Maybe they don't want to get a third and fourth party involved, and go through at least two extra steps. Maybe it's easier to find somone to trade with than it would be to liquidate their item. Maybe people resent the commodification of everything around them and would like a little break from that to have a human transaction/interaction not mediated by money.
Craig's List doesn't have a commission cut and there's no spread between buying and selling prices, so what's the point in trading?
The point in trading is to trade the items; what does craiglist not getting a commission have to do with the traders' desires, aside from making them somewhat easier to fulfill? Is altruism really that mind-bending to you?
I see you cherry-picked from the legal jargon dictionary, since none of the usages in the actual English language bolster your argument. Products are things:
1. Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
-The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
1. Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
-Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products" [syn: merchandise, wares] 2: an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" [syn: production] 3: a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue" -WordNet 2.0
Number 3 from WordNet might kinda sorta fit, but in that case the "product" is the insurance settlement, or maybe "peace of mind," if you're in marketing. Insurance itself is not a product. Look to thine own source:
service: [...] 2 a : useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity. - Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law
Insurance is not a product. Neither are "investment products." They're services. Please don't let them corrupt the language in the interest of making themselves feel like they're actually producing anything. Thank you.
The point is that the absolute number of jobs is meaningless devoid of context. It's like saying a family of five with two packets of ramen in the pantry has more food than the bachelor next door who has only one.
When expressed as jobs per capita, the number went down.
Huh? They don't increase tuition retroactively for loan recipients. Anyway, I just meant that compared to other forms of debt (credit cards, bank loans, etc.) student loans are among the least onerous. Home equity loans can be okay, but most people aren't in a position to get those until a few decades later.
I paid my own college by working at McDonalds on weekends.
Uphill both ways, right? You must have gone to college a loong time ago, or possibly in some more civilized country than the U.S.
Let's see how realistic that approach would be today:
Assuming she works double shifts every weekend of the year, that's $5.15 * 32 hrs * 52 weeks = $8569.60 annual income. (The cost of her stunted social development is difficult to quantify, so we'll elide that.) According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition, fees, room, and board for the 2003-4 school year at a public institution exceeded that income by $2066.40. (Private schools' costs averaged over three times that income.) Bear in mind that tuition, fees, room, board hardly comprise the entirety of even the thriftiest student's expenses.
The cost of higher education in this country is not a problem that can be solved with plainspoken patronizing platitudes prefaced with "Why, back in my day..." No one should have to live like an indigent in order to afford college.
P.S. Student loans are just about the best credit deal most people will ever be offered in their lives.
Yeah, those insurance companies are hurtingsobadly, it must be all those lawsuits killing their bottom line and forcing them to screw us.
Don't imagine for a second that any decrease in civil payouts thanks to "tort reform" would be reflected anywhere but corporate profit margins. Good for their investors, not so good for victims of their clients' malfeasance -- which would certainly increase once the teeth of punitive damages are pulled.
This comes up every time. The only place "government" appears in the definitions of "censor" is in the context of ancient Rome. Non-governments are perfectly capable of engaging in censorship, it's just not necessarily a First Amendment violation when they do.
That's not true. Every Mac comes with 90 days of full support plus a one year warranty. The extended warranty extends both to three years. The service the parent describes is standard.
You might be interested to see this. I don't know how long it can walk at a time, but the blood pressure difference would seem to be insignificant. I've heard there are snakes that will die if you hold them vertically, though.
You may be misinterpreting the parent post. Opentalk has nothing to do with Appletalk; the poster was saying that it provides the same functionality. (Which isn't strictly true either; Opentalk/Rendezvous/Zeroconf is simply a service broadcast/discovery mechanism, not a whole networking protocol. But in combination with TCP/IP and DHCP it provides the same functionality as Appletalk.)
If "I forgot" something, it implies that I've remembered since then. "I forgot to bring home milk" is not something you would say until you remembered that you were supposed to get milk.
"I have forgotten" and "I forget" both imply that the mental lapse is still in effect, e.g. "I have forgotten your phone number" or "I forget -- what was your number again?"
Marriage is not a privilege, it's a right -- or it should be. Furthermore, marriage does not carry with it any special financial perks such as limitation of liability. If anything, there is an extension of liability, since the couple can be held liable for the actions of one partner.
The tax-exempt status of a church doesn't mean the government sanctions its dogma, but it does mean the church is limited in what activities it can perform. Churches cannot give to political campaigns, endorse candidates, or engage in substantial lobbying activities. So the government does indeed regulate the internal affairs of churches. There is currently some outcry by conservative Christian groups about this; what they fail to understand is that the IRS is not muzzling their right to free speech but placing boundaries on the privilege of their tax-exemptitude.
None of this is to say I'm in favor of a CEO salary-cap law. All I'm saying is that when government grants a privilege it has every right to make it conditional.
I fail to see where, exactly, it's in government's power to regulate the internal affairs of corporations.
It's in government's power because corporations are a legal entity created by permission of the government via their corporate charters, which can be revoked.
