Strange. I have lived in America my entire life, and have not heard of anyone with this arrangement.
So.. you've never known anyone who worked a normal, 8-5 job, for a normal, essentially set amount of pay?
Idle rich? Otherwise, I find your tale dubious at best.
Oh, you think you are being clever,
You probably don't realize this, but that comes off as exceedingly troll-ish (i.e., intentionally inflammatory and offering no advancement of the topic). Proceed with caution.
and you mean employees, right?
Who else would I mean?
Are you implying that movie producers are not employees of someone? Do you know what the word 'employee' means? The actual definition, not one you've made up in your own head?
So tell me, how much cost and financial risk (to you) is associated with your job. Don't tell me, I already know ($0).
OK, dingus, now I know you're trollin'.
Since you seem to think you know me better than I do, you already saw this coming: Piss off and go bother someone else.
If you're paying $30/blu-ray disc you're either impatient or doing it wrong
I'm paying $0, because movies aren't something I feel a compulsion to spend money on, outside my current Netflix subscription (which I use to watch TV shows, mostly). But I do see new releases priced that high at the big-box stores on the rare occasion I actually find myself inside of one.
One might point out that if I had taken all that money, I could have instead paid for 25 years or more of Netflix or what have you. The issue there is that then I'm at the mercy of whatever movies the streaming provide decides I can watch today, and maybe will pull tomorrow, as well as the condition of my internet connection. I've already had maybe a 10% success rate searching Hulu Plus/Netflix/Amazon Prime for a given movie we want to watch, as well has seen frightening lists of what movies Netflix decides to "discontinue" from time to time.
No thanks. I'll keep my physical media, thank you.
Oh, I dig - I'm the same way about buying CDs rather than relying on streaming services.
You must be those guys who label organic food with "contains no chemicals" and similar nonsense.
Don't be a jackass. OP said "Venus doesn't have the right chemicals," which completely ignores the premise of the paper - that, in the right conditions, individual atoms will come together in just-such-a-way to form the "right chemicals" for life.
Here's a hint: a "group of atoms" difinitively implies one or more chemicals.
No, it implies more than one atom. Kinda like how the phrase "set of tires" implies more than one tire, but not a whole car.
If movie producers got a flat, monthly paycheque, there would be zero incentive to make *good* movies.
Right? I mean, what crazy person would think that the exact same model that pretty much every productive human in the nation lives by would work for the denizens of Hollyweird?
the $15 fee would offer open access to all movie content — meaning instant online access to all movies that have been ever produced, 'along with new releases as they come out
That's not going to happen
Which is too bad, because a guy like me, who doesn't care enough about movies to pay $30/visit to see them in the theater nor pay $30 to buy the BluRay, would happily pay $15/mo for instant access to, essentially, every movie ever made.
Oh, well, I guess the studios don't want my money.
Mercury has no ocean or atmosphere to act as a heat bath, so there goes one counter-example. And while Venus has a thick atmosphere, it doesn't necessarily have the right chemicals for life to arise, so there goes your second counter-example.
From TFS:
'England['s]...formula...indicates that when a group of atoms is driven by an external source of energy (like the sun or chemical fuel) and surrounded by a heat bath (like the ocean or atmosphere), it will often gradually restructure itself in order to dissipate increasingly more energy. This could mean that under certain conditions, matter inexorably acquires the key physical attribute associated with life.'
I grew up not far from New Madrid. While I lived in the area, there was no shortage of theories and speculation about when the fault was going to let "the Big One" go and kill us all. Hell, we got out of class for about a week when I was in middle school, because some famous geologist had said, "This date is when it's going to happen."
Of course, the big quake never happened. We went about our lives as if nothing had changed, because it hadn't. Now I live a few hundred miles from there, and I still chuckle when I hear these scientists speculate that the fault is going to figuratively explode, "sometime within the next 50 years." Hell, they've been telling us that for... well, over 50 years. Not too worried.
That said... you wanna see something freaky? Go for a drive down MO-67 towards New Madrid. You know how, when they blast through hillsides to build highways in most places, you can see that the exposed strata is almost perfectly horizontal? Around New Madrid, it's at more like a 45 degree angle.
There's just something eerie about that... and I love it!
Can said Midwestern earthquake swallow Chicago, and where is the best vantage point where I can sit with my popcorn and watch?
