Wasn't that sort of the whole point of my post? To a pre-teen "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" was not only a great movie, but one that could be watched over and over again. To an adult, it might have sucked. To a pre-teen, the review by S&E seems hopelessly out of touch. To an adult, it is spot-on. So someone who was in their 20s or 30s in 1986 might think that S&E nailed it, but anyone in their adolescence thinks they are humorless old farts who wouldn't appreciate a great movie if it bounced off of a trampoline into their back yard.
You are right, though companies are learning how to game online reviews. I think you had to be in a certain age demographic to appreciate Siskel and Ebert. I grew up in the 80s, and they always seemed fuddy-duddy... my humor was sophomoric and theirs was not, so they panned every comedy that I ever loved as a kid. This makes sense, since they were a lot older than me:)
I have to wonder about anyone who recommends Outlook with the ribbon interface. I mean, I hate the ribbon in general, but it is a particular disaster in Outlook where each freaking window type gets its own version of the ribbon.
I think that all of those have some kind of a Widget/Dashboard/etc thing. I know that when I want weather on my Mac, I don't fire up Safari on Firefox - I just hit the Dashboard button (F4). On my Windows 7 machine, I have "Gadgets" (though I confess to not really using them much... it's not my primary computer). You can reveal them by just showing the Desktop. Android and Linux have bazillions of ways to set up a dashboard. My phone has weather on the lockscreen, my calendar is a right swipe on the lockscreen, and my email is a bottom swipe. It may very be that the reason iGoogle lost favor was that it was entirely redundant.
Given the other grammatical errors in the summary, I think we can conclude that the submitter is trolling for Halloween. What country is the apostrophe common in, anyway?
LOL, well I live very close to the dodgy part of Philly, so many of the cars on the road are old cop cars (complete with spotlight) or old taxis. Most of the time they are too badly damaged to mistake for cop cars - or at the very least the windows are completely blacked out. But every once in a while I slow down and move over only to see that it has shiny rims and low profile tires when it goes by:) At night, they always get me, since the headlights look exactly the same.
Yup. Lots of room for error and judgement, but the fact is a cop has to be pretty close to use this method. I don't know how prevalent unmarked cops are in CA, but if they are anything like PA the cop cars are still easy to identify. I've been in southern states where the cops seem to drive whatever they have on hand, and that would certainly change things - I certainly wouldn't slow down if a Camaro came racing up to my bumper.
Not only was she doing 80, but he got her via the "PACE" method. This kind of implies that she wasn't paying much attention, or she probably would have seen the cop car tailing her.
That's pretty semantic. Your _how_ is already restricted. You have to be licensed, your car has to meet certain safety and emissions standards, and it has to be of a certain class (rocket sleds are out, for instance). An auto-driver as a requirement is not fundamentally different.
Same reason people started wearing wrist watches instead of pocket watches - it is faster and more convenient to look at your wrist. Yes, the analogy lacks a bit since you still carry around the phone - but consider the use case of receiving an email: You are working on something, perhaps debugging a piece of equipment, mowing the lawn, maybe painting - pick an activity. Your phone buzzes with the familiar tone of an incoming email or sms. You can either: (a) look at your wrist to see if it is worth a damn or, (b) stop what you are doing, dig into your pockets for your phone, turn on the screen, maybe swipe it to unlock, and then pull down the notifications. Even if you don't have your phone buttoned up like Ft. Knox and your SMS and emails are set to show up on your lock screen, it is still less convenient than getting it on your wrist.
Also consider that some people still wear a watch... a plain old ordinary watch. Having a more functional watch is not exactly a revolutionary way of thinking for these people.
I'm not going to buy a smartwatch, but a particularly geeky guy (but in a cool way) at work has one of those Pebble watches and he made the above points to me when I teased him about it.
That is not really true. Amazon is growing it's book value, not just it's revenue. Look at it this way: an investor who is saving for retirement can take dividends in a company and then reinvest the money, or they can find a company that reinvests the income itself. The company has some advantages here... first, they probably know their market better than the investor does. At the very least, they will probably have more information than the investor does when they decide to invest. The other big advantage is taxes - the reinvestment that the growth company does is tax-free, whereas the company would get taxed on profits, the investor would get taxed on dividends, and only then would money be available for reinvestment.
Of course you are right... I mean, at some point Amazon cannot grow anymore. "Best case", they can't grow beyond monopoly. At that point, they had certainly better be profitable! Long before that, growth will slow and the stock will suffer. That said, they have a loooong way to grow in retail.
If you consider that he said "big corporations and big government are a difference without a distinction", then the problems we have with corporate money in politics makes more sense.
For individual investors looking to buy 10, 100, or even 1000 shares: that's delusional.
Look at the price history of the S&P 500 some time. Sure, it's even better with total returns, but letting a company reinvest money instead of returning it can most certainly be a good strategy for the small investor. If you have to consider taxes, then a growth strategy makes even more sense - I'd much rather pay the long-term capital gains rate (though the special qualified dividend rate kind of renders the point moot these days).
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I call it "Savings". Ain't changing language grand?
I meant to say lat/long. Oh well.
Could you supply GPS coordinates and a harvest date?
Wasn't that sort of the whole point of my post? To a pre-teen "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" was not only a great movie, but one that could be watched over and over again. To an adult, it might have sucked. To a pre-teen, the review by S&E seems hopelessly out of touch. To an adult, it is spot-on. So someone who was in their 20s or 30s in 1986 might think that S&E nailed it, but anyone in their adolescence thinks they are humorless old farts who wouldn't appreciate a great movie if it bounced off of a trampoline into their back yard.
