I expect it'll happen eventually as the markets adjust and more EV's are on the road. Right now it's not a big issue but once significant numbers of your potential renters have EV's it'll make sense to retrofit existing structures. Just like any other service there is a pivot point where it starts making economic sense for landowners to upgrade their properties. After all at some point electric, gas, cable, and indoor plumbing were all new services trying to enter the market.
There are other factors than just the cost of the product being sold. I frequent a small gas station which barely has parking space to service 4 vehicles at a time. There really isn't much area they could expand into which would let them service enough vehicles through out the day to stay in business without charging a very high multiple of the cost of the product. Recharging stations would also likely have to start devoting space to waiting rooms or something to keep customers entertained.
I don't think those are insurmountable problems though. If most of the public was using EV's I expect we would have a lot less charging stations than gas stations. People driving locally will be charging at home most of the time. If enough people start buying EV's the people that own rental properties will start making sure they have a place to charge them. Hell I'd be surprised if parking structures didn't rapidly install chargers and rent those spaces at a premium.
In the end the only people that would likely need charging stations would be those that are passing through on long drives and locals who had an unusual day and had to drive more than usual. My family probably makes 3 to 5 stops at gas stations a month right now, excluding vacation driving. With EV's I would expect us to need a charging station maybe once a month, if at all depending on how much extra range the EV has.
What you had was roasted as you said, not BBQ'd. BBQ is low temperature cooking using combustion for the extra flavor and color. The reason you want a low temperature over a long time is so that most or all of the connective tissue has time to melt without the meat being over cooked and so dried out. With good enough prep you can get nearly the same result with roasting by tightly wrapping the meat so it doesn't dry out but then you really end up with steamed meat, and you miss out on the smoke flavoring.
All that said pig and ox roasts still make for delicious eating. It just isn't the same thing as BBQ. Although I suppose it should be noted that in different parts of the country BBQ has come to mean a lot of different things to different people. Some insist that it has to be beef, or pork and not the other. Some places it has to have a vinegar sauce, some insist that sauce makes it not BBQ. In some regions the entire hog has to be smoked as a whole, you can't cut it up or use only prime parts like ribs. And in some parts of the country any time you cook food on a grill, and I shudder to say this, they call it a BBQ.
There are actually already a lot of BBQ products out there much like this one. And the issue is the cost and output capacity. That and there is a good bit of high importance effort that goes into good BBQ outside of the smoker. You want consistency in the cuts of meat, but you'll never get perfection so you have to learn to work with it. The meat needs to be trimmed properly. Seasoning needs to be mixed and applied, whether it's a marinade, dry rub, mop sauce, or table sauce. You've gotta keep the meat as cool as possible without freezing it, before actually starting the smoke. It's kind of funny to me that they are going to all this effort when the actual smoking of the meat is the easiest part of the process. People have been making Ugly Drum Smokers for a long time now on the cheap. And even Charbroil makes water barrel smokers that can turn out amazingly tasty food for $40. I use a Pit Barrel Cooker myself now because it's just too easy and convenient to justify anything more complex.
It's kind of like that company that made a big money computerized sniper scope system when actually shooting the target is one of the easier parts of sniping. The hard part is everything up to and after that point.
I get the feeling that it's the lumped together numbers for Cars, Trucks, and Vans that screws it all up. A few years ago when I was looking at minivans they seemed to start around $30k. Trucks, especially anything large enough to work out of is going to cost about the same or more. Comparing the cost of these economy class electrics with the prices for vans and trucks is just silly. What they should be compared to is cars with similiar capacity or features.
I expect that when he shows up at the gates asking for asylum some snickering french soldiers will tell him "We've already got one!" and make further derogatory remarks about his father and elderberries.
Drug testing doesn't have to be about strict liability. Depending on how competitive the market is that your company does business in corprate espionage may be a real concern. An illegal drug habit can make for strong blackmail material.
Well to be fair your grandfather would have been buying a cup of cofee, likely black, but possibly with a little sugar and milk added. Starbucks doesn't sell that though. They sell 1 liter warmed milkshakes with coffee flavoring.
I really depends on what kind of contracting you are doing. If you are a an independant contractor I think there is a lot more room for decent pay and such than if you are working for a contractor company. I was on a contract once where I worked for a contractor who was being paid $156K a year for the slot I was filling for $60K. I didn't know the real numbers for the job until I was already signed up. and honestly at the time I was exstatic to be making so much money. But once I saw that contract going up in value by 3% or more per year and everyone was only get about 1% increases on their share of it, I realized what a scam being that type of contractor was. I realize that there are additional costs associated with employing a person, and those costs can often be close to their actual salary. But in my situation I knew that the contractors costs should be incredibly low by comparison because we worked on site and only used equipment provided by the customer. They essentially were only responsible for handling the payroll taxes, managing the health insurance options, and cutting my paycheck. For that they were taking the lions share. If I could have been an independant contractor and bid on that position I could have accepted 20% less for the slot and gotten nearly twice the pay.
