Survival rates for cancer go up each year. The treatments become more refined (making them easier to go through) and better targeted (meaning they work better).
You are joking, but a serious look at the success of cancer treatments now and then can only lead to the conclusion that things are getting better at a pretty good clip.
Seriously? You are worried about a couple of grams of stickers that come on a few hundred or thousand grams of fruit? You could probably eat bananas for a year and still fit the stickers inside your nose.
The old guy probably sold water softeners..."Well, I could give you the $1,200 and you could drill a new $10,000 well over there, or we could install this $2,000 system that you are going to need anyway".
Alternatively, that particular aquifer was not very mineral.
3000 is probably the wrong number to use in that argument, you can get 1000 cds stamped (and printed and shipped) for $750, your sales better be awful incremental if burning blanks a few at a time makes more sense than risking the $750 for nice looking stamped discs. $1100 gets you retail ready packages.
Well, if other artists are willing to sell their music at such low low prices, it may start making sense for you to do so (as you may well get more money if you sell some music at low prices than if you sell no music at all).
If you could collect $0.01 a day from 30,000 people, you aren't doing too badly there, even after paying income taxes.
Part of it is that we look around and see silly things like roads, so apparently some of the money is being spent on the things they say it is being spent on.
From where I am sitting, if you can drill down a few hundred feet, you will hit water anywhere within something like 5 miles (Probably further, but I'm not willing to say so, as I am not sure). *Anywhere*.
No Wimax, and I find the price points on the other stuff ridiculous (compared to the transfer limits on cellular, and the overall performance of satellite).
So perhaps 'is my option' is an overstatement, but I don't (yet) consider cellular a reasonable option, and I'm not sure satellite will ever be a reasonable option.
No Comedy Central, no TBS, no TNT, no Spike, no MTV and friends (I don't watch em a lot, but they are part of a basic package to me), no ESPN, no Discovery, etc.
CW, ION and MyNetTV are not major networks (CW sort of comes close, but they really don't have that many affiliates, they are usually carried as secondary programming on a different network station).
Yeah, well, dial up is my option, and the 6 broadcast channels here don't quite cut it (that's from four broadcast antennas, there are actually 8 channels, but there are 2 that are doubled).
Dish Network and DirectTV don't really seem to bother competing (and their per-new-customer infrastructure costs are quite a bit more incremental than anyone actually building new plant; forcing the cable owner to lease out the cable to anyone would change things).
It probably isn't completely unreasonable as an argument. For the sake of argument, assume that 25 iq points are rarely overcome by friendship, then someone with an iq of 100 might be friends with people with iqs between 75 and 125, which is about 90% of the population, whereas someone with an iq of 125 might be friends with people between 100 and 150, which is about 50% of the population. At 135, it is 25% of the population. So even if 100 and 135 are fairly equal in their intelligence based discrimination, 135 is going to have a harder time of it.
I wouldn't necessarily put that argument above your argument of self-fulfilling arrogance, I'm just not sure it boils down to thinking of others in terms of a number.
You see the same effect with people who don't drink much actually consuming alcohol; they have 3 drinks over a relatively long period of time and think they are sauced (whereas they are most likely nearly sober).
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Survival rates for cancer go up each year. The treatments become more refined (making them easier to go through) and better targeted (meaning they work better).
You are joking, but a serious look at the success of cancer treatments now and then can only lead to the conclusion that things are getting better at a pretty good clip.
Seriously? You are worried about a couple of grams of stickers that come on a few hundred or thousand grams of fruit? You could probably eat bananas for a year and still fit the stickers inside your nose.
Read the parent comment again (and your own apparently), it is a screed against taxes of any form, not against the Canadian cd tax.
The old guy probably sold water softeners..."Well, I could give you the $1,200 and you could drill a new $10,000 well over there, or we could install this $2,000 system that you are going to need anyway".
Alternatively, that particular aquifer was not very mineral.
3000 is probably the wrong number to use in that argument, you can get 1000 cds stamped (and printed and shipped) for $750, your sales better be awful incremental if burning blanks a few at a time makes more sense than risking the $750 for nice looking stamped discs. $1100 gets you retail ready packages.
Well, if other artists are willing to sell their music at such low low prices, it may start making sense for you to do so (as you may well get more money if you sell some music at low prices than if you sell no music at all).
If you could collect $0.01 a day from 30,000 people, you aren't doing too badly there, even after paying income taxes.
Part of it is that we look around and see silly things like roads, so apparently some of the money is being spent on the things they say it is being spent on.
From where I am sitting, if you can drill down a few hundred feet, you will hit water anywhere within something like 5 miles (Probably further, but I'm not willing to say so, as I am not sure). *Anywhere*.
Well, it is possible for us to disagree. I would be a little surprised if most people found the $20 package satisfactory.
No Wimax, and I find the price points on the other stuff ridiculous (compared to the transfer limits on cellular, and the overall performance of satellite).
So perhaps 'is my option' is an overstatement, but I don't (yet) consider cellular a reasonable option, and I'm not sure satellite will ever be a reasonable option.
Well, that sucks for people that trusted Paypal to begin with.
No Comedy Central, no TBS, no TNT, no Spike, no MTV and friends (I don't watch em a lot, but they are part of a basic package to me), no ESPN, no Discovery, etc.
CW, ION and MyNetTV are not major networks (CW sort of comes close, but they really don't have that many affiliates, they are usually carried as secondary programming on a different network station).
Yeah, well, dial up is my option, and the 6 broadcast channels here don't quite cut it (that's from four broadcast antennas, there are actually 8 channels, but there are 2 that are doubled).
For their hilarious 'Family' package:
http://www.dishnetwork.com/packages/detail.aspx?pack=DISHFamily
$25 used to be the price for the real basic package (it is now the tease rate):
http://www.dishnetwork.com/packages/detail.aspx?pack=AT100
And yet the price for the most basic packages goes up each year.
Dish Network and DirectTV don't really seem to bother competing (and their per-new-customer infrastructure costs are quite a bit more incremental than anyone actually building new plant; forcing the cable owner to lease out the cable to anyone would change things).
The alternative is that, having solved all the severe problems, they are moving on to the milder ones.
All your spike would do is give him a convenient place to put the sandwich after he finished making it.
I like to express it as 'It takes imagination to fail spectacularly.'
It probably isn't completely unreasonable as an argument. For the sake of argument, assume that 25 iq points are rarely overcome by friendship, then someone with an iq of 100 might be friends with people with iqs between 75 and 125, which is about 90% of the population, whereas someone with an iq of 125 might be friends with people between 100 and 150, which is about 50% of the population. At 135, it is 25% of the population. So even if 100 and 135 are fairly equal in their intelligence based discrimination, 135 is going to have a harder time of it.
I wouldn't necessarily put that argument above your argument of self-fulfilling arrogance, I'm just not sure it boils down to thinking of others in terms of a number.
Do your worst.
You are mistaken, he is riding a low horse.
Except those of us that have achieved perfect sense.
I don't know, I think a fool reading most of the Discworld books would walk away with more sense than he started with.
You see the same effect with people who don't drink much actually consuming alcohol; they have 3 drinks over a relatively long period of time and think they are sauced (whereas they are most likely nearly sober).