I encourage you to secede and become your own nation as rapidly as possible. It's the only way you can escape those oppressive red states. I'm sure in this modern world you'll have no need of a defense budget, so you'll have a huge economic advantage. And without those evil Republicans, you can throw open your borders to your heart's content while providing a UBI for everyone in the country.
Next will be a Bill banning people from being mean on line.
I expect it will be just as easily enforced as this Bill.
As a nation, we can't even stop totally outlawed robocalls. Anything thinking they can ban bots on the internet is smoking California's finest - which is probably a safe assumption given "Jerry Brown".
Netflix has done amazing work to minimize the bandwidth they consume. I think they've re-encoded their entire library twice now.
In this Americas, Amazon Prime Video consumes more data (7.7% of downstream traffic) than YouTube (7.5%), per Sandvine.
I think that shows the difference it can make: YouTube video is also fairly well optimized, while I suspect Amazon just deoesn't care at this point, though they eventually will.
If raising the minimum wage would effectively outlaw part time warehouse work at Amazon, how do you explain Amazon voluntarily increasing to $15/hr?
I never made any such claim. But demanding that all Amazon workers are paid enough where they don't need food stamps? Hows that going to work for people who work 24 hours a week? 12 Hours a week?
Even with that very broad measure, it's going down, which means upward market pressure on wages. As the economy continues to improve, wages will continue to rise. Let's just keep this economy going as long as we can before the next stupid bubble.
Would you outlaw jobs for teenagers? It's already vastly harder to get a teenage shit job than it was in my day,
There's a place in the market for shit jobs for peolpe still living at home, going to school, and looking for both pocket money and learning how to work any job (show up on time, sober and well groomed - you'd be amazed). It's bad when adults find themselves working such jobs, but if you have no skills at all, you have to start somewhere.
Amazon warehouse jobs are a tier above that, and it makes sense they pay somewhat better. Those are low-skill jobs for adults, but still there's a big part of their workforce that works part time, either with a second job or other responsibilities. Part-time work should not be effectively outlawed.
Roe v Wade did not write a law, it specifically said there is an entire type of law that cannot pass constitutional muster. They recognized a principle (a woman's right to choose) that was constitutionally protected
It did a lot more than that. It set out the current approach that progressively limits abortion later in the term. The ruling was oddly founded more in a right to privacy than "a woman's right to choose".
Either way bypasses the only issue that matters: at what age does a fetus have what legal protections that we afford all humans, even those who cannot care for themselves. That would be far better to set out in federal law in a democracy. Any such law will necessarily set arbitrary boundaries, but that's no different than any other age-based law.
A federal law legalizing abortion would be at the mercy of the next conservative congress to get voted in (consider the ACA, aka Obamacare as an example).
Possibly, but you'll note that ACA hasn't actually been repealed or anything.
Considering the political capital that passing such a law would spend
It would spend exactly 0 with a Democrat house, senate, president, and SCOTUS. Which the Dems had no that long ago. No need to negotiate anything, and no Democrat would dare vote against it. You'd even get some GOP defectors, at least in the house and possibly in the Senate.
Soon I expect we'll have 6 or 7 Republican-appointed justices. How will that go, by comparison?
There are very evil people who want you to believe the following lie: "competence is a myth; success is all unfair". They are not your friend, and do not have your best interests at heart.
There are ways of living that make it much more likely that you will be both successful and happy. Seek out and embrace one that seems compatible with you, and that you see working for other people. Avoid ways of living that seem to make everyone unhappy and stressed out all the time, or that don't seem to make anyone successful.
Lots of people claim "Jedi" as their religion. I know people who follow the sorta-religion started by Stranger in a Strange Land (much to Heinlein's horror). The Mormons' holy book pretty much admits Joseph Smith was just making stuff up (not that it calls attention to it).
People are just looking for a value structure that seems to work for them. Doesn't matter at first whether it claims to be the One True Faith. Organizations tend to go bad over time though.
Does he not even recognize that ideas and discoveries by women were almost unanimously dismissed and women even prohibited from participating in scientific fields or hell, any academic field until recently?
Perhaps the fact that the quote people are upset about was on a slide titled "Discrimination against women" suggests that he does know that.
