Could be. I was thinking more Parkinson's Law: "The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero)" except in this case the price is negative. Its cheaper to crank out crappy software, bloatware is profitable, slow leads to new hardware purchases with even slower OS's installed.
Well, no. Because computers got "fast enough" software vendors got "lazy as hell". No need for good code when RAM is cheap. Twenty layers of middleware is fine as long as you have 16 cores and an SSD. So what if antivirus consistently ties up 90% of the CPU. It doesnt really matter how powerful the machine is - you have to aggressively manage stuff like crapware and bloatware and background tasks to make anything barely useable.
I just changed my service from Internet/Phone/TV for $99 to just Internet for... $99. Filed a complaint with the FCC, and they dropped it to $49, and billed me $165, and just filed another complaint with the FCC. I dont mind paying a fair price, its their business model of blatantly screwing people that I object to.
Interesting. However, this assumes that fraud would not increase if detection was reduced or eliminated, and also that UBI would not be subject to fraud. The trick to UBI is making sure everyone and only every one, got a check. Perhaps biometrics - something as simple and foolproof as tattooing a barcode on your forehead at birth but without fulfilling Biblcal prophecy. Without simple foolproof verification it may not work. What UBI does better, I think, is that it removes means testing and thus what I suspect is a large component of fraud. Perhaps the problem of duplication and limiting it to US citizens is easier?
From the most basic Google search, even including only liberal media, welfare is massively abused, and especially in Chicago. NPR has a great story on the Welfare Queen, who is hardly a myth, though you may rightfully claim the woman Reagan used as a basis for the term does not fit the generally accepted profile. However, your claim that abuse is rare and that the welfare queen is a myth, is in itself egregiously fake news. Wikipedia alone (and checking references and edit history for veracity) states rather factually:
"Welfare (SSI) fraud is rampant, but in most cases it is committed by people who are unable to make ends meet. In a 2012 study, 30 of 34 interviewed welfare recipients admitted fraud. A 1988 study of 50 Chicago women on welfare found that 80% worked either full time or part time, but none of them reported their income to the welfare office. Surveys conducted during the 1970s in Seattle and Denver showed that 50% of recipients admitted to "cheating" in order to get by financially. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, an ex-fraud investigator for IDPA estimated that 25 to 50% of welfare recipients had committed some degree of fraud. A study of 450 welfare recipients in Orange County, California, found that 45% of them had committed fraud. Between 1970 and 1979, there was a 729% increase in the number of fraud cases initiated nationwide."
Yep, a truly excellent point, no ISP is going to screw the people that just did them a huge favor. If anything they would give away the data on the people that opposed them, or better yet on the activists that donated.
Sure that covers radials, but 204 603 805 and 1206 SMT's? And then you'll need that weird high-power 2W wire wound in the square ceramic case, which by some existential perversion Radio Shack actually carries. Chain-wide the last one they sold was in '67 yet there it lies just mocking you. Murphy's Rule Of Stockrooms says that no matter what you stock up on, it will not be the part you need. I think it applies to lunch condiments as well.
A company that just has no reason to exist any more.
Not quite. Best Buy has no reason to exist, yet they do. Sometimes, you just have to touch the stuff you're buying. TV's, appliances, game consoles. It may not be a big list but not everything gets bought online. There is a similar list of stuff for Radio Shack. Add to that stuff you need now - batteries, cables, a soldering iron. It wasnt without challenges, but Radio Shack could have been saved.
Yes, the $0.02 profit on a $0.20 resistor that one nerd bought a couple times a year was going to keep them afloat.
Obviously, no. But any decent retailer would kill to have that level of guaranteed foot traffic every year by people with disposable income. Remember, resistors are at the back of the store, past the flashy displays of geek tech. In The Day a nerd might come in for a resistor and walk out with a flashy new stereo amplifier. Today, if they had played smart, it might have been a 3D printer, gaming headset, drone, or whatever. Even today, if you absolutely have to have a resistor, you have to find a Radio Shack, and odds are you wont walk out with just one resistor. Worse business plans that that have been venture-funded.
Well... OK, that was a good cite:-) and I'm less convinced that pipelines are safe.
However that made me curious about rail... each car holds 700 barrels or so, and in the one article I found (I didnt look *that* hard) claimed in 2013 over 1.15 million gallons spilled from rail accidents. They dont say goo dthings about pipelines either:
I've done a little work on pipeline inspection gear, so I tend to think pipelines can be made safer easier - better inspections, monitoring, safety equipment, faster response times. And bump the bons from $250k to something substantial - maybe not the $1B the protestors want but millions anyway.
