In the U.S. 156,000 EV's were sold http://www.fleetcarma.com/ev-s... Mostly to people in CA who got tax breaks for buying them, or the well heeled San Francisco crowd no doubt. Certainly not the farmers in the San Joaquin valley.
There are big ego's in the tech field? And they are often rude to people they consider less awesome than themselves? This can't possibly be true.
People don't play well in teams sometimes? Really? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Clearly it's all because of race/gender/LGBT issues and not because humans of different age and maturity levels have had the same issues for the last thousand years or so. THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!!!
There are snowflakes who run to HR the moment they feel the least bit of pressure? And Catbert is oh, so concerned. Please...
Ten percent of the people do 90% of the work, and often get paid more than the other 90%? THAT'S SO UNFAIR! It doesn't force mediocrity on everyone! THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!!!
Nonsense. If you want to know what people think you survey as many people as you can, and then create a balanced result set based on representative quotas of age, race, gender, income, and geo region - at a minimum. So you sample, say, 10,000 people, and then build a balanced sample set of 5,000 that reflects the country.
This is how REAL market research is done. 90% of the polls you read about mean NOTHING. So averaging a bunch of crap produces an average of crap. And when you "adjust them for historical accuracy and likely margin for error" you're fudging the numbers to meet the outcome requested by your client...
Yes, polling is a science. Doing it right is expensive. It works extremely well - companies spend huge money on it, and it absolutely works. All of the "everyday" products you buy - CPG (Consumer Package Goods) - are what they are because of effective market research.
On the other hand your typical political poll is absolute crap. A random sample of 1,000 people conducted over the telephone has an MOE of +/- 100%. You don't know what time of day they called - this, in itself, makes a huge difference; what location they called; did they call landlines or cell phones; did they ask screener questions, like "Do you work for a political party or a campaign"; did they suppress any results; and so many other basic polling methodologies. Many of the political polls don't even ask people if they are registered to vote, or if they voted in the last election! Rasmussen you can put some small faith in. Gallup, same. These Fox News, WSJ, NBC, WaPo, etc. polls are completely meaningless as is the "Real Clear Politics" poll.
It's not a TREATY it's an ACCORD and actual participation is not MANDATORY. So you can make a feel good promise and not do shit. The whole thing is utterly meaningless and is akin to wearing a ribbon instead of actually doing something, Jeez
The subsidies given to small wildcat drillers in the oil industry are a medicine dropper of money compared to the truckloads of cash given to the solar, wind, and battery industries. Most of that money would have been better off burned to create electricity, given the endless parade of colossal failures. Stop all subsidies to solar, wind, batteries, electric cars, coal, oil, and natural gas and THEN see what happens. Wind farms would vanish in a day. EV sales would continue to be anemic. Solar would have to compete on a level playing field.
You might want to examine the financial statements of these companies before making such claims. While you're at it, examine the report being touted here which counts working in "renewable" jobs like picking up trash and hauling people's garbage.
Marketing, Mighty Martian, Marketing. Companies making solar panels, wind turbines, and the like have exactly the same motivation as the oil industry. They are all paying the same bribes to the same politicians and all looking for the same favors, and they are all stretching the truth, planting stories in the media, and painting feel good pictures.
You're misguided.
Private contractors built all that NASA stuff not the government. The government acted as project manager. For example, the government contracted with M.I.T. to build the Apollo navigation computer.
There is so much money in new drugs that the Pharma companies spend huge money on research sometimes paying the Universities. The government IMPEDES this process, it does nothing to make it better.
The problem is that we as a society have redefined ratings to impressions and clicks. The content that gets the most impressions is the content that makes you angry.
At the same time nobody practices journalism any more, because the push is to create content, content, content faster and faster. More content = more chances for impressions and clicks.
This has created a system where the slightly media savvy can seed a lower level blog with some fake story based on a few fake people with fake emails... where it's picked up by a higher level blog... where it is picked up by the main stream press. As a result MOST if not ALL of what you read is designed with one thing and one thing only - to get impressions and clicks. It's almost ALL fake news and nobody cares, and this will only get worse because we allow it to.
