You're right, the selection isn't great but it's okay for wanting to watch something right now. The last thing I want to do is drive to a brick and mortar store. Netflix also doesn't have it for streaming so that's a no go.
It's not just stupid DRM, but stupid content controls in general. An example. I wanted to watch Inglorious Bastards so I checked the Xbox marketplace. I see it's available, but wait it's only available to buy - in standard definition no less. Why I can't I rent it? There are tons of other movies to rent. It can be rented at the video store or on netflix, but I can't rent it from the Xbox marketplace. I am trying to pay to rent a movie, and the content providers instead of making it easy for me to do so push me to find it on the internet instead.
For one, I have never heard of a teacher getting paid $80,000. Most teachers that I know make half that, if that much. The ones that make more are in the 50,000 dollar range.
Depends on the state. In the south it can be as low as 30k, in the NE as high as 80k.
Also, government jobs generally pay much less than their private sector counterparts.
Not totally true, but the big difference is that government jobs rarely if ever go away. In this tough economy where companies are having to cut salaries and/or lay people off, government just keeps on hiring and paying people to do lots of nothing. And before you say that's not true, I've worked for the government before and have seen all the waste first hand. Bothered me enough that I quit and went back to private enterprise.
I do not understand why you feel that Amazon sales should not be taxed.
It's not Amazon getting taxed, it's you and me. IMHO, I'm getting taxed more than enough. The government wastes enormous amounts of money. The first step to paying off the debt is to cut the cost of government.
Ugh, businesses don't pay sales tax. They simply administer it (that adds overall item cost) and collect it from the buyer. The buyer just happens to be normal people who are probably pinching every penny they can in the current economic climate. Forcing Amazon to collect sales taxes is an administration cost for them and a tax increase for us.
Guess what else the two newspaper articles failed to make completely clear...that the 'someone' is you and me. This isn't about Amazon paying more corporate tax, but Amazon collecting sales taxes from sales to everyday people. The internet has given the average person a small but noticeable tax cut. We obviously can't have the populace spending their money how they would want to, so we have to stop this right now.
I was in an Apple store over Christmas and watched 3 different people come in and complain about reception on their iPhones. All 3 were given new phones without any hassel from the Apple store employees. You should at least try that and possibly get a new phone.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but #3 and #4 are figments of your imagination.
False. True story. A friend and I go into a strip club. We're hanging out and call over a pretty hot girl. My buddy and her lock eyes and she runs off. I'm like WTF? Turns out she was his lab partner in his upper level chem class. In class she told him itwas too weird to have to dance for us because she knew him outside the club.
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I would be interested to see hard data on how far cars typically make it before dying for good. Not just individual cases.
It would still be hard to make valid comparisons without full service records. Checking basic fluid levels and changing the oil can make a car last a long time or if neglected shorten its life.
I think that is a great solution. You still get unlimited data at a fixed price, but after X GB you get throttled down. If done a user would only notice a down throttle if they are downloading something. Things like streaming music, etc... don't need huge amounts of bandwidth to being with. They just add up over time.
Since when is anyone at ATT smart enough to think of what you described?
I got a nasty gram from them the other day. It said my bill was late and if I didn't pay the bill immediately my service would be shut off. Then there would be fees, etc... Guess how much it finally said I owed? $0...yep ZERO dollars. If they are paying postage and paper costs to send out letters like the one I received I can't imagine what other idiotic things they are doing.
The problem is that ATT doesn't really want metered access either. Based on the statistics they are putting out, a huge majority of the iPhone users end up using very little of their data connection. If ATT moved to a metered access they would lose money because people would end up not using enough to add up to $30/month unless ATT priced the data at some astronomical rates. If they did that, they would simply be shooting themselves in the foot because people would quit using data (that's one way to fix the network problems lol).
So, the solution is to keep everyone on 'unlimited' at $30/month and issue press releases blaming these 'heavy users' for the network problems without actually doing anything to fix the issue. It's not really ATTs fault, it's these mysterious heavy users fault. Don't blame us, blame them while we keep laughing all the way to the bank and you (att users) keep dropping calls and getting crappy service. Brilliant plan actually.
Even if he is guilty, the article makes it look like the cops have overstepped their bounds. I think the police need very tight controls on what they can and cannot do and fully subscribe to Blackstone's formulation.
