The sad part is, in a few decades when the country is an impoverished backwards mess nobody will have much sympathy.
Then when the country starts breeding western-hating under-educated terrorist morons everyone in the west will wring their hands and wonder how it could have possibly happened.
I'm just as happy to get on an Airbus as I am to get on a Boeing (although I prefer the seat layout of the A330 (2x4x2) to the B777 layout (2x5x2) but that's just personal preference).
That's up to the airline, not the manufacturer. I've sat in 3-3-3 A330s and 3-3-3 777s.
In the USA example, no one at the telecom is being tortured and/or killed. No one in the government of the USA has a 'magic button' to turn off the internet & cell coverage.
Imagine a prof is teaching integral calculus. With a Smart board he can progress through solving the equation, while what he is writing is either projected, and/or automatically recorded so it can be played back later.
I'm not sure you understand how the immune system works.
This.
Unforunately, it's why many many otherwise intelligent people refuse vaccinations, or quote weird stats or claim they've eaten enough vitamins.
People don't understand how the immune system works, nor do they understand how vaccinations work: "Vaccines aren't natural!" What's more natural than using your immune system to fight disease?
Everyone knows every technology leap in video was driven by porn - VHS tapes, streaming medai online, compression, DVDs... All they need to do is put the porn industry on it and presto, problem solved.
Word processors, printer drivers, operating systems, central heating controllers, sequencers, web servers, should be free - games, music compositions, etc. - not so much.
I don't understand - So if I create great software to manage an HVAC system to great efficiency I have to give it away, but if I make Angry Birds I don't? What's the difference?
The burden of proof is on the employer to show that no other mitigating measure can address the risks.
No it's not. The employer can say 'no smart phones' and that's that. If you don't like the rule you can go work somewhere else. There's no burden on employers to prove anything.
But when I can read previews before a product even comes out at a hundred websites, see a thousand video reviews once it comes out and basically get every single bit of information I could possibly want and a whole lot more on the internet anytime I want it, why do I need a tradeshow?
Do you work in sales, marketing or business development? I go to numerous shows per year, and they're all about the meetings that go on in the background. Discussions around sales channels, marketing, training - Pricing. Trade shows are an opportunity where eveyone is already all together, so they're a highly efficient way to get business done. You can go on one plane flight instead of 20.
You do know they generally build these near water on purpose, right?
Actually, they build them as close to the equator as they can on purpose. The 'near water' part is just a convenient secondary component. At 28 degrees of latitude, the cape was convenient in that respect (San Diego is 38 degrees).
I'm sorry, but one of the rules of/. is that no poster may state that somewhere in the world is worse than the USA. Starving children in a North Korean Stalinist gulag are way better off than any American child eating Doritos and watching Honey Boo Boo. Oddly enough, it seems like none of the Slashdotters who have this opinion seem willing to move away from the USA to somewhere 'better' like China.
...and no, I'm not an American and I don't live in the USA.
Wait, so all you need is to get an Indian guy to buy everything for you, and you pay no tax?
In Canada, native Indians only have tax-free status for purchases made on Indian-nation land. So if an Indian buys a shovel at a general store on an Indian reservation there is no sales tax, but if they buy it at a Home Depot in a nearby town they pay sales tax like everyone else.
I believe prices SHOULD include all taxes, but to address your points -
It adds to customer confusion
Not really. The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
cashier's work
Well, the cash register does all the math so there's little extra work other than the 1.5 seconds it takes to count out four or less pennies.
and the benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for?
That's the only one. The government would love it if the taxes were built into the price as it shields them from view.
When the federal value-added tax was instituted in Canada in the late 80s a number of stores *did* try posting their prices as "tax included." Their sales immediately plummeted as consumers fled their stores in favour of competitors with 'lower prices' - Even though the prices were exactly the same. The few retailers that had included the tax immediately backpedalled and showed their prices as pre-tax.
Here in Switzerland we have done away with them since a very very very long time ago
This is because in Europe the value-added taxes are built into the price, whereas here in Canada they are added to the price. As a result, you end up with an item priced at $6.99 costing costing $7.83 when it comes time to pay. You rarely see prices like that in Europe, so there's little use for a 'penny' or a 'nickel.'
I do question cashier's ability to cope, though. Even today, if I'm buying an item that is $7.83 and I present $8 and say "keep the pennies" the cashier becomes VERY confused. S/he's very used to counting out all the change, and leaving change in her drawer is puzzling to them. I guess once there are no pennies in there, the problem will go away.
