Strawman Argument. Who said it was? (Certainly not me.) I don't want a shitty tablet that has no keyboard. I'd rather have a laptop, but I can't carry that in my pocket can I? I want the kindle with easy-to-read epaper, free web surfing, cheap F&SF magazine, free loans, and only cost me $50.
Only applies when you're outside the U.S. While I'm inside the states I surf on my kindle keyboard 3G as much as I want..... reading facebook, ebay, wikipedia, etc.
>>>Sorry Amazon, nice try, but your walled garden isn't for me.
One could say the same about the BBC and their "walled garden". Why on earth did you think you could use an amazon tablet outside of its home country? I certainly don't expect to be able to hear/watch BBC outside of the UK.
Does Google include 10-20 dollar books that can be borrowed for free? Or Fantasy & Science magazine for a mere $12/year? Or e-ink that is easy on the eyes? Or free 3G web surfing? My kindle has all of that.
Interesting change in wording. That means 56 days of reading 1-hour per day instead of 62 days. Meanwhile Barnes advertises "over 2 months" for their nooks.
Also the 4G version probably won't have free web surfing (like the kindle keyboard has).
You mean like how Obama promised to never use the NDAA indefinite detention provision, but it will most certaily be used by Romney if elected? Or how Bush promised the U.S.A. P.a.t.r.i.o.t. A.c.t. would only be used to monitor public communications, but when Obama arrived they started demanding private ISP customer records & download histories? POINT: Today google is honest. In a few years they might have a new management team that is not.
I used to stand all day when I worked retail. It damages your foot arch and your back (the spine). I'd rather sit or even better: lay flat.
Humans evolved as four-footed animals that gradually learned to stand-up, but never really adapted to the stresses it causes internally. Standing causes all kinds of gravity-induced damage over the years.
That's how markets used to work. You paid whatever the store owner feels like charging you, and it varied according to who you were.
Then new retailers like James Penney, Sears & Roebuck, and Montgomery Wards arrived on the scene with fixed prices attached to merchandise. Everyone paid the same regardless of who they were.
Neither method is the "correct" way of doing things but the new way drove the old way out of business during the 1920s. The "same price for everyone" stores came to dominate the U.S.
>>>some of the more unscrupulous and technically-minded people out there will quickly learn how to game the system.
I acquired a then-new Final Fantasy with $40 "new customer" discount and sold it for $54.50 on ebay. Bought a new gamecube for $49, got the Zelda Collection for free, sold it for $60.
I setup five accounts with Pizza Hut in order to get a 5 free medium pizza for newbs. And three accounts to get "20% welcome discount" from an online hobby store. In other words YES you are correct.
>>>This guy has bought every Madden game ever: No discount on Madden 13 for him. >>>This guy has never bought a Madden game: Give him a $10 discount to incentivize him.
Sounds like a good reason to continue my practice of having four separate browsers (Firefox, Chromium Portable, Opera, and IE). Google has a detailed record of four separate IDs and purchase histories.
And you're right: It's a way to screw your biggest fans. In theory you end-up paying a 10 dollar extra higher price because you happen to like (and buy) a lot of Madden games. Or in my case: Lots of RPGs.
Google Bot #1: "The cpu6502 dude went to amazon. Let's show him book & TV ads and jackup the prices." Bot #2: "Yeah but he didn't buy anything. He opened a second tab and searched isohunt for free downloads." #1: "Dangit...... no wait he likes music! Look at all the songs he listens to...." #2: "Yeah on Free radio and youtube. He never buys anything.... last week he downloaded the Hot 100 of 2011." #1: "Bummer..... oh look! He just surfed over to cheapassgamer and bought a game..... (sigh). Never mind. It was only $1." #2: "I told you following this guy was a waste. He rarely buys anything and when he does it's for a mere dollar. Let's go track someone else." #1: "Yeah fine. Whatev."
Ahhh yes the evil "profit motive". What I have observed is that the profit-making UPS charges less to ship my ebay goods than the nonprofit government. AND I've observed the profit-making parking lots charge less than the government-owned airport lots. Same distance but the govt lot is twice as much.
