I have no problem with you working 1 hour a week if you can use that 1 hour to produce enough value that your 1 hour is equivalent to my 45 hours a week and get paid the same as me. I start to have problems if you work 0 hours or produce lower value than me and demand equal compensation. Or even long term sustainability with no value produced.
Value defined as something that benefits society whether through labor, invention, art, or other aspect. Not strictly labor bound.
You can appeal if the judge says you have no standing? I thought you could only appeal verdicts bit a judges decision that you had no ground so he refused to hear the case.
As someone who was in charge of sending emails at a site that sent way too many emails. I can explain a little time lapse since often the lists for email send lists are generated up to a full day in advance here. Sometimes (rarely) longer than that. If we were working with a third party I could see them taking even longer as the lists are not generated for mass mailings in real time.
That email you get right away is either generated directly through the site or is a smaller email list that is able to be generated in real time.
Wealthy is a respective term. I mean it is impossible to have an even distribution of wealth throughout an entire group and consider any part of that group wealthy with respect to the group. One group can be wealthy when considered against another group, but inside the group the only way someone is wealthy is if they have more wealth than someone else.
This very statement requires wealth to be finite. Even if more wealth is added to a pool of wealth it comes from somewhere. The environment, the poor, the government, the rich, other planets etc. Wealth is transferred from one group to another.
Through out history there have been two classes of people. Haves and Have nots. The only way to become wealthy is to take wealth from the have nots.
I call bullshit on you wouldn't have done it. There has been no time in history where people better off did not get bad mouthed by poorer people. It has also always been something to aspire to. The low taxes at the top are what is new not the proposal to say hey rich people pay at least as much as that guy paying 50k. A government and economy cannot be balanced by the poor which is what regressive tax demands. (Sales tax is regressive).
People that are poor are unable to go on vacations even domestically. I grew up in a family where going to an amusement park for one day in the summer was considered the family vacation and we came back home at the end of the night because we couldn't afford a hotel. I worked hard too and got into a better situation. I make 100k+ now and I want to pay a higher tax % than my mom does making
You'll never convince me that people will stop trying to make more money if there's a higher % income tax at higher income levels. Because the % will never even out the income where the person making 250k lives as comfortablly as the person making 25k or even 50k.
There are separate codes for bitten by turtle and struck by turtle. And three for each. One time for first meeting with the turtle, then one for when he beats you up when you come for payback, and finally one for when that mean old turtle just won't leave you alone.
Obviously those struck by turtle codes were made because the foot clan gets beaten up too often.
What does it mean when a left-winger talks about biased right-wingers? Bias is a real word that indicates someone is advancing a personal agenda in their reporting. It could be hiding something or giving something more coverage than it deserves. Almost all reporting is biased. Bias doesn't indicate someone is lying. It usually indicates they are not telling the whole story and their conclusions shouldn't be trusted without further investigation.
Is this woman biased? I'm inclined to think so. Doesn't mean she is lying, but she is biased towards generating publicity for herself.
On another hand I tend to think she really is lying because her story doesn't sound completely credible. I can believe an inappropriate touch, which would be enough to me to demonize the tsa agent. But insertion seems incredible.
It's predicted to be a category 1 or 2 when it hits NJ and could still be a hurricane when it hits NYC. Although it could be *just* a tropical storm which only causes heavy rainfall and moderate to sever flooding.
Not claiming I have a right to it. Just saying that I will always chose to shop at places that are honest about this type of thing over places that aren't as soon as I find out that they are not honest about it. (Like as soon as I get home and inspect the product or even in the store upon inspection of the product)
Also one more point is I honestly don't care what price they sell the open box item at. They could sell it at the normal price. I care that about them taking away my choice to decline purchasing an open box item.
I take issue with open box being represented as new in a retail sense. I consider clothing that is not packaged as open box. An unopened box has more long term value to me (and most collectors) than an open box item. See price of older games that are new unused vs. used copies of those games. For some items open box is fine to me as long as you represent it as such. I would take issue with someone trying on a pair of boxers that were packaged and then the store replacing them in a package and reselling them.
I take issue even more with an altered product being represented as new. Altering product even by addition of a printer cable changes the value for me. In the printer example if you told me you added a cable I would be fine and more likely to not only purchase the product but come back to your location again because you add value. If it was a game where factory sealed matters to me and you added like a strategy guide into the box or something, even though you are adding value, for me I would not want to purchase it because it is not in its original condition and that is what I want, though I'd still not hold the practice against you if you told me that was what you did. If you alter or use a product like a game where I care about the state and then represent it to me as it is, I'm much less likely to purchase the item than if you lie and indicate it is new. Because I always always try to buy new product. I love me that new game smell.
