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I'd very much like to know that, also. Anyone have an explanation for Systemd?

Is "opaque" a way for Red Hat to make more money giving support?

Linus Torvalds is sometimes unstable. He doesn't know how to deal with his conflicts. Two examples:

The Creator Of Linux Has An Attitude And A Foul Mouth, And People Are Angry At Him (Again)

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant.

LIAR

  http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-mac-lost-most-pc-market-share-in-2016-chart-2017-1

Total vehicle sales last year 88.1 million units. http://www.businessinsider.com...

In the U.S. 156,000 EV's were sold http://www.fleetcarma.com/ev-s... Mostly to people in CA who got tax breaks for buying them, or the well heeled San Francisco crowd no doubt. Certainly not the farmers in the San Joaquin valley.

Total US Vehicle sales 17.5 million units. http://www.latimes.com/busines... Biggest growth segment, SUV's and pickup trucks.

EV market penetration in the U.S. 2.2%. Yeah these things are going to take over like tomorrow.

I'm not sure what else I *would* do with these things.

Amazon Echo has a bunch of "Easter eggs" that you can trigger. My favorite, "Beam me up, Scotty."

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-easter-eggs-2016-7/

Citations:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

The solution has already been demonstrated very well, it's called restorative justice.

The linked article doesn't mention that Amazon is going after EBT dollars that typically gets spent at Walmart.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-lowers-prime-cost-for-shoppers-on-food-stamps-2017-6

Maybe the scientists should have included more colorful charts, and mentioned Trump more:
National security officials put Trump's name in their briefings as much as possible so he will keep reading

Pardon me while I chuckle gently. This is the way it is going to be, my poor innocent child.

Most of other majors critics did too: http://www.businessinsider.com...

The unraveling of the denials begins. This is the exact same process Putin used when Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine. For months Putin denied Russian troops had been sent in to steal the land. Denial after denial was given.

Then, miraculously, Putin admitted he ordered Russian troops to seize the land. The excuse he used was those Russian troops were "helping" the Crimean sefl-defense forces. And by helping he means the Russian troops were doing the dirty work.

So now the excuse of "patriotic" Russians doing the hacking is being tossed out. What patriotism? Is he now admitting they were helping Trump win the election? That would be an interesting admission since he's denied any Russian meddling in the election despite the overwhelming evidence.

In your family of four scenario:

Tickets: retail $40 - theater keeps about $9, the rest goes to the studio. Depending on the movie, this can be $0 for the first few weeks.
Concessions: According to Business Insider, the average spending for AMC customers in 2014 was $4.46, putting the real amount spent around $20 today I'm guessing. The actual materials cost is small - maybe a couple of bucks mostly for the containers. But then there's the cost of the candy-monkey to serve it to you and operate the register, the equipment, the electricity, the building rent, all other costs associated. It effectively becomes a restaurant, which have notoriously thin margins. Even at the crazy prices and inexpensive foods like popcorn and soda, they are probably still only netting $1-3 per visitor on concession sales of $5. So let's say $3/person for a total of $12 net, plus the $9 from the ticket sales for a total of $21.

If it were only about the money and I could make $20 without lifting a finger vs. $21 earned through everything involved in running a theater? Yeah, I'd jump at the Screening Room offer.

I think it has more to do with control than anything.

Ok, let's add. Coffee bill works out to about $100 a month (I don't know what you're drinking, but Starbucks coffee costs less than $5), meals are about $200 a month. So all-in-all that's less than $500 a month or $5000 a year - still requires more than 20 years of saving for the _downpayment_. And with millenials, car ownership is actually down compared to previous generations - they're already saving more.

There's simply no way an average millennial can save $50k in 5 years. The median salary for them is right now around $22k per year - that would require savings on the order of two _years_ of salary ( http://www.businessinsider.com... ). Oh, and downpayment of $50k is not enough these days for a home close to a city with good employment perspective.

Old people (primarily baby boomers) often don't understand how deeply they managed to fuck up the most recent generation's live. Perhaps we should reform Medicare and Social Security, after all?

Hillary blamed her campaign team (as well as the Russian boogeyman) for her loss - she blamed her team for not getting her message out:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

She couldn't manage her own campaign team, yet we are expected to believe that she could run the entire US Executive branch?

