And property is taxed, so you can't just hold on to property forever.
Huh? If I have a quilt that my grandmother sewed and was passed on down my family, your saying that I pay continual taxes on it? That I can't pass it down forever? Or that it isn't my property? What you say may be true of a few types of personal property (e.g., car, land), but most of what belongs to me can be held onto forever.
Likewise, do you really know what photos you're going to want to show the people at work?
Yes. People want to show off a few picutres of their spouse/ kids. Maybe a shot or two from a vacation they took recently. That's it. This isn't like music where you may spontaneously decide you want to hear a song to which you haven't listend in years. You don't suddenly decide that you want to have your coworkers sit there while you dig through hundreds of photos so you can find some specific random picture from ten years ago.
I don't see how that was deceptive. The question was how he voted, and the answer is that he voted for it. Seems pretty straightforward. How everyone else voted is irrelevant. He can vote however he wants, and he chose to vote for it.
A couple weeks ago someone called me down with 32o, without having made any hand at all, or even a straight draw. A bot with a severe bug was the only explanation I could come up with.
I suppose you don't play much live? In casinos, you see people do plenty of inexplicable shit and they clearly aren't robots.
Let's say all the airlines start requiring your SSN to fly. Is a new airline going to be started solely to court customers that don't want to give their SSN?
No. One of the existing airlines would defect and stop requiring your SSN so that it would get all of the customers who refuse to fly on an airline that requires a SSN. These customers don't really exist (in any large numbers, at leat), but apparently we are assuming they do, so I'll stick with that. If there are lots of customers who are currently not flying because they refuse to give a SSN, then there would be a strong incentive for one airline would choose to differentiate itself and acquire those customers. This would be especially true for one of the small airlines because this would be a relatively large growth in customer base for them.
Your example assumes that "all the airlines" act together as a unit and, yes, in that case there is clearly no free market. No one disagrees with that. A free market is based on the idea that the competitors are actually competing.
Though if your credit is crappy, being able to switch - without the crap leaking over - would be a great thing. Now what you want to do is get yourself classified as a non-profit organization - then you really reap benefits
This is actually easier than you might think: 1) Get self classified as a non-profit org 2) ??? 3) Non-profit!
Now, he spelled it correctly. If the word were pluralized as in Latin, "us" would become "i" yielding "viri". Consider a word like "radius" which pluralized as "radii" not "radiii".
Gun companies would do pretty much anything to avoid advertising to kids. Kids don't have money, jobs, and can't buy guns anyway.
Kids (sometimes) grow into adults with money and jobs who buy guns. Brand awareness is best instilled early on. Gun companies know what horrenduous PR they would receive from the perception that they market to children, and thus they are best off avoiding it. If it weren't for that consideration, I'm sure it would be in their interest to have children grow up thinking that their brand of guns is badass.
Yes, I was thinking Boeing. I live in Seattle and am familiar with our airlines. I have flown on two of the three mention. But what he said is "That is, I work for a large commercial airline company in Seattle and at one point was an engineer in the factory." Does NWA or Alaska really have a factory?! I assumed that "commercial airline company" was a confusingly-worded way of saying that he working manufacturing planes for commerical airlines.
If you're correcting anyway, you should definitely add some sort of punctuation before "but". I had trouble parsing it this way, and that is where some sort of pause belongs to set up the "punchline".
I would speculate that a company which is too cheap to invest in its own domestic data center is also going to be too cheap to pay for the level of redundancy that you're talking about.
Your domestic data center needs the redundancy as well. Your company isn't any better off if it loses its ability to access a data center in Chicago than it is if it loses access to one overseas.
However in real life-and-death situation, people tend to do amazing things just to stay alive.
I agree, but I don't think a Mars mission should rely on such things. It would be more prudent to make sure that it is possible to survive without needing to really dig deep into those kind of psychological resources. Then, you know that you still have them as a backup in case things go really wrong in unexpected ways.
They also seem to be big on Greek and Roman mythology. My knowledge of these subjects is near zero which is why I notice when they come up on the show, and it is quite often.
Why is this insightful rather than offtopic? It has nothing to do with the post to which he is responding. (Before modding me offtopic, stope to note that I actually am posting something relevant to the parent... then mod me offtopic).
