In particular, CA tried to tax retirement income of those who moved to Nevada.
Our response, given that we have to give full faith and credit to sister-state judgments, was to make all property in the state exempt for judgments for income tax on retirement income . . .
Note that an economist who just plain *blasted* the initial round of tariffs, but noting that the only *possible* justifications for such actions was as a negotiating chip . . . rather than being cut off from access to high administration officials, was instead snatched up a week or two later as chief economic advisor, and is now, if not fully in charge, preaching this at those actually pulling the strings.
tariffs are generally horrible and counterproductive, and *usually* there is no credible threat to use them as a way to get to freer trade (due to the damage taken by oneself). This does seem to be the oddball exception, and it *is* getting some of the partners to the negotiations table.
As a free market economist myself, I'm eager to see how it turns out . . .
>I\ can imagine a future where your insurance >premiums are tied to your digital finger print. Your risk >profile for credit is tied to your activities.
credit score is already a major factor for car insurance.
Texas was going to ban it a couple of years, but in a rare fit of reason (for a legislature) they had a study done first.
The data shows that credit score is far more accurate than driving record in predicting claims.
You can come up with a number of explanations (high credit score people are more careful, or have less distractions, or . ..), but keep in mind that it's claims pad, not accidents, that interest the insurance company. My pet theory is that those with the higher scores are also less likely to submit small claims due to anticipated rate increases, and instead have the cars fixed themselves--but again, that's just an educated guess.
To the extent that it's trying to prevent another 9/11, it's a complete waste of money.
Those attacks worked because a, a) they were methodically planned and researched, and b) relied on us being trained to sit through hijackings, as usually your simply ended up at the wrong airport, although occasionally a single person would accidentally get shot.
b) broke down *completely* by the fourth plane.
As such, that type of attack wouldn't work again. Further, anyone capable of a) would take lack of b) into account.
That said, and noting the old adage about generals preparing to fight the last war, there are *some* things that have been caught. Just offhand, underwear and shoe bombers have been found and received wide media coverage.
Overall, though, TSA is a federal jobs program for the unskilled . . .
They should have taken that initial offer on the first call to pay by credit card right then and there to avoid arrest, being experts on that and all . . .:)
How many houses does it power, and how many electrical grids does it have sites attached to?
Tesla is *not* really in the car business, any more than Las Vegas is in the gambling business.
Tesla is in the *battery* business, and cars are a great way to move them (and Las Vegas is in the fantasy business; gambling is just a big part of the schtick. [and for the matter, look at the land under the corporate owned McDonald's which it also owns . . . ])
>Evidently you do not recall the dotcom era around >1998-2000. Irrationally overpriced companies are >nothing even remotely new and Tesla is not covering >any new ground there.
Only "sort of". Valuations of dotcoms were largely bets that they would be the amazon category-killer of their category. When all of the competitors were less than the winner's valuation would be, they are over priced--and, conversely, when (if it ever happened!) their combined value was *less* than the category-killer would be worth, they were underpriced. And this applies to the group; the one that had a 40% chance of winning should have been worth 40% of the category. If it was only 30%, even though the total was 200%, that particular one was underpriced.
20 years ago, amazon itself seemed bizarrely over-priced . . . (and the same for google). Neither seemed to have a real path to be profitable, but . . .
And then there's apple. In the late 90s, I was eating for it to drop to $13.50 to buy $5k (or go nuts with $10k) in my retirement accounts. I figured it would eventually be sold for $20/share to be broken up (it *did* manufacture the highest quality hardware at the time [with notable exceptions]).
>That Facebook container is golden. I wish Firefox would take it even further, though.
they're working on it.
the next version will, when encountering those stupid "share on . . . " buttons, automatically launch a small high explosive (but biodegraable!) missile ath the headquarters of the social media company.
It already exists. Not for trucks, but for Cadillacs. https://www.bookbycadillac.com/. $1,500 month includes insurance and maintenance. They pick up and deliver when you want to change model or col9r.
I believe there's a more expensive plan for V-series.
Other luxury makers, or those that fancy themselves as such, have similar.
No $400 truck plan, afaik; it would probably be near-cadillpc in price if it existed.