Let me guess - you voted for Gary (Aleppo) Johnson? - I'm a Libertarian and even I couldn't pull the lever for him after he threw Austin Peterson's gift pistol into the trash.

http://www.washingtontimes.com...

It's easy to find fault in President Trump, but stop acting like we passed over Einstein,The Dalai Lama, and Mother Teresa to elect him.

They already found it. Grocery stores don't care.

Recently, an industrial grower told Klee what he sees as the Garden Gem’s flaw: It’s a bit small—about 50 grams. (Some very large tomatoes reach a weight of 250 grams.) A small tomato entails incrementally higher labor costs, because it requires a few more plucks per pound.

Tomato growers are open to growing better-tasting varieties in principle, but only if they get paid more for it. Supermarkets, on the other hand, insist that shoppers only care about price. And can you blame them? After decades of eating tomatoes that taste like wet paper towels, no one thinks tomatoes are worth much.

That is exactly what is happening. Here's a blurb from 2013: http://www.businessinsider.com... Apparently VISA shares this data as well. I'm sure it's in the TOS you agree to when you sign up for a credit or debit card. Something like "you agree to let us share anonymized data about your purchases with third-parties to market products and services that might be of interest to you."

We haven't reached critical mass yet, but once enough people only use cell phones for communication the floodgates will be opened.

Cellphones were on par with landlines in 2014. I'm sure they're a healthy majority now.

Either way, I can think of few things more obnoxious than prerecorded voicemails. It's bad enough I don't even know why marketers would want to do so in the first place, I'm not sure what marketing course teaches to you associate your client with feelings of incandescent rage.

Surprising-- from the gabble here on /. I would have thought the Mac was dying, but from the numbers, apparently not.

There are no inhabitants on Henderson Island.
They went there and took pictures.

Any other idiocy you're like to try?

I dunno on what grounds Switzerland voted for it, but it sounds like a very risky bet.

Look, I'm no climate change denialist, and I know that nuclear power has it's own share of problems that not even modern technologies can solve. I'm all for decomissioning old nuclear power plants because those are massive liabilities waiting to happen. Modern nuclear plants tech have solved most of the problems, but they yet have to prove themselves (if we only let them), and all modern propositions will still produce some form of nuclear waste... even if quantities are way smaller in comparison.

Plus, implementing new modern tech for the first time will be costly.

But abandoning nuclear in favor of renewables like wind and solar can end up being even worse. The first thing people have to understand is that with current tech, both wind and solar requires multiple times more investment and landmass to get near nuclear plants output. It's not "just a bit more"... we're talking about 200+ times more for wind, and 40+ times more for solar. I hope people understand this. We're talking about the dismantling of a single nuclear power plant requiring a city's worth of land covered in solar panels to get the same energy, or an entire state worth of wind towers.

Another thing that people need to pay attention to is that even if renewables don't produce radioactive waste, construction still generates toxic waste. It's not like we plant seeds to grow solar panels and huge wind towers, and it's not like those don't have an impact on the ecossystem, specially when we need a whole lot more of them. Chemicals produced by current solar panel manufacturing at proportional rates for energy generation can have a more impactful and long lasting effect on the environment than even an isolated nuclear meltdown. It's just that one is more imediate and impressive than the other.

Future technology can go both ways quite frankly, the important thing is not to halt development of neither. We could end up with nuclear power plants that have such a low possibility of accident and generates so little nuclear waste that it'd replace all forms of electricity generation. On the other hand, renewables also could reach a state of efficiency and eliminate needs for all sorts of toxic materials that it'd end being a viable alternative.

But we're not there just yet, and we have to work with current reality, not speculation.

Here are some links for those interested:
http://tsp-data-portal.org/Bre...
http://energyrealityproject.co...
https://nei.org/News-Media/New...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

No, of course not. All those freshly dug graves of Russian soldiers suddenly appearing and reporters being attacked investigating the sudden increase in dead Russian soldiers mean absolutely nothing.

Don't forget the Russian special forces soldiers captured in Ukraine, the Russian officer captured while transporting ammunition and supplies, the Russian soldiers who have dropped the pretense they're not fighting in Ukraine while others have quit the army because they don't want to fight in Ukraine like their comrades. Then there are the terrorists themselves who fully admit Russian soldiers have been fighting for them.

So yeah, no evidence whatsoever of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

No, of course not. All those freshly dug graves of Russian soldiers suddenly appearing and reporters being attacked investigating the sudden increase in dead Russian soldiers mean absolutely nothing.