You are right, though companies are learning how to game online reviews. I think you had to be in a certain age demographic to appreciate Siskel and Ebert. I grew up in the 80s, and they always seemed fuddy-duddy... my humor was sophomoric and theirs was not, so they panned every comedy that I ever loved as a kid. This makes sense, since they were a lot older than me :)
Here they are panning "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". I mean, damn. At least Roger defends it a bit, though by giving a backhanded slap at slapstick comedy... hey! I like slapstick!
I have to wonder about anyone who recommends Outlook with the ribbon interface. I mean, I hate the ribbon in general, but it is a particular disaster in Outlook where each freaking window type gets its own version of the ribbon.
I think that all of those have some kind of a Widget/Dashboard/etc thing. I know that when I want weather on my Mac, I don't fire up Safari on Firefox - I just hit the Dashboard button (F4). On my Windows 7 machine, I have "Gadgets" (though I confess to not really using them much... it's not my primary computer). You can reveal them by just showing the Desktop. Android and Linux have bazillions of ways to set up a dashboard. My phone has weather on the lockscreen, my calendar is a right swipe on the lockscreen, and my email is a bottom swipe. It may very be that the reason iGoogle lost favor was that it was entirely redundant.
Maybe he likes fantasy novels, then?
Given the other grammatical errors in the summary, I think we can conclude that the submitter is trolling for Halloween. What country is the apostrophe common in, anyway?
LOL, well I live very close to the dodgy part of Philly, so many of the cars on the road are old cop cars (complete with spotlight) or old taxis. Most of the time they are too badly damaged to mistake for cop cars - or at the very least the windows are completely blacked out. But every once in a while I slow down and move over only to see that it has shiny rims and low profile tires when it goes by :) At night, they always get me, since the headlights look exactly the same.
Yup. Lots of room for error and judgement, but the fact is a cop has to be pretty close to use this method. I don't know how prevalent unmarked cops are in CA, but if they are anything like PA the cop cars are still easy to identify. I've been in southern states where the cops seem to drive whatever they have on hand, and that would certainly change things - I certainly wouldn't slow down if a Camaro came racing up to my bumper.
I'll continue maintaining my above-the-speed-limit speed even when a cop is behind me.
You like talking to cops?
Not only was she doing 80, but he got her via the "PACE" method. This kind of implies that she wasn't paying much attention, or she probably would have seen the cop car tailing her.
That's pretty semantic. Your _how_ is already restricted. You have to be licensed, your car has to meet certain safety and emissions standards, and it has to be of a certain class (rocket sleds are out, for instance). An auto-driver as a requirement is not fundamentally different.
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I am a banana!
Winding one's watch does not require you to even remove it from your wrist, let alone plugging it in for an hour or so.
Same reason people started wearing wrist watches instead of pocket watches - it is faster and more convenient to look at your wrist. Yes, the analogy lacks a bit since you still carry around the phone - but consider the use case of receiving an email:
You are working on something, perhaps debugging a piece of equipment, mowing the lawn, maybe painting - pick an activity. Your phone buzzes with the familiar tone of an incoming email or sms. You can either: (a) look at your wrist to see if it is worth a damn or, (b) stop what you are doing, dig into your pockets for your phone, turn on the screen, maybe swipe it to unlock, and then pull down the notifications. Even if you don't have your phone buttoned up like Ft. Knox and your SMS and emails are set to show up on your lock screen, it is still less convenient than getting it on your wrist.
Also consider that some people still wear a watch... a plain old ordinary watch. Having a more functional watch is not exactly a revolutionary way of thinking for these people.
I'm not going to buy a smartwatch, but a particularly geeky guy (but in a cool way) at work has one of those Pebble watches and he made the above points to me when I teased him about it.
That is not really true. Amazon is growing it's book value, not just it's revenue. Look at it this way: an investor who is saving for retirement can take dividends in a company and then reinvest the money, or they can find a company that reinvests the income itself. The company has some advantages here... first, they probably know their market better than the investor does. At the very least, they will probably have more information than the investor does when they decide to invest. The other big advantage is taxes - the reinvestment that the growth company does is tax-free, whereas the company would get taxed on profits, the investor would get taxed on dividends, and only then would money be available for reinvestment.
Of course you are right... I mean, at some point Amazon cannot grow anymore. "Best case", they can't grow beyond monopoly. At that point, they had certainly better be profitable! Long before that, growth will slow and the stock will suffer. That said, they have a loooong way to grow in retail.
If you consider that he said "big corporations and big government are a difference without a distinction", then the problems we have with corporate money in politics makes more sense.
I'd like your theory on how that would work. Even better would be an example, but I don't think there is one.
For individual investors looking to buy 10, 100, or even 1000 shares: that's delusional.
Look at the price history of the S&P 500 some time. Sure, it's even better with total returns, but letting a company reinvest money instead of returning it can most certainly be a good strategy for the small investor. If you have to consider taxes, then a growth strategy makes even more sense - I'd much rather pay the long-term capital gains rate (though the special qualified dividend rate kind of renders the point moot these days).
ask your friends and family whether they would consider a ban on non-automated driving acceptable.
Most of my friends and family are old and stuck in their ways. Ask a kid. Kids don't even care if they get a drivers license anymore. The idea of driving=freedom is old fashioned, unsustainable, and destined to die.
He has a point - could a monopoly exist without a government corporate charter?
Do you pay taxes that you don't have to?