It's pretty obvious that the best way to have everyone in the US prosper, that not only the minimum wage must be eliminated, that all employees need drastic cuts in their wages. Because if say, you are making 10 percent of your present wage, the company you work for will have more money to hire more people, reducing the unemployment rate. That's how jobs are created. The problem of course, is sustained prosperity. For that, wages must be continually adjusted downwards, until finally, no one is getting paid anything.
While it is easy to say bullshit on that. But to call bullshit, you have to argue that the only inflationary wages are those at the bottom of the list - the minimum wage. All other wages, all promotions and raises have no effect on onflation at all.
No, it was their backup. When it went away they should have created another one.
The problem of course, is that cloud storage was touted as a backup. So if you have to have a local backup, it kind of makes the cloud storage backup redundant and pointless.
I'm running out of armchairs to sit in while I solve all the world's problems!
I kinda wonder though have we reached th epoint where we just throw our hands up in the air? Are opinions - some of them more informed than a lot of people think, not to be discussed?
Slashdot is more than programmers, even the the programmers are loathe to admit it.
Did you know how many people were killed by EnergyStar? Little known is that O'Blama and Hillary were using the electrons saved by the EnergyStar system to fund Pizzagate, and Acorn.
Finally America is winning again, and that goddamned EnergyStar will sing to the depths of hell, where it belongs.
If you hate them so much, why do you work with children? Why not seek another profession?
Probably wants to feed his or her family. I worked with college students almost my entire career, and after working with millennials, I wasn't too fond of them either. But I liked my paycheck.
It's hard to have a smug sense of superiority over an automatic elevator.
One of the themes of the book was that people already had too much free time - kids were deliberately brainwashed into being more wasteful so that other people had a purpose. And what would efficiency gain you? Money?
We often try to make dystopian worlds in science fiction novels into some sort of prediction of the world of the future. The Brave New World universe runs completely counter to what is happening now. Today's world is looking toward eliminating humanity, not employing it.
A robot is a lot easier to build and fix, and elevator attendents who orgasm when they get to the rooof still have to be paid somehow. And paying a person, be they alpha or delta, is frowned upon today.
11 billion people should make for an interesting world indeed.
We all might be living equally, but equally might me we are all living very poorly. Most of these blue sky ideas assume that everyone will be somehow living the high life.
In most wealthy countries, kids are a liability because you have to feed, clothe, and shelter them without them delivering any kind of return on investment.
Don't forget that child support, because when the wife decides she isn't fulfilled, you have to support the larvae until they are in their 20's.
Yes but you didn't change your ip address, pc mac address or router mac address so it was obvious your the same shopper.
There is a reason many studies found what go was saying to be true. The studies were done properly, no by some clueless idiot spouting bollox therefore the results of those studies provide meaningful data. Unlike yours. You can get the same results if you follow the same methods but clearly that's way above your level of comprehension.
Give me the citations and the test protocol, or else you're just talking shite.
You can't though can you, because after the internet muscles and internet wisdom, ye have nought.
A salary is a much higher form of compensation for all that time spent compared to the modest if any savings I might get doing this in my spare time.
And no doubt.
But putting in some time is how we find deals. As an example, a few years back, I was in the market for a new motorcycle. I cuold have bought the first thing I saw, but I looked around, and after a month of looking, I found a fellow who had a nice 1100 cc Shadow Spirit. And he was selling it to get a four wheeler for his daughter - only wanted $2500 for it. I checked to make sure it was legit and not hot, and it was all clear. That was 6 years ago, and they are still selling for more than that today. We were both in the right place and the right time. And all I have done is replace tires, oil, and a battery on it in the last 6 years, it's a good bike.
But if you don't want to put in the research and time - that's okay- People are too obsessed with rock bottom prices these days. I love getting good deals, but I'm not obsessed with it. If you pay for something, and you are happy with it, that's a form of good deal as well.
Just went to Orbitz, and plugged in a 1 day weekend stay in Cape May New Jersey on the 29th and 30th of April of this year.
