Of course there's an actual cost to be borne. There's the infrastructure upgrades required to support a large factory (power, water, etc.), additional roads to be built, etc.
In my area, the last time we bribed a company to come here, between the tax breaks and the additional costs the city had to pay, the city just about broke even -- but out of sheer luck. The company had planned to close the factory as soon as the tax breaks expired, but it they weren't quite ready and so hung out for an extra couple of years.
Wasn't that obvious? The per-job cost of the Foxconn bribe is insanely high. There's no possible way that the state or its people can come out ahead on the deal.
I don't actually have any ethical problem with ticket scalping. It seems like an entirely legit activity that in any other arena would be called the "secondary market".
The US has a weird cultural thing where it's common to avoid actually telling people the total prices of things. Look at the ridiculous way most states do sales tax: instead of doing it in a reasonable way that minimizes the pain for the customer by building the tax into the marked price, the marked price lies to you and forces you to do the math to figure out what it really costs.
I know a lot of people who simply refuse to buy tickets from any venue that uses Ticketmaster. I'm not that extreme, but if a venue uses Ticketmaster I won't go there unless the act is something I am deeply interested in.
Venues might make up the "loss" in terms of greater ticket sales. Or they could just raise ticket prices and not take a loss at all.
I would happily pay higher ticket prices if it meant that I didn't have to pay a BS fee, even if my out of pocket is the same. At least that would be honest, and I wouldn't be putting any money in Ticketmaster's pocket.
You're ignoring that fact that not all carriers put bad copies of Android on their phones, and you can easily buy phones that just have stock Android on them. No technical expertise is necessary.
Yup. I have been learned through experience over the past couple of years that if a UI is described as "minimalist", "sleek", or "modern", there's a 99% chance that it's going to suck hard.
Seems people on Slashdot don't actually know what UX is, or they've worked with designers who got shoehorned into the job with no training and no clue.
Or we've just been trying to use the abominations that are the majority of user interfaces these days.
Personally, running on hardware of equal power, I find Android to be superior to iPhone (as long as it's not one of those modified Android versions that the carriers crank out). But the reality is that both operating systems are roughly equally capable, so which one a person prefers is more a matter of taste than of some sort of objective superiority.
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The average wage for people in Wisconsin generally (not just manufacturing) is around $67k. $54k doesn't sound ridiculous.
Of course there's an actual cost to be borne. There's the infrastructure upgrades required to support a large factory (power, water, etc.), additional roads to be built, etc.
In my area, the last time we bribed a company to come here, between the tax breaks and the additional costs the city had to pay, the city just about broke even -- but out of sheer luck. The company had planned to close the factory as soon as the tax breaks expired, but it they weren't quite ready and so hung out for an extra couple of years.
Wasn't that obvious? The per-job cost of the Foxconn bribe is insanely high. There's no possible way that the state or its people can come out ahead on the deal.
I don't actually have any ethical problem with ticket scalping. It seems like an entirely legit activity that in any other arena would be called the "secondary market".
My problem with TIcketmaster isn't that they increase the price of tickets. It's that I am forced to give money to Ticketmaster.
Particularly because Ticketmaster doesn't actually make anything more convenient.
The US has a weird cultural thing where it's common to avoid actually telling people the total prices of things. Look at the ridiculous way most states do sales tax: instead of doing it in a reasonable way that minimizes the pain for the customer by building the tax into the marked price, the marked price lies to you and forces you to do the math to figure out what it really costs.
I think 120 bucks is a ridiculous amount for a concert ticket either way.
Honestly, it depends on the concert for me.
That said, most of the times that I've paid Ticketmaster's extortion fee, it's been for plays, not concerts.
I know a lot of people who simply refuse to buy tickets from any venue that uses Ticketmaster. I'm not that extreme, but if a venue uses Ticketmaster I won't go there unless the act is something I am deeply interested in.
Venues might make up the "loss" in terms of greater ticket sales. Or they could just raise ticket prices and not take a loss at all.
I agree.
I would happily pay higher ticket prices if it meant that I didn't have to pay a BS fee, even if my out of pocket is the same. At least that would be honest, and I wouldn't be putting any money in Ticketmaster's pocket.
You're ignoring that fact that not all carriers put bad copies of Android on their phones, and you can easily buy phones that just have stock Android on them. No technical expertise is necessary.
Yup. I have been learned through experience over the past couple of years that if a UI is described as "minimalist", "sleek", or "modern", there's a 99% chance that it's going to suck hard.
Seems people on Slashdot don't actually know what UX is, or they've worked with designers who got shoehorned into the job with no training and no clue.
Or we've just been trying to use the abominations that are the majority of user interfaces these days.
I've never had a problem getting tickets at the box office. The problem is that when I do, I still have to pay Ticketmaster their cut.
Fuck Ticketmaster. They're nothing but a bunch of scumbag leeches.
Damn, I'm old. I remember when a comment like that would guarantee an intense flamewar that would overtake the actual topic at hand.
Whether what your looking for is Linux-related or not, if you're paying any attention to "best of" rankings, you're doing it wrong.
At best, as you point out, these lists should be taken as "here's a few related things that exist."
Even if it is Amazon, which is not ideal, anything that allows people to avoid Ticketmaster is a great thing!
Robocalls are a problem in the US mostly because of the First Amendment
Not really. There are laws restricting robocalls in the US. The reason they remain a problem is that those laws are extremely hard to enforce.
True enough, but even so, the US is a single nation. Europe is not.
Interesting words you put in my mouth there.
Why is UK law relentlessly criminalizing everything except actual criminality?
Fraud isn't criminality?
If I agree to share personal data because I was told it was anonymized, and it is later de-anonymized, I have been defrauded.
Web 2.0 can't die, because it never actually meant anything.
Personally, running on hardware of equal power, I find Android to be superior to iPhone (as long as it's not one of those modified Android versions that the carriers crank out). But the reality is that both operating systems are roughly equally capable, so which one a person prefers is more a matter of taste than of some sort of objective superiority.
That's a good example of the futility of "best of" lists. What is "best" is, always and necessarily, subjective.
I don't see any way that Uber could become a non-evil company without, at a minimum, replacing all of management and the board of directors.