I figure that if it's above a certain amount and I'm going to be using it a lot, then the time saved by getting a good quality one that I know will work and I know how to use will trump the one off cost of 3 to 4 minutes required to buy it from not amazon.
Then I guess we just have a different "certain amount" threshold. And it takes more than an extra 3-4 minutes when you have to deal with accounts, shipping and all that on top of having to find the product. Plus that's one more site likely to have their customer database pwned because they didn't configure mongo or s3 properly, or because they used an old unpatched struts or wordpress.
I don't think I'd buy a minivan on Amazon, but a $100 or $200 thing, that's a no-brainer.
I'm pretty sure that slashdots best moment was the 9-11 coverage. It actually showed what community/social media could do.
If something like 9-11 happened today, it would be downplayed in the media to avoid suggesting "an amalgam between violent practices and belonging to a religion", unless of course if the terrorists where white males, in which case amalgamation would be a good thing (white males = rape = guns = nazis = trump, and I'm pretty sure we can throw in global warming in there). That is a direct result of what community/social media can do.
The next logical step for society is wiping our asses using three seashells.
A company that thinks they're going to teach Amazon a lesson by not selling their products there makes the same mistake small shop owners make by not moving away when a Walmart opens down the street. Very noble and for a minute it may work, but sooner than later the business dies because customer loyalty is fragile, especially on things worth at most $100-$200.
For instance I like Garmin GPS products, but when I want a new GPS device I'm not going to fuck around browsing individual websites and opening accounts right and left and dealing with weird shipping rules, I go on Amazon. If there's no Garmin there I'll give another brand a chance because my loyalty doesn't trump the convenience of just adding it to a shopping cart full of other stuff already connected to my credit card and shipping info.
Because, believe it or not, legal monopolies like patents actually HURT competition, which is where innovation actually comes from. One clue might be that the word MONOPOLY is a descriptor, and is the literally the opposite of competition.
no this is a fallacy. The competition is free to come up with a better product, not to steal the design of the existing one. Apple didn't steal Blackberry's design when they came up with the iPhone and yet they won the market (at the time). George Lucas didn't steal the plot from Logan's Run and yet Star Wars has been a success.
Patents and copyright can be abused, but they do serve a purpose.
No it wasn't, and still isn't. It has been demonstrated that it is immensely more cost-effective to address the problem on the buy side; the cost to get a single user clean is a lot lower than the cost of disrupting the production and distribution pipeline for the amount of drugs that the drug user would have consumed.
Economically it doesn't make sense to focus on the sell side because every seizure or disruption leads to a price adjustment. Either that or the production costs are lowered, which means the small guy who's been told he has to grow the coca or poppy has to grow more for less. In the end it never solves the problem.
The only reason the burden is shifted on the sell side is politics.
That's a great solution if you want to enjoy mediocre technology and entertainment. Because of course why would anyone bother spending R&D dollars when they can just wait for someone else to do it then copy their product.
You can't compete with china on crytocurrency mining. The only smart bitcoin strategy is to scan exchanges for sql injection bugs and steal millions from people who triple-mortgaged their house to cash in on the bitcoin craze.
The poser. The truck is always clean, there's not a single dent, not a scratch in the bed, and not a single empty can of Budweiser stuck in the tailgate crack. Also bluetooth works and AWD is off to save gas.
Prices here only have one direction - upwards and the sky is the limit.
Maybe you could create an energy marketplace where brokers would buy electricity in one region and sell it at a premium in another region. You could call it Einron.
It wouldn't be that bad if those smartwatches were self-sufficient. But they're not. Why would anyone pay to get email notifications and a music skip button on their wrist while they need the actual device that does all the work in their pocket? I can understand the high-end sports one like Garmin which has GPS and all kind of heart monitor included. but even then it's a niche.
And/or because they found a way to make their customers brag buying phones with the biggest profit margin in history. They are literally proud to give their money to a company that stockpiles hundreds of billions abroad.