Well, during the 1811/12 quake, the Mississippi ran backwards for several days, and eyewitness accounts from near the epicenter claim that you could actually see the seismic waves as they rolled across the landscape, so hey, maybe we'll get lucky!
That's not cheap. Cheap is when they don't send you for any training that isn't free.
My last employer wouldn't spring for training due to the fact I was a contractor (fair enough) but the job before that was a full time position. Training was all self directed, I had to buy all resources myself (meaning I had to buy a course book and read it, if they didn't get a tax break for time I put down as "training" I would have had to do that in my own time too) and then take the test which I had to pay for and I'd get reimbursed only if I passed and it was useful to the company. That's cheap, your example is merely an annoyance.
No, dude, that's straight up abuse. You don't have to put up with being treated like an indentured servant.
Pocket bikes still exist, but since they aren't experiencing the explosive growth they once did, you'll find there are a lot fewer companies making them today
After those firms left the market, did the price of a pocket bike increase due to the loss of economies of scale? Because that's what happened with 10" laptops after ASUS and Acer stopped making "netbooks" at the end of 2012. One had to instead buy an x86 tablet and Bluetooth keyboard at twice the price or more.
Hmm, interesting take. So, the question becomes, how could a similar series of events play out for Facebook/social networking sites in general?
As a person who's been a mediocre guitarist for over a decade, I both like and dislike this Slashvertised product.
Pros: - The bridge looks kinda neat - with the right software, music teachers would find it very useful for teaching scales and other basics - $400 isn't *exceedingly* expensive
Cons: - $400 for a specialty instrument is kinda expensive - Ugly. As. Sin. - HUGE, awkward body. I sure as hell won't be teaching anybody with short arms to play with this thing - Light up fretboard only encourages you to stare at it while you play, which you're really not supposed to do (I do, but as I already implied, I'm not very good) - More fancy electronics == more stuff to break - WTF is that slotted thing at the end of the fretboard? A pickup? Some sort of crazy vibration arrestor? - I can't see a 1/4" jack anywhere on that thing... how am I supposed to hook it into my Marshall? - I don't have or want an iPhone - from the website: "we have a free SDK that can be used to build all kinds of applications on the gTar" Oh, great, so my fucking geet-box is going to have proprietary software on it? No thanks.
I'm sure there are plenty more pros/cons, but that's what I've got so far.
I mean, can you believe that there are people who don't eat bacon simply because they heard that some dude in the sky tells them they're not allowed to eat it? Madness.
Right?? What gets me is when they try to explain their rationale:
"Pigs are filthy creatures."
What, you don't wash your food before you eat it? WTF man? Besides, the dirt is on the outside; bacon comes from the inside!
And don't even get me started on vegetarians and other health nuts...
I started on a vegan once... couldn't finish. Like the free bread at an Italian joint, you tend to fill up on them pretty quick.
My 14 year old nephew recently closed his Facebook account after many years because "nothing is going on" there anymore. Possibly too many adults on Facebook now?
Maybe.
Maybe he decided it's no fun since, now that he's over the age of 13, it's no longer illegal for him to register on websites without written consent of his parents, so he lost interest.
You probably think I'm kidding. Only slightly; only slightly.
Remember cell phones, Islam, and the Republican party. Not everythig new is a fad.
Except Facebook isn't "something new." It's a company that has capitalized on the recent phenomena of social networking (which is "something new," and will likely exist so long as near-instant global communications are still feasible). Just like the companies that capitalized on the popularity of pocket bikes back in about 2005. Pocket bikes still exist, but since they aren't experiencing the explosive growth they once did, you'll find there are a lot fewer companies making them today then back when they were hot.
Social networking, or rather doing so on a particular website, is a fad; it's no different than slap bracelets, Troll dolls, Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo, etc., etc., etc.
Eventually, the unwashed masses will find some other new 'toy' to obsess over, and Facebook will turn into the morose, resigned version of Woody from Toy Story III*.
* I assume; to be honest, I never actually saw that one.
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Strange. I have lived in America my entire life, and have not heard of anyone with this arrangement.
So.. you've never known anyone who worked a normal, 8-5 job, for a normal, essentially set amount of pay?
Idle rich? Otherwise, I find your tale dubious at best.
Oh, you think you are being clever,
You probably don't realize this, but that comes off as exceedingly troll-ish (i.e., intentionally inflammatory and offering no advancement of the topic). Proceed with caution.
and you mean employees, right?
