And that point is that is it really the place of government to decide these things? You may argue that it's in the interest of public health, but when we start rationalizing everything government does with "the greater good" argument then we are no longer free.
Corporate obligations are to their shareholders, not society. Sure we don't want them harming society, but if they're not harming society then they should have no concern for the "socioeconomic picture." If you care so much about it, invest in a company that does give a damn and quitcherbitchin.
All that aside, if the people who don't have adequate access want to contribute something bad enough, they'll find a way. It's not anybodies responsibility but their own to get it done.
So basically what you're saying is that CLIMATE CHANGE may cause things to happen that have already happened to the planet before? Like when the Sahara was a lush forest? Somehow in our human ego-maniacal way we must be the cause of this change because it has NEVER happened before.
They don't, but if they have the option of trading it in they are more likely to buy a game they're not sure they'll like. Now that they don't have that option, they'll wait until a buddy buys it and if they don't like it, they never had to buy it and the publisher is out $60.
Change the election system in the US so you dont have to "fight" them any more, but can just vote them out of politics.
In theory that's how it already works. The problem is that everybody is happy with their own representative, it's everybody else that's the problem. Not to mention, changing the system of electing officials requires the approval of said officials.
It seem like an oxymoron but in a sense, attaching a cost to something adds value to it. If somebody get's something for nothing, they will always expect it for free, regardless of anything you add to it that can be considered to increase it's value because it had no value to begin with. It's the old saying of why buy the cow when you get the milk for free. Now if you take that same service and start out by charging for it, you are building in a perceived value that the consumer psychologically attaches to it.
Consumers who get something for free are always the most demanding, in my experience, because they possess a sense of entitlement. You (the merchant) OWE it to them. These types of consumers tend to fall into one of two categories (or maybe both):
1. They don't understand the cost of doing business. For instance, I sell postage stamps which I have to pay face value for which is currently 44 cents. I charge 50 cents for a stamp and I have had a few cases of people accusing me of ripping them off. What they fail to understand is that not only am I offering them the convenience of not having to go to the post office, but the cost of that postage stamp isn't my only cost associated with operating my brick and mortar store. They tend to see it as I'm making a 6 cent profit when in reality, I'm probably actually losing money on it when you factor in rent, utilities and so on. This is a situation where convenience has become less and less costly almost to the point of being free (if not already) so people no longer perceive value in convenience.
2. They think because I own my own business that I must be filthy rich. I wish that were the case, but much like many other people out there, I struggle financially in this economy, as do many other self-employed folks that I talk to. I also probably chose the wrong line of business to go into, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
In my 2 years of business, I've found subtle ways to weed these people out and built a solid core of regular customers but the entitlement folks still pop in from time to time and when they see that I won't give them anything for free, I tend not to see them ever again.
Then you should be VERY interested in owning a Nook as you can buy books from B&N or Google Books and you can read any ePub or PDF and a multitude of other file formats on it.
Your explanation doesn't make it any less ridiculous. Ooh wow, rapid release, awesome. What's wrong with minor version numbers? Rapid release just annoys me because every time a new one comes out there are extensions that don't work with it so I have to wait for the extensions to be updated again. Sure that happens with any major release, but with rapid release it happens more frequently and is thus more annoying.
Am I the only person that thinks these rapid increases in version numbers is ridiculous? I get that some people see version numbers and say "well this one is higher than that one so it must be better" but damn. 7 just came out and 8 is in beta? Give me a break.
that will be excited about this. All he knows is basic/vb6 and once wondered with pure astonishment why anybody would use such a ridiculous language as c/c++. When I informed him that Windows 7 would be the last OS to support VB6 runtimes he looked at me and asked "Well what the hell are we going to do?" I could go on about this fine fellow, but I have long repressed most of the memories of my time with that company and choose to retain my sanity.
By definition, Google isn't a monopoly. They aren't the only search engine in town, they just happen to be the most successful with a vast majority of the market share. That's not because they are erecting large barriers to entry, it's just because the other search engines aren't as smart as theirs.