Profit-seeking ventures are sometimes evil, but in general they have a motive to keep the price as low as possible (for fear of losing business to competition). The government's motive is the opposite (raise the price and payoff debts). The markets also give the freedom-of-choice...... a single payer monopoly does not. It gives the choice of government or government.
>>>Makes me wonder how many imaging product ads feature faux footage... and on top of that... why you would bother doing it?
You must be new... to everything. They fake photos of models (airbrushing). They fake photos on covers of food boxes by adding food coloring (to make it look better than it is). Video is no different. Of course it's faked; virtually all advertising is faked.
BTW I've added Nokia to my ever-growing list of boycotted companies: Nokia Toyota Apple Google Microsoft
https is the answer but it should be a voluntary thing.
According to the politicians & judges we have "no expectation of privacy in a public arena". It's why they camcord us in the streets, and why we can camcord them as they are writing tickets or beating people with clubs. So isn't the world wide web also a public venue? The politicians appear to be saying "yes".
>>>a pair of balls. Not very common on an adult named 'Jimmy'.
Jimmy Swaggert (stood-up against segregation) Jimmy Carter (stood-up against Arab terrorists) Jimmy Stewart (World War 2 fighter pilot) Jimmy Buffett (okay this is a bit of a stretch)
"Get your stinkin' paws outta my Coke! You damn dirty ape!" (Say that to a black TSA agent, and you'll probably make the national news when they charge you with "hate speech".) Oh what a fun non-free country we are.
BTW who's testing the hundreds-of-pounds of food and drink being loaded by outside convenience companies into the airplane? What a perfect way for a terrorist to land a job, get cleared, and then sneak several pounds of liquid explosive onboard.
Excuse me while I bend over. The TSA say they need to check my cavity. Whatever it takes for safety, eh?
>>>If you want to see this first hand, dress up in a suit, wear an official-looking nametag (it needs to have a BIG official-looking gold seal on it) covered in laminate
I saw this on a plane recently. As I was getting off I put on my workbadge, since I knew I was going directly to my job. When I said "excuse me" people looked at my badge and said, "Oh certainly sir" or "yes sir" and let me get past them in the aisle. My seat was close to the rear, but by using this technique I ended-up as one of the first persons off the plane.
That wasn't part of my original plan, but just happened to work out.
>>>They are even trying to worm their way into searching you on city buses and trains.
Trying? It's already being done at random bus and train stations. Also malls, post offices, parks, hotels, and along interstate highways. Or even just walking down the street.
The TSA and their VIPR teams can accost you at any time.
>>>What he is doing is a disservice to all the UK citizens who will need real medical care in their lives and may be misdirected to rely on homeopathy, which cannot ever heal or cure them in any way. It's like having government-funded exorcisms or voodoo rituals to cleanse the bad mojo out of a person. Sounds crazy, right?
Yes. Yet another argument for why a single-payer monopoly is a bad idea for hospitals (or anything else for that matter). While U.S. care is not perfect at least if my local hospital CEO started spouting BS about homeopathy, I have dozens of other hospitals to choose from. I'm not forced (via taxation) to fund the hospital that is run by a nutter..... I can take my dollars elsewhere, just as I stopped buying lithium-ion batteries when they were proved unsafe. Pro-choice for the win.
>>>So you prefer deficit caused by overspending and taxing the next generation, compared to a deficit caused by overspending.and taxing the current generation.
Strawman argument. False diochotomy (my only two choices are deficit spending or deficit spending). And just plain lame method of argument. I prefer *zero* deficit spending.
>>>There's nothing wrong with carbon usage penalties, and more generally, there's nothing wrong with taxes, especially on corporations
Yeah I don't care if you tax them to death, but carbon usage penalties hurt the poor (it's an added tax to their bills). It's a "regressive tax" to borrow a phrase I often hear Democrats use to describe gasoline tax & medicare tax.
>>>Your hyperbole is showing. I'm not sure where a 54 mile per gallon equates to a "teeny-tiny" car.