I don't know what the law states. And I am not claiming that they can get in trouble for this. My feeling is that they *should* get in trouble for this because they are misrepresenting product in order to generate more revenue despite they actually are altering the product to remove value.
I was under the impression they only opened games that were used for display. I know I have purchased several unseal XBox 360 games from them in the past with the microsoft seal in tact. I don't think they would carry extra ones of those.
ha ha. Yeah a lot of factors involve in success. I agree. It is very hard to nail them all down. I have a fairly high IQ (don't know specific value anymore just recall vaguely high) but my sister's is higher than mine and she lives as a blight on society while I'm considered very smart and a very productive member of society. I am from a poor background and have moved so much higher up in social standing that I have trouble related to life as it is back home anymore. I'd call it mostly luck and seizing opportunity when it was presented and never giving up. My high IQ has helped me get to where I am by making the path easier, but I'd call it mostly luck.
Back on the subject of affirmative action, I have many times seen people who graduated from prestigious universities I wish I could have gone to who come from backgrounds a bit better than mine who are of a minority and I sometimes wonder how it happened. I believe affirmative action is misapplied sometimes as I described before. But in and of itself I don't think it is a bad thing as it is trying to make up for the smaller number of opportunities that generally come from being a lower social standing. And it centers on race because the racial history in the united states has forced many minorities into lower social standing places. So I can understand why it exists. I wish something existed for the same purpose that was irrespective of race, but I think since minorities were forced into that position I can understand it.
If someone just gets into a school due to Affirmative Action, it is being misused. How affirmative action is supposed to work is that given two individuals who are both perfectly suited for a position. The position should be given to the minority.
This means if you at an IQ of 115 passed all entrance exams with a passing percentage and an African American passed all of the same exams with the same percentage and a choice had to be made between one of you getting into the school and one being rejected, the African American is the one who should be allowed.
If the bar is being lowered for someone who is a minority then affirmative action is being applied incorrectly.
And to throw it out there IQ isn't everything. I know people with lower IQ than me that are smarter than me and more knowledgeable because they work hard at it and keep up to date on more stuff. (Though I will never admit it to their faces). If someone from back-water Appalacia manages to get accepted to Harvard I'm willing to bet they have a better chance of success as they obvious worked very hard on their own to earn that because their schooling and upbringing most likely did not prepare them they had to do it themselves.
For the record I'm white from a poor sub-urban upbringing.
I think while that point is valid, they are also pointing to this is now also affecting their support costs. These 100k+ apps are increasing their support needs without increasing their income. They haven't seen an increase in sales. For them giving away the app for free did not work out. That isn't to say it wouldn't work for someone else. But in their case it has had net negative impact.
If you're building a business from the ground up I can see putting tech on linux from the beginning (I think most start-ups do) but you still have to pay retraining costs for anyone else who works for you. I don't know too many people who work in marketing or design that can use linux effectively from the get go. (Most designers seem to prefer mac really and they like photoshop). Unless you're putting "Must know linux" on your job description for every position. Then you're limiting you pool of potential talent.
Military. By just 10%. Any game I've ever played with the % of income spent on military spending that the US does I was trying to do military conquest of the world. I'd either move that % into science which will help us advance to better states of livelihood or on luxury which will make people happier. I don't think that we need as large of a military budget as we have. If that means we can't be the police for in Afghanistan well damn... I guess we should stop being the police for in Afghanistan not raise military spending so we can do it. Or maybe move troops out of Germany or Japan or one of the other foreign countries we have military bases in where we don't have a good reason to be there.
I'm pretty sure no app is distributed for free on apple app store even if the person who wrote it wants to give it away, they still pay a $99 yearly fee to apple.
Even disregarding that, what is apple doing to earn that huge margin of 30% on sales they aren't generating except through a downloaded app? Shipping companies don't demand 30% margin per book they deliver. They don't deserve 30% of all revenue just for the amount of service they are providing. Maybe they deserve something... 1 or 2% maybe. But 30% is outrageous.
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I have no problem with you working 1 hour a week if you can use that 1 hour to produce enough value that your 1 hour is equivalent to my 45 hours a week and get paid the same as me. I start to have problems if you work 0 hours or produce lower value than me and demand equal compensation. Or even long term sustainability with no value produced.
