If you took the total compensation package of the top executives at Comcast and made it a line-item on every Comcast customers bill, the line item cost would likely be less than the rebroadcast fee for the TrueTV network per month.
They just coincidentally raise their prices and restructure fees the same amounts and the same ways at the same time every year.
Perhaps their fees and prices are recalculated the same because they are both dealing with the same costs, the same regulations, and the same business environment?
The 'same day' thing, if true, likely evolved over time, as raising prices at different times likely cost the company that raised prices first business until the other followed suit.
Then base the inflation rate with gasoline as a factor but only when gas prices go down. When gas prices go up make certain that they are not part of the index. Anyone feeling a bit screwed by all of this?
You've conflated 'cost of living' with 'inflation', and gasoline has always been part of the cost of living calculation.
I didn't notice many seniors complaining when SS payments went up because gasoline hit $4/gallon and drove the cost of living index up.
I remember a few years ago (25+ years ago, give or take), when congress, in a fit of fiscal responsibility imposed a new tax on each phone line in America. It was brilliant, have the phone companies pay a per-line tax and when the consumer's bill went up, the telco was the villain, not congress.
Only problem was, the cable companies broke out the new tax as a separate line-item on the bill.
Congress critters got mad, demanded that the telcos bury the tax - they tried to make the new tax line-item illegal, but that wasn't possible.
That was when (some) congress critters realized that when you tax a company, the customers, not the company, pays the tax.
When Mercedes-Benz starts selling self-driving cars, it will choose to prioritize driver safety over pedestrians', a company manager has confirmed.
MB Builds cars, which they sell to passengers. If MB announced that pedestrian safety was paramount over passenger safety, how many people would borrow tens of thousands of dollars to buy a MB vehicle only to be put at greater risk than someone that didn't buy a car.
I can just imagine the advertising campaign: "Everyone is more important to us than our customers."
Recently Slashdot ran an article about Apple hardware lagging behind the latest technologies by as much as a year or two, couple that with their decision to stop supporting hardware after seven years, and current Apple products are over-priced devices with a limited useful life, dictated by the whims of designers.
Sure, older Apple desktops and laptops are still useful after Apple drops support for the OS running on older hardware, but their usefulness diminishes without OS security patches/updates.
While we're on the subject of support for aging Apple products... SMH.
How nice of you to invent unspoken positions for Trump supporters, then trash those supporters for holding those unspoken positions you invented for them - it saves them the hard work of forming their own positions and articulating them.
These invented positions, coupled with unsubstantiated allegations about Trump, definitely convince me that you're having a hard time coming up with actual facts to discredit Trump with...
That's how it works for power too. The poor don't have no Internet, they just don't get as much. Try living in the ghetto, in a house with 60 amp service. Ask the power company for 400 amp service. And all you can spend is fifty bucks. Lol, good luck! Heck, even with money you're in for a rough ride.
What? Perhaps the wiring in the building has something to do with an inability to provide 400 Amp service to an APARTMENT?
Compare that to the rich guy living in a loft in a converted warehouse in Manhattan. He wants 400 amp service for his bitcoin farm and has $100k to spend. You better bet he'll get his upgrade.
Wow, any chance updated, AKA 'Industrial grade' wiring in the 'converted warehouse' has something to do with the ability to provision 400 Amp service?
BTW, 400 Amp service is extremely rare in residential electrical service.
But who cares about decent access to the Internet?
"Decent"? The issue is "fastest", not "decent".
Company quarterly profits uber Alles is the motto of these times.
OMG! Without profits, there's no tax revenues - would it be better if corporations eschewed profits, operated at a loss, and never paid taxes to fund schools, police, fire departments, social programs in the communities they serve?
The Center's data analysis found that the largest non-cable Internet providers collectively offer faster speeds to about 40 percent of the population they serve nationwide in wealthy areas compared with just 22 percent of the population in poor areas.
Of course, the ability of the residents in wealthier neighborhoods to actually PAY for the faster internet service has nothing to do with it...
Next up on Slashdot, "This just in, Tesla has yet to build a new car showroom in a lower-income neighborhood!"
After Verizon's failed attempt to renegotiate the deal failed, this was the obvious next step for Verizon - step back, re-evaluate decision, and make new lower offer for Yahoo. Of course, there's a chance someone else will "snap up" Yahoo, but there's no reason to overpay for Yahoo.
Yahoo is telling Verizon that a deal is a deal and that telecom giant has no legal recourse to change the terms.
Sounds nice, I'm certain there's a path out of the deal for Verizon, maybe after paying a token "penalty", then Yahoo will be free to explore all those other hundreds and hundreds of other offers they've had... And then, after Yahoo sits unsold for a few months, it's stock tanking, Verizon can come in and offer a revised price for the company that reflects it's new (lowered) stock price and damaged reputation.
Yahoo is circling the bowl, Verizon is offering them a lifeline. What does Yahoo have that Verizon needs and couldn't build for less than the $3BN it is offering for Yahoo?