Ever since the EPA started measuring MPG and slapping the number on new cars, there have only been two cars that surpassed 54mpg average economy. One was the two-person Honda Insight and..... well that's it. The second car was the Lupo but it only sold in Europe. If it had been sold here it would have scored ~70mpg on the EPA test.
>>>But tell me why shouldn't you pay more to pollute more?
I don't have a problem with that..... IF it can be shown the global warming will mean the extinction of the human race, and therefore it's worthwhile to impose these limits. So far, that has not been shown. Obama and people like him are demanding we lose our freedoms based upon..... nothing. A belief essentially. Like how the Catholic church forced Galileo to be imprisoned in his home, because they thought it was too dangerous to let him out.
Now instead of the church, we have Democrats/Greens who are trying to imprison us/takeaway our freedom based purely upon a BELIEF that humans are heading towards extinction.... and nothing to back it up.
Would rather have taxdollars funding aerospace & defense (note I said defense, not offensive war) than the Democrat methodology of funding green companies that eventually go bankrupt (Solyndra was merely the first of several dozen), or building trains that run into the middle of the California desert where nobody lives, or extending subways from the edge of Baltimore to the edge of the mountains (these new extensions average a mere 2 persons per trip). Waste, waste, and more waste. Except they do achieve their primary goal: Win votes for reelection.
If I have $500 which can buy a new suit today, but several years into the future $500 can only buy half a suit, then it's caused by the private central bank inflating the money supply (and devaluing my individual dollars). It really is that simple. IF THE MONEY SUPPLY WAS HELD CONSTANT, then inflation would be 0% and the dollar/my savings would not lose value.
But it takes-up more space. I can store $100,000 of gold in a shoebox or two. How much space would $100,000 of ammo take-up? Plus there's the danger the ammo might ignite and cause major damage to your home. Gold does not have that problem.
Storing your wealth as ammo is very impractical.... you simply don't have enough room.
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>>>Eink is not a tablet replacement.
Strawman Argument. Who said it was? (Certainly not me.) I don't want a shitty tablet that has no keyboard. I'd rather have a laptop, but I can't carry that in my pocket can I? I want the kindle with easy-to-read epaper, free web surfing, cheap F&SF magazine, free loans, and only cost me $50.
>>>250MB/month data cap
Only applies when you're outside the U.S. While I'm inside the states I surf on my kindle keyboard 3G as much as I want..... reading facebook, ebay, wikipedia, etc.
>>>Sorry Amazon, nice try, but your walled garden isn't for me.
One could say the same about the BBC and their "walled garden". Why on earth did you think you could use an amazon tablet outside of its home country? I certainly don't expect to be able to hear/watch BBC outside of the UK.
Does Google include 10-20 dollar books that can be borrowed for free? Or Fantasy & Science magazine for a mere $12/year? Or e-ink that is easy on the eyes? Or free 3G web surfing? My kindle has all of that.
Interesting change in wording. That means 56 days of reading 1-hour per day instead of 62 days. Meanwhile Barnes advertises "over 2 months" for their nooks.
Also the 4G version probably won't have free web surfing (like the kindle keyboard has).
>>>not use your patent or let anyone else use it
You mean like how Obama promised to never use the NDAA indefinite detention provision, but it will most certaily be used by Romney if elected? Or how Bush promised the U.S.A. P.a.t.r.i.o.t. A.c.t. would only be used to monitor public communications, but when Obama arrived they started demanding private ISP customer records & download histories? POINT: Today google is honest. In a few years they might have a new management team that is not.
I used to stand all day when I worked retail. It damages your foot arch and your back (the spine). I'd rather sit or even better: lay flat.
Humans evolved as four-footed animals that gradually learned to stand-up, but never really adapted to the stresses it causes internally. Standing causes all kinds of gravity-induced damage over the years.
That's how markets used to work. You paid whatever the store owner feels like charging you, and it varied according to who you were.
Then new retailers like James Penney, Sears & Roebuck, and Montgomery Wards arrived on the scene with fixed prices attached to merchandise. Everyone paid the same regardless of who they were.
