> its easy, if your only employer is a global, the money goes
> mostly to to global, if its a mom and pop the money mostly
> goes back to the community.
When the shovel is bought from Walmart, $12 leaves the community: $10 to wholesaler ie, China and $2 to shareholders. When the shovel is bought from MomNPop's, $15 leaves the community IF the shovel is the same China made shovel sold at Walmart (which is mostly the case). If the shovel is locally made, you have a point. This is rarely the case, though.
The overhead and salaries paid by Walmart stay in the community just like MomNPop's, because they buy local land and higher local people. Walmart helps because its purchasing power lowers the price of shovel in the first place.
> low wage jobs that sucked money out of communities
So-called "Mom and Pop" stores have a much better chance of treating their employees like crap. My wife worked retail (aesthetics salon and flower shop), and the owner would always try things like have staff meetings and not pay anyone for them (but hey look, I brought some cookies in!) Large companies like Wal-mart are much more likely to treat its employees fairly according to current legislation.
While companies like Wal-mart do take profits out of communities, they also have buying power which make items cost less. For example, a $20 "mom-and-pop" shovel would cost $10 at Wal-mart, with about the same margin. So while some money leaves the community, a bunch remains because the shovel cost less to begin with.
And to put an even finer point on it, you are dreaming if you think that "mom-and-pop" anything are not just buying the same Chinese-made crap that Wal-mart is buying.
Overall, the hate towards large corporations is stupid and longs for an imaginary past.
> considering the average lifespan was much shorter then
Be careful how you interpret life expectancy charts. Life expectancy at birth is distorted by high child mortality. If you compare life expectancy at 10, this is what you get (for white males):
Year, Life Expectancy
1850, 58
1900, 61
1950, 69
2000, 75
A definite rise, but not as dramatic if you compared life expectancy at birth, which goes from 38 (1850) to 75 (2000).
The Warfield has no built-in seats, but the photo gallery shows concerts with folding chairs set-up. Festival seating is typically first-come first-serve _standing_ room only. I think you mean "general seating".
Of course, scalpers are a natural side-effect when markets aren't free. If all tickets were auctioned, scalpers would disappear. I sympathize with artist who want to make their concerts affordable. It would make more sense to have some sort of tiered fan club, and then the "superfans" could enter into draws for the chance to buy cheap tickets.
> The Sinaloa cartel then apparently kidnapped the
> journalists to demand that the television stations they
> work for air the video clips. Fearing for the safety of
> the journalists, one of the stations did so briefly.
So wouldn't the fact that Blog del Narco is showing the videos help normal journalists? They could say, "Just send the video to Blog del Narco and stop harrassing me"?
> Do we need to see the results of a massacre?
You don't have to watch. You have to let go of your outdated understanding of the news. "Push" media is gone. We don't need journalist telling us how to think. If I want to know what is going on, I can go look for myself. Frankly, we're all smarter than our newscasters. This is the same argument used against Craigslist and prostitution. More unfiltered information can't be a bad thing.
> It doesn't bother you that 4 journalists were kidnapped ...
Put the blame on the people doing the killing and kidnapping, not Blog del Narco.
Let's all be clear. No one has died smoking pot. Tens of thousands have died from alcohol poisoning (not to mention accidents). Thousands die every year from aspirin! Pot is non-toxic. I would much rather have my son smoke pot than drink alcohol. It is not even close.
> but the whole plot of the thing is for a man to find and
> reunite with his wife
Spoilers about Silent Hill 2 ...
but Silent Hill 2 is about a man who killed his wife. She was suffering and he put a pillow over her head. Then he spent years in a personal hell trying to decide if he did the right thing. This is one of the most powerful videogames ever made.
... Spoilers end
- Saint's Row 2 had a story and cinematography that was on par with any action movie I've seen.
- Eternal Darkness is one of the best Cthulhu games made.
- Heavy Rain is probably the best current example of a video game with a story that rivals most movies (even though it ripped off Se7en).
