Except that doesn't quite work. Here's what I see on that page:
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There is no option to actually turn this off. Perhaps external sites need to have already "sent stories" before I can go back and turn them off? Can anyone who's already triggered this behavior confirm that you can turn off stories en masse, or do you have to do it on a case-by-case basis forever?
How exactly did you propose to do anything *but* allow an object of infinite mass to pass by? (Stick another infinitely massive object in its path? How do you move that one? etc.)
For what it's worth, there's a difference between "four feet square[d]" and "four square feet". The former is 4x4, the latter is 2x2 (or the same area in a different shape). The same applies to "feet cubed" and "cubic feet". So, if each face is four feet square, the entire box is four feet cubed.
I'm not sure who here is lacking an understanding of the fundamentals of business.
Microsoft is surely already selling at prices which maximize their profit. If they were selling at a lower price, they wouldn't need a fine from the EU to convince them to raise it; they just would, because they'd make more money that way. Since they haven't done so pre-fine, what makes you think they would do so post-fine?
Of course this would be more complicated if they were being fined per copy, or per customer, or some other strange scheme, but they're being fined *per day*. The only thing MS can do to reduce their fine is to somehow operate during fewer days (?) or comply with the EU's demands and end the fine entirely. Irrationally raising prices (and thus *hurting* their bottom line) does neither of those things.
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Except that doesn't quite work. Here's what I see on that page:
Privacy Settings for External Websites
Back to Privacy Overview without saving changes.
Show your friends what you like and what you're up to outside of Facebook. When you take actions on the sites listed below, you can choose to have those actions sent to your profile.
Please note that these settings only affect notifications on Facebook. You will still be notified on affiliate websites when they send stories to Facebook. You will be able to decline individual stories at that time.
No sites have tried sending stories to your profile
There is no option to actually turn this off. Perhaps external sites need to have already "sent stories" before I can go back and turn them off? Can anyone who's already triggered this behavior confirm that you can turn off stories en masse, or do you have to do it on a case-by-case basis forever?
How exactly did you propose to do anything *but* allow an object of infinite mass to pass by? (Stick another infinitely massive object in its path? How do you move that one? etc.)
For what it's worth, there's a difference between "four feet square[d]" and "four square feet". The former is 4x4, the latter is 2x2 (or the same area in a different shape). The same applies to "feet cubed" and "cubic feet". So, if each face is four feet square, the entire box is four feet cubed.
I'm not sure who here is lacking an understanding of the fundamentals of business.
Microsoft is surely already selling at prices which maximize their profit. If they were selling at a lower price, they wouldn't need a fine from the EU to convince them to raise it; they just would, because they'd make more money that way. Since they haven't done so pre-fine, what makes you think they would do so post-fine?
Of course this would be more complicated if they were being fined per copy, or per customer, or some other strange scheme, but they're being fined *per day*. The only thing MS can do to reduce their fine is to somehow operate during fewer days (?) or comply with the EU's demands and end the fine entirely. Irrationally raising prices (and thus *hurting* their bottom line) does neither of those things.
You initiated the action, but the creation is done by the monkeys.
Actually, the guy who reads the monkeys' scripts and selects the Shakespearean play out of the mess is much more responsible for the creation.