Amazon doesn't make anything, they just force the publishers to sell wholesale for less than they do to other vendors. Supermarkets do this to food producers as well, which similarly has put most independent grocers out of business and made out food really low quality.
The system has failed us.
Amazon "forces" nothing. The publishers are selling to Amazon at whatever price BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MONEY.
The system has not failed. Amazon is doing things more efficiently and/or better in other ways. Usually Amazon is the cheapest for something I'm searching for (including tax & shipping, if applicable). Sometimes, if it's a VERY low percentage more, I will still buy something there, because they are providing a good service (IMHO). It is ironic when I can buy from another seller through Amazon (fulfilled by Amazon) cheaper than Amazon's own price.
I agree with that too. But we haven't gotten that far yet. (Heck, even what I've seen/heard of Roomba and similar, they end up getting clogged easily.. Still, it may be better than vacuuming manually.) But picking up random trash on roadways/in plants/etc., seems much much harder without wrecking the plants.
Regardless, even if EVERYTHING ends up being automated (except programming the automation machines), that doesn't mean there should be wealth distribution to give away one's money to another for doing nothing.
perhaps it's time for universal basic income guarantee?
Heck no, learn something new and get a new job. Or pick up trash, do anything. (Welfare recipients should pick up trash along the roads, or do the "jobs that Americans don't do".)
Even if that's true, how did Amazon get the size it did with competitors able to use the 'walmart effect'? By BEING BETTER. I don't even argue with the 'walmart effect' being a bad thing. The companies it/others using the effect are buying things FROM are complicit in the business, of course.
Why shouldn't there be a penalty for mistakes? Those who *made* the mistakes should be penalized. In the banking industry, that should be *both* the banks *AND* the consumers that took out fraudulent loans (falsified paperwork saying they made more money than they do, etc.) There should have been no mortgage refinancing for them.
BTW, the comment link on your page doesn't actually DO anything. You should write a bug with the details, even though it's hitting only one user. bugreport.apple.com
If the bugs were called duplicates, and the bugs are still open.. then clearly they weren't duplicates.
PLEASE write new bugs, with enough detail about the settings necessary, at bugreport.apple.com.
(I've been writing up VLC bugs for example, even though *they* close the bugs on us, and don't let the originator close the bug.. I wish all companies had public ways to officially file bugs, even though yes, products should have many many many fewer bugs when released. Zero is unfortunately probably impossible.)
Modern references to star trek make kirk out to be this player who always gets laid... as I guess the getting laid part would have to be implied in more subtle ways...
I admit I can't think of too many examples off the top of my head, but didn't he definitely at the very least get very flirty with most of the women he ran into?
There is one example that I remember that is much more subtle, however. I don't remember which episode it is... But you do see Kirk sitting on the bed and putting his shoes on. From either a commentary or maybe one of the little new segments they showed when SciFi ran the uncut episodes, one of the people involved was very surprised that they were able to get that on the air, because (my paraphrase) "it clearly implies that he just had sex".
Though even watching "The Dick Van Dyke Show" again as an adult, there were a few times when I think it was more adult than one would think. Something like Rob telling Laura that it's time to go to bed, and him raising an eyebrow and smiling at the same time.
(It's amazing how different shows are nowadays... even ones I think are very funny, like "Two Broke Girls", which even out-raunches "Two and a Half Men".)
Now, of course, I am presuming a bus with a lot of people on it, not a completely empty bus. (Not necessarily a packed bus either.) How isn't a bus with a lot of people on it more efficient than a bunch of separate cars (even if they have more than one occupant)?
If it's *that* easy, why would Tesla be doing the much more confusing (to the end would-be-purchaser), and I suspect much more expensive, route of having dealerships that aren't really dealerships, that can't even give people prices or schedule service?
If it really was just getting a business license in Texas (which I would suspect they already HAVE to have for the aforementioned dealers that aren't really dealers), they would have it already.
If the rolls were reversed and the Dems added a rider that outlawed guns, would you blame the pubs for not agreeing to the budget?
No, I wouldn't.
I actually am very strongly in FAVOR of the tactic some of them were doing, single issue bills. However, NOT when the entire government is shut down. Pass a comprehensive bill to "fund the government" (as we're colloquially calling it), then do single issue bills from now on. I would definitely be in favor of that, but since they were only doing it WHILE the shutdown was on, it was a lame stunt.
It makes a difference because we can make devices (cameras, other sensory devices), that, within their own technical limits, ARE recordings of "reality" to a much better approximation than our senses are, which purposely throw away or alter tons of the information it receives.
You are incorrectly using the fact that our human senses/memories are fallible to claim that reality itself is subjective. It is not. People's *perceptions* of reality are subjective.
Hulu Plus has ads.. Netflix (streaming) and Amazon Prime aren't "a la carte", AND I don't believe either of them has Game of Thrones, one of the specific examples listed.
Of course, Netflix DOES have GoT via DVD/BluRay, but even then, it's still not "a la carte". So I really do think the entire premise was on the pay-per-view-per-episode model, which I still think isn't "reasonably" priced.
As a parent why in hell am I going to worry about my kids health when she's in her 60's? No doubt I'll be dead and gone then.
Really?
Don't most people still have kids in their 20s? You don't potentially see living into your 80s? You don't want them around to take care of dottering old you?
It leaves him having visited Europe, presumably having had a good time, and thus maybe doing better at his job in the meantime? He didn't say he was going to spend every freaking cent he had on earth.
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Would you say that about the original price in 2007 too?
Amazon "forces" nothing. The publishers are selling to Amazon at whatever price BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MONEY.
