The traffic light and painted arrows say it's a turn lane? Well, the fine print of the traffic law says it isn't without a sign too, so pay your fine.
Wait, unless there is a sign saying you can turn in Houston you can't turn? So like if there is a single lane coming up to a light you must go straight? This might be the most bizarre deviation from the rest of the country I've heard of.
Was talking about the AC commenting, not Cook. Fool boy see me after class.
You are correct. I misread. When is class over? I would like my extra-curricular lesson, Sir.
No, the MARKET should choose, since there and only there does EVERYONE have a voice. But you guys want to impose your arbitrary opinions on the whole under force of arms. Disgusting.
The market also makes many choices, some of which benefit some sub-groups of the market and others of which are a detriment. My point was that in economics, policies do not benefit everyone equally.
Regardless, it's best to compare the most-common use-cases which are unknowledgeable users using their devices with software as-is from the box, which was my original point.
If you're retired and living off savings, are you better or worse off? All you are doing is helping one class at the expense of another.
That's is generally what social economics is about, many choices are such and we must as a society choose.
That still says "using the software" to be, but I'd have to ask my lawyer. It's clearly labeled a software license agreement.
Whatever you force McDonalds to give workers in a minimum wage raise will be paid for by McDonalds customers in higher prices, even if McDonalds doesn't fire people. Since McDonalds customers are predominantly lower income, it's basically a regressive tax.
If you raise the minimum wage 100% and McDonalds increases their prices 10%, have the "predominately lower income" customers been regressively taxed?
Oh, so they ONLY have to raise prices 25%? Yeah, that's not going to hurt anyone already barely scraping by on a fixed income.
If costs go up by 25% but your income goes up by 100% (the example he cited with doubling pay while increasing a burger price by $0.75), are you better or worse off?
This is an experiment. If Seattle's unemployment rate goes up, you MUST accept the fact that raising the minimum wage kills jobs. If it goes down, then you MUST accept the fact that you are living in some sort of magical fantasyland where economic laws don't apply, and should immediately set about breaking windows and starting nuclear wars with aliens to improve the economy.
The trouble with economic experiments is that you cannot isolate a single variable. No matter what happens with the unemployment rate, you cannot state a causal relationship between the minimum wage and unemployment rate. Also, unemployment rate is a lose indicator of jobs. One can posit a situation where the number of unemployed has increased while at the same time a number of unfilled positions have been created yet are unfilled due to misaligned skill-sets between the unemployed worker pool and positions.
Example of low wages creating jobs:
I hate mowing my lawn, if I can hire someone to do it at $10/hour, I'll do it. At $15/hour I can't afford to hire someone and I'll do it myself
There is work to be done: mowing your lawn.
There is someone doing the work: you or someone you pay $10 per hour.
In both cases, there is a job being done. Someone that could be doing something else is mowing your lawn. In one case you are spending your time doing something else while someone is mowing your lawn, in the other case, you are mowing your lawn while someone else is doing something else. In both cases, that something else could be something like a "job". Maybe you are paying someone $10 and hour to mow your lawn and you take that time to earn $60 an hour being a masseur. Maybe they are earning $15 an hour working at Burger King while you are mowing your lawn.
The fact that *you* may do work yourself or outsource it does not create the job: the lawn needing mowing does.
What a lot of this comes down to is what I feel is an incorrect assumption; that minimum wage jobs are life-long careers, and that we intend for someone to work as an unskilled laborer for their entire life.
I do not know where you live, but where I live opportunities to rise out of the minimum-wage-job as life-long career are touted as existing but actually do not. Good education is too expensive and free education is a joke. Living expenses in locales that have good infrastructure and transportation are high enough to incentivize living with a partner as soon as possible--which has a human tendency to lead to children. Access to affordable, quality health care is too expensive and prices are set to amounts easily payable by the insured by out-of-reach of out-of-pocket payers.
Until we provide affordable, quality healthcare, education and housing to everyone we just keep living a lie about a meritocracy.
These are my monthly bills.
Student loan $300
My take home pay after taxes is $1100 a month.
This here is one of the largest problems with the US economy: education costs one 1/3 of one's take home pay for decades (not to mention all the accrued interest).
At those rates, it might be better to forgo the education and make $15 minimum wage (almost $2,000 per month). For no student loan payment one can make almost double.
Then I misunderstood what you meant by "software tied to your geographical location". If you mean the App Store uses your IP address to present different Apps for purchase sure, but to me software being tied to a geographical location connotes that the software will only work in a certain geographical location and leaving that location will disable it.
So if I install an OS other than iOS onto my iPhone, can I claim to be comparing iPhone to Android?
If you can do so without violating the terms of use then it's a start, at least.
My iPhone hardware does not have any terms of use. The software does and if I am replacing it, then they don't apply, do they?
If it hasn't been made clear, it was a joke. A bad one, but a joke nonetheless.
Real Users know your home telephone number.