Who else would I mean?
Are you implying that movie producers are not employees of someone? Do you know what the word 'employee' means? The actual definition, not one you've made up in your own head?
So tell me, how much cost and financial risk (to you) is associated with your job. Don't tell me, I already know ($0).
OK, dingus, now I know you're trollin'.
Since you seem to think you know me better than I do, you already saw this coming: Piss off and go bother someone else.
If you're paying $30/blu-ray disc you're either impatient or doing it wrong
I'm paying $0, because movies aren't something I feel a compulsion to spend money on, outside my current Netflix subscription (which I use to watch TV shows, mostly). But I do see new releases priced that high at the big-box stores on the rare occasion I actually find myself inside of one.
One might point out that if I had taken all that money, I could have instead paid for 25 years or more of Netflix or what have you. The issue there is that then I'm at the mercy of whatever movies the streaming provide decides I can watch today, and maybe will pull tomorrow, as well as the condition of my internet connection. I've already had maybe a 10% success rate searching Hulu Plus/Netflix/Amazon Prime for a given movie we want to watch, as well has seen frightening lists of what movies Netflix decides to "discontinue" from time to time.
No thanks. I'll keep my physical media, thank you.
Oh, I dig - I'm the same way about buying CDs rather than relying on streaming services.
What world do you live in that everyone lives by that model?
America.
And, for the record, I didn't say "everyone," I said "pretty much everyone." Big difference.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/...
Those articles reference water vapor, not liquid water.
Where does water vapor come from, if not liquid water?
You must be those guys who label organic food with "contains no chemicals" and similar nonsense.
Don't be a jackass. OP said "Venus doesn't have the right chemicals," which completely ignores the premise of the paper - that, in the right conditions, individual atoms will come together in just-such-a-way to form the "right chemicals" for life.
Here's a hint: a "group of atoms" difinitively implies one or more chemicals.
No, it implies more than one atom. Kinda like how the phrase "set of tires" implies more than one tire, but not a whole car.
773 million minus 174 million is 599 million.
45% of 559 million is 269.55 million
At $15 a pop, that's $4,043,250,000.
Not $29 billion, but still a sizable amount.
If movie producers got a flat, monthly paycheque, there would be zero incentive to make *good* movies.
Right? I mean, what crazy person would think that the exact same model that pretty much every productive human in the nation lives by would work for the denizens of Hollyweird?
the $15 fee would offer open access to all movie content — meaning instant online access to all movies that have been ever produced, 'along with new releases as they come out
That's not going to happen
Which is too bad, because a guy like me, who doesn't care enough about movies to pay $30/visit to see them in the theater nor pay $30 to buy the BluRay, would happily pay $15/mo for instant access to, essentially, every movie ever made.
Oh, well, I guess the studios don't want my money.
Asteroids, gas giants and --- say --- the moon don't have liquids.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/...
Mercury has no ocean or atmosphere to act as a heat bath, so there goes one counter-example. And while Venus has a thick atmosphere, it doesn't necessarily have the right chemicals for life to arise, so there goes your second counter-example.
From TFS:
Where do you see the word "chemicals?"
I grew up not far from New Madrid. While I lived in the area, there was no shortage of theories and speculation about when the fault was going to let "the Big One" go and kill us all. Hell, we got out of class for about a week when I was in middle school, because some famous geologist had said, "This date is when it's going to happen."
Of course, the big quake never happened. We went about our lives as if nothing had changed, because it hadn't. Now I live a few hundred miles from there, and I still chuckle when I hear these scientists speculate that the fault is going to figuratively explode, "sometime within the next 50 years." Hell, they've been telling us that for... well, over 50 years. Not too worried.
That said... you wanna see something freaky? Go for a drive down MO-67 towards New Madrid. You know how, when they blast through hillsides to build highways in most places, you can see that the exposed strata is almost perfectly horizontal? Around New Madrid, it's at more like a 45 degree angle.
There's just something eerie about that... and I love it!
GO MO!
Can said Midwestern earthquake swallow Chicago, and where is the best vantage point where I can sit with my popcorn and watch?
Well, during the 1811/12 quake, the Mississippi ran backwards for several days, and eyewitness accounts from near the epicenter claim that you could actually see the seismic waves as they rolled across the landscape, so hey, maybe we'll get lucky!
LLLLLuxury.
That's not cheap. Cheap is when they don't send you for any training that isn't free.