This correct. Anytime you talk to the police they are simply gathering evidence on you. I don't care if they say you're a witness or if they just need to talk, they are trying to make you incriminate yourself in some way. A good friend of mine is a defense lawyer and his advice is never speak to the police without a lawyer present. If one ask to talk to you simply ask if you're being arrested or given a citation of some sort. If no, you can leave. If yes, ask for your lawyer and say nothing else.
The toll roads near my house are by the far the best roads around. They have many more service vehicles that go up and down the road to help stranded motorists and are always the first ones cleared after it snows.
I would wager that less money is given to the toll roads in tolls than the tax payer line item that ends up going to the public road.
News will ALWAYS be biased. Take two people who watch the same event and have them describe it to you. Each may completely believe their version of the facts, but both versions will be different based on the person beliefs and experiences. To remove bias from all reporting is a naive and impossible goal. What should be advocated is that people do their own research. Make information transparent so that I can go watch the same even and form my own opinion. That is what we need, not more government intervention in something that can't be fixed.
So when a construction worker builds a toll road he should continue to get paid from that roads profits from now into the indefinite future? There is nothing wrong with getting paid to do a job and when you're finished the payment ends. Keep in mind that whoever paid you fronted the risk involved if the software they had you write was a complete failure in the marketplace. Would give all your salary back if it failed to sell?
I wish I could find a link for it, but the problem with what you're saying is that if the Arabs start selling oil in Euros they are essentially saying that the new world reserve currency would be the Euro. The issue with that is that you need A LOT of Euros floating around to be the world reserve currency. From what I've read only the dollar has enough floating around in the world to be that currency at the moment. When buying and selling large amounts of anything you want to be dealing with the most liquid currency around and that will remain the dollar for the foreseeable future.
Well so is Dasani and so what. There is money in providing a convenience to people. You see this all over the grocery store. Buy skinless, boneless chicken breast and you pay for the convenience for not having to do the work yourself of buying a whole chicken and skinning and boning it.
It's also misleading to simply say it's filtered tap water. I saw a show on Dasani and it's filtered so well and becomes so pure it doesn't taste good to most people. So, if you look on the bottle you'll see that they ADD back in minerals and such to make it taste good again.
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Well I can't function until my first red bull and vodka, what does that say?
So is the movie I wanted to see (Inglorious Bastards) available anywhere for streaming rent? I know it's not on Netflix. PSN?
You're right, the selection isn't great but it's okay for wanting to watch something right now. The last thing I want to do is drive to a brick and mortar store. Netflix also doesn't have it for streaming so that's a no go.
It's not just stupid DRM, but stupid content controls in general. An example. I wanted to watch Inglorious Bastards so I checked the Xbox marketplace. I see it's available, but wait it's only available to buy - in standard definition no less. Why I can't I rent it? There are tons of other movies to rent. It can be rented at the video store or on netflix, but I can't rent it from the Xbox marketplace. I am trying to pay to rent a movie, and the content providers instead of making it easy for me to do so push me to find it on the internet instead.
Does what you do in *any* game really matter? All games are time sinks, they are a way to waste/enjoy free time.
Depends on the state. In the south it can be as low as 30k, in the NE as high as 80k.
Not totally true, but the big difference is that government jobs rarely if ever go away. In this tough economy where companies are having to cut salaries and/or lay people off, government just keeps on hiring and paying people to do lots of nothing. And before you say that's not true, I've worked for the government before and have seen all the waste first hand. Bothered me enough that I quit and went back to private enterprise.
It's not Amazon getting taxed, it's you and me. IMHO, I'm getting taxed more than enough. The government wastes enormous amounts of money. The first step to paying off the debt is to cut the cost of government.
Ugh, businesses don't pay sales tax. They simply administer it (that adds overall item cost) and collect it from the buyer. The buyer just happens to be normal people who are probably pinching every penny they can in the current economic climate. Forcing Amazon to collect sales taxes is an administration cost for them and a tax increase for us.
Guess what else the two newspaper articles failed to make completely clear...that the 'someone' is you and me. This isn't about Amazon paying more corporate tax, but Amazon collecting sales taxes from sales to everyday people. The internet has given the average person a small but noticeable tax cut. We obviously can't have the populace spending their money how they would want to, so we have to stop this right now.
I was in an Apple store over Christmas and watched 3 different people come in and complain about reception on their iPhones. All 3 were given new phones without any hassel from the Apple store employees. You should at least try that and possibly get a new phone.
Hate to break it to you, dude, but #3 and #4 are figments of your imagination.
