If that fails, I can't help but wonder if you can just hit them with a small claims lawsuit and they'd instantly roll over and cut you a check. Even if they won, it's likely to cost them more just to send somebody out to defend it in court than it would cost to just issue you a refund, especially if you live in a state where they don't offer fixed line service.
I think the point is that when television networks say they want to create shows for diverse audiences, they make shows that are almost exclusively one particular minority group, and they dedicate an entire time block to it rather than just one or two shows. UPN, WB, and Fox all did exactly this, and in most cases it was just black programming. I suspect the reason for this is that Latinos already have multiple channels filmed entirely in Spanish (telemundo, univision, etc) so there was little point in targeting them, and Asians are such a small group that they didn't think it would make enough.
A free market doesn't mean there can't be any regulation. If there was no regulation, then it would just be anarchy and people could just steal your shit instead of actually paying you for it. Again, a free market just refers to how prices are set, and so long as they're determined strictly by the forces of supply and demand, then it's a free market.
Apple is known to block apps that might in any way compete with its business model. For example, Apple blocked a developer from publishing an app that allowed wireless iTunes sync before later adding it as a feature exclusive to newer iPhones. Apple also blocks any apps that might compete with their NFC payments, they block voice assistants from having any meaningful functionality, and they block web browsers from having their own rendering engine.
At any rate, if you don't want to use third party app stores on Android, you don't have to. I have an Android watch made by Sony, and I don't use anything other than Google Play, so I'm not sure what crack you're smoking.
I think the more salient point is whether or not terror attacks represent any significant risk at all. Now I'll admit when someone Jihadi drives a truck into a crowd of people, that certainly creates some casualties, and by consequence creates a significant amount of fear. But what are the real odds of any resident of a Western country dying in a terrorist attack. In reality, the odds are infinitesimal. Now dying from a heart attack or stroke, or hell, even choking or highway fatalities, those represent massive killers, with huge numbers of casualties with huge costs for society. And yet, here we are, with our stupid Savannah ape brains, unable to discern a meaningful and present threat to our person from a threat that's unlikely to harm you or anyone you know even to the second or third degree ever.
I honestly think it takes a Savannah ape brain to be concerned with death by natural causes when you already know that if nothing else kills you, then that will 100% of the time.
We've seen a lot of content like that being produced lately. We've seen long-established characters changed to a different race or gender or sexual preference or some other trait just to make the content more "inclusive", even if it makes no sense within story lines or established canon. Or we've seen new characters created with a trait like their gender, race, or sexual preference as their main defining characteristic, solely so focus can be put on it, and the rest of the character pretty much ignored.
They did that with Star Wars in a pretty bad way. They took away the canon of the Storm Troopers all being clones of one another just so they could make the leader be a female and the protagonist be black, and then they made a female Jedi. I could understand the later because I don't recall there being anything about Jedi only being male (they can even be midget green aliens with pointy ears) but the Storm Troopers just makes no fucking sense, especially if the first order is trying to be ruthlessly efficient (why have regular people be Storm Troopers when they can just pick a solid performer and clone him multiple times?)
Though admittedly I'm not a big Star Wars fan to begin with, so my understanding of the lore could be off.
The alternative to free markets are things like command economies, socialism, and price floors/ceilings. And non-free markets very rarely don't fail. For an example of why, see the price ceilings on gas prices during the 70s. Nobody wanted to sell at the prices that the government set, so there was very little supply, which meant long lines at the pump.
Venezuela is having a similar problem on a massive scale. It's hard as hell to import nice things there because the government has official prices that nobody wants to sell them at.
You're quite wrong. Free market just means that prices are governed by the forces of supply and demand, as opposed to being set by an actual government entity (for example, gas price ceilings during the 70s were not free market.) That's all there is to it really.
Other matters, such as making sure that you get what you were promised, don't directly play into that. Other government regulations can set rules against say, counterfeiting, mislabeling, torts, etc, without forcibly altering the selling price of an item. They may indirectly play a role in selling price, for example if you trust one brand over another, you're more likely to pay more for that brand. But again, unless some third party is telling you how much you must pay for it, then it's a free market.
Personally I don't see the big deal here. I haven't yet met a single person that thinks the greyed out price on Amazon is anywhere near accurate. Mind you I'm not exactly an Amazon fan, but I've never met anybody that takes MSRP seriously unless it's for a very high demand, low supply item.
That's one requirement, but it's missing the resume requirement.
Don't interpret my post as supporting this, mind you, as I think it's a pretty clear violation of the 1st amendment, and I'm pretty sure that IMDB is rightfully going to test that theory by being disobedient.
There are the ones that really take it far, like this guy who accused everybody of being racist (if a reporter said they were going out to the field, he implied that it was a reference to slaves in cotton fields) and it ended with him shooting up another reporter who was supposedly victimizing him:
It doesn't even begin to resemble a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is any investment instrument that pays dividends to its investors based entirely off of the funds given by later investors rather than its own intrinsic value. Bitcoin doesn't do this at all.
