This post puzzles me, in the context of your signature. Besides, 50% of people make below median income by definition. "That's under median!" No shit? So's my income, and you don't see me whining about it.
For philosophical reasons, some prefer taxes to be as obnoxious and difficult as possible so we Americans don't grow too fond of them. Considering the fact that we founded the country to get out of paying taxes, this is perhaps unsurprising.
Aside from the tax variance between states mentioned by sibling posters, there's also philosophical reasons--including the tax in the posted price tends to "hide" it from the taxpyaer, while having the tax as a separate line item on the receipt as we do in America makes it more apparent.
Isn't there a logical limit to that? If "poor" meant having a decent apartment, high-speed internet, good clothes, cool gadgets, and all the movies and music you could handle, I don't think the poor would give a fuck if the rich happened to all own their own space stations.
If the controller can detect any type of motion, and can keep track of where it is in relation to your body, just spinning around in your living room should work fine. Connecting with another lightsaber IS a problem, though.
Similarly when Jobs (who isn't an engineer but clearly has natural talent for design) was running Apple it soared. When a "career manager" took over it sunk like a stone (3 times). When Jobs took the reigns again, Apple started soaring again.
Jobs is, perhaps more importantly, a marketing genius (although the design is part of the marketing). After all, Gil Amelio, Failed Apple CEO #3, was, in fact, an engineer.
An engineer with little to no real vision of what Apple was as a company or what they should produce and sell. (That said, he did a lot of good work to keep Apple from collapsing as a company. If you consider him a "middle relief pitcher" whose job was to patch up the company well enough for Jobs to come back and accomplish his work, then he was a damn good one. Then again, most of that had more to due with his business skills and his connections to key personnel such as Fred Anderson rather than his engineering skills.)
I think a lot of stores (the Apple Store, for instance) don't even mind that. If you go to the Apple Store, check out an iPod, and then go home and buy it over the internet, Apple has still sold an iPod. Retail just becomes a very elaborate, in-person form of advertisement.
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The only thing I can think of is the root account not being enabled by default, but that doesn't affect much.
The thing I liked in the originals was how you always hear about Jabba the Hutt in ANH and Empire, and Han just builds him up, but you never see him until ROTJ. It's always nice when they talk up a character like that, leaving you wondering who and what he is before finally showing him.
Sometimes people don't want easy and comfortable. A well-designed and enjoyable retail experience is enjoyable to many people. Yes, most of them are female, but the Apple Store has taken this same approach successfully. But the retail experience is more real and more physical than any online experience can be.
Yeah, but the real estate costs are still less. Best Buy needs distribution centers, warehouses, and office space, as well as stores. Amazon doesn't need stores. And forget the warehouses if you have a JIT supply chain. Also, warehouses don't have to look pretty, and neither do the people who work there. The only way retail can survive is if retail becomes enough of an experience (see Apple Store, Gap, Abercrombie, etc.) that you want to go there just to go there. Again, this is an improvement (of sorts).
Incidentally, if poverty consists of having to have roommates and having money left over for discretionary entertainment spending, there's millions of starving kids in Africa yelling "sign me up".
As I said before, a college town. Specifically, Pullman, Washington (although student rent around the UW, in Seattle is only around $400-500 from what little I've seen). Still, look at what you're saying. You're complaining that the poor don't get to live in nice apartments and have a hard time affording gas, running water, electricity, internet service, phone service, cell phone service, and gasoline? Poor means not being able to afford all those things? Poor used to mean starving to death in the gutter.
You don't need all that crap, and most of the poor throughout world history would literally kill someone to trade places with the poor in this country. Hell, most of the middle class throughout world history would be willing to trade places with the poor in this country. The original post saying that the poor in this country have it as bad as the poor in India is just plain insane.
Incidentally, the $300/mo is for the condo I'm subletting over the summer--it's quite nice. A seedy apartment or house can be had for $250-$270/mo. Water's included, but we don't have gas service around here.
I do realize that you can't make it on minimum wage in urban areas and that if you're truly out of money, the cash flow problem is going to lead to huge costs and entrapment. But at the same time, it's nowhere near impossible to live on minimum wage. The vast majority of people do it at one point in their lives, and while they live simply, they don't suffer the way that people suffer in true poverty. I don't buy into feeble attempts to shock middle-class people who are used to a middle-class standard of living into feeling sorry for the "poor" just because they can't afford the middle-class standard of living they take for granted.
Throughout most of human history, to be poor meant you were starving. I'm not saying obesity isn't a problem, but the "poor" in the United States are better off than the poor in almost any other society in human history simply because they are so incredibly far from starving.
Let me rephrase: the only oil the US imported from Iraq was within the parameters of a UN humanitarian program to keep Iraqis from starving to death by trading oil for food. They didn't buy Iraqi oil on the open market because there wasn't any on the open market. And the distinction is important: it's not hypocritical to buy oil to support starving Iraqis, it's only hypocritical to buy oil to support Saddam's next palace. As for Syria, Syria was never a member of the "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran, and North Korea were, now only Iran and NK are left) and any vague posturing towards Syria doesn't even approach, say, Clinton's decision to send a few carriers between China and Taiwan the last time China announced they were having "military exercises".
Healthcare in the United States is not a free market. It's one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy, mainly to make more money for healthcare providers.
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You know, that shit isn't really funny anymore because it's true.
This post puzzles me, in the context of your signature. Besides, 50% of people make below median income by definition. "That's under median!" No shit? So's my income, and you don't see me whining about it.
For philosophical reasons, some prefer taxes to be as obnoxious and difficult as possible so we Americans don't grow too fond of them. Considering the fact that we founded the country to get out of paying taxes, this is perhaps unsurprising.
Yeah, but given all the other advantages you've already conceded, an iPod plus battery pack might still be better than the alternative.
You can buy external AAA battery packs for your iPod.
Aside from the tax variance between states mentioned by sibling posters, there's also philosophical reasons--including the tax in the posted price tends to "hide" it from the taxpyaer, while having the tax as a separate line item on the receipt as we do in America makes it more apparent.
recharge their cell phone batteries for free
Who's your power company? I'd give anything to get free (or at least cheap and unmetered!) electricity at home!
The PowerBook 5300 was, originally, the first PowerBook with a LiIon battery. It was famous for bursting into flames.
Actually, I'm not trying to get modded up at all, troll.
I applaud you for getting modded up for a Great Expectations reference.
Isn't there a logical limit to that? If "poor" meant having a decent apartment, high-speed internet, good clothes, cool gadgets, and all the movies and music you could handle, I don't think the poor would give a fuck if the rich happened to all own their own space stations.
If the controller can detect any type of motion, and can keep track of where it is in relation to your body, just spinning around in your living room should work fine. Connecting with another lightsaber IS a problem, though.
Similarly when Jobs (who isn't an engineer but clearly has natural talent for design) was running Apple it soared. When a "career manager" took over it sunk like a stone (3 times). When Jobs took the reigns again, Apple started soaring again.
Jobs is, perhaps more importantly, a marketing genius (although the design is part of the marketing). After all, Gil Amelio, Failed Apple CEO #3, was, in fact, an engineer.
An engineer with little to no real vision of what Apple was as a company or what they should produce and sell. (That said, he did a lot of good work to keep Apple from collapsing as a company. If you consider him a "middle relief pitcher" whose job was to patch up the company well enough for Jobs to come back and accomplish his work, then he was a damn good one. Then again, most of that had more to due with his business skills and his connections to key personnel such as Fred Anderson rather than his engineering skills.)
I think a lot of stores (the Apple Store, for instance) don't even mind that. If you go to the Apple Store, check out an iPod, and then go home and buy it over the internet, Apple has still sold an iPod. Retail just becomes a very elaborate, in-person form of advertisement.
The only thing I can think of is the root account not being enabled by default, but that doesn't affect much.
The thing I liked in the originals was how you always hear about Jabba the Hutt in ANH and Empire, and Han just builds him up, but you never see him until ROTJ. It's always nice when they talk up a character like that, leaving you wondering who and what he is before finally showing him.
Sometimes people don't want easy and comfortable. A well-designed and enjoyable retail experience is enjoyable to many people. Yes, most of them are female, but the Apple Store has taken this same approach successfully. But the retail experience is more real and more physical than any online experience can be.
Yeah, but the real estate costs are still less. Best Buy needs distribution centers, warehouses, and office space, as well as stores. Amazon doesn't need stores. And forget the warehouses if you have a JIT supply chain. Also, warehouses don't have to look pretty, and neither do the people who work there. The only way retail can survive is if retail becomes enough of an experience (see Apple Store, Gap, Abercrombie, etc.) that you want to go there just to go there. Again, this is an improvement (of sorts).
Incidentally, if poverty consists of having to have roommates and having money left over for discretionary entertainment spending, there's millions of starving kids in Africa yelling "sign me up".
As I said before, a college town. Specifically, Pullman, Washington (although student rent around the UW, in Seattle is only around $400-500 from what little I've seen). Still, look at what you're saying. You're complaining that the poor don't get to live in nice apartments and have a hard time affording gas, running water, electricity, internet service, phone service, cell phone service, and gasoline? Poor means not being able to afford all those things? Poor used to mean starving to death in the gutter.
You don't need all that crap, and most of the poor throughout world history would literally kill someone to trade places with the poor in this country. Hell, most of the middle class throughout world history would be willing to trade places with the poor in this country. The original post saying that the poor in this country have it as bad as the poor in India is just plain insane.
Incidentally, the $300/mo is for the condo I'm subletting over the summer--it's quite nice. A seedy apartment or house can be had for $250-$270/mo. Water's included, but we don't have gas service around here.
I do realize that you can't make it on minimum wage in urban areas and that if you're truly out of money, the cash flow problem is going to lead to huge costs and entrapment. But at the same time, it's nowhere near impossible to live on minimum wage. The vast majority of people do it at one point in their lives, and while they live simply, they don't suffer the way that people suffer in true poverty. I don't buy into feeble attempts to shock middle-class people who are used to a middle-class standard of living into feeling sorry for the "poor" just because they can't afford the middle-class standard of living they take for granted.
Bay Area, California. One of the most expensive regions in the country.
Throughout most of human history, to be poor meant you were starving. I'm not saying obesity isn't a problem, but the "poor" in the United States are better off than the poor in almost any other society in human history simply because they are so incredibly far from starving.
I never said it was enabled in the default configuration. I only said it was possible.
Let me rephrase: the only oil the US imported from Iraq was within the parameters of a UN humanitarian program to keep Iraqis from starving to death by trading oil for food. They didn't buy Iraqi oil on the open market because there wasn't any on the open market. And the distinction is important: it's not hypocritical to buy oil to support starving Iraqis, it's only hypocritical to buy oil to support Saddam's next palace. As for Syria, Syria was never a member of the "Axis of Evil" (Iraq, Iran, and North Korea were, now only Iran and NK are left) and any vague posturing towards Syria doesn't even approach, say, Clinton's decision to send a few carriers between China and Taiwan the last time China announced they were having "military exercises".
Healthcare in the United States is not a free market. It's one of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy, mainly to make more money for healthcare providers.