I never mentioned mass shootings. We're discussing terrorists with bombs. Those incidents usually have a white Christian conservative guy behind them.
As for being a global power, we just happen to disagree. Having military bases throughout the world gives the US the ability to enforce it's will, which makes us safer. Recall 9/11 happened because we allowed the Taliban to exist and fund bin Laden. And he was upset because of global trade. And if we don't stop China's aggression, you (or your children) will be living under rules coming from Beijing.
But if you wan to live in a second tier country, feel free to move to Canada. Just stop trying to make my country suck more.
I didn't look through all your links, but I clicked on the first one. It shows Apple going from 43% in the US (year end, 2016) to 44.3%(year ends, 2018) in the US. That's a 1.3% improvement.
This is similar enough to the numbers I recall, which I saw when I read that Apple has moved from the 3rd largest smartphone manufacturer to 2nd (after Samsung).
Penning may work for a concert, but it's unclear that works for time square. It has a higher person density, etc. And there are other considerations.
As for just withdraw from the middle east, three main issues. First, there is a value in being a global power. Second, who's to say that terrorist are complaining about military involvement in the middle east (e..g. 9/11 was to a very large degree about doing global business in Muslim nations). Third, and most importantly, the majority of terrorist attacks (including the most recent ones in NY, Vegas, etc.) are committed by white Christian conservative males. Not much to do with the middle east at all.
We were safe *anyway*, because in fact there *was* no one going to do anything crazy
Wait, what? It's not like Times Square didn't have a bomb planted in it 8 years ago, or there haven't been three bombings in NYC (thankfully with few fatalities) in the past two years. It seems like a high profile target, so I totally get bomb dogs.
And you understand the need for crowd control. Yes, it seems miserable, because "move around in pens as directed by police" isn't my idea of fun. But it's hard to imagine an alternative that doesn't just lose control.
It would be nice if they could allow people to drink, but you know that would lead to fistfights as everyone bumps into each other, because no way can the cops enforce a "one glass at midnight" rule.
Solar without batteries make sense in southern areas where large amounts of solar power mean large amounts of AC. So in that case, it's just lowering peak use costs. In those cases, the correlation of power to usage is very direct.
I mean, Apple had record profits in 2018. Maybe they moved fewer units than stock analysts wanted them to. But they made more revenue than ever (+16%) and more profit than ever (+30%). Lowering the number of units sold, and raising the profit per unit, is something that's useful a good portion of the time.
Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.
But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.
It's making things awkward for those who come ill prepared. After all, you can't give back a hairdo, an already dressed salad or the two beers you already drank
TFS is trying to shame people who pay in cash, like it's weird. I'm not sure where this high and mighty attitude is coming from, but I do know that I'm not ill-prepared I have cash, and will use it if I feel like to settle a debt.
If you don't want to accept it, I made a legit offer of tender, if you refuse it, I'll take the $40 as windfall profits on my taxes.
Interestingly, the non-bolded part you omitted in between two bolded sections seems to limit the rights of the bolded part. I think a case could be made that this exceeds those limits.
I'm not sure if that case you be made against YouTube's lawyers, but that's just a "good luck holding corporations accountable" thing
Well, because in order for that to happen, one division would have had to propose the stores open for longer. That division would then have been on the hook for the costs of all of the stores staying open
And, they wouldn't capture the profits. Otherwise they would have been fighting to push the extended hours.
Some malls are dying, other malls are thriving. The problem is that one company tends to buy/control all the malls in a given area, and push there to being several very high profit malls with all the anchor stores, by relocating the stores from the other malls. They then hold onto the abandoned malls which they move poorer performers to and then they die. Back when all malls competed, there wasn't as large a caste system in the mall, and many could thrive.
Given that for the entirety of Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court have been controlled by Republicans for the entirety of Trump's administration (including today as of this writing), maybe you should complain about how the Republicans are incompetent at running a government.
Your sources are all US influence groups with a vested interest in saying the US isn't free enough, and maybe it will be if they just loosen up a few more regulations...
Please state what points they are making that you think are valid.
And that's not factoring in the data Google is gathering on them (they've claimed not to in the past, but then gotten caught doing it.) Or the fact that the webcams can often be turned on remotely. Or the fact that they're only learning how to function mediated by Google products.
That said, there's no reason to disparage kids talking about what they saw on their phones. After all, if that's how you're reading the news, or getting information, talking about it is normal.
