We're talking about an Ubuntu phone here, so let's compared with an Ubuntu desktop. Nobody buys one to play your top of the line fancy expensive games. My $250 kubuntu PC has no problem playing all the supertux and neverputt I want, and any other casual game that non-gamers will play. If you think an ubuntu phone is going to be a prime gaming machine...
Japan was interested in a negotiated surrender which would protect some of their interests, the USA wanted an unconditional surrender and it's fair to say that was part of the reason for using the bombs -- though keeping the USSR from having the piece of post-war Japan it would've gotten as part of an extended war was a big reason too. Not to say that those are sufficient reasons for using weapons of mass destruction against civilians, but they are reasons.
Compared to the old system where packages are left out in the open for anyone to take from your porch and your mail is easily stolen from your unlocked box, without all the effort of figuring out how to make a copy of a key (which a locksmith won't do for you without ID).
Take the central valley of California. It's all farms for many hundreds of miles, and it's all very close to sea level elevation. Yes it's inland -- but when the sea level rises the delta floods and it becomes an inland sea.
My 1991 car (not 70s) didn't have any air bags, because they weren't yet mandatory. My 1998 car has second generation airbags. Newer cars have third generation airbags. See the pattern?
As you well know, California has never collected sales taxes on such transactions. It's a use tax, which clearly shows that they think the sale took place elsewhere and the use took place in your home.
I suggest you look up the whole of human history, and a list of present day countries that have lowest taxes, then re-evaluate how the homeless are doing on charity there.
Actually, what compromises the effectiveness of the program is that the people may demand laws that water it down. If you believe in protecting people against their will from an absurdly small threat (relative to traffic accidents etc) by spying on them, then yes the security of the United States may be damaged.
Lots of people who generally vote republican voted for Perot, because Perot was very anti-tax. What liberal person could ever vote for a guy who ran on a platform of a flat 15% tax for everyone? My dad, for example, always voted for republican presidents before and after Perot but was a big fan of Perot. And the number of people who voted for Perot in 1992 was soooo many more than Nader has ever earned.
The internet sales tax law doesn't require any company selling less than a million dollars to collect tax. That's not a mom and pop internet store. They can afford a developer.
Any company can pick and choose who to do business with. Any website can ban you, including slashdot. Any physical store can order you to leave and not come back. A "customer bill of rights" which states that a company cannot just cut off customers at will would be utterly disastrous, being able to choose and refuse customers is fundamental to doing any sort of business.
That said, street view still doesn't have the streets that 3 of my last 4 apartments have been on here in California a couple of hours from google headquarters. It's really only good for big cities or the major streets of smaller towns.
Google has always said they consider google+ to be an identity service. Nobody should be surprised when they use it as an identity service. The fact that it offers the ability to social network is just a bonus.
The buyers are collecting that, not tesla. But yes, subsidizing a luxury car is a stupid waste since people rich enough to buy it don't care about $10K.
A gasoline powered car is very economical for those of us who don't drive extreme amounts. Gas costs me about $30 a month, if electricity were free and teslas lasted forever it'd take about 150 years with a tesla to make back the purchase price difference.
Well, it was a stable dictatorship. That stopped being the case a couple years ago. Now the only way to re-stabalize it will be to kill millions of people.
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We're talking about an Ubuntu phone here, so let's compared with an Ubuntu desktop. Nobody buys one to play your top of the line fancy expensive games. My $250 kubuntu PC has no problem playing all the supertux and neverputt I want, and any other casual game that non-gamers will play. If you think an ubuntu phone is going to be a prime gaming machine...
If my cheap phone and $250 desktop PC do everything I want them to do perfectly (which they do), they're not junk. They're the right tool for the job.
My unlocked no contract android phone was $100, not $800. Most people neither need nor can afford $800 phones or $50/month contracts.
Extinction level events are much easier to survive in a nuclear bomb shelter than anywhere else in this solar system anyway.
As an added bonus, you can use the cable as a space elevator.
Constant war like that is a new invention though. Before agriculture there was much less need to defend any particular piece of land and people moved around too much to claim resources. (Random source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/23/1225878/-Study-of-Hunter-Gatherers-Shows-War-Not-Inherently-Human )
Japan was interested in a negotiated surrender which would protect some of their interests, the USA wanted an unconditional surrender and it's fair to say that was part of the reason for using the bombs -- though keeping the USSR from having the piece of post-war Japan it would've gotten as part of an extended war was a big reason too. Not to say that those are sufficient reasons for using weapons of mass destruction against civilians, but they are reasons.
Compared to the old system where packages are left out in the open for anyone to take from your porch and your mail is easily stolen from your unlocked box, without all the effort of figuring out how to make a copy of a key (which a locksmith won't do for you without ID).
Take the central valley of California. It's all farms for many hundreds of miles, and it's all very close to sea level elevation. Yes it's inland -- but when the sea level rises the delta floods and it becomes an inland sea.
My 1991 car (not 70s) didn't have any air bags, because they weren't yet mandatory. My 1998 car has second generation airbags. Newer cars have third generation airbags. See the pattern?
As you well know, California has never collected sales taxes on such transactions. It's a use tax, which clearly shows that they think the sale took place elsewhere and the use took place in your home.
Unless you're a behaviorist, then it's good for you.
I suggest you look up the whole of human history, and a list of present day countries that have lowest taxes, then re-evaluate how the homeless are doing on charity there.
Actually, what compromises the effectiveness of the program is that the people may demand laws that water it down. If you believe in protecting people against their will from an absurdly small threat (relative to traffic accidents etc) by spying on them, then yes the security of the United States may be damaged.
Lots of people who generally vote republican voted for Perot, because Perot was very anti-tax. What liberal person could ever vote for a guy who ran on a platform of a flat 15% tax for everyone? My dad, for example, always voted for republican presidents before and after Perot but was a big fan of Perot. And the number of people who voted for Perot in 1992 was soooo many more than Nader has ever earned.
When did Microsoft become a Silicon Valley company? Always thought they were in Washington.
If congress cared, they could stop the president from such actions -- but congress likes it and is happy to look the other way.
The internet sales tax law doesn't require any company selling less than a million dollars to collect tax. That's not a mom and pop internet store. They can afford a developer.
Any company can pick and choose who to do business with. Any website can ban you, including slashdot. Any physical store can order you to leave and not come back. A "customer bill of rights" which states that a company cannot just cut off customers at will would be utterly disastrous, being able to choose and refuse customers is fundamental to doing any sort of business.
You mean gated neighborhoods?
That said, street view still doesn't have the streets that 3 of my last 4 apartments have been on here in California a couple of hours from google headquarters. It's really only good for big cities or the major streets of smaller towns.
Google has always said they consider google+ to be an identity service. Nobody should be surprised when they use it as an identity service. The fact that it offers the ability to social network is just a bonus.
The buyers are collecting that, not tesla. But yes, subsidizing a luxury car is a stupid waste since people rich enough to buy it don't care about $10K.
A gasoline powered car is very economical for those of us who don't drive extreme amounts. Gas costs me about $30 a month, if electricity were free and teslas lasted forever it'd take about 150 years with a tesla to make back the purchase price difference.
Well, it was a stable dictatorship. That stopped being the case a couple years ago. Now the only way to re-stabalize it will be to kill millions of people.
If someone's standing over your shoulder already, they can just watch your hands on the keyboard to discover the password.