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And workers most certainly weren't the "owners" of anything.

Actually they were. Hence the voucher privatisation program in 1992.

CPSU nomenclature lived like kings

Sort of. Most of the rulers of the former Soviet republics have a far more luxury living nowadays. The Soviet nomenklatura used to be pretty humble in comparison.
Same in the GDR by the way, I still remember the outrage about the "luxury mansions" of the SED officials in Wandlitz, but in retrospect the houses were more or less at the West German upper middle class level.

Get a bird, they said... ;)

Bezos must be desperate... https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_...

/sarcasm Apparently 40+ errors are "minor factual errors". LUL.

They deleted the original tweetbut here is a copy which stated:

"Last week, The Verge published a video on how to build a gaming PC. Today, we're pulling that video off our YouTube and Facebook pages, because it contains minor factual errors, that, in sum, do not meet our editorial standards. I also want to reiterate that The Verge has zero tolerance for internet harassment campaigns, and that we will automatically disregard any feedback that appears to be in bad faith or part of such a campaign. As many of you know, we are happy to engage openly with our audiences across our platforms, but over the weekend multiple people on our staff have been subject to a wave of attacks, including hundreds of racist attacks on the host of our video. We simply will not listen to feedback that is associated with these campaigns or the people who direct such campaigns.

"We'll eventually make another video on how to build a PC. It'll be good. See you out there."

No, the Verge on Twitter started blaming racism when people started calling them out on their stupidity.

They deleted the original tweet but here is a copy which stated:

"Last week, The Verge published a video on how to build a gaming PC. Today, we're pulling that video off our YouTube and Facebook pages, because it contains minor factual errors, that, in sum, do not meet our editorial standards. I also want to reiterate that The Verge has zero tolerance for internet harassment campaigns, and that we will automatically disregard any feedback that appears to be in bad faith or part of such a campaign. As many of you know, we are happy to engage openly with our audiences across our platforms, but over the weekend multiple people on our staff have been subject to a wave of attacks, including hundreds of racist attacks on the host of our video. We simply will not listen to feedback that is associated with these campaigns or the people who direct such campaigns.

"We'll eventually make another video on how to build a PC. It'll be good. See you out there."

/sarcasm Apparently 40+ errors are "minor factual errors". LUL.

The issue is that you don't just need a lower sale price; you also need a lower production cost. One intuitively expects these two to correlate, but at low volumes, they don't; so long as EVs are a small percentage of a manufacturer's sales, pricing is more dictated by factors such as legal compliance, trying to establish a place in the market, and maturing one's designs.

As it stands, EV profitability varies greatly between manufacturers.

The primary problem is that your base costs - batteries - are high, but your incremental costs - such as motor power - are low. A Model 3 drive unit, for example, was estimated by Munro & Associates to cost $754 - yet just the catalytic converter alone on a Prius costs more than double that. So, whether you're making some slow, plodding, econobox EV, or some lightning-speed entry-level luxury EV, the differences in production cost aren't that great. The exact same situation applies to China - battery cells are traded globally, and Chinese EV makers face the exact same challenges in making their battery packs affordable. Sure, they can cut costs on the rest of the vehicle - but you're still stuck with needing an expensive battery pack (or selling cars with poor range and charge speeds).

Thankfully, battery prices have been falling like a stone. So this situation keeps improving every year.

Oh you want to play that game? Okay.

Unemployment rate, complete with which president was in power at the time.

Stock market, complete with sitting president at the time.

Federal deficit spending, by year, you know who was president when.

The S&P500 recently, with a few annotations for RSI moving from above-50 to below-50; the confirmation of the 50-day moving average as a ceiling instead of a support; the 50-200 death cross; the dead cat bounce signaling the loss of the support floor at 2,635; and the weakness earlier this week showing the peak of the recent micro-swing as RSI recovers from oversold.

That doesn't even address the increase in bankruptcies, poor earnings reports, and layoffs since 2017; nor does it account for the loss of our soybean export market to Brazil.

