As a Midwestern suburbanite, I don't think I understand this service. When it comes to trash removal, the city already comes around once per week and collects whatever I put out there. The cost of this is baked into my city taxes and can't be opted out of so far as I know. There may be some technical limit as to how much they'll take at once, but I've never hit it. They even come around and take big stuff, like couches and mattresses, a few times per year. Is this type of service not common throughout the US?
This is an interesting idea for donatable goods like clothes, but I lose the write off and I'm not sure waiting around for a pick-up is really more convenient than just driving the stuff to a drop off location myself.
The only real advantage I see here is getting rid of stuff that's hard to dispose of: car batteries (you know, cause I'm always throwing those away), poisonous or flammable liquids, medical waste (which I don't think I've ever had), etc... but I can't believe that is profitable cargo for them to haul away at $5/bag.
What am I missing here? Am I just the wrong demographic for this?
I feel similar in some ways. I live in an urban apartment building, we have a "recycle room" where I can leave anything I can produce and it magically goes away. Having said that, when I rented in a different part of the city we had a very small bin and shared it with the apartment downstairs. The bin would often fill up and I'd find myself holding onto trash because I had no room left for it and no time to drive to the dump. In that case $5 would have felt like a good deal!
I can't speak to the US, but here in Ireland the city does no such thing, so we would love to have this service! Creators thereof, please consider expanding over here. You'd get a lot of customers at double or quadruple your current price.
Similar announcements from Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg have gotten significant press over the past few years. Is this kind of philanthropy new, or is it traditional to see some of the world's top earners donating (or pledging to donate) their fortunes? I realize that these people are but a small fraction of the true top earners in the world, but they have to be among the most notable.
Does it do selective sync? e.g., HOME:/media/pictures contains folders for 2014...etc, and LAPTOP:/media/pictures/ only contains 2014, and any changes to LAPTOP:/media/pictures/2014/ get propagated to HOME:/media/pictures/2014 etc?
I found the use of slightly different shades of the same color to differentiate data bars to be incredibly frustrating, which made me assume this was written by a marketer and not someone with a technical background. Fair or not, that instantly made the message less interesting to me.
Anyways, just an interesting take on another type of factor that can impact recruiting messaging.
The one thing they're not making any more of in this world is land.
Huge portions of the US remain undeveloped or under-developed. Land isn't really in as short of supply as some would have you believe.
$3.2M isn't much money for a very large number of people in this world.
$3.2 is just the purchase price. The article says the buyer would be looking at another $25-million to demolish the structures that can't be salvaged. Then you have upkeep and taxes. I'm sure the actual total monetary commitment is still within reach for many, but it's not nearly as low as $3.2.
As a small team (1 - 10), I would be willing to pay in the neighborhood of $5/user/month. Once we get up to $50/month, I'd like to see volume discounts.
I can't imagine I'd ever pay more than a $100/month for a team of any size, because at that price, I should probably just have an in-house dev develop a similar system.
This is purely anecdotal as I don't have real numbers to back it up, but it seems to me like every airline has been on the edge of going out of business for as long as I can remember. I don't think it's greed so much as there is virtually no margin in airlines to begin with.
Makes sense to me, and seems to fit the gamut of airlines. The theory also explains why airlines have hostile customer service - there's just no upside to management working to improve things.
There have indeed been a lot of airlines on, or over, the edge.
"Over the last 30 years, more than 150 airlines have sought bankruptcy protection or disappeared, but more keep springing up as investors continue to put hope over experience, said Denis O’Connor, managing director with AlixPartners, a restructuring firm."
Because reclining the chair is using it in a predictable way and as it was intended to be used. It's a bit like laying your laptop in the middle of the freeway and then claiming people can't run it over.
I don't understand your argument. If I place my laptop on the tray, aren't I using the tray in a predictable way in line with its intended purpose (i.e. to hold things)? Does your assertion that the 'reclining chair being reclined is its intended use' not apply to 'the tray holding things is its intended use'?
My lap isn't the middle of a freeway - accidentally smashing it by reclining is exactly as if accidentally smashing something from a shelf with your elbow while walking; you should be looking where you're going and are responsible for the direct consequences of your actions.
Liability would almost certainly be yours alone. The passenger who reclined their seat was using the seat as it was intended, so there is no offense there. The airline would likely argue that they never made any guarantees as to the protective nature of that pocket, nor did they tell you to put your laptop in there.
This is an interesting idea for donatable goods like clothes, but I lose the write off and I'm not sure waiting around for a pick-up is really more convenient than just driving the stuff to a drop off location myself.
The only real advantage I see here is getting rid of stuff that's hard to dispose of: car batteries (you know, cause I'm always throwing those away), poisonous or flammable liquids, medical waste (which I don't think I've ever had), etc... but I can't believe that is profitable cargo for them to haul away at $5/bag.
What am I missing here? Am I just the wrong demographic for this?