So am I. I'm pretty sure it's accurate because I've seen different places with wildly different suggested tip amounts. I've also seen a couple without the tip screen.

Ahhh there it is! The old "servergeddon" prediction that without excessive tips service will go straight to hell!

And this is the customers resposibility how?

They can disable it, as well as set the suggested tip amounts.

It is a common fallacy that replacing tips would require a 20% price increase. I've read where an owner was asked how much he would have to raise prices to pay servers $15 and hour. He said it would require an increase of mid- to upper- single digits. That's 4% to 9%. There is no way an owner would raise prices 20% and hand it all over to servers. And raising prices to pay servers the $40 to $60 per hour they claim they need would economic suicide.

There is a very obvious reason why servers are universally against being converted to an untipped minimum wage. When you read frequent comments by servers saying they wouldn't accept anything less that $40 to $60 per hour because they would be losing money you begin to see why.

So.... tip everyone you encounter that only makes minimum wage, not just servers?

THIS is the question no one ever seems to consider. Before my house was built 60 years ago this neighborhood had been a treeless prairie and then a dairy farm. There would have been at least a dozen predators that preyed on birds, including other birds. Except for a rare visits by hawks NONE of these have had a presence here for decades. If domestic cats are the only creature left to carry on their mission of eradicating birds from the environment they are failing utterly in that mission. Now that the prairie had been turned into a suburban paradise trees and shrubbery have been planted everywhere that provide excellent habitat for birds. My town is now described as an urban forest. Not to mention the addition of bird baths and feeders that they find so attractive. But somehow we are to believe that someone somewhere KNOWS that there are fewer birds than ever now and they are threatened of extinction by Jennyanydots. Ok, then where are the actual numbers of birds 60 years ago versus today?? Who exactly is doing the counting and what is their motivation? My personal observation over the last several decades in this spot is that there are just as many birds now, if not more, than there were then.

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And wouldn't it just blow YOUR mind to find out that aliens believe in the same God, and the individual religions humans believe in are misinterpretations of messages from the same God?!

Looks like you've constructed your own belief system!

I'm also one.

When Win 10 was announced, and hearing about the control MS would take away from users, not to mention the fugly GUI, I began exploring Linux. I had always wanted to but never seemed to get around to it. I put it on a laptop and started the learning curve to make it do what I had done in Windows for almost 30 years. Eventually I installed it on my desktop and HTPC. On the HTPC I installed Linux as a dual boot, but in the year since it was installed I've only booted to Windows twice, and then only to check a couple of configs.

It's hard to adequately describe the relief of being out from under Microsoft's bloated thumb. I have a Virtualbox VM running Win 7 with no Internet access to run some Visual Basic programs I wrote, MS Office 2010, and a couple other programs that don't run well under WINE. Thank you MS, for giving me the incentive to finally move to Linux. Best computing decision I ever made.

Retail never had a big markup. It had the thinnest slice of the pie.

Vinyl from the 60s and 70s, and really up until the recent vinyl fad, were quite fragile. At one point they started using recycled vinyl and pressed very thinly (to save shipping weight) and sounded worn even when they were new. And the thinness caused them to be warped, which affects the playback in several ways. And they were more susceptible to stylus wear. RCA was particularly bad about this. Vinyl that was properly cared for and played back on good equipment has survived fairly well, but a lot of used LPs you find from the period sound like crap. And that doesn't begin to address the way the music was mastered to make it playable on cheap equipment. Nowdays with 180 gram discs pressed on virgin vinyl many of those problems have been reduced. But vinyl will still wear out a little more each time it's played. Nothing can prevent that.

It's the same as it ever was. Unless they sold tens of millions of albums, bands only made money from touring and song publishing. And a lot of those profits went into paying back their debts to the record companies for studio and production costs.

Record company greed caused all of this. Woodstock was the point at which businessmen who knew nothing about music noticed the potential for profits from popular music. Before that the industry was run by people who actually loved music. After that most of the labels were bought out and consolidated and acts were signed only if they had tremendous market potential. Then when CDs came around they used it as a excuse gouge prices. The artists got a little more, the labels got a lot more. In the late 80s distributors and middle men begged the labels for a $10 retail price because they believed it would increase sales dramatically, but labels wouldn't budge. Their greed is what set the table for rampant piracy after CD ripping was introduced. And in the meantime they squeezed out real artists to make way for manufactured bands that would appeal to the lowest common demographic.