Had you never looked at a ladder and wondered about the huge number of warning labels on the side?
The story there, (someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I have no corroboration...) is that a ladder manufacturer was actually sued for making a product on which someone might get hurt.
hair dryers and the like also have those permanently attached warning labels for similar reasons.
I blame it on the education system. the science classes I took did explain how electricity and water were not a healthy combination. but they didn't say anything specifically about hair dryers...
I wonder if possibly the explosion of obesity has anything to do with the movement towards a service based economy rather than a labor based one. there seem to be some parallels.
Personally, I tended to be thinner and fitter every time I gave up working on computers to go back to a manual labor job... same number of hours, and I didn't have to feel guilty about not going to a gym to work out on the way home... guilt ->depression->food->inactivity->guilt etc. etc.
It's very easy to just forget that you're not doing anything to burn the calories you're taking in. Especially if your job does not require it. I'm really beginning to believe that computers should come with an exercycle charger...
read this book.(no I am not getting a referral off this...)
that and John Nash's thesis will tell you why this will never happen (or rather, will always happen.)
All "enlightened" political systems are conceived with the idea of being equitable, (or at least "just") but they all fall down as soon as some @#$%^@ figures out how to cheat the system. (i.e. the totalitarian.) The interesting part to me is not that it happens, but that it happens repeatedly. "Those who forget the past..." etc. etc..
definitely true, also, for some older models (with the more mechanical style of button,) holding your floor button down for the whole ride will skip any stops.
I'm not sure I mind the targeted, but I really wish they would figure out how to do the ads "plain text."
The last time I listened to the radio, the bits that made me cringe the most was the horrible attempts at high concept production of many of the ads. That and the volume kick. If they could manage to get the radio ads to be as unobtrusive as the text ads that pop up on the search site, I'd be okay with it...
I have a credit card, I've already lost the privacy...
Entering the same floor over and over again would have little effect, entering many nearby floors might, but probably the wrong one... you'd get the elevator faster, but you'd still have to stop at every floor...
in my limited experience with sales people, they are usually giving the things you speak of (meals, drinks, swag, gifts, bribes, etc.,) not receiving... though that may just be indicative of the level of sales person I was dealing with... (though they certainly lived up to the last one pretty well...)
When I lived in San Francisco a few years ago, the poverty level was figured to be about $45,000 a year. When I lived in rural Vermont for a bit, the level was closer to $20,000. god knows the rents were cheaper, and surprisingly, so was the gas.
For the same salary, I could go from a poverty statistic to upper middle class.
So which poverty level were they using?
[another interesting tidbit is the number of people who made a bunch of money in the SF bubble period, and then moved to Oregon to spend it because it would go further.]
And yes I understand that the person I am quoting is not a world renowned economist or anything, but when faced with the concept of the "demand curve" I figure that most of them are making it up anyway.
Bearing in mind that GDP is a measure of how fast money flows within a system, and frequently counts the same money more than once.
example: you spend a dollar at the store, the store spends that dollar to buy goods, the manufacturer uses that dollar to create goods and pay the employee to make the goods, who then spends that dollar at the store. that counts as $4 towards the GDP.
Bill Bryson made the observation that the biggest contributor to the GDP is a "terminal cancer patient going through a costly divorce." (Amazon seearch inside the book tells me it's on page 54 of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." He is quoting from Atlantic Monthly...) and a page earlier points out that by some estimations, the O.J. Simpson trial alone may have added $200M to the GDP that year.
GDP is simply a speedometer on the cyclical flow of money, not a measure of wealth.
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the al franken show went subscription-only a month or so ago...
maybe people realized that if you bought 2 you weren't getting a double...
iTunes is the one product, iPod is meant to be a convenience extension of it.
iTMS is another convenience add-on to iTunes.
Lots of music from many sources, (though not all) can be played in iTunes and by extension on an iPod.
I think the thing to remember is that the iPod technically is an accessory to iTunes, not the other way around.
If you don't like iTunes, then an iPod isn't for you. Fashionable as they might be...
Yes!
Had you never looked at a ladder and wondered about the huge number of warning labels on the side?
The story there, (someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I have no corroboration...) is that a ladder manufacturer was actually sued for making a product on which someone might get hurt.
hair dryers and the like also have those permanently attached warning labels for similar reasons.
