I've been waiting all my life to what you said. Since you already did, if copyright nazis would kill rap...well....that almost makes it worth it....almost...
I love it when people drag this up, from your article.
"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content,"
Apple was not about to go bankrupt. Microsoft was essentially buying the right to have Internet Explorer installed on Macintosh computers as the default Web Browser.
The Standard Oil case had more to do with how they recieved discounts for their rail usage, and eventually strong armed the railroads into not transporting any other company's oil. Sure you can dig a hole and start pumping your own oil, but what good is that oil going to do you if you can't, cost effectively, get it to where you can sell it.
Let me see if I am understanding you correctly. Your opinion is that the only difference beween what we do and what the natural world does is that we do what we do by choice and thought rather then mere instinct?
Thought Experiment: If we were to forgo our thoughts and choice and lived purely by instinct, would whatever we do then be natural?
You are obviously not one of us who compulsively picks up every spare penny on the ground. I've made some good cash over the years that way! Nothing to write home about but cash is cash.
"I always had great customer service from ATTWS/Cingular (though that may just make me the luckiest boy in the world), and my reception in the Dallas area was great."
Sorry but when people post something good about the former ATTWS, I have to counter it with my experience of ordering a phone, it arriving 3 weeks later. Then being unable to recieve calls for 45 days. Quite obviously I called customer support, and sat on hold for 6 hours while driving from San Antonio to Dallas. I arrived in dallas still on hold, drove to the local ATTWS location asked for help only to be told to call customer service. I handed the rep the phone and he didn't have anything else to say. Needless to say even after that they wanted to bill me for the 45 days even though my account saw no use. Needless to say after getting everything sorted out I will not ever use any prodcut from ATT again regardless of price.
On the other hand the point can be made that I drove from San Antonio to Dallas without dropping that call, so mixed blessing eh?
I'll counter your one statistcal point with another. I've got a 2ghz MacBook (origial), and dual boot XP SP2 and OS X (fully updated). XP feels much more responsive, snappier, and just plain lighter on the hardware. However I only boot into because OSX sucks less, far, far less.
Could be either since the Quadra 700s they used supported either. What really destroyed the movie for me is when they see the security cam video on the computer, you can see the progress bar move on the.mov file!
You sure do have a way to test it, Dial 611 on any cell phone and you will get the operator/customer servce for whatever network it is currently connected to. What you have to watch out for is the fact that the analog network is being dismantled here soon, which is quite sad because it still has better coverage in remote places then the digital carriers do today. So just make sure you've got a digital phone, call 611, and if it connects then your fine. Oh and make sure you keep it charged.
"Sprint has a plan for $40 which has 450 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 7-7."
You've gotta look for it but t-mobile has 600 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 6-9 for $40. If you are on the phone more during the day then that might be better, though if you are on between 7 and 9 in the evenings sprint might be better. To each his own, eh?
"Suppose you and a friend split a $1 lottery ticket, which wins a million dollars. Your friend cashes in the ticket, and gives you ten dollars. Is that fair?"
That depends on how you split the ticket. If you both but in $0.50 then you both risked equally and thus deserve to benefit equally. If however he risked 100,000 times the amount of money you did on that $1 ticket (don't ask me how to device a dollar up like that!) then he deserves to benefit 100,000 times more then you since he risked more.
Your right I poorly worded my reply The bit about them lending out more then their deposits from a quote from the GP's link that said the exact opposite of what he was asserting. (and that I wasn't asserting at all, sorry for the confusion)
My understanding of the process is like this (Assume 10% Reserve Rate) I put in $100 Person B borrows $90 and spends it buying something from me. I deposit money back in bank I now have $190 in the bank, and person B owes bank $90. Person C borrows $81 from bank spends it buying something from me I deposit money back in bank I now have $271, and the bank is owed $171.
"I'd be far more likely to suspect that the cover story for a little price gouging."
If they are gouging on they are compleate idiots, who isn't going to miss a dollar.
A)Suburbia Yuppies? B)The Poor
That and why gouge on tostitos when you could simply by brand X, or just skip the tostitos compleatly. If you are going to gouge the smartest way (not I don't believe gouging is moral) is to gouge on something people need and have to buy, milk/bread/gas/electrcicty/etc.
Now back to the tostitos what other reasons could there be for increased prices in the inner-city? Perhaps a higher tax rate? Perhaps it is simply more expensive to run a business in the city then it is in the suburb? Could the grocery store in the suburb have a different cost structure that enables them to operate cheaper?
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I've been waiting all my life to what you said. Since you already did, if copyright nazis would kill rap...well....that almost makes it worth it....almost...
I love it when people drag this up, from your article.
"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content,"
Apple was not about to go bankrupt. Microsoft was essentially buying the right to have Internet Explorer installed on Macintosh computers as the default Web Browser.
The Standard Oil case had more to do with how they recieved discounts for their rail usage, and eventually strong armed the railroads into not transporting any other company's oil. Sure you can dig a hole and start pumping your own oil, but what good is that oil going to do you if you can't, cost effectively, get it to where you can sell it.
"Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!"
Come see the violence inherent in the system!!
