When did he say demand was down? He said profit growth was nearing its end. Different things. How much do you think apple will put next years at, more than this years, or do you think they will sell even more at the same price?
What it really says is the distortion field is still strong enough for people to line up and spread their cheeks for the unlubed apple cock. Prices up, quality down, extra subscription services piled on top and people still defend them as if not only is their behaviour fine it's also to be encouraged and justified by the fact they have shitloads of money (that they don't pay tax on and stash overseas).
Wasn't the whole thing about this CA thing that it was all public data anyway, someone just gathered it all in one place. How do they expect facebook to keep people's data safe that the people made public?
Do we really need another round of bored looking guy explaining technology to old people. What power do the government think they can use to summon a foreigner to them? Typical tory twats, I have way more concern about them keeping anything safe than what facebook does to sell ads.
Where did he say they sit idle? He said they get paid for 9 months of work.
I've asked a teacher about this and they told me that yes, they get a 9 month salaray.
At their place of employmnen, they have the option to turn it into 26 smaller paychecks, or they can receive 18 larger paychecks. I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere however.
Seems to be different where you are but ask this teacher friend of yours if they are expected to mark/plan/review/assess etc in the "holidays" because where I am the teachers are expected to teach all day and very little/no time is given for the rest of the job but its expected to be done anyway, which is what the holidays are for. Kids may be off and support staff get pro rata contracts so they're off but the teachers are working, well the good ones are anyway the shit ones just coast but that goes for any industry
that the pay is for only about 9 months per year of work
If you think all teachers are just idle during the school holidays you're either surrounded by shit teachers or know nothing about teaching, I wonder which it is.
Yeah, At university you buy the textbook at a ridiculously high price. There used to be all kinds of excuses such as the high cost of making an archival quality book, etc. but those have mostly fallen by the wayside. At the moment, it just seems to be accepted that they have you over a barrel and that's that. A lot of universities also simply require that you buy the textbook at the university bookstore, rather than online, or from another student who has taken the class, etc. At the end of the semester, you may be able to sell the book back to the university bookstore for a small fraction of what you paid, then they'll sell it used for a tiny discount off the new price.
It's basically an exploitive, captive market. Seeing the same thing happen to pre-university education would be a tragedy.
That's what the internet is for. As long as you know the citation you don't need to actually own shit.
In my country its up to the parents to buy textbooks and materials for their children. Why isn't it like that in the USA? Or do only rich White or Asian parents do that, not the poor or Black or Hispanic parents?
Buy their own binders, papers, and pencils sure. But textbooks?
I'm not sure what country you live in but that seems like a bizarrely inefficient system. Every student needs the same textbooks and they don't serve the student after the end of the school year. Forcing the parents to buy them just creates a big inefficient resale market where there's no need for one.
Making the parents buy the textbooks is effectively just a poorly administered tax on parents.
Yeah we had a name for this at my school. In addition to the classroom books that every student used there was the big room full of lots of books on lots of subject you could go and borrow if you needed, the name totally escapes me now.
But this is what I don't get. Whether you steal their content, or choose to not purchase their content, it's the same effect to them: they don't get your money
This is the bit I don't get. the assumption that they would have got your money or are somehow entitled to it anyway. It's been shown time and time again that a pirate copy does not equal a lost sale.
Yeah if EVERYONE pirates its stops getting made. Well this needless quest for profits crap tv stops getting made anyway. Let's talk about why it cost $25 million to make a series and then the need to make all that money back plus profit so you make show as widely appealing as possible to increase your audience, diluting your show to the point that no one really likes it and its just another generic piece of shit and no one really wants to buy it so they pirate it. And also what about the fact the networks are going back to hoarding. you want to watch this show, you need a subscription to service x. this other show is on service y and so on. You can either subscribe to everything or just pirate it. Here's a novel solution, stop paying so called stars buckets of cash, make shows that are actually good and well written, sell them in a way thats easy to buy and consumer friendly, go back to making shows that stand on their own instead of how much advertising they can sell. Until then, cry me a fucking river.
