It depends. The likely result would depend on why you didn't make it. Can verify you had to go to the hospital? Most businesses would give you a refund or credit. Something less drastic? Most businesses would give you a credit.
And besides, you'd be out $35 instead of $250.
I think the preferred policy is to let you return the ticket by phone or internet for full or partial credit (depending on the lead time before the show) so it can be resold. Perhaps with a modest restocking fee (so about $7 to $14 bucks for many tickets) in case it's not resold.
For your second point tho-- huh? Bot operators COULDN'T resell the tickets. The tickets could only be used by someone who whose real name was the same as the "fake" name.
Well, you have the choice of going to the baseball game with an id for $50 or without an id for $790. Which means for most of the population, they are not going to the baseball game with or without an id anyway. At best, it's the nosebleed section.
AC asked "How do you deal with tickets that are purchased by entities then given away promotionally - think radio station contents and other giveaways? This solution is not viable - the only viable solution is to make the criminal penalties for scalping tickets so powerful to deter anyone from trying make money..."
AC, if you read the thread, you'll see this solution is already in use for ticketed events. The issue you raise is already being handled successfully too. So not only is the solution viable, it's being used.
Now the more fundamental problem is selling a limited number of tickets to an increasingly larger population. But at least if you tie the name to the ticket, you won't have uninterested 3rd parties speculating on tickets and using banks of computers to autopurchase many blocks of tickets.
Require tickets to be tied to a person (first name, last name) when sold. Require that person to have valid ID on arrival. And prosecute anyone caught using fake ID's.
Airplane, boat, and train tickets require the ticket match the person. Any area subject to ticket scalping should require an ID too.
You know... once you pass saying shit you have no clue about and being willfully ignorant, you are actually in the land of stupid. Ignorant can be cured by educating yourself but stupid is there to the bone.
You are not only ignorant. You are also dumb and rude.
Anyway you asked why she had it in her lap. I answered.. "no cupholders".
It was 1994. Lots of vehicles lacked cupholders back then.
In fact, in the history of cupholders her burns are mentioned specifically as accelerating adoption of cupholders.
"but the life-or-death necessity of the cup holder was proven in the infamous 1994 lawsuit, Liebeck v. McDonaldâ(TM)s Restaurants. If youâ(TM)re too young to remember the hot coffee case (or happened to spend that year renting a nice cave in the Poconos), Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman, sued McDonaldâ(TM)s for damages after spilling 180-degree coffee on her lap in a stationary car. She got third-degree burns from the spill, and was awarded $2.7 million (reduced to $640,000 on appeal) by the jury. The case became fodder for endless Leno monologues and a national argument about tort reform, but it was also a strong argument for industry-wide adoption of the cup holderâ"if the car sheâ(TM)d been sitting in, her grandsonâ(TM)s Ford Probe, had had even one single cup holder, the whole ordeal might have been avoided."
I traveled over the weekend and saw several ways people are breaking free of cable legally and illegally. it's just gotten too expensive. Cable TV at $40 used to be a good deal. My last cable and internet bill was $205. That's a NEW CAR every decade. We are finishing out person of interest and then I'm cutting the cord.
But that's after having some of the highest salaries in the nation. http://www.latimes.com/enterta... Comcast compensation: Michael Cavanagh is highest paid CFO in the nation Neil Smit, the Comcast Cable chief executive, received $27.9 million, a 20% increase over the previous year. http://money.cnn.com/galleries... There CEO is on CNN's list of the 5 most overpaid CEOs in the entire country. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts received total compensation of $40.8 million last year, Corporate Library said. That includes a $2.7 million base salary and over $22 million in earnings related to stock options.
But wait... Executive own many shares of comcast stock so comcast's huge stock repurchase plan also fed a lot of money to those guys as did the dividends (tho those are a bit low).
And one of the reasons Comcast costs are so high is that everyone up the food chain from them has also jacked up prices and required bundling of channels that should be illegal (and which people are starting to rout around).
Traffic calming exists in almost every city with a population over 100,000.
Responsible adults running government know it's required.
We can't build every residential to highway standards. Residential streets are not intended for cut-thru traffic.
People may cut thru for a while but cities quickly add speed bumps, gate streets, close streets, raise intersections, lower speed limits (and enforce them strictly) to calm the traffic to intended levels.
