All that emphasizes to me is that ALL PATENTS are EVIL, COUNTER PRODUCTIVE, and ANTI PROGRESS.
Who is going to invent something new, if someone else can right away copy the exact idea, possibly even cheaper (since they get the end result of the idea without the time/money spent in developing the idea), thus preventing the inventor from making a living from their new idea?
If GameFly is sending "in slightly bigger envelopes", why shouldn't they have to pay more?!
If they were "essentially" the same as Netflix's packages, then yes, they should presumably pay the same rate (excepting for huge volume discounts perhaps).
I was simply pointing out that the minimum wage rules *do* apply, but they're generally paid by the bucket.. So if someone does so poorly to not get 'enough' buckets for minimum wage, they are paid minimum wage.. (But obviously wouldn't have the job for long.)
You could move somewhere cheaper, live with a ton of roommates, etc.. As many others have said, what "poor" people in the U.S. have is extravagant to much of the rest of the world. If they are spending every single cent and have NOTHING to save (no Starbucks, no cable, no expensive cell phone, etc..), then I guess you have a point.
I personally think it's the parents' responsibility to put their kids through college (bachelor's degree).
To claim "people don't want to work" I say is an appeal to emotion argument that nobody should fall for (yet sadly many do). People do want to work assuming that they get paid fairly for the work being done.
Did you see the episode of Morgan Spurlock's "Inside Man" on CNN where he did fruit picking? There are tons of jobs, people won't apply for them. (You're presumably going to claim they're not being paid fairly.. But they're manual labor that could presumably eventually be replaced by machines.)
They should use their savings, which they should have, to pay for education, even if a trade school, for a better job.
Instead, they should have gone to college in the first place and gotten a degree, instead of expecting a lifetime manual labor job that could eventually be replaced by robots.
No diff from the insane premium music CDs commanded over vinyl.
What insane premium? I got the vast vast vast majority of my CDs (of somewhere around 300, as my 300 CD changer was close to full and I've still bought more since stopping using that long ago) through CD clubs, and averaged under $6/CD even including the inflated "shipping" charges. (Just wait a couple of months for the frequent buy 1 get 2 free, or better, deals and buy a couple then.)
But the marketing can be useful. A real world example I'll use is for fountain drinks at a sit down restaurant (at takeout places, I rarely get a drink, unless it's part of a free combo promo). If the meal is $15 and the drink is $2, I'll be much less likely to get the drink than if the meal is $16 and the drink is $1. Since people are there to get food, it actually makes more sense to charge more for the food, and less for the drinks. But places don't seem to do that. $2-3 for a soda that costs a couple of cents at most is ridiculous, when I can basically always get a 2 liter for $.99 at a grocery store. Yes, you could extend the analogy to the food being cheaper at the grocery store too, but I'm mostly paying for the food to be cooked and dishes cleaned for me.
I did learn something new, I learned Python..and for the most part, I like it.. It's more readable (as in sourcecode, not as in indentation) than Perl.
It's mostly the indent==scope that's so annoying. There's a couple of other things, like seemingly unnecessary colons in a few places, but those are VERY VERY minor compared to the huge issue that is indentation == scope.
But I still use Python. Can't you see that liking something, despite greatly disliking one of its huge distinguishing features, is actually a positive for Python?
Not actually answering your question, there are other places selling *unprotected* music. Does it absolutely have to be MP3? e.g. iTunes songs are AAC, but have no copy protection.
emusic sells mp3s, and amplified.com, and I think a lot of other places. (I got a ton of free music with the now-dead pepsilootstore app that simply gave you free credits on amplified.com.)
I can see how a PDF would be useful on a computer, but would it be useful on an e-reader? Not as much, I don't think so, e.g. no reflowing/resizing, etc.
Two gas stations across the street, both having a sale prominently advertised out front. One offers a gallon of gas for a dollar, the other offers 4 gallons of gas for a dollar.
This will not result in proportional business. Rather, the 4 Gal/usd will be packed and you'll hear crickets at the 1Gal/usd station.