Let's look at the typical web server:
OS *NIX mostly C with C++
Sites: PHP, wordpress, laravel, magento, Zend, Code Ignitor, Kohana, Yii
Client side: Javascript snippets here and there, boostrap. Angular JS might really take off except version 2 is incompatible with version 1, and version 4 is incompatible with version 1 and 2 clients don't usually pay for their site to be rewritten over and over.
Yup, sounds like the entire world is going to Java or.NET to me too...
If anyone would bother to read the latest tell all book from the Hillary Campaign they would learn that the Russia Collusion story was invented in the 24 hours after she lost. But heaven forbid we believe people who were there, as opposed to unnamed sources...
You are, of course, 100% correct, Trump plays politics using the Alinsky playbook and therefore must be eliminated at all costs.
China - Who burns more coal in open stoves than we can imagine, and has cities choked with horrible smog... And India, who can't provide even the most basic necessities for the majority of it's population - helping with Climate Change?
Please, please, please buy a plane ticket and go spend some time in these places and you'll realize how utterly bat-shit-crazy insane this thought is.
Haven't you heard? The school system in the U.S. generates snowflakes they don't teach much. My nephews showed me their college textbooks and it was material I learned in High School (I graduated in 74). Their view of history was warped beyond my comprehension.
I've interviewed people with full MS certifications who couldn't write a single line of code...
If you read the linked article it's a massive speculative hyperbole that tells us that with this ban, the plane will catch on fire when all the laptops in the baggage compartment catch file and you'll die for sure.
It's a great idea - in theory. But the problem is that no one has ever designed a tax - except a flat tax - that doesn't end up having multiple ways for favored constituents (e.g. bribes, also knows as kickbacks to the people who contributed to my campaign, PAC, super PAC, charitable foundation, or paid for my insanely overpriced speech). Of course only the rich can get away with this. So at the end of the day it's us poor slobs in the middle class who get squeezed, where as the people writing the tax law get richer, the people collecting the money get their take, and the people being taxed find a way to get out of paying the tax because it's cheaper than paying it.
UBI is, in essence, a cap on welfare benefits, and anyone who thinks that everyone will get UBI, and the government is going to simply take the money to pay from it from "the rich" or "evil corporations" is ignorant of history. UBI is viewed favorably by politicians, as it's an effective vote buying scheme (If you vote for the other guy, s/he wants to starve grandma and wants your children to die and you'll lose ___________)
All great intellectual talking points so please explain how it can be that BEFORE the "Great Society" the % of people living in poverty was about the same as it is now, and all the poor people didn't starve, die off, etc? Hint: That was a period of several thousand years.vs. the last fifty.
1. High salaries that more than offset the high housing cost.
2. Making even more money as your house appreciates.
3. The best public schools in the country are in Silicon Valley
4. Lots of very interesting work
This is what they said about LA areospace in the eighties, and when the bottom fell out of the over valued housing market everyone lost their a******
Wow you really believe in this stuff. There are a few areas where I believe you are off the mark.
"One of the main purposes of inflation and interest policy is to prevent people from saving all their money and postponing purchases."
No, we have inflation and low interest rates because of excessive borrowing. It is not a policy per se, it is an effect of bad policy brought about by socialists on the left, and excessive crony capitalism on both sides of the aisle. Quantitative easing is to blame. It is the essence of kicking the can down the road, spend today to pay off your constituents who got you elected at the expense of the future. Buying votes with other people's money. One fixes this problem by demanding real campaign finance reform, balanced budgets, and no revolving doors for lobbyists.
"Ask an economist what the perfect consumer would look like, from an economic point of view. It would be someone who spends almost all his money as soon as he or she gets it (some amount of buffer is good to reduce volatility, but in general 'spend, spend, spend' is the credo)."
As one who has a degree in economics I feel qualified to seriously disagree with this statement. People need to save, in order to provide capital for investment. Quantitative easing dries up capital markets, diminishing bond returns, pumping up the stock market, and discouraging saving. Again you're taking an effect and declaring it a cause.
