Are you willing to pay more for the books you get in a bookstore than the identical product you can get online? Brick and mortar stores have already found that in general the answer to that question is no. Brick and mortar stores have lots of expenses that online does not. Brick and mortar for one, sales employees for another. And the situation you're describing is having knowledge experts (read people who get paid more) working as the sales people. This works in some markets; I'm willing to pay more for wine if bought from someone who knows about what they are talking about. But typically doesn't work for the vast majority of people.
Most of your post I find insightful other than the first line... How does something become known and used just because it is a good product? There are many examples of good products that didn't make it.
Science is hard too. I would argue that most scientists don't have both skills. Some do, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but I don't believe most do. I know on my development team there's about two of six people who can clearly communicate their ideas to the outside world. And one of those I wouldn't trust to tell someone who didn't have some knowledge of code.
Was fire involved in the splitting? I'm just not sure how you divided up money and had no money at the end. I mean maybe you miscounted and divided $5 to 6 people by giving each person a dollar and then there was no money left for you... but that's a math error not 5/0. You cannot divide something into pieces and have 0 left. You can always recollect the pieces and get back to the original $5. If the division resulted in nothing left then you used fire to destroy the $5. Which is X-X not X/0.
Those are some interesting points. I'm almost sold to your point of view but the allocation of labor you bring up I think is not as malleable as you make it sound. It's not that easy to turn a random hairstylist into a programmer for example. Maybe turning her into a cook might work... they are both considered low skill jobs, but if the local economy isn't supporting either of those positions, how do we mass retrain the work force? If we can't do the retraining then that person is going to be checking the unemployed box.
That would make perfect sense if domestic abuse wasn't something where people are usually being restricted the ability to leave by their spouse or domestic partner. And that the person who did the abuse would realize he or she was wrong and wouldn't try to track down the individual and physically force or harass them to come back home with them by staking out these well known safe houses.
Sometimes the person on the receiving end of domestic abuse often needs protection in order to escape the situation. And it is escape. I guess they could try to call Batman to rescue them.
What if the 24 hour surveillance wasn't one of the listed features of the application that I am being forced to install? I have a right to refuse a previously agreed to contract if there were conditions not revealed in the initial contract that I would take issue with.
This thread is one of the best anti-net neutrality arguments I've seen. It's not enough to convince me since I don't believe the monopolies will ever be broken up or that they won't abuse their power, but at least it sounds rational and thought out and not "OMG Regulation is bad!" However, it does make it sound like a perfect world solution would not include net neutrality which is not what I used to think.
Paper trail is only required for large amounts or if the customer requests a receipt. I've never had to present id when cashing in my chips since I never cashed in a very large amount at once. Thus I've never had any taxes on gambling income because on the books I have 0 gambling income.
Japan used to have decent regulation around this if I remember correctly. It might have changed, but I think it limited the amount of airtime any given politician could have.
The more local you get the fewer people you have who are running. Most local mayors run completely unopposed. Heck even most State governments have many unopposed "elected" officials. I think this would make it harder to get Corrupted Carl to no longer be the Mayor.
In all honesty... I think it might be less about trying to punish those people for being homophobic and more about trying to make sure all guests feel welcome and able to attend the event. There may be gay people who want to go to the event, but businesses like hotels or restaurants may refuse them service thus making them feel unwelcome at the event.
I honestly can't understand why any convention would want to be located someplace where all of their potential attendees aren't welcome.
That's a fantastic idea that has 0 chance of unfairly punishing people who just missed the fact that the speed limit dropped by 10 miles back 1/2 mile on that sign they happened to miss. Let's make sure they cannot legally commute to work anymore as punishment. Mass transit isn't available everywhere in the US and Manhattan is pretty much the only place I've seen where it is a suitable replacement for owning a vehicle. (I've been in about 10 different U.S. cities using mass transit and most of them suck.)
I think fines are more fair for minor infractions than suspensions. I agree they have other issues, but I think we'd need to come up with some other non-crippling way of punishment than suspension or revocation for minor offenders. Maybe community service? I had a crossing guard who wore a fur coat for a while in high school. Pretty sure I know what happened there.
Isn't another possibility of the "I won't pay that price, I'll stick with what I have." the company is less competitive and fails? This increases the local labor pool and decreases the demand for that labor. This wouldn't result in higher wages either. The worst situation for all parties is no deal.
He posted on Bitcointalk.org early on about the site and then later on posted a help wanted add on Bitcointalk.org that contained his personal real name email address rossulbricht at gmail dot com. That was pretty damn stupid.
To be honest... if I went in for that oil change and had to walk home because my car was no longer working... I'd feel pretty pissed off. If I found out the reason it wouldn't run anymore was because the dealership actually did something to make it not work instead of telling me I have some shoddy work on my car I would be pretty pissed off at the dealership specifically too.
I have a 1 bedroom in Manhattan which when my brother walked in he laughed about how small it is, but honestly it isn't a bad size. I pay $2600 a month. Food is roughly 2x as much here as it is back home in Pittsburgh as well. True Home Depot's prices aren't that different, but I don't shop every month for Home Depot stuff. Food and rent I do. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not bitching. I'm just pointing out that there are markets that are much higher cost of living than you expect. And driving into New York City is a bit difficult to say the least.
I think if you're forced to listen to a song that causes you mental distress by the writer of said song without having the choice to you know... turn off the song, then yes. You do get to sue them for mental distress.
Most of them were called bards, played only the popular songs everyone knew for the past 100 years or so, didn't create anything new, and often begged for dinner and slept in the street.
