classify you?
Why, none of the above, fellow leftist (or are we fellow"pseudo intelligentsia"?)
“limited”, not "minimal"
Someone who misinterprets Jefferson’s “limited government” as “minimal” rather than “formally bounded by Constitutional limitations” AND who truly believes NPR is some sort of liberal conspiracy is hardly a worthwhile opponent. Might as well remonstrate with a rock. (Link TV must give you the vapors.)
Sorry, but my karma has already backed over your dogma and the carcass is beginning to smell bad.
Think I’ll pass on further exchanges. Feel free to take the “last word.” Rather talk about kayaking anyway.
My folders? Currently one from communist China and another from socialist Canada. (both red, of course.)
stopped when I realized
I sporadically shopped at Walmart in Michigan (in a large city where it had lots of similar sized competition) until I began to realize what they were doing to small town economies and became familiar with their purchasing strong arm techniques and employment policies, all of which I found personally odious. Thereafter I boycotted them completely, even when it meant driving out of my way to do so. It bothers me still to have to sometimes buy things there now when I am staying upstate with my boyfriend (since there are few or no other options there.)
“Ethical” is subjective and has a lot of grey area. Most of their business practices are technically legal (except the ones they are getting slapped for in Mexico now) but they have had deep and broad repercussions, largely negative, for retail marketing and manufacturing throughout the USA as well as being a major contributor to skewing the balance of trade with China. You’re all free to shop where you please, but I prefer to not give them my money.
I used to be really distressed by the hypocrisy of the union electricians on my crews in Michigan who admitted to buying all their groceries at Walmart when the other large grocery chain in town was a locally owned one with a fully unionized staff. Their argument “but it’s cheaper.” My response, “Well, duh, they are paying union scale and benefits instead of minimum wages and no benefits. You are essentially crossing a picket line every day and thumbing your nose at your union brethren, just to save a few pennies.” Some major cognitive dissonance there.
Appeal To Authority types don’t
really make great debate opponents. I should have known, with all the bumper sticker cliches and all.
Dogmaticus
Margins are low!
In my experience in composites, dealers will max out at about 42% margin. Distributors tend to take 15%-25% or so.
There isn’t a lot of money in retailing a low volume of composite kayaks.
What you seem to find is heavy discounting of some products due to their distributor or manufacturer forcing far too much stock onto the dealer network.
Quite a few NDK dealers got stuck with container loads that took 2 to 3 years to shift according to some of them.
That’s a contradiction
The best way to be observant is to listen. Being verbally prolific can sometimes get in the way of observing and learning.
both are necessary
Learning and teaching are not mutually exclusive. There is no sin in being “verbally prolific” if you have information worth sharing. If no one else speaks, what (pray tell) are you going to be observant about and listening to?
Simply harvesting other’s experiences and instruction and not contributing your own is more of a social offense than “verbosity.”
Particularly in a written forum, participants have the option of skimming or even ignoring posts they feel are too long. But others enjoy them. I have gleaned a great deal of excellent information and entertainment from the long posts of fellow p-netters (and well written, even clever, shorter posts as well). I type as quickly as I think, so I am apt to lay out a lot of information when I write. In actual conversations I am much more concise, which is more appropriate in face to face interactions to allow for the exchange among participants.
Being “verbose” or “thorough” is a subjective judgement.
Balance is the key
, isn’t it?
wholesale Kayaks
Did you ever find a whole distributor? Because I am looking to buy about 5 and need “real” wholesale prices… thanks! RC