When a friend texted one participant about selling drugs, he responded, 'Hey, be careful, the BlackBerry people are watching, but don't worry, they won't tell anyone.'"
Used games do not hurt the industry. In fact they help the industry!
First off used games have been around since day one. The game industry has only grown since then. Obviously there's no harm. Now onto the specifics.
Used stores are used by two groups, high volume game consumers and people not willing or able to pay full price.
The high volume consumers sell the games. Why do they do this? So they have money to buy more games?
The buyers fall into two basic categories. People who are frugal and people who can't afford $60. Even though these people don't buy games at full price used stores allow them to still be gamers. This allows people to enter the hobby, and thus the market, at an earlier point. They get hooked. Eventually they make more money and don't want to wait for games so they start buying games at full price. Frugal people will never pay full price for games. It's against their nature. Trying to get them to will at worst result in them leaving the market, at best only buying things at discount.
Additionally used game stores put more money into the pockets of game companies. They do this by funneling the money from the used buyers and giving it to the hard core gamers who sell the games to the used stores. You remove this middle man and your hard core gamers have less money to buy games, you lose the customers who can't pay full price due to economics.
All because some exec sees the games in used stores as lost sales, when in fact they all were sales, in order to try and capture a demographic that by it's nature will never be direct customers of theirs.
No one. The people will not back any significant change. They are literally too fat and happy. Even people below the poverty line on welfare are obese. Why would they change anything?
The simple explanation, monopoly, is true. The cost of entering the financial system is prohibitively expensive. Look at the trouble Discover has had entering the market. Additionally there is collusion by the existing market players. Visa and MasterCard would not allow banks to issue a Discover Card if they issued a Visa or MasterCard. That was fought all the way to the supreme court.
Your ebay example is flawed for a couple reasons. If the fee is for fraud then charge me for buying from ebay, or other markets with high fraud. Don't charge me on everything. Name and shame ebay. Either ebay will fix the service or trustworthy escrow services will spring up at a lower price point. The other major flaw is that ebay is trivial. They have about 4B in yearly revenue. By comparison Starbucks has about 14B and Target has about 84B. Now add in Best Buy, Walmart, Hyvee, Sears, and the Gap brands. If we're talking about 93 percent of all transaction then Ebay is a nothing company, statistically zero. To set policy on it is nonsensical.
You also failed to address the selling of spending habits, which I am not compensated for.
I actually view that as a downside. Why should I pay visa 2-5% of every transaction for the privilege of selling my spending habits to others. Of which I see no profit.
DUIs have huge long term repercussions. Longer suspension. Greater insurance. High penalties. Jail time.
Judges routinely refuse them. They know the rules. It creates a lack of evidence. http://atlantaduinews.com/2011/06/superior-court-judge-rucker-smith-charged-with-dui-in-sumter-county.html
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When a friend texted one participant about selling drugs, he responded, 'Hey, be careful, the BlackBerry people are watching, but don't worry, they won't tell anyone.'"
That proves they are telling people.
A teachable moment is a direct message saying you used the wrong one.
A look at me post longer than the post you're correcting is simply attention seeking.
Sorry about your low self esteem.
I'm sorry if you were upset but that was not my intention.
That would be a subset of frugal.
Used games do not hurt the industry. In fact they help the industry!
First off used games have been around since day one. The game industry has only grown since then. Obviously there's no harm. Now onto the specifics.
Used stores are used by two groups, high volume game consumers and people not willing or able to pay full price.
The high volume consumers sell the games. Why do they do this? So they have money to buy more games?
The buyers fall into two basic categories. People who are frugal and people who can't afford $60. Even though these people don't buy games at full price used stores allow them to still be gamers. This allows people to enter the hobby, and thus the market, at an earlier point. They get hooked. Eventually they make more money and don't want to wait for games so they start buying games at full price. Frugal people will never pay full price for games. It's against their nature. Trying to get them to will at worst result in them leaving the market, at best only buying things at discount.
Additionally used game stores put more money into the pockets of game companies. They do this by funneling the money from the used buyers and giving it to the hard core gamers who sell the games to the used stores. You remove this middle man and your hard core gamers have less money to buy games, you lose the customers who can't pay full price due to economics.
All because some exec sees the games in used stores as lost sales, when in fact they all were sales, in order to try and capture a demographic that by it's nature will never be direct customers of theirs.
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As long as even the poor are happy and literally fat what incentive to the citizens have to change anything?
Bowing is not common in Asia. It is common in a couple countries in Asia. Across Asia it is very uncommon though.
If we're going to teach cultural differences then let's at least be accurate about them.
No one. The people will not back any significant change. They are literally too fat and happy. Even people below the poverty line on welfare are obese. Why would they change anything?
The system will not change while the States have an obesity epidemic. The citizens are literally too fat and happy.
It's the 2 minutes of incident filled operation you need to worry about. The x hours of safe operation someone else logged are meaningless to me.
While we have an obesity epidemic there will be no significant change.
People are literally too fat and happy.
Please show me where in the mandate it states that people must use birth control. If that's not in there then there's no religious issue.
There is no religious freedom issue here. No where in the mandate does it say you have to use birth control.
Girls go for guys with confidence. The smart and geeky is optional.
That link doesn't mean what you think it means.
There are many alternate currencies in the US. The government has never had a single problem with any of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_in_the_United_States
Girls go for the doctor.
Guys go for the companion.
The complaint is that the book is pornographic. How is the situation you describe "pornographic"?
The simple explanation, monopoly, is true. The cost of entering the financial system is prohibitively expensive. Look at the trouble Discover has had entering the market. Additionally there is collusion by the existing market players. Visa and MasterCard would not allow banks to issue a Discover Card if they issued a Visa or MasterCard. That was fought all the way to the supreme court.
Your ebay example is flawed for a couple reasons. If the fee is for fraud then charge me for buying from ebay, or other markets with high fraud. Don't charge me on everything. Name and shame ebay. Either ebay will fix the service or trustworthy escrow services will spring up at a lower price point. The other major flaw is that ebay is trivial. They have about 4B in yearly revenue. By comparison Starbucks has about 14B and Target has about 84B. Now add in Best Buy, Walmart, Hyvee, Sears, and the Gap brands. If we're talking about 93 percent of all transaction then Ebay is a nothing company, statistically zero. To set policy on it is nonsensical.
You also failed to address the selling of spending habits, which I am not compensated for.
I actually view that as a downside. Why should I pay visa 2-5% of every transaction for the privilege of selling my spending habits to others. Of which I see no profit.
Don't forget that we'll pay them 2-5% of every transaction for the privilege. Up to 30% for the privilege of paying in installments.
I've never heard of that. Links to laws please? What country are you talking about?
Loosing your license is no big deal.
DUIs have huge long term repercussions. Longer suspension. Greater insurance. High penalties. Jail time.
Judges routinely refuse them. They know the rules. It creates a lack of evidence. http://atlantaduinews.com/2011/06/superior-court-judge-rucker-smith-charged-with-dui-in-sumter-county.html
Depends.
/s whenever they want.
Are they a time sheet exempt or non-exempt employee? If they're exempt it doesn't matter if they read