Step outside your little bubble and actually look at whats going on. This guy aint stupid. He's desperate, and so are MANY more.
What about the lady he stalked and tried to get fired? The one who is not a felon and who did nothing wrong? Maybe you're the one who needs to step outside your little bubble.
Like most of fellow Americans I agree with you %100.
I know it's easier to believe the "Trump voters are racist haters" than the "Clinton was such an obvious witch who disrespected her own people that it caught up with her" scenario, but let's get real for a minute. There are not 62 million racists in the USA. There's not even enough actual racists to swing an election. You lost because your candidate was a common thief and a cunt.
It's been a year, move on. Start getting your shit together for the next election; for instance you could spend your energy to improve the candidate selection process and make sure honest people with actual liberal values are nominated.
That's how America worked since the Mason-Dixon line. But recently a few big tech companies and the mainstream media have decided that one of the dogmas didn't deserve to be discussed anymore
Sure thing, let us pretend mccarthy never happened.
Do you know these people?
Edward J. Hart John Stephens Wood Francis E. Walter Edwin E. Willis
Those are Democrats who were chairmen of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era.
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Dude we're not talking about Faberge eggs or Picasso paintings, this is about $50 sandals. Get a life.
You know, you don't get any extra points for following me round to gainsay every single thing I comment-about
When your mom told you that you're special and that everyone remembers you, she was lying.
Is for pirates and brigands.
And even for that it's becoming useless now with so many sources requiring "pairing" your device. A doomed ecosystem.
I figure that if it's above a certain amount and I'm going to be using it a lot, then the time saved by getting a good quality one that I know will work and I know how to use will trump the one off cost of 3 to 4 minutes required to buy it from not amazon.
Then I guess we just have a different "certain amount" threshold. And it takes more than an extra 3-4 minutes when you have to deal with accounts, shipping and all that on top of having to find the product. Plus that's one more site likely to have their customer database pwned because they didn't configure mongo or s3 properly, or because they used an old unpatched struts or wordpress.
I don't think I'd buy a minivan on Amazon, but a $100 or $200 thing, that's a no-brainer.
I'm pretty sure that slashdots best moment was the 9-11 coverage. It actually showed what community/social media could do.
If something like 9-11 happened today, it would be downplayed in the media to avoid suggesting "an amalgam between violent practices and belonging to a religion", unless of course if the terrorists where white males, in which case amalgamation would be a good thing (white males = rape = guns = nazis = trump, and I'm pretty sure we can throw in global warming in there). That is a direct result of what community/social media can do.
The next logical step for society is wiping our asses using three seashells.
According to my google, birkenstick make golf clubs, maybe yours is different.
Apple
Congrats, you managed to inject Apple in a story about counterfeit sandals. You beat the Trump or SystemD trolls this time.
A company that thinks they're going to teach Amazon a lesson by not selling their products there makes the same mistake small shop owners make by not moving away when a Walmart opens down the street. Very noble and for a minute it may work, but sooner than later the business dies because customer loyalty is fragile, especially on things worth at most $100-$200.
For instance I like Garmin GPS products, but when I want a new GPS device I'm not going to fuck around browsing individual websites and opening accounts right and left and dealing with weird shipping rules, I go on Amazon. If there's no Garmin there I'll give another brand a chance because my loyalty doesn't trump the convenience of just adding it to a shopping cart full of other stuff already connected to my credit card and shipping info.
Those birkenstock people are not gonna win.
Because, believe it or not, legal monopolies like patents actually HURT competition, which is where innovation actually comes from. One clue might be that the word MONOPOLY is a descriptor, and is the literally the opposite of competition.
no this is a fallacy. The competition is free to come up with a better product, not to steal the design of the existing one. Apple didn't steal Blackberry's design when they came up with the iPhone and yet they won the market (at the time). George Lucas didn't steal the plot from Logan's Run and yet Star Wars has been a success.