Oh you want to play that game? Okay.

Unemployment rate, complete with which president was in power at the time.

Stock market, complete with sitting president at the time.

Federal deficit spending, by year, you know who was president when.

The S&P500 recently, with a few annotations for RSI moving from above-50 to below-50; the confirmation of the 50-day moving average as a ceiling instead of a support; the 50-200 death cross; the dead cat bounce signaling the loss of the support floor at 2,635; and the weakness earlier this week showing the peak of the recent micro-swing as RSI recovers from oversold.

That doesn't even address the increase in bankruptcies, poor earnings reports, and layoffs since 2017; nor does it account for the loss of our soybean export market to Brazil.

Oh you want to play that game? Okay.

Unemployment rate, complete with which president was in power at the time.

Stock market, complete with sitting president at the time.

Federal deficit spending, by year, you know who was president when.

The S&P500 recently, with a few annotations for RSI moving from above-50 to below-50; the confirmation of the 50-day moving average as a ceiling instead of a support; the 50-200 death cross; the dead cat bounce signaling the loss of the support floor at 2,635; and the weakness earlier this week showing the peak of the recent micro-swing as RSI recovers from oversold.

That doesn't even address the increase in bankruptcies, poor earnings reports, and layoffs since 2017; nor does it account for the loss of our soybean export market to Brazil.

Oh you want to play that game? Okay.

Unemployment rate, complete with which president was in power at the time.

Stock market, complete with sitting president at the time.

Federal deficit spending, by year, you know who was president when.

The S&P500 recently, with a few annotations for RSI moving from above-50 to below-50; the confirmation of the 50-day moving average as a ceiling instead of a support; the 50-200 death cross; the dead cat bounce signaling the loss of the support floor at 2,635; and the weakness earlier this week showing the peak of the recent micro-swing as RSI recovers from oversold.

That doesn't even address the increase in bankruptcies, poor earnings reports, and layoffs since 2017; nor does it account for the loss of our soybean export market to Brazil.

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From the article:

In early July, Tripp filed a formal complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that Tesla made "material omissions and misstatements" to investors relating to its flawed manufacturing practices and handling of scrap at the Gigafactory. Tripp was represented by Meissner Associates in the whistleblower matter earlier, but is now representing himself, attorney Stuart Meissner told CNBC. Meissner declined to comment further. Tripp also declined requests for comment.

Meissner was warned repeatedly that his client was A) out of control, and B) a pathological liar. He appears to have come to the same conclusion.

His client has also apparently fled to Hungary, so then there's that.

Larry Flint would not be amused. He has an opinion linked here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt...

I was not in agreement much the time with the elder Bush when he was in office. But at least he knew enough to look and act the part, and to speak about things in a somewhat intelligent fashion.

My opposition to Trump stems not so much from his political or philosophical positions (he essentially has none), but rather from the fact that he was plainly incompetent and quite possibly detached from reality having spent all his life surrounded by yes-men. He's done nothing but confirm this since he's been in office. Add to that the fact that the same crew who engineered his election victory were also responsible for engineering the Brexit vote.

Oh, and treason. Lots and lots of treason.

2016 was the watershed year when the mainstream media finally dropped the mask and came out as full-throated political partisans. They openly supported the most corrupt candidate for President in American history. Their treatment of Trump was unprecedented in its hostility. The media live in an echo chamber where they think that they are loved and adored by the population. They believe they are the final authority on truth and that we, their grateful audience, should believe everything they tell us.

"The Times completely missed the story, and misled its readers in the process." Source: New York Times.

Wikileaks detailing how the Democrats are coordinating with the media. Organization after organization, CNN, McClatchy, Time, WSJ, the list goes on and on. How do any of these people still have jobs after being exposed like this?

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves

Here's a screen shot from today's broadcast on Twitter Images:

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So let's divide the Gross National Income for the United States by the number of Americans age 65 and older. Then, let's compare that to the same value in 1960 plus inflation since 1960.