My last employer wouldn't spring for training due to the fact I was a contractor (fair enough) but the job before that was a full time position. Training was all self directed, I had to buy all resources myself (meaning I had to buy a course book and read it, if they didn't get a tax break for time I put down as "training" I would have had to do that in my own time too) and then take the test which I had to pay for and I'd get reimbursed only if I passed and it was useful to the company. That's cheap, your example is merely an annoyance.
No, dude, that's straight up abuse. You don't have to put up with being treated like an indentured servant.
Damn, but I'm glad I don't live where you live...
Pocket bikes still exist, but since they aren't experiencing the explosive growth they once did, you'll find there are a lot fewer companies making them today
After those firms left the market, did the price of a pocket bike increase due to the loss of economies of scale? Because that's what happened with 10" laptops after ASUS and Acer stopped making "netbooks" at the end of 2012. One had to instead buy an x86 tablet and Bluetooth keyboard at twice the price or more.
Hmm, interesting take. So, the question becomes, how could a similar series of events play out for Facebook/social networking sites in general?
As a person who's been a mediocre guitarist for over a decade, I both like and dislike this Slashvertised product.
Pros:
- The bridge looks kinda neat
- with the right software, music teachers would find it very useful for teaching scales and other basics
- $400 isn't *exceedingly* expensive
Cons:
- $400 for a specialty instrument is kinda expensive
- Ugly. As. Sin.
- HUGE, awkward body. I sure as hell won't be teaching anybody with short arms to play with this thing
- Light up fretboard only encourages you to stare at it while you play, which you're really not supposed to do (I do, but as I already implied, I'm not very good)
- More fancy electronics == more stuff to break
- WTF is that slotted thing at the end of the fretboard? A pickup? Some sort of crazy vibration arrestor?
- I can't see a 1/4" jack anywhere on that thing... how am I supposed to hook it into my Marshall?
- I don't have or want an iPhone
- from the website: "we have a free SDK that can be used to build all kinds of applications on the gTar" Oh, great, so my fucking geet-box is going to have proprietary software on it? No thanks.
I'm sure there are plenty more pros/cons, but that's what I've got so far.
My guess is, less fragmentation == less coding.
Plus, if I'm not mistaken, Android's software for interfacing with audio equipment kinda sucks the big one.
Well, if ever I feel like it's worth losing my job over (or, say, I find a different job), I may have to contact my legal council.
I've heard that from several different sources. Alas, if it's not on Netflix, I probably won't see it.
Probably not, but they will get over doing it on Facebook.
Coulda swore I made that pretty obvious...
I mean, can you believe that there are people who don't eat bacon simply because they heard that some dude in the sky tells them they're not allowed to eat it? Madness.
Right?? What gets me is when they try to explain their rationale:
"Pigs are filthy creatures."
What, you don't wash your food before you eat it? WTF man? Besides, the dirt is on the outside; bacon comes from the inside!
And don't even get me started on vegetarians and other health nuts...
I started on a vegan once... couldn't finish. Like the free bread at an Italian joint, you tend to fill up on them pretty quick.
My 14 year old nephew recently closed his Facebook account after many years because "nothing is going on" there anymore. Possibly too many adults on Facebook now?
Maybe.
Maybe he decided it's no fun since, now that he's over the age of 13, it's no longer illegal for him to register on websites without written consent of his parents, so he lost interest.
You probably think I'm kidding. Only slightly; only slightly.
Nobody really suggests facebook will be gone in 2017, merely that like myspace, nobody will care it still exists.
... except pedos and the feds who love (to hunt) them.
Remember cell phones, Islam, and the Republican party. Not everythig new is a fad.
Except Facebook isn't "something new." It's a company that has capitalized on the recent phenomena of social networking (which is "something new," and will likely exist so long as near-instant global communications are still feasible). Just like the companies that capitalized on the popularity of pocket bikes back in about 2005. Pocket bikes still exist, but since they aren't experiencing the explosive growth they once did, you'll find there are a lot fewer companies making them today then back when they were hot.
Social networking, or rather doing so on a particular website, is a fad; it's no different than slap bracelets, Troll dolls, Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo, etc., etc., etc.
Eventually, the unwashed masses will find some other new 'toy' to obsess over, and Facebook will turn into the morose, resigned version of Woody from Toy Story III*.
* I assume; to be honest, I never actually saw that one.