I actually needed up with medical treatment from EMACS . . . I was using a full-sized CKIE keyboard[1], meaning my (large) left hand had to rotate to reach the control key.
After a few days of all-day, heavy editing, I strained the muscle in my let pinkie . . .
hawk, who for some reason now usually sticks to vi . . .
[1] Control Key In Exile, as opposed to next to the A where God Meant it to be . . .
That's not it for cars, as much sense as it makes.
Model/brand sales spike after a redesign, and drop over the next couple/few years. Make a new look, and sales go up again, sell for a couple of years, repeat.
> to emphasize things since bold and italic are unavailable in plain text?
Actually, we do that because we've been doing it since a time when there *was* no standard to trigger inverse video, blink, or whatever (if anything) your terminal offered as an emphasis mode.
The *very nature* of jury nullification is that it is the impromptu action of the jury members when their consciences are shocked; it is not something that can be argued to them.
Also, while normally discussed for petit juries (trial), it not only also applies to grand juries, but that aspect is actually enshrined in the US Bill of Rights: the right to indictment by grand jury for felony is *because* the colonial grand juries refused to indict patriots for acts of which they were clearly guilty under the law.
Slashdot Mirror
Welcome to 1968 . . .
*rolls eyese*
In particular, CA tried to tax retirement income of those who moved to Nevada.
Our response, given that we have to give full faith and credit to sister-state judgments, was to make all property in the state exempt for judgments for income tax on retirement income . . .
hawk
> It'll be interesting to see if my fingers remember any shortcuts from the '90s.
I finally seem to have the 1990s MS Word/mac keystrokes out of my fingers (except for the allcaps formatting command . . . )
now if I could do the same for the 70s Wordstar movement commands . . .
hawk
That problem curve is apparently already implementing this solution . . . :)
hawk
A simple electric charge on the door handle until the vehicle stops will quickly solve this passenger behavior . . . :)
hawk
That's preposterous: WASD is for the *copilot*. Player 1 uses hjkl, prefixed by g if he doesn't want to pick up what's on the space.
hawk
Oh, kind of like those folks with chihuahuas that think it's a breed of dog rather than rat? :)
hawk
Note that an economist who just plain *blasted* the initial round of tariffs, but noting that the only *possible* justifications for such actions was as a negotiating chip . . . rather than being cut off from access to high administration officials, was instead snatched up a week or two later as chief economic advisor, and is now, if not fully in charge, preaching this at those actually pulling the strings.
tariffs are generally horrible and counterproductive, and *usually* there is no credible threat to use them as a way to get to freer trade (due to the damage taken by oneself). This does seem to be the oddball exception, and it *is* getting some of the partners to the negotiations table.
As a free market economist myself, I'm eager to see how it turns out . . .
hawk
>I\ can imagine a future where your insurance
>premiums are tied to your digital finger print. Your risk
>profile for credit is tied to your activities.
credit score is already a major factor for car insurance.
Texas was going to ban it a couple of years, but in a rare fit of reason (for a legislature) they had a study done first.
The data shows that credit score is far more accurate than driving record in predicting claims.
You can come up with a number of explanations (high credit score people are more careful, or have less distractions, or . . .), but keep in mind that it's claims pad, not accidents, that interest the insurance company. My pet theory is that those with the higher scores are also less likely to submit small claims due to anticipated rate increases, and instead have the cars fixed themselves--but again, that's just an educated guess.
hawk
To the extent that it's trying to prevent another 9/11, it's a complete waste of money.
Those attacks worked because a,
a) they were methodically planned and researched, and
b) relied on us being trained to sit through hijackings, as usually your simply ended up at the wrong airport, although occasionally a single person would accidentally get shot.
b) broke down *completely* by the fourth plane.
As such, that type of attack wouldn't work again. Further, anyone capable of a) would take lack of b) into account.
That said, and noting the old adage about generals preparing to fight the last war, there are *some* things that have been caught. Just offhand, underwear and shoe bombers have been found and received wide media coverage.
Overall, though, TSA is a federal jobs program for the unskilled . . .
hawk
Yeah, they're targeting poorly.
A *serous* "Quiet Skies program would target screaming children :)
hawk
Will it run on Amiga? I here they have another model coming soon . . .
