Companies around here noticed quickly that you can charge a buck more per pizza, people accept that, but as soon as you charge for delivery you get sorted out. We also have a lot of small restaurants rather than a few big chains. Competition is good for the customer.
A decent pizza is about 7-8 EUR around here, depending on what you want on it. Usually they require you to order for at least 12.00 or so to make delivery free, but that's easily doable as soon as you have 2 pizzas or one large one in your order.
And on top of it all, you actually get a pizza. Not... hell, whatever it is that Domino's is actually delivering.
Buying Minecraft was about the most idiotic thing anyone could do. No, I don't mean buying a license to play it, I mean buying it, hoping that you can somehow "monetize the IP".
One of the key features, one of the things that makes Minecraft the success that it is, is how easy it is to mod the shit out of it. Let's face it, there are plenty of Minecraft-y games out by now. Most of them some flavor of zombie survival game, but some actually just Minecraft with better graphics or enhanced bells and whistles. Why they don't get as successful? Mods. Or the lack thereof. Certainly MC has an advantage there of being on the forefront, pretty much defining the genre of "sandbox survival", and with many people playing it, many mods get created, causing more people to play it and create a positive feedback loop.
Microsoft now doesn't really have a track record of being the most mod-friendly of companies. More likely they'd want to nickel-and-dime you for anything and everything you do, while at the same time controlling tightly just what you can do with the game itself, so you have to buy the next generation of their console and thus the next incarnation of their game.
This flies right in the face of what people playing Minecraft want to do. They want an extendable and expandable universe and of course they do NOT want to start over after spending 5 years building a life size model of an Enterprise-D.
You know what's strange? Everyone in the US seems hell bent on claiming the government should keep out of businesses and that everything runs smoother without government meddling in things... but no matter WHAT happens in the economy, somehow either the current or the former president are to blame for it.
I'm not going to refute your "god proof". If debunking it a million times doesn't work, a million times and one won't either. So I'll get right to the last point.
Outlawing something that puts a person into a position where they can only choose between breaking the law and facing a consequence they consider worse than breaking the law AND risking their life is pointless. All you accomplish is to push people into illegality. It is actually that simple. Whether you consider the fetus "alive" or not simply does not matter. The alternative is often that women throw away the baby after birth, mostly because they could not get rid of it earlier, is that better?
What does global warming have to do with anything?
Where do all those non-sequitors come from suddenly?/. used to be a place where you'd get mostly on-topic discussions, interrupted only by the goatse-guy, the one with the app apps and the moo-cow. Hell, even APK is most of the time on topic.
But for some freakish reason in the past year or two we had an influx of people who keep droning on with their bullshit agenda. Whatever it may be this time. For fuck's sake, get back to Reddit and Twitter.
Or, if you're living in an apartment complex, get dressed, wait for an eternity for the damn elevator, spend another eternity in said elevator, pick up the pizza, go through the elevator ritual again, find out that you forgot your door keys inside...
I prefer to have the pizza guy do the elevator dance.
Dwarf: Who you calling? Troll (on the phone): Domino's. Dwarf: What? Why? Troll: Well, I'm hungry, you need a car, that kills two birds with one stone.
I fail to see the big change. Whether some pizza delivery guy is driving to me or the sans-delivery guy autonomous car, it does not generate an additional vehicle on the road. Without my pizza, the delivery guy's car is not on the road.
No. They aren't that stupid. If they were, they'd have to deal with the constant deficit.
It's a bit like we learned that colonies are actually baggage instead of boon. Instead, make them independent on paper but keep them fully dependent. On weapons, on "aid", on anything that lets you dictate the price of whatever you want to get from them.
Same with governments and corporations. Yes, corporations dictate what becomes law. But paying for it, that's something YOU are supposed to do.
I am not responsible for how people mod what I write. Frankly, sometimes I don't understand it myself.
Aside of that, what you fight is your decision. Personally, I try to pick my fights based on what's really necessary and try to ignore the really silly ones.
To be fair, we don't really know just how the founders of most religions appeared. But if we extrapolate from the ones that we DO know pretty much about because they were quite contemporary, we can deduce that it takes a bit of a narcissist to start something like a religion...
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If MS has shown one thing consistently, then how NOT to do something. Buy the book, do the opposite of whatever they tell you to do, be successful!
Companies around here noticed quickly that you can charge a buck more per pizza, people accept that, but as soon as you charge for delivery you get sorted out. We also have a lot of small restaurants rather than a few big chains. Competition is good for the customer.
A decent pizza is about 7-8 EUR around here, depending on what you want on it. Usually they require you to order for at least 12.00 or so to make delivery free, but that's easily doable as soon as you have 2 pizzas or one large one in your order.
And on top of it all, you actually get a pizza. Not ... hell, whatever it is that Domino's is actually delivering.