False. True story. A friend and I go into a strip club. We're hanging out and call over a pretty hot girl. My buddy and her lock eyes and she runs off. I'm like WTF? Turns out she was his lab partner in his upper level chem class. In class she told him itwas too weird to have to dance for us because she knew him outside the club.
I would be interested to see hard data on how far cars typically make it before dying for good. Not just individual cases.
It would still be hard to make valid comparisons without full service records. Checking basic fluid levels and changing the oil can make a car last a long time or if neglected shorten its life.
I mostly agree, but to be fair you're also getting a higher bitrate track in the upgrade.
I think that is a great solution. You still get unlimited data at a fixed price, but after X GB you get throttled down. If done a user would only notice a down throttle if they are downloading something. Things like streaming music, etc... don't need huge amounts of bandwidth to being with. They just add up over time.
Since when is anyone at ATT smart enough to think of what you described?
I got a nasty gram from them the other day. It said my bill was late and if I didn't pay the bill immediately my service would be shut off. Then there would be fees, etc... Guess how much it finally said I owed? $0...yep ZERO dollars. If they are paying postage and paper costs to send out letters like the one I received I can't imagine what other idiotic things they are doing.
The problem is that ATT doesn't really want metered access either. Based on the statistics they are putting out, a huge majority of the iPhone users end up using very little of their data connection. If ATT moved to a metered access they would lose money because people would end up not using enough to add up to $30/month unless ATT priced the data at some astronomical rates. If they did that, they would simply be shooting themselves in the foot because people would quit using data (that's one way to fix the network problems lol).
So, the solution is to keep everyone on 'unlimited' at $30/month and issue press releases blaming these 'heavy users' for the network problems without actually doing anything to fix the issue. It's not really ATTs fault, it's these mysterious heavy users fault. Don't blame us, blame them while we keep laughing all the way to the bank and you (att users) keep dropping calls and getting crappy service. Brilliant plan actually.
Even if he is guilty, the article makes it look like the cops have overstepped their bounds. I think the police need very tight controls on what they can and cannot do and fully subscribe to Blackstone's formulation.
This correct. Anytime you talk to the police they are simply gathering evidence on you. I don't care if they say you're a witness or if they just need to talk, they are trying to make you incriminate yourself in some way. A good friend of mine is a defense lawyer and his advice is never speak to the police without a lawyer present. If one ask to talk to you simply ask if you're being arrested or given a citation of some sort. If no, you can leave. If yes, ask for your lawyer and say nothing else.
The toll roads near my house are by the far the best roads around. They have many more service vehicles that go up and down the road to help stranded motorists and are always the first ones cleared after it snows.
I would wager that less money is given to the toll roads in tolls than the tax payer line item that ends up going to the public road.
News will ALWAYS be biased. Take two people who watch the same event and have them describe it to you. Each may completely believe their version of the facts, but both versions will be different based on the person beliefs and experiences. To remove bias from all reporting is a naive and impossible goal. What should be advocated is that people do their own research. Make information transparent so that I can go watch the same even and form my own opinion. That is what we need, not more government intervention in something that can't be fixed.
Depends, since many times that's exactly when you need a lawyer lol
So when a construction worker builds a toll road he should continue to get paid from that roads profits from now into the indefinite future? There is nothing wrong with getting paid to do a job and when you're finished the payment ends. Keep in mind that whoever paid you fronted the risk involved if the software they had you write was a complete failure in the marketplace. Would give all your salary back if it failed to sell?
Really? As a user they sure have made it a PITA for me to use google voice.
I wish I could find a link for it, but the problem with what you're saying is that if the Arabs start selling oil in Euros they are essentially saying that the new world reserve currency would be the Euro. The issue with that is that you need A LOT of Euros floating around to be the world reserve currency. From what I've read only the dollar has enough floating around in the world to be that currency at the moment. When buying and selling large amounts of anything you want to be dealing with the most liquid currency around and that will remain the dollar for the foreseeable future.
Well so is Dasani and so what. There is money in providing a convenience to people. You see this all over the grocery store. Buy skinless, boneless chicken breast and you pay for the convenience for not having to do the work yourself of buying a whole chicken and skinning and boning it.
It's also misleading to simply say it's filtered tap water. I saw a show on Dasani and it's filtered so well and becomes so pure it doesn't taste good to most people. So, if you look on the bottle you'll see that they ADD back in minerals and such to make it taste good again.
With the new free google service you are correct, but the pay for apps on the iPhone have all the maps loaded on the phone itself.