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@subway I read the article in @businessinsider and here is my takedown of what needs fixed to bring people like myself back:
1) Bring back sub of the month at a discounted (but still profitable) price, especially for new creations. I used to get a sub at least once a month to try out whatever sub you had picked out to entice us with.
2) Don't charge people extra for salads, we'll just order Jimmy Johns or PennStation instead. I realize that it's "sub"way, but people are carb conscious these days, just charge the same price regardless of bread, wrap, or bowl.
3) Let your franchises return to sourcing produce as -their- business needs dictate, not as corporate kickbacks demand. I'll gladly pay more for fresh, locally sourced produce and pass on poor ingredients at a cheap price.
4) Take a page from Starbucks app/rewards system, I go to Starbucks more than I probably should because of star rushes and mobile orders that don't require people interaction.
5) Partner with UberEats/Lyft/AmazonRestaurants, these drivers are already zipping all over cities with hot bags and coolers. Delivery without the overhead and liability. -
@chrislhayes @hardball_chris @maddow #democraticprimary
Everyone likes to talk about what happens to Trump leading up to November if he takes the nomination, but MSNBC seems afraid to talk about what happens if Hillary takes ours. People come on your shows practically gloating about how the ads against Trump will play out, but we tiptoe around Hillary.
Emails. Benghazi. Flip flops on TPP, gay marriage, KORUS, CAFTA, NAFTA, debt ceiling, payroll taxes, Syria, Cuba, Iraq, Keystone XL, illegal immigrants, guns, charter schools, coal, and don't think it won't go all the way back to this, Whitewater.
Why are we so intent on handing the GOP the perfect candidate for their SuperPACs to tear apart with commercials? Are we really so ignorant and set in our ways that we think the Queen of Flip Flops will be able to beat the rabid supporters of Trump simply because she represents the norm in politics? If anything has come from BOTH primaries, it's that the status quo of politics is no longer acceptable to either side.
Trump cannot attack Sanders in the same way that he can Clinton. The only thing that Trump can do to attack Sanders is the one thing that we all know is the man behind the curtain when it comes to Trump: policy.
Trump is big on talk, grandeur, and insults both direct and obtuse, but the one thing he's short on is policy. Policy viewpoints are the only thing that Trump can capitalize on against Sanders, who doesn't have the political baggage that Trump does. Democratic socialism can be explained, reversing your position every time someone flushes a toilet on Capitol Hill cannot.
Sanders on the other hand, has multiple avenues to attack Trump on policy, including Trump's dependency on the biggest social program for businesses out there: bankruptcy. Sanders can go to town on showing how Trump himself depends on socialist policies that directly contradict Trump's supposed capitalist business acumen. Trump has also been the beneficiary of our immigration system, not once but twice with his wives.
Hillary Clinton has been the target of demonization by the GOP ever since Obama won in 2012, because they knew she would be back for another run at the presidency. Everything that gives you a rabid Trump supporter is the same things that gives you a rabid Clinton hater. Instead of giving them the very target they want to hate, give them something they haven't been conditioned to hate. Give them someone that speaks with energy, with passion, that doesn't come off as sounding scripted and polished by a staff of writers. Give them someone who doesn't fit the mold they've been shaped to hate. -
@SenateMajLdr #GOP “I think the president is entitled to an up-or-down — that is simple majority — vote on nominations, both to his Cabinet and to the executive branch and also to the judiciary. The filibuster was not used for 200 years. The country did just fine. Sometimes the court would jag off to the left, and sometimes it would slide over to the right. Presidents trying to mold the Supreme Court is nothing new. It’s not inappropriate. And we need to get back to tradition, and the tradition is a majority is enough to confirm a judge.” - YOU, March 2005, CNBC’s Kudlow & Company
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FCC Cable Box Ruling
@nerdist #FCC Know who's more excited about the FCC's ruling on cable content delivery? Cable employees tired of supporting boxes that get stuffed into low ventilation spaces, plugged into overloaded power strips, shorted out by cat hair and urine (no joke), recovering a box that has cockroaches come pouring out of it (again, not kidding), and dealing with people who refuse to do basic troubleshooting like rebooting or tightening/re-seating of connection cables because "I'm not a technician". Apple, Google, Amazon, and Roku are fully welcome to put up with that in addition to the wireless connectivity issues that are 99% fixable by the customer if they laid out their home theater and wireless equipment with a little more common sense.
Also, the FCC created this problem in the first place with their botched solution to ditching the box back in the 90's with TiVo and other similar devices, requiring the same hackjob of a software "solution" that made those devices "work" also be installed on cable boxes that were originally designed to seamlessly integrate with the providers network, in the name of "fairness" and "competition". So whether you received a Panasonic/Samsung/Scientific Atlanta/Cisco/Motorola cable box from your provider, or used a TiVo, you had the same glitchy software that frequently ended up in factory defaulting the provider boxes and replacing the SDV converters for the TiVo.
Now, for the plus side of my rant. Here's to hoping that this ruling gets content providers (note I said content, not cable) to get off of their asses in making CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) and iOS, Android, Roku, Microsoft, Playstation, Nintendo, Chromecast, and Fire apps to access them with. As an employee of a cable provider, yes I have discounted services and two cable boxes in my home, but I have more than two TV's and existing devices (consoles, Apple TV) that have limited content access due to the content providers not putting out apps evenly across multiple platforms. I can watch movies on Epix on my Xbox 360, but not on my PS3. Even as an employee of a cable provider, I want access without additional cable boxes.