To me that sounds pretty black and white. People who have one can keep it. People who do not can't get one.
Perhaps it would be better to find incentives to reduce your commute time just like you had incentives to increase them. Perhaps higher prices will be that incentive.
If tracks were sold for $0.10 each, I'd buy them. For $1.00, there isn't enough difference in price to justify the switch.
I was talking 10EUR for all of Zappa's LPs. Make that 13USD for convenience. There are some 1300 sonds on all of them, making it 0.01cent per album. Now we are talking. So there is even a margin of 90% of what I would pay and what you would pay.
Serious, who uses CDs as their main music source. They do not fit in my MP3 player. They do not fit in my cellphone. They are a pain to put in my PC where I only rip them to have it available for my stereo at home.
Now digital music OTOH. Direct download on my PC. Put them from there on SD card for my car. On my mp3 player. On my phone
Sure, there will be people who mainly use CDs, just like there are people still using LPs. Many people moved from LP to CD and now to digital. This should be a business opportunity to re-sell the LPs and the CDs I already have. Those are things they can just put online at almost no cost and cut out the middle man. Say 10USD for all of Frank Zappa's music. Copyright? To protect the artist? It is not as if he will be making a new album very soon.
If there is free will, then there also is the free will NOT to have free will. If there is no way NOT to have free will, then free will is not really free will. The fact that people will remove their hand and not keep it there is the prove of lack of free will for that specific situation. As NOT having the free will NOT to listen to your free will, it proves that free will does not exist.
I am less paranoid and use the "Internet Credit Card Number" provided by my bank. That creates a Credit Card Number that will be valid for 2 months with the amount I decide to put on it. So if I buy some service for 10EUR, I put 10EUR on that card. When then somebody else steals that number, it will be useless as the 10EUR is already used.
For my credit card company it is then pretty easy to find out where I used that number and then know who caused the leak and punish them if they so wish. To me this is an extra step and it gives me as much security as I need for now.
Also you are aware that ATM machines are not foolproof and there are even other ways of getting your credit card number.
That is unfortunately not something you can change, so you should look at what you CAN change. One thing could be to first make it a law that you MUST inform people, next the company at fault should pay for all the damages themselves. People ar not only stupid, they are greedy as well and once they see that it is bad business to do stupid things, a lot of it will solve itself.
Will it still happen? Yes. Most likely in a very much smaller scale.
By the end of the month there will even be a handful of other headphones to choose from.
Try that on a fixed phone in an office. 100+EUR for a headset I can buy anywhere for 15EUR.
We're stifling innovation by making a scene over stuff like this.
Do you think that there is ANY innovation going on as long as you are forced to buy it that way? Why would the company invest in R&D if they can make the same amount of money without that investment? Pick another company you say? Sure, it is just that they all play the same game by their same rules.
I used to work around it and I am sure that I have violated so many copyrights, trademarks and patents that I deserve the death penalty.
And most people now don't even print. They burn a CD or put it online. That means people will watch at the images on their 19" monitor and not even at full size. Remember that the majority of the pictures taken is ma and pa in front of something or a friend at a table or little Johny on the beach. They are holiday pictures. They are more about the memory then they are about the quality.
so he fails us [...] in almost half of those he promised us
That implies that he succeeds in more then half. For a politician I would call that a great success. Also politics is a slow moving game. It takes a few months to years to get change done. So give it at least one year and then see what has happened.
Why lie? What I did and many of my co workers when going to a place was take some holiday. That way you do not pay for the ticket, the company does. And often they take their partner with them, who then only needs to pay the difference.
I agree fully. First measure what you can. With so few customers, you can easily determine who are the few that are to blame for this. Ask those to do the downloading outside working hours.
Getting a call from the provider will help in the majority of the cases. There will be a few perhaps who are unwilling to listen. Offer them a new contract or drop them as customer. They are costing you money.
To all the providers I talked, it is only a very small percentage that does these heavy download. I would guess you are talking 5-10 accounts that you need to call. Start from the top and work your way down.
One does not exclude the other. I have seen a lot of people say "this is a good employee" and when you ask "Why?" the answers are generally very vague. Having objective points to measure is not a bad thing, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
I once had a very good idea who where the best people working for me, until I did a real measurement. Then I noticed that I favored some above others. The reason was that those people where more open, so they spoke more to me and I apparently liked that. The job did not require it.
Yes, some managers will abuse it. Those would abuse anything, including the current way of doing things.
The difficulty is to come up with things that you can measure objectively. A cook will be measured in a different way then a coder or a manager or an accountant or...
Women have a fairly short window of only a few decades to have a family. Men have no such limit and can theoretically have children from puberty until death,
Emphasis mine. I reality the male has even more restriction as he depends on the female and thus needs to adjust to here window.
In Europe it is not that bad. You could subscribe to an expensive 'service' that send syou a message each day or even several ones, but that is (becoming) highly regulated. Just sending spam will cost only the sender, not the reciever. (Unless you are in a different country)
So if you send me 30.000 messages, that will cost you money. I won't pay anyting and most likely a simple telephone t my provider will block those other 29.900 and you will loose your account with your provider.
I never understood how you can take a service where you have no control over the cost in any way.
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If only there was a way to have the who world use the same measurements.
To me that sounds pretty black and white. People who have one can keep it. People who do not can't get one.
Perhaps it would be better to find incentives to reduce your commute time just like you had incentives to increase them. Perhaps higher prices will be that incentive.
