People who drive to work downtown every day will presumably lease a monthly space. Who arrives at 8 AM but doesn't do it every day? Someone has a lot of government work to do downtown, or a tourist who wants to put the car in place and leave it there. Who arrives at noon and needs a parking space now? The regional managers who have to get to the 1:00 PM sales meeting at corporate.
Guess which one is more price-sensitive? The manager is going to get reimbursed if he doesn't put it on a corporate card anyway. From the perspective of the garage, the ideal solution is to figure out their daily volume of last-minute driveups and fill all the other spaces with the monthlies and the all-day people. The last-minute driveups will mostly turn over during lunch - they will have either morning or afternoon meetings and will then go somewhere else - and they want the most convenient garage, not the cheapest.
The price is pretty similar to what it used to be. A CPI calculator just told me that $5 in 1988-1990 - which was the evening movie price I paid around that time - is about $8.50-$9.50 today. I can get weekend evening tickets to a 2D movie for $8 apiece.
What's different now is that I can get a Bluray from Redbox for $1.50 a night and watch it on a 60" television in my living room. I have to return it, but then again my home has reasonably priced snacks, and I can have a beer with my movie.
Find a different doctor. You clearly qualify under #7. Your ability to walk is limited to places where there is no risk of being run over. Or buy a mirror.
You truly have no idea what you're talking about. Spend some time with pancreatic cancer or Huntington's chorea patients in hospice. There are fates worse than death.
Should I pay for water if there is a man handing out free water a block down?
Well, how much is he handing out at a time? And how much am I paying for it right here?
Lots of free software makes this mistake. See, when I buy city water, it doesn't taste as good as even Dasani (which is basically filtered city water). But it's very cheap, and it's delivered to my house in any quantity I want as soon as I want it. If I had to take ten armloads of bottles and climb up to the roof and empty them into a tank just to take a shower... the fact that they're free doesn't do me much good. I'd rather pay $60 a month.
The UN Convention on the Law of the Seas disagrees. Try Article 101:
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
If it's a fake, it is potentially damaging to the brand.
Don't forget that there are reasons why really expensive stuff is really expensive. Yes, part of it is paying for brand identity, and people who buy LV bags aren't going to balk over $50 or $100. But they expect insanely high quality, and they get it - genuine high-end stuff really is made with better, softer leather. It's hand-stitched. It's highly durable. My mother-in-law has a Vuitton purse that has withstood ten years of near-daily use. A friend of mine owns a tailoring shop; even the cheapest clothes he makes look better and feel better than anything you can get off the rack at a department store or Joseph A. Bank, and the more expensive stuff (made with more expensive fabric) really does make a difference in how the clothes look and feel.
Is it worth it? I might not do all of my clothes through him if I had to wear a suit to work every day, but it really is a lot more pleasant to dress up when you've got top-notch clothes to do it in.
Most of the fakes are not exact copies of real LV bags. My wife LOVES LV stuff and is particularly expert at spotting the fakes. We just got back from a week in LA; you'd be surprised how many of those bags even in Beverly Hills aren't real...
Any nation's navy. Acts of piracy (real piracy!) may be punished by any state. They are punishable by life in prison in the US. Don't know about other countries' law.
Established, successful professional writers can make more through selling directly, because they don't need to pay for promotions. If Stephen King wants to appear on the Today show, he can pick up the phone and offer them an exclusive on his new book in return for five or ten minutes out of each hour of the program. Joe Unknown doesn't have that ability. He needs the services offered by a publisher: editors who understand not only clean prose, but what will sell; marketing teams that can put together a big push on a book; and salesmen that can make a store take a chance on an unknown writer.
Some middlemen are parasites, usually those who enjoy state protections (like liquor distributors in many states). Most of them exist because they serve a valuable function.
It also has a population about the size of New Mexico's. What percentage of non-Americans do you think could identify New Mexico if handed an unlabeled map of the US?
You can't easily infer date of giving from date of ordering. We only got one Christmas present delivered in the week before Christmas, because we were planning to be out of town and finished shopping early. Since Christmas falls dead in the middle of Hanukkah this year, you'd really have no idea based on dates.
