You're kidding, right? Huuuuge music mecca, with tons of shows, world class golf course, Silver Dollar City amusement park, great shopping and antiquing, and because it is here in the south your dollar goes a LOT farther than it does on the coasts!
You pretty much described, point-for-point, south-eastern Michigan (sans amusement park). But if you want that you can always head to Sandusky, OH. =)
Tesla's model is new to the auto industry: manufacturer sells direct to consumer, and also owns the distribution network and the service departments. That's nothing new in high tech: Apple's made a fortune using that model. The "Apple Store" gives a retail presence, but the guy at the Apple Store doesn't really care whether you buy the thing on the spot or go back home and buy it through the website.
Applying that model to cars is interesting - and potentially groundbreaking. In the case of the Big Three, the dealer networks were an albatross around the neck of the auto manufacturers. If Tesla's model works, Telsa won't need a network of thousands of independent dealerships, because the only function of the dealerships will be to provide test drives and occasional servicing. Dealerships will be profit centers, not loss centers, for the manufacturer.
Actually, it's not new: Europe has this model in place right now. Over there, manufacturers are allowed to sell directly to customers - as well as to franchised dealerships. Customers are able to go and pick up their cars straight from the factory in some cases (see Autostadt in Wolfsburg).
Daily Kos: Our Contracted Polling Company Made Up Their Numbers
..would have been a better title. I'm beginning to see why people choose to ignore kdawson edits. Or maybe it's just a ruse by him to make us actually RTFA?
Yep, she says after a hard day of selling vacation packages (if you fill out the card at one of those booths to win a Mini Cooper, and a nice gal with a southern drawl calls to ask if you would like a vacation to Branson BE NICE, it is just her job)
Of course I'm nice to solicitors (especially if they have a Southern or Yooper/Wisconsinite accent) and all but why would anyone want to vacation in Branson, MO?
There is always a whacko for the opposing side no matter what the topic is.
It's not the fact that there were extremists or nut-jobs willing to redo your window treatments with a brick through a pane of glass, but the fact that they are a minority. Sure, a minority of people that signed Prop 8 might've been harassed by a minority opposition, but the majority of people who signed it weren't affected negatively and were able to go on about their lives.
I mean, isn't this the price we all pay to live in a society where the government still allows us freedom and an ability to actually bring about and sign petitions?
For better or worse most of Microsoft's key markets are saturated.
Last time I checked, Apache was still the most-used web server out there. They have a long way to go in that department until they reach saturation, much less taking over the number one spot.
To me, Twitter just seems like a slower-paced version of IRC (which is just multiplayer Notepad, yeah, yeah..). However, IRC allows for more informational conversing than Twitter. For instance, take five lines of sentences in an IRC channel and convert that to Twitter posts. If a user was to post multiple messages in succession like that to another user, it would just seem like spam. Why not send an e-mail instead? Perhaps create a blog and write fully developed thoughts with no abbreviations or bit.ly links. Or use that new-fandangled telephone feature on your hand-held device to actually talk to them.
All in all, I guess we should be thankful that engineers probably helped develop these different modes of communication.
There is a lesson here. Actually, there are two lessons here. One, Americans aren't the only ones willing to export their values, and they will have a difficult time arguing that others shouldn't. Two, we can lay to rest the notion that the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it: nations have enough power, and those in power have enough incentive, to use the other code base to control the Internet - the code of law.
On your first point, it's not necessarily that America exports their values (included under the umbrella of soft power for those political science folks) but rather that peoples within other cultures import our values. This brings me to a counter-point of your second idea that nations will use the code of law to control the Internet by means of censorship. Please note that Pakistan didn't export their values, it's just that some American companies (Viacom or whoever controls Comedy Central and Facebook) chose to import Pakistan's values on the image of Prophet Mo.
Which, I might add, is an exact description of what happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity. If the family doesn’t outright execute him or her, they at the very least are completely disowned.
Almost sounds like Scientology and LDS, sans execution.
Slightly off-topic but you are aware that the MSRP is set by the manufacturer (Toyota, Ford, et al.) and not the actual stealersh.. I mean dealership?
See, every dealership in the US is actually a franchise[1]. So if a Toyota dealer decides that he wants to make more profit per vehicle sold, he'll price the vehicle way above MSRP. But if another Toyota dealer across town decides they want to sell more cars, they'll price at or below MSRP and rely on some sort of bonus per car sold (or profit from their other departments) to keep their business afloat. They are basically free to do whatever they want - and price how they please - as long as it's within the manufacturer's operating guidelines.
But I would personally never buy a new vehicle, used ones are cheaper and much more fun to tinker with =)
[1] In the US (which is vastly different from Europe in terms of automotive franchising), manufacturers cannot sell directly to customers. All sales are required to go through a dealership.
