Marketers love people like you. Heck, why shouldn't they? Who wouldn't like to be able to price their product solely on perceived value rather than on production costs plus a reasonable profit?
Like, back when they shifted from LPs which cost $2.00 each to make and sold for $8, to CDs which cost 50 cents each to make and sold for $15... and it worked, people bought it, people accepted the higher price, the cartel-created massively higher profit margin.
Man, with customers like that, the sky is the limit as far as profit margins go.
Instead of making a book for $2.00 and selling it for $10.00, they can transfer the file for a fraction of a cent and charge $9.00. Huge increase in profit margin. And sell you a book reading device for hundreds. AND eliminate the used book market. And eliminate library borrowing.
And have you thank them for it. Damn, this "intellectual property" thing is a great scam.
In his figures, a single copy of Windows Vista counts more towards "manufactured goods" than does a mid-range stereo receiver... one copy counts as more than a dozen shovels.
When you count Britney Spears CDs, Windows, Bewitched and Gilligan's Island DVD box sets, etc. as "manufactured goods," yeah, we turn out a lotta shit.
TVs, electronics, appliances, clothes, shoes, tools, household goods, various other hardware - not so much as we used to.
In games like WOW, "missions" devolve into endless errand running. Traveling vast distances to get a blueberry to give to someone who then wants dough, then firewood, then kindling, all to bake a pie that you have to take to Peter Piper.
That's why I quit WOW after a month. Endless running of errands interfered with by getting ganked by maxed out campers.
every bicyclist has experienced being endangered by drivers, driven off the road, often deliberately. Many bicyclists are killed by cars.
Somehow I don't think too many bicyclists are concerned about you, in your multi-thousand pound steel vehicle, being afraid of us on our scary bicycles.
Bicycles are legally vehicles sharing the road legally. if you, in your monstrous polluting vehicle, are unable to respect that bicycle as another vehicle and drive accordingly, then your ire and anxiety is your own responsibility.
All of the complaints describe here, swerving, etc., are the result of seeing the bike as an obstacle, a foreign object on the road, something that doesn't belong there, rather than respecting it as another vehicle on the road.
also, I should point out the adjustment factor. They're new to you, you'll get used to them. Rear flashers on bikes have been the norm here in the states since forever, and I've never heard anyone complain about them.
The problem is, NON flashing lights simply don't get noticed. This has been proven in tests. They seem more noticeable, they actually seem brighter - and they can actually BE brighter because a battery powered light would drain the batteries too fast if the light were steady. Instead, flashers often use capacitors to make the flash more powerful while still requiring a slow drain on the batts. So in essence your testimony proves they work - you damned sure are noticing these bikes... whereas with the less bright, steady lights you'd probably completely overlook them.
I have a PopcornHour Networked Digital Media Tank. I can play video files of any format including subtitles from any PC on the network on my HDTV, audio files from any PC on the network on my stereo.
I can also use it to play any streaming video or audio from the net, browse Google Video and Youtube and many others from my couch... and it even has a built-in bittorrent client if I want to download media to the internal hard drive.
All in a little box the size of an external drive enclosure... with a remote. USB inputs, network inputs, HDMI out, etc.
All for a couple of hundred bucks. Which I'm sure is a fraction of what Apple will be charging when theirs comes to market in a few years.
I'm pretty sure she's not reading this. But she might find it funny if she did, because the target of the joke is not her, it's the U.S. medical system.
They don't give a shit if it fails, they don't even give a shit if it is signed into law in the first place.
All that's important to them is a nice headline like this one during an election year. Beats doing any REAL work. Oversight? Investigations? Fuck that, that's hard work. Budgets? Infrastructure appropriations? Screw that, makes voters yawn.
It's just a BS game, happens every election year. Voter Exploitation. "Fighting Child Abuse" gets more votes than fighting executive abuse of power.
"The thief's code of ethics says that stealing is necessary."
I knew a thief once who actually did have a set of ethics like this... he would say he was a thief as if stating his profession, and would reassure you that he would never steal from a friend. Of course, who's to say that he might not later decide you aren't his friend because of a dispute over a girl, or because he valued your TV more than your friendship...
In Chris Kraft's autobiography, he talks about the range safety officer's job, and how during the lead-up to the first Mercury flights they were worried about that. There were always Russian "fishing trawlers" off the coast watching every test launch, and they were concerned about the Soviets blowing up a manned launch.
Besides encoding the signals, the other thing they did was to use a different code during tests than they would during a real manned launch.
"Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialized scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf. Along with a research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Shalf is designing a supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors, which has the sole purpose of improving global climate change predictions."
I'm so fucking tired of the media asserting as fact and perpetuating the myth of existence of the ipod.
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Like, back when they shifted from LPs which cost $2.00 each to make and sold for $8, to CDs which cost 50 cents each to make and sold for $15... and it worked, people bought it, people accepted the higher price, the cartel-created massively higher profit margin.
Man, with customers like that, the sky is the limit as far as profit margins go.
Instead of making a book for $2.00 and selling it for $10.00, they can transfer the file for a fraction of a cent and charge $9.00. Huge increase in profit margin. And sell you a book reading device for hundreds. AND eliminate the used book market. And eliminate library borrowing.
And have you thank them for it. Damn, this "intellectual property" thing is a great scam.
When you count Britney Spears CDs, Windows, Bewitched and Gilligan's Island DVD box sets, etc. as "manufactured goods," yeah, we turn out a lotta shit.
TVs, electronics, appliances, clothes, shoes, tools, household goods, various other hardware - not so much as we used to.
I still have Manhole and Cosmic Cosmo on CD. :)
But that's my point. I already have enough damned errands to run in real life... I don't want a game to just add to that list.
That's why I quit WOW after a month. Endless running of errands interfered with by getting ganked by maxed out campers.
eBay is wrong and unethical, Google is right to complain.
Somehow I don't think too many bicyclists are concerned about you, in your multi-thousand pound steel vehicle, being afraid of us on our scary bicycles.
Bicycles are legally vehicles sharing the road legally. if you, in your monstrous polluting vehicle, are unable to respect that bicycle as another vehicle and drive accordingly, then your ire and anxiety is your own responsibility.
All of the complaints describe here, swerving, etc., are the result of seeing the bike as an obstacle, a foreign object on the road, something that doesn't belong there, rather than respecting it as another vehicle on the road.
also, I should point out the adjustment factor. They're new to you, you'll get used to them. Rear flashers on bikes have been the norm here in the states since forever, and I've never heard anyone complain about them.
The problem is, NON flashing lights simply don't get noticed. This has been proven in tests. They seem more noticeable, they actually seem brighter - and they can actually BE brighter because a battery powered light would drain the batteries too fast if the light were steady. Instead, flashers often use capacitors to make the flash more powerful while still requiring a slow drain on the batts. So in essence your testimony proves they work - you damned sure are noticing these bikes... whereas with the less bright, steady lights you'd probably completely overlook them.
That could never work.
It's freaking great. But you need to get on the waiting list, go to the website and sign up. There's about a 2 month wait.
I can also use it to play any streaming video or audio from the net, browse Google Video and Youtube and many others from my couch... and it even has a built-in bittorrent client if I want to download media to the internal hard drive.
All in a little box the size of an external drive enclosure... with a remote. USB inputs, network inputs, HDMI out, etc.
All for a couple of hundred bucks. Which I'm sure is a fraction of what Apple will be charging when theirs comes to market in a few years.
I'm pretty sure she's not reading this. But she might find it funny if she did, because the target of the joke is not her, it's the U.S. medical system.
Sure, she gets a free, first-ever, tumor removing robot surgery for free... but she probably had to wait for it, right Rush?
"Your welfare is very important to us... please continue to hold on to life and the next available EMT will be with you shortly."
Not before everything else, just before the cynical and pointless pandering for votes.
All that's important to them is a nice headline like this one during an election year. Beats doing any REAL work. Oversight? Investigations? Fuck that, that's hard work. Budgets? Infrastructure appropriations? Screw that, makes voters yawn.
It's just a BS game, happens every election year. Voter Exploitation. "Fighting Child Abuse" gets more votes than fighting executive abuse of power.
I mean, it's not like there's a war on, or an economic problem, or anything else worth doing right now...
...that something like this would be proposed during an election year?
I knew a thief once who actually did have a set of ethics like this... he would say he was a thief as if stating his profession, and would reassure you that he would never steal from a friend. Of course, who's to say that he might not later decide you aren't his friend because of a dispute over a girl, or because he valued your TV more than your friendship...
it would be unethical!
If they had any sense, they wouldn't be a religion.
Besides encoding the signals, the other thing they did was to use a different code during tests than they would during a real manned launch.
I'm so fucking tired of the media asserting as fact and perpetuating the myth of existence of the ipod.
Most private pilots fly in and out of tiny little airports in the suburbs or rural areas. No car rental places for miles, usually.