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With the news about the copy editors yesterday, I think this is very apprapo – The hard truth: Newspaper monopolies are gone forever
http://blog.heritage.org/wp-co…
“We’ve got a couple of sectors in our economy that are still weak. Overall, the private sector has been doing a good job creating jobs. We’ve seen record profits in the corporate sector. The big challenge we have in our economy right now is that state and local government hiring has been going in the wrong direction. You’ve seen teacher layoffs, police officers, cops, firefighters, being laid off. And the other sector that’s still weak has been the construction industry,” said President Obama.
Fox, or E-mails from Grandma Birther to buttress your argument.
Will ‘showrooming’ kill businesses?
If I need to look at an item closely enough that I need to go to a store, then I buy it in a retail store, because I appreciate the service they just provided me.
But I don’t think that’s true of a lot of people. Media and electronics stores are hardest hit for now, but online shoppers are definitely making brick and mortar tough businesses to run.
You could go to one store, look at the prices, talk to the knowledgeable salesman, then walk out and go buy it at a discount store where nobody knows anything.
But people still buy things at big specialty stores. Tellingly, the article doesn’t actually have any numbers, which is how you know it’s a bullshit story written by a tedious old man who is trying to learn something from his kid instead of doing research.
One of the big reasons people go into stores and then just write down product numbers is that an online store will typically have user ratings of things, even if they’re crappy, while a retail store will typically claim that every product they sell is awesome (but the more expensive ones are even better). If retail stores wanted to eliminate showrooming, they would have little screens with web browsers where people could look at any given product and its reviews while still in the store.
Stunningly simple solution. Thanks. Wonder why they don’t do that?
User ratings don’t mean anything when the person rating the product just gave their impression based on their specific needs and biases. I would rather talk to someone that is knowledgeable about a wide range of products who can listen to my specific wants and needs and recommend a product based on that. On top of that I want them to be regularly available. I also like to support local businesses that have earned my business.
If you want product reviews in retail stores shop with your cell phone and look them up.
but then store owners complain about us looking up numbers on our cell phones, as in the linked article.
Most user ratings are utter garbage, but the fact that you have multiple ones means that you can still extract useful information from them. Having just one salesperson who’s working on commission is not a recipe for reliable advice IMO.
I worked in retail for years and was never put off by people looking up alternative prices. I may have had a different perspective because I sold high end retail where price shopping meant you would find the same product for the same price, but you had to wait 5-7 business days to get it shipped free. On the off chance that you found it someplace online for cheaper, we just matched the price.
This is always weird to explain, because I really enjoy shopping, like to buy things that are of high quality (probably expensive) and usually shop at either high end stores or local shops that have been in business for a long time as I know the sales people actually know what they are talking about. But, I also know that some people shop purely based on price and hate shopping in general.
The main thing for me is quality and customer service. If a sales person knows what they are talking about and I get great customer service I don’t sweat the small price difference I may get if I look for it online.
I don’t like that article for a number of reasons, but the main one being that some items I buy exclusively online and skip the B&M store entirely and others I don’t bother looking online. The article, aside from being purely anecdotal doesn’t look into the difference.
Zappos sells a hell of a lot of shoes without being the cheapest option for that pair of shoes. If retailers can’t compete with online stores on price or convenience, they need to evolve and find another way to compete that moves units out the door. Time spent whining is time not spent evolving.
(That said, Amazon should collect sales tax.)
The Making of Green Graffiti
For almost 8 years our two outgoing Mesa County Commissioners have led the chorus in “cut government spending” – la, la, la. Whatever the subject, it ends in the same political refrain. Now the Dept. of Interior has gone and cut back on one of their federal subsidies.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/S=1a… (pay wall, sorry)
The commissioners are going to appeal and also investigate how they can get around the decision by restructuring the county mineral
lease program (the other pot of federal money).
All together now – “Cut government spending” la la la.
They mean cut welfare – not farm subsidies, or drilling subsidies, just, you know for immigrants and those other lazy people.
They mean cut spending on roads and bridges in Denver, and funding for higher ed in Denver.
Under no circumstance do they mean cut anything in your county.
In short, they mean reduce gov’t spending somewhere else.
The red/blue dividing line should be drawn at 100,000 jobs added – because that’s holding steady with the rate of people entering the job market. If it’s moved up, while the losses have been stopped (and that’s gigantic), we’re not working our way out of the hole.