Did this on a Mac and Safari, and On a Windows machine, and FireFox. The results were exactly the same on each machine. I've also used a Chromebook in the past, with no odd results. Maybe if I use my Raspberry Pi, I can get really cheap rooms. 8^)
One interesting thing is that I got a hotwire popup on the Windows side - I wonder if Orbitz and hotwire have merged, or if Hotwire is pulling some hanky panky. I've got FireFox pretty well battened down, so it was a little surprising.
Now the one thing I didn't check, and that I know that these sites do. They change prices pretty often. When I go to Florida every winter, I do a hotel check often for the places we stay at. The prices change a lot, and they change daily. The sites I checked today, Amazon, and Orbitz, were searched within a minute of each other.
So I'm a little concerned about the accuracy of the report.
It's not a difficult thing to do, it's a god damn tedious thing to do, and takes far longer than "a couple of minutes".
Then you made your decision. I suppose you never bought anything for a company? I bought a lot of equipment over my career, and had to triple source and total cost everything. Just part of buying stuff.
Because the browser string tell them that you're shopping from a mac. A mac is a premium device, more expensive than it has to be. So they offer you a higher price because of that. Same for ipad.
You have the proof of that, or is it some confirmation bias fantasy?
The mac shopper is more likely to pay the higher price - either because they're rich and can afford that mac status symbol, or because they think "costly is better" and that is why they got the mac in the first place.
If the browser string indicates windows 7 or some such old thing, well you're the budget guy who can't afford upgrades so they sell cheap in the hope that you buy anything at all. (Still selling with a profit, of course.)
All very interesting, but you forget, some of us have both Windows and MacOS. I just opened browswer windows in both to Amazon, did a search for Wireless headphones, and every price was exactly the same. The only difference was in a few cases, the order of what was shown was different, but had no correlation to the price.
So your hypothesis goes into the category of "Cool story, Bro!"
This sort of thing has ALWAYS gone on, it is just that big box stores were too big for it, over the last few decades. There was no one to easily haggle with.
(Yet, I've done so! And you can too!)
Amazon is just doing what merchants in Roman times even did, ffs.
Don't like it... shop around, like you SHOULD BE ANYWAYS!
Dumbasses!
And by the way - I've seen the variable pricing on sites. It goes down as well as up. I've booked hotels cheaply that a week ago were twice as much. Going away and coming back later might just be the internet version of haggling.
You do know that liberals are generally bad with money, right?
Yeah, that's probably why they are in general more wealthy than conservatives.
Quiet! No one is supposed to know that. When I had my side business, I was shocked to find out that my wealthiest and most generous patrons were in fact not right wingers. Same for my wife in the housing industry. Good liberal customers. And they were a hellava lot better to work with than the right wingers.
One of the current business fads is to push for the no. Meaning continually up-selling until the target gives you a firm no.
Well now, that's a brilliant strategy. Once I say no and am pissed, I'm finished and out the door. I'll give a "polite no thank you" at first, but if I have to get firm about it - boom, outa here.
"how it used to be" was actually pretty great -- MULTIPLE local retailers competing with one another on selection, price, location and service. only the smallest of towns didn't have that.. but the next, bigger, town over, where most people shopped for most things, did.
You forgot to add the part where the different businesses started fixing prices.
The parent is saying that prices will be individual specific. Price watch sites won't help with that.
They might. If the refer link is from a price watch site, then an online merchant could deduce that you are a price sensitive shopper willing to work to find a bargain, and thus offer you a good price to make the sale.
Free advice: Never shop online with a Mac, and especially not with Safari as your browser.
Okay, I'll bite - why not?
Looks like Slashdot's new look is getting us down to 4 or 5 words per line.
Then you shop around. I typically check out a number of sources when buying online. If Amazon is charging more than someone else, I buy from someone else.
Now this takes a couple extra minutes. If the convenience of not price shopping appeals to a person, then they pick one vendor and pay what they are told to pay.
I really love slashdot's new and logical look! Posts squeezed onto half the screen, and even better, getting crushed into smaller and smaller space as the thread bars encroach on the left hand side.
Meanwhile, isn't that right half of the screen with simple pleasing nothing on it really nice.
Slashdot Mirror
While it is easy to say bullshit on that. But to call bullshit, you have to argue that the only inflationary wages are those at the bottom of the list - the minimum wage. All other wages, all promotions and raises have no effect on onflation at all.