Im not sure I agree the Sioux have been aggrieved by this particular pipeline; the court decision is a really good read, breaking it down nicely. I thought it well reasoned. But, IANAL.
Imagine Walmart offering table/shelf space inside its stores for other sellers
You're describing Sears actually, and quite a few other retailers. I agree in such cases "Sears" is the seller, but if you try to return (in my case) a defective appliance you realize that "Sears" doesn't automatically assume they are responsible.
Somewhere, in a dark smokey room, Democrats are laughing their asses off that you keep buying their spin. Both parties are corrupt as hell, but Comcast in particular is in bed with Democrats. Your own link says this. But let's add this:
Forget the paltry $50k or $100k donated directly, let's examine the *millions* raised by Comcast for Obama and the DNC, and the "Comcast Foundataion" (sound familiar?) that channels donations to the needy as long as they support Comcast's initiatives.They are a dirty dirty dirty company (and not in a good way). A lone notable exception: Al Franken, who despite taking $15k from Comcast lobbyists still spoke out against them.
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In Canadian provinces where the MLDA is 18, teenage drinking dropped about the same as those that implemented MLDA 21. Also the reduction occurred before the introduction of zero-tolerance legislation. And the reduction is roughly proportional to those in the United States. According to the NHTSA "The Canadian reduction in youth drinking and driving must have been caused entirely by other factors."
Cite me not the self-congratulatory statistics from MADD.
PP says in other comments he is in Canada. According to Cantech the price is (or was):
iPhone 6 Price in Canada Without Contract and the iPhone 6s 64GB Price in Canada
“Canadian pricing for iPhone 6s Plus $1,029 (CAD) for 16GB model, $1,159 (CAD) for 64GB model and $1,289 (CAD) for 128GB model (no contract).”
The drop in the Canadian dollar to an 11-year low is surely partly responsible. And nothing against your valid point. But $1200 is not wrong either.
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Could be. I was thinking more Parkinson's Law: "The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If the price is zero)" except in this case the price is negative. Its cheaper to crank out crappy software, bloatware is profitable, slow leads to new hardware purchases with even slower OS's installed.
Well, no. Because computers got "fast enough" software vendors got "lazy as hell". No need for good code when RAM is cheap. Twenty layers of middleware is fine as long as you have 16 cores and an SSD. So what if antivirus consistently ties up 90% of the CPU. It doesnt really matter how powerful the machine is - you have to aggressively manage stuff like crapware and bloatware and background tasks to make anything barely useable.
Switch to unsigned, get another 2 billion
Might be a fairly short-term fix. Remember Coca Cola's CEO saying "A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning" and that was 20 years ago.
I just changed my service from Internet/Phone/TV for $99 to just Internet for ... $99. Filed a complaint with the FCC, and they dropped it to $49, and billed me $165, and just filed another complaint with the FCC. I dont mind paying a fair price, its their business model of blatantly screwing people that I object to.
Interesting. However, this assumes that fraud would not increase if detection was reduced or eliminated, and also that UBI would not be subject to fraud. The trick to UBI is making sure everyone and only every one, got a check. Perhaps biometrics - something as simple and foolproof as tattooing a barcode on your forehead at birth but without fulfilling Biblcal prophecy. Without simple foolproof verification it may not work. What UBI does better, I think, is that it removes means testing and thus what I suspect is a large component of fraud. Perhaps the problem of duplication and limiting it to US citizens is easier?
"Welfare (SSI) fraud is rampant, but in most cases it is committed by people who are unable to make ends meet. In a 2012 study, 30 of 34 interviewed welfare recipients admitted fraud. A 1988 study of 50 Chicago women on welfare found that 80% worked either full time or part time, but none of them reported their income to the welfare office. Surveys conducted during the 1970s in Seattle and Denver showed that 50% of recipients admitted to "cheating" in order to get by financially. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, an ex-fraud investigator for IDPA estimated that 25 to 50% of welfare recipients had committed some degree of fraud. A study of 450 welfare recipients in Orange County, California, found that 45% of them had committed fraud. Between 1970 and 1979, there was a 729% increase in the number of fraud cases initiated nationwide."
Who wants someone else's smelly foot on their desktop?
FTFY
What is this "vacation" thing you speak of?
That, and how when it ran out of paper the whole cover opened by itself like a giant mouth shouting "FEED ME PUNY MORTAL"
Yep, a truly excellent point, no ISP is going to screw the people that just did them a huge favor. If anything they would give away the data on the people that opposed them, or better yet on the activists that donated.
