There wasn't but consider the context: at the time YouTube was an almost purely piracy platform most likely the biggest on the planet if quantified in IP dollar value - yet was magically not shut down by the government. How unfair to the competition is that? Remember that other piracy based sites were raided in that era. But when Google started acquiring it, it was very quickly above the law. YouTube should not exist.
- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -
Can someone explain why it isn't disingenuous to look at Euros?
Firstly, euros cost now as much as they did three years ago. So that is clearly a price that can be reached with any number of causes. Then, UK pounds cost only what they did last September. And other world currencies? Values vs the dollar are all over the map, up, down, and nearly unchanged. No clear trend at all.
I had heard a good way to check the absolute value of dollars is to google USDX. Guess what? It's not particularly low, well within the normal range of ups and downs.
Not the whole market at the high end either, I have very little trouble getting any pair of Balmain, Versace, and Rick Owens sneaker I want - I have several dozen pairs of all three brands
Strategy at the high end is to price correctly but astronomically so almost no one can afford them, then offer seasonal sales to sell the less popular colorways or styles off to the aspirational upper poor.
Nike/Adidas is like the polar opposite, intentionally underprice so demand is frantic and there is a lot of action for middle men, then over the years try to steal back as much of the middle men profit as possible
"we want to be able to hang somewhere" ...just saying because I'm sorry I can't contain myself: This is exactly the use case Airbnb doesn't solve. I fly half-way across the world to meet my parents on vacation and almost without fail the only Airbnb I can find (or all the ones I can find) have a strict rule against guests. Hence I can't have my parents over 10 minutes to drink tea because if the owner, big brother, finds out I'll lose my entire remaining month of rent and be forcibly expelled. In Europe this is not joke, often a loss of $2000+
I truly hate Airbnb. Luckily since my parents only stay a week they can afford to stay in a hotel. Invariable we "hang out" with me sitting at the foot of their bed.
These "rules" become extremely oppressive when your home most of the year is an Airbnb room like me. This is why I use Booking or local corporate owned platfroms instead whenever possible
Was the $.99 price point really invented at a point in history before sales taxes came to be established? Round prices have never been convenient because it always come out to $1.07 1.08 1.09 something like that with a mix of state and local tax added
I don't think we can draw any conclusion from that campaign because multiple variables were changed simultaneously
The biggest ones in my mind, the ones my family had always played: they got rid of the game playing involved in buying during sales windows. This eliminated both the urgency to buy and the fun of feeling you were getting a deal other people weren't (this is all from memory I'm afraid)
When you eat at a sit down restaurant, part of the service is not forcing you to walk to the register up front to pay. Hence you leave your card with the waiter and they disappear with it for up to 15 minutes to process the payment at the terminal.
This is also their opportunity to copy your magnetic strip and/or add a tip without your permission. (Though the latter only happened to me once, I guess the former may have happened a few times over the years it's hard to know.)
Doesn't strike me as wise. Your phone is always on you, if you have a biometrics killswitch you're better off than repeatedly entering your password, day in and day out, in public locations where a highly motivated actor WILL be able to figure out your password with mere binoculars and two or three observations.
This is why I hate when I get a 1Password prompt to reenter my nonbio password at inopportune times in a public place. My keystrokes can be secretly filmed from a distance. When I gain access to passwords that I copy and paste by fingerprint, the forcible theft of my machine puts me at near 0 risk. (My preferred way to login while in public.)
It is annoying that Windows keeps Qwerty for it while Mac uses Dvorak. If it was just consistent (I constantly switch machines) it would be easy to handle and entirely subconscious by now...
But I start typing the wrong layout every time and lose a few seconds mentally reorienting myself.
