Alternately, those individuals could have patronized other content providers that are willing to provide entertainment on terms and at a price that is more agreeable. Rather than feeling entitled, that is.
I would frame that a different way. Netflix is $8 per month, produces original content now, and you can opt to pay more if you want to rent discs. We don't even have a DVD player in our living room any more.
Trade unions prevent a race to the bottom and help maintain standards. It's not the unions keeping you out of a job; it's the fact that I wouldn't hire a tradesman outside of a union.
I'm in the same camp. My XBox and Roku already serve my needs, so why spend more money to have that built into the TV? If you do your research, you'll find that most companies have a smart TV model that has all of the same features as a similar model of theirs, but the smart TV model costs more.
I like what Roku has done recently with their streaming stick. It's a thumb drive-sized Roku that plugs into the MHL port of newer TVs. Your media box doesn't even have to have a footprint anymore!
"Maybe the job doesn't meet your aspirations, but maybe you need the money and want to work, even if only for a couple of years. What then?"
America: A nation full of temporarily-embarrassed millionaires. In any case, I would say more people, with a longer time commitment, are benefiting from the union presence.
If your'e not happy being a worker bee in a union shop, you might be in a field where your aspirations will not be met. That's more or less my take on unions. They're good for certain fields, but not others.
The difference is that you're buying something with Kickstarter. It's a way for someone to pre-sell something instead of going through normal funding routes and losing equity in the project.
Next thing you know, you won't be able to get all the good seats in the front of the bus without the negroes getting all uppity about it. Check your privilege.
Incorrect. It's one less expense for a company, which means those dollars fall down to the bottom line or get spent in another area, such as machinery and equipment.
Factoid: Every banana you buy at the supermarket has already been "processed" and milked for Twinkie production. Those hard, brown tips at the ends of bananas? Those were the bananas' nipples before they got milked.
The non-gaming features are handled by devices that people already own, such as cable boxes, smart TVs, or set top boxes like Roku or Apple TV. The people that rely on those devices don't need an XBox in the first place. I enjoy getting Netflix and videos on my 360, but that is only a side benefit to it being a gaming console.
I can currently give or sell a game to anyone with no requirements that the recipient is on a friends list. They use wording to give the appearance that they are enabling things, but it is really a matter of stating what they are allowing you to do and what you cannot do.
Buying and selling used games is a huge market and creates liquidity for people to buy new games. This is no different than how buying and selling stocks on the stock market creates liquidity for IPOs. But now they are killing that liquidity for game customers.
On your last point, I would argue that sharing a game among users is an irrelevant feature. In my experience, if a game is worth playing, it is worth owning. I do not want to depend upon the generosity of my friends (and vice verse) to be able to play a game. Everyone loses control in that scenario.
There is no such thing as an American unit of measure. It's an a-national concept. The American military and scientists use metric. Do you hate our troops?
Your ignorance of someone's living conditions do not justify an ad hominem attack. Extend this to cars, electronics, homes. We're not all living in tightly-packed dormitories in centralized cities. But why not? What do you really need that house for? Why aren't you taking the bus and subway everywhere? The answer is you don't need a reason.
One of the arguments against the advanced age hypothesis is that there were no known civilizations with such grand structures. Since then, we've discovered GÃbekli Tepe, which is about 11,000 years old. Another argument is that the erosion is from the wind; however, wind erosion would be horizontal, whereas water erosion is vertical.
It should be noted that Zahi Hawass was booted from his position due to his close ties to the Mubarak family. There is a very good chance that, once Egypt gets its act together with its new govt., there could be expanded research in the area.
To me, it does not seem all that outrageous to suggest that at least the site of the Sphinx could have older origins (personally, I'm indifferent to the age of the Sphinx itself).
It should be, but some historians are incredibly arrogant or inflexible toward the introduction of new knowledge. Mention the water-based weathering around the Sphinx, suggesting the site is much older than originally thought, and watch the establishment cover their ears and ignore you.
I agree with this. As much as I'm all for legalizing every drug under the sun, that freedom must come with responsibility, including internalizing all of the risks. If you operate heavy machinery in a factory, chances are they require you to have a 0.0% BAC on the job. Why should it be any different for machinery that actually moves around in public, in a system where driver's licenses are handed out like candy with no serious training standards?
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You're assuming you have a right to a sci-fi show. Stop wanting so much.
Alternately, those individuals could have patronized other content providers that are willing to provide entertainment on terms and at a price that is more agreeable. Rather than feeling entitled, that is.