(by the way it's repressed)
I flew a couple days after the liquid scare, I tried freezing my bottle of water before boarding...alas apparently frozen water counted as a liquid.
Let me see if I am understanding you correctly. Your opinion is that the only difference beween what we do and what the natural world does is that we do what we do by choice and thought rather then mere instinct?
Thought Experiment:
If we were to forgo our thoughts and choice and lived purely by instinct, would whatever we do then be natural?
You are obviously not one of us who compulsively picks up every spare penny on the ground. I've made some good cash over the years that way! Nothing to write home about but cash is cash.
"I always had great customer service from ATTWS/Cingular (though that may just make me the luckiest boy in the world), and my reception in the Dallas area was great."
Sorry but when people post something good about the former ATTWS, I have to counter it with my experience of ordering a phone, it arriving 3 weeks later. Then being unable to recieve calls for 45 days. Quite obviously I called customer support, and sat on hold for 6 hours while driving from San Antonio to Dallas. I arrived in dallas still on hold, drove to the local ATTWS location asked for help only to be told to call customer service. I handed the rep the phone and he didn't have anything else to say. Needless to say even after that they wanted to bill me for the 45 days even though my account saw no use. Needless to say after getting everything sorted out I will not ever use any prodcut from ATT again regardless of price.
On the other hand the point can be made that I drove from San Antonio to Dallas without dropping that call, so mixed blessing eh?
I'll counter your one statistcal point with another. I've got a 2ghz MacBook (origial), and dual boot XP SP2 and OS X (fully updated). XP feels much more responsive, snappier, and just plain lighter on the hardware. However I only boot into because OSX sucks less, far, far less.
Could be either since the Quadra 700s they used supported either. What really destroyed the movie for me is when they see the security cam video on the computer, you can see the progress bar move on the .mov file!
Umm..hard to do anything in MacOS 9 in 1996 ;)
(didn't come out till 1999, no I have no life)
Just so that you guys know I'll be posting a real smart-alek reply to this in about a week or so.
Cell Phone geek, though I had to look up the model number.
;)
Either way do you think it'd be wise to admit to working for Sony here?
So what your saying is that if I don't believe in death.....
gotta find the nearest bridge and try this out!
"An added benefit of Virgin Mobile is that you can get a list of your calls and how much you were charged for each call. "
T-Mobile gives you a csv file with all your calls, and other usage information if you know where to find it.
You sure do have a way to test it, Dial 611 on any cell phone and you will get the operator/customer servce for whatever network it is currently connected to. What you have to watch out for is the fact that the analog network is being dismantled here soon, which is quite sad because it still has better coverage in remote places then the digital carriers do today. So just make sure you've got a digital phone, call 611, and if it connects then your fine. Oh and make sure you keep it charged.
"Sprint has a plan for $40 which has 450 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 7-7."
You've gotta look for it but t-mobile has 600 minutes and unlimited nights and weekends 6-9 for $40. If you are on the phone more during the day then that might be better, though if you are on between 7 and 9 in the evenings sprint might be better. To each his own, eh?
Didn't the Atari only have one button?
Ya that's not a ROKR, it's a Sony Ericsson K600
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See:
http://www.telecomwereld.nl/pic/news/283/K600_dua
I own my phone, and I pay for the service.....ohh wait.... ;)
"Suppose you and a friend split a $1 lottery ticket, which wins a million dollars. Your friend cashes in the ticket, and gives you ten dollars. Is that fair?"
That depends on how you split the ticket. If you both but in $0.50 then you both risked equally and thus deserve to benefit equally. If however he risked 100,000 times the amount of money you did on that $1 ticket (don't ask me how to device a dollar up like that!) then he deserves to benefit 100,000 times more then you since he risked more.
Your right I poorly worded my reply The bit about them lending out more then their deposits from a quote from the GP's link that said the exact opposite of what he was asserting. (and that I wasn't asserting at all, sorry for the confusion)
My understanding of the process is like this (Assume 10% Reserve Rate)
I put in $100
Person B borrows $90 and spends it buying something from me.
I deposit money back in bank
I now have $190 in the bank, and person B owes bank $90.
Person C borrows $81 from bank spends it buying something from me
I deposit money back in bank I now have $271, and the bank is owed $171.
etc.
"I'd be far more likely to suspect that the cover story for a little price gouging."
If they are gouging on they are compleate idiots, who isn't going to miss a dollar.
A)Suburbia Yuppies?
B)The Poor
That and why gouge on tostitos when you could simply by brand X, or just skip the tostitos compleatly. If you are going to gouge the smartest way (not I don't believe gouging is moral) is to gouge on something people need and have to buy, milk/bread/gas/electrcicty/etc.
Now back to the tostitos what other reasons could there be for increased prices in the inner-city? Perhaps a higher tax rate? Perhaps it is simply more expensive to run a business in the city then it is in the suburb? Could the grocery store in the suburb have a different cost structure that enables them to operate cheaper?
ready = read
"Not true. Banks do not lend money out of the savings in the bank."
Not true, yes they do, just not all of it. Also ready your reference as it itself says
"Banks in modern economies typically loan their customers many times the sum of all deposits they hold."