Don't forget the Russian special forces soldiers captured in Ukraine, the Russian officer captured while transporting ammunition and supplies, the Russian soldiers who have dropped the pretense they're not fighting in Ukraine while others have quit the army because they don't want to fight in Ukraine like their comrades. Then there are the terrorists themselves who fully admit Russian soldiers have been fighting for them.

So yeah, no evidence whatsoever of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

No, of course not. All those freshly dug graves of Russian soldiers suddenly appearing and reporters being attacked investigating the sudden increase in dead Russian soldiers mean absolutely nothing.

Don't forget the Russian special forces soldiers captured in Ukraine, the Russian officer captured while transporting ammunition and supplies, the Russian soldiers who have dropped the pretense they're not fighting in Ukraine while others have quit the army because they don't want to fight in Ukraine like their comrades. Then there are the terrorists themselves who fully admit Russian soldiers have been fighting for them.

So yeah, no evidence whatsoever of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

No, of course not. All those freshly dug graves of Russian soldiers suddenly appearing and reporters being attacked investigating the sudden increase in dead Russian soldiers mean absolutely nothing.

Don't forget the Russian special forces soldiers captured in Ukraine, the Russian officer captured while transporting ammunition and supplies, the Russian soldiers who have dropped the pretense they're not fighting in Ukraine while others have quit the army because they don't want to fight in Ukraine like their comrades. Then there are the terrorists themselves who fully admit Russian soldiers have been fighting for them.

So yeah, no evidence whatsoever of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

I think we've known for a while that various governments pay people to enter forums and post messages trying control the narrative.

I haven't heard of any other nation coming close to the scale of Russia:

"Russia's information war might be thought of as the biggest trolling operation in history,"

There is a paragraph about phishing that largely is quoted in the summary. The article doesn't make clear whether these are phishing attacks from the Russian government, or just from Russia.

Uh, yes, TFA does say it came straight from Russian soldiers:

In one case last year, senior intelligence officials tell TIME, a Russian soldier based in Ukraine successfully infiltrated a U.S. social media group by pretending to be a 42-year-old American housewife and weighing in on political debates with specially tailored messages.

Overall, the article is an example of the breathless hyperbole that fills every news article these days.

Heh TFA says "the Russians would consider it a success if you questioned the truth of your news sources". Hrm.

Flash in the pan? They've been around for 13 years. Their products are rolling around all over the US. Compared to "latest instagram clone that is popular with VCs," I wouldn't call them a flash in the pan.

More important, there's no real connection between startups that are obviously going to go bust and employee abuse. Tesla being new or losing money has nothing to do with it. It's Elon Musk that is the issue. Companies with self-important assholes running shit treat employees like they treat furniture no matter their stage or revenue. I'm guessing Tesla employees are treated better than Amazon employees.

I'm sure your credit union would have no trouble with this physical check, then:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Now go crawl back under the rock in your mother's basement, dipshit.

Yeah, it is utterly ridiculous to have names like: Xerox, Apple, Microsoft, Google, DuPont, Monsanto, Cisco, Unisys, Verizon, Atari, Astra Zenica, Analtech.

Those names only sound okay because you've become accustomed to them. They should all be strung up from the highest street pole for thinking up such names. Get the torches and pitchforks!

Yeah, it is utterly ridiculous to have names like: Xerox, Apple, Microsoft, Google, DuPont, Monsanto, Cisco, Unisys, Verizon, Atari, Astra Zenica, Analtech.

Those names only sound okay because you've become accustomed to them. They should all be strung up from the highest street pole for thinking up such names. Get the torches and pitchforks!

ITS has an unusually large gamble involved, even by the standards of Musk's companies. Just to pick issue one of many: it's cryogenic composite tanks. Composites and cryogenics don't play well together; there have been attempts in the past, and they were failures. Musk is wanting to take us from "zero launch vehicles of any size using composite cryogenic tanks" to "by far the largest launch vehicle ever built, fully reusable up to a thousand times (for the booster), out of composites". That's a huge jump. ...

They're also working on insanely high pressure, full flow staged combustion engines with a rarely used propellant mix, used up to a thousand times each with low maintenance...

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. If we were talking about the usual suspects (NASA/Boeing/LockMart), they'd have a pile of paper at this stage and not much else.