We are in an overshoot scenario now (and have been since the 1980's so it's too late to do anything about).
In the near future, we'll exhaust a lot of industrial metals at the same time. Unless we find replacements for all of them at the same time, the most likely result will be a greatly lowered carrying capacity and much more expensive (and so lower) industrial capacity. It's likely to be combined with civil unrest and a mass die off.
For example, we used as much chromium in 2014 as we did from 1900 to 2000 combined (it's likely to be exhausted at reasonable prices in our lifetime).
Since it's so common for species to overbreed their environments here on earth, I think it's a likely scenario on any other planet as well. I think it would be pretty common for species to hit this wall too hard before they get past it technologically. So the universe may be full of planets with fallen civilizations and a couple billion intelligent beings looking up at but unable to reach the stars.
1) That's my point. Using residential streets for highway traffic destroys them which will require higher and sooner maintenance. Residential streets are 3.5" of asphalt over 6" of aggregate. Highways are 11" of cement over 21" packed base of aggregate.
2) Yes, absolutely. Some roads are more public than others.If you google "traffic calming" you'll find that even cities as small 100,000 in many countries employ traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, gates, street closures, raised intersections to dissuade inappropriate traffic. Residential streets are intended to receive a low level of traffic going to and from the residences at low speeds. When people are civil, municipalities do not need to use traffic calming measures. When civility breaks down, municipalities deploy traffic calming measures fairly quickly.
The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program is overseen by Senior Staff Analyst Gary Drabek at 611 Walker. NTMP address traffic related problems in residential neighborhoods, including excessive vehicular speed and cut-through traffic. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program implements "traffic calming" measures, such as speed cushions, traffic circles, median islands, curb extensions, diversion techniques, etc. aimed at enhancing safety for pedestrians and cyclists. Applications for NTMP intervention may be made by one or more residents/ property owners and are reviewed by the Department to determine eligibility. Final plans require City Council approval. There's a long list of NTMP applications; we will contact you as soon as we are able to begin working on your application.
Traffic calming, as defined by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, is the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users. Traffic Calming Goals include:
increasing the quality of life;
incorporating the preferences and requirements of the residents;
creating safer and more attractive streets;
reducing the negative impacts of motor vehicles; and
promoting alternative transportation modes.
Traffic Calming Objectives include:
achieving slower speeds for motor vehicles in residential areas;
increasing safety for non-motorized users of the street system;
enhancing the street environment;
increasing access for all modes of transportation, and
reducing/elminating cut-through motor vehicle traffic.
At the same time, council members Monica Vernon, Pat Shey and Scott Olson said the council has talked extensively about converting some one-way streets to two-ways. Shey said street conversions are designed for âoetraffic calming,â and said most residential neighborhoods such as those in Wellington Heights have two-way streets, not one-ways.
Summary- it is standard practice for cities with 100,000 or more residents (and possibly much lower) to have traffic calming targeted at reducing or eliminating cut thru motor vehicle traffic.
Almost every city planning commission in the country would laugh you out the door.
The cities themselves don't want to be repairing these roads which are only 9.5 inches thick (3.5" of asphalt) as opposed to 32" thick (11" of concrete).
When drivers start doing this, speed bumps and 20mph speed limits (with strict enforcement) are common first steps. After that blocking off most the streets on the sides of the neighborhood are a next step. And finally closing one side (e/w/n/s) to completely block thru traffic is a final option.
No one has a problem with you cutting thru the neighborhood. But once it's you and your closest 2,000 waze/trapster/googlemap/etc. friends it becomes a problem.
City streets are not built to handle highway traffic.
6 inches of stone sub-base. 3" of binder course - compacted to 2" 2.5" of finish course - compacted to 1.5"
Total thickness of the system would be 9.5, of which asphalt would make up only the last 3.5".
A typical highway is 32" with 11" of concrete over 21" of aggregate.
Residential streets are also expected to have street, bicycle, animal, and child traffic. It's unsafe to have heavy traffic at high speeds and it is damaging to the streets.