Value defined as something that benefits society whether through labor, invention, art, or other aspect. Not strictly labor bound.
I think the photography issue is more due to the proliferation of digital SLR cameras and home enthusiasts than copyright...
That's why they were known as AOL: America's Favorite Diskette Provider
It was fixed in two hours... and released...
You can appeal if the judge says you have no standing? I thought you could only appeal verdicts bit a judges decision that you had no ground so he refused to hear the case.
you mean like providing the key upon request or even with the machine?
As someone who was in charge of sending emails at a site that sent way too many emails. I can explain a little time lapse since often the lists for email send lists are generated up to a full day in advance here. Sometimes (rarely) longer than that. If we were working with a third party I could see them taking even longer as the lists are not generated for mass mailings in real time.
That email you get right away is either generated directly through the site or is a smaller email list that is able to be generated in real time.
Because cutting taxes for the rich over the past few years has created a hell of alot of jobs right?
Wealthy is a respective term. I mean it is impossible to have an even distribution of wealth throughout an entire group and consider any part of that group wealthy with respect to the group. One group can be wealthy when considered against another group, but inside the group the only way someone is wealthy is if they have more wealth than someone else.
This very statement requires wealth to be finite. Even if more wealth is added to a pool of wealth it comes from somewhere. The environment, the poor, the government, the rich, other planets etc. Wealth is transferred from one group to another.
Through out history there have been two classes of people. Haves and Have nots. The only way to become wealthy is to take wealth from the have nots.
I call bullshit on you wouldn't have done it. There has been no time in history where people better off did not get bad mouthed by poorer people. It has also always been something to aspire to. The low taxes at the top are what is new not the proposal to say hey rich people pay at least as much as that guy paying 50k. A government and economy cannot be balanced by the poor which is what regressive tax demands. (Sales tax is regressive).
People that are poor are unable to go on vacations even domestically. I grew up in a family where going to an amusement park for one day in the summer was considered the family vacation and we came back home at the end of the night because we couldn't afford a hotel. I worked hard too and got into a better situation. I make 100k+ now and I want to pay a higher tax % than my mom does making
You'll never convince me that people will stop trying to make more money if there's a higher % income tax at higher income levels. Because the % will never even out the income where the person making 250k lives as comfortablly as the person making 25k or even 50k.
There are separate codes for bitten by turtle and struck by turtle. And three for each. One time for first meeting with the turtle, then one for when he beats you up when you come for payback, and finally one for when that mean old turtle just won't leave you alone.
Obviously those struck by turtle codes were made because the foot clan gets beaten up too often.
What does it mean when a left-winger talks about biased right-wingers? Bias is a real word that indicates someone is advancing a personal agenda in their reporting. It could be hiding something or giving something more coverage than it deserves. Almost all reporting is biased. Bias doesn't indicate someone is lying. It usually indicates they are not telling the whole story and their conclusions shouldn't be trusted without further investigation.
Is this woman biased? I'm inclined to think so. Doesn't mean she is lying, but she is biased towards generating publicity for herself.
On another hand I tend to think she really is lying because her story doesn't sound completely credible. I can believe an inappropriate touch, which would be enough to me to demonize the tsa agent. But insertion seems incredible.
I was thinking one step in the direction of Surrogates. (Not really a good movie, but interesting concept)
It's predicted to be a category 1 or 2 when it hits NJ and could still be a hurricane when it hits NYC. Although it could be *just* a tropical storm which only causes heavy rainfall and moderate to sever flooding.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents And NYC is already developing an evacuation plan in case the storm does come close.
http://gothamist.com/2011/08/25/hurricane_irene_is_coming_heres_a_m.php#photo-1
Not claiming I have a right to it. Just saying that I will always chose to shop at places that are honest about this type of thing over places that aren't as soon as I find out that they are not honest about it. (Like as soon as I get home and inspect the product or even in the store upon inspection of the product)
Also one more point is I honestly don't care what price they sell the open box item at. They could sell it at the normal price. I care that about them taking away my choice to decline purchasing an open box item.
I take issue with open box being represented as new in a retail sense. I consider clothing that is not packaged as open box. An unopened box has more long term value to me (and most collectors) than an open box item. See price of older games that are new unused vs. used copies of those games. For some items open box is fine to me as long as you represent it as such. I would take issue with someone trying on a pair of boxers that were packaged and then the store replacing them in a package and reselling them.