...perpetrated by Google to drive more traffic to their search engine because people will never be able to remember the URLs of anything ever again. Srsly. OMG.
Tell that to my customers who have sent packages that arrive at the other end in a different box and with things missing, or who were told by their local post office that the package they sent never left said local post office but "we're sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." Tell that to my customers who rent private mailboxes at my store because they've had mail stolen right out of their home mailbox. I'm sorry, the idea that mail is rarely stolen is a myth. It happens more than you think, most people just don't do anything about it because they don't think they can, probably because the post office told them to go f**k themselves when they did try and do something about it.
My Verizon 3G service that I use for my business (no wired DSL or Cable available) was out the other day and while I was on the phone with Verizon figuring it out, they were trying to upsell me on this. With a 5GB data limit, I wasn't about to since I routinely go over it on the 3G. I just switched back to Clear who swears they got THEIR reliability issues sorted out in my area.
Wait, wait, let me get this straight. Ken Cuccinelli is pushing his agenda down our throat, but the Obama Administration isn't by forcing me to buy health insurance?
How is it a violation of due process for a private company to do that? It's not. Private corporations are not bound by the constitution in such a manner. That's the same reason golf courses like Augusta National can exclude women from membership.
I wasn't playing with washing machines or microwaves when I was a kid. I was out in the woods playing army or my friends and I were outside blasting each other with our toy airplanes or playing hide and seek. We used our imagines and we got exercise. Sure, we all had Nintendos (born in 1980) but that was just a small part of our lives and we enjoyed using our imaginations far more than playing with the result of someone elses.
Give him some toys and send him outside where he belongs! Kids these days have no imagination because they have technology shoved in their face from the time they can grab it.
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So choose not to use that feature. Based on the lack of info in the article, there's nothing to say that you'll *have* to integrate with the PC.
Please cease & desist use of "iAgree" as *I* have a patent pending on it.
And that point is that is it really the place of government to decide these things? You may argue that it's in the interest of public health, but when we start rationalizing everything government does with "the greater good" argument then we are no longer free.
Corporate obligations are to their shareholders, not society. Sure we don't want them harming society, but if they're not harming society then they should have no concern for the "socioeconomic picture." If you care so much about it, invest in a company that does give a damn and quitcherbitchin. All that aside, if the people who don't have adequate access want to contribute something bad enough, they'll find a way. It's not anybodies responsibility but their own to get it done.
So basically what you're saying is that CLIMATE CHANGE may cause things to happen that have already happened to the planet before? Like when the Sahara was a lush forest? Somehow in our human ego-maniacal way we must be the cause of this change because it has NEVER happened before.
Shouldn't all science be questioned? If we unanimously accept a scientific theory to be fact, is it still science?
They don't, but if they have the option of trading it in they are more likely to buy a game they're not sure they'll like. Now that they don't have that option, they'll wait until a buddy buys it and if they don't like it, they never had to buy it and the publisher is out $60.
Change the election system in the US so you dont have to "fight" them any more, but can just vote them out of politics.
In theory that's how it already works. The problem is that everybody is happy with their own representative, it's everybody else that's the problem. Not to mention, changing the system of electing officials requires the approval of said officials.
Quality community-created addons always seemed few and far between. Sure, they were there, but by and large they sucked.
It seem like an oxymoron but in a sense, attaching a cost to something adds value to it. If somebody get's something for nothing, they will always expect it for free, regardless of anything you add to it that can be considered to increase it's value because it had no value to begin with. It's the old saying of why buy the cow when you get the milk for free. Now if you take that same service and start out by charging for it, you are building in a perceived value that the consumer psychologically attaches to it.
