as frequently gave me deals on things I bought.)
I'm all for that, and if Amazon wants to do it too, great! (BTW, I don't shop at Whole Paycheck. Organic/anti-GMO are scams, and the food costs too much. If Amazon makes stuff I want to buy cheaper than at other places, great!)
BTW, the people complaining about "but they'll eventually raise prices". Yeah, Amazon the website isn't always the cheapest, but is usually very close to it, PLUS they have had good service with the rare problems I have had. Isn't that exactly what you're asking for, paying extra for something that's useful (service)? So what do you want, low prices, or people paying for "extras"? Seems like a bit of hypocrisy going on with the critics. (Oh, I also get 5% back for Amazon purchases with the credit card that I pay no interest on.)
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That's funny, because one of the problems is that the taxi services ARE heavily regulated, and Uber/Lyft/etc. AREN'T, and just started going into cities (until they started getting sued then stopped working in various cities).
BTW, I'm not saying I'm FOR all of the regulation that exists on taxis, but it does seem somewhat unfair (yeah yeah yeah life isn't fair) to have one business heavily regulated and ANOTHER business, doing largely the same thing, NOT heavily regulated. Yes, removing some of the regulations on taxis would be good, but then you've screwed over the people who paid what, millions for their legally required medallions.
(I've only been in a taxi once in my life, but will give up a personal car when driverless Uber or the like comes around.)
AFAIK, "corner stores" (which 7-11 seems to be the most well known example) are different from bodegas. Bodegas seem to have a tiny bit more stuff like a 'regular' grocery store, PLUS all of the junk food and such... But they're still tiny. (They're all over NYC, at least according to TV shows set there!)
"maximizing profits" is a company's job.
I think it's kind of a dumb idea too, but did you say the same thing about vending machines, or even automats (halfway between a vending machine and a restaurant), over full service restaurants/stores?
Don't the health care requirements only kick in after 50 employees? Also, I know many (if not most if not all) startups don't have 401(k) plans either, etc..
Though what about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
and the "calculation of tax" part makes it sound closer to what I had guessed:
Absolutely false. I'm a couple of decades older than that, and have been using cheapo Bluetooth earbuds for a couple of years now. They can be had for under $20.
It's not a "successor". It's a line of products with different capabilities, at different prices. Maybe you prefer one that is lower priced, or has TouchID instead.
Currently it's the medium, but it's really just delayed/multi-step barter. If you can't get money directly, find a way to barter your work in exchange for someone else's work.
The "simple program" will hopefully know how to spell correctly, too.
Though I presume you get to deduct any taxes paid in another country, just like I can do for e.g. foreign tax paid on investments.
Right, let's get rid of social security (or let me opt out of paying AND receiving), as well!
So you can like or follow them on FB, like I just did.
I'm about the same age. I LOVE the idea of being part of some robotic future.
If I can have robots clean my house (no, Roomba doesn't cut it), keep the weeds down on my "lawn" (currently not watered due to previous water shortage, plus that would mean I'd have to mow it), clean my clothes, etc., that would be AWESOME.
The places I used to go to (have an electric car now), you just paid at the pump with the card.
So you want to take my money to give to other people...
We could also lower the SS retirement age,
No, let me opt out of SS entirely (paying and receiving).
The *one* place that I've ever seen routinely give cash discounts is gas stations. (What are those? Only luddites who drive gas cars use those..)
But at least back when I was routinely buying gas, if you INCLUDED the cash back portion, at the cheapest places, it made up the cash discount the vast majority of the time (and was e.g. just as cheap as Arco, which doesn't take credit cards at all).
Pay your bill in full every month, automatically (i.e. auto-pay), and you end up paying LESS than those who pay with cash or check, AND it's more convenient.
Win win win, for me.
(This new PayPal one isn't interesting, since there's already the DoubleCash card that's 2% back on everything, and many others that give even more than that for various categories..)
Yes, absolutely. Making it lightweight, with a consistent, easy to use UI _is_ sophisticated.
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day too. Apple DOS was written several years before MSDOS, and has more sophisticated filenames. (Oh, I just realized, the later ProDOS has "only" 15 character filenames.) I realize other personal computers probably have similar features, I just don't recall the specifics about them.
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4.1: DOS 3.x file names and types
DOS 3.x filenames can from 1-30 characters in length, and must start
with an uppercase letter. They cannot contain commas, colons, but can
contain control characters.
The (docu-)drama "Manhunt: UNABOMBER" is interesting, as a major plot point is that one FBI agent did that kind of stylometric analysis of the writings.
Because not everybody feels the same way as you do. I would probably FAR more enjoy going to several of the ones you mentioned, rather than I suspect what you like - some snooty ridiculously priced place.... even if someone else was paying.
I will even admit that a major benefit of what you call a "crappy corporate restaurant chain" (I would call it a "low priced sit down place") is not having to cook or do dishes, and be a step above takeout, usually.
Not here, but Grocery Outlet seems to be the cheapest place to get milk. I think there used to be price controls in CA until a few years ago, but now at GO, a gallon of milk is a bit over $2, at least a buck less than at more well known grocery stores.
You say that like it's a bad thing. (I'm mostly being serious.. As much as I personally hate usage-based taxes, something like a base vehicle tax + tax for mileage driven seems like it would be better to keep roads/bridges in shape.. But if I want to stay in my house and not go out, paying as little taxes as possible seems reasonable. Oh, and having the vehicle tax inversely proportional to MPG(e) would be good too.)
But anyway, my main point was going to be -- the one inconsistency I see here is, aren't "upper class" people the ones likely to have property? So they're the ones paying property tax. Unless you're claiming they're making the property tax so high that only rich people can EVER get property.
Also, even with exceptions like CA's Prop 13, aren't people paying property tax proportional to how much property they own? So that seems like it's "taxing the rich".
Not exactly surge pricing, sort of the opposite.. but e.g. Safeway apparently does data-mining of what I buy, and very very often gives me deals _on stuff I buy anyway_ that's cheaper than the regular sale prices. (Other stores also do 'deals for you', but I haven't personally used any that as frequently gave me deals on things I bought.)
I'm all for that, and if Amazon wants to do it too, great! (BTW, I don't shop at Whole Paycheck. Organic/anti-GMO are scams, and the food costs too much. If Amazon makes stuff I want to buy cheaper than at other places, great!)
BTW, the people complaining about "but they'll eventually raise prices". Yeah, Amazon the website isn't always the cheapest, but is usually very close to it, PLUS they have had good service with the rare problems I have had. Isn't that exactly what you're asking for, paying extra for something that's useful (service)? So what do you want, low prices, or people paying for "extras"? Seems like a bit of hypocrisy going on with the critics. (Oh, I also get 5% back for Amazon purchases with the credit card that I pay no interest on.)
I think drinking milk is kind of strange for the same reason you do (though I use it in coffee & on cereal).
But [citation needed] about "your body doesn't really know how to process".