Roe v Wade effectively wrote federal law. If we instead had an actual federal law, then any constitutional challenge to such a law would have a very high bar to clear, as the Constitution says nothing about the topic at all, and by modern interpretation everything is interstate trade. There would be no need to invoke "penunbras" or any such BS if the Dems had the courage to pass a simple law. But of course they don't want to: that would deprive them of their biggest issue.
In a job interview? Honestly, if three different women testified under oath that a job candidate might have something to do with serial rape and was present at an attempted rape, you would just let go, not even want to investigate this further and hire the candidate right away?
Depends on whether the accuser was even remotely credible. For example, if everyone else she claimed was there disagreed, then there's not enough there. Even then, if the guy had passed 6 FBI background checks, there seems little point in another one.
But of course that's not what the current circus in DC is about at all: it's entirely a sham to delay confirmation until after the election.
You seem to have a deep misunderstanding of what a search warrant is. It allows the government to search; it does not compel you to cooperate.
The police can use biometrics against your will, things that you are not things that you do, but they cannot compel you to disclose e.g. the combination to a safe. They can, of course, just cut the safe open.
It shlouldn't surprise anyone that the US government has thrown the Bill of Rights in the shitter, since it's awfully inconvenient for totalitarian rule. And given the ongoing drama over confirming a justice who cares about the text of the Constitution, we'll continue sliding down the slope. Unconstitutional searches are mandatory at every courthouse, have been for years.
Make no mistake, "protecting abortion" is the pretense for opposing justices who support the Constitution, but the actual goal is removal to any impediment to government power. (Otherwise, when the Dems had all three branches, they would have passed a federal law legalizing abortion, taking it out of the hands of the SCOTUS - but they in no way care about the actual issue, so of course they didn't.)
how about a character break character while filming and accuse someone of doing something. (It's got to be a female though, since they don't lie.)
And then we could follow the cast and crew spread to the winds while the accused producer loses everything and ends up on the street, disheveled and homeless.
Just so you know, there's an existing genre of "drama breaks out of character into conflict between actors, and we follow both sets of events". It's called "modern professional wrestling".
Givee people a pre defined list of options and let them choose from. Have contingency plans for every option they can choose.
Optimistically, there would be a few filmed endings, and you could watch whichever took your fancy. Cynically, this is the new reality TV, and there won't even be writers.
Personally, I'd rather see a "kill a character" vote
Worked for removing the Jason Todd Robin from the Batman comics. DC offered a poll (with a 1-900 number) in 1988 to see if that particular robin should be killed, and the result was overwhelmingly for death. He stayed dead for quite a long time, too (forever, by comic book standards, it used to be said he was one of two characters who would actually stay dead, but they eventually brought him back).
This will be more "we filmed 3 endings", I expect. People's narrative choices tend to follow the 80/20 rule, so 3 endings will get you 99% of the audience. The exception to that is love triagles (or love dodecahedrons) where you can get a more even spread. I suspect romances will be the focus if this takes off, not "choose your own adventure".
IMO, profit numbers aren't interesting until Tesla is consistently producing "real car company" numbers for the Model 3. If it doesn't, for lack of ability or lack of demand, it's toast (though I think it will). As you say, how will their sales beonce they're past the pre-orders.
Next year, the interesting question will be "at volume, how profitable is Tesla before debt service". That will determine whether the company will survive. If they're able to get on top of fixed costs, but not keep up with debt service, I expect they'll find bridge loans; otherwise again they're toast.
IMO, they can break even against COGS for the $35k model in 2019 and be fine, as long as the Model 3 line as a whole has the cashflow to cover all the fixed costs and make some headway against the debt. I don't expect them to be really profitable until they have a second high-production model (SUV or pickup truck), which is a ways off.
Nadella is an odd mix, between the "bend over and take it" approach to pushing Win10 upgrades and associated spyware and the embrace of open source and cross-platform products. Way the heck better than Balmer though (he may be a founder, but he was a sales guy through-and-through).
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Hey now, don't be sad. I'm sure the People's Utopia of California will welcome immigrants from all nations! Your Utopia still awaits.
I encourage you to secede and become your own nation as rapidly as possible. It's the only way you can escape those oppressive red states. I'm sure in this modern world you'll have no need of a defense budget, so you'll have a huge economic advantage. And without those evil Republicans, you can throw open your borders to your heart's content while providing a UBI for everyone in the country.
