Yep, did the same at Staples during high school. I remember one particular Sunday morning where I had sold a bunch of plans by noon, basically tripling my pay check for those sorry few hours, "$19 an hour! WOW!"
I don't regret selling the plans, some of them were nice, like the laptop screen repair. I never followed scripts, you can read people pretty easily after a while of selling electronics, I don't think I bothered asking even 50% of the time. I was only a top seller like once, but it didn't bother me.
Just remember most of these salespeople are just kids doing their job. If you don't want it, just say no. If they keep bothering you about it, just vote with your wallet and walk out.
The margin on computers is very small, if you would just go in, buy JUST the desktop or notebook and nothing else, they would rather not to business with you. What they want to sell you is the printer, the usb cable, the ink cartridges, and of course, the service plan.
I timeshift everything, TV now works around my schedule.
As for sci-fi shows, Battlestar Galactica is on Friday night, has that stopped that show from becoming wildly popular being on a cable network? Bionic Woman was on NBC last year on a Wednesday, that got canned. I think it has less to do about the timeslot and more to do about the content. Viewers can be picky, and while Fox has made some atrocious decisions (I think Arrested Development, others think Firefly), they're generally smarter than we expect them to be.
Thinks about Arrested Development... okay, maybe not.
Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite, when Kip is selling tupperwear and he drives over one with a van to show its strength, and it just completely bursts. He just says "dang" and drives away.
That price is still high but it's not insane. When I worked at started working at Staples back in 2000, we sold EDO memory for a similar high price. The technology was totally out of date, and the memory was so small comparatively, but people would periodically need it, and that was enough.
Well, maybe they decided that any goodwill received would just be wasted at this point and there would be no hope in getting Hulu back without bending over. Just a complete guess though given the circumstances I know.
1. They only allow Democrats and Republicans on their presidential ballots (I assume that trickles down to at least Senators, Congressmen, etc.). 2. Crap like this where their House actually wastes time condemning people. I don't care if they're religious, atheists, or ax murderers, people can make up their own minds.
Those two are pretty much enough for me, actually, number one is, but this doesn't help. Plus the weather probably sucks.
Exactly! If GM really wanted to change their image, they'd take some of that Volt R&D money and put it towards building factories in the US (or re-engineering their stagnating SUV plants) to build and sell the diesels in America. Instead, they just have this giant promise on the horizon, which they expect me to foot the bill for anyway. Sell us the diesels.
I would agree it's been pushed back, but not forgotten. We're also dealing with a lot bigger issues and the people have a lot more to complain about than the price of gas these days, mostly inept government after inept government trying to deal with these issues.
how come the markets, in their infinite wisdom, are not immune to human fear and human greed?
So your answer to that is to impose regulation? And who imposes regulation? The Government. Your magical entity obviously immune to human fear and human greed.
And conservatards? Seriously, most of your posts are much smarter than that. I think you're confusing fiscal conservatives and Republicans, they don't overlap that much anymore on a Venn diagram.
So by reproduce do you mean they literally copy your data, or also collected large amounts of information, putting substantial resources into making sure it was accurate and up-to-date and just because you've done it before means they're violating copyright law?
Whether you own it or not is one thing, but no publisher or developer has successfully argued that you do not have the right to resell a physical, original copy of a game.
On Amazon right now, there are 22 used copies of Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) with the cheapest being $38.00. Why on earth would someone do this trade in when you could make at least ten more dollars just listing it on their own marketplace?
Do you think they live in a bubble of unbridled capitalism? There is plenty of regulation in the ISP "market". If you ask me, this is more the fault of the government, for their intense regulation of ISPs and letting one or two telcos completely own an area. Unbridled capitalism would mean customers could vote with their wallet and go somewhere else, but yet there are actual customers in here complaining that there are no other options!
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What, you've never seen Tootsie?
Yep, did the same at Staples during high school. I remember one particular Sunday morning where I had sold a bunch of plans by noon, basically tripling my pay check for those sorry few hours, "$19 an hour! WOW!"
I don't regret selling the plans, some of them were nice, like the laptop screen repair. I never followed scripts, you can read people pretty easily after a while of selling electronics, I don't think I bothered asking even 50% of the time. I was only a top seller like once, but it didn't bother me.
Just remember most of these salespeople are just kids doing their job. If you don't want it, just say no. If they keep bothering you about it, just vote with your wallet and walk out.