Huh, no. That's a stupid argument I reject, because there's nothing there. He assumes that they are irrational and uses that to dismiss the only evidence. Note, Samsung phones (of which there are a only few more current models than iPhones) have a similar highmarket share.
I guess I need a car analogy. If 1/3 of the market bought pick ups, and the other 2/3 bought sedans, it would be stupid to say "But the only pickup is an F-150, there are so many more models of sedans. So F-150 purchasers must be irrational." Similarly, if suddenly the number of sedan models doubled overnight, there may be an uptick in sedan purchases from former truck owners, but hardly the 2x increase his math suggests. Esp. if the differences are things like color or power windows instead of "now able to tow X"
Well, you can modify the physical copies and recall them. To update them to the latest version of the truth. You need Ministry of Truth to manage it though.
Well, libraries are doing interesting, sometimes high-tech, things. A bunch offer Kindle free books, or movies and video games (btw, libraries are also for recreation, not just education.) But there are other public services. For instance, most offer the ability to surf the internet, not just for news but also to access webmail, shop, etc. Catalogs of journals (electronic or otherwise). NYC has a library trial program of loaning of job interview clothes. In NH, they're running TOR exit nodes. Lots of interesting things are happening. Libraries are enablers of a lot, and need to encouraged. They're one of the few free resources for all society, and improving them helps level the playing field. Obviously, rich people don't like libraries.
I too agree, Google cannot be expected to afford building its own database. It needs to rely on individuals crowdsourcing data. After all, they're a small mom and pop operation. I especially like how the people doing the work don't even get expenses offset, let alone a share of the cash Google makes off their work.
Oh, and I totally agree with your sig. Fuck Chrome and the guys who make it. #DeleteChrome.
Medicare (and I think Medicaid) have a much better deal than % off list. They get % off list or the best price quoted anyone else, whichever is a better deal.
I don't find the current system at all onerous. Hence, I'm happy to avoid the probable issues behind what Estonia is doing. For instance, I don't particularly want the government to have my fingerprints on file.
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I never mentioned mass shootings. We're discussing terrorists with bombs. Those incidents usually have a white Christian conservative guy behind them.
As for being a global power, we just happen to disagree. Having military bases throughout the world gives the US the ability to enforce it's will, which makes us safer. Recall 9/11 happened because we allowed the Taliban to exist and fund bin Laden. And he was upset because of global trade. And if we don't stop China's aggression, you (or your children) will be living under rules coming from Beijing.
But if you wan to live in a second tier country, feel free to move to Canada. Just stop trying to make my country suck more.
That site is a block of JS.
I didn't look through all your links, but I clicked on the first one. It shows Apple going from 43% in the US (year end, 2016) to 44.3%(year ends, 2018) in the US. That's a 1.3% improvement.
This is similar enough to the numbers I recall, which I saw when I read that Apple has moved from the 3rd largest smartphone manufacturer to 2nd (after Samsung).
Penning may work for a concert, but it's unclear that works for time square. It has a higher person density, etc. And there are other considerations.
As for just withdraw from the middle east, three main issues. First, there is a value in being a global power. Second, who's to say that terrorist are complaining about military involvement in the middle east (e..g. 9/11 was to a very large degree about doing global business in Muslim nations). Third, and most importantly, the majority of terrorist attacks (including the most recent ones in NY, Vegas, etc.) are committed by white Christian conservative males. Not much to do with the middle east at all.
FB Messenger is harder to handle loads, because they need to run machine learning on all the messages to build better profiles of their users.
There is a startup based on AirBnB'ing your car. And it has a specific rental area for sports cars (I think Tesla S or better).
So, the answer is yes.
Wait, what? It's not like Times Square didn't have a bomb planted in it 8 years ago, or there haven't been three bombings in NYC (thankfully with few fatalities) in the past two years. It seems like a high profile target, so I totally get bomb dogs.
And you understand the need for crowd control. Yes, it seems miserable, because "move around in pens as directed by police" isn't my idea of fun. But it's hard to imagine an alternative that doesn't just lose control.
It would be nice if they could allow people to drink, but you know that would lead to fistfights as everyone bumps into each other, because no way can the cops enforce a "one glass at midnight" rule.
Solar without batteries make sense in southern areas where large amounts of solar power mean large amounts of AC. So in that case, it's just lowering peak use costs. In those cases, the correlation of power to usage is very direct.
I mean, Apple had record profits in 2018. Maybe they moved fewer units than stock analysts wanted them to. But they made more revenue than ever (+16%) and more profit than ever (+30%). Lowering the number of units sold, and raising the profit per unit, is something that's useful a good portion of the time.
