Maybe they just don't want to deal with the loss of productivity and mental health expense that would come from their employees trying to work with iPads?
Loans are eventually paid off. Subsidies are forced payments from one party to enable another to perform a venture at a cost below what the market would bear. Cellphone plans do not drop off when the "loan" is "repaid" at the end of the contract—if you keep your phone longer than two years, you continue to subsidize the carrier.
Gazizza, dilznoofus! Get with the crizappy taste of Rocket Fuel malt liquor! Rocket Fuel's got the upstate prison taste that keeps you ugly all night long! So when you wanna get SICK, remember, nothing makes yo' FEET STANK like Rocket Fuel malt liquour.
No -- I know I'm in the minority here on/., but I'm actually pretty old-fashioned and am religious. I've read accounts of the system behind eHarmony, and in my case, I think the red flag I hit was that I'm "too pessimistic" -- apparently I saw the "I'm completely happy with my life in every way exactly as it is right now" option, took it literally, and chose "Disagree strongly" because I was NOT happy being single. Kind of a Catch-22, but if they only want to break up happy couples, more power to 'em, but they won't be doing that to ME.
I know one person in real life who tried to use eHarmony. He spent an hour and a half filling out that fscking personality test, only to be told that I — I mean, "he" — wasn't even worthy trying to match up. And he actually WANTED to give them money!
Because most cinemas are multiplexes, and that much extra work doesn't scale (pay three kids to work at the concession stand, or 12 to individually patrol each of the screens?). There's a duplex cinema in my town that has the concessions right betwixt the two rooms, with a window in the back whence you can order, but I can't imagine the Benthamian clusterf@%! that would create at a decaplex.
And price-by-the-carload admission. At least, when I was a kid and you could put three or four of them in the back seat where they all fit with just g**damned seat belts.
By "reserved seating", do you mean the complete BS practice of selling out all the tickets to a film ahead of time so that there's no room at the inn for me when I'm the only person in the fscking building? Because that has no place in a movie theatre setting -- that only makes sense for live events, like a concert or play, where there are professional performers whom you have to make enough money to pay a specific amount to those humans; films, however, are already paid for n showings or a percentage of the ticket price -- I'm not entirely sure, but I've seen movies where I was the only person in the cinema, and they still ran the thing, so it has to be worth doing, and you don't need to sell out the house beforehand to make it worth showing a movie.
A movie theatre should be a place you can go to when you have an hour and a half to spend, and they accommodate your $20, not something you have to plan three weeks ahead and hope you can get a vacation day for -- because it's a passive, prefab entertainment (unlike a football game or a comedian) that I can get the same exact same thing out of by watching it at home (it's McDonald's, not Morimoto).
Actually, it's 0.00. But many of the 2400 articles they sampled were less than 10 years old. Noticeably, the rate jumps up to 2.58% in 2002, and then continues to climb a pretty steady by 0.365%/year after that, with a slightly higher uptick between 2006-07.
I'm not entirely sure what to take away from that, but it does seem that the more articles WP adds, the less people care about writing them properly.
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Maybe they just don't want to deal with the loss of productivity and mental health expense that would come from their employees trying to work with iPads?
Sooner than Princess Bride, apparently. I weep for you people.
Loans are eventually paid off. Subsidies are forced payments from one party to enable another to perform a venture at a cost below what the market would bear. Cellphone plans do not drop off when the "loan" is "repaid" at the end of the contract—if you keep your phone longer than two years, you continue to subsidize the carrier.
Gazizza, dilznoofus! Get with the crizappy taste of Rocket Fuel malt liquor! Rocket Fuel's got the upstate prison taste that keeps you ugly all night long! So when you wanna get SICK, remember, nothing makes yo' FEET STANK like Rocket Fuel malt liquour.
DAYAM! IT'S CRIZAPPY!
If the post office is staffed, you'll be woefully under-armed.
Well, what does the Bible say on the subject?
Circular reasoning? yes. But it is all three of those things, right there in the text.
Or a person in Saudi Arabia. Damned if you do, damned if you can't.
That was hilarious until I looked more closely and realized your username wasn't "eugene is wrong".
It took me upwards of an hour to get hosed the first time. WhyTF would I try it again?
No -- I know I'm in the minority here on /., but I'm actually pretty old-fashioned and am religious. I've read accounts of the system behind eHarmony, and in my case, I think the red flag I hit was that I'm "too pessimistic" -- apparently I saw the "I'm completely happy with my life in every way exactly as it is right now" option, took it literally, and chose "Disagree strongly" because I was NOT happy being single. Kind of a Catch-22, but if they only want to break up happy couples, more power to 'em, but they won't be doing that to ME.
I know one person in real life who tried to use eHarmony. He spent an hour and a half filling out that fscking personality test, only to be told that I — I mean, "he" — wasn't even worthy trying to match up. And he actually WANTED to give them money!
... but you get the added benefit of constantly being berated by society for not "manning up" and marrying the whores.
Amen. This comment should be the article.
So that's why the only app on my tablet was "Enki Birds"!
Ceci n'est pas un pipe |
I saw The Matrix Reloaded in IMAX. I'll never get Keanu's naked ass, bigger than my house, out of my head.
Yeah, I want to relive that.
But ten people in the room versus one doesn't really take THAT MUCH more time to clean, but it does increase concessions revenue by about $90.
But when DNF was supposed to come out, $15 could fill your gas tank AND have enough left over for a pack of cigarettes.
Oh, if only I got a discount for every time I left a cinema bored ...
Because most cinemas are multiplexes, and that much extra work doesn't scale (pay three kids to work at the concession stand, or 12 to individually patrol each of the screens?). There's a duplex cinema in my town that has the concessions right betwixt the two rooms, with a window in the back whence you can order, but I can't imagine the Benthamian clusterf@%! that would create at a decaplex.
And yet Waterworld eventually got into the black ...
And price-by-the-carload admission. At least, when I was a kid and you could put three or four of them in the back seat where they all fit with just g**damned seat belts.
By "reserved seating", do you mean the complete BS practice of selling out all the tickets to a film ahead of time so that there's no room at the inn for me when I'm the only person in the fscking building? Because that has no place in a movie theatre setting -- that only makes sense for live events, like a concert or play, where there are professional performers whom you have to make enough money to pay a specific amount to those humans; films, however, are already paid for n showings or a percentage of the ticket price -- I'm not entirely sure, but I've seen movies where I was the only person in the cinema, and they still ran the thing, so it has to be worth doing, and you don't need to sell out the house beforehand to make it worth showing a movie.
A movie theatre should be a place you can go to when you have an hour and a half to spend, and they accommodate your $20, not something you have to plan three weeks ahead and hope you can get a vacation day for -- because it's a passive, prefab entertainment (unlike a football game or a comedian) that I can get the same exact same thing out of by watching it at home (it's McDonald's, not Morimoto).
You forgot Congressmen.
Actually, it's 0.00. But many of the 2400 articles they sampled were less than 10 years old. Noticeably, the rate jumps up to 2.58% in 2002, and then continues to climb a pretty steady by 0.365%/year after that, with a slightly higher uptick between 2006-07.
I'm not entirely sure what to take away from that, but it does seem that the more articles WP adds, the less people care about writing them properly.