You can even make an argument that 24*$25 is less than $600, since you're getting a free two year loan of about $300 (the average balance on the loan over the 24 months)...
...but as long as people in this country prefer credit to cash, people are going to make this choice.
Owning your phone outright generally puts you in a stronger negotiating position for maintaining service, since you're never locked in, you're always able to talk to a "retention specialist."
...but yes, if you're paying outright and not using this, and on a plan that would normally confer you "free" upgrades, you're probably losing out on the deal.
What are you talking about? Of fucking course we can do that here in the good 'ol U.S. of A.
What do you think happens with every Google Play Edition HTC One, or every Google Nexus?
The fact is that most people prefer to pay $25/mo burried in a contract over two years to pay for their new $600 cell phone, because this is America, the land of revolving credit and low, low monthly payments.
I've lost count of how many phones I've bought and just thrown my SIM in. The most difficult task I've had to ever do is walk into my provider and ask for a Micro-SIM card when I got a newer phone. The next time I get any hardware from them will be when I need a Nano-SIM.
That isn't to say that you can't use a plan to your advantage: I once got the entire family an "upgrade" for $25/mo on the package -- and got a whole pile of crappy Android 2.2 devices they were dumping -- but only because they lowered my service plan by $25/mo as incentive. [No doubt the sales associate got a perk for making the sale, and used their latitude in retention offers to lower my plan rate. Everyone won that day.] When the payment plan ended, my bill ultimately went down by $25 forever (or at least until they fuck all their customers again), and I had a pile of emergency phones I could just throw a SIM in when one of the kids invariably lost theirs.
Since I don't use their shitty "loan you $600, just sign up for two more years" upgrade plans, I'm always free to walk, and always free to negotiate the best rate for my plan or move to another carrier. So the next time they globally try to screw people, I can walk away without as much of a care, and put the next provider's SIM in my phone.
For that, I have to buy my phones outright -- like a responsible adult not living on the credit treadmill.
Drive up the cost of my postage? For what? The 3 letters I'll send this year? I'll pay the three cents if it screws the DMA.
The Direct Marketing Association (aka spammers) send like 90% of all snail mail -- and the only person who has to pay more are the people buying prepaid mailers -- the DMA members.
For me, it's a matter of having to search for my real mail (I still get some) between the loose pages of this week's coupon clipper.
Too many direct marketers sending me REFINANCE NOW! junk mail (because property records are public) that comes in the same envelope as an EOB from my insurance... They might only take a few seconds to figure out, but those seconds add up week after week after week...
Are you willing to pay them more than the combined members of the Direct Marketing Association, who'll crush the USPS like insects if they allow you, the product, to opt out of their service?
Direct Marketers own the USPS, lock, stock and barrel.
When I first heard of Outbox (here?), I quickly submitted my email address to them to be notified when it hit my city.
I unsubscribe from nearly every mailing I can manually, as well as use the Direct Marketing Associations's Mail Preference Service and a 5-year blackout from credit card companies.
Trying to assign those costs to individual cases is meaningless, unless the cases have specific costs over and above the usual (such as requiring overtime).
Why?
False fire alarm keeps going off at your business? Well then, we're going to bill you for rolling the trucks - because a large fire department has to staff based on the number, type and location of calls that they get, and they have to staff to handle a long slew of false alarms.
All sorts of municipalities bill you when you use their services - emergency or not, requested or not. Ambulances will gladly take your unconscious body to the hospital and charge you more than the gas used.
Courts tack on "court fees" onto your tickets to pay for the time of the court. $500 fee for smoking that joint, plus $825 in court fees, plus $200 to the adult probation department....despite the courts being there to begin with.
He, and his ilk, created the demand for that team of investigators, and they should pay for it. Fortunately the economies of scale allow those costs to be spread among multiple offenders and he doesn't have to pay their entire salary.
I saw them in reprisals at artsy dollar theaters - not first run.
Perhaps "second run" wasn't the perfect choice -- but I don't know a lot about how movie re-releases worked in the early 80's.