Every business, every business has people who go in with the "no matter the cost" situation. But the market sets the schedule of pricing, so if either their status is not "revealed" or the business is simply not allowed to alter the price scedule from person to person, then it is literally no different than
-A rich family deciding they'll eat at the amusement park without asking prices, and no matter what, even when a small coke has reached $10
-A guy who walks into a new restaurant after his first 48 hour fast and after payday atd decides to completely ignore the prices and just order unconditionally
-A taxi driver get a flat outside of a tire shop by pure chance and it is the start of a ten hour planned shift
etc. ad Infinitum
#1 Better to take one shot at $500 before paying a pick-up artist $5000-10,000 from training/conferences
#2 Imagine you make $100k USD and haven't scored a date in a decade. Wouldn't taking a gamble of $500 seem appealing just in case it finally gave you a shot?
I dunno, to me not hard to understand at all. USA is not Europe, escort prices there start $300+/hr these days, a lot more in NY/LA etc. also making $500 sound like less
There's a special place in the inferno for Booking staff who send me distracting notifications about the fact that the hotel I'm currently living out of having availability. These are especially insidious as I dare not turn off their notifications, I'm staying at a place so traveler hostil they texted me 4 hours before noon check in day and said if I didn't reply by noon they'd cancel my reservation. It is a 13 hr flight to Indonesia and free universal in-air internet just ain't a thing yet. A 4 hour window to respond is beyond outrageous and irrational. Even a tourist from Japan could be without internet the whole while.
I see the importance of any argument I'm making on being the best bet for 95% of humans. No policy governing humans is ever going to make imperfect humans perfect, but policies can and do go to far to where they're a detriment to a huge percentage
It sounds like your parents were uncool or unreasonable and that sucks, sorry. But I think it's not objective to let it make you think all that was the norm as an adult.
My parents were religious nuts. But as an adult I realized how lucky I was. They actually don't have any personality defects such as powerlusting or being egotistical about respect, so as a kid I very definitely avoided all the worst experiences kids often go through growing up with just the minor annoyance of forced bible studies or church visits (in perspective really an annoyance at worst)
Firstly, what I said can be true in one scope of reference and what you say in another. It's not mutually exclusive.
I feel your perspective is more about lots of the world after the rise of nation states and dense civilization.
For me I'm actually thinking back to the Pirahãs tribe from Daniel Everett's book as how we realistically lived as tribes. Conflict might arise, but a group might split off and go live in an entirely different patch of forest permanently, at which point the conflict is done without fuss. Things can be much less pleasant with permanent settlements and all land being owned by someone else.
A couple, man and woman, possibly with children, might also do something like this and just reject the benefits of being part of a larger community as loners.
Not all conflict is existential, we all choose to live facing a certain amount but also have our limits. Kids have way less flexibility to make the call and it is the cause of much misery
My grandparents did that, it was one of the principle annoyances I had with visting them as a kid
It was very shocking to go from 75dB to an ambient 30dB or something like that out in the countryside. I'd have much preferred to talk over or zone out over the commercials without the suddenly shocking lack of auditory stimulus!
I really disagree with all the comments that make reference to reality - no that is not at all what "reality" is. The fact of the matter is that as an adult, I can draw a line in the sand and either leave a job or report someone who is making the workplace hostile. I can have arguments with friends, but I can also decide certain friendships are over because they've passed a reasonable max threshold for toxicity.
As a kid, you're repeatedly forced into situations where you dont have these same rights - in my experience. Schools try to trick you into
thinking they're arbitrators above the law. They incentivize victims sucking it up, because if you get punched in the face at school, both parties involved will be suspended. However, it didn't strike me until I was in my 20s - this is all a trick - I could call the cops and press charges instead. One of the deceptions of my childhood anyway. Assault is a crime, school is not a special jurisdiction outside US law.
The idea that anyone's circle of chosen friends is not reality to me is nuts, of course everyone faces some amount of conflict with friends. Why does it have to necessarily be conflict from someone you hate with all your being(at a public school) to train you for life? Someone who'll physically assault you? That seems like a made up arbitrary rule. I'm in my 40s and have yet to experience anything like what I did as a 11 year old in my adult life. what exact training for real life did I need that was so valuable to my future? etc.. School sucked!
- fair use was also sot as permissive in that era! Web 2.0 coerced a legal shift -