I haven't yet watched that episode, but you are definitely not correct (and/or THEY aren't).
The Nissan Leaf starts out at $28800. (nissanusa.com)
The Fiat 500e starts at $31800. (Over, but "well over" $30K?) (fiatusa.com)
Smart electric drive $25000. (www.smart.com)
So two of them are under (one *well* under) $30K...and if you count the evil subsidies, $7500 less in the entire USA, $2500 extra less ($10K total) in CA.
$50 games on consoles? I always wait until they're $20 or less, new. There's way more games than I have time to pay, so just like "wait for it on DVD" for HBO shows (though I actually DO have HBO "for free" in my current cable package, and have used On Demand HD for it a few times), there's way more than I have time to play/watch.. So the high original price doesn't affect me. Just "buffer up" a 6 month or year wait once.. then you have tons of cheap new to you content! (games or movies)
pay extra for HD from the cable company, and yet still watch programming in SD.
I don't think there's an extra charge for a lot of people anymore.
One reason I still watch programming in SD is for space reasons. If I had infinite storage (and perfect backups!), I would record everything in HD. As it is now, esp since I record way more than I can watch during the main TV season (so I have "new to me" shows throughout the year), I want/need lots of storage. Yes, external hard drives are cheap, and I *am* doing that, but the newest Tivos can currently 'only' take a 3 TB drive internally.. I know that's a TON of stuff, but when you record a lot of shows and keep them for rerun season, it's not as much as it seems!
trailer after trailer and they disable the "skip this" button.
The funny thing is, movie trailers are one form of advertising that I *really* like, but I want to be able to watch it when I want to watch. I actually also REALLY like it when the trailer(s) for THE SAME MOVIE are contained on the disc. It's entertaining (for me) to compare the actual movie with the trailer(s). Whether they "put the funny two chunks into the trailer", or more interestingly to me, show sections of the movie completely out of order in the trailer.
ANYWAY, about the "forced" trailer watching. You can get past it on most DVDs (I don't have enough experience with BluRays to know if it's common) with an unhacked player by one or more of the following: *) skip forward (I realize that's what you tried) *) TOP MENU *) DVD MENU (never read the spec to see why there are two separate buttons.. IIRC, most DVDs don't handle them differently) *) fast forward *) stop then play
Yeah, sounds like a pain, but I'm used to just trying them in succession.
I think organic food is a big waste of money (no scientific evidence it's any healthier)...
But when is "artificial irradiation" being used? I suspect the same people who waste money buying organic are the same ones that freaked out over irradiation. If they hadn't, we wouldn't have so many food contamination issues. (i.e. if the food was irradiated, it would be healthier and not have e. coli, etc.)
Weird, for me, my electric & gas (which are different companies, electricity is municipally owned) just charge credit card automatically every month, no fee.
My wife is a nurse practitioner. Anyway, she is constantly complaining about how the software's UI doesn't make any medical sense - like things she needs the most are a few screens deep and the things that she rarely needs are right on top.
So, if your wife EVER has ANY connection with the company that makes that stuff, even via a salesman/marketer, she is giving them feedback about this stuff, right? Instead of just whining at you?
I know, "it shouldn't be her job", but it would make HER job better, and heck, might make the company more sales (I realize that doesn't help her, but making her job better DOES).
I'm trying to be nicer than [citation needed], but can you point to a source that proves/realistically theorizes that GM beat Ford (if they indeed did, I know little about the car industry history) solely because of car color choice?
Oh, I forgot to mention, there *is* an electronic way of paying my property tax, but it has a ridiculous fee, and no, that is not a credit card fee. It's a fee even with "electronic check", even though my yearly tax bill/refund can be pulled/pushed directly to my bank account.
There are still people without internet access. I use snail mail to mail physical checks to pay my bills, and get those bills via snail mail.
Why? Since you're paying with checks, you have a bank account. Your bank account almost assuredly has *FREE* bill pay. Heck, it's *better* than free, because it's *saving* you money, since even if the bill can't be paid electronically, *THEY SEND A CHECK AND THEY PAY POSTAGE*. (At least this part is true with my bill pay, and I suspect it is true of all bank bill pay that lets you pay any addressee.)
(Yes, I realize "they" is really all of us customers, but it is literally saving me from paying for a stamp AND filling out a check.)
Over the weekend I started wondering if I could pay my property tax via online bill pay too. I may end up calling the state tax board if I can't find any relevant info online/way to contact them online. (The bills DO say basically that the payment will be delayed if you don't include the payment coupons.. obviously those wouldn't be included if I paid online..) Heck, it's not even obvious if I have to write a separate check for EACH payment coupon (I want to prepay to offset some dividend income) or one big check. One big check makes the most sense, but this is government. (They DO at least tell you to include both payment coupons if you are paying both at once.)
