- BBC America - Travel - Animal Planet You watch a lot of Discovery Networks, without the flagship Discovery Channel...
- SyFy - USA NBC/Universal mostly fictional/movie channels.
- History - HGTV
- Local affiliate for Revolution TV show I don't know what that is, is this something you should be getting free over the airwaves?
- My kids watch Nick Jr. and Nick, sometimes Disney Lookout, when your kids get older than the audience of those channels, they may pick a different list, and some channels that they'll say are as important as these aren't even on the air right now due to nobody's invented them yet.
If you do that, your 10 channel pack would come to the same bill, if not higher, and channel surfing wouldn't work. Did you ever hit the up/down buttons repeatedly?
There's no set price for an ESPN-only package at home. For home users, it always comes in the same package as everything Disney. That includes ABC O&O (owned and operated by the network) channels, LifeTime and Lifetime Movie Network, Disney Channel, and a lot more. Then, bundling that with the other content empires makes Digital Basic stuck together as a package.
ESPN is expensive in public because it's the channel most restaurants tune when the game is happening, which is also a time people eat and stay for the rest of the game. Regional sports networks do that too. Many restaurants will subscribe to a channel you want if you're there frequently, and change the channel as you show up because they know you. The get your name from a credit card, and a cash only frequent customer is usually asked to identify. The beer ID rules/laws also are a way of getting your name. We're in a world where a frequent customer is just as recognized as a famous person to the people working there.
Parking lot owner asks $10 Arbitrager buys at $10 Arbitrager turns around, and asks for $100 via this app. Somebody shows up... is the app really needed? $100 or no day of work for you... Scam victim pays $100, and doesn't know where to complain.
Actually, this is just cause to quit... you can't have more employees+customers than parking spaces. If there's no parking space for me, you didn't really hire me.
This kind of app is doomed to fail... too many non-honest users required for this to work... could we declare it's over by corrupt data? When this is declared corrupt, corrupt input is deserved.
1. Get a spot at 8:30 AM, and the lot goes full by other people parking by 8:40 AM. 2. Register your spot on this app. 3. Wait for somebody who needs to be on the 8:50 train to show up. 4. Tell him you aren't moving until 8:51 unless you're paid. You want $100 to save him from being late for his job. 5. PROFIT!
It works if this app is legal, somebody needs to stop this. Plan too annoying to exist. If the person discovers your income... 100%!
Yep. violence may go along with this case... I was actually injured in a parking dispute, but it was the incident that arrested a team of fake police officers (or at least police in the wrong area, defying the commands of their chief) and the world is better for it.
An incorrect "lot full" sign was posted at an entry ramp by these scam artists, and they then directed people to park at a restaurant that too few people wanted to eat at to be profitable. Then, a fake higher-than-the-real value ticket was issued. They then tried to get "wiretaps" that intercepted police complaints... yep, when you abuse police power, you're no longer a police officer at the moment of the offense! They really destroyed police credibility. Even if you wear a blue shirt with a logo, that's not a police uniform. (If it was, then Best Buy's shirts would be a problem!)
The fight and coverage by WBZ Boston led to the arrests and scam over, which actually improved productivity in the Boston area by more people reporting to the office when expected... but it also busted a few companies that were used to paying an hourly employee less for working less hours. It solved several people's "always late" problems... but that also created the new problems. When you block transportation, you're also blocking whatever happens at the destination.
Yep... High Frequency Traders practice arbitrage. The rest of the market doesn't like when arbitrage happens. It either fails as not profitable, but if it is a rule quickly springs up.
Wrong word. Try "arbitrage". Wikipedia is a little off on the definition of this word here... it's any time where you buy something with the intention of too-quickly selling to make a profit. That's hard and usually takes some foul play to make happen, remember the "I want to sell what I just bought" auction ad for a stock market company. Really, Wall Street should have rules preventing that... high-frequency-trading is really a ping time race at NASDAQ, and the NYSE has specialist saying "these papers got to me at the same time".
Yep, NASDAQ's computer declares somebody 100 ns ahead the one that should process first, and NYSE calls it a "tie" and averages out the prices if there's a difference.