What we need is a Centrist party that will actually LISTEN to Canadians as a whole. I'm tired of all this slightly left, slightly right crap we've got.
So you mean something along the lines of a party that takes good parts from the left and good parts from the right? Almost sounds like the Libertarian party. I'm not sure if they actually listen, though.
"The landscape is messy,'' said Gregory D. Graff, a patent expert at Colorado State University. "It is a complex situation where you have research interests intermingling with commercial interests. They are both legitimate purposes, but can be in conflict with each other.''
A hospital wants to use the cells to look into why certain brain diseases kill people (a social good) versus a company that just wants to sit on their stack o' patents and cash some royalty/licensing checks. I fail to see how both are legit purposes here.
I believe it has more to do with geography than anything. Here in Virginia - and in the Carolinas I would suspect as well - the "Northern Aggression" line isn't terribly uncommon. Hell, Virginia still has special license plate for those that can prove that their ancestor fought in the Civil War. All this because the war was fought on their land by their forefathers.
Pretty sure it's the outrageous price increase. I mean, 30 dollars per cent? And that's just the base rate! I'm pretty sure it tops out at 1 litre of unicorn milk per cent for the heavy users.
Apparently you've never heard of smaller or independent music shops that sell used CDs. You think they send portions of each sale from a used CD to the RIAA? Doubt it.
Or, if you can't find what you want in a used format, check out RIAA Radar to determine if a band's album was released by a label that belongs to the RIAA.
For those who have ever spent an entire Typing Class period in middle school on a Mac playing Bolo will find WinBolo very familiar.
While WinBolo has been around for a decade or so, the source was released about a month ago. And by source, that means a few things: the logviewer, the server (Windows and Linux), the client (Windows), a Java port, as well as the backend for the winbolo.net domain.
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You're kidding, right? Huuuuge music mecca, with tons of shows, world class golf course, Silver Dollar City amusement park, great shopping and antiquing, and because it is here in the south your dollar goes a LOT farther than it does on the coasts!
You pretty much described, point-for-point, south-eastern Michigan (sans amusement park). But if you want that you can always head to Sandusky, OH. =)
Tesla's model is new to the auto industry: manufacturer sells direct to consumer, and also owns the distribution network and the service departments. That's nothing new in high tech: Apple's made a fortune using that model. The "Apple Store" gives a retail presence, but the guy at the Apple Store doesn't really care whether you buy the thing on the spot or go back home and buy it through the website.
Applying that model to cars is interesting - and potentially groundbreaking. In the case of the Big Three, the dealer networks were an albatross around the neck of the auto manufacturers. If Tesla's model works, Telsa won't need a network of thousands of independent dealerships, because the only function of the dealerships will be to provide test drives and occasional servicing. Dealerships will be profit centers, not loss centers, for the manufacturer.
Actually, it's not new: Europe has this model in place right now. Over there, manufacturers are allowed to sell directly to customers - as well as to franchised dealerships. Customers are able to go and pick up their cars straight from the factory in some cases (see Autostadt in Wolfsburg).
However, in most states in the US, it's illegal for manufacturers to sell directly to the customer (page two, footnote four). My Google-fu is not terribly strong so I was not able to easily find an accessible list of states that permit direct manufacturer-to-consumer sales. That's not to say that manufacturers can't own a stake in dealerships, but that's not quite the same.
For additional bed-time reading, check out a DOJ paper on the effects of bans on direct manufacturer-to-dealer sales.
Daily Kos: Our Contracted Polling Company Made Up Their Numbers
..would have been a better title. I'm beginning to see why people choose to ignore kdawson edits. Or maybe it's just a ruse by him to make us actually RTFA?
or if they're your friends...
Yep, she says after a hard day of selling vacation packages (if you fill out the card at one of those booths to win a Mini Cooper, and a nice gal with a southern drawl calls to ask if you would like a vacation to Branson BE NICE, it is just her job)
Of course I'm nice to solicitors (especially if they have a Southern or Yooper/Wisconsinite accent) and all but why would anyone want to vacation in Branson, MO?
So is Mohamed-Rolling going to be the new trend? However, I just can't think of any proper music to go along with allegedly blasphemous images of Mo.
There is always a whacko for the opposing side no matter what the topic is.
It's not the fact that there were extremists or nut-jobs willing to redo your window treatments with a brick through a pane of glass, but the fact that they are a minority. Sure, a minority of people that signed Prop 8 might've been harassed by a minority opposition, but the majority of people who signed it weren't affected negatively and were able to go on about their lives.
I mean, isn't this the price we all pay to live in a society where the government still allows us freedom and an ability to actually bring about and sign petitions?
For better or worse most of Microsoft's key markets are saturated.
