The underlying question is why, for the love of all that is good in this world, would you eat at a McDonald's in France?
Perhaps he wanted to get a decent amount of a familiar food for a reasonable price.
Advertising to me all seems to be a spend $10 to make $1 game. The only people who are really good at marketing are marketing companies who are great at marketing their own services.
So why doesn't he buy his hooks at Walmart?
That is an excellent question. Especially since Wal-Mart will allow you to purchase without paying sales tax if you have a valid sales tax permit.It would be awesome for this mom and pop shop to offer specialty items that Wal-Mart is not going to bother to have, or not going to have any useful variety of, and then you can also get the commodity items that might be used in conjunction with these specialty items for only a small markup over what Wal-mart charges retail.
We already see the situation in electronics, where people go to a local shop, check out what they need and then... order from amazon.
I wonder what happens when all the local electronics shops are gone. Will people not be able to view the electronics locally, and then not buy from Amazon or anyone at all?
As a Christian myself, I have to agree that most Christian music is crap. But as far as Jars of Clay, well, those guys were just awesome whether you want to label them Christian or not. This coming from a guy whose primary interests are classic rock and progressive rock.
Then there is (or was) Evanescence, which came from Christian roots, but did not want to be billed as Christian. They were pretty awesome as well.
But in general, I think a lot of Christian artists put out easy listening God oriented crap, which is the corollary of the easy listening secular crap that I also don't listen to. I think it might be easier to break into CCM than other music genres, maybe because people feel that anybody that wants to make a go of it ought to be given the chance. I tend to think that is not the case. I mean, I am a musician myself, but I can't write songs for crap and I know it. I wouldn't want them letting me put out an album.
You don't have to take inflation into account. You just have to be consistent on both sides of the equation, which I was. I can certainly take inflation into account. If we do that we will find that in adjusted dollar terms, a 1992 Ford Sedan would have cost $17,000 in inflated dollars, whereas a new Ford Sedan today will cost about $30,000. So, in inflation adjusted dollars the cost of an average new car has risen by 76%, while the median household income has risen by 0 percent.
I already have to deal with f***ing French keyboards
Ouch, you just reminded me of when I had to go to France for a client, and the keyboard I had to use over there was French AND most of the letters were worn off of the keyboard.
The U.S. Census bureau. lists median income for 1992 at about $30k and median income for 2010 ( the most recent year for which stats are available) as about $49,500. If it trends up at the same rate then median income for 2012 would be about 65% to 70% higher than 1992. In fact, I was being conservative, as the lower the percent that median income has increased, the more outrageous it is that vehicles have increased in cost by more than 100%.
Locks on Cars, Homes... Are not the end all be all in Securing your property. They are there to keep the "honest, honest".
You are parked in a parking lot. you have your doors unlocked. Someone who is not really planning a crime, sees your car, attracted to it. Lifts up the handle and gets in.
Anyone who would steal something that belongs to someone else just because it was left unlocked doesn't belong in our society. I could walk by a convertible with the top down, a purse on the floor and a bag of money in the seat and I would not even CONSIDER taking anything.
Mercedes also has a lower end model [edmunds.com]that is comparable with other new sedans
If $35k is comparable with other new sedans, I guess I won't be buying a new sedan ever again. Interesting how median household income has increased by about 70% in 20 years, while the price of an average new car has increased by over 130%. heck, there are pickup trucks that cost more than this one.
Well, that is because pickup trucks are luxury items now. I feel really bad for farmers, because they used to be able to just go buy a pickup truck and it would be cheap, rugged, and last forever. Now they have to drop $40k to get a serviceable truck. No wonder the farmers can't earn a living. 20 years ago, a Ford F-150 could be bought brand new for $10k. Now it costs on average about $35k and can cost as much as $52k for a well equipped one.That is a five fold increase in cost while salaries have not even doubled.
Cell phones have been protected from all but opt-in robocalls since 1991.
I don't think the scammers care whether it has been illegal since 1991 or only illegal since 2003 or whenever the DNC was put into place. They still call my landline AND my cell phone.
Telephone companies are all about micropayments these days. Seems like we should be able to set up a system where certain people are allowed to call in to your number for free, and unrecognized numbers have a predetermined amount that they must pay before it will ring through. You should be able to set up multiple pricing plans for different numbers, such as known political callers, charity organizations, etc. If they want to solicit you for money, that's fine, but they must pay for the privilege.
It's a shame it's come to that, but what can you do?
Apparently, you need to schedule an appointment with them. Of course, don't be home when they come by. Once they show up, it should be relatively easy to figure out who they are and report them.
The vast majority of "robocalls" I receive are political.