No, markets don't require a state. They spontaneously arise. Markets capable of handling massive transactions in an environment of trust require a state, or more precisely a functional legal system. Most of the electrical infrastructure of the US is privately owned and operated. Sewage is routinely handled by septic tanks in rural areas whose water systems are privately run (usually by coops). And the huge list of "XYZ Pike" road names in the eastern US ought to be a pretty good hint that privately built and maintained roads can work (hell, look at the Dulles Greenway - that's privately owned).
In a crowded city, it's not feasible to run multiple water/sewer/electricity/cable/etc systems, and voters will demand varying amounts of political control over them (e.g., my city has a self-funding water system but subsidizes trash pickup for the elderly and destitute). But that's a function of convenience, not necessity.
I'm not a software developer; I don't even work in IT. People's lives are often at stake and a timely (1 min) response is sometimes important. Broaden your horizons of thought. A cell phone may not be for you, but mine has saved my bacon (and someone else's) quite a few times.
Like I said, I work in a time sensitive industry and use my phone for work. Not answering the phone = "you're fired". Different set of circumstances entirely.
A failed phone call is known to be failed the moment that the caller gets sent to voicemail. A failed email may never be known. I'm in a very time-sensitive industry, so a delay of even one minute in knowing you've reached someone (or not; call the next one on the list) is sometimes unacceptable.
Phone calls have one very positive attribute: you know that you spoke to someone, and there is a record of that call in the phone company's system. I tell people all the time that asynchronous communications are fine, but they will be responded to asynchronously: maybe right away, maybe later. If you want to be sure that I know something right away, call me.
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the social aspect of college
University campuses aren't the only places where 19 year olds can meet, hang out, and hook up.
People who drive to work downtown every day will presumably lease a monthly space. Who arrives at 8 AM but doesn't do it every day? Someone has a lot of government work to do downtown, or a tourist who wants to put the car in place and leave it there. Who arrives at noon and needs a parking space now? The regional managers who have to get to the 1:00 PM sales meeting at corporate.
Guess which one is more price-sensitive? The manager is going to get reimbursed if he doesn't put it on a corporate card anyway. From the perspective of the garage, the ideal solution is to figure out their daily volume of last-minute driveups and fill all the other spaces with the monthlies and the all-day people. The last-minute driveups will mostly turn over during lunch - they will have either morning or afternoon meetings and will then go somewhere else - and they want the most convenient garage, not the cheapest.
The price is pretty similar to what it used to be. A CPI calculator just told me that $5 in 1988-1990 - which was the evening movie price I paid around that time - is about $8.50-$9.50 today. I can get weekend evening tickets to a 2D movie for $8 apiece.
What's different now is that I can get a Bluray from Redbox for $1.50 a night and watch it on a 60" television in my living room. I have to return it, but then again my home has reasonably priced snacks, and I can have a beer with my movie.
Find a different doctor. You clearly qualify under #7. Your ability to walk is limited to places where there is no risk of being run over. Or buy a mirror.
You truly have no idea what you're talking about. Spend some time with pancreatic cancer or Huntington's chorea patients in hospice. There are fates worse than death.
Ah, you've read "Yes, Jolonah, There is a Hell". Pretty warped stuff. I like it.
Should I pay for water if there is a man handing out free water a block down?
Well, how much is he handing out at a time? And how much am I paying for it right here?
Lots of free software makes this mistake. See, when I buy city water, it doesn't taste as good as even Dasani (which is basically filtered city water). But it's very cheap, and it's delivered to my house in any quantity I want as soon as I want it. If I had to take ten armloads of bottles and climb up to the roof and empty them into a tank just to take a shower... the fact that they're free doesn't do me much good. I'd rather pay $60 a month.
Yeah, but I'm talking about something you actually expect to be real...
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
If it's a fake, it is potentially damaging to the brand.