I don't bother downloading pirated movies so I gotta ask - Do people *really* download and watch movies that have been filmed in the theater with a camcorder? How the smeg is that even watchable? Sounds absolutely horrid.
I'd trust some football-playing hothead who says what's on his mind and cools down minutes after a rage much more than some silent, coddled, brooding nerd-loser who chooses to mass-murder out of anger at their own weakness and defeatism.
The problem is the mental wiring. A nerd-loser isn't wired to like sports, in the same way a jock isn't wired to like Dungeons and Dragons. A jock *enjoys* sports, a nerd-loser doesn't - So it's much harder to get them into it.
and fact is that, even today, not many people know how to order stuffs [sic] from Amazon.
Not sure what 'fact' you're citing, but this is just plain wrong. Amazon is one of the largest retailers in the world. Almost everyone I know orders from Amazon, and that includes my parents in their 70s - And this is in the context of amazon.CA where the selection is greatly reduced compared to amazon.com.
I have a Sony LED LCD TV, 40". It doesn't have a camera nor mike. It doesn't have WiFi (I do have it plugged into the LAN via CAT6 for software updates). Doesn't have 3D. As for not having an antenna, you should get one. Lots of good-quality free OTA TV in most regions.
Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it.
It wouldn't cost much less, though. Multiple inputs, with a means to switch between them? You'd want those. Speakers and an audio amplifier? Probably not necessary, but certainly nice-to-have as audio is carried over HDMI. Basically the only thing you'd probably want to remove is the tuner, and that's probably a dollar's worth of hardware in terms of a tuner on a chip and an antenna input.
I was hoping the cable company would purchase the router and place on pole around my house
Just wait until you have trouble, call the ISP's tech support line and they tell you to go up the pole, unplug the router, wait ten seconds, then plug it in again.
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The sad part is, in a few decades when the country is an impoverished backwards mess nobody will have much sympathy.
Then when the country starts breeding western-hating under-educated terrorist morons everyone in the west will wring their hands and wonder how it could have possibly happened.
I'm just as happy to get on an Airbus as I am to get on a Boeing (although I prefer the seat layout of the A330 (2x4x2) to the B777 layout (2x5x2) but that's just personal preference).
That's up to the airline, not the manufacturer. I've sat in 3-3-3 A330s and 3-3-3 777s.
... its almost the same as the USA
Sigh.
I was waiting for the 'it's like the USA!' post.
Here's the thing: It's NOT
In the USA example, no one at the telecom is being tortured and/or killed. No one in the government of the USA has a 'magic button' to turn off the internet & cell coverage.
Which subsidies are those? Surely you can point out some specific ones.
Surely.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-obama-energy-idUSBRE82S11P20120329
While in a college, really, why do we need this?
Imagine a prof is teaching integral calculus. With a Smart board he can progress through solving the equation, while what he is writing is either projected, and/or automatically recorded so it can be played back later.
I'm not sure you understand how the immune system works.
This.
Unforunately, it's why many many otherwise intelligent people refuse vaccinations, or quote weird stats or claim they've eaten enough vitamins.
People don't understand how the immune system works, nor do they understand how vaccinations work: "Vaccines aren't natural!" What's more natural than using your immune system to fight disease?
Everyone knows every technology leap in video was driven by porn - VHS tapes, streaming medai online, compression, DVDs... All they need to do is put the porn industry on it and presto, problem solved.
Where is the video?
RFTA, Anonymous Coward.
So.... you're saying that it's an excellent place to collude prices and make oligopolies?
No you Anonymous Coward, typically it's the opposite: "What deal did you give Dell? Whatever it is, I want a better price."
Word processors, printer drivers, operating systems, central heating controllers, sequencers, web servers, should be free - games, music compositions, etc. - not so much.
I don't understand - So if I create great software to manage an HVAC system to great efficiency I have to give it away, but if I make Angry Birds I don't? What's the difference?
The burden of proof is on the employer to show that no other mitigating measure can address the risks.
No it's not. The employer can say 'no smart phones' and that's that. If you don't like the rule you can go work somewhere else. There's no burden on employers to prove anything.
But when I can read previews before a product even comes out at a hundred websites, see a thousand video reviews once it comes out and basically get every single bit of information I could possibly want and a whole lot more on the internet anytime I want it, why do I need a tradeshow?
Do you work in sales, marketing or business development? I go to numerous shows per year, and they're all about the meetings that go on in the background. Discussions around sales channels, marketing, training - Pricing. Trade shows are an opportunity where eveyone is already all together, so they're a highly efficient way to get business done. You can go on one plane flight instead of 20.
