This is dumb, they've completely reversed what they should have been doing.
People are motivated by profit, so this is just a 'how high a figure can I get you to give me' study. I don't even use Facebook, but I too would have driven the price up to thousands of dollars. Geeze.
What they should have done is the opposite, ask them how much are they willing to spend in order to keep it. Then you'd find the real worth. Some people would spend the thousands, some hundreds, and others like myself would pay $0.
Hell, I'd spend money just to wipe Facebook off the earth, it truly is a blight on society.
Bang on. I really hate the "treat the symptoms, not the disease" approach so many people use. Addicts dying? Quick, take this to save your life, so you can get back to taking those awesome drugs again.
"An initiative of the Taxicab Association to 'highlight' the risks of Uber and Lfyt". AKA they're intentionally not listing taxi incidents, because they don't actually give a damn about rider safety, just protecting their own members.
Should I be buying my own desk? My own chair? Hell, my cubicle walls are clearly my responsibility too, right?
If a company thinks an employee needs something for their job, then they should provide it.
Night launch, 4:00 am after being out there for hours, they scrub with under 10 seconds left, because they missed the window by 2 frickin seconds. Next night the energy in the crowd just wasn't the same.
But, I'll always remember feeling that sound. It's not the sight of seeing the shuttle go up that's amazing, it's the sound.
They didn't "overlook" anything at all. Removing the overhangs was a conscious decision, motivated by greed. Removing the overhangs meant the walls were closer to the property border, which meant that the interior spaces were larger, thus more square footage and higher prices even though the lot size hadn't changed.
LOL. Great theory except for the mythical "discount of Y" and "lowering of prices once meals were eliminated". There was no lowering of prices, the meals were eliminated in an attempt to raise profits. Just like there won't be a discount of Y.
The *reality* is that you either receive less for your X, or you have to pay X+Y to get what you used to get.
If that's true, then law enforcement should be getting the list of names, not an NFL team. Are the Patriots now a law enforcement agency? Also, why do they need the list of people *buying* tickets?
I can understand this, but think about this: how fast will the Internet be in ten years?
The answer to that for a great many of us is "Not much faster than it is now".
Ten years ago I was 5 Mbps. Last year I got a bump up to 6 Mbps. The price of that got so high, I've had to join a different company, and gone back to 5 Mbps. Yeah, the rich can choose some faster speeds. Us common folks will still be plugging along close to where we are now.
Because I'm quite sure that a significant portion of them *do* have valid issues. Every communications company I've ever had has a firmly established reputation for screwing up billing. Cell phone, television, cable internet, you name it.
And when you call them up, they deny the problem, or they claim to have fixed it, and next bill you discover they haven't.
*He* doesn't have the funny notion, our stupid government does. Because yes, he is correct, they don't charge the levy on the larger, more useful dvd blanks, so they obviously think they're "different" some how.
XML/SWF charts are gorgeous, easy to use from pretty much any language, and completely free for personal use. I've been very happy with them.
XML/SWF charts
First of all, 99% of stuff now is also shit, so toss out that argument.
The packaging was better. Real effort and imagination were put into it. Does anything come with a microscopic space fleet now?
The manuals were better. I've still got glossy, 300+ page manuals on my shelf that are practically history books, that came with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Red Baron, etc.
But most important, the game play was better. Go down any list of "Best Games Ever", and it's freakin' dominated by old titles. Railroad Tycoon, Civ, Wasteland, Zork, X-Com, Monkey Island, Wizardy, Ultima...
The graphics have gotten better, yes. But the story and gameplay suffered along the way, as more time and effort were put into the graphics. Sadly, it seems like it was treated as an either/or by most developers.
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It would take a truly courageous company to invent a "Headphone Jack" such as you're proposing.
Sadly, I don't think there are any such companies around.
This is dumb, they've completely reversed what they should have been doing. People are motivated by profit, so this is just a 'how high a figure can I get you to give me' study. I don't even use Facebook, but I too would have driven the price up to thousands of dollars. Geeze.