Your Utopia awaits.
Next will be a Bill banning people from being mean on line.
I expect it will be just as easily enforced as this Bill.
As a nation, we can't even stop totally outlawed robocalls. Anything thinking they can ban bots on the internet is smoking California's finest - which is probably a safe assumption given "Jerry Brown".
Netflix has done amazing work to minimize the bandwidth they consume. I think they've re-encoded their entire library twice now.
In this Americas, Amazon Prime Video consumes more data (7.7% of downstream traffic) than YouTube (7.5%), per Sandvine.
I think that shows the difference it can make: YouTube video is also fairly well optimized, while I suspect Amazon just deoesn't care at this point, though they eventually will.
If raising the minimum wage would effectively outlaw part time warehouse work at Amazon, how do you explain Amazon voluntarily increasing to $15/hr?
I never made any such claim. But demanding that all Amazon workers are paid enough where they don't need food stamps? Hows that going to work for people who work 24 hours a week? 12 Hours a week?
Even with that very broad measure, it's going down, which means upward market pressure on wages. As the economy continues to improve, wages will continue to rise. Let's just keep this economy going as long as we can before the next stupid bubble.
Would you outlaw jobs for teenagers? It's already vastly harder to get a teenage shit job than it was in my day,
There's a place in the market for shit jobs for peolpe still living at home, going to school, and looking for both pocket money and learning how to work any job (show up on time, sober and well groomed - you'd be amazed). It's bad when adults find themselves working such jobs, but if you have no skills at all, you have to start somewhere.
Amazon warehouse jobs are a tier above that, and it makes sense they pay somewhat better. Those are low-skill jobs for adults, but still there's a big part of their workforce that works part time, either with a second job or other responsibilities. Part-time work should not be effectively outlawed.
Roe v Wade did not write a law, it specifically said there is an entire type of law that cannot pass constitutional muster. They recognized a principle (a woman's right to choose) that was constitutionally protected
It did a lot more than that. It set out the current approach that progressively limits abortion later in the term. The ruling was oddly founded more in a right to privacy than "a woman's right to choose".
Either way bypasses the only issue that matters: at what age does a fetus have what legal protections that we afford all humans, even those who cannot care for themselves. That would be far better to set out in federal law in a democracy. Any such law will necessarily set arbitrary boundaries, but that's no different than any other age-based law.
A federal law legalizing abortion would be at the mercy of the next conservative congress to get voted in (consider the ACA, aka Obamacare as an example).
Possibly, but you'll note that ACA hasn't actually been repealed or anything.
Considering the political capital that passing such a law would spend
It would spend exactly 0 with a Democrat house, senate, president, and SCOTUS. Which the Dems had no that long ago. No need to negotiate anything, and no Democrat would dare vote against it. You'd even get some GOP defectors, at least in the house and possibly in the Senate.
Soon I expect we'll have 6 or 7 Republican-appointed justices. How will that go, by comparison?
There are very evil people who want you to believe the following lie: "competence is a myth; success is all unfair". They are not your friend, and do not have your best interests at heart.
There are ways of living that make it much more likely that you will be both successful and happy. Seek out and embrace one that seems compatible with you, and that you see working for other people. Avoid ways of living that seem to make everyone unhappy and stressed out all the time, or that don't seem to make anyone successful.
Lots of people claim "Jedi" as their religion. I know people who follow the sorta-religion started by Stranger in a Strange Land (much to Heinlein's horror). The Mormons' holy book pretty much admits Joseph Smith was just making stuff up (not that it calls attention to it).
People are just looking for a value structure that seems to work for them. Doesn't matter at first whether it claims to be the One True Faith. Organizations tend to go bad over time though.
Does he not even recognize that ideas and discoveries by women were almost unanimously dismissed and women even prohibited from participating in scientific fields or hell, any academic field until recently?
Perhaps the fact that the quote people are upset about was on a slide titled "Discrimination against women" suggests that he does know that.
Roe v Wade effectively wrote federal law. If we instead had an actual federal law, then any constitutional challenge to such a law would have a very high bar to clear, as the Constitution says nothing about the topic at all, and by modern interpretation everything is interstate trade. There would be no need to invoke "penunbras" or any such BS if the Dems had the courage to pass a simple law. But of course they don't want to: that would deprive them of their biggest issue.