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Yes, just like they stopped using the faulty information provided by television commercials or by Fox News.
FYI, the word you are looking for is "disingenuous".
Huh? If I have a quilt that my grandmother sewed and was passed on down my family, your saying that I pay continual taxes on it? That I can't pass it down forever? Or that it isn't my property? What you say may be true of a few types of personal property (e.g., car, land), but most of what belongs to me can be held onto forever.
Yes. People want to show off a few picutres of their spouse/ kids. Maybe a shot or two from a vacation they took recently. That's it. This isn't like music where you may spontaneously decide you want to hear a song to which you haven't listend in years. You don't suddenly decide that you want to have your coworkers sit there while you dig through hundreds of photos so you can find some specific random picture from ten years ago.
Um, yes. They have built-in food-dish homing devices as well, so you don't have to train them to find that either.
Thank goodness! Wihtout that day, I would have be completely oblivious to the population of the planet earth.
I don't see how that was deceptive. The question was how he voted, and the answer is that he voted for it. Seems pretty straightforward. How everyone else voted is irrelevant. He can vote however he wants, and he chose to vote for it.
I suppose you don't play much live? In casinos, you see people do plenty of inexplicable shit and they clearly aren't robots.
No. One of the existing airlines would defect and stop requiring your SSN so that it would get all of the customers who refuse to fly on an airline that requires a SSN. These customers don't really exist (in any large numbers, at leat), but apparently we are assuming they do, so I'll stick with that. If there are lots of customers who are currently not flying because they refuse to give a SSN, then there would be a strong incentive for one airline would choose to differentiate itself and acquire those customers. This would be especially true for one of the small airlines because this would be a relatively large growth in customer base for them.
Your example assumes that "all the airlines" act together as a unit and, yes, in that case there is clearly no free market. No one disagrees with that. A free market is based on the idea that the competitors are actually competing.
This is actually easier than you might think:
1) Get self classified as a non-profit org
2) ???
3) Non-profit!
Humor can be used to provide insight. It doesn't have to be mindless wordplay and the like. The fact that people don't understand this is rather sad.
Actually it is. It isn't proof of the absence of bugs, but I suppose that doesn't sound as catchy.
Now, he spelled it correctly. If the word were pluralized as in Latin, "us" would become "i" yielding "viri". Consider a word like "radius" which pluralized as "radii" not "radiii".
Kids (sometimes) grow into adults with money and jobs who buy guns. Brand awareness is best instilled early on. Gun companies know what horrenduous PR they would receive from the perception that they market to children, and thus they are best off avoiding it. If it weren't for that consideration, I'm sure it would be in their interest to have children grow up thinking that their brand of guns is badass.
Yes, I was thinking Boeing. I live in Seattle and am familiar with our airlines. I have flown on two of the three mention. But what he said is "That is, I work for a large commercial airline company in Seattle and at one point was an engineer in the factory." Does NWA or Alaska really have a factory?! I assumed that "commercial airline company" was a confusingly-worded way of saying that he working manufacturing planes for commerical airlines.
If you're correcting anyway, you should definitely add some sort of punctuation before "but". I had trouble parsing it this way, and that is where some sort of pause belongs to set up the "punchline".
Your domestic data center needs the redundancy as well. Your company isn't any better off if it loses its ability to access a data center in Chicago than it is if it loses access to one overseas.
Yes, nothing generates more possitive PR than massive layoffs and offshoring.
It's good that you didn't refer your employer by name. I'm sure no one will figure out what company you're discussing.
Since he's trying to get her to listen to a song, that should instead be "the benefits of C+C Music Factory".
Our new insect overlords welcome, for one, YOU!
I agree, but I don't think a Mars mission should rely on such things. It would be more prudent to make sure that it is possible to survive without needing to really dig deep into those kind of psychological resources. Then, you know that you still have them as a backup in case things go really wrong in unexpected ways.
So while we're all reading dupes, he'll still be just getting the originals.
They also seem to be big on Greek and Roman mythology. My knowledge of these subjects is near zero which is why I notice when they come up on the show, and it is quite often.
Why is this insightful rather than offtopic? It has nothing to do with the post to which he is responding. (Before modding me offtopic, stope to note that I actually am posting something relevant to the parent... then mod me offtopic).