The fantasy that Northern European countries prove that socialism works is just that, a fantasy. Their systems are simply fucked up in a different way than ours, and the people there complain just as much as people here do. Your allegations of xenophobia are false, people are nervous there because crime is going up and they are concerned about their safety due to the open border policies. I've spent quite a bit of time there, not as a tourist but as a worker, and the good old USA is still a heck of a lot nicer. Folks there want our system, did you know that?
I am at a loss to understand why you think velocity of money has anything to do with UBI. I'm also not clear how you can claim that poor people make bad decisions but if we give them welfare in a different form they will make good ones. I'm not sure where you think the money for UBI will come from, or that it won't result in the same old bloated bureaucracy we have today to dispense welfare.
The poverty level has changed little in 60 years, it's a fact. Before the great society people got along just fine. So we need to go back and understand how such a well intention-ed idea could fail so miserably instead of trying to come up with new ways to do wrong things more or less wrong.
When I was in high school in the late 60's early 70's we were all told that by the year 2000 all the jobs would be gone, and that because of overpopulation there would be mass starvation (malthusian dillemma), and that we'd all be living in domed cities by 2050 because of the ice age that was an absolute certainty. Fast forward to today and the same stories are being told to scare young people except they have changed slightly. So you see very little has actually changed and we all have jobs...
So why do we have income inequality? Corruption in government. The greatest income inequality is in places like the old Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, India, China... because they are even more corrupt than we are. There's a large group of people who want to live on the backs of others, they are the most dangerous, and they always have the best preachers, and are always telling you how they care about you, and how they want to make society better, and if you'll just give up a thing or two then we'll all live in peace and harmony forever. And then they get control, and hundreds of millions of people are slaughtered, and those that are spared live in the most horrible of conditions. So please, be careful what you wish for.
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Total vehicle sales last year 88.1 million units. http://www.businessinsider.com...
In the U.S. 156,000 EV's were sold http://www.fleetcarma.com/ev-s... Mostly to people in CA who got tax breaks for buying them, or the well heeled San Francisco crowd no doubt. Certainly not the farmers in the San Joaquin valley.
Total US Vehicle sales 17.5 million units. http://www.latimes.com/busines... Biggest growth segment, SUV's and pickup trucks.
EV market penetration in the U.S. 2.2%. Yeah these things are going to take over like tomorrow.
There are big ego's in the tech field? And they are often rude to people they consider less awesome than themselves? This can't possibly be true.
People don't play well in teams sometimes? Really? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Clearly it's all because of race/gender/LGBT issues and not because humans of different age and maturity levels have had the same issues for the last thousand years or so. THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!!!
There are snowflakes who run to HR the moment they feel the least bit of pressure? And Catbert is oh, so concerned. Please...
Ten percent of the people do 90% of the work, and often get paid more than the other 90%? THAT'S SO UNFAIR! It doesn't force mediocrity on everyone! THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is exactly what you are asking for. Had a small hand in this product's creation it's very slick.
Yes, we copied it right. Any questions?
Hillary was pounded with 20 years of bad press by a billion dollar media empire who's sole job is to get Republicans elected.
Please read the recent Harvard Study about press coverage of Trump and bias.
Thank You. One wonders what percentage of the left are true Marxists, it seems higher than 1% to me.
Nonsense. If you want to know what people think you survey as many people as you can, and then create a balanced result set based on representative quotas of age, race, gender, income, and geo region - at a minimum. So you sample, say, 10,000 people, and then build a balanced sample set of 5,000 that reflects the country.
This is how REAL market research is done. 90% of the polls you read about mean NOTHING. So averaging a bunch of crap produces an average of crap. And when you "adjust them for historical accuracy and likely margin for error" you're fudging the numbers to meet the outcome requested by your client...
Yes, polling is a science. Doing it right is expensive. It works extremely well - companies spend huge money on it, and it absolutely works. All of the "everyday" products you buy - CPG (Consumer Package Goods) - are what they are because of effective market research.
On the other hand your typical political poll is absolute crap. A random sample of 1,000 people conducted over the telephone has an MOE of +/- 100%. You don't know what time of day they called - this, in itself, makes a huge difference; what location they called; did they call landlines or cell phones; did they ask screener questions, like "Do you work for a political party or a campaign"; did they suppress any results; and so many other basic polling methodologies. Many of the political polls don't even ask people if they are registered to vote, or if they voted in the last election! Rasmussen you can put some small faith in. Gallup, same. These Fox News, WSJ, NBC, WaPo, etc. polls are completely meaningless as is the "Real Clear Politics" poll.