Bitcoin is, by all definitions, a fiat currency. That is, it's only worth whatever people think it's worth, and trades accordingly. Practically all of the world's currencies today do exactly this, as opposed to commodity backed currencies of the past (the US dollar used to be backed by gold and silver for example; the older notes had the message "PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND", meaning that the dollar bill was redeemable at banks for its face value in silver or gold, effectively making it a voucher.)
Bitcoin only differs from other fiat currencies in that it relies on scarcity for its value, rather than being managed by some governing authority's central bank.
What would be a neat hard hack IMO is to buy a NES classic, gut its motherboard, and put a Pi 3B in it instead with multiple console emulators and enough SD card space for all of the complete GoodSet rom collections (i.e. GoodNES, GoodSNES, GoodGen, GoodN64, etc) available on torrent sites (64GB would be plenty.) That basically makes the NES classic a $60 shell for the rpi, which isn't a bad deal considering that really ugly looking ones made of 3d printer filament will cost you roughly $30 in materials, assuming you have an actual 3d printer.
I think what you're getting at is "design by committee" vs having one good designer.
The later is much easier when you don't have somebody above you interfering with your vision. If you're a CEO, then that's pretty much what you get.
Bill Gates was able to do really well because of this. However, Steve Ballmer was a salesperson first, and engineer second, and his own interference ended up killing a few interesting product lines that Microsoft was working on before Apple came out with the iPad:
It's not that the stores are shit, it's that nobody really cares for department stores like they used to.
And in the grand scheme of things, those kind of stores were basically a fad. Before the mid 60's, people mostly bought stuff from mail order catalogues, only opting for department stores after freight became a thing and it became cheaper to ship mass quantities of goods to more areas than just big cities, and people naturally prefer to see and try things before buying them. However now that shipping to individual households has gotten faster and cheaper, combined with the internet providing the ability to make it easier for the customer to judge the quality and appearance of something before ordering it (i.e. better pictures, online reviews,) we're basically going back to that mail order era, only improved.
In fact Sears itself started as strictly a mail order company.
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If that fails, I can't help but wonder if you can just hit them with a small claims lawsuit and they'd instantly roll over and cut you a check. Even if they won, it's likely to cost them more just to send somebody out to defend it in court than it would cost to just issue you a refund, especially if you live in a state where they don't offer fixed line service.
I think the point is that when television networks say they want to create shows for diverse audiences, they make shows that are almost exclusively one particular minority group, and they dedicate an entire time block to it rather than just one or two shows. UPN, WB, and Fox all did exactly this, and in most cases it was just black programming. I suspect the reason for this is that Latinos already have multiple channels filmed entirely in Spanish (telemundo, univision, etc) so there was little point in targeting them, and Asians are such a small group that they didn't think it would make enough.
You might want to stick with classically racist content producers, like Amazon & Netflix.
Huh... So that's why Amazon decided to turn Man in the High Castle into a TV show... It all makes sense now.
Maybe you can get the space cops to send him to space jail.
A free market doesn't mean there can't be any regulation. If there was no regulation, then it would just be anarchy and people could just steal your shit instead of actually paying you for it. Again, a free market just refers to how prices are set, and so long as they're determined strictly by the forces of supply and demand, then it's a free market.
You just made somebody high up at Microsoft very sad.
Apple is known to block apps that might in any way compete with its business model. For example, Apple blocked a developer from publishing an app that allowed wireless iTunes sync before later adding it as a feature exclusive to newer iPhones. Apple also blocks any apps that might compete with their NFC payments, they block voice assistants from having any meaningful functionality, and they block web browsers from having their own rendering engine.
At any rate, if you don't want to use third party app stores on Android, you don't have to. I have an Android watch made by Sony, and I don't use anything other than Google Play, so I'm not sure what crack you're smoking.
I think the more salient point is whether or not terror attacks represent any significant risk at all. Now I'll admit when someone Jihadi drives a truck into a crowd of people, that certainly creates some casualties, and by consequence creates a significant amount of fear. But what are the real odds of any resident of a Western country dying in a terrorist attack. In reality, the odds are infinitesimal. Now dying from a heart attack or stroke, or hell, even choking or highway fatalities, those represent massive killers, with huge numbers of casualties with huge costs for society. And yet, here we are, with our stupid Savannah ape brains, unable to discern a meaningful and present threat to our person from a threat that's unlikely to harm you or anyone you know even to the second or third degree ever.
I honestly think it takes a Savannah ape brain to be concerned with death by natural causes when you already know that if nothing else kills you, then that will 100% of the time.
I heard that working for Amazon is death, but I didn't think it would be death by snu-snu.
Hmm....Where do I sign up?
We've seen a lot of content like that being produced lately. We've seen long-established characters changed to a different race or gender or sexual preference or some other trait just to make the content more "inclusive", even if it makes no sense within story lines or established canon. Or we've seen new characters created with a trait like their gender, race, or sexual preference as their main defining characteristic, solely so focus can be put on it, and the rest of the character pretty much ignored.