So fb are getting paid to serve up ads that get ignored. So what, I'm not paying them. Advertisers can sling all the money around in the hope of what works. When the NSA was doing it it was all fighting terrists and think of the childrens now that fb are trying to get you to click on shit links its end of world apparently, even though fb are far from the biggest or worst players in this game. They only thing thats actually changed is they think they have a method to advertise more stuff you might actually want which on its surface, is kind of a good thing at least.
Exactly, they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored and on the rare off chance they might put up an ad for something I want and end up getting then surely it's a win-win, although it probably wouldn't be through whatever ad but still.
You are assuming they existed long enough to reach a space age. They may have just reached the age of steam then collapsed. The fact they they failed to do something about the incoming asteroid would support this clam.
People are speculating a most likely range of a couple of tens-of-millions years. That would be after the Asteroid.
yeah but wouldn't stuff but in stable orbits like the L points or whatever and engineered properly basically stay there forever?
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Wildlife in Africa would be much better off if there were more Western big game hunters.
You might want to tell that to the white rhinoceros. There are three left in the world today because baby-dick failsons like Eric and Don Jr went around blasting them to hell,
We're talking about guys whose "sport" requires that something die. They're sociopaths. There are better ways of managing wildlife than trophy hunting.
I'm no fan of hunting but there's a big difference between it and poaching.
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Yeah, the sunk cost fallacy coupled with locked in syndrome will do that.
When did he say demand was down? He said profit growth was nearing its end. Different things. How much do you think apple will put next years at, more than this years, or do you think they will sell even more at the same price?
What it really says is the distortion field is still strong enough for people to line up and spread their cheeks for the unlubed apple cock. Prices up, quality down, extra subscription services piled on top and people still defend them as if not only is their behaviour fine it's also to be encouraged and justified by the fact they have shitloads of money (that they don't pay tax on and stash overseas).
Wasn't the whole thing about this CA thing that it was all public data anyway, someone just gathered it all in one place. How do they expect facebook to keep people's data safe that the people made public?
Do we really need another round of bored looking guy explaining technology to old people. What power do the government think they can use to summon a foreigner to them? Typical tory twats, I have way more concern about them keeping anything safe than what facebook does to sell ads.
Where did he say they sit idle? He said they get paid for 9 months of work.
I've asked a teacher about this and they told me that yes, they get a 9 month salaray. At their place of employmnen, they have the option to turn it into 26 smaller paychecks, or they can receive 18 larger paychecks. I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere however.
Seems to be different where you are but ask this teacher friend of yours if they are expected to mark/plan/review/assess etc in the "holidays" because where I am the teachers are expected to teach all day and very little/no time is given for the rest of the job but its expected to be done anyway, which is what the holidays are for. Kids may be off and support staff get pro rata contracts so they're off but the teachers are working, well the good ones are anyway the shit ones just coast but that goes for any industry
Sounds about right.
My girlfriend is highly ranked in her district and she doesn't sit idle for 3 months/year, we usually do foreign travel.
If she's highly ranked I doubt she does much teaching anymore.
Your definition of a war year must be pretty loose, considering that the US is about 240 years old and you have a total of 200 war years.
Sounds about right
that the pay is for only about 9 months per year of work
If you think all teachers are just idle during the school holidays you're either surrounded by shit teachers or know nothing about teaching, I wonder which it is.
Are they still talking about arming teachers?
Yeah, At university you buy the textbook at a ridiculously high price. There used to be all kinds of excuses such as the high cost of making an archival quality book, etc. but those have mostly fallen by the wayside. At the moment, it just seems to be accepted that they have you over a barrel and that's that. A lot of universities also simply require that you buy the textbook at the university bookstore, rather than online, or from another student who has taken the class, etc. At the end of the semester, you may be able to sell the book back to the university bookstore for a small fraction of what you paid, then they'll sell it used for a tiny discount off the new price.
It's basically an exploitive, captive market. Seeing the same thing happen to pre-university education would be a tragedy.
That's what the internet is for. As long as you know the citation you don't need to actually own shit.