The margin on computers is very small, if you would just go in, buy JUST the desktop or notebook and nothing else, they would rather not to business with you. What they want to sell you is the printer, the usb cable, the ink cartridges, and of course, the service plan.
I timeshift everything, TV now works around my schedule.
As for sci-fi shows, Battlestar Galactica is on Friday night, has that stopped that show from becoming wildly popular being on a cable network? Bionic Woman was on NBC last year on a Wednesday, that got canned. I think it has less to do about the timeslot and more to do about the content. Viewers can be picky, and while Fox has made some atrocious decisions (I think Arrested Development, others think Firefly), they're generally smarter than we expect them to be.
Thinks about Arrested Development... okay, maybe not.
Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite, when Kip is selling tupperwear and he drives over one with a van to show its strength, and it just completely bursts. He just says "dang" and drives away.
That price is still high but it's not insane. When I worked at started working at Staples back in 2000, we sold EDO memory for a similar high price. The technology was totally out of date, and the memory was so small comparatively, but people would periodically need it, and that was enough.
Well, maybe they decided that any goodwill received would just be wasted at this point and there would be no hope in getting Hulu back without bending over. Just a complete guess though given the circumstances I know.
1. They only allow Democrats and Republicans on their presidential ballots (I assume that trickles down to at least Senators, Congressmen, etc.).
2. Crap like this where their House actually wastes time condemning people. I don't care if they're religious, atheists, or ax murderers, people can make up their own minds.
Those two are pretty much enough for me, actually, number one is, but this doesn't help. Plus the weather probably sucks.
But not if you're in the US.
Exactly! If GM really wanted to change their image, they'd take some of that Volt R&D money and put it towards building factories in the US (or re-engineering their stagnating SUV plants) to build and sell the diesels in America. Instead, they just have this giant promise on the horizon, which they expect me to foot the bill for anyway. Sell us the diesels.
Do you really consider the government tapping your phone having no impact on your life whatsoever? Do you not have any respect for your basic rights?
I would agree it's been pushed back, but not forgotten. We're also dealing with a lot bigger issues and the people have a lot more to complain about than the price of gas these days, mostly inept government after inept government trying to deal with these issues.
how come the markets, in their infinite wisdom, are not immune to human fear and human greed?
So your answer to that is to impose regulation? And who imposes regulation? The Government. Your magical entity obviously immune to human fear and human greed.
And conservatards? Seriously, most of your posts are much smarter than that. I think you're confusing fiscal conservatives and Republicans, they don't overlap that much anymore on a Venn diagram.
Comments? Suggestions?
Move Illinois a few thousand miles south? Preferably into some large body of water.
So by reproduce do you mean they literally copy your data, or also collected large amounts of information, putting substantial resources into making sure it was accurate and up-to-date and just because you've done it before means they're violating copyright law?
One time in Japan I sat on an unmoving bullet train for hours.
Of course, there was a typhoon raging overhead. But still, rain or shine?!
But don't publishers try to sell "new editions" to the districts every six months, or is that only a college problem?
For being hosted off of someone's machine, they're doing quite well for being posted on Slashdot.
Whether you own it or not is one thing, but no publisher or developer has successfully argued that you do not have the right to resell a physical, original copy of a game.
On Amazon right now, there are 22 used copies of Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) with the cheapest being $38.00. Why on earth would someone do this trade in when you could make at least ten more dollars just listing it on their own marketplace?
A label having to answer to their artists? What kind of opposite world is this?
Just don't let the Chinese know where your moon base is going to be, they'll crash into it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7917957.stm
I just signed up two months ago and my wife and I each have their own queue. Sign in and go to this page and add a profile.
https://www.netflix.com/ViewProfiles
So sad you got marked informative. I chuckled.
Embarrassing story ahead:
One night I was visiting my girlfriend at her dorm, and was just going to hang out for like 30 minutes and then head to a movie or dinner.
I parked in the closest spot I could find, which was actually really, really close. The sign said Resident's Parking Only.
When we came back out I had a ticket for $50, and was like "WTF?" because I had even parked her car so she had all the right stickers.
Turns out, the sign said President's Parking Only. Failure.
Do you think they live in a bubble of unbridled capitalism? There is plenty of regulation in the ISP "market". If you ask me, this is more the fault of the government, for their intense regulation of ISPs and letting one or two telcos completely own an area. Unbridled capitalism would mean customers could vote with their wallet and go somewhere else, but yet there are actual customers in here complaining that there are no other options!