It is unlikely that the costs that these properties incur are significant compared to the total operating costs of AT&T. The $100 billion is in the value of the properties themselves, and as such the sale of them arent supposed to effect the price of service that AT&T provides.
Car analogy: You are an independent contractor and own a $60,000 car. You wouldn't charge less for your services just because you sold the $60,000 car.
From the looks of it the Model-X won't even fit in most garages with the doors open.
So you are claiming that you have looked at the pictures, right? Isnt that what you just did?
Wonder how you get this in and out of a garage.
You couldn't have looked at the pictures at all!, because if you did you would have noticed something about the two front doors.... THE FACT THAT THEY ARE REGULAR OLD CAR DOORS.
You just proved that you are a biased douche willing to make shit up, while acting like those very made up facts that you are peddling are something that nobody else needs to double check on, because you just fucking claimed that you just did the double checking for us.
The problem is that you spent so much time calling me names that you forgot to... do anything else.
I forgot to do everything but check your citation, find that you were full of it, and then call you out on it.
Your citation clearly and demonstrably does not say what you claim it said, not does any other for that matter because the claim was false, demonstrably so as I so easily did.
It was easy to find a citation to the contrary of your claims because you were talking when you didnt know what you were talking about.
Apparently, you think I've made some "industrial revolution claim" which is partially true.
"There is extremely solid evidence that the climate has been getting steadily warmer since the industrial revolution."
Thats 100% false, sir, Not partially true. And even if it was partially true, that would still support the observation that you can't tell the truth without lying. Why didn't you stick the the facts, sir? Why is it that you cannot stick to the facts? What about you makes it such that you cannot talk without exaggerating things to the point of telling a lie? What is it sir, about you?
There is extremely solid evidence that the climate has been getting steadily warmer since the industrial revolution. http://climate.nasa.gov/
The only two mentions of the industrial revolution on the page you linked to are specifically related to CO2 and ocean acidification, not temperature.
I am wondering what your problem is. Are you so addicted to exaggeration that you can't tell the truth without lying? Or maybe you are so careless in your comprehension that you really think that the page you linked to says something that it does not?
The most laughable part of this non-factual incident that you brought upon yourself is that you could have found a citation that supports something very close to what you claimed. I guess you wanted to make the industrial revolution claim, even though facts dont support it, because its so simple minded.
Lets not let the fact that since the industrial revolution, that we had a period of 40 years of cooling, distract you from your sloppy worthless ways.
If they can allocate for resellers, they already have that huge warehouse.
They do not "allocate" for resellers.. and as such do not need huge warehouses.
They MANUFACTURE for resellers. The reseller first negotiates and signs a contract and THEN the devices get manufactured and delivered by the date(s) specified in the contract.
You truly are showing stellar ignorance of manufacturing, business in general, and critical thinking. Its a fucking trifecta of liberal bullshit reasoning.
I am not putting a political spin on the subject. I am pointing out that liberal rhetoric instead of well informed and reasoned thought supported by facts dominates your argument. You are an empty-headed liberal and thats all there is to it. You didnt even know that manufacturers dont bother making products that arent already sold to a reseller or distributor! What a liberal dipshit... pretending to know shit as usual.
The Nav knows what's the speed limit at your location an instead of beeping when you overdo it, it will raise your premium each time, perhaps even rat you out to the cops.
The insurance company would only care about the speed limit in the case of a claim in order to attempt to not pay it.
The insurance companies will instead profile your driving habits, including speeds at locations, in order to draw a comparison between you and the rest of the population. The posted limit on the road is irrelevant to these ends.
. I'm only cutting out the middlemen that have largely made things worse.
You are so ignorant of a liberal that you actually think that waving your hands and saying something is equivalent to a reasoned, well thought out, argument.
You have not proposed to cut out the middle man. You have proposed that the factory be required to set up a very large warehouse to replace the entire worlds product buffer so that it can directly field your request for 5 drives.
The more reason to legislatively block such a restriction, and allow direct sales to cut the middleman/resellers out.
Its allowed. There is no restriction.
The fact that they dont want to do business with people keen on forcing them into the retail business does not amount to a market failure. It amounts to a liberal, with a raging hard-on for the theory that business is evil, being given a subject to talk about that inevitably proves exactly how ignorant he is.
On the other hand, the attempt to produce low cost, low power universal communication tools has been successful beyond the imaginations of people even thirty years ago, and fundamental physics research would simply awe the likes of Feynman and Dirac if they were around to see it.
You are kidding, right?
Feynman and Dirac are responsible for the most successful scientific theory in all of the history of mankind thus far.
Its Quantum Electrodynamics and the theory fits experiment to such a great degree that they were able to predict the value of a fundamental constant verified in their lifetimes to billionths of a percentage point. You talk of modern communication tools but you dont seem to realize that they all owe their existence to the very men you wish to brush off.