They did that with Star Wars in a pretty bad way. They took away the canon of the Storm Troopers all being clones of one another just so they could make the leader be a female and the protagonist be black, and then they made a female Jedi. I could understand the later because I don't recall there being anything about Jedi only being male (they can even be midget green aliens with pointy ears) but the Storm Troopers just makes no fucking sense, especially if the first order is trying to be ruthlessly efficient (why have regular people be Storm Troopers when they can just pick a solid performer and clone him multiple times?)
Though admittedly I'm not a big Star Wars fan to begin with, so my understanding of the lore could be off.
The alternative to free markets are things like command economies, socialism, and price floors/ceilings. And non-free markets very rarely don't fail. For an example of why, see the price ceilings on gas prices during the 70s. Nobody wanted to sell at the prices that the government set, so there was very little supply, which meant long lines at the pump.
Venezuela is having a similar problem on a massive scale. It's hard as hell to import nice things there because the government has official prices that nobody wants to sell them at.
You're quite wrong. Free market just means that prices are governed by the forces of supply and demand, as opposed to being set by an actual government entity (for example, gas price ceilings during the 70s were not free market.) That's all there is to it really.
Other matters, such as making sure that you get what you were promised, don't directly play into that. Other government regulations can set rules against say, counterfeiting, mislabeling, torts, etc, without forcibly altering the selling price of an item. They may indirectly play a role in selling price, for example if you trust one brand over another, you're more likely to pay more for that brand. But again, unless some third party is telling you how much you must pay for it, then it's a free market.
Personally I don't see the big deal here. I haven't yet met a single person that thinks the greyed out price on Amazon is anywhere near accurate. Mind you I'm not exactly an Amazon fan, but I've never met anybody that takes MSRP seriously unless it's for a very high demand, low supply item.
I suspect that they have some kind of AI that looks for nudes, and then a person looks it over to judge if it's likely underage or not.
So they probably don't look over every email, but somebody over at Microsoft may have a private pornography stash.
That's one requirement, but it's missing the resume requirement.
Don't interpret my post as supporting this, mind you, as I think it's a pretty clear violation of the 1st amendment, and I'm pretty sure that IMDB is rightfully going to test that theory by being disobedient.
Aside from everyday ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are the ones that really take it far, like this guy who accused everybody of being racist (if a reporter said they were going out to the field, he implied that it was a reference to slaves in cotton fields) and it ended with him shooting up another reporter who was supposedly victimizing him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you look on youtube, there are lots of these.
Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How can you claim that this is anything other than a professional victim?
So what if the bullet doesn't kill or hit? The enemy can just take our plans and run away!
Oh I'm sure an IRL comicbook villain will show up with a version that not only kills, but the botanical gardens grow from the victims body.
So they should all resemble the movie "Clifford"?
Wikipedia wouldn't be in violation if TFS is correct. Namely, Wikipedia doesn't have a paid subscription and doesn't allow users to post their resume.
Given that there are a lot of professional victims out there, it gets hard to take any of these claims seriously. See Brianna Wu for example.
It doesn't even begin to resemble a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is any investment instrument that pays dividends to its investors based entirely off of the funds given by later investors rather than its own intrinsic value. Bitcoin doesn't do this at all.
Bitcoin is, by all definitions, a fiat currency. That is, it's only worth whatever people think it's worth, and trades accordingly. Practically all of the world's currencies today do exactly this, as opposed to commodity backed currencies of the past (the US dollar used to be backed by gold and silver for example; the older notes had the message "PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND", meaning that the dollar bill was redeemable at banks for its face value in silver or gold, effectively making it a voucher.)
Bitcoin only differs from other fiat currencies in that it relies on scarcity for its value, rather than being managed by some governing authority's central bank.
What would be a neat hard hack IMO is to buy a NES classic, gut its motherboard, and put a Pi 3B in it instead with multiple console emulators and enough SD card space for all of the complete GoodSet rom collections (i.e. GoodNES, GoodSNES, GoodGen, GoodN64, etc) available on torrent sites (64GB would be plenty.) That basically makes the NES classic a $60 shell for the rpi, which isn't a bad deal considering that really ugly looking ones made of 3d printer filament will cost you roughly $30 in materials, assuming you have an actual 3d printer.
I think what you're getting at is "design by committee" vs having one good designer.
The later is much easier when you don't have somebody above you interfering with your vision. If you're a CEO, then that's pretty much what you get.
Bill Gates was able to do really well because of this. However, Steve Ballmer was a salesperson first, and engineer second, and his own interference ended up killing a few interesting product lines that Microsoft was working on before Apple came out with the iPad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Tim Cook seems like he's making the same mistakes that Ballmer made, and may see a similar downfall.
It's not that the stores are shit, it's that nobody really cares for department stores like they used to.
And in the grand scheme of things, those kind of stores were basically a fad. Before the mid 60's, people mostly bought stuff from mail order catalogues, only opting for department stores after freight became a thing and it became cheaper to ship mass quantities of goods to more areas than just big cities, and people naturally prefer to see and try things before buying them. However now that shipping to individual households has gotten faster and cheaper, combined with the internet providing the ability to make it easier for the customer to judge the quality and appearance of something before ordering it (i.e. better pictures, online reviews,) we're basically going back to that mail order era, only improved.
In fact Sears itself started as strictly a mail order company.