Buying Minecraft was about the most idiotic thing anyone could do. No, I don't mean buying a license to play it, I mean buying it, hoping that you can somehow "monetize the IP".
One of the key features, one of the things that makes Minecraft the success that it is, is how easy it is to mod the shit out of it. Let's face it, there are plenty of Minecraft-y games out by now. Most of them some flavor of zombie survival game, but some actually just Minecraft with better graphics or enhanced bells and whistles. Why they don't get as successful? Mods. Or the lack thereof. Certainly MC has an advantage there of being on the forefront, pretty much defining the genre of "sandbox survival", and with many people playing it, many mods get created, causing more people to play it and create a positive feedback loop.
Microsoft now doesn't really have a track record of being the most mod-friendly of companies. More likely they'd want to nickel-and-dime you for anything and everything you do, while at the same time controlling tightly just what you can do with the game itself, so you have to buy the next generation of their console and thus the next incarnation of their game.
This flies right in the face of what people playing Minecraft want to do. They want an extendable and expandable universe and of course they do NOT want to start over after spending 5 years building a life size model of an Enterprise-D.
What does pizza cost in the US? 10 bucks cheaper would mean you get money if you order a pizza here...
...at least as long as you ain't in China...
So ... those hipsters with their flavored coffee are ... Republicans?
Wow, I was away too long.
You know what's strange? Everyone in the US seems hell bent on claiming the government should keep out of businesses and that everything runs smoother without government meddling in things... but no matter WHAT happens in the economy, somehow either the current or the former president are to blame for it.
I'm not going to refute your "god proof". If debunking it a million times doesn't work, a million times and one won't either. So I'll get right to the last point.
Outlawing something that puts a person into a position where they can only choose between breaking the law and facing a consequence they consider worse than breaking the law AND risking their life is pointless. All you accomplish is to push people into illegality. It is actually that simple. Whether you consider the fetus "alive" or not simply does not matter. The alternative is often that women throw away the baby after birth, mostly because they could not get rid of it earlier, is that better?
What does global warming have to do with anything?
Where do all those non-sequitors come from suddenly? /. used to be a place where you'd get mostly on-topic discussions, interrupted only by the goatse-guy, the one with the app apps and the moo-cow. Hell, even APK is most of the time on topic.
But for some freakish reason in the past year or two we had an influx of people who keep droning on with their bullshit agenda. Whatever it may be this time. For fuck's sake, get back to Reddit and Twitter.
Let's put it that way: You wouldn't believe the amount of BMWs and iPhones you will find in some of the poorer areas of my home town...
Plus delivery boy?
If I want pizza I also wouldn't call Domino's. But from time to time I order there and get that ... whatever food that is they are delivering.
Umm... yeah.
Thinking about it, I did consider it odd that the delivery guy tipped me instead of me tipping him last time...
Or, if you're living in an apartment complex, get dressed, wait for an eternity for the damn elevator, spend another eternity in said elevator, pick up the pizza, go through the elevator ritual again, find out that you forgot your door keys inside...
I prefer to have the pizza guy do the elevator dance.
Reminds me of a Shadowrun RPG dialogue.
Dwarf: Who you calling?
Troll (on the phone): Domino's.
Dwarf: What? Why?
Troll: Well, I'm hungry, you need a car, that kills two birds with one stone.
Hmm... that pizza box could work as fuselage with a lifting factor, maybe you'd need some wings and a cheap way to power it...
Well, thinking about it, the F4 was less aerodynamic, it just could work.
I fail to see the big change. Whether some pizza delivery guy is driving to me or the sans-delivery guy autonomous car, it does not generate an additional vehicle on the road. Without my pizza, the delivery guy's car is not on the road.
Would you want one of those American autonomous cars instead?
Careful what you wish for, this could be your car this one has to park behind...
You mean there will finally be a chance that the pizza is still hot when it arrives? Now THAT would be a change I could get behind!
A gram. Two if he's cute.
I think the logic is rather that if I ask for delivery, I want delivery. If Domino's does not provide this, I'll order from someone else who does.
No. They aren't that stupid. If they were, they'd have to deal with the constant deficit.
It's a bit like we learned that colonies are actually baggage instead of boon. Instead, make them independent on paper but keep them fully dependent. On weapons, on "aid", on anything that lets you dictate the price of whatever you want to get from them.
Same with governments and corporations. Yes, corporations dictate what becomes law. But paying for it, that's something YOU are supposed to do.
I am not responsible for how people mod what I write. Frankly, sometimes I don't understand it myself.
Aside of that, what you fight is your decision. Personally, I try to pick my fights based on what's really necessary and try to ignore the really silly ones.
Period is not an argument. If anything, it's a lack of one. Care to elaborate how I'm a racist?
To be fair, we don't really know just how the founders of most religions appeared. But if we extrapolate from the ones that we DO know pretty much about because they were quite contemporary, we can deduce that it takes a bit of a narcissist to start something like a religion...