With *THAT* big of a gap, you're probably right.
But here in the real world, for some reason people still go to the "name" brand gas stations that sometimes are 10 or more cents more/gallon that are just across the street from each other... Even though the gas quality is federally mandated, and in many/most cases it probably all comes from the same tank anyway.
I guess they're an "auto broker", and thus another middleman, but IIRC, the price was about what I was expecting to pay. (I don't think I had done 'regular' new car shopping at auto dealerships, and had driven one or more owned by friends or co-workers, so I ended up just ordering exactly what I wanted on the net.)
If a road is at capacity, why couldn't all of the cars be driving at even something slow like 25 MPH, instead of speed up then almost stop, speed up then almost stop, etc?
That's because of the human error... (and you see the "slowdown" move in the opposite direction of traffic flow, as has been shown on video).
Just like Warren Buffet says (paraphrased), just because you'll have to pay tax on it, doesn't make anyone stop trying to earn an extra dollar.... except apparently you.
with 3 months of Netflix included (if you order from the right place).
From the right place?
What does that mean? The well known free 3 months of netflix offer ended less than a day after orders became available.
Is the offer still available somewhere else? I'm one of those who would be more tempted to get one with the 3 free months of netflix even though of course I can afford it. If it did Amazon Prime Instant Video, I'd likely get one anyway.
An SDK that is being built is by definition subject to change, INCLUDING BREAKING THINGS (advertently or inadvertently). When the SDK is final, or even VERY VERY close to final, and something is STILL broken, then whine.
or as I call them "hamster pushes the button and gets a treat"
That's funny, because that's what I've called ALL video games for a very long time... and I *like* video games. It's funny how they can 'fake' the reward behavior. For example, the first time you play a God of War scene, it seems !@$# impossible... You try a few more times and die each time. Eventually, you get a tiny bit farther, then a tiny bit farther, then solve it. Getting exactly the right "oh my god this is impossible" but then making slight progress delineation is how it hooks you.
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Who is going to invent something new, if someone else can right away copy the exact idea, possibly even cheaper (since they get the end result of the idea without the time/money spent in developing the idea), thus preventing the inventor from making a living from their new idea?
If GameFly is sending "in slightly bigger envelopes", why shouldn't they have to pay more?!
If they were "essentially" the same as Netflix's packages, then yes, they should presumably pay the same rate (excepting for huge volume discounts perhaps).
I AM NOT MAKING UP STORIES.
The orange pickers *ARE PAID BY THE BUCKET*. Watch the documentary on CNN!
I was simply pointing out that the minimum wage rules *do* apply, but they're generally paid by the bucket.. So if someone does so poorly to not get 'enough' buckets for minimum wage, they are paid minimum wage.. (But obviously wouldn't have the job for long.)
You could move somewhere cheaper, live with a ton of roommates, etc.. As many others have said, what "poor" people in the U.S. have is extravagant to much of the rest of the world. If they are spending every single cent and have NOTHING to save (no Starbucks, no cable, no expensive cell phone, etc..), then I guess you have a point.
I personally think it's the parents' responsibility to put their kids through college (bachelor's degree).
Morgan Spurlock was so bad at the job that they had to 'up' his pay to minimum wage.
IIRC, it was 90 cents a (big) bucket of oranges.
Did you see the episode of Morgan Spurlock's "Inside Man" on CNN where he did fruit picking? There are tons of jobs, people won't apply for them. (You're presumably going to claim they're not being paid fairly.. But they're manual labor that could presumably eventually be replaced by machines.)
They should use their savings, which they should have, to pay for education, even if a trade school, for a better job.
Instead, they should have gone to college in the first place and gotten a degree, instead of expecting a lifetime manual labor job that could eventually be replaced by robots.
What insane premium? I got the vast vast vast majority of my CDs (of somewhere around 300, as my 300 CD changer was close to full and I've still bought more since stopping using that long ago) through CD clubs, and averaged under $6/CD even including the inflated "shipping" charges. (Just wait a couple of months for the frequent buy 1 get 2 free, or better, deals and buy a couple then.)