Cloud storage is their backup.
No, it was their backup. When it went away they should have created another one.
The problem of course, is that cloud storage was touted as a backup. So if you have to have a local backup, it kind of makes the cloud storage backup redundant and pointless.
I'm running out of armchairs to sit in while I solve all the world's problems!
I kinda wonder though have we reached th epoint where we just throw our hands up in the air? Are opinions - some of them more informed than a lot of people think, not to be discussed?
Slashdot is more than programmers, even the the programmers are loathe to admit it.
At issue is a government that ignores them and ignores good things (like the keystone pipeline) in order to appease a portion of the electorate.
Explain how the Keystone pipeline will help all Americans.
You know everything about it, and that is good to have an expert in here, so we'll wait for your informed post.
I don't think this is quite what you think it is.
Finally America is winning again, and that goddamned EnergyStar will sing to the depths of hell, where it belongs.
If you hate them so much, why do you work with children? Why not seek another profession?
Probably wants to feed his or her family. I worked with college students almost my entire career, and after working with millennials, I wasn't too fond of them either. But I liked my paycheck.
It's hard to have a smug sense of superiority over an automatic elevator.
One of the themes of the book was that people already had too much free time - kids were deliberately brainwashed into being more wasteful so that other people had a purpose. And what would efficiency gain you? Money?
We often try to make dystopian worlds in science fiction novels into some sort of prediction of the world of the future. The Brave New World universe runs completely counter to what is happening now. Today's world is looking toward eliminating humanity, not employing it.
A robot is a lot easier to build and fix, and elevator attendents who orgasm when they get to the rooof still have to be paid somehow. And paying a person, be they alpha or delta, is frowned upon today.
We all might be living equally, but equally might me we are all living very poorly. Most of these blue sky ideas assume that everyone will be somehow living the high life.
"In most wealthy countries, kids are a liability..."
Not quite. In wealthy countries, the One Percent need us to have more kids.
That's not working very well. A lot of men are opting out of the reproduction game.
In most wealthy countries, kids are a liability because you have to feed, clothe, and shelter them without them delivering any kind of return on investment.
Don't forget that child support, because when the wife decides she isn't fulfilled, you have to support the larvae until they are in their 20's.
Just restore it from your backup. What's that, you don't have a backup?
Cloud storage is their backup.
Exactly. At the very least, "HAVE A BACKUP". I say anyone who doesn't understand this basic principal of cloud computing deserves to lose their data.
Anyone who understands cloud computing probably isn't going to use the cloud.
Yes but you didn't change your ip address, pc mac address or router mac address so it was obvious your the same shopper.
There is a reason many studies found what go was saying to be true. The studies were done properly, no by some clueless idiot spouting bollox therefore the results of those studies provide meaningful data. Unlike yours. You can get the same results if you follow the same methods but clearly that's way above your level of comprehension.
Give me the citations and the test protocol, or else you're just talking shite.
You can't though can you, because after the internet muscles and internet wisdom, ye have nought.
A salary is a much higher form of compensation for all that time spent compared to the modest if any savings I might get doing this in my spare time.
And no doubt.
But putting in some time is how we find deals. As an example, a few years back, I was in the market for a new motorcycle. I cuold have bought the first thing I saw, but I looked around, and after a month of looking, I found a fellow who had a nice 1100 cc Shadow Spirit. And he was selling it to get a four wheeler for his daughter - only wanted $2500 for it. I checked to make sure it was legit and not hot, and it was all clear. That was 6 years ago, and they are still selling for more than that today. We were both in the right place and the right time. And all I have done is replace tires, oil, and a battery on it in the last 6 years, it's a good bike.
But if you don't want to put in the research and time - that's okay- People are too obsessed with rock bottom prices these days. I love getting good deals, but I'm not obsessed with it. If you pay for something, and you are happy with it, that's a form of good deal as well.
This is a few years old, but yes:
http://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-prices-to-mac-users/
Just went to Orbitz, and plugged in a 1 day weekend stay in Cape May New Jersey on the 29th and 30th of April of this year.