But SpaceX has (had) a giant carbon fiber tank which they successfully burst tested to 2/3rds the design pressure back in November, then blew up testing with liquid nitrogen on February 17th 2017. (Judging by the pictures, it failed at the equatorial seam.)

They've built and tested a 1/3rd scale Raptor engine (which I presume you already knew, but other readers might not). It's the first full flow methane fueled rocket engine ever to be test fired, and only the second full flow design in history. (The first was Russia's RD-270, tested back in 1967.)

Having done those things is impressive enough, but the absurdly fantastic part is how rapidly they've done it. They were in Mississippi at the Stennis Space Center in late 2013 to refurbish and modify the E2 test stand to handle methane. Slashdot covered that. They were done with that process April 21st, 2014. Slashdot didn't notice that part. They used that test stand to validate their design and conducted the scale model test firing on September 26th, 2016, just 2 years, 5 months, and 5 days later. And it worked. They were so sure it would work, they didn't even bother with the customary 'burp' test to be sure it would ignite properly. That's a ridiculously rapid development process for any rocket motor, let alone for a design that's been done only once before in history and never for the fuel they selected. For comparison, development of the F-1 used on the Saturn V started in 1955 for the Air Force and it wasn't until 1965 that it underwent a successful test firing without destroying itself, after three years of self-destructive test firings.

SpaceX have definitely set themselves some very hard tasks, but their demonstrated ability to actually get to the test article stage, and from there to the production stage, and to do so quickly, is unmatched in modern times.

Spiegel laughed. Then talked about how important it is to be creative.

Does that include Reggie Brown's creativity? http://www.businessinsider.com...

Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use

APK

P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...)

ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned/downed dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks & hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use

APK

P.S.=> Ab+ does less vs. hosts less efficiently (a 128-151mb memory hog http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...)

ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

Obamacare made situation much worse in the long term. Obamacare provided a blank check to hospitals/drug makers to charge whatever they wanted and the insurance(private) or tax payers(medicare) will end up footing the bill.Example insulin prices more than doubled since Obamacare was introduced. Anyone paying attention to the AMA comments about latest healthcare reform, should just ignore their comments. The AMA and the doctors/hospitals they represent have vested interest in making sure the insurance pays for everything no matter the cost. http://static4.businessinsider...

Considering the cost was less than 100 per dose in 2010, typically need 1-3 for type I. I am calling bullshit on your story that your friend couldn't afford insulin at 200-300 a month out of pocket. My monthly out of pocket cost right now are more than double that for medication and I find a way.

Comey has found NOTHING after over a year of trying to prove a link between Trump and the Russians.

It hasn't been a year yet (July or August of 2016 is when the investigation started) so it hasn't been over a year.

There are plenty of links between Trump and Russia when you look at the folks on his campaign and their own connections. Roger Stone bragged on several occasions he was in communication with Guccifer 2.0 and knew when the next batch of emails was going to be released. Guccifer 2.0 is part of the Russian intelligence services.

Flynn, well, we know about his numerous ties to Russia and that he lied about not having any.

Carter Page, who at first said he never helped the Russians with classified or other such materials, then changed his tune to "no comment" when asked about the investigation into his dealings with Russia, and now is saying, "No I'm not going to hand over evidence of my dealings with the Russians so you can hang me with it."

As we saw a day or so ago, Eric Trump bragged that it was Russians who were financing his father's golf courses during the Bush recession. This on top of other financial dealings Trump has with Russia.

Then today, the Senate committee investigating collusion between Trump and Russia during the campaign has asked the Treasury Department's criminal division to hand over any and all documents related to Trump, his campaign and campaign aides.

That doesn't sound like "nothing important".

I own Sisco stock. Bad investment.
It's finally getting to where I can sell it for a gain equal to my savings account.
I only own a little. It was part of my learning experience in the land of investing.
At least I won't lose money on it, after 15 years.
Sisco is crap.

Well, there's your mistake. You wanted Cisco stock, not Sisco.
Don't beat yourself up to badly others have made the same mistake

the Russians had *nothing whatsoever* to do with the US election

JFC!
Even President ManBaby has said the russians were involved:

resident-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday finally appeared to publicly say that Russia was behind the hacking and release of emails from within the Democratic National Committee and from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair.

"I think it was Russia, but I think we also get hacked by other countries and other people," Trump said at his first press conference in 169 days.
'I think it was Russia': Trump finally concedes Russia responsible for election-related hacking

President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election and may take action in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday.