Sure that covers radials, but 204 603 805 and 1206 SMT's? And then you'll need that weird high-power 2W wire wound in the square ceramic case, which by some existential perversion Radio Shack actually carries. Chain-wide the last one they sold was in '67 yet there it lies just mocking you. Murphy's Rule Of Stockrooms says that no matter what you stock up on, it will not be the part you need. I think it applies to lunch condiments as well.
A company that just has no reason to exist any more.
Not quite. Best Buy has no reason to exist, yet they do. Sometimes, you just have to touch the stuff you're buying. TV's, appliances, game consoles. It may not be a big list but not everything gets bought online. There is a similar list of stuff for Radio Shack. Add to that stuff you need now - batteries, cables, a soldering iron. It wasnt without challenges, but Radio Shack could have been saved.
Yes, the $0.02 profit on a $0.20 resistor that one nerd bought a couple times a year was going to keep them afloat.
Obviously, no. But any decent retailer would kill to have that level of guaranteed foot traffic every year by people with disposable income. Remember, resistors are at the back of the store, past the flashy displays of geek tech. In The Day a nerd might come in for a resistor and walk out with a flashy new stereo amplifier. Today, if they had played smart, it might have been a 3D printer, gaming headset, drone, or whatever. Even today, if you absolutely have to have a resistor, you have to find a Radio Shack, and odds are you wont walk out with just one resistor. Worse business plans that that have been venture-funded.
I wasnt being all that serious. I'm not stating there is bias but just repeating that there is claimed bias.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
If Eichenwald was a Trump supporter then Twitter would have fought to the death to protect the sender.
Well... OK, that was a good cite :-) and I'm less convinced that pipelines are safe.
However that made me curious about rail... each car holds 700 barrels or so, and in the one article I found (I didnt look *that* hard) claimed in 2013 over 1.15 million gallons spilled from rail accidents. They dont say goo dthings about pipelines either:
http://www.riverkeeper.org/cam...
I've done a little work on pipeline inspection gear, so I tend to think pipelines can be made safer easier - better inspections, monitoring, safety equipment, faster response times. And bump the bons from $250k to something substantial - maybe not the $1B the protestors want but millions anyway.
Im not sure I agree the Sioux have been aggrieved by this particular pipeline; the court decision is a really good read, breaking it down nicely. I thought it well reasoned. But, IANAL.
Only problem is that doesn't seem to be true
Imagine Walmart offering table/shelf space inside its stores for other sellers
You're describing Sears actually, and quite a few other retailers. I agree in such cases "Sears" is the seller, but if you try to return (in my case) a defective appliance you realize that "Sears" doesn't automatically assume they are responsible.
http://gizmodo.com/chromecast-...
I thought this was pretty unlikely too until I Googled it
Total load of bullshit
Somewhere, in a dark smokey room, Democrats are laughing their asses off that you keep buying their spin. Both parties are corrupt as hell, but Comcast in particular is in bed with Democrats. Your own link says this. But let's add this:
How Comcast Bought the Democratic Party
Lots of good reading
Forget the paltry $50k or $100k donated directly, let's examine the *millions* raised by Comcast for Obama and the DNC, and the "Comcast Foundataion" (sound familiar?) that channels donations to the needy as long as they support Comcast's initiatives.They are a dirty dirty dirty company (and not in a good way). A lone notable exception: Al Franken, who despite taking $15k from Comcast lobbyists still spoke out against them.
"How Google responded to takedown request #34 will shock you!"
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Think of how much money they could save if they outsourced their bean counters. Not to mention being awash in poetic justice.
In Canadian provinces where the MLDA is 18, teenage drinking dropped about the same as those that implemented MLDA 21. Also the reduction occurred before the introduction of zero-tolerance legislation. And the reduction is roughly proportional to those in the United States. According to the NHTSA "The Canadian reduction in youth drinking and driving must have been caused entirely by other factors."
Cite me not the self-congratulatory statistics from MADD.
iPhone 6 Price in Canada Without Contract and the iPhone 6s 64GB Price in Canada
“Canadian pricing for iPhone 6s Plus $1,029 (CAD) for 16GB model, $1,159 (CAD) for 64GB model and $1,289 (CAD) for 128GB model (no contract).”
The drop in the Canadian dollar to an 11-year low is surely partly responsible. And nothing against your valid point. But $1200 is not wrong either.