But the Washington Post also mentions that is now publishes a new piece of content every minute. That's like 1,440 articles, videos and other forms of content in one single day. This raises a question: how much content is too much content? How many stories can a person possibly find time to read in a day? Do you feel that perhaps outlets should cut down on the number of things they publish? Or are you happy with the way things are?
You don't have to read everything they post, and they don't expect you to.
I wonder how many "items" (aka articles, columns, editorials, etc.) the New York Times publishes in a given day? How many items are in the daily edition? The Sunday edition? I suspect few people read every item in the NYT - daily or Sunday edition.
There was never,,,ever a time when more than tiny handful of scientists thought there would be another ice age. You're bullshitting. This bit about how "not long ago scientists were predicting an ice age" is simply a denialist lie. As in not true. As in you made it up because you think it helps your argument but really makes you sound extra stupid.
"Never,,,ever"? Reason Magazine begs to differ - they found 18 SPECTACULARLY INCORRECT predictions from around 1970, including:
1) Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2) Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
3) Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
4) In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to supportthe following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollutionby 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.”
Incidentally, this is that standard situation in Europe and it works reasonably well. It does require a large enough supply of smart, capable, idealistic and non-greedy people though, and that may be hard to come by in the US
One big difference, "everyone" doesn't get a chance to attend "free" university" in most European countries, it is a meritocracy - poor students aren't coddled with remedial math and English classes. In America, anyone with a desire can find SOME university that will take their federally-guaranteed student loan dollars and let them pursue a college education.
"Like all of the former students interviewed by Gizmodo, he was placed in a job that did not require professional training" -- specifically, a game-testing position that didn't even require a high school diploma, while ITT "placed" another student in a $5.95-an-hour telemarketing job. Her assessment of ITT? "It was totally worthless."
At least ITT "placed" them in a paying job, compared to countless tens of thousands of "non-profit" college and university graduates that got no help finding work after graduation.
Ever wander into Barnes and Noble or Starbucks and learn that the clerk or barista graduated from a Ivy League university? And the kicker is the university didn't even help them land the job! At least ITT helped them find a job.
I can't wait for the feds to "crack down" on so-called "non-profit" colleges and universities that take in countless billions in federally-guaranteed student loans and offer many, many students little hope in finding gainful employment with their degrees...
(A few years ago I saw a graduate of Brown University, with a major in Theater management, openly cry when he found himself applying for a part-time $75/day substitute teaching job because he couldn't find work and payments on his $240,000 in accumulated student debt were about to start being due.)
The country's Social Democrat and Green party coalition have submitted proposals to Parliament that would reduce the value-added-tax (VAT) on bicycle, clothing, and shoe repairs from 25% to 12%.
25% VAT in Sweden - wow... I guess that helps fund those "free" social services Sweden is famous for.
You know what Ice records show? That the climate has had hotter peaks and cooler lows than we have experienced in recorded history, and the climate rebounded. The idiots are the folks that cherry-pick facts from the historical record, ignoring those that contradict the intended outcome of their 'scientific research' as summarized on their grant requests.
1) Norway is a tiny country. 2) Car ownership is a luxury few Norwegians can afford. 3) 25% of a small number of new cars purchased in a small country is meaningless. 4) The vast majority of those electric cars are being bought by Norwegians that derive their income from the oil industry.
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If you took the total compensation package of the top executives at Comcast and made it a line-item on every Comcast customers bill, the line item cost would likely be less than the rebroadcast fee for the TrueTV network per month.
Perhaps their fees and prices are recalculated the same because they are both dealing with the same costs, the same regulations, and the same business environment?
The 'same day' thing, if true, likely evolved over time, as raising prices at different times likely cost the company that raised prices first business until the other followed suit.
You've conflated 'cost of living' with 'inflation', and gasoline has always been part of the cost of living calculation.
I didn't notice many seniors complaining when SS payments went up because gasoline hit $4/gallon and drove the cost of living index up.
It is eminently fair and proper for a company to. Break out costs they have no control over.
Freight companies, taxi cabs, and airlines all imposed 'fuel surcharges' when the cost of fuels skyrocketed up 100%+ a few years ago.
I remember a few years ago (25+ years ago, give or take), when congress, in a fit of fiscal responsibility imposed a new tax on each phone line in America. It was brilliant, have the phone companies pay a per-line tax and when the consumer's bill went up, the telco was the villain, not congress.
Only problem was, the cable companies broke out the new tax as a separate line-item on the bill.
Congress critters got mad, demanded that the telcos bury the tax - they tried to make the new tax line-item illegal, but that wasn't possible.
That was when (some) congress critters realized that when you tax a company, the customers, not the company, pays the tax.
MB Builds cars, which they sell to passengers. If MB announced that pedestrian safety was paramount over passenger safety, how many people would borrow tens of thousands of dollars to buy a MB vehicle only to be put at greater risk than someone that didn't buy a car.
I can just imagine the advertising campaign: "Everyone is more important to us than our customers."