In 2006 â" Republicans in Congress passed a poison pill piece of legislation forcing the Post Office to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years out into the future
Isn't that far far better than the current situation, where companies *don't* have the money to fund the promised retirement benefits?
(BTW, I think there are TONS of examples seen in the news where people get FAR FAR FAR too much in retirement -- but it is also VERY wrong to change what people get after the fact/after they started employment. So the "cushy deals" should still exist for those who already got them, but new employees should have regular 401ks or similar.)
I can't find the exact comic, and googling shows that the joke is an old one.. but one of the major comic strips in the past few weeks talked about a "static electricity car" where you rub your feet on the carpet when the battery starts to wear down.
Wow, yeah. I RTFA-ed, because I had thought they were only removing WiFi (I may be wrong, maybe none of the other Wiis have WiFi)..
I've never had a Wii, but have thought about getting one someday mostly *for* the Virtual Console ("cheap old games"). I'm generally more of a physical media person too, but IIRC, the Virtual Console games are cheap enough for me not to care..
So this $99 Wii is mostly worthless to me. Guess I'll pick up someone's used one some eon. (I already have a zillion PS3 games I haven't started, much less finished, but still like playing the old 2D games a lot too.)
OK, you're right, but that's definitely very different than "the AT&T merger". I don't think that's well known (or at least well-remembered). It made it sound like they bought all of AT&T.
I can't think of even one good deed either of those two fascist bastards have done.
While I think it's ironically named, given some of the other anti-science things they have done (funded anti-global warming research), the "David H. Koch Fund for Science" is one of the funders of Nova.
Why not just sit down and use a laptop rather than trying to be Star Trek? You might actually get work done, and save a ton of money in the process.
He didn't say anything about "get[ting] work done", which is ironic with people complaining about the iPad by saying "you can't do real work on it" (despite the fact that many people ARE doing that, even though yes, it has been marketed largely as a consumption device).
He said: It can provide unobtrusive notifications and quick, easy access to small but important pieces of information. It can also be an input device for controlling Glass, one that's a lot more convenient than the frame-mounted touchpad which I read as mostly an output device with a *little* bit of control, but not a major input device.
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You mean integrity like following the laws of the land and court ordered actions? That sounds like a lot of integrity to me.
Addition or edition? I could imagine both being correct, if the two volume one is more of a sequel. They likely meant the latter.
That sounds like it's an order of magnitude too high. Is it a copy paste error?
I haven't yet watched that episode, but you are definitely not correct (and/or THEY aren't).
The Nissan Leaf starts out at $28800. (nissanusa.com)
The Fiat 500e starts at $31800. (Over, but "well over" $30K?) (fiatusa.com)
Smart electric drive $25000. (www.smart.com)
So two of them are under (one *well* under) $30K. ..and if you count the evil subsidies, $7500 less in the entire USA, $2500 extra less ($10K total) in CA.
$50 games on consoles? I always wait until they're $20 or less, new. There's way more games than I have time to pay, so just like "wait for it on DVD" for HBO shows (though I actually DO have HBO "for free" in my current cable package, and have used On Demand HD for it a few times), there's way more than I have time to play/watch.. So the high original price doesn't affect me. Just "buffer up" a 6 month or year wait once.. then you have tons of cheap new to you content! (games or movies)
I don't think there's an extra charge for a lot of people anymore.
One reason I still watch programming in SD is for space reasons. If I had infinite storage (and perfect backups!), I would record everything in HD. As it is now, esp since I record way more than I can watch during the main TV season (so I have "new to me" shows throughout the year), I want/need lots of storage. Yes, external hard drives are cheap, and I *am* doing that, but the newest Tivos can currently 'only' take a 3 TB drive internally.. I know that's a TON of stuff, but when you record a lot of shows and keep them for rerun season, it's not as much as it seems!
The funny thing is, movie trailers are one form of advertising that I *really* like, but I want to be able to watch it when I want to watch. I actually also REALLY like it when the trailer(s) for THE SAME MOVIE are contained on the disc. It's entertaining (for me) to compare the actual movie with the trailer(s). Whether they "put the funny two chunks into the trailer", or more interestingly to me, show sections of the movie completely out of order in the trailer.
ANYWAY, about the "forced" trailer watching. You can get past it on most DVDs (I don't have enough experience with BluRays to know if it's common) with an unhacked player by one or more of the following:
*) skip forward (I realize that's what you tried)
*) TOP MENU
*) DVD MENU (never read the spec to see why there are two separate buttons.. IIRC, most DVDs don't handle them differently)
*) fast forward
*) stop then play
Yeah, sounds like a pain, but I'm used to just trying them in succession.
