To be fair, while he may not know economics, he can sense that things are out of whack. And they are. I think we agree that a free market is, in general, the most efficient way that we know of to meet supply and demand. For things where efficiency is important, we should try to keep our economic system as close as possible to a free market.
The problem is that a free market includes free movement of goods, free movement of capital, and free movement of labor. We are adopting all sorts of free trade agreements which involve goods and capital, but they ignore labor. This creates a massive artificial distortion in the free market, and there are certainly consequences. Yes, the populace as a whole benefits from lower prices - but this comes at a terrible cost, as you would expect when you deviate from the free market model.
People aren't ready to adopt trade agreements which include free movement of labor - that's fine. Labor is traditionally not as mobile as goods or capital anyway. But there needs to be some kind of compensation for the lack of free movement of labor, and mostly it is neglected. If you are pro-free market, you can't be pro-free trade in isolation - that is a government intrusion.
Yeah, if you are trying to gather people into an anti-regulation stance, I'm not sure you want to be pointing out the state of things in China. Still massive amounts of vestigial command economy and corruption with horrid environmental conditions.
Yes, we do that the other 29 or 30 nights of the month. The dinner/movie thing is the exception. One can vary a routine from time to time.
It seems pretty reasonable to me.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. What seems reasonable to you seems overly stuffy and rigid to me. Part of depends on the movie - there isn't much in a comic book movie that demands great attention. Schindler's List doesn't make me overly hungry:)
Do not eat in the Cinema, ever. It's rude, and it's uncivilised.
Sorry, can't agree. Have you ever noticed the outsized square footage that they give the snack bar? And they put it right at the entrance, to boot. For most of us, it's part of the experience.
At the new places that I was talking about, they are a full-fledged restaurant and bar that also shows a movie. Not only are you expected to eat there, but it would be kind of weird to go there if you weren't going to eat or drink.
Recently theaters have started to catch on to this. Even here in "blue laws" PA, theaters are selling beer. They are increasingly installing electric reclining seats with assigned seating. One theater even serves you decent pub-style food directly to your seat during the movie. It's not for everyone, and it sure does jack up the price - but I've started going to the theater again after a long time of avoiding it.
This is what I do as well. Nice software, but I wish it supported song ratings rather than just stars.
Now, Subsonic is no good at all for discovering new music. For that I generally use YouTube, Spotify, and Pandora. Each has it's strengths. I don't pay for anything, so one of the weaknesses of Spotify is it is not free on mobile. Pandora is excellent but the playlists tend to get repetitive without frequent attention. YouTube has the poorest automatic playlist selection algorithm, uneven audio quality, and it eats bandwidth - but you can find almost anything and it is easy to queue stuff up for later.
You probably have a management team who actually understands the intent of agile and crafted a system which embraces the spirit while working well with your particular needs. Many just rename their round-robin micromanagement meetings as "scrums" (only they force everyone to stand the whole time) and re-badge their glacial feature planning process as "stories". Basically, they read the books, adopt the terminology, and ignore the parts that don't mesh with the practice they already like. So, agile in name only and of course all the staff hate it.
I really don't have a problem using a plain old dock. The headphone port seems to die before the USB port on my phones. I had a phone that had the charging port die back in the mid-2000s, but it was an external-contact design with spring-loaded pins on the charger.
You can, however, simply buy power from the cheapest provider and then simply buy the Renewable Energy Credits yourself. No need to enrich the middle man. Result is exactly the same.
One can be honest about problems in the black community and also make funny jokes. It's not the stereotypes that offend me, it's the utterly banal humor.
Wow, a Renaissance man, your uncle. He managed to compare apes and blacks and ALSO wedged an absentee father stab in there. Truly admirable. If he could work in something about laziness or stupidity in there he could go on tour with it.
If he's still around, I think Trump's legal team has an opening.
His phone doesn't have a microphone and it doesn't link up to towers. It says "Fisher-Price" on the back next to the picture of Elmo. Elmo has been modified to remove the eyeballs.
Ha! Well, he's very fortunate to not be a paycheck-to-paycheck shmoe where overdraft charges would have complicated everything. I had an auto-pay mistake early on (way before I had a cell phone... maybe a student or car loan or something) - so early I can't even remember it. But it taught me not to use auto-pay for anything. At that time I probably knew my account balance to the penny.
To be very specific, I had a family plan with fixed minutes per phone. I would periodically check the minutes left on each phone via the website. One day, it started pooling all of the minutes. Obviously, this was not going to work so I called customer service. The guy claimed that he'd worked there for 6 months and the website had always behaved like that. I was like, listen guy, I've been checking this site 3 or 4 times a week for years and it just changed. He simply said, "I don't know what to tell you..." I asked for a web support person, he said he was it. I asked for a manager, he said he was it. I asked for retention, he said he could cancel my account. I said, yes, please, and that was it.
I left Sprint because of their shitty customer service and landed at T-Mobile, which has had excellent customer service. So there's another data point for you.
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To be fair, while he may not know economics, he can sense that things are out of whack. And they are. I think we agree that a free market is, in general, the most efficient way that we know of to meet supply and demand. For things where efficiency is important, we should try to keep our economic system as close as possible to a free market.
