The issue isn't that they are selling something people don't need, because tons of companies use their service.. and the issue isn't that it doesn't make money because clearly it does... the issue is that it take 600 people to run the business which seems insane.
What proof would you require exactly? Video footage of Putin personally typing at a keyboard with shots of the screen showing access to the DNC servers? What would be sufficient?
I'm not saying that I know one way or another but I want to know what it would take to convince you that the Russians were involved.
And they have mandated that you must have a license and that your car must be registered in a way that is compatible with its usage. The government gets to determine how its roads are used... thats part of the deal. Other states might not require such permitting for testing of autonomous vehicles... perhaps Uber could go test their vehicles in those states, or comply with the regulation in California.
Owning a fleet would be cheaper than employing drivers, even in their "gig" manner. You don't need to worry about background checks or criminal records, you dont have to worry about customers being harassed or assaulted (or drivers for that matter). Cars last a long time and they don't cost that much, even including maintenance.
I find using prime to be a pain in the ass. In order for me to easily view prime I need to open it on my phone and then airplay it to my TV. The fact that they refuse to support non amazon set top boxes for their streaming service makes it much more difficult. I have prime for the shipping advantages and im not going to get rid of it or anything but I rarely use the video at all because of how hard it is for me to get and buying a fire stick or some other device just to stream the few shows they offer just doesn't make any sense.
I haven't pirated this show, but I might consider it just to make viewing easier, despite having already paid. Thats a bad thing.
I'm not so sure its about aging... I think its mostly that anyone else has given up on this place and moved on... arguing with Alt right or hyper libertarian or whatever the flavor of the month zealots are, its exhausting... and this place isn't important enough anymore to make it worth defending from idiots with poorly formed world views who can't see past the end of their own noses.
There are a few old timers still around... like me they tend to post less an less and just ignore the cesspool that this place has become out of a sense of nostalgia.
That happened because the Tesla "autopilot" is a joke. It is not Autonomous and requires driver attention at all times... which, of course the driver does not give because most of the time it is good enough.
These cars are going to have to do a lot better than that... laws or no... because the companies making them are going to have to have insurance to cover these scenarios and they are going to have to be good enough that that insurance is attainable.
Voter fraud is mythical, it has been studied and it doesn't happen in nearly large enough numbers to be relevant.
This is not investigating voter fraud. Voter fraud involves people physically voting illegally. This is different from a hacking the voting machines to give an incorrect tally of votes, they are 2 different things and you acting like they are the same only indicates your lack of knowledge or understanding.
They are also working on developing their own self driving cars which is probably sucking up a lot of their potential profits. To say that they are unprofitable is true but a little misleading... if all they were doing was running the business instead of expanding into other business' (they could wait for google to develop the self driving cars and then buy a fleet of them) they would probably be making quite a tidy profit...
This is a good point, I bet a lot of people buy movie tickets on their phones compared to desktop. I would bet it has a higher percentage of mobile app buyers than most things but they really do streamline it either by saving your billing info or letting you use alternate payment systems like applepay or google wallet.
The experience I had at a retail shop was that tons of people would browse on the iphone using mobile web but nobody would buy there. People would buy on the desktop web, but when given the choice of buying through the app instead of the mobile web (which included a much easier checkout flow with card scanning or applepay/paypal options) they definitely were more than willing to purchase on their phones. The conversion rate for the app was considerably higher than even the desktop web conversion rate (far fewer casual browsers).
I think its possible to get people to buy on their phones but it has to be seamless and typing into web forms is not desirable.
Yeah but the reality of the new space future wont be like those stories... it will be rooted in militaristic corporatism! That will be way better I'm sure.
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The issue isn't that they are selling something people don't need, because tons of companies use their service.. and the issue isn't that it doesn't make money because clearly it does... the issue is that it take 600 people to run the business which seems insane.
What proof would you require exactly? Video footage of Putin personally typing at a keyboard with shots of the screen showing access to the DNC servers? What would be sufficient?
I'm not saying that I know one way or another but I want to know what it would take to convince you that the Russians were involved.
Or you could stop using facebook... but I guess thats just too difficult.