Recently Slashdot ran an article about Apple hardware lagging behind the latest technologies by as much as a year or two, couple that with their decision to stop supporting hardware after seven years, and current Apple products are over-priced devices with a limited useful life, dictated by the whims of designers.
Sure, older Apple desktops and laptops are still useful after Apple drops support for the OS running on older hardware, but their usefulness diminishes without OS security patches/updates.
While we're on the subject of support for aging Apple products... SMH.
How nice of you to invent unspoken positions for Trump supporters, then trash those supporters for holding those unspoken positions you invented for them - it saves them the hard work of forming their own positions and articulating them.
These invented positions, coupled with unsubstantiated allegations about Trump, definitely convince me that you're having a hard time coming up with actual facts to discredit Trump with...
What? Perhaps the wiring in the building has something to do with an inability to provide 400 Amp service to an APARTMENT?
Wow, any chance updated, AKA 'Industrial grade' wiring in the 'converted warehouse' has something to do with the ability to provision 400 Amp service?
BTW, 400 Amp service is extremely rare in residential electrical service.
Apparently your internet access doesn't include spellcheck.. 'douche'.
"Decent"? The issue is "fastest", not "decent".
Company quarterly profits uber Alles is the motto of these times.
OMG! Without profits, there's no tax revenues - would it be better if corporations eschewed profits, operated at a loss, and never paid taxes to fund schools, police, fire departments, social programs in the communities they serve?
Of course, the ability of the residents in wealthier neighborhoods to actually PAY for the faster internet service has nothing to do with it...
Next up on Slashdot, "This just in, Tesla has yet to build a new car showroom in a lower-income neighborhood!"
After Verizon's failed attempt to renegotiate the deal failed, this was the obvious next step for Verizon - step back, re-evaluate decision, and make new lower offer for Yahoo. Of course, there's a chance someone else will "snap up" Yahoo, but there's no reason to overpay for Yahoo.
Sounds nice, I'm certain there's a path out of the deal for Verizon, maybe after paying a token "penalty", then Yahoo will be free to explore all those other hundreds and hundreds of other offers they've had... And then, after Yahoo sits unsold for a few months, it's stock tanking, Verizon can come in and offer a revised price for the company that reflects it's new (lowered) stock price and damaged reputation.
Yahoo is circling the bowl, Verizon is offering them a lifeline. What does Yahoo have that Verizon needs and couldn't build for less than the $3BN it is offering for Yahoo?
You don't have to read everything they post, and they don't expect you to.
I wonder how many "items" (aka articles, columns, editorials, etc.) the New York Times publishes in a given day? How many items are in the daily edition? The Sunday edition? I suspect few people read every item in the NYT - daily or Sunday edition.
"Never,,,ever"? Reason Magazine begs to differ - they found 18 SPECTACULARLY INCORRECT predictions from around 1970, including:
1) Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2) Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
3) Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
4) In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to supportthe following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollutionby 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.”
And many more - why not take a look at the article for the complete list.
Check your link - that's $132B in INCOME, not "profits" - they are not interchangeable.
One big difference, "everyone" doesn't get a chance to attend "free" university" in most European countries, it is a meritocracy - poor students aren't coddled with remedial math and English classes. In America, anyone with a desire can find SOME university that will take their federally-guaranteed student loan dollars and let them pursue a college education.
My, how the world has changed in the last half-century!
From the /. posting:
At least ITT "placed" them in a paying job, compared to countless tens of thousands of "non-profit" college and university graduates that got no help finding work after graduation.
Ever wander into Barnes and Noble or Starbucks and learn that the clerk or barista graduated from a Ivy League university? And the kicker is the university didn't even help them land the job! At least ITT helped them find a job.
I can't wait for the feds to "crack down" on so-called "non-profit" colleges and universities that take in countless billions in federally-guaranteed student loans and offer many, many students little hope in finding gainful employment with their degrees...
(A few years ago I saw a graduate of Brown University, with a major in Theater management, openly cry when he found himself applying for a part-time $75/day substitute teaching job because he couldn't find work and payments on his $240,000 in accumulated student debt were about to start being due.)
"...they want their Foreign Policy Back"
25% VAT in Sweden - wow... I guess that helps fund those "free" social services Sweden is famous for.
You know what Ice records show? That the climate has had hotter peaks and cooler lows than we have experienced in recorded history, and the climate rebounded. The idiots are the folks that cherry-pick facts from the historical record, ignoring those that contradict the intended outcome of their 'scientific research' as summarized on their grant requests.
No, it is an easily-proven statement regarding the infrastructure needed for electric cars to replace gasoline-fueled cars.
A 1989 POS Yugo can go several hundred miles before needing a refill, it can be refilled in about ten minutes, and refuling stations are ubiquitous.
A 2016 electric vehicle can not do that, nor can a hybrid, without resorting to running almost exclusively on fossil fuels.
A few quick points to ponder:
1) Norway is a tiny country.
2) Car ownership is a luxury few Norwegians can afford.
3) 25% of a small number of new cars purchased in a small country is meaningless.
4) The vast majority of those electric cars are being bought by Norwegians that derive their income from the oil industry.