Have a look..

Without a cap on the FICA, a 6% FICA rate in 1960 would have needed to come down to a 4% FICA rate in 2016 to avoid simply loading the Trust up with money it was never going to spend.

The treasuries are as good as cash--better, really, because they avoid the economic drain of simply taxing money out of circulation and totally avoid interest. The Treasury could tax $10 billion in 1995 and spend it; but the Social Security surplus of $10 billion is already here. If we spend that $10 billion in 1995 and then put it back in 2005, then we're theoretically only spending $5 billion of 1995 money.

Moreover, if you raise taxes to pay it back, you only need to raise them 40% as much as you would have to fund the $10 billion originally. It's not just inflation: the GNI/C is higher by more than inflation, and the number of people is also higher. The longer the US holds debt, the easier it is to recover that debt with fractionally-small taxes.

Think of it this way: Inflation at 2% over 15 years is 35% (yes, I used a rough 50% number up above). Productivity growth of 1% means the number of inflated dollars per person, 15 years later, grows by 56.25% (1.02% * 1.01% each year). Population growth of 3% per year means you have an increase of 55.8% population. Take the 156.25% GNI/C and multiply that by 155.8% C and you get 243.45% GNI increase.

That's 2.4x as much money out there to tax, and 1.35x as much to recover with inflation. You're way ahead. If you raise taxes now to pay for your debt, you only have to raise them about 56% as much as if you'd gone the revenue route initially, assuming your interest rates are in-line with inflation.

So your nation needs to not bury itself in debt; it can leverage debt pretty damned well, though, and should absolutely favor being indebted to itself over holding piles of cash.

Idiots on 4chan will spam or hack the voting process for their own amusement. The results are anything but predictable and probably more amusing than anything else. See this example of what you get and tell me that's an obvious outcome.

Even then, I don't think this will ever replace a well-crafted story by a single author or a small group of writers. We've had choose your own adventure novels and other interactive forms of entertainment in the past (with many arising due to the internet itself) and they've never supplanted the more traditional forms of media.

I also suspect that the current approach never will either. People really don't want a crowd-driven story, what they want is that they themselves get to drive the narrative, and that when they participate in these group-driven projects it's because they assume that they'll get to steer the group rather than being bit player. I suspect that people drop out and lose interest when things don't go their way, so at the end all you're left with are the people who made the most popular decisions at most of the steps. Eventually the technology may advance far enough for people to have their own simulated experiences created for them on an individual basis and perhaps that's when the traditional approach falls by the wayside.

The US gets very little oil from the ME. We protect shipping routes mostly. Lefties still working from 1970s data.

We don't get much oil from Saudi Arabia, but they are an important counterweight to Iran. Iran is our enemy because ... umm, we need an enemy because ... well, we spend $610B a year on weapons and we need to justify that somehow.

Iran wants WAR

I wish they would hold the same candle to TRUMP. He has accept many billion of dollars direct from KGB (Kremlin and Putin's secret organization) - we MUST investigate TRUMP and find these fatal flaws to impeach. Who. Is. With. Me.

60% of the USA is with you. But indicting Trump will be more practical than impeaching, given the unlikely possibility of 60% ethical/moral senators before 2020. On the other hand, indicting Trump would only require indicting Kavanaugh first, for perjury. Looks like the more direct path.

Another realistic approach is, just contain Trump until 2020, then vote him out and immediately arrest. Don Jr can go to jail before that.

When your toilet paper has a piece of shit stuck to it.

Oh, I'd love to see that (NSFW).

It's actually a minimum wage, so employees can receive wage raises for merit if Amazon so chooses.

The median wage tends to follow the minimum wage as a proportion of productivity, which means a minimum wage not kept up with productivity gains just gets you a larger, less-wealthy work force instead of making the workers wealthier. Had the minimum wage stayed at 1960s levels, the United States would likely have around 270 million population today, and a median household income of $115,000--the dollar number might be different (more or less inflation), but the purchasing power would be what $115k buys today.