I would frame that a different way. Netflix is $8 per month, produces original content now, and you can opt to pay more if you want to rent discs. We don't even have a DVD player in our living room any more.
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Trade unions prevent a race to the bottom and help maintain standards. It's not the unions keeping you out of a job; it's the fact that I wouldn't hire a tradesman outside of a union.
I'm in the same camp. My XBox and Roku already serve my needs, so why spend more money to have that built into the TV? If you do your research, you'll find that most companies have a smart TV model that has all of the same features as a similar model of theirs, but the smart TV model costs more.
I like what Roku has done recently with their streaming stick. It's a thumb drive-sized Roku that plugs into the MHL port of newer TVs. Your media box doesn't even have to have a footprint anymore!
"Maybe the job doesn't meet your aspirations, but maybe you need the money and want to work, even if only for a couple of years. What then?"
America: A nation full of temporarily-embarrassed millionaires. In any case, I would say more people, with a longer time commitment, are benefiting from the union presence.
If your'e not happy being a worker bee in a union shop, you might be in a field where your aspirations will not be met. That's more or less my take on unions. They're good for certain fields, but not others.
It is not an investment in any sense of the word. You are not acquiring any form of ownership in the project.
The difference is that you're buying something with Kickstarter. It's a way for someone to pre-sell something instead of going through normal funding routes and losing equity in the project.
Next thing you know, you won't be able to get all the good seats in the front of the bus without the negroes getting all uppity about it. Check your privilege.
Incorrect. It's one less expense for a company, which means those dollars fall down to the bottom line or get spent in another area, such as machinery and equipment.
Factoid: Every banana you buy at the supermarket has already been "processed" and milked for Twinkie production. Those hard, brown tips at the ends of bananas? Those were the bananas' nipples before they got milked.
The non-gaming features are handled by devices that people already own, such as cable boxes, smart TVs, or set top boxes like Roku or Apple TV. The people that rely on those devices don't need an XBox in the first place. I enjoy getting Netflix and videos on my 360, but that is only a side benefit to it being a gaming console.
I can currently give or sell a game to anyone with no requirements that the recipient is on a friends list. They use wording to give the appearance that they are enabling things, but it is really a matter of stating what they are allowing you to do and what you cannot do.
Buying and selling used games is a huge market and creates liquidity for people to buy new games. This is no different than how buying and selling stocks on the stock market creates liquidity for IPOs. But now they are killing that liquidity for game customers.
On your last point, I would argue that sharing a game among users is an irrelevant feature. In my experience, if a game is worth playing, it is worth owning. I do not want to depend upon the generosity of my friends (and vice verse) to be able to play a game. Everyone loses control in that scenario.
There is no such thing as an American unit of measure. It's an a-national concept. The American military and scientists use metric. Do you hate our troops?
There are some areas that no one has been allowed to dig in. But yes, good question.
Your ignorance of someone's living conditions do not justify an ad hominem attack. Extend this to cars, electronics, homes. We're not all living in tightly-packed dormitories in centralized cities. But why not? What do you really need that house for? Why aren't you taking the bus and subway everywhere? The answer is you don't need a reason.
But let's get the important question out of the way: would you rather fight 1 horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool leftist, but I'll be the first one to say that there is not hate like liberal hate.
One of the arguments against the advanced age hypothesis is that there were no known civilizations with such grand structures. Since then, we've discovered GÃbekli Tepe, which is about 11,000 years old. Another argument is that the erosion is from the wind; however, wind erosion would be horizontal, whereas water erosion is vertical.
It should be noted that Zahi Hawass was booted from his position due to his close ties to the Mubarak family. There is a very good chance that, once Egypt gets its act together with its new govt., there could be expanded research in the area.
To me, it does not seem all that outrageous to suggest that at least the site of the Sphinx could have older origins (personally, I'm indifferent to the age of the Sphinx itself).
It should be, but some historians are incredibly arrogant or inflexible toward the introduction of new knowledge. Mention the water-based weathering around the Sphinx, suggesting the site is much older than originally thought, and watch the establishment cover their ears and ignore you.
Or just take a picture of the phone's screen and crop the phone/finger from the image. Snapchat offers zero security.
I agree with this. As much as I'm all for legalizing every drug under the sun, that freedom must come with responsibility, including internalizing all of the risks. If you operate heavy machinery in a factory, chances are they require you to have a 0.0% BAC on the job. Why should it be any different for machinery that actually moves around in public, in a system where driver's licenses are handed out like candy with no serious training standards?
Fuck that. No middlemen.