You do know they generally build these near water on purpose, right?
Actually, they build them as close to the equator as they can on purpose. The 'near water' part is just a convenient secondary component. At 28 degrees of latitude, the cape was convenient in that respect (San Diego is 38 degrees).
I assure you that isn't the case
I'm sorry, but one of the rules of /. is that no poster may state that somewhere in the world is worse than the USA. Starving children in a North Korean Stalinist gulag are way better off than any American child eating Doritos and watching Honey Boo Boo. Oddly enough, it seems like none of the Slashdotters who have this opinion seem willing to move away from the USA to somewhere 'better' like China.
...and no, I'm not an American and I don't live in the USA.
B takes money from non-indians (unofficially), purchases the goods and delivers them to the real customers.
This is against the law. Law enforcement steps in and charges sellers and buyers.
Do I need to point out how this can be exploited?
Yes.
Wait, so all you need is to get an Indian guy to buy everything for you, and you pay no tax?
In Canada, native Indians only have tax-free status for purchases made on Indian-nation land. So if an Indian buys a shovel at a general store on an Indian reservation there is no sales tax, but if they buy it at a Home Depot in a nearby town they pay sales tax like everyone else.
I believe prices SHOULD include all taxes, but to address your points -
It adds to customer confusion
Not really. The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
cashier's work
Well, the cash register does all the math so there's little extra work other than the 1.5 seconds it takes to count out four or less pennies.
and the benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for?
That's the only one. The government would love it if the taxes were built into the price as it shields them from view.
When the federal value-added tax was instituted in Canada in the late 80s a number of stores *did* try posting their prices as "tax included." Their sales immediately plummeted as consumers fled their stores in favour of competitors with 'lower prices' - Even though the prices were exactly the same. The few retailers that had included the tax immediately backpedalled and showed their prices as pre-tax.
Here in Switzerland we have done away with them since a very very very long time ago
This is because in Europe the value-added taxes are built into the price, whereas here in Canada they are added to the price. As a result, you end up with an item priced at $6.99 costing costing $7.83 when it comes time to pay. You rarely see prices like that in Europe, so there's little use for a 'penny' or a 'nickel.'
I do question cashier's ability to cope, though. Even today, if I'm buying an item that is $7.83 and I present $8 and say "keep the pennies" the cashier becomes VERY confused. S/he's very used to counting out all the change, and leaving change in her drawer is puzzling to them. I guess once there are no pennies in there, the problem will go away.
thats a cam version
I don't bother downloading pirated movies so I gotta ask - Do people *really* download and watch movies that have been filmed in the theater with a camcorder? How the smeg is that even watchable? Sounds absolutely horrid.
I'd trust some football-playing hothead who says what's on his mind and cools down minutes after a rage much more than some silent, coddled, brooding nerd-loser who chooses to mass-murder out of anger at their own weakness and defeatism.
The problem is the mental wiring. A nerd-loser isn't wired to like sports, in the same way a jock isn't wired to like Dungeons and Dragons. A jock *enjoys* sports, a nerd-loser doesn't - So it's much harder to get them into it.
and fact is that, even today, not many people know how to order stuffs [sic] from Amazon.
Not sure what 'fact' you're citing, but this is just plain wrong. Amazon is one of the largest retailers in the world. Almost everyone I know orders from Amazon, and that includes my parents in their 70s - And this is in the context of amazon.CA where the selection is greatly reduced compared to amazon.com.
I have a Sony LED LCD TV, 40". It doesn't have a camera nor mike. It doesn't have WiFi (I do have it plugged into the LAN via CAT6 for software updates). Doesn't have 3D. As for not having an antenna, you should get one. Lots of good-quality free OTA TV in most regions.
Some one make a freekin TV monitor without all the tuners and computers in it! I know you can get monitors but could someone make one that cost less than a TV with all that crap in it.
It wouldn't cost much less, though. Multiple inputs, with a means to switch between them? You'd want those. Speakers and an audio amplifier? Probably not necessary, but certainly nice-to-have as audio is carried over HDMI. Basically the only thing you'd probably want to remove is the tuner, and that's probably a dollar's worth of hardware in terms of a tuner on a chip and an antenna input.
I was hoping the cable company would purchase the router and place on pole around my house
Just wait until you have trouble, call the ISP's tech support line and they tell you to go up the pole, unplug the router, wait ten seconds, then plug it in again.