I'm too lazy to look up the laws for you but I believe s/he just means they don't have a different pay modifier for overtime. The Fed works that way, once you hit a certain salary level instead of getting time and a half or whatever you instead get an arbitrary hourly rate that isn't quite as much of a boost. And once your salary reaches the point that you make that much money an hour anyways then you just earn your normal rate of pay for those extra hours. The current overtime rate I believe is around $37 an hour.
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Some else have mentioned glass as not being worth recycling and prompted me to read up on the issue.
It appears that there is some monetary value in recycling glass. The problem is that it isn't a high value like for metals. The article I read mentioned $1,400 for a ton of Aluminum scrap, but the same weight of Cullet, which is crushed glass, was only worth $25 a ton at best and $0 at worst. Cullet from clear glass is worth the most at about $25, brown $15, and green mostly worthless. The trouble is that Cullet isn't able to magically transport its self to a buyer, so a recycler is stuck with the prospect of trying to ship a ton of product that is at best worth $25. So if you don't have a buyer close by you could easily spend more money transporting the Cullet than you could ever hope to be paid for it.
So the answer is, sometimes. If you have a buyer for your Cullet nearby and you can sell it to them cheaper than they can buy sand then it's profitable.
Which is exactly what I said. Instead of creating a new symbol to represent a different concept an old symbol is being co-opted. Those abstract algebras are edge cases, and if there is no indication that someone wants to speak in those terms the rest of us presume that the normal rules for arithmetic apply. And in many, possibly most cases, people aren't even aware that such non-standard uses are even possible.
The group thing only raises the challenge a little. Now an enemy nation needs to recruit a group of people that work together instead of a lone individual. But that might also not be necessary depending on how tightly people work together. I seem to remember that Manning actually downloaded and burned the files he stole while working in an open area with other individuals interacting with him.
The estimate for the cost of licensing fees per user sounds way out of whack at $20 per month. I would expect something in the range of $5 maybe running up to $10. Afterall that cost needs to be at or under what people actually pay for the service.
Even if it did end up costing Apple $1 Billion dollars to pay the licensing for that first 3 months it'd very likely end up being worth it to them in the long run provided it is successful. They've got plenty of money in cash and creating further lockin for their customers is what they are all about.
I didn't read her post on tumbler but from the article I read she wasn't pulling her music from iTunes. She's just keeping it out of Apple Music which is their new streaming service. She's still selling music through plenty of other storefronts, brick and mortar as well as digital. Not that she would likely miss 3 months of income very much.
It isn't that it is self evidently true, it's that by simply posing the question you appear to be so idiotic as to dumbfound the person you question.
The numeric symbols and arithmetic signs you are using are very clearly and universally defined. It is only when used in certain very specific contexts by people too lazy to make up different symbols to express a non-standard meaning that there is any reason to presume that they mean anything other than the normal and obvious definitions.
You might as well argue with a shop keeper that you can pay for your groceries with your musty old gym shoes because you've redefined them as representing a gold bar, and you are actually being overly generous by overpaying.
It pretty much comes down to how far do you dare trust your employees. Network security can only get you so far. It ultimately boils down to trusting people not to take your secrets whether they are on physical media or in their head and share or sell them.
So far as I understand it there are only a few reasons people commit espionage; loyalty to something else whether it be a principle or nation, money, or boredom. You can screen people for those things but eventually you come to a point where you just have to hope nobody sells out. The folks that can do the most damage typically aren't paid all that well, certainly not when it comes to another nation state possibly willing to spend millions to turn someone.
The rush hour traffic was pretty bad when I lived there around the turn of the century. That said I thought the highway system with expressways and such was a very nice design. The problem was just that at rush hours it gets overly congested, otherwise it worked very well for getting most places quickly. Most of the people I met though that worked in Tech either lived in the immediate area and weren't commuting from SF, or lived much further out but used public transit for most of the commute. As I recall there were light rail stations right by some of the largest employers of the day. I knew a guy that commuted from Hollister using the rail system for most of the trip and just played games on his laptop the whole way.
I wouldn't mind the dirt so much in NYC, but the smell is just incredible, and it's ever present. It's only after getting accustomed to the smells above that the subway becomes tolerable. And despite the subway being buried the heat down there is worse than on the street.