[ducks]
hawk
All of your apostrophes are belong to us!!! :)
hawk
Well, that was foolish.
They should have taken that initial offer on the first call to pay by credit card right then and there to avoid arrest, being experts on that and all . . . :)
hawk
So, tell me about Ford's battery business?
How many houses does it power, and how many electrical grids does it have sites attached to?
Tesla is *not* really in the car business, any more than Las Vegas is in the gambling business.
Tesla is in the *battery* business, and cars are a great way to move them (and Las Vegas is in the fantasy business; gambling is just a big part of the schtick. [and for the matter, look at the land under the corporate owned McDonald's which it also owns . . . ])
hawk
>Evidently you do not recall the dotcom era around
>1998-2000. Irrationally overpriced companies are
>nothing even remotely new and Tesla is not covering
>any new ground there.
Only "sort of". Valuations of dotcoms were largely bets that they would be the amazon category-killer of their category. When all of the competitors were less than the winner's valuation would be, they are over priced--and, conversely, when (if it ever happened!) their combined value was *less* than the category-killer would be worth, they were underpriced. And this applies to the group; the one that had a 40% chance of winning should have been worth 40% of the category. If it was only 30%, even though the total was 200%, that particular one was underpriced.
20 years ago, amazon itself seemed bizarrely over-priced . . . (and the same for google). Neither seemed to have a real path to be profitable, but . . .
And then there's apple. In the late 90s, I was eating for it to drop to $13.50 to buy $5k (or go nuts with $10k) in my retirement accounts. I figured it would eventually be sold for $20/share to be broken up (it *did* manufacture the highest quality hardware at the time [with notable exceptions]).
*sigh*
it never went below $14 . . .
oh, well.
hawk
>That Facebook container is golden. I wish Firefox would take it even further, though.
they're working on it.
the next version will, when encountering those stupid "share on . . . " buttons, automatically launch a small high explosive (but biodegraable!) missile ath the headquarters of the social media company.
In time noone will purchase those ads . . .
hawk
It already exists. Not for trucks, but for Cadillacs. https://www.bookbycadillac.com/. $1,500 month includes insurance and maintenance. They pick up and deliver when you want to change model or col9r.
I believe there's a more expensive plan for V-series.
Other luxury makers, or those that fancy themselves as such, have similar.
No $400 truck plan, afaik; it would probably be near-cadillpc in price if it existed.
hawk
I actually needed up with medical treatment from EMACS . . . I was using a full-sized CKIE keyboard[1], meaning my (large) left hand had to rotate to reach the control key.
After a few days of all-day, heavy editing, I strained the muscle in my let pinkie . . .
hawk, who for some reason now usually sticks to vi . . .
[1] Control Key In Exile, as opposed to next to the A where God Meant it to be . . .
That's not it for cars, as much sense as it makes.
Model/brand sales spike after a redesign, and drop over the next couple/few years. Make a new look, and sales go up again, sell for a couple of years, repeat.
hawk
These *have* been in casinos here for several years. Most players still go to the real dealers.
hawk
> If they even suspect you're using a skill like card
>counting ability to get an edge while playing, they ban
>you from the casino
this is just plain flatly untrue.
When casinos suspect a counter they first watch the play for a while, and only *then* do they dediqee what to do.
Far more counters get comped than disinvited, because most of them either aren't doing it right or are using a flawed system.
hawk
> to emphasize things since bold and italic are unavailable in plain text?
Actually, we do that because we've been doing it since a time when there *was* no standard to trigger inverse video, blink, or whatever (if anything) your terminal offered as an emphasis mode.
We've just never changed . . .
hawk
Actually they're both clearly derived from stormtrooper helmets.
And Lucasfilm now has the Disney Lawyer Horde at it's beck and call . . .
hawk
Yes, ans also . . .
The *very nature* of jury nullification is that it is the impromptu action of the jury members when their consciences are shocked; it is not something that can be argued to them.
Also, while normally discussed for petit juries (trial), it not only also applies to grand juries, but that aspect is actually enshrined in the US Bill of Rights: the right to indictment by grand jury for felony is *because* the colonial grand juries refused to indict patriots for acts of which they were clearly guilty under the law.
hawk, esq.