Richard Feynman was hands down the greatest scientist the world has ever known, as it was not just QED that he was essentially involved with pioneering. He was essential in developing the mathematics of quantum mechanics, essential in superfluidity, and pioneered the quark model of particle physics. He even invented quantum computing and was first to suggest nano-technology for christ sakes!
One of the things is that if it ever got so bad that the people were rising up in large numbers against the government, the government could never muster enough manpower to have a presence in every town and city.
It might be difficult for the people to win back control of the whole country, but it would be impossible for the government to do it.
This type of situation has presented itself many times in many regions of the world. Governments being reduced to a small territory during a revolution or civil war is a common theme in history (Republic of China vs The Peoples Republic of China, for example), but also wars between countries often end up with the winning side having too much territory to effectively control so they end up having to give a lot of it back.
Also, the pretense that the military will be a united entity during a revolution or civil war is sketchy at best.
The principle is not to attack the vendor (or even Microsoft), it is that the consumer should have a choice, and sufficient information to make that choice wisely.
The consumer does have a choice. Its just not the choice you like.. which is to choose to not do business with anyone they dont want to do business with.
What you are arguing is that Lenovo should be forced to offer every possible choice so that every possible consumer can hold every possible ethics while doing business with them.
If you believe in liberty, then you also believe in Lenovos liberty. Since you clearly do not believe in Lenovos liberty, you are a hypocrite for arguing in favor of consumer liberty as a tyranny.
If you have one of these smart phones then you've already fallen for some dancing bunnies, because right now these smart phones are full-on 1984. I know its a deductive 1984, but its still 1984.
Indeed. Corporate taxation simply doesnt work out. At best you make American businesses less competitive, and at worst you turn them into offshore businesses.
We really need to move to a consumption tax, but that will never happen. Congress views taxes as a way to control behavior.
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AT&T's core business is telecom, not renting real estate.
It wasn't software either.. but here we are with Unix and C, products of AT&T.
It is unlikely that the costs that these properties incur are significant compared to the total operating costs of AT&T. The $100 billion is in the value of the properties themselves, and as such the sale of them arent supposed to effect the price of service that AT&T provides.
Car analogy: You are an independent contractor and own a $60,000 car. You wouldn't charge less for your services just because you sold the $60,000 car.
From the looks of it the Model-X won't even fit in most garages with the doors open.
So you are claiming that you have looked at the pictures, right? Isnt that what you just did?
Wonder how you get this in and out of a garage.
You couldn't have looked at the pictures at all!, because if you did you would have noticed something about the two front doors.... THE FACT THAT THEY ARE REGULAR OLD CAR DOORS.
You just proved that you are a biased douche willing to make shit up, while acting like those very made up facts that you are peddling are something that nobody else needs to double check on, because you just fucking claimed that you just did the double checking for us.
What a fucking douche bag.
The problem is that you spent so much time calling me names that you forgot to... do anything else.
I forgot to do everything but check your citation, find that you were full of it, and then call you out on it.
Your citation clearly and demonstrably does not say what you claim it said, not does any other for that matter because the claim was false, demonstrably so as I so easily did.
It was easy to find a citation to the contrary of your claims because you were talking when you didnt know what you were talking about.
Apparently, you think I've made some "industrial revolution claim" which is partially true.
"There is extremely solid evidence that the climate has been getting steadily warmer since the industrial revolution."
Thats 100% false, sir, Not partially true. And even if it was partially true, that would still support the observation that you can't tell the truth without lying. Why didn't you stick the the facts, sir? Why is it that you cannot stick to the facts? What about you makes it such that you cannot talk without exaggerating things to the point of telling a lie? What is it sir, about you?
You explanation makes sense..except that it was already +5
There is extremely solid evidence that the climate has been getting steadily warmer since the industrial revolution. http://climate.nasa.gov/
The only two mentions of the industrial revolution on the page you linked to are specifically related to CO2 and ocean acidification, not temperature.
I am wondering what your problem is. Are you so addicted to exaggeration that you can't tell the truth without lying? Or maybe you are so careless in your comprehension that you really think that the page you linked to says something that it does not?
The most laughable part of this non-factual incident that you brought upon yourself is that you could have found a citation that supports something very close to what you claimed. I guess you wanted to make the industrial revolution claim, even though facts dont support it, because its so simple minded.
Lets not let the fact that since the industrial revolution, that we had a period of 40 years of cooling, distract you from your sloppy worthless ways.
On an individual level, yes.
Thats the entire point of the insurance companies using GPS. Are you really this slow are are you just pretending to be completely fucking retarded?
If Google tracked me via Chrome, they would see 100% of all websites visited are *.netflix.com/*
Yeah, thats all I use Chrome for.
One does 10,000 miles during rush hour in stop and go, the other does 20,000 at 4am on the highway...
If they can allocate for resellers, they already have that huge warehouse.
They do not "allocate" for resellers.. and as such do not need huge warehouses.
They MANUFACTURE for resellers. The reseller first negotiates and signs a contract and THEN the devices get manufactured and delivered by the date(s) specified in the contract.
