I'm hardly an economics genius so would you or someone else elaborate with maybe some sort of scenario as an example?
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I'm hardly an economics genius so would you or someone else elaborate with maybe some sort of scenario as an example?
PlutonianEmpire
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Why are large breasts reviled by everyone except Americans?
Genocidicbunny
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Probably because thats the general cultural preference. Why that is, I dont know. I do think that Americans are by far not the only ones who prefer women with larger breasts. And conversely not all Americans prefer women with larger breasts.
Yared
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My Ipod Classic, 120gb, came with something like 111gb free.
Yared
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Not true
I guess it's because of some of these reasons:
*They associate big boobs with "fakeness". Basically, a woman with large boobs carry a sort of power over [those horny] men - who can hardly stop their other brain from taking control [sic]. People with a lot of power are bound to abuse it, therefore, a woman with large breasts must be using it to get what she wants; fame, power, wealth.
*They are jealous.
*They associate big boobs with idiocy.
bombshoo said:
Okay. For the first point, lets say I go on a trip to a city I've never been to. I'm tired and hungry when I arrive but I don't want to have a bad meal. So instead of just sitting down at the first eating establishment, which may or may not be good, I look around for something I recognize. It might for arguments sake be a McDonalds which should, within certain tolerances, have a consistent menu, meals, decor and so forth.
A non-chain restaurant doesn't have that kind of broad appeal since it can't advertise its quality in quite the same way. Family restaurants tend to rely on far more intimate word of mouth transactions -- "Hey, have you heard about that great Greek place in town?" -- than bigger chains which can splurge on advertising and the like.
I see the same effect daily here, tourists tend to go to McDonalds, Subway and so forth because they can sure of a meal which has known qualities. It even holds for locals who might not be willing to part with $60 to try out a new family restaurants without first hearing recommendations and even then might not be bothered to try it out. There's alot to be said of having a known brand.
The second point doesn't deal with conventional consumer preference, instead it looks at prices. McDonalds in this example isn't perfect but I'll give it a go. Here I can buy a large cheeseburger combo with an additional cheeseburger on the side for $10. Now, I could walk across the street and get a superior product for a few dollars more. The problem for the seller is that the McDonald's burger is considerably cheaper to produce, since its parent company does all the purchasing of the raw product on a massive scale which brings with it considerable cost savings. So the potential for higher than normal profits compared to the guy down the road is there already. From experience McDonalds restaurants can be immensely profitable raking in huge sums of money. This compares very favorably to family restaurants which are never going to achieve that same scale.
But the advantages of scale isn't limited to the purchasing of materials it continues into staffing arrangements which tend to be negotiated on the national level. Which tends to be rather advantageous on the whole since the parent entity has considerably more power than the individual restaurants would otherwise have. Legal matters tend to also be handled by the company which brings us into the next point.
The support that the parent provides. If you could talk to the ultimate beneficial owner of a McDonald's franchise, I think you would find two things (1) they've probably never worked in the services industries and (2) they stumped up large sums of capital but little else to get the franchise license. Ultimately, all that a prospective restaurateur requires in a McDonalds restaurant is the money required to purchase the franchise license. McDonalds does all the planning and scoping for the restaurant, generally provides all the technical assistance required and makes life rather easy. In exchange there are some obligations on the part of the owner with quality etc. being specified in the contract.
I hope that sheds some light on the situation.
Yared
That Guy
How does the body make itself warm? Is it the blood flowing through it?
If so, how does the blood get warmed up?
If so, how does the blood get warmed up?
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
The processing of calories. A "calorie" is a unit of measure, defined as the amount of energy required to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree C.
Heat circulates through the body primarily through the blood stream.
Heat circulates through the body primarily through the blood stream.
Yared
That Guy
Thanks, but where does this heating occur?
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
The digestive system processes calories and nutrients; blood flowing to the stomach and intestines absorbs these nutrients and carries them to the rest of the body. With them goes the heat, since blood circulates constantly.
aimeeandbeatles
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How do they figure out how many calories and stuff are in food anyways?
Also, I remember another cartoon where somebody gets earrings and her ears turn green. Can this happen in real life?
Also, I remember another cartoon where somebody gets earrings and her ears turn green. Can this happen in real life?
Gilder
Deity
Well, kind of. Some people have an allergic reaction to certain metal that can do that.
Which is why gold, silver or stainless steel posts are best for earrings.
aimeeandbeatles
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I used to have earrings but they got very uncomfortable and I took them out. But where they used to be there's a little hard bump of ear tissue and dunno what that is.
Yared
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Mostly in the mitochondria
Genocidicbunny
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Using a calorimeter. They take a sample of a specific size, and decompose it as your body would inside a calorimeter. Then they measure the heat change and therefore the number of calories. Take an advanced (high school) chemistry course and 9 chances out of 10 you will do a laboratory on this.
Genocidicbunny
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Common 'issue' with hard drives. Manufacturers consider a kilobyte 1000 bytes. Apple and Microsoft (and Linux and most other software) consider a kilobyte to be 1024 bytes. Thats why with small drives you dont see that much difference, but as they get bigger and bigger the discrepancy is larger and larger. (Every additional gigabyte increases the discrepancy by 73,741,824 bytes. )
Additionally, some of the hard drive space may be reserved in case some of the sectors are damaged or the software needs some swap.
Now this all makes sense for magnetic hard drives, but flash memory should not be like that. Flash memory comes in blocks of a specific size, and the total size is a multiple of that number.
aimeeandbeatles
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One of my Christmas presents is broken and non-functional. I had just opened it and noticed it looked damaged and tried it anyways and it didn't work. My mom says she bought it at Walmart and it was the last copy on the shelf, and I had been wanting it for quite a while now. What can I do now?
EDIT: Oh this particular thing there's no replacement for, its not like one of those things where you have 50+ different models from different companies.
EDIT: Oh this particular thing there's no replacement for, its not like one of those things where you have 50+ different models from different companies.
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