125,000-150,000 jobs are needed to keep the pace
No wonder the massive 18-24 year old turnout that backed Obama is so concerning to Democrats …. After they left college they couldn’t find a jobs in Obama’s new economy
glad to see you back. We missed you.
but when asked to base opinion on facts a thin skinned ‘turd lies — again.
to do a breakout of those 18-24 year old voters and see what percentage of them can’t find a jobs. How many in that secotr are on unemployment roles ? Food for thought.
What about the retiring baby-boomers?
🙂
under Obama’s watch, anyone who wanted to retire at the end of the Bush years is in a lot better position now than they were then. What you say only makes sense if you ignore facts and make up your own reality.
With http://www.rassmussenreports.com polling the Presidents disapprove numbers at +43 it should not be shocking to read the following local perspectives on Dear Leader and his merry band of big government spenders.
It gets much worse in Arapahoe county too. Low name ID democrat John Miklosi is challenging longtime Arapahoe County resident Mike Coffman. That would be bad in any year, but Miklosi is facing a double whammy ….after firing a single mother as his finance director Democrat activists learned that the woman (and her infant child) were forced to return to her mothers basement. …the mother….non other than State Senate leader Betty Boyd.
‘tad, why as such a foaming-mouth defender of the Constitution, do you continue to support a candidate (and a political party, for that matter) that so openly embraces the racist hate of the fringe Christian evangelical church?
http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-foc…
After all, this is the guy who’s proud to have single-handedly knocked out one of the few Gay adivsors on the RomneyBot Team:
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/14/…
But religious affiliation is only important in a Democratic candidate, isn’t it ‘tad? Shall I start compiling the links to the sh8T you were posting in the ’08 election threads?
So, of course Audra is not going to vote for the RomneyBots this fall, because of his complete sellout to the collection of “God’s Madmen” that the Republican’t Party is embracing in their “do anything to win” strategy this fall.
A “birther” isn’t supporting President Obama.
This is terrible news for his campaign.
Not sure. Trash? No one is trash. Low information? Absolutely. What else would you call someone who ignores facts? One of the facts being the Republican governor of Hawaii (who also happens to be the current Republican Senate nominee from Hawaii) shot down the whole “certificate of live birth” is a fake. This simple fact should remove any doubt given that over the past 3.5 years of the Obama Presidency he hasn’t been able to get a republican to go along with anything he has put out there.
Among the many reasons we should listen closely to you – your deep knowledge…
It proves you’re intellectually challenged.
mommy and daddy have given him back his gadgets and allowed him back on line.
Just want to thank Ralphie and Grey for all the smoker advice. I know that hours during the day are the same as hours during the night but I’ve seen times of 18 hours on larger cuts. That’s why I wanted to know how small to go to get it done in more like 10, guys! 🙂
And don’t worry Ralphie. I only use moderate garlic on pork. I come from an ethnic group that uses garlic on almost everything so I can’t help myself.
between smoke time and size of the cut, although there is certainly a relationship. For example, two chickens don’t take twice as long as one chicken. If you want to shorten the smoke time, you can wrap the pork shoulder in aluminum foil and finish it in the oven, but that softens up the nice brown crust.
Maybe Gray can chime in.
Remember, the biggest heat sink in your smoker is the water pan. Water weighs 8 lbs per gallon, so a two-gallon pan holds 16 lbs of water. That’s a lot more mass than a pork shoulder.
And I wasn’t too worried about your garlic use. Being Italian, I go through a LOT of garlic. Heck, when I make a leg of lamb, I cut slits all over it and stuff them with slices of garlic. I just don’t put it on pulled pork–I like the smoke flavor.
that times are not linear. Additionally, the thickness of a brisket, more than its total mass, will dictate time. Longer and at lower temps will increase that beautiful smoke ring, add smoke flavor, and, in the instance of some game meats such as bear or racoon, diminish the gamey flavor.