I think organic food is a big waste of money (no scientific evidence it's any healthier)...
But when is "artificial irradiation" being used? I suspect the same people who waste money buying organic are the same ones that freaked out over irradiation. If they hadn't, we wouldn't have so many food contamination issues. (i.e. if the food was irradiated, it would be healthier and not have e. coli, etc.)
Weird, for me, my electric & gas (which are different companies, electricity is municipally owned) just charge credit card automatically every month, no fee.
So, if your wife EVER has ANY connection with the company that makes that stuff, even via a salesman/marketer, she is giving them feedback about this stuff, right? Instead of just whining at you?
I know, "it shouldn't be her job", but it would make HER job better, and heck, might make the company more sales (I realize that doesn't help her, but making her job better DOES).
I'm trying to be nicer than [citation needed], but can you point to a source that proves/realistically theorizes that GM beat Ford (if they indeed did, I know little about the car industry history) solely because of car color choice?
Oh, I forgot to mention, there *is* an electronic way of paying my property tax, but it has a ridiculous fee, and no, that is not a credit card fee. It's a fee even with "electronic check", even though my yearly tax bill/refund can be pulled/pushed directly to my bank account.
Why? Since you're paying with checks, you have a bank account. Your bank account almost assuredly has *FREE* bill pay. Heck, it's *better* than free, because it's *saving* you money, since even if the bill can't be paid electronically, *THEY SEND A CHECK AND THEY PAY POSTAGE*. (At least this part is true with my bill pay, and I suspect it is true of all bank bill pay that lets you pay any addressee.)
(Yes, I realize "they" is really all of us customers, but it is literally saving me from paying for a stamp AND filling out a check.)
Over the weekend I started wondering if I could pay my property tax via online bill pay too. I may end up calling the state tax board if I can't find any relevant info online/way to contact them online. (The bills DO say basically that the payment will be delayed if you don't include the payment coupons.. obviously those wouldn't be included if I paid online..) Heck, it's not even obvious if I have to write a separate check for EACH payment coupon (I want to prepay to offset some dividend income) or one big check. One big check makes the most sense, but this is government. (They DO at least tell you to include both payment coupons if you are paying both at once.)
Why don't you simply *stop* the junk mail in the first place?
The free iOS app PaperKarma lets you take snapshots of your junk mail to unsubscribe that way.
There's more info about stopping junk mail at:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email
and
https://www.catalogchoice.org/
Yes, that's why we should get rid of pensions, and make all retirement plans 401(k)s, or similar.
Isn't that far far better than the current situation, where companies *don't* have the money to fund the promised retirement benefits?
(BTW, I think there are TONS of examples seen in the news where people get FAR FAR FAR too much in retirement -- but it is also VERY wrong to change what people get after the fact/after they started employment. So the "cushy deals" should still exist for those who already got them, but new employees should have regular 401ks or similar.)
I can't find the exact comic, and googling shows that the joke is an old one.. but one of the major comic strips in the past few weeks talked about a "static electricity car" where you rub your feet on the carpet when the battery starts to wear down.
Wow, yeah. I RTFA-ed, because I had thought they were only removing WiFi (I may be wrong, maybe none of the other Wiis have WiFi)..
I've never had a Wii, but have thought about getting one someday mostly *for* the Virtual Console ("cheap old games"). I'm generally more of a physical media person too, but IIRC, the Virtual Console games are cheap enough for me not to care..
So this $99 Wii is mostly worthless to me. Guess I'll pick up someone's used one some eon. (I already have a zillion PS3 games I haven't started, much less finished, but still like playing the old 2D games a lot too.)
OK, you're right, but that's definitely very different than "the AT&T merger". I don't think that's well known (or at least well-remembered). It made it sound like they bought all of AT&T.
*Co-founder* of a company that *became* paypal (due to acquisitions).
Are you talking about two different situations, or do you perhaps mean NBC instead of AT&T in the latter example? Comcast & AT&T have not merged....
Yes, the parent already mentioned "all tingly".
Shouldn't that be:
So, apparently, are ....
?
It definitely sounds weird to me without the comma after apparently, though I can't come up with a grammatical reason for it.
While I think it's ironically named, given some of the other anti-science things they have done (funded anti-global warming research), the "David H. Koch Fund for Science" is one of the funders of Nova.
See at the bottom of http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
He didn't say anything about "get[ting] work done", which is ironic with people complaining about the iPad by saying "you can't do real work on it" (despite the fact that many people ARE doing that, even though yes, it has been marketed largely as a consumption device).
He said:
It can provide unobtrusive notifications and quick, easy access to small but important pieces of information. It can also be an input device for controlling Glass, one that's a lot more convenient than the frame-mounted touchpad
which I read as mostly an output device with a *little* bit of control, but not a major input device.