Each piece of the puzzle doesn't tell as much, but this combined with other Oracle behaviors more clearly indicates some underhanded behavior. A confluence of questionable ethics.
I haven't watched the other vids, but I do like the way Stormare handles it. Kind of interesting to be surprised by an actor in a different type of role.
Good use of the Russian Reversal there I'll admit, but I was talking about Peter Stormare's Lev Andropov character in the 1998 film, in case y'all didn't pick up on that.
My previously-designed Magic card for Yakov:
Name: Yakov Smirnoff Mana Cost: 1 Blue, 1 Colorless Legendary Creature - Human Rules Text: Untap Yakov, pay 1, say something that refers to a Slashdot meme: Switch target creature’s power and toughness until end of turn. Flavor Text: In Soviet Cartamundi plant, cardboard prints YOU! Power/Toughness: 2/1
(This is a joke card, but there is an actual ability now [premiered in 2008's _Shadowmoor_] that has you untap a creature to use an ability, instead of tapping like, say, Prodigal Sorcerer. http://magiccards.info/shm/en/16.html for example
If you follow any significant amount of people, it's easy for your timeline to get overwhelmed so you don't even see the slightly older tweets. I often end up just heading to the pages for particular feeds
Also, even if you reply to someone, they might not reply to you. Thus your reply tweet isn't itself responded to. This is to be expected if the target is famous (i.e they're deluged with replies), but @JohnDoe often doesn't reply either.:P
And conversations on Twitter as in elsewhere peter out.
Yeah, the artificially-low official prices often seem to be a case of irrationality, on both the part of the retailer and the part of the average customer. Trying too hard to be "Fair", and Failing
yeah, if people are willing to pay that much, at least get the money yourself rather than let scalper middlemen pick it up.
Maybe the list price attracts more people than can fit in the arena or more than your manufacturing capacity, maybe the scalper premium attracts fewer people than can fit in the arena or less than your manufacturing capacity, a problem of sorts either way.
If directly sold, but at the scalper premium price, you eliminate some of the difference as-is, because you've worked around the scalpers' costs. The savings would be distributed to the original seller and/or consumers. [How exactly to distribute those savings is a separate issue]
You could also engage in more price discrimination [more pricing tiers], but that's easier for sporting events and concerts, as you could place people in different regions of the performance space (balcony, ground level seating, standing floor, et cetera.)
"Lord, give me the chance to prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me."
Anyway, in all seriousness I bet [pun intended] I would be more controlled, although I would have some fun, likely splurging on some nice jewelry for instance http://magiccards.info/query?q=mox&v=card&s=cname:P
I haven't paid much attention to the CBC at all, but if the high quality of various BBC content is any indication of what happens with the Canadian equivalent...
that kinda sounds like a straightforward compression scheme, but can you decompress the data in (near-)realtime to make it usable? [decoders for any sort of compressed music file, lossless or otherwise, come to mind as an example of that working.]
Yes, high gear number is great for blasting down straightaways, but a real pain to go up hills or start up from in [or both!], especially when I found I needed to slow down without time to downshift.
I quickly came to like pressure brakes. First time I got pressure brakes, though, I crashed while instinctively trying the backpedal I was used to.:P
"You are not superior to me just because your bicycle has 20 fewer speeds than mine" - planned retort to hipster if necessary.
I like riding, but I never felt the need to wear purple Lyrca and crap like that while doing so. Normal street clothes (I go for shorts anyway, so no pant leg getting caught in chain)
Slashdot Mirror
Each piece of the puzzle doesn't tell as much, but this combined with other Oracle behaviors more clearly indicates some underhanded behavior.
A confluence of questionable ethics.
Kind of like how work of US government employees on-the-job is not copyrighted?
I haven't watched the other vids, but I do like the way Stormare handles it.
Kind of interesting to be surprised by an actor in a different type of role.
Sounds like something analogous to the Scunthorphe problem.
I am not really up on films for the most part, old or new, so I'm gonna have to trust you on that one. :P
Wow, Slashdot attention to details such as these gets amusing sometimes.
yeah, it makes sense to open up with a price that errs on your side, to be adjusted later if necessary.
I admit I don't get whatever reference you're trying to make here.