Patents and copyright can be abused, but they do serve a purpose.
The "war on drugs" was a "common sense" policy
No it wasn't, and still isn't. It has been demonstrated that it is immensely more cost-effective to address the problem on the buy side; the cost to get a single user clean is a lot lower than the cost of disrupting the production and distribution pipeline for the amount of drugs that the drug user would have consumed.
Economically it doesn't make sense to focus on the sell side because every seizure or disruption leads to a price adjustment. Either that or the production costs are lowered, which means the small guy who's been told he has to grow the coca or poppy has to grow more for less. In the end it never solves the problem.
The only reason the burden is shifted on the sell side is politics.
Eliminate patents and copyrights.
That's a great solution if you want to enjoy mediocre technology and entertainment. Because of course why would anyone bother spending R&D dollars when they can just wait for someone else to do it then copy their product.
You can't compete with china on crytocurrency mining. The only smart bitcoin strategy is to scan exchanges for sql injection bugs and steal millions from people who triple-mortgaged their house to cash in on the bitcoin craze.
What other stereotypes did I miss...
The poser. The truck is always clean, there's not a single dent, not a scratch in the bed, and not a single empty can of Budweiser stuck in the tailgate crack. Also bluetooth works and AWD is off to save gas.
If they can get pre-payments for the pickups, they can use them to fullfil orders for the model-3 or Y? /s
You make Tesla sound like a pyramid scheme... and maybe you have a point.
That's not a pyramid scheme, that's a ponzi scheme. It takes a lot less effort.
Huh? Electric vehicles are torque monsters which is *exactly* what you'd want in a pickup truck.
Wrong. What you'd want in a pickup truck is a dirty piece of cardboard, a 6-pack on the front seat, and a box of chicken wing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Prices here only have one direction - upwards and the sky is the limit.
Maybe you could create an energy marketplace where brokers would buy electricity in one region and sell it at a premium in another region. You could call it Einron.
It wouldn't be that bad if those smartwatches were self-sufficient. But they're not. Why would anyone pay to get email notifications and a music skip button on their wrist while they need the actual device that does all the work in their pocket? I can understand the high-end sports one like Garmin which has GPS and all kind of heart monitor included. but even then it's a niche.
And/or because they found a way to make their customers brag buying phones with the biggest profit margin in history. They are literally proud to give their money to a company that stockpiles hundreds of billions abroad.
Step outside your little bubble and actually look at whats going on. This guy aint stupid. He's desperate, and so are MANY more.
What about the lady he stalked and tried to get fired? The one who is not a felon and who did nothing wrong? Maybe you're the one who needs to step outside your little bubble.
Like most of fellow Americans I agree with you %100.
I know it's easier to believe the "Trump voters are racist haters" than the "Clinton was such an obvious witch who disrespected her own people that it caught up with her" scenario, but let's get real for a minute. There are not 62 million racists in the USA. There's not even enough actual racists to swing an election. You lost because your candidate was a common thief and a cunt.
It's been a year, move on. Start getting your shit together for the next election; for instance you could spend your energy to improve the candidate selection process and make sure honest people with actual liberal values are nominated.
He is obviously unable to understand social conventions.
I suspect he is also unable to understand sarcasm.
There are 1.9999999992 kinds of people in the world. Those who still use Pentium 4 and those who don't.
...helps you fit 4 digits into your date instead of 2.
If you need a lubricant to finger your dates, maybe it's time to listen to your doctor and consider gastric bypass surgery.
Q: How many Bash commands does it take to display a structure of files and directories?
A: Tree.
That's how America worked since the Mason-Dixon line. But recently a few big tech companies and the mainstream media have decided that one of the dogmas didn't deserve to be discussed anymore
Sure thing, let us pretend mccarthy never happened.
Do you know these people?
Edward J. Hart
John Stephens Wood
Francis E. Walter
Edwin E. Willis
Those are Democrats who were chairmen of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era.