Assuming they're paying for parking and not staying longer than they're allowed to, how is it "hoarding"?
You're right there... hoarding is the process of taking too many. But that doesn't match the article. The story here is that they're taking the last one, then offering to move on for money... but that's also known as "scalping".
And how is it "scalping"? They're merely offering to delay leaving their spot if someone pays them to do so. Basically they're selling their time.
You got that backwards... they're not delay leaving, they're threatening to keep there to the point it causes a time-sensitive worker a problem like job loss.
Ultimately I think the app would need to give the general location to everyone, but the exact spot should only go to the individual selected by the person leaving the spot.
No, the app has to identify where the spot is so people can determine how valuable it is... but wait, it isn't their property. It's a space their renting, with the purpose of reselling. Check the back of the ticket. If it doesn't have a contract or TOS on the back... what kind of ticket is it?
If that's the policy, can anybody reading this in California tell the legislature they we need a new law doing something to disrupt this scheme? it's close to the point it gets declared "scam".
You misread. Public doesn't mean state-owned here... it's a privately owned first-come-first-serve system that's getting abused. Same thing happens at the stock market sometimes... it's a "you wanted this, but I'm buying it first and then will sell it to you... PROFIT!"... but usually quickly destroyed by new laws or market rules.
So, somebody can take a 9-to-5 worker's slot in the parking lot 3 minutes before they get there, and the employee has to pay the "parker" whatever they want for the spot, or risk losing their job? This one stinks so bad it needs a local ordnance. Is the California Legislature in session?
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I'm not sure that's accurate... and that price isn't for everybody. Remember, with ESPN you get Lifetime as an egg roll. :)
It wasn't any close to recent... WBZ nor anybody else is sharing archives back that far right now..
Yep, so why is the app promoting this still in the app store? It's something the closed app systems should delete.
Uhm, where did you get that number from?
ESPN is packaged with Disney.
You are a typical viewer. Let's sort this list.
- BBC America
- Travel
- Animal Planet
You watch a lot of Discovery Networks, without the flagship Discovery Channel...
- SyFy
- USA
NBC/Universal mostly fictional/movie channels.
- History
- HGTV
- Local affiliate for Revolution TV show
I don't know what that is, is this something you should be getting free over the airwaves?
- My kids watch Nick Jr. and Nick, sometimes Disney
Lookout, when your kids get older than the audience of those channels, they may pick a different list, and some channels that they'll say are as important as these aren't even on the air right now due to nobody's invented them yet.
If you do that, your 10 channel pack would come to the same bill, if not higher, and channel surfing wouldn't work. Did you ever hit the up/down buttons repeatedly?
There's no set price for an ESPN-only package at home. For home users, it always comes in the same package as everything Disney. That includes ABC O&O (owned and operated by the network) channels, LifeTime and Lifetime Movie Network, Disney Channel, and a lot more. Then, bundling that with the other content empires makes Digital Basic stuck together as a package.
ESPN is expensive in public because it's the channel most restaurants tune when the game is happening, which is also a time people eat and stay for the rest of the game. Regional sports networks do that too. Many restaurants will subscribe to a channel you want if you're there frequently, and change the channel as you show up because they know you. The get your name from a credit card, and a cash only frequent customer is usually asked to identify. The beer ID rules/laws also are a way of getting your name. We're in a world where a frequent customer is just as recognized as a famous person to the people working there.
Parking lot owner asks $10
Arbitrager buys at $10
Arbitrager turns around, and asks for $100 via this app.
Somebody shows up... is the app really needed? $100 or no day of work for you...
Scam victim pays $100, and doesn't know where to complain.
It's an arbitrage... they're parking for $10 and taking $100... is that really $90 worth of work? That's misvalued to me.
Actually, this is just cause to quit... you can't have more employees+customers than parking spaces. If there's no parking space for me, you didn't really hire me.
This kind of app is doomed to fail... too many non-honest users required for this to work... could we declare it's over by corrupt data? When this is declared corrupt, corrupt input is deserved.