Good use of the Russian Reversal there I'll admit, but I was talking about Peter Stormare's Lev Andropov character in the 1998 film, in case y'all didn't pick up on that.
My previously-designed Magic card for Yakov:
Name: Yakov Smirnoff
Mana Cost: 1 Blue, 1 Colorless
Legendary Creature - Human
Rules Text: Untap Yakov, pay 1, say something that refers to a Slashdot meme: Switch target creature’s power and toughness until end of turn.
Flavor Text: In Soviet Cartamundi plant, cardboard prints YOU!
Power/Toughness: 2/1
(This is a joke card, but there is an actual ability now [premiered in 2008's _Shadowmoor_] that has you untap a creature to use an ability, instead of tapping like, say, Prodigal Sorcerer.
http://magiccards.info/shm/en/16.html for example
nah, leave that annoying Russian guy on the asteroid instead.
If you follow any significant amount of people, it's easy for your timeline to get overwhelmed so you don't even see the slightly older tweets.
I often end up just heading to the pages for particular feeds
Also, even if you reply to someone, they might not reply to you. Thus your reply tweet isn't itself responded to. This is to be expected if the target is famous (i.e they're deluged with replies), but @JohnDoe often doesn't reply either. :P
And conversations on Twitter as in elsewhere peter out.
Alexander Hamilton favored some public debt of some sort precisely to give the debtholders a stake in the stability of the governmnet.
I read the GP's post as encouraging more political activism from them stemming from their role as regular citizens (subjects?)
Yeah, the artificially-low official prices often seem to be a case of irrationality, on both the part of the retailer and the part of the average customer.
Trying too hard to be "Fair", and Failing
yeah, if people are willing to pay that much, at least get the money yourself rather than let scalper middlemen pick it up.
Maybe the list price attracts more people than can fit in the arena or more than your manufacturing capacity, maybe the scalper premium attracts fewer people than can fit in the arena or less than your manufacturing capacity, a problem of sorts either way.
If directly sold, but at the scalper premium price, you eliminate some of the difference as-is, because you've worked around the scalpers' costs. The savings would be distributed to the original seller and/or consumers. [How exactly to distribute those savings is a separate issue]
You could also engage in more price discrimination [more pricing tiers], but that's easier for sporting events and concerts, as you could place people in different regions of the performance space (balcony, ground level seating, standing floor, et cetera.)
"Lord, give me the chance to prove that winning the lottery won't spoil me."
Anyway, in all seriousness I bet [pun intended] I would be more controlled, although I would have some fun, likely splurging on some nice jewelry for instance :P
http://magiccards.info/query?q=mox&v=card&s=cname
I see some irony here:
actors with drug habits and actors with Scientology habits
As far as I know, the particular guy involved (Chip Redden according to TFA) is neither, but I'm saying this in general. :)
Another realization of Rules 34 and 35...
I haven't paid much attention to the CBC at all, but if the high quality of various BBC content is any indication of what happens with the Canadian equivalent...
that kinda sounds like a straightforward compression scheme, but can you decompress the data in (near-)realtime to make it usable?
[decoders for any sort of compressed music file, lossless or otherwise, come to mind as an example of that working.]
most of them age out of criminality
I'm supposing that, in general, people tend to calm down as they mature; curtailing garden-variety criminal tendencies is a subset of this.
Likewise, some firebrand rappers or punks from the old(er) school seem more controlled now.
A lot of my nonfiction writing is indeed slower, because I have to do both the work of the academic assignment and the technical task of typing.
Yes, high gear number is great for blasting down straightaways, but a real pain to go up hills or start up from in [or both!], especially when I found I needed to slow down without time to downshift.
I quickly came to like pressure brakes. First time I got pressure brakes, though, I crashed while instinctively trying the backpedal I was used to. :P
"You are not superior to me just because your bicycle has 20 fewer speeds than mine" - planned retort to hipster if necessary.
I like riding, but I never felt the need to wear purple Lyrca and crap like that while doing so. Normal street clothes (I go for shorts anyway, so no pant leg getting caught in chain)
"Hipster Girl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geUqQg1WN8Q (static-image)
http://www.6lyrics.com/hipster_girl-lyrics-mc_lars_horris.aspx