Reince Priebus said Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"He accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in Russia, so that's not the issue," Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."
Trump acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking: aide

If you're leaving a state that has high unemployment and a ridiculously high cost of living, amd high taxes, going to a state with low costs, high pay, amd low taxes, recognize that those conditions were created by policies.

Well, turns outs out California is doing great. Unemployment is only 4.9%, lower than Texas at 5%. What a huge difference!

Of course, Texas has a history of poverty and failing schools as well as a dangerous obsession with bathroom inspections.

Even Texas's own governor admits that the state has a problem when it comes to transportation and congestion. And in fact, the California High-Speed Rail project is not light rail, but like the Houston-Dallas link a inter-city connection.

Furthermore, no, Trumpcare does not grant states more freedom. Of course, it turns out, somebody who voted for it admitted they didn't read it.

Maybe that's your problem? You didn't read it, so you couldn't find out what was in it?

It's the lowest unemployment rate since before the Great Recession. That's pretty exceptional in my book.

That might be exceptional, but it isn't true. It is the lowest level in a decade. Here's a graph of the unemployment rate since the 1960s:
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/560e8af3ecad046c04212250-1200-900/sept-2015-unemployment-rate.png
where you can see the rate dropped below 4.4% many times.

Here's a graph (from six months ago) looking just at the last 15 years:
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/560e8af3ecad046c04212250-1200-900/sept-2015-unemployment-rate.png
and you can see the rate was below 4.4% right until the 2008 economic crash hit. You can also see that 4.4% is nothing exceptional, simply the continuation of the trend.

I wasn't a big Trump supporter, but you have to admit the guy is coming thorough 'bigly.'

Since he's only been in office a hundred days, it's unlikely that any economic effects of his presidency have hit yet. From the graph, I'd say that this unemployment news is "more of the same, nothing exceptional."

1) Retail is dead. Probably has more to do with Amazon than anything else. I can go to Amazon, pay less, have it delivered than get it locally at the neighborhood store. Hell, I'm buying more and more stuff via Amazon simply to save money.

2) is a repeat of #1

3) is a repeat of #1

4) Atlanta FED is only one, and may be "regional". Since you didn't post a source, I don't know.

5) In my area, restaurants are booming business. I suspect that will change when Min Wage get raised and Robots take over. Any job that can be replaced by a robot probably should be.

6) Factory Orders are up, not down. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/04... "Excluding aircrafts, nondefense orders were up 0.5 percent, the sixth straight month of positive growth. " - http://www.econotimes.com/US-f... Of course, I can cherry pick numbers that describe exact opposite of your un-documented cherry picked numbers.

7) Labor Participation rates are the lowest in 40 years. This one is on Obama, the Democrats and Republicans for not addressing during the last 8 years. Must be GWB's fault.

8) Tax reciepts are at record levels ... - http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...

9) We've been saying for some time that sales have plateaued at a high level, - http://www.businessinsider.com...

10) Have no idea where you get these facts.

11) "The US Economy is NOT ok " Yup, pretty much what a lot of people have been saying for the last 15 years or so. I personally blame both the D and R parties for not caring enough about the economy, and more concerned with Men peeing in the Girls Bathroom and who can marry who, and "hands up don't shoot", and just about everything else, but the economy.

IMHO, the Government should get the fuck out of the way of people who want to be productive, and work. Stop punishing success, and rewarding failure. Stop the ever increasing tax burden on middle class, and focus on actually making EVERYONE's lives better.

Offensive videos? Like Pewdiepie making fun of white supremecists? Cowardice is the only excuse for interpreting his video as antisemitic. Fear of stupid customers misinterpreting statements. These companies are surely too big to care about being respected, but I respect companies that have more spine.

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/... https://jordannix.files.wordpr... https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_... http://ibankcoin.com/activists... http://i.imgur.com/TZUj9c6.jpg http://static3.businessinsider... http://dbagus.com/wp-content/u...

