Actually, I am more or less neutral WRT Tesla. Toyota was already a huge corporation with it's own resources and an established investor base when they built a factory here and they already had factories up and running with the bugs out elsewhere. It is easier to copy than to start afresh.
It did make things a bit easier for Toyota that they ran on gasoline and so filling stations were already ubiquitous. They didn't need to also build them.
I guess to you 2 paragraphs = 1 line. Whatever gets you through the night. You're clearly determined to believe whatever your prejudices lead you to believe and so you must discount any contrary input. Good luck with that!
Note that nowhere did I deny that there are real social issues when a large number of any sort of refugees are brought in quickly. You were blinded to that because you for some reason need to believe it is their ethnicity that is the problem, not their number.
They are more profitable now because they turned the screws tighter on their existing customers. They think their customers can never leave, but it fact it just takes time to leave.
There's only so long they can manage that. Every time they turn the screws, their current customers all pay up because they have to, but some percentage of them initiate a plan to migrate away.
Here's the deal. I called you racist because you blamed multiple cultures in general rather than the rather more specific situation that Europe has seen refugees coming in in huge numbers. Naturally, refugees tend to not be employed right away since they first have to learn enough of the language and culture to be employable, but their ethnicity isn't really the leading factor there.
Even knowing the language, I'll bet if you had to escape your current location by stealth through a warzone and after a year or so managed to get to the U.S. to apply as a refugee, you'd be unemployed and in need of plenty of healthcare when you got here.
I don't have exact figures, but about half the people I know are missing a tooth.
Many people in America don't get their teeth checked AT ALL until one hurts. Then it just gets pulled because they can't afford to get it fixed. Sound good?
It does appear that Amazon has been a bit callous or careless here; the weeks without pay would not have happened if she had a good manager.
The weeks without pay and still having to commute to and from work every day probably had something to do with returning to work before she was healed up as well.
And of course it had NOTHING to do with lenders setting time bombs on the loans, lending money they didn't even have, or talking people into McMansion loans rather than starter homes they might have had a chance of paying off.
Note that it wasn't just (or even mostly) poor people who got nailed when the bubble popped. It was also middle class (former) homeowners and commercial properties. Then there's the whole robo-signing thing and banks trying to foreclose on properties they didn't even hold a mortgage on.
The situation with commercial properties was the really crazy part. Because of the screwy criteria for foreclosure, renters were actually raising rent on properties when tenants left even though they were barely 50% occupied and so driving even more commercial tenants out.
And of course, the whole deal of questionable financial instruments being created and fraudulently rated as AAA when they were more akin to junk bonds didn't help.
That was all related to de-regulating the banks, not requiring small loans to less well qualified borrowers.
If those things involve doing something in exchange for money, then necessarily others found what you were doing worthwhile. Possible exception if you just speculate on Wall Street, but we have a lot of that now.
If you don't have any data, the first recording is necessarily a record high. The longer you record, the less likely it becomes that the next measurement will be a new high record. UNLESS there is global warming.
The more energy you dump into a system, the fatter the curve becomes.
Second, are you really claiming that someone born to a family that qualifies for food stamps and welfare is at the same starting point as someone born in a mansion where the parents retired at 40? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Can you kindly point out why net neutrality and "pole neutrality" are somehow of a different nature?
After saying pre-election that they wouldn't.
Now can you overdramatize the risks of brushing one's teeth?
Perhaps it's just that that memo is closer to the 3rd party objective position than the one you read. And so now you're confused.
Actually, I am more or less neutral WRT Tesla. Toyota was already a huge corporation with it's own resources and an established investor base when they built a factory here and they already had factories up and running with the bugs out elsewhere. It is easier to copy than to start afresh.
It did make things a bit easier for Toyota that they ran on gasoline and so filling stations were already ubiquitous. They didn't need to also build them.
So how deep are you into your short position?
I guess to you 2 paragraphs = 1 line. Whatever gets you through the night. You're clearly determined to believe whatever your prejudices lead you to believe and so you must discount any contrary input. Good luck with that!
Note that nowhere did I deny that there are real social issues when a large number of any sort of refugees are brought in quickly. You were blinded to that because you for some reason need to believe it is their ethnicity that is the problem, not their number.
Yes, based on 50 years of experience and profits from several plants in production, they were able to ramp up a new plant much faster.
You did know Toyota had been around since the 1930's, didn't you?
You do realize Toyota has been at it a few decades longer, don't you?
They are more profitable now because they turned the screws tighter on their existing customers. They think their customers can never leave, but it fact it just takes time to leave.
There's only so long they can manage that. Every time they turn the screws, their current customers all pay up because they have to, but some percentage of them initiate a plan to migrate away.
No. It was a fixed scale test where the costs were known up front and already budgeted.
There was no sudden realization behind this, only a reneged campaign promise.
Unless those were one time expenses related to ramping up production...
Here's the deal. I called you racist because you blamed multiple cultures in general rather than the rather more specific situation that Europe has seen refugees coming in in huge numbers. Naturally, refugees tend to not be employed right away since they first have to learn enough of the language and culture to be employable, but their ethnicity isn't really the leading factor there.
Even knowing the language, I'll bet if you had to escape your current location by stealth through a warzone and after a year or so managed to get to the U.S. to apply as a refugee, you'd be unemployed and in need of plenty of healthcare when you got here.
I don't have exact figures, but about half the people I know are missing a tooth.
Many people in America don't get their teeth checked AT ALL until one hurts. Then it just gets pulled because they can't afford to get it fixed. Sound good?
Anywhere in Europe. Racism notwithstanding.
Pretty much anywhere in Europe will do. They all cost less and have better outcomes than the U.S.
Things could work much better IN the U.S. if we had proper healthcare and a secure social safety net.
No, it isn't working so well here. Probably because so many are working so hard to return us to the stone age.
It does appear that Amazon has been a bit callous or careless here; the weeks without pay would not have happened if she had a good manager.
The weeks without pay and still having to commute to and from work every day probably had something to do with returning to work before she was healed up as well.
And of course it had NOTHING to do with lenders setting time bombs on the loans, lending money they didn't even have, or talking people into McMansion loans rather than starter homes they might have had a chance of paying off.
Note that it wasn't just (or even mostly) poor people who got nailed when the bubble popped. It was also middle class (former) homeowners and commercial properties. Then there's the whole robo-signing thing and banks trying to foreclose on properties they didn't even hold a mortgage on.
The situation with commercial properties was the really crazy part. Because of the screwy criteria for foreclosure, renters were actually raising rent on properties when tenants left even though they were barely 50% occupied and so driving even more commercial tenants out.
And of course, the whole deal of questionable financial instruments being created and fraudulently rated as AAA when they were more akin to junk bonds didn't help.
That was all related to de-regulating the banks, not requiring small loans to less well qualified borrowers.
There are many countries where a mixed system is working just fine.
You can drive with one arm as long as your car is an automatic. You can only pick up some things with one arm. Not that hard to figure out.
No, sucking money for nothing out of the economy.
If those things involve doing something in exchange for money, then necessarily others found what you were doing worthwhile. Possible exception if you just speculate on Wall Street, but we have a lot of that now.
If you don't have any data, the first recording is necessarily a record high. The longer you record, the less likely it becomes that the next measurement will be a new high record. UNLESS there is global warming.
The more energy you dump into a system, the fatter the curve becomes.
First and foremost, EVIDENCE?
Second, are you really claiming that someone born to a family that qualifies for food stamps and welfare is at the same starting point as someone born in a mansion where the parents retired at 40? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's a knee slapper!