Good thing to bring up when the GOP campaigns in NH. "Our slogan is "Live Free or Die." Are you a candidate brave enough to let us do that? Will you restore our freedoms and let us take the tiny risk we might die in a terrorist attack?"
Video's nice and all, but I'd usually much rather READ something than watch it. So write down whatever happens in your video and post that somewhere. You might have something interesting in the links in your signature, but I'm not following tinyurl links. They're a necessary evil on twitter (if you find links in twitter necessary), but they have no place outside of that. Find some links that tell me where I'm going. And then title your links better. If your link is about Ron Paul, make your link text "Ron Paul, a Real POTUS". Then maybe I'll read your link.
That's why we killed the Voyager program after only two probes, because of the documentary that fell back through time to us giving the ultimate fate of Voyager 6.
Yeah, I gave up on Firefox as my primary browser long ago because all the things I had to struggle to get Firefox to do (which tabbed browser extension do I need to make EVERYTHING open in a tab? Which session extension actually works?) just worked out of the box in Opera. I don't have any interest in tinkering with software right now, so I'm not sure how those things have improved on newer Firefoxes.
My big problem, aside from content issues, is set top boxes.
There once was a time you plugged your TV into the wall. You turned the dial and you got different channels. Instantly. Now, there's always a delay as you rapidly switch through channels (often negotiating HDMI). Often the box will get bogged down and not respond to your requests for awhile. Or you'll need to reboot it, and it will take 15 minutes for it to finish the boot sequence. They need to stop adding options and functionality and buckle down and get these machines working better. Respond instantly. Quick boots. Intelligent sleeping to save power (with instant wake up). Instead my cable company is letting me play Bejewled on my TV with my remote.
What is evil about scalping? Scalping only happens because the tickets are underpriced and therefore scarce. Scalping just moves the prices up to the actual market price.
Is issuing tickets such a complicated business that these venues couldn't do it themselves? I'm sure some of these are owned by fair-sized companies that could afford to invest in their own ticket-sales infrastructure and keep the margin that TM's been collecting.
What pain? It's a coupon. Coupons drive people to buy things. Businesses issue coupons all the time, voluntarily.
If you were a disgruntled Ticketmaster customer, you're left with a coupon. To make TM pay up on their settlement, you have to buy something from them, handing them considerably more than $1.50 in profit.
Where's the bus? Google says Slashdot's mod system has flaws. It does. They're proposing something else that they think will fix those flaws. Until we see it in action, I can't say whether it actually does address those flaws.
I don't see how this is awesome. Bobby had a toy, Jimmy came along and told the teature. "I want that toy!" The teacher took the toy from Bobby and gave it to Jimmy. Bobby cried "That's my toy! I'm telling Mommy!" The teacher responded by taking the toy away and not giving it to anyone.
So rather than responding by acknowledging that they were wrong in taking the address away from the German Merck, they act like they're in the wrong for complaining.
By that logic do you even need anything radioactive in your dirty bomb? Just CLAIM it contained plutonium and you'll generate the necessary paranoia. Anyone trying to tell people that there was nothing there is just trying to cover it all up.
Then the DEA goes to those camping stores and asks THEM for the list of end users. The camping stores stop buying his product, because it's not worth the effort. Business closed.
But that flexibility all comes from the waitstaff. I think more often I'm dissatisfied with a restaurant because of the food. But I can't withhold money from the cook staff for cooking the food poorly, or from the owner for buying poor ingredients. I can only punish the waitress is she messes up tell the cooks my order, or drops my food, or forgets about me. And I may end up punishing her for something that's not her fault (My food took forever because the cooks messed it up and she had to send it back.)
Not saying it's not her fault for failing to ask about putting a limit, but if Groupon were a responsible business, they would bring up the issue of limits during this discussion to come up with their "tailored approach".
Which is perfectly rational of the health insurers. This customer is nearly guaranteed to be making expensive claims non-stop for the rest of his life. If the senior is expected to make claims of $X a month, the health insurance needs to cost $X + 10% (at least)/month.
We want everyone to have health coverage. But insuring everyone just isn't good business sense. That's why the government should be in the health "insurance" business. The government doesn't have to make money, an insurance company does.
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Good thing to bring up when the GOP campaigns in NH. "Our slogan is "Live Free or Die." Are you a candidate brave enough to let us do that? Will you restore our freedoms and let us take the tiny risk we might die in a terrorist attack?"
Video's nice and all, but I'd usually much rather READ something than watch it. So write down whatever happens in your video and post that somewhere. You might have something interesting in the links in your signature, but I'm not following tinyurl links. They're a necessary evil on twitter (if you find links in twitter necessary), but they have no place outside of that. Find some links that tell me where I'm going. And then title your links better. If your link is about Ron Paul, make your link text "Ron Paul, a Real POTUS". Then maybe I'll read your link.