If by "rules" you mean "got a EEE pulled on them by a megacorp that turned Linux into a proprietary OS they control by cutting off support for ASOP, locking crucial APIs behind a playwall, and making GPL V3 verbotten because they can't pull a TiVo with it?" then yeah I suppose it "won" but if that is "winning" I'd sure as fuck hate to see what you would consider a loss.,/p>

Lets see if Android behaves anything like actual Linux, shall we? So you can just replace Android with any old vanilla ARM Linux build, right? Nope and in fact with each passing quarter less and less phones are able to be "rooted" (which is and of itself an insult to Linux, as having to jailbreak your own hardware is the exact opposite of open) unless you use malware like Kingoroot. You can fix it yourself, right? Nope the drivers are all black boxed and again your changes to the Android source certainly isn't gonna run on that phone you pick up in Walmart. How about the community controlling the direction of the OS, where any coder can supply changes for consideration and possibly get them integrated upstream? Bwa ha ha ha ha...not a chance in hell, Google has exactly zero fuck to give about your code or that of the community, especially since it'll probably be GPL V3 which again is verbotten precisely because they can't TiVo it.

Yeah you "won" alright, you won about as much as that Rube trying to beat the hustler playing third card monty in Times Square. Lets face it you got scammed, had, ripped off, and the truly sad part? You are actually cheering for the guy that fucked you! But don't take MY word for it, lets see what RMS and the FSF has to say...yeah not so good, unless you want to run one of only 2 now out of date phones, otherwise you might as well just be on iOS....yeah you "won" there sparky, you are just full of "win".

C) How the market for commodity retail goods works. Normal margins are about 3%, similar to Walmart. Do you really think they're going to destroy Walmart any time soon?

Amazon's e-commerce business is a very profitable sideline for them, but they make their money from AWS. They sell much more "stuff" overall, but 90% of Amazon's profits are from AWS.

Anyway, for retails goods which are available for any company to sell, the profit margins are always slightly over the actual sales cost. This is because there is plenty of competition which will undercut on price very quickly if you raise your prices. Amazon has distribution, sales costs and volume advantages over most other companies, so they're able to price lower for most stuff. That doesn't mean they can ever raise their prices to anything higher than their next closest competitor's costs without being undercut in turn. They know that, so they keep their prices lower than the competition in order to keep their customer base.

New York will attempt to build a wall around wall street, effectively anyhow. I predict it will fail horribly and we will see skyscrapers falling over due to the effects of seawater in 3..2..1.. (well, not yet. it's not quite time.)

"The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month while a loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month" source So the "average" people are spending $360/year, the "loyal customers" are spending $960. At what point does it become a substantial amount of money? $360 covers my car and its insurance for a month, that sounds pretty substantial to me.

The populations in Africa and the Middle East have far exceeded the available resources in those regions, and they're now heavily dependent on handouts from Western nations. There's no sign of the reproduction rates slowing down in those regions, either.

You must be a trump voter, because you're bringing up a lot of alternative facts. Developing nations are becoming less dependent on the west. And the birth rate is in fact slowing down in all areas.

The focus should be on getting the reproduction rates in third-world regions back down to more reasonable levels, to prevent the never-ending stream of famines, wars, and disease outbreaks we've been witnessing in such regions lately.

Another Trump voter sign: imagining things used to be better in your youth when in fact they were quantifiably worse, and making decisions which are going to exacerbate the perceived problems. Diseases are at an all-time low thanks to hygiene, sanitation, and vaccines. Much of that has been thanks to aid from western nations to developing nations. Oil dependence is going to cause wars, climate change is going to cause famine, and neither of those things are going to be solved by lowering birth rates. Which, as we have already covered, are in decline already.

No.

Are you saying Microsoft employees could have designed something that works? Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book

Next time Satan gives a philosophy conference in Hell, attend so that you will understand the ideas about management. (I know there are people who consider that extreme. Others consider it under-stated.)

I know what you're saying. But the big question is, why did the Yahoo Board of Directors make such a HUGE mistake.

A few of the Marissa Meyer stories, over several years. Major problems were reported almost 5 years ago:

The Truth About Marissa Mayer: She Has Two Contrasting Reputations (Jul. 17, 2012) Quote: "She used to make people line up outside of her office, sit on couches and sign up with office hours with her. Then everybody had to publicly sit outside her office and she would see people in five minute increments. She would make VPs at Google wait for her. It's like you've got to be kidding."

Yahoo! CEO Mayer Is Delusional and Must Go - RealMoney.com (Oct. 21, 2015)

Marissa Mayer: A Case Study In Poor Leadership - Forbes (Nov. 20, 2015) Five reasons people don't like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer (Oct. 7, 2016)

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