Truth. A rare thing. Bravo!
It's not a TREATY it's an ACCORD and actual participation is not MANDATORY. So you can make a feel good promise and not do shit. The whole thing is utterly meaningless and is akin to wearing a ribbon instead of actually doing something, Jeez
The subsidies given to small wildcat drillers in the oil industry are a medicine dropper of money compared to the truckloads of cash given to the solar, wind, and battery industries. Most of that money would have been better off burned to create electricity, given the endless parade of colossal failures. Stop all subsidies to solar, wind, batteries, electric cars, coal, oil, and natural gas and THEN see what happens. Wind farms would vanish in a day. EV sales would continue to be anemic. Solar would have to compete on a level playing field.
You might want to examine the financial statements of these companies before making such claims. While you're at it, examine the report being touted here which counts working in "renewable" jobs like picking up trash and hauling people's garbage.
Marketing, Mighty Martian, Marketing. Companies making solar panels, wind turbines, and the like have exactly the same motivation as the oil industry. They are all paying the same bribes to the same politicians and all looking for the same favors, and they are all stretching the truth, planting stories in the media, and painting feel good pictures.
I think its a lustful greedy desire for totalitarian control of the great wealth in this country... by any means necessary.
You're misguided.
Private contractors built all that NASA stuff not the government. The government acted as project manager. For example, the government contracted with M.I.T. to build the Apollo navigation computer.
There is so much money in new drugs that the Pharma companies spend huge money on research sometimes paying the Universities. The government IMPEDES this process, it does nothing to make it better.
The problem is that we as a society have redefined ratings to impressions and clicks. The content that gets the most impressions is the content that makes you angry.
At the same time nobody practices journalism any more, because the push is to create content, content, content faster and faster. More content = more chances for impressions and clicks.
This has created a system where the slightly media savvy can seed a lower level blog with some fake story based on a few fake people with fake emails... where it's picked up by a higher level blog... where it is picked up by the main stream press. As a result MOST if not ALL of what you read is designed with one thing and one thing only - to get impressions and clicks. It's almost ALL fake news and nobody cares, and this will only get worse because we allow it to.
People write specs now a days? Haven't seen a decent waterfallish spec outside of a F100 company in years.
Let's look at the typical web server: .NET to me too...
OS *NIX mostly C with C++
Sites: PHP, wordpress, laravel, magento, Zend, Code Ignitor, Kohana, Yii
Client side: Javascript snippets here and there, boostrap. Angular JS might really take off except version 2 is incompatible with version 1, and version 4 is incompatible with version 1 and 2 clients don't usually pay for their site to be rewritten over and over.
Yup, sounds like the entire world is going to Java or
If anyone would bother to read the latest tell all book from the Hillary Campaign they would learn that the Russia Collusion story was invented in the 24 hours after she lost. But heaven forbid we believe people who were there, as opposed to unnamed sources...
You are, of course, 100% correct, Trump plays politics using the Alinsky playbook and therefore must be eliminated at all costs.
China - Who burns more coal in open stoves than we can imagine, and has cities choked with horrible smog... And India, who can't provide even the most basic necessities for the majority of it's population - helping with Climate Change?
Please, please, please buy a plane ticket and go spend some time in these places and you'll realize how utterly bat-shit-crazy insane this thought is.
Haven't you heard? The school system in the U.S. generates snowflakes they don't teach much. My nephews showed me their college textbooks and it was material I learned in High School (I graduated in 74). Their view of history was warped beyond my comprehension.
I've interviewed people with full MS certifications who couldn't write a single line of code...
If you read the linked article it's a massive speculative hyperbole that tells us that with this ban, the plane will catch on fire when all the laptops in the baggage compartment catch file and you'll die for sure.
LOOK! SQUIRREL!