Neither method is the "correct" way of doing things but the new way drove the old way out of business during the 1920s. The "same price for everyone" stores came to dominate the U.S.
>>>some of the more unscrupulous and technically-minded people out there will quickly learn how to game the system.
I acquired a then-new Final Fantasy with $40 "new customer" discount and sold it for $54.50 on ebay. Bought a new gamecube for $49, got the Zelda Collection for free, sold it for $60.
I setup five accounts with Pizza Hut in order to get a 5 free medium pizza for newbs. And three accounts to get "20% welcome discount" from an online hobby store. In other words YES you are correct.
>>>This guy has bought every Madden game ever: No discount on Madden 13 for him.
>>>This guy has never bought a Madden game: Give him a $10 discount to incentivize him.
Sounds like a good reason to continue my practice of having four separate browsers (Firefox, Chromium Portable, Opera, and IE). Google has a detailed record of four separate IDs and purchase histories.
And you're right: It's a way to screw your biggest fans. In theory you end-up paying a 10 dollar extra higher price because you happen to like (and buy) a lot of Madden games. Or in my case: Lots of RPGs.
Google Bot #1: "The cpu6502 dude went to amazon. Let's show him book & TV ads and jackup the prices."
Bot #2: "Yeah but he didn't buy anything. He opened a second tab and searched isohunt for free downloads."
#1: "Dangit...... no wait he likes music! Look at all the songs he listens to...."
#2: "Yeah on Free radio and youtube. He never buys anything.... last week he downloaded the Hot 100 of 2011."
#1: "Bummer..... oh look! He just surfed over to cheapassgamer and bought a game..... (sigh). Never mind. It was only $1."
#2: "I told you following this guy was a waste. He rarely buys anything and when he does it's for a mere dollar. Let's go track someone else."
#1: "Yeah fine. Whatev."
Ahhh yes the evil "profit motive". What I have observed is that the profit-making UPS charges less to ship my ebay goods than the nonprofit government. AND I've observed the profit-making parking lots charge less than the government-owned airport lots. Same distance but the govt lot is twice as much.
Profit-seeking ventures are sometimes evil, but in general they have a motive to keep the price as low as possible (for fear of losing business to competition). The government's motive is the opposite (raise the price and payoff debts). The markets also give the freedom-of-choice...... a single payer monopoly does not. It gives the choice of government or government.
>>>Makes me wonder how many imaging product ads feature faux footage... and on top of that... why you would bother doing it?
You must be new... to everything. They fake photos of models (airbrushing). They fake photos on covers of food boxes by adding food coloring (to make it look better than it is). Video is no different. Of course it's faked; virtually all advertising is faked.
BTW I've added Nokia to my ever-growing list of boycotted companies:
Nokia
Toyota
Apple
Google
Microsoft
https is the answer but it should be a voluntary thing.
According to the politicians & judges we have "no expectation of privacy in a public arena". It's why they camcord us in the streets, and why we can camcord them as they are writing tickets or beating people with clubs. So isn't the world wide web also a public venue? The politicians appear to be saying "yes".
>>>a pair of balls. Not very common on an adult named 'Jimmy'.
Jimmy Swaggert (stood-up against segregation)
Jimmy Carter (stood-up against Arab terrorists)
Jimmy Stewart (World War 2 fighter pilot)
Jimmy Buffett (okay this is a bit of a stretch)
"Get your stinkin' paws outta my Coke! You damn dirty ape!" (Say that to a black TSA agent, and you'll probably make the national news when they charge you with "hate speech".) Oh what a fun non-free country we are.
BTW who's testing the hundreds-of-pounds of food and drink being loaded by outside convenience companies into the airplane? What a perfect way for a terrorist to land a job, get cleared, and then sneak several pounds of liquid explosive onboard.
Excuse me while I bend over.
The TSA say they need to check my cavity.
Whatever it takes for safety, eh?