Of course that brings us back to the age of the bourgeoisie and the proles: while a great many households have a mere $40k income, the middle-class lavishes in its $120k lifestyle. Of course the haute would be around the same $200k lifestyle they occupy today, and the rich above them.

I would except that my iPhone is incredibly good about not installing an update when I say "don't install this update".

You're kidding right?

You're given only two options - "install now" or "later", there is no "do not ask me again" (screen).

When you select "later", you get hit with a dark pattern that encourages you to enter your passcode to update in the early hours of the morning with a small text option "Remind me later" at the very bottom (screen). Since there is no "do not ask me again" option, this gives iOS licence to nag you a day or two later.

In addition, iOS will "helpfully" download the update to your phone even though you've constantly deferred the updates - meaning that you've lost a chunk of storage space without realizing it.

The rate at which their users install updates is certainly impressive - but it is more than helped by the way that Apple tends to ram it down your throat.

I'm from the internet. Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber.

"Hey, you, get off of my cloud."

When I was your age, kids got yelled at for being on lawns and that's the way we liked it! Now I gotta yell at kids on clouds? I don't like it!

How is defunding Government oversight of a high risk industry and replacing it with for-profit rubber stamping by private companies "taking actions to significantly improve the climate"?

I thought he was going to drain the swamp, instead all I am seeing is increased opportunities for politically connected individuals to profit off the system.

He did drain the swamp, all of it, straight into his administration. You may also want to feast your eyes on this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj...

"They stopped being journalists and began being *cheerleaders*, and became people who had a conclusion that they reached, and then searched for facts to show that Hillary Clinton was an 92, 93, 99 point 9999 chance winner, of winning this campaign."

CNN caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

30 second Video: Sheriff asks media not to report Oregon shooter's name, CNN ignores request and does it anyway, including publishing his social media comments. (Note: video was edited by uploader to censor CNN's publishing of the shooter's name)

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Entire media endorsed Hillary https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4...

CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves http://www.mediaite.com/online...

I seem to recall some orange-faced liberal from New York City telling us he'd force drug companies to lower the price of their drugs. You know, use the power of big government to dictate to private companies how they should run things.

He wasn't lying when he said that, was he?

This "New York" liberal? She doesn't look orange to me either?

And he's not NY in any way, is he?

I seem to recall some orange-faced liberal from New York City telling us he'd force drug companies to lower the price of their drugs. You know, use the power of big government to dictate to private companies how they should run things.

He wasn't lying when he said that, was he?

This "New York" liberal? She doesn't look orange to me either?

And he's not NY in any way, is he?

CEO pay is wages. So is administrative overhead.

In any case, you're bringing up a discussion that isn't sensible and hasn't been for a long time. I'll try to make this brief, but it's frigging hard to get your head around on the best days.

The first question is what does "real wages" mean? Wages adjusted to inflation are usually counted as "real wages"; and inflation doesn't follow productivity gains, but rather the price gains on a subset of goods. "Inflation" isn't a real thing: the concept is an abstract one correlated to an actual behavior in reality, and the number is an arbitrary basket of goods based on how much people buy. That means "inflation" generally follows some basic needs basket (CPI-U) while other things increase in price more-slowly than inflation: raising wages with inflation doesn't raise wages as fast as productivity, but also doesn't necessarily raise them at zero.

In short: inflation indexing of wages gives you flat real wage growth.

The second question: are people wealthier?

In 1995, a new car costing 56% of the middle income had some basic features, which didn't include 6-CD-changer radio, anti-lock brakes, traction control, power windows, telescoping steering wheel, high-complexity suspensions, and the like. Today, all of that stuff is available in your base-model $20,000 economy car (yeah wtf?); your fancy $32,000 car looks like a mid-90s luxury car that used to cost $80k when people made $34k on average.