I've never been to London, but if I had to choose between Silicon Valley and NYC, I would definitely go with Silicon Valley. I lived all over the San Jose area for a couple years and Mountain View/Sunnyvale/Cupertino/Los Altos were all rather pleasant compared to NYC.
If you are willing to accept a sufficiently low enough quality of life I suppose that is true. But how are you paying for your utilities and entertainment equipment?
I've got a few friends and relatives who are currently on various government assistance programs, and working minimum wage jobs. I'm a pretty lazy guy and I'd love to be able to stay home and play games all day. But there is no way I'd be willing to accept their quality of life and living conditions to get that.
I'm curious to actually see how much extra revenue it will generate. I'm of half a mind to predict that it won't raise revenues by that much. I haven't met very many poor people that didn't have cable TV and an internet connection. I don't doubt that there are lots of people who don't have a broadband connection but I suspect that might be more an issue of not having the service available. In fact the only family I can think of that I know that I know doesn't have a broadband connection lives out in the boonies where satelite is the only option.
Even assuming that all of that 24% was deliberate fraud and that those made it through the system, 24% isn't the 50% that was being contested. In fact 24% isn't even half of the 50% that was being claimed.
They could be smoking a joint once a week and growing their own.
At what point do we say that a poor person is spending too much on their own wants and not on their children's needs, and so cut off assistance? It's a devious issue because once you deny the person with the objectionable habit social assistance you are also denying their children the same assistance because of association. There isn't any good way to provide for the children without passing that assistance to their guardian. You could forcibly remove the children from that persons custody but doing so has some possibly severe consequences for the children psychologically, and physically, given the high rates of abuse in foster care and group homes.
In reality the lines can get very blurry and trying to define that line with a simple drug test is absurd. If it is actually a matter of saving kids then we need a much more indepth evaluation of each individual case probably by one or more social worker and possibly a couple lawyers and a judge. That all gets pretty expensive, even more expensive than the drug testing and of course begs for larger government. Which of course is why many of the folks pushing for drug testing of welfare recipients are just pushing for the tests. It allows for their expression of moral indignation with a relatively minor cost and no real positive impact, ignoring the fact that it's probably just cheapest and least harmful to not bother testing at all.
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I expect it'll happen eventually as the markets adjust and more EV's are on the road. Right now it's not a big issue but once significant numbers of your potential renters have EV's it'll make sense to retrofit existing structures. Just like any other service there is a pivot point where it starts making economic sense for landowners to upgrade their properties. After all at some point electric, gas, cable, and indoor plumbing were all new services trying to enter the market.
There are other factors than just the cost of the product being sold. I frequent a small gas station which barely has parking space to service 4 vehicles at a time. There really isn't much area they could expand into which would let them service enough vehicles through out the day to stay in business without charging a very high multiple of the cost of the product. Recharging stations would also likely have to start devoting space to waiting rooms or something to keep customers entertained.
I don't think those are insurmountable problems though. If most of the public was using EV's I expect we would have a lot less charging stations than gas stations. People driving locally will be charging at home most of the time. If enough people start buying EV's the people that own rental properties will start making sure they have a place to charge them. Hell I'd be surprised if parking structures didn't rapidly install chargers and rent those spaces at a premium.
In the end the only people that would likely need charging stations would be those that are passing through on long drives and locals who had an unusual day and had to drive more than usual. My family probably makes 3 to 5 stops at gas stations a month right now, excluding vacation driving. With EV's I would expect us to need a charging station maybe once a month, if at all depending on how much extra range the EV has.
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"I would punch every bee in the face!" -Dane Cook
I'm putting my money on them having recently consumed some Snickers candy bars.
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What you had was roasted as you said, not BBQ'd. BBQ is low temperature cooking using combustion for the extra flavor and color. The reason you want a low temperature over a long time is so that most or all of the connective tissue has time to melt without the meat being over cooked and so dried out. With good enough prep you can get nearly the same result with roasting by tightly wrapping the meat so it doesn't dry out but then you really end up with steamed meat, and you miss out on the smoke flavoring.
All that said pig and ox roasts still make for delicious eating. It just isn't the same thing as BBQ. Although I suppose it should be noted that in different parts of the country BBQ has come to mean a lot of different things to different people. Some insist that it has to be beef, or pork and not the other. Some places it has to have a vinegar sauce, some insist that sauce makes it not BBQ. In some regions the entire hog has to be smoked as a whole, you can't cut it up or use only prime parts like ribs. And in some parts of the country any time you cook food on a grill, and I shudder to say this, they call it a BBQ.