It's a great idea - in theory. But the problem is that no one has ever designed a tax - except a flat tax - that doesn't end up having multiple ways for favored constituents (e.g. bribes, also knows as kickbacks to the people who contributed to my campaign, PAC, super PAC, charitable foundation, or paid for my insanely overpriced speech). Of course only the rich can get away with this. So at the end of the day it's us poor slobs in the middle class who get squeezed, where as the people writing the tax law get richer, the people collecting the money get their take, and the people being taxed find a way to get out of paying the tax because it's cheaper than paying it.
UBI is, in essence, a cap on welfare benefits, and anyone who thinks that everyone will get UBI, and the government is going to simply take the money to pay from it from "the rich" or "evil corporations" is ignorant of history. UBI is viewed favorably by politicians, as it's an effective vote buying scheme (If you vote for the other guy, s/he wants to starve grandma and wants your children to die and you'll lose ___________)
Sure but please tell us exactly where YOU live please.
All great intellectual talking points so please explain how it can be that BEFORE the "Great Society" the % of people living in poverty was about the same as it is now, and all the poor people didn't starve, die off, etc? Hint: That was a period of several thousand years .vs. the last fifty.
1. High salaries that more than offset the high housing cost. 2. Making even more money as your house appreciates. 3. The best public schools in the country are in Silicon Valley 4. Lots of very interesting work
This is what they said about LA areospace in the eighties, and when the bottom fell out of the over valued housing market everyone lost their a******
Wow you really believe in this stuff. There are a few areas where I believe you are off the mark.
"One of the main purposes of inflation and interest policy is to prevent people from saving all their money and postponing purchases."
No, we have inflation and low interest rates because of excessive borrowing. It is not a policy per se, it is an effect of bad policy brought about by socialists on the left, and excessive crony capitalism on both sides of the aisle. Quantitative easing is to blame. It is the essence of kicking the can down the road, spend today to pay off your constituents who got you elected at the expense of the future. Buying votes with other people's money. One fixes this problem by demanding real campaign finance reform, balanced budgets, and no revolving doors for lobbyists.
"Ask an economist what the perfect consumer would look like, from an economic point of view. It would be someone who spends almost all his money as soon as he or she gets it (some amount of buffer is good to reduce volatility, but in general 'spend, spend, spend' is the credo)."
As one who has a degree in economics I feel qualified to seriously disagree with this statement. People need to save, in order to provide capital for investment. Quantitative easing dries up capital markets, diminishing bond returns, pumping up the stock market, and discouraging saving. Again you're taking an effect and declaring it a cause.
The fantasy that Northern European countries prove that socialism works is just that, a fantasy. Their systems are simply fucked up in a different way than ours, and the people there complain just as much as people here do. Your allegations of xenophobia are false, people are nervous there because crime is going up and they are concerned about their safety due to the open border policies. I've spent quite a bit of time there, not as a tourist but as a worker, and the good old USA is still a heck of a lot nicer. Folks there want our system, did you know that?
I am at a loss to understand why you think velocity of money has anything to do with UBI. I'm also not clear how you can claim that poor people make bad decisions but if we give them welfare in a different form they will make good ones. I'm not sure where you think the money for UBI will come from, or that it won't result in the same old bloated bureaucracy we have today to dispense welfare.
The poverty level has changed little in 60 years, it's a fact. Before the great society people got along just fine. So we need to go back and understand how such a well intention-ed idea could fail so miserably instead of trying to come up with new ways to do wrong things more or less wrong.
When I was in high school in the late 60's early 70's we were all told that by the year 2000 all the jobs would be gone, and that because of overpopulation there would be mass starvation (malthusian dillemma), and that we'd all be living in domed cities by 2050 because of the ice age that was an absolute certainty. Fast forward to today and the same stories are being told to scare young people except they have changed slightly. So you see very little has actually changed and we all have jobs...
So why do we have income inequality? Corruption in government. The greatest income inequality is in places like the old Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, India, China... because they are even more corrupt than we are. There's a large group of people who want to live on the backs of others, they are the most dangerous, and they always have the best preachers, and are always telling you how they care about you, and how they want to make society better, and if you'll just give up a thing or two then we'll all live in peace and harmony forever. And then they get control, and hundreds of millions of people are slaughtered, and those that are spared live in the most horrible of conditions. So please, be careful what you wish for.