I seem to have several friends who talk to them too much... I just haven't heard from them in years.
1. Get a spot at 8:30 AM, and the lot goes full by other people parking by 8:40 AM.
2. Register your spot on this app.
3. Wait for somebody who needs to be on the 8:50 train to show up.
4. Tell him you aren't moving until 8:51 unless you're paid. You want $100 to save him from being late for his job.
5. PROFIT!
It works if this app is legal, somebody needs to stop this. Plan too annoying to exist. If the person discovers your income... 100%!
There's another point this could be cutoff... can we ask the app stores to ban this app?
Yep. violence may go along with this case... I was actually injured in a parking dispute, but it was the incident that arrested a team of fake police officers (or at least police in the wrong area, defying the commands of their chief) and the world is better for it.
An incorrect "lot full" sign was posted at an entry ramp by these scam artists, and they then directed people to park at a restaurant that too few people wanted to eat at to be profitable. Then, a fake higher-than-the-real value ticket was issued. They then tried to get "wiretaps" that intercepted police complaints... yep, when you abuse police power, you're no longer a police officer at the moment of the offense! They really destroyed police credibility. Even if you wear a blue shirt with a logo, that's not a police uniform. (If it was, then Best Buy's shirts would be a problem!)
The fight and coverage by WBZ Boston led to the arrests and scam over, which actually improved productivity in the Boston area by more people reporting to the office when expected... but it also busted a few companies that were used to paying an hourly employee less for working less hours. It solved several people's "always late" problems... but that also created the new problems. When you block transportation, you're also blocking whatever happens at the destination.
"Front running" is a synonym for "arbitrage".
Are you confused? Paying somebody for a ticket to see the athletes in a way that isn't allowed is "scalping".
Yep, if it doesn't violate current rules/ordinances/laws then something new is needed to stop this.
Yep... High Frequency Traders practice arbitrage. The rest of the market doesn't like when arbitrage happens. It either fails as not profitable, but if it is a rule quickly springs up.
Wrong word. Try "arbitrage". Wikipedia is a little off on the definition of this word here... it's any time where you buy something with the intention of too-quickly selling to make a profit. That's hard and usually takes some foul play to make happen, remember the "I want to sell what I just bought" auction ad for a stock market company. Really, Wall Street should have rules preventing that... high-frequency-trading is really a ping time race at NASDAQ, and the NYSE has specialist saying "these papers got to me at the same time".
Yep, NASDAQ's computer declares somebody 100 ns ahead the one that should process first, and NYSE calls it a "tie" and averages out the prices if there's a difference.
Nonsense! Let's analyze:
Assuming they're paying for parking and not staying longer than they're allowed to, how is it "hoarding"?
You're right there... hoarding is the process of taking too many. But that doesn't match the article. The story here is that they're taking the last one, then offering to move on for money... but that's also known as "scalping".
And how is it "scalping"? They're merely offering to delay leaving their spot if someone pays them to do so. Basically they're selling their time.
You got that backwards... they're not delay leaving, they're threatening to keep there to the point it causes a time-sensitive worker a problem like job loss.
Ultimately I think the app would need to give the general location to everyone, but the exact spot should only go to the individual selected by the person leaving the spot.
No, the app has to identify where the spot is so people can determine how valuable it is... but wait, it isn't their property. It's a space their renting, with the purpose of reselling. Check the back of the ticket. If it doesn't have a contract or TOS on the back... what kind of ticket is it?
If that's the policy, can anybody reading this in California tell the legislature they we need a new law doing something to disrupt this scheme? it's close to the point it gets declared "scam".
You misread. Public doesn't mean state-owned here... it's a privately owned first-come-first-serve system that's getting abused. Same thing happens at the stock market sometimes... it's a "you wanted this, but I'm buying it first and then will sell it to you... PROFIT!"... but usually quickly destroyed by new laws or market rules.
So, somebody can take a 9-to-5 worker's slot in the parking lot 3 minutes before they get there, and the employee has to pay the "parker" whatever they want for the spot, or risk losing their job? This one stinks so bad it needs a local ordnance. Is the California Legislature in session?