- My wife was totally in love with Alistair from Dragon Age and to this day complains that I didn't end up married to him (I played through as a female character for her).
It is sad that we'll have to wait until all these old f**kers in politics and journalism die before we can have a new videogame come out and the reviews just focus on the content of the game, and there isn't some accompanying piece about "videogames linked to violence" or other nonsense. I don't see any commentary about The Expendables, which is at least as violent as GTA IV. (In fact, most reviews mention how The Expendables is _less_ violent than Rambo.)
> Now when I see Kodak, I RUN, not walk, from the area.
My second digital camera was a Kodak. Absolute garbage. In their haste to cash-in on their name during the digital revolution, they destroyed it. I will never buy anything from Kodak again.
> dont use anyone elses work, even as quotes, and instead
> do something of your own.
I dare you to have a conversation with someone and never ever repeat a word they say. Culture is a conversation. If you don't understand that, you have never created art or done science.
Doesn't anyone hold a phone to their ear anymore? The iPhone 4 assumes everyone will use speakerphone and talk at their phone like a d-bag. Like riding the bus wasn't already really annoying, now I've got to hear clueless teenager AND HER FRIEND talking?!
Ever have someone wave you out into traffic while your driving? They stop and wave at you to cut in, or go ahead or whatever. Did you know that if you get into an accident, YOU are liable, not the waver-oner.
romeosidvicious offers some interesting information about towing in general, and you (dorp) decide to nitpick. You are an idiot. STFU and let the grown up have an intelligent discussion.
I used to buy a lot of new games because I could sell them after I finished playing them. For whatever reason, this market is drying up. I tried to sell Bioshock 2 a few weeks after it came out and I couldn't even get half the asking price. The reason could be the recession, it could be everyone uses GameStop and not Kijiji, or it could be that people know that a significant part of the game may or may not be available (depending on whether the original purchaser used the code).
The reality is I can't afford to pay $70 and sell it for $30. So I'm going to switch to computer games or start buying used. I'm the rich guy who EA wants to keep as a primary customer and they are screwing it up.
Actually, I think I agree with you. Cognitive dissonance happens when a behaviour and a belief don't match. Since you can't change the behaviour, you change your belief.
If people were to pay for the NYT, their belief that the site was worth it would tend to increase. Why else did I pay for something I could get free elsewhere? they would ask themselves.
Clive Barker re-mixed Nightbreed? Awesome! That movie takes place in Alberta, Canada, right near where I live. I hope Clive "accidently" releases it on Pirate Bay.
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> mostly to to global, if its a mom and pop the money mostly
> goes back to the community.
MomNPop's shovel: $30 ($15 wholesale + $8 overhead + $7 salary)
Walmart shovel: $20 ($10 wholesale + $4 overhead + $4 salary + $2 profit)
When the shovel is bought from Walmart, $12 leaves the community: $10 to wholesaler ie, China and $2 to shareholders. When the shovel is bought from MomNPop's, $15 leaves the community IF the shovel is the same China made shovel sold at Walmart (which is mostly the case). If the shovel is locally made, you have a point. This is rarely the case, though.
The overhead and salaries paid by Walmart stay in the community just like MomNPop's, because they buy local land and higher local people. Walmart helps because its purchasing power lowers the price of shovel in the first place.
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Re: Re: What goes around, comes around
So-called "Mom and Pop" stores have a much better chance of treating their employees like crap. My wife worked retail (aesthetics salon and flower shop), and the owner would always try things like have staff meetings and not pay anyone for them (but hey look, I brought some cookies in!) Large companies like Wal-mart are much more likely to treat its employees fairly according to current legislation.
While companies like Wal-mart do take profits out of communities, they also have buying power which make items cost less. For example, a $20 "mom-and-pop" shovel would cost $10 at Wal-mart, with about the same margin. So while some money leaves the community, a bunch remains because the shovel cost less to begin with.
And to put an even finer point on it, you are dreaming if you think that "mom-and-pop" anything are not just buying the same Chinese-made crap that Wal-mart is buying.