The problem is that a free market includes free movement of goods, free movement of capital, and free movement of labor. We are adopting all sorts of free trade agreements which involve goods and capital, but they ignore labor. This creates a massive artificial distortion in the free market, and there are certainly consequences. Yes, the populace as a whole benefits from lower prices - but this comes at a terrible cost, as you would expect when you deviate from the free market model.
People aren't ready to adopt trade agreements which include free movement of labor - that's fine. Labor is traditionally not as mobile as goods or capital anyway. But there needs to be some kind of compensation for the lack of free movement of labor, and mostly it is neglected. If you are pro-free market, you can't be pro-free trade in isolation - that is a government intrusion.
Yeah, if you are trying to gather people into an anti-regulation stance, I'm not sure you want to be pointing out the state of things in China. Still massive amounts of vestigial command economy and corruption with horrid environmental conditions.
Come on man, sit around a table and eat and talk
Yes, we do that the other 29 or 30 nights of the month. The dinner/movie thing is the exception. One can vary a routine from time to time.
It seems pretty reasonable to me.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. What seems reasonable to you seems overly stuffy and rigid to me. Part of depends on the movie - there isn't much in a comic book movie that demands great attention. Schindler's List doesn't make me overly hungry :)
Do not eat in the Cinema, ever. It's rude, and it's uncivilised.
Sorry, can't agree. Have you ever noticed the outsized square footage that they give the snack bar? And they put it right at the entrance, to boot. For most of us, it's part of the experience.
At the new places that I was talking about, they are a full-fledged restaurant and bar that also shows a movie. Not only are you expected to eat there, but it would be kind of weird to go there if you weren't going to eat or drink.
Yeah, anything that starts with: step 1 - pick your java servlet engine...
60,000 people calling 911 at once is probably not the best way to handle an emergency anyway.
Recently theaters have started to catch on to this. Even here in "blue laws" PA, theaters are selling beer. They are increasingly installing electric reclining seats with assigned seating. One theater even serves you decent pub-style food directly to your seat during the movie. It's not for everyone, and it sure does jack up the price - but I've started going to the theater again after a long time of avoiding it.
This is what I do as well. Nice software, but I wish it supported song ratings rather than just stars.
Now, Subsonic is no good at all for discovering new music. For that I generally use YouTube, Spotify, and Pandora. Each has it's strengths. I don't pay for anything, so one of the weaknesses of Spotify is it is not free on mobile. Pandora is excellent but the playlists tend to get repetitive without frequent attention. YouTube has the poorest automatic playlist selection algorithm, uneven audio quality, and it eats bandwidth - but you can find almost anything and it is easy to queue stuff up for later.
You probably have a management team who actually understands the intent of agile and crafted a system which embraces the spirit while working well with your particular needs. Many just rename their round-robin micromanagement meetings as "scrums" (only they force everyone to stand the whole time) and re-badge their glacial feature planning process as "stories". Basically, they read the books, adopt the terminology, and ignore the parts that don't mesh with the practice they already like. So, agile in name only and of course all the staff hate it.
What is this... P... C... thing you speak of?
I really don't have a problem using a plain old dock. The headphone port seems to die before the USB port on my phones. I had a phone that had the charging port die back in the mid-2000s, but it was an external-contact design with spring-loaded pins on the charger.
Around here you'll get more traction with eavesdropping trolls. Something about the EMFs revealing your encryption.
Anywhere to read up on these benefits where they aren't selling something?
Incorrect. No one penetrates Hillary.
We write comprehensible sentences.
You can, however, simply buy power from the cheapest provider and then simply buy the Renewable Energy Credits yourself. No need to enrich the middle man. Result is exactly the same.
One can be honest about problems in the black community and also make funny jokes. It's not the stereotypes that offend me, it's the utterly banal humor.
Wow, a Renaissance man, your uncle. He managed to compare apes and blacks and ALSO wedged an absentee father stab in there. Truly admirable. If he could work in something about laziness or stupidity in there he could go on tour with it.
If he's still around, I think Trump's legal team has an opening.
His phone doesn't have a microphone and it doesn't link up to towers. It says "Fisher-Price" on the back next to the picture of Elmo. Elmo has been modified to remove the eyeballs.
They can still watch you, Robert.
Ha! Well, he's very fortunate to not be a paycheck-to-paycheck shmoe where overdraft charges would have complicated everything. I had an auto-pay mistake early on (way before I had a cell phone... maybe a student or car loan or something) - so early I can't even remember it. But it taught me not to use auto-pay for anything. At that time I probably knew my account balance to the penny.
America: we're not as bad as Italy!
Maybe Hillary can adopt that slogan.
"That bastard stole my quote!" -- FDR
To be very specific, I had a family plan with fixed minutes per phone. I would periodically check the minutes left on each phone via the website. One day, it started pooling all of the minutes. Obviously, this was not going to work so I called customer service. The guy claimed that he'd worked there for 6 months and the website had always behaved like that. I was like, listen guy, I've been checking this site 3 or 4 times a week for years and it just changed. He simply said, "I don't know what to tell you..." I asked for a web support person, he said he was it. I asked for a manager, he said he was it. I asked for retention, he said he could cancel my account. I said, yes, please, and that was it.
I left Sprint because of their shitty customer service and landed at T-Mobile, which has had excellent customer service. So there's another data point for you.