In short: each decade, we can look back to simpler times when we could have bonded ISDN lines to get today's $50/month Internet service--if we wanted to pay $50,000/month. The middle income does, in fact, buy more, and we're getting productivity gains.

Third: who is getting the money if we're falling behind productivity?

This one's actually a fun question because the answer is...the poor. That sounds great until you realize how it's being delivered--and it's not by welfare.

Everyone wants to talk about the rich first, so let's go there. The CEO of Walmart makes an enormous amount of money...and has 1.5 million employees, for which he earns $0.002 per hour or $4 per year per each employee. Jeff Bezos? It's $3/year per employee. Compare this to an entrepreneur earning $60k and employing two workers to run the shop: $30,000 per employee. Who's the robber baron here?

We've had a lot of mergers and acquisitions in recent decades, placing a few elite at the top of massive corporate conglomerates. Shave a little off a much, much bigger edge and you get a huge pile of gold flakes. You should worry particularly about Amazon: they're using AWS to cover for losses in every other business unit, selling below the total operating cost of each business and destroying competition (predatory pricing). I'd worry about Amazon employees (underpaid, overworked), too; just not about Jeff Bezos's compensation, which is paltry.

So it's going to the poor? How?

Minimum wage, as a percentage of the average income (per-capita GNI), has fallen steadily. So has median wage: minimum-to-median has actually been fairly flat, meaning middle wages scale with minimum wages in practice.

Labor forces don't just grow out of control. There's a carry capacity, and your labor force expands until it hits it: jobs become less-abundant, expansion becomes difficult, and poverty increases. We expand our labor force rapidly by bringing in 300,000 immigrant workers to the US every year through the Visa programs, and can adjust that freely; were we to somehow slow the creation of jobs, we could also slow the labor inflow immediately.

If you raise wages, you concentrate more money into fewer hands. Higher minimum wages means we can't buy as many goods because they're somewhat more expensive, as workers are getting paid more. The size of the labor force shrinks--or, at least, the growth of the labor force slows. Our GDP and GNI growth slo

Also the massive decline in unions at the behest of billionaires running astroturf PR campaigns against them.

>you're one of the ones that goes around saying democrats want the border completely open? Which no elected or running for election democrat said ever.

Yeah, where did the republitards ever get that crazy idea?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgOypw6V4AI-8IB.jpg

While you are googling, try "worst president" and set the time frame to "past year". Hilarious, if it wasn't so sad.

In particular, there is this link: The White House's Disastrous Reaction to McCain's Death

He is populistic, he makes sure that he remains in the spotlight, like a reality TV star.
And I also think that he uses the media to his advantage to create what he considers desireable effects...

While you are googling, try "worst president" and set the time frame to "past year". Hilarious, if it wasn't so sad.

In particular, there is this link: The White House's Disastrous Reaction to McCain's Death

Keep talking.

Reveals Titanic desperation

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dl...

I would want to play Doom 3 with raytracing support (it's an open source game). This game disappointed me because plasma balls and other projectiles didn't light up the scene.

PC gamers

I can understand if you said you didn't like it because the gameplay is enter room -> jump scare -> kill -> repeat, but bitching because a ball of light doesn't light up the walls around it? WTF is wrong with you? How did you survive 80's and 90's graphics?

Perhaps you should rather go watch Marvel movies instead of gaming. Better graphics, works on cheaper hardware, no install time.

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Look at you. Everyone wants to punch your face.

It's funny how people just associate socialism and communism to any government not working out.

Perhaps because the socialists and commies, including Bernie Sanders, praised Venezuela back when oil prices were high, and only fell back on the standard lack-of-purity excuse when Venezuela ran out of OPM and the failure became obvious.

Socialism Flowchart

They are just using the Amazon model of spending on new products and services, investing their capital into growth vs returns.

*sigh* This lie gets repeated so much, even now. I don't feel like wasting key presses again so take a look at the link. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. If you don't understand then please take a course on basic accounting principles. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh...