Overall, the hate towards large corporations is stupid and longs for an imaginary past.
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Re: Re: Re: 14 years
Be careful how you interpret life expectancy charts. Life expectancy at birth is distorted by high child mortality. If you compare life expectancy at 10, this is what you get (for white males):
Year, Life Expectancy
1850, 58
1900, 61
1950, 69
2000, 75
A definite rise, but not as dramatic if you compared life expectancy at birth, which goes from 38 (1850) to 75 (2000).
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Re: Festival seating
The Warfield has no built-in seats, but the photo gallery shows concerts with folding chairs set-up. Festival seating is typically first-come first-serve _standing_ room only. I think you mean "general seating".
Of course, scalpers are a natural side-effect when markets aren't free. If all tickets were auctioned, scalpers would disappear. I sympathize with artist who want to make their concerts affordable. It would make more sense to have some sort of tiered fan club, and then the "superfans" could enter into draws for the chance to buy cheap tickets.
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> The Sinaloa cartel then apparently kidnapped the
> journalists to demand that the television stations they
> work for air the video clips. Fearing for the safety of
> the journalists, one of the stations did so briefly.
So wouldn't the fact that Blog del Narco is showing the videos help normal journalists? They could say, "Just send the video to Blog del Narco and stop harrassing me"?
> Do we need to see the results of a massacre?
You don't have to watch. You have to let go of your outdated understanding of the news. "Push" media is gone. We don't need journalist telling us how to think. If I want to know what is going on, I can go look for myself. Frankly, we're all smarter than our newscasters. This is the same argument used against Craigslist and prostitution. More unfiltered information can't be a bad thing.
> It doesn't bother you that 4 journalists were kidnapped ...
Put the blame on the people doing the killing and kidnapping, not Blog del Narco.
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Re:
> reunite with his wife
Spoilers about Silent Hill 2 ...
but Silent Hill 2 is about a man who killed his wife. She was suffering and he put a pillow over her head. Then he spent years in a personal hell trying to decide if he did the right thing. This is one of the most powerful videogames ever made.
... Spoilers end
- Saint's Row 2 had a story and cinematography that was on par with any action movie I've seen.
- Eternal Darkness is one of the best Cthulhu games made.
- Heavy Rain is probably the best current example of a video game with a story that rivals most movies (even though it ripped off Se7en).
- My wife was totally in love with Alistair from Dragon Age and to this day complains that I didn't end up married to him (I played through as a female character for her).
It is sad that we'll have to wait until all these old f**kers in politics and journalism die before we can have a new videogame come out and the reviews just focus on the content of the game, and there isn't some accompanying piece about "videogames linked to violence" or other nonsense. I don't see any commentary about The Expendables, which is at least as violent as GTA IV. (In fact, most reviews mention how The Expendables is _less_ violent than Rambo.)
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Re: Kodak
My second digital camera was a Kodak. Absolute garbage. In their haste to cash-in on their name during the digital revolution, they destroyed it. I will never buy anything from Kodak again.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Its a temporary restraining order
You forgot the pheonetic spelling to really cap off your argument.
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Re: What gives non oem dealers any right
> decided to take their product design and build it cheaper?
Reverse engineering is legal you f**kin moron.
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Re:
> do something of your own.
I dare you to have a conversation with someone and never ever repeat a word they say. Culture is a conversation. If you don't understand that, you have never created art or done science.
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Re: Umm....
But hey, on the bright side, I hear they are a democracy now!
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Holding the phone ...
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I'm going to guess that you are a glass-half-empty type guy.
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Waver-Oners
Same thing.
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Won't buy more new games
The reality is I can't afford to pay $70 and sell it for $30. So I'm going to switch to computer games or start buying used. I'm the rich guy who EA wants to keep as a primary customer and they are screwing it up.
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Re: Re: You have a choice . . .
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Re:
If people were to pay for the NYT, their belief that the site was worth it would tend to increase. Why else did I pay for something I could get free elsewhere? they would ask themselves.
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