As a result, city traffic engineers regularly take steps to prevent heavy usage of residential streets including
Speed bumps. Directional restrictions Restricted entry and exit (most streets don't hook to a main road).. Completely restricted entry and exit (only 1 way in or out)
Finally, there is the matter of changing manners (politeness). The streets were designed when lots of people didn't cut thru them. Once the load of people exceeds their design as people become more rude (like.. hey.. you), then the streets need to be designed in stone to prevent the rude behavior which often means roadblocks at the ends of streets that used to be thru streets.
Not really. It's very common for city traffic engineers to block selected streets in neighborhoods to prevent thru traffic. Essentially creating many artificial cul-de-sac's. Many neighborhoods have only one entry and exit point so there is no ability to cut thru.
This is another example of design pre- technology which will be done differently now that the technology exists.
It's sort of like turning lanes that were a good idea until traffic exceeded their capacity and more importantly driving "manners" changed and drivers started turning into and out everywhere and even driving against traffic to get to the middle lane. So now we have concrete medians again and restricted entry and exit points which can't be reached by cutting across from the opposite side of the street.
The easiest fix is to close one side of the neighborhood for a few months so there is no thru traffic there.
There are aspects of the universe which become quantified with out real/intermediate values.
That could be the limits of resolution of the simulation.
Likewise light being waves or particles.
Tyson's argument was once we make a simulation of the universe, that will constitute good evidence that we are probably in one. It was on slashdot a few months ago so Musk is a bit late to the party.
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Anonymous Coward said: That's how Nine Inch Nails tickets have worked for the last 10 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
where it says...
In an effort to combat ticket scalpers, each concert ticket will list the purchaser's legal name.
It depends. The likely result would depend on why you didn't make it. Can verify you had to go to the hospital? Most businesses would give you a refund or credit. Something less drastic? Most businesses would give you a credit.
And besides, you'd be out $35 instead of $250.
I think the preferred policy is to let you return the ticket by phone or internet for full or partial credit (depending on the lead time before the show) so it can be resold. Perhaps with a modest restocking fee (so about $7 to $14 bucks for many tickets) in case it's not resold.
For your second point tho-- huh? Bot operators COULDN'T resell the tickets. The tickets could only be used by someone who whose real name was the same as the "fake" name.
Well, you have the choice of going to the baseball game with an id for $50 or without an id for $790.
Which means for most of the population, they are not going to the baseball game with or without an id anyway. At best, it's the nosebleed section.
AC asked
"How do you deal with tickets that are purchased by entities then given away promotionally - think radio station contents and other giveaways? This solution is not viable - the only viable solution is to make the criminal penalties for scalping tickets so powerful to deter anyone from trying make money..."
AC, if you read the thread, you'll see this solution is already in use for ticketed events. The issue you raise is already being handled successfully too. So not only is the solution viable, it's being used.
Now the more fundamental problem is selling a limited number of tickets to an increasingly larger population. But at least if you tie the name to the ticket, you won't have uninterested 3rd parties speculating on tickets and using banks of computers to autopurchase many blocks of tickets.
Require tickets to be tied to a person (first name, last name) when sold. Require that person to have valid ID on arrival. And prosecute anyone caught using fake ID's.
Airplane, boat, and train tickets require the ticket match the person. Any area subject to ticket scalping should require an ID too.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the TannhÃuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
You know... once you pass saying shit you have no clue about and being willfully ignorant, you are actually in the land of stupid. Ignorant can be cured by educating yourself but stupid is there to the bone.
You are not only ignorant. You are also dumb and rude.
Anyway you asked why she had it in her lap. I answered.. "no cupholders".
It was 1994. Lots of vehicles lacked cupholders back then.
In fact, in the history of cupholders her burns are mentioned specifically as accelerating adoption of cupholders.
"but the life-or-death necessity of the cup holder was proven in the infamous 1994 lawsuit, Liebeck v. McDonaldâ(TM)s Restaurants. If youâ(TM)re too young to remember the hot coffee case (or happened to spend that year renting a nice cave in the Poconos), Stella Liebeck, a 79-year-old woman, sued McDonaldâ(TM)s for damages after spilling 180-degree coffee on her lap in a stationary car. She got third-degree burns from the spill, and was awarded $2.7 million (reduced to $640,000 on appeal) by the jury. The case became fodder for endless Leno monologues and a national argument about tort reform, but it was also a strong argument for industry-wide adoption of the cup holderâ"if the car sheâ(TM)d been sitting in, her grandsonâ(TM)s Ford Probe, had had even one single cup holder, the whole ordeal might have been avoided."