These would be the same "real journalists" who cheerleaded the invasion of Iraq? And took the mask off and became full throated partisans for Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt candidate to ever run for president? Look at all these newspapers: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4...

You joking? The mainstream media that we know for a fact was colluding with the Democrats to throw the election for Hillary? We have hard proof; Wikileaks confirms. Freedom of the Press does not imply Honesty of the Press. The media tells only the story that confirms its own view, that in the end it was incapable of seeing an alternative outcome and of making a true risk assessment of the political variables - reaffirming the Hillary Clinton camp's own political myopia. This defines the parallel realities in which liberals, in their view of themselves, represent a morally superior character.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV...

On June 16, 2014, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a column alleging that a peaceful Muslim was nearly verbally lynched by violent Islamophobes at a Heritage Foundation-hosted panel. What Milbank described was despicable. Unfortunately for Milbank and the Washington Post's credibility, someone filmed the event and posted the film on YouTube. Panel discussants, including Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel, made important points in a courteous manner. Saba Ahmed, the peaceful Muslim, is a "family friend" of a bombing plotter who expressed a specific desire to murder children. It soon became clear that Milbank was, as one blogger put it, "making stuff up."

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton.

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

The entire media endorsed Hillary.

CBS's John Dickerson: http://www.mediaite.com/online...">Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves.

Here's the media changing headlines to attack Trump on dozens of occasions.

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

Journalists don't want the media to stop being partisans, they just want them to be *more effective* partisans! To be more effective at beating Trump. The assumptions and goals are the same - Trump is evil, he should be destroyed. It never occurs to the media or their "critics" that the media is not supposed to have any skin in the game...you can only "lose" if you are fighting an opponent...and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

What bothers me the most about the media is that not only are they horribly prejudiced - they don't even seem to be able to recognize their prejudice. That's so bad.

If a player is writing on the ground in pain, then for their own safety, they should not be allowed to return to the game at all.

Whether they can get up afterwards and say they can play immediately afterwards is not an issue - no players should be allowed to play with the possibility of an injury, imagined or otherwise.

Spoken like someone who has never played football in his life. Football is a very physical sport, and tackles, even legal ones, can fucking hurt and will have you writhing on the ground in pain for a while, even if there is no serious injury. You can compare it to stubbing your toe, it's not a serious injury but you are going to need a few moments to catch your breath.

To give you an idea, here is a picture of Mandzukic' ankle after Pickford (legally) challenged him for the ball in Wednesday's semi-final. He scored the winning goal after this. According to your rule he should have gotten off the pitch and his team should play on with 1 man down. How's that for ruining the game ...

And yes, some players dive when there's no foul, or embellish it in order to get the foul, but trying to game the rules happens in any sport.

That reminds me of this...

one engineer said, who asked to remain anonymous so he wouldn't lose his severance package...

In return for a severance package, he agreed not to talk publicly about problems in the company, so... WTF?

That particular employee is not trustworthy. If for some reason his identity gets out he'll be unemployable.

What possible benefit could there be to talk to the media about this? Does the MSM pay for interviews?

I'm baffled by this behaviour.

Anther day in GAR
(Greater American Reich)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dg...

I was getting a little nervous that all our eggs seemed to be in one basket... How many FOSS projects you do know using GitLab? Spreading out might be a good thing.

Also, LOL.
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How many homes have been burned down due to the lava flows?

Rounded to the nearest hundred, the number is zero.

Map of Hawaii lava flow: Hype vs reality

This doesn't surprise me in the least. America is due to experience the fate of Ancient Rome. Our elected leadership is corrupt and self-serving, income inequality and average debt is rising, and our infrastructure is decaying. Methinks revolution is not too far off.

Rome went from a democracy to being a mixed system with a democratic facade that was functionally an absolute monarchy. So if you think the US is about to go the way of Rome prepare yourself for this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO...