Utterly fascinating that someone would moderate MY posting as "redundant" when it was the very first comment! Perhaps I don't understand what it means.
I hear you. I literally don't understand what literally means anymore;-)
It's not that the package is worth more. Thieves do much more damage than just the economic loss. They inconvenience everyone along the supply chain from the homeowner to Amazon and on it goes. It forces you to constantly wonder if you locked everything even when you just pop out to grab a gallon of milk. Moreover the thieves themselves frequently only get pennies on the dollar when they fence the goods so it really isn't worth it. If the homeowner catches them and holds them at gunpoint for the police great. If the thief gets brave and tries to fight the home owner then they get what was coming to them. To make the world a better place you have to weed out the bad actors. This is one of the very few things the Muslims got right.
This is spot on. Nintendo has a *long* track record of doing these premeditated shortages. I was going to get one of the 3DS units that they were hyping for $99 as a Christmas gift. When they sold out in 3 min I switched to an Android tablet. No 3D but I can't really support Nintendo when their favorite holiday play is shafting their customers & potential customers. I'm done with Nintendo as my kids are old enough that this would have been the last hurrah.
Trump had a far more difficult relationship with the truth than Clinton.
Neither Clinton nor Trump have a good record of truth. So much so that any discussion of lesser of liars is past comical. This is like calculus where we learn about the limits and how things can approach zero but never quite get there, just get closer and closer. Would it help if we called Clinton at lying = infinity and Trump at infinity +1? Because that's essentially what these two are.
because the police is asking for it and to deny it,
Actually, they're not. The police realise that being able to install malware (which the act permits) makes it easy to tamper with evidence and destroys the normal evidence chain, so will open a load of grounds for challenging any evidence that they can bring to court. The intelligence agencies (who would far rather let someone get off a crime than compromise a data-gathering source) are in favour of it.
So essentially the secret police rather than the regular police.
Getty et al appear to be participants to ongoing fraud and extortion. They should probably quit before people tire of the games and go full vigilante on them or their officers, when they realize elimination may be more effective than (corrupt) adjudication...
I'm pretty sure that's why Commifornia banned the 50 caliber sniper rifle. Never had a crime committed with it so there was no reason.. other than the fact that it take out the corrupt at over a thousand yards.
Is it just me or if there are 3 marker chemicals does everyone expect those three to be in the next batch. Until a fourth marker chemical proves these fraudulent also. The baby milk poisoning that happened in Chine (citation below) was covered up for a while because they only tested for a marker chemical.
I'm white and I've never been called a racist. Then again, I don't say racist things. Hmm, maybe there's a connection
You been called a racism many times, you just didn't notice. If you Google "white people are racist" you'll see page after page of "all white people are racist". This doesn't even go into the whole micro aggression and white privilege BS.
The election was not all about race... how many times do I have to say this?
Good luck. Racism and its close cousin sexism are the only explanations that can be used these days by a hopeless media. It's almost as general purpose as the "F word". Just about any problem that the media wants to rail against is either one or both of these. Couldn't be the economy or anything sensible like that.
It's estimated that the iPhone 6+ costs about $236 US to make. They've been gouging customers for years.
But the cost of the electronics should largely be the same regardless of where it's made, that part wouldn't double. The labor content is a small piece of the $236.
Looking at this in terms of teams based on race is incorrect. While many rich people are white, most white people are not rich - a fact that seems lost on you. You should be looking at Team 1% and Team 99%. I am mixed on my politics but I am a huge fan of the phrase "we are the 99%". The 99% contains everyone. Even the left's punching bag white Christian male. My personal view is that to keep the 99% from actually recognizing that they are not getting a fair share team 1% fragment it by promoting disunity. BLM from an economics perspective is a bunch of useful idiots who fragment society while the rich get richer. Team 1% loves BLM because it keeps team 99% squabbling among themselves - like we're doing now.
I'm happy to take this discussion either in the direction of how to promote the 99% or why I don't support continuing racism in the name of helping past racism. That offer should tell you a lot. You can get more done by working together or you can be a drama queen and say that it's all about us BLM style. Note that BLM style is only a temporary high from smug moral righteousness, they won't (and indeed couldn't) make any lasting change.
I have heard several people I know say that there are whole categories of product that they never buy from Amazon due to the number of fakes. They were specifically talking about hair products but it also applies to many other things. At some point people will lose faith in the platform as a whole and stop using it (ie don't bother it's all knocks offs anyway).
Unless you sincerely advocate for abolition of the CIA and FBI, you should help them do their jobs.
Yep, no middle ground between either helping them do their jobs or abolishing them completely. I know that we have a lot of programmers here but remember that most of life is analog, not binary.