Consumers who get something for free are always the most demanding, in my experience, because they possess a sense of entitlement. You (the merchant) OWE it to them. These types of consumers tend to fall into one of two categories (or maybe both):
1. They don't understand the cost of doing business. For instance, I sell postage stamps which I have to pay face value for which is currently 44 cents. I charge 50 cents for a stamp and I have had a few cases of people accusing me of ripping them off. What they fail to understand is that not only am I offering them the convenience of not having to go to the post office, but the cost of that postage stamp isn't my only cost associated with operating my brick and mortar store. They tend to see it as I'm making a 6 cent profit when in reality, I'm probably actually losing money on it when you factor in rent, utilities and so on. This is a situation where convenience has become less and less costly almost to the point of being free (if not already) so people no longer perceive value in convenience.
2. They think because I own my own business that I must be filthy rich. I wish that were the case, but much like many other people out there, I struggle financially in this economy, as do many other self-employed folks that I talk to. I also probably chose the wrong line of business to go into, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
In my 2 years of business, I've found subtle ways to weed these people out and built a solid core of regular customers but the entitlement folks still pop in from time to time and when they see that I won't give them anything for free, I tend not to see them ever again.
Then you should be VERY interested in owning a Nook as you can buy books from B&N or Google Books and you can read any ePub or PDF and a multitude of other file formats on it.
My sarcasm sensors are going off big time. Thinking the parent should be modded funny, not insightful.
Your explanation doesn't make it any less ridiculous. Ooh wow, rapid release, awesome. What's wrong with minor version numbers? Rapid release just annoys me because every time a new one comes out there are extensions that don't work with it so I have to wait for the extensions to be updated again. Sure that happens with any major release, but with rapid release it happens more frequently and is thus more annoying.
Am I the only person that thinks these rapid increases in version numbers is ridiculous? I get that some people see version numbers and say "well this one is higher than that one so it must be better" but damn. 7 just came out and 8 is in beta? Give me a break.
that will be excited about this. All he knows is basic/vb6 and once wondered with pure astonishment why anybody would use such a ridiculous language as c/c++. When I informed him that Windows 7 would be the last OS to support VB6 runtimes he looked at me and asked "Well what the hell are we going to do?" I could go on about this fine fellow, but I have long repressed most of the memories of my time with that company and choose to retain my sanity.
Hardly. Freedom of speech doesn't cover slander.
By definition, Google isn't a monopoly. They aren't the only search engine in town, they just happen to be the most successful with a vast majority of the market share. That's not because they are erecting large barriers to entry, it's just because the other search engines aren't as smart as theirs.
It's not terrorism regardless because it wasn't intended to terrorize a population, it was intended to cause problems for their nuclear program.
...perpetrated by Google to drive more traffic to their search engine because people will never be able to remember the URLs of anything ever again. Srsly. OMG.
You rarely have mail stolen
Tell that to my customers who have sent packages that arrive at the other end in a different box and with things missing, or who were told by their local post office that the package they sent never left said local post office but "we're sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." Tell that to my customers who rent private mailboxes at my store because they've had mail stolen right out of their home mailbox. I'm sorry, the idea that mail is rarely stolen is a myth. It happens more than you think, most people just don't do anything about it because they don't think they can, probably because the post office told them to go f**k themselves when they did try and do something about it.
My Verizon 3G service that I use for my business (no wired DSL or Cable available) was out the other day and while I was on the phone with Verizon figuring it out, they were trying to upsell me on this. With a 5GB data limit, I wasn't about to since I routinely go over it on the 3G. I just switched back to Clear who swears they got THEIR reliability issues sorted out in my area.
Wait, wait, let me get this straight. Ken Cuccinelli is pushing his agenda down our throat, but the Obama Administration isn't by forcing me to buy health insurance?
How is it a violation of due process for a private company to do that? It's not. Private corporations are not bound by the constitution in such a manner. That's the same reason golf courses like Augusta National can exclude women from membership.
I wasn't playing with washing machines or microwaves when I was a kid. I was out in the woods playing army or my friends and I were outside blasting each other with our toy airplanes or playing hide and seek. We used our imagines and we got exercise. Sure, we all had Nintendos (born in 1980) but that was just a small part of our lives and we enjoyed using our imaginations far more than playing with the result of someone elses.
Give him some toys and send him outside where he belongs! Kids these days have no imagination because they have technology shoved in their face from the time they can grab it.