I get my share of political, but the vast majority, sometimes twice a day, are robocalls from debt collectors trying to reach people who do not and have never lived at my house. The most annoying thing is that their message says "by continuing to listen to this message, you acknowledge that you are XXXX...", That REALLY pisses me off. I feel like changing my answering machine message to say "by leaving a robocall message on this recorder you agree to pay me $1,000 in exchange for which I will maintain your message in its original format for a period of not shorter than 5 minutes."
The next most frequent is credit cards companies pretending like they are my credit card company and offering to lower my rate.
Three raises in over five years: doing the math, I see that my salary, adjusting for inflation, is only slightly greater than it was when I was hired.
Wow, that is two more raises than I have had in 6 years. My salary, adjusted for inflation is much lower than when I was hired. And that is considering government numbers for inflation when actual inflation has been more like 15% a year.
I say raises, what I should say is adjustments. Raises are when you get something above and beyond a COLA. A COLA does not give you a raise, as your standard of living remains the same (or goes down because the government lies about inflation).
Have you ever actually encountered a failure in an underground line?
Sure. All the time. When I lived in Wisconsin, there was a tornado nearby my house. We were without electricity for about 4 days. Well, not completely without. We were able to run an extension cord from the house across the street, which still had power because they were on pole power.
Then, I can't even count on one hand the number of times our office or our data center has lost power, and they have underground wiring. At the data center, it has usually been because of backhoes. They are attracted to underground wiring just like a tornado to a trailer park.
Bitcoin is on the rise recently...so we needed to have another article slamming it.
Looking at the price today, this article doesn't seem to have affected it as much as usual.
Doesn't matter if it's hacked or not Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. Why so many people don't see that it's a scam is beyond me.The people who created it can make a fortune whereas late comers ultimately make a fraction of the money that the first few people did due to the curve they're using for generating new bitcoins.
That is not how a Ponzi scheme works. That is how an investment opportunity works. The early adapters win big (or lose all). In a Ponzi scheme, the early investors are paid by attracting new investor money and giving that money directly to the early investors.
The problem is not the insurance, but the actual cost of health services and they way the services are oversold, and prices not transparent. One is not even quoted the prices before incurring them. The economic model for health is broken, not the insurance itself.
While I would agree with that statement, Obamacare doesn't do anything about the healthcare system. It is just a giant handout to the insurance companies, who are already rich beyond reason.
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Saying that "French" is a race is like saying "Canadian" or "American" is a race.
Or "African-American".
The underlying question is why, for the love of all that is good in this world, would you eat at a McDonald's in France?
Perhaps he wanted to get a decent amount of a familiar food for a reasonable price.
Advertising to me all seems to be a spend $10 to make $1 game. The only people who are really good at marketing are marketing companies who are great at marketing their own services.
Her husband probably won't allow it.
Ya HOOO....
Yeah, looks like she was pretty hot like 10, 15 years ago.
How will pedestrians cross the street?
The pedestrians will have to be autonomous, too. it's all part of the plan.
So why doesn't he buy his hooks at Walmart?
That is an excellent question. Especially since Wal-Mart will allow you to purchase without paying sales tax if you have a valid sales tax permit.It would be awesome for this mom and pop shop to offer specialty items that Wal-Mart is not going to bother to have, or not going to have any useful variety of, and then you can also get the commodity items that might be used in conjunction with these specialty items for only a small markup over what Wal-mart charges retail.
We already see the situation in electronics, where people go to a local shop, check out what they need and then... order from amazon.
I wonder what happens when all the local electronics shops are gone. Will people not be able to view the electronics locally, and then not buy from Amazon or anyone at all?
As a Christian myself, I have to agree that most Christian music is crap. But as far as Jars of Clay, well, those guys were just awesome whether you want to label them Christian or not. This coming from a guy whose primary interests are classic rock and progressive rock.
Then there is (or was) Evanescence, which came from Christian roots, but did not want to be billed as Christian. They were pretty awesome as well.
But in general, I think a lot of Christian artists put out easy listening God oriented crap, which is the corollary of the easy listening secular crap that I also don't listen to. I think it might be easier to break into CCM than other music genres, maybe because people feel that anybody that wants to make a go of it ought to be given the chance. I tend to think that is not the case. I mean, I am a musician myself, but I can't write songs for crap and I know it. I wouldn't want them letting me put out an album.
You don't have to take inflation into account. You just have to be consistent on both sides of the equation, which I was. I can certainly take inflation into account. If we do that we will find that in adjusted dollar terms, a 1992 Ford Sedan would have cost $17,000 in inflated dollars, whereas a new Ford Sedan today will cost about $30,000. So, in inflation adjusted dollars the cost of an average new car has risen by 76%, while the median household income has risen by 0 percent.
I already have to deal with f***ing French keyboards
Ouch, you just reminded me of when I had to go to France for a client, and the keyboard I had to use over there was French AND most of the letters were worn off of the keyboard.
