but that's not what he is teaching the kids... he is teaching them to doubt scientists, but to trust him completely, to trust the church completely, and to trust completely in a being he has told them exists.
Jafafa's Law: Anyone who tries through reflexive and thoughtless exclamation to inhibit the very valid practice of comparing for the purpose of gaining perspective a behavior to known extremes is a fucking putz.
I had a sortof similar situation once. Due to internal injuries... well, to be blunt, I couldn't just have a half our lunch break - wolfing down food would make me sick, and I needed to use the bathroom for about 20 minutes after eating, etc.
I had a supervisor who understood this, and she let me take an hour break for lunch in return for staying a half hour later each day - this worked out well since it helped keep the phones covered later too. Plus, since I used public transportation, I didn't get on the bus before then anyway... perfect solution.
She left. New manager was outraged to discover that I had an hour for lunch, "everyone has to have the same rules," etc. No flexibility. I started getting "caught" spending my needed time in the bathroom. I explained again that that's why I had an hour lunch, etc. I got nothing but threats. Formal notification that I was to be back at my desk by 12:30, etc. So I started leaving the building immediately after I had been on the clock 8 hours. No more hanging around, no more extra half hour.
The manager didn't think it through. About the third day of this he was monitoring the system wondering why the phones had gone nuts the last couple of days, and saw me with my jacket going for the door - ran to intercept me, said I needed to get back to the phones.
"Sorry - since my lunch is now a half hour shorter, I leave a half hour earlier - I don't need the overtime." His faced dropped and I got the pleasure of seeing him realize that he had fucked himself. But of course, he wouldn't admit it...
So in the end he ended up paying someone else overtime to fill the time I would have been working at the normal rate.
There are two things I was trying to point out. One, that they are not subject to market forces because they are an illegal cartel.
Yes, you are right... they can set the price at $400 and as a consumer you can either take it or leave it, and there's nothing wrong, in a sense, with them deciding to charge $400 for a 25 cent non-necessity...
I was just pointing out the utter bullshit and dishonesty in the response they give, that they are jacking up their profit margins by several orders of magnitude and charging MORE for a product than now costs LESS to make - because they are giving the consumer a BETTER VALUE. That is just plain BULLSHIT.
The real reason is simply BECAUSE WE CAN.
If it were legal for some cartel to virtually control the entire world banana market, and after gaining that control they lowered the cost of growing bananas by 75 percent while also decreasing blemishes on them, and then jacked up the price of bananas by 300%, it would NOT be a truthful justification of their massive price increase to say "Its because our NEW bananas are PRETTIER!"
This same argument was used when the music cartel refused to lower CD prices. An LP cost $1.50 to produce, and sold for $7. A CD cost 25 cents to produce and sold for $15.99.
And how did the cartel respond to charges that it was using its virtual monopoly to artificially fix prices and gouge customers? "It sounds so much better and is so much more convenient, it's a much BETTER VALUE than the LP, so it's worth it."
BULLSHIT. The intrinsic value of a product is the cost of production, period. Anything beyond that, quality, scarcity, is a relative thing, a percieved value and changes based on demand, competition, etc. The companies are only justified in charging MORE for a product that cost LESS to produce if even given competition, etc., the customer demand allows it. If the price is set because of monopoly control, then charging more for a cheaper item is just plain gouging.
"Businesses have had this free ride for too long - striking lucrative business deals over the phone using our infrastructure, selling products via phone orders, and otherwise exploiting our services. It's only fair that we should get a share of that."
Wow, you scared me there - you said solar energy was becoming more pervasive, and I was worried about a supernova or something. What a relief to find that solar energy is just as pervasive (and no MORE pervasive) than before - it's just that the USE of it is becoming more pervasive.:)
What kind of an apology is this? For something to be an apology, doesn't the person being apologized to have to SEE it as an apology rather than as further insult?
"I'm sorry for calling you fat - I really meant 'Reubenesque.'"
"Sorry for punching you in the face - next time I'll aim for your gut."
Ahh, yes. Gotta stop that "pro-gay propaganda." I can just see it now:
"Hey, I see you always hang around Lagamorph. Are you two buddies?" "No, we're a couple." "But your character is male too!" "Yes. We are a gay couple." "ALERT! ALERT! PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA!!! PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA!!!!"
And what is the anti-gay propaganda? "I, Lord Flagron, heterosexual (did I mention I'm straight? NOT GAY? Because being gay is BAD!) will give you five gold crowns for that grain (which I will use as a HETEROSEXUAL, because I am NOT GAY!!! GAY IS BAD!!!)
I love how they phrase this... "work at will" or in other states "right to work" - as if the law was intended to help workers... I guess they figured the name "fire at will" is better reserved for their laws on gun policy.
Modify a less-efficient, 40 year old design that hasn't been produced in several decades, or modify a more-efficient currently-used design. Choose the former because it "already exists?"
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Unless of course you're comparing the two to a THIRD. Then they can be equally better if the third sucks. :)
but that's not what he is teaching the kids... he is teaching them to doubt scientists, but to trust him completely, to trust the church completely, and to trust completely in a being he has told them exists.
Wait - being infected causes inreased dopamine levels?!?!?1
GIMME!!!!!
I was just enjoying the thought of mooning them every day.
Jafafa's Law: Anyone who tries through reflexive and thoughtless exclamation to inhibit the very valid practice of comparing for the purpose of gaining perspective a behavior to known extremes is a fucking putz.