Don't forget that there are reasons why really expensive stuff is really expensive. Yes, part of it is paying for brand identity, and people who buy LV bags aren't going to balk over $50 or $100. But they expect insanely high quality, and they get it - genuine high-end stuff really is made with better, softer leather. It's hand-stitched. It's highly durable. My mother-in-law has a Vuitton purse that has withstood ten years of near-daily use. A friend of mine owns a tailoring shop; even the cheapest clothes he makes look better and feel better than anything you can get off the rack at a department store or Joseph A. Bank, and the more expensive stuff (made with more expensive fabric) really does make a difference in how the clothes look and feel.
Is it worth it? I might not do all of my clothes through him if I had to wear a suit to work every day, but it really is a lot more pleasant to dress up when you've got top-notch clothes to do it in.
Most of the fakes are not exact copies of real LV bags. My wife LOVES LV stuff and is particularly expert at spotting the fakes. We just got back from a week in LA; you'd be surprised how many of those bags even in Beverly Hills aren't real...
Any nation's navy. Acts of piracy (real piracy!) may be punished by any state. They are punishable by life in prison in the US. Don't know about other countries' law.
Established, successful professional writers can make more through selling directly, because they don't need to pay for promotions. If Stephen King wants to appear on the Today show, he can pick up the phone and offer them an exclusive on his new book in return for five or ten minutes out of each hour of the program. Joe Unknown doesn't have that ability. He needs the services offered by a publisher: editors who understand not only clean prose, but what will sell; marketing teams that can put together a big push on a book; and salesmen that can make a store take a chance on an unknown writer.
Some middlemen are parasites, usually those who enjoy state protections (like liquor distributors in many states). Most of them exist because they serve a valuable function.
I'll grant that it's not sufficient. Not necessary? Do you admire the civilization of North Korea?
It also has a population about the size of New Mexico's. What percentage of non-Americans do you think could identify New Mexico if handed an unlabeled map of the US?
You can't easily infer date of giving from date of ordering. We only got one Christmas present delivered in the week before Christmas, because we were planning to be out of town and finished shopping early. Since Christmas falls dead in the middle of Hanukkah this year, you'd really have no idea based on dates.
Are you trying to argue that you can't buy anything in Somalia?
No, markets don't require a state. They spontaneously arise. Markets capable of handling massive transactions in an environment of trust require a state, or more precisely a functional legal system. Most of the electrical infrastructure of the US is privately owned and operated. Sewage is routinely handled by septic tanks in rural areas whose water systems are privately run (usually by coops). And the huge list of "XYZ Pike" road names in the eastern US ought to be a pretty good hint that privately built and maintained roads can work (hell, look at the Dulles Greenway - that's privately owned).
In a crowded city, it's not feasible to run multiple water/sewer/electricity/cable/etc systems, and voters will demand varying amounts of political control over them (e.g., my city has a self-funding water system but subsidizes trash pickup for the elderly and destitute). But that's a function of convenience, not necessity.
I know that coke has gone pretty far downmarket these days, but can't you swing just one Benjamin to snort it through?
As opposed to just giving him your home address?
I'm not a software developer; I don't even work in IT. People's lives are often at stake and a timely (1 min) response is sometimes important. Broaden your horizons of thought. A cell phone may not be for you, but mine has saved my bacon (and someone else's) quite a few times.
Like I said, I work in a time sensitive industry and use my phone for work. Not answering the phone = "you're fired". Different set of circumstances entirely.
Telecom NZ are stuck supporting truly unlimited traffic
For how long, though? Aren't typical contracts one year or so? After that, they just have to present new terms on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
A failed phone call is known to be failed the moment that the caller gets sent to voicemail. A failed email may never be known. I'm in a very time-sensitive industry, so a delay of even one minute in knowing you've reached someone (or not; call the next one on the list) is sometimes unacceptable.
Phone calls have one very positive attribute: you know that you spoke to someone, and there is a record of that call in the phone company's system. I tell people all the time that asynchronous communications are fine, but they will be responded to asynchronously: maybe right away, maybe later. If you want to be sure that I know something right away, call me.