You probably weren't born yet...
Sounds like a few degrees cooler just for safety factor.
I have one of those instant stick thermometers.
I traveled over the weekend and saw several ways people are breaking free of cable legally and illegally.
it's just gotten too expensive. Cable TV at $40 used to be a good deal. My last cable and internet bill was $205. That's a NEW CAR every decade. We are finishing out person of interest and then I'm cutting the cord.
Comcast profits were 2,137,000 on 18,743,000.
That's 11%.
But that's after having some of the highest salaries in the nation.
http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
Comcast compensation: Michael Cavanagh is highest paid CFO in the nation
Neil Smit, the Comcast Cable chief executive, received $27.9 million, a 20% increase over the previous year.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries...
There CEO is on CNN's list of the 5 most overpaid CEOs in the entire country.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts received total compensation of $40.8 million last year, Corporate Library said. That includes a $2.7 million base salary and over $22 million in earnings related to stock options.
But wait...
Executive own many shares of comcast stock so comcast's huge stock repurchase plan also fed a lot of money to those guys as did the dividends (tho those are a bit low).
And one of the reasons Comcast costs are so high is that everyone up the food chain from them has also jacked up prices and required bundling of channels that should be illegal (and which people are starting to rout around).
Summary: Comcast are bad dudes.
I'm at 5.1.1. I'll keep that in mind when I get my next phone. cool feature.
For now, it sometimes lets me move an app to the card.. but most the time it doesn't.
The excess permissions are an issue.
But the real road block is larger apps that require the limited phone memory and which won't / can't use the SD card.
I've had 29 gigabytes of free memory and apps that couldn't update or install due to lack of space.
Traffic calming exists in almost every city with a population over 100,000.
Responsible adults running government know it's required.
We can't build every residential to highway standards.
Residential streets are not intended for cut-thru traffic.
People may cut thru for a while but cities quickly add speed bumps, gate streets, close streets, raise intersections, lower speed limits (and enforce them strictly) to calm the traffic to intended levels.
We are in an overshoot scenario now (and have been since the 1980's so it's too late to do anything about).
In the near future, we'll exhaust a lot of industrial metals at the same time. Unless we find replacements for all of them at the same time, the most likely result will be a greatly lowered carrying capacity and much more expensive (and so lower) industrial capacity. It's likely to be combined with civil unrest and a mass die off.
For example, we used as much chromium in 2014 as we did from 1900 to 2000 combined (it's likely to be exhausted at reasonable prices in our lifetime).
Since it's so common for species to overbreed their environments here on earth, I think it's a likely scenario on any other planet as well. I think it would be pretty common for species to hit this wall too hard before they get past it technologically. So the universe may be full of planets with fallen civilizations and a couple billion intelligent beings looking up at but unable to reach the stars.
1) That's my point. Using residential streets for highway traffic destroys them which will require higher and sooner maintenance.
Residential streets are 3.5" of asphalt over 6" of aggregate.
Highways are 11" of cement over 21" packed base of aggregate.
2) Yes, absolutely. Some roads are more public than others.If you google "traffic calming" you'll find that even cities as small 100,000 in many countries employ traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, gates, street closures, raised intersections to dissuade inappropriate traffic. Residential streets are intended to receive a low level of traffic going to and from the residences at low speeds. When people are civil, municipalities do not need to use traffic calming measures. When civility breaks down, municipalities deploy traffic calming measures fairly quickly.
Imagine if using the alternate routes actually burned out the wires and destroyed routers when this occurred.
In this case, "routing around the damage" would be viewed differently.
Traffic routing onto inappropriate roads damages the roads and kills people (esp children and bicyclists).
Isn't there a guy following them tossing flower petals at the very end?
You are completely right Half-Pint HAL.
Here's from a typical major american city
Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP)
The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program is overseen by Senior Staff Analyst Gary Drabek at 611 Walker. NTMP address traffic related problems in residential neighborhoods, including excessive vehicular speed and cut-through traffic. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program implements "traffic calming" measures, such as speed cushions, traffic circles, median islands, curb extensions, diversion techniques, etc. aimed at enhancing safety for pedestrians and cyclists. Applications for NTMP intervention may be made by one or more residents/ property owners and are reviewed by the Department to determine eligibility. Final plans require City Council approval. There's a long list of NTMP applications; we will contact you as soon as we are able to begin working on your application.