Did this on a Mac and Safari, and On a Windows machine, and FireFox. The results were exactly the same on each machine. I've also used a Chromebook in the past, with no odd results. Maybe if I use my Raspberry Pi, I can get really cheap rooms. 8^)
One interesting thing is that I got a hotwire popup on the Windows side - I wonder if Orbitz and hotwire have merged, or if Hotwire is pulling some hanky panky. I've got FireFox pretty well battened down, so it was a little surprising.
Now the one thing I didn't check, and that I know that these sites do. They change prices pretty often. When I go to Florida every winter, I do a hotel check often for the places we stay at. The prices change a lot, and they change daily. The sites I checked today, Amazon, and Orbitz, were searched within a minute of each other.
So I'm a little concerned about the accuracy of the report.
It's not a difficult thing to do, it's a god damn tedious thing to do, and takes far longer than "a couple of minutes".
Then you made your decision. I suppose you never bought anything for a company? I bought a lot of equipment over my career, and had to triple source and total cost everything. Just part of buying stuff.
Because the browser string tell them that you're shopping from a mac. A mac is a premium device, more expensive than it has to be. So they offer you a higher price because of that. Same for ipad.
You have the proof of that, or is it some confirmation bias fantasy?
The mac shopper is more likely to pay the higher price - either because they're rich and can afford that mac status symbol, or because they think "costly is better" and that is why they got the mac in the first place.
If the browser string indicates windows 7 or some such old thing, well you're the budget guy who can't afford upgrades so they sell cheap in the hope that you buy anything at all. (Still selling with a profit, of course.)
All very interesting, but you forget, some of us have both Windows and MacOS. I just opened browswer windows in both to Amazon, did a search for Wireless headphones, and every price was exactly the same. The only difference was in a few cases, the order of what was shown was different, but had no correlation to the price.
So your hypothesis goes into the category of "Cool story, Bro!"
This sort of thing has ALWAYS gone on, it is just that big box stores were too big for it, over the last few decades. There was no one to easily haggle with.
(Yet, I've done so! And you can too!)
Amazon is just doing what merchants in Roman times even did, ffs.
Don't like it... shop around, like you SHOULD BE ANYWAYS!
Dumbasses!
And by the way - I've seen the variable pricing on sites. It goes down as well as up. I've booked hotels cheaply that a week ago were twice as much. Going away and coming back later might just be the internet version of haggling.
So you're saying that those who whine the most about the pay gap are flaming hypocrites.
Nope, just people who understand how things work.
In order to have people buy your stuff, you need the people who might buy your stuff to have the money to buy your stuff.
You do know that liberals are generally bad with money, right?
Yeah, that's probably why they are in general more wealthy than conservatives.
Quiet! No one is supposed to know that. When I had my side business, I was shocked to find out that my wealthiest and most generous patrons were in fact not right wingers. Same for my wife in the housing industry. Good liberal customers. And they were a hellava lot better to work with than the right wingers.
One of the current business fads is to push for the no. Meaning continually up-selling until the target gives you a firm no.
Well now, that's a brilliant strategy. Once I say no and am pissed, I'm finished and out the door. I'll give a "polite no thank you" at first, but if I have to get firm about it - boom, outa here.
"how it used to be" was actually pretty great -- MULTIPLE local retailers competing with one another on selection, price, location and service. only the smallest of towns didn't have that.. but the next, bigger, town over, where most people shopped for most things, did.
You forgot to add the part where the different businesses started fixing prices.
The parent is saying that prices will be individual specific. Price watch sites won't help with that.
They might. If the refer link is from a price watch site, then an online merchant could deduce that you are a price sensitive shopper willing to work to find a bargain, and thus offer you a good price to make the sale.
Free advice: Never shop online with a Mac, and especially not with Safari as your browser.
Okay, I'll bite - why not?
Looks like Slashdot's new look is getting us down to 4 or 5 words per line.
Now this takes a couple extra minutes. If the convenience of not price shopping appeals to a person, then they pick one vendor and pay what they are told to pay.
This ain't rocket surgury.
Meanwhile, isn't that right half of the screen with simple pleasing nothing on it really nice.
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