Bus riding has a social stigma outside of the very largest cities. Also, people in the US love complaining about taxes, and you know what costs money? Buses.
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For me, the stand-up specials like Dave Chapelle and Louis CK alone are huge and welcome additions, never mind the many, very good lesser known comedy specials on there.
Their agreement with Dreamworks has only helped, allowing me to enjoy surprisingly good films like Zootopia.
Even great cable channels like FX (The Americans, Legion) and AMC (Mad Men, Better Call Saul) are not available for any reasonable price as standalone cable packages, so I'm not sure what the comparison is in terms of quality. HBO at 15/month?
But even HBO shows are hit-or-miss. And while their movie selection is generally pretty great, I still find myself not watching it all that much.
It seems to me that Netflix provides a pretty high level of content at their price point.
Certainly it' s a double-edged sword but that's how I read it at least.
That's the whole thing. As an employee, you agreed to the terms of your hiring.
When the company I worked for was bought out, employees with 401K's were given a sizable (but hardly enormous) contribution to that as part of the owner's sale. We weren't owed that, but I did appreciate it. But it was never promised to me and I was paid for the work I did.
The sooner people accept that addiction, like violence, will probably just never disappear completely, the better off they'll be. We're looking at a policy of harm reduction, not the fantasy that we can cure addiction. Some people will always be on the outliers. The question is, do we criminalize their behavior and add an entire criminal subculture or do we accept it in order to reduce the overall harm to society and the addict?
Doesn't make him a monster, but, like most men of vast wealth, at least somewhat of a hypocrite.
Oh. Right. :-\
This is how revolutions are started. There's no "game over." A population always has the option to rise up against their brutal regime. Especially in a place like the United States, where individual freedoms are highly prized and there is a rather large contingent of heavily armed and often angry population.
Your point may remain for consumer electronics, but much of Microsoft's revenue stream comes from corporate users anyway.
There is no such thing as an objectively good restaurant. In my town, there are famous pizza places which people absolutely love and then others who think it's an overrated, pretentious mess.
Nevermind attempting to control for different waiters, chefs, people having a bad day, etc. The problem isn't Yelp-specific.
The problem is entirely human.
But if you've ever used Amazon Prime or HBO Go, you know it's actually significantly more complex than that, and Netflix has only made it LOOK easy.
Whether or not that leads to long-term success, I don't know, but I do know that people seriously trivialize how difficult it is to stream tremendous amounts of high-quality traffic with very few hiccups.
I guess to me it seems infinitely easier to criticize the way someone else does it than to present a more efficient way of doing it.
Yelp does seem to have a conflict of interest with advertisements, but considering the only alternative seems to be a subscription-based model, and people don't like paying for things on the Internet, I suspect that this is still the best possible case at the moment. Plenty of room for innovation, though.
1. I like to play my PlayStation 3 on it.
2. I stream Hulu to it for the few shows I really enjoy (30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Community, Game of Thrones, etc.)
At the end of the day, while my TV may be off most of the time, I still prefer it to watching TV on a smaller monitor.