What they should have done is the opposite, ask them how much are they willing to spend in order to keep it. Then you'd find the real worth. Some people would spend the thousands, some hundreds, and others like myself would pay $0. Hell, I'd spend money just to wipe Facebook off the earth, it truly is a blight on society.
Bang on. I really hate the "treat the symptoms, not the disease" approach so many people use. Addicts dying? Quick, take this to save your life, so you can get back to taking those awesome drugs again.
"An initiative of the Taxicab Association to 'highlight' the risks of Uber and Lfyt". AKA they're intentionally not listing taxi incidents, because they don't actually give a damn about rider safety, just protecting their own members.
Gun free? LOL. We have one of the highest guns per capita rates in the world. We control guns, we don't ban them. And it works very well.
Should I be buying my own desk? My own chair? Hell, my cubicle walls are clearly my responsibility too, right? If a company thinks an employee needs something for their job, then they should provide it.
Night launch, 4:00 am after being out there for hours, they scrub with under 10 seconds left, because they missed the window by 2 frickin seconds. Next night the energy in the crowd just wasn't the same. But, I'll always remember feeling that sound. It's not the sight of seeing the shuttle go up that's amazing, it's the sound.
Marshall Lucky of New Deal Used Cars.
Use something no other human could possibly know... Your penis size. :)
They didn't "overlook" anything at all. Removing the overhangs was a conscious decision, motivated by greed. Removing the overhangs meant the walls were closer to the property border, which meant that the interior spaces were larger, thus more square footage and higher prices even though the lot size hadn't changed.
LOL. Great theory except for the mythical "discount of Y" and "lowering of prices once meals were eliminated". There was no lowering of prices, the meals were eliminated in an attempt to raise profits. Just like there won't be a discount of Y.
The *reality* is that you either receive less for your X, or you have to pay X+Y to get what you used to get.
The answer to that for a great many of us is "Not much faster than it is now".
Ten years ago I was 5 Mbps. Last year I got a bump up to 6 Mbps. The price of that got so high, I've had to join a different company, and gone back to 5 Mbps. Yeah, the rich can choose some faster speeds. Us common folks will still be plugging along close to where we are now.
And Carson was a magician as well, so he certainly wasn't going to fall for the simple misdirection stuff.
Geller on CarsonIt was probably the first 20 seconds, then they got caught. :)
Because I'm quite sure that a significant portion of them *do* have valid issues. Every communications company I've ever had has a firmly established reputation for screwing up billing. Cell phone, television, cable internet, you name it.
And when you call them up, they deny the problem, or they claim to have fixed it, and next bill you discover they haven't.
Just one of many...They should get the customers bills correct, and then they'd stop calling.
Might just be the first game I've bought in over seven years.
Well, I wasn't, but that's because it gave me more pleasure for someone else to get it.
Modulator-demodulator.
It's a fancy sound card, it makes all sorts of cool tones and whistles.
*He* doesn't have the funny notion, our stupid government does. Because yes, he is correct, they don't charge the levy on the larger, more useful dvd blanks, so they obviously think they're "different" some how.
XML/SWF charts are gorgeous, easy to use from pretty much any language, and completely free for personal use. I've been very happy with them. XML/SWF charts
No kidding. I thought Ziggurat Con was some new kind of Pyramid Scheme.
First of all, 99% of stuff now is also shit, so toss out that argument.
The packaging was better. Real effort and imagination were put into it. Does anything come with a microscopic space fleet now?
The manuals were better. I've still got glossy, 300+ page manuals on my shelf that are practically history books, that came with Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Red Baron, etc.
But most important, the game play was better. Go down any list of "Best Games Ever", and it's freakin' dominated by old titles. Railroad Tycoon, Civ, Wasteland, Zork, X-Com, Monkey Island, Wizardy, Ultima...
The graphics have gotten better, yes. But the story and gameplay suffered along the way, as more time and effort were put into the graphics. Sadly, it seems like it was treated as an either/or by most developers.