Further, their share of smartphones is growing with respect to Android. So their 30% commission isn't in danger.
But this stupid article quotes stock market analysts and a random tourist. No evidence that Apple is messing up. Just opinions unconnected to data, and instead the analysts are just comparing to some ideal that they imagine.
TFS is trying to shame people who pay in cash, like it's weird. I'm not sure where this high and mighty attitude is coming from, but I do know that I'm not ill-prepared I have cash, and will use it if I feel like to settle a debt.
If you don't want to accept it, I made a legit offer of tender, if you refuse it, I'll take the $40 as windfall profits on my taxes.
Interestingly, the non-bolded part you omitted in between two bolded sections seems to limit the rights of the bolded part. I think a case could be made that this exceeds those limits.
I'm not sure if that case you be made against YouTube's lawyers, but that's just a "good luck holding corporations accountable" thing
It would mean that Apple couldn't offer better terms to Apple Music, etc. than to Netflix. Fixed public pricing for all content providers.
And, they wouldn't capture the profits. Otherwise they would have been fighting to push the extended hours.
Instead of being separate businesses (which still allows for sweetheart deals), why not just have legally enforced content neutrality.
And, IIRC, the other entity in the land leaseback deal was Lampert's fund. You know, just to make sure the stockholders got fucked good and hard.
I don't understand how there;s not a class-action lawsuit from the shareholders. It seems like theft, plain and simple.
Some malls are dying, other malls are thriving. The problem is that one company tends to buy/control all the malls in a given area, and push there to being several very high profit malls with all the anchor stores, by relocating the stores from the other malls. They then hold onto the abandoned malls which they move poorer performers to and then they die. Back when all malls competed, there wasn't as large a caste system in the mall, and many could thrive.
Given that for the entirety of Congress, the Presidency and the Supreme Court have been controlled by Republicans for the entirety of Trump's administration (including today as of this writing), maybe you should complain about how the Republicans are incompetent at running a government.
Your sources are all US influence groups with a vested interest in saying the US isn't free enough, and maybe it will be if they just loosen up a few more regulations...
Please state what points they are making that you think are valid.
And that's not factoring in the data Google is gathering on them (they've claimed not to in the past, but then gotten caught doing it.) Or the fact that the webcams can often be turned on remotely. Or the fact that they're only learning how to function mediated by Google products.
That said, there's no reason to disparage kids talking about what they saw on their phones. After all, if that's how you're reading the news, or getting information, talking about it is normal.
Huh, no. That's a stupid argument I reject, because there's nothing there. He assumes that they are irrational and uses that to dismiss the only evidence. Note, Samsung phones (of which there are a only few more current models than iPhones) have a similar highmarket share.
I guess I need a car analogy. If 1/3 of the market bought pick ups, and the other 2/3 bought sedans, it would be stupid to say "But the only pickup is an F-150, there are so many more models of sedans. So F-150 purchasers must be irrational." Similarly, if suddenly the number of sedan models doubled overnight, there may be an uptick in sedan purchases from former truck owners, but hardly the 2x increase his math suggests. Esp. if the differences are things like color or power windows instead of "now able to tow X"
Well, you can modify the physical copies and recall them. To update them to the latest version of the truth. You need Ministry of Truth to manage it though.
Well, libraries are doing interesting, sometimes high-tech, things. A bunch offer Kindle free books, or movies and video games (btw, libraries are also for recreation, not just education.) But there are other public services. For instance, most offer the ability to surf the internet, not just for news but also to access webmail, shop, etc. Catalogs of journals (electronic or otherwise). NYC has a library trial program of loaning of job interview clothes. In NH, they're running TOR exit nodes. Lots of interesting things are happening. Libraries are enablers of a lot, and need to encouraged. They're one of the few free resources for all society, and improving them helps level the playing field. Obviously, rich people don't like libraries.
I too agree, Google cannot be expected to afford building its own database. It needs to rely on individuals crowdsourcing data. After all, they're a small mom and pop operation. I especially like how the people doing the work don't even get expenses offset, let alone a share of the cash Google makes off their work.
Oh, and I totally agree with your sig. Fuck Chrome and the guys who make it. #DeleteChrome.
Medicare (and I think Medicaid) have a much better deal than % off list. They get % off list or the best price quoted anyone else, whichever is a better deal.
I don't find the current system at all onerous. Hence, I'm happy to avoid the probable issues behind what Estonia is doing. For instance, I don't particularly want the government to have my fingerprints on file.