What are you getting for black friday?

[coppice]

What surprised me is how little I go to the cinema now I have a decent home system.  I thought I'd enjoy it but the idea of driving to the cinema, paying over the odds for popcorn and tickets, not being able to go to the bathroom when I want and listening to others talk (and not being able to chat to my partner) and the sticky floors and spilled drinks everywhere... eww

What kind of awful cinemas do you have in your area? The cinemas around here are quite nice. Clean, huge comfy seats, proper places to put drinks, so you don't knock them over in the dark. Its a pretty civilised experience and the tickets aren't too expensive, although buying drinks and snacks at the venue can be pricey. That said, its about 4 years since I went to one.

[thm_w]

I never have my monitors set very bright to begin with.  Anyway, I'm on Linux and it has a night-time dimming function built-in already 

You are not talking about "Night Light" in ubuntu right? Thats just color temperature adjustment.

[tom66]

What surprised me is how little I go to the cinema now I have a decent home system.  I thought I'd enjoy it but the idea of driving to the cinema, paying over the odds for popcorn and tickets, not being able to go to the bathroom when I want and listening to others talk (and not being able to chat to my partner) and the sticky floors and spilled drinks everywhere... eww

What kind of awful cinemas do you have in your area? The cinemas around here are quite nice. Clean, huge comfy seats, proper places to put drinks, so you don't knock them over in the dark. Its a pretty civilised experience and the tickets aren't too expensive, although buying drinks and snacks at the venue can be pricey. That said, its about 4 years since I went to one.

Just the mainstream multiplexes,  Vue, Cineworld, Odeon etc...  Usually fairly cramped seating, though the Vue in the North where I used to go had very nice seats with recliners, I've not found another cinema like that since.

I will say that Showcase and Everyman are rather good, but both are almost an hour's drive away from us.

[temperance]

I was thinking of getting an OLED TV, but looking at pricing history for the one I was interested in... it's no cheaper than it was, just raised by £200 the month before and dropped again.  So I'll wait, no rush.

In the EU such practises are no longer allowed since last year. But wait... Brexit... so the British people are allowed to be fooled.

In The EU such practices still exist. The joke is about applying reduction on the manufacturers recommended list price. After the sales period you list the item again for the usual price which might be lower than the manufacturers list price + reduction. All completely legal.

The second trick being used has to do with clothing. They remove the usual clothes from the store and replace them with cheap garbage on black Friday. Meanwhile the regular clothes which didn't sell are being burned or dumped onto some African coast.

Maybe they should call it black Fryday.

[Siwastaja]

In The EU such practices still exist. The joke is about applying reduction on the manufacturers recommended list price. After the sales period you list the item again for the usual price which might be lower than the manufacturers list price + reduction. All completely legal.

Yeah, but you don't have to do it like this, there is a much simpler way: just do it illegally. Pretend that the laws do not exist. This is how basically everybody does it here on a regular basis.

Every 5 years authorities find some absolute worst offender company and set some ridiculously low penalty payment like 100k€ for them with the condition it becomes payable if they continue breaking the law during next month. Then they either just pay it, or try how it feels to obey the law for a month only to then go back to illegal activities for the next 5 years; whichever is deemed better for their bottom line.

Really, the only way to have effective legislation is to define personal sanctions, written in the law directly, with significant fines paid from own pockets, or better, jailtime, even short. In other words, increase the scope of what are considered criminal offenses.

But that will not happen, and legislation is thus full of so-called dead bills.