32 as of now. 95% have mobile referrers...the exact target of QR codes. Doesn't bode well for telling anyone to think about the content.
On the other hand: thanks! Does that work for most shorteners or is bit.ly just cool like that?
Would you look at that. I made my first foe today! *hands you "Foe'ed because you are an idiot" award*
Strange. Most of the time when I'm a passenger and the driver is screaming bloody murder at the old lady/man in front of us, he/she is just simply going the posted speed limit. Separate conversation, but I've never felt that elderly people can't drive, per say, but they drive more carefully. South Park aside, that is. They apparently have a statistically anomalous concentration of bad elderly drivers.
Also, since getting my Progressive Hand-Us-Your-Driving-Habits-For-A-Discount doo-hicky, I've found that most people mistake me for an elderly person. Going the speed limit and leaving several car lengths in front of me has kept me at less than 5 hard brakes this month. Yay?
God what I would give for mod points. Drupal, Wordpress, and PHP-Nuke are to blame. The skinning/module/plug-in ecosystems alone will keep inertia for years. And then, because of them, all the people on in-house projects think that they can emulate these PHP based successes. I don't have a problem with Drupal or Wordpress and I've not a clue about PHP-Nuke. I can only imagine the struggle it is to keep up with all the "PHP version N+1 breaks X".
As an aside, DotNetNuke is really not that bad, and I've seen some pretty awesome things on the designer side. I think my favorite was my friend dropped $99 USD for a WYSIWYG skinner that worked right in the browser. Very sexy.
Profit beyond that which is necessary to cover risk (unfortunate troubles) is theft
Really? Tell you what you swing by my house I will pay you only in your material cost to paint my house. You dont deserve anything beyond that. It would just be you stealing from me. You may be a bit angry at this point at what I said. But it is the logical extreme of what you are saying.
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This falls apart very quickly. What you will be charged by the painting company is the exact amount needed to cover: materials, wages of the workers sent out, and the projected costs of the new van we are buying to allow us to haul around more paint. As you'll see, I agree with you in the end, but "risk" covers future investments. You're doing the argument wrong.
The appropriate response is that there are no profits. Profits is simply money not spent today. In the end, all of the money in a company goes into something. Even the company's liquid cash hoard is a hedge against debts, sudden disaster, and the possibility of acquisition. That money is in a bank that is leveraging it to circulate back into the economy. (A protest on leveraging is a separate argument, no need to respond to this. The point is simply the money is doing stuff.)
The OP has missed the point that money made is money spent from the perspective of the company-as-entity. Now, executive pay and bonuses are a different story. I don't have a big hate for the actual cash salaries they make. However, I've got plenty of frustration at the rigged bonus schemes and separation packages that encourage a nomadic executive class that has no real concern than to walk in, cut costs to the bone, and walk back out leaving a wake of destruction behind them. Sure, pay the millions. Just don't give them a shred of stock till 10 years in.
Ever actually get a USPS shipment that's tracked? I live in the Atlanta-metro area in Georgia. As in, I live in the Atlanta. My gift for someone I ordered online went to Atlanta, California, Atlanta, Texas, Atlanta, Delaware, Atlanta, Kansas, and finally Atlanta, Georgia. The worst part was that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shipping address. Even the ending part of the Zip+4 was right. You can only imagine the ass-fuckery that Amazon's "Super Saver Shipping" suffers. I just sign up for Prime and get 2-day UPS. At least it arrives, get's left at the leasing office, and is at my door in our locked breezeway by the time I'm home from work.
It seems that the logical conclusion of your argument is as follows:
They, being the rich or super-rich or whatever term describes "they", own everything. So no matter what you do to hurt them, they'll turn it around and make it cost the poor and middle-class even more. Hence, we probably live in a plutocracy, as a result of a plutonomy.
My personal extension of this conclusion is: If they hold all the cards, the only option we have left is to give 'em a black eye and take the cards back.
Luckily that hasn't been a problem for me for years now. (Hope I didn't just jinx it.)
You just summed up so much of what is wrong with the current way of life on this planet in such an astoundingly simple statement.
No, I had all sorts of exciting fun in high school chemistry. I recall mixing sugar and...something to make a big black carbon...excrement looking thing. We also got to investigate a "murder scene" and figure out who "killed" our teacher. We did all sorts of tests and even got to go tour a local crime lab. I credit my high school science department with making the number of careers I was considering and interested in unfortunately high.
It's just that in America, at least, unless you are an awesome chemist, you don't end up doing cool stuff like that. You end up bored int he corner of a lab doing the same thing over and over again. However, studying chemistry is fun, at least to me. So eventually, I want to go back and pick up a B.S. or what not in Chemistry.
However, teaching looks like a fun "retirement" job, since true retirement doesn't exist anymore. So I might go back to school to get a Masters in Education and try to be a science teacher, eventually.
In the same vein, my home town had a well funded Computer Science department at a state university. There are two major employers who exploit my home town for cheap programming labor. (We're talking COBOL programmers, with a 2 year Associates, and 6 years of experience making only $40,000 USD, $50,000 USD tops.) They threatened to leave if the town didn't do something about the shortage of trained work. My town put together a 2 year certification at said university. By the time I finally got the motivation to get an education, military contractors and previously mentioned employers had driven enough money back into the department that it had several 4 year Bachelors of Science tracks.
I got my degree and my loan burden was just at $35,000 USD. The only reason it was that large was that I passed up a decent paying part-time retail job to take on Tutoring in the Computer Science lab and doing undergraduate research for pennies. However, having the tutoring job, research, and ACM presenter awards on my resume definitely landed me several job offers before my graduation in December of 2009.
Since January of 2010, I've actually changed employers once and ended up at about $75,000 USD a year. If I hadn't been a complete idiot and bought a new car (as opposed to a used one under $10,000), I would be paying my loans down at twice the rate of my standard 10 year repayment.
My point is, it isn't that bad. It just like the GP said, people are allowing themselves to be fooled into this false idea that this is how the world works. Probably the best bet is people should take 2-3 years off after High School. That's what I did. (Actually, I dropped out my Senior year due to complications of being openly gay and attending a rural school, but that's another post entirely.)
This is the sort of stuff that makes me want to go back to college and follow through on a Chemistry degree at least to the Masters level.
Perhaps in 8 years when I finish my loan repayments from the B.S. in Comp Sci.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