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Are you willing to pay more for the books you get in a bookstore than the identical product you can get online? Brick and mortar stores have already found that in general the answer to that question is no. Brick and mortar stores have lots of expenses that online does not. Brick and mortar for one, sales employees for another. And the situation you're describing is having knowledge experts (read people who get paid more) working as the sales people. This works in some markets; I'm willing to pay more for wine if bought from someone who knows about what they are talking about. But typically doesn't work for the vast majority of people.
Most of your post I find insightful other than the first line... How does something become known and used just because it is a good product? There are many examples of good products that didn't make it.
Science is hard too. I would argue that most scientists don't have both skills. Some do, like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but I don't believe most do. I know on my development team there's about two of six people who can clearly communicate their ideas to the outside world. And one of those I wouldn't trust to tell someone who didn't have some knowledge of code.
Was fire involved in the splitting? I'm just not sure how you divided up money and had no money at the end. I mean maybe you miscounted and divided $5 to 6 people by giving each person a dollar and then there was no money left for you... but that's a math error not 5/0. You cannot divide something into pieces and have 0 left. You can always recollect the pieces and get back to the original $5. If the division resulted in nothing left then you used fire to destroy the $5. Which is X-X not X/0.
Those are some interesting points. I'm almost sold to your point of view but the allocation of labor you bring up I think is not as malleable as you make it sound. It's not that easy to turn a random hairstylist into a programmer for example. Maybe turning her into a cook might work... they are both considered low skill jobs, but if the local economy isn't supporting either of those positions, how do we mass retrain the work force? If we can't do the retraining then that person is going to be checking the unemployed box.
That would make perfect sense if domestic abuse wasn't something where people are usually being restricted the ability to leave by their spouse or domestic partner. And that the person who did the abuse would realize he or she was wrong and wouldn't try to track down the individual and physically force or harass them to come back home with them by staking out these well known safe houses. Sometimes the person on the receiving end of domestic abuse often needs protection in order to escape the situation. And it is escape. I guess they could try to call Batman to rescue them.
What if the 24 hour surveillance wasn't one of the listed features of the application that I am being forced to install? I have a right to refuse a previously agreed to contract if there were conditions not revealed in the initial contract that I would take issue with.
This thread is one of the best anti-net neutrality arguments I've seen. It's not enough to convince me since I don't believe the monopolies will ever be broken up or that they won't abuse their power, but at least it sounds rational and thought out and not "OMG Regulation is bad!" However, it does make it sound like a perfect world solution would not include net neutrality which is not what I used to think.
Paper trail is only required for large amounts or if the customer requests a receipt. I've never had to present id when cashing in my chips since I never cashed in a very large amount at once. Thus I've never had any taxes on gambling income because on the books I have 0 gambling income.
Yeah but the ads will only feature the beautiful announcer women (who may not even be at the tournament)
Japan used to have decent regulation around this if I remember correctly. It might have changed, but I think it limited the amount of airtime any given politician could have.
The more local you get the fewer people you have who are running. Most local mayors run completely unopposed. Heck even most State governments have many unopposed "elected" officials. I think this would make it harder to get Corrupted Carl to no longer be the Mayor.
All of them. Just because I don't pay with money doesn't mean I don't pay something.
In all honesty... I think it might be less about trying to punish those people for being homophobic and more about trying to make sure all guests feel welcome and able to attend the event. There may be gay people who want to go to the event, but businesses like hotels or restaurants may refuse them service thus making them feel unwelcome at the event.
I honestly can't understand why any convention would want to be located someplace where all of their potential attendees aren't welcome.
That's a fantastic idea that has 0 chance of unfairly punishing people who just missed the fact that the speed limit dropped by 10 miles back 1/2 mile on that sign they happened to miss. Let's make sure they cannot legally commute to work anymore as punishment. Mass transit isn't available everywhere in the US and Manhattan is pretty much the only place I've seen where it is a suitable replacement for owning a vehicle. (I've been in about 10 different U.S. cities using mass transit and most of them suck.)
I think fines are more fair for minor infractions than suspensions. I agree they have other issues, but I think we'd need to come up with some other non-crippling way of punishment than suspension or revocation for minor offenders. Maybe community service? I had a crossing guard who wore a fur coat for a while in high school. Pretty sure I know what happened there.
Isn't another possibility of the "I won't pay that price, I'll stick with what I have." the company is less competitive and fails? This increases the local labor pool and decreases the demand for that labor. This wouldn't result in higher wages either. The worst situation for all parties is no deal.
He posted on Bitcointalk.org early on about the site and then later on posted a help wanted add on Bitcointalk.org that contained his personal real name email address rossulbricht at gmail dot com. That was pretty damn stupid.
To be honest... if I went in for that oil change and had to walk home because my car was no longer working... I'd feel pretty pissed off. If I found out the reason it wouldn't run anymore was because the dealership actually did something to make it not work instead of telling me I have some shoddy work on my car I would be pretty pissed off at the dealership specifically too.
I have a 1 bedroom in Manhattan which when my brother walked in he laughed about how small it is, but honestly it isn't a bad size. I pay $2600 a month. Food is roughly 2x as much here as it is back home in Pittsburgh as well. True Home Depot's prices aren't that different, but I don't shop every month for Home Depot stuff. Food and rent I do. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not bitching. I'm just pointing out that there are markets that are much higher cost of living than you expect. And driving into New York City is a bit difficult to say the least.
Most accurate breakdown ever.
I would come back from the dead to slap my descendants for allowing this guy to have my Nobel price.
19th century is Post Copyright legislation.
I think if you're forced to listen to a song that causes you mental distress by the writer of said song without having the choice to you know... turn off the song, then yes. You do get to sue them for mental distress.
Most of them were called bards, played only the popular songs everyone knew for the past 100 years or so, didn't create anything new, and often begged for dinner and slept in the street.
I only got two lines of cursing on my display. I demand my money back.