Because usually those are much more 'rivallous' settings - there are a limited number of parks in any area, and usually a very limited number of stadia. However, news online is pretty plentiful - it's very easy to go somewhere else for the same thing in most cases, unless it's a very specific topic or opinion.
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You seem to have gotten the conversation about general percentages mixed up with some mythical dime store with some really odd, unstated assumptions.
Firstly, who gives a **** whether someone loses money on some mythical markup/markdown? We're discussing whether percentages can go over 100%. The simple answer is: they can.
As for your examples, can people mess these up in shops? Sure. So they need to be careful. But you're hypothesing a load of assumptions that are faulty (like a 30% markup followed by a 30% markdown) and completely out of nowhere.
Percentages are very very very simple. What complicates them a little is when they are applied in sequence. However, all that is is very very simple multiplication/addition, with the standard rules of mathematics applied. I.e. multiplication/division happens before addition/subtraction, and the use of brackets overrides that. With some careful thinking, you can also look at how addition/subtraction is 'identical' to multiplication/division (1 + 1 = 2 * 1). Regardless, anyone running a shop who can't do this simple maths either needs to finish elementary school, or stop mucking with the prices!
The only difference with percentages is that the decimal place has been moved a bit, and a new (obviously confusing) symbol has been added.
Actually, this sort of discussion ends up on here quite a lot. It's the data/unlimited data/not upgrading tech conversation that is appropriate, as well as the 'dinosaurs not innovating just lying' angle.
Because, you know, they have to 'compensate' for the 'limited' right to copy that is meant to partially compensate for the granting of a monopoly to them in the first place.
It's like the copyright holders are 'renting' a house from 'the public', and because the 'homeowner' has a legally mandated but limited right of entry for maintenance trying to get the government to force the 'homeowner' to pay a penalty for that right.
Yes, you can use it that way. We don't normally count money in individual, specific coins - we talk about collections of them as cost or payment. So using "130%" of an original dollar cost makes perfect sense. It's irrelevant if you pay with a dollar and three 10s, or with 13 dimes. The quantity (cost) has gone up by 30%.
And yes, the behaviour of percentages varies if you are going up or down. You can't practically sell anything for more than 100% less (which would be free) - anything else would be paying someone to take it, effectively. Also, because it is based on reciprocals, you can't really compare 70%*(100%+30%) with (100%-30%). Those are mathematically two totally different calculations. But that extremely basic high school maths.
That's only true with things where there is a 'totality'. I cannot have more than 100% of one apple (unless it expands somehow). So if I can only give a certain amount of effort, then yes, logically I couldn't give more than 100%. However, language being the imprecise thing it is, we tend to miss out useful words like "100% of normal" (where extraordinary measures might be taken).
Besides, 100% of what I might do in one circumstance might only be 90% of what I'd do in another.
Besides, this is really a form of hyperbole, not maths. The 'illogic' of it is part of the point. Please take it up with the English teachers, not the mathematicians.
I don't think the RIAA has put any 'food' on anyone's plate other than parasitic lawyers and executives. Certainly they are hardly guilty of feeding starving artists!
Compared to 10 years ago when it was nearly impossible to find obscure music the 'traditional' gatekeeper way, but now you can find nearly anything online... now is definitely better.
Yes, but one hour of me poking at Facebook is not the same as one hour of me streaming YouTube. Certainly not if the telcos can charge differently! In other ways though, I suppose it could be similar to dial-up...
Your vision rapidly becomes "who has the biggest guns". Funny how libertarianism a) ignores (or invites) corporate abuse while impotently railing against governmental 'abuse', and b) is really only popular in the 'Wild West' of the mad US.
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I'm pretty sure there's been a lot of changes to the US military due to the appilcation of numerous Constitutional amendments, such as the 14th...
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Not like ordering an illegal war, no siree...
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Firstly, who gives a **** whether someone loses money on some mythical markup/markdown? We're discussing whether percentages can go over 100%. The simple answer is: they can.
As for your examples, can people mess these up in shops? Sure. So they need to be careful. But you're hypothesing a load of assumptions that are faulty (like a 30% markup followed by a 30% markdown) and completely out of nowhere.
Percentages are very very very simple. What complicates them a little is when they are applied in sequence. However, all that is is very very simple multiplication/addition, with the standard rules of mathematics applied. I.e. multiplication/division happens before addition/subtraction, and the use of brackets overrides that. With some careful thinking, you can also look at how addition/subtraction is 'identical' to multiplication/division (1 + 1 = 2 * 1). Regardless, anyone running a shop who can't do this simple maths either needs to finish elementary school, or stop mucking with the prices!
The only difference with percentages is that the decimal place has been moved a bit, and a new (obviously confusing) symbol has been added.
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Maybe you'd better look at the effect of WW 1 & 2 on European publishing...
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It's like the copyright holders are 'renting' a house from 'the public', and because the 'homeowner' has a legally mandated but limited right of entry for maintenance trying to get the government to force the 'homeowner' to pay a penalty for that right.
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And yes, the behaviour of percentages varies if you are going up or down. You can't practically sell anything for more than 100% less (which would be free) - anything else would be paying someone to take it, effectively. Also, because it is based on reciprocals, you can't really compare 70%*(100%+30%) with (100%-30%). Those are mathematically two totally different calculations. But that extremely basic high school maths.
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Besides, 100% of what I might do in one circumstance might only be 90% of what I'd do in another.
Besides, this is really a form of hyperbole, not maths. The 'illogic' of it is part of the point. Please take it up with the English teachers, not the mathematicians.
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