In a job interview? Honestly, if three different women testified under oath that a job candidate might have something to do with serial rape and was present at an attempted rape, you would just let go, not even want to investigate this further and hire the candidate right away?
Depends on whether the accuser was even remotely credible. For example, if everyone else she claimed was there disagreed, then there's not enough there. Even then, if the guy had passed 6 FBI background checks, there seems little point in another one.
But of course that's not what the current circus in DC is about at all: it's entirely a sham to delay confirmation until after the election.
You seem to have a deep misunderstanding of what a search warrant is. It allows the government to search; it does not compel you to cooperate.
The police can use biometrics against your will, things that you are not things that you do, but they cannot compel you to disclose e.g. the combination to a safe. They can, of course, just cut the safe open.
It shlouldn't surprise anyone that the US government has thrown the Bill of Rights in the shitter, since it's awfully inconvenient for totalitarian rule. And given the ongoing drama over confirming a justice who cares about the text of the Constitution, we'll continue sliding down the slope. Unconstitutional searches are mandatory at every courthouse, have been for years.
Make no mistake, "protecting abortion" is the pretense for opposing justices who support the Constitution, but the actual goal is removal to any impediment to government power. (Otherwise, when the Dems had all three branches, they would have passed a federal law legalizing abortion, taking it out of the hands of the SCOTUS - but they in no way care about the actual issue, so of course they didn't.)
ecause murder and war about differences in opinion over entertainment media have been such huge historical issues in the past...
Depends on how one looks at religion.
People want car chases, guns guns guns, nudity, and no story.
Judging by novel sales, what people what most is a good mystery, followed by romance. Adventure is a distant third, followed by children's stories.
how about a character break character while filming and accuse someone of doing something. (It's got to be a female though, since they don't lie.)
And then we could follow the cast and crew spread to the winds while the accused producer loses everything and ends up on the street, disheveled and homeless.
Just so you know, there's an existing genre of "drama breaks out of character into conflict between actors, and we follow both sets of events". It's called "modern professional wrestling".
Givee people a pre defined list of options and let them choose from. Have contingency plans for every option they can choose.
Optimistically, there would be a few filmed endings, and you could watch whichever took your fancy. Cynically, this is the new reality TV, and there won't even be writers.
Personally, I'd rather see a "kill a character" vote
Worked for removing the Jason Todd Robin from the Batman comics. DC offered a poll (with a 1-900 number) in 1988 to see if that particular robin should be killed, and the result was overwhelmingly for death. He stayed dead for quite a long time, too (forever, by comic book standards, it used to be said he was one of two characters who would actually stay dead, but they eventually brought him back).
This will be more "we filmed 3 endings", I expect. People's narrative choices tend to follow the 80/20 rule, so 3 endings will get you 99% of the audience. The exception to that is love triagles (or love dodecahedrons) where you can get a more even spread. I suspect romances will be the focus if this takes off, not "choose your own adventure".
you can't use sexist laws to combat sexism (which is a fair point), what alternatives are there?
You mean, other that deciding positions on merit? Or allowing voters to decide elected positions?
IMO, profit numbers aren't interesting until Tesla is consistently producing "real car company" numbers for the Model 3. If it doesn't, for lack of ability or lack of demand, it's toast (though I think it will). As you say, how will their sales beonce they're past the pre-orders.
Next year, the interesting question will be "at volume, how profitable is Tesla before debt service". That will determine whether the company will survive. If they're able to get on top of fixed costs, but not keep up with debt service, I expect they'll find bridge loans; otherwise again they're toast.
IMO, they can break even against COGS for the $35k model in 2019 and be fine, as long as the Model 3 line as a whole has the cashflow to cover all the fixed costs and make some headway against the debt. I don't expect them to be really profitable until they have a second high-production model (SUV or pickup truck), which is a ways off.
Yes. Social media: all lies. Official, presidential, or otherwise, still automatically lies.
Nadella is an odd mix, between the "bend over and take it" approach to pushing Win10 upgrades and associated spyware and the embrace of open source and cross-platform products. Way the heck better than Balmer though (he may be a founder, but he was a sales guy through-and-through).