I take issue even more with an altered product being represented as new. Altering product even by addition of a printer cable changes the value for me. In the printer example if you told me you added a cable I would be fine and more likely to not only purchase the product but come back to your location again because you add value. If it was a game where factory sealed matters to me and you added like a strategy guide into the box or something, even though you are adding value, for me I would not want to purchase it because it is not in its original condition and that is what I want, though I'd still not hold the practice against you if you told me that was what you did. If you alter or use a product like a game where I care about the state and then represent it to me as it is, I'm much less likely to purchase the item than if you lie and indicate it is new. Because I always always try to buy new product. I love me that new game smell.
I don't know what the law states. And I am not claiming that they can get in trouble for this. My feeling is that they *should* get in trouble for this because they are misrepresenting product in order to generate more revenue despite they actually are altering the product to remove value.
This is PC copies of the game.
I was under the impression they only opened games that were used for display. I know I have purchased several unseal XBox 360 games from them in the past with the microsoft seal in tact. I don't think they would carry extra ones of those.
ha ha. Yeah a lot of factors involve in success. I agree. It is very hard to nail them all down. I have a fairly high IQ (don't know specific value anymore just recall vaguely high) but my sister's is higher than mine and she lives as a blight on society while I'm considered very smart and a very productive member of society. I am from a poor background and have moved so much higher up in social standing that I have trouble related to life as it is back home anymore. I'd call it mostly luck and seizing opportunity when it was presented and never giving up. My high IQ has helped me get to where I am by making the path easier, but I'd call it mostly luck.
Back on the subject of affirmative action, I have many times seen people who graduated from prestigious universities I wish I could have gone to who come from backgrounds a bit better than mine who are of a minority and I sometimes wonder how it happened. I believe affirmative action is misapplied sometimes as I described before. But in and of itself I don't think it is a bad thing as it is trying to make up for the smaller number of opportunities that generally come from being a lower social standing. And it centers on race because the racial history in the united states has forced many minorities into lower social standing places. So I can understand why it exists. I wish something existed for the same purpose that was irrespective of race, but I think since minorities were forced into that position I can understand it.
If someone just gets into a school due to Affirmative Action, it is being misused. How affirmative action is supposed to work is that given two individuals who are both perfectly suited for a position. The position should be given to the minority.
This means if you at an IQ of 115 passed all entrance exams with a passing percentage and an African American passed all of the same exams with the same percentage and a choice had to be made between one of you getting into the school and one being rejected, the African American is the one who should be allowed.
If the bar is being lowered for someone who is a minority then affirmative action is being applied incorrectly.
And to throw it out there IQ isn't everything. I know people with lower IQ than me that are smarter than me and more knowledgeable because they work hard at it and keep up to date on more stuff. (Though I will never admit it to their faces). If someone from back-water Appalacia manages to get accepted to Harvard I'm willing to bet they have a better chance of success as they obvious worked very hard on their own to earn that because their schooling and upbringing most likely did not prepare them they had to do it themselves.
For the record I'm white from a poor sub-urban upbringing.
I think while that point is valid, they are also pointing to this is now also affecting their support costs. These 100k+ apps are increasing their support needs without increasing their income. They haven't seen an increase in sales. For them giving away the app for free did not work out. That isn't to say it wouldn't work for someone else. But in their case it has had net negative impact.
If you're building a business from the ground up I can see putting tech on linux from the beginning (I think most start-ups do) but you still have to pay retraining costs for anyone else who works for you. I don't know too many people who work in marketing or design that can use linux effectively from the get go. (Most designers seem to prefer mac really and they like photoshop). Unless you're putting "Must know linux" on your job description for every position. Then you're limiting you pool of potential talent.
Military. By just 10%. Any game I've ever played with the % of income spent on military spending that the US does I was trying to do military conquest of the world. I'd either move that % into science which will help us advance to better states of livelihood or on luxury which will make people happier. I don't think that we need as large of a military budget as we have. If that means we can't be the police for in Afghanistan well damn... I guess we should stop being the police for in Afghanistan not raise military spending so we can do it. Or maybe move troops out of Germany or Japan or one of the other foreign countries we have military bases in where we don't have a good reason to be there.
I'm pretty sure no app is distributed for free on apple app store even if the person who wrote it wants to give it away, they still pay a $99 yearly fee to apple.
Even disregarding that, what is apple doing to earn that huge margin of 30% on sales they aren't generating except through a downloaded app? Shipping companies don't demand 30% margin per book they deliver. They don't deserve 30% of all revenue just for the amount of service they are providing. Maybe they deserve something... 1 or 2% maybe. But 30% is outrageous.