That's why we killed the Voyager program after only two probes, because of the documentary that fell back through time to us giving the ultimate fate of Voyager 6.
Yeah, I gave up on Firefox as my primary browser long ago because all the things I had to struggle to get Firefox to do (which tabbed browser extension do I need to make EVERYTHING open in a tab? Which session extension actually works?) just worked out of the box in Opera. I don't have any interest in tinkering with software right now, so I'm not sure how those things have improved on newer Firefoxes.
But note that while Mythbusters is fun, we don't want MORE shows in that model.
My big problem, aside from content issues, is set top boxes.
There once was a time you plugged your TV into the wall. You turned the dial and you got different channels. Instantly. Now, there's always a delay as you rapidly switch through channels (often negotiating HDMI). Often the box will get bogged down and not respond to your requests for awhile. Or you'll need to reboot it, and it will take 15 minutes for it to finish the boot sequence. They need to stop adding options and functionality and buckle down and get these machines working better. Respond instantly. Quick boots. Intelligent sleeping to save power (with instant wake up). Instead my cable company is letting me play Bejewled on my TV with my remote.
Also if you do not use your $1.50 coupon then they will give $1.50 to a charity.
The foundation for starving ticketmaster executives?
What is evil about scalping? Scalping only happens because the tickets are underpriced and therefore scarce. Scalping just moves the prices up to the actual market price.
Is issuing tickets such a complicated business that these venues couldn't do it themselves? I'm sure some of these are owned by fair-sized companies that could afford to invest in their own ticket-sales infrastructure and keep the margin that TM's been collecting.
What pain? It's a coupon. Coupons drive people to buy things. Businesses issue coupons all the time, voluntarily.
If you were a disgruntled Ticketmaster customer, you're left with a coupon. To make TM pay up on their settlement, you have to buy something from them, handing them considerably more than $1.50 in profit.
Obviously because you weren't calling the porn hotlines enough
Where's the bus? Google says Slashdot's mod system has flaws. It does. They're proposing something else that they think will fix those flaws. Until we see it in action, I can't say whether it actually does address those flaws.
That was the example, Jimmy cries, teacher gives Bobby's toy to Jimmy. Bobby cries he's being a baby so you take it away from them both.
I don't see how this is awesome. Bobby had a toy, Jimmy came along and told the teature. "I want that toy!" The teacher took the toy from Bobby and gave it to Jimmy. Bobby cried "That's my toy! I'm telling Mommy!" The teacher responded by taking the toy away and not giving it to anyone.
So rather than responding by acknowledging that they were wrong in taking the address away from the German Merck, they act like they're in the wrong for complaining.
By that logic do you even need anything radioactive in your dirty bomb? Just CLAIM it contained plutonium and you'll generate the necessary paranoia. Anyone trying to tell people that there was nothing there is just trying to cover it all up.
So what if the irradiated water spreads? It's not dangerous.
I think that I shall never see: A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall: I'll never see a tree at all.
-Ogden Nash
Then the DEA goes to those camping stores and asks THEM for the list of end users. The camping stores stop buying his product, because it's not worth the effort. Business closed.
But it may push his costs up enough that the product become unprofitable.
Mr. Pink's rant wouldn't be funny if he didn't have a point.
But that flexibility all comes from the waitstaff. I think more often I'm dissatisfied with a restaurant because of the food. But I can't withhold money from the cook staff for cooking the food poorly, or from the owner for buying poor ingredients. I can only punish the waitress is she messes up tell the cooks my order, or drops my food, or forgets about me. And I may end up punishing her for something that's not her fault (My food took forever because the cooks messed it up and she had to send it back.)
Not saying it's not her fault for failing to ask about putting a limit, but if Groupon were a responsible business, they would bring up the issue of limits during this discussion to come up with their "tailored approach".
No, the next 100 wouldn't buy cupcakes because they'd be pissed. They paid for a discount coupon, they're not going to buy cupcakes without it.
Which is perfectly rational of the health insurers. This customer is nearly guaranteed to be making expensive claims non-stop for the rest of his life. If the senior is expected to make claims of $X a month, the health insurance needs to cost $X + 10% (at least) /month.
We want everyone to have health coverage. But insuring everyone just isn't good business sense. That's why the government should be in the health "insurance" business. The government doesn't have to make money, an insurance company does.
No. Letting them expire is not raising taxes. They were temporary. Making them permanent is cutting taxes.
If a store has a sale, 20% for a week, when the sale ends they didn't raise prices, they went back to normal prices.