There are actually already a lot of BBQ products out there much like this one. And the issue is the cost and output capacity. That and there is a good bit of high importance effort that goes into good BBQ outside of the smoker. You want consistency in the cuts of meat, but you'll never get perfection so you have to learn to work with it. The meat needs to be trimmed properly. Seasoning needs to be mixed and applied, whether it's a marinade, dry rub, mop sauce, or table sauce. You've gotta keep the meat as cool as possible without freezing it, before actually starting the smoke. It's kind of funny to me that they are going to all this effort when the actual smoking of the meat is the easiest part of the process. People have been making Ugly Drum Smokers for a long time now on the cheap. And even Charbroil makes water barrel smokers that can turn out amazingly tasty food for $40. I use a Pit Barrel Cooker myself now because it's just too easy and convenient to justify anything more complex.
It's kind of like that company that made a big money computerized sniper scope system when actually shooting the target is one of the easier parts of sniping. The hard part is everything up to and after that point.
I get the feeling that it's the lumped together numbers for Cars, Trucks, and Vans that screws it all up. A few years ago when I was looking at minivans they seemed to start around $30k. Trucks, especially anything large enough to work out of is going to cost about the same or more. Comparing the cost of these economy class electrics with the prices for vans and trucks is just silly. What they should be compared to is cars with similiar capacity or features.
I expect that when he shows up at the gates asking for asylum some snickering french soldiers will tell him "We've already got one!" and make further derogatory remarks about his father and elderberries.
Drug testing doesn't have to be about strict liability. Depending on how competitive the market is that your company does business in corprate espionage may be a real concern. An illegal drug habit can make for strong blackmail material.
Well to be fair your grandfather would have been buying a cup of cofee, likely black, but possibly with a little sugar and milk added. Starbucks doesn't sell that though. They sell 1 liter warmed milkshakes with coffee flavoring.
I really depends on what kind of contracting you are doing. If you are a an independant contractor I think there is a lot more room for decent pay and such than if you are working for a contractor company. I was on a contract once where I worked for a contractor who was being paid $156K a year for the slot I was filling for $60K. I didn't know the real numbers for the job until I was already signed up. and honestly at the time I was exstatic to be making so much money. But once I saw that contract going up in value by 3% or more per year and everyone was only get about 1% increases on their share of it, I realized what a scam being that type of contractor was. I realize that there are additional costs associated with employing a person, and those costs can often be close to their actual salary. But in my situation I knew that the contractors costs should be incredibly low by comparison because we worked on site and only used equipment provided by the customer. They essentially were only responsible for handling the payroll taxes, managing the health insurance options, and cutting my paycheck. For that they were taking the lions share. If I could have been an independant contractor and bid on that position I could have accepted 20% less for the slot and gotten nearly twice the pay.
I'm too lazy to look up the laws for you but I believe s/he just means they don't have a different pay modifier for overtime. The Fed works that way, once you hit a certain salary level instead of getting time and a half or whatever you instead get an arbitrary hourly rate that isn't quite as much of a boost. And once your salary reaches the point that you make that much money an hour anyways then you just earn your normal rate of pay for those extra hours. The current overtime rate I believe is around $37 an hour.
Some else have mentioned glass as not being worth recycling and prompted me to read up on the issue.
It appears that there is some monetary value in recycling glass. The problem is that it isn't a high value like for metals. The article I read mentioned $1,400 for a ton of Aluminum scrap, but the same weight of Cullet, which is crushed glass, was only worth $25 a ton at best and $0 at worst. Cullet from clear glass is worth the most at about $25, brown $15, and green mostly worthless. The trouble is that Cullet isn't able to magically transport its self to a buyer, so a recycler is stuck with the prospect of trying to ship a ton of product that is at best worth $25. So if you don't have a buyer close by you could easily spend more money transporting the Cullet than you could ever hope to be paid for it.
So the answer is, sometimes. If you have a buyer for your Cullet nearby and you can sell it to them cheaper than they can buy sand then it's profitable.
Which is exactly what I said. Instead of creating a new symbol to represent a different concept an old symbol is being co-opted. Those abstract algebras are edge cases, and if there is no indication that someone wants to speak in those terms the rest of us presume that the normal rules for arithmetic apply. And in many, possibly most cases, people aren't even aware that such non-standard uses are even possible.
The group thing only raises the challenge a little. Now an enemy nation needs to recruit a group of people that work together instead of a lone individual. But that might also not be necessary depending on how tightly people work together. I seem to remember that Manning actually downloaded and burned the files he stole while working in an open area with other individuals interacting with him.