The system has not failed. Amazon is doing things more efficiently and/or better in other ways. Usually Amazon is the cheapest for something I'm searching for (including tax & shipping, if applicable). Sometimes, if it's a VERY low percentage more, I will still buy something there, because they are providing a good service (IMHO). It is ironic when I can buy from another seller through Amazon (fulfilled by Amazon) cheaper than Amazon's own price.
I agree with that too. But we haven't gotten that far yet. (Heck, even what I've seen/heard of Roomba and similar, they end up getting clogged easily.. Still, it may be better than vacuuming manually.) But picking up random trash on roadways/in plants/etc., seems much much harder without wrecking the plants.
Regardless, even if EVERYTHING ends up being automated (except programming the automation machines), that doesn't mean there should be wealth distribution to give away one's money to another for doing nothing.
Agreed.
Heck no, learn something new and get a new job. Or pick up trash, do anything. (Welfare recipients should pick up trash along the roads, or do the "jobs that Americans don't do".)
Even if that's true, how did Amazon get the size it did with competitors able to use the 'walmart effect'? By BEING BETTER. I don't even argue with the 'walmart effect' being a bad thing. The companies it/others using the effect are buying things FROM are complicit in the business, of course.
Why shouldn't there be a penalty for mistakes? Those who *made* the mistakes should be penalized. In the banking industry, that should be *both* the banks *AND* the consumers that took out fraudulent loans (falsified paperwork saying they made more money than they do, etc.) There should have been no mortgage refinancing for them.
BTW, the comment link on your page doesn't actually DO anything. You should write a bug with the details, even though it's hitting only one user. bugreport.apple.com
Neither of those is the correct name. There is an app called "Mail.app" (with the extension) in OS X (previously known as Mac OS X).
If the bugs were called duplicates, and the bugs are still open.. then clearly they weren't duplicates.
PLEASE write new bugs, with enough detail about the settings necessary, at bugreport.apple.com.
(I've been writing up VLC bugs for example, even though *they* close the bugs on us, and don't let the originator close the bug.. I wish all companies had public ways to officially file bugs, even though yes, products should have many many many fewer bugs when released. Zero is unfortunately probably impossible.)
So you wrote a bug right?
bugreport.apple.com
Definitely write a bug report at bugreport.apple.com with relevant crash logs in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports.
I admit I can't think of too many examples off the top of my head, but didn't he definitely at the very least get very flirty with most of the women he ran into?
There is one example that I remember that is much more subtle, however. I don't remember which episode it is... But you do see Kirk sitting on the bed and putting his shoes on. From either a commentary or maybe one of the little new segments they showed when SciFi ran the uncut episodes, one of the people involved was very surprised that they were able to get that on the air, because (my paraphrase) "it clearly implies that he just had sex".
Though even watching "The Dick Van Dyke Show" again as an adult, there were a few times when I think it was more adult than one would think. Something like Rob telling Laura that it's time to go to bed, and him raising an eyebrow and smiling at the same time.
(It's amazing how different shows are nowadays... even ones I think are very funny, like "Two Broke Girls", which even out-raunches "Two and a Half Men".)
It wasn't the hydrogen that was the major problem.
Go to
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/flash/flash.html
click on The Hindenberg, and go through the little Flash info.. (Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like you can watch this entire episode online.)
Your wish is my command.
http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155
[citation needed]
Now, of course, I am presuming a bus with a lot of people on it, not a completely empty bus. (Not necessarily a packed bus either.) How isn't a bus with a lot of people on it more efficient than a bunch of separate cars (even if they have more than one occupant)?
Plus, there are hybrid busses nowadays too.
If it's *that* easy, why would Tesla be doing the much more confusing (to the end would-be-purchaser), and I suspect much more expensive, route of having dealerships that aren't really dealerships, that can't even give people prices or schedule service?
If it really was just getting a business license in Texas (which I would suspect they already HAVE to have for the aforementioned dealers that aren't really dealers), they would have it already.
No, I wouldn't.
I actually am very strongly in FAVOR of the tactic some of them were doing, single issue bills. However, NOT when the entire government is shut down. Pass a comprehensive bill to "fund the government" (as we're colloquially calling it), then do single issue bills from now on. I would definitely be in favor of that, but since they were only doing it WHILE the shutdown was on, it was a lame stunt.
It makes a difference because we can make devices (cameras, other sensory devices), that, within their own technical limits, ARE recordings of "reality" to a much better approximation than our senses are, which purposely throw away or alter tons of the information it receives.
Will the open source hardware vendors fulfill the voltage & current requirements of USB?
What if they're off spec and end up burning out someone else's equipment? Who's liable?
Wouldn't just going to another state to buy one be faster?
Heck, couldn't you have it shipped to your state from another state? (or if not technically shipped, pay someone to drive it there for you.)
Reality is not subjective.
You are incorrectly using the fact that our human senses/memories are fallible to claim that reality itself is subjective. It is not. People's *perceptions* of reality are subjective.
Of course I understand religion. It's a bunch of made up stories.
Hulu Plus has ads.. Netflix (streaming) and Amazon Prime aren't "a la carte", AND I don't believe either of them has Game of Thrones, one of the specific examples listed.
Of course, Netflix DOES have GoT via DVD/BluRay, but even then, it's still not "a la carte". So I really do think the entire premise was on the pay-per-view-per-episode model, which I still think isn't "reasonably" priced.
Really?
Don't most people still have kids in their 20s? You don't potentially see living into your 80s? You don't want them around to take care of dottering old you?
It leaves him having visited Europe, presumably having had a good time, and thus maybe doing better at his job in the meantime? He didn't say he was going to spend every freaking cent he had on earth.