But the marketing can be useful. A real world example I'll use is for fountain drinks at a sit down restaurant (at takeout places, I rarely get a drink, unless it's part of a free combo promo). If the meal is $15 and the drink is $2, I'll be much less likely to get the drink than if the meal is $16 and the drink is $1. Since people are there to get food, it actually makes more sense to charge more for the food, and less for the drinks. But places don't seem to do that. $2-3 for a soda that costs a couple of cents at most is ridiculous, when I can basically always get a 2 liter for $.99 at a grocery store. Yes, you could extend the analogy to the food being cheaper at the grocery store too, but I'm mostly paying for the food to be cooked and dishes cleaned for me.
He works for Google, it's part of his job.
(j/k)
I did learn something new, I learned Python..and for the most part, I like it.. It's more readable (as in sourcecode, not as in indentation) than Perl.
It's mostly the indent==scope that's so annoying. There's a couple of other things, like seemingly unnecessary colons in a few places, but those are VERY VERY minor compared to the huge issue that is indentation == scope.
But I still use Python. Can't you see that liking something, despite greatly disliking one of its huge distinguishing features, is actually a positive for Python?
Not actually answering your question, there are other places selling *unprotected* music. Does it absolutely have to be MP3? e.g. iTunes songs are AAC, but have no copy protection.
emusic sells mp3s, and amplified.com, and I think a lot of other places. (I got a ton of free music with the now-dead pepsilootstore app that simply gave you free credits on amplified.com.)
I can see how a PDF would be useful on a computer, but would it be useful on an e-reader? Not as much, I don't think so, e.g. no reflowing/resizing, etc.
With *THAT* big of a gap, you're probably right.
But here in the real world, for some reason people still go to the "name" brand gas stations that sometimes are 10 or more cents more/gallon that are just across the street from each other... Even though the gas quality is federally mandated, and in many/most cases it probably all comes from the same tank anyway.
...but you left???
Except for the Leaf, the Fiat 500e, etc...
I did pretty much exactly that, in 1998.
I guess they're an "auto broker", and thus another middleman, but IIRC, the price was about what I was expecting to pay. (I don't think I had done 'regular' new car shopping at auto dealerships, and had driven one or more owned by friends or co-workers, so I ended up just ordering exactly what I wanted on the net.)
Thanks, that should get modded informative if it's indeed true!
If a road is at capacity, why couldn't all of the cars be driving at even something slow like 25 MPH, instead of speed up then almost stop, speed up then almost stop, etc?
That's because of the human error... (and you see the "slowdown" move in the opposite direction of traffic flow, as has been shown on video).
IT IS NOT A DONATION.
What avoidance are you claiming?
They're not trying to DODGE anything.
If it were a donation, they *would* be able to take it as a deduction. They were trying NOT to make it look like a donation.
So they end up paying MORE taxes than you are suggesting.
Just like Warren Buffet says (paraphrased), just because you'll have to pay tax on it, doesn't make anyone stop trying to earn an extra dollar.... except apparently you.
From the right place?
What does that mean? The well known free 3 months of netflix offer ended less than a day after orders became available.
Is the offer still available somewhere else? I'm one of those who would be more tempted to get one with the 3 free months of netflix even though of course I can afford it. If it did Amazon Prime Instant Video, I'd likely get one anyway.
The SDK is NOT FINAL, correct?
An SDK that is being built is by definition subject to change, INCLUDING BREAKING THINGS (advertently or inadvertently). When the SDK is final, or even VERY VERY close to final, and something is STILL broken, then whine.
That's funny, because that's what I've called ALL video games for a very long time... and I *like* video games. It's funny how they can 'fake' the reward behavior. For example, the first time you play a God of War scene, it seems !@$# impossible... You try a few more times and die each time. Eventually, you get a tiny bit farther, then a tiny bit farther, then solve it. Getting exactly the right "oh my god this is impossible" but then making slight progress delineation is how it hooks you.