The estimate for the cost of licensing fees per user sounds way out of whack at $20 per month. I would expect something in the range of $5 maybe running up to $10. Afterall that cost needs to be at or under what people actually pay for the service.
Even if it did end up costing Apple $1 Billion dollars to pay the licensing for that first 3 months it'd very likely end up being worth it to them in the long run provided it is successful. They've got plenty of money in cash and creating further lockin for their customers is what they are all about.
I didn't read her post on tumbler but from the article I read she wasn't pulling her music from iTunes. She's just keeping it out of Apple Music which is their new streaming service. She's still selling music through plenty of other storefronts, brick and mortar as well as digital. Not that she would likely miss 3 months of income very much.
It isn't that it is self evidently true, it's that by simply posing the question you appear to be so idiotic as to dumbfound the person you question.
The numeric symbols and arithmetic signs you are using are very clearly and universally defined. It is only when used in certain very specific contexts by people too lazy to make up different symbols to express a non-standard meaning that there is any reason to presume that they mean anything other than the normal and obvious definitions.
You might as well argue with a shop keeper that you can pay for your groceries with your musty old gym shoes because you've redefined them as representing a gold bar, and you are actually being overly generous by overpaying.
It pretty much comes down to how far do you dare trust your employees. Network security can only get you so far. It ultimately boils down to trusting people not to take your secrets whether they are on physical media or in their head and share or sell them.
So far as I understand it there are only a few reasons people commit espionage; loyalty to something else whether it be a principle or nation, money, or boredom. You can screen people for those things but eventually you come to a point where you just have to hope nobody sells out. The folks that can do the most damage typically aren't paid all that well, certainly not when it comes to another nation state possibly willing to spend millions to turn someone.
The rush hour traffic was pretty bad when I lived there around the turn of the century. That said I thought the highway system with expressways and such was a very nice design. The problem was just that at rush hours it gets overly congested, otherwise it worked very well for getting most places quickly. Most of the people I met though that worked in Tech either lived in the immediate area and weren't commuting from SF, or lived much further out but used public transit for most of the commute. As I recall there were light rail stations right by some of the largest employers of the day. I knew a guy that commuted from Hollister using the rail system for most of the trip and just played games on his laptop the whole way.
I wouldn't mind the dirt so much in NYC, but the smell is just incredible, and it's ever present. It's only after getting accustomed to the smells above that the subway becomes tolerable. And despite the subway being buried the heat down there is worse than on the street.
I've never been to London, but if I had to choose between Silicon Valley and NYC, I would definitely go with Silicon Valley. I lived all over the San Jose area for a couple years and Mountain View/Sunnyvale/Cupertino/Los Altos were all rather pleasant compared to NYC.
If you are willing to accept a sufficiently low enough quality of life I suppose that is true. But how are you paying for your utilities and entertainment equipment?
I've got a few friends and relatives who are currently on various government assistance programs, and working minimum wage jobs. I'm a pretty lazy guy and I'd love to be able to stay home and play games all day. But there is no way I'd be willing to accept their quality of life and living conditions to get that.
I'm curious to actually see how much extra revenue it will generate. I'm of half a mind to predict that it won't raise revenues by that much. I haven't met very many poor people that didn't have cable TV and an internet connection. I don't doubt that there are lots of people who don't have a broadband connection but I suspect that might be more an issue of not having the service available. In fact the only family I can think of that I know that I know doesn't have a broadband connection lives out in the boonies where satelite is the only option.
Even assuming that all of that 24% was deliberate fraud and that those made it through the system, 24% isn't the 50% that was being contested. In fact 24% isn't even half of the 50% that was being claimed.
They could be smoking a joint once a week and growing their own.
At what point do we say that a poor person is spending too much on their own wants and not on their children's needs, and so cut off assistance? It's a devious issue because once you deny the person with the objectionable habit social assistance you are also denying their children the same assistance because of association. There isn't any good way to provide for the children without passing that assistance to their guardian. You could forcibly remove the children from that persons custody but doing so has some possibly severe consequences for the children psychologically, and physically, given the high rates of abuse in foster care and group homes.
In reality the lines can get very blurry and trying to define that line with a simple drug test is absurd. If it is actually a matter of saving kids then we need a much more indepth evaluation of each individual case probably by one or more social worker and possibly a couple lawyers and a judge. That all gets pretty expensive, even more expensive than the drug testing and of course begs for larger government. Which of course is why many of the folks pushing for drug testing of welfare recipients are just pushing for the tests. It allows for their expression of moral indignation with a relatively minor cost and no real positive impact, ignoring the fact that it's probably just cheapest and least harmful to not bother testing at all.