And they have mandated that you must have a license and that your car must be registered in a way that is compatible with its usage. The government gets to determine how its roads are used... thats part of the deal. Other states might not require such permitting for testing of autonomous vehicles... perhaps Uber could go test their vehicles in those states, or comply with the regulation in California.
Owning a fleet would be cheaper than employing drivers, even in their "gig" manner. You don't need to worry about background checks or criminal records, you dont have to worry about customers being harassed or assaulted (or drivers for that matter). Cars last a long time and they don't cost that much, even including maintenance.
Mandated by whom?
Isn't selling a car in Texas that is built in California considered interstate commerce?
I find using prime to be a pain in the ass. In order for me to easily view prime I need to open it on my phone and then airplay it to my TV. The fact that they refuse to support non amazon set top boxes for their streaming service makes it much more difficult. I have prime for the shipping advantages and im not going to get rid of it or anything but I rarely use the video at all because of how hard it is for me to get and buying a fire stick or some other device just to stream the few shows they offer just doesn't make any sense.
I haven't pirated this show, but I might consider it just to make viewing easier, despite having already paid. Thats a bad thing.
I'm not so sure its about aging... I think its mostly that anyone else has given up on this place and moved on... arguing with Alt right or hyper libertarian or whatever the flavor of the month zealots are, its exhausting... and this place isn't important enough anymore to make it worth defending from idiots with poorly formed world views who can't see past the end of their own noses.
There are a few old timers still around... like me they tend to post less an less and just ignore the cesspool that this place has become out of a sense of nostalgia.
The same thing that happens when a person is killed by a non-autonomous vehicle. A large insurance payout.
That happened because the Tesla "autopilot" is a joke. It is not Autonomous and requires driver attention at all times... which, of course the driver does not give because most of the time it is good enough.
These cars are going to have to do a lot better than that... laws or no... because the companies making them are going to have to have insurance to cover these scenarios and they are going to have to be good enough that that insurance is attainable.
Just like bush did when he was warned about Bin Laden by the previous administration.8
Voter fraud is mythical, it has been studied and it doesn't happen in nearly large enough numbers to be relevant.
This is not investigating voter fraud. Voter fraud involves people physically voting illegally. This is different from a hacking the voting machines to give an incorrect tally of votes, they are 2 different things and you acting like they are the same only indicates your lack of knowledge or understanding.
Yeah like how if you are rich here you can get that vaccine for lung cancer.... oh wait...
Because its a republican doing the handing?
Schedule I drugs are also commonly used by undesirable people like hippies, progressives and minorities.
its not real work if its not the work that HE does.
how were you expecting to pay?
They are also working on developing their own self driving cars which is probably sucking up a lot of their potential profits. To say that they are unprofitable is true but a little misleading... if all they were doing was running the business instead of expanding into other business' (they could wait for google to develop the self driving cars and then buy a fleet of them) they would probably be making quite a tidy profit...
This is a good point, I bet a lot of people buy movie tickets on their phones compared to desktop. I would bet it has a higher percentage of mobile app buyers than most things but they really do streamline it either by saving your billing info or letting you use alternate payment systems like applepay or google wallet.
The experience I had at a retail shop was that tons of people would browse on the iphone using mobile web but nobody would buy there. People would buy on the desktop web, but when given the choice of buying through the app instead of the mobile web (which included a much easier checkout flow with card scanning or applepay/paypal options) they definitely were more than willing to purchase on their phones. The conversion rate for the app was considerably higher than even the desktop web conversion rate (far fewer casual browsers).
I think its possible to get people to buy on their phones but it has to be seamless and typing into web forms is not desirable.
Sure, that would be worthwhile if there was any evidence that people voting multiple times was an issue.
One would hope that curbing or reversing global warming will be easier than colonizing and terraforming another planet....
Dr. Hibbert: modern Medicine has a lousy record of treating the back. We spend too much time on the front.
Homer: Yeah, there’s some neat stuff in the front.
Yeah but the reality of the new space future wont be like those stories... it will be rooted in militaristic corporatism! That will be way better I'm sure.