7. Romania
6. Finland
5. China
4. Japan
3. India
2. Taiwan
1. USA
The revised list. Replace Taiwan with China if your political party says so.
I was talking 10EUR for all of Zappa's LPs. Make that 13USD for convenience. There are some 1300 sonds on all of them, making it 0.01cent per album. Now we are talking. So there is even a margin of 90% of what I would pay and what you would pay.
Serious, who uses CDs as their main music source. They do not fit in my MP3 player. They do not fit in my cellphone. They are a pain to put in my PC where I only rip them to have it available for my stereo at home.
Now digital music OTOH. Direct download on my PC. Put them from there on SD card for my car. On my mp3 player. On my phone
Sure, there will be people who mainly use CDs, just like there are people still using LPs. Many people moved from LP to CD and now to digital. This should be a business opportunity to re-sell the LPs and the CDs I already have. Those are things they can just put online at almost no cost and cut out the middle man. Say 10USD for all of Frank Zappa's music. Copyright? To protect the artist? It is not as if he will be making a new album very soon.
If there is free will, then there also is the free will NOT to have free will. If there is no way NOT to have free will, then free will is not really free will.
The fact that people will remove their hand and not keep it there is the prove of lack of free will for that specific situation. As NOT having the free will NOT to listen to your free will, it proves that free will does not exist.
Now my head hurts.
I am less paranoid and use the "Internet Credit Card Number" provided by my bank. That creates a Credit Card Number that will be valid for 2 months with the amount I decide to put on it. So if I buy some service for 10EUR, I put 10EUR on that card. When then somebody else steals that number, it will be useless as the 10EUR is already used.
For my credit card company it is then pretty easy to find out where I used that number and then know who caused the leak and punish them if they so wish. To me this is an extra step and it gives me as much security as I need for now.
Also you are aware that ATM machines are not foolproof and there are even other ways of getting your credit card number.
That is unfortunately not something you can change, so you should look at what you CAN change. One thing could be to first make it a law that you MUST inform people, next the company at fault should pay for all the damages themselves.
People ar not only stupid, they are greedy as well and once they see that it is bad business to do stupid things, a lot of it will solve itself.
Will it still happen? Yes. Most likely in a very much smaller scale.
The rest of the world is using it.
What if the maker of software has not yet posted the code, but already worked on it for a year. That would make the software a year older.
The pen is mightier then the sword.
Try that on a fixed phone in an office. 100+EUR for a headset I can buy anywhere for 15EUR.
Do you think that there is ANY innovation going on as long as you are forced to buy it that way? Why would the company invest in R&D if they can make the same amount of money without that investment?
Pick another company you say? Sure, it is just that they all play the same game by their same rules.
I used to work around it and I am sure that I have violated so many copyrights, trademarks and patents that I deserve the death penalty.
And most people now don't even print. They burn a CD or put it online. That means people will watch at the images on their 19" monitor and not even at full size. Remember that the majority of the pictures taken is ma and pa in front of something or a friend at a table or little Johny on the beach. They are holiday pictures. They are more about the memory then they are about the quality.
So gun control is irrelevant.
You think loosing an engine is bad? This is much worse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg
Perhaps you were the last mail, but he would have failed regardless of you. Nobody is irreplaceable and especially not those who think they are.
That implies that he succeeds in more then half. For a politician I would call that a great success. Also politics is a slow moving game. It takes a few months to years to get change done. So give it at least one year and then see what has happened.
That list wasn't about you.
The majority of people is average. There is 5% at each side that is either the top 5% or the bottom 5%. Yet 90% will be in the 90% in the middle.
Why lie? What I did and many of my co workers when going to a place was take some holiday. That way you do not pay for the ticket, the company does. And often they take their partner with them, who then only needs to pay the difference.
No extra cost to the company and cheaper for you.
I agree fully. First measure what you can. With so few customers, you can easily determine who are the few that are to blame for this. Ask those to do the downloading outside working hours.
Getting a call from the provider will help in the majority of the cases. There will be a few perhaps who are unwilling to listen. Offer them a new contract or drop them as customer. They are costing you money.
To all the providers I talked, it is only a very small percentage that does these heavy download. I would guess you are talking 5-10 accounts that you need to call. Start from the top and work your way down.
One does not exclude the other. I have seen a lot of people say "this is a good employee" and when you ask "Why?" the answers are generally very vague. Having objective points to measure is not a bad thing, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
I once had a very good idea who where the best people working for me, until I did a real measurement. Then I noticed that I favored some above others. The reason was that those people where more open, so they spoke more to me and I apparently liked that. The job did not require it.
Yes, some managers will abuse it. Those would abuse anything, including the current way of doing things.
The difficulty is to come up with things that you can measure objectively. A cook will be measured in a different way then a coder or a manager or an accountant or ...
Emphasis mine.
I reality the male has even more restriction as he depends on the female and thus needs to adjust to here window.
In Europe it is not that bad. You could subscribe to an expensive 'service' that send syou a message each day or even several ones, but that is (becoming) highly regulated. Just sending spam will cost only the sender, not the reciever. (Unless you are in a different country)
So if you send me 30.000 messages, that will cost you money. I won't pay anyting and most likely a simple telephone t my provider will block those other 29.900 and you will loose your account with your provider.
I never understood how you can take a service where you have no control over the cost in any way.
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