But, every fall I smoke either pork butt or brisket for a fund raiser and I do that in only 5 hours at high temps with a lot of water and LOTS of chips. For that I even put the pork butt on a bed of wood chips.
can add “smoke ring” and help diminish the gamey flavor when you’re smoking a raccoon. But wouldn’t it be easier to avoid smoking a raccoon in the first place?
that times are not linear. Additionally, the thickness of a brisket, more than its total mass, will dictate time. Longer and at lower temps will increase that beautiful smoke ring, add smoke flavor, and, in the instance of some game meats such as bear or racoon, diminish the gamey flavor.
But, every fall I smoke either pork butt or brisket for a fund raiser and I do that in only 5 hours at high temps with a lot of water and LOTS of chips. For that I even put the pork butt on a bed of wood chips.
I haven’t said anything, but I’ve been taking notes as I intend to own a smoker one day.
When dealers are blowing them out.
Cheryl saved $100 on my Weber Bullet. They take up a lot of room.
That’s also a good time because autumn is the one season we don’t have a ton of birthdays in our family.
stick that pork butt out on your patio this afternoon . . . no equipment required on the front range this summer . . . if you can keep the animals away you should have a good 18-hour smoke by tomorrow morning.
Fucking Al Gore ! Global warming my ass.
Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley Piedra RIver Valley, Lake George, and others.
I especially like the bit about consider relocating if there is smoke indoors making you ill. That should read- If there is smoke in your house or workplace GET OUT
I fully expect a lawsuit against the state for not doing preventative burns.
Likewise, I fully expect the less gov’t types in these neighborhoods to pretzelize themselves because they mean less gov’t somewhere else.
But is this burning normal?
though at times I have wished for a respirator
Let’s not forget the Hot Sulphur Springs asshole Candidate Randy Baumgardner and his pervert bunk buddy. In an interview with KDVR Randy defended sex offender Frierson thusly:
Peruse pervert Frierson’s CBI record and you’ll see some of these ‘youthful’ screw ups that Righteous Randy thinks most of us have committed:
1998: Fugitive
2000: Contempt of Court
2002: Weapon Offense, Assault, Menacing Felony, Narcotics Possession
2003: Sexual Assault on Child, Enticement of a Child, Sexual Assault – 10 yr Age Difference
2004: Weapon Offense, Domestic Violence
2005: Bond Violation, Criminal Mischief/Property Damage, Burglary, Larceny Theft
2006: Violation of Restraining Order
2008: Failure to Appear (Sexual Assault, Burglary, Violating Restraining Order), Burglary
2009: Fugitive/Parole Violation, Resisting Officer, Obstruction Police Officer
2012: Failure to Register as Sex Offender
Geez, I didn’t have as much fun in my youth as Randy’s bunk buddy did … but Randy & Lori are sure that he’s all reformed and respect from a ranch hand is all that matters now.
whole “Conservatives are tough on crime” bullshit.
In a purported article criticizing the science that suggests a changing climate and drought are fueling wildfires, the CO Observer doesn’t even bother to quote any scientists to support their case, just industry people.
http://thecoloradoobserver.com…
My question to Polsters–
Are the ‘editors’ and writers over there actually this poorly educated as to believe this is sound ‘news, analysis, commentary’ as claimed on the masthead?
Or are they so corrupted by whomever funds their propaganda shop that they are that willing to debase themselves by authoring and publishing such unadulterated crap?
That site, and Peak, seem to be part of a concerted (if laughably obvious) effort to have a conservative “news site” and conservative “blog” which can reference one another in an effort to appear legitimate. I predict both will end up going the way of all the previous efforts because they (esp. the “observer”) are such amateur hour products. But both will definitely stick around for the election, being the ArapaBOT presence online.
for students who are undocumented…but I think he’s wrong
http://kdvr.com/2012/06/19/sut…
I”m pretty sure that SB 10-003 gave governing boards of all the State institutions the right to regulate tuition rates as long as the increases weren’t over 9%.
23-54-102.5. Tuition – repeal. (1) FOR FISCAL YEARS 2011-12
THROUGH 2015-16, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION
23-5-130.5, SHALL ANNUALLY SET THE AMOUNT OF TUITION TO BE PAID BY
STUDENTS WITH IN-STATE CLASSIFICATION AND BY NONRESIDENT STUDENTS
WHO ENROLL IN AND ATTEND METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER.
Basically, The higher ed flax bill gave institutions the power to regulate their own tuition with out going to CCHE for permission as long as the increase was under 9%. Don’t say nuthin’ about lowering rates.