Perhaps the best way would be in the middle somewhere, like they do with drugs. The company has exclusive rights for a certain number of years then other companies can make generic versions.
save the seed and use it next year knowing what Monsanto's terms of use were and knowing how they react to people using their patented product.
There were no "terms of use." He didn't buy a license for the seeds, and he didn't steal them. Look up "first sale doctrine." You can patent whatever you can get away with, but you cannot control what is done with your patented thing after you sell it (or give it away, as Monsanto indirectly did by creating something that would replicate itself in the wild.)
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Craig's List doesn't have a commission cut and there's no spread between buying and selling prices, so what's the point in trading?
The point in trading is to trade the items; what does craiglist not getting a commission have to do with the traders' desires, aside from making them somewhat easier to fulfill? Is altruism really that mind-bending to you?
Number 3 from WordNet might kinda sorta fit, but in that case the "product" is the insurance settlement, or maybe "peace of mind," if you're in marketing. Insurance itself is not a product. Look to thine own source:
Insurance is not a product. Neither are "investment products." They're services. Please don't let them corrupt the language in the interest of making themselves feel like they're actually producing anything. Thank you.
When expressed as jobs per capita, the number went down.
Huh? They don't increase tuition retroactively for loan recipients. Anyway, I just meant that compared to other forms of debt (credit cards, bank loans, etc.) student loans are among the least onerous. Home equity loans can be okay, but most people aren't in a position to get those until a few decades later.
Okay, then. Why don't I give you $20, and you give me $3000. Hey, look, you're twenty bucks richer than before!
Uphill both ways, right? You must have gone to college a loong time ago, or possibly in some more civilized country than the U.S.
Let's see how realistic that approach would be today:
Assuming she works double shifts every weekend of the year, that's $5.15 * 32 hrs * 52 weeks = $8569.60 annual income. (The cost of her stunted social development is difficult to quantify, so we'll elide that.) According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition, fees, room, and board for the 2003-4 school year at a public institution exceeded that income by $2066.40. (Private schools' costs averaged over three times that income.) Bear in mind that tuition, fees, room, board hardly comprise the entirety of even the thriftiest student's expenses.
The cost of higher education in this country is not a problem that can be solved with plainspoken patronizing platitudes prefaced with "Why, back in my day..." No one should have to live like an indigent in order to afford college.
P.S. Student loans are just about the best credit deal most people will ever be offered in their lives.
"Travel" is not a synonym for "operate a motor vehicle on public roads." No rights are absolute.
Driving on public roads is a privilege, not a right.
Don't modern CRTs discharge themselves when powered down?
Don't imagine for a second that any decrease in civil payouts thanks to "tort reform" would be reflected anywhere but corporate profit margins. Good for their investors, not so good for victims of their clients' malfeasance -- which would certainly increase once the teeth of punitive damages are pulled.
This comes up every time. The only place "government" appears in the definitions of "censor" is in the context of ancient Rome. Non-governments are perfectly capable of engaging in censorship, it's just not necessarily a First Amendment violation when they do.
That's not true. Every Mac comes with 90 days of full support plus a one year warranty. The extended warranty extends both to three years. The service the parent describes is standard.
Okay, but in English we put a space after a period, not before a comma. Two spaces if using a monospaced font.
Unreasonable maybe, but what was false about it?
You might be interested to see this. I don't know how long it can walk at a time, but the blood pressure difference would seem to be insignificant. I've heard there are snakes that will die if you hold them vertically, though.
There's also RendezvousProxy. Haven't used it myself as yet so I can't vouch, but there it is.
You may be misinterpreting the parent post. Opentalk has nothing to do with Appletalk; the poster was saying that it provides the same functionality. (Which isn't strictly true either; Opentalk/Rendezvous/Zeroconf is simply a service broadcast/discovery mechanism, not a whole networking protocol. But in combination with TCP/IP and DHCP it provides the same functionality as Appletalk.)
Yeah, god forbid they pollute our Entertainment with meaning and relevance.
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"I have forgotten" and "I forget" both imply that the mental lapse is still in effect, e.g. "I have forgotten your phone number" or "I forget -- what was your number again?"
The tax-exempt status of a church doesn't mean the government sanctions its dogma, but it does mean the church is limited in what activities it can perform. Churches cannot give to political campaigns, endorse candidates, or engage in substantial lobbying activities. So the government does indeed regulate the internal affairs of churches. There is currently some outcry by conservative Christian groups about this; what they fail to understand is that the IRS is not muzzling their right to free speech but placing boundaries on the privilege of their tax-exemptitude.
None of this is to say I'm in favor of a CEO salary-cap law. All I'm saying is that when government grants a privilege it has every right to make it conditional.
It's in government's power because corporations are a legal entity created by permission of the government via their corporate charters, which can be revoked.
Incorporation is a privilege, not a right.
That's exactly what a patent is.
There were no "terms of use." He didn't buy a license for the seeds, and he didn't steal them. Look up "first sale doctrine." You can patent whatever you can get away with, but you cannot control what is done with your patented thing after you sell it (or give it away, as Monsanto indirectly did by creating something that would replicate itself in the wild.)