If I give a step stool to short person to help them see over a wall I would consider that to be helping the short person, not punishing the tall person that happens to be standing next to them.
For situations where it's a zero sum game to give preferential treatment to one is to harm the other. Moreover the current implementation is not based on something logical, such as a short person getting a stool. It's based on averages for large groups. So it's more akin to giving a tall person a stool because he comes from a family that includes a lot of short people while the short person next to him is denied a stool because his family includes a lot of tall people. Thus the short person from a tall family is punished.
You mentioned slavery. You realize that ended ~150 years ago right? At least in the US. Globally there are still places where slavery is practiced so anyone who wants to do their part to end slavery still has a chance. But going back to the US it ended a long time ago. You also mentioned the Civil rights movement. The original goals of this movement were to get equal rights for all regardless of race. That has been accomplished. Indeed it was accomplished around 50 years ago. Now it has morphed into getting special privileges for select favored groups. For example special government programs just for certain groups, quotas forcing hires and promotions of favored groups, set asides in colleges for favored groups, etc. Special treatment for groups based on factors like race or gender is virtually the definition of discrimination. Yet that is what the "civil rights" groups have devolved into, a scam where they get preferential treatment of their particular constituent group.
If you are uneducated because you were a slave, then you won't be able to help your kids with their homework, so the first wrong (slavery) is making a different person suffer (the kid). Apply this recursively and the current beneficiaries are suffering the first wrong (just indirectly). The kid which is successful because his parents were not slaves had an unfair advantage (compared to the average kid) so the kid is not completely innocent.
You realize that means you're trying to right wrongs committed ~150 years ago. Talk about punishing the wrong people. Does this never end?
I'm curious though, what's your plan for helping the Chinese who built the railroads at approximately the same time? Or maybe you have a plan for the poor Irish who also built railroads at about the same time?
The people getting wronged today are most certainly not the people who did the first wrong years ago. There's no getting around it, it's just two wrongs. Moreover the beneficiaries are also not the people who suffered the first wrong. To summarize we are punishing the innocent people as well as rewarding undeserving people.
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Utterly fascinating that someone would moderate MY posting as "redundant" when it was the very first comment! Perhaps I don't understand what it means.
I hear you. I literally don't understand what literally means anymore ;-)
It's not that the package is worth more. Thieves do much more damage than just the economic loss. They inconvenience everyone along the supply chain from the homeowner to Amazon and on it goes. It forces you to constantly wonder if you locked everything even when you just pop out to grab a gallon of milk. Moreover the thieves themselves frequently only get pennies on the dollar when they fence the goods so it really isn't worth it. If the homeowner catches them and holds them at gunpoint for the police great. If the thief gets brave and tries to fight the home owner then they get what was coming to them. To make the world a better place you have to weed out the bad actors. This is one of the very few things the Muslims got right.
I see you've never heard of thisDanegeld. Here's a citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is spot on. Nintendo has a *long* track record of doing these premeditated shortages. I was going to get one of the 3DS units that they were hyping for $99 as a Christmas gift. When they sold out in 3 min I switched to an Android tablet. No 3D but I can't really support Nintendo when their favorite holiday play is shafting their customers & potential customers. I'm done with Nintendo as my kids are old enough that this would have been the last hurrah.
a higher price which would only incentivize hackers more in the future.
Whereas the hackers found dead in a pool of blood with obvious signs of torture would only disincentivize future hackers. I'm rooting for that option.
Trump had a far more difficult relationship with the truth than Clinton.
Neither Clinton nor Trump have a good record of truth. So much so that any discussion of lesser of liars is past comical. This is like calculus where we learn about the limits and how things can approach zero but never quite get there, just get closer and closer. Would it help if we called Clinton at lying = infinity and Trump at infinity +1? Because that's essentially what these two are.
Now he is part of the corrupt establishment.
Anyone who expected a politician from Chicago to be anything other corrupt was kidding themselves.
Well I could sue the police and retire on the settlement. Its like winning the lottery only with a beatdown thrown in
Only if you have the entire beating on video. Good luck with that.
I am so sorry I posted before I got to your comment. You deserve to be modded up.
because the police is asking for it and to deny it,
Actually, they're not. The police realise that being able to install malware (which the act permits) makes it easy to tamper with evidence and destroys the normal evidence chain, so will open a load of grounds for challenging any evidence that they can bring to court. The intelligence agencies (who would far rather let someone get off a crime than compromise a data-gathering source) are in favour of it.
So essentially the secret police rather than the regular police.
Getty et al appear to be participants to ongoing fraud and extortion. They should probably quit before people tire of the games and go full vigilante on them or their officers, when they realize elimination may be more effective than (corrupt) adjudication...
I'm pretty sure that's why Commifornia banned the 50 caliber sniper rifle. Never had a crime committed with it so there was no reason.. other than the fact that it take out the corrupt at over a thousand yards.
Citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
no one at the FBI will get even a slap on the wrist as police states take care of their own. The citizens, not so much.
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's to fund Perri-Air for kids.
" I'd knock your teeth out if you were standing in front of me."
Sounds like a sTrumpette to me...
The bulk of the attacks I've heard about have been done to Trump supporters. The data doesn't match your assertion.
I'm white and I've never been called a racist. Then again, I don't say racist things. Hmm, maybe there's a connection
You been called a racism many times, you just didn't notice. If you Google "white people are racist" you'll see page after page of "all white people are racist". This doesn't even go into the whole micro aggression and white privilege BS.
The election was not all about race ... how many times do I have to say this?
Good luck. Racism and its close cousin sexism are the only explanations that can be used these days by a hopeless media. It's almost as general purpose as the "F word". Just about any problem that the media wants to rail against is either one or both of these. Couldn't be the economy or anything sensible like that.
It's estimated that the iPhone 6+ costs about $236 US to make. They've been gouging customers for years.
But the cost of the electronics should largely be the same regardless of where it's made, that part wouldn't double. The labor content is a small piece of the $236.
How do white people not understand this?
Looking at this in terms of teams based on race is incorrect. While many rich people are white, most white people are not rich - a fact that seems lost on you. You should be looking at Team 1% and Team 99%. I am mixed on my politics but I am a huge fan of the phrase "we are the 99%". The 99% contains everyone. Even the left's punching bag white Christian male. My personal view is that to keep the 99% from actually recognizing that they are not getting a fair share team 1% fragment it by promoting disunity. BLM from an economics perspective is a bunch of useful idiots who fragment society while the rich get richer. Team 1% loves BLM because it keeps team 99% squabbling among themselves - like we're doing now.
I'm happy to take this discussion either in the direction of how to promote the 99% or why I don't support continuing racism in the name of helping past racism. That offer should tell you a lot. You can get more done by working together or you can be a drama queen and say that it's all about us BLM style. Note that BLM style is only a temporary high from smug moral righteousness, they won't (and indeed couldn't) make any lasting change.
I have heard several people I know say that there are whole categories of product that they never buy from Amazon due to the number of fakes. They were specifically talking about hair products but it also applies to many other things. At some point people will lose faith in the platform as a whole and stop using it (ie don't bother it's all knocks offs anyway).
Unless you sincerely advocate for abolition of the CIA and FBI, you should help them do their jobs.
Yep, no middle ground between either helping them do their jobs or abolishing them completely. I know that we have a lot of programmers here but remember that most of life is analog, not binary.
I'm confused by your use of "punish" here.
If I give a step stool to short person to help them see over a wall I would consider that to be helping the short person, not punishing the tall person that happens to be standing next to them.
For situations where it's a zero sum game to give preferential treatment to one is to harm the other. Moreover the current implementation is not based on something logical, such as a short person getting a stool. It's based on averages for large groups. So it's more akin to giving a tall person a stool because he comes from a family that includes a lot of short people while the short person next to him is denied a stool because his family includes a lot of tall people. Thus the short person from a tall family is punished.
You mentioned slavery. You realize that ended ~150 years ago right? At least in the US. Globally there are still places where slavery is practiced so anyone who wants to do their part to end slavery still has a chance. But going back to the US it ended a long time ago. You also mentioned the Civil rights movement. The original goals of this movement were to get equal rights for all regardless of race. That has been accomplished. Indeed it was accomplished around 50 years ago. Now it has morphed into getting special privileges for select favored groups. For example special government programs just for certain groups, quotas forcing hires and promotions of favored groups, set asides in colleges for favored groups, etc. Special treatment for groups based on factors like race or gender is virtually the definition of discrimination. Yet that is what the "civil rights" groups have devolved into, a scam where they get preferential treatment of their particular constituent group.
If you are uneducated because you were a slave, then you won't be able to help your kids with their homework, so the first wrong (slavery) is making a different person suffer (the kid). Apply this recursively and the current beneficiaries are suffering the first wrong (just indirectly). The kid which is successful because his parents were not slaves had an unfair advantage (compared to the average kid) so the kid is not completely innocent.
You realize that means you're trying to right wrongs committed ~150 years ago. Talk about punishing the wrong people. Does this never end?
I'm curious though, what's your plan for helping the Chinese who built the railroads at approximately the same time? Or maybe you have a plan for the poor Irish who also built railroads at about the same time?
The people getting wronged today are most certainly not the people who did the first wrong years ago. There's no getting around it, it's just two wrongs. Moreover the beneficiaries are also not the people who suffered the first wrong. To summarize we are punishing the innocent people as well as rewarding undeserving people.