I blame it on the education system. the science classes I took did explain how electricity and water were not a healthy combination. but they didn't say anything specifically about hair dryers...
I wonder if possibly the explosion of obesity has anything to do with the movement towards a service based economy rather than a labor based one. there seem to be some parallels.
Personally, I tended to be thinner and fitter every time I gave up working on computers to go back to a manual labor job... same number of hours, and I didn't have to feel guilty about not going to a gym to work out on the way home... guilt ->depression->food->inactivity->guilt etc. etc.
It's very easy to just forget that you're not doing anything to burn the calories you're taking in. Especially if your job does not require it. I'm really beginning to believe that computers should come with an exercycle charger...
wasn't that a big guy with a beard?
hmmm, would that be the pigskin rather than the sheepskin?
what a load of santorum...
if they could read, don't you think they would have noticed the "thou shalt not kill" bit in that other text?
personally I think that is the one that needs the stated addendum...
read this book.(no I am not getting a referral off this...)
that and John Nash's thesis will tell you why this will never happen (or rather, will always happen.)
All "enlightened" political systems are conceived with the idea of being equitable, (or at least "just") but they all fall down as soon as some @#$%^@ figures out how to cheat the system. (i.e. the totalitarian.) The interesting part to me is not that it happens, but that it happens repeatedly. "Those who forget the past..." etc. etc..
definitely true, also, for some older models (with the more mechanical style of button,) holding your floor button down for the whole ride will skip any stops.
I'm not sure I mind the targeted, but I really wish they would figure out how to do the ads "plain text."
The last time I listened to the radio, the bits that made me cringe the most was the horrible attempts at high concept production of many of the ads. That and the volume kick. If they could manage to get the radio ads to be as unobtrusive as the text ads that pop up on the search site, I'd be okay with it...
I have a credit card, I've already lost the privacy...
Entering the same floor over and over again would have little effect, entering many nearby floors might, but probably the wrong one... you'd get the elevator faster, but you'd still have to stop at every floor...
maybe I should read the TFA...
in my limited experience with sales people, they are usually giving the things you speak of (meals, drinks, swag, gifts, bribes, etc.,) not receiving... though that may just be indicative of the level of sales person I was dealing with... (though they certainly lived up to the last one pretty well...)
all those "Unice Boxen" I keep hearing about here?
has no one watched "Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040"
we're all doomed!
how do you think they were going to offset the legal costs of the case?
before the suit it was a case of price-fixing and gouging.
after the suit it was recouping a loss, which is perfectly legal...
</sarcasm>
Overkill?
When I lived in San Francisco a few years ago, the poverty level was figured to be about $45,000 a year.
When I lived in rural Vermont for a bit, the level was closer to $20,000. god knows the rents were cheaper, and surprisingly, so was the gas.
For the same salary, I could go from a poverty statistic to upper middle class.
So which poverty level were they using?
[another interesting tidbit is the number of people who made a bunch of money in the SF bubble period, and then moved to Oregon to spend it because it would go further.]
And yes I understand that the person I am quoting is not a world renowned economist or anything, but when faced with the concept of the "demand curve" I figure that most of them are making it up anyway.
The numbers are viewed with the same distortion.
Bearing in mind that GDP is a measure of how fast money flows within a system, and frequently counts the same money more than once.
example: you spend a dollar at the store, the store spends that dollar to buy goods, the manufacturer uses that dollar to create goods and pay the employee to make the goods, who then spends that dollar at the store. that counts as $4 towards the GDP.
Bill Bryson made the observation that the biggest contributor to the GDP is a "terminal cancer patient going through a costly divorce." (Amazon seearch inside the book tells me it's on page 54 of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." He is quoting from Atlantic Monthly...) and a page earlier points out that by some estimations, the O.J. Simpson trial alone may have added $200M to the GDP that year.
GDP is simply a speedometer on the cyclical flow of money, not a measure of wealth.
So, what's the Indian equivalent to the H-1B?
I,
;)
want to rock and roll all night,
and party every day!
Though I fail to see how this relates to the subject at hand...
And how exactly are you measuring demand? ;-)
I'm curious at the moderation though, here I was thinking this was funny... For everyone else, this might be a good read.