Last time I checked, Apache was still the most-used web server out there. They have a long way to go in that department until they reach saturation, much less taking over the number one spot.
To me, Twitter just seems like a slower-paced version of IRC (which is just multiplayer Notepad, yeah, yeah..). However, IRC allows for more informational conversing than Twitter. For instance, take five lines of sentences in an IRC channel and convert that to Twitter posts. If a user was to post multiple messages in succession like that to another user, it would just seem like spam. Why not send an e-mail instead? Perhaps create a blog and write fully developed thoughts with no abbreviations or bit.ly links. Or use that new-fandangled telephone feature on your hand-held device to actually talk to them.
All in all, I guess we should be thankful that engineers probably helped develop these different modes of communication.
There is a lesson here. Actually, there are two lessons here. One, Americans aren't the only ones willing to export their values, and they will have a difficult time arguing that others shouldn't. Two, we can lay to rest the notion that the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it: nations have enough power, and those in power have enough incentive, to use the other code base to control the Internet - the code of law.
On your first point, it's not necessarily that America exports their values (included under the umbrella of soft power for those political science folks) but rather that peoples within other cultures import our values. This brings me to a counter-point of your second idea that nations will use the code of law to control the Internet by means of censorship. Please note that Pakistan didn't export their values, it's just that some American companies (Viacom or whoever controls Comedy Central and Facebook) chose to import Pakistan's values on the image of Prophet Mo.
Which, I might add, is an exact description of what happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity. If the family doesn’t outright execute him or her, they at the very least are completely disowned.
Almost sounds like Scientology and LDS, sans execution.
Slightly off-topic but you are aware that the MSRP is set by the manufacturer (Toyota, Ford, et al.) and not the actual stealersh.. I mean dealership?
See, every dealership in the US is actually a franchise[1]. So if a Toyota dealer decides that he wants to make more profit per vehicle sold, he'll price the vehicle way above MSRP. But if another Toyota dealer across town decides they want to sell more cars, they'll price at or below MSRP and rely on some sort of bonus per car sold (or profit from their other departments) to keep their business afloat. They are basically free to do whatever they want - and price how they please - as long as it's within the manufacturer's operating guidelines.
But I would personally never buy a new vehicle, used ones are cheaper and much more fun to tinker with =)
[1] In the US (which is vastly different from Europe in terms of automotive franchising), manufacturers cannot sell directly to customers. All sales are required to go through a dealership.
GnuCash runs under Windows, OSX, and Linux, although it's targeted at personal or small-business types of accounting.
What we need is a Centrist party that will actually LISTEN to Canadians as a whole. I'm tired of all this slightly left, slightly right crap we've got.
So you mean something along the lines of a party that takes good parts from the left and good parts from the right? Almost sounds like the Libertarian party. I'm not sure if they actually listen, though.
But the key is to become aware that you are dreaming, and that you *can* do anything...
Welcome, to you, who has come, to.. ZOMBOCOM.
I'm still confused: multiple scenarios but not a single car analogy in there.
"The landscape is messy,'' said Gregory D. Graff, a patent expert at Colorado State University. "It is a complex situation where you have research interests intermingling with commercial interests. They are both legitimate purposes, but can be in conflict with each other.''
A hospital wants to use the cells to look into why certain brain diseases kill people (a social good) versus a company that just wants to sit on their stack o' patents and cash some royalty/licensing checks. I fail to see how both are legit purposes here.
I believe it has more to do with geography than anything. Here in Virginia - and in the Carolinas I would suspect as well - the "Northern Aggression" line isn't terribly uncommon. Hell, Virginia still has special license plate for those that can prove that their ancestor fought in the Civil War. All this because the war was fought on their land by their forefathers.
Pretty sure it's the outrageous price increase. I mean, 30 dollars per cent? And that's just the base rate! I'm pretty sure it tops out at 1 litre of unicorn milk per cent for the heavy users.
The CBC got screwed by this a while ago when they tried to broadcast a TV show via bittorrent, and Bell shaped the hell out of it.
So was it above or below the curve?
Apparently you've never heard of smaller or independent music shops that sell used CDs. You think they send portions of each sale from a used CD to the RIAA? Doubt it. Or, if you can't find what you want in a used format, check out RIAA Radar to determine if a band's album was released by a label that belongs to the RIAA.
Go to Help > About mIRC... and click Khaled's nose when the dialog pops up. Squeaky!
His name is Nipper
I have a feeling the blame function might get overused..
For those who have ever spent an entire Typing Class period in middle school on a Mac playing Bolo will find WinBolo very familiar.
While WinBolo has been around for a decade or so, the source was released about a month ago. And by source, that means a few things: the logviewer, the server (Windows and Linux), the client (Windows), a Java port, as well as the backend for the winbolo.net domain.