In my country its up to the parents to buy textbooks and materials for their children. Why isn't it like that in the USA? Or do only rich White or Asian parents do that, not the poor or Black or Hispanic parents?
Buy their own binders, papers, and pencils sure. But textbooks?
I'm not sure what country you live in but that seems like a bizarrely inefficient system. Every student needs the same textbooks and they don't serve the student after the end of the school year. Forcing the parents to buy them just creates a big inefficient resale market where there's no need for one.
Making the parents buy the textbooks is effectively just a poorly administered tax on parents.
Yeah we had a name for this at my school. In addition to the classroom books that every student used there was the big room full of lots of books on lots of subject you could go and borrow if you needed, the name totally escapes me now.
GIF is not really lossless since it's 8-bit and so can only display 256 colours at a time.
It's also very possible a png has been compressed.
But this is what I don't get. Whether you steal their content, or choose to not purchase their content, it's the same effect to them: they don't get your money
This is the bit I don't get. the assumption that they would have got your money or are somehow entitled to it anyway. It's been shown time and time again that a pirate copy does not equal a lost sale.
Yeah if EVERYONE pirates its stops getting made. Well this needless quest for profits crap tv stops getting made anyway. Let's talk about why it cost $25 million to make a series and then the need to make all that money back plus profit so you make show as widely appealing as possible to increase your audience, diluting your show to the point that no one really likes it and its just another generic piece of shit and no one really wants to buy it so they pirate it. And also what about the fact the networks are going back to hoarding. you want to watch this show, you need a subscription to service x. this other show is on service y and so on. You can either subscribe to everything or just pirate it. Here's a novel solution, stop paying so called stars buckets of cash, make shows that are actually good and well written, sell them in a way thats easy to buy and consumer friendly, go back to making shows that stand on their own instead of how much advertising they can sell. Until then, cry me a fucking river.
What, the unauthorised copying of data? Clue's in the name mate. If it was the same as theft it would be called theft but it's not so it's not.
So fb are getting paid to serve up ads that get ignored. So what, I'm not paying them. Advertisers can sling all the money around in the hope of what works. When the NSA was doing it it was all fighting terrists and think of the childrens now that fb are trying to get you to click on shit links its end of world apparently, even though fb are far from the biggest or worst players in this game. They only thing thats actually changed is they think they have a method to advertise more stuff you might actually want which on its surface, is kind of a good thing at least.
Exactly, they can target all the ads they want, they are going to be ignored and on the rare off chance they might put up an ad for something I want and end up getting then surely it's a win-win, although it probably wouldn't be through whatever ad but still.
You are assuming they existed long enough to reach a space age. They may have just reached the age of steam then collapsed. The fact they they failed to do something about the incoming asteroid would support this clam.
People are speculating a most likely range of a couple of tens-of-millions years. That would be after the Asteroid.
yeah but wouldn't stuff but in stable orbits like the L points or whatever and engineered properly basically stay there forever?
Well, if you will upload your home made sex tapes to icloud then yeah.
Me and my friends walk into AC's house and take everything. It's not a crime. Everybody is doing it. What's more, it says AC on all the receipts, so go on, prove it's not mine.
Nope, you go in and make copies of everything. AC won't even notice unless he catches you in the act or is watching, either way he's in the exact same position as before you and your buddies turned up.
Closer to the difference between a murder and a massacre but nice try.
You might want to tell that to the white rhinoceros. There are three left in the world today because baby-dick failsons like Eric and Don Jr went around blasting them to hell,
We're talking about guys whose "sport" requires that something die. They're sociopaths. There are better ways of managing wildlife than trophy hunting.
I'm no fan of hunting but there's a big difference between it and poaching.
Free market at work eh? Fucking suckers.
This is the TrumpVerse in action. November is the last chance to act! Run these bastards back to hell!!
Because government control is soooo much better!
If you like your cable plan, you can keep your cable plan!
We'll all be equal, force-fed the same government-approved shit sandwich on our way to late-stage Socialism, just like Venezuela.
I got mine so fuuuuuuuuuck you.