In the late 70's and VERY early 80's, summer movie passes for KIDS were the rage, parents would drop you off for 3 hours to see G-rated films and get the hell out of their hair. Of those, I still remember the sci-fi and sci-fi adjactent films. Escape to Witch Mountain -- heck, even The Cat from Outer Space.
It's almost exactly 100x less than the rate that women die as a complication of pregnancy (0.89%) -- a number that basic 3rd world maternal care could probably cut in half. [I get that *delivering* said care is a challenge, and infrastructure sucks, but these challenges exist in land mine clearing parts of the world as well.]
Bottom corners had a similar method to rotate through their orientations. Is there a good copy of this method somewhere, or are you going from memory. Even gesturing my hands in "down over back over" "down over over back over over" brings back memories:)
My method sounds a lot like this one and a couple of the others above -- yours is the closest in terms of the general method, except I don't recall flipping the cube, although that's largely irrelevant.
I could move the center pieces mostly as described above, then recall sort of brute-forcing the corners by repeating the pattern that rotated them around.
I'm pretty certain that the bottom side piece rotation pattern I used was what Wraithlyn posted below this.
R- B- R+ B- R- B2 R+ B2
(+ = clockwise, - = counterclockwise, 2 = twice)
Thanks everyone.:)
Next, to remember the corner "brute" that I used. [I'm too old to learn new tricks...]
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You can even make an argument that 24*$25 is less than $600, since you're getting a free two year loan of about $300 (the average balance on the loan over the 24 months)...
We are the land of YALLMP.
Yet another low low monthly payment.
Owning your phone outright generally puts you in a stronger negotiating position for maintaining service, since you're never locked in, you're always able to talk to a "retention specialist."
What are you talking about? Of fucking course we can do that here in the good 'ol U.S. of A.
What do you think happens with every Google Play Edition HTC One, or every Google Nexus?
The fact is that most people prefer to pay $25/mo burried in a contract over two years to pay for their new $600 cell phone, because this is America, the land of revolving credit and low, low monthly payments.
I've lost count of how many phones I've bought and just thrown my SIM in. The most difficult task I've had to ever do is walk into my provider and ask for a Micro-SIM card when I got a newer phone. The next time I get any hardware from them will be when I need a Nano-SIM.
That isn't to say that you can't use a plan to your advantage: I once got the entire family an "upgrade" for $25/mo on the package -- and got a whole pile of crappy Android 2.2 devices they were dumping -- but only because they lowered my service plan by $25/mo as incentive. [No doubt the sales associate got a perk for making the sale, and used their latitude in retention offers to lower my plan rate. Everyone won that day.] When the payment plan ended, my bill ultimately went down by $25 forever (or at least until they fuck all their customers again), and I had a pile of emergency phones I could just throw a SIM in when one of the kids invariably lost theirs.
Since I don't use their shitty "loan you $600, just sign up for two more years" upgrade plans, I'm always free to walk, and always free to negotiate the best rate for my plan or move to another carrier. So the next time they globally try to screw people, I can walk away without as much of a care, and put the next provider's SIM in my phone.
For that, I have to buy my phones outright -- like a responsible adult not living on the credit treadmill.
Drive up the cost of my postage? For what? The 3 letters I'll send this year? I'll pay the three cents if it screws the DMA.
The Direct Marketing Association (aka spammers) send like 90% of all snail mail -- and the only person who has to pay more are the people buying prepaid mailers -- the DMA members.
Attacks for Android exist because Android doesn't have as high of walls on its garden.
That said, a US-based malware writer does set the "USA Only" flag when he publishes. He's content to allow it to run in China and India.
Good lord you're a maniac.
Ahem...
http://officeofstrategicinflue...
For me, it's a matter of having to search for my real mail (I still get some) between the loose pages of this week's coupon clipper.
Too many direct marketers sending me REFINANCE NOW! junk mail (because property records are public) that comes in the same envelope as an EOB from my insurance... They might only take a few seconds to figure out, but those seconds add up week after week after week...
Are you willing to pay them more than the combined members of the Direct Marketing Association, who'll crush the USPS like insects if they allow you, the product, to opt out of their service?
Direct Marketers own the USPS, lock, stock and barrel.