>>>If you want to see this first hand, dress up in a suit, wear an official-looking nametag (it needs to have a BIG official-looking gold seal on it) covered in laminate
I saw this on a plane recently. As I was getting off I put on my workbadge, since I knew I was going directly to my job. When I said "excuse me" people looked at my badge and said, "Oh certainly sir" or "yes sir" and let me get past them in the aisle. My seat was close to the rear, but by using this technique I ended-up as one of the first persons off the plane.
That wasn't part of my original plan, but just happened to work out.
>>>They are even trying to worm their way into searching you on city buses and trains.
Trying? It's already being done at random bus and train stations. Also malls, post offices, parks, hotels, and along interstate highways. Or even just walking down the street.
The TSA and their VIPR teams can accost you at any time.
>>>What he is doing is a disservice to all the UK citizens who will need real medical care in their lives and may be misdirected to rely on homeopathy, which cannot ever heal or cure them in any way. It's like having government-funded exorcisms or voodoo rituals to cleanse the bad mojo out of a person. Sounds crazy, right?
Yes.
Yet another argument for why a single-payer monopoly is a bad idea for hospitals (or anything else for that matter). While U.S. care is not perfect at least if my local hospital CEO started spouting BS about homeopathy, I have dozens of other hospitals to choose from. I'm not forced (via taxation) to fund the hospital that is run by a nutter..... I can take my dollars elsewhere, just as I stopped buying lithium-ion batteries when they were proved unsafe. Pro-choice for the win.
>>>So you prefer deficit caused by overspending and taxing the next generation, compared to a deficit caused by overspending.and taxing the current generation.
Strawman argument.
False diochotomy (my only two choices are deficit spending or deficit spending). And just plain lame method of argument. I prefer *zero* deficit spending.
>>>There's nothing wrong with carbon usage penalties, and more generally, there's nothing wrong with taxes, especially on corporations
Yeah I don't care if you tax them to death, but carbon usage penalties hurt the poor (it's an added tax to their bills). It's a "regressive tax" to borrow a phrase I often hear Democrats use to describe gasoline tax & medicare tax.
>>>Your hyperbole is showing. I'm not sure where a 54 mile per gallon equates to a "teeny-tiny" car.
Ever since the EPA started measuring MPG and slapping the number on new cars, there have only been two cars that surpassed 54mpg average economy. One was the two-person Honda Insight and..... well that's it. The second car was the Lupo but it only sold in Europe. If it had been sold here it would have scored ~70mpg on the EPA test.
>>>But tell me why shouldn't you pay more to pollute more?
I don't have a problem with that..... IF it can be shown the global warming will mean the extinction of the human race, and therefore it's worthwhile to impose these limits. So far, that has not been shown. Obama and people like him are demanding we lose our freedoms based upon..... nothing. A belief essentially. Like how the Catholic church forced Galileo to be imprisoned in his home, because they thought it was too dangerous to let him out.
Now instead of the church, we have Democrats/Greens who are trying to imprison us/takeaway our freedom based purely upon a BELIEF that humans are heading towards extinction.... and nothing to back it up.
Would rather have taxdollars funding aerospace & defense (note I said defense, not offensive war) than the Democrat methodology of funding green companies that eventually go bankrupt (Solyndra was merely the first of several dozen), or building trains that run into the middle of the California desert where nobody lives, or extending subways from the edge of Baltimore to the edge of the mountains (these new extensions average a mere 2 persons per trip). Waste, waste, and more waste. Except they do achieve their primary goal: Win votes for reelection.
If I have $500 which can buy a new suit today, but several years into the future $500 can only buy half a suit, then it's caused by the private central bank inflating the money supply (and devaluing my individual dollars). It really is that simple. IF THE MONEY SUPPLY WAS HELD CONSTANT, then inflation would be 0% and the dollar/my savings would not lose value.
>>>Ammo is cheaper than gold,
But it takes-up more space. I can store $100,000 of gold in a shoebox or two. How much space would $100,000 of ammo take-up? Plus there's the danger the ammo might ignite and cause major damage to your home. Gold does not have that problem.
Storing your wealth as ammo is very impractical.... you simply don't have enough room.
>>> Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing, job done, and more money to spend on frivolous stuff
I suspect a few pieces of toilet paper is cheaper than the water.