The U.S. Census bureau. lists median income for 1992 at about $30k and median income for 2010 ( the most recent year for which stats are available) as about $49,500. If it trends up at the same rate then median income for 2012 would be about 65% to 70% higher than 1992. In fact, I was being conservative, as the lower the percent that median income has increased, the more outrageous it is that vehicles have increased in cost by more than 100%.
Locks on Cars, Homes... Are not the end all be all in Securing your property. They are there to keep the "honest, honest". You are parked in a parking lot. you have your doors unlocked. Someone who is not really planning a crime, sees your car, attracted to it. Lifts up the handle and gets in.
Anyone who would steal something that belongs to someone else just because it was left unlocked doesn't belong in our society. I could walk by a convertible with the top down, a purse on the floor and a bag of money in the seat and I would not even CONSIDER taking anything.
Mercedes also has a lower end model [edmunds.com]that is comparable with other new sedans
If $35k is comparable with other new sedans, I guess I won't be buying a new sedan ever again. Interesting how median household income has increased by about 70% in 20 years, while the price of an average new car has increased by over 130%.
heck, there are pickup trucks that cost more than this one.
Well, that is because pickup trucks are luxury items now. I feel really bad for farmers, because they used to be able to just go buy a pickup truck and it would be cheap, rugged, and last forever. Now they have to drop $40k to get a serviceable truck. No wonder the farmers can't earn a living. 20 years ago, a Ford F-150 could be bought brand new for $10k. Now it costs on average about $35k and can cost as much as $52k for a well equipped one.That is a five fold increase in cost while salaries have not even doubled.
Cell phones have been protected from all but opt-in robocalls since 1991.
I don't think the scammers care whether it has been illegal since 1991 or only illegal since 2003 or whenever the DNC was put into place. They still call my landline AND my cell phone.
Telephone companies are all about micropayments these days. Seems like we should be able to set up a system where certain people are allowed to call in to your number for free, and unrecognized numbers have a predetermined amount that they must pay before it will ring through. You should be able to set up multiple pricing plans for different numbers, such as known political callers, charity organizations, etc. If they want to solicit you for money, that's fine, but they must pay for the privilege.
It's a shame it's come to that, but what can you do?
Apparently, you need to schedule an appointment with them. Of course, don't be home when they come by. Once they show up, it should be relatively easy to figure out who they are and report them.
The Do Not Call list should charge huge fines and reimburse the reporting party something like $50 per incident.
The vast majority of "robocalls" I receive are political.
I get my share of political, but the vast majority, sometimes twice a day, are robocalls from debt collectors trying to reach people who do not and have never lived at my house. The most annoying thing is that their message says "by continuing to listen to this message, you acknowledge that you are XXXX...", That REALLY pisses me off. I feel like changing my answering machine message to say "by leaving a robocall message on this recorder you agree to pay me $1,000 in exchange for which I will maintain your message in its original format for a period of not shorter than 5 minutes."
The next most frequent is credit cards companies pretending like they are my credit card company and offering to lower my rate.
That's an improvement over traditional locks, which can be defeated in 60 seconds, at least according to Driver's Ed class, and of course, the movie.
Three raises in over five years: doing the math, I see that my salary, adjusting for inflation, is only slightly greater than it was when I was hired.
Wow, that is two more raises than I have had in 6 years. My salary, adjusted for inflation is much lower than when I was hired. And that is considering government numbers for inflation when actual inflation has been more like 15% a year.
I say raises, what I should say is adjustments. Raises are when you get something above and beyond a COLA. A COLA does not give you a raise, as your standard of living remains the same (or goes down because the government lies about inflation).
Have you ever actually encountered a failure in an underground line?
Sure. All the time. When I lived in Wisconsin, there was a tornado nearby my house. We were without electricity for about 4 days. Well, not completely without. We were able to run an extension cord from the house across the street, which still had power because they were on pole power.
Then, I can't even count on one hand the number of times our office or our data center has lost power, and they have underground wiring. At the data center, it has usually been because of backhoes. They are attracted to underground wiring just like a tornado to a trailer park.
Bitcoin is on the rise recently...so we needed to have another article slamming it.
Looking at the price today, this article doesn't seem to have affected it as much as usual.
Doesn't matter if it's hacked or not Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. Why so many people don't see that it's a scam is beyond me.The people who created it can make a fortune whereas late comers ultimately make a fraction of the money that the first few people did due to the curve they're using for generating new bitcoins.
That is not how a Ponzi scheme works. That is how an investment opportunity works. The early adapters win big (or lose all). In a Ponzi scheme, the early investors are paid by attracting new investor money and giving that money directly to the early investors.
The problem is not the insurance, but the actual cost of health services and they way the services are oversold, and prices not transparent. One is not even quoted the prices before incurring them. The economic model for health is broken, not the insurance itself.
While I would agree with that statement, Obamacare doesn't do anything about the healthcare system. It is just a giant handout to the insurance companies, who are already rich beyond reason.