You truly are showing stellar ignorance of manufacturing, business in general, and critical thinking. Its a fucking trifecta of liberal bullshit reasoning.
I am not putting a political spin on the subject. I am pointing out that liberal rhetoric instead of well informed and reasoned thought supported by facts dominates your argument. You are an empty-headed liberal and thats all there is to it. You didnt even know that manufacturers dont bother making products that arent already sold to a reseller or distributor! What a liberal dipshit... pretending to know shit as usual.
They dont have "mileage information" without such a device. All they have is your mileage, a single data point.
Mileage information would also include information like the time of day the miles are put on, where the miles were put on, etc.
The Nav knows what's the speed limit at your location an instead of beeping when you overdo it, it will raise your premium each time, perhaps even rat you out to the cops.
The insurance company would only care about the speed limit in the case of a claim in order to attempt to not pay it.
The insurance companies will instead profile your driving habits, including speeds at locations, in order to draw a comparison between you and the rest of the population. The posted limit on the road is irrelevant to these ends.
Neither are even remotely objective.
. I'm only cutting out the middlemen that have largely made things worse.
You are so ignorant of a liberal that you actually think that waving your hands and saying something is equivalent to a reasoned, well thought out, argument.
You have not proposed to cut out the middle man. You have proposed that the factory be required to set up a very large warehouse to replace the entire worlds product buffer so that it can directly field your request for 5 drives.
The more reason to legislatively block such a restriction, and allow direct sales to cut the middleman/resellers out.
Its allowed. There is no restriction.
The fact that they dont want to do business with people keen on forcing them into the retail business does not amount to a market failure. It amounts to a liberal, with a raging hard-on for the theory that business is evil, being given a subject to talk about that inevitably proves exactly how ignorant he is.
Have you listened to Feynman explaining things?
On the other hand, the attempt to produce low cost, low power universal communication tools has been successful beyond the imaginations of people even thirty years ago, and fundamental physics research would simply awe the likes of Feynman and Dirac if they were around to see it.
You are kidding, right?
Feynman and Dirac are responsible for the most successful scientific theory in all of the history of mankind thus far.
Its Quantum Electrodynamics and the theory fits experiment to such a great degree that they were able to predict the value of a fundamental constant verified in their lifetimes to billionths of a percentage point. You talk of modern communication tools but you dont seem to realize that they all owe their existence to the very men you wish to brush off.
Richard Feynman was hands down the greatest scientist the world has ever known, as it was not just QED that he was essentially involved with pioneering. He was essential in developing the mathematics of quantum mechanics, essential in superfluidity, and pioneered the quark model of particle physics. He even invented quantum computing and was first to suggest nano-technology for christ sakes!
Earth's scape velocity is 10.735 km/s at the Equator.
Earths escape velocity is irrelevant in the case of non-ballistic flight. Rockets when burning their fuel are distinctly non-ballistic.
One of the things is that if it ever got so bad that the people were rising up in large numbers against the government, the government could never muster enough manpower to have a presence in every town and city.
It might be difficult for the people to win back control of the whole country, but it would be impossible for the government to do it.
This type of situation has presented itself many times in many regions of the world. Governments being reduced to a small territory during a revolution or civil war is a common theme in history (Republic of China vs The Peoples Republic of China, for example), but also wars between countries often end up with the winning side having too much territory to effectively control so they end up having to give a lot of it back.
Also, the pretense that the military will be a united entity during a revolution or civil war is sketchy at best.
We shouldn't be forced to pay for a software licence just because we want to buy a piece of hardware.
Who is holding a gun to your head and making you buy from Lenovo?
Someone, here, has my money unjustly.
Its actually you that has your money, for you saved money by buying the crapware loaded machine instead of a blank machine.
The principle is not to attack the vendor (or even Microsoft), it is that the consumer should have a choice, and sufficient information to make that choice wisely.
The consumer does have a choice. Its just not the choice you like.. which is to choose to not do business with anyone they dont want to do business with.
What you are arguing is that Lenovo should be forced to offer every possible choice so that every possible consumer can hold every possible ethics while doing business with them.
If you believe in liberty, then you also believe in Lenovos liberty. Since you clearly do not believe in Lenovos liberty, you are a hypocrite for arguing in favor of consumer liberty as a tyranny.
Dancing Bunnies do not interest me
Famous last words?
If you have one of these smart phones then you've already fallen for some dancing bunnies, because right now these smart phones are full-on 1984. I know its a deductive 1984, but its still 1984.
A Connecticut Casino has a set of 4 "core values" that its employees are supposed to emulate:
Blowing Away the Customer
Developing Passionate and Dedicated Employees
Continuously Striving for Perfection
Bottom Line Performance
Is this out of a terrorist handbook?
Indeed. Corporate taxation simply doesnt work out. At best you make American businesses less competitive, and at worst you turn them into offshore businesses.
We really need to move to a consumption tax, but that will never happen. Congress views taxes as a way to control behavior.