Frankly, the idea of a company opening my private mail for me, reading it, scanning it in, then making it available...
You mean like the USPS?
When I first heard of Outbox (here?), I quickly submitted my email address to them to be notified when it hit my city.
I unsubscribe from nearly every mailing I can manually, as well as use the Direct Marketing Associations's Mail Preference Service and a 5-year blackout from credit card companies.
You can reach all of these from: https://www.dmachoice.org/
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And I still get junk. They're all assholes.
Trying to assign those costs to individual cases is meaningless, unless the cases have specific costs over and above the usual (such as requiring overtime).
Why?
False fire alarm keeps going off at your business? Well then, we're going to bill you for rolling the trucks - because a large fire department has to staff based on the number, type and location of calls that they get, and they have to staff to handle a long slew of false alarms.
All sorts of municipalities bill you when you use their services - emergency or not, requested or not. Ambulances will gladly take your unconscious body to the hospital and charge you more than the gas used.
Courts tack on "court fees" onto your tickets to pay for the time of the court. $500 fee for smoking that joint, plus $825 in court fees, plus $200 to the adult probation department. ...despite the courts being there to begin with.
He, and his ilk, created the demand for that team of investigators, and they should pay for it. Fortunately the economies of scale allow those costs to be spread among multiple offenders and he doesn't have to pay their entire salary.
Good thing it ain't a one horse town.
What sort of monster links people to Cookie Clicker without so much as a warning!
[I have 2M HC's.]
By this "logic" all police work (and by extension - all service work) has zero cost, since they're already there...
I should have landscapers come out to my house and have some work done -- after all, they already exist and would be working somewhere else anyway.
I saw them in reprisals at artsy dollar theaters - not first run.
Perhaps "second run" wasn't the perfect choice -- but I don't know a lot about how movie re-releases worked in the early 80's.
In the late 70's and VERY early 80's, summer movie passes for KIDS were the rage, parents would drop you off for 3 hours to see G-rated films and get the hell out of their hair. Of those, I still remember the sci-fi and sci-fi adjactent films. Escape to Witch Mountain -- heck, even The Cat from Outer Space.
As best I can tell, 0.00862% is a rounding error.
It's almost exactly 100x less than the rate that women die as a complication of pregnancy (0.89%) -- a number that basic 3rd world maternal care could probably cut in half. [I get that *delivering* said care is a challenge, and infrastructure sucks, but these challenges exist in land mine clearing parts of the world as well.]
Heck. 10x as many people die from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
A billion of us don't have landmines assigned to us.
Unfortunately, we don't know which billion.
He's hoping!
I was born in 69, so I got to watch most 70's sci-fi in second run at dollar theaters.
Double features of Logan's Run and Rollerball. Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green. ...ahhh, paradise :)
Star Trek has inspired countless people to explore science.
He wasn't Gene, but Shatner has pretty much always embraced his role in Trek.
I posted a few threads over, but I'm pretty sure this is how I learned back in the 80's.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.ph...
Thanks again.
For nostalgia's sake, I'll order myself a copy of the book I linked a few posts over, and find my old cube :)
Should have added that I learned from a little white pocket book..
This one?
http://www.epubbud.com/read.ph...
Replied above, but that's it for sure.
Bottom corners had a similar method to rotate through their orientations. Is there a good copy of this method somewhere, or are you going from memory. Even gesturing my hands in "down over back over" "down over over back over over" brings back memories :)
Thanks to everyone who replied.
My method sounds a lot like this one and a couple of the others above -- yours is the closest in terms of the general method, except I don't recall flipping the cube, although that's largely irrelevant.
I could move the center pieces mostly as described above, then recall sort of brute-forcing the corners by repeating the pattern that rotated them around.
I'm pretty certain that the bottom side piece rotation pattern I used was what Wraithlyn posted below this.
R- B- R+ B-
R- B2 R+ B2
(+ = clockwise, - = counterclockwise, 2 = twice)
Thanks everyone. :)
Next, to remember the corner "brute" that I used. [I'm too old to learn new tricks...]
I check the Wikipedia article every few days, or at least when it bubbles to the top.
I actually find them to be a great source for ongoing events like MH370.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...