Population 192,294 (2013)
http://grcity.us/enterprise-se...
Program Overview
Traffic calming, as defined by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, is the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users.
Traffic Calming Goals include:
increasing the quality of life;
incorporating the preferences and requirements of the residents;
creating safer and more attractive streets;
reducing the negative impacts of motor vehicles; and
promoting alternative transportation modes.
Traffic Calming Objectives include:
achieving slower speeds for motor vehicles in residential areas;
increasing safety for non-motorized users of the street system;
enhancing the street environment;
increasing access for all modes of transportation, and
reducing/elminating cut-through motor vehicle traffic.
Here's an article typical of tiny american cities (population 128,429 in 2013)
http://www.thegazette.com/subj...
At the same time, council members Monica Vernon, Pat Shey and Scott Olson said the council has talked extensively about converting some one-way streets to two-ways. Shey said street conversions are designed for âoetraffic calming,â and said most residential neighborhoods such as those in Wellington Heights have two-way streets, not one-ways.
Summary- it is standard practice for cities with 100,000 or more residents (and possibly much lower) to have traffic calming targeted at reducing or eliminating cut thru motor vehicle traffic.
Almost every city planning commission in the country would laugh you out the door.
The cities themselves don't want to be repairing these roads which are only 9.5 inches thick (3.5" of asphalt) as opposed to 32" thick (11" of concrete).
When drivers start doing this, speed bumps and 20mph speed limits (with strict enforcement) are common first steps. After that blocking off most the streets on the sides of the neighborhood are a next step. And finally closing one side (e/w/n/s) to completely block thru traffic is a final option.
No one has a problem with you cutting thru the neighborhood. But once it's you and your closest 2,000 waze/trapster/googlemap/etc. friends it becomes a problem.
It really only needs to be there for about 35 minutes of rush hour.
I like the idea of people walking and bicycling with waze to show 3 to 15 mile an hour speeds.
City streets are not built to handle highway traffic.
6 inches of stone sub-base.
3" of binder course - compacted to 2"
2.5" of finish course - compacted to 1.5"
Total thickness of the system would be 9.5, of which asphalt would make up only the last 3.5".
A typical highway is 32" with 11" of concrete over 21" of aggregate.
Residential streets are also expected to have street, bicycle, animal, and child traffic. It's unsafe to have heavy traffic at high speeds and it is damaging to the streets.
As a result, city traffic engineers regularly take steps to prevent heavy usage of residential streets including
Speed bumps.
Directional restrictions
Restricted entry and exit (most streets don't hook to a main road)..
Completely restricted entry and exit (only 1 way in or out)
Finally, there is the matter of changing manners (politeness). The streets were designed when lots of people didn't cut thru them. Once the load of people exceeds their design as people become more rude (like.. hey.. you), then the streets need to be designed in stone to prevent the rude behavior which often means roadblocks at the ends of streets that used to be thru streets.
Not really. It's very common for city traffic engineers to block selected streets in neighborhoods to prevent thru traffic. Essentially creating many artificial cul-de-sac's. Many neighborhoods have only one entry and exit point so there is no ability to cut thru.
This is another example of design pre- technology which will be done differently now that the technology exists.
It's sort of like turning lanes that were a good idea until traffic exceeded their capacity and more importantly driving "manners" changed and drivers started turning into and out everywhere and even driving against traffic to get to the middle lane. So now we have concrete medians again and restricted entry and exit points which can't be reached by cutting across from the opposite side of the street.
The easiest fix is to close one side of the neighborhood for a few months so there is no thru traffic there.
There are aspects of the universe which become quantified with out real/intermediate values.
That could be the limits of resolution of the simulation.
Likewise light being waves or particles.
Tyson's argument was once we make a simulation of the universe, that will constitute good evidence that we are probably in one. It was on slashdot a few months ago so Musk is a bit late to the party.
Using a computer to run thru every possible iteration notes and note durations and then copylefting the note sequences into the public domain.
I don't think you should be able to lock up sequences of 12 notes for over 60 years.