(I admit it's not very catchy.)
I would be hard pressed to decide whether I was going to quit, or force them to put it in my asscheek.
Well, there were those number tattoos in the Nazi slave labor camps...
Someone is just now discovering "the pattern?!"
Anyone who played these games KNOWS its not a matter of "figuring out how to outsmart or out-maneuver the end-level boss..."
It's always been just a matter of memorizing the pattern. Like, no shit.
Actually, many of the cartoon characters of the time were Mickey knock-offs. Warner Bros. for example had Foxy and piggy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxy_(cartoon_charact er)
I had a sortof similar situation once.
Due to internal injuries... well, to be blunt, I couldn't just have a half our lunch break - wolfing down food would make me sick, and I needed to use the bathroom for about 20 minutes after eating, etc.
I had a supervisor who understood this, and she let me take an hour break for lunch in return for staying a half hour later each day - this worked out well since it helped keep the phones covered later too. Plus, since I used public transportation, I didn't get on the bus before then anyway... perfect solution.
She left. New manager was outraged to discover that I had an hour for lunch, "everyone has to have the same rules," etc. No flexibility. I started getting "caught" spending my needed time in the bathroom. I explained again that that's why I had an hour lunch, etc. I got nothing but threats. Formal notification that I was to be back at my desk by 12:30, etc.
So I started leaving the building immediately after I had been on the clock 8 hours.
No more hanging around, no more extra half hour.
The manager didn't think it through. About the third day of this he was monitoring the system wondering why the phones had gone nuts the last couple of days, and saw me with my jacket going for the door - ran to intercept me, said I needed to get back to the phones.
"Sorry - since my lunch is now a half hour shorter, I leave a half hour earlier - I don't need the overtime."
His faced dropped and I got the pleasure of seeing him realize that he had fucked himself. But of course, he wouldn't admit it...
So in the end he ended up paying someone else overtime to fill the time I would have been working at the normal rate.
There are two things I was trying to point out. One, that they are not subject to market forces because they are an illegal cartel. Yes, you are right... they can set the price at $400 and as a consumer you can either take it or leave it, and there's nothing wrong, in a sense, with them deciding to charge $400 for a 25 cent non-necessity... I was just pointing out the utter bullshit and dishonesty in the response they give, that they are jacking up their profit margins by several orders of magnitude and charging MORE for a product than now costs LESS to make - because they are giving the consumer a BETTER VALUE. That is just plain BULLSHIT. The real reason is simply BECAUSE WE CAN. If it were legal for some cartel to virtually control the entire world banana market, and after gaining that control they lowered the cost of growing bananas by 75 percent while also decreasing blemishes on them, and then jacked up the price of bananas by 300%, it would NOT be a truthful justification of their massive price increase to say "Its because our NEW bananas are PRETTIER!"
This same argument was used when the music cartel refused to lower CD prices.
An LP cost $1.50 to produce, and sold for $7.
A CD cost 25 cents to produce and sold for $15.99.
And how did the cartel respond to charges that it was using its virtual monopoly to artificially fix prices and gouge customers? "It sounds so much better and is so much more convenient, it's a much BETTER VALUE than the LP, so it's worth it."
BULLSHIT. The intrinsic value of a product is the cost of production, period. Anything beyond that, quality, scarcity, is a relative thing, a percieved value and changes based on demand, competition, etc.
The companies are only justified in charging MORE for a product that cost LESS to produce if even given competition, etc., the customer demand allows it.
If the price is set because of monopoly control, then charging more for a cheaper item is just plain gouging.
Exactly! DVD is much easier, because now you don't have to fast forward through the commercials, since they won't LET YOU! :)
"Businesses have had this free ride for too long - striking lucrative business deals over the phone using our infrastructure, selling products via phone orders, and otherwise exploiting our services. It's only fair that we should get a share of that."
Since Yahoo and AOL will be getting a cut of the spammers profits, they will no longer consider it and classify it as spam. Isn't that brilliant?
Wow, you scared me there - you said solar energy was becoming more pervasive, and I was worried about a supernova or something. What a relief to find that solar energy is just as pervasive (and no MORE pervasive) than before - it's just that the USE of it is becoming more pervasive. :)
But those are the Bush supporters. :P
"I'm sorry for calling you fat - I really meant 'Reubenesque.'"
"Sorry for punching you in the face - next time I'll aim for your gut."
um, guess again, sparky - pro-war people are in the minority. Most americans say it was a mistake and that we were mislead.
"Hey, I see you always hang around Lagamorph. Are you two buddies?"
"No, we're a couple."
"But your character is male too!"
"Yes. We are a gay couple."
"ALERT! ALERT! PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA!!! PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA!!!!"
And what is the anti-gay propaganda? "I, Lord Flagron, heterosexual (did I mention I'm straight? NOT GAY? Because being gay is BAD!) will give you five gold crowns for that grain (which I will use as a HETEROSEXUAL, because I am NOT GAY!!! GAY IS BAD!!!)
I love how they phrase this... "work at will" or in other states "right to work" - as if the law was intended to help workers... I guess they figured the name "fire at will" is better reserved for their laws on gun policy.
What am I not getting here?
who the hell would reference ANY encyclopedia in a paper to be published??
Seems to me like